The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-12 00:00:00

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Fine new oatmeal has been retailed in Ardrossan for
the last ten days at ls. ld. per peck.
Subscriptions are being raised for the relief of the fa-
milies of the shipwrecked fishermen at Peterhead.
It is stated that Government lately refused to register
or to issue stamps for a paper to be called the " Democrat."
In a garden near Aberdeen, there is a Scotch thistle,
7 feet II inches, with 238 proportionate flowers.
A new lead mine of unusual richness has been opened
on the surface of the earth near Winster, in Derbyshire.
The Diorama in Regent's Park was on Tuesday sold by
auction for £6750.

An entire cargo of filberts, consisting of 2,260 baskets,
was imported into London, on Monday, from Rotterdam.
There are at this moment 700 houses and shops unte-
nanted in the parish of St. Mary's, Nottingham.
The loss of property during the late storm on the east
coast of Scotland, amounts to £23,000.
PUNISHMENT OF A GARDEN ROBBER.—At Darling-
ton, last week, a boy was ordered to be privately flogged
for plundering a garden.
SHOCKING DEATH.—On Monday, William Pitter, a
marriep man, with a family of eight children, at Odiham,
was gored to death by a two-year-old bull, in a field.
" The Stowe effects," it is calculated, cost the Bucking-
ham family £250,000. They are expected to realize
about £lOO,OOO.
The Builder states that American potash made into a
thin paste, and laid on with a brush will take stains out of
marble, except oil, the removal of which is doubtful.
The venerable church of Llanfrynach, near Cowbridge,
having been to a considerable extent restored, was re-
opened for divine worship (aito- a lapse of one hundred
and fifty years or more) on Sunday, the 27th Ult.
ROYAL YACHT SQOADEOI.I.—The Earl of Wilton was
elected Commodore of this club at a meeting held at
Cowes last week in room of the Marquis of Donegal, who
has resigned.
A LIGHT WEIGHT.—George Brown, whose riding was
greatly praised at the late Goodwood Meeting, has been
engaged by Colonel Peel. His lowest riding weight is
4st. 10th.
Lieutenant Waghorn has been voted a sum of £1.500,
in consideration for his services in ascertaining the prac-
ticability of the route, vid Alexandria, for the conveyance
of the Indian mail.
Before Trinity College church, Edinburgh, was taken
down to make room for a railway station, every stone was
numbered and the building was daguerreotyped, that it
may be rebuilt in some other part of the city.
Some " cannie Scotchmen" are about to try " to turn
a penny" in a new way through the present royal visit to
Scotland—namely, by publishing a daily newspaper, to be
called " The Balmoral Gazette and Highland Herald."
Five of the soldiers apprehended for raising a disturb-
ance in Edinburgh, have been sentenced to terms of im-
prisonment varying from forty to sixty days. Two others
were fined two guineas; in default of payment, to be im-
prisoned thirty days.
Smithfield Market is about to be enlarged by the re-
moval of the entire clump of buildings extending along
the north-east side of Long-lane to Charterhouse-lane.
Of the Bell Tavern, and the extensive premises attached,
the Markets Committee have already obtained possession,
and the demolition of the houses will commence early
next week. This is the second addition to the space
within the last two years.