The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-02-17 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY

Packet-ships are about to sail monthly from Gloucester
direct to Antwerp.
EXPORTATION OF ENGLISH GRAIN.—A cargo of Eng-
lish barley was sold at Lynn, last week, for exportatioa
to Holland. _ .

Mr. Tufnell, cue of the Assistant Poor-law Commis-
sioners, has resigned his office, from dissatisfaction at
the conduct of the Commissioners.
The Mayor of Exeter has ordered the police to arrest
any person carrying about children afflicted with the
small pox.
The Duke of Wellington, in reply to an applicati n
from Dover, states—" That his grace has no informa-
tion upon the intention of calling out of the militia."
There is now lying at the West India Dock a single
log of mahogany, so immense in size and valuable in qua-
lity that it has been sold for £l,OOO.
Mr. Wakley, the coroner, remarked, on Friday, in a
case of suicide, that he had had no less than 26 similar
cases before him in less than twelve_days.

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Mr. Marcus, the sharebroker of Leeds, has been com-
mitted for trial on the charge of forgery, but has been li-
berated on bail.
A proposal has been made by some of the South Shields
shipowners to raise a memorial, by public subscription, to
the memory of the inventor of the life-boat.
A convent of mercy is about to be established in New-
castle, Dean Coll has subscribed £6OO to the undertaking,
and Dr. Ryan £5OO.
MADAME ANAIDE CASTELLAN.—It is said that this
popular vocalist died lately in Russia, after a short il!ness.
She was included in Mr. Lumley's list of engagements fur
the present reason.
At the Arches Court, on Thursday, Sir_ H. J. Fust
suspended for eighteen months, the Rev. Mr. Cresswell,
vicar of Creech, St. Michael, for habitual swearing and
intoxication. . .

On Saturday, at Redrice, near Andover, a person
named Brierley, was shot through the neck by T. M.
Shurman, with whom he had some dispute about money.
He is expected to recover.
A movement is now being made in Paisley for the abo-
lition of the custom, which is carried to an extravagant
excess in Scotland, of providing refreshments to compa-
nies at funerals.
FATAL FEAT.—On Tuesday, a tailor, named John
Hilborne, aged 40. residing at Bristol, drank, for a wager,
five pints of beer in five minutes. He died in a few min-
utes afterwards.
ARSON.—A servant at Oldstead Hall, near Thirsk, has
been committed for trial on a charge of having set fire to
the building. He was seen coming out of the apartment
where the fire originated in a state of intoxication. For-
tunately no serious damage was done.
The Commissioner of the Leeds Bankruptcy Court has
committed a bankrupt to York Castle for not satisfactorily
answering questions put to him as to recent dealings.
He admitted his debts exceeded £20,000 but the assets were
not more than £2OOO.

The gentleman who leaped from one of the carriage
windows. on the Chester Railway, while the train was
proceeding, was Mr. John Mollett, of Lane Delf, in the
Potteries. He was 37 years of age, and has left a widow.
Intoxication seems to have induced his mental infirmity.
Two young people, who had been out making prepara-
tions for their approaching marriage, quarrelled the other
day on Westminster Bridge—threw their purchases, in-
cluding even the wedding ring, into tha Thames, and se-
parated.
At a recent meeting of the Austwick board of guardians,
the assistant overseer of the Cleckheaton district was
taken to task for getting drunk, on which one of the guar-
dians naively said he could see nothing wrong in the offi-
cers getting drunk, for he sometimes got drunk himself !
A Reading paper states that " a much respected clergy-
man of that town, presiding over a well-known school, has
recently been presented with £5OO, as a grateful acknow-
ledgment from the surviving parent ot a former successful
pupil." Dr. Valpy is the gentleman alluded to.
Sir G. W. Lefevre, Bart., late physician to the embassy
of Russia. destroyed himself last week by taking prussic
acid. He had been labouring under delusions of mind.
He was the author of several medical works, and was in
affluent circumstances.
LEEDS AND WEST-RIDING BANK —A meeting of the
shareholders in this bank took place at Leeds on Monday.
It appeared that the liabilities of the company were about
£350,000, and their assets £300,000 ; shewing a deficiency
of £50,000, which loss will have to be borne by the share-
holders.
FATHER AND SON KILLED.-011 Saturday week, at
Shotton Moor Colliery, Durham, a man named Brown,
aged 50, and his son, aged 16, were being lowered down
the pit, when the chain broke, and they were precipitated
to the bottom. The two were afterwards-found quite
dead, with their bodies crushed to pieces.
All the best clocks that are now made in America are
constructed with wooden pendulums, which are but little
subjected to the influence of heat, and, as such, the rate
of these horological machines is much improved. The
great clock of the Horse Guards, so much celebrated for
its accuracy, is furnished with a wooden pendulum rod.
CATTLE IMPORTED FROM IRELAND.—From a paper
issued by order of parliament, it appears that there have
been imported into Great Britain from Ireland, in the
quarter ending the sth of January, 1846, the following
cattle :-32,883 oxen, bulls, and cows ; 583 calves ; 32,576
sheep; and 104,141 swine.
An ingenious rogue has been reaping a good harvest in
the metropolis by selling what he alleged were fine gera-
nium roots, in pots. After a few days the supposed plants
drooped, and on the owners transplanting them they were
discovered to be slips only, secured by twine to the bot-
tom of the pot.
COMMITTAL OF A SURGEON FOR MANSLAUGHTER.—
Mr. Dickenson, surgeon, of 13ilston, has been committed
to take his trial for having, by his want of proper skill and
attention, caused the death of Hannah Hickman, the
wife of a working man, in her confinement. The offspring
of the unfortunate deceased is now living, and is a fine
healthy child.
The " Terrible," war steamer, is being fitted but in a
formidable manner. She is one of the most perfect spe-
cimens of war-ship building yet known. She can berth
a thousand men, and from her construction would swim
though her external keel and plank were off her bottom.
Her engines are of 800 horse power. She is to have a
complement of 240 officers, men and boys.
The horrible case at Greenwich closed on 'Thursday, by
a verdict of " wilful murder" against Wm. Ri, hardson.
The coroner told the jury that they must dismiss from
their minds that portion of the case, showing the inces-
tuous intimacy which had subsisted between the father and
daughter, except so far as it showed the motives they
would have for concealment.
A STRANGE VI,ITOR.-011 Thursday, a large Durham
cow came in at one of the doors of the elegant shop of
Messrs. Graham, Ludgate-hill, London, and walked
round the shop, passing between some very valuable large
china' jars and glass, and made her exit through the
second door, without doing any damage. This took place
at about seven o'clock in the evening, when the shop was
lighted up.