The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-20 00:00:00

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New butter was so low as 5d to id per pound, in Ediubittgli
ioarket on Saturday last.

Low fever, itifluenza, and colds, are very preve
cularly the first disease, in Glasgow, at present.

ent, parti-

QUEEN'S PRISON . —Cap* ain 11 tulson, R.N., has been ap-
pointed keeper of the Queen's Prison. The salary is XSOO.

At the Castle of Exeter, on Monday, Wharidortl Stanley,
the king of the gipsies in that district, was committed for
trial on a charge of horse-stealing.

The number of deaths in the metropolis in the week ending
June 10, amounted to 848, being 27 fewer than those of the

preceding

A report is current in Gloucester that a public building
is likely to be erected on the site once occupied by the Old
Bank. and the adjoining property, belonging to Sir Matthew
Wood.

MAESTEG.—At a sale that took place in the parish of
Llangonwyd, some few days ago, five milch cows worth at
least £l2 each, were knocked down at £3 ss. ! An excel-
lent mare worth eight guineas went for £3 2s. Gd. ! Wekh
Paper.
On Saturday a public meeting was held in the Exchange,
Chester, for the purpose of adopting the necessary measures
with a view to induce the Royal Agricultural Society of Eng-
land to hold their meeting for 1845 in that city.
HONEST ANNOUNCEMENT.—The usual weekly publica-
tion-placard issued from the Leeds Times (radical paper)
office of Saturday week last, commenced as follows :—" The
Leeds Times of this day contains ELEMENTS of MISCHIEF."

DRY OR WET SUNINIER.—An old proverb says—when the
oak puts out its leaf before the ash, a dry summer may be
expected, and vice versa. This proverb has been much talked
over of late, and it is remarked that the oak has universally
preceded the ash this year.
Sheridan Knowles, Robert Bell, Douglas Jerrold, and
Mark Lemon, with pen in hand, are said to have already
started as competitors for the £5OO offered by Mr. Webster
of the Haymarket Theatre, for the best comedy that shall be
written before next new year's day.

A deputation, including Mr. Pendarves,M.P.,LordEliot,
M.P., Sir S. Spry, M.P., Sir C. Lemon, M.P., Mr. Tre-
awny, Lord Sandon, M.P., and :Sir H. Douglas, M.P., had
an interview with Sir Robert Peel on Friday at his official
residence in Downing-street.

SEEING DOUBLE.—If a person hold the fore-fingers in a
line from his eyes, so that one be more distant than the other,
by then looking at the nearest, the more distant finger will
appear double ; and by looking at the more distant, the
nearer will appear double.
A NOBLE EXAMPLE.—On Monday last, Wilbraham
Egerton, Esq., of Tatton-park, Knutsford, returned to all
his farm tenants the extraordinarily handsome sum of five
and twenty per cent. on the amount of their last half year'
rents.

We have been assured, upon undoubted authority, that the
qtl“)...t of treasure in gold. d by Sir
Charles Napier at liyucTabad,imtaaitosnls
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lions of money. The share of the gallant general is esti-
mated at not less than £200,000.

the Kentish Gbserver states, that Mr. Majoribanks, the
member for Hythe, is about to retire from Parliament, and
that the lion. Mr. Bouverie, the son of the Earl of Radnor,
is likely to be his successor. The Tories have issued a no-
tice that a Conservative will take the field in opposition to
Mr. Bouverie, but they do not give his name.

HAMPDEN TESTIMONIAL.—The arrangements for Mon-
day next are now fulls- complete, and a very large party is
expected. Should the day prove a fine one, the proceedings
will be highly interesting, as many of the well-known friends
of liberty from this county and Oxfordshire are expected to
attend. Chalgrove is four miles from Watlington, and ten
from Oxford.—Aylesbury News.
Earl Spencer, at his estate at Wormleighton, for some time
past, has kept all the poor in the parish, so that the inhabit-
ants are not troubled with poor rates. His lordship allows
his labourers in the winter nine shillings a week, if out of
empioyment. The men ate employed on his lordship's estate
hedging, ditching, &c., with a house, for which he pays a
nominal rent of Is. per annum.

EMIGRATION OF PROPHET WROE.—This High Priest of
the Johanna Southcotonians, whose doings at Ashton-under-
Lyne caused him such unenviable notoriety a few years ago,
has recently left his residence, near Wakefield, where he
lived in considerable style, and emigrated to New South
Wales. His wife and family still reside near Wakefield, and
the fact of his having left this country was sworn to by his
wife :before the magistrates, at 'Wakefield, on a question of
disputed wages, on Monday last.

WORSE THAN EVER.—We have often complained of the
hardness of the times ;
.but the following is an extraordinary
case. On the 3rd instant a person named William Russell
was brought before the Durham magistrates on a charge of
robbing a printer of a composing stick. Such an offence
could not be overlooked. He was hard pressed •by the po-
lice, and on being locked-up, the magistrates determined if
psssible to make a good impression. He was sent to the
treadmill for three months.

ROBBERY BY A BANKER'S CLERK.---O❑ Saturday in-
formation was received in the metropolis of an extensive
robbery having been committed upon the East of England
Bank, at Lynn, Norfolk, by one of the clerks, who ab-
sconded on Wednesday last, with Bank of England notes
belonging to his employers, amounting to the large sum of
£3,265, the numbers of which are known. The name of the
delinquent is William Henry Sangar, who is described as
being 21 years of age.
A SHARK.—A crew of the Butnbank fishermen (says the
Aberdeen Constitutional), hauled one of these monsters of
the deep to shore last week, in their great lines, by which it
got entangled. It was found to measure the enormous size
of 15 feet and a half long, 9 feet round the body, the tail
fin being 3 feet across. In its stomach were found two large
turbots, also two salmon, one of which was very large—all
of which were Whole. The liver alone filled a herring barrel,
and will produce from 30 to 40 pints of oil.

RAJAH RAMOHUN Roy.—The remains of this individual,
who, it may be in the recollection of our readers, died at
Stapleton Grove, the residence of Michael Hinton Castle,
Esq., about eleven years since, and was buried iu the grounds
adjoining the house, were removed on Monday week to the
Cemetery, at Arno,s Vale, and interred in that portion ap-
propriated to the use of the dissenters. We understand
that a sum of money has been forwarded from India, for the
purpose of erecting a stately monument on the spot. I will
be in the Hindu style of architecture, and upwards of thirty
feet in height.—Bristol Paper

MALIGNANT INFLUENZA AMONGST CATTLE.—We are
sorry to hear of the ooverts looace ...ilia. this nitingllZlllL ois-
ease has produced in this country, more particularly in
Shropshire. Mr. Taylor, of Tibberton, near Newport,
occupying a farm under his Grace, the Duke of Sutherland,
has lost or been obliged to kill, since July last, upwards of
50 head of cattle through this complaint, exclusive of the
loss he has sustained by forcing others into the market
through fear of contagion. The skill of the most experi-
enced veterinarian seems to be completely baffled in many
instances by this destructive disease. Wolverhampton
Chronicle.

On Tuesday a desperate case of suicide occurred in the
Infantry barracks. A private soldier named Marshall, who
was acting as servant to one of the officers, put a period to
his existence in a very cool and extraordinary manner. He
had taken off his shoes and stockings and laid himself down
on his back ; he t►:en put the muzzle into his mouth, and
pulled the trigger with his toe. It is supposed the gun was
charged with more than one ball cartridge, as a window in
the room was shattered by the concussion. It is needless to
say that the poor man died instantly. No cause, can be as-
signed for the dreadful act. A very short time previous to
its commission he seemed in his usual good spirits.—New-
castle Chronicle.

THE WEAHHER.—The following extract from Burnet's
History of His Own Times (vol. 4, antic) 1692) seems so ap-
plicable to the present summer hitherto, that it cannot fail
to be interesting and consolitary to our readers :—" The
greatest prejudice the French suffered this year was from the
northen parts. We in England had great apprehensions of
as bad a one, from a very cold and wet summer. Great
deluges of rain continued till the very time of harvest ; but
when we were threatened with a famine, it pleased God to
send such an extraordinary change of the season, that we
had a very plentiful crop, enough both to serve ourselves and
to supply our neighbours, which raude us easy at home, and
brought in much wealth for that corn which we were able to
spare."

MONUMENT TO MlLTON.—Considerable curiosity was
created last week in Watling-street by the erection of a large
tablet on the walls of Allhallows Church, to the memory of
Milton the poet. It bears as an inscription the following
well-known lines :

" Three poets, in three distinct ages born,
Greece, Italy, and England did adorn.
The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd,
The next in majesty : in both, the last.
The force of nature could no further go,
To make a third she join'd the former two

"John Alilton was born in Bread-street the 9th day of De-
cember, 1608, and was baptised in the parish church of All-
hallows, Bread-street, on Tuesday, the 20th day of December,
1608."

DEFINITION OF AN ALLIGATOR.—On Friday at the
Greenwich Police-court, in the course of a trilling case, one
of the witnesses on being asked what he was, replied ".An
alligator." Mr. Jeremy.—" An alligator ! Why, what on
earth do you mean—what do you do?" Witness.—" Why,
1 work under the earth and in the water." Mr. Jeremy.—
"Do you really mean to say you are amphibious? 1 sup-
pose you mean to say you are a navigator ?" Witness.—" No,
no; I'm an alligator.' (Laughter.) Mr. Finch.—" Perhaps,
Sir,te means an excavator." Witness.—" Yes, that's it;
I'm an ex-vacate-er (laughter,) except just now, for I looks
out at night over some works by the water-side, to see if I
can catch some people on them. Mr. Jeremy.—" Well, that
is certainly something inure like the labour of an aligator."
The witness subsequently said he saw some men jump on the
monkey. Mr. Jeremy.—" Good gracious me ! one would
think you bad been brought no in a menagerie. Pray what
is your definition of a monkey ?" "Why a barge wots covered
over." The worthy magistrate told the aligator lie might go
and look after his monkey, which he did, apparently glad at
his escape.
SAGACITY OF A DoG.—As early as four o'clock on Satur-
day morning last. Mr. Harry, a well-known farmer of Gelb-
wire, went to Gelligare-hill to look after his cattle. He was
hourly expected home by his wife and family to have refresh-
ments, but in vain. However. they were not at all alarmed,
as he sometimes spent much of his time in some of the
neighbouring public-houses. The dog which used to follow
him went to the house many times in the course of the day,
and by its helluine cries indicated that it was in deep dis-
tress. It did everything in its power during the whole of
Saturday to draw the family towards a pond connected with
Rhyn3ney iron-works. Night came, but no sign of Harry.
On Sunday morning the family became quite alarmed, and a
search was commenced by thousands of the inhabitants of
the place. As a matter of course, the howling of the saga-
cious dog obtained their attention this day ; and the autho-
rities of the works kindly consented to let the water out,
which being done to about one-half, his body was found in
a perpendicular position, with his feet to the sky, and co-
vered all over with mud. The deceased was about 55 years
of age. It is computed that nearly 5,000 people were present
when his corpse was taken from the pond.—Merthyr paper.

ALDERMAN T. Woon's CASE.—The committee of alder-
men appointed to inquire into the circumstances of Alderman
Thomas Wood's connexion with the Talacre Mining Com-
pany y held their final meeting at Guildhall on Saturday
evening. Aldermen Sir C. Hunter, Brown, Copeland, Mag--
nay, Hooper, T. Johnson, J. Johnson, Farricomb, Gibbs,
and Farebrother, were present. Alderman T. Wood was
also in the room, attended by Mr. D. Wire, his solicitor.
The proceedings be deliberative, were conducted with closed
doors, at the chairman's (Alderman Brown's) suggestion,
though against the remonstrances of Alderman Wood him-
self. The result of the proceedings was, that the committee
agreed to report to the court the evidence which had been
presented to them, together with a statement framed by the
chairman (Mr. Alderman Brown), and by him designated
" a statement of facts." Mr. Alderman Wood strongly in-
tisted on the propriety of presenting all the evidence to the
court ; but protested against the " statement of facts," as
partial, imperfect, and incomplete, and calculated to leave an
unfair and untrue impression on the minds of those who had
neither leisure nor inclination to go through the many matters
of detail of which the evidence consisted. The result of Mr.
Alderman Wood's objections was, that the committee agreed
to present the whole of the evidence to the court ; but the
committee declined giving an opinion upon the inquiry,
in
consequence of Mr. Alderman Wood being a magistrate.