The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-08-29 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

All the attempts to raise the Pegasus by means of
lighters have failed.

There is every reason to think the settlement of the
Portuguese tariff question is going on swimmingly.
Four boys were drowned at Dawlish, near Bristol, on
Sunday morning, by the upsetting of a boat.
An immense number of frogs fell in the town and
neighbourhood of Stourbridge during the late violent
storm!

The congregational plan of collecting from pew to pew,
has been introduced into London, where it is regarded as
a great novelty, and called the Lancashire system.
From Gainsborough to Hull by water was a two days'
voyage thirty years ago. It is now done by steam in two
hours and a half.
From the reply of Sir James Graham to the memorial
of the Cheshire Grand Jury it would appear that there is
a probability of having a winter assize.
The number of fires in the metropolis (there were six-
teen between Friday evening and Wednesday morning)
has suggested a suspicion of incendiarism.
PAISLEY.—Trade is continuing brisk ; every loom is
now sending forth the joyous sound of the shuttle, and
the state of the market is steady and favourable.
Another destructive fire took place in London on Wed-
nesday morning, by which the oil and varnish manufac-
tory of Messrs. Wentworth and Son of Mill-end gate
was destroyed.
It is said that upwards of 40,000 persons, principally
Irishmen, have taken the temperance pledge at the hands
of the Rev. Theobald Matthew, in the metropolis and its
vicinity.
The pensioners now in Greenwich Hospital, who fought
with Nelson, amount to 199; namely, those who fought
in the battle of St. Vincent, 13 ; the Nile, 25 ; Copenhagen,
31; Trafalgar, 130.
The Gloucester and Berkeley Canal is now completed,
and opened into the Severn ; and the number of large
ships passing through that river is consequently much
increased.

During the last week, the influx of visiters to Bakewell
was so great that carriages stood for more than an hour
in the streets, whilst accommodation and beds could be
procured for them.
Mrs. Williams, the wife of the chartist leader, Zepha-
niah Williams, who was reported to have been executed
in New South Wales for murder, has written to the
Northern Star, denying the truth of the statement.
A splendid new packet-ship, of 1,250 tons burthen,
ailed the Queen of the West, and belonging to Messr .
Woodhill and Minturn, was launched at New York, on
the sth instant.
The steam-ship Londonderry arrived at the Broomie-
law last Friday morning, bringing the enormous freight of
between 1,500 and 1,600 " sons of the sod," to reap a
harvest in Scotland.—Glasgow Citizen.
Cavalry and infantry barracks have beerr commenced
at Newport, Monmouthshire. The area within the wall
will be about ten acres, and the estimated cost of the
erection is reported at from £4,000 to £5,000.
Between Monday morning, the 31st ult. and the night
of Saturday, the sth instant, just one week, one hundred
and twenty-nine prisoners were lodged in Stafford county
prison, being at the average of 221 per day.
The estimated damage done to property in the towns of
Rochester, Chatham, Stroud, and Brompton, during the
short duration of the awful thunder-storm, was about
£6,000.

As a curious instance of the peculiar effect of the severe
storm of Wednesday night last, on the following morning
no less than 136 dead sparrows were found in the front
garden of No. 1, Moore-place, Lambeth.
It appears from the statistical reports issued by the
Registrar-General, that about one-fifth of the total mor-
tality of England and Wales is attributable to pulmonary
consumption.

FATHER MATHEW AND LORD BROUGHAM.—On
Wednesday last, Father Mathew breakfasted with the
Hon. Stafford Jerningham, where he was visited by Lord
Brougham, Lord Glenelg, and other persons of distinc-
tion.

MANSLAUGHTER.—At St. Neots, on Saturday week,
the death of an old man was occasioned by two market
carts knocking him down and running over him whilst
racing. A verdict of manslaughter has been returned by
the coroner's jury against the drivers.
ISLE OF MAN JOINT STOCK BANK.-A meeting of the
shareholders in this concern was held at Douglas on Tues-
day. The liabilities amount to £175,388. ls. 2d., and the
good debts to £93,812. 7s. 11d., leaving a loss to the bank
of £81,575. 13s. 3d.
ROBBERY OF £3,000.—0n Thursday information was
received and circulated throughout the metropolitan po-
lice district, that £3,000, consisting of thirty £lOO note-
of the Limerick bank, had been stolen from the house of
Mr. John Wright, in Roche's-street, city of Limerick.

LARD OlL.—Lard oil from the United States of Ame-
rica, which has hitherto been charged with a duty of 255.
per ton only, as raw animal oil, is in future, by treasury
order, dated 15th August, 1843, to be subjected to the duty
of 20 per cent. ad valorem, as a manufactured article.
DEPARTURE OF THE BENTINCK.—At Southampton,
on Thursday morning, the Bentinck steamer, Captain
Kellock, took her departure for Calcutta. She is to call
at the Cape of Good Hope and Mauritius, for which places
she took a mail. She had seventy passengers.
One hundred guineas have been placed at the disposal
of the Rev. Dr. Vaughan, president of the Lancashire
Independent College, as a prize for the best essay on the
education and improvement of the people of Great Bri-
tain.

EXTRAORDINARY CROP OF HAY.—In a small field of
24 acres, the property of Mr. Francis Dodd, of Hedley,
near Stocksfield, there is the astonishing number of 21
pikes of old-land hay, being equal to 101 tons ! The
same field, a few years ago, produced only 11 ton.

The Leith Docks are full at present with vessels
freighted with grain, commissioned when the unfavoura-
ble weather gave reason to anticipate a deficient harvest.
The contingency on which these speculators calculated
has happily not overtaken the country.
MURDER IN LEICESTERSHIRE.—Mr. Messenger, of
Gaddesley Lodge, and two men named Timson and Hy-
man, are in custody at Leicester, under suspicion of the
murder of James Garner, a servant of the former, whose
body was found, with the head cut off, iu a corn field, the
other day.
Dr. Bowring is expected to arrive in the Island either
on Monday or Tuesday next, and is the bearer of the
views or intentions of the Board of Trade respecting our
Fiscal Laws ; and we further understand that Mr. Glad-
stone is considered to stand pledged for the abolition of
the 21 per cent. duties.
SINGULAR DEVELOPMENT OF PHILOPROGENITIVE-
NESS.—One day last week a woman named Ann Hill ap-
plied to the manager of the Humane Society's funds, at
Worcester, for the usual remuneration awarded in case of
preserving life, for having rescued her own child from a
watery grave!

GAME.—The coveys of partridges are unusually nu-
merous this season. As many as eighteen, twenty, and
in one instance twenty-one birds, have been counted in
a single covey. Hares are also abundant, and rabbits
swarm past enduring where they are not vigilantly kept
down.

At the Lockerbie Lamb Fair. last week, the number
shewn was from 35,000 to 40,000. considerably under
that of last year. The Dumfries Courier says that the
prices were not only higher than were expected, but in
various instances above the mark of last year, say from
6d. to Is per head.

On Thursday last, four young laides, of high connec-
tions, named Beaucamp, Pallet, Dawson, and Savage,
took the veil at the Roman Catholic chapel, Bermondsey,
preparatory to their becoming " Sisters of our Lady of
Mercy," in the convent of that order attached to the
chapel.
The Earl of Roden has contributed £lO towards the
" Building Fund of the Free Church of Scotland :" and
in the letter accompanying it, his lordship says, " I assure
you no one can more entirely sympathize with those good
men who, for conscience sake, have left house and home,
and kirk, than I do."

IMPORTANT SALVAGE CASE.—Dr. Stock gave judg-
ment in the Court of Admiralty on Friday in the important
case of the Windsor Castle, which vessel, it may be re-
collected, was wrecked some months since off the south-
ern coast of Ireland. The learned judge decreed £5OOO
to the salvors, being one-fourth of the amount of the
property saved.

GRAlN.—Foreign grain still pours into our market in
vast quantities. On Sunday alone, 27 foreign vessels
came up to the Leith roadstead, twenty of which were
laden with grain ; the others contained miscellaneous
cargoes.—Scoisman.

A rumour was raised on Friday by a Sheerness corres-
pondent of the Times, that a French merchantman had
been brought into that port by the Cyclops war steamer,
having on board a quantity of fire arms, with which she
was proceeding to the coast of Ireland. The story is ad-
mitted to be unfounded.

UNOCCUPIED PROPERTY.—It is estimated that the
number of dwellings, mills, and warehouses, at the pre-
sent time unoccupied in the parish of Leeds (which in-
cludes the out townships), exceeds 6,000 ! This estimate
becomes the more startling when it is considered that
these are times of partially improved trade.
THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION.-At the meeting of the
general committee of the British Association, at Cork,
Yesterday week, it was resolved that the next meeting
should be held at York. The time was fixed for Septem-
ber. The Very Rev. George Peacocke, D.D., Dean of
Ely, was elected president for the next year.
We have reason to believe that an unfortunate occur-
rence in high life, which is sure to excite a very great
sensation when known, will very speedily be brought be-
fore the public. It is said that two of the most distin-
guished of our aristocratic families will unhappily be af-
fected by the untoward affair. We are not at liberty to
say more at present.—London paper.

THE FIRE IN FETTER-LANE, LONDON.—On Wednes-
day morning the remains of the late Mr. Newbury were
interred in the family vault in the burial ground of St.
Andrew, Holborn. Shortly after twelve o'clock four
coffins entered the same burial-ground, containing the
bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Rose, and her two sisters, Eliza-
beth and Margaret M'Crindell, followed by 24 mourners.
The scene at this moment was truly heart-rending, be-
tween 600 and 700 persons being present, many of whom
shed tears. The burial service having been read, the four
coffins were lowered into a 16-feet grave. The solemn
speetacle will long be remembered by all who witnessed it.