The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-26 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

Mr. Scott has contradicted the report of his intention
to resign the representation of Walsall.
The ship Isabella, of Leith, was wrecked on Fluider's
Island, Bass's Straits, on the 22nd June. Crew saved.
The hands at Stockport have returned to work, at an
advance of five per cent. on their wages.
The Glasgow Herald mentions a lame beggar, horribly
distorted, who maintained bis father, mother, brothers,
and sisters in idleness. His receipts averaged lOs. a day.
EARL OF Di BART.—The consistory court have granted
the prayer of this eccentric nobleman for a restitution of
conjugal rights.
On Friday evening six sheep, which had strayed upon
the Hull and Selby Railway, were run over by the mail
train, and killed upon the spot.
On Sunday week K. H. Hoppner, Esq. many years
since a judge in Bengal, and lately resident in Bath, com-
mitted suicide by cutting his throat with a razor.
On the 7th instant, a boat was upset in Kirkwall Bay,
Scotland, and nine persons who were in it met a watery
grave.
The borough fund of the City of York is enriched £3OO
by the refusal of the three members of the Council first
elected to serve the office of Mayor.
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On Saturday week, and again on Monday night week,.
an extra Gazette was published, consisting together of
fifty-six sheets, containing almost exclusively notices con-
cerning railway and other private bills.
Mr. Locke, the eminent engineer, has received from
the King of the French a magnificent diamond ring, for
his attention to his Majesty on the South-Western Rail-
way.
There are now residing near Hubbertstone, Pembroke-
shire, a brother and sister. Henry and Margaret Banner,
of the respective ages of 97 and 101, the latter of whom
can read well ,ithout the use of glasses.
THE MINISTRY AND THE EAST INDIA COALIPANY

A London contemporary announces that ministers medi-
tate a complete change in the Government of India, by
introducing a measure next session tantimou-it to the ex-
tinction of political power of the Court of Directors.
FIRES IN LONDON.—No fewer than 800 fires have oc-
curred in the present year in London, but they have not
been of so extensive a character as In former years. The
number of lives lost, however, we regret to say. much

greater than the average.
No FOG IN WALES.—A Welshman has almost as little
idea of a fog as a Japanese or torrid-zone man has of ice.
While London has been enveloped in fog we have had a
clear blue sky, a bright sun, and weather such as would
convert the coldest utilitarian into a worshipper of naeure,
amidst the scenery' of South Wales.—Welshman.
MORTALITY IN LONDON.—The total number of deaths
in the metropolis during the week ending last Saturday
was 1,072, showing a considerable increase of mortality
probably caused by the unseasonable state of the last ten
days. The weekly average for the last five years has
been 9,16.
IMPORTS.—The steamer from Rotterdam has this week
brought 100 quarters of garden beans for seed, 910 bushels
of onions, with several sheep, swan geese and wild ducks.
Considerable imports of French apples have also been
made this week, principally from Ostend and Dunkirk.—
Hull Packet.
On Monday week the sloop Ranger, of about 80 tons
burden, belonging to Goole, and laden with potatoes. came
in contact with a collier brig in the river, below Graves.
end. The sloop sunk almost imediately, and carried
with her the master, who perished. The rest of the crew
were saved.
On the 11th inst. two men, carriers, were returning
from I'ocklington to Leeds, with three carts laden with
passengers, when they commenced racing, and one of the
carts, with seventeen persons in, was overturned, and
two women, one of them the wife of the driver, were
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