The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-03-21 00:00:00

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Viscount llardinge, the late Governor-General of India,
arrived at Blackwall, on Wednesday, from Ostend.
On Saturday week, a boat with three men in was upset
on the Severn, near Berkeley, and the men were drowned.
The Lord Chamberlain has forbidden the performance
of the melodramas entitled " Jack Sheppard ' and " Oli-
ver Twist." _

-111 r. TII. Norman, surgeon, of Wivesliscombe, Somer-
set, committed suicide last week, in a fit of insanity,
brought on by excessive drinking.
FEMALE DEPRAVITY.—Last week, no fewer than eight
females were sent from Leeds to York Castle for trial on
charges of felony.
A volunteer rifle corps, 1500 strong, is to be embodied
at Glasgow. They are to furnish their own uniforms, if
government will supply the rifles.

On Tuesday Mr. Curry, the newly-appointed clerk as-
sistant to the House of Lords, expired in a fit of apoplexy
whilst engaged in his official duties.

Under the sanction of her Majesty, a night will be given
by Mr. Lumley, at her Majesty's Theatre, for the benefit
of the distressed artisans of the metropolis.
Ripe strawberries made their appearance, for the first
time this season, on Saturday week, in Covent Garden
Market, London.

On Thursday, the Admiralty made a contract for the
supply of 5,000 tons of coal at Malta, for her Majesty's
steamers, at fully 25 per cent. less than the price paid in
January.

At the stated animal meeting of the Royal Irish Aca-
demy, on Thursday, the Archbishop of Dublin, in a short
speech, recommended the use of tar as a preventative of
the potato rot.

The Earl of Cardigan was again unsuccessful in a second
attempt last week to become a member of the United.
Service Club. Sir Robert Wilson has been similarly un-
successful.

_ The Lords of the Treasury have decided, upon.satisfac-
tory proof being given, to allow vessels laden with grain,
that have been detained by stress of weather, to have
their cargoes cleared free of duty.
The Mendicity Society in Red Lion-square, London,
has been brought to a stand-still by the prevalence of
typhus fever. All its officers have been attacked, and its
manager has died of the disease.
M. GUIZOT AND HIS FAMILY.—The ex-minister of
Louis Philippe and his family have, as Protestants, joined
the congregation of the French Protestant Presbyterian
Church in St. Martin's-le. Grand.

Cleopatra's Needle, given by the Paella of Egypt to
our government, and so long permitted to lie neglected,
is to be immediately brought to England, and erected in
some conspicuous place in London.
Among other curious consequences of the French revo-
lution is the stoppage of the usual visits of English buyers
of fancy goods, and copiers of spring fashions in the mys-
terious arts of millinery and dress-making.

The sixth annual Meeting of the Metropolitan Early
Closing Association was held on Wednesday evening, in
Exeter Hall. The Lord Mayor presided. The Bishop
of Oxford, the Earl of Harrowby, the Rev. R. Burgess,
and the Rev. Dr. Cumming, were among the speakers.
An old woman named Lockwood, who had long been a
watercress hawker, and was noted for her penurious ha-
bits, died last week at Wakefield ; and it was then disco-
vered that she possessed more than £BO in money, al-
though she had long received relief from the parish.
A NOVEL SWEEP.—Amongst the various plans adopted
in Sunderland, to enable parties to emigrate to Anlcrica,
is one of a novel character, that of several hundred per-
sons joining in a sweep of Is. each, the person drawing
the prize ticket to take the whole of the money.
The youthful Marquis of Boumont (son of the Duke of
Roxburghe, and grandson of the late Sir C. Dalbiac), who
is only 8 years old, captured six salmon with rod and
line, on Saturday week. The weight of the whole was
551b5., and the largest weighed 141bs.
A arm servant, named Robertson, who had for some
time cohabited. With a female at Inglismaldie, has been
conimitted for trial, charged with the murder of one of
his children. He had engaged to put it-to-nurse-,-but it-
Vtead of doing so he murdered and burned it, according, to
his own confeseion.