The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-02-15 00:00:00

Somerset

:be general committee of elections
—Lord

Sir • (leorge

Wilson Patten

qtly improved ; b

.j)I, eye, of

snip is still obliged to wear a shade over hi
which he has partially lost the sight. In the event of the
noble and learned baron's retirement from the bench, which,
however, is not expected at present, the attorney-general is
designated in professional circles as his probable successor.

OYSTER SHELL MANllRE.—Pounded oyster shells have
been advantageously employed as a manure on light lands,
drilled in with turnip seed at the rate of forty bushels an

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acre, and this quanta; has, in Norfolk, been found equal to
eight tons of farm-yard dung an acre. They have also been
beneficially used for wheat; four hundred weight of oyster

Ishells and the same quantity of rape dust have pro
equal efficacy.

IMPOR'

1 .g' INTLLLIGENCE4—We are informed by the
Liverpool Chronicle that the Wigan scratiny is going on in a
most satisfactory manner 4 that an abundance of evidence

has been obtained, and that in a short time Messrs. Standish
and Grenfell will take their seats !—We are very happy to
hear all this, and we hope that in a short time the two worthy
seats, by their own fire-sides, in a

take their

:omfortable manner ; for they have a very little chance of
)eing seated in the Commons as the representatives of
—Wigan Gazette.

EARLY DEATH TYPIFED BY A ROSE.—SO have I seen a
rose newly springing from the clefts of its blood, and, at first,
it was fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven,

as a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open
its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and un-
ripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline
to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the
head, and broke its stalk ; and at night, having lost some of
its leaves, and all its beauty, it fell, &c.--Bishop Taylor.

NEW COINAGE OF SOVEREIGNS.—We are enabled to
state, on the best authority, that all the sovereigns now in
circulation will be called in for the purpose of being newly
coined. The system of " plugging,' and other nefarious
devices which have been resorted to, render this step on the
part of the Mint indispensably necessary. The new coinage
will be attended with very great expense. Some means, it
is expected, will be adopted to prevent the recurrence of the
dishonest practices which have proved so successful.

A. party of sportsmen were a short time ago out in the
forest of Othe, near Aix, in the Aube, when one of them,
who was unarmed, and beating for game at a considerable
distance from the rest, roused a wild boar. Though taken
by surprise he did not lose his presence of mind, but hal-
looed to his companions, and determined to keep the beast
in view until they came up. The boar, enraged by his shouts
sprung upon his disturber ; but having a stout staff in his
hand, he struck the animal on the head and stunned him.
lie then kept his foe down with one hand, while with the
other he got a clasp-knife from his pocket, opened it with his
teeth, and, stabbing the boar repeatedly with it, killed him
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