The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-19 00:00:00

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The total number of labourers employed in the dock-
yards and arsenals at home and abroad, is 3,977.
A boy at Wideocabe has died from eating the berries of
the yew tree.
The Bradford chartists were all committed for trial on
Saturday, at the Courthouse, Bradford.
The Worcester Festival has realised £l,OOO for the
charities, besides the £5O sent by Jenny Lind.
A man named Davison has been committed at Sunder.
land for killing a man named M'Clen in a fight.
The sale on Friday, at Stowe, (when the best paintings
were sold,) realised nearly £lO,OOO.
The first anniversary meeting of the Cambrian Institu-
tion for the Deaf and Dumb was held at Aberystwith, on
Monday, the Bad of Lisburne presiding.
A young lady, named Stephens, from Bristol, fell from
Dover Cliff last week, a height of 200 feet. She was
killed.

The extensive woollen manufactory of Richard Caunter,
at Ashburton, known as the Bedford Mills, was destroyed
by fire on Wednesday last.
The sale at Stowe has, so far, produced £65,441. It
has occupied twenty-fiye days, and will cantinap for tp7l
days longer.

At Burford, Oxfordshire, last week, a boy playing with
an elderwood popgun, got some of the pith in his throat,
which occasioned suffocation and death.
On Saturday, the coachman of Col. Sykes, at Hyde
Park Mews, was literally worried and trodden to death by
a horse.

A London magistrate has decided that policemen have
no right to interrupt the public thoroughfares by walking
in rank.
In the next issue of camp equipage to the army the
tents will be made waterproof, as the present canvas is no
protection against a heavy fall of rain.
Two gold rings, exhibiting beautiful miniatures of
George 111. and Queen Charlotte, sold at the Bucking-
ham auction for £6 2s. 6d.

The Bryn-y-pys estate, at Flint, the property of F. R.
Price, Esq., was sold by auction on Wednesday for
£150,000.

So plentiful was the take of herrings at Sunderland last
week, that they were selling at the rate of fourteen shil-
lings per thousand.

An estate, lying in the parishes of Erlistock and Ban-
gor, comprising 1684 acres, and producing a rental of
£3566 per annum, was sold last week for £130,000.
Richard Wootten,Esq., draper and banker, the "Jemmy
Wood" of Oxford, died on Saturday, in his 85th year,
leaving a fortune of £500,000.
The celebrated Chandos portrait of Sbakspeare was
sold at Stowe on Thursday to the Earl of Ellesmere for
355 guineas. _

Upwards of 8,230 packages of foreign fruit, chiefly
plums, have been landed at Hull from the continental
steamers during the past week.
CLIFTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE, NEAR BRlSTOL.—Up-
wards of £40,000 have already been suspended upon this
undertaking, and no more money being forthcoming, the
works are now at a stand-still.

On Tuesday, as the workmen were engaged building a
Presbyterian Chapel at Bradford, a large stone fell and
killed three men instantaneously, and seriously injured a
fourth.

Typhus fever has broken out in Greenwich Hospital
Schools. There are upwards of 40 boys in the sick ward ;
one death ; the friends of the other boys have been advised
of the complaint prevailing.
TRAMPS.—By an Act passed on the 4th instant, from
and after the 30th instant until the 30th September, 1849,
tramps are to be relieved from the common fund of poor-
law unions, and:not at the cost of the parish, where the
union house is situated.

As a proof of the honest and peaceful habits of the peo.
ple of Westmoreland, a Kendal paper mentions that for
the last three months no case has been brought before the
magistrates at the monthly petty sessions held at Kirkby
Stephen.
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Most of the bakers at the west end of the metropolis
made a reduction in the price of their bread on Monday
of from a halfpenny to a penny in the four pound loaf.
The low-priced bakers are selling from a penny to three
halfpence cheaper.

AN ACTRESS PREACHER !—Mrs. Darley, lonz and fa-
vourably known on the Shields, Sunderland, and Stock-
tan circuit, as an actress, preached in the Wesleyan cha-
nel. Cothersu_ twin/1_ 5...1., 1...4. Aro-night the
place was crowded.—Gateshead Observer.

- ALTERING THE NAME OF A TOWN.—By command of
the Postmaster-General, Lane End, near Stoke-on-Trent,
Staffordshire, is in future to be designated Longton, for
all purposes of postal communication, and instructions
have accordingly been forwarded to all postmasters.
A few mornings since, at an early hour, a fox suddenly
appeared in Queen Square, Bristol, and was immediately
seized by an unlucky bypasser, who was so severely bitten
by his captive that he was forced to release the animal,
which then triumphantly retreated into a drain leading
from a neighbouring public house.
FATAL FIRE.—On Saturday a fire broke out in the
premises of Mr. A. F. Watkinson, staymaker, White-
chapel, London, which completely destroyed the build-
ings. A child, named Pitt, was burnt to death, and Mrs.
Pitt and her daughter. aged nine years, were so seriously
injured that the girl has since died.
The new Roman Catholic chapel, Salisbury, was on
Thursday week opened with great pomp. It is dedicated
to the founder and builder of the cathedral of Old Sarum,
the celebrated Saint Osmund, who accompanied his uncle,
William the Conqueror, to England as a warrior and after
the Norman conquest was consecrated Bishop of Sarum.
EXTRAORDINARY SHOT.—As Clarence Hooper, Esq.,
of Green-park, Bath, and Captain Frederick Johnson,
were shooting upon the estate of H. M. Williams, Esq.,
at Eastcott, on Tuesday, the sth of September, four par-
tridges rose, the whole of which fell to one barrel fired by
Mr. Hooper, at a distance of forty yards.
A gentleman, who has farmed extensively in the southern
division of this county for the last twenty years, and who
has this year grown 600 acres of wheat, 600 of barley, 600
of oats, and 800 acres of turnips, states that, taking the
crops generally or as a whole, he has never, during his
experience, known a more propitious harvest than the
present.—Derizes Gazette.
Lord George Bentinck's visit to Doncaster has been
far more profitable than his contemplated trip to Ireland
could have turned out. It was stated that, in the event
of Surplice carrying off the St. Leger, the Protectionist
chief stood to win £BO,OOO, a portion of a bet made at the
time Surplice was foaled. We know the result of the
race, and the upshot of the long odds taken by Lord G.
Bentinck against the crack horse winning both the Leger
and the Derby, a feat unperformed since the year 1800.