The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-06-25 00:00:00

THE LIVF,RPOM, AiT'ANDARM

IRoN TRADE.—l'he demand for iron continues good,
and the following are the present prices in the Clyde :
Pig-iron, No. 1, £3 10s. per ton ; bar iron, £6 10s. per
ton ; nail rods, £7 10s. per ton ; boiler plates and sheets,
£lO per ton; railway bars, £7 lOs. per ton.—Glasgow
Chronicle.

EXPEDITION.—HULL AND LIVERPOOL—One' hun-
dred puncheons of gin were on Saturday last shipped at
Rotterdam, on board the Emerald Isle steamer, which
arrived here on the following day ; they were on Monday
landed, and despatched in the evening by a luggage train
for Liverpool, where they arrived on Tuesday morning,
and were immediately re-shipped on board a vessel which
was under engagement to clear that day.—Hull Herald.
The Birmingham Advertiser states, that in one dissent-
ing meeting-house in Leeds, arrangements are made for
chanting psalms, which are to be pointed for chanting
according to the Bible version, and that in another dis-
senting meeting-house in Leeds, the congregation proposed
having the Te Deum regularly chanted, when the minister
informed them that when, twenty years ago, he made a
proposition to that effect, they threatened to dismiss him.
ACCIDENTS FROM LIGHTNING.—On Sunday, the 9th,
the lightning fell on a farm-house at Nevelle, in East
Flanders, killed tle farmer's wife, paralyzed three of his
children, and injured him, but much less severely. At
Bruges, on the same day, the church called the Ingel-
munster was entered by the electric fluid, which did some
damage to the building, and injured, more or less, ten or
twelve persons.
BALLOON EXPERIMENT.—The aeronaut, M. Kirsch,
who ascended, on Friday evening week, at Paris, in a
balloon of a new construction, with the intention of pass-
ing two days of experiments, descended near Eperney,
after only four hours' voyage, and after having g ne into
so rare an atmosphere that the thermometer of Reaumur
was at eight degrees below zero, and the wine he had
taken up frozen in the bottles.
PITIFUL.—On Saturday morning a young girl was
found hanging from the rail of Westminster-bride by a
strap which she had buckled round her neck. She was
insensible, but prompt means being used she was restored.
The unfortunate girl, it appears, is a flower-maker, but,
being out of employment, had wandered houseless and
destitute for five nights, and had not tasted food for two
days. Hopeless of relief she deteraiined to end her exis-
tence.

EXTENSIVE DZSTRUCTION.—An extensive fire took
place on Tuesday week, at a farm at Little Down, near
Christchurch. The damage sustained consists of the
destruction of the dwelling-houses, two barns, containing
thrashed corn, two sables, with other outbuildings, a
large enclosed yard, for the reception of sheep, in which
were folded 87 down ewes• placed there for shelter from
the night air, having just been sheared of their fleeces,
all of which miserably perished by the fire, in addition to
two horses confined in the stable.

The bullet which killed Lord Nelson at Trafalgar has
been offered for the acceptance of the Queen by the bro-
ther of the late Sir Wm. Beatty,- M.D., who attended our
great naval hero on board the Victory, after he had re-
ceived his mortal wound. The Queen having shown
great anxiety to possess the fatal ball, it will be forwarded
to Windsor Castle. The ball, with, the particles of the
coat and- epaulette that were forced:into the body by the
stroke, is neatly and elegantly set within a crystal case,
which is appropriately mounted with a double cable of
gold around its circumference, and opens like a watch.
FORTUNkTE RECOTERY.—On Saturday, a gentleman
from Liverpool put up at the Railway Hari, Nine Elms,
London, preparatory to leaving town for Southampton.
Having some business in Mark-lane, he ordered a cab,
and proceeded' towards the city. On his' way he found
himsel minus his pocket-book, which contained £2,000
in bank notes. He drove back, greatly agitated, and, to
his joy, the book was produced to him by the waiter, who
had found it near the tabl of the room, in which several
parties had been sitting. The waiter was handsomely re-
warded.

THE DUKE (,F BRIDGENVATKR.—A paragraph is going
the rounds of the papers, stating that Lord Francis Eger-
, ton is to be elevated to the peerage by the title of the
Duke of Bridgewater ;• but this is not likely to be the
case, for the Egertons of Tattoo elaim the title, they be-
ing the lineal heirs. Lord Francis is descended only from
the female side, and inherits not as heir-at-law. The
story goes, that the property was diverted from the direct
Tine by an accident. The old duke's heir riding with him
one day on the banks of the canal, his horse slipt and'fell
in. " D—n the canal," said the young man. " Don't
d—n it," said the duke ;" it shall never be yours."
MURDER AT GRAVESEND.—On, Monday afternoon,
the coroner for Kent, concluded an inquiry at the Town-
hall, Gravesend, on the body of Elizabeth Hartnell, aged
35, who died from the effects of violence used towards her
by a man named Thomas Jitry, with whom she cohabited.
Fora considerable time past the deceased and Jury, who,
possesses much property in the above town, have led a
most dissolute life, and resided in Ilfeild-street. The
prisoner had been heard threatening deceased the night
before her death, which was caused by a wound on the
forehead. The jury returned a verdict of " Wilful Mur-
der against Thomas Jury."
MAN v. HORSE.—On Monday afternoon,.in Warren-
der's-park, a race took place between a man named Will-
cox, a tailor by trade, and a horse brought from Glasgow.
Distance 60 yards out and 60 yards home. On starting,
both went off together, the man taking the lead by a few
yards, which he kept until the end, when he came in about
15 yards a-head. Second heat, a‘ similar result, thus de-
ciding the match in favour of the man. Another race of
the same kind took. place the same evening.at five o'clock,
in the same place, between Mr. Cruickshank, riding his
chestnut mare, and Mr. James Laing, of the Royal Horse
Bazaar, on foot, and after a short contest Mr. Laing won
easily.—Edinburgh Journal.

TEE WATERLOO BANQUET.—Tilesday being the anni-
versary of the battle of Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington
gave his customary banquet at Ansley House, to a nume-
rous circle of the surviving officers who participated in the
glories of that ever-memorable engagement. The banquet
was served in a service of gold; and the dessert service
used was the magnificent set of Potsdam china, a gift from
the late King of Prussia to his Grace. It was after ten
when the duke and Prince Albert adjourned to another
room to partake of coffee, and in the meantime many of
the gallant company departed.—On the same day, a noble
equestrian bronze statue of the Duke of Wellington, made
from some of the guns which the duke had himself taken
from the enemy, was erected, in the presence of the King
of Saxony, by the citizens of London, in front of the
Royal Exchange.
SINGULAR AFFECTION IN A HEN.—The strong mater-
nal feelings of the hen in watching over a brood different
from her own species, has often been a subject for remark,
but the following occurrence is the most singular of the
kind we have heard. A hen at Haugh Mill laid her eggs
in a sty where a brood sow was confined previous to her
littering. Although deprived of her eggs by the sow, who
devoured them as soon as laid, still the hen continued to
frequent the sty, and, when the sow littered, claimed kin-
dred with the young pigs, and manifested the same ma-
ternal feeling towards them as if they had been her own
chickens, by watching over them in the sty and following
them clicking whenever they went abroad. The hen,
however, is likely to fall a victim to her maternal affec-
tions, as the pigs, like many unruly children to their pa-
rents, use their foster-mother rather roughly, and return
but a poor requital for all her solicitude.—Fife Herald.
FALL OF A HOUSE.—On Friday afternoon a house in
Garden-street, Withy Grove, Manchester, fell to the
ground, covering the street with rubbish, and carrying
down with it portions of the gable end of the two ad-
joining houses. The house was part of a line of pre-
mises occupied by Mr. W. S. Sutton, bacon and pork
dealer. It was of two stories, the top used as sleeping
rooms, and the lower for hams, &c. Two men were
working in the bottom room at the time, but were fortu-
nately alarmed and made their escape. They first ob-
served the chimneys inside giving way, the ron(followed,
and presently the whole building was in ruins. Fortu-
nately no one was passing at the time. It was afterwards
found necessary to support the other buildings by beams.
The occurrence is attributed to the delapidation of the
building. Mr. Sutton.'s loss in hams, &c., will exceed
£l5O.

Considerable anxiety was last week displayed in the me-
tropolis, caused by the movements in the neighbourhood,
and various rumours were in circulation on Saturday and
Sunday as to the course to be pursued by ministers.. On
Sunday week a numerous meeting of conservative members
was held at the Carlton Club, which was adjourned until
yesterday, when a resolution of entire confidence-in Sir R.
Peel's government was proposed and carried unanimously.
A Cabinet Council was held on Sunday, after which Sir
Robert Peel proceeded to Buckingham Palace, and stayed
to dine with her Majesty ; and another Cabinet Council,
summoned by Sir James Graham, was held on Monday, the
result of the deliberations of which was, no doubt, the
ministerial determination above. The London Standard
of Monday urged the Conservative members to retrace
their steps, and intimated the retirement of Sir Robert
Peel as the result of their remaining intractable.
THE GROUSE SEASON.—We learn that the grouse are
in the same critical state with the crops, being, like them,
dependent upon the weather of the next week or two.
The birds are just now chipping the shell, and are found
in hatches of from eight to twelve, which, allowing for
casualties in early youth, would likely give an average
number of coveys in autumn. Everything, however, de-
pends, so far as regards the lower range of moors, upon
an early fall of rain, for with the continuance of the pre-
sent drought for another fortnight, few birds, in such
situations, would survive it. Again, on the high range of
shooting grounds—viz., at the head of Atholl, Badenoch,
and Lochaber, where the snow is only yet melting, abun-
dance of springs are found all the year over for the young
birds, and the supply of birds on such places will, to all
appearance, be as good as usual. The principal moors in
the Perthshire highlands are held on leases, so that there
are comparatively few changes on such ; but on the lower
grounds there are some excellent shootings in the market.
—Perthshire Courier.

PUBLIC PETITIONS.—The twenty-ninth report of the
committee on public petitions has just made its appear-
ance. We find the gross total number of petitions to the
House of Commons on various important public mea-
sures to be as follow, viz. :—Against the Dissenters' Cha-
pels Bill, 2,403 petition , signed by no less than 290,498
persons ; in favour of the same bill, 601 petitions, signed
by 136,644 persons ; for an alteration of the measure, 864
petitions ; legalizing marriages in Ireland by Presbyterian
ministers, 412 petitions, signed by 159,245 persons ;
against the union of the Episcopal dioceses of Bangor and
St. Asaph, 274 petitions, signed by 15,613 persons ; against
a repeal of the corn-laws, 1,878 petitions, signed by
128,093 persons ; for a repeal of the differential duties on
sugar, 4 petitions, signed by 66,434 persons; for the en-
couragement of art-unions, 13 petitions, signed by 704
persons ; in favour of the County Courts Bill, 13 peti-
tions, signed by 1,049 persons ; for an alteration of the
persons.
Poor-law Amend meant Bill, 30 petitions, signed by 10,392

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