The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-02-21 00:00:00

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Ceinnel Leslie, (conservative,) was elected member for the
county of Monag had, on Thursday last, without opposition.
The new Chinese temple in Buckingham Palace-garden is
now completed, and will be forthwith elegantly furnished,
Lord Abcrcromby, eldest son -of the celebrated General
Sir Ralph Abercromby, died on Wednesday last.

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The Atlas announces the receipt of nearly 160 Prize essays,
" many of which are the bulk of many volumes."
The customs' officers at Greenock have realised £5,060 by
tobacco seizures, within the last few weeks.

American cheese of fine quality, and much resembling
prime Wiltshire, is selling in London at 61(1. per lb.
Lord Campbell stated in the house of lords, the other
evening, that a person who laughs when he hears a libellous
epigram read, is as liable as the publisher.
In the United States the consumption of coffee was under
7,000 tons in 1820; since then it has gone on annually in-
creasing, and last year reached no less than 50,000 tons.
O❑ the 9th inst. a poacher, of the name of Goodall, was
killed by a dislocation of the neck occasioned by a fall
whilst pursued by some gamekeepers, near Otley, Yorkshire.
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HULL DOCK COMPANV.—At the annual meeting of the
Dock Company, on Thursday se'nnight, a dividend of £6O
per share was declared.

The object of Lord Denman's " Law of Evidence Bill " is
to permit the examination of parties hitherto incapacitated
by interest or crime.
On Wednesday last, when a remarkably severe frost pre-
vailed, a small white Brazilian butterfly flew into the house
of a person named Wogan, residing in Mill-street, in Hull.
The Hon. J. P. Maxwell a staunch conservative, was
returned to Parliament on Friday last unopposed for the
county of Cavan.

The mails are now conveyed upwards of 21,000 miles every
day in this country, namely, 5 000 miles by mail coaches,
4,435 miles by railways, and-12,000 by cross road mails.
The statement as to the Independent Chapel at Barnard
Castle having been let to a company of comedians has been
contradicted.

The papers illustrative of, and explanatory of, the military
operations in Affghanistan extend to 433 folio pages, con-
taining no less than 537 letters.

It is announced as certain, that the opening of the Rail-
way from Paris to Orleans will take place on the 25th of
next April.

Only eleven mail coaches now leave London daily for the
country. A few years since, before railways were formed,
there were nearly 30 that used to leave the general post-office.
7The Afoniteur Parisien says,—" It is announced that the
Council-General of Ponts et Chaussees is about to discuss
a plan for a railway round Paris, on the line of the fortifica-
tions, to connect all the different railway stations."
The Exeter Flying Post states, that upwards of a hun-
dred special warrants have been granted against persons
charged with plundering the John Lilly, ;and other vessels ;
adding that several respectable men have been held to bail.
The gales during the month of January, in the Mediter-
ranean, have been greater than any known during the last
twenty years; in one of these gales, the sea made a breach
through the mole at Genoa, a wall 40 feet thick.

The receipts of the London and Brighton Railway for the
week ending the 4th of February, were £2,882 61. 10d. In
the corresponding week of last year the receipts were £1,640
Ils.—Briahtott Gazette.

We understand that William Harrison, Esq., of Liver-
pool, who has lately become the purchaser of the estate of
Beary, situated in that romantic valley near Craig Willie's
Hill, is about to erect a splendid villa.—Manx Liberal.

On Wednesday last the half-yearly meeting of the Great
North of England Railway Company was held. A motion
was made to reduce the directors to seven, but it was nega-
tived by a majority of 27.

Mr. Commissioner Foul)'amle, of the London Court of
bankruptcy, has laid down a rule repuiring insolvent debtors
to)appear twice a year before an official assignee, to give an
account of their property, until their debts are paid.
The Lord Chancellor has decided that he will not make
any Queen's Counsel at present; so that those gentlemen
who were so anxious for promotion are to wait until next
term.

Temporary barracks will be, in future, hired by the Ord-
nance in those parts of England where the presenoe of
troops is necessary, to obviate the general inconvenience of
billetting soldiers and men in public-houses.
Major Charles Jones, late aide-de-camp to the King of
Hanover, was suddenly deprived of life on Thursday last, by
the accidental discharge of a pistol whilst he was drawing
the charge from it.

At the thirteenth annual meeting of the York and Mid-
land Railway Company on Monday week a dividend of
£2 10 per share was declared. The receipts for the half-
year amounted to £46,295 and the expenses and interest to
£21,430 9s. sd.