The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-03-04 00:00:00

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The Queen has presented 250 guineas, for the Prince of
Wales, to the Metropolitan Convalesceit Institution.
A young man at Brecon named Miller, has poisoned
himself through a fancied disappointment in love.
The sale of season tickets of admission to the Great
Exhibition, which commenced on Friday, at the Society
of Arts, John-street. Adelphi, is now proceeding rapidly.
The premises of Messrs. Treacher & Cuthbert, candle-
manufacturers, Paternoster-row, London, were destroyed
by fire on Thursday night.
The striae of the seamen in the ports of the north-
eastern coast has completely terminated, both at Hull
and on the Tyne and Wear.
Miss Gibbs, daughter of the ex-alderman, has been
appointed matron to the school at Hertford belonging to
Christ's Hospital.
Several clerks in a well-known bank in the city have
been detected perpetrating robberies on the establishment
to the amount of £lO,OOO.
The United Service Gazette notes a curious nautical
fact, viz., that a ship in the Persian C4.llf,•in the course of
20 months, had her copper encased with living corahto
the thickness of two feet. _ _

The Metropolitan Trades Delegates, at a meeting on
Thursday, passed resolutions affirming tile gradual depr7
ciation in the value of labour, and advocating the princi-
ples of protection and regulation for labour.•
A dish of mushrooms, about the size of walnuts, were
gathered by the gardener of C. M. Webster, Esq., of
Pullion-hall, near Sunderland, on Saturdarlast, from the
open ground in a field adjoining the hall.
The United States mail steam-ship Washington, • Capt.
Floyd, witb.dates from New York to the 22d ofTebruary,
is expected off Cowes about the 7th or Bth instant, en
route to Bremen.
The Glocester Journal states, that the defendant in a
slander case which recently came before the Glocester
Consistory Court has been sentenced to do public penance
in Stonehouse Church previous to the 6th of Mkrch.
The Hereford gnardians have contracted for a supply
of best seconds flour at 255. 4d. per sack of five bushels
(56 lbs. per bushel), or at the rate of lid. per lb.-for flour
with which to make excellent bread.
A child, nine years old, a few days ago, picked up and
eat some red wafers which had been swept out ot an oil-
shop in one of the London streets ' • and died a short time
afterwards, having been poisoned by the red lead which
the wafers contained.
Mr. Paxton's sweeping machine was tried at the build-
ing in Hyde-park- on Saturday morning, and was-found
to answer exceedingly well. His grace the Duke of Devon=
shire was present at the trial, and himself swept twenty
yards of flooring.
Mr. George Headrthe Quaker Sheriff of Cumberland,
made an innovation on an old custom connected with the
cavalcade, at the opening of the Carlisle assizes, yesterday
week. Instead of the javelins, usual on such occasions,
his followers carried poles surmounted by silvered knobs.
In a recent lecture at the Glasgow Mechanics' Institu-
tion, Dr. Penny stated that nearly all the muriatic acid
sold in Glasgow is contaminated with arsenic. Muriatie
acid, with other chemical articles, is used very frequently
as a substitute foryeast in the making of bread.
A large catch of mackerel took place in Brighton last
week. One boat brought in upwards of 12,000 fish, which
were sent to the- London, market. On Sunday again,
three boats brought in upwards of 20,000 fish, which
fetched 14s. a hundred. _

THE BENEVOLENT BANDETt.—Not many miles from
the south-west side of the bridge in this town, there is-to
be seen written in large round hand in a shop window...and
hanging at the door the following :—" Sailors on strike
shaved gratis, on Mondays-and Fridays."—Sunderland
Herald. _ _ - .

A woman*, named Preston, wife of an agricultural la-
bourer, living at Postlip, Gloucestershire, was delivered
of three children yesterday week. They were all alive,
but one died shortly after birth. The other two lived a
day or two and were baptized, but they have both since
died.
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The total: numbers of packages of British manufac-
tures, &c., received for the exhibition up to Feb. 24 inclu-
sive,
are 432. The total number of foreign packages
received and placed in the hoardings of the country to.l
which they belong, up to the 22d February, are 613;: and
the total number of colonial, 352.
The Duke of Northumberland's generous offer of a
prize of 10:1 guineas for a life-boat has brought no fawer
than three hundred models into the field. The adjudi-
cators, of whom Captain Washington of the Admiralty
is president,'will be occupied a longtime before theycome
to a decision as to the merits of the ingenious models.
The exorbitant charge on Foreign. office passports has
been reduced to 7s. 6d. a-piece. This is well ; but it
might be better. Seven.and-sixpence is halt-a-crown
too much; and the boon need not have been clogged by
absurdly requiring the applicant to come prepared with a
letter of recommendation from one of Lord Palmerston's
acquaintances, or a London banker.
A PIN IN THE TONGUE.—A few days since a fat pig
was slaughtered by Mr. Turbeville, farmer, Ebbw•Mill,
and,, upon the worthy yeoman cutting up the tongue of
the animal afterwards, his knife came in contact with
some impediment, which was found by him to be a large
pin, lying snugly enclosed, lengthways, in the "unruly
member." The pig had, most likely, taken up the pin
at some unlucky meal.—Hereford Times.
ALLEGED STARVATION OF A WIFE BY HER HUSBAND.

rumour having been spread in Bath, on Tuesday
afternoon, that a woman named Harriet Sparing had died
of starvation from the neglect of her husband, on inquiry
it was was found that she had been left for days together
without any food or fuel. The husband was agroom, but
since his wife's death he has not been found. .A coroner's
inquest was being held upon the body.
ARTICLES NOR THE EXHIBITION.—The following are
the number of packages received and placed in the hoard-
ings of the countries to which they belong up to Saturday
last :—Foreign : Bavaria, 42 ; Prussia, 273; Switzerland,
99 ; Spain, 11 ; Sweden, 18 ; Saxony, 135 ; Belgium, 16;
United States, 14 ; Mexico, 4 ; Peru, 11—Colonial :
Canada, 304 ; Nova Scotia, 23 ; Guernsey, 8 ; Nassau,
New Providence, 2 ; South Australia, 15. Total-965.
RIOT AT YARMOUTH.—On Saturday a serious riot,
arising out of disputes between the shipowners and sailors
took place at Yarmouth, and so alarmed the authorities
that the military were sent for from Norwich. In a few
hours quiet were restored ; but the troops continued to
parade the streets during the night. On Sunday morn-
ing all remained quiet, and it was expected that the mili-
tary would return to Norwich in the course of the day.
It is remarkable that the last three men who unfortu-
nately lost their lives by being run over on the line of
the York, Newcastle, and Berwick railway, near North-
allerton, were all of the name of Allison, but in no way
related to each other. Two of them were named Wil-
liam and the other Thomas. It is about two years since
the first of them was killed, the second in October last,
and the third on the tenth of February last.
FATAL PRIZE FIGHT.—On Monday a fight came off in
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when he fell and immediately expired. An inquest has
since been held on the body, when a verdict of " Man-
slaughter" was returned.
Hannah Maria Ewens, a widow, aged fifty, stands re-
manded at the Marylebone Police-court, on a charge of
administering gin to a little girl, aged seven, who was
sent up-stairs by her father to ask the prisoner to stop a
noise she was making, which prevented him, getting to
sleep. On sending her brother after her, he brought her
down insensible, and the child has since died from the
effects of the gin given by the prisoner, who, it appears,
was drunk at the time.
On Monday night, about 700 people, consisting chiefly
of foreigners, assembled at a " banquet," given at the
Highbury Barn Tavern, to celebrate the European revolu-
tion of 1848. In the course of the evening. various
reports were read describing the state of democracy in
different parts of the Continent, and several speeches were
delivered, advocating the cause of republicanism. Louis
Blanc addressed the audience, and was received with
great applause. The room was decorated with flags
bearing republican inscriptions.
ST. VALENTINES STATISTICS.—OD Valentine's day
this year, there passed through the general post-office
193,941 letters, of a description proving they were valen-
tines. This is above twice as many as were sent in 1840.
The postage of the entire number at Id. each for the 12
years, amounts to £7,006 18s. 11d. If the value of each
valentine is taken at 2d., it would be seen that there was
paid for the whole .£14,013 17s. 10d. The paper in
quantity would require 350 reams, six quires, and twenty-
two sheets over.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT HOLYHEAD.—As the railway
steamer Anglia was leaving Kingstown on Tuesday, when
off the new harbour works a blast was fired off containing
two tons of powder. The superintendent at the harbour
works (Captain Hutchinson, Royal Engineers) having
completed his arrangements retired, and was at least half
a mile from the spot when the explosion took place, but
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