The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-07 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS.

Sir Howard Douglas is nominated, by Mr. Palmer, one or
the members of the committee on shipwrecks.
The Cheshire Foxhounds meet to-morrow (WednesdaY),'
at Darnall; on Thursday, at Bradfield Green; and on Sa'
turday, at Tatton Park.

William Clayton Green, 8.A., of Clare Hall, Cambridge,'
and late of Whitkirk, near Leeds and a student of the Leech'
Grammar School, was on Sunday last ordained by the
Bishop of Chester to the curacy of Woolton..

ECCLESIASTICAL COTIRTS' BILL.—Sir Howard rt vitig
presented, in the House of Commons, on Friday night, O
petition agreed to at the recent meeting of the parishionero
on the subject of this bill.

The British and North American royal 'mail steamer the
Acadia, which sailed hence on the 4th ult., was spoken ell
the 10th, in 10ng.31, haying got " half seas over'?
six days. Her prssn across the Atlantic promised, the"
fore, to be short. in lessthell
rm re

THE TIIRATRES.—In the House of Commons, on Friclaq
Mr. I'. Duncombe presented a petitio'j, signed by 6,000
the inhabitants of Liverpool, complainiyig of vexatious action
which had been brought against certah parties who had been
playing at the Liver Theatre, Liverp()ol.
The British and North Americas I royal mail steamer t.P..er
Columbia, Captain Judkins, saileei, on Saturday last, Inu
Halifax and Boston. She carried out fifty passengers, a°l°; al
whom were Sir Charles Metcalfe, t he new Governor-General
of Canada, and suite.
SIR HOWARD DODGLAS.—Our gallant representative, Sird
Howard Douglas, presided, on Saturday last, at a „meta)!
of the subscribers and friends of Vue United Service les,tiittito'
tion, held in London. The Society, which is most usegte.
both services, appears to be in a state of progressive imPf°'
ment.

ofGeneral Washington, Captain Marbury, arrived here , of
day from New Orleans. She brings letters of the Oeirsoo
January, being later than those brought from New 0X.,a,„0.
yesterday by the packet-ship George Washington, froni +,70
York. Captain Marbury has now, for three coniecw
voyages, brought the latest news from his ports of loadil*l,
VISIT4B AT CROXTETII.—The following is a correct Ilr.
of the visitors to the Earl of Sefton during the race week • r
Lord Stradbioke, Sir Frederick Batheuse, Sir F. Macgr.
Sir Joshua ,§nd Lady Gerard, Sir Richard Brook and nogg-
Misses Brook, Mr., Mrs., and Miss Blackburne,
Hardy, Mr. Beauclerc, Mr. Payner, Hon. Col. Arl26
Earl of Craven, Hon. Frederick Craven, Mr. F. Standish'

SALE OF LORD STANLEY'S BREEDING STUD.—A I
draft from the valuable hunting and breeding stud of by,
noble colonial secretary were brought to the hamme Lies
Tattersalls, by direction of his lordship, on the race Co
,„ ;;;ba
at Aintree, on Wednesday. The lots comprised the r' rive
by Ibrahim, brother to Napoleon, Erin, winner of
_O4,
Anglesea steeple chase; galloways, mares, hacks, Scc.,
realised good prices.

INQUEST.--Yesterday, an inquest was held before 1-,•"ael
Curry, Esq.. borouh coroner, on view of the body of M
Manly, a child of four-and-a-half years old. It appear° tits
on Friday afternoon the deceased, who lived with his P"e,
in Brick-street, was in the act of running across Flint-saeder
while a cart was passing, when he stumbled and fell 3/1 to
the off wheel, which passed ouer his head. He was takt.
the Southern Hospital, where, notwithstanding every 3t*: tea
tion, he died on the following morning. The surgeon 67;01
that the deceased had suffered a fracture of the skull of I"'
he died. Verdict, " Accidentally killed."

INCREASE AND DECREASE
the imports of merchandise
(1842) with that of the preced
articles have varied :
Articles increased in import.
Ashes
Brimstone
Cassia
Coffee, foreign
Cotton wool
Galls
Olive Oil
Pimento
Rice
Rum
Shumac
Sugar, Mauritius and Ha-
vana
Tincal
Tobacco
Turpentine

iv larrowrs.—On et:m*ole
at this port for the last S'F';
hug, we observe the followl"

Articles decreased is inOP7ll.
Bark
Cocoa
Coffee, British plantatioo
Ginger
Hides
Indigo
Dye and Shell Lac
Madders
Molasses
Pepper
Palm oil
Saltpetre
Sugar; Bengal and Broil
Tallow
Tar
Dye Woods
Sheeps' Wool