The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-09-05 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

Lord Stanley, it is said, is to •` keep house" during the
vacation ; it being necessary that one of the principat
secreteries of state should be a the seat of government.
We understand that Lord and Lady Francis Egerton
are passing the autumn at Worsley Hall.

The Stingo Brewery, situate at Paddington, London,
was partially consumed by fire on Friday morning last.
The damage is estimated at many thousand pounds.
Espartero, and the members of his late administration:
have been admitted honorary membeis of the Reform
Club.

The average price of Wheat for the last six weeks bay-
ing reached 58s. 4d. the duty on the importation of foreign
grain last week receded to 14s. per quarter, below
which amount it is not expected to fall.

The Presbytery of Edinburgh have refused to eonsider
the proposition of the Town Council, to reduce the num-
ber of ministers in that city in consequence of the late
secession.

The Rev. Robert Aitkin commenced his labours at St.
James's Church, Leeds, on Sunday week, when he
preached twice to crowded congregations with his usuai
fervid eloquence.
We understand that Mr. J. W Allen, who has been so
popular with the Art Union purchasers, bas gone into
Yorkshire for designs for his next year's landscapes—
Atlas.

REORGANIZATION OF THE CH ARTISTS.—A DEW Char-
tist convention, similar to that which existed in London
in 1839-40, is about being formed, which is to hold its
sittintslibißirmingham.
MID 011eibe:1.4111E.G I STRATION.—The Anti.Corn-Law
League have 'ste about 2000 of the conservative elec-
tors of MiddlestlA;vith notices of objection to their votes,
most of which are utterly frivolous and vexatious.

During the past week a venerable lady in the 97th year
of her age, of Epworth, was seen shearing in the harvest
field ; she cut two sheaves of wheat, and tied C',p in
a workmanlike manner.

Mr. Andrew Doyle, the barrister, who last week mar-
ried the youngest daughter of Sir John Easthope, Bart.,
M.P., is the new editor of the Morning Chronicle, (vice
Dr. Black,) of which the Hon. Bart. is a principal pro-
prietor.

The Rev. H. Caswall, author of the "History of the
Mormons," late of the Amercan Episcopal Church, having
been ordained under the provisions of a special act of Par-
liament recently passed, has been licensed by the Bishop
of Salisbury to the curacy of Downton Wilts.

On Saturday week in what is called a ladder pit, in
Moss Lane, Swinton, belonging to the trustees of the late
Duke of Bridgewater, a boy was suffocated by the car-
bonic acid gas generated there, and several others were
drawn up insensible, but recovered.
There s now growing in a most prosperous state a crop
of oats, beans, and potatoes, sown and set 12th of May,
upon a window sill in the Queen's Bench Prison, in a due
north aspect, forty-four feet from the ground, without a
particle of soil beyond tea leaves.
A regatta will take place at Lancaster, on the 12th of
September, under the patronage of Lord Stanley and J.
W. Patten, Esq., the members for North Lancashire, and
ThnmaA Greene and nenres. Marton, Esgra , the rcpye
sentatives of the borough.