The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-09-16 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS

The number of visitors at the Lakes were never so great.
Nuts and filberts are very plentiful this season, parti-
cularly n-ar Hereford, Ross, and Chepstow.
Winterbottorn, late of Stockport, has had reprieved that
part of his sentence which condemns him to Norfolk
Island, and he will now be left at a less pen +l settlement.

Chug- s Dickens is at present in town, and pays fre-
quent visits to Paternoster-row. Buz looks as brown as
a berry with the :gin and air of Genoa.

Two iron war steamers. the Megara and the Pegasus
both to be propelled by the screw, are building fur the
navy.

The wife of the Newport convict, Mr. Frost, has gone
out as a matron in a fema'e convict ship from Woolwich
to Hobart Town, Van Diecnan's Land.

The Prince de Joinville has been vis'ting the break-
water off Brighton, and other points of the English coast,
during the last week.

The Queen Dowager has given a donation of £lO to the
fund established at Yarmouth for the reward of the iutrepid
seamen who man the life-boats at that district.
THE GUANO TRADE.—The government have declined
to prevent the sale by the government of the Cape of
Good Hope of the guano found in places within the limits
of that colony.
The Inverness courier states that no less than £4,000
has been paid by Messrs. Oliver and Boyd, of Edinburgh,
for the copyright of the fourth volume of D'Aubigne's
History of the Reformation.
For a wager of £5. two pigeons were flown the other
day from D ,ver to London. The winning bird perform-
ed the distance (about 78 miles) in 76 minutes ; the other
was 12 minutes longer on the way home.
GOING-A-H EAD.—By a careful computation, made a
few days ago, it appears, that not less than a quarter of a
million sterling is now in process of investment in the
different building societies in Lancaster.--Lancaster
Guardian.

SOUTHWARK ELFCTION.—The official declaration ot
the Poll was made on Friday, and the following wss the
result:—

For Sir W. Molesworth .... 1943.
Mr. Filcher .. 1 iB2.
Mr. Miall
Sir Wm. was, of course, declared duly elected

THE NEW THEATRE ROYAL, MANCHFSTER.—BOth
the exterior and interior of this temide of the drama are
approaching to completion, and the lrldt-rs state that the
stone facade in Peter street will certainly he fi,oished by
the opening day, Monday, the 29h instant. The marble
statue of Shakspere has not yet air veil from Italy, but i,
expected next week, and will occupy the niche in front of
the building. The inside work i 5 progres4ing most rapidly.
The stage is certainly one of the Lirce,t, and espec'ally the
deepest, we remember to have seen. There are in all 77
stalls, of which by far the gr,a'er part are already let, and
all the private boxes have been taken for the st ason.

FLERTWOOD-UPON-WYRE. Considerable improve-
ments are going on at this port ; a large amount is about
to he imrnedhtely expended in the erection of storage
warehouses, and the construction of a dock is determined
noon. The improved condition of this port may be in-
ferred from the fact of more than five-fold increase of its
railway receipts; and such has been the influx of visitors
to this increasingly favourite summer resort that not a
house is at the present time untenanted, and the North
Euston, one of the largest hotels in the United Kingdom,
has been full to overflowing, its visitors' book showing
the names of some of the first families in the county and
at a distance. In addition to the improvements about to
be commenced, a direct line of railway to Lanca ter is
contemplated, opening an important communication to
the northern districts of the country.—Manchester Times.
EXTRAORDINARY ABDUCTION OF GENERAL TOM
THUMB.—A great sensation has been created at Nantes
by the sudden disappearance of General Torn Thumb.
The pigmy eeneral wishing to attend the 'aces at Quito-
perle, left Vannes, with his suite, at sic o'clock, and was
exvected to have soon returned. His carriage broke
down near Roasse. After waiting a considerable time
the repairs were completed, and General Tom Thumb
mounted the carriage. Scarcely had they driven a league,
when the horses stopped suddenly, the c'lnductor de-
scended, and perceived an immense heap of billets of
wood ; at the same instant four men, masked, seized and
bound the driver, and threatened, if he tittered a cry, to
shoot bim. During this scene, the General and his suite
were locked in the arms of Morpheus. One of the four
masks mounted the seat of the carriage, and drove rapidly
to St. Tinier). It was only at this place that the Geue-
ral learnt his misfortune. The Gr:neral has not been seen
or heard of since.