The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-27 00:00:00

Duty on Foreign Grain, &e. this week.
Wheat 125.0 d. I Barley 10s. Od. Oats .. . 's. Od. F
Beans les. 6ci. I Pease.. 10s. 6d. I I Ind. Corn Os. Od.

Ditto from British Colonies out of Europe.
Is. od. I Barley.. 2s. tid. I Oats ..2s. Od. I Ry
s. Od I Pease.. 2s. Od. I Indian Corn.. Os. I Flo
24, It

Liverpool Averages, week ending May _,
:Wheat. I ;
Barley. I Oats. Bean
Qrs 986 601
Prices

.ye.. 10s. 6d,
lour? s. 2id

)ur.. Os. 74d

SUGAR. IN THE OLDEN the reign of Henry
the Fourth of France, sugar was so rare in that country,
that it was sold by the ounce by apothecari , nearly as Pe-
ruvian bark is now sold.—Echo du Monde 4avant.

EFFECT OF RAILWAYS.-At the annual meeting of the
proprietors of the Sheffield Canal, held last week, the usual
dividend was omitted for want of funds.

with twin children, joined at the breast
when born. The mother has since died.

They were dead

The fruit trees have been making a good show of blossom
hut, on close inspection, are found to be beset with insects.—
Kentish Observer.

Brunswick has ordered collections to be made throughout
his territory in favour of the sufferers from the fire at Ham-

THE ALTAR.--At a recent meeting of the Exeter Archi-
tectural Society, Dean Lowe read a paper, one of the objects
of which %yds to allow that on each side of the altar in our
chuohes, there ought to be a niche, in which the elements of
the sacrament might be placed.

The members of the Fox Club intend to give their annual
banquet on the 2nd of June, at the Clarendon Hotel. The
Honourable Mrs. Charles Fox, relict of the celebrated states-
man, whom she survived thirty-six years, though at a very
advanced age, is still living in the enjoyment of good health,
at her villa at Chertsey.
By the death of the Rev. R. Barneby, the valuable living
of St. Dunstan s, Stepney, has become vacant; it is in the
gift of the principal and fellows of Brasenose College, Ox-
ford, and worth £l,OOO per annum.
COCKNEYISM.—A servant in Georgia being asked from
what part of England he came, replied, " Why, sir, I was
born in Covent-garden, but I have always lived in the Hay-
market."

The contractors to several of the workhouses in Ireland
have entered a protest against the poor-law commissioners
for not settling their accounts, though reduced to the lowest
scale by the commissioners' architect.
The number of associations established in Great Britain at
present for the circulation of the Scriptures is 2228 ; in Ire-
land, 550 ; Continental Europe, 1500 ; Asia, 83 ; Africa, 16 ;
America, 2800 ; Australia, 15 ; and the West Indies, 226,—
sixty-nine of the last being conducted by free negroes.

ELYSIAN Sour.—The French have a
.soup which they
y
call "Poiage a la Cameran
which it is said, " A single
spoonful will lap the palate in Elysium ; and while one drop
remains on the tongue. each other sense is eclipsed by the
voluptuous thrilling of the lingual nerves."

PULLING DOWN THE BRITISH MUSEUM !—This is lite-
rally the fact, the original edifice is now in the hands of the
" housebreakers," or, as they are sometimes denominated in
the modern nomenclature of the march of intellect, the " ma-
terialists ; " for it certain that about one-fourth of this an-
cient seat or palace of the Dukes of Montagne was actually
knocked down (by the hammer) on Saturday last for the mo-
derate sum of about £l2OO, andlthe remaining three por-
tions will fall under the same instrument, in succession, but
not immediately.

ACCIDENT ON THE NORTHERN AND !EASTERN RAlL-
wAy.—Shortly after two o'clock on the morning of Tuesday,
an accident occurred on the line of the above railway, near
Bishop Stortford, which, no doubt, will be attended with
fatal consequences. About two o'clock a man named John
Kemp, 26 Mrs of age, was driving a cart along the line,
laden with bricks, on the top of which he was seated. He
was suddenly jerked off on to the line, and his right leg fall-
ing between one of the rails and the cart-wheel, it was lite-
rally crushed to pieces. He was taken up insensible, and
placed in a truck and brought to the terminus at Shoreditch,
and from thence conveyed to the London Hospital, where
amputation of the limb was performed by Mr. Andrews, the
surgeon : the poor fellow, however, is past all hope of reco
very.

A correspondent of the Staudard says " It has been erro-
neously stated in a provincial paper, not very favourably dis-
posed to the Oxford University, that the Theological Statute
recently passed in Convocation recognies Dr. Pusey as a
Theological Professor and; as such, :assigns him a place at
the Theological Board. This is so far from being the case,
that the new statute distinctly recognises him as a professor
of the Hebrew language ; :and an application made on his
part to be designated a Professor of Exegetical Theology
prompmetly and peremptorily rejected by the fra
statute rs Of the

A BAD HUSBAND BETTER THAN NOICE.--A. married
woman was telling a staid lady, somewhat on the wrong side
of fifty, of some doestic troubles, which she in a great part
attributed to the iregularities of her husband " Well,"
said the old maid, " you have brought these übles on
yourself. I told you not to marry him. I was Surehe would
not make a good husband." "He is not a good one, to be
sure, madam," replied the woman, " but he is a power
better than none."

OASTLER ON THE AFFGHANZ%T&Rmust confess
that the more I think about the Affghan war the more I am
convinced that the people of England have been deceived
into it. Every art was resorted to to prevent the people from
knowing that the resources of the state were devoted to but-
chering those whom the people of England had no wish to
injure, and who were anxious to be friends with us. The
necessity of the war was never discussed in parliament—Pu_s
liament was never invited to sanction it. There were.
of those formalities gone through by which the nation d
know that it was at war. Both the Duke of Wellington,
Sir Robert Peel disapproved of, but still they
prosecute, the war, and the people are to be taxareenclnkrionthe, egpenses ! Thus do we, if we refuse further exploration► ex-
hibitwil-
ful ourselves to the world in the character of wholesale the
ful murderers, waging a war of aggression, 22.
semblance of provocation.—Fleet Papers, A°

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THE LATE ACCIDENT ON THE l'Ego":n"
of the
the —The sad and solemn ceremony h terrible event at
remains of the twenty-five victims Of f the cemetery of
removed man • •
Meudon, which had not been Tuesday, at eight in the
interment of the
Mont Parnasse, was performecliorce
and his clergy. After
morning, by the cure of St. S
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deposited in one grave•
his untimely fate, and containing p '
delivered an oration
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sages applicable to thoenwhoNle pofßt°hutehlaseYufferers, which pr l- as-
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lamentations, ce a short discourse. The cure of St.
Sulpice also pronoun course.
Sulpice
,asrrebesnut mare, came off on
TROTTING MATCH. Tuesday afternoon a trotting
rugton Corner and Long
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toofokSltobue lead, buPPt
thea 13th to the 15th mile-stone.
the London Road, be
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appointed umpire. At starting
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med in six minutes and
fifty yards a-head. Th
by their owners: a half. The horses were driven
uplia,dy Dart broke three times, and was
ordered to pull
favour by the r uy the
eferee. Betting at
umpire, but was given in her
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