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

' _Herbaceous Plants.—lst prize, Penstcncore Coccinea
Mrs. Cropper ; 2, Phlox Purpurea, do. ; 3, Sileano

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; I. 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, J. Sothern, Esq. ; 2. Melon, R. Leyland,
Esq.; 3. Ditto, Mrs. P. Phillips.
Best s►x Peaches, R. Leyland, Esq..; ditto sir Apricots ;
2d best Apricots, Mr. Thomas Harrison. Best Black
Grapes, (two bunches) T. Orford, Esq. ; 2. Ditto, T. B.
Molyneux, 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. Tboinas 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 ;
frebt. Jones, Esq.l_ _ _

Best brace of Cauliflowers ; W. Garstang, Esq.; 2nd
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 ; I'. Rawson. Esq.
Best six Cabbages ' • J. G. Carter, Esq.
Best six Turnips ; W. P. Freme, Erq.
EXTRA PRIZES.
Apples; Mr. Tbos. Matthews.
Strawberries, R. Leyland, Esq.
Kidney Beans ; Mr. Thos. Matthews.

Vegetable Marrow ; T. B. Molyneux, 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 inue and lodgiug.liouses being quite filled.
At the Antrim Assizes, Judge Perrin sentenced two sisters to be
hanged for the murder of the illegitimate infant of one of them.
SoUSD AND LI C llT.—Sir J
be seen at a distance of 200 mine Herschel says, that lightning may
l

At the Tipperary Assizes, James Shea, alias Smith was
on the
was found
guilty of the wilful murder of Rody Kennedy, of Lougha
21st May last, and was sentenced to death.
RAILWAY TRAIN.—A few evenings ago a luggage train, con-
sisting of eighty waggons, left Hull for Selby ; its length was
nearly half a mile.

PRICE or BREAD IX BELFAST.--The committee of the
Belfast
public bakery have increased the weight of their bread, thus givingthe public nibs. 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 Dr. Cullen, on his recent de-
parture from Rome for Dublin.—Register.

Mr. Michael Mortimore, at Torquay, has seized 72 tubs of French
spirits of brandy. Smuggling
has become very common at Tor.
gag lately.

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 Academie des
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
material

incs et Murdon and Appleby, in
the lead m ,
in the mine by the falling of the
shut up
Westmoreland,
remained ftom the Saturday till Monday, when they
and so greatly weakened from fear and hunger.
earth, .,._._ but
Two men employed
were taken out al".
. ec, Judge Torrens sentenced Peter and Martin
At Galway Assizes, to 15 years' transportation, for having
Blake, and Pet "
, of Peter Maley, who had seduced their sister, and
taf the ell"' ther woman.
sprigs of broom, entwined around the branches of
married
that
It is salberry tree and other bushes, put an effectual stop to the
the gl)°,:se „ operations of the caterpillar. The above has been tried
destruc"v- in some gardens in Sutherlandshire.
then
with success
.ror A ComridaNT.—A man complaining to his rich
Hour Tu • r his wife' • s abusive
„tongue, asked what he shot
he
.-
father- ried alio
do to restrain her impertinence.
" that if Tell my daughter," replied the
old gentleman, I hear any more .complaints, I'll disinherit
~___Nere Afonth/y.
lier.

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, froin
was £4,285,837, the 11th June to the 28th July inclusive,

Court of Chancety," said the Vice-Chancellor of England
the other day, " will
nova many years in deciding the cases which will arise out of suits w instituted relative to the income tax
t hat tax is expected to last." •