The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-31 00:00:00

The office of Inspecior of Prisons, vacant by the death of
Dr.t Short, has been conferred by the Secretary of State
upon Mr. J. G. Perry, surgeon to the Foundling Hospital,
and late secretary to the Royal Medical and Chirurgical.
Society of London.
ExcnEgota BILLS.--13y a parliamentary paper just pub-
lished it appears that the amount authorised to be raised,
charged in the supplies of 1833, was £18,203,000 from which,
deduct £103,200 paid off in money in 1242, and 5,700 olds
out-standing bills, leaving £18,182,300 to be provided for its
the present year.

TIIREATENINii A. BISHOP.—The Bishop of Exeter has
been compelled to bring a clergyman, the Rev. W. Tuckei,,,
before the magistrates, for writing letters to his lordship con.-
tabling threats of a fearful description. The reverend gerb..
tlernan is insane, and is to be confined at the Lunatic Asykuns
in Exeter.

THE PRINCE OF WALES.—It is generally rumoured ita, the
court circles that a separate establishment will shortly be!
formed for his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. There
is every reason to believe a number of domestics vat be
selected for the young prince not in any way connected; with,
her Majesty's household.

They are constructing at present, in the prison of Orleans,.
a dungeon for prisoners condemned to death. It is in the,
form of an obelisk, with the angles rounded off, so as to ren—
der it impousible to climb up them. The murderer Montely-
will be the first prisoner lodged in it.
in the
off and shot her through tle pocket of which there was
a loaded A. servant girl lost her life at the house of Mr. Ally. ale
Donoughmore, Queen's County, last week. It appears sloe
wasbtri Lid s h ipnigs
pistol,
great
which
coat,
went
heart.

THE TEA TRADE. MARCH 27.—The deliveries last week
were 442,5701 b., being rather lower. The market has been,
young hyson,
quiet since the public sales, which concluded on Thus:lda:sr
qualities being much the same. The
last, when there was a decline of id. to id. per lb. on good
and fine congou, and of 2d. on fine souchong, pekoe, and
quotations aretshteilol ttlhaetr.

VESSEL BURNED AT SEA.—The schooner Jemima, of
Glasgow, from Liverpool to Tampico, was destroyed by fire
on the 22d ult., when about 180 miles from Madeira. The
crew had just time to escape
,before an :tplosion took place
and the vessel went down. 1 hey were picked up and landed
at 'Madeira, after having been twenty-six hours at sea.—
Glasgow paper.
LARGE TAKE OF. FISH.—A gentleman, fishing with a
single line, which he only threw out and hauled in three
times, between Fort George an Nairn Bay, caught the great
weight of 7911 b. of fish, consisting of turbot, hallibut, skate,
cod, and ling. One of the turbot weighed 1611 b. ; one of
skates 69i1b., and another Glib.; and seven of the ballibut
weighted resdectively 601 b., 511 b, 491 b., 471 b., 431 b., 341 b.,
and 331 bs-shire Advertiser.

THREE VESSELS RUN DowN.-0n Monday last, the brig
Commerce, of Southwold, laden with coals, was ruts into off
F:larnhorough Head, and went down, leaving the crew just
time to escape. On Tuesday. the galliot Elizabeth sunk
near Belfast, in consequence of a collision with a schooner ;
and on Thursday, two vessels, colliers, ran into each other
off Yarmouth, when one went down, and the other ran ashore
near Coroner, where the crews of both got ashore.

MR. BRAHAM'S AGE.—Extract of a letter from Mr.
Braham to the editor of the Birmingham Advertiser, dated
March 20, 1840 i—" I made my first appearance very early
in life, at the age of 10, at the Royalty Theatre, in 1787, and
on this very day (tnx birth-day, March 20) lam 63." It
follows, therefore, that iiistead of being an octogenarian, as
some folks assert, Mr. Braham was 66 on Monday, the 20th
instant.

At the last masked ball, at the grand theatre at Brussels,
some mischievous persons strewed about an immense quan.
tity of black pepper. The dancing had scarcely commenced,
when the pepper being driven upwards by the motion of the
feet; got into the eyes, nostrils, and throats, of all who were
present, and for a long time nothing was heard but sneezing
and coughing. The dancing was suspended, and could not
be resumed until the boards had been twice watered and
swept.

Early on Saturday morning, as a very heavily laden van,
from the railway terminus in Euston-square, was passing
through Ray-street, Clerkenwell, one of the hind wheels
tame off, and the carriage was immediately overset, falling
an a poor old man who obtained a living dy vending water-
tresses, and litterally crushing him to pieces. The driver
iimself had a narrow escape, and the shaft horse was thrown
town and very seriously injured.

TOE PLAGUE OF RATS.—We understand that the island
of Jamaica is this year infested with rats to the most extra-
ordinary extent, and that in some districts they are devouring
the sugar canes like a swarm of locusts. On one estate,
which ought to have yielded IG.hogsheads of sugar, it is not
expected that there will be more than five, two-thirds of the
canes having been consumed by these insatiable depredators.
AN ANTE-DILUVIAN TOAD.—On Saturday week, while
some workmen were employed at their avocation in Boag
quarry, near Stevenston, they, on breaking up a piece of rock,
found a toad imbedded in the mass. On being released from
its prison-house, it lay motionless for several minutes, but
eventually become animated, and at present is quite lively.
It is very large, and somewhat different in appearance from
the common toad. The curious may see it in possession of
Mr. William Logan, Stevenson.—Ayr Advertiser.

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CIIARACTERISTIC.—An officar holding a commission in a
regiment under sailing orders, for one of the colonies not the
most popular amongst the British possessions, sent in his
" sealed papers" within the last week to the Horse Guards,
regularly endorsed, and with the view of effecting an exchange.
Ile received the packet on calling, in a day or two, unopened,
with this significant sentence and initial written on the en-
velope :

" sell or sail."

Ili W.ll

At the Beaumaris Assizes last week, a case of crim. con
(Evans v. Elliott) was tried, and a verdict of £5OO damages
obtained. Plaintiff was about 24, a native of some place near
Tamworth, and after a short courtship married his wife, who
was at the time about 18, and the daughter of a solicitor at
Wenlock. They resided at Anglesey,
apparently on harmo-
nious terms, until November last year, when defendant, who
is scarcely 20, came on a visit to them, and in less than a
fortnight the unfortunate woman fell.
MATRIMONY.—The Morning Herald of Monday con-
tains the following advertisement. We omit the address:—
" A gentleman (a widower), of good property, residing in a
beautiful part of the country, an easy distance from town, is
desirous of meeting
ticated lady, a spinster, of Christian Calvanistic principles,
with an amiable, personable, and domes-
a lover of the truth, to share with him the blessings he en-
joys ; age not under 40, as the gentleman is 10 years more.
It is presumed that none through folly will reply to this, as
the most honourable intentions only are meant, and the great-
est secrecy will be observed. A married lady, to obviate all
terview on the subject, and give every
scruples of delicacy, will, in the first instance, appoint an in-
views of the advertiser." explanation of the
The small and remarkably quiet town of Anse, in the
Rhone, was a few days ago thrown into a state of extraordi-
nal y agitation and gaiety by the arrival of a wealthy English
baronet and his ne.ly-married bride, who was a native of the
place, of humble parentage, and had herself been employed,
when a girl, as a shepherdess. They had been married in
England according to the rites of the Protestant Chureb, but
as the lady was a Catholic, they came over to receive the
benediction of her own. The happy couple were received
with every mark of cordial welcome, which they returned by
giving halls, dinners, and other entertainments, driving about I
during the day OA g splendid equipage, and bestow* gifts on
all around.

The Times of Monday states, that the Aylesbury Railway
is about to pass into the hands of the London and Birming-
ham Company, and that a committee has already been ap-
pointed to negociate the terms of sale.
The principal bankers of Leeds have given public notice
that henceforth they will alloy no more than 2 per cent. on
deposits. This will probably lead to the investment of
money in trade, and do some little local good.
Three students in St. Andrew's University, Edinburgh,
have been expelled in consequence of having precipitated
themselves into very extreme difficulties, from which they
cannot extricate themselves.
The Duke of Newcastle has addressed a letter to Mr.
'Walter, expressive of his Grace's surprise at the result of the
Nottingham election petition, and of the very nroper manner
in which Mr. 'Walter s election was carried on.
A young lady, 19 years of age, daughter of Mr. Granville,
of Bedford-square, Brighon, was killed by a fall from her
horse, whilst riding in company with two other ladies and a
gentleman.

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITV.--THE CHANCELLORS' ME-
DALS.—These distinguished honours have been just coo-
ferred upon the two following gentlemen.:—Mr. Gifford St.
John's College ; Mr. Druce, St. Peter's.,
rft M ARGATE, MARCH 23.--:-By the much-lamented deatio
of W. C. L. Keene, Esq., and W. Nethersole, Esq., a
populous place is actually left Ali
without a resident mayistratrr
—a fact not to be equalled in all England.
A person named Erck, a clerk to Mr. Henry, of Abbe -
street, was sent on Satuiday to the Bank of Ireland wit&
£315 to pay some bills; but, instead of doing so, he got
small notes for the money, and decamped, and has not Jame
been heard of.
On the 20th instant, the boat used for putting passengm
on board and landing them from the various steamers calling
off this port, was upset near the East Pier—being struck on
the side by two heavy seas—when the crew, consisting of
five men, were pitched into the water, and two of them were
drowned.—Fife paper.

STA RVATION.—On Sunday last a man of the name of John ,
Hamilton, a compositor, aged 50, was found dead in bed at
his lodgings, in London. He was strongly advised to enter
the union workhouse, but he declared that he would starve
first, to which dreadful death he fell a prey.
On Monday night a female, in passing along Blackfriars-
rood. London, and not perceiving that the iron grating in
front of a shop was removed, fell down, head foremost, into
the area, and struck her head with such violence as to cause
her death in a very short time.
At Shrewsbury, last week,, William Shakspeare was bound
over to keep the peace for three months, for fighting in the
Bugle, whereby he " got a fall," which oceasioned his being: '
sent to the infirmary for several days. '• To what base pur-
poses may we not return, Horatio P'
Lord Brougham gave a grand dinner, on Sunday, to a dis-
tinguished circle, including Sir Robert Peel, Duke of Wel- ,
lington, Lord Ashburton, the Lord Chancellor, Earl of
Jersey, Earl of Essex, Sir William Follett, Hon. Sydney
Herbert, Col. North, Mr. Brougham, Commissioner Phil-
lips, &c.