The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-04-08 00:00:00

GENUINE METALLIC LUSTRE

This article is recommended to Housekeepers for clean-
ing all manner of Gold and Silver Plate, Metal Teapots,
Pewter Measures. Brass Fenders, Candlesticks, Stair
Rods, Brass Plates on Doors, I'm Covers, &c., &c.. with
half the nsnal labour which is generally required with other
preparations, the above lustre leaves a beautiful polish on
the Metal.—Sold in Squares, 6d. and Is. each.
OBSERVE.—The above Preparations are s.ld only at
52, LORD-STREET, LIVERPOOL.

GENERAL MISCELLANY,

Seven thousand pounds have been raised for Father
Mathew. The sum does not quite cover his liabilities.
Sir H. Douglas paired off with Admiral Dundas, on
Mr. Sheila motion, on Tuesday night.
In Lontlon, on aturday, Mr. John Sweet, a solicitor,
aged seventy, died immediately after making his will,
though previously in perfect health.
Most strenuous exertions are making in almost every
town in the kingdom to resist the proposed grant to May-
nooth.
On Thursday an explosion of fire damp took place at
West Moor Pit. near Newcastle, by which two men and
two boys were killed and two others seriously injured.
Joseph Yorke, Esq., of Forthampton Court, Tewkes-
bury, has abandoned game preserving, and broken up his
staff of keepers.
At Ibe Wiekham-market dinner, the other day, of forty-
two farmers present, all but two refused to drink the health
of Sir Robert Peel.
In England alone are to be found ten times the number
of vairhtings said to be by the old masters than they could 11
have palmed in the course of long lives.

Dr. Lyon Plavfair, son of Major Playfair, St. Andrew's,
has been appointed chemist to her Majesty's Woods and
Forrsts.

Tne Anti-Corn-law Bazaar in Covent Garden Theatre
is expected to be opened on Whit-Monday, the 12th May,
and be kept open during the whole of the month of May.
On Tuesday, Mr. J. K. Winterbottona was sentenced
to transportation for forgery. lie was deeply affected on
receiving sentence. It will be remembered that the pri-
soner was formerly a respectable solicitor at Stockport.
In March, 1745, a Bath paper announced that the Lon-
don flying stage coach would perform the journey from
Bath in two days. In March, 1845, the distance was per-
formed in two hours and three quarters.
Surcins.—Yesterday week at Congleton, Thomas Hall,
Esq. a magistrate for that borough, put a period to his
existence by hanging himself, during a state of derange.
ment induced by continued bodily indisposition.
IRON.—At the usual quarterly meeting of the Stafford-
shire Iron Masters, held at Wolverhampton last week, a
further advance in prices of £2 per ton was un ,nimously
agreed upon.

The shin Hope, which has arrived at New Bedford, took
a whale since doubling Cape of Good Hope, which stowed
one hundred and forty-five barrels sperm oil. This is the
largest sperm whale on record.—American paper.
William Jagger. butler to Miss Fanny Watkin Wynne,
of No. 104, Piccadilly, has been remanded on a charge of
stealing a quantity of plate of the value of more than
£l,OOO, the property of his mistress.

. • . .
A tew days since a sharp angular piece of granite,
about the size of a bean, was extracted from the neck of
a fine young horse, at the yard of one of our eminent
veterinary surgeons. How the stone came in that situa-
tion is a matt, I of no small conjecture.
E 'MISFORTUNES OF R ICH ES.—A man named
Oliver, the keeper of a coal-shed at London, recently re-
ceived a legacy of £lOO, since which sudden accession of
riches he has been in a continual slate of intoxication, in
which condition lie fell on Thur-day into a c dial, and
broke his arm, besides receiving ~the- serious injuries.
A most interesting ceremony took place in the Free
Church, Anstruther, on toe forenoon of Sunday last, viz.,
the baptizing of Mrs. Spence's four children, which our
readers will recollect were all born► within a few minutes
of each other some two months ago. Tile parties present
on this occasion were about 1000. The children are con-
tinuing in excellent health, and growing rapidly.—Fife
Herald,