The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-09 00:00:00

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The number of barrels of beer exported in 1847 amounted
to 132,357, against 137,270 in 1846, and 165,152 in 1845.
Four thousand juvenile paupers from the different unions
in Ireland, and ten thousand from England, are to be sent
to Australia this year.
One of the new German papers gravely states, that the
original object of the Alien Bill was to deport Lord
Brougham on his becoming a citizen of France.
General Cooke, second in command of the United States
army in the recent Mexican war, arrived at Cheltenham
last week. The gallant general is a native of Gloucester.
A vessel which has arrived in London from Singapore,
has brought 4,966 blocks, and 415 packages of gotta
percha.
A SIGN OF DEPRESSION.—The Bristol Mirror of
Saturday says, " A birds nest was this week fou'nd snugly
built in one of the cranes on our quays!"
The paper mills at Ipswich, employing two bundred
hands, have been destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated
at £20,000.
In a London establishmentemplaying a lundred men,
the annual loss from their wasting Monday in drinking is
no less than £1,820.
HoNouß FOR BATH !—A Bath paner " understands"
that " Lola Mentes" received her education at the school
of the late Miss Aldridge, in that city.
At Hull, last week, a child three years old, having a
piece of burning wood in her hand, set fire to the frock of
a little girl who was employed cleaning a grate. The
latter was so severely burned that she died in a few hours.
" The Queen's drive," at Edinburgh, has at length been
completed. It measures nearly three miles and a half,
and encircles the romantic and beautiful localities of
Arthur's Seat and Salisbury Craigs.
Lady Mary Murray, wife of Sir James Murray, has be-
queathed to Middlesex Hospital the sum of £lO,OOO for
the purpose of building and endowing a new ward in the
hospital, to be called the " Murray Ward."
On Friday, a pipe from a boiler on the premises of
Messrs. Dakin and Co., tea-dealers, St. Paul's Church-
yard, London, exploded, and Mr. Dakin was struck vio-
lently on the forehead and immediately killed.
It may be mentioned as a fact worthy record, that from
£12,000 to £13,000 in gold are transmitted weekly to Hol-
land, Frizeland chiefly, in payment for cattle, butter, and
other provisions.
EMIGRATION.—The numbers who embarked in Eu rope
in 1847 for Canada was 98,006—viz., from England, 32,228;
from Ireland, 54,329 ; from Scotland, 3752 ; and from
Germany, 7697. Of the whole number, 91,882 were
steerage passengers.
The clerical committee appointed to adopt measures res-
pecting burials in cities and towns, has nominated twenty
clergymen and twenty laymen from among whom Lord
Morpeth is to appoint a committee for the purpose of
finally suppressing burials in cities and towns.
CURIOUS BUT TRUE.—Near the brick kilns, called
Peniston's, on the Salisbury and Bishopstoke line, a lark
is now sitting very composedly on three eggs, exactly
under one of the metals over which a train passes every
hour.

The Highland Destitution Board have forwarded to the
poorer districts of the Highlands, for cultivation, cabbage
plants, 445,000; green plants, 445,000 ! early turnip seed,
4,400 ounces; late turnip seed, 8,800 ounces; Swedish
turnip seed, 8,800 ounces; carrot seed, 4,400 ounces.
LAMENTABLE IGNORANCE.--A young farmer at Hin-
don, a few days since lent a female fortune-teller £B, to
rule the planets in order to tell his fortune. The woman
has never been seen since, and the farmer " curses his
stars" daily.
The Lancaster Guardian says that the Lords of the Ad-
miralty have given their consent to the construction of an
embankment from the Cartmel side of the Ulverston Sands
to the Back Scarrs, a distance of about three quarters of a
mile.

Mr. Feargus O'Connor, in a speech at Nottingham, on
Easter Monday, said, " lie had created the mind—he had
ordered the mind—and to him must be left, in a great
measure, the future direction o f the mind—of the working
classes."

The Gateshead Observer says that a young gentleman
residing in London travels to Newcastle every Saturday,
in order to visit the fair one whose bewitching charms
have enslaved his heart, and returns to London in time
for business on Monday.

The widow of Shirley, the murdered gamekeeper at
Raby Castle, has lately given birth to a posthumous son,
at Raby, and the Duke of Cleveland has conferred upon
her an ample annuity, and undertaken to attend •to the
interests of her three children.

A treasury warrant, published in the Gazette modifies
the regulations respecting books and pamphlets sent by
post, in so far that henceforth the senders are allowed to
write nn any leaf of any hook, or on the binding thereof,
provided that all the writing be on the same page of the
book, or corresponding portion of the binding.
The Times, in recommending emigration under govern-
ment auspices, says, " Six weeks and as many pounds
suffice to plant the poor peasant where neither title-deeds,
nor mortgages, nor judgment-bonds, nor county cess,
nor standing water, shall interfere with his axe or his
spade."
As the Rev. E. D. Tinling, inspector of schools for the
western countries, was driving a small four-wheel carriage
containing his wife and a servant through the streets
of Exeter, the horse became restive and upset the vehicle,
when the whole party were thrown out, and Mrs. Tinling
was so much injured that her life is in great danger.
At the Llanerchymedd petty sessions, last week, before
the Hon. W. C. Stanley, -Agnes Williams, an old woman
aged S 4, preferred a charge of assault against two persons.
She was attended by her father, a man of 106 years of age,
who called the old dame his " girl," and said she should
not be put upon.
There are now in England alone 260 mechanics' insti-
tutions in active operation, besides about 400 which were
in abeyance on account of the state of trade in some dis-
tricts . In these 260 institutions the average number of
members is 222, and the total number of persons recei-
ving education from them being 58,109. There are also
about fifty smaller institutions, furnishing lectures and
libraries, averaging 150 members each ; the total number
altogether being 65,609.
DECAY OF DISSENTING COLLEGES.—A plan is in agi-
tation for consolidating Com:2.d, Homerton, Cheshunt,
and Highbury Colleges. The proposal reveals various
facts connected with these institutions, to wit, that the in-
struction imparted in them is found inefficient ; that it is
too expensive, amounting to £lOO per annum for each
student ; that the number of students in all the four col-
leges together does not much exceed sixty; and-that they
w* four in debt, while the subscriptions for their sup-
p falling off.