The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-16 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY

The first iron sailing ship of war ever built, the Recruit,
12 guns, was launched at Black wall, on Wednesday.
Prince Castelcicala, the Neapolitan ambassador, was
present at debate in the Lords on Tuesday.

O:1 Tuesday, a man aged seventy committed suicide by
jumping off the cliff at Ramsgate._ _ _ _

The hay harvest has commenced all round Birmin
and a better crop

.s scarcely ever knov

No less than 2,000 pictures have this year been ex-
cluded from the Royal Academy's
the want of room.

s exhibition through

Within the last fortnight no less than six persons be-
longing to Worcester and the neighbourhood have been
drowned whilst bathing.

On Friday a lady fell to the ground, in Regent-street,
London, from the effect of a sun-stroke. She was re-
stored by medical aid.
Lord Cowley, her Majesty's ambassador at the Court
of the Tuillieries, arrived in London on Tuesday evening,
in order to vote on the corn bill.
There has been over 50,000 mackerel in a few days
taken off Portland, Dorsetshire. On other parts of the
coast the fishermen have met with even greater success.
A hovel in Timberland Fen, a few miles from Horn-
castle, Lincolnshire, was set on fire by lightning during a
storm on Sunday week, and consumed.
The tobacco-pipe makers of London and its vicinity
have determined to cease from work, from and after the
13th instant, unless their rate of pay be increased. _

A young gentleman and two feinles were drowned in
the Thames, near Battersea, on Thursday, by the upset-
ting of a boat which he was rowing.
Many of Lord Morpeth's supporters in the West Ri-
ding of. Yorkshire, are so offended with his votes on the
FactJr)..• Bill, that they will not vote for him again.
On Friday last, Mr. Palmer's mare trotted three miles
in harness under eleven minutes, on the. Holloway.road,
and won her match, which was not to exceed that time.

A female infant was last week accidentally smothered
in Birmingham, from the pressure of its face upon the
pillow during sleep.
The mechanics of Greenock are at present engaged in
getting up a penny subscription to give Sir It. Peel a
mark of respect for his measures of free trade.
Lord Gough, the sheriff of India, succeeds on the death
of Colonel liunbury, to an estate of £2,500 a year, left to
his lordship by the late Mr. Binbury, M.P. for Carlow.

In accordance with an official circular issued from the
Home-office, prison discipline and prison diet will hence-
forth be rigidly enforced with respect to debtors commit-
ted for bona fide frauds against creditors. .
The sailor, named Payne, who was lately found in a
tent, in the gardens of Buckingham Palace

was again

mitted to his ship

discovered there, and immediately trans.
at Portsmouth, to be punished as a deserter.
Fine ripe cherries imported from Holland have been
sold at Sunderland during the week at eight pence per
pound, and new potatoes from the south in great abun-
dance at four shillings per peck.
The Gazette of Tuesday announces that the Royal li-
cense has been granted to Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid,
Bart., to use the title of Baron de Goldsmid and de Pal-
meira, conferred on him by the Queen of Portugal.
Persons cleaning glass bottles with shot, should be
most careful not to leave any of the shot in the bottles, as
the arsenic, which enters largely into their composition,
is disengaged by wine, porter, or any acid.
DR. WOLFF.—Sir R. Peel has granted Dr. Wolff a sum
of £4OO in order to enable the reverend gentleman to
repay certain advances made by Captain Grover towards
his expenses when travelling to Bokhara.
The General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland
have decided that slaveholding did not constitute a sin
which rendered it necessary to renounce communion with
those guilty of it. They have, therefore, returned the
money subscribed in the slave states of America.

An unnatural parent was fined £5 the other day by the
Huddersfield magistrates, for forging a certificate of bap-
tism, with the intent of enabling his daughter, who was
under age, to work in a factory. The child had been exa-
mined once and refused, because under age, in conse-
quence of which the certificate was forged.
The Standard of Friday says :—The debate on Lord
Stanhope's amendment was adjourned, but whatever the
fate of that amendment, we believe we are safe in congra-
tulating our readers upon the assurance that the bill will
never pass through the House of Lords.—The Morning
Herald of Saturday makes a similar announcement still
more confidently.

REFRESHMENTS AT FUNERALS..—The Edinburgh
Town Council has agreed to give their countenance and
support to the movement fcr abolishing refreshments at
funerals. All the ministers, of every denomination, in
Edinburgh and Leith, have likewise thrown their influ-
ence into the movement.

A careful examination of the three dead bodies which
were discovered in a case at the warehouse of Messrs.
Chaplin and Horne, a short time since, has been made by
Mr. Wilson, and it turns out that they were the bodies of
three American Indians which had been embalmed and
for some time busied. They had been disinterred and
sent to this country as a curiosity.

Reports from all parts of the country speak strongly on
the beneficial effect which the recent warm weather, and
occasional showers of rain, have had on the growing crops,
both of grain and grass. The hay harvest has commenced
in various parts of this and the neighbouring counties,
with every prospect of a large and well-got crop being ob-
tained.

PILL-BOXES AND LUCIFER MATCHES.—IR the com-
mittee on the Oldham District Railway Bill on Wednes-
day, Mr. Nightingale, a manufacturer of lucifer matches
and pillboxes, at Newton-heath, stated that be uses 600
tons of timber, and that he employs 300 persons on an
average throughout the year; and he exports to all parts
of Europe and North America and Australia, besides
sending large quantities to every part of England, Scot-
land, and Ireland.

FOREIGN GRAIN.—AII the grain warehouses in Leith
are full, and carg es have been sent to considerable dis-

tances for lodgment. At present 130 more lofts are filled
than ever have been at any former period. The quantity
under customs lock and key just now is 200,000 quarters,
being equal to the entire yearly produce of at least 220 of
our East or Mid Lothian farms ; or the product of 55,000
acres of the finest soil ; or the barn-yard average would
be about 14,300 stacks.—Edinburgh Register.
Lord George Bentinck having expressed his wish that
the £2,100 which was subscribed in the year 1844 for the
purpose of a testimonial to his Lordship, should be ap-
propriated for the advantage of trainers and riders of
good character, the committee intend to lay the founda-
tion of an efficient fund for the benefit of trainers and
jockeys, their widows and children, to be called the " Ben-
tinck Fund," end for which purpose further donations
are being contributed.
SAILOR BEES.—A most remarkable circumstance oc-
curred on board the Lindsay steamer, on her passage from
Hull to Gainsbcrough, on Friday week. When she
reached opposite Gunthorpe, a large swarm of bees settled
on her, taking up their position near the chimney, where
they remained as passengers till she reached her destina-
tion ; they were then conveyed to Captain Jonson's gar-
den, Little Church Lane, and may now be seen gathering
honey " from every opening flower."—Hull Advertiser.
"THE DERBY."—A jolly Boniface, residing not fifty
miles from Boston, having heard mighty talk of the run
for " the Derby," imbibed an irresistible desire to be an
eye witness of this much talked of race. Accordingly,
supposing that " the Derby" must be run for at Derby,
to that famous town be wended his way, and, on arriving,
great was his chagrin at finding he had been going an Irish
journey? On inquiring for the race, he discovered what
an egregious blunder he had committed.—Stamford Mer-
cury.
IBRAHIM PACHA'S DiAmoNn-e,.--The diamonds
brought over by Ibrahim Pacha are of enormous value,
some of them are as large as the half of a hazel nut. The
state robes of scarlet and gold are gorgeous, and the hilt
of the scymitar is ornamer.ited with jewels of great value.
The trumpets, drums, and other military emblems with
which it is ornamented:oeing brilliants of the finest water,
and in the centre of the hilt is a diapond of very large
size. His pipe is of great size, and studded with dig.
monde•

ALARMING FIRE.—A fire of the most alarming kind,
and which has led to the destruction of property to the
value of between £35,000 and £40,000, occurred at Bristol,
on Thursday. It originated in some extensive premises
at Counterslip, which run back to the wall of the floating
harbour, and are occupied by Messrs. Finzeil and Son, as
a sugar refinery. The entire premises, with the valuable
machinery and immense stock of sugars, were destroyed.
The books of the firm were fortunately secured. The
property was only partially insured.
CURIOUS ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday week, Thomas
Arnett, of Shensall, near York, had a double barrelled
can in his pockets, the stock being on one side of him and
tha barrels on the other, and as he was fastening a gate
through which he had passed the barrels fell out of his
pocket The barrels were loaded and had caps on, and
it appeared that when they fell out of the deceased's
pocket, the cap of one of them had struck against the
gate, and thus discharged the barrel, the contents entering
the unfortunate man's body. He died on the following
day.
THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS.—It iS not

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only in the
.►ve party that there is a split; division has also
crept into the opposition camp. A very considerable
number of members of the House of Commons sitting on
the opposition benches have resolved not to join in any
vote the obvious object of which is merely to place Sir
Robert Peel in a minority, and so endanger the passing of

the Corn Law I

Consid

more than thirty

liberals have already pledged thenise
there is reason to believe that this