The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-20 00:00:00

A TARIFF TRICIC.—A g
day, sent the bellman ronn

in Thirsk, the othe

Huai iot of rabbits, as large as Welsh ponies:from hi
preserves on the continent ! The town crier helping out th
trick, concluded his oration with " God save the Queen, Si
Robert Peel, myself, and the rest of the royal family !
We rejoice to be able to state, that in a recent ens:in-inn;

cation with his Archdeacon, Liu, _
strongly urged the expediency of represen.....,,
serious an evil will be inflicted on the church in Walt
contemplated union of the sees of Bangor and St. Asapn
ever be carried into effect.—Oxford Herald.

Av very
s, if the

GOOD FORTUNE.-Mr. Everard, saddler of Lincoln, by
the death of his uncle, the late Mr. Everard of Moulton, near
Spalding, has had the good fortune to inherit £lO,OOO. An
elder brother, also a saddler, and formerly of Lincoln, has
been still more fortunate, having had £30;000 from the same

_face. .ne coo.- -...nis proceeding a considerable
The works on the Anglo-Belgian line for this first length quantity of bones and teeth were collected, for the most part
from' Paris are proceeding rapidly under English contractors ; in a state of perfect preservation ; these were chiefly taken to
and the next length to Creil will be put out to contract on the the Institution, and, on being examined, there were found
24th instant. The French government appear determined to teeth of the bear, hyena, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, ox-deer,
press forward this very important line with all possible elephant, and the head and horns of the ox, and portions of
bone of these and other animals. This work was superin-
dispatch.
tended by Mr. Stutchbury, curator of the Institution, and
Two very fine new steamers, of about 800 tons each, with occasionally inspected by Mr. Wm.. Sanders, Dr. Fai,rbro-
engines of 260-horse power, by Maudslay and Field, are now ther, and other scientific gentlemen ; but, as there appeared
in the East India Dock on the point of departure for Con- no immediate prospect of finding a cavern, the investigation
for the present has been abandoned.
stantino ple. They have been constructed for the Russian
government, are fitted as passenger and cargo vessels, and
are, it is said, destined to ply in the Black Sea and the Bos- The discovery of the remains of other animals, which now
phorns, inhabit for the most part only tropical climates, in several
parts of this country, as in Kirkdale, Banwell, Kent's Cave,
JEMMY WOOD'S HOUSE.—The executors have ordered the near Torquay, &c., suggests interesting subjects for investi-
demolition of this rich eccentric's house, and, in compliance gation and reflection, as to the changes which our climate
with these orders, men are engaged in pulling it down. must have undergone. as well as to the geological formation
Numbers are attracted to the ruins, in the hope of finding of the earth, and the several theories which have been pro-
treasures concealed by the old banker. Some of the curious pounded as to the manner in which both herbiverous and car-
have purchased some pieces of the old timbers to convert niverous were thus thrown into one " common lot," whether
into snuff-boxes.
by the deluge, by eruption, or other great convulsion of nature.
In the Court of, Bankruptcy, London, on Friday week, The peculiarity of the present discovery is, that the re-
Thomas Cornish, secretary to the Oriental Club, in which mains have at present only been found in a fissure, which, as
capacity he was a defaulter to the amount of £1,500, and far as can be ascertained, extends a very considerable depth,
engaged in other capacities, which rendered him liable to the lower than the workmen have yet gone. This is not the case
bankrupt act, not having surrendered, was proclaimed as an in the other places mentioned, where the bones are all found
outlaw with the usual formalities. m caverns, which would appear in some measure to refute
A person named William Parkinson, late a porter in the the theory of certain philosophers, viz., that these caverns
service of Mr. Appleton, paper-maker, of Collyhurst, near
were the resort of the hyena or tiger, where they dragged in
Manchester, is in custody on a charge of feloniously obtain- and devoured their prey, and afterwards died in the same
h
ing a money letter from the Manchester Post-office, contain-
cave. To account for the present phenomenon two
ses present themselves either a cavern migh have exist ypothe-
ed
ing £4O in cash, and bills to the amount of £55, the property above the fissure and the surface of the Downt , and thus the
of his master.
Messrs. William Watson, James Philli bones have fallen into the cleft below, or, what is more pro-
ps, and Charles bable, they were washed into the fissure by the Flood ; and
Whitehead, as a deputation from the Mexican and South doubtless it will be found that the further human inquiry ex-
American Association of Liverpool, and accompanied by tends with regard to physical science, and the more surely
Messrs. J. D. Fowles and Robert M'Calmont, had an inter- will the truth of the revealed account of Holy Writ be con-
view with the Earl of Aberdeen on Monday, at the Foreign- firmed. In the inscrutable ways of Providence, who can say
office, with respect to the claims of British merchants against that the discussions, and consequent investigations, in rela-
the Mexican government. tion to geological science, which have recently attracted so
BONNET TRADE.—During the severe depression of trade much attention, may not be the forerunner of a " sure and
of almost every kind for such a length of time•over the king- certain hope" to thousands who might otherwise have lived
' died in a state of scientific sceptism, in relation to the
most important of all the varied subjects which employ the
.ed an order human intellect?—Bristol Journal.
employment to many in

but I anc

nom, the bonnet trade of Stewarton has continue_ , __-
prices are low, and barely sufficient to remunerate the manu-
facturer._ One manufacturer has just now recei

U bonne

the trade for sometime.—Ayr observei:. - The Quarterly Review, just published, in an able article
The contract for bread for the Bath Union, for the next under the title " Anti-Corn Law Agitation," observes as fol-
six months, has been taken at sd. per 41b. loaf, being five lows :—" In January, 1842, preparatory to the holding the
farthings less than for the preceding half-rear.—At Devizes Bazaar, the League state that they had spent up to the autumn
the contracts were taken, for bread, at 9iti• and al 10d. per of 1841 a sum bordering upon £lO,OOO. In the address of
gallon ; for flour, at 325. per sack ; for meat and suet, at the League, dated the 20th of October last, proposing the
3d. per lb. ; bacon and lard, at 4id. per lb. ; potatoes at new subscription of £50,000, they state that they had already
3s. 3d. per sack. expended £100,000; therefore, between the autumn of 1841,
e
The conduct of the crews of British ships at foreign islands nse had not reached £lO,OOO, and the 20th of
when the exp
frequently brings down summary vengeance from the natives.
count, above £90,000. How and where could this enormous , they had spent, according to their own ac-
October, 184 2
The captain of the Obey, whaleship, entertains no doubt
of £90,000 have been applied? If from the institution
that the fifteen men missing have been murdered in revenge
sum
for an insult offered to their chief. The fate of the missionary of these societies in the beginning of 1839 (the first expenses
Williams may be also traced to the conduct of a ship's crew of getting up such a machine being always the greatest) less
which had previously visited the island. than £lO,OOO was expended up to the autumn of 1841—two
, ,

An advertisement appears in the Preston papers for the
formation of a company to be called the Preston and North
Lancashire Steam Navigation Company, the object of which
are stated to be to establish
a reonlar Qtpam

between the northern roanufacturing districts of Lancashire
and Yorkshire, and the principal shipping ports on the east-
ern coast of Ireland, as well as the western parts of Scot-
land, and Isle of Man.

The following article is from a Calais paps, .
Notice—That I, Margaret Warnock, do forbid the bonds of
marriage to marry Ralph Scott and Hannah Siemit, as I have
got a claim on him." There seems to be a legal propriety in
the course which Margaret pursues in the premises. In that
state it is customary to publish the bans of marriage between
those who intend to commit matrimony; and this, we sup-
" first time of askfng."

•" Take

pose, is the response

e to the

THE CHURCH IN CHINA.—We have much satisfaction
in being able to state, that it is in contemplation to make an
immediate effort to raise sufficient funds for planting a branch
of the English Church in the new settlement at Hong Kong,
with a view not merely to provide our own countrymen, who
may be resident there, with the means of grace and edifica-
tion, but to the more'effectual-introduction of our holy reli-
.

gion in

;he vast empire of

hina.-

'ical Gazette

On Wednesday night last, a sing
on the Manchesu

ular occurrence took place
mingham Railway, near Alderley.
Manchester in the night at that

A goods train, which left

part of the line passed over some obstructing bodies on the
rail, but without being thrown off, or even receiving any
considerable shock. It was found that a flock of sheep had
by some accident got upon the line, and that the train had
slaughtered four of them with much greater expedition than
I the butcher could have done.—Manchester Guardian.
A PRIM TRADER'S OPINION ON THE PRICE OF LA-
B°"•—At the last meetin7 of the Town Council of Kendal,
one of its members—a Mr. Edmundson—stated that
in his way of
thinking, 17s. was too great a weekly w..
Y called him to be up both night and day
a man Whose dug
Mr. Edmundson is, we understand, fond of enlarging upor
the glories of the state of things beyond the "
Had be ventured,
'ever,how to express such an opinion on
Hat-a-lantic," he may depend upon it
he
he e
wouldotb er a
haveide obfetehne
whipped at a cart's tail, and tarred and
feathered.

FATAL EVENT.—The stea from Glasgow to Inver
having arrived, on Wednesdayek
night,
the Crinan C
mwhaenraenidt waaltns tmo
arne_maninn dthueriirng ywtahyeto
Ppm, to which plat,
they belonged, went on shore to find lodgings. The houses,
lowever,' tthe occupied, and both were. returning to the
vessnl, when, unfortunately, they fell into one of the locks.
The man succeeded in keeping himself on the surface until
assistance reached him; but his companion sunk, and until
the lock was emptied could not be found. Life was not alto-
gether extinct when she was found ; but we are sorry to say
she survived only a few minutes.—lnverness Courier.

two passenger

had three or four addliconal lecturers