The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-24 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

Major-General Nott is again so seriously ill as to create
apprehensions of his recovery.
The Marquis of Salisbury gave a splendid entertain.
ment to his tenantry, at Hatfield House, on Thursday.
The execution of Mary Gallop, at Chester, will take
place on Saturday.
Dr. Adler, the new chief rabbi, is known to be de-
scended in a straight, pure line from Aaron !
When the railroad to Marseilles is finished, we shall be
within seven or eight days journey of Syria.
About 15 cwt. of tobacco has lately been smuggled into
Plymouth, in barrels stated to contain pitch.
Another steamer for the Isle of Man Steam Packet
Company is building at Glasgow. It will ply between
this port and Douglas.
At a large meeting of the inhabitants of Brighton, the
proposal to apply for a charter of incorporation for the
town was rejected by a considerable majority.
A surgeon, named Crowther, of Linthwait, in Hud-
dersfield, was killed yesterday week, by falling into a
quarry in consequence of the fog.

A dramatised version of Mr. Dickens's new work, The
Chimes, was produced with great success, on Wednesday,
at the Adelphi Theatre, London.
A verdict of wilful murder has been returned against
a man named Thomas Thomas, charged with the murder
of the butter merchant, near Brecon.

At Gringley, near Doncaster, a cow may be seen suck-
ling a litter of pigs, from which she refuses to be separa-
,ed:

The Earl of Ilarrowby and Lon] Calthorpe have given
garden allotnlents to their labourers on their estates in
Staffordshire.
The Earl of Harewood, since his accession to the title
and estates, has had his farms revalued, and reduced his
rents to the extent of several thousand pounds per ann.
The expenses of the late musical festival at Gloucester
exceeded the receipts by £747 16s. 2d. The difference
was made up from the guarantee fund.
At the Central Criminal Court, on Thursday, William
Burgess, charged with uttering a forged warrant-of-attor-
ney for the transfer of £6,305 3s. sd. Bank Stock, was
found guilty, and sentenced to transportation for life.
TOM THUMB AND THE INCOME TAX.—The income-
tax collectors insist on the General making a return of
£25,000 a-year ; but, as he has only been in England
nine months, he refuses to make any return whatever.
POLYGAMY.-At Worship-street police-office, on
Wednesday, a man named Trubert was remanded on a
charge of having married a fifth wife whilst the previous
four were living.

On Sunday night week a female lunatic, named Frith,
placed herself on the rails of the London and Birmingham
Railway, and being run over by a train was almost in-
stantaneously killed.

On Thursday night week a fine East Indiaman, the
Scotland, just arrived at Glasgow. with a cargo of new
cotton, sugar, &c., was, with her cargo, totally destroyed
by fire.
The grand jury at the Nottingham Assizes have ignored
the bill preferred against Mr. Lightfoot and Mr. Raven,
managers on the Midland Railway, for manslaughter, by
the coroner's jury.

At the Stafford Assizes, Arthur George Reed, late a
clerk in the post office, Stafford, was sentenced to trans-
portation ior ten years, for stealing a £5 Bank of Eng-
land note out of a letter which passed through his hands.
Mr. Murphy, the weather prophet, predicts that Wed-
nesday, the Bth of January, will be the coldest day of the
season. He does not agree with M. Arago as to the pi o-
bable snerity and duration of the winter.

CHESTER IMPROVEMENT 1311.1..—This bill is generally
approved of. The existing police acts, except as to the
management of the poor and workhouse affairs, are to be
repealed; and, consequently, local legislation will com-
mence de novo. In rating, the principle of equality on
the annual value is adopted. Extensive powers for im-
provements are to be taken ; and also power to light, with
gas or otherwise, and to purchase by consent the existing
gas-works.