The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-06-24 00:00:00

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The Council of Newcastle-on-Tyne have determined,
by a majority of 24 to 12, not to purchase the gas-works.
The Hon. W. S. Lascelles, brother of the Earl of
Harewood, M.P. for Knaresborough, is dangerously ill.
A Newcastle paper records the arrival by railway of
300 rats, addressed to a saddler at Newcastle.
A consignment of 255 dozen of wine, described as
" Australian white wine, and "Australian red hermitage,"
has been received in London from New South Wales.

The fact that the Kaffir war is costing this country
something like £3OOO a day while it lasts, is calculated to
quicken our interest in the affairs of the Cape Colony.
The third performance of Sir Bulwer Lytton's new co-
medy, " Not so Bad as we Seem," took place on Wednes-
day evening, at the Hanover-square Rooms.
Two gunners of the royal artillery, named Wilson and
Evans, were drowned off Plymouth, on Friday night, by
the upsetting of a sailing boat.
WEST INDIA PINEAPPLES.—The Susan, twenty-three
days from Eleutheria, has brought a cargo of 30,000 pine-
apples and 50 head of turtle.
Jane Wilbred, the victim of the Sloanes' barbarity,
has had nearly £3OO subscribed for her, and will be placed
in a respectable situation.
Samples of wheat, barley, and oats, shot in the ear, were
exhibited in Edinburgh market, on Tuesday last, being
one week later than last year.
A flint glass manufactory, which has been lying dormant
for some time, has been re-opened at Sunderland during
the past week by Mr. Nicholas French.
A banquet was given to the Duke of Richmond, on
Saturday evening, by a large number of officers, in token
of the high and grateful sense entertained by them of his
grace's successful exertions on their behalf.
EXTRAORDINARY.—One day during the present week,
a hen, belonging to William Ross, of Horton, hatched
two ducks from one egg, both of which are likely for life.
—Halifax Guardian.

The reward offered for the discovery of the persons
who committed the gold dust robbery on the South-
Western Railway, a few w,:eks since, has been increased
from £250 to £5OO.

Notwithstanding the assertion of the Times to the con-
trary, Colonel Sibthorpe stated in the House of Commons
on Monday evening last, that " he never had been in the
Exhibition, nor had ever been even near it."
A return has been furnished to the House of Commons,
that the declared value of British produce and manufac-
tures exported from the United Kingdom during the last
two years, ending Ist of January, was £69,934,312.
A little boy, twenty months old, the son of a clergy-
man's servant at Leicester, was choked last week by a
small piece of bone, contained in a morsel of beefsteak-pie
which was given to him by his father.
The wife of an innkeeper in Saltfleet, Lincolnshire,
who had been married only six months and was no more
than seventeen years of age, has eloped with a small
farmer.

Within a short distance of this town we yesterday ob-
served what was very lately a flourishing piece of beans,
about 20 acres, completely destroyed with the blight, and
presenting the appearance of a burnt mass of black cin-
ders.—Dorset Chronicle.

The bullion in both departments of the Bank had in-
creased from £13,836,557 to £13,925,874, being a differ-
ence of £89,317. The paper in actual circulation had
decreased from £20,081,624 to £19,940,349, being a dif-
ference of £141,275.

The committee of the Ulverston Library, in solemn
conclave assembled, have determined that an individual of
the greatest respectability, but who unluckily happens to
be a master dyer, is not eligible as a member on account
of his occupation I
On Wednesday, at Edinburgh, George Black Pyott and
William Black Pyott, wholesale grocers and commission-
agents, Leith, who had been found guilty of setting fire
to the premises occupied by them as a warehouse, were
sentenced to 14 years' transportation.
Two individuals, well known at Jarrow, were, a few
days ago, brought before the magistrates and fined 28s.
each, for throwing upon the rails, from one of the rail-
way carriages in which they were riding, a great coat
belonging to the guard.
The Rev. Mr. Manning, late Archdeacon Manning,
who recently seceded, in a state of bewilderment, from
the Established Church, was ordained priest in the Roman
Church by Cardinal Wiseman on Saturday last, at the
oratory in King-street, London, and subsequently cele-
brated mass in the presence of a numerous auditory.
One of the persons who bore Sir Ralph Abercromby
from the field when he fell, in the moment of victory, at
the celebrated battle of Alexandria, 1801, appeared at the
Court-house, Leeds, a few days ago, charged with having
attempted to bang himself on account of want. He gave
the name of Steele.
Father Ignatius, in a letter to the Tablet, says that
circumstances are leading him to withdraw for a time
from his public operations in the crusade for the conversion
of England to popery, and that he intends to devote the
summer to a course of missions and retreats, with "inter-
vals of rest in our happy solitudes."
The Ragged Schools are telling. In Edinburgh, in 1848,
552 boys and girls between fourteen and sixteen were sent
to prison in 1849, 440 ;in 185 0, 361. In 1847, five per
cent of the Edinburgh prisoners were under fourteen
years of age ; in 1848, three per cent. ; in 1849, two per
cent. ; in 1850, one per cent.
At the Mansion-house, London, last week, Donohue
and Smith, suspected of housebreaking, impudently de-
clared that they had given up thieving, and had taken a
private still, finding it " safer and more respectable to do
a little in that line than in any other way." They were
remanded.
Mr. Robert Stupart, aged about 21, son of Major Stu-
part, formerly of the Scots Greys, and one of the remain-
ing heroes of Waterloo, now residing near Edinburgh,
while on a visit to his cousin, Mr. Mill, of Portmoon, was
in the habit occasionally of going down the dangerous
paths which intersect the rocks in that part of the coast,
for the purpose of gathering sea-gulls' eggs. While en-
gaged in this manner, on the sth instant, by himself, as it
appears, he lost'his footing, and was killed.
THE AFFRAY AT TWINSTEAD.—The fearful encounter
between the police and Mr. Cook, and three burglars, at
Twinstead, has resulted fatally, Poole, one, of the wounded
robbers, having died in Hedingham police station from
the effects of his wound. It is most satisfactory to the
public, that the prompt measures of the county police led
to so speedy an apprehension of the three burglars. Mr.
Cook's man is at present going on favourably, and Jones,
the policeman, though severely wounded in the affray, is
doing well.
A sober festival occurred last week, at the metropolis
of the East Riding, where a delegates' meeting of the
Yorkshire Mechanics' Institute was appropriately cele-
brated by a speech from Lord Carlisle. The speech was
good, but one is rather tired of hearing the Great Exhi-
bition called a " Temple of Industry," and a " recogni-
tion of the dignity of labour." The fact is, that the
tendency which this great show inevitably has to make us
exalt and worship our own creative powers, is the only
feature of it upon which it is painful to dwell.
AN OMNIBUS ON FIRE.—On Saturday night last, the
omnibus which plies between Chesterfield and Derby,
belonging to Mr. Samuel Becon, arrived at Alfreton about
nine o'clock, apparently all right. A little before one the
next morning an alarm of fire was given by a neighbour,
when, on examination, the front of the omnibus was
found enveloped in flames. The vehicle was a good deal
damaged. A two-gallon bottle of spirits had exploded
with heat. The fire is supposed to have originated from
an ignited cigar left in the omnibus.—.Derby Reporter.
OORANG OOTANG IN THE REGENT'S PARK.—TIIO
Zoological Society have been fortunate enough to receive
a fine living oorang ootang, among other gifts, from the
governor of Singapore. His excellency not only collected
the valuable animals in question, preserved them in his
garden for some time to ascertain that they were recon-
ciled to captivity, but defrayed the whole expense of their
freight to this country. The oorang was accompanied by
a female of the same species, who, unfortunately, died at
sea not many days before the arrival of the vessel in the
English Channel. He is about four years old, and by far
the finest example which has yet heou brought to Europe.