The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-06-18 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

The winner of the Ascot Cup has been named Emperor,
in comtliment to his imperial majesty of Russia.
Thursday, the 4th of July, has been fixed for opening
the appeal to the House of Lords in the case of O'Con-
nell and the other traversers.

THE MILITIA.—This constitutional force is to be re-
modelled, cou pleted, and placed on a more efficient
establish rn ent.—Standard.
A pinch of Peruvian guano put into the water contain-
ing cut or pulled flowers, will keep them fresh for a con-
siderable time.
The ball of Socialists, at Huddersfield, after every effor t
to sustain it, is in the market, and is about to be pur-
chased by the Wesleyans for a chapel.

At Stockingford, the other day, for a wager of a shilling,
a woman ate a peck of radishes, with a pound of bread
and butter, and ale ad libitum, in half an hour.

THE SHIFTING INTEREST.—Shipping to a value ex-
ceeding £lO,OOO has changed owners at Sunderland
within the last month.

POST•OFFICE ROBBERY.—On Saturday last John Ni-
cholson, the second clerk at the Carlisle post-office, was
committed to Carlisle gaol, being charged with stealing a
letter containing a £-10 Bank of England note, which
passed through that office in May last.
COLLISION.—On Thursday a collision took place on
the Thames between the Antwerpen steam ship and a
fishing smack, when the latter was literally smashed to
pieces, and two little boys about thirteen years of age lost
their lives.

INCENDIARTSM.—A fire supposed to be the act of an
incendiary took place at Sherwick Barton Farm, in Corn.
wall, when all the valuable ricks of corn, hay, straw,
together with the whole of the outhouses, barns, &c.,
were totally consumed. Fortunately, the farm house
escaped.
THE DUKEDOM or SUSSEX.—The House of Lords
sat on Thursday morning in a committee for privileges,
to take into further consideration the claim of Sir Augus-
tus D'Este to the Dukedom of Sussex; Earl Shaftesbury
chairman. The attendance of peers was very numerous.
Most of the judges were also in attendance.
On Monday last, Christopher Dermott, a clerk in the
Treasury, was found dead in his bedroom, with two razors
near him. His throat was cut most frightfully' the wind-
pipe being severed entirely through, and the wound reach-
ing to the bone. The act is attributed to religious
melancholy.
ROBBERY OF SIR CHARLES PRICE.—On Saturday,
James Richards, charged with stealing a parcel belonging
to Sir Chas. Price and Co., containing notes to the amount
of between £1,700 and £2,000 of bills, from the Bedford
coach, was fully committed for trial by the Luton magis-
trates, on the charge of receiving the notes well knowing
them to be stolen.
DEATH FROM SWALLOWING A MARBLE.--On Sun-
day week a child not ten years old, the son of a person
named Arnold, living at Chorlton-on-Medlock, swallowed
a marble, and died on Wednesday night from inflamma-
tion at the top of the throat, caused by the pressure of
the marble, which had to be pushed down, the surgeons
not being able to extract it.
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ten o'clock, a fire broke out at a thatched house, in the
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