The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-03 00:00:00

at Lpamington.

There is very little doubt no
reduction of the duty on teas
next year.

The Attorney-General (Sir F. Pollock) has given it as his
opinion, that a thrashing-machine is not an " implement of
husbandry," and therefore not exempt from turnpike tolls.
Another strike has taken place at the collieries of Dundy-
van works, near Coatbridge, Ayrshire, by which 200 wen,
with their wives and dependants, became unemployed.

The archdeaconry of Gibraltar has been presented to the
Rev. E. J. Burrow, D.D., on the nomination of the lord
bishop of the diocese.

1%1 ARET

The house in the Rue de la Harpe, where
larlotte Corday stabbed Marat, has been demolished, for
the purpose of widening the street.

RESTORATION OF YORK MINSTER.—The subscription
fund to defray the expense of repairing the damage sustained
to the above venerable edifice amounts to nearly £7,000.
The Medical Times refers to recent experiments showing
the great advantage of inoculation for the measles, and other
epidemics.

CAMPHOR CAKE FOR CHAPPED HANDS.—White soap,
1 lb. ; spermaceti, 1 oz. ; melt and add powdered camphor,
1 oz. mix.—Annals of Chemistry.

The Hon. Miss Lister, and the Hon. Miss Liddell, have
succeeded the Hon. Amelia Murray and the Hon. Frances
Devereux, as the Maids of honour in waiting on her Ma-
jesty.

A green-grocer's boy named Thomas Powell, 15 years old,
in his festivities on Christmas day took a long draught of gin
from a jug, upon which he instantly fell on the ground and
died next day.

A young lady of great beauty and accomplishments—the
eldest of a family of twelve—has eloped with u clerk of the
Surrey Branch Bank, where her father holds a responsible
situation.

In the night of the 13th ult, 80 houses, the church, the
pubiic school, and the town-house at Voerden, in Hanover,
were reduced to ashes by an accidental fire, which broke out
in a private dwelling-house.

The Time. contradicts, " on authority," the rumour that
" an illustrious lady" would be deputed to hold the drawing-
rooms during the season, in consequence of the approaching
accouchement of her Majesty.
To Bolt. CABBA6E.--ln; boiling cabbages or common
greens, it is necessary that a large quantity of water be used,
into which a little salt and a piece of soda should be thrown,
in order to preserve their agreeable green colour.

Acidulated drops, the purchasers of which buy them on the
presumption that they are flavoured with lemons, are fre-
quently a compound of nothing more than sugar and vitriol,
for in this way a penny will go as far as a shilling 1
The late Earl of Dudley laid down the following axiom on
the wbject of dinner :—" A good soup, a small turbot, a neck
of venison, ducklings with green peas. or chicken with aspa-
ragus, and an apricot tart, is a dinner fit for an emperor."

SYRIA.—It is stated that it is the intention of the Porte to
give a Christian chief to the Maronites, and to the Druses
one of their own nation; thus putting an end to the.feverish
and disorganised state of Syria.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN VC IIOLESALE AND RETAIL
PRICES.—Though oats have fallen 14s and beans lOs a quar-
ter, and hay 50s a ton during the last 12 months, no re-
duction has taken place in the retail price.
PEws IN CHURCHES.--The question of abolishing pews,
or of throwing them open to the public, is making consider-
able progress. The example set in St. Margaret's, Ipswich,
has been followed in Harwich and other places.—lpswich
Express.

We are happy to learn that Mr. Welsh, of Belgium, has
arrived in town, and is making the necessary arrangements
for the establishment of a house i►► this country for the pur-
chasing of flax on foot, and preparing it after the Belgium
system.—Ulster Times.

Great competition exists among the innkeepers of Marl-
borough ; they have therefore taken into consideration the
low price of horse provender and provisions, and have made
a considerable reduction in the charges to commercial tra-
vellers.

A correspondent of the Morning Herald states that when
the Bishop of Winchester refused the use of St. Saviour's
church for a performance of sacred music, he ascertained that
the profits were estimated at from £l5O to £2OO, and sent a
cheque for the larger sum.
DETENTION OF THE OVERLAND MAIL.—The following
notice was on Saturday affixed at the General Postoffice, St.
Martin's-le Grand :—Notice.—The overland India mail, viii
Marseilles, is detained until the 6th of January, 1843.—Ge-
neral Postoffice, Dec. 31, 1842."

A letter bas been addressed to the Organ of the Anti-
Corn-Law League, signed "S. J. Wilson, Independent
Minister," and dated Shepton Mallet, in which the writer,
as "a Minister of Christ ! ! expresses his full approbation
of the " holy league."
A volunteer corps chose for its captain, a tailor, who, on
the first day of their appearing in full dress, found fault with
one of the men, and peremptorily ordered him to step out.
" I can't," replied the recruit. " Why ?" sternly asked the
captain. " Because. captain," bawled the man, " you have
made my breeches too tight."

The celebrated chemist, Berzelius, was nearly killed, a
few weeks ago, by the explosion of a retort in his laboratory
at Stockholm. Fortunately, he escaped with some contu-
sions, from the effects of which he had sufficiently recovered
to be able to leave his house and resume his customary avo-
cations.

A handsome monument has been erected to the memory of
Mungo Park, the enterprising traveller, in the burial-place
of the family at Galasbiels. The inscription is—" In memory
of Mungo Park, the celebrated African traveller, who perished
in the interior of Africa in 1805, aged 35; also, Mungo Park,
of the 11.E.1.C.5."

PUBLIC WORSHIP.—The following days of the week are
set apart for public worship in different nations :—Sunday,
or Lord's Day, by Christians; Monday, by the Grecians;
Tuesday, by the Persians; Wednesday, by the Assyrians;
Thursday, by the Egyptians ; Friday, by the Turks ; Satur-
day, by the Jews.

Smart's W►RE Itcws.—A dat ryf•e, of the extreordit,ery
dimensions of three feet in width by three-eighths of an inch
in thickness, capable of raising upwards of 250 tons, is now
manufacturing at the works of the patentee at
This is the strongest power of any rope manufactured on
record which has come to our knowledge.

MINING IN AMERlCA•_Advices from New York, dated
the 15th instant, state, that " the extent of the mining busi-
ness, and its importance to the country, may be judged from
the fact, that the produce of the lead mines alone has this
year been worth almost 1,000,000 dollars, and this at the low
price which the article has borne."

LAW.—Mr. O'Connell, who has for
THE IRISH POOR LAW
some time " made no sign " has at last broken silence with a
long and inflammatory letter on the Irish Poor Law. We
have no room to notice it now, further than this—that it is
undisguisedly written to aid Repeal. The agitation in Ireland
on the Poor Law question, gains strength daily.

A new era has commenced in the town of Leeds. There
is now to be a fine atmosphere (so far as smoke is concerned)
floating over it,
or a fine levied on all who obscure it by
outpourings from their tall chimneys. A special clause in
the Leeds Improvement Act provides summary process in
behalf of this most desirable change.

A clergyman, whose name was Namara, died in Ame-
rica, about nineteen years since, leaving a very large pro-
perty, which, not being claimed by any of his friends, was
taken possession of by the Congress. The property, unless
claimed within two ye;:rs, ceases to be private property, and
becomes public property.

AWFUL DEATH.-011 Saturday week, David Phillips, cat-
tle drover, of Newton, near Cowbridgc, while returning home
from St. Nicholas fair, stopped at a public house in the way,
and is said to have been so intoxicated that a man got up be-
hind him on his horse to keep him from falling. When they
arrived at Newton the wretched man was a corpse in the arms
of his supporter !—Cardiff Advertiser.

DEATH OF THE YEAR 1842.—Expired on Saturday night,
at 12 o'clock, the year 1842. She was rich : she produced
abundance. All the necessaries of life she dispensed with a
bountiful hand; but some of her unnatural children re-
proached her with excess of bounty, and wished for gold in-
stead of bread. The most dutiful of her family blessed her
fruitfulness.

SAVINGS BANK.-At the West London Savings_Bank

out of 3,061 accounts remaining open on the 20th ofNovem-
ber last, 2,277 were found not to exceed £2O each. The sum
deposited thereon amounted to £11,707 Bs. 3(1., averaging a
fraction less than £5 2s. 10d. each account, clearly showing
that it ii, the industrious classes who have availed themselves
of the benefit of this institution for their small savings.

We are happy to announce, from personal inquiry, that
considerable revival of trade is visible in most of the Glou-
cestershire clothing districts, where a brisk demand exists
for the kinds of cloth manufactured for the China trade.
There is fair ground for hope, not merely that this improve-
ment will be sustained, bnt that it will extend.—Devizes
Gazette.

Mr. Cobden has addressed a letter to the public press, by
which it appears that the boasted expenditure by the Anti-
Corn-Law League of £lOO,OOO in the year 1841, amounted
only in reality to £25,090, spent in the years 1838, 1839,
1810, and 1841—just 4:6,250 per annum, and that full seven-
eights of this sum was raised in Manchester and the neigh-
bourhood.

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