The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-03-14 00:00:00

Enteral -IR tsrellany,

Louis Philippe is in his 75th year.
The Rev. Mr. Thomas, formerly of Exeter College,
Oxford, has been admitted into the Romish Church.

During the year 1847, 27,093 men enlisted in the army,
and of these recruits 7,760 were afterwards rejected as un-
fit for military service.

DEATH OF MR. THOM, THE INVERARY POET.—Mr.
Thom, the poet, whose genius and misfortunes are so
well known, died a few days back at Dundee in penury.
A brigantine, supposed to be the " Earl Gowrie," Wa-
terford, was totally lost in Swansea Bay, on Sunday week,
and all the hands perished.
From a return, ordered by the House of Commons, of
the number of persons flogged in the navy, in 1847. it ap-
pears that the number was 860, and that the total number
of lashes inflicted was 26,288.
An old man named Sutcliffe was found drowned in the
canal near Wakefield, last week. He had several times
attempted to destroy himself on account of the dread he
had of being obliged to receive parish relief.
EXTRAORDINARY BIRTH.—Mr. Samuel Parkhouse has,
on his farm at Dry Drayton, a ewe which produced five
lambs on Monday last. The whole of the progeny, as
was to have been expected, are since dead.
William Pinnock, of Throcking, died a few days since
from lock-jaw, brought on by Alfred Bush, another lad
of the same place, throwing mortar in his eyes in play.
It appeared to have been accidental on the part of Bush.
The Norwich Post states that the trade of that city is
now more brisk than it has been for many years ; and such
is the demand for fancy nets. which cannot be made by
the power-loom, that the number of hand-loom weavers
is not sufficient to meet the demand.

By a return just printed, it appears that on the sth ult.
the dividends due at the Bank of England and not de-
manded, amounted to £965,983105. 7d., of which X 858,291
15s. 9d. had been advanced to the government under three
acts of parliament.
The present aggregate amount of imported grain in
Gloucester is estimated at 48,385 qrs. wheat; 1010 qrs.
barley, 11.279 qrs. oats, 8178 qrs. beans, 1270 qrs. pease;
making a total of all sorts of grain of 70,022 qrs. ; against
24,040 qrs. at the same period in 1847.
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The Morning Post says that Don Miguel, of Portugal,
declined visiting her Majesty's Theatre, on Thursday, out
of respect to Louis Philippe, who, although he had done
him all the harm he could, was still a near relation of his
mother.

On Saturday evening a sumptuous- banquet was -given
to Sir H. E. F. Young, at the Albion Tavern, Aldersgate
street, London, previous to his departure for Port Ade-
laide, the seat of his new government of South Australia,
Sir Henry's appointment appears to have given the great-
est satisfaction to all parties.
BURGLARY.—The house of Mr. Thomas Newlove, at
Warthill, near York, was on the night of Monday week
broken into, and a couple of old guineas, eight sovereigns,
and about £6OO in Beverley, Bridlington, and York notes,
were stolen. £lOO reward has been offered for the dis-
covery of the offenders.

It is not perhaps generally known that the tri-coloured
flag, as now hoisted at sea on the French packets, is not
arranged as formerly, blue, white, red, but is changed for
blue, red, white ; on coming into harbour, the old one
replaces it, as if the new one was not recognised by our
government.

RUGBY Scnoot.—We deeply regret to announce the
alarming illness of the talented head master of Rugby
school, Dr. Tait. The rev. gentleman has suffered most
severely from rheumatic fever, which has brought on in-
flammation of the lungs, and but slight hopes are enter-
tained of his recovery. _

LOOKING OUT FOR A STORM.—The New York Herald,
of February 20, states that agents of Louis Philippe were
in New Yo?k, investing property for him in case his
family should, after his death, be driven from the throne
of France ; and it was estimated that his ex-Majesty had
1,000,000 dollars invested in houses and American stocks
in anticipation of some outbreak in France.
EFFECTS- OP PASSION.—On Friday week a fellow. named
Edward Jarvis, in the employ of Mr. Gooch, of Cowlinge,
Cambridge, unexpectedly approached a valuable pony,
tied up in the nag stable, and it slightly kicked him, when,
possessing himself of the broom handle, he got into the
manger, and after striking it several times about the head,
with another blow felled it dead upon the spot. The
miscreant has absconded.

MELANCHOLY CIRCIIMSTANCE.—On Saturday week,
the Rev. W. Slater, teacher of Walnev School, went to
Biggar, a village on that island, to spend the day, in cele-
bration of a marriage that had taken place. He returned
the same evening, and was accommodated with a lantern,
it being then dark, and proceeded along the sand ; and we
are sorry to say was lost in the attempt, for his body was
afterwards found upon the sand.

A few days since, while a shopkeeper in. Edinburgh was
pumping whiskey out of a cask at his door, he incauti-
ously placed a light so near the aperture as to set fire to
the liquid. On observing the flame, he hastily closed the
bung in the hole to extinguish it, when, both ends burst
out with a loud report, knocking down and seriously
injuring a boy who was standing by, and spilling a con-
siderable quantity of spirits. -

A lamentable instance of ignorance and superstition
occurred at a village in Bedfordshire,. a few days ago.
With a view of testing, by a charm, the faithfulness of
their sweethearts, three young women had torn the heart
out of a tom cat when alive, stuck it with pins, and
burned it ; they were properly arrested for their inhuman
barbarity. were heavily fined, and, in default of payment,

SERIOUS Loss or LIFE.—On Monday, in the celebra-
ted Benton Quarry, about four miles from Newcastle-
upon-Tyne, the quarrymen were engaged in blasting the
rocks and a considerable explosion having been effected,
they were removing the fragments in the usual manner,
when suddenly, and entirely unexpectedly, a large mass
of stone, with its capping of shale and earth, gave way,
and descended like an avalanche on the men below.
Eight were killed, and several others very severely injured.
A few days since, while some excavators employed in
the construction of the aqueduct of the Bristol water
works, were blasting rocks in the parish of Litton, a large
piece of rock struck the brim of a man's hat with such
violence as to drive it forty feet into the air. The narrow-
ness of the escape however, failed to disturb the imper-
turbable phlegm of the excavator, who coolly turned to
his alarmed comrades, and observed, " A miss is as good
as a mile, be'ant it ?"
During the last few days, some druggists in Derby have
received notices of exchequer processes, to recover from
them heavy penalties, for having sold unstamped medi-
cines, although such medicines were not patented. Per-
sons have been sent to purchase pills and mixtures, to cure
some named complaint, for which twopence or three-
pence has usually been paid ; and whenever the box or
bottle containing the preparation was without a three-
halfpenny patent medicine stamp, legal proceedings have
been immediately instituted.
THE ENGLISH WORKMEN EXPELLED FROM FRANCE.
—On Tuesday, the Mayor of Portsmouth received instruc-
tions from the Secretary of State relative to the disposal
of the people brought from France. His worship! is
directed to pass such persons to their own homes at the
government expense. A number left on Monday, and
nearly all the residue on Tuesday, for their respective des-
tinations, with food and money, by the Brighton and South
Coast Railway. The poor creatures seemed very grateful
for the kindness.
THE LATE ROBBERY OF THE :MESSRS. BOWRING.
RECOVERY OF THE SILVER.—Mr. C. Bowring, we are
informed, has had an interview with the convicts, Lloyd
and Mahony, respecting that portion of the stolen pro-
perty which, up to the time of the conviction of the men,
had not been recovered, and has succeeded in inducing
Mahony to inform him where the money had been se-
creted in Cwmnant-gwyn wood; and so accurate was the
description given by the convict of the spot, that Mr.
Bowring, on his return from Swansea, rode over, accom-
panied by one of his men, and without the least difficulty,
discovered the hidden treasure, amountiag, it is said, to
46Q, tied up in u haqdl‘erebbief. .

Standard-office, Two o'clock, p.m

LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET.--THIS DAY.
The news from here, of apprehended disturbances, sent to
London by telegraph yesterday, together with the state of
French financial matters, still further depressed prices there.
This has been followed by a further decline here, with more
sellers. The quotations of this morning's meeting of our
Stock Exchange were as follow :
Caledonias, 29a. East Lancashire new, 6i dis. London Stock,
130 1303 ; new 4-shares. n2l pin. Sheffield Preference, f dis.
par. Midland Stock, 100, 3-shares, 51 dis. North Stafford,
dis. Dover, No. 4, 31 3 dis. Berwick, new, 1 5 pm. New-
castle Preference, 8 3 pm.

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE-THIS DAY
The arrivals into this port, during the week ending yesterday
contain a fair supply of Wheat, prirl flgtnieal, with a
moderate quantity of Flour from,ll eland, and savant rnrce!s of
Grain coastwise; the imports fro►., abroad, forming m ,rely
9857 qrs. of Indian Corn, 5177 barrels ut ..nd 1117
barrels of Flour exclusively froth the United States, having none
recently in from the continent of Europe. _ .

Although we had a good attendance.of buyers at this day's
market, and the prices of Wheat were rather above those of
Friday, they scarcely reached the currency of this day week,
and the business done was only moderate.

American Flour at late prices
request, and the turn dearer.
Barley, Malt, Beans, and Peas r
Oats in slow request, and id.
supported late prices. . .

Indian Corn was rather easier ti
the best qualities of white were is
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Indian Meal 6d. lower.

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