The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-03 00:00:00

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Of the £6,000,000 which our navy costs us altogether,
£1,500,000 is wasted.—Tines;

Nothing can exceed the rapturous enthusiasm with
which Jenny Lind has been received in Edinburgh.
The Yorkshireman records the death of a little boy
from an over-dose of worm medicines.

Several sheep were killed,at Mendip by lightninz on
Friday.

Sir James Duke was on Friday elected Lord Mayor, and
Mr. Alderman Finnes and J 4 Goodhart, Esq., sheriffs of
London.

HIGH PEAK Moons.—The Duke of Rutland and
friends, during their stay at. Longshawe Lodge, bagged
upwards of a thousand head- of grouse.

-At the late West-Riding- sessions, there was not one
female prisoner for trial—a circumstance which has not
occurred for many years previously.

A sportsman was shot near Bishop Wearmouth, last
week, by a gun held by a. companion, which tired acci-
dentally. He died the following morning.
GONE AT LAST.—The "Telegraph Ccach," that for
nearly 70 long years has travelled the road between Ripon
and Leeds. was shelved on Wednesday week.

It is said that the reason for giving Vancouver's Island
to the Hudson Bay Company is, that it may be immedi-
ately colonised, to preserve it from the Mormons, a party
of whom were just about to squat " there.

DOLLS' EYES.-A Birmingham manufacturer, who
was examined in 1824, before a committee of the House
of Commons, stated that he bad once received a single
order for £5OO worth of dolls' eyes,
On Sunday evening a servant girl, who was crossing
Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh, fell down a precipice to the
depth of 40 or 50 feet, and,was so severely injured that she
died shortly afterwards, in the infirmary.
During the winter months the Peninsula and Oriental
Company have decided that the communication between
Southampton and Italy shall be at intervals of six weeks
instead of monthly, as heretofore.

At the Quarterly General Court of the Proprietors of
East India Stock, held on Tuesday, a resolution was con-
firmed to confer on the youthful hero, Lieutenant (now
Brevet Major) Edwards, a gold medal, in testimony of
their sense of his distinguished services in Moulton.
A CAT KILLED BY A, MOUSE.—A curious circumstance
occurred on Kingsdown , Bristol, on Monday. A cat, having
caught a mouse, was playing with it on the lawn, when
the mouse leaped into, the cat's mouth, and actually forced
itself so far into the throat as to suffocate poor puss.
STATE OF BRADFORD.—From returns published by a
Bradford rate collector, it appears that there are now in
that town 1,300 unoccupied houses and shops assessed at
above £4 per annum, and representing a total rateable
value of nearly £12,000.
The article known as " chain gimp," when it first began
to be made, about four years ago, was paid for at the rate
of 3s. per piece of 35 yards. The present price for mak-
ing it is Id. per piece. No new machinery has been in-
vented.
The Wakefield Journal computes that at a very mode-
rate and safe calculation the corporate expenses of that
town, have been increased at least one thousand- pounds
per year, by men who pledged themselves to economy
and retrenchment !
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BREAK-UP OF A Romisn CONVENT.—The Romanist
convent at Penryn is broken up. The last of the inmates
departed this week, and the property is for sale. The
establishment is broken up from the failure of the supplies.
—Devonshire Chronicle.
The whole of the officers of the Ely Union House have
been discharged ; the master for intemperance ; the
schoolmaster for inviting him to the revel, and then
making complaint against him ; and the porter for aiding
the schoolmaster.
EXPERT PICK-POCKET.—In proceeding from Bath to
Bristol. by railway, last week, a lady had her purse ab-
stracted from her pocket, the cash which it contained ap-
propriated, or rather misappropriated, and the purse re-
placed in its former depository.
A beautiful specimen of a rare breed of Cashmerian
sheep dog, presented to her Majesty by Lord Hardinge,
has been recently lodged in the royal private kennel at
Windsor; it is very ferocious, of amazing strength, and
weighs 1201 b. It was presented by Ghoolab Singh.
The General Board of Health held its first sitting on
Tuesday, at Gwydyr House ; the President, Viscount
Morpeth, in the chair. The Board was attended by Pro-
fessor Owen, Dr. Southwood Smith, Dr. Sutherland of
Liverpool, and R. D. Grainger, Esq.
The mail guards are rapidly diminishing in number.
There are not above 200 in England, Wales, and Scotland.
A small batch of them have very recently been compelled
to accept of the gratuity of £5O allowed them by the
Treasury, and leave the service.

SCOTCH COMPLACENCY.—A northern correspondent
says, that on the departure of the queen from Aberdeen
to Balmoral, " the folks were more than pleased with
themselves for behaving so well and so orderly, and they
were also pretty well pleased with the Queen and
Prince !"

PRINCE WALDEMAR OF PRUSSIA.—This illustrious
Prince, who participated in the glorious actions in India,
has forwarded to Lord Hardinge a superb gold cup, with
a request that his lordship would present it to the 50th
Regiment (the Queen's Own), in which he served as a
volunteer. The regiment is at present quartered at Dover.
By the act of last session, for preventing the extension
of disease amongst cattle, it is provided that any person
turning out sheep or lambs infected or labouring under
disease, on any heath, common, open field, road side, or
other undivided or uninclosed land, shall be liable to a
penalty of £2O.
A few days since, the potman of a London public-
house, while cleaning his pots, amused himself by teazing
a cat and her young ones, and was bitten on the right
wrist by one of the kittens. On the following day his
wrist became inflamed, and ultimately his arm was at-
tacked by erysipelas, of which he expired on Friday last.
A correspondent of the Morning Post relates that a
person who was deeply attached to a deceased friend,
caused his body to be dissected, and an analysis to be
made of his blood, from which was obtained a sufficient
quantity of iron to make a ring, which has ever since
been worn by the surviver as a memorial of his departed
friend.

A singular and fatal accident occurred in London last
week to an infant, lying in the lap of its nurse, who was
preparing some boiled milk for its supper. While she
was lifting the saucepan from the fire, the handle came off,
and the boiling milk fell on the head and arms of the in-
fant, which was so severely scalded that it died within a
few hours. _ _

A fishing smack, called Britain's Queen, belonging to a
person at Barking, was boarded by a custom-house offi-
cer, a few days since, off Charlton, on the Essex coast,
and 4,992 lbs. of tobacco found on board. The vessel
was on her way to Billingsgate market, where it was in-
tended to run the packages (casks) ashore under the im-
pression of their containing fish.
A NEW TEST ACT.—The guardians of Sunderland
Union have issued a public notice to the effect that no
relief will be given to able-bodied male vagrants, and that
other vagrants and families in want of relief " shall be
sent to the Union Workhouse for one night only, and to
have a cold or shower bath as their several cases may re-
quire."
BREAKING UP OF THE KERSAL CAMP.—The camp at
Kersal Moor is now broken up. Eight companies of the
33d Regiment, which had been stationed there about two
months, left /on Monday for Berwick. The removal of
the regiment, we believe, is regarded with the utmost sa-
tisfaction by the soldiers, who have suffered not a little
from their exposure during the late unseasonable weather.
STRANGE RIVALRY.—A Radnorshire correspondent,
who complains of the publication of county courts and
petty sessions reports, as generally uninteresting and fre-
quently dictated by spite, says that the subordinates in
one district of that county are " putting on the screw" to
increase the number of plaints, in order to outdo another
district, and so prevent their own court from being broken
up if they cannot find business, &c.
DEATH FROM TOBACCO.—An inquisition was resumed
at Coleford on the body of John Evans, of Lane End.
Mr. Batten, surgeon, found slight traces of inflammation
in the stomach, and a very strong odour of tobacco. It
appears that the deceased smoked a great quantity ; nearly
half a pound per week, besides chewing pigtail. A verdict
was returned of " Died by the visitation of God, acceler-
ated by the excessive use of tobacco."
Mr. Brown, a farmer near Dalbeattie, has been killed
by a fierce bull. The animal had been fighting, and the
herd-boy was afraid to drive it home; Mr. Brown was
quietly driving it from a field, when the bull suddenly
turned on him, butted him to the ground and trampled
on him. When two men came to the farmer's assistance
they found the bull standing quietly beside him. Mr.
Brown died in two hours, from internal hurts.
BANK DIVIDEND.—It appears that the result of the
ballot taken on Wednesday, on the amendment offered to
theproposition of the Bank Directors on Thursday week,
that the dividend payable to the proprietors of Bank
Stock for the half-year accruing should be 31 per cent.,
has been unfavourable to the diEsentients. The proposi-
tion of the board has been carried and confirmed by a
small majority of fifteen votes-138 to 123.
MELANCHOLY MORTALITY IN A FAMILY.—Mr. Pass-
wore, a working shoemaker, residing at No. 10, Blooms-
bury-buildings, St. James's, Bristol, has been visited
with an extraordinary series of affliction by the hand of
death since last Sunday, when he buried his eldest child,
who died of scarletina. On returning from the funeral,
the distressed parents round a second child dead, and
three days afterwards two others, all of the same disorder.
Several Wiltshire farmers, especially in the northern
division, have been drawn into a bubble joint-stock soci-
ety, termed " The Agricultural Cattle Insurance Com-
pany," by which many of them will be involved in utter
ruin. The society was got up in London, by parties who
have absconded from the country ; and the unfortunate
shareholders are now called upon to make up a deficiency
of £45,000. It is said that some of the Wiltshire agri-
culturists are holders of 1,000 shares, nominally of £2O
each ; others of 700 shares, &c.
HOME SUMMARY.—Other " houses" being closed, the
drama has taken refuge in the Old Bailey. "The Blush.
ing Court," an original comedy, has been brought out with
great success. The principal characters were the Attorney_
General and Mr. Kenealey, who blushed for each other,
and Mr. Justice Erle, who blushed for them both. " The
Visionary President," a broad farce, followed. Principal
characters :—" Lying Tom," Cuffey, Lacey, and Fay ;
allegoric characters :—" Luminaries," " Hellfire Jack,"
" Young Bombshell," and Toothpicks." The piece went
off rather heavily, and will not be repeated. The company,
it is expected, will have an engagement at Sydney. The
accounts of the above theatricals have been audited at
Marylebone. The county of Middlesex is to subscribe
£36,000, and the Consolidated Fund £12,000, to.make up
the deficit.. Popular entertainments are expensive.—
John