The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-01 00:00:00

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MISCELLANEOUS.

The cOniarvatives have a clear gain of 240 on the West-
Riding of Yorkshire revision.
The new Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors comes
into operation on the Ist proximo.
A second Anti-Slavery Convention will be held in London
in 1843, commencing on the 13th of June.
It is said that a valuable coal mine has been discovered at
Suez. If true, this is very important to the Bombay
steamers, as coal there now costs £4 10s. per ton.
This has been the finest season for English grapes we ever
recollect. The hot weather has had a ripening effect that is
unusual in England.
It is stated in certain quarters that a Countess, the
daughter of a Duke, has left her house under supicious cir-
cumstances with a friend of the family.

The subscription fund for the erection of a monument to
the memory of the late Earl of Leicester amounts to a sum
Little short of £4OOO.

The Malta journals state that in consequence of the dis-
position evinced by France to reduce her naval force in the
Mediterranean, we are about to do thellme.
The Moniteur contains a royal ordinance, authorising the
Orleans Railroad Company to raise a loan of 10,000,000 f.
for the completion of the works.
By an ordinance of the sth instant, no person in Paris will,
for the future, be allowed to sell gunpowder without a

license.
The large fruit, consisting of apples, pears, and plums, of
the Clydesdale orchards, have been sold this year by public
sale and private bargain, at £5,134 18s. 6d.
It is said that the manufacturers in Nottingham and Derby

are endeavouring to bring out coats and trousers woven in
the frame, and that ultimately it is expected they will ac-

complish their purpose.
FATALITY AMONG CIIILDREN.—In the small town of
Wisbeach, 45 children, under the age of five years, have died
since the Ist of September last, nearly half of them having
been carried off by scarlet fever.
The sum of £640 has been lately given for the bulb of a
new tulip, called the " Citadel of Antwerp." This sum was
paid by Mr. Vanderninck, of Amsterdam, a florist, formerly
a captain in the Dutch navy.
PRICE OF PROVISIONS.—The contract for the supply of
beef to Lancaster Castle entered into last week is only three-
pence per pound ; bread, 10s. 7Ad. the 1001 b. ; cheese, 4-id.
per pound ; oatmeal, £1 ls. 10d. the 2401b5; potatoes,
2s. Bd. per load of 2241 b.
The King of Prussia sent out an agent to Philadelphia, to
inquire into the working of the Separate System in that
country ; and that gentleman, after having examined most
minutely into the results of its operation, made a report
wherein he reprobates the plan in the strongest terms.
A government contract has just been announced, which
must prove acceptable to the Yorkshire manufacturers and
artizans at this very dull season of the year ; the contract is
for 120,000 yards of baize and serge for the use of her Majesty's
navy,and also comprises a very large quantity of worsted and
other clothing.
THE BRISTOL HOAX.—We learn, says the Bristol Mirror
that some of the minor theatres intend dramatising the ex-
traordinary hoaxing affair at Bristol that has recently attracted
so much public attention ; and that Miss Bryers will be of-
fered high terms to appear on the stage as the heroine.
Punch would say that this would be enough to make the
timber merchant cut his stick, it he bad not done so already.
The Hon. Grantley Berkely's extraordinary wager to catch,
and safely pull down, and secure five bucks having no other
assistance for the five courses than those of his horse and
dog—his horse contributing in a novel manner to the success
of the undertaking—is fixed to come off on the last Tuesday
in November, at Charborougb Park, near Blandford, in
Dorsetshire, the seat of Mr. Drag.
It is with infinite regret that we hare to confirm the sad
accounts in circulation respecting the very severe Illness
which has seized on Captain Basil Hall, the amiable and
talented author of many popular works. His glowing and
active mind has been too wearing a tenant for his body, and
paralysis is the consequence—we earnestly hope and trust
only for a brief season ; but it is melancholy to have so bright
a sky so suddenly overcast.—Literary Gazette.

THE LONG VACATION.—On Monday the long vacation
ceased. The offices of the several courts resumed business.
Declarations are now filed and delivered, as well as rules
given to plead. These matters are the precursors to bringing
men to the payment of their debts, to failure, or a prison.
There is a cessation in all pleadings from the 10th of August
to the 24th of October, which is denominated in the profes-
sio❑ the " long vacation," though term does not commence
until the 2d of November.
Our private correspondence from Constantinople of the
sth inst., states, that Riza Pasha, whom Sir Stratford Can-
ning expected to find more favourable to his views than Izzet
Pasha, had been as inflexible on the Syrian Question as his
predecessor, and as little inclined to be influenced by the
representations of the British Ambassador. All the conces-
sion the representatives of the allied Powers had been able
to obtain from the Divan was, that the hatti-scheriff placing
the Druses and the Maronites under the jurisdiction of a
Turkish governor should not be issued for the present.
EXTOAORDINARY SIGHT IN THE CITY OF LONDON.—On
Friday afternoon the citizens of London were somewhat
amused by the procession of Mr. Hylton's vans of trained
animals passing through Fleet-street, St. Paul's Churchyard,
and Cheapside, on their way from Windsor to Newmarket,
one of the vans being drawn by a large Ceylon elephant, Mr.
Hylton himself walking by the elephant's head. The elephant
was harnessed with a huge collar, &c., after the manner
horses are usually harnessed. It was singular to see the
stupendous beast thrusting his trunk on each side of him in
search of, and receiving fruit, &c., from the crowd that ac-
companied him ; while he pursued his way apparently wholly
unconscious of the burden he was drawing.
THE MINER'S DANGERS.—On Friday morning last, as
Thomas Stevens, of Redruth, was engaged in the Carubrea
Mines, in clearing a pass, the ground suddenly broke away
on him. He was partially dug out with..ut apparently being
much injured ; but before he could be quite extricated the
ground broke away and buried him a second time, and when
dog out he was quite dead.—On the same day Johnson Rule,
a young man of the parish of Camborne, was killed in the
same mine, and his father, and a person called Thomas Wil-
loughby, of Illogan, severely injured, by a stull breaking
away. The young man, when taken out of the rubbish, was
quite dead, but the father of the deceased and his comrade
are likely to recover, although they were buried deeper than
their unfortunate companion.—West of England Conserva-
tive.

DEATH OF MR. COMMISSIONER BOWEN.—Mr. COM-
missioner Bowen, of the Insolvent Debtors' Court, breathed
his last yesterday evening, at his residence, No. 19, Portman-
street, London. His death resembles more a placid slumber
than the departing of the spirit. As a commissioner he will
be remembered for his kindliness of disposition, and in pri-
vate life his numerous acts of beneficence At only endeared
him to his own circle, but to many public institutions to which
he was a subscriber. He had been a commissioner of the
court upwards of 20 years, and a bencher of the Inner Tem-
ple. When he last discharged his public duties, on the 19th
instant, he was suffering severely from a pulmonary affection ;
but notwithstanding the request of his medical attendants he
took his seat and liberated a number of insolvents on bail,
who, in all probability, would otherwise have been detained
longer in prison, as the other commissioners were all on their
respective circnits. Mr. Cooke, the barrister, has holden
courts in Kent for the learned commissioner under an autho-
rity obtained from the Home-office ; and, as the court will
resume its sittings on Tuesday next, it is probable that, until
a new appointment is made, a pro tem. commissioner will be
named to relieve one of the other commissioners, in order
that the cases in town may be heard. Mr. Commissioner
Bowen was in his 74th year.
RUMOURED ABDICATION OF THE KING OF THE FRENCH.
—We are informed, on respectable authority, that the King
of the French has discussed with persons in his confidence
the propriety of abdicating the throne in favour of the Duke
of Nemours. The advantages of such a step are manifest,
and many persons in the French capital are of opinion that it
is the only way of consolidating the Orleans dynasty. Louis
Philip, however, they add, is so fond of power, that it is not
likely he will voluntarily give up the reins; and the report
has been spread more for the purpose of ascertaining public
opinion upon it, than with the idea of carrying such a resolu-
tion into effect. The Duke of Nemours is not generally liked,
though he is far from being absolutely unpopular, and it is
more than doubtful how far he could manage a nation so
difficult to govern as France, in case of the sudden death of
his father. Let the first year of his retgn be conducted by
the able management of Louis Philip, and the others will
follow in the same satisfactory manner. Custom is as influ-
ential with the French as with any other people, and they
will, without difficulty, submit to an authority under which
they have lived for a certain period. Without expressing an
opinion on the authority of the rumours which have reached
us, we give them for the purpose of preparing the public for
an event which is not improbable to happen in the course of
the ensuing sessions of the French chambers.—Morning
Herald.

An elopement in rustic life took place on Monday last.
The gay Lothario was a carter, named Yonng, a married
man, about 30 years of age, having one child ; and " the
false and fair one," his master's wife, named Ash, keeping a
small farm at Freshwater, Isle of Wight. She is about 50,
has nine children, and five grandchildren ! Her youngest
child (which she took with her) is four months, and the next
child 14 years. It appeared that the old farmer and his wife
had had a few words about the last child, and she soon after
seized a favourable opportunity, took what she could, and
started with the aforesaid servant. As soon as it was known,
the bereaved husband went into Newport post-haste, and
almost broken-hearted. Information was given to the po-
lice, and they were despatched to all parts of the island, but
they could not discover the fugitives till Tuesday afternoon,
when they were just about getting on board a Jersey packet.
The man was taken into custody, and his bundles searched.
He had a new suit of clothes, two great coats (one new,) and
a new pair of boots, two new hats, and other articles, besides
an inferior new suit, which he wore, but no property of the
farmer was found on him, and be was consequently dis-
charged. The parties afterwards met together at a public-
house in Newport—the old man and his runaway servant,
and their wives, where they got merry. A negociation took
place; the old gentleman forgave his wife, and the young
matron her husband, and a mutual agreement was concluded
between all present that they would never reproach each
other for their former naughty tricks.— finmpshire Adver-
tiser.

THE CORN TRADE.—The City article of Friday's Stan-
dard contains some astounding revelations of the condition
of certain parties who embarked in the purchase of wheat in
the Black Sea and Mediterranean ports a few months ago.
These remarks are called forth by the failure of the firm of
Hunter and Coventry, in the corn trade, which produced
considerable sensation in the city on Wednesday afternoon.
The amount of their liabilities is stated at £lOO,OOO, and
the debts owing them, and the stock on hand taken at pre-
sent prices, exceed £120,000. The Standard, after an-
nouncing the fact, observes :—" It will naturally occur to
business men, that if such be the real state of their affairs,
bow does it occur that they could not obtain support to en-
able them to go on ? The fact, however, is, that the wheat
market is at present so completely under the influence of
Panic, that it will scarcely sell in large quantities at any
iprice,u whilst at the same time the discount market is literally
h
shut against all paper connected with corn transactions, not-
withstanding the abundance of money. The condition of
the parties that embarked in purchasing wheat in the Black
Sea and Mediterranean ports in May an. d June last, a large
quantity of which has come to hand within these few days,
will be seen from the following fact :—The prices paid were
of 18s., plus freight from 40s. to 45s
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wheat7Os. p per
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alluded to will in all likelihood bring downget wo or three
more houses at Dantsic, who had drawn uponthem, against
both direct purchases and consignments. Reflecting persons
not engaged in the corn trade can see no real ground for such
a panic, but it is not the less true that it exists and spreads
like a contagion by every additional failure." A failure of
, smaller importance, that of Mr. E. R. Foster, provision-
merchant, has been connected with the above. The liabili-
ties of this concern are said to be under £20,000.