The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-23 00:00:00

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mile and a c

ovs each, wit
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Mr F R price's ch c Colin Clink, 3 yrs -- -- -- . .
Sir John Gerard's ch f Meal, 4 yrs
2 to 1 on Colin Clink, who took the ►ead

running, and won very easy by a length.
The LYME PARK STAKES, of 50 sovs each, 30 ft,
year olds. One mile and a quarter. 6 sul
Mr Mostvn's br c Earl of Richmond
Mr F R Price's br f Gwendcrline
Mr Meiklatn's b f Margery .. .
Even on Earl of Richmond, who was never he

won without an effort. .
A GOLD CUP, value 100 sows, the gift of the Lord of th
Manor, added to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 sows eacl
10 ft. Two miles and a distance.
Mr Meiklam's b c Aristotle, 4 yrs, 7st 131 b
Mr \Vormald's ch h Millipede, 5 yrs, Sst 61b
Ermengardis, Pickpocket, awl. Valentina also, started
. . . .

Even on Millipede, 3 to 1 agst Aristotle, and 5 to 1 agst
Ermengardis. A quick race ; the struggle made by Milli-
pede to reach Aristotle, on coming into the straight running,
was very severe, but ineffectual, and Aristotle finished a
clever winner by nearly a length.
A PLATE of 50 sovs, for horses that never won that sum.

Heats, one mile and a half

Mr Fowler's b c Yardley, 3 yrs ....
Mr W' 0 Powlett's b g Bobadil, aged

THIJRSDA-I

The ST LEGER STAKES, Of 20 soya each, with
One mile and a half. 4 subs.

Mr White's b c Judex
Mr Meiklatu's ch c Philip
Mr F R Price's b f The Lily
The GOLBORNE STAKES, of

Golborue Course

0 1 1
1 2 2

Mr Mostyn's b c Milton, by The Saddler—Quadroon... 1
Mr Walker's br c The Best-of-the-Three
A SWEEPSTAKES of 15 soya each, 10 ft, for three year old
fillies. One mile and a quarter. 3 subs.

Mr Whitworth's br Gipsey Queen ..
A PLATE of £5O. Heats, one mile and a half
Mr Fowler's b c Yardley, 3 yr 5.......... • • • • ......
Mr Worthington's b c Hooton, 3 yrs
Mr Thompson's br g by Shrighley, 4 yrs

LIVERPOOL REGISTRY OF SHIPPING

The anndal meeting of the subscribers to the Liverpoo
Society for the Registry of British and Foreign Shipping

Henry Cleaver Chapman, Esq., in tt.
The Chairman opened the proceedim,
meeting was held as required by the rules
the purpose of electing six members to serve
tee, in lieu of six who go out by rotation, an,
annual statement of the operations of the Socie..„
with the receipts and expenditure for the past year, and p
sent state of its funds. He then proceeded.
valuable, I will not enter into any lengthened exposit.,
our past labours, or anticipate the future, beyond congratu-
lating the merchants, shipowners, and underwriters, on the
_
success of tF

by statin

the society, fo

v, together

As time is

3e society, which, notwithstanding the great al

since i

uepression or tne smut_._ --
tablishrnent, has been able to surmount all opposing difficul-
ties. But although much has been locally accomplished by
the committee, a gre it deal yet remains to be done, especially
by the shipbuilders themselves, whose study it ought to be to
suggest improvements in the construction of our merchant

ships, and more particularly to guard against the manufee:
lure of iron ships of too light materials and inferior work-
manship. it being the anxious desire of the committee to pro-
mote the true interest of the shipbuilders, as well as of our
mercantile marine, by establishing a higher scale of scantling
in both wood and iron ships. more particular

and thickness of the planking, combined with the prop
treenailingand caulking of wood ships, and the plating, at

rivetting of those of iron.
" With these brief remarks, I will now with your permis-
sion call on the secretary to read the report, and leave you to
draw your own conclusions from the facts and figures to be
Submitted to you, and which I trust will fully bear out my
statements."

The secretary then read the report, which was received
and adopted. Several members expressed their gratifica-
tion at the successful progress of the society, the want of
which, under a local committee, had been so lung felt in this
port.
The thanks of the meeting were then voted to the chair-

man and the committee, for their impartial and judicious
management of the affairs of the society, which fully entitled
them to the confidence and support of the public.

SCOTCH SNUFF-BoxEs.—Cummock, a village in the heart
of Ayrshire, on the Lugar-water, is celebrated for the manu-
facture of those' beautifu wooden snuff-boxes now so common,
a species of trade carried on nowhere else in Scotland, except
at Laurencekirk and Montrose. It is little more than 20

years since some ingenious indivduals commenced the making
of these curious little cabinets. There are now upwards of
100 persons, men, women, and children, employed in the
trade, all of whom get more considerable wages by their
labour than most other artisans. Planetree is the wood used

in the manufacture, and great ingenuity is evinced in anorn-
him clue lily with devices. The very nice manner in which

the hinges are constructed, so as to be almost invisible. I
deserving of the highest credit. It is calculated that a piec
. -rum) worth (

of rough wood, costing only 255., wilt make
snuff-boxes.—Chambers' E,dinburgh Journal,

PRUSSIAN STATISTICS.—BERLIN, JUNE 11
tiles of the births and deaths in the whole Prussian mo-

•The annual

narchy are now published for the year 1842 :
At the close of 1840 the total population was 14,928,501
1841, excess of births
1842, ditto

Total at the end of 1842
The births in the last 27 years were 14,039,277 ; of that there
were 982.868 illegitimate, about 7 per cent. ; but it was not
to be inferred that 7 out of 100 living individuals are illegiti-
mate, for the number of still-born illegitimate children, as
well as of those who die before they attain the age of one
year. is much larger in proportion than that of legitimate
children. Thus, for instance, in 1842, of 578,437 legitimate
births, 21,559 were still-born children, and the number of
deaths of children under one year old was 100,026; whereas
of 45,566 illegitimate children, 2,501 were still-born, and
12,110 children under a year old died in the same year.—
Prussian Slate Gazette, June 16.