The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-01 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

Lord John Russell has declined to make public the
number of stamps issued to each newspaper.
The other woman stabbed by the infuriated man at
Leeds has since died.

There is not a single French merchant ship which mea-
sures 700 tons.

Mr. and Mrs. Cobden left Paris on Thursday, for the

Pyrenees

THE IMPORT DUTY ON CORN is now at the maximum
figure—viz., 10s. per quarter.
Twenty-one operas and thirteen ballets were produced
at the Italian Opera. London, during the Fist sea,on.
A bathing machine has been ordered for her Maje.•ty's
use at Medebole, under Osborne. A tramway is also or-
dered to be made for it.

The proprietors of the Daily Newt have resolved to
publish every evening an edition of their paper, to be
called The Express. The publication willcommence to-day.
The lead ore miners of Alston Moor, Allendale, and
Weardale, have env.ged the services of an oculist, at the
rate of sixpence per man per annum.
The number of soldiers in rrceipt of pensions is above
50,000. The in-door pensioners of Chelsea Hospital are
about 500.

The Bank of England has reduced the rate of interest
on bills not having more than thr... rn nrst to :..w, 4.
three per cent.. f:•um three-and-a.helf per cent.
A pal;centan was dismissed from the Birmingham fOrce
last week, because he refused to go down a lane which was
on his bear, where he said he had seen his uncle's ghost.

LONGEVITY.—Mrs. Febys, of North Driffield, near
Howden, had twenty-two children, nineteen of %horn
attained tl,.?ir majority, and the united ages of eight of the
survivors is 600 Nears.

Mr. Matthew Pearson, the oldest inhabitant of the
town of Knaresborougl►, is now in the 111th year of his
age, and, wonderful to relate, notwithstand ng his great
age. he continues in full possession of his faculties.
THE'Mooas.—Mr. Campbell, of Monzie, on the 21st
current, bagged on the hill of Monzie, 191 brace of grouse,
one black cock. one snipe, one duck, one rabbit, and 24
hares ; in all 410 head of game.
THE MAILS FOR BRAZIL, BUENOS AYRES, AND
MONTE VIDEO, w►ll henceforth be made up in London
on the evening of the 4th of every month, except when
the 4th happens on Sunday, when they will be made up
on the follow ng evening.

The Hurdle Match for 1000 guineas, at Hereford races,
betwten Capt. Neville's The Miser's Son (01liver), and
Capt. Williams's L'merick (Scott), was won by the latter.
13,-ttiog . 2 to 1 on The Miser's Sun, who was defeated by

a head

CURIOUS RAT TRAP.—A day or two since a large rat,
not being much accustomed to railways, at tempted to crow
the Notingham and Lincoln line, near Burton Joyce, as
a train was passing. Toe poor animal was severed cum-
ph-tely in two.—Nottinuhom Journal.
AMSRICAN ICe.--The ;lb.:Tins, from Boston, has ar-
rived in the Thames, with a cargo of 900 tons of Wen-
ham Lake ice, to tollow the bazaar just cleared. Its
market price, in consequence of the frequent importa-
tions, is now reduced to £8 per ton.
At Southampton, en Saturday. a shopkeeper was fined
Eighty Pounds for having 20,Abs of gunpowder on his
premises mote than the law permits. Ti:e informer is
the I indlord of the premises, who will receive half the

penalty.
A public meeting was held at Doncaster, on Monday,
called by the mayor. for the purpose of memorialising the