The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-24 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS

The Ear/ of Huntingdon has been added to the eannai
sion of the peace for the county of Waterford.

At the pr, in Sunderland
and 5000 persons existing on parish allowance,

sent time there

ietween 4000

Excellent pickled salmon from America is now retailed at
Newton Stewart, at 2.id. per. pound.

The coal trade at Newport is in a very depressed state.
We understand the price is lowered to Bs. 6d. per ton.
Pat Lalor, ex-M.P. King's County, embarks with his
family next month for America.

The four Irish representative bishops to parliament, this
year are—Armagh, Tnam, Derry, and Limerick.

Mr. Beamish, mayor of Cork, has called a public meeting
to petition parliament fur the abolition of ministers' money.

Two slight shocks of an earthquake were felt, on the 15th
instant, at Strasburg.
The number of vessels of different countries which entered
the port of Hamburg in 1842 was 3,130, of which 894 were
English, and only 87 French.
It is said that a little spirits of turpentine, poured into
holes and crevices, is a very effective remedy against crickets
and cockroaches.

A few days ago, during a storm, a man who was walking
near the banks of the river Herstat, in Belgium, was blown
into it by the force of the wind, and drowned.

The parish church of Little Ilford was discovered to be on
fire on Sunday last, which fortunately was soon extinguished,
so that divine service was performed as usual.

The union workhouse at Sleaford is so full, that several in-
mates are sent out to sleep, there being no accommodation
for them within the walls.—Boston Herald.

Devonshire potatoes have been sold during the present
week, at the side of the vessel near the Drawbridge, for 2s. 2d.
per hundred weight, or lid. for twenty-eight pounds.

An otter, measuring four feet from nose to tail, was shot
in the Nore, at Borris-in-Ossory, last week, where it must
have been most destructive to the finny tribe.

It appears that the York and London Assurance Office is
the thirty-eighth fire-office which has discontinued its busi-
ness since the year 1825, when the rates were generally
reduced.

Of the whole number of convicts introduced into New South
Wales under the transportation system 51,000 were males,
and only 8,700 females, being the enormous disproportion of
one hundred males to seventeen females.

We are informed, that, during the boisterous weather last
week, the roof of an open carriage of the mail train on the
Great Western Railway was blown off while the train was in
progress.—Bath Chronicle.

A fox, measuring from the snout to the tail 4 feet, and
weighing 161b5., was killed a few days ago by the gamekeeper
of Mr. Witham, of Lartington-ball, in Deepdale Wood, near
Barnard-Castle.

It is stated in the circular of Messrs. Trueman and Co. of
London, that dandelion roots, to the amount of 2,000 tons
annually, are now used as a substitute for chicory in the
adulteration of coffee.

Joshua Jacob, the leader of the extraordinary sect deno-
minated White Quakers, has been arrested, anil is now in
custody in Dublin. Ile is charged with having fraudulently
obtained the sum of £9,000 from one of his female converts.

There is, at present, growing in the garden of Wm. Bell,
Esq., of Ford, near Sunderland, a tree, in the open ground,
in three separate states of blossom, green fruit, and ripe fruit.
—Durham Advertiser.

The Journal des Debats draws attention very significantly
to the fact, that the very treaties which the French war faction
now desires to have abrogated are precisely those which they
were unanimous in applauding when they were first entered
into.

It was stated the other day, at the court of aldermen,
London, that since wooden pavements had come into fashion
street accidents had increased one-third. Sir Peter Laurie
affirms, that "No horpe of any spirit could stand upon a
wooden pavement."

We have authority for stating that Sir Charles Metcalfe,
whose long habits of command in India, and whose subse-
quent experience in the West Indies so amply qualify him
for the office, has been appointed Governor-General of
Canada.— Times.

A committee of an equal number of directors and share-
holders in the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway was
appointed, at the meeting held last week, to inquire into the
affairs of that undertaking. A stormy discussion occurred,
but the directors carried their point.

The revenue police of Ireland consists of 4 inspectors-in-
chief and inspectors, 18 sub-inspectors, 51 lieutenants, 18
sub-officers. The office of inspector of the southern division,
4 lieutenants, and a lieutenancy at the depot in Dublin, are
vacant.

As a specimen of the extraordinary exertions now making
by the Anti-Corn Law League to diffuse information on the
question of free trade, we may mention, that no less than
97,000 copies of the various tracts, lately published, on that
subject, will be stitched along with the magazines for
February.