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

not more than half the crop of thepreviousyear

y at Tobago
continue to refuse to meet to transact any business until
the Chief Justice is suspended, on account of that officer
not furnishing them with a copy of certain documents
which they reauired. One or two slight showers had

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fallen in Grenada, but the severe drought in that island
for the most part continued, and the estates are in a de-
plorable state. A smart shock of an earth( -

The Municipal Council of Metz have voted a sum
of 60,000.000 f. of the budget of that place, to enable

bakers to sell bread to the poor under the assize price.
The growth of apples in Normandy, from which the
cider is made, is this year so scanty that the measure,

now quoted

at 4f. and upwards

The German journals contain acconnts of several fires
in Hungary, which are said to be the work of incendiaries.
The towns of Leibitz and Durant were on fire on the same
night. In the former 22 houses were destroyed, and in
the latter 101 houses and the Lutheran church. _ _

A dreadful accident took place on Friday last on board
ft steamer plying between Paris and Monteyeau. The
boiler of the engine exploded with great violence, and en-
gineer and two stokers were killed, and several passengers
dangerously wounded.
HURRICANE IN RUSSIA.—ST. PETERSI3URGII, JUNE
22.—News has been received to-day from the interior of a
ous hurt irMa..Plang—the - tanks of the -Wolge,

tremens

11ichifestrOsel between 100—,000 and 150,000 chetwerts of
flour, rye, wheat, linseed, &c., which were destined for

this place

ViDOCQ'S LAST TRICK.—Most of the Paris journals
announced some months ego that the celebrated Vidocq
was dead. The Democratic' Pacifique, in giving this news,
followed it up with certain reflections, which he consi-
dered to be a libel, and commenced thereupon an action

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against the responsible editor. The case came yesterday
before the Correctional Tribunal, and the editor, not ap-
pearing, eras condemned in default to pay a fine of 501.
Galignani's Messenger.

TREASON IN A DOG.—An amusing story is told of the
boys of Heriot's Hospital, in 1682. The Earl of Argyle

wasin this year convicted of high treason, fcm refusing
the test oath without certain qualifications. The Heriot
boys ordered their watch-dog to take the test, and offered
l.im the paper. When he refused, they rubbed it over
with butter. He then licked off the butter. but spat out
the paper. They empannelled a jury, tried him for trea-
son and hanged him.—Steren's Memoirs of Geo. Heriot.
EARLY DAYS OF HAYDON, THE ARTIST.—MF. Hay-
don was born on the 26th January, 1786, at Plymouth
where his father was a bookseller of good reputation. He
was educated at Plymouth Grammar School, and after-

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completed in the same grammar school in which Sir Joshua
Reynolds acquired all the scholastic knowledge he ever
received. Havdon. in after life, was fond of referring to

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this circumstance ; nor unwilling, indeed, to have it said
that his father. who drew a little himself, had given him
the Scriptural name in the thought that, as Plympton had

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her Benjamin to follow. The boy evinced a love for art
at a very early period, and is said to have exhibited his
first fondness for his calling on the occasion of a print
which the servant had given him to keep him quiet. Thus
early initiated, he found materials for his purpose in Lis
father's house. He drew, read, and resolved; and, Rey-
nolds' " Discourses" attracting his attention, he became,