The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-11-05 00:00:00

And if I go to the last chap, what do

you think
Mr. Eg,

11 say ?'

put the thin 2 in the

le will say, I suppose, that you must not
light in which you have put it to me;
that the Government will be very proud to have the con-
fidence of yourself and your brother electors ; and that a
gentleman like you, in the proud position of Mayor, may
well hope to be knighted on some fitting occasion. But
that you must not talk about the kighthood just at pre-
sent, and must confine yourself to converting the unfortu-
nate political opinions of the town."
Mr. Mayor—" Well, I guess that chap there would
want to do me. Not quite so green, Mr. Egerton. Per-
haps I'd better go at once to the fountainhead. How
dive think the Premier would take it ?"

Mr. Egerton, the indignation preponderating over the
amusement—" Probably just as lam about to do." Mr.
Egerton rang the bell ; the attendant appeared. " Shea
Mr. Mayor the way out," said the Minister.

The Mayor turned round sharply, and his face was pur-
ple. He walked straight to the door; but, suffering the
attendant to precede him along the corridor, he came
back with a rapid stride, and, clenching his hands, and
with a voice thick with passion, cried, " Some day or
other I will make you smart for this, as sure as my name
is Dick Av.mel !"

" Avenel!" repeated Egerton, recoiling, " Avenel !"

tit the

yor was gone. Andlay fell into a deep and
musing reverie which seemed gloomy, and lasted till the

attendant announced that the horses were at the door.
He then looked up, still abstractedly, and saw his letter
to Harley L'Estrange open on the table. He dew it to-
wards him, and wrote, " A man has just left me, who
calls himself Aven—" in the middle of the name his pen
stopped. " No, no," muttered the writer, " what folly
to re-open the old wounds there," and he carefully erased

Audley Egerton did not ride in the Park that day, as
was his wont, but dismissed his groom ; and, turning his
horse's head towards Westminster Bridge, took his soli-
tary way into the country. He rode at first slowly, as if
in thought ; then fast, as if trying to escape from thought.
He was later than usual at the House that evening, and
he looked pale and fatigued. But he had to speak, and
spoke well.

tiwral Aqtsrellailv.

Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton contradicts the statement
that he had lost his hearing.

Lord Ashley attended a large ragged school meeting, in
iinburgh, on Wednesday.

A piece of coal. weighing more than 24 cwt., was ex-
tracted from Old Park Colliery, Shropshire, on Tuesday.
Sir Benjamin Heywood has erected haths and wash-
houses at Miles Platting, at a cost of £2,500.

A vessel which has arrived in London from Hamburg
has brought 1,043 packages of horseradish.
On Monday the boats at Maryport took no less than
630.000 herrings.

No fewer than 4650 casks of spruce have been imported
into London from Dantzic within the last week.
A cow, belonging to an inhabitant of Carlisle, brought
forth a two-headed calf on Sunday week.
The town of Cheltenham will compete with Worcester
and Gloucester for the meeting of the Royal Agricultural
Society in 1853.

There was a destructive fire on the premises of Mr.
Cattley, Skeldergate, York, on Tuesday night. Damage
to the extent of £3OOO was done.

Mr. Joseph Harris, one of the Inspectors of the Gene-
ral Post-office,: suddenly disappeared on Saturday morn-
ing. It is suspected that he has been murdered.
A man named Hutton, a gardener in Durham, left an
inn about a fortnight since and has not since been heard
of. When last seen he was intoxicated.
On Thursday it was discovered that several masonic
lodges in London had been robbed, and that property va-
lued at £5OO had been stolen.

Mr. Blundatone, a young and respectable chemist of
Clifton, destroyed himself on Friday by taking poison.
He had long been subject to fits of melancholy.

The Rev. F. W. Harper, M.A., of St. John's College,
Cambridge, has been elected curate of Selby by that uni-
versity by a large majority.
The owner of Prime Minister, the winner of the Clear-
well Stakes, declares that he will not take £lO,OOO for

On Thursday night Mr. Charles Mathews was wounded
rather severely in the hand while fencing with Mr. Vining,
at the Lyceum Theatre, London.
A wheat-stack has been burnt at Donnington, in Nor-
folk, by a spark from the funnel of a steam-threshing
machine.

A gentleman named Pownall has invented an ingenious
phin for registering the number of passengers travelling by
omnibuses.

A postmaster is under no obligation to sell one single
stamp only, except it be to put on a letter which the
bringer pays for and puts into his hands.
Samuel •Marden, an elderly man, who kept a draper's
shop at Gravesend, is in custody, at that town, charged
with setting fire to his house and premises on Sunday
morning last.

For the last three or four years the town of Mold has
been progressing rapidly in improvements. The principal
entrance to the town is to be forthwith widened and
straightened.

Tile coroner's jury at Coniscliffe,:near Darlington, have
returned a verdict that Mr. George Young died from the
effects of poison, but that there was nu evidence to shew
how or by whom it was administered.
Many of the inhabitants of Leeds are wishful that the
Corporation should apply to Parliament for powers to es-
tablish a gas company, Although there are already two
companies supplying the town.
The Leicester Chronicle says that about a fortnight
since the kind quarters of a donkey as fat as any beef in
the market, were sold in that town. How the consumers
liked it has not been ascertained.

The inhabitants of York are about to present to Mr.
Duncan, editor of the Yorkshireman, a substantial testi-
monial for his public-Spirited conduct in exposing the
many railway frauds in connexion with the city of York.
The Oriental Steam Company have directed several of
their steam-ships to be overhauled, and immediately sent
for the coast navigation in the Chinese and the Australian
seas.

On Friday the bank of Messrs. Mangles, Epsom, was
broken into, and a large quantity of notes and money ab-
stracted. Some London thieves have been apprehended
on suspicion. .

There is now no longer any doubt of the fate of Mrs.
Kelly, who absented herself with her child on Sunday
week from Castletown, as the little boy was found
drowned on Friday. He had on his flannel night-coat
and night-cap, just as he was taken from his bed. It is
expected the mother will turn up shortly.