The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-06-03 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY:

The Lieut. Governor of the Isle of Man is so ill that
little hope is entertained of his recovery.
A part of Dublin-street, Edinburgh, under which la-
bourers are excavating the tunnel from Scotland-street to
Princes-street, fell in on Thursday.
The Harlestone Association for the Protection of Pro-
perty, regularly keeps bloodhoundefor the purpose of de-
tecting sheep-stealers.

It is rumoured that the Parliamentary session will close
about the middle of July, and that her Majesty desires
that such should be the case.

Mr. Austin, Queen's counsel, stated that strawberries
were sent from Cologne to Manchester, and that water-
cresses were imported by the ton !

Messrs. Penn and Son, engineers, Greenwich, have re-
ceived orders from the King of the French to construct a
pair of engines, with the screw propeller, for a new iron
yacht, building in France.

A London cabman has been committed for manslaugh-
ter, for having run over and killed a man named Holt by
a light cart, which the cabman was driving at a furious
rate.

A verdict of manslaughter has been returned against
Dr. Hunter, a London physician, for having caused the
death of a young woman through improper treatment.
The doctor has disappeared.

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According to the report issued on Wednesday, there
were 8,922 petitions against the Maynooth Bill, signed by
1,121,470 persons. There had been no petition in favour
of the grant since the last report.
On Wednesday last some workmen found, in a cleft of
a transept of the Glasgow Cathedral, a stuffed fish with a
ring in its nose, which is supposed to have lain there at
least 300 or 400 years.

Mr. Emerson Tennent, it is said, has been appointed to
succeed Sir Colin Campbell as Governor of Ceylon. Lord
Chichester, son of the Marquis of Donegal, is likely to
succeed Mr. Tennent in the representation of Belfast.
A fellow named Norton is in custody in London, charged
with a most brutal attempt to murder his wife on Monday
night last, by beating her on the head with a poker. The
poor woman lies in a hopeless state.

A young lady at Crediton, Devonshire, Miss Ann Par.
tridge, destroyed herself a few days ago by swallowing
oxalic acid. The act was induced by nervous depression
caused by an improper assault committed upon her by a
young man now undergoing imprisonment for the offence.
CURIOUS ACCIDENT.—Last week a spark from the en-
gine on the Birmingham and Derby Railway fell upon
some straw in a carriage attached, in which were twenty
pigs. The carriae wa set on r, and all the pis were
rendered unfit for sales ;
five were so much injured that
the owner killed them.

SUSPENSION OF A CLERGYMAN.—On Saturday, the
Court of Arches sentenced the Rev. John Jones, vicar of
Halrsowen, near Birmingham, for tao years to be de-
prived from doing duty, and from the receipts of the
emoluments of the rectory for the space of two years, and
condemned in all the costs, for improper conuuct.
OUR WOODEN WALLS.—The naval force of Great Bri-
tain consists of 680 ships of war, carrying from 1 to 120
guns each. Of this number, there are 125 armed steam-
vessels constructed on the most approved principles. This
immense fleet employs in time of peace 23,000 able-ho lied
seamen, 2,000 stout lads, and 94 companies of Royal Ma-

EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR.—OD Tuesday &at a
young man and woman who had hired an apartment the
previous evening at a public-house in Cross-street, Lea-
ther-lane, London, attempted to commit suicide by swal-
lowing oxalic acid. The poison proved fatal to the wo-
man, and she died in a few minutes after she had taken it.
Her lover, for such he turns out to be, survives, as the
poison did not take effect upon him.

FREE TRADE CONSISTENCY.-It is wonderful how
free traders wish the principle of free trade to be applied
in every case except to the particular article in which they
deal. Our contemporary, The Tyne Mercury, is a speci-
men of the genus. He wishes free trade in corn, free
trade in sugar, and free trade in we don't know what be-
sides ; but there is one thing should not be touched and
that is coal, because, we presume, the price of that ar-
ticle affects the pocket of himself or some of his friends.
A man who had been entrapped into poaching on Prince
Albert's grounds, was last week sentenced at Windsor,
after conviction on the evidence of the Prince's keepers,
to four months' imprisonment—a sentence as unjust as il-
legal. The Prince himself appears to have thought so, for
after the man had been imprisoned a day or two, his
Royal Highness transmitted to the proper authorities the
amount of fine and expenses (above £10) and the captive
was forthwith released.

BITE OF AN ADDER.—On Tuesday a youth named
Hesketh, in crossing the fields from Hampstead, was sud-
denly bitten in the lower part of the leg by an adder,
which lay concealed in the grass. The youth took no no-
tice of the occurrence for some time, when his leg began
to swell most alarmingly, causing acute pain ; he was in-
stantly sent home by his employer in a cab, when medi-
cal aid being obtained the effect of the poison was neu-
tralized, and the youth is gradually recovering.
Ala. C. MATHEWS AND HIS CREDITORS.—On Satur-
day week a dividend of Is. Bd. in the pound was declared
under the estate of Mr. C. Mathews, arising from a por-
tion of his professional earnings being set aside for the
creditors. The debts proved amount to upwards of
£6,000. The payment of a part of Mr. Mathews's in-
come jointly with his wife's will be continued, and now
that the debts have been ascertained the creditors will be
paid as the funds are placed in the hands of the official
assignee.

HORRIBLE ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday, on board the
sloop Jane, Mrs. Skelton, wife of Robert Skelton, master
of the vessel, became the unconscious cause of the death
of her youngest son, a lively infant of ten months, who
was playing upon the bed in the cabin, while she was at-
tending to her domestic duties, when the bow of her cap
string caught the trigger of a loaded fowling piece which
had been hung up in the cabin, and caused the instarita•
neous discharge of its contents upon her smiling babe,
who only lived for about half an hour.—Hull Herald.
PROCESSION OF THE HOST IN ENGLAND.—On Sunday
week was revived at Nottingham, the idolatrous popish
ceremony of elevating the host, and carrying it in pro-
cession. This (as the ministering priest did not fail to tell
his hearers,) is the first attempt of the kind made in Eng-
land since the reformation. The occasion of this shame-
ful proceeding, was the opening of a large chapel in that
town, and the solemnization was pro hac vice, performed
within the chapel, but it will not long remain in obscurity.
It will soon take the air. The affair is minutely de-
scribed, even in Conservative Journals, as a " grand
Roman Catholic ceremony."
DISTRESSING ACCIDENTS FROM THE INCAUTIOUS
USE OF FIRE-ARMS.—On Friday last a youth named
Crouch went out with a fowling-piece in the neighbour-
hood of Sand with, Cumberland, and by some unaccounta-
ble circumstance the gun accidentally went off, and the con.
tents lodging in his head, he expired almost immediately.
On the same night, and in the same neigh bon rhood, a
daughter of the Rev. Mr. Jenkins, aged 14 years, took up
a powder flask, which she imprudently took near the can-
dle, when a spark from the latter ignited the powder in
the flask, which :exploded, sadly mutilating the hand of
the young lady. Her face is very much burnt, and it is
not yet ascertained whether her sight is lost or not. On
Saturday she was extremely ill, and may be said to be in
a very dangerous state.
SPIRITS.—It appears from a parliamentary return that
the total quantity of foreign brandy retained for home
consumption in Great Britain amounted, in 1844, to
1,007,527 gallons, against 1,023,219 in the year 1843; and
the whole quantity of geneva, or foreign gin, to 13,119
gallons, against 12,448 gallons in 1843 (imperial measure.)
In 1841 the consumption of brandy was only 494,716
gallons, since which period it has gradually risen to
1,000,000 gallons per annum. On the other hand, the
consumption of foreign gin has decidedly fallen off; for,
when as there were 149,302 gallons retained for home
consumption in 1814, it appears that at present the con-
sumption is only about 1-12th of that quantity. The
quantity of proof spirits distilled during the year 1844
amounted--in England, 10. 5,433,813 gallons, paying a
duty of X 3,225,155 ; and in Scotland, 8,321,306 gallons,
paying a duty of X 1,085,873.