The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-08-22 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

GROUSt SHOOTING.-Sir w. M. SeanleY killed 108
brace with his own gun on Saturday week.

On Saturday week, Mr. Menl3le, of Bristol, was killed
by a fall from his carriage.
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Bridport theatre was destroyed by fire on Monday
night, soon after the c
coclusion of the performance.
On Saturday, eovil, a man named Seymour was so
much injured
a fight with another that he died next
day.
It stated, on what may be considered good authority,
tuac the pitmen throughout the United Kingdom intend
to " strike" in the course of next month.

The Minster at Y ork will be completely restored by the
next spring, in time for—What ?—(From the Tablet, a
Roman Catholic Journal.)
It is rumonred that the President of the English college
at Rome, Dr. Bragg, is to be raised to the Episcopal
dignity in England.—Tablet.
Jupiter will appear very splendid even to common ob-
servers, in the evening, from the middle of August to the
end of December.

Twelve persons have held the office of mayor of the
city of Washington since the year 1802. Of this number
five were practical printers.
CHEAP TRAVELLING.—In some of the steam-packets,
passengers are now conveyed from London to Gravesend
and back for one shillino

Mr. Green, the areonaut, accompanied by Mr. Bradley
made another attempt to cross the channel from Brighton
on Monday, but failed.
Mr. Eaton, of Little Budworth, Cheshire, has now
growing in his garden, exactly fifty pods of peas on one
stem, every one of which are well filled.

At the Earl of Zetland's audit, held at Richmond on
the 2nd inst., his Lordship ordered 15 per cent, to be re-
turned to his farm tenants.

The estates and property of the British Iron Company,
which cost them £1,644,726 15s. 4d., and which were
valued in 1841 at £1,078,667, are now offered for £200.000.

DONCASTER RACES, 1844.—At a quarterly meeting of
the town council of Doncaster, held on Tuesday last, it
was resolved, by fifteen to six, to grant a sum of £l,OOO
from the corporate funds in aid of the races of 1844.
The Manchester Herald, after a brief existence of six-
teen weeks, has disappeared from the political stage. Its
final publication appeared on Saturday week, the 12th
instant.

CARNATION.—There is now growing in the garden of
Mr. Wright, Marsh Gate, Doncaster, a clove carnation
with seventy -nine stems, and producing upwards of three
hundred flowers.

On Tuesday morning, a fire broke out in a public-house
in London, occasioned by some tobacco pipes that had
not been entirely smoked out, having been incautiously
put away into a drawer, with other lumber.
GRACE DARLlNG.—Sufficient funds have been obtained
to erect a monument to the late heroine of the Fern
Islands in the church of Bamburgh, the resting-place of
her mortal remains.

A lady in Ayrshire has volunteered to collect 240,000
used postage-stamps in seventeen days. If she succeeds,
she gains £5OOO to the Free Church, and if she loses, she
forfeits £lOOO to the Established Church.

EXPORTATION OF HORSES.—The Transit steamer, for
Hamburgh, which left this port on Saturday last, took
out upwards of 20 useful brood mares, purchased in va-
rious parts of the country by M. Bamburgh, of Vienna.

IRISH REAPERS.—An immense number of these an-
nual visiters from the sister isle have arrived in Glasgow
by the Belfast and Londonderry steamers during the pre-
sent week.—Glasgow Courier.
NEW WHEAT.—The first sample of new wheat for the
season was exhibited in Bristol market, on Thursday
week, by Mr. Shipton, of Clevedon, and it was considered
remarkably fine.

Mr. A. Campbell, M.P., Nonzie Castle, Crieff, Perth-
shire, bagged to his own gun on the 12th of August, 1844
brace of full-grown grouse, six mountain bares, and five
snipes.

A FORTUNATE TAR.—William Robertson, a veteran
sailor, who had braved the ocean for full half a century,
unexpectedly came into a fortune last week, by the death
of an uncle, amounting to £75,000.
PRICE OF BREAD.—It appears, by a conversation that
took place in the House of Commons on Thursday, that
some enactment will be proposed next Session, to regulate
the price of bread according to that of wheat and flour.
The Cornish pilchard fishery promises to be very suc-
cessful this season. Some of the boats have brought in
this week 5,000 to 20,000 each per night, which have been
retailed at 14d. per 120—about 9 for a penny !
FIRE AT PAISLEY.—On Friday night an extensive fire
took place in a large building of the Abercorn Foundery,
Paisley, occupied by Messrs. Barr and 11,1`Nab, as a
pattern store machine shop, &c. The loss is estimated at
from £5,000 to £B,OOO.
SECOND CROP OF NEW POTATOES.—Richard Hind,
twine spinner, Milnthorpe, planted a second crop of po-
tatoes in his garden on Saturday, the 17th June, and this
week they are ready for use, being only eight weeks'
growth, and an excellent crop.

THE LATE CUSTOM-HOUSE FRAUD.—An inquiry WAS
gone into on Saturday, at the Secondaries Court, London,
for the purpose of ascertaining what property Messrs.
Candy and Dean possessed in the city of London. The
jury found for the crown altogether for £28,070.

M prnni • T ,rho A...a now oubt‘erlbed for
educating the poor in the manufacturing districts now
amounts to £58,691 19s. sd. There are 379 contributors
of •X5O and upwards, and 940 contributors of sums under
Mr. Macready takes his departure for America on the
4th of September, in the Caledonia steamer. He has en-
gaged Mr. Ryder, of Drury-Lane Theatre, to accompany
him, for the purpose of playing the secondary characters
with him.