The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-06-27 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

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The hay harvest has commenced in Northumberland,
and the crops are abluidant, particularly those of old grass.
Mr. Joseph Roebuck, manager for the Messrs. Pickford,
at Worcester, committed suicide last week.
The Duke of Bedford has purchased the horse " Jus-
tice to Ireland," for £2.500.
On Thursday, the take of salmon was so great in the
Tyne that large fish were sold in the market at 6d. per lb.
PtJBLTC HEALTH BlLL.—This bill passed in the House
of Commons G.'.l Tuesday. We do not anticipate it will
encounter much opposition in the Lords.
A new London daiii paper is to be commenced next
month, at two-pence. It will support the reform move-
ment.

A crow's nest with young may now be seen on tne sum-
mit of one of the spires at the eastern end of Durham
Cathedral.
GILMOUR AGAIN !--This worthy is now pouring in his
orders upon the outfitters, having some boys he wishes to

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send to sea!
In one number of the Times this week there were no
less than seventy advertisements of governesses wanting

situations.
Lady Elizabeth Moncrieffe died on Saturday, at her re-
sidence in Chapel-street, from the effects of the injuries
she sustained by having accidentally caught fire.
At Witney, Gloucestershire, a young woman, who had
been married only six weeks, was hawked about last week,
with a halter on her neck, for sale by her husband.
Ann Sykes, a young girl in delicate health, died last
week at Thurstenland, in consequence of eating a quantity
of unripe gooseberries.
The sticks of rhubarb which took the premier prize at
the Macclesfield show were each 37 inches long and 9 lb.
13 oz. weight.
A vessel arrived in the docks from Hong-Kong and the
Cape of Good Hope respectively, has brought 1,020 par-
cels of iron.
The Times is now lending its valuable aid to the expo-
sure of the " Count Touzery gang," who have, for the
last three years itinerated with goods, pretending to be
custom-house seizures and the like.
Sir John Richardson and his party arrived at Lake Su-
perior on the 29th April, and left a few days after, on
their journey overland to the Arctic regions, in search of
the lost expedition of Sir John Franklin.
On Friday, Edward Moody was sentenced, at the Cen-
tral Criminal Court, to transportation for twenty years,
for uttering forged five-pound notes. He was convicted
of three several offences.
Dr. Chambers, the leading fashionable physician in the
metropolis, has been obliged to retire into the country for
the benefit of his health, and it is doubtful whether he
will ever be able to resume his labours.
Prince Albert has sent a contribution of £25 towards
the erection of the monument recently completed to the
memory of the late Mrs. Siddons, which is about to be
placed in Westminster Abbey.
Lord Nugent, in accordance with the wishes of his la-
mented lady, has purchased twenty-five acres of land in
the neighbourhood of Weedon, for the purpose of allot-
ting them to the poor for ever.
Last week, at Lincolnshire, Mr. Hitchins, coroner,
stated that in the course of ten years he had held 111 in-
quests on the bodies of persons who had perished from
accidents caused by drunkenness.
CONSOLATION FOR MOTHERS.—When young children
cry lustily, they grow well and rapidly ; for through cry-
ing, the members and veins are stretched out which have
no other exercise.—Martin Luther.
The Inverness Courier describes the grouse season as
progressing very satisfactorily. In general the broods
contain nine or ten; fourteen have been counted in one
covey. No disease appears among the old grouse.
Keen and Young Sambo fought near Newmarket, on
Tuesday last, for £2OO. The battle consisted of six
rounds, lasted 19 minutes, and was decided in favour of

Keen.
At Judges' Chambers, on Friday, bail for Mr. Ernest
Jones, the chartist leader, appeared, and was accepted by
Justice Pattison : Mr. Jones was set at liberty. On Sa-
turday Mr. Fussell was enlarged on bail.
The Commissioners of Customs have issued directions
to their officers at the outports, to prevent the exportation
of any arms and warlike stores for the purpose of being
employed in hostilities against the Danish government.
On Thursday the bakers of London lowered the 41b.
loaf Id. Those at the west end now only charge 7d. for
the best quality ; the second-rate 6d. and 51(1. Many,
however, in populous districts are selling it at 5d., weighed
on delivery.
A GOOD JUMP.—At Epworth, on Monday, a bet be-
tween the footman of E. Waddington, Esq., and Mr.
Rd. Leggott, against the former jumping 17 feet in one
jump, was decided. It was won by the former jumping
171 feet.
In the birth-announcements in The Times, which are
all paid for, the following appeared a few days since
On the 9th inst., at Rotherhithe (in the unconsciousness
of mesmeric sleep), the wife of Mr. James Payne, of a
daughter."
Some workmen who were taking down, a house at
Worcester the other day, found the skeleton of a cat, in
a narrow crevice between the joints, and a few inches
before her, where the crevice was still narrower, the
skeleton of a rat.
The guano mummy, which was exhibited in Liverpoof
some time since, is to be presented to the Emperor o
Brazil. The British Museum commissioners have offered
£5OO for it. This exhibition, at present at Manchester,
realised £2,440 to the proprietor in eighteen months.
A splendid silver claret jug and salver has been pre-
sented to Mr. "Wilson, the Scottish vocalist, by some of
his friends, " in commemoration of his successful exer-
tions in reviving the public taste for the beauties of Snot
tish song."
ECONOMY !—Orders have been given by the Govern-
ment for an extensive discharge of artisans now employed
in our dock-yards. We think we can point out quarters
where much more important and less injurious reduction
of expenditure could be made.
The poorbox of the Bristol Infirmary was opened on
Friday, after a lapse of three years, and was found to con-
tain the following amounts :—Gold, £3 10s. ; silver, £l3
3s. 10d. ; copper, £1 ss. 3 d. ; making a total of £l7
19s. lid. in aid of the funds of the institution.
A Court of Queen's Bench jury, directed by Lord
Denman, have found a verdict with damages of £lO against
Mr. Flint, a draper, of Oxford-street, London, for having
turned a lady of the name of Palmer from his shop, on
the suspicion that she was a shoplifter.
In the item of Royal " housemaids," of whom there
are forty at Buckingham Palace and forty at Windsor,
great reductions are reported to have taken place. Four
years ago they had £45, now only £l2 to £lB wages ;
and no pension, no matter how long in the Royal service.
Mr. Watt, jun., of Birmingham, recently deceased,
has bequeathed to Lord Brougham £50,000. Another
circumstance, not generally known, redounds much to
the honour of his lordship. The £25,000 left him by
Mrs. Flaherty, of Hammersmith, he generously gave to
his brother, Mr. W. Brougham.
ADVANTAGE OF PRISON FARE.—On Saturday, a
woman ranted Louisa Davis was indicted at the Central
Criminal Court, for stealing a watch from the person of
William Deverill. So great was the alteration for the
better in her appearance, that the prosecutor had some
difficulty in identifying her.
Charles Verrier, of Kingswood-hill, near Bristol, killed
his infant son a fortnight since, by a mischance resulting
from passion. He threw a poker at another of his children,
who had disobeyed its mother ; and, missing that child,
the poker fractured the skull of the infant killed. A coro-
ner's jury found the father guilty of manslaughter.
A serious faction fight took place at Raphoe, on Thurs-
day. Several severe contusions were received on both
sides. Stones flew as thick as hail. All the shops and
dwelling-houses were closed and barricaded, and business
entirely suspended for half an hour, during which the
belligerents fought with desperation.
Mr. H. G. Nicholls, recently a clerk in Bristol, com-
mitted suicide in prison last week. He was found hang-
ing from a bar of his cell window ; his two cotton stock-
ings, tied together, were tied round his neck, and also
tied to the bar of his window, the knot of the stockings
was close under his right ear.
The second annual cricket match between eleven of
England and twenty-two selected from the clubs of Bir-
mingham and a district of twenty miles, was commenced
on Monday, on the ground of the Birmingham Club, at
Edgbaston, and brought to a close on Tuesday ; the ele-
ven winning with six wickets to go down.
On the night of the 9th instant, during a violent storm
raging on the Brecon Beacons, five yearling bullocks,
three yearling heifers, and a cow with a calf, were blown
over the precipice, on the eastern side of the Peak, and
, were of course all killed by the fall from such a fearful