The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-10 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

GENERAL MISCELLANY

The Free Port Association for Bristol have given the
requisite notices for applying to parliament next session.
An enormous pumrkin, measuring six feet ten inches in
circumference, and weighing 148 lbs. was exhibited to her
Majesty last week. It was grown at Windsor.
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STAAIFORD.—Mr. Richard Newcomb, the publisher of
the Stamford Mercury, is spoken of as likely to be
elected mayor of that borough.
A new Hungarian dance, called the `• Csoder," is
all the rage in Germany, and likely to supersede the
" Polka."

On Friday night last, at Fillingham, near Lincoln, there
was an affray betwen gamekeepers and poachers, in which
one of the latter, Wm. Fisher, lost his life.
The ship Buckinghamshire, just arrived in the East
India Docks from Canton, had on board the unprece
dentedly large number of 29,071 packages of tea.
A woman, apparently in a fit, in the Blackfriars'-road,
London, on Tuesday, was found to have a large piece of
mottled soap in her mouth. She was recognised by the
police as an old hand at such tricks.
A new packet ship, of 1100 tons, to be named after the
the premier, is now being built in New York for the Lon-
don line, another of 1,000 tons, the American Eagle, has
already been launched.
On Wednesday, a lady, named Miss Jones, who for
many years bad been housekeeper to the late Benjamin
Bickky, of Meridian Place, Bristol, precipitated herself
from the top of the house, and was picked up quite dead.
The relieving officers' rooms at the Leeds Workhouse
were burglariously entered on Wednesday night or Thurs-
day morning last, and a sum of upwards of £l7O was
abstracted from the desks in the rooms and carried away.
The Times of Thursday says that the Russian Govern-
ment, to which Messrs. Harmer were agents, has a claim
on that firm for £440,000, the balance of a debt which
not many months back stood as high as £700,000.
On Friday night last, Mr. Jabez Ball, of Banbury, fell
out of his gig and was killed, and within twenty-four
hours his mother, who was on her way to see him, was
killed by a coach wheel passing over her head.
The Rev. W. Faber, who seceded some time back to
the Romish Church, and has lately founded a religious
order at Colton Hall, Staffordshire, has suffered a violent
attack of paralysis : his life has been despaired of ; and he
has received the "last sacraments" of the Romish Church.
The machinery of the Anti-Corn-Law League is con-
verted into that of a " Liberal Registration League,"
which seeks after "legitimate and important objects,"
which it is not thought advisable, we presume, to specify
more particularly.
The death of Mr. P. M. Stewart, M.P. for the Scotch
county of Renfrew, is announced. Mr. Stewart was a
Liberal of very extreme views, both in religion and po-
litics ; a staunch supporter both of the Free Kirk seces-
sion and of Lord Melbourne's Administration.

On Tuesday, there was ,a general reduction of one
penny in the 41b. loaf, in Lambeth, Bethnal-green, White-
chapel, and Tottenham-court-road; the best being 73d.,
and household Gad. The West-end bakers still, however,
maintain the same price, Eqol. and 10d.
Messrs. Dryden, the celebrated engineers, are now
employed in the construction of a printing machine for
the Times, warranted to produce 12,0e0 impressions per
hour, or the inconceivable number of upwards of three
sheets per second !
HOLBORN-HILL VIADUCT. A company has been
formed for tLe arrangement of the thoroughfare from
Holborn-hill, across Farringdon-street, and along Skin-
ner-street to Snow-hill, by means of a viaduct level from
bill to bill.

A young man, on Saturday week, whilst travelling on
the Midland Railway, perceiving himself to be in the
wrong train, jumped out whilst the train was in motion,
and falling upon the rails, the carriages passed over him,
inflicting such injuries that he died soon after.

ri MAN CONVICTED BY MISTAKE.-At the recent
Carmarthenshire Quarter Sessions, a man of the name of
Thomas Phillips was convicted by mistake, the jury, with
one exception, being almost entirely ignorant of the Eng-
lish language. The foreman was understood to say guilty,
when the jury (all Welsh) meant not guilty !
A splendid East Indiaman, " Anne Cropper," of 550
register, was launched from the building yard of Thomas
Gales, Esq., at Hylton, Sunderland, on Tuesday. This
noble vessel, which has been built especially for a firm in
Liverpool, is allowed to be one of the finest specimens of
naval architecture ever produced in the River Wear.

On Monday last, the window of a druggist's shop, in
Spalding, Lincolnshire, was garnished, as usual, with a
variety of large bottles, and the rays of the sun being con-
centrated through the glass, a pair of cotton gloves lying
near were set on fire ; fortunately, the occupier, observing
the smoke, was able quickly to extinguish the fire.
A company has been formed in London, whose pro-
fessed object is the political and social amelioration of the
condition of the people, by the erection of towns and vil-
lages in suburban districts, each member or shareholder
to have a life-freehold, giving, at the same time, a vote
for the county.
A poor man, named William Drury, aged 75, died a
few days since at Wakefield of starvation. He had only
eaten the day before his death a halfpenny tart and a
halfpennyworth of gingerbread. The jury brought in a
verdict of " Died by the visitation of God, to wit, from
starvation."
We are sorry to observe, that the colliers of the South
Staffordshire districts are again on the move for a strike—
the thick coal colliers for Is. per day, and the thin coal
and ironstone getters Gd. per day, increase in their wages.
Notices have been given to several collieries of fourteen
days, from last Saturday. for the above rise.