The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-08-08 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY

In the Clifton Zoological Gardens, a pointer bitch is
now suckling a young leopard.
A field of wheat was cut in the neighbourhood of Ips-
wich last week.

The price of whiskey at the several distilleries in Cork
has been fixed at ss. 9d. per gallon.
Lord J. Russell paired off with Sir H. Douglas against
the Scotch Church Bill.
THAMES TUNNEL.—Forty thousand four hundred and
fifty-nine persons passed through last week.
On Friday last a fine young woman leaped off Waterloo
Bridge into the river Thames, and sank in a few minutes.
The Government rum contract, for 100,000,000 gallons,
half East and half West India, has been taken at Is. 54d.
per gallon.
Professor Lee, of Edinburgh, the greatest of modern
linguists, acquired his chief knowledge of languages whilst
working at his trade as a carpenter.
A contract has been entered into by two influential
firms—one in London, the other at Liverpool--to con-
vey 5,000 poor emigrants to Australia.
Within the last few days, between fifty and sixty lambs
have been found dead upon the Sedbergh Fells, which had
apparently been worried either by a dog or by foxes.
On Thursday evening a dinner was given to Sir B.
Brodie, at which a medal was presented to him in honour
of his resigning the surgeoncy of St. George's Hospital.
Government has made a grant of £l6O to each officer
of the Canadian provincial forces engaged in the war of
1812.

We regret to hear that Mr. Matthew Paterson, dyer, of
Halifax, has been obliged to suspend payment. The
liabilities are stated to be above £20,000.
A lady died the other day in one of the carriages on the
Blackwall Railway, it was supposed from exertion in
mounting the stairs to obtain her ticket.
Mr. Black has retired from the editorship of the
Morning Chronicle, which he conducted for many years
with great talent, knowledge, industry, and success.

The accounts from Staffordshire are rather more favour-
able ; iron may be quoted about ten shillings per ton
better.

A reward of £lOO has been offered by Government for
the apprehension of Joseph Dobson, the murderer of his
father, at Mount Tabor, near Halifax,

The Fanny, a vessel belonging to Preston, was lost last
week. The captain was saved, but two of the crew were
lost.

On Wednesday, a porter at the Stoke Prior Station was
run over by a train on the Birmingham and Glocester
Railway, and so much injured, that his death was occa-
sioned thereby.

Last week, Mr. Cobbold, Broughton Park, Edinburgh,
received from a friend in Colchester, through the post-
office, a couple of live snakes, being the second time such
a fare has been conveyed through this medium.

The small steamer lately placed on Loch Katrine, for
the accomodation of tourists, was scuttled and sunk, a
few nights ago, by the boatmen, with whose profits it
interfered.

Between the 21st and 27th ult. there entered France
from England—at Boulogne, 1314 travellers and 5 car-
riages ; and at Calais, 634 travellers, 2 horses, and 10

carriages

Sir C. Nightingale, Bart., who died suddenly the
other day, has left the whole of his property to his
medical attendant, Dr. Greville, to the exclusion of his
own family.

On Friday week the wheels of the mail coach which runs
between Andover and Southampton, took fire in conse-
quence of not being properly greased before starting. The
coachman refused to continue the journey.
THE OPERATIVE FRAMEWORK-KNITTERS. ---• After
much struggling, the poor framework-knitters have ob-
tained a government pledge for an inquiry into their
alleged grievances.—Dublin Mercury.
At a petty sessions, held at Morpeth, a few days ago,
there were no less than forty shopkeepers, innkeepers,
and others, summoned and fined for having in their pos-
session imperfect weights, measures, and balances.

We understand that Mr. Banks Stanhope, of Revesby,
Lincolnshire, gave 200 guineas to Mr. Parkinson of Ley
Fields, near Newark, for his bull calf, Cramer, which won
the prize at Doncaster on Wednesday.
COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.—We understand that
Mr. H. Wallack has become the lessee of Covent-garden
Theatre, which will be opened under the new management
in the latter end of September.—Morning Chronicle.
At a special meeting of the Leeds town council, last
week, Mr. John Arthur lkin, solicitor, was appointed
town-clerk and clerk of the council, at a salary of £650
per annum, vice Mr. Edwin Eddison, resigned.

A LIBERAL LANDLORD.—At last weeks collection of
rents upon the Perth estates, Lord Willoughby d'Eresby
granted to all his tenantry, without distinction, an abate-
ment of 22A per cent.
In the county of Cornwall there are 370,000 inhabi-
tants, 10,000 of whom are miners, and 70,000 teetotallers ;
and of this large body there were but five prisoners for
trial at the last assizes ! Thus abstinence lessens crime
and abates misery.

We have to announce that Lord Stuart de Rothsay, the
English Ambassador at the Court of St. Petersburgh, is
about to be recalled, and his Lordship's place in that capi-
tal is to be supplied by the Duke of Beaufort. —Court
journal.—[This is denied in a provincial paper.]
A convict, in Cambridgeshire county gaol, committed
suicide on Friday week in his cell, by mist en ling himself
from a bar above the door with his braces and stockings.
He was under sentence of transportation for fifteen years
for an assault upon his wife with intent to murder her.
An insurance was effected at Lloyd's, last week, by.
Messrs. Cavan, Brothers, on behalf of the colony of De-
merara, on 24,783 dollars, being the savings during five
years of 230 Hill Coolies, who are on their return from
Guiana to Calcutta.

The Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, which
numbers upwards of 1600 members of the legally-qualified
of the medical profession in every locality of the kingdom,
held its eleventh anniversary on Wednesday and Thursday
last, at Leeds.
A SINGING MOUSE.—A mouse has been recently
caught that possesses the surprising faculty of imitating
the notes of the nightingale and various other birds with
perfect ease and fluency. It is in the possession of parties
in London.

A BAPTIST BISHOP.—A contemporary records that at
the annual meeting of the Baptist College, held on Wed-
nesday, in Westgate Chapel, Bradford, " Mr. Thomson,
Bishop of the first Baptist Church, Hull, read the Scrip-
tures and prayed I"

A public meeting was held in Ulverstone, last week, for
the purpose of effecting a reduction in the price of milk.
The object has been accomplished, and the farmers have
agreed to charge for skim milk, Id. and new milk aid per
quart. _

Several thrifty wives, on the occasion of a recent bank
failure in Leicestershire, wished to "prove" for notes of
the broken bank, which they had hoarded unknown to
their husbands ; but the commissioner told them they
must send their liege lords.

Mr. Escott gave notice in the House of Commons, on
Monday last, of his intention to move that it be an in-
struction to the Committee of the Turnpike Bill to ex-
empt from the payment of toll all vehicles conveying ma-
nure.

EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT.—On Thursday last, a
horse drawing a chaise in Southwark started off at full
gallop and jumped on an iron post at the corner of a
street with such force as to rip its stomach completely
open. The animal died in a few minutes.
The troop-ship Alert, belonging to the Admiralty, was
wrecked on the 4th ult. off County Harbour, near Goose
Island, about 80 miles from Halifax, whilst on a voyage
from that port to England. She had 25 seamen, along
with 200 soldiers and 95 women and children, all of whom
were saved. The total loss is said to exceed £20,000.

The Standard, alluding to the fact of the Anti-corn law
League having been in habit of ordering thousands of
copies of their favourite newspapers, says, " this is the
way in which some of the Liberal journals have contrived
for some time past to increase their circulation: the fact,
however, has been long known in London.
PROSPECTS OF THE HARVEST.—" One who has whis-
tled at the Plough," says, in an article in the Morning
Chronicle, of Thursday last, that judging from the ap.
pearance of the crops, as seen from the line of railway
from London to Liverpool, there is a prospect of penny
loaves being bigger than ever.
A man of the name of Henry Hendery, and a young
woman named Hannah Sancto, threw themselves into the
river Medway, near Rochester, the week before last. It
appeared at the inquest that the parties were to have been
married, but that some obstacle was raised. They were
found clasped in each others arms.
The carpet trade of Kidderminster is now, and has
been for some months past, in a most excellent state.
There is scarcely a loom unemployed, and the men are
now pressed by their masters for work, instead of, as at
this time last year, when the masters were pressed by their
men to give them work.
DEATH ON DARTMOOR.—Last Tuesday week, a far-
mer's boy went to look for some cattle on Dartmoor; he
was overtaken with sudden rain and tempest, and the
mist was so thick that he could not find his way home.
It was not until Saturday last that he was found, and then
he was quite dead.—West of England Conservative.

It is said that the head of an eminent fancy goods' firm
in the city, recently exchequered for participation in the
custom house frauds, has absconded, after many futile
attempts to obtain a compromise from the government,
and for which he is said to have offered a ♦ery considerable
sum.—Globe.

EDUCATION.—A committee of the Wesleyan Metho-
dists' conference has been appointed to report upon the
means of diffusing " sound Scriptural and useful" know-
ledge by the establishment of additional week-day schools.
The Rev. R. Newstead, J. Dixon, C. Prest, and J. New-
ton, with Mr. T. Farmer, are among the members of the
committee. The number of children at present educated
at the day schools of the Wesleyan body is 20.804; at the
Sunday schools, 401,383; at an expense for the whole of
£:21,167 7s. 2d.

FATAL. COLLISION AT SEA.-At midnight, on Satur-
lay week. the Concord of Teignmouth, hound from
ort (Wales) to that place, was run down of Padstow,
id and rain. by the John Esdaite, CO tons
bound to Biistol. Captain fleet c
men were btlow

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