The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-01 00:00:00

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The Queen Dowager has sent £lOO for the relief of the
Spitalfields weavers.
_

The other night a fisherman off Maryport caught no
fewer than 6700 herrings.

A steam-ship arrived last week from Boulogne has
brought a cage of live foxes, consigned to order.
An anniversary festival is about to be held at Dundee
in honour of James Watt. Lord Kinnaird will preside.
It is said that the Postmaster-General intends to close
the Post-office on a Sunday, in such towns as a majority
of the inhabitants shall declare a wish to that effect.
In the London Gazette on Tuesday last, no less than
thirty-six bankruptcies were named ; and in the Friday's,
twenty-six more ; making sixty-two in one week.

A few days since, a iningber of boys were skating on a
mill dam near Halifax, when the ice gave way, and four
of them were drowned.

It is stated that the celebrated Whitfield was born in
the house, the Bell Inn, at Gloucester, in which the pre-
sent Bishop of Exeter first saw the light.
On Saturday week, a man and two boys were descend-
ing a colliery, in Parr, when the rope broke and the three
fell to the bottom of the shaft, and were instantly killed.
Mr. Nunn, who was prosecuted by the Society for the
prevention of cruelty to animals, for riding his horse, for
a wager, from Leamington to London, gave £5O to the
Society, after deducting the fine.

Singe. the general flak promotion in November, 1846, no
fewer than twenty admirals have died, and three retired
rear-admirals. Nine admirals on the active list have died
within the last three weeks.

MURDER.—A small farmer, named William Howell,
living at Llanellen, has died from arsenic being adminis-
tered, and a verdict of wilful murder has been returned

against his wife, and against James Price as an accomplice.
A very numerous meeting was held in Newcastle-on-
Tyne, on Wednesday, with a view to prevent that port
being deprived of Custom-house facilities, and brought
within the range of North Shields.
SOAP TRADE.—In the Excise Court, on Thursday,
John Renton, of Walworth, was convicted of fraud in his
business as a soap manufacturer, was fined £lOOO, and all
his stock was condemned.—Sophia Bartram, convicted of
making soap without a license, was fined £4OO.
ORANGE PEEL.—FATAL ACCIDENT.—On the 9th inst.,
a female named Sophia Martin, slipped at Clifton through
treading on some orange peel, and sustained a compound
dislocation of the thumb. Lock iaw set and_she soon
died.

Last week, some vagabonds at South Shields made a
poor idiot lad, known as " Billy Cowans," drunk, and
filled his pockets with squibs. They went off and set him
on fire, burning him in a severe manner. The offenders
have not been found out.
On Saturday, the directors of the new South-Western
Steam Navigation Company made a trial of their ship the
Dispatch, to the Nore and back. The engines made forty
revolutions per minute, attaining a speed of eighteen
statute miles per hour.
On Friday week a servant girl employed by a family
residing at Birmingham, was suffocated by a piece of
tripe, an inch and three-quarters square, which she had
endeavoured to swallow while she was carrying down stairs
the remains of a lodger's supper.
An animated discussion took place at a recent meeting
of the governors of Heriot's Hospital, in Edinburgh, as
to whether it was desirable to substitute steel pens for
quills in the hospital and out-door schools ; but, in con-
sideration of the "importance" of the subject, it was
resolved to defer it till the next meeting. -
So many infants have lately died at Loughborough,
from the effects of laudanum administered to them by
their mothers or nurses, that the coroner has intimated
his intention of recommending the jury to return a ver-
dict of manslaughter if another case of the kind should
occur.

Mrs. Hannah Thomas, aged 45, a lady respectably con-
nected, who was committed from Bow-street, on Satur-
day, for giving a false character to a servant, died on
Monday in Tothill-Fields prison. The deceased, when
taken into custody, said it " would be the death of her "
if she were sent to prison.
A few days since, a lady residing near Shields, inhaled
chloroform while a dentist was drawing an unsound tooth,
and felt no pain during the operation : but when she re-
covered from her insensibility, she discovered to her hor-
ror that the dentist had made a mistake, and had drawn
her soundest tooth instead of the decayed one.
A LONG TIME COMING.—A few days since, says the
Hants Independent, a gentleman at Romsey received a
letter containing a cheque, which was posted at Tewkes-
bury in 1846: from a misreading of the address it found
its way to Rome ! where it has been lying till the present
time.

FATAL ASSAULT ON A Boy.—A man, named Jenkins,
has been committed for trial at the Hereford Assizes,
charged with beating a boy, named Maib, to death. Both
parties were in the employ of a butcher at Hay, and on
the 29th December, Jenkins beat the boy so severely
with a stick that one of the blood-vessels of his head was
broken, and he died a few days afterwards.
CURIOUS ADVERTISEMENTS.—The Times has recently
been rich in these eccentricities. Take the following
notice as an example :—Rodolph B. acknowledges the
receipt of a slice of plum pudding, sent him by post to-
day. The whole party enjoyed it uncommonly at
luncheon, it being as rich as the idea.—Belgravia, New
Year's Day, 1841.

THE PENNYi;OSTAGE.—In 1839, Mr, Rowland Hill
expressed a confident anticipation that the effect of his
penny postage would be to increase the number of letters
transmitted by post five-fold within a very few years.
Thl prophecy le already all but verified_ The number
of chargeable letters transmitted by post in 1839 was 76
millions, in 1847 it amounted to 322 millions.
There was a desperate affray between a party of poachers,
upwards of twenty in number, and the keepers and
watchers at Chillingham Castle, a few days ago. One of
the keepers was dangerously wounded and is not expected
to live. Both parties fired at each other, and it is stated
that the poachers were seen carrying off one of the
wounded of their party.
There is now on view at the Atheneum, Temple-row,
Birmingham, a large painting, entitled The Ship-
builder," which is intended to form one of the principal
prizes of the Liverpool and Lancashire Art-Union for 1848.
The picture is said to be the work of Rembrandt, and will
no doubt, therefore, attract the attention both of the dil-
ietanti and of the general public of this town.

AN UNREASONABLE WANT.—A person advertises for a
regular supply of a daily threepenny London newspaper at
half-price !—that is, at barely the cost of the stamp and
white paper, leaving labour, talent, wages, rent, taxes,
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SurvEf
ni A cAX,—(3O7I Wednesday, a respectable
party were invited to gupper in a large oak cask, made by
Mr. Isaac Aulton, of Dudley, at the house of Mr. John
Hughes, Five Ways Inn, Tipton. After the cloth was
drawn, the usual loyal toasts were drank, and several
excellent songs were introduced on the occasion. Many
persons attended out of courtesy to witness the novel
scene.

SALE OF THREE OP E. L.kNDSEER's PICTURES.—
Three early pictures by Edwin Landseer, were sold on
Wednesday week. The first was a small picture repre-
senting " A thorough-bred Scotch terrier with a dead rat
in its mouth." It fetched 68 guineas. The next was
called " Waiting for orders," and was a portrait of a
coachman • 32 guineas was given for it. The last was
called " ihe Paddock," and representing an old Chesnut
horse and a white Scotch terrier. Sold for 100 guineas.
A few days since a tradesmen residing near Stratford-
le

-Bow, Essex, who had suffered several heavy losses,
resolved to sell some freehold property which he inherited
from his father. He consequently went to fetch the title
deeds from an iron safe, into which he had thrust them
soon after his father's death, fourteen or fifteen years
before, and which had never since been opened, when he
discovered a sum of £4OO in Bank of England notes,
which are supposed to have been placed there by his
father.