The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-29 00:00:00

THE CHASE.

THE CHESHIRE HOUNDS.—On Wednesday, at Hur-
leston ; Thursday, at Mere Hall; Saturday, at Crewe
Wood Hall.
Sin W. W. WYNN'S Houwns.—On Wedras icy, at
Ertling ; Thursday. at Wynnstay ; Saturday, at Alan
Sadler's—at half-past ten.

DOMESTIC.

THE REVENUE.—With reference to the present state
of the revenue, the Globe makes the following admission :
—" It so happens that there is not only no present surplus
to meet such a reduction, but the revenue is at this mo-
ment, so far as can be conjectured, actually insufficient
to meet the needful expenditure of the state."

SINGULAR DEATH.—On Monday a young woman, re-
siding near London, expired after a few boars' suffering,
occasioned by eating a considerable quantity of rice in an
u Moiled state. The surgeon who made a post-mortem
examination found a large quantity of undigested rice, with
ordinary food, in the intestines, which were enormously
distended. The whole stomach was loaded with undi-
gested matter. He had no doubt that deceased died from
obstruction of the bowels. Never before saw a case of
distension of so violent a character.
THE ROBBERY AT MESSRS. ROGERS AND Co.'s.—An
acceptance, forming part of the property stolen, was re-
turned cn Wednesday, to the acceptors, Messrs. Batty,
Melville, and Co., wholesale statior ers, Aldersgite-street.
It was contained in a letter, the writer of which stated the
affair would never be traced, and the bill ber.g of no use
to him, be returned it to its owners. This is the second
of the stolen documents which has lately been returned,
evidently by the same party. The writing of both the
letters in which the securities were enveloped is similar,
and ink of the same colour. The orthography, also, is
equally defective. No clue to the recovery of the stolen
property is afforded by these letters.—Daily News.
MORE FATAL GUN ACCIDENTS.—On the 14th inst
as a young man named David Thomas was getting over a
hedge with a loaded gun at. Gwmsymlog, near Aberyst-
with, he inconsiderately took bold of the muzzle to draw
the piece after him, when the gun exploded, and the shot,
lodging in his breast, caused his death in an hour.—On
Saturday week, as a preventive man, in the island of
Portland, of the name of Hancock, who bad just returned
from duty, was cleaning the b. rrel of his pistol, the charge
of which he had unfortunately omitted to withdraw, while
holding it with the muzzle pointed towards his person,
it unhappily went off, and the contents were lodged in his
body, excepting the ball, which passed through him,
causinz immediate death. _ _ _ _

A NOVEL HIGHWAYMAN.—A gentleman of Lutter.
worth was walking, about the middle of the day, on Mon-
day last, in the vicinity of that town, when his attention
was suddenly arrested by the irruption from a ditch of a
very singular antagonist. A mouse actually ran at him,
sat about his foot, and bit his gaiters ! ! We have heard
certainly, in our day, many strange tales about these
little frolicsome animals,—how they have excavated ex-
cellent Stilton, tunnelled through heart of oak, and made
embankments of " I promise to pay " and .post obits, but
we never heard before of a mouse daring enough or hungry
enough to attack a gaiter on a live leg at one o'clock p.m.
The above assuredly must either be the mouse of .lEsop,
that emancipated the lion, or it must be the " ridiculus
mus" of classic story.—Leicester Journal.
How SOME PEOPLE LIVE AND DlE.—Last week, an
elderly woman, well known to the bargemen and watermen
about Whitehall under the name of Peggy the Mudlark,
dropped down in Scotland-yard, and soon afterwards ex-
pired. She lived by gathering up the pieces of coal which
fall from the barges as their cargoes are discharged. Many
a time has she been seen with half her body immersed in
mud, working in her strange colliery, groping and digging
for the black diamonds she was to transmute into bread.
No weather which did not put a stop to unloading the
barges was ever severe enough to give her a holiday. Last
week, however, the cold seems to have been too great for
her aged frame, and on her return from one of her usual
excursions with a small booty, she was seized with a shi-
vering fit, and before medical assistance could be obtained
he was a corpse.
DONATIONS OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS FOR THE
IRISH POOR.—The " Friends " throughout England have
come forward in a most unostentatious and truly liberal
manner, in behalf of the destitute people of Ireland. In
the language of a contemporary " the contributions of in-
dividual members have been most liberal—they put to
shame the heartlessness with which the applications of
voluntary Committees have been treated by some who
draw their fortunes from the soil." Tile " Friends " of
London have appropriated very handsome sums of from
£5OO to at the least £5O by each member. Mr. Samuel
Gurney and Mr. Jno. Gurney of London have each con-
tributed £5OO each, and we have before us a list of about
fifty individuals, some giving £3OO each, others £2OO, a
large number £lOO, and others £5O and £2O respectively.
It is fully expected that the " Friends." in this town,
Manchester, Leeds, &c., will follow this noble example.
The establishment of soup-shops is the channel through
which they appear to think relief can, at this season, be
most beneficially distributed, and in that way the funds
obtained are intended to be applied.