The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-07-18 00:00:00

GENERAL MiiSCELLANY,

Two druggists at Manchester were, last week, fined
£l2 10s. each for selling spirits of wine.
The moor game on the mountains and moors of both
Westmoreland and Cumberland will be unusually mt.
merous this season.

During the thunder-storm of Wednesday week, thirty-
four sheep were killed by lightning, on the farm of
Edstone, near Peebles.

THE CARTOONS.—Messrs. Longman and Co. have
purchased the copyright of the prize cartoons, and have
made arrangements for their immediate publication.
The friends and admirers in Derbyshire of the late
Thomas Wm. Coke, Earl of Leicester, are about to raise
a monument to his memory, in Longford church.
The passengers by the Ilindo:tan steamer to Suez, have
presented the commander, Captain Moresby, 1.N., with
a gold snuffbox, in testimony of their satisfaction.
A base attempt to assassinate Mr. Waters, of Stratford,
near Salisbury, was made on Monday week, by a man
secreted behind some palings. the ball passed through
Mr. Waters hat, just missing his head.

A grand temperance demonstration was held last week,
at -York, which was attended by the cele ,rated Father
Mathew, whose benevolent labours in Ireland, to promote
sobriety have been followed with happy results.
On Friday, Mr. Baker, coroner of Middlesex, held no
less than three inquests upon persons who had been
drowned whilst bathing, during the heat of the weather on
Wednesday in last week.

The Masonic Grand Lodge of England has voted
£l,OOO towards a monument to the memory of their il-
lustrious and highly talented Grand Master, the late Duke
of Sussex.

The herring fishery has commenced on the coasts of
Northumberland and Berwickshire, and at this early
season the oldest fishermen does not remember so large a
shoal of fish upon the coast.
The competition on the Thames is very excessive.
Every day about 20, and on Sundays 27, steamers ply
between London and Gravesend, and for all parts probably
100,000 persons leave the different piers on Sundays.
THAMES TUNNEL.—Up to Friday last, the number of
passengers through the tunnel, from its opening as a
thoroughfare—a period of little more than 15 weeks—
exceeded 1,000,000.

On Friday last, Mr. Adams, of the firm of Adams
and Son, purveyors of meat to her Majesty, at Wind-
sor, put an end to his existence by cutting his throat with
a dinner knife.

A. royal charter of incorporation has been granted to the
Birmingham Royal School of Medicine, with the privi-
leges, immunities, rank, and title of " Queen's College of
Medicine and Surgery at Birmingham."

The Royal Cambrian Institution and Ancient Britons
have resolved to give their valuable MSS. and printed
books to the British Museum, for preservation and public
advantage.

Mr. (not Dr.) Chalmers, a Fifeshire minister, who
seceded from the Scotch church, and preached from " Be
of good cheer, I have overcome the world," has recanted,
and gone back to his old quarters!
The Poor-law Commissioners have delegated the powers
of the Commission for the Management of the Irish de-
partment of the poor-law to their Assistant-Commis-
sioners, Edward Gulson and Alfred Power, Esquires.—
Morning Chronicle.

DURHAM ELECTION.—The committee appointed to in-
quire into the merits of the petition presented against the
return of Lord Dungannon for the city of Durham, have
declared that the election was a void election. A day for
the new election has not yet been appointed.
FIGHTING SCOTS EDITORS.—The editor of the Ayr
Observer was, on Thursday last, bound over to keep the
peace for having sent a challenge to the editor of The
Western Watchman, who had impeached, his veracity.—
Dumfries Courier.

An apt and truly pleasing illustration of the adage
" every little makes a mickle," was afforded recently by
the presentation of the sum of £3O to the Royal Society
of Female Musicians, which amount was collected in penny
subscriptions, by Mrs. W. H. Seguin.
A dreadful fire broke out at Greenwich on Monday
evening, iu the warehouses of Mr. Marks, a marine store
dealer, which were filled with combustibles. Much prop-
erty was destroyed, but, happily, there was no loss of
human life.

Tuesday's Gazette announced that Major-General Sir
Charles James Napier had been appointed by the Queen
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath ; and
several officers in the army and East India Company's
service are gazetted as companions.
GRAND SAILING MATCH.—The great sailing match for
£2OO, between Lord Alfred Paget's iron boat the Mys-
tery, and Mr. Reid's yacht the Enigma, took place on
Monday, and concluded, contrary to the opinion of the
layers of the long odds, in favour of his Lordship.
PEDESTRIANISM.—A few days since a man named
Henry Valiance walked from the village of Kirkireton to
Manchester, a distance of 48 miles, including stoppages.
What makes it more extraordinary is, that the old pedes-
trian is upwards of 85 years of age.—Manchester Times.
THE LATE FATAL DUEL.—On Wednesday, an ad-
journed investigation at the police-office was resumed
before Mr. Long. Mr. Gulliver with his securities
attended. The evidence was the same as that produced
before the coroner. The case was then adjourned till the
20 inst.

A destructive fire occurred on Tuesday last, amongst a
pile of buildings between St. Dunstan'a Hill, and Idol-
lane, London. Several workshops and dwelling-houses
were either totally destroyed or seriously injured. The
loss amounts to several thousand pounds.
EXPORTATION OF HORSES.—On Tuesday and Wednes-
day last, there arrived at Bonsell's stables in this town,
a splendid stud of upwards of twenty hunting and thorough
bred horses, the property of Mr. Holmes, who also arrived
to attend to their shipment, and departure per steamer,
en route for Austria and Hungary.—Hull Advertiser.
The Chester Chronicle gives the particulars of an
incendiary fire on Delamere Forest, between Oakmere
and Norley, on the 29th ult. It fortunately was discov-
ered before much damage was done. A reward of £5O
has been offered by her Majesty's Commissioners of
Woods of Forests.

A riotous outbreak took place on Tuesday, at Wolver-
hampton, when a number of colliers and miners from the
neighbourhood of Sedgeley attacked several police con-
stables, and beat them in a most brutal manner. Five of
the rioters were ultimately captured, and the others dis-
persed.

On Thursday evening, Weekes's omnibus, on its way
from Canterbury to Herne Bay, was upset at the top of
Canikett-hill, where we regret to say that a female, an
outside passenger, was killed on the spot. Weekes had
his leg dreadfully fractured, and several others were
severely injured.—Kentish Gazette.

ARCHIMEDEAN STEAM SCHOONER.—The first vessel
of this description built at Hull is now lying in the Hum-
ber-dock, where she is taking in her machinery, and com-
pleting her equipment, being laid-on for Liverpool, to
which port she is to sail in about ten or twelve days—her
ultimate destination being, as yet, a profound secret.
Fanny Elssler has arrived from the Continent. A new
ballet is in preparation for her. The success which she
has met with in Brussels is almost unprecedented, and the
enthusiasm of the public was so heightened at her last
performance, that about thirty young beaux unyoked her
carriage on her quitting the theatre, and drew their fa-
vourite to her hotel.

BARBAROUS CRUELTY TO A COW.—On the night of
Friday last, some miscreant entered a field at Dodworth,
near Barnsley, and lacerated in a most barbarous manner
the bag of an in-calving cow, the property of Mr. Earn-
shaw, farmer of that place. The poor animal lingered in
great agony until the following day when she died.
Two PERSONS DROWNED.—On Thursday last, a boy,
fourteen years of age, named Joseph Warren, was bathing
in Mr. Openshaw's Lodge, near Whitehead's Bridge,
Bury, when a number of youths, seeing that he was drown-
ing, called out a man named Isaac Hoyle, thirty years of
age, who attempted to save him ; but both were unfortu-
nately drowned.
At Bow-street, on Friday, a young mechanic, who gave
his name as James Wilson, but whose real name is Charles
Tilder, was charged with loitering about the residence of
Sir Robert Peel, in Whitehall-gardens. He for some
time refused to give any account of himself and is sup-
posed to be partially insane. He was remanded for a
week.

SINGULAR ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday morning, a female
named Martha Crossley, 86 years of age, who lived with
her daughter at No. 36, London-road, Manchester, fell
against a box as she was getting out of bed, and fractured
her sibs. Mr. Harrison, surgeon, attended her shortly
afterwards, but she died of the injuries she had received
between one and two o'clock the same day.

LAUNCH OF A FRIGATE.—The Chichester, fifty guns,
was launched at Woolwich, on Wednesday. Miss Stop-
ford, daughter of Sir R. Stopford, Governor of Greenwich
Hospital, named the vessel. The dimensions of the Chi-
chester are as follow :—Length between perpendiculars,
173 feet 1 inch ; length of keel for tonnage, 145 feet 2a
inches; breadth, extreme, 44 feet 9 inches; breadth for
tonnage, 44 feet 1 inch ; breadth moulded, 43 feet 5 inches ;
depth in hold, 14 feet 6 inches; burden in tons, 1501
4 94 old measurement ; burden in :tons, 1032 2669 3500
new measurement.

THE POISON CASE AT LALESTON.—At the Cardiff
assizes on Wednesday, Edward Thomas and Mary Thomas
were indicted for the wilful murder of Wm. Howells.
They were also charged, on the coroner's inquisition with
the murder of Jane Harvy. The particulars of this ex-
traordinary case have already appeared in our columns.
The deceased Howells was a brother of the female pri-
soner, and it was said his property, to the amount of one
or two hundred a year would go on his death to her. It
was alleged that the prisoners had placed some poison in
a quantity of beer, of which both the deceased partook,
and died soon after. The jury after a very lengthened
inquiry found the prisoners " not guilty," and they were
discharged. The verdict caused great surprise.
ATTEMPTED MURDER BY AN IDIOT.-011 Wednesday
last, a young gentleman named Tilliard, the son of a
clergyman and magistrate, residing near Huntingdon,
whilst labouring under insanity, contrived to escape the
vigilance of his keepers, and secreting a large knife about
his person, went away and met a child about four years of
age in the lane. Without ceremony he laid the child on
his knees, and drawing the knife across the calves of both
its legs, cut through the fleshy part to the bone. The
screams of the child brought persons to its assistance.
The perpetrator was secured, and bail was accepted for his
aprearance in case any charge may be preferred against
Lim. The child was immediately taken to a .surgeon, and
is not likely to sustain any very serious injury.