The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-11-04 00:00:00

fact ? But he did worse thfn that. He was the w,Eassin
of Cardinal Weton. He was the principal actor in the

real ganyowd
lev. •They were really goini,

ot," the murder of King Henry Darn-
to give that ruffian a statue.

Why, there ought t.• he another erected next to it
Turpin. " Honest" Wesley was the next he should no-
tice—a fellow who changed his
times, and each time left a memorandum ".that his last
religion was the most damnable in the world." He abso-
lutely " excommunicated" a lady in South Carolina be-
cause she refused to marry him. (Great laughter.) He
(Mr. O'Connell) thought she got off very cite,i). Having
made several. onslaughtta of a similar ,character against
.117.6 mil rIesTAK mient-te.--rttruse the Wepleyern-MtSrodivre,
as a most bigoted but Powerless body, with a Pope of
their own, rejoicing in the euphonic name of Jabez Bunt-
ing, and enumerated the political exertions. he had made
in their behalf and the bad return he had rectiveci from

a dozen

Mr. Mandeville, her Majesty's late Minister at Bue-
nos Ayres, has bern upon a visit, during the last week, to
Mr. and Mrs. Beckett, at Kirkstall Grange, during which
he has seen with much gratification the several manufac-
tures in•the town arid neighly.,urhood.
On Friday night week, the extensive tar and turpentine
distillery of Messrs. Tall and Co., Wincolmlee. Hull,
was wholly destroyed by fire. The loss cannot be cor-
rectly ascertained, but it is estimated that it will exceed
£3,000, and may he 5,000.
A STEEP GRADIENT.—We have heard of unfavourable
gradients on certain lines of railways, but we never heard
of a downward incline to exceed that in the shares of a
certain crojected railway, which slid down within a fort-
night from £8 premium to 16s 6d.
On Saturday last, James Lovell, a labouring man in
Somereetshire, committed suicide by hanging himself.
It is generally thought that tho fact of being unable to
pay hie rent for the cot in which he lived was the cause
of his committin4 this act.
By the breaking of a rope at the Upper Soundwell coal
pit, Kingswood, near Bristol, on Saturday last, five men
were precipitated to the bottom and killed on the spot.
A sixth was dread Fully mangled. Fuur of those who
were killed have left wives and families.
Some enemies of the umbrella are seriously entertain-
ing the idea of foraging a company to erect light transpa-
rent verandahs from the houses, across the footways, tS9
that even on the wettest day the metropolis can be tra-
versed from one end to another without an umbrella.

The Southwark " Sunday" toll-bars are now in
progress of being pulled down. Workmen are enraged
upon those at Bermondsey Church and Dockhead.
These bars wrre the last existing Sunday tolls iu
England.
A Fits AK OF FORTUNE.—There is reason to believe that
an individual named Stoddard, Evan), Derbyshire, will
era long become possessed of very extensive e,tates in the
county of Kent, of which he is the questionable heir at
law. T.iis (expected) fortunate person is in very humble
c rctimstances—a weaver with a large family.
A hoy was brought up on Thursday week at the Thames
Police-office, on a charge of stealing a donkey and cert.
A witness stated that he was offered the donkey and cart
for sale, saying he was commissioned to sell it by Fishinz
Jack, otherwise Jack the Tinker, "who was broken up
and ruined by gambling in railways."
lioasss.—Within the last week, no less than 500
horses have been sent for sale to a repository, owing to
the further opening of the Northern and Eastern Railway
from Bishop's Stortford by way of Ely and Thetford to
Norwich, and the consequent discontinuance or the
coaches.

The expdeition to the North Pole. consisting of the
Erebus and the Terror, Captain Crozier, under the com-
mand of Captain Sir John Franklin, was spokm by the
Enterprise, Martin, master. arrived at Peterhead. lying
at an iceberg, in lat. 73 12 N., ion. 62 W., on the 28th of
July.

Cuthbert Macdonald, who was convicted along with
two other men, at the last Durham assizes, of highway
robbery, has received her Majesty's pardon, it appearing,
from the confession of the other prisoners, that. he was
not in any way concerned in the robbery, although

tively sworn to by tEe prosecutor.
SINGULAR ACCIDENT.-01) Wednesday a loaded coal-
waggon was proceeding down Flret-street towards Chan-

_ lane, London, when it suddenly fell over sideways in
eonseqm nee of the sewer (just completed) bursting in,
the mortar nit being dry enough. The ground fell three
feet below the level; the cost of the repairing damsge will
be very great.

A contemporary says, " It is a fact, that the demand by
the printers for the little letter q is so great, that the type-
founders are doing nothing else but casthtg for it. So
many esquires have found their way into print, that the
printers have been thrown out of their calculatio •s, and
the supply is not adequate to tie demand. If, therefore,
gentlemen happen to find themselves dubbed plain Mr.,
they will know the reason."
At Hull, on Friday, a tobacconist was fined £l5O and
£5O, for having in his possession a quantity of snuff,
not being Welsh nor Trish snuff (for special provision is
made), sad containing other ingredients than tobacco,
not being water, or water anti salt, or alkaline silts alone,
which ingredients are allowed by the excise. The
amount of adulteration charged was 15 per cent. of
earthy matter.

A CHOICE CIVIC SEAL.—The municipal corporation
of Louth, Lincolnshire, has arisen out of the scholastic,
one of the wardens nnd assistants of the royal free gram-
mar school there ; the common seal of which as Master
Gwillym would blazon it, is a pedacogue sejant armed

with a birch rod rampant, across his knee a boy bare
breeched couchant passant and three pupils on each side,
stptant rigardant, with the motto from the proverbs of
Solomon, (xiii. 24,) QVI PARCIT VIRGAM ODIT FILIVM.
REPORT OF THE POTATO CROP.—The scientific gen-
tlemen appointed by government to enquire into the state
of the potato crop, with a view to the application of such
rerned!es as may he thought most desirahl

or mitigating