The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-17 00:00:00

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giment. It is generally supposed that Lieutenant Munro
will rwt surrender at all to take his trial for the cannier
of Culritiel Fawcett ; hut that his second, Lieutenant
Grant. will give himself up at the next sessions of the
Criminal Court.

THt. WEATHER.—Wet, cold. and tempestuous weather
has prevailed during most of the week, and the fineness
of the season appears to have entirely gone, and the dark
and stormy days of autumn to have succeeded. On Wed.
nesday it thundered and lighrened. Yesterday there was
hail, rain, frost, and snow. At present there appears no
signs of improvement.—Preston Chronicle.

SUlClDE.—Yesterday, at ball-past two o'clock, p.m.,
John Giunce, a tailor. from Clifton, deli;)erately walked
into the Ribble in the presence of his wife at Ashton, and
was drowned. He had come to Preston for medical ad.
vice, and was in a low state of spirits. The body was got
out in about half an hour afterwards, but ;ife was extinct.
—lbid.

CHARITY SERIIONS.-0a Sunday week, two sermons
were preached in the National School, Symonstone, near
Padiham,—that in the afternoon by the Rev. J. Groom,
8.A., curate of Padiham, and that in the eve ling by the
Rev. Walter Allnut, B A., curate of Habergham Eaves;
after each of whilh a collection was made in aid of the
school, amounting to £ll 13i., being the largest sum
ever collected there for a similar purpose.
Mr. Macgregor of the Board of Trade, who is at
present in this city, had a meeting on Wednesday with a
number of our leading merchants and bankers. Although
the communications with Mr. Macgregor are not of an
official character, it is generally believed that his visit is
intended as a means of feeling the pulse of the coin.
mercial community regarding certain changes supposed to
be in contemplation.—Glasgow Mail.

Tea SEASON.—We have striking signs of the approach
of winter here. At the Laund, nrar Cockerham, (the
residence of J. Clarke, Esq.,) some woodcocks were seen
last week, and this week, Mr. Atkinson, gunsmith, brought
a fine one to our office. It was shot near the town. A
large flock of wild gre,e nave also flown over the town.
The snow is on the hills, and for two days past the wind
has blown sharply from N.E. The frost on Thursday
night was keen.—Carlisle paper.

LANCASTER AGRICULTURAL SOCIL►TY.—The annual
meeting of this society was held on Tuesday last, on which
occasion there was a very good show of cattle, &C. The
company assembled in the field was very large, and in..
eluded all the leading agriculturists of the neighbourhood.
The usual dinner did not take place, no person in autho-
rity having given the necessary directions—so that the
business of the day would finish rather flatly.
ALARMING FIRE.—On Friday night last the inhabi-
tants of Rathmell Moor, near Settle, were into a state of
consternation in consequence of a barn in that locality
being observed to be on fire. The whole of the hay con-
tained in the building was destroyed, and the walls level-
led to the ground by the devouring element. No cause
whatever can he assigned as to the origin of the fire, and
it is supposed to he the act of an incendiary.

SINGULAR DFATII.—A short time since Mr. R. Rich,
farmer, of Ridley Court, accidentally scratched one of
his fingers (supposed by a thorn) ; inflammation took
place and spread over his frame ; it was followed by mor-
tification, which shortly terminated in death. The de-
ceased, who was 56 years of age, was much respected and
lamented by his family and numerous friends. lie was
many years the confidential bailiff to Mr. Nicholas Ray,
of Franks, in this couny for his estate at Ridley.—Maid-
stone Journal.

MELANCHOLY SHIPWRECK AND Loss OF LIFg.-A
correspondent informs 1-.3 of the shipwreck of the Mary
Anne, of Arbroath, about six miles from Islay, on Wed.
nesday night last, with the loss of all hands on hoard,
except a young seaman, named John Purvis. She sailed
last from N vrcastle, for Strangord Lough, on Tuesday
week, with a cargo of 95 tons of wheat. Besides the
Captain, whose name was David Cargill, her crew con-
sisted of five sailors—one of them a boy. The Mary
Anne foundered off the Runs of Islay.—Londonderry
Sentinel.

BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET.-00r raw sucar market
has been rather less animated this week, still the sales
amount to 600 hogsheads West Inds, at prices. fully equal
to the former quotations ; fine 66s to 678., good bright
625. to 655., middling 595. to 615., strong pan qualities
58s. to 615., low brown 565. to 575. Scarcely anything
done Bengals or Mauritius. For ruins there is rather
more demand, and about 50 puncheons have been disposed
of since our last at the previous quotations. Average
price of Sugar, Oct. 10, is 338. 9id. per cwt.

THE TIDES AT LElTH.—Another singular phenome-
non of the tide took place at Leith on Friday evening,
the 6th current. At eighteen minutes past seven, being
low water, the tide, in the course of ten minutes, rose to
the height of eighteen inches, where it remained for
nearly fifteen minutes, it then receded about six inches,
where it continued to stand for twenty minutes, and then
suddenly rushed in (and with great rapidity), and in half
an hour rose to the height of three feet. During the
spring tides at Leith, if the recede a great way, they
have bad ebbs at Burntisland, and vice versa.—Edin-
burgh Evening Post.

PAISLICY AND ARDROSSAN CANAL.—The swift passage
boats on this canal, which have done so much to decom-
pose all the previously existing hydrodynamical theories,
without as yet giving anything in their place, are now
removed to another sphere of action, or rather traction ;
a change occasioned by a compact between the hitherto
competing canal and railway modes of conveyance. Two
of the five were recently shipped at the Bromielaw, Glas-
gow, to be sent to Wolverton, and two for the Sheffield
Canal. The breaking-up of the establishment has occa-
sioned the sale of 60 horses. The canal company receive
£l4OO per annum as a bonus, in consideration of their
relinquishing the passenger traffic.

SMALL DEER —Captain Robertson, of the Monarch,
which arrived at Leith on Saturday from Hong Kong,
with a cargo of tea, brought home with him—out of a
variety of other animals intended for our Zoological
Gardens, but which unfortunately died on the passage—
a pair of Napu Musk Deer from the Island of Java, and
which he has liberally presented to this institution.
These deer are not much larger than a hare, and are the
smallest of the ruminating animals. They are very
beautiful, with large eyes like the Gazelle, and legs not
much thicker than a tobacco pipe. Mr. Alexander, of
Gourock Castle, Gauroek, has also presented the Gardens
with en Emu, brought by himself from New South Wales.
—Edinburgh Evening Post.

SUICIDE.—In our police intelligence will be found a
paragraph headed 'Singular Case.' It will be seen that a
young woman, named Mary Duck, was brought up before
the magistrates for leaving her infant child unprotected.
On that occasion Mr. Marshall treated the woman with
considerable contempt. Had he given her a severe repri-
mand and examined into her real guilt, no one could have
complained. The woman evidently felt the treatment of
this New-Poor-Law-Advocating-Magistrate, and which,
added to what she had suffered from being taken into cus-
tody and exposed to the wide world, has caused her to
commit suicide. On Wednesday last her cold and lifeless
body was taken out of a pond between this town and
Ilorbury,—A. CORPSE.— Wakefield Journal.
EXTRAORDINARY ROD FISHING IN THE TWEED.—
On Thursday last, Mr. Denistoun,Springwood-park, had
singularly good sport in the Tweed, at the Scurrypool,.in
Sprouston Water, having killed no fewer than 17 salmon
with the rod. The salmon killed were of the following
weights :—one 201 b., one 181 b., one 141 b., one 91b., two
51b. each. and the remainder between 71b., and 81b. each.
What renders Mr. Dennistoun's sport upon this occasion
the mcre extraordinary is, the low state of the river, from
the long-continued drought, and that scarcely a single fish
has been taken with the rod for several weeks. The
only mode by which salmon have been taken in the Tweed
for some weeks past has been with the leister or spear,
and in th;a way a good number have been killed.—Edin.
burgh Witness.

IMPORTATION OF COAL INTO LorrnoN.—The follow.
ing is an authentic account of the importation of coal,
eulm, and cinders, from the Tyne, Wear, Tees, &c., to
London, for theinonth of September:—From Newcsstle,
1)2.7589 tons, in 334 ships ; from ,nnaerland, fiti.nin tons,
in 263 ships; from Stocton, 47,496 tons, in 188 ships;
from Blyth, 10,941 tons, in 52 ships ; Scotch coals, 1,380,
tons, in 19 ships ; Welch ditto, 6,281 tons, in 29 ships;
from Yorkshire, &c., 4,763 tons, in 51 ships ; total-
-260,540 tons, in 956 ships. This import, co ppared with
that in September, 1842, which was 221,865 tons, shows
an !ncreose for the September in this year of 38,675 tons.
The imports in last year, from January Ist to Saptember
30th, amounted to 1,902,828 tons, 6,864 ships; the im-
ports in the present, during the same period, is 1,860,965
tons, in 6,938 ships; decrease in the present year 41,842
tons.

GOOD OLD HOSPITALITY.—On the evening of Thurs-
day week our respeeted neighbour, Colonel Rawstorne,
summoned together the whole of his tenantry, and enter-
tained them at his residence, Penwortham Hall, to a good
substantial supper. After the entertainment, the Colonel
addressed his rustic guests in courteous and encouraging
terms, and expressed his intention of establishing for their
use an agricultural library, at Hutton village school,
This is the first and chief step to advance agricultural im-
provement: first eradicate the weeds of ignorance., and
there will be a greater disposition on the part of farmers
to root up and clear the soil of vegetable weeds, and to
reduce it to a better state of tillage. Then, and not till
then, will they appreciate the beauty of a well cultivated
field, than which, as the Roman orator observed, " No-
thing can be more delightful."—Preston Chronicle.
ARRIVAL OF THE DUKE OF BORDEAUX.—This illus-
trious Prince of the house of Bourbon has arrived in this
country from Germany. His Royal Highness, or, as hie
partisans in France call him, Henry V. of France,
landed at Hull on Friday week last from Hamburgh, at-
tended by the Duke de Levis, Count Loemarin, Marquis
de Chambannel, and Captain Villaret de Forgeuse. His
Royal Highness embarked at Hamburgh on Wednesday
morning at half-past ten o'clock, and the steamer reached
Hull in 49 hours, after encountering strong head-winds
throw/bout the passage. On Saturday his Royal High.
ness and suite, in three carriages, left Hull for Leeds and
York, in which city the Duke stayed to go over the Mins-
ter and view the different objects of interest in old Ebora-
coin. On Monday his Royal Highness departed front
that city for Scotland, with the intention of !risking a
brief sejour at Durhom and Newcastl and en route his
Royal Highness was expected .
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