The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-25 00:00:00

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Vast numbers of wild ducks and geese have made their
appearance in the marshes on the banks of the Trent.
George Hudson, Esq., is to lay the foundation stone of
the new docks at Sunderland.

On Wednesday,. Mr. Staniforth, solicitor, of Sheffield,
expired at his office in a fit of apoplexy.
Mr. Thomas Dunemnbe, by the death of his father,
comes in for £200,000; and pays off debts to the amount
of £BO,OOO, by insurances.
So great is the difficulty of transport in Russia, that the
Russian corn we have been eating this year (1847) is not
the crop of last year, but of 1845.
A renter's share in Drury-lane Theatre, formerly worth
£5OO, was on Thursday knocked down at the Auction
Mart in London for £7O.

The widow of the late Dr. Parr, the celebrated scholar,
died at Kenilworth on the 13th inst., at the advanced age
of eighty-two.

Afine nosegay, composed of wallflowers and auriculas,
all grown in the open air, was gathered last week at Hud-
dersfield.
The Roman Catholic clergy of Newcastle have memo-
rialised the Pope to allow the bishops to be elected by the
ecclesiastics.

It is said that chloroform has been successfully used
for opening oysters, as a little of it applied to their shells
causes them gradually to open.
A fiat in bankruptcy has been issued against Messrs.
Batson and Son, of Dudley, in the iron trade. The ob-
ligations are only £lO,OOO.
One of the Swiss Jesuits who have been expelled from
Friburg, arrived on Stonyhurst on Monday, and two
others are expected at the same establishment.
At the Hereford Guildhall, lr.st week, the magistrates
decided that bushes were agricultural produce, within the
meaning of the act, and therefore exempt.from toll.
The inhabitants of Nottingham, Leicester, and other
towns, are about to hold public meetings, and petition
parliament in favour of a national poor-rate.
The export list of sherries from Cadiz during the year
1847 is stated at 31,602 butts, showing a decrease of 1,094
butts as compared with 1846.
At a meeting of the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh, Dr.
Candlish intimated his final determination to resign his
connexion with the College as Professor of Theology,
and to confine himself to his ministry.

LONDON TIME.—In Bristol, and several other places,
some of the public clocks are provided with two minute-
hands, for the purpose of distinguishing the local from
the railway or London time.
Defalcations to the extent of £4OOO, or some other
considerable amount, are said to have taken place at the
Glasgow Post-office, and an official inquiry is at present
being instituted.
Considerable numbers of weavers in Barnard Castle are
still out of employment. An effort is being made to get
up a subscription for the purpose of affording them tem-
porary relief.
The insolvent court has refused to re-hear the case of
Mr. Alderman Johnson, whose bank failed some time
ago, and who was refused his certificate. None of the
creditors opposed the last application.
On Thursday a public meeting, convened by the
Mayor, was held in Leeds, when resolutions were passed
deprecating any increase in the army. The court house,
in which the meeting was held, was crowded.
The total quantity of sherry wine exported from Spain
during the past year, was 31,602 butts, showing a de-
crease of 1,094 butts, as compared with the exports in
1846.

On Tuesday, a fire broke out in the cabin of the Viceroy
steamer, trading between Dublin and Glasgow, by which
the beautiful furniture and fittings were destroyed. The
goods in the after hold will be much damaged.
A NOVEL REMEDY FOR THE TOOTHACHE.—SeveraI
parties, on being troubled with the toothache, have filled
the open cavity with Gutta Percha, which they first
melted. They state that the remedy is a most effectual
one.

Elizabeth White, a pauper, whose settlement is at
Exeter, committed an assault on Alderman Sidney, M.P.,
on Ludgate-hill, on Wednesday, in order, as she declared,
that she might be sent to prison in preference to a work-
house.

A strange story, copied from the Bath Journal, has
been going the round of the papers of a professional gen-
tleman having, in consequence of his wife dreaming it,
found' £l6O sewed up in an old deceased Irdy's stays. to
whose effects he has lately been called upon to administer.

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which originally appeared in a Bath paper, that some
Wesleyan ministers, near Bridgewater, have become
Puseyites. As we hinted in copying the paragraph,
" there is not a word of truth in the whole paragraph., '
NIGHT POACHING.—IMPORTANT ORDER.—We learn
that her Majesty's Secretary of State has issued a circular
to county magistrates, ordering that persons committed
for night poaching should.be tried at the assizes, and not
at the sessions.

Among the bankrupts who have lately appeared in the
London bankruptcy court is a licensed victualler, named
Drew, who has been six times bankrupt in eleven years,
and on five occasions has not paid a farthing in the
pound.
It is a fact that there.have been already opened at the
Bankruptcy Court, in Paul-street, one-half as many fiats
in bankruptcy, during the first fourteen days of the pre-
sent month of January, as during the whole of the year
1844.—Exeter paper.
Charles Gage, one of the sufferers by the fall of the
buildings at the Euston-square Station, died on Sunday
in the University College Hospital. This makes the
second death amongst the wounded. The others are
doing well.
The cottage of a quarryman on the Edinburgh and
Northern Railway, at Lochgelly, in which were several
barrels of gunpowders, was blown up last week. The
accident was occasioned by three children, who were left
alone in the cottage, and, strange to say, they all escaped
with life.

THE ST. KATHARINE'S DocKs.—The earnings last
year were larger than any year since the opening of the
docks. The increase of trade over 1846 amounted to 724
vessels. 190,857 tons. The dividend was therefore not
reduced, as had been anticipated. It will be 2 per cent.
for the half-year.

FEVER IN LONDON.—The unusual prevalence of fever.
In London is shown by the fact that during the last thir-
teen weeks it has been fatal to 1208 persons ; whereas in
the early part of last year, and generally in former years,
only about one-third of this number died of it during the
same length of time.
THE NEW AMERICAN STEAM-PACKETS.—On Tuesday
the America, one of the new line of steam-packets, having
received her engines, left Napier's wharf, Glasgow, and
the Niagara, belonging to the same line, immediately
took her place. The America has spacious accommoda-
tion, and is beautifully fitted up.
The largest wine cask that has ever entered the port of
London has been landed in the St. Katherine's Docks, by
a vessel which has arrived from Cadiz. This immense
cask is supposed to contain about 500 gallons of sherry ;
but the customs officers at the docks were somewhat
puzzled to gauge it, as the rules in daily use are not cal-
culated for such large vessels.
Among the domestic inventions of the day is a " Baby
Jumper, or Infant Gymnasium, by means of• which in-
fants of three months old may exercise and.amase them-
selves. This must indeed be a useful " matrimonial
basket" to mothers whose attention is incessantly re-
quired to the care of a family or the necessity of gaining
a livelihood.

MITIGATION OF SENTENCE.—Mr. Bethuel Hutchings,
who was convicted in 18-16, on a charge of, embeazling
public money, the value of one penny, (he then. being
postmaster of Bude Haven) and was sentenced to seven
years' transportation, has recently received a free pard.n
from the Crown, and has returned to Bode amid the con-.
gratulations of all his friends.—Corntrall Gazette.
BATH.—An awful instance of sudden death occurred in
this city on Thursday night. A gentleman named Spen-
cer, a surgeon, residing at Castle Coombe, near Chippen-
ham, was going along Dorchester-street from the Railway
Station, where he had just arrived by the train, when he
was observed to stagger, and, before assistance could be
rendered, fell upon the pavement. Mr. Spencer was
about 44 years of age, and has left a wife and family.
A few days since, a woman applied to the deputy-
coroner of Middlesex for his advice how to act, as the
corpse of one of her female relatives had been seized for
debt, and the keepers refused to deliver it to the friends
who had assembled to bury it. The deputy-coroner
counselled her to apply to the magistrates, or to leave the
body in the hands of the creditors, who would thus be
compelled to defray the expenses of its burial.
When completed, the Westminster Palace clock will be
the most powerful one in the empire. According to the
specification in eertain Parliamentary papers which have
been published, it is to " strike the hours on a bell from
quarters on
-s about 30

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feet in diameter." With the exception of a skeleton dial
at Alz.lines the above dimensions surpass those of any
other clock-face in Europe.
The Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce has petitioned,
with one dissenting voice, against the. game .laws.

that it did not fall within the scope of the chamber, as it
was not connected with commerce and manufactures.
Air.-Cowan, M.P. maintained that as game destroyed
crops, it was quite legitimate in the chamiber to entertain
what limited the supply of human food, and this view
was adopted by the meeting.