The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-05-14 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

It is seated in Herapath's Railway Magazine that an
invention is about being tried to make boats go on canals
at some thirty miles an hour.

The appointment of Sir Henry Hardinge to the Gover-
nor-neneraiship of India has caused a vacancy for the
borough of Launceston.

A woman named Amelia Ogden, is in custody at Ashton,
charged with cutting her son's throat, and attempting to
murder her husband. She is supposed to be insane.

Friday, the 24th instant will be the aniversary of he
majesty's birthday, when the sovereign will complete her
25th year.
On Wednesday last no less than 2,310 gallons of spirits,
which were going to be rectified at a higher strength than
the law allows, were seized at Messrs. Smith's distillery,
in London.

THE LATE MURDERS NEAR TAUNTON.—A subscrip-
tion having been raised to send Mary and Faith Sealy out
of the country, they have proceeded to one of our scuports,
whence they will take their departure for Australia.
REPRESENTATION OF PRESTON.—A rumour is preva-
lent in this town that Sir Hesketh Fleetwood. Bart., M.P.
for this borough, intends shortl3 to resign his seat in Par-
liament.—Preston paper.

A Court of Directors was held at the East India House
on Monday, when Lieut.-General the Right Hon. Sir
Henry Hardinge, K.C.8., was appointed unanimously
Governor-General of India.

CARGO OF Wines.—The first cargo of foreign wine
ever imported direct to Preston arrived in our river on
Friday from Oporto, on board the Georgina, for Mr.

ichaTrd Threlfitil of this town.—Preston Guardian.

A child, aged five years, was poisoned in London, last
week, by swallowing a small piece of putty which had
been incautiously given to it to play with. A post mor-
tern examination of the body showed clearly that the child
had b, en poisoned.

LUNAR ECLIPSE.—A total eclipse of the moon will
take place on the last day of the present month, Friday,
the 31st instant. It will commence at 14 minutes after
eight in the evening and end at 26 minutes after one.
This eclipse wilt be visible.
On Sunday week, the Minister at the Independent
chapel at Long Sutton, Wilts, preached his farewell ser-
mon, in which he informed his attached congregation..

of his intention to obtain ordination in the Church of
England.
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The Scotch banks have 340 branches, and the Irish'
137, being in the former case one bank to every 7,750
persons, and in the tatter one to every 60,000. The
banking capital of Scotland is £l5 per head to the whole
population, and in Ireland £1 18s. 6d. per head.
THE MURDER ON BATTERSEA BRIDGE.—The inquest
on the body of iqrs. M•Farlarie was continued yesterday
morning week, when a verdict of wilful murder was re-
'tuned again 4 Augustus Dalmas. The examination of
the latter was resumed on Friday, and continued on Sa-
turday, when it was adjourned till to-day (Tuesday).
The expensive establishment of the royal buck-hounds,
which wilt' the salary to the noble master, the Earl of
aosslyn, £2,000, the chief hunt-man, Mr. Davis, and the
wages to whippers-in, feeders, &c., amounting to a con-
s;derable item in the civil list, is to be broken up. Prince
Albert will still keep his fine pack of harriers.
SALE AT ROSSALL H ALL,-The sale of Sir P. H. Fleet-
wood's furniture. books, pictures-, &c., at his Seat, Ros-
sall Hall. near Fleetwood, is advertised to take place the
first week in June. The building has been engaged for a
large school, a prospectus of which appears in -our ad-
vertising columns. •

UTILITY OF LIFE-Buovs.-The entire crew and pas-
sengers, upwards of two hundred souls, which were on
board the emigrant ship Amity, when she was wrecked,
during a hurricane on the 3d January, on the reefs of the
Mauritius, were saved by means of two of Carte's life-
buoys, which had been purchased in Liverpool.
Lord Brougham, mho has not presided at any public
meeting at Exeter Hall since 1838, is to tilki the chair at
the anniversary meeting of the British and Foreign Anti-
Slavety Society, on the 17th instant. Many well-known
and old friends of the cause are likely to be present, and
among the rest Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M.P., has sig-
nified his intention to attend.

The fourth Bristol Tea Sale took place on Wednesday,
when 4000 packages, were offered for competition. In
consequence of the Trade having freely laid in stock a
week or two ago in anticipation of a reduction in the duty,
they were not in a position to support the sale as well as
heretofore. The proportion sold, theretore, was small;
the prices in most instances were reasonably taxed.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—On Friday last, an extensive fire
took place at the malting-houses of Mr. Garrad, situate
near the Hythe, Colchester. In about three hours nothing
was left standing but the brick walls. Between 3,000 and
4,000 quarters of malt, and 1,303 quarters of barley, be-
sides a considerable quantity of valuable merchandize, was
consumed or rendered useless. The value of the property
destroyed is estimated at about £13,000.
ST. HELENS.—THE COLLIERS.--The strike in this
district may now be considered as completely at an end.
We believe that all the pits have now their full comple-
ment of hands, and that notwithstanding the transference
of a portion of t e coal trade to Wigan and other places,
owing to the strike, St. Helen's is doing quite, if not
rather more than en average amount of blueness in the
mineral. The general trade of the town is slowly trecover-
ing from the shock which it sustained by the recent strife.
SCANDALOUS CONDUCT.—On the decease of the Rev.
G. W. Onslow, some months back, the Incumbent of
Pyrford, near Ripley, Surrey, the Churchwarden applied
to an Anaba,,tist preacher of Horshiil, a neighbouring
parish. to officiate on a Sunday in the parish church of
Pyrford. which he actually 'did. He put on the surplice,
went through the usual duty, buried a corpse likewise, but
refused to baptize a child 13, ought by its friends to the
church. • Of course Archdeacon Wilberforce will inquire
into the business.—Church Inletligencer.