The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-05-28 00:00:00

Omen! illfsrellanv,

A pension of £25 a vear—a shamefully small sum—has
been granted to the widow of Lieut. Waghorn.
On Whit-Monday 51,000 passengers were conveyed
over the Greenwich Railway without a single accident.
Iron bars have been placed over the Duke of York's
column, Hyde-park, to prevent suicides from its summit.
A patent has been taken out for an envelope machine,
by which from fifty to sixty envelopes are made in one
minute.

The Rev. George Anthony Denison, from the vehe-
mence of his zeal, is known at the Atheneum as " Saint
George without the drag on."
The Rev. W. Morris, an Independent Minister at
Abergwilly, near Swansea, hung himself on Saturday
week. He had been desponding for a long time.
Lieutenant-General Sir William Gomm, K.C.8., goes
to Bombay, to succeed Lieutenant-Ganeral Sir Wil-
loughby Cotton, G.C.8., as commander-in-chief there.
Ann Peats and Rebecca Boden have been committed
from Belper to Derby gaol, for trial at the next assizes,
charged with the murder of their aged step-mother.
Douglas Jerrold suggests, that in the event of the abo-
lition of the Laureatship, the salary should endow the
keepership of Shakspeare's house.

The auxiliary screw steam ship City of Glasgow, which
left New York on Saturday week, will probably arrive
during the present week at Glasgow.
It is said that the Bank of England is to be empowered
to lend money by way of mortgage on the security of Irish
estates.

Amongst the novelties of the numerous holiday excur-
sions this week was that of a train from Birmingham to
Exeter and back at a halfpenny per mile, and of another
from Bristol to Birmingham, 181 miles, for 7s.
Mr. Boyer, the recusant chef of the Reform Club
cuisine has taken out a patent for an apparatus which will
enable a lady or a pic-nic party to dispense with cooks,
coals, and stoves. _

Mr. W. Clegg, gardener, of Stanley. near Wakefield,
on Monday last cut in his garden a head of cauliflower
broccoli which weighed 7 lbs. when the leaves were
stripped.

Whitehaven received its first supply of water from
Ennerdale Lake last week. Mr. G. Mould, the contrac-
tor, has received great praise for the expedition with
which he has executed the work.

On Tuesday afternoon a man named Patrick Barry,
living in the colony of the lower order of Trish known
at Jenning's-buildings. in High-street, Kensington,
killed his wife, Mary Barry, by kicking her on the head.
A few days ago a ball was found embedded in the marl
three yards deep, in a sewer which some men were making
near St. Thomas's Church, Wigan. It was a four poun-
der, and is supposed to be one of the balls used by the
army of Cromwell during the civil wars.
The Thames police magistrate has decided that a Jew
cigar-manufacturer cannot compel his Jew apprentice to
work on the Christian Sabbath. The master had refused
to teach the boy his business because he had absented
himself on Sunday.
The Rev. Mr. Gresley, who (as announced in the Lon-
don and local prints) has been presehted by the Bishop
of Lincoln to the vicarage of Boston, is the author of
" Father Clement," and other works of a theological
character.

The bullion in both departments of the Bank of Eng-
land has increased from £16,565,039 to £16,631,080,
being a difference of £66,041. The paper in actual cir-
culation has decreased from £21,128,555 to £20,659,416,
being a difference of £469,139.
A maker of cheap confectionery in Glasgow, was last
week committed to prison, to take his trial for adulterat-
ing lozenges with a substance called sulphate of barytes.
This article, when decomposed and formed into carbonate
of barytes, becomes one of our most deadly poisons.
The widow of Lord Jeffrey has not long survived her
husband. She died last week. Mrs. Jeffrey was born in
America, and was the grandniece of the celebrated John
Wilkes, and second wife of the late Lord Jeffrey, to whom
she was married in 1813.

The furniture, &c. at Springfield Hall, near Lancaster,
the seat of the late Richard Godson, Esq., M.P., were
sold last week. The plate, wines, &c., realised high
prices; Mr. Radley, of the Adelphi, purchasing a quan-
tity of fine old port at 78s. per dozen.

The Globe believes that kr. Gladstone's visit to Italy
is not of a political character, but that he merely went in
the character of a friend to a noble lord, now in the Le-
vant, whose divorce case win come before the House of
Peers this day, Tuesday. Mr. Gladstone's office is to
collect evidence.
The Newcastle Journal reports that a thief has com-
pletely stripped the church of Dinnington of every port-
able article—service-books, books belonging to the con-
gregation, an alms-dish, and even a box of steel-pens.
He broke open every place; but the communion-plate
was not kept in the church.
IRREVERENT USE OF THE PRESS.—The following at-
tempt at a silly joke upon a subject connected with re-
ligion appears in the Banbury Guardian, which, though
a dissenting organ, might reasonably be supposed to be
guided, through the influence of local sympathy alone,
by a higher standard of feeling and taste in reference to
such matters :—" HOLY THURSDAY FAIR...—It appears
by a statement in a Northampton paper, that our last fair
was a bad'one, because it was held on Holy Thursday;
not persons only, but cattle also, having a great objection
to attend a fair an that holy day,"