The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-09-23 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

Th'c engineers are very busy strengthening the ford&
tattoos and defences of Portsmouth harbour,
The Free Church of Scotland are about to establish col-

'ges at Edinburgh and Aberdev.n.
Twelve thousand dollars have been stolen from a ship

at Gravesend.

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The wages of Irish reapers in Scotland this harvest is
2s. a-day, and Id. Bd. for women.
A Glasgow paper states that 15,000 Irish reapers had
passed through that city in one week.
We understand that the government have determined
to materially increase the present military force iu our
North American colonies.—Morning Chronicle.
Launder, the surveyor, has been found guilty of forg-
ing a railway deed, and sentenced to seven year's trans-
portation, the jury recommended him to mercy.
At the Plymouth regatta. the yacht of John Congreve,
Esq , of Mount Congreve. Waterford, bore away the
4:50 prize in gallant style from all her competitors.
On Thursday last, the annul meeting of the South
Cheshire Agricultural Society, was held at Sandbach, and

was weli attended.
A. flue vein of copper has been discovered in the Broom•
field-hills, Somersetshire, only forty feet from the sur.

face.
From a recent Parliamentary return, we find that the
declared value of the British machinery and mill work

exported in 1844, was £776,255.
The whole mainland of Orkney was covered by a fine
impalpable dust on the night of the 2d instant. An erup-
tion of Mount Hecla is supposed to have been the cause.
The Board of Stamps and Taxes leas extended until the
10th of October next, the period for claiming exemption
from the Property and Income Tax for the last three

years.
Tue Earl of Shrewsbury, with his wonted liberally,
has thrown open his magnificent collection of palntings
at Alton Towers, twice a week, and the gardens and
pleasure grounds daily, for public inspection.
Six infantry officers quartered at Dover rowed in a light
six-oared regatta galley from Dover to Boulogne last
week, setting out early in the morning, and reaching their
destination before noon.

Accounts have been received at Lloyds of the discovery
of black lead wines at Davis's Straits. One vessel, the
Eagle, arrived at Leith, has brought 100 tons, and several
others were loading.
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The sugar crop of the present year is expected to be the
largest ever raised in the West Indies since the abolition
of slavery, and considerably to exceed the crop of last
year, which amounted to 2,400,000 cwts.
THE LAKES.—There is still much travelling through
Miinthorpe to the Lakes. The Lord Bishop of Lichheld
passed through on Monday last, -on his return for the
south.—Lancasler Gazette.

An Irish reaper, named Morley, was found dead near
Rotherham, the other day, in a field, in which he had
slept tor economy's sake, although he had upwards of 42

in his pocket,

Immediate immersion, or bathing in cold water, is
said to arrest the effects of that deadly poison prussic
acid, whether taken into the stomach or applied out-

wardly.
A person named Richard Archer, clerk to a solicitor, is
in custody at Newmarket, charged with the manslaughter
of Mr. Henry Thom, hatter, by knocking him down in
the street, with such violence as to produce a concussion
of the brain.

The examination of witnesses by the committee on the
guages Is suspended till the 15th of October, when Mr.
Brunel will return from Italy, and they will then have the
broad guk,e evidence her, re them; atter which they will
proceed to consider it, and draw up their report.
Mr. Kempster; the Queen Dowager's boot-maker, at
Clifton, (Bristol,) forwarded to her Majesty, on Friday
last, six pairs of beautifully made boots. They were con-
structed with elastic steel springs, so as to supersede lac-
ing or buttoning.

The enormous increase of orders produced by the ex-
tent of speculation in the provinces, as well as in the me-
tropolis, has so multiplied business, that many of the
brokers in London now receive and despatch between 300
and 400 letters per diem.
A London dustman, named Reilly, succeeding.to a for-
tune of £50,000, clothed, booted, and fed his former
comrades, took a house in Argyle-square, and upon enter-
ing it he purposes giving a dinner to all the dustmen in
London, and illuminating the front of his house.
INSTRUCTION OF THE DEAF AND DUMB.—The total
number of deaf and dumb in the United Kingdom is
14,328, of these there are 1,018 under the course of in•
struction ; while in France the number is 20,189, and the
number educated only 789.
Workmen are very busy at the slate works on Valencia
Island, preparing a splendid spiral stair case for the New
House of Commons. A cargo of the same material is
preparing for shipment to the Mauritius, for the erection
of a Government prison there.—Limerick Chroniele.
SINGULAR COINCIDENCE.—During the past week we
hate bad in our city three es-Lord Lieutenants of Ire-
land—namely, the Marquis of Anglesey, Earl Fc,rteseue,
and Earl de Grey. The Marquis of Anglesey attended
Divine Service at the Abbey Chu, ch on Sunday.
The number of negro slaves in the civilised and,Chr;s-
/fan world is estimated at 6,600,000—viz., United States,
2,600,000 ; Brazil, 2,500,000 ; Spanish Colonies, 800,000 ;
French Colonies, 250,000; Dutch, Dani-b, and Swedish
Colonies, 100,000; South American Republics, 400,000.
On Thursday a collision took place at ')akenshaw
(Wakefield) Railway Station, a train from Hull having
dashed into one going to Doncaster races. Some persons
were hurt, none seriously. Prince George of Cambridge
was in his own carriage, in the Hull train, but his Royal
Highness escaped unhurt.
W ors.—Picking was begun in somedistrictslast Monday,
and, by next Monday, wi;t become more general. The duty
is laid from L 175,000 to £lBO,OOO. At a' hop dinner at
Maidstone, last week, we see that it advanced to £195,000,
though tar from a firm quotation, the general run being
some 10,000 and £20,000 below that sum.—Kentish Ob-
server.

The celebrated schooner, the Fair Rosamond, is ordered
to be broken up at Poi tsmouth Dockyard. She was
originally a slaver, and, on being captured, was com-
missioned fur her Majesty's service as a cruiser, and
obtained a very high reputation for the number of captures
of slave vessels made by her. She is only 172 tons burden.
There has been a vast increase in the importation of
foreign live stock during the first seven mouths of the
year, as compared with the same periods in 1843 and
1844. The gross importation, which in 1843 amounted
only to 1.080 head of cattle, amounts in the present year
to 2,786 head of cattle, showing an increase of more than
800 per cent.
The owners of Chartershaugh Colliery shipped the first
cargo of five-quarter coals, on the Bth inst., at Sunder-
land, on board the brig ewhottle, bound for the Medi-
terranean. Although this colliery was drowned up in
1771, the coal has been pronounced by competent judges,
to be the best steam coal produced in this county.—Dur-
ham Advertiser.

SINGULAR FACT.--.; here is now growing upon the
very top of Portlike;ry Cburch-steeple, about forty feet
from the surface of the earth, an apple tree, with from
seventy to eighty apples thereon. Part of the tree anti
apples can be seen titan the churchyard, but the sea
breezes prevent its growing many inches above the battle-
ment a.

The meeting of the Directors of the Bank of England
to-day led to no cl,arige in the rate of discount, nor was,
indeed, any such change expt ctedi or even desired. The
discount firms who, a tew weeks ago, considered the ex-
isting kw late au obstdcle in the way of their profi!s, now
find money at the same rate little more than a drug in the
market.— Tit, es, Thursday.
Of three hundred and sixty geese driven ov their owner
last week towards Ilexham col.irket, about three hundred
died without reaching their destination, in cenaequence of
their having pet witted to drink freely at a stream
leading front Fallo,A field .'imelt.mitls to the Tyne, the
Water of which was probably ationgly impregnated with
lead.

The potato cholera, as they call it, has become as far
as our information yet esiends, almost uniYersal. We
hear of it in Normandy, and in the vicinity of Paris, in
Canterbury, in NGrfoik, tn-Laime and Namur, _in the Old
World, and in alm.isi every one of the :-...tates of the great
Atlantic Repub.h., from Vermont and Rhode Island to
Louisiana and Missouri.•
. A novel invention, by an American, is now exhibited in
London, for enabling locomotives to ascend an inclined
plane. It has an Archi edean screw between the axles
of the carriage, which conies in contact, when required,
with a series of friction rollers placed between the rails,
and, by means of this contrivance, the carriage and train
attached to it are forced up the incline.
REDUCTION OF THE PR.CE OF BREAD..—The continua•
tion of the tivourahle harvest weather has at length had
the gratifying effect of producing a general reduction in
the price of bread, of from a penny to three halfpence
pet loaf of 4lbs. There are, however, some exceptions
as in the neighbourhood of Clerkenwell little or no altera-
tion has yet been made.—London Paper.
The election expenses, lately contracted by the League
in the town of Sunderland, aewain still unpaid. Nor can
any of the unfortunate creditors, from the highest to the
lowest—from the retained agents and unfortunato printers
of electioneering speeches and libellous handbills, down to
to the poor men who live upon their earnings, from day
to day, obtain a settlement of their deatand.-->iVewcastie
Journal.

CURE FOR THE POTATO DISEASE.--The Dusseldorf
Gazette states, that a farmer living on one of the estates
of the Duke d'Aremberg, near Dusselnorf, has dis-
covered a mode of preventing the rotting of potatoes,
and even curing it when it has already commenced. The
method is very simple; it consi.ts in merely harrowing
deeply the earth in which the tubercles ar: planted. so as
to produce an evaporation, which will diminish the fer-
mentation caused by humidity. This plan has proved
completely successful.
DAVIS' STRAITS FISHERY.—The St. Andrew'S Penny
arrived at Aberdeen from Davis' S. rides, I,ft the ice Ist
of August, with 19 fish, full. and bri gs the following re-
port : Truelove, of Hull, 32 fish' 130 tuns ; Abraham, of
do., 26 fish, full ; Lady Jane, of Newc,stle, 2B fish, 200
tons ; Horn, of Dundee. 36 fish 200 tuns ; Alexander, of
de., 22 fish, 130 tuns; Advice, o' f do., 22 fieh, 100 tuna;
Pr'oe,ss Charlotte, of do.. 26 fish, 170 tuns ; Alfred. of
80',,e-s. 26 fis`., 150 tuns ; Cal Moria, of Kirkaldy, 25
fish, 16U tuns; Chieftain, of do.. 26 fish, 160 tuns; Joseph
Green, of Peterhead, 40 fish, 400 tuns; and Travaer, of
do., 26 fish, 200 tuns.