The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-03-12 00:00:00

March 12, 1814.
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GENERAL. MISCELLANY.

The venerable Earl Grey will complete his 80th year
tosnaorrow, (Wednesday.)
A meeting of all the County Bankers in England is
summoned to meet in London to-morrow.
Mrs. Fawcett has been deprived of her widow's pension,
thesebec her husband (the late Lieut.-Col. Fawceett) fell
in duel with Lieut. Munro.
POISONING By MISTAKE. Mr. Collingwood, of
Market Itasen, was poisoned on Sunday week, by taking
a dose of muriate of morphine, in mistake for magnesia.
elOn Wednesday night last the Earl of Zetland was
ected
?ear, grand master of the freemasons for the ensuing
°a Sunday week, a boy of the name of Matthew Hod-
son had his collar-bone broken by a snowball, whilst oc-
cupied in a snow-balling engagement in hendal.
e R
RA.TRICALS AT BRIGHTON.—On Monday evening
nouse opened to fifteen persons in the pit, twoin the
axes , and two in the gallery ! There was no perform-
ance, and the money was returned to the audience!
tsBB Samuel Lover, the " painter, poet. and musician,"
" been for some time engaged in preparing an entertain-
naetntisimilar to those which Mr. Wilson has rendered so
tti.oi?Pular- It is to be devoted to the elucidation and illus.
of Irish melody.
c oYAL AILMENTS.—King Otho has been very ill, in
soßnaequence of hav in' r, ea ten freely of stewed hare, cooked
ymdirty copper,inwhich virdigris had formed. The
P
ehau3ros Were mild. The Duke of Cambridge is afflict.
c
with the gout in his knee, which confines him to his
mber.
There are 587 poor-law onions in England and Wales,
19414 of which there are chaplains ; and if London, Man-
cchester, Liverpool, and one or two other places, are ex-
elated, it appears that the average salary enjoyed by those
ex-
chaplains does not exceed £37 per annum. In Liverpool,
&irtlrtoent to the chaplain is £250; in Manchester,
chapia;flan,d, in London, where they have more than one
r;""ne gross payment to them all is £4OO.
'IIIEAT PAUPER.—Preston Quarter Union Work-
lactuse' in this town (Whitehaven), has, until within the
.gt-Setatfest da Y, been the residence of p.ro:bably one of the
Paupers in her Majesty's dominions. This huge
Misaate of the poor-house, whose name was James Tag-
gart, died on Sunday last, in the 43d year of his age ; h e
stood six feet nine inches in height, and weighed upwards
of 20 stone Cumberland Pacquet.
SIiNaOI:EL BOOKBINDING.—LittIe did the immortal Dr.
lason imagine, that a neat pocket edition of his " Has-
would ever be bound in a rat's skin, and yet such
the fact. A youth of the name of Todd, grandson of
Jennett, stationer , of Stockton, killed one ot these
-oracio .
lie us animals a few week's since, the skin of which
cured, and, since its metamorphosis into an ornament
sor a library, 1 has excited the admiration of all who have
seen it.
c,C4 31. GE OF MURDER.—On Friday, at the Central
.rninal Court, Sarah Dickenson was tried for the murder
in.fher two children, at Deptford, on the 10th January
ast• She cut their throats, and afterwards her own, but recovered. It was proved that the family was in a very
tdeerd from setiturtere a
state, and that Mrs. Dickenson had sustained
severe fall some years back, after which she had often suf-
pain the head and wandering of mind. The
iarY acquitted her on the ground of insanity.
WE,XT.RAORDINARY ACCUSATION.—On Friday, Mr.
nae—,„\st`ead, an extensive shipbuilder, of Ipswich, and a
fete...tos..,dierr of the town council for that place, was taken be-
t Charles o cast PwetienriaLmaurie, at the Mansion-house, Lond n, in
°f an officer 'charged with havin combined with
Mari Simpson, the master oft he Colina brig,
neaAwairiatnheaet vessl, with the view of defrauding the
property for Assurance Company of the amount of
Mande which she
was insured. The case was re-
d for a week
13411 IMMENSE OTTER.—One of these destructive ani-
%:eigah tin B
day g upwards of 201b5., was captured a few
hay eauchamp.ech-hill, neThear Rearemainsding, the residence of
°• C. Be of a large jack
river, been found near a ditch communicating with the
fa.rtortif., le to the supposition that an otter was located not
mint.'
' and a trap was consequently set to catch the " var-
in
the nex e 1 tt found drowned morning t o er was
river secured by the trap, which it bad dragged
some distance into the water.
,!„ PRCLINE OF SOCIALISM.—The Rotunda, in Black-
by the
rtarsroad, London which was for some years occupied
" Rev." Robert Taylor, Carlile, and their infidel
clique, and more recently by the socialists, has at last
bee deserted, and is now shut up. A very ard struggle
tonretain it was made,—balls, concerts, blasphemous lec-
tures, refreshment-rooms, theatricals, &c., being provided.
All failed, and the socialists, having packed up their traps,
Moved off, just in time to avoid quarter-day, which is
close at hand.
ANOTHER SINGING MOUSE!—Mr. John Woodward,
baker, of St. Peter's, in the Isle of Thanet, has in his
pos-
session one of those extraordinary animals,gew,httie cihwas
caught on the premises of Dane
Court
resi-
dence of Mrs. Milner, who had heard the little animal
several times previous to
ofi tsthbeeinioghacbaiutagnhtts.
ofltthhisasple,baecen
visited by a greater part.
who expressed their astonishment
wentraitnedr
of
fdtmhs noticeiirat
admiration
hasthe
notes of the little animal.
witnessed it several times : the sounds it emits are a low
but shrill whistle, something similar to the notes of the
nightingale.—Canterbury Journal.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, left Witley
Court, Worcestershire, the residence of her Majesty the
Queen Dawager, at ten o'clock on Thursday morning,
for Droitwich, from which station her royal highness
travelled by the Gloucester and Birmingham Railway to
Birmingham and from thence proceeded to town b the
London and, Birmingham Railway. On arriving at the
ruston-square terminus, the royal duchess immediately
e!_t for her residence, Clarence House, St. James's,
lantere her royal highness arrived at half-past six o'clock
FanAYe~Her royal highness was attended by Lady
TlV.t.l°,var‘l and Colonel Sir George Cowper.
the ',,,c4t-resznic CLAIMS.—Among the many instances
interestprese„,
sf ", government's attention to the commercial
ol're duo,—
Claimsry, we are enabled to announce that
ttie p-,.,", upon France, arisinc, out of the blockade
coirucic naendic, are about to be adjusted by a mixed
tO be 13'81°110f liquidation, to sit at Berlin, with an umpire
tion
keepof
tinatd by che King of Prussia
\.l, This investiga-
e°rnulise lace immediately. Mr. ard, tine British
Pointed'l°ner, and M. Englehardt, who has been ap-
Thent, now on behalf of the French govern-
-itforni are now on their way to the Prussian capital.-
49 Herald.
SUrvic" EXPEDITION.—Mr. John Duncan, one of the
which°,rs of the late' fatal expedition to the Niger, in
to iy'ene held the post of draughtsman, is about to returns
R" stern Africa .
ents wilds m , and foll9w out
.the p.ath of discovery
• _r. Duncan is a native ot Galloway, and,
believe,
°l4 distinguished
well qualified for labours which so many of
accorn countrymen have sh )red. He will be
and NlP_anied by Mr. Moffat, from Ayrshire, a botanist,
the N• r• Wright, a liberated African, from tine banks of
this
sulbe.r,
We may have an opportunity of returning to
to Jeet, which, for want of space, we are constrained
Tadvert to thus brietly.—Dun!fries Courier.
Ibeen.„E THAMES TUNNEL.—On Wednesday, the annual
the tf.l.,"g°f the proprietors in this undertaking was held at
tun "don Tavern. From the report it appeared that the
ivarnel was opened as a public thoroughfare on the 25th of
al, eh, 1843, and that it been visited by ber Majesty
onf",_l_l.t_4l. Prince Albert gin July last. From the 25th
"Ist March up to the date of the report, 2,038,477 per-
scnis had passed through the tunnel, from whom, at a
PentlY each, an income of £8,378 2s. Pd. had been ob-
tained. In addition to that sum, £460 had been paid by
stall-keepers for permission to erect stalls for the sale of
fancy goods between the arches.
THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO FRANCE.—The Commerce
announces, that subsequently to the visit of the Queen of
England to the Chateau d'En, the King commissioned
several artists to decorate a gallery, to which his Majesty
bad given the name of " Victoria and Prince Albert Gal-
lery." The arrival of the British fleet in the road of Tre-
port, the landing, entry into Eu, the dinner, concerts, vi-
sits to the church and forest, and the re-embarkation,
form the subjects of as many pictures, which are to figure
ofitnuetsheEntglish gallery, with the busts, portraits, and sta-
young Queen
principal personages who accompanied the
MURDER OF AN ENGLISHMAN IN PARIS.—We read in the Siecie:—" A horrible crime was committed on
Thursday evening, at six o'clock, in tile Rue de Londres.
An Englishman residing in that street, No. 40, was assas-
sinated in his apartment by blows from logs of firewood
(a coup du buches.) The porter of the house had been
arrested. It is supposed that the assassins expected to
find a large sum of money which was said to have been
received during tine day." On inquiry at the house as to
the truth of the above, we were informed that the main
fact is true, but that the porter had not been arrested. As
to other details, nothing positive has vet been suffered to
transpire by the police authorities, whose agents are on
the spot. The name of the victim was Ward. He occu-
Bied an apartment on the first floor.—Galignani.
EXTRAORDINARY LONGEVITY.—We some time ago
mentioned the fact of a female, an idiot, residing in Strath-
glass, having reached the extraordinary age of upwards of
8 century. This human link between the past and pre-
cieriteat has, within the last few days, yielded to the stroke of
h.
, One old neighbour, aged 96, and several who have
reached 90 years, remember " Fionagal gorach," or
childiah Flora," as a grown-up woman when they were
en, and estimate her age at 120 years at least. She
retained
approlaaecrhicnognsciousness to the last, and was aware of
tier
dissolution. For many years she mi-
d
:vgrisaitteed.through the country, obtaining a pittance by card-
the wool belonging to the country people whom sine
During the last ten years she had been supported
all the assistance and sympathy of her neighbours • and
viler her case became known to Lord and Lady Lovat,'
/..,°.ish Flora wanted none of the necessaries of life.—
,meress Herald.
Cttir
for .ar FOOT-RACE FOR £2oo.—The great foot-race
jo'l4-100 a side, between Jenkinson, the London Stag, and
day Smith, the Regent-street Pet, came off on Wednes-
naile, at Sutton. The distance chosen was a quarter of a
rutft: and as both men have acquired great celebrity as
ther.:",
wa and very heavy sums depended upon the result,
vvit„' s a large assemblage of sporting men present to
haC ass the race. the betting opened at 6t04 on Smith, '
to 2,sothe time of starting approached the odds increased
ranged 1, and no takers. Preliminaries having been ar.-
lieu, •at half-past three o'clock the men were in, reach-
took t,nn on the signal being given went off.. The Stag
for theee lead at a great pace, his opponent lying close up
absess, first 300 yards, at tine end of which the men were
rate. of each other. The struggle for the lead was first-
dashelOien, amidst the cheers of his friends, the Stag
Workby away from his opponent,r maintained the lead, and
fou
yards.