The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-12-05 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

The new organ for Chester Cathedral, which arrived
on Monday last, per railway, is said to weigh six tons.
The total sum realized for the orphan family of the late
Mr. Elton, who was drowned in the Pegasus, is £2380.
It is said that the Hon. Mrs. Norton, daughter of the
celebrated Brinsley Sheridan, is about to emigrate to
America.

Seven persons were burned to death in a farm house,
which took fire on Wednesday, in the village of Millery,
Gloucestershire.
N. C. Brown, Esq. has been appointed to the collect-
orship of customs at Beaumaris, vice William Hughes,
Esq. retiring.
The Lord Mayor of York has ordered the police of that
city to apprehend all boys or others guilty of whistling in
the streets!

According to Murphy's weather almanack for 1844, the
coldest day in the year will be the 7th of January, and the
hottest will be the 2d of August.
A Mr. Swinburn of Ardee, has contrived a table fitted
with a peculiar description of vice. which will enable shoe-
makers to work with great facility in a standing position.
The Chester town council have sanctioned the line pro-
posed by Mr. Stephenson for the Chester and Holyhead
railway, in preference to that recommended by Mr. Walker.
The Lords of the Treasury, on the recommendation of
the Board of Customs, have raised Glasgow from being a
second-class p ort to a first-class.
Raby Castle, the magnificent baronial seat of the Duke
of Cleveland, in Durham, is about to be enlarged and
otherwise improved by Mr. Burn, architect, of Edin-
burgh.
On Monday information wars received in town of the
destruction by fire of Rowdems, the mansion of Lord
Nugent, near Exeter, on the monsing of Thursday last.
The damage is stated to be at least £3,000.
Two ar three buiding yards in Sumierland, which have
been unoccupied since 1840, have been taken for the pur-
poses of ship-building, which will shortly be in full oper-
ation there. These signs of reviving trade, however small,
are gratifying.
PLEASANT' PROSPECT FOR MR. O'COV`7NELL.—Fear-
gus O'Conner, in his Northern Star of Saturday, in a
letter addressed to Mr. O'Connell, tells the great Agitator
that either repeal will be carried, or his head laid on the
block by the Ist of April next.
A Sunday or two ago, during the asking or publication
of banns, at the Collegiate Church, Manchester,- the con-
gregation were not a little astonished at the forbitiding of
two of the intendem marriages. The non-age of the par:
ties (ladies) was alleged as the cause.
The appointment of the Chief-Judgeship of Welling-
ton, New Zealand, has been conferred upon Mr. H. S.
Chapman, of the Inner Temple, who has sailed in cam_ ,
pony with the new Governor, Captain Fitzroy, late Mem-
ber for Durham.

THE LATE FATAL DULL.---The trial of Lieut. Munro
and Lieut. Grant was on Saturday postponed until the
next session of the central criminal court, in consequence
of the former gentleman being; confined to his bed with
typhus fever.
The Northampton Herald, of Saturday, reports a
speech, delivered, on Tuesday last.- by Earl Spencer, at a
dinner-given by the Mayor of Northampton, in which the
noble earl explicitly avowed himself an advocate for a
total repeal of the Corn-laws.
INHUM:MI CONDUCT.—A young- woman, named Ann
M'Cormicle, the mother of three illegitimate children,
was brought up at the Manchester Police-court on Friday,
on a charge of attempting to murder her- infant child five
months old,-by administering poison. She was committed
for trial at the assizes.
A Goon Lit A%P.—On Friday last, duritiga trial in some
fields near the Terminus of the Great Western Railway,
the steepje-chase horse Pilot cleared a space of 30 feet
10 inches, in a-leap over a brook, with a high bank and
rail on one side-of it, carrying a groom or 122 stone, be-
sides the side, &e.
A GOOD ROVlsßlac FAMILY.—An old woman., named
Susy Haigh, who-lived at Sones, in Sowerby, died on the
16th instant in the 88th year of her age, having lived to
see the fifth generation of her family, which. numbered,
exclusive of herself, 170. She had nine children, 48
grandchildren, 111' great grandchildren, and two great
great grandchildren.—Halifax Guardian.
CHESTER CATTLO- FAIR.--At the November fair, on
Thursday, the show of all kinds of stock was deficient,
and business was extremely slack. Calving heifers were
somewhat enquired after, and were worth from £3,to £ll
each. Some inferior Irish beef was shown, which sold at
about 51.1. per lb. and sink. Fat pigs were wot•th 3d.
per lb. Very few sheep were shown.
CHESTER CHEESE PAIR.—At the fair, on Wednesday
last, upwards of 300 tons were piled for sale, and about a
third of which went bad unsold. The sale was verydnt,
and at reduction of 3s. to ss. per cwt. from the last'fair.
Prices ruled generally from 455. to 60s. The increasing
yearly importations of American cheese seriously affects
the English cheese trade.
MOST REMARKABLE CDTNCIDENCE.—At the suminiag
up of the poll books at the late election at Salisbury, it
was ascertained that from the three wards into which the
borough is divided, Mr. Campbell received from each ex—
actly 106 votes, the whole amount of his poll belag 3!
Perhaps a similar kind of';coincidence is not to be, nor
never will be found in electioneering annals.
On Tuesday last Mary Ann Lacy, a young and fashion-.
ably dressed female. wife of a- respectable tradesman, waa,
brought up at the Marlborough-street Police-office, Lon--
don, and committed for trial at the Central Criminal.
Court, for having stolen a piece of silk handkerchiefs:.
while pretending to make some purchases at the shop of
a silk mercer.

TILE WHITE QUAKERS.--A, deputation from this body
has just visited London. They have been extensively
engaged in placarding the walls and boards at the west end
of town during the last week with some of their fanatical
effusions, denouncing vengeance on all but the favoured
few. Their appearance in their singular garb excites
much curiosity.

No less than three fires, to amore or less serious ex-
tent, occurred in the course of last week in Manchester.
In one case property to the amount of upwards of £lOOO
was destroyed ; and in the other cases, had it not been
for the timely arrival of the fire-brigade, the destruction
of property must have been enormous.

ATTEMPT TO BREAK INTO +KNITTSFORD GAOL.—On
Monday night, a most dating. attempt was made to gain
entrance to the treasurer's room,. in Knutsfoid House of
Correction. At the adjourned. sessions it is usual to pay
ail accounts belonging to the county, and, no doubt, the
burglars were acquainted with the fact, naturally expect-
ing that there must be a large sum of money deposited
there.

TIIR TEA TRADE, Nov. 2.—The market has been
heavy again since our last, and public sales being pressed,
are not quite supported. The consumption goes on
steadily nevertheless ; but it is-the expectation of very full
supplies that keep down prices.- The stocks at the out-
ports are much larger than at this time last year. Last
week the deliveries were 470;751b.

EXTENSIVE FAILURE AT FoapAß.—lt is our painful
duty to announce the failure,. on Thursday week, of one
of our most extensive manufacturers, in consequence of
which hundreds of our townsmen have been thrown out
of work, with little prospect of receiving other than
partial employment for some time. The other manu-
facturers in town deserve great praise for the exertions
they have made to meet the present emergency ; but it is
impossible that nearly 600 weavers can be employed until
preparations are made to receive them, which will require
time. The bankrupt's debts, it is said, amount to up-
wards of £27,000.—Montrose. Review.

SUICIDE BY A CHILD.—OS Friday last the neighbour
hood of Ketley-town was thrown into great consternation
from the following distressing circumstance :—lt appears
that a little girl, daughter of James Colley, was sent Sy
her mother to get some coal from one of the pits, and being
gone longer than usual, she was met by her brother, who
told her that she would catch it when she got home. The
child, it seems, dreaded the thought of going home, which
she did not like, because her mother, she said, was not'kiad
to her. She threw away her bonnet and pinafore, con-
trived to creep to the edge•of a pit, and threw herself into
it. The pit was 200 yards deep. When her body was•got
out it was in an emaciated state.—Shropshire Journal.
ATT.EMPTED ROBBERY AND INCENDIARISM AT MAN-
CHESTER.—On Tuesday evening last some desperate thief
or thieves obtained access to a warehouse belonging to
Messrs. Lea, Birch, and Co., Barton's-buildings, Man-
chester-street, and, having forced open several drawers,
in which, however, they did not find any booty,,they set
fire to a quantity of cotton twist and departed. The fire
mint have been discovered immediately after the villains
had decamped, for- it had not extended beyond the twist;
though, as the flames were raging beneath a wooden door,
the whole premises.were in imminent danger. The ware-
house had been. secured by the persons belonging to it
only forty minutes before the fire was discovered. The
flames were quickly subdued, and but little damage was
done. The police are actively engaged in the investiga-
tion of the affair.
ARTESIAN WELL.—The Artesian well at the Royal
Hospital, Haslar, sunk by Mr. T. Docwra, manager of
the large Artesian well now in progress for supplying
Southampton with water, has resulted in producing a
most abundant supply of water, which has been analysed
by order of the board of admiralty, and is found to be of
the purest and softest quality. What is most surprising
is, that the water rises through 125 feet of shingle and
running sand, which is full of salt water, being affected
by the tides. The trouble and difficulty in stopping the
salt water out has been entirely overcome. The quantity
of water that Mr. Docwra guaranteed to obtain was
12,961} gallons per day ; but the actual quantity obtained
from the spring, 156 feet deep, was 59,328 gallons per day.
This quantity can be pumped every day without reducing
the water in the well more than about forty feet from the
surface.—Hampshire Indepewlent,
PENINSULAR AND ORMNTAL STEAM COMPANY.—
The annual meeting of this company was held on Tuesday
last. The profit and loss account showed a balance in
favour of the company of £75,300 13s. lid. to the 30th of
September last. From this sum was deducted £14,955
13s. 6d. for the amount of the March dividend of 34 per
cent., leaving a disposable sum of £(ii01345 Os. sd. The
usual dividend of 31 per cent. was declared for the six
mouths ending on the 30th of September, and the remain-
ing undivided profits, amounting to £44,845 Os. 5d., were
carried to the reserved fund. The proposal of the com-
pany to cam the Indian mails is,according to the report,
now under the consideration of the government and the
East India Company ; but in the event of not obtaining
the mail contract, the directors state there is little hope of
a regular monllay communication between Calcutta and
Suez, as the passengers' intercourse would not be suf-
ficiently remunerating during the monsoon season,