The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-02-17 00:00:00

LIST OF PASSENGERS

For Halifax :—Miss Mary E. Coolidge, Rev. Mr.
Breare, Alex. Ballock, John Cox and Son, Mr. Simpson. (6.:
From Boston to Liverpool: Major Campbell, Mrs,
Campbell, and two servants; T. Y. Hall, Miss Hall, W,
Chapman, Miss Chapman, Mr. Ibbotson, Charles Lutke
Dr. A. Faro worth. Miss Jeunness, R. M. Harrison, A
Borrowman, S. Macauley, Alex. Ewing, J. Connell, Jos
Milnes, Chas. Peddes,
Mr. Moffatt, Timoteo Hoalilo. Rev
Wm. Richards, Chas. H. Meade, Mr. Brander, Hem)
Davis, and four sailors. (29.)

From Millar to Liverpool :—Charles Robson, E. Tup•
per, James Johnson, A• Ritchie, Francis Ferguson, Thos
Kenney, A. G. Fyfe, W. K. Milward, John Robertson; W
J. Coleman, Captain Jarvis, Captain Clegg, James Purvis
Henry Mignowitz, Robert Morrow, Mr. Stewart. B. W
Salter, H. W. Knowlan, Miss Owen, E. Billing, H. Edey,
six soldiers, one woman and one child. (29.)

On Tuesday last, a fire took place at the Burnt Mill, nea:
Shrewsbury. The whole of the barn, together with its con•
tents, were destroyed, but the mill was saved.

At the late fire at Lord Hillsborough's mansion, in Lon-
don, a brigade fireman was so seriously injured that he died
in consequence on Monday.
Orders have been received at Woolwich to send two ser-
jeants, two corpo'rals, and thirty privates of the sappers and
miners, to Hong-Kong, to be employed in fortifications on
that island.

Venus, though the most brilliant planet in the heavens, is
not well situated for observation this year ; the best time far
viewing her by the naked eye is during the present month
and in July.

A farmer, at Rigmer, has for some years turned his atten-
tion to the breeding of rabbits, which, he says, have paid him
as well as a flock of sheep. lie sends 7,000 rabbits annually
up to London.—Brighton Herald.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—O❑ Monday last an old man was
knocked down by a carriage, at Brighton, and run over by
both the wheels. The unfortunate man died within half-an-
hour of the accident.

A COMFORTABLE BOROUGH.—The Plymouth papers an-
nounce the entire extinction of the borough rate in that town,
the corporate property having so increased in value as to be
equal to all the necessities of the Council.
THE MACKEREL FISHERY.—Two of the Brighton macke-
rel boats caught in one night last week upwards of 30,000
fish, which they sold at 145. per 100, thus making by a
night's labour about £llO each.
Sir Peter Laurie's motion fur the removal of the wood
paving in the Poultry, London, was negatived. at a meeting
of the Court of Commissioners of Sewers, on Tuesday, by a
very large majority.

On Monday last, a wealthy baronet, whose name did not
transpire, and a butler of Sir Fred Roe, were brought up at
the Marlborough-street Police-office, London, and com-
mitted for trial, on a charge of indecently exposing their
persons.

EXPENSE OF THE ROUTE TO INDIA.—The expense by
the overland route to India is generally estimated at £134 ;
viz., £4 from London to Paris, £lO from Paris to Marseilles,
£2B from Marseilles to Alexandria, and £l2 from Alexandria
to Suez, whence the fare in the steamers to Bombay is £BO.

The Lord Bishop of Antigua, in a sermon preached on
Sunday morning at St. Clement Danes Church, Strand, on
behalf of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel i . n
Foreign Parts, stated that it was the intention of the society
to send missionaries to China without delay, and at no dis-
tant period a bishop.

CRIME AND PAUPERISM.--At a court of aldermen, the
other clay, Alderman Copeland stated that, in the Compter,
the allowance for each prisoner was, of bread, meat, and po-
tatoes. 210 ounces, with 17 pints of gruel ; in the West Lou-
don Union, it was for each pauper, 148 ounces and 10 pints ;
in the Strand Union, 131 ounces and 15 pints.

ACCIDENT AT SEA.—We regret to state that William
Connor, one of the crew of the Queen of the Isle, after he
had placed the light at the bow of the vessel, on Wednesday
evening last, fell from the vessel, and, unfortunately, the
night being very dark, he was not missed until it was his turn
to take his stand at the helm.—Manks Advertiser.

An extraordinary meeting of the Irish General Assembly,
in compliance with requisitions from different Presbyteries,
had been called for the 13th instant, but has bcea postponed
to the 28th, when the critical position of the Church of
Scotland, the marriage question, and the bicentenary fund,
are to come under consideration.

TEE IRISH ATTORNEY-GENERAL.—We can confirm the
statement in the Mail to the effect that Mr. Attorney-General
Smith is about to enter Parliament as member for the borough
of Ripon, the declining health of Admiral Sir George Cock-
burn being a sufficient reason for his resignation.—Dublin
Monitor.

The Leipsic Gazette has the following from Constantino-
ple, Jan. 18 :—" A strange rumour is current here. It is said
that France has made propositions for an alliance with Russia,
but that they have been rejected, as M. de Brunow was en-
gaged in London in endeavouring to bring about an alliance
with England, and was in hopes of succeeding.

The distress at Stourgridge is stated to have become so
alarming that numbers are subsisting on turnips alone. From
a field belonging to Thomas Pargeter, Esq., as many as from
five to six tons a week have been taken for several weeks
past; nor does he think it expedient to attempt to put a stop
to the peculation

benefactor was made last week,
sue first appearance of the Prince of Wales as a public
whe his Royal Highness's
name appeared as a contributor of £lOO to the fund now being
raised for the purpose of erecting a Lunatic Asylum in the
Principality, whence he derives his premier title. Her Ma-
jesty and Prince Albert are also donors of £5O each to the
same benevolent object.
Professor Hansom, of Gotha, has announced to the Royal
Astronomical Society, his discovery of a method of deter-
mining the perturbations of one planet on another, by simple
and rapidly couvexing lens, whatever be the eccentricity and
inclination of the orbit. Hitherto, except by a sort of ten-
tative process, this could only be done when the eccentricity
and inclination were small.

We have been made acquainted with a fact, as it now ex-
ists in the domestic establishment of Thomas Clifton, Esq.,
of Lytham-hall, which is without any parallel in our own
experience—it is that of eight female servants, who can each
claim a sister by relationship. We may explain the very
singular circumstance by stating that each two, not the whole
eight, are respectively sisters.—Preston Pilot.

MEETINGS or CREDITORS you, LIVgRPOOL.
'RBRUARY. _ Houn

17, John Casson,

17, Thomas Jones,

District Court, 11

17, Hightield Brothers, (proof & div.) Dist. Court, Manchester, 1
17, William Denver and William Nixey, (Ist).. District Court, 1
20, Benjamin Jasper Wood, (proof and div.).. Ditto, 11

21, Henry Chapman, (proof)
21, Robert Boag, (2dd)

24; Richard Sheipherd, (Ist)