The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-08-09 00:00:00

PREMIER PRIZES

Ist pan of the best Carnations (six varieties), Mr. Wm.
Evans, Chester.
Maiden Growers.—Best Scarlet Bizarre Walmsley's
William the Fourth, Mr. C. Lorimer. Best Crimson
do.—Milton, Mr. C. Lorimer. Best Scarlet Flake—Roston,
Mr. R. Alison. Best Rose do.—Cottage Girl, Mr. Thomas
Matthews. Best Purple do.—Commander, Mr. C. Lorimer.
Best Red Picotee—Unknown, Ditto. Best Purple do.—
Victoria, Mr. Thomas Matthews. Best pan of Seedling
Panzies, 1842 (six varieties), Mr. Wm. New. Best basket
of Fruits and Vegetables (six varieties), Mr. R. Alison,

CARNATIONS

Scarlet Bizarre.—lst. Prize, Game Boy, disputed ; 2.
do., Leander, do. ; 3. do. Albion, Mr. William New ; 4.
do., Duke of Leeds, disputed ; 5. do., Charles the Twelfth,
Mr. William Evans.

Crimson Bilarre.-Ist Prize, Lord Milton, Mr. William
New ; 2, do., Paul Pry, disputed ; 3. do., Tally Ho, Mr.
William Evans ; 4. do., Bloomsbury, disputed ; 5. do., Tay-
lor's Wm. the Fourth, Mr. J. Whalley.

Scarlet Flake-Ist. Prize, Ely's Defiance, M r. Wm. New ;
2. do., Wm. the Fourth, Ditto; 3.- do., Unknown, Robert
Jones, Esq. ; 4. do., Lydia, disputed; 5. do., Lord Derby,
Mr. J. Whalley.

Pink or Role. Flake.—lst Prize, Marchioness of West-
minster, disputed ; 2. do., Lady Gardner, Mr. William
Evans ; 3. do., Apollo, disputed ; 4. do., Devonshire Mr.
William Evans ; and 5. do., Cottage Girl., Mr. J. Gandy.
Purple Flake.—lst prize, Charlotte, Mr. W. Evans; 2,
Weldon's Cleopatra, disputed% 3, Enchantress, Mr.W. Evans;
4, Queen of Sheba, Mr. W. New; 5, Bellerophon, Mr. W.
J. Gandy.

Red Acotee.-Ist prize, Mrs. Homer, Mr. J. B. Leather-
barrow; 2, Lady Howden. disputed; 3, Sharp's Welling-
ton, Mr. W. Evans; 4, Marc Anthony, disputed ; 5, Non-
pareil, do. •

Purple Picolee.-Ist prize, Nulli Secundi, disputed ; 2,
Beauty of Warley, Mr. W. Evan,: ; 3, Victoria, disputed ;
4, Fair Ellen, Mr: W. Evans ; 5, Kay's Monarch, Mr. J.
Whalley.

Best Rose Picotee, Mr. W. New; best Yellow, do., do.
Stove Plants.—Prize, Ixora Coccinea, J. Sothern, Esq.
Greenhouse Plants.—lst prize, Clithera Arborea, J. G.
Carter Esq.; 2d, Yucca Alindes, R. Leyland Esq.: 3, Petur-
nia Speciosa. Mrs. Cropper; 4, Staticea Arborea, do.
Ericaa.—lst prize, Melanthua, Mrs. Cropper; 2, Har-
torch', J. G. Carter, Esq.; 3d, Reflexa Abba, R. Leyland,
Esq. _

Herbaceous Plants.--lst prize, Penstencore Coccinca,
Mrs. Cropper ; 2, Phlox Purpurea, do. ; 3, Sileano Super-
bum, do.

Best Pan of Pansies (20 varieties).-Ist prize, T. 0.
Grady, Esq.; 2, Mr. W. Thompson ; 3, T. 0. Grady, Esq.
1. Best pan of Dahlias, (six varieties), T. Rawson, Esq. ;
2. Ditto, disputed ; 3. Ditto, Wm. Thompson.
Best basket of Plants, Mrs. Cropper; 1. Best basket of
Cut Flowers, Rev. J. Brooks; 2. Ditto, R. Alison, Esq.
Best Pine, R. Leyland, Esq. ; 2. Ditto, J. Sothern, Esq. ;
Best Melon, 3. Sothern, Esq. ; 2. Melon, R. Leyland,
Esq. ; 3. Ditto, Mrs. P. Phillips.
Best six Peaches, R. Leyland, Esq.; ditto six Apricots;
2d best Apricots, Mr. Thomas Harrison. Best Black
Grapes, (two bunches) T. Orford, Esq. ; 2. Ditto, T. B.
Nlolyneux, Esq. ; ditto White, ditto, T. Orford, Esq.; 2.
Ditto, Mrs. Cropper.

Best Black Currants, ditto ; ditto White, Thos. Matthews ;
ditto Red, ditto, T. B. Molyneux.

Best Cherries, R. Alison;Esq. ; 2. Cherries, T. B. Moly-
neux, Esq.
Best six Apples, J. Soorn, Chester.
Best six Pears, Mr. Thomas Harrison ; ditto, six ditto of
the growth of 1841, Mr. J. Gandy.
Best plate of red Gooseberries ; ditto of white Ditto ; ditto
of yellow Ditto; ditto of green Ditto; Mr. Thos. Matthews.
Best Autumn sown Onions ; R. Leyland, Esq. ; ditto
Spring sown ditto ; Mr. Thos. Matthews.
Best six heads of Celery ; W. P. Freme, Esq. ; 2nd Ditto ;
Robt. Jones, Esq.
Best brace of Cauliflowers ;
Ditto ;R. Leyland, Esq. '
Best brace of Lettuce ; Mr. W. E. Makin ; 2nd Ditto
W. P. Freme, Esq.
Best brace of Cucumbers; T. B. ;Molyneux, Esq..
Ditto ; Mr. W. J. Gandy ? 3rd Ditto ; J. G. Carter, Esq
Best brace of Cabbages ; T. Rawson. Esq.
Best six Cabbages ; J. G. Carter, Esq
Best six Turnips ; W. P. Freme, Erq.
EXTRA PRIZES

Garstang, Esq. ; 2nd

Apples ; Mr. Thos. Matthews.
Strawberries, R. Leyland, Esq.
Kidney Beans ; Mr. Thos. Matthews.
Vegetable Marrow ; T. B. Molvueux, Esq
Basket of Fruit, &c. ; Mr. W. J. Gandy.
Plumbs; Mr. Thos. Matthews.
Apples ; Mrs. Cropper.

The town of Keswick is at present completely crowded with
tourists, all the inns and lodging-houses being quite Ailed.
At the Antrim Assizes, Judge Perrin sentenced two sisters to be
hanged for the murder of the illegitimate infant of one of them.
Sour AND LI G
be seen at a distance of 200 miles Joh Herschel says, that lightning may
,

At the Tipperary Assizes, James Shea, alias Smith, WAS found
guilty of the wilful murder of Rody Kennedy, of Loughane, on the
21st May last, and was sentenced to death.
listing —A few evenings ago a luggage train, of eighty aA
con-
nearly half a mile, ryaggons, left Hull for Selby; its 'ength
was

PRICE OF BREAD IN BELFAST.-The committee of the Belfast
public bakery have increased themight of their bread, thus giving
the public 7lbs. of the best bread for one shilling '
A very fine field of oats on the farm of Mr. Skirving, Easter
Road, was cut on Monday last.—Edinburgh Courant.
•

It is said that his holiness the Pope transmitted a splendid cross
and gold medal to Mr. O'Connell, by Pr. Cullen, on his recent de-
parture from Rome for Dublin.—Register.
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Mr. Michael Mortimore, at Torquay, has seized 72 tubs of Frencl
spirits of brandy. Smuggling has become very common at Tor
quay lately. •

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The Manchester and Birmingham Railway Company will open
their line through to Crewe and Birmingham on Wednesday next.
M. Bodson, of Norfontaine, at a sitting of the Academicdes
Science, recounted an instance of rain in a sky pefectly serene and
free from all traces of clouds.
Caoutchouc pavement appears In a special manner adapted for
stables, and we understand that one of our wealthiest noble.
men has given orders that certain stalls be laid down with
the
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Peter Mullaney. to 15 years' transportation and
Martin
Blake and . ears of Peter Maley, who had seduced for having
cut of the
woman. their sister, and
then married another
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tree and other bush the branches of
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of es, put an effect Ina stop to the
te' ctive operations the caterpillar. Theabove has been tried
dwithsuecess in some gardens in Sutherlandshiar
How To STOP A COMPLAINT---A .
man complaining to his rich
father-in-law of his wife'S abusive tongue, asked what he should
do to restrvin her impertinence. '' Tell my daughter," replied the
old gentleman, " that if I
her."—New Monthly, hear any more complaints, I'll disinherit

The total amount of light gold coin received by the Bank of
England and its branches, and delivered to Her Majesty's Mint, or
retained by the Bank and its branches, since the proclamation
against light gold, from the 11th June to the 28th July inclusive,
IA as -'4,285,837.

" The Court of Chancery," said the Vice-Chancellor of England
the other day, " will be as many years in deciding the cases which
will arise out Of snits now instituted relative to the income tax as
that tax is expected to last."