The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-17 00:00:00

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A vessel has arrived in London from Calcutta, with
800 sacks of flour.

A verdict of the coroner's jury on the body of Mrs.
Armitage attributed her• death to congestion of the lungs.
The Sheffield Mercury has ceased to be published, and
is incorporated with the Sheffield Times.
The Surrey Theatre is in such a state of decadence that
the scenery, " properties," costumes, decorations, &c.,
have been brought to the hammer.

On Wednesday, Holland's extensive flour mills, situate
at Stanley Bridge, Fulham, were totally destroyed by fire.
The loss is estimated at £5OOO.

A. vessel, named the Queen, has arrived in London,
from Lisbon, with an entire cargo of grapes, comprising
1319 boxes. _ _

The city of London has voted an allowance of £5OO per
annum, as the salary of the medical officer appointed to
superintend the health of the metropolis.
The sale at Stowe, which terminated on Saturday week,
realised £75,495. What is to become of the mansion
and estate still remains a problem.
The splendid glass chandelier in the centre of the Sur-
rey theatre, which cost two hundred guineas, was sold on
Wednesday for only twenty-two guineas.
It is now said that £12,000 a year will be saved to the
Duke of Buckingham out of his estates, and that the
Marquis of Chandos will succeed to £30,000 a year.
A Chartist, named Wynne, has been committed for
trial, charged with attempting to shoot Policeman Cor-
nick, at Queenhithe.
Five persons, who evidently caught the cholera in
Hamburg, have died in Hull, but the pestilence has not
broken out in any part of the town.

No less than three women were, on Wednesday sen.,
brought before the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion-house,
charged with attempts at self-destruction.
A MAN TO BE PITIED.—The Rev. H. Butler, the in-
cumbent of Wantage, Berks, has forbid the Church Mis-
sionary Society to hold its auxiliary meetings in that town.
A disease has appeared amongst swine in the neigh-
bourhood of Hull, which is attributed to the excessive
quantity of diseased potatoes that have recently been
given to them.
THE CHOLERA IN ENGLAND.—The epidemic has ap-
peared in London, Woolwich, Hull, Sunderland, and
Edinburgh. The greatest number of cases have occurred
in London.

On Friday night week the mansion of G. Pritchard,
Esq., situate at Broseley, Shropshire, was broken into,
and a large quantity of silver plate and other valuable pro-
perty stolen, amounting in value to upwards of £2OO.
Nineteen acres of land, rather more than a mile from
the town of Wisbech, were sold by auction on the sth
inst. for the large sum of £2,260, being nearly £ll9 per

acre.
The copyright of the Musical Times was brought to the
hammer on Friday, and was purchased for £1,710. The
publication realizes a clear income, after paying all ex-
penses, of £l,OOO a-year.
- The Oxford Chronicle mentions that terror was caused
to the inhabitants of Folly Bridge, where Friar Bacon
once studied, by the appearance of a ghost. A large party
gave chase, but the apparition fled, jumped into a boat,
and escaped down the Isis.
A LAZY DEFENCE.—At the Plymouth Police Court last
week, a boy, charged with playing pitch and toss on Sun-
day, said he was innocent, as he always lay in bed on
Sundays. This defence was, on inquiry, found to be li-
terally true.
A CHAIRMAN'S WEDDING.—On Tuesday one of the
United Brotherhood of Wheel-chairmen entered the bonds
of Hymen with the object of his affections. The "happy
couple" went to church in two wheelchairs, and returned
in one !—Gloucester Chronicle.
MAN ON FIRE.—At Exeter. last week, a workman ac-
cidentally broke a bottle of turpentine in his trousers'
pocket. Happening to come in contact with a light, his
saturated clothes took fire, and he was so frightfully
burned that he died shortly afterwards.
THE TIMBER PLUNDERING IN THE NEW FOREST.—
The inquiry is far from approaching a close, and a party
most seriously implicated has absconded. The officers
have found timber irregularly" obtained at the north-
ern yards and at Jersey.
ENGLISH TOLL-GATES.--A CONTRAST.—From Wor-
cester to Bromyard Downs, a distance of fourteen miles,
the charge for a horse and gig is two shillings—from Wor-
cester to Birmingham, twenty-six miles, it is only nine-

pence !
The moderately careful and the courageous have no-
thing to fear from the closest contact with cholera pa-
tients. In Hamburg the cholera nurses are perhaps the
only persons who never take cholera. They are familiar
with it in all its stages, and are not afraid of it.
On Sunday, two boys, named William and Thomas
Dennis, the one aged eleven and the other sixteen years,
sons of Thomas Dennis, tailor, Sheffield, fell into the
river Dun, where it is crossed by the Wicker Viaduct, and
were drowned.
EXTRAORDINARY YlELD.—During the past summer
Mr. George Parsons, Mount-pleasant, Redditch, gathered
from one grain of wheat, planted in his garden, forty
stalks, which yielded the enormous quantity of two thou-
sand two hundred and twenty grains of very fine red wheat.
James M'Wheelan has been sentenced at the Ayr
Circuit Court to death, for the murder and highway rob-
bery of one James Young, in the Blackhill-road in that
county. The watch belonging to the deceased was found
on the person of the prisoner the day after the murder,
and his clothes were stained with blood.
NOVEL APPLICATION OF SCIENCE TO THE ARTS.--
Abandoned females in London, and dexterous thieves,
have adopted a novel mode of robbery. First forcibly
embracing with their arms the destined victim, a hand-
kerchief imbued with chloroform is pressed against his
nostrils ; and with his senses disappear also his valuables!
Durnionix CASTLE.—N 9 less than 90 tons weight of
superb furniture lately arrived at Dunrobin Castle, from
London, and amongst other things, two carpets, each of
which cost £5OO. These preparations are convincing
proofs that her Majesty and Prince Albert purpose visiting
Dunrobin next season.
The accounts from Scotland, regarding all crops, in-
cluding potatoes, are most encouraging. The rapid ad-
vance of agricultural science in that country is well wor-
thy of imitation. The small decrease in the produce of
the income-tax (£25,000) is a proof that the general trade
of the country is not so very had.
A few days since, an aged insolvent was discharged by
an order of the judge of the Taunton county court, after
he had been imprisoned during eight years at the suit of
his own son, to whom he had given a note of hand for
£5O, which he failed to pay, after he had assigned all his
property, worth about £l,OOO, to his children.
The National Guards of Havre have honoured the Mayor
of Southampton with a French invitation—to come and
dine with him. The offer was accepted, and the martial
visitors having been forwarded by rail to London, ate
roast beef at Mr. Douglas Jerrold's. chop-house,, where
they Kaye as a toast, " the fratexalty. Qf nations.'