The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-22 00:00:00

enteral Altsrellany.

The Morning Chronicle, under its new management,
has resumed its old price, sd. .

The Durham Town Council has agreed to petition in
favour of the Health of Towns Bill.
It is reported that Lord Hardinge succeeds the Duke
of Wellington as Commander-in-Chief.
The average quantity of coal used at the Dowlais iron-
works is estimated at 1503 tons per day.
600,000 quarters of wheat are waiting shipment in the
Baltic to this country as soon as the ice breaks up.
The next meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society of
England will be held at York in the week in July com-
mencing on the 10th.
Barber, the convicted will forger, has arrived in France,
having received a free pardon on condition that he does
not set his foot in England.
Some of the leading dissenters are about to adopt mea-
sures for raising a monument to the memory of Oliver
Cromwell.

NEW POTATOES.—EarIy (forced) potatoes were exposed
for sale in Edinburgh market on Tuesday. They. were
"kidneys and -had Yfieldflly appearance.
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INFLUENZA.—In London the number of deaths from
influenza alone, during the last fourteen weeks of 1847,
was 1161.

The Scotch Banks have agreed to discount in future
London Bills at four and a half per cent. and Local Bills
at five per cent.
The Royal Italian Opera at Covent-garden will open on
the 21st of March. The band will consist of 85 first-rate
performers, and the chorus of 94 efficient voices.
It is a singular fact that no class of Dissenters is at
present on the increase in the United Kingdom. The
Methodists are particularly on the wane, many having
gone over to the Established Church.
On Monday evening, a woman named Halien, wife of a
travelling chiropodist, was murdered at Birmingham, in
the public street, during a quarrel with a navigator, who
escaped.
It is said with as much truth as epigram, that if the
Duke of Wellington gained the battle of Waterloo, it is
also to be remembered that he appointed the Bishop of
Exeter.
A verdict of " Manslaughter" has been returned by the
coroner's jury against the captain and crew of the Alice,
steam tug, of North shields, for having run down a boat
containing seven men, and occasioning the death of four.
Edinburgh, on Saturday week, was signalized by one of
those not very creditable outbreaks, which have of late
seldom disturbed the quiet city, but which were rife
enough in old time—a riot of University students.
A Norwich paper mentions that stockings are now
knitted at Ipswish by machines, driven by steams which
perform this work with admieable accuracy. One young
person can attend three machines, and each machine can
make a stocking in three hours.
A highway robbery was committed on Monday last, be-
tween twelve and one o'clock, on Southwark-bridge, by
two men, who knocked down a gentleman with a life pre-
server, and rifled his pockets of two five pound notee and
four sovereigns. The robbers managed to escape.
THE LATE CASE OF ALLEGED INFANTICIDE AT BATH.
—Julia Stickland, the young woman against whom the
coroner's jury lately returned a verdict of infanticide, was
on Saturday last removed from the house of her father to
the Bath gaol, to await her trial at the next assizes.
An inhabitant of Kirkby Stephen, Westmoreland, is
now in possession of a fine hen, which began to lay when
she was sixteen weeks old, and which has laid an egg
every successive day for the last three years, during iyisich,
time she has consequently produced 1095 eggs.