The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-02-04 00:00:00

Journal.

The Worcester Chronicle relates that a young woman,
equally ignorant; superstitious, and cruel, recently tied a

stuck full of pins, as a charm to secure
some man to whom she was attached. _

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MELANCHOLY gIIDDETISEATH.—On Monday morn-
ing, at the Priory, Abbot's Leigh, Mrs. Johnson Browne,
who had been confined about a month since, was break-

fasting in her room, apparently in good health, when she
laid the teacup down, and, fainting away, expired before
the servant who was in the reom could call for help.
At Southampton police-court, on Friday, a beerhouse_
keeper and his wife were remanded for hocussing a seaman
and confining him in a room until he was so reduced that
he will be a cripple for life. The prisoners stole £7 from
him, stripped him of his clothes, and severely scalded his

arms and -thighs.
Tux ConN TRADE.—The importations of foreign
grain, pulse, and flour into the United Kingdom from sth
January, 1850, to sth January, 1851, consisted of—Wheat,
3,778,434 qrs. ; barley, 1,042,799 qrs. ; oats, 1,167,165
qrs.: rye, 94,078 qrs. ; peas, 185,560 qrs. ; beans, 449,491
qrs. ; maize, 1,286,280 qrs. ; wheaten flour, 3,858,331 cwt.
TuE PRESS OF 1850.—The number of publications
that have issued from the London press alone, may be
estimated at 4,400. The papal aggression has contributed
180 publications on that question during the past month !
The works of fiction number nearly 500 throughout the
year. 250 books were written last year en law subjects !

200 books of travel, and so on
A monument to the memory of the late Earl Talbot
has been erected in the parish church at Ingestre. It
consists of an altar tomb, with a recumbent full-length
colossal effigy of the noble Earl. He is represented in
the robe of a Knight of the Garter, with his arms folded,
and clasping to his breast a copy of the Holy Scriptures.
The work is by Westrnacott.

In a letter to a contemporary. Professor Newman says
it is a mathematical certainty that, if the existing popula*-
tion of tne world were to increase for about eleven or twelve

centuries at the same rate as the British population has
for some time past, no room would be left on the solid
earth for men, women, and children, to stand upon, al-
lowing one square foot for each.
During the war the average quantity of wheat required
to be sold to pay one million of taxation amounted to
220,791 quarters. The quantity required to be sold to
pay one million of taxation, according to the prices of
1850, amounts to 497,925 quarters, or 56,343 quarters
more than double the quantity required to be sold during
the war.

An extensive fire took place on Tuesday, in the carriage
dela& of the London and Brighton Railway, at the New-
cross station. This erection, which was almost exclu-
sively of timber, was nearly 300 feet long, and one-half
of it was, at one time, a mass of flame. Some twenty or
thirty new carriages were burnt, and damage done to the
amount of several thousand pounds.
On Tuesday an inquest was held, in London, on the
body of Mr. Sedgewick, for ninny years Chairman of the
Board of Stamps. He dropped down dead on his return
home to Kensington, after dining with Chief Baron POI-
- on Sunday. • Dr. Richmond- gave it as his opinion
that death arose from disease of the heart. • Deceased-was
seventy-two years of age, and has left an only daughter.
A most dreadful murder has been perpetrated at Miry-
Port, Cumberland. The victim is Ann Clarke, who lived
alone in a cellar under the house of the Rev. Mr.-Book-
less, a dissenting minister. The perpetratoi of- the mur-
der is still undetected, and the- whole affair remains in
mystery. Deceased was found stretched on the floor on
Monday quite dead, with a towel tightly twisted over her
head and under the chin.
The annual soiree of the Glasgow Athenaeum was held
on Tuesday night, in the City Hall, which was densely
crowded. His grace the Duke of Argyll occupied the
chair, and made a lengthened speech, which was followed
by others from the Earl of Eglinton, Sir John Maxwell,
the Lord Provost of Glasgow, the Lord Provost of Edin.
burgh, Sheriff Allison, Sheriff Gordon, William Campbell,
Esq., A. 8. Logan, Walter Crum, Esq., &c.