The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-20 00:00:00

An Egyptian mummy wa'J successfully unrolled in Shrews-
bury last week, by Mr. Pitch, of the British Museum.
His Grace tilt Duke of Devonshire has presented the Rev.
R. P. Hull to tht. Perpetual curacy of Buxton, Derbyshire.
void by the cession of the Hon. and Rev. Francis Grey.

A Windsor poulterer displayed several grouse in his window
the other day, with the following " ingenious device" at-
tached to them :—" These were from near Dalkeith, and are
said to have been shot by Prince Albert."

A CARGO OF PHILOSOPHERS.—Certain distinguished
savans, from Birmingham to Dudley, having to pass through
one of the canal locks, where boats are required to register
certain particulars of the freight, &c. (to facilitate the col-
lection of the proper dues), the following entry was made re-
lative to one of the learning laden barks :—" Draught, 13
inches ; weight, 3A tons ; cargo, philosophers."
SINGULAR EXPLOSION.—An explosion of foul air took
place a few days ago in the schooner Mermaid, of Guernsey,
at South Shields, after taking in a cargo of coals, by which
some of the planks of the cabin ceiling, and one of the bulk
heads, were carried away. It is supposed to have been
caused by lightning, which was very vivid at the time.

"BLUE BONNET."—In such little estimation was the
winner of the St. Leger held Q n the evening of Monday, that
a gentleman, remarkable for acute discernment in racing
matters, sold the half-share of her in a club for £3. The
fortunate purchaser wins £2OO ! It is stated that the unlucky
seller has lost all appetite for turf affairs, and that the win-
ner is by no means crabbed with his bargain.—Birmingham
Advertiser.

In consequence of a rivalry between the Dutch and Belgian
pilots, for employment in the ships coming up or going down
the Scheldt, conflicts have arisen between them and their
partisans at Flushing. These have made the interference of
the troops necessary, and, in restoring order, several Dutch-
men have been wounded.

AFRICAN CRAPELS..—It is a fact which must be gratifying
to every individual who rejoices at the downfall of slavery,
that out of 26 Wesleyan chapels in Sierra. Leone, the roof-
timbers, the flooring, and other wood-work of twenty is com-
posed nearly exclusively of slave-ships, which have been ta-
ken by H. M. Men-of-War on the coast, and condemned by
the Mixed Commission Court.—Sierra Leone Watchman.

BIBLE SOCIETY OF HANOVER.—The committee of the
Bible Society for the kingdom of Hanover has just published
the result of their labours for the year 1841. During this
year it appears that 2,806 Bibles and 706 New Testaments
had been distributed. Since the formation of this society,
in the year 1841, 67,897 Bibles, and 14,430 New Testaments,
making together 82,336 copies, have been distributed.—From
the Prussian State Gazette, Sept. 5.
BANK or ENGLAND.—(From Friday's Gazette.)—An
account showing the quarterly average of the weekly liabili-
ties and assets of the Bank of England, from the 18th day of
June to the 10th day of September, 1842, both inclusive,
published pursuant to the aot 3 and 4 William IV., cap. 98.
Liabilities ; circulation, £19,714,000 ; deposits, 9,833,000—
total £29,547,000. Assets : securities, £23,159,000 ' • bullion,
Sept.,l77,ooo—total £32,336,000.—D0wning-street, ept. 15,
1842.

LOCUSTS IN GREECE.—By the last accounts from Athens

we learn that the current crop in Greece was nearly secured
after the threatened injury from rain at several periods during
the cutting and drying. In the earlier part of the summer a
more serious danger menaced the crops frem the sudden
appearance of clouds of locusts in most of the provinces of
the kingdom, So greatly were the fears of the Greek
government excited, that a proclamation was issued, signed
by the King, and countersigned by the Minister of the Inte-
rior, Christides.
MATRIMONIAL DISAPPOINTMENT.—A young man and
woman, inhabitants of Brighton, accompanied by a marriage
procession of ther friends and relatives, appeared, last week,
at the altar of the old church, for the purpose of tying the
hymeneal knot. The ceremony had proceeded to the place
where the clergyman had to pronounce the declaratory words,
that the man and woman had become husband and wife,
when the minister had a notification made to him, which in-
duced him to ask who was the bridegroom's former wife?
The reply was, the present bride's sister—whereupon the
clergyman announced that such marriage was illegal, and
refused to proceed with the ceremonial. All the parties were
aware of the relationship, but, probably, were not aware of
the recent alteration in the law, making marriage with a
deceased wife's sister is illegal.—London Paper.
ANOTHER EXTENSIVE ROBBERY FROM THE PERSON.—
Information has been received by the Metropolitan Police,
that on the Sth instant a gentleman in the city of Coventry
was robbed of a red morocco pocket-book, containing six £5
notes of Taylor and Lloyd's Birmingham Bank ; three £5
notes of the Rugby Bank ; a £5 note of the Nuneaton Bank ;
two receipts for rent, and a note of hand for £35 ; another
ditto, for £7O, and one for £l6O or Xl 70, The robbery is
stated to have been committed by a woman of tall stature,
rather stout, and dressed in a dark dress, a white shawl, and
straw bonnet. She is supposed to have come from Birming-
ham.

We are informed that the late Sir Henry Worsley has by
his will, left to his executors the task of erecting, in Chale
churchyard, an obelisk to his memory, the height of which
will be the same as Cleopatra's Needle, in Egypt. It will be
a great attraction to that part of the island. He requests it
to be similar in form and dimensions of which, we have been
told, was nearly £lO,OOO. A marble tablet or monument has
been put up inside of Chale church, pleasing in its form, but
we do not suppose this can be intended to supersede the de-
sire of the testator.—Hampshire Advertiser.
We are proud to be able to record the following anecdote
connected with her Majesty's reception. We give it not on
rumour, but on most respectable authority,—such as we can
in every respect rely upon. On her Majesty's returning from
the visit to Edinburgh Castle, a Noble Lord in attendance,
whom we could name, inquired how her Majesty was pleased?
The gracious reply was, " I am delighted with the country
and the people. I did not think there was such a spot in my
dominions; and I shall not fail to pay Scotland a visit again
in a different style."—Stirling Journal.
PICKLED EGGS.—(From a Hampshire correspondent).
—An industrious farmer's wife, residing at Shipton, near
Andover, among a variety of other pickles which she annual-
ly introduces into her store-room, preserves pickled eggs.
The process she uses in curing them is very simple. When
she has a large stock of eggs on hand she boils same six or
seven dozen till they become bard, She then divests them
of the shell, and puts them into large jars, pouring upon
them scalding vinegar saturated with ginger, garlic, whole
pepper and ailspice. This pickle is an admirable aid to cold
meat, and is, in the winter months, regarded as a perfect
farm-house luxury.

BOY PICKED UP AT SEA.—On Thursday last, about noon,
the Queen of the Isle steamer, on her passage from this port
to Douglas, picked up a small boat containing a boy about
ten years of age. The poor fellow, when brought on board,
was in a state of partial insanity, arising from fear and the
effects of the salt water he had drank. It appears, be was a
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little forlorn wretch, wandering about Douglas. Having on
Saturday week, begged a small bag of meal, of which some
boys endeavoured to rob him, be took rafuge in a small boat,
which being let adrift by his pursuers, he was carried out to
sea, and, when discovered by the captain, was about forty
miles from the place he had drifted from. A medical man
being on board, every attention was paid to him, and he is
now in a fair way of recovery.—Manx Paper.
DREADFUL OCCURRENCE.—On the racecourse on Wed-
nesday last a most serious occurrence took place, by which a
fine-looking youth lost his life. Three men, named John
Leigh, of Liverpool ; James Dasey, of Jane Shore-court'
London ; and William Lovett, of this town, itinerants, were
engaged upon the racecourse, with targets, bows, and arrows.
In the course of the afternoon, while a party were amusing
themselves with shooting, Mr. John May, of Kirby Muxloe,
and his son were passing at the back of the target, when
unfortunately an arrow struck the poor boy in the eye, and
penetrated his brain. He was subsequently conveyed to the
infirmary, where he lingered, suffering the most excruciating
pain, for a few hours, and then expired. Leigh and Dasey
were apprehended on the spot, but Lovett, to whom the
arrows belonged, has at present made his escape. An in-
quest was held on the body yesterday, and adjourned till
Monday, at which Leigh and Dasey were discharged. The
police are in search of Lovett.—Leicester Journal.
STRANGE STORY.—Mr. John Taylor, maltster, residing
in a lone house in the parish of Belgrave, returned thereto,
in the afternoon of Saturday last, about 3 o'clock, and, not
finding the female servant, in whose charge he left his
house, he went in quest of her all over the premises, but no
traces of her whereabout were discoverable. He then pro-
ceeded up stairs, and, pursuing his searches, he entered her
bed-room, where he saw her clothes lying on the bed ; and
what appeared very singular, the floor was strewed with long
ringlets. On going into the boy's room, the hooks on
which his wearing apparel usually hung were bare. Mr.
Taylor then repaired to his escritoire to count his cash ; and
on opening a drawer in which he makes it a point of keeping
£5O in gold, he examined his specie, and found that £l6 in
sovereigns and half-sovereigns was deficient. While pon-
dering for an hour or two on this awkward posture of affairs,
he was relieved from his imbroglio by the appearance of spe-
cial constable William Mills, of Brooksby, who' reassured
him on the most important point; namely, that £l5 10s.
of the missing sum was safe, and accounted for its recovery
in this manner. As Mrs. Hunter and her family were taking
a carriage drive between Rearsby and Brooksby, about half-
past twelve o'clock on Saturday, they met an individual of
extremely juvenile appearance, dressed in a fustian coat,
cotton-cord breeches and leggings, checked sleeve waistcoat,
and black bat. There was an extraordinary development of
the person both in front and rear, something like the figure
8, and the pedestrian was walking along with the braces of
the breeches dangling behind Mrs. Hunter, therefore stop-
ped the tramper ; and her suspicions being strengthened by
the vague and unsatisfactory answers given to her queries,
she ordered the footman to take charge of the party, and
drove back to Brooksby Hall, where the traveller was con-
signed to the charge of the housekeeper, who discovered that
she was a felonious representation of Imogene, and forth-
with sent for Mr. Mills. He ascertained that she had
£l5 10s. in gold in her possession ; and, having received no-
tice from Mr. Goodver, to whom Mr. Taylor had wisely
proceeded, on ascertaining the vacancy of his tenement and
the depletion of his purse, he hurried to the latter with his
prisoner, and she was recognised by him, despite her charity-
boy-cut hair, as Louisa Wykes, aged 17, his domestic; and
was accordingly kept in custody by Mills. On Tuesday she
was brought before Mr. Isaac Hodgson, at the county-office,
when, notwithstanding her declaration that two men had
broken into her master's house during his absence, cut her
hair off, dressed her in the groom's clothes, and thrust
£l5 10s. into her pocket, Mr. Hodgson was not so credu-
lous to her story as he was to Tom Cooper's (the Chartist's)
bail, but committed her to take her trial at the ensuing Mi-
chaelmas Quarter Sessions. The rapidity with which the
notice of the robbery was followed up by Mr. Goodyer, in
conveying information to all the special constables, was the
main cause of the immediate detection of this impudent
plunder.—Leicester Journal.
THE AMERICAN TREATY AND THE AMERICAN TARIFF.
—The attention of the merchants in the city has been almost
wholly engrossed this morning in deliberating on the impor-
tant results likely to arise from the final adjustment of all the
points of difference upon which Lord Ashburton was em-
powered to negociate. As far as the political bearings of the
question are revealed, the result is viewed with unqualified
satisfaction, but the modus operandi of the New Tariff Act
is not so generally approved of. It is apprehended that vexa-
tious disputes will arise out of the principle upon which the
ad valorem duties are to be levied under the new law, and
the. immediate payment of all the duties in money is also con-
sidered as a hardship which will obstruct trade under parti-
cular circumstances. To this last objection the necessities
of the central government may, however, for the present, be
deemed a sufficient answer. The private letters state that
the estimate made of the amount of revenue which will occrue
under the new tariff will not do more than cover one-half of
the deficiency for the present year ; and as there is no imme-
diate prospeut of the loan being taken up either in their own
market or in Europe, that an enlarged issue of Treasury notes
was the only alternative to meet current demands. As far as
reliance can be placed upon the mercantile letters, written
from New York, under the influence of a first impression of
the effect of the adjustment of the differences, an immediate
improvement in business may be expected. It is stated that
considerable orders had been pending on the conclusion of
the treaty, and that part of them had been forwarded on the
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it therefore, that that the effect be felt in the course of a few
days in the manufacturing districts. The effect which will
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