The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-04 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOS.

A calf with eight legs was born a few days since upon the
farm of Mr. Bluck, of Orleton, near Ludlow.
Mr. J. B. Smith and family lose £45,000, and Mr. Dyer
£40,000, by the failure of the Bank of Manchester.
The projected new pier at Beaumaris for the landing of
passengers from steam packets is about to be commenced in
in good earnest.

The Right Hon. Francis Elackburne is Gazetted Master of
the Rolls for Ireland, and Duncan M'Ne3ll, Esq., Lord
Advocate for Scotland.

At the late quarter sessions at Stafford measures were taken
towards establishing a constabulary force, or police, through-
out the county.

Lord Granville Somerset, it is expected, will be the chair-
man of the commissioners about to be appointed by the
treasury for investigating the recent frauds at the Custom-
house.

The result of the municipal elections in Dublin has given
an addition of one to the radical section. The conservat►ve
party are charged with supineness, or it would, it is said,
have secured a triumphant majority.
The Marquess of Drogheda entered Trinity College during
the present term. His lordship, who is in his 17th year, is
the first nobilis, or filius nobilis, who has been a student in
the college for many years.
A letter from Stockholm, in the Augsburg Gazette, states
that during the ten years ending in 1840, the exports of that
city have increased 50 per cent., and the imports 43 per
cent.

A rich fellow of a college in Cambridge, after favouring
Sir Isaac Pennington with a list of his maladies, inquired
what he should take. " I should recommend you to take
advice," was the reply. 4„...
Mr. Bush's caisson has entirely disappeared. Some little
idea may be formed of the tremendous sea there was out at
the Sand, when such a ponderous weight of iron has been so
completely submerged, that not a particle remains to direct
attention to where it had been.—Dover Chronicle.
DEATH OF THE REV. SOLOMON HERSCHELL.—Died on
Monday morning, in the 82nd year of his age, the Rev.
Solomon Herschell, 40 years Chief Rabbi, and during that
long period beloved and respected by all classes of persons,
without reference to religions opinion.
GRACEFUL COMPLIMENT FROM A CHlLD.—Washington
visiting a lady in his neighbourhood, on his leaving the house
a little girl was directed to open the door. He turned to the
child and said, " I am sorry, my dear, to give you so much
trouble."—" I wish, Sir," she replied, •• it was to let you in."

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT BLACKBURN.—On Saturday
night a fire broke out in the extensive mill of Mr. Joseph
Eccles, Darwin-street. Blackburn. Notwithstanding every
exertion was used to check the flames, the whole building
was burned to the ground. The books, &c., were with diffi-
culty saved. The damage is estimated at from £30,000 to
£40,000.

It is confidently asserted that Mr. David Pollock, the
Queen's counsel, and brother of the Attorney-General, will
be appointed a commissioner of the Insolvent Debtors'
Court, in the room of the late Mr. Commissioner Bowen.
The salary is £1,500 a-year. Mr. Pollock formerly pos-
sessed a considerable practice in the Insolvent Debtors'
Court.

SERIOUS ENCOUNTER.—As John M`Kenzie, piper to the
Marquis of Breadalbane, was one day last week on his way
to the castle, about half-past one o'clock a.m., he was at-
tacked by one of the red deer, with which he ind a severe
struggle. The animal struck him with his horns in several
places about the thighs and legs. One of his hands was also
much bruised. After dragging him some distance, the brute
let go his hold, and thus Mr. M'Kenzie was fortunately re-
leased. He then made the best of his way borne, and has
since been mostly confined to his bed.—Perthshire Adver-
tiser.

SINGULAR ACT OF SELF-NIUTILATION.—A most ex-
traordinary and determined act was committed in Worcester
Gaol, on Wednesday afternoon, by a man named James
Pincher, who had been apprehended as a deserter, and lodged
in the prison to await the determination of his case. While
so confined, he contrived to possess himself of a piece of iron
hoop, which be had notched so as to make it answer roughly
the purpose of a saw, and with this rude instrument he suc-
ceeded in sawing off the thumb of his right hand,- between
the nail and the first joint, the separation of skin, flesh, and
bone being effected in the most complete manner. His ob-
ject is easily accounted for—viz., the disabling of himself for
future service. Fincher deserted from the Grenadier Guards
some twelve or thirteen years since, and was only apprehend-
ed, as we have been informed, a few days ago.
RAILWAY PLACES OF WORSHIP.—Two places of worship
have just been erected on that portion of the London and
Dover Railway now in progress of formation between Ton
bridge Wells and Folkstone, for the religious instruction of
the excavators and workmen in the employ of the railway
company. The proposal orininated with Messrs. Grissell
and Peto, the contractors for that portion of the line, who,
in conjunction with the company, have provided a chaplain
to preach on every alternate-Sunday. Each place of worship
will accommodate between 300 and 400. persons. Bibles and
Prayer-books are provided for the men and their families,
and instruction is given to those who cannot read. There is
a similar establishment on the Birmingham Railway at WOl-
verton, where a church is about to be erectedand which is to
be followed by another at the central station of the Grand
Junction Company at Crewe.
The speech of Mr. Webster, in Faneuil-hall, on Friday,
was reported for the New York Tribune by Mr. Raymond,
assistant editor of the New York Tribune. That gentleman
wrote out the speech verbatim from his notes, on board the
steamer Rhode Island, on her passage from Stonnington to
New York, on the night succeeding its delivery in Boston,
and, arrangemants having been made for the purpose, the
speech was put in type on board the boat. On reaching New
York, the " form " containing the matter was immediately
taken to the office of the Tribune, and in a few minutes copies
of an Extra Tribune, containing the speech, were for sale in
any Quantity—wholesale and retail—as purchasers offered.
It was nearly an hour before any other paper published the
speech complete, and Mr. Raymond thus succeeded in dis-
tancing all competitors.—Boston Atlas.
The new Bishop of Meath,
Dr. Edward Stopford, is grand-
son to that Dr. James Stopford, of whom such honourable
mention is made as a man of wor'th, learning, and wit, in the
letters which circulated amongst Pulteney, Swift, Gay the
aisrtrla7t4io2n,
bhye
pvvuaistenmeayd, eELarolrbdf BBiasthbo,pboafviCngloypnree.,
poet, and Lord Bolingbroke. On the downfall of the Wal-
pole
his own first cousin, the Hon. Ann Stopford,
aboutvpioblbesl theAy dr
nmayirriel
Lord Courtown's sister. This is the third bishopric confer-
red on this family during its last three generations, succes-
sively held by the Bishop of Cloyne, as above; the Hon.
Thomas Stopford, late Bishop of Cork ; and the present
Bishop of Meath. The bishop's fattier held the valuable
living of Glanworth, in the county of Cork,