The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-11-07 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY,

An Order in Council, recently issued, directs that the
six minor canons of Westminster Abbey shall each in
future receive an annual stipend of £l5O.

On Thursday last, workmen commenced taking up the
old pavement in the Old Shambles, Preston, and they are
now busily engaged in preparing for the wooden blocks.
The staff of the League, with Mr. Cobden at its head,
left Manchester on Saturday morning for Salisbury, to
meddle with the election there.

WIGAN MUNICIPAL ELECTION.—The triumph of the
Conservatives in this borough is again complete. Con-
servatives, 10 ; Radicals, 0.

THAMES NAVIGATION.—There landed and embarked
during the summer, at the Red House-pier, Battersea-
fields, 121,237 persons, besides children in arms.
Mr. Peter Nichol, of the Leazes, Newcastle, bird-fan-
cier, has this year made thft novel importation of two
hundred of that handsome bird, the Goldfinch.

James Chadwick, Esq., elected Boroughreeve of Man-
chester, on the 18th October, having refused to serve, has
been fined £5O, and Wm. Wanklyn, Esq., elected in his
stead.

THE TEA TRADE, Oct. 30.—The deliveries last week
were rather smaller, being 438,5091 b. The trade since the
conclusion of the public sales has been quiet, at the re-
duced prices then established.

Last week, Master S. L. Hilton, aged fifteen, a student
at the Military College, Sandhurst, was killed by a blow
on the head, received from a fellow• student, when flourish-
ing his stick at play, in the game of hockey.
TILE BOY JONES.—The boy Jones, whoso often broke
into Buckingham Palace, is on board the Warspite.
Having lately attempted to desert, he was detected, and
received a severe flogging.
The principal Banks in Newcastle-upon-Tyne have re-
duced their rate of discount on bills not having more than
three months to run to four per cent ; and their rate of
interest on deposits to two and a half per cent.
THE LATE GALES.—Four bodies from some of the
wrecks on the Southport coast were washed up on Mon-
day night last. One of the vessels was a coaster from
Ireland.

The first cabinet dinner since the prorogation of parlia-
ment, which was to have taken place at the residence of
Sir James Graham, in Hill-street, Berkeley Square, on
Wednesday next, is postponed until Wednesday the 15th.
The last stone of the tower of the new Royal Exchange,
London, was set by the contractor on Monday last, on
which occasion all the workmen were entertained, and
some bottles of champagne were drunk at the top of the
scaffold, in honour to such completion.
We are gratified in being able to state that her Majesty's
Custom-house officers at this port have been more busily
engaged during the last 15 or 20 days than for several
years past. The increased activity is more especially ob-
servable in the import trade.—Hull Herald.
EXTRAORDINARY TRIAL.—The week before last the
trial of twenty-two thieves, for the perpetration of no less
than fifty-seven robberies, took place in Paris. They
were found guilty, and sentenced to hard labour at the
hulks for periods var)ing from thirty years to four years.
A few days ago. Mr. Beaumont, a highly respectable
solicitor, at Warrington, forwarded a £lOO note in the
course of business, and, as it has never reached its desti-
nation, it is supposed that it has been lost in the Liver-
pol Postoffice.—Chester Chronicle.
The Bombay Times, of the 29th of July just come to
band, contains a curious and elaborate calculation, made
by one of the Hindoo pupils of the Elphinstone College,
in which, not only the absurdity, but the impossibility, of
Mr. Henson's aerial ship, is mathematically demonstrated.
The stock of bullion held by the Bank of England dur-
ing the four weeks ending the 14th of October was
£12,086,000, showing a decrease of £164,000, as compared
with the preceding month ; and an increase of £2,285,000
as compared with the corresponding period of last year.
A GREEK VILLAGE.—The village of Moria, straggling
at its commencement, but gradually presenting a more
compact array of rustic habitations, occupies a valley not
to be equalled by any thing that I have seen in Scio, an
island which has a reputation for pre-eminent beauty :
from the tall tree to the plant of Bacchus, that, diffident
of its strength, seeks support from its vigorous neighbour,
every thing grows here with a graceful luxuriance. After
traversing many districts, known to have been once fertile,
but now waste and desolate, under the withering rule of
Islam, the traveller cannot persuade himself that even a
spot like this has not lost some of its charms, and will say,
" How delightful this little valley, still so beautiful, must
have been in Lesbian times !" Yet here I could not dis-
t cover any memorial of the Hellenic race, except a large
stone, bearing a relief of a pair of wreaths and an urn.
Over one of the wreaths were the letters Odamos : the
corresponding inscription of the other is defaced ; but no
' doubt it was the Doric Abolla.—Literary Gazette.

Lloyd's Shipping List contains fearful evidence of the
destruction to life and property caused by the late gales.
Not less than sixty total or partial wrecks are recorded
under date October 28 and 29, and the loss of life, though
nat yet ascertained with accuracy, will we fear prove to be
great.

FOUR MEN DROWNED.—IsIay, Oct. 23.—0 n Friday
night last, four young men, belonging to Bowmore, were
drowned in Lochindaul. They were out at the fishing all
day, and towards evening the wind being south-west, blew
very high, and it seems that the boat, when coming home,
was upset.

KENDAL ELECTION.—The contest for this Borough is
expected to be a close one, the canvass of Mr. G. Ben-
tinck, the Conservative candidate, being a very favourable
one, and the Quaker electors of Kendal being a good deal
annoyed at the exposure of Mr. Warburton's electioneer-
ing tricks at Bridport.
The reports of the Municpal Elections in various parts
of the country, show that, generally speaking, much less
interest is taken in these contests, than used to be the
case. In some instances however, much spirit has been
displayed ; and the Conservatives have been the victors
in the majority of cases.
On Wednesday, while the great bell of the cathedral of
Notre Dame was being rung, the clapper gave way, and
the enormous mass fell down through two floors of the
tower and lodged at the third. Three persons were in-
jured, and one of them, a ringer named Mazarin, so much
so in the head, by a splinter from the scaffolding, that it
was necessary to carry him immediately into the hospital
of the Hotel Dieu.

BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, Nov. 3.—Our raw sugar
market continues with animation ; and purchases are
only made for immediate purposes, but we have no alte-
ration to notice in prices, which continue steady at from
565. to 675. from very low brown to good bright grocery
descriptions. Average price of sugar, Oct. 31, is 345. 44-d.
per cwt.

It is not generally known that Mr. Cobden, M.P., re.
ceived his education at an academy at Bowes, for the
" board, clothing, and tuition" of young gentlemen, kept
by the late Mr. Clarkson, where he gave promise of con-
siderable talent. The Bowes schools have since been im-
mortalised in the faithful and graphic narrative of
" Nicholas Nickleby" from the pen of Mr. Dickens.
EXTENSIVE FIRE.—At midnight on Thursday, the
Roodee Paper Mill, near Chester, was discovered to be on
fire. In an hour the whole front range was in one con-
tinuous flame, and the mill with a large quantity of paper
was destroyed, but the foundry adjoining was saved. The
damage is estimated at several thousand pounds, but the
property is insured.
A poor mechanic at Bristol, of the name of Bacon, has
nvented a pump and fire-engine, which, for compactness
and power, is unique. It draws water at 22 feet from the
surface, and throws to a great distance. Its cost is about
£2O, and it possesses an hydraulic power equal to a large
engine worth £l7O or £lBO. An experiment was made
last week in the presence of several scientific men, and
gave satisfaction.