The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-09 00:00:00

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SWEEPSTAKE of 20 sovs each, with l 0 sovs added, for two
yrs old. About dove quarters of a mile. 8 subs.
Mr. Walker's c The Best of Three
Lord S:anley's ch f by lionises, out of Armida . 9
The KEusAr. STAKES of 5 sovs each, with 50 sovs added,
for three yrs old. One mile and three quarters. 6 sub
Mr. Mcikiain's ch c Phillip, by Jeseed
Mr. Frost's b I Ameine, by Bay Middleton
Mr. .1. Bird's b f by Langar—Alliance
Mr. Clarke us b c St. Cuthbert.
HER MAJESTY'S PLATE of 100

Three miles and u

distance
Sir C. Monk's Flagsman, 4 yrs ....
Mr. Meiklatn's Aristotle, 4 yrs ....
Mr. D. Cook's ch c What, 3 yrs ..

By covering parsley with half an inch in thickness of rich
soil, it will come up in a fortnigkt.

TIE IMES TUNN ISL.—Last week 38,478 persons paid toll
to pass through the tunnel, and on Sunday alone 17,513 per.
8011 s.

File government will proceed with the educational cla
of the Factory Hill, in the House of Commons, on Mom
the 19th inst.

The late rains have been so favourable to the grass and e(
crops in the vale of Lune as almost to ensure a superabut
ant harvest.

In the ne7ghbourhood of Oundlc, the fine crops of gr
have been under water for a fortnight, and, it is feared, e
be quite spoiled.

BRITISII MUSEUIL—The number of visitors on Mont
was 13,410, which was nearly 3,000 less than those who
tended last year, when the numbers were 16,329.
Lord Ashley acknowledged in yisterday's 2inteB the
ceipt of three hundred pounds from an anonymous donor
the Pastoral Aid Society.

GRAY'S INN, JUNE 7.—The undermentioned gentlem
were this day called to the dezree of barrister-at•law by t
Hon. Society of Gray's Inn, viz.—Mr. I'. Selby, Mr. It.
It. Moore, Mr. W. Evans, Mr. IL. H. Purcell, Mr. A.
IL. Labistour, and Mr. H. J. Hunter.

SNOW SHOWER.—Amni.lisiDE.—On Monday niornir
May 29, the sides of the mountains above Ambleside we
white with snow, fallen during the previous night. This i,
most unusual occurrence so late in the season, even in t!
changeable climate.

ORANGEISM.—The district master of the Protestant Cor
federates of Birmingham intends to hold its meetings in Ir
district, to show the sympathy and support of the confedertJ
tion for their protestant brethren in Ireland at the preset
eventful crisis.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—A party of the Rifles stationed a
Dundalk were firing hall cartridge on the strand on Tuesda:
last, when, owing to one of the men having bad sight, lit
shot one of the men stationed as marker through the head
The man died or, the spot. The hall then went through the
neck of another man, wounding him dangerously.

SHORT LOVE TRiP.-At love's rising hour, last Thursday
morning, MJ. Alit:oa. of Littlewood Farm, in the parish of
I'leasley, and Miss Maclellan, of Mansfield (yet in her teens),
whipped off to the village church at Pleasley, and before their
short trip was known to parents or guardians, were indissolubly
united at the altar of H ymen.—Nutlingham Review. .
Among the odd announcements that daily meet the eye in
the advertising columns of the press, we perceive the m:rifi-
cation of an invention " capable of hatching, at a trifling
expense, any number of game and poultry eggs, of all sorts,
from 50 to 200, at one time, and possessing the further re-
commendation of rearing the young birds at all seasons, and
of furnishing poultry for the table at a trifling cost at all pe-
riods of the year !! !"