The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-29 00:00:00

Orntral ffx tsrellanv.

It is stated that 10,000 tons of potatoes have been sent
from Vvlsbeach by railway only this season.
We are sorry to hear that Mr. Richard Oastler, " the
-Feetory-King,' is dangerously ill.
The American steam-ship Washington would leave
New York on the 20th instant for Southampton.
Nottingham coals are advertised in London at 255. per
ton, and are said to be the best in that market.
SWANS ON ESTHWAITE LAKE.—A number of these
birds are, through private liberality, likely soon to orna-
ment this beautiful water. _ _ _

Mr. Hawksley has been requested by the Earl of Lons-
dale to report on the practicability of obtaining a good
supply of water for Whitehaven.
On Monday night, Stephenson's biscuit manufactory at
Wapping, London, was destroyed by fire. The river,
for miles, was most brilliantly illuminated.
It it stated to be a fact that there are persons employed
in Christian England in casting idols for the Indian mar-
ket.
The destruction of farm property by fire is reviving in
the northern part of Essex. Five or six fires of this de-
scription have occurred in that district within a short
period.
A Dumfries paper mentions that a mouse's nest, con-
taining► a litter of dead young ones, was lately found in
the interior of part of a bun, which had been placed in a
covered jar, by a jeweller of that town, some time before.
AUSTRALIAN WHEAT.—The vessel Harpley, arrived in
the docks from Launceston, Van Diemen's Land, has
brought 2,599 bags of wheat, the produce of that distant
colony.
At Colesford, Gloucestershire, John R.avenhill, farmer
and horse-doctor, has been committed for the man-
slaughter of James Fox, which he undertook to cure of a
bad leg.
The pro-fiapist and latudinarian government has recently
caused each Roman Catholic soldier in her Majesty's ser-
vice to be supplied with a neat edition of the Douay muti-
lated Bible.

Mrs. Hills, wife of Mr. Hills, Dryburn-cottage, North-
umberland, died a few days since in consequence of having
taken a quantity of oxalic acid, which she kept for cleaning
bonnets, and which she mistook for Epsom salts.
On Wednesday, Mr. Wakley held an inquest on the
late Mr. " Ro•neo" Coates, who died on Monday from
injuries received by being thrown down by a cab. The
driver has not been discovered. The jury returned averdict
of " manslaughter" against some person unknown.
A " fin " whale, which measured 46 feet in length, and
25 feet in girth, and which was estimated to weigh four
tons, was found dead on Saturday week by some Kentish
fishermen, who towed it into Folkestone, where they sold
the carcase for the sum of £l4.

An Oxford correspondent of the Athenceum states that
he has succeeded in transferring drawings made on paper
with lithographic chalk to zinc pipes, which may be made
by means of the anastatic press, to produce impressions
that cannot be distinguished from lithographs.
THE GROWING WHEAT..—At Wakefield, Newton,
Stanley, Altofts, Normanton, Warmficld, Crofton, Meth-
ley, Castleford, Pontefract, and Yorkshire generally, the
growing wheat was never known to look better at this
time of the year, than it does at present.
A love affair, which very nearly had a fatal termination,
hasmm.h gnaai. at Franinton-on-Seyern. and
Newport, in Gloucestershire. The young lady threw her.
self into the Berkeley Canal, but was got out after sus-
taining a sad ducking.
Foshuntinc, seems to be declining in Leicestershire, for
the number of horses belonging to members of the Mel-
ton hunt now stabled in that town is only 204, or 70 less
than the number shown by an average for the last five
years.
The moveable feasts, namely, Easter and Whitsuntide,
this year happen almost as late as they can ever occur :
the one being on the 23d of April, and the other on the
10th of June, the first day of Lent being on the Bth of
March. _ _

Six men were drowned in the Tyne on Tuesday. They
were workmen employed preparing the coffer dams and
erecting the gears for the high level bridge across the river
at Newcastle. They bad only been engaged at the works
within half an hour of the accident. _ _ _

the bachelors gave a very grand fancy-dress ball, at
the Assembly Rooms, at Cheltenham, on the 22d inst.,
which was attended by all the fashionables there and in
the neighbourhood. The most magnificent Circassian
costume ever introduced into this country, from Kizliars-
kaja, was worn by Mrs. Cox, of Harwood Hall, Essex.
At the dinner of the Royal Society of Musicians, on
Tuesday, the patriarch Braham contributed the once fa-
mous `1 Hearts of Oak " with prodigious vigour and
energy, although on the threshold of eighty years of age !
Nothing could exceed the enthusiasm with which the old
man was greeted on all sides.
On Sunday last, a notice appeared on the church door
of a rural village in the northern corner of the county of
Leicester, informing the inhabitants that a vestry meeting
would be held on a certain day, for the purpose of appoint-
ing proper persons to collect the " asses" taxes for the
ensuing year.
THE TONGUE SOWN UP UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF
CHLOROFORM.—At Mill Bank, Ayton, a young boy who,
while falling from a tree, nearly severed his tongue in
two, refused to allow it to be stitched together. Dr.
Colvil applied chloroform, and, while the boy was under
its influence, performed the operation.
AN IRISH MODE OF WARMING A PRISON.—It appears
from a statement recently made by the Rev. George Chet-
wode, one of the visiting justices of the Aylesbury county
gaol, that " the pipes for warming the reception cells of
the prisoners ran outside' instead of ` inside,' and that
therefore no warm air came into those cella at all."