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

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

GROUSE SHOOTING —Sir W. M. Stanley killed ICB
brace with his own gun on Saturday week.
On Saturday week, Mr. Menlove, of Bristol, was killed
by a fall from his carriage.
Bridport theatre was destroyed by fire on Monday
night, soon after the conclusion of the performance.
On Saturday, at Yeovil, a man named Seymour was so
much injured in a fight with another that he died next
day.

It is stated, on what may be considered good authority,
that the pitmen throughout the United Kingdom intend
to " strike" in the course of next month.
The Minster at York will he 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.—Tri some of the steam-packets,
passengers are now conveyed from London to Gravesend
and back for one shilling i
Mr. Green, the areonaut, accompanied by Mr. Bradley
made another attempt to cross the channel from Brighton
on Monday, hut 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 £l,O, 8,667, 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 sevens,-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 I Ite heroine of the Fern
Islands in the church of Bamburgh, the resting-place of
her mot tal 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
Ham burgh, 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.
'‘JEW WHEAT.--The first sample of new wheat for the
season was exhibited in Bristol market, on Thursiay
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, 1841
brace of full-grown grouse, six mountain hares, and five
snipes.

A FORTUNATE TAR.—William Robertson, a veteran
sailor, who had braved the ocean for full half a century,
❑nexpectedly came into a fortune last week, by the death
of an uncle, amounting to £75,000.
PRICE OF BREAD.—If 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 sue.
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 M'Nab, as a
Pattern store rnaehine shop, &c. The loss is estimated at
from £5,000 to £B,OOO.
SECOND CROP OF NEW POTATOES.—Richard Hind,
twine spinner, Miltithorpe, 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'
th , tarari sbri 41,64101 A crop.

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THE LATE CUSTOM-HOIJSB VItAUD.—An inquiry was
cone 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 fur £28,070.
MATIONAL SOCIETY.—The fund now subscribed for
educating the Door in the manufacturing di-tricts now
amounts to £58.691 19s. sd. There are 379 contributors
of £5O and upwards, and 940 contributors of sums under
£5O.

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.

A wood pavement, :in the great thoroughfare of Silver_
street, Lincoln, after being down five years, was recently
taken up, and found as dry as the day it was pu- down,
and to have only worn away halt' an inch. Wood pave-
ment is extending in Lincoln.
THE TEA TRADE. Aug. 14.—The deliveries of tea last
week were large again, being 51)7,94011). The consump-
tion is going on steadily, and the holders have a ready
sale for what they ofttr. At the auctions the demand was
good, and some qualities advanced in price.
A poor man, who has lost his sight by the explosion of
a steam-boiler in a manufactory ia Scotland, applied on
Wednesday, at the Mansion-house, for a pass to Ireland.
He was an Irishman, and had come to England in hopes
of getting his sight restored by Father Mathew.
SAM SLICK IN ENGLAND.—That admirable judge and
very clever writer, Judge Halliburron, of Nova Scotia.
sp,ut two or three days with a friend in the neighbourhood
of Dumfries. He is now gone, we believe, on a visit to
Haddingtonshire or Berwickshire, to an old family, be-
longing to one of which he is sprung.—Duryffries Courier.
A verdict of " Wilfnl Murder" has been return, d
against two men named Oakes and Spilshury, on the Co-
roner's inquest relative to the death of James Beech. who
was killed on the night of the 44h instant, in an affray
with poachers on the estate of Apedale Hall, Stafford-
shire.

It must be satisfactory to the subscribers to the Anti-
Corn• Law League to know that the League has taken a
house iu Fleet.street, London, upon a 21 years' lease ; a
plain proof that the expectation that the Corn Laws and
the annual subscription to ; rocure the repeal of these
laws, a►e to last twenty-one years.
VALUE OF PROPERTY.—A freehold estate, situate at
Avebury, eight miles from Devizes, and consisting of a
farm-house, barns, stables, and other buildings, and 124
Beres of arable and pasture land, was sold by auction, by
Mr. Westall, on Monday last, for £3750, being upwards
of 31 years purchase.

A few days since a farmer purchased a mattress at a
broker's shop in Exeter, but on trying it neither he nor
his wife liked it, as it was very hard in some places. Next
day it was given to one of the farmer's labourers, who
also found it hard, and on ripping it open found in it 20
guineas and 20 half guineas.— West of England Conser-
vative.

On Thursday at a meeting of the Town Council of
Glasgow, it was resolved by a majority to continue the
supplies to the City churches, The reply of Sir James
Graham io the application to Government to suspend the
jus devolutum of Preshytelies was read - the Home Sec-
retary drchhed to introduce a bill on this subject at so
a:e a period of the session.
THE TURN-OUT AT ASHTCIN-UNDER-LYNE.—The ab-
surd and aimless turn-out in that town is fairly at an end.
The nien have returned or are returning, to their labour;
' and the chief, if not the only, results of the movement
seem to he the loss of their wages for eight or ten days,
and a reduction of their future earnings in, one or two of
the mills where they were previously paid higher prices
than those contained in their own list.
DURHAM ELECTION.—The petition against Mr. Bright's
return is front Mr. Thomas Bowes, of Elvet, near Dur-
ban', gentleman; Mr. William Henderson, of the South
Bailey, same city, gentleman; Mr. John Henry Forster,
of Old Elvet, gentlett,an ; and Mr. Francis Humble, of
Framwellgate, printer arid publisher. It contains the
usual all gations of bribery, treating, intimidation, &c.
Among the duellists of the last fifty years were the
Dukes of York, Norfolk, Wellington, and Richmond ;
the Marquis of Londonderry ; the Earls of Shelburne,
Marartney, Townshend, Exmouth, Talbot, Lauderdale,
and Lonsdalr ' • the Lords Malden. Camelford, Paget,
Castlereagh, and Belgrave;—Pitt, Fox, Sheridan, Can-
ning, Tin may, and Burdett.

THE LATE Srousts.—Serious losses have been sus-
tained by the holders of property in the Bedford level.
In the tens alone upwards of 2,000 acres of the hay crop,
of the value of at least £lO.OOO, have been totally destroyed
and the pasturage of 1,000 head of cattle is entirely inun-
dated. The consequence is, that about 1,000 persons,
have been tbrown out of employment.
A most serious fire occurred at the seat of the late
High Sherrill of the county, near Nottingham, on Tues-
day. Three immense stacks of hay, estimated at about
130 tons, being the produce of about 60 acres, and valued
at £5OO or £6OO, were discovered to be on fire, they hav-
ing ignited through being gathered too early. The whole
were reduced to a mass of rubbish.
AN EXTRAORDINARY CHOIR.—An old man, named
James Jones, about ninety years of age, has formed one
of the choir of Burford Church, near Tenbury, for up.
wards of sixty years; and on Sunday, the 30th ult., the
choir was strengthened in addition by his eldest son, his
grandson, and his great grandson, (so that it embracts
four generations,) on which occasion the singing was ex-
cellent.