The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-04-15 00:00:00

re broke out in Naylor-street. Mr. Whitt), and the police
uicklv on the mit.

Tit E FUNDS .—WEDNESDAY EVENING.—ne prices of the
English securities improved a shade to-day, as the dealers
were takers of stock for the arrangement of the account to-
morrow ; but the rise was not fully sustained at the close of
business, since a sale of £lO,OOO made by a leading broker
turned the scale of the market. Consols for money and the
account, having been quoted at 91, closed 90i to 91; while
for the next account, viz., the 26th May, they closed 91 to ;
Three per Cents. Reduced were quoted 90 to a ; Three and a
Half per Cents. Reduced, 99 to -; New Three and a Half
per Cents— 100 to ; Long Annunities (e 3 piring Jan. 5., 1860),

izi-rniis; India Bonds, 15s. to 17s. psretrniunC; Exchequer-
bills, 38s. to 40s. premium ; and Bank Stock. 166 to 167.
The foreign funds were little influenced by
the dealings which
took place in them. Spanish Actives were last quoted 24
to 25 ; Ditto, New, 25i to 4 ; Portuguese 5 per Cents., 35
to 6i ; Mexican, 401 to 11; Dutch 21 per Cents., 521 to y ;
Danish, 80 to 81 ; Colombian, 27g to 4; Brazilian, 67 to 68 ;
and Belgian, 1031 to 1041. ,

BANK DISCOUNTS.—The Bank of England announced
yesterday week, that discounts would in future be reduced to

four per cent

The gross total rent-charges in lieu of tithes, in the coun-
ties of England and Wales, amount to £451,530.
The chartist list of churchwardens has been carried at
Leeds this year.

ALL FOR LOVE.—Thomas Huehison and J. M'Mellon
of Augusta, Georgia, being in love with one and the same
girl, became very jealous of each other. It rose so high on
the night of the Bth inst., as to cause the former to draw a
knife and kill the latter. Both were respectable.—New York
Herald.

On Friday night a fire occurred in the valuable riband ma-
nufactory belonging to Messers. J. and E. Berry, situated in
Ironmonger-row, Coventry. The result was the total destruc-
tion of the factory, with the entire of its manchinery and
contents. The loss is between £2OOO and £3OOO.
ARCHDEACONRY OF NORTHUMBERLAND.—The Rev. Dr.
Gilly, Canon of Durham, is likely to be appointed to the
Archdeaconry of Northumberland, vacant by the death of
the Rev. Dr. Singleton.

The large personal property of the late Earl of Macclesfield
goes entirely to his only child, the Countess, of Haddington.
The land goes, with the Peerage, to his brother.

We are glad to understand that Lady Geogiana Fane has,
in the handsomest manner, insisted on surrendering every-
thing bequeathed to her by the late Earl of Westmorland—
except the estate in Somersetshire—to her brother the present
Earl, the Peerage must otherwise, it is said, have been in-
conveniently impoverished.--John Bull.
Doctor Saurin, Bishop of Dromore, died last Saturday, at
the advanced age of 83. He was made bishop in 1819. Dro-
more is one of the suppressed bishoprics, and the diocese
will now be associated with that of Down and Connor.

The Great Marlow Election Committee have • resolved
"that Sir William Clayton Bart., had not been duly elected
as a burgess to serve in the present paliament for the borough
of Great Marlow, and ought not to have been returned.
That Renn Hampden, Esq., had been duly elected, and ought
to have been returned."

srte,poinntolife
tHheomrusLaonf
Commons,
WIGAN Ex. trECHwTIaONe.
s—bugOronMhtonudpaythiae
Election Committee, declaring that Mr. Greenall was duly
elected at the last election for the borough of Wigan ; that
Mr. Bright Cross was not duly elected; and that Mr:Chas.
Standish was duly elected and ought to have been returned.
This will give a gain of one to the radicals.
THE WORD " PRINCESS."—The circumstance of prince
ending in the sound of s, works a change in the accent of the
word. As sis the final letter, it is necessary, in forming the
plural number, and the genitive case, to add, not the simple
letter 8, as in peers, priests, &c., &c., but the syllable -es.
This makes the plural number and genitive case the same as
the feminine form. Hence [for distinction's sake] the femi-
nine form is accented prince'ss, while peiress, priestess, &c.,
&c. carry the accent on the first syllable. Priticiss is re-
markable as being the only word in English where the accent
lies on the subordinate syllable.—Lafham's Engligh lan-
guage.

LORD MAN DEVILLEI'S
happiest symptoms for relaEnsdTtAhla Et
pro-
gressSw.e—noltticiestblemr°alridst
ciliation between landlord the
those amicable relations which, making in ever
of
of
the reign of
woohfnidethhet,enticaorneuvtntiotrauynsdttooawrtabrds a recoil-
terror and agitation, existed 4etween el
such close and interestit The property of Lord
1g co.itact.
Mandeville furnishes us, just now, with an illustration, per-
asses brought into
feet in its kind, of the state of feeling to which we allude.
The tenantry of his lordship's estate, at Tanderagee, have
presented an address (accompanied by a valuable piece of
plate) to his lordship's agent, Charles flans, Esq., J.P., in
which they dwell with satisfaction on the bless
firaslaonrcdischoil9-
forts they derive from the administration o
t to the task, ii
8
affairs by a gentleman at once so cam e
judicious in his management, so just Uri htiesn_ dealings, and. ssoo
who were
considerate of the mutual welfare of. the lord of the soil and
its occupants.—Dublin Evening Mall.
of a shark :
THRILLING STORY•—An extraordinary story is told by
he aws
g, conversing with a
a tender
saaeveadptianino NioVairlaiaccuelooofs loveramo n
rr and his mistress,
j
" A transport, with a part of a regiment on board, was sail-
the act of handing a_ paper
a officers s i on .
ohpimraiwliinth ing with a gentle breeze along the coast of -----. One of the
astern. The young lady, .
officers was
leaning. baodeeirnstphierepdo
herself, she fell
and, supported by her clothes, drifted into the sea,
tTohheefrailrovoenre, "w.alise:inot‘lT' inerrceaabcihnfog
lost no time in plunging in after her, and
upheld her by one
arm. The sails were quickly backed, the
preparations were made to lower a. ship lay to, and
of all on board, a large shark appeared under the keel of the
boat, when, to the dismay
vessel, and gliding towards its -v'
from the agonised spectators called ims. A shout of terror
to the approaching danger
made , he saw the monster's fearful
the attention of the officer
length near him ; be .
a desperate effort, plunged and
splashed the water so as to frighten the shark, who turned,
and dived out of his sight.
The current had now carried the
officer and the lady clpeared the second time, ose to the vessel, when the shark ap-
back to seise 41e,
and was in
as the act of turning on his
one of the
officer's
company, who
ting, jumped fearlessly
was standing in the hammock-net-
hand, which he Plunged
into the back of the shark, which,
instantly disappearing,to the three were caved, before he dared
Pearanee.',