The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-05 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

The Duke of Wellington completes his seventy-seN

r on Friday

At a weddiiig party in Sc—oTrand, thd other day, one of
the gtieBta unknowingly ate a piece of opium and died in

consequence

A boy, nine years old. has banged himself at Shoreditch
because his mother refused to give him a half-penny to
buy a ball.
The foundation stone of a new Roman Catholic Church
the estimated cost of which is £ll,OOO, was laid at Burnley
last week.

A youtig labouring man named Henry Cook committed
suicide last week at Holdfast, near Upton, on Severn, by
taking arsenic. He was said to be in love.
The statement that a noble Viscount, a relative of a
highly esteemed Evangelical minister in London, was

about to leave the Anglican church and join the Roman
communion, has been denied on authority.
The well-known Clara Seyton, who has been for some
time past giving lectures in this and other towns, was be-
fore the London Insolvent Court on Thursday. The case
was adjourned.
Keying, the high commissioner to the Emperor of
China, has requested Sir T. Cochrane to record his name
as a donor of 900 dollars (about £190) to the Seaman's
Floating Hospital. The money has been paid.
Captain Hamilton, of Port Glasgow, has bequeathed
the sum of twenty thousand pounds to the Free Church,
to be divided between the sustentation fund and the mis-
sionary schemes of the Free Church.
A London newspaper informs its readers that " an ad-
ditional number of sentinels are to be placed is Hyde
Park, to prevent the robberies which happened last win-
ter."

Much curiosity was excited in Covent Garden Market,
on Monday, by the appearance of two pecks of French
green peas for sale, and for which the vender demanded
£2 10s.

On Saturday week, William Somerville, one of the po-
:emen on the Caledonian Railway, while attemotine to

quell a disturbance, was killed in the most barbaro.us man-
ner, near Lockerbie, by the railway labourers.

On Thursday, the Dukes of Richmond, Buckingham,
and Cleveland, and the Earl of Lonsdale, had audiences
of the Queen at Buckingham Palace, to present addresses
against the repeal of the corn laws.

-On Sunday, the inmates of Mallow Workhouse not
only refused to eat the Indian meal, but rose up en masse
and denounced those who had introduced it. The riot
was such that the police bad to be sent for.

ANOTHER VICTIM.—Miss Bridges, eldest daughter of
Matthew Bridges, Esq., of Aldershot Manor, Surrey,
was received during Lent into the Romanist Church at
Prior Park.—Church and Slate Gazette.
Bailey's statue of the late Duke of Sussex was inaugu-
rated at. Freemason's-hall on Wednesday, in the presence
of the Earl of Zetland, Grand Master, and a large party
of masonic brethren.
In Herefordshire and Devonshire it is not considered
an excess for a man, when mowing or making hay, to
drink from twelve to sixteen quarts of rough cider in a

A female named Maria Smith has been committed, at
Northwich, for tria3 on a charge of having administered
cantharicles to a fellow servant and also to a yotimelgi_
They were domestic servants in the employ ors
near Northwieli.

Mr. John Formby recommends farmers, after planting
their potatoes, to sow the same ground with turnip seed,
treating the turnips as weeds when the potatoes come up
healthy, but suffering them to remain in patches where the
potatoes fail.

EXPORTS, 1845.—The total official value of the British
and Irish produce and manufactures exported from the
United Kingdom in the year ending sth of January, 1846

(as shown by a parliamentary return), was £
and the total declared value £60,111,081.

134,599,11 C

A family at Pillgwenlly had a narrow escape the other
day. An arrow-root pudding was made, and they par-
took of it; but, fortunately, their stomachs rejected what
they had raten, for it was found that dry white-lead had
been sold in mistake for arrowroot!
SINGULAR MURDER.—At the Circuit Court of Justi-
ciary, on Tuesday, before Lords Moncrieff and Cockburn,
Ann Carruthers, of Gretna, was found guilty of the mur-
der of her child, by putting into its mouth small pieces of
coal. She was sentenced to be transported for life.
An old lady who, during the last three months, had
laboured under great excitement in consequence of her
daughter. who had been decoyed away by a young man
with whom she had formed an attachment, died suddenly
last week in London.

DIMINUTIVE DOG.—We have seen, within the last few
days, a curious specimen of the canine species; a spaniel,
four months old, weighino. only 19 ounces, and not more
than four inches in height.' The colour is dark brown and
white.—Derby Mercury.
At the annual meeting of the Shakespeare Society, held
in London on Monday, it was stated that no less than 23
volumes illustrative of the drama in the sixteenth century
were in preparation. An autograph signature of Shake-
speare, attached to the mortgage deed of his house in
Blackfriars was exhibited. It had been offered to the
British Museum for 200 guineas.

An experiment made at Glasgow of the practicability of
establishing a public nursery for the care of children
whose parents are prevented by their avocations from
taking care of them at home, or of children who are
orphans, has proved successful. Healthy children, from
eighteen months to six years of age, are admitted at the
nominal charge of ls. 6d. per week. Those who wish
their children admitted as day boarders only are charged
Is per week.

Miss Garwood. a young lady of weak intellect, possessed
of a fortune of £30,000, has been carried off from the resi-
dence of her aunt, at Kilburn, by a son of an upholsterer
of London. '1 he young lady left a note on her dressing-
table stating that she was going to be married to the in-
dividual above alluded to.

Mr. Jones, carver and gilder, of Bath, has in his pos-
session a canary bird,' gifted with the power of articulating
clearly several words. Mr. Jones had the honour of pre-
senting the bird to her Majesty the queen at Windsor
Castle on 'Wednesday week, when her Majesty expressed
herself much pleased with the feathered curiosity.
Three men, implicated in the riots which occured in
February at Inverness, when the populace attempted to
Prevent the shipment of some potatoes, have been tried
and convicted before the Circuit Court of Justiciary. Two
of them were sentenced to nine and the thhd to four
months imprisonment.
A FE➢IALE KILLER BY A Cow.—A few days ago, while
Mrs. Todd, the wife of a farmer at Low Fields, neer
Piercebridge, Durham, was passing through the cow sheds
of the farm-house, and in the act of picking up some hay.
one of the cows struck her behind the ear, which caused
her death a few minutes afterwards.

In the village of Fledborough, in Nottinghamshire,
which, at the census of 1841, only contained, along with
the hamlet of Woodcotes, a population of 112 souls, there
are now residing three families immediately adjoining each,
who number amongst them, 36 children. The first having
11_children, the second 12, and the third 13.

MINER'S STRIKE.—In consequence of the exorbitant
price for iron still asked in South Staffordshire, the de-
mand has decreased to a considerable ext-nt. Several
masters having given notice to their workmen of a reductio❑
in their wages, to the amount of threepence a day, the
miners on Monday last struck work to the number of 2000.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—An accident of a very serious
nature, and which, it is feared, will end fatally, occurred
on Wednesday at St. George's, Gloucestershire, to four
workmen, who, while employed in painting the interior of
the church roof, were precipitated to the ground, a depth
of fifty or sixty feet, and received extensive fractures of
their limbs and other injuries.
A public meeting of the members and friends of the
Glasgow Emancipation Society '4718 held on Tuesday for
the purpose of passing a memorial to the general assem-
bly of the free church, imploring them to renounce Chris-
tian fellowship with the American slavebolders, and to
send back their money. Resolutions were adopted by ac-
clamation in favour of the object of the meeting.

THE VICTOR or ALIWAL.—It is said in military circles
that the colonelcy of one of the regiments now vacant will
he conferred on Sir H. G. Smith, the victor of Aliwal.
The emoluments; of the colonel of a regiment are esti.
mated at £l,OOO a-year ; but should the regiment be sirs,.
ing in India, about double that amount whilst so serving.
PEDESTRIANISM.—George Clarke has undertaken to
walk, at the \Vest-end Retreat Gardens, Heigham, Nor-
wich, 1,500 miles in 1,000 successive hours, walking a

mile and a half at the beginning of each hour, He corn
menced this wonderful task at seven o'clock in the even
ing of Saturday, the 11th

CAUTION TO CHARITABLE SOCIETIES.—Sunday week
was the day appointed for the collection in London at all
the Baptist chapels for their missionary society, and at
one of these met tinge in the evening, the abominable trick
was played of obtaining 9s. as change for a half-sovereign
at each of the doors, both of the half-sovereigns being
afterwards discovered to be counterfeits.
STOICISM.—A few days ago, while an Irish labourer
was engaged with two waggons on the Dundee and Perth
Railway, by some accident one of his 1‘
cut off, and fell on the line.
and, lookinz at it for a moment, ext.
" You are no use to me any longer

s entireiy
The sufferer picked it up,
1-irEed, with an oath,
nvhow !" and threw

it into the river. 'I he Effort was above his strength, as he
immediately fainted and fell.—Dundee Advertiser.
The fracas in the House of Commons on Friday weflr.
did not terminate there. Colonel Peel sought Mr. Dis-
raeli, and addressed an observation to Lim of a nature that
induced the member for Shrewsbury to send Lord George
Bentinck to Colonel Peel for an explanation. Lord Gcorge
was referred to the Hon. Captain Rous, with whom his
lordship bad so satisfactory an interview that any further

proceeding was deemed wholly unnecessary.
CHESTER CATTLE FAIR.—OR YHlrSday, the fair was
tolerably attended for the time of the year. Calving cows
were in damand, and prices ranged from £l5 to £lB.
Fat beef was worth 51 and Gd. Pigs were about the same
as last fair. Cheviot hog sheep were worth 225. The

show was tolerably good. Useful horses were in demand ;
but the show was but indifferent.
CHESTER CHEESE FAIR.—On Wednesday, 'inwards
of 120 tons of cheese were pitched. The demand was
good, a large number of country dealers being in atten-

dr.ne.?.. Prices were fully equal to those of the same I
tied last year ; and rather better than last fair
ranged from 555. to 655. Some f

w pr me daine..
On the whole the

unsold, as high prices were asked
was satisfactory to the farmers, who, however, complain
of their prospects for the future:
PUNISHMENT OF DEATH.—A great public meeting was
held on Wednesday evening in the large room at Exeter
Hall, to consider what means ought to be used for the
abolition of the punishment of death. The hall was crowd-
ed in every corner long before the hour for the commence-
ment of business. W. Ewart, E:q., M.P. was unani-
mously called to the chair. It was moved by the Rev. Mr.
Christmas, and supported by Mr. 'Wrightson and Mr. H.
Vincent—" That a society be now formed, to be called
" The Society for the Abolition of Capital Punishments."
RAPE CASES IN WESTMORLAND.—The four railway
labourers (two Smiths, Gloucester, and Gunner) who in

so diabolical a mariner, on Sunday evening week, violated
the persons of Miss Elizabeth' and Jane Dover, on Knipe.