The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-24 00:00:00

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Cohen. proprietor of Holland-house Academy,
Hammersmith, and highly connected amongst the Jewish
persuasion, committed suicide last week by hanging himself
with a silk handkerchief, and taking a dose of laudanum.

Mr. Isaac

FIRE.—On Tuesday night last, a destructive fire took
place at Little Saughall, Cheshire, on the farm premises of
Mr. Tilstone. Several head•of cattle and some outbuildings
were destroyed. It is supposed to have been entirely acci-
dental.

CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.—The Scottish Guardian says,
" the Church of Scotland is now as good as dis-established,
and that although two to one of the Scottish members voted
on- her side. Twenty-five of the members from Scotland
voted for the motion, while only twelve voted against it."'
A short time ago, a country gentleman wrote a letter to a
lady in town, and sent it through the general post, with the
following address :—" To the 25th of March, Foley Place,
London." The postman duly delivered the letter at the house
of Lady Day, for whom it was intended.

The town-council of Glasgow, by a majority of 18 to 13,
have passed a vote of censure on Sir James Campbell, the
Lord Provost, for privately negociating with ministers to have
the city placed under a system of police regulated by govern-
ment, and obnoxious to the inhabitants generally.

HEROES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.—There are
in the United States just one hundred soldiers of the revolu-
tion on the pension list over one hundred years of age. The
oldest man on the list is Michael Hale, of Union county,
Pennsylvania, who is in his 115th year.—New York paper.
It is a remarkable fact, that not one solitary epistle in the
handwriting of George the Second is known to exist. This
circumstance is the more extraordinary if we refer to his gal-
lantries and intrigues, so severely commented upon and re-
corded by Walpole and others.

The quantity of water ejected by the Artesian well at Gre-
nelle, in 24 hours, has just been ascertained to be 89 water
inches. As water is paid for in Paris at the rate of B,ooof
the inch, the above quantity can bring in 712,000 f a-year,
almost double what the boring of the well has cost.

SHIPBUILDING IN DUBLIN.---On Tuesday last was
launched, at Kingstown, a fine vessel of 272 tons burthen,
to be called the " Duchess of Leinster." She was chris-
tened by that noble lady, and is the first of Irish manufac-
ture launched for many years on the waters of the Dublin
Bay, and the only one which has been built in Kingstown.

An unpleasant affair transpired on IVlonday regarding a
gentleman connected with the Stock Exchange, who had been
intrusted with £3,000 to invest for a client in the New Three-
and-a-half per Cents. which he omitted to do, but handed
his employer a fictitious receipt for the amount, and, fearing
the discovery, has disappeared.-2lfornina Chronicle.

The Miller delusion, about the near approach of the end
of the world, has lately produced a deplorable tragedy in the
United States. Mrs. Leverick, of Newark, near New York,
while in a state of religious frenzy, partly caused by listening
to exciting doctrines, prophecies, and addresses of Miller and
his adherents, poisoned herself and two children with arsenic!
JOHN BIINYAN.—We understand it is proposed to raise
£5OO, by subscription, for the purpose of erecting a suitable
monument over the place where the remains of this extraor-
dinary man were interred, in Bunhill-fields burying-ground.
The tomb and tablet that once marked his memory are now
crumbling into dust.
THE DRAMA.--li is rumoured among the lovers of the
drama that a highly educated lady, distinguished by her lite-
rary talents, is shortly to try her powers in one of our finest
old trae.edies. We heard that her first appearance on tho
Dublin boards will be on Saturday next, in the character of
in which Mrs. Siddons was so famous.
March 20.—The deliveries last week

A TRADE

were 455,5601 b., being a falling off as compared with our pre-
ceding report. The public sales of Tuesday last went off
flatly and at lower rates, nor has the market been at all buoy-
ant since, as no less than 70,000 packages are to be offered
to-morrow, a large proportion being young hysoa. Up to
December 16 the exports from China were 5,489,2531 b.

ATHLONE ELECTION.—On Tuesday Mr. Sergeant Wrang-
ham relinquished the contest before the Parliamentary Com-
mittee as to this election.on behalf of the sitting member.
The room was then cleared, and the committee, after remain-
ing a short time with closed doors, agreed to resolutions to
this effect, that Daniel Henry Ferrall, Esq., had not been
duly elected to serve in the present Parliament for the bo-
rough of Athlone ; that by himself or his agents he had been
guilty of treating ; and that the election was void.

BAPTISM AND REGENERATION.—A correspondent Of
London paper gives an extract from a pamphlet by the Rev.
Thos. Brock, M.A., rector of St. Peter-Du-Bois, stating
that "there exists a printed Latin correspondence between
Calvin and Cranmer, wherein the former tells the latter that,
though he well understood his (the Archbishop's) meaning
in declaring, in the Office of Baptism, the infant to be rege-
nerate, he might be assured that the time would come when
that expression would be misconceived, and received as im-
plying that baptism absolutely conveyed regeneration."

MORE MONOMANISM.—On Monday last, John Edward
Freak, aged 28, was brought before Mr. Hall, Bow-street,
charged with attempting to force his way into Buckingham
Palace, he being in a state of insanity. After examination,
and being consulted with by some medical gentlemen, the
magistrates directed the master of St. Martin's workhouse
to take charge of the prisoner, and explain to him the nature
of the accusation against him. Mr. Burnaby, was ordered
to write to his friends to request their attendance at hifitnal
examination.

AWFUL OCCURRENCE.—Last week a woman named Jones,
at Mullahead, near Tandragee, went out of th,e house, leav-
ing her two children in the kitchen with a pot of water ready
for scalding the churn. The children began to play hide and
seek, and one of them got into the churn and put on the lid.
The mother came in, and in a hurry threw in the water and
scalded the child to death. The other called out to her what
she had done, when she took up a stool and dashed out its
brains, and then ran out and is supposed to have drowned
herself, as she has not been discovered.—Dublin Mail.

AFFECTING ANEODOTE.—An affecting instance of fine
feeling, in a person of inferior grade in society, was men-
tioned in the course of the recent action for damages against
the directors of the Riverains Steam-boat Company on the
Loire. At the moment of the explosion, a poor woman,
named Chevalier, who had been to fetch a child, which was
put out to her to nurse by a charitable establishment, dis-
played no alarm, except for the infant confided to her charge.
She placed it under her clothes, and thus secured it from the
action of the steam. The child was saved, but the woman
herself was so much scalded that she died on the following
morning.