The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-05 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

There is a large dark spot now visible on the sun's face.
Sir William Nott is dangerously ill at Carmarthen.
The Right Honourable William Magnay, Lord Mayor
of London, has beeu created a baronet.

The manufacturers of Stockport have agreed to ad-
vance the wages of their workmen five per cent.

It is understood that Mr. Home Drummond contem-
plates resigning the representation of Perthshire.
Pear trees, apple trees, and honey-suckles are in bloom
in various parts of the country.
The account given a short time ago, of an alleged act of
piracy and murder on board the Pomona, of Glasgow, was
a fabrication.

Lord Rendlesbam, M.P., for East Suffolk, has since
Michaelmas last granted an allotment of ground to each
of the labourers upon his estate at Rendlesham.
Great efforts are made in Germany to prevent specula-
tors in broom-girls and hurdy-gurdy children bringing
them to England.
In consequence of a dispute between the hand-loom
weavers and their employers in Glasgow, 700 of the former
are now idle.

POST LETTERS.—The gross revenue in the year ending
the sth of January last by the Post-office was £1,535,215
Bs. 44d., the cost of management £980,650 7s. ad.,
making the net revenue £554,265 Os. 101 d.
On Monday last, Mr. Thomson, for twenty years a re-
porter to the Newcastle Chronicle, committed suicide.
He had been discharged in consequence of drunkenness,
and in
.n state of dejection cut his throat.
Mr. Charles Fair, tax collector in the parish of Clerk-
enwell, committed suicide at his own residence, in
Charles-street, Northampton-square, on Monday night
last, by cutting his throat.
COACH ACCIDENT.—On Thursday last the Chester
mail upset at the entrance to Bangor ; and within an hour
the guard was again thrown down—the wheel of a chaise
obtained to carry the mail-bags having come off.
By order of her Majesty, two schools are about to be
built, at a cost of £l5OO, near Cumberland Lodge, Wind-
sor Park, fur the education of the park and game keepers'
children.

The Rev. Mr. Myles, of St. Jude's Episcopal Church,
Glasgow, has resigned his connection with the Scottish
Episcopal Church in consequence (as he states) of his
ministerial freedom having been interfered with by the
Bishop of Glasgow.
Van 'Amburgh's elephant escaped from his fastenings
on Friday night, after performing at the Adelphi Theatre
at Norfolk. When found at midnight, the docile animal
had got about three quarters of a mile on the high road,
but quietly returned with his keeper.
VERY " GREEN."—Last week, a respectable grocer,
not a hundred miles from Mansfield Woodhouse, exhi-
bited in his window a card, with the following written in
large letters :—" Teas whom are green." On being told
of the error, he wrote " Teas which his green."

DEATH OF A MISER.—On Saturday week, a very old
inhabitant of this town (Mr. Thomas Ruston,) died
worth some £lO,OOO. He had lived alone for many years,
denying himself every comfort, and preparing what food
he did indulge in himself.
SINGULAR ACCIDENT,—On Tuesday nn inquest was
held on the body of an Artillery soldier at Woolwich,
who had met his death through injuries caused in his
abdomen by his having run against an iron chain sur-
rounding a portion of the barracks.
INTERCOURSE WITH FRANCE.-1,328 persons went
through Boulcgne last week, and 384 through Calais. Of
the former number, 475 had conic from, and 853 left for,
England ; 578 passed through Folkestone either going or
returning.

A relative of Wackford Squeers, of Dotheboys
advertises in the Times for a young lady, as assistant in
a school, from eight a.m. to eight p.m., for which she is
to consider " board and washing a sufficient remunera-
tion," and pay for her own lodgings!
On Tuesday last a gentleman lately returned, with his
wife and two children, from Newfoundland, in the last
stage of consumption, fell from an upper window of a
house at Bath, whilst left alone for a few minutes, and
was so fearfully injured that be died in a few minutes.
INDUSTRY OF BEES..—The postmaster of [Evanton
had three hives this season. Each hive cast: twice, and
produced 2751 b. of virgin honey. One of the casts
weighed 681 b. of honey, and sold for 10d. per lb., realiz-
ing £2 Ms. Bd., giving daily income to the owner of 9d.
per day for 75 days, being the exact number of days from
the time it cast until taken down.—Rosshire Advertiser.