The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-06-18 00:00:00

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.

The usual weekly meeting was held yesterday. Up to
three o'clock the proceedings consisted almost wholly of
the acknowledgment by the secretary of large sums of
money. The rent, it is believed, will exceed £3OOO.

The annual Polish Ball took place on Tuesday. Twelve
hundred tickets were disposed of, and the company ex-
ceeded one thousand persons. There has been a state-
ment in circulation that the Emperor of Russia sent £5OO
fcr a ticket. It is true that his Imperial Majesty offered
a munificent donation, but the association could not con-
sistently accept the bounty. The offer was declined.

GUANO TRADE.—Since our last, the Rolla, keighley,
of 451 tons register; the Neva, Simpson, of 320 ditto;
and the Frances Lawson, Martin, have each sailed from
this port for the coast of Africa, and will be followed in
a day or two by the Integrity, of 489 tons, making eight
ships from this port, for the same destination, in quest of
guano, within about five weeks.—Hull Herald.
DROWNING OF Two PRUSSIANS.—A melancholy ac-
cident took place at the mouth of the Tyne, on the even-
ing of Friday week. The ship Caroline 011 en, Heahke,
of Swinemunde, from Dunkirk, after having cast her
ballast at sea, capsised off Tynemouth Bar, and two men,
who were in the hold at the time were unfortunately
drowned. The vessel has since been righted.
DESTRUCTION BY FIRE OF 500 QUAILS.—On Sunday
night, about eleven o'clock, a fire broke out in the cellar
of the house, No. 23, Turnhill-street, Clerkenwell, in
the occupation of Mr. Davenham, an extensive dealer in
pigeons, quails, &c., who a few months ago, by a similar
calamity, lost above 1,000 pigeons. There were in the
cellar above 500 quails in cages, all of which were
destroyed.
SUDDEN DEATH.—Much excitement was awakened in
Darlington, on Sunday week, by the sudden death of Mr.
W. Backhouse, the senior partner of the old and respec-
table banking establishment of Backhouse and ar-
lington. Mr. Backhouse, being a member of the Co.,gociety
of Friends, attended the meeting-house in the evening as
usual. He rose to address the congregation, and whilst
in the act of speaking, fell down and immediately expired.
REGISTRATIONS.—On Thursday, the 20th instant,
overseers in boroughs must publish notices to electors for
the payment of poor-rates and assessed taxes, due on the
6th of Aril last, on or before the 20th of July next. By
the act of parliament, 2d William 4th, c. 45, overseers are
required to affix on the church-doors, by the 20th ofJune,
notices to persons qualified to claim as county voters, and
all claims must be delivered on or before the 20th of July.
On Saturday week, a sumptuous banquet was given by
the barristers of the home circuit to Sir F. Thesiger,
M.P., the new solicitor-general, on his accession to office.
The dinner took place at the Brunswick Hotel, Blackwell.
The bar of the home circuit consists of about 140 mem-
bers, of whom J. T. Platt, Esq.. Q.C., is the leader, and
upwards of 100 gentlemen sat down, Mr. Platt, the se.
nior member, presiding.
THE CROWN PRINCE OF DENMARIC.—The princelai
continued his travels in Scotland. After a visit to the
Marquis of Breadlebane, at Taymouth, the prince arrived
at Glasgow on Friday, where he saw the sights, from the
Cathedral to the retail linen-draper's shop of Campbell
and Company. He visited Sterling on Sunday, the falls:
of Clyde and Lord Belhaven on Monday, and left Glas-
gow on Tuesday, for Cromarty, on his way to Feroe
Islands.

EXTRAORDINARY PRESENTIMENT.—WiIIiam Symes,
of Yeovil, had on many occasions, for many years past,
been heard to declare his conviction that he should die on
the very day when he should have been married twenty
years; and, strange to relate, his presentiment proved true,
as his death took place on Whit-Monday, the 27th of
May, on which day, 20 years before he was married.
His remains were conveyed to the grave on Thursday
week, and agreeably with his particular desire, often ex-
pressed, his body was dressed in the same cloths which he
wore when he was married.—Bristol Mercury.