The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-07-05 00:00:00

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the streets or public walks. It is supposed that the establish-
ment of this society will greatly increase the delinquency,
for many persons will be glad to get off by paying a slight
contribution. It is certain that there is more smoking in
Berlin than in any other great city.

SOUTH LANCASHIRI: BANK.—The above joint-stock
bank, whose only office was in Manchester, closed its doors
voluntarily on Friday. By the prudent management of its
affairs, the whole paid-up capital has, it is understodd, been
preserved. This is the fourth joint-stock bank that has be-
come extinct since 1837 in Manchester. There are nine
other banks remaining—viz., four joint-stock, four private,
and the Branch Bank of England.

BANKRUPTS IN NEW YORK
Courier and Enquirer of the 26th May last, contains• the
number of bankrupt causes pending in the Bankruptcy Court
in New York, which occupy six and _a half columns space,
and may thus be classified :—To be declared bankrupts,_ 73 ;

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petitioners for discharge and certificate as bankrupts, 664 ;
making a total of 737 for the state of New York alone, of
whom 554 belonged to the city, and 183 to the surrounding
counties in that state, in one day !

REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE OF DENMARK IN THE
YEAR 1837.—The total income was £1,584,133, of which
£395,890 was derived from land-tax, £54,346 from house-
tax, £52,543 from tax upon rank and salaries, £27,511 from
tax upon property inherited, &c., £181,831 from woods and
forests and other Crown property, and £416,354 from cus-
toms and excise. The expenditure was £1,561,920, in-
cluding £521,065 for interest on the public debt, and £97,882
for payments to the sinking fund. The small revenue from
customs arose riot from low, but from almost prohibitory
duties.

The following are the receipts of railways for the past
week—that is to say, up to the date to which the respective
returns are made, viz. :—Manchester and Birmingham, £489;
Manchester and Leeds, £4,581 ; Birmingham and Derby,
£1,286; Hull and Selby, £1,000; Northern and Eastern,
£1,457 ; Birmingham and Glocester, £1,838 ; Birmingham,
£17,502 Midland Counties, £2,784 ; North Midland,
4,338 ; York and North Midland, £1,732 ; Greenwich £855 ;
Edinburgh and Glasgow, £1,819 ; Great Western, 14,087 ;
and South-Western, £7,184.

TROLLOPISM IN ENGLAND.—On Monday last, at the
Southampton sessions, during the trial of 14 men for a riot,
one of the jurymen commenced smoking a cigar in the most
cavalier and impudent manner. The recorder, Mr. Serjeant
Cockburn, was so indignant, that he stopped the proceedings
of the court, gave the puffing juryman a severe lecture, de-
claring that his conduct was one of the grossest insults ever
offered in an English court of justice, and fined him £lO.
On the assembling of the court, the following morning, the
juryman made an apology to the court, and was excused pay-
ing the fine.
FAILURE IN SHETLAND.—The extensive firm of Messrs.
Hag and Ogilvie, merchants and bankers, &c., in Lerwick,
have been obliged to suspend payment. The amount of the
failure, and the deposits in their hands as bankers, are con-
siderable, and the people of Lerwick and the whole of Shet-
land have, not without reason, been thrown into considerable
alarm and surprise by the event. Some shopkeepers, it is
said, had upwards of £l,OOO deposited with them, and nu-
merous other failures are expected to succeed. " Every-
thing," says a correspondent of the John 0' Groat Journal,
" appears to be paralysed in consequence of this untoward
event, and it will be a heavy blow and great discouragement
to the natives of the Shetland Isles."—lnverness Courier.

NEWSPAPER EXPRESSES IN FRANCE.—DEFEAT OF THE
FRENCH POST-OFFICE.—The judgment which has recently
excited so much interest in the mercantile world on account
of the French Post-office, which attempted to suppress the
practice of forwarding expresses by couriers on horseback,
and for which the courier of the Morning Herald was a short
time since condemned by the court of Boulogne to pay a fine
of 150 francs and costs, has been reversed by the court of St.
Omer, to which superior court an appeal was made. The
latter court has acquitted the courier Vivier without costs.

CAUTION TO MARINERS.—The following is an extract
from a communication received by the steam-ship Jupiter,
which arrived off the London-docks, on Thursday after-
noon, from Cronstadt :—" Elsineur, June 25. It is reported
that within the last few days there have been armed Swedish
boats on the Danish side of the channel, between Nakkeho-
ved and Kullen, making it, in the night time, unsafe for
ships to pass. A vessel being chased by such a boat, four
nights ago, took shelter under the Danish shore, and got
aground, in which situation she was fired at, towed from the
shore, and carried off.
MARRIAGES IN HIGH LIFE.—We understand Friday
next is the day fixed for the marriage of Lady Mildred Cecil,
daughter of the Marquis of Salisbury, and Mr. Alexander
Hope, son of Viscountess Beresford. The ceremony is to
take place at Hatfield, Herts, in the presence of a large party
of the relatives and friends of both families. After the so-
lemnisation the happy bride and bridegroom go to Bedge-
bury Park, Viscount Beresford's seat in Kent, for a few
weeks. It has also reached us that it is definitely arranged
that the nuptials of Lady Elizabeih de Rede Ginkle and the
Hon. Captain Villiers are to be solemnised on Tuesday
the 12th instant.

About two months ago a hairdresser in the rue St. Foy was
suddenly seized with a fit of mental alienation. He put on
his uniform as a national guard, took his musket, and placed
himself as sentry at one of the gates of the Tuileries, pushing
about those who entered without his permission, and speak-
ing incoherently. The poor man was sent to Charenton, and
his shop was shut up. The inhabitants of the rue St. Foy
had already forgotten him, when two days since, at noon, the
tranquillity of the neighbourhood was disburbed by a man,
seemingly deranged and miserably dressed, crying out " My
shop has been stolen from me—l want it back. It's the
King's fault if I stood sentry so long, but I will be even with
him, for to-morrow I shall have him only on one side." The

individual thus crying out was recognised to be the hair-
dresser, who had made his escape from Charenton, to which•
he was speedily taken back by the commissary of police of
the district..

HOSIERY AND LACE TRA Dl:S.—The general dulness of
all branches of the hosiery trade still increases, and of course
the destitution of all employed. The silk glove branch,
which, after the frightful depression in 1835 (arising from the
loss of the French bobbin net trade), had suddenly increased,
and more than doubled the usual number of hands employed,
has for the last two years been gradually subsiding to its
former number. The number of Frenchmen employed in
making bobbin net is now computed at near 4000, and the
English bobbin net workmen in France at near 1500, making
about 5500 workmen engaged in working about 3100 ma-
chines ; whilst in England the workmen do not exceed 3500,
working less than 2000 machines ; of which about 1300 are
in the midland counties, principally in Nottinghamshire and
Derbyshire, the bobbin net trade being nearly extinct in the
county of Leicester.—Nottineham Journal.

IRISH GALLANTRY.—The ready wit of a true-born Irish-
man, however humble in his station, is exceeded only by his
gallantry. A few days since we observed a case in point. A
sudden gust of wind took a parasol out of the hand of its
owner ; and before we had a chance to recollect whether it
would be etiquette to catch the parasol of a lady to whom
we had never been introduced, a lively Emeralder dropped
his hod of bricks, caught the parachute in the midst of its
Ellssler gyrations, and presented it to the owner with a bow,
which reminded us of poor Power. " Faith, ma'am," said
he, as he did so, " if you were as strong as you are hand-
some, it wouldn't have gone away from you." " Which
shall I thank you for first, the service or your compliment ?"
asked the lady smiling. " Troth, ma'am," said Pat, again
touching the place where once stood the brim of what was
once a bearer, " that look of your own beautiful eyes
thanked me for both !" If that hod carrier will issue pro-
posals to " tache the jontale," we'll do his advertising gratis,
and head his list of pupils. He has a genius for the thing.—
Chicago Democrat.

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NEW PATENTS IN JUNE, 1842. (From Newton and
Berry's List.)—To Louis Nicolas— de Meckenheim, of
engineer,
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Vienna, but now of London,
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provements in the art of depositing and manufacturing
in metals,
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rma agency, and
Heed, of Bishops' Stortford, statuary and mason,
improvements in tiles, slating, and the construction of for
water-
tight joints, and in the covering and casing of buildings and
other erections. Sealed 2d June.—John Woodcock, of
Manchester, millwright, for certain improvements in the
construction of steam-engines. Sealed 7th June.—Jame
Nasmyth, of Patricroft, near Manchester, engineer, for cer-
tains
improvements in machinery or apparatus for forging,
stamping, and cutting iron and other substances. Sealed
9th June.—Thomas Banks, of Manchester, engineer, for
certain improvements in the construction of wheels, and
tyres of wheels, to be employed upon railways. Sealed 13th
June.—Moses Poole, of Lincoln's Inn, gentleman, for im-
provements in obtaining. the colouring matter from wool and
woollens, dyed with indigo, being a communication. Sealed
13th June.—lsaac Moses, of Macclesfield, silk-trimminc,
monufacturer, for improvements in the manufacture of co-
vered buttons, ornaments, and fastenings for wearing ap-
parel. Sealed 13th June.— Henry Hough Watson, of Bol-
ton-le-Moors, consulting chemist, for certain improvements
in bleaching, changing the colour of, and otherwise prepa-
ring, purifying, and refining tallow, and certain other or-
ganic substances, mixtures, compounds, and manufactures.
Sealed 21st June.—Joseph Bunnett, of Deptford, engineer,
for certain improvements in pavements for streetsoads,
and other surfaces, and in machinery for producing
and
repairing the same. Sealed 21st June.—John Dickson, of
Brook-street, Holborn, engineer, for improvements in ro-
tatory engines and boilers,' ' railway
in stopping ilway carriages, and
in machinery for propelling vessels ; part of which improve-
ments are applicable to propelling and Sealed 21st
air gases.
June.—Thomas Gaunt, of Dolby-terrace, City-road, gentle-
man, for improvements in the means of applying any such
power as is or may be used for propelling vessels or car-
rioges, to produce lo • comotwe thereof. Sealed 21st June.