The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-07 00:00:00

LOCAL NE WS

Sir Howard Douglas is nominated, by Mr. Palmer, one of
the members of the committee on shipwrecks.
The Cheshire Foxhounds meet to-morrow (Wednesday),
at Darnall; on Thursday, at Bradfield Green; and on SS
turday, at Tatton Park.

William Clayton Green, 13. A., of Clare Hall, Cambridge►
and late of Whitkirk, near Leeds and a student of the Leeds
Grammar School, was on Sunday last ordained by the
Bishop of Chester to the curacy of Woolton.

ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS' BILL.-Sir Howard Douglas
presented, in the House of Commons, on Friday night, the
petition agreed to at the recent meeting of the parishioners
on the subject of this bill.
The British and North American royal mail steamer the
Acadia, which sailed hence on the 4th ult., was spoken on
the 10th, in long. 31, having got " half seas over" in less than
six days. Her prssage across the Atlantic promised, there'
fore, to be short.

THE THEATRES.—In the House of Commons, on FridaYi
'l' Mr. T. Duncornbe presented a petition, signed by 6,000 °,
the inhabitants of Liverpool, complaining of vexatious actions
which had been brought against certain parties who had been
playing at the Liver Theatre, Liverpool.
The British and North American royal mail steamer the
Columbia, Captain Judkins, sailed, on Saturday last, fe,r
Halifax and Boston. She carried out fifty passengers, aewri
whom were Sir Charles Metcalfe, the new Governor-General
of Canada, and suite.
SIR HOWARD DonHLAs.—Our gallant representative, Sir
Howard Douglas, presided, on Saturday last, at a meeting
of the subscribers and friends of the United Service Institu-
tion, held in London. The Society, which is most useful to
both services, appears to be in a state of progressive.improve-
ment.

General Washington, Captain Marbury, arrived here
to-
day from New Orleans. She brines letters of the 28th °„
January, being later than those brought from New Orleans;
yesterday by the packet-ship George Washington, from l'sr
York. Captain Marbury has now, for three consecutife
voyages, brought the latest news from his ports of loading'
VISITORS AT CROXTETH.—The following is a correct Us"
of the visitors to the Earl of Sefton during the race week
Lord Stradbroke, Sir Frederick Batheuse, Sir F. Macgrercjc;
Sir Joshua and Lady Gerard, Sir Richard Brook anclAiiss Misses Brook, Mr., Mrs., and Miss Blackburne,
Hardy. Mr. Beauelere, Mr. Payner, Hon. Col. Ans"—►
Earl of Craven, Hon. Frederick Craven, Mr. F. Standish'

SALE OF LORD STANLEY'S BREEDING STIJD.—A large
be
draft from the valuable hunting and breeding stud of tby
noble colonial secretary were brought to the hammer
Tattersalls, by direction of his lordship, on the race cout4
at Aintree, on Wednesday. The lots
comp trrised the raco
by Ibrahim, brother to Napoleon, Erin, winner of a
Anglesea steeple chase ; galloways, mares, hacks, 84c" °-
realised good prices.

INQUEST.—Yesterday an inquest was held before
Curry, Esq., borough coroner, on view of the body of Mic,"uaat
Manly, a child of four-and-a-half
years old. It appTired "no
on Friday afternoon the 'deceased, who lived with his Puree,
in Brick-street, was in the act ofrunning across Flint-street,
while a cart was passing, when he stumbled and fell u o
der
the off wheel, which passed ouer his head. He was taken t
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the Southern Hospital, where, notwithstanding every
tion, he died on the following morning. The surgeon s,f,„h
that the deceased had suffered a fracture of the skull
wow
he died. Verdict, " Accidentally killed." alt!ted

INCREASE AND DECREASE
the imports of merchandise
(1842) with that of the precei
articles have varied :
Articles increased in import.
Ashes
Brimstone

IN IMPORTS.—On com Paring,
at this port for the last Yea'
ling, we observe the following

Articles decreased in import.
Bark
Cocoa .
Coffee, British plantation
Ginger
Hides
Indigo
Dye and Shell Lao
Madders
Molasses
Pepper
Palm oil

Cassia-
Coffee, foreign
Cotton Wool
Galls
Olive Oil
Pimento
Rice
Ruin
Shumac

Sugar, Mauritius and lia-

Saltpetre
Sugar, Bengal and
Tallow Brazil
Tar
Dye Woods
Sheeps' Wool

vana
Tincal
Tobacco
Turpentine