The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-03-21 00:00:00

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DUNDALK.—On Saturday the parliamentary ee'-ieer
decided that Charles C. M'Tavish, Esq., is not duly e , eil
to serve as a burgess in the present parliament
~1°:6,61+
borough of Dundalk, and that William Torrens .17,01,
lagh, Esq., is duly elected, and ought to have been re ,
as member at the last election for the said borough • 10
BELGIAN WHEAT.—There have been several
of grain from Belgium within these few days. ... of
Director, from Antwerp, has brought 852 quarteW
wheat ; the Princess Victoria, from Antwerp, 1,000„.011
of wheat ; and the Mathilde, from Antwerp, 400 (Ifiolli
of the same kind of grain. The arrivals of grilling
Belgium having been of rare occurrence, these aielcoP
neous importations of wheat from that country, Sint,
article has become leviable with duty, are of interes,beir
DREADFUL SUICIDE.—On Thursday se'nnight, ;se,
habitants of the town of Cardigan were thrown in 'lie
of considerable excitement in consequence of the 5a t P
11
of Morris Morris, Esq., who it was found had cO, ,
throat in a most frightful and determined rnaire;
appears that the deceased committed the act with "tsir,,
knife, which was found under him when he wag oair
from the ground. On Friday an inquest was held Or
body, which fully established that the unfortunate_.c
man was of unsound mind. He was in his 45th 1
in do7l
THE SLAVE TRADE.—Mr. Hume has obtained ,
spewing that the number of British ships of war erne „ tr
on the coast of Africa in the abortive attempt to sold
the slave trade in the month of June, 1847, araeli!fte
259, manned by 2,781 men. The aggregate e%P; 0
this armament in the year 1846-7 is estimated at. „f 614
including £220;223 for the wages and victualliag,r,
crews, £49,313 for the wear and tear of the vessels,',oo.,
for the wear and tear of the machinery of the s7oat
and £14,287 for the expense of coals. The total II A(
of French ships of war employed on the coast 0114
for the suppression of the slave trade amounts, slot
the same can be ascertained, to 20, equipped 1.1„Y.
.0
guns. There are only two American cruisers ”
station.
FORGERY OF BANK OF ENGLAND NOTES : C.511/01
TO THE PUBLIC.—The public must be on the;
against a well executed forgery of a £5 Bank of ~ 00'
note which is now in circulation. The water marfod
feet, though perhaps rather wore strongly develer-
M , dai"-
in the genuine note. They are numbered-503v`" it
L 01,
16th February, 1816 ; apparently issued from theed
.a
Bank of England, at Manchester, and are sigleo,l9
Hogden." So well has the forgery been exec? 001 j
one of these notes was had into a bank in this lA.),iit 000
the bankers it was paid to a firm, who again Ply SAO
foreign mercantile house; and it was only upon TO
being presented at the Bank of England, in Lon
_,,, ro
the forgery was discovered. The only fault that; go
find with the forgery was the incompleteness of tbuer 07,1
of Britannia in the left hand upper corner. Ot ) of,r
( one of which is in the possession of the polls is no
same date, and evidently from the same plate, t 00,4
culation. It will be well to examine the letter's' foss '''
and date of every £5 note taken, and to re'
opt
agreeing to the above description. call"
CHINESE JUNK.—Some excitement was C ,13(
Jersey, on Wednesday last, by the arrival of o_ol ~;,1
junk, supposed to be the one which caused,.:3; folly
in New York a shot time since, having be villg
out of her latitude, in a strong northwest Onetite 'ie
for assistance on that dangerous coast het';':ee- ' OM
Dovers and the Minguais, to the south of that' Aar,.
4,
the French coast, by a cutter, bound to FrcePrit
nobly 'bout ship, and piloted her into the Jevie jint;
As soon as it became known there was a Chines„o iTy
the roads, all the sight-goers seemed on the 4orteudt
thousands thronged the piers, and hundreds ',.. st ",r,
cutters , which commenced running round he.liasigo.
shillings per head, to catch a sight of the Celestic; as off
the Chinese portion of the crew politely bcal,,ll 0f,,,011
different crews rounded. She seemed a vVs,:r3,o;llo
large dimensions, peculiar construction, ana,ot a'd
having three masts, and her stern very high 007,
water, on which is painted the figure of arnstiol;lf
bird, in very showy colours. Galleries run ii;100, oP
half of her, into which are hoisted her small boilillil
of very slight and novel construction. In her al,
has two very large eyes. She was visited hail; re 6tr
her arrival by the Custom-house officers, and /310,16 0
to have on board some costly presents for Her airrit
cious Majesty Queen Victoria. Application cri`cloo,
the Government of the island to allow the CU eA
vernment steamer, to tow her to England. nerbl re
THE NEW STEAM SHIP AMERICA.—This SIILo, I.°- ir
the first completed of the four new steam-sml;J ill,
British and North American Company, arri; 0)01
Mersey on Sunday morning, a little before ,elea °if.",
The America left the Clyde on Saturday, ana "roil iVer
Largs; about 16 miles below Greenock, she lortlr I
speed, and so continued until she reached the
~,,iog,p,
Light-ship at half-past four on Sunday ili°•"- et°,
distance run from the time her engines qrei,isl°lll,l
speed up to the time they were stopped off r.i:eboars;4,
was 210 miles, which she accomplished in 13- oft Aft,
dimensions of this splendid vessel are—length,,, ,r,
fore-rake 250 feet ; breadth of beam 38 feed VIVI
1,840 ; horse-power, 650. These are the actaaof cor,tr,
measurements. She has stowage for 700 tons t, 654,,r
fully 500 tons of goods. She was built by 1,, tots
Greenock, and is considered by those best ah"rellinto:ool'
a strong and first-rate specimen of naval agr',,,A
The engines were manufactured at the works e'etonK
Napier, the eminent engineer, of Glasgow. lbooreig,
expended in her construction amounts 0004,
£BO,OOO. The America is under the coMillue olni
Judkins, the senior officer in the service of t'',01,6 .
who has in succession and by promotion cote v"3l#
ship they have built, excepting one. The cailiag' /
of about 100 individuals : namely, 35 in the s ottol i
the steaming, and 30 in the stewards' departille f5O)
interior arrangements and fittings of this no iglinks
of the most perfect description. The saloon, treailaii
deck, is constructed from beams of immensetees t 064
thickness. It is 50 feet in length by 18 1001)ifiy
and, though chastely elegant, is evidently la el itile,
use than show. The figure-head and eaneyeliOV
beautiful specimens of workmanship, and ."`;opinfe''''t
cuted by the experienced carvers in the els() WV,
Archibald Robertson, of this town, who a,,tostod
all the carved work required for the other 11 is Olt 0
which, as all our ruaders are aware, have he' AA
iiirdl?
in first-rate style. to°f A ii 9,5.
GAMEKEEPER KILLED.—A deadly conflict o hpiecd
Wednesday night last, at Llysvaen, on the e 5.,." je to"
Wm. Lewis, Esq., of New House, near Cardutt, life. 1
Davis, a gamekeeper to that gentleman, lost hirwit f the
WALKING MA.1,11. Mr. 'jelling, an e,,,ccergi ° Jo
won ‘ match on Friday, by walking from 01' A Co /yr,
to Aigburth under twenty-nine minutes' dCl4el
amount pended on the result. -il
A magnificent engine, shipping by the TYlleiTi;toi;ll'elfr
was, owing to the breaking of a rope, launche doexr-ott j•
Dock, on Saturday evening. It is feared the TO' per/
be let dry before it can be extricated. It w"- ,01 el'il,
by Messrs. Bury, Curtis, and Kennedy-
___A. nesl;o4.ile_.llr,
GARDEN AND AGRICULTURAL SEEDS• ^ ,‘,O -cr. ~,,, di
ingly descriptive catalogue of garden 110,T'essr0.0,0jerd.
nursery seeds has just been published by `.„,,' atellt 'llO 00,1 I
Goodacre, of Great Charlotte-street, To a";.tibel'tot,fo,
practical men, it will be most useful. It desitlaistlerlyefeei
ferent heads, the duration of plants front persiticit gel/
and corrects many vague errors as to the 085,00,050 ,'ti'
hitherto existing. It also gives the height, eei' eon ptedfoof
particular variety; and in order to preve_,lr/ °let pe,teti
kind is so arranged that it may be ordered ,;tlO ia" 7 i
- number to which it is appended. It is a wor7tot 0,
should be without—and what is most ine
do A
times, it may be hadgratis.
141-yet giP
-a, agree('
LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARK— oir oli '
We have had a larger supply of Stock at,o,'ver•
than for some time past, and prices a little' 0
6d.; Mutton, 7d. to 'lid. per lb. _,,,,,/

MARRIED

iuco instant, at St. Mark's
Weal], Mr. ROBERT HEWITT to Mrs.

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