The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-10 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

Both Mr. D'lsraeli and Mr. Ferrand have subscribed
:o the Duncombe testimonial; the former £lO.

It is said that two crowned heads—the Kings of Bava-
ria and Denmark—have subscribed the teetotal pledge.
In Chester Castle, on Saturday last, a prisoner named
Thomas Leech hung himself in his cell.

Ten valuable, horses, worth from £lOO to £l5O each,
were lost from the Qkteen of Scotland steam-ship, during
a storm, on her last voyage from Hull to Hamburg.

The quantity of the blue pill alone lately shipped at
once for South America by one drysaltery house, in Lon-
don, amounted to six lons.
During the whole of last week not a single commitment
was made out by the Birmingham magistrates—a circum-
stance that has not occurred for 35 years.

THE LEAGUE. AT BittsTor,—The Bristol Liberal
Association, who are tools of the League, have objected
to every Conservative freeman, (possessing no other qua-
lification,) pumber about 1900.

The duty on the importation of foreign wheat last
week advanced to 20s. per quarter—the maximum
amount at which it will, in all probability, remain for a
considerable time: • , '

The body of a newly-born _infant was found last week
in a vacant piece, of.,grckund in the. parisji .of Bethnal
Green, with a piece of•broad tape round its neck, with
which it had been strangled.
Mr. William Harvey, of Bedleston, Aberdeenshire, has'
given the sum of £6,500 for the purpose of founding an
institution for the education of the deaf and dumb ; and
another for the reclaiming of females of dissolute habits,
disposed to abandon their watched mode of life.

Richard Robinson, a boy eleven years of age, was a few
days ago fined £lO, at Wandsworth, and in default of
payment sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment, for hav-
ing placed a piece of wood across the rails of the South
Western Railway at Wimbledon.

The Borough Compter, London, is at present wholly
untenanted, except by the keeper, turnkey, and matron ;
the whole of the prisoners who were in custody, upon ex-
ecutions for debts under £2O, having obtained their dis-
cbarge, under the provisions of the new insolvency act.
The Perth and Dunkeld stage-coach caught fire on
Wednesday from the friction of the wheels. The coach,
which burned for some time unperceived, the passengers
at last descending amid clouds of smoke, was rendered
useless.
A selection from the University sermons of August
Tholuck, D.D. professor of theology, and preacher in the
University of Halle, has just appeared, translated from
the German by the Lady Adeliza Manners, sister of
Lord John Manners.

It is a curious fact that in some counties more labour-
ers are employed under than on the surface of the earth.
In Durham there are nearly twice as
.many miners as la-
bourers employed in cultivating the sod. The total num-
ber of agricultural labourers in Great Britain of both
sexes is 1,138,563.

Count Leslie, of Balquhain, the representative of one
of the oldest families in the county of Aberdeen, died
suddenly, yesterday sen'night, at his seat of Fetternear,
owing to having incautiously taken a draught of cold
water when overheated with the sports of the field. His
age was 24.

THE STABBING CASE AT `WAVERING.—We lament
to state that this shocking case, of which we gave an ac-
count in our last, has terminated fatally, the unfortunate
object of his brother's fury having expired, after living in
great agony. At a coroner's inquest a verdict of wilful
murder was returned.

ROYAL DEMISE.—A few days since, died, near Beau-
lieu, Joseph Lee, the acknowledged monarch of that
mysterious class of people the Gipsies. He was a native
of Brockenhurst, in the New Forest, and was, it is said,
in his 86th year. He is reported to have died worth a
great deal of money.
QUOITS.—A match was played, on Wednesday, on
Woodhouse Moor, for £lO aside, between Simeon
Walker, of Rastrick, and John Briggs, of Arinley, the
best of two games, with quoits llibs. the pair, distance
eighteen yards. Each party has been triumphant in
former contests, but this time Walker proved the victor,
getting forty-seven casts to his opponents twenty-three.
DEATH CAUSED BY BATHING WHILE IN A STATE OF
PERSPIRATION.—On Sunday, the 25th ult., Mr. James
Thomas, of Truro, walked pretty quickly to the sea-shore,
and while in a state of perspiration, plunged into the
water. He was afterwards seized with shivering, and ul-
timately became so ill as to require medical assistance;
on Monday morning last, he expired, in his 55th year.

FIRE AT HOPE MILLS, WREXHAM.—On Saturday
morning, at three o'clock, a fire broke out in Messrs. J.
H. and R. C. Rawlins' paper-mills, which, in little more
than two hours, were entirely destroyed. By this unfor-
tunate occurrence we regret to hear that a considerable
number of hands will be deprived'of employment, in a
district already much distressed from the suspension in
the iron trade. The owners are, we understand, fully
insured.

FA LL IN THE PRICE OF BREAD.—In consequence of
the favourable accounts received from the agricultural
districts of the promising and abundant state of the
harvest, the price of wheat at Mark-lane has fallen last
week ls. to 2s. per quarter in first quality, and 4s. to ss.
per quarter on second qualities. The best Kent, Essex,
Norfolk, and Suffolk wheat is 395. t 0565. per quarter; flour,
fine, 40s. to 455.; and seconds, 395. to 405. per sack, in
London. The bakers of the metropolis have reduced the
41b. loaf to 61d.
Ex ECUTION.—On Wednesday, at Taunton, Joel Fisher,
underwent the extreme penalty of the law, for the murder
of his wife, at Weston-super-Mare, in June last. He
died in a very repentant state. It seems almost incredi-
ble, but it is nevertheless true, that several applications
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parts affected, with the idea that they would be cured. It
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body, the later being found fully three yards distant from
the other.—Halifax Guardian.