The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-26 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

THAMES TUNNEL.—The number of passengers through
this place last week was 45,499.
The Rev. Mr. Phelps, tutor of the college has been eleted
master of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
The Queen completed her twenty-fourth year on Wednes-
day.

Prince Albert will hold the next levee on the 21st of June.
The drawing rooms are fixed for June 29th and July 6th ; the
latter to celebrate her Majesty's birthday.

Lord Elphinstone, the late-Governor-General of Madras,
arrived at the close of the week from Malta. The noble lord
is in excellent health.

The Marquis of Bute and Earl Mansfield have received
the " Green Ribands" vacant by the deaths of the Duke of
Sussex and the Earl of Abergavenny.
Be it known that Dr. Higgins was not long since Pro-
fessor of Theology at the seminary which educates all the
priests of Ireland.

A sturgeon was last week caught in the Loire, near St.
Dye, which was two metres (about 6.1 feet English) in length,
and weighed 50 kilos (1121 b English).

By a recent order of the admiralty, young gentlemen of
all denominations are entitled to enter the Royal Marines.
Previously, none but the sons of naval or military officers
were admissible.

A newspaper is now published in Jerusalem in three lan-
guages, German, English, and Hebrew. It is said to he un-
der the superintendence of Dr. Alexander, the new Protes-
tant bishop.—Debats.

Mr. J. H. Sadler, at Holbeck, in Leeds, has invented a
loom for weaving each sail of a ship, even of the largest class,
in one entire piece ; thus greatly increasing the strength, and
diminishing the weight.
THE TEA TRADE, MAY 22.—The deliveries last week
were 504,045 lb., being again a full quantity. The trade,
though not brisk, has been steady. To.morrow there are
public sales of rather above 20,000 packages.
A poor girl, aged 13, whilst lett at home alone at Newtown,
near Leinster, was burnt to death on Friday last. She was
subject to epileptic fits, and whilst seized with one of them
rolled into the fire.

The Severn, West Indian Royal Mail Steam-ship, had her
first trial on Saturday. The result was very satisfactory.
tier speed averaged eight and a half miles per hour, and the
revolutions of the engines were 1311 per minute.

The last number of the Quarterly Review, (published on
Saturday,) which is no mean authority, and which certainly
cannot be accused of any ungenerous opposition to the
Tractarian party, says, " that to preach in the surplice is as
uncationical and unreasonable as it is unusual.

A New York paper mentions a recent attempt to blow up
the ice in Buffalo harbour by gunpowder, and concludes the
project to be impracticable, because a charge of 20 lb. only
excavated a space 20 feet in diameter. Let them try a larger
dose.

MORTALITY OF LONDON.—The number of deaths in the
metropolis during the week ending the 13th of May, accord-
ing to the last returns of the Registrar-General, was 883,
being 20 less than the weekly average of the last five years,
and 29 more than that of the five past springs.

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REPEAL PROCESRION.—The procession filled our streets
on Sunday. The Examiner estimates the numbers who ap-
peared in the procession at 500,000. Five Hundred Thou-
sand! Think of that, in a single gathering.—Cork Consti-
tution.

PREPARATIONS FOR WAR.—AII the Irish forts, castles,
and battlements have been inspected by a government en-
gineer, and ordered to be repaired and placed in a state of
perfect utility. Indeed, the preparations of government are
such as would indicated that a civil war is not far distant.—
Drogheda Conservative.

AN AMERICAN ERRATUM.—Ina police article, yesterday,
we stated that William Vail had bit off a piece of the nose of
George Mount, when the amount of the matter was that
George Mount bit off a part of the nose of Vail. Mount
was held to bail in the sum of 2,000 dols to answer the
charge.—New York Herald.

MELANCHOLY EvENT.—On Monday morning, while two
young men, in the employment of Messrs. Fyfe, chandlers
and painters, Broomielaw, were engaged painting the bows
and figure-head of the ship Hamilton of Greenock, now lying
on the south side of the harbour, one of them, James Fyfe,
an apprentice, was drowned.

O❑ Thursday morning last week the frontal bone of one
of our old Scottish elks, now extinct, was dug up from the
river sand opposite to Kelton, near Dumfries. It is a splen-
did specimen, measuring between the topmost branches of
the horns four feet, round the whole from top to top eight
feet, and weiching 241 b. It was bought by a gentleman in
Dumfries.—Dumfries Journal.
SPREAD OF RIDDONISM.—We have heard that the Ribbo❑
system has latterly been spreading to a great extent in parts
of the counties of Dublin, Meath, Longford, Cavan, and
Monaghan. We have also learned that the government, in
consequence of information received, has instituted inquiries
in the various localities as to the progress of the system.—
Dublin Advertiser.

The West India steam-ship Dee arrived at Falmouth on
the 18th instant. Several of the West India islands were
still unhealthy, and continued shocks of earthquake had
been felt at Antigua, Guadeloupe, &c., &c. At the latter
place it was calculated that about one-third of the crop
would be destroyed. The Dee brings the melancholy intelli-
gence of the Lord Bishop of Jamsica on the 10th April.
WHOLESALE SHEEP-STEALING.—On Saturday James
Crouch, a drover, who has resided at Loughton, in Essex,
for many years, and his three sons, George, Charles, and
William, were finally examined and committed for trial, at
Waltham Abbey, on a charge of stealing 123 sheep, the pro-
perty of Mr. James Wickham, a gentleman residing near
Winchester.

EXTRAORDINARY SAGACITY.--A person of the name of
George Smith, after having resided at Eeclesfield bar-house,
near Sheffield, many years, removed thence to Leeds. Be-
fore he left Ecclestield he gave a cat, which he had had some
time, to a neighbour, and, strange to say, the cat arrived at
the house of its old master at Leeds, a distance of 26 or 27
miles, after a month's absence, almost worn to a skeleton.—
Wakefield Journal.

DEPRECIATION OF PROPERTY IN BRIGHTON.—At a
meeting held at the town-ball, on Monday, the proprietor of
the Bedford Hotel appealed nainst a charge of £1,250 in
poor-rates; and counsel having been heard, the assessment
was reduced to £850! Mr. Pegg (the hotel-keeper) stated,
that the receipts of his business for the year ending May 1,
1842, were £1,200 less than for the same period in 1842.

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THE WRECK OF THE SOLWAY STEAMER.—Mr. Lane,
the purser, and the chief officer of the late unfortunate packet
the Solway. will sail on Monday from Southampton, in the
Canning schooner, chartered for the occasion, with the ne-
cessary apparatus for diving, to recover some of the property
on board the Solway. These gentlemen have made such
terms with the underwriters, that, should they succeed, will
he mutually advantageous to all parties.—Standard.
SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.—About a fortnight ago, Mr.
Amis, veterinary surgeon, while walking through a piece of
ground in his occupation, in a lane called Little World's End,
near New Wisbech, counted the astonishing number of ninety-
nine bats fly out, one after the other, from a small hole in an
old hollow tree. It seems, that they return to the tree after
their night y rambles; for they may be seen to leave it every
every evening.—Slamford Mercury.

RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—An accident, which we regret to
say was accompanied with loss of life, occurred on Wednrse
day week on the Glasgow and Ayrshire Railway, at the
junction of the Kilmarnock and Ayr branches, When the
late train from Kilmarnock had nearly arrived at the junc-
tion, one of the guards, named James Jack, in attempting td
uncouple the carriages ttliith wet t to prerer,d tO Ayr from
those! Ftolh tO OlatttOtt, rind rdn. iti lletwiftt the
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MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.—On Sunday last, Miss Collins,
aged 30, the daughter of a distinguished naval officer and.
sister-in-law of Dr. Connlly, committed suicide by preipita-
ting herself from one of the upper windows of the Middlesex
Pauper Lunatic Asylum. She had been subject to various
delusions hut was not an inmate of the institution ; and, had
come on a visit in order that her friends might determine what.
to do with her. She had not been placed under restraint as
there was no apprehension of danger to her. At the coroners
inquest Dr. Conolly said that about 3 o'clock on Sunday
morning, he was awoke by the deceased coming haitily into
his bed room, which was situate a story lower than her own.
She asked if that was his (witness) bed-room, and if he had a.
light ? It was then dayligt. She then asked witness if he
could explain to her " the prediction ;" and added that she
thought it meant that she must burn herself, and that she had
been thinking of jumping out of the window. In order to
gain a little time, witness asked her if she had not slept well,
and what was the matter ? Deceased answered, " Oh, yes,
I have had a sweet sleep." Witness then began to get out
of bed, and the door having been left wide open by the de-
ceased, she instantly ran quickly away and up-stairs again.
Witness waited a moment to put on a dreasing gown, and.
then foliowed her to her .toom. Having knocked at the door,
and hearing no answer, he went in, and then saw that the
window was wide open. He would there mention that the
room he was speaking of was a private part of the establish-
ment in which the windows had been all altered during his
absence from the asylum, and did he not recollect that they
were not secured until he saw it open. Almost immediately
after entering the room, he heard a movement, and'instantly
saw the deceased spring upon the window sill. He immedi-
ately ran ronnd the bed to the window, and caught her by
the left hand with his left hand, and by her night dress with
his right hand. At that time she had sprung from the ledge
of the window, and seemed to rest on a broad (spring) ledge
of the wall, about 9 or 10 inchos wide, and about four feet
below the window. Her dress shortly gave way, and she
partly tore it away with her disengaged right hand, and im-
mediately threw herself of the ledge, when the whole weight.
of her body rested on the rist of her left hand. While so
situate, the deceased kept up a continued wrestling to get
away, in order to throw herself off. He, however, continued.
to hold her by the wrist, or rather above it, and called and.
cried out for assistance for, he should say, for full 20 minutes,.
and was heard in different parts of the building, but the per-
sons who heard him could not tell whence the cries procee-
ded. Witness then felt her wrist slip through his hand, and
he had then only bold of her by the hand, and eventually her
fingers, and at last, being completely spent with his exertions,
he could no longer hold her, and she fell to the bottom. Du--
ring the time he held her, whenever he renewed his hold the
the deceased renewed her struggles to get free. Her eyes.
were shut, and appeared determined on effecting her object.
Witness immediately hurried to the bottom of the building,
and found the deceased in the area. She was lying on her
left side, and was nearly doubled up, and in witness's opinion,
was then quite dead.

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PRICES OF SHARES, MAY 25.
Prices within the last seven days. This days
RAILWAYS, &c. Per Share. Prices
Bolton and Preston
Birmingham and Gloucester
Ditto quarter
Birmingham and Derby lOO . 0 0 0
Bristol and Exeter 7O .... 00 0
Birkenhead and Chester
Ditto half
Ditto, new, issued at .4'33 dis 3 .... 00 0
Dublin and Drogheda
Eastern Counties
Ditto new Shares .... 8 6 8 10 12 6
Ditto, unregistered B6 8 10 17 6
Ditto, Debentures
Edinburgh and Glasgow - 4s .... 49 5 0
Ditto new shares lO .... 0 0 0
Ditto Leigh and Newhaven 20 paid 0 0 0
Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock 25 paid 14 17 6
Half Shares...,
Glasgow, Paisley. Kilmar }
50 paid 0 0 0
Greenock, and Ayr
Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock

36 3 0

9 17 6

Railway Bonds r 4 per cent. par.
Grand Junction
Ditto half shares ~.. 50 98 10 0
Quarter . 25 49 0 0
New ditto. .
Great Western 65 •
go 0 0
Ditto new shares 5O 0 0
Ditto Fifth Shares
Great North of England
Hull and Selby
Lancaster and Preston,.: 47 10 u 0 0 0 ....
Ditto Junction, new —•• .. 22 0 0
Leicester and Swannington 5O .... 0 0 ...
Leeds and Selby
Liverpool and Manchester loo 00 0 lgg 0 0
Ditto quarter shares
Ditto half shares
London and Birmingham 100 0 0 9 ..
Ditto new quarter shares 25 .... ..
0 0 ..
Ditto old shares
Ditto
London & Erighton
Ditto new
London and South Western
Ditto, loth shares
Manchester, Bolton, & Bury
......
Manchester and Birmingham 4O .... 23 2 6 ....
Ditto and Ditto Extension , 7 .... 00 0 ex.
Manchester and Leeds 7O .... 00 0 ex.
iiitto half shares
Ditto quarter shares2 . 0 0 0 ex..
Midland Counties
Ditto, quarter 5 0 0 0
1-sth Shares 2. . 09 0
North Midland
New North Midland 4O .... 00 0 ....
One-third Shares
North Union
Newcastle and Carlisle lO4 0 0 0
Ditto quarter shares
Ulster 25 b 0 o
Paris and Rouen 24 15.. 27 2 6
Paris and Lyons
Rouen and Havre
Newcastle and Darlington June. 3 .... 13 7 6
South Eastern and Dover sv 0 0 0 ..
New shares
York and North Midland to paid 0 u 0 ....
Half Shares l5 0 0 0

66 10 0

BANKS.
Bank of Liverpool
- Borough Bank lO 13 17 0
- Commercial of Liverpool 10 .... 00 0
Commercial of England. a 0 0 0
- East of England lO 0 0 0
-of Manchester lO .... 00 0
- M'cliester & L'pool Dsct. 20 .. 0 0 0
- Northern and Central
- North and South Wales.. 10 0 0 0
- Royal of Liverpool Lao .... 00 0
- South Lancashire
- Albion
- Liverpool Union lO 10 12 0
- Liverpool Banking Co lO .... 0 • 0
- Wilts and Dorset 7 10s. 0
GAS, WATER WORKS, &c.
Exchange Buildings
L'pool and Harrington Water
Works lBtock,. 00 0
Bootle Ditto Stock...? • 0 0
t.poo Gas Light Company,

(Original Stock) 109 .
Ditto new Shares 100
L'pool New Gas & Coke Co. .4,100
Ditto new shares.
ASSURANCE COMPANIES,
M'cliester Asurance Company. 10
Liverpool Fire and Life 2 los.
Ocean Assurance
Liverpool Marine Assurance
,10
paid
Company

O 0
O 0 0
O 0 0
O 0 0
O 0 0
O 0 0
O 0 0
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15 17 6

10 12 6

DOCKS, FERRIES, NEW COMPAIHRS.• &e.
Leeds and Liverpool Canal 0 .....' 0 0 •
....
Anderton Carrying Company .. 100., a 0 . 0.....:
Rock Ferry
Steam Tug Company l9 ... 0 0 ' 0
...
Harrington Docks
Apothecaries' Company
..
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Aiplialte (Liverpool)
(Polonceau) 9 - ... 0 0 0 ....
• Cuno. Dividend.