The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-18 00:00:00

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The Town Council of Sheffield have agreed to petition
the. Legislature for an alteration in the tea duties.

The officers and crew of the steam frigate Birkenhead,
which has been in commission only fourteen months, have
been paid off.
On Tuesday a mob of persons tried to prevent the ex-
portation of potatoes from Ramsey. They did not resort
to extremities, but determined to petition the governor.

A Mr. Symonds has been condemned at Aylesbury to a
week's imprisonment (in addition to a month already
endured) for refusing to pay church-rates.
The last number of the Quarterly advocates the pay-
ment of the Romish priesthood by the Protestant British
State—which does not pay its own clergy.
A reduction of 25 per cent. has been effected in the
wages of many of the operatives employed at Pontypool
Iron Works. The unavoidable proceeding is borne with
much patience.

At the Marlborough police-office, on Friday, Mr. Henry
Neville, a gentleman of fortune, about to fight a duel with
a Mr. Jessop, was bound over to keep the peace for three
months.

WESTMINSTER-HALL.--This ancient hall is itself again,
the internal erection for the purpose of exhibiting the
cartoons and other works of art for the decoration of the
new Houses of Parliament being entirely removed.
The Operative Spinners' Association, of Mossley, have
taken several acres of ground, for the term of six years,
for the purpose of employing the unemployed members
thereon.

The late Mr. Robert Suple, of Bristol, has bequeathed
benefactions to the charitable institutions of that city to
the extent of £BBOO. The Orphan Girls' Asylum receives
£4OOO of this sum.
SHETLS AND BALLS.-A vessel arrived in the London
docks from Odessa, with 1,700 quarters of wheat and
other merchandise, had on board 4,935 old iron shells and
balls consigned to order.

A gentle-man of property, named Buchanan, was con-
victed, at Bath, on Monday, of having stolen a purse and
a scent-box, and sentenced to three months' imprison-

DEATHS FROM INFLUENZA IN LONDON.—We see by
the official return, that 102 deaths from influenza were
registered in London in the week ending the Bth instant.
Of these, 42 were under 15 years of age, 34 between 15
and 60, and 20 were upwards of 60 years of age.
STRANGE ACCIDENT.—J. Coles, Esq., of Taunton,
while in the act of drawing on a pair of boots, on Satur-

day. strained the lid of his eyes so much as to break a
small blood-vessel, which has caused the loss of sight of
one eye, and much injured the other.—Bristol Mirror.
The new Guildhall, at Bristol, was discovered to be on
fire last week, and the origin of it was found to be that
some coke, recently deposited in the cellar, had reignited.
This accident shows that coke should always be tho-
roughly cooled before being stowed away.
SCOTLAND.—The Highland destitution board is again
in deep water. At a meeting of the Glasgow section held
lately, all the reports yet come to hand from their six in-
spectors, represented that the destitution was already tear-
ful, and that immediate relief was necessary.

George Thurtell, son of the late Alderman Thurtell of
Norfolk, and whose brother John was hanged at Hertford,
for the murder of Mr. Weare, some years ago, has just
been convicted of felony, at the Norwich Sessions, and
sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment, with hard
labour. _ _ _

The Secretary of State has confirmed an agreement
entered into between the Magistrates of Glamorganshire,
Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire, and Cardiganshire, for
the erection of a central lunatic asylum, to be erected in
the western part of Glamorganshire. It is to contain
three hundred patients.
ANOTHER SUICIDE AT ST. VINCENT'S ROCKS.-Mr.
Daniel Thompson, a lodging-house keeper, at Clifton,
during a paroxysm of temporary insanity on Sunday night
last, arose from his bed, proceeded to the Down, and
threw himself from St. Vincent's rocks, and was killed
on the spot.

PRESERVATION OF MEAT.—On the Ist of January,
1847, a pergoli buried a joint of meat at Blackheath,
near Holme Moss, where it was allowed to remain until
Saturday, the Ist of January, 1848. When taken up, it
appeared to be as sweet and fresh as when first placed

luties received at the Port of Gloucester,
ended the sth instant, amounted to
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£93,220. If the Tariff had not been altered, and the
corn duties suspended. the amount would, we understand,
nearly £200,000, more than double, a heavy
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