The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-04-30 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

Her Majesty's accouchment may be expected about the
beginning of July.
Sunday la-t was the fiftieth anniversary of the marriage
of the Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster.
Swallows have made their appearance, and the cuckoo's
notes have been heard in various parts of the country.
The Marquis and M,,rchioness of Westminster are not
expected to visit London this season. The family will
shortly leave Eaton Hull tor Halkin.
IRON TRADE.—PRICES ON THE CLYDE, APRIL 20.
Pig iron, No. 1, £3 10s. ; bar iron, £6; nail rods. £7
boiler plates and sheets, £9 : 10s. per ton.
Mr. Sergeant Merewether, has been elected recorder
of Devizes, vice Mr. Ludlow Bruges, now one of the
members of parliament for that town.
The dock company are canvassing the borough for sig-
natures to a petition in favour of their bill for making
additional docks at this port.—Hull Herald.
Carpenters' wages at the Cape of Good Hope, an
f colony for emigrants, are 30s a week.—Limerick
Chronie.e.
The Poor-law Commissioners have appointed Colonel
Thomas Francis Wade to be an assistant commissioner of
poor-laws.

The property sworn to under Sir Francis Burdett's will
is under £160,000. The personal property under Lady
Burdett's will is under £lO,OOO.
Prince Albert has made a donation of £5OO to the funds
of Christ's Hospital, and has become a governor of that
noble institution.
It is said the Poor Law Commissioners hive adopted a
resolution that, wherever a union workhouse exists, a paid
chaplain shall officiate, whether the guardians approve or
not of the appointment.
The Marquis of Bute wilt, we hear, be again requested
to represent her Mjesty as Lord High Commissioner at
the forthcoming General Assembly of the Church of
Scotland, for the third time.—Edinburgh Evening Post.
Mr. (lades Kemble had the honour, on Wednesday
evening, of reading to her Majesty and the Court, at
Buckingham Palace, Shakspeare's play of Cymbeline,
slightly compressed..
DEAL.—The. atmosphere was, an Tuesday, so rarified
that Calais was plainly discernible with the naked eye.
The vessels could be seen leaving the harbour without the
aid of a glass.—Dover Chronicle.
It is said that a lady violinist is about to make her
debut in the metropolis, her genius and talents are com-
pared by connoisseurs with those of a Paganini and a
Sivori.
The Board of Trade has intimated that it considers the
statements of the Bristol• Dock Company, in reference to
the Great Britain steamer, perfectly, satifacrory, awl that
the Great Western Company ought to give the guarantee
required.

MORTALITY IN THE LINE.—Of nearly 600 young
active men, who composed the gallant regiment of the
22nd Highlanders,.when it left this country for fore gn
service nearly two years ago, only 143 have returned.—
Fife Herald. ' •
THE POTATO PANIC.—The GreenOck Advertiser al-
hules to the avidity with which potatoes were, some time
sinCe, bought up, and announces, that after ali the out-
cry, it is found that potatoes are not scarce, in conse-
quence of which prices are rapidly filling.
As a proof of the early season, and the effects of the
beautiful weather during the last four weeks, it may be
noticed that several broods of young thrushes were last
week discovered to have left their nests in various parts of
this neighbourhood.—Newcaalle Herald.
CROP OF GRASS.—At Heaton Mersey, near this town,
there is a field of Italian rve grass, of about an acre, be-
longing to John Thorniley. so extraordinary in its growth
as to be at least two feet high at the present moment.—
Stockport Advertiser.
Out of the ten millowners at present in the House of
Commons it is said that eight of them are in favour of
the ten hours bill for regulating factory labour. This fact
speaks volumes in favour of Lord Ashley's humane mea-
sure.

The letters and despatches of Nelson are at length about
to be collected and published, in a form corresponding
with Colonel Gurwood's celebrated work, " The Welling-
ton Despatches." The teak has been undertaken by Sir
Harris Nicolas.

The soldier belonging to the 37th Regiment, who bad
deserted his post in the barracks at Sunderland, and when
in the guard-house committed a violent assault upon Ser-
geant M'Alligott, was tried by a general courtmartial in
the barracks in this town, a few days ago, and sentenced