The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-14 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

Mr. Waghorn is in Vienna milting arrangements for
the conveyance of the Indian Mail by Trieste.
The Penny Magazine has closed its career, after an ex-
istence of fourteen years. _

The amount of the Cobden testimonial has now reached
upwards of £33,000.
English coal is to be had in every part of the civilised
world ; there are derilts ac Rio Janeiro, at Odessa, at
Archangel, and at Constantinople.
The Town Council of Oxford have appointed a com-
mittee to provide suitable public bathing places free of

charge

The preservation of ancient footpaths for the enjoyment
of the public is as akening general attention in the cities
of the South and West of England. _ _ _

SIR ROBERT PEEL IN LEEDS.—On Sunday week Mr.
Abraham Peel, of Sheepscar, Leeds, had an infant son
baptised at the parish church, " Sir Robert."
A pupil of the veterinary school of Alfort died a few
days ago, after three weeks' intense suffering, from having
in dissection caught the glanders from a horse.
A watchmaker of Cardiff is said to have invented a
self-acting ball, that will run on a level, and keep in mo-
tion tor an indefinite number of (say 1,000) years.
Barnard Gregory, formerly of the Satirist newspaper,
has taken the Newcastle Theatre.—North British Adver-
tiser.

At the West Kent quarter sessions three young men
and two womt-it were tried for robbing the dead body of
Wicks, the fratricide, but escaped, owing to au error in
the indictment.

QUACK A DVERTISEMENTS.--The Gazette Alledi'cale de
Tho, is states that Morrison expended, between the years
1830 and 1814, the enormous sum of £lOB,OOO sterling
in advertising his nostrum.

A mine of antimony has been discovered in New Cum-
nock (Sco►land). It is the only one of the kind in Bri-
tain, and contains a great mixture of arsenic and cop-

VALUE OF LAND.—The Ford Abbey estate, consisting
of about 1.200 acres, with the park, situate in the Vale of
the Axe, Dorsetsbire, was last week sold by auction for
£52,000.

During the hearing of a case at the Mansion-house, t
Lord Mayor of London stated that in France the extr

ordinary system had been adopted of sending over w this
country any lunatics found about the streets.

At an inquest held last week, at Leicester, on two
infants poisoned by overdoses of "Godfrey's ( ordial," the
coroner threatened in the next case of the kind to direct
the jury to return a verdict of manslaughter.

The western coast of Africa can grow cotton enough
for all the world. In America the average crop is 4001bs.
per acre ; white experience has proved that in Africa
8001bs. and even 1000ibs. per acre may easily be produced.
At a recent auction for sheep, held in Nottinghamshire,
and attended by agriculturists from every part of the
kingdom, forty-two guineas was bid for a sheep, and yet
this did not effect the purchase.
COLLISIONS AT SEA.— It appears from an official docu-
ment just presented to Parliament, that there were last
year 454 collisions of vessels at sea. and in the present
year, to the 12th of May last, the number was 150.

EFFECTS OF A NI RRDEROUS ATTACK ON MR. LUDLOW
BRUGES' KEEPERS AT SANDRIDGE.—Pointing, the
assistant, died about two months since ; and Bell has
become insane, and the inmate of an asylum, supposed to
arise from blows he had on the head.
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OFFICE OF PROMPTER ABOLISH ED.—We suppose that
after this date we shall hear no more of per,ons being
" prompted" at public meetings or upon the stage. The
manager of the Swansea theatre now describes that funct-
ionary as "Repetifeur."
SNOW ON :1' KIDDAW.-011 Tuesday week, notwith-
standing the excessive heat which had been experienced
at Keswick for some weeks past, the summit of Skiddaw
was densely covered with snow or hail, and retained its
wintry garb for several hours.
SHIPS-OF-WAR NOW BUILDING.—It appears, from
the official list published by the admiralty, that there ate
now building in the various dockyards, 27 ships of the
line, 18 frigates, 18 sloops and brigs, six steam gus►d.
ships, 12 steam frigates, eight steam sloops, and 13 steam
gun-vessels. -