The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-01 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

Lord John Russell has declined to make public the
number of stamps issued to each newspaper.
The other woman stabbed by the infuriated man at
Leeds has since died.

There is not a single French merchant ship which mea-
sures 700 tons.

Mr. and Mrs. Cobden left Paris on Thursday, for the
Pyrenees.

THE IMPORT DUTY ON CORN is now at the maximum
figure—viz., 10s. per quarter.
Twenty-one operas and thirteen ballets were produced
at the Italian Opera, London, during the last season.
A bathing machine has been ordered for her Majesty's
use at Medehole, under Osborne. A tramway is also or-
dered to be made for it.

The proprietors of the Daily News have resolved to
publish every evening an edition of their paper, to be
called TheExpreis. The publication will commence to-day.
The lead ore miners of Alston Moor, Allendale, and
Weardale, have engaged the services of an oculiat, at the
rate of sixpence per man per annum.

The number of soldiers in receipt of pensions is above
50,000. The in-door pensioners of Chelsea Hospital are
about 500.

The Bank of England has reduced the rare of interest
on bills not having more than three months to run, to
three per cent., from three-and-a-half per cent.
A policeman was dismissed from the Birmingham force
last week. because he refused to go down a lane which was
on his beat, where be said he had seen his uncle's ghost.
LONGEVITY.—Mrs. Febys, of North Driffield, near
Howden, had twenty-two children, nineteen of whom
attained their majority, and the united ages of eight of the
survivors is GOO years.
Mr. Matthew Pearson, the oldest inhabitant of the
town of Knaresborough, is now in the 111th year of his
age, and, wonderful to relate, notwithstanding his great
age, he continues in full possession of his faculties.
THE MOORS.—Mr. Campbell, of Monzie, on the 21st
current, bagged on the hill of Monzie, 191 brace of grouse,
one black cock, one snipe, one duck, one rabbit, and 24
hares ; in all 410 head of game.

THE MAILS FOR BRAZIL, BUENOS AYRES, AND
MONTE VIDEO, will henceforth be made up in London
on the evening of the 4th of every month, except when
the 4th happens on Sunday, when they will be made up
on the follow ng evening.
The Hurdle Match for 1000 guineas, at Hereford races,
between Capt. Neville's The Miser's Son (011iver), and
Capt. Williams's Limerick (Scott), was won by the latter.
Betting; 2 to 1 on The Miser's Son, who was defeated by
a head.

CURIOUS RAT TRAP.—A day or two since a large rat,
not being much accustomed to railways, attempted to cross
the Nottingham and Lincoln line, near Burton Joyce, as
a train was passing. The poor animal was severed com-
pletely in two.—Nottingham Journal.
AMERICAN IcE.—The Tibtrius, from Boston, has ar-
t.:—

aved in the Thames, with a cargo of 900 tons of Wen-
aam Lake ice, to follow the bazaar just cleared. Its
market price, in consequence of the frequent importa-
tions, is now reduced to £8 per ton.
At Southampton, on Saturday, a shopkeeper was fined
Eighty Pounds for having 20Ulbs of gunpowder on his
premises more than the law permits. The informer is
the 1 indlord of the premises, who will receive half the
penalty. _

• A public meeting was held at Doncaster, on Monday,
called by the mayor. for the purpose of memorialising the
Directors of the Great Northern London and York
Railway, to establish the plant, for the manufacture of
engines, in the town of Doncaster.
The Admiralty have just issued an order for the distri-
bution of the medals to the officers and men of her Ma-
jesty's ships who served in the late op rations on the coal'
of China. It will be remembered that some months since
the Master of the Mint received orders from her Majesty
to prepare a die.
The negociations fur the future issue of Mr. Dickens's
works, by his old publishers, Messrs. Chapman and Hall,
are at an end, and he brings out his new story in monthly
parts, on his own account, on the first of Octtrb,r. It is
to be called " Dealings of the Firm of Dowbey and Son,
Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation." _ _

CUSUMBERS FROM RUSSIA.—AInOng the novelties in

the list of importations now taking place, may be men-
tioned the arrival of some parcels of cucumbers from Rus-
sia, which has just taken place in a vess,l named the Vic-
tory, arrived from St. Petersburg off the St. Ka herine's
Wharf.

The late Countess of Scarborough has left all her
property. real and personal,—the tatter anv,unting to
£100,0411,—t0 R. G. Lumley, Esq., of Tickhill Castle,
Yorkshire, with the exception or certain legacies. 01 the
latter, eight of £lOOO eacb, and four of £5OO, are void
for want of attesting witnesses.

MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.-OH Tuesday, as Mr.
Michalowski, a Polish gentleman of high rank, and who
once held the position of major in the Polish army, but
has recently resided in Carlisle as a teacher of languages,
wes on his way to Penrith, he fell n•om his gig, and sus-
tained such severe injuries that he expired about five
o'clock on the following morning.

Sir Justinian Vere Isbam, Bart., a resident of Chelten-
ham, blew his brains out on Tuesday last. The unfor-
tunate deceased was about thirty years of aye, and had
but lately succeeded his father in the title and estates. He
was rattier eccentric in his habits and turn of mind, and
it is presumed that melancholy induced him to the com-
mittal of the rash act.
The steamer Londonderry. plying between London-
derry and Glasgow. was wrecked off the Mull of Kintyre,
on Thursday.. The passengers, between 500 and 600
Irish reapers, and crew, were saved by being taken on
board the steamer Scotia, after having been for nearly
thirteen hours on board the wreck. The Londonderry
was got off the next tide, and taken to Gr enock.
On Friday, John Hilliard, the:old country man, charged
with vending berries of the alropa belladonna, or deadly
nightshade, and causing the deaths of Thomas Parker,
late proprietor,. of the Veteran beershnp, in the White-
chapel-road, and Samuel Jones, a child aged three years,
was committed at Thames police-office for trial. The
prisoner said he never picked the berries at all, and was
not aware they were poisonous when h- sold them.
SALMON FISHING.—The tike continues to be mode-
rately good, but not so great as usual at this season, which
is the harvest of the year by river as well as land. Prices
have not been so low as on the average of seasons. Salmon,
7d. ; grilse, 6d. • and trout, 5d., and a penny per pound
more if cut. We have seen them 4d. and 3d. The suc-
cess of the sportsman, however, has been bet`,er this year
than perhaps ever recollected. On Tuesday, M . Stewart,
son of one of the town-sergeants, took a splendid salmon,
32 lbs. weight, out of the Tay, after a run of upwards of
an hour.—Perlhpaper.