The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-02-06 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Hull Packet states, that it is intended to establish
a line of packet ships between New York and Hull.
THE COURT.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert arrived
at Windsor on Sunday from town. The royal party re-
mained in strict privacy, in consequence of the bereave-
ment sustained by Prince Albert.
Mr. Barclay, M.P. for Sunderland, whom the League
had marked for their own, has written to several of his
constituents to say that he is opposed to a total repeal of
the corn laws, but will support a small fixed duty.
RAILWAY TO CARLISLE.—At a meeting of the Lan-
caster and Preston railway company, last week, it was
unanimously resolved to subscribe on behalf of the com-
pany, £65,000 towards the formation of the Lancaster and
Carlisle railway.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—On Saturday a large quan-
tity of earth fell upon four men engaged in an excavation
at Mansion-house-street, London. burying them beneath
the mass. Three were quickly rescued with slight inju-
ries, but the fourth was dead on being found.

LORD MoapETH.—The "Times ';'.of yesterday says,
with apparent authority, that Lord Morpeth is about to
be restored to a seat in Parliament. Capt. Howard, the
present Member for Morpeth, is about to accept the cil-
tern Hundreds, and the noble Lord is to step into his
shoes.

REVIVAL OF THE WHALE FISHERY.--The announce-
ment of nine or ten ships from the port of Hull to Green-
land and the Straits, in the ensuing season, bas already
given an impetus to preparation. The coopers are busily
employed in providing the requisite tunnage for the
adventure.

NORTH WILTS.-Mr. Edridge has come forward to
contest this division of Wiltshire with Mr. Sotheson the
conservati ie candidate. At the last contest Sir F. Bur-
dett was returned by a majority of nearly 500 over Mr.
Mathuen, who was a gentleman of great influence in the
county, while Mr. Edridge's interest is comparatively
trifling. The election is fixed for Monday next.

DEVIZES.—The nomination for this borough is fixed
for this day (Tuesday), for the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Mr. Sotheson, who is a candidate for the
representation of North Wilts. The conservative candi-
date is Mr. Ludlow Bruges, and Mr. Temple, Queen's
counsel has been induced by the radicals to contest the
borough. The Anti-corn-law League delivers lectures in
the borough, nightly.

NEW PATENTS.—Amongst the patents in the list for
the last month, is one by our towsman, Mr. Thomas
Murray Gladstone, of Swan Gaden Iron-works, Wolver-
hampton, iron-master, for certain improvements in ma-
chines for cutting or shearing iron, or other metals, which
improvements are applicable to other like purposes; and
one by Mr. Charles Cameron, of this town, chemist for
improvements in extinguishing fires in buidings.
COOL—VERY I—A person named Catlin has been com-
mitted to Huntingdon gaol for sheep-stealing, and when
in custody of the police was also accused of having ma-
liciously damaged about 250 young timber trees, growing
in a plantation belonging to Mr. John Martin, of Bury,
near Ramsey, for information of which a reward of 11
guineas was offered. The prisoner, finding that he must
go to gaol for sheep-stealing, in a very candid manner
admitted that he also damaged the trees, and has claimed
the reward as being the informer against himself.
DEATH OF THE INFANTA CARLOTA, CONSORT OF
DON FRANCISCO DE PAULA.—The postscript of the
Paris letter of Saturday evening, in the Times of yester-
day, contains the following :--" Intelligence of the death
of the Infanta Carlota, consort of Don Francisco de
Paula, and sister of the Kine of Naples, of Queen Chris-
tina, the Duchess of Bury, &c., at Madrid. This event
derives immense importance from the prospect it opens of
the marriage of her son with Queen Isabella, and the
consequent settlement of the affairs of Spain."

INCENDIARY FIRES.—On Tuesday last an incendiary
fire took place at the farm-yard of Mr. R. Butcher, at
Colne, near Cambridge. In addition to the destruction
of Mr. Butcher's premises, several adjoining dwellings
were destroyed. The loss is estimated at £2,000. One
of the earliest persons on the spot to render assistance
was Mr. Raper, the principal farmer of the place, but he
had soon to leave, as his own premises were discovered to
be on fire ; the high wind, unless another incendiary act,
having carried some of the flakes from the previous fire.
At the latter conflagration three large barns, filled with
wheat, peas, beans, &c., six large wheat stacks, two of
peas and beans, &c., the dwelling-house, furniture, &c.,
were completely destroyed. The loss it is said cannot be
less than £3,500.

BANK OF ENGLAND.—The Gazette of Friday night
contained the return of the quarterly average of the w?ekly
liabilities and assets of the Bank of England for the three
months from the 4th November to the 27th ult. We find,
on comparison with the preceding three months termina-
ting on the 30th December, that the circulation of the bank
is £19,611,000, against £19,089,000, being an increase of
£513,000 ; the deposites are £13,172,000, against
£11,751,000, being an increase of £1,421,000, and the
total of the liabilities £32,783,000; the securities are
£21,937,000, against £21,067,000, being an increase of
£870,000 ; the bullion is £13,933,000, against £12,855,000,
making the total assets, £35,873,000 ; the difference be-
tween the liabilities and assets is £3,090,000, against
£3,673,000, being an increase during the month of £27,000.
FIRST LOVE.—Ah ! that first affair, how well one re-
members it ! What a noble discovery it is that the boy
makes when he finds himself actually and truly in love
with some one ! What a delicious, magnificent secret it
is that he carries about with him ! My first love was
like my first gold watch (an elegant French gold repeater).
I used to go into corners, and contemplate and gloat over
my treasure ; to take it to bed with me, and lay it under
my pillow of nights, and wake of mornings with the happy
consciousness that it was there. What a change does that
blessed first love make in a lad ! You fall in love, say of
a Sunday ; a young woman at church modestly hands you
the psalm-book, and blushes and droops down eyes, as
she tremulously sings the Old Hundredth. By the time
the music is done, you have passed over into a new state
of existence, and your childhood lies far away from you.
It was only on Saturday that you had made a party for
cricket, and were longing for Monday to be a fine day.
It was but last Friday, Heaven bless us ! that you and
Harry Hunter had been examining curiously a certain
apple-tree in Farmer Smith's orchard, and had settled
(after knocking down one of the fruits with a stone, and
trying each of you a slice of it) that the apples would be
ripe in about a fortnight, and the tree in a fit state for
robbing. Psha ! is it possible that only three days since
you had an ambition for robbing orchards, and looked for-
ward to the pleasure of biding a store of the stolen pippins
under your bed ? Is it possible that the setting up of three
yellow stumps upon a meadow, and the dexterous knock-
ing down of them, should have been the chief ambition of
your life? There lies the cricket-ball, which you greased
carefully over night ; before going to church even, you
looked at it to examine its condition, and I believe spent
the beat part of the half-hour during sermon in the morn-
ing in cutting a pair of bales for the wickets. Evening 1
service is oser. Fanny Edwards and her mother have
slowly strolled home over the fields to tea ; and as you ,
pass by Smith's apple-tree, you blush to think that you
could ever have had a longing for the silly green codlings
shining among the leaves, and put away your wicket. sticks
in a rage. And what is the cause of all this ? You and
Fanny have been holding on by one hymn-book ; you
have done it many times these six years; but what made her
blush and you tremble-so at this time ? She is eight years
older than you (that follows, of course) ; and if there was
a humiliation for you in the world some few months back,
it was to be obliged to walk with her. You cried for rage
one day when she gave you a kiss, and called you a pretty
little boy ? after dinner, when you were told by your papa
to walk off to the ladies, 3 ou sat in the very furthest cor-
ner of the room away from her, or passed the evening
with the gardener's boy, or with Tom in the stables, or
with making ducks and drakes on the ponds,—any how
rather than with Fanny Edwards, whom you abominated
next to the schoolmaster. What a change now !—ali
gods, what a royal change ! How different is Fanny Ed-
wards !—Fraser's Magazine.

AN IRISH DEFENCE.--A man named Jeremiah
O'Leary was charged at Worship-street Police-court, on
Saturday, with robbing his landlord of 19s. 6d., and on
being asked if he had anything to say in answer to the
charge, he replied, with a penitential shrug of the should-
ers, "The divil a word, your hanour ; and it's my opinion
a great dale too much has been said as it is."
EXTRACT FROM A YANKEE "LEADER."—The New
York Herald says " the country is prosperous,—and he
who trades on the cash system, and believes in God and
women, can always live happily and get rich slowly, This
great republic is the garden of Eden among the nations.
We have nearly twenty millions of inhabitants,—one
thousand millions of dollars worth of annual produce,—
thirty or forty religions, and a new one every month,—
two hundred broken hanks,—eighty millions of specie,—
two thousand financiers not yet in the State Prisons,-
-and a quantity of fine land, high mountains, splendid
rivers, with a sun and moon, the hei4 and brightest that
ever took the great circuit of eternity.