The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-17 00:00:00

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again caused increased runribers to be brought to market,
which had a natural, but I trust only a temporary, effect,
acting in connexion with the causes which have depressed the
corn markets.
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, it will enable them, in benefitting themselves, to
give employment to many of the labouring poor, of which
they at pr'

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season

,sent stand much in need

4I In thus answering your letter, I have been drawn to do
so, as I proceeded, at much greater length than I had in-
tended ; but having done so, and thinking what I have said

may perhaps have some weight with others who think as you
do, I shall send a copy of what I have said, and also one of
yours, to Mr. Taylor, that he may, if he thinks proper, in,
sert them in the next Montrose

" I am, dear Sir,
Your faithful and obedient servant,
" JOHN GLADSTONI

To A. Lindsay, Esq., Union Bank, Montrose.'

On the 9th instant a woman, of the name of Goulding, at
Salford, cut her throat with a common dinner knife, in con-
)f great privations, arising from her husband's nez-

segue
lect and desertion

—We record wit
forth Midland

sion took place on
tation,

which has resulted

r the Barnsley

It appears

On Tuesday last the town of Preston was visited by a
storm of thunder and lightning, when the chimney of Messrs.
Horrocks' factory was struck, and the outer course of bricks
was completely stripped off, like pealing the bark of a tree.
The Dublin Evening Packet of Thursday gives an unqua-
lified contradiction to the statement, now going the round of
the papers, relative to the noble chief secretary for Ireland
being about to succeed Sir Charles Bagot as Governor of
Canada.

The Queen's duties received at this port for the year ended
rtt•.

tne otn inst. amounted to upwardp of one hundred and
seventy-six thonsand pounds, being an excess above the pre-
ceding year of eight thousand pounds.—Waterford Chro-

Mates, that he
Lay, the 22d I
dantation the

THE Cticicoo,—A correspondent of the Hereford Times
'tid other persons, on Wednesday and Thurs-
-93d ult., distinctly heard a cuckoo in a
Sir Velters Cornewall, Bart., in

county

roperty of s

nation

ure to state, that, at the recent ordi-
the Bishop of Chichester, his lordship presented
deacons with a copy of Goode's invaluable work
on the Scriptures as the sole rule of faith and practice in the
Christian Church.

A letter from Van Dieman's Land, dated the 14th of July,
mentions the discovery of a very fine copper mine on the
estate of a Mr. Grant, near Fingal, and about seventy miles
froth' Launceston. It is said that copper is a product hitherto
unkown in that country.

Some of the Justices of Exeter decided last week that a
clergyman is not exempt from turnpike toll on his way to
officiate at a Union Workhouse, even though not engaged in
any other clerical duty. It is not stated whether the clergy-
man was the chaplain or one who performed occasional duty.
A Bactrian, or two-humped camel, which is of the species
much employad by the Chinese in land-carriage, and de-
signated by them the Tong-key-fo, or " c•'mel with feet of
the wind," has just been added to the collection of animals in
the Zoological Gardens in the Regent's Park.

Mr. Thomas Blackburn, of Bentham, dined the last day
of the old year and the first day of the new one on new
potatoes grown in the open air. They were the fourth crop
raised by him from the same ground during the present year,
and he has already planted the same patch of land with a
fifth.—Lancaster Guardian.

At the Clerkenwell police on Thursday, an intelligent-
looking boy, genteelly dressed, was committed for trial,
charged with robbing Charles Tutharris, his father. He
was in the habit of spending all the money he could get, at
minor theatres, to see " Jack Sheppard," and other demo-
ralising performances.

A few days ago, Captain Dinsdale and Captain Allan, ac-
companied by Mr. Bowes' agent, Mr. Dent, shot within
Streamlet Park, Durham, in the short space of four hours,
106 hares, 15 pheasants, and 1 woodcock. Had pheasants
been wanted, a much greater number could have been killed,
as they were found to be very numerous.

Mr. Tartakover, a Jewish convert, has been ordained (Ica-
con by the bishop of Jerusalem, and there are now in that
ancient city a bishop, a priest, (Mr. Ewald,) and a deacon
also. all " Hebrews of the Hebrews ;" a fact in the history of
Jerusalem which has not been realized since its final destruc-
tion by Adrian, in the second century.

On Wednesday senn'ight, a young woman, aged 22,
daughter of Mr. Thorpe, of the Sheaf Tavern, Sheffield,
ran out of the house and drowned herself in the canal, be-
cause her father insisted on her leaving a merry-making
party in the house, and going to bed at one o'clock in the
morning.

A pamphlet on the tea-trade, which has just been pub-
lished, states the quantity of tea daily consumed in the
United Kingdom to be about 1200 chests, or 100,0001bs.
The sum paid for it by the consumers is estimated at about
nine millions sterling in tne year, three and a half millions
of which go to the government for duty.

A split of an exraordinary character has been recently
caused throughout all Ireland amongst the quakers, by the
preaching of a fanatic named Jacob, who lays down as a
fundamental rule, that all his disciples should dress in white,
as an emblem of the purity of their lives, and hence his sect
are denominated white quakers.
THE HINDOSTAN STEAMER.—The captain of the Mount-
stuart Elphinstone, just arrived at London from the Cape of
Good Hope, which place he left on the 6th November, re-
.

ports having seen a very large steamer, exactly corresponding
to the description of the Hindostan, standing in towards the
Cape on the morning of the 7th of November.
REMARKABLE TENACITY OF LIFE.—The State Gazette
of Stockholm contains a long account of a singular fact which
occurred at Elfshurgs-Lehn in April last. A poor tailor,
travelling in that part of Sweden, accidentally fell into a coal-
I remained there for the space of 39 days without food.
27th of December he was stated to be doing
well. though in a very feeble state.

pit,
At the date of th

A. E. I. 0. U.—The famous device of Austria, A. E. I.
0. U., was first used by Frederick the Third, who adopted
it on his plate, books, and buildings. These initials stand
for " Austrire est imperare orbi universo ?" or, in German,
" Alles Erdreich Ist Osterreicli Untheran ;" a bold assump-
tion for a man who was not safe an inch in his dominions.
Strurius

In the Court of Peculiars, last week, Mr. Woolley, of
Bristol, applied f.r a nullity of marriage had with Miss Mary
Ann Morgan. The parties are better known as those en-
gaged in the Bristol hoax. Dr. Adams argued that the cita-
tion was not sufficiently specific to enable his client (Mrs.
Wooley) to meet the case, but the Court was of a contrary
opinion, and ordered Mrs. Woolley to appear absolutely.

HIGHLAND MARY.—We understand that the committee,
under whose auspices the monument over the grave of Burns'
Highland Mary has been erected at Greenock, have, on ac-
count of the representations made to them, altered the in-
scription which had been agreed on, to one much simpler
than the former, viz., the following :—" Sacred to the Me-
mory of Highland Mary."—Glasgow paper.
The Bishop of Exeter has withdrawn his license from the
Rev. Mr. Babb, of Turnchapel, near Plymouth, because, ac-
cording to the Record, that gentleman declared, at some
meeting of the clergy, that such was his opinion of
doctrines, preached by a certain clergyman in
Plymouth, that he should feel it his duty, if he
his flock to attend the ministry of that gentle-
rn them of their dangerous tendency.

the PuseN

the town of Plymout►

man, to

The Manchester Guardian states that the Rev. James
Wright, incumbent of St. James, Latchford, Warrington,
refused to bury the unbaptized child of a dissenting parish-
ioner, and, in consequence, a dissenting minister mounted a
chair, in the factory yard adjoining the church, on the day of
the funeral, and, whilst the coffin was being lowered into the

body of worshippers to whom the father belonged.
In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Thursday, the Attor-
ney-General applied for a rule on which to found a criminal
information against the London Times, for stating (in a
police case), that Mr. Muskett, banker, ex-M.P. for St.
Alban's. was the proprietor of a disreputable saloon. It

luent pa

,er, the Times explained away the libellous mat
idges therefore refused a rule.

amer has lately be

lunched on the
and if all that he

tened the " Magician

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aeserves the nar

110 horse power, her lines are beautiful, and her.

paddles on Morgan's feathering plan, it has been stated she
goes at the rate of fifteen miles per hour, and that, on one
occasion, she started from Woolwich one hour after a Go-
vernment steamer, of 320 horse power, and within one hour
overtook and passed her.