The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-14 00:00:00

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It is in contemplation to reduce the postage to India, to
afford greater accommodation to passengers, to shorten
the quarantine at Marseilles, and not to stop at Malta ;
the passage at Alexandria and Marseilles is to be effected
in seven or eight days.

THE IRON- TRADE.—At a meeting of the iron masters,
adjourned from Wolverhampton, held in Birmingham, on
Thursday evening, it was understood that the prices of
—namely £lO per ton for bar iron, £l2
10s. to £4 15s. for pig iron were

GREENLAND SEAL FISHING.—The Mary, Captain
Drina, arrived at Aberdeen from the Greenland seal fishing
on Monday, with 1,300 seals, about 12 tuns of oil, and
gives account of twenty two other vessels being at the
fishery, between April 28th and June 7th, with upwards
of 25,000 seals. _ _ _

On Tuesday, Mr. Norris, gamekeeper of Lord 'Ward,
in Staffordshire, was deliberately shot by an under-keeper
named Hull, who had been blamed by the former for
taking dogs into the preserves. Hull immediately gave
himself up and confessed the crime. The victim lies in a
hopeless state. .
AN EXTRAORDINARY CHARACTER.—MT. William
Mansfield, of Bainton, Bucks, farmer, died on Saturday
week, in the 82d year of h

worth at the time of his death froM £40,000 to £50,000,
but the whole of his personal expenses have not exceeded
£5O per year. In accordance with his wish, he was taken
to the grave in one of his own waggons.
In consequence of an impostor who is going about
Ross-shire predicting a horrible storm, with a dreadful
loss of life, which, he says, will take place at Wick,

fishermen can be induced, " for love or money," to
proceed towards Wick, and they are all consequently
going southward. _ . . .

AN OPPORTUNE REQUEST.—During the discussion at
the Monmouthshire Sessions on the proposed new Luna-
tic Asylum, eighteen gentlemen were speaking at one
time, and Mr. W, A. Williams at the same period politely
intimated to the reporters "the necessity of taking a cor-
rect account of the proceedings, and hoped they would
do so." _ _

A Portuguese slave dealer, named Gil Thomas Dos
autos, on the occasion of a mutiny of slaves on board his

nd then closed the
plan of quieting savages,
tingly termed it, had the desired effect, though it was
attended with the loss of a few slaves.
On the 26th ult. the commodore commanding the expe-

ship lately, threw clown
the turbulent negroes,

rimental squadron made a signal for a boat from each
ship, and a memorandum was issued to the captains,

communicated to the 'limes newspaper certain
ccounts of the last cruize had been removed from the
ervice. by order of the Admiralty ; such proceeding being

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contrary to an article of the printed instructic
The next annual Conference of the Wes-
will be holden in Bristol, on Wedre-d

It is reported

'9th inst.,

by appointing a President
that the Rev. Thomas Jackson, D.D , Theolog

1-Tutor

of the Southern branch of the Wesleyan Institution at
Richmond, Surrey, will be elected to the office of Pre-
sident.

EXTRAORDINARY LEAP OF A CAT.—A short time
since, while a cat, belonging to a person residing in Salter-
gate, Chesterfield, was sitting in an open window three
stories high, puss observed a sparrow flying into its nest,
under the eaves of the roof. The mouser suddenly made

•om the window

caught the bird, dropped upon
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and im-

triedirjely ran off with the prize.—Derby Mercury.
On Friday week, a pan, employed in the manufacture of
salt at Droltwich salt-works, burst with such terrific
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force, that one-half of it was driven through the wall of
the building ; and a horse and cart statianig near were
precipitated into the river salwarpe. Two men loading
the cart, and also the driver, were dreadfully scalded, and
one of the former, named James Carter, subsequently
died.

eman nas annually,
on his natal day, for several years, been in the habit of
walking the boundarie.biLuatiya__pariiil4--suad, On
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he accomplished this no small task within seven hours,

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d and Wales,

NEW CURRY-POWDER JOKE.—Perhaps the following
joke may have sprung up simultaneously, in a thousand
shapes, in a thousand quarters, but we warrant it as ori-

ginal in the case of the party from whom it came to us.
Mr. B. C. being told that the Duke of Norfolk was made
Master of the Horse, in the new ministry, observed at
once, Ido not know whether his grace knows much of
horses, but he will, at all events, understand how to curry
them." _ _ _

AFFECTING A CCIDENT.—On Sunday week John white
labourer, aged 15, was looking down a new pit sinking in
the neighbourhood of Armby Moor Side, near Leeds,
about 20 yards deep, and whilst thus engaged his hat flaw
off. In stretching forward to catch it his foot slipped, and
he fell into the pit. A man named Stevenson, who saw'
the accident, having got assistance, descended the pit,
which being unfortunately filled at the time with " black
damp," he was suffocated.
CLAIMING A HUSBAND.-At Brighton, the other day,
a young woman named Denning claimed Captain Mercer,
a half-pay naval officer, sixty years of age, for her hus-
band. She asserted that be had married her on the Ist
of October, and annoying him by her intrusions, the case
was brought before the magistrates, when the captain was
able satisfactorily to prove an alibi, and the counsel for
the girl admitted that she must have been mistaken as to
his identity. _

We direct the attention of our readers to an advertise-
ment in another column, announcing the publication of
the fourth volume of Messrs. Oliver and Boyd's cheap
edition of D'Aubigne's History of the Reformation.
This edition possess a merit peculiar to itself, and is
highly deserving public attention. It has been carefully
revised by the author, who himself in the preface declares
it to be " the only faithful expression of his thoughts in
the English language. _ _

The Times printing-office was honoured on Monday last
by a visit from Ibrahim Pacha. His highness arrived at
about four o'clock, and minutely inspected the various
departments. His highness manifested extreme intelli-
gence and a ready appreciation of the ingenious and pow-
erful machinery by which The Times is printed. and was
Particularly struck at the exit., me rapidity of the process
upwards of a hundred copies in a minute being struck off
After spending nearly an hour in Printing-hous

square,
action at

A REMARKABLE CHARACTER.—On the 30th of June
died, at the age of 88 years, Mr. John Cheetham, of Holt-
bottom, Conyston, farmer and weaver. He had used the

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NOVEL QUALIFICATION FOR A SCHOOLMASTER.—The
Guardians of the Bedminster Union advertise in the,
Bristol Gazette of Wednesday, for an instructor of youth,
and state that preference will be given, not to a person ac-
customed to tuition, but to a tailor! The successful can-
didate for the office must, it seerets, know how to turn his
cane into a yard ; be equally learned in breeches and
books ; able to mend pens and pinafoies ; rectify rents in
grammar and garments ; and patch up, at the same time,
coats and copybooks. That the tutor tailor may never be
out at elbows, the guardians proffer him, as a rev
the manifold services above-mentioned, the munificent

valued at

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THE DUKE IN A WHIG CABINET.-It is said that the
very queer position of the Duke of Wellington, as mem-
ber, of the Whig administration, is attributable to a be-
nevolent wish, on the part of her Majesty, not to interfere
with the
,private hobbies of her distinguished subject.
Out of office, the Duke would be unable to complete the
admirable aeries of letters, of which so many are now its
the hands of autograph hunters, stating that "the Duke
of Wellington is Commander-in-Chief of the Army.
The Duke makes it a point never to interfere in matters
and for I over which he

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_.,e of Commander-ia.Chief, or of office altogether, and
the stereotyped excuse for non-interference, who can say
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