The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-08 00:00:00

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There is no toundation whatever for the reports which have
appeared in the newspapers relating to the Lord Chancellor's
intention of resigning the Great Seal.

The quantity of eggs used annually in France exceeds, says
one of the Journals, 7,250,000,000, of which enormous num-
ber Paris absorbs 120,000,000.
The Prussian navy, royal and commercial, amounted last
summer to 790 vessels of 10,600 tons burden, and employing
6,800 sailors. Towards the year 1790 Prussia had 2,000 ves-
sels and 10,000 men.

THE WETTENHALL MURDER.—We understand that Joe,
alias Duke Baker, charged with wilful murder on the coro-
ner's inquisition, has hitherto evaded pursuit, notwithstand-
ing that a most unremitting search has been made for him.
We understand that the statement which has gone the
round of the papers as to a pension having been conferred
upon the poet Wordsworth, is not strictly accurate. The
yearly sum which Mr. Wordsworth will receive is a retiring
allowance given to him upon resigning the office of distribu-
tor of stamps.—Brighton Gazelle.

THE LATE ATTEMPTED MURDER.—We are happy to
understand that Alexander Duff, the unfortunate sufferer in
the late diabolical deed, was so far recovered as to have been
able to leave the cottage where he found shelter on the night
in which an attempt was made to take his life, and walk a
short distance to the railway on Friday last, on the way to
his own home.—Dundee Warder.

It was rumoured in Westminster-ball on Thursday morn-
ing, that in consequence of the appointment of several learned
serjeants as commissioners under the New Bankruptcy Bill,
Mr. Serjeant Merewether having been appointed town-clerk
of the city of London, and the death of Mr. Serjeant Spankie,
a number of learned counsel will be shortly elevated to the
dignity of serjeants-at-law.--Standard.
A YOUNG PREACHER.—The anniversary sermons in be-
half of the Primitive Methodist Sunday Schools, Oldham,
were preached on Sunday last by a boy of 14 years of age,
named Joel Hodson, of Lancaster. Such was the excite-
ment of the public to see and hear this juvenile prodigy that
the congregation were admitted by tickets suld at ls. Gd.
each.—Manchester Advertiser.

WILSON, THE STEEPLE CLIMBER.—We have more than
once referred to the fearless intrepidity of this individual in
mounting and repairing steeples or the high stalks of public
works, and to the tradesmanlike manner with which he
finishes his perilous operations. He has of late been em-
ployed on some of the loftiest stalks in the city, and now de-
votes himself to stalk-climbing as a profession. The fellow
thinks no more of climbing a height of 200 feet than of swal-
lowing his breakfast.—Glasgow Argus.
FATAL PRIZE FIGHT.—A prize fight, which has been for
a considerable period in contemplation, came off on Thursday
last, between Luke Lock, a Brighton man, and Greenstreet,
a pugilist well known in the ring. The site pitched upon was
Washington Common, about twenty miles westward of
Brighton. Intelligence reached Brighton in the evening after
a contest of seventeen rounds, which occupied forty minutes,
Lock came off victorious, having left his antagonist dead on
the field.

THE SWORD OF " JUSTICE" FALLEN.—Friday afternoon,
between six and seven o'clock, the sword fell to the pave-
ment from the right hand of the figure of " Justice" sur-
mounting the entrance to the Upper Castle-yard. The
fallen weapon was picked up in rather a battered state by
the sentinel on duty, and was deposited in the infantry
guard-room of the castle, where it at present remains in
charge of the military. The sword had retained its first
position for something more than 21 years, having, with the
scales borne in the left hand of the figure, been put up on
occasion of the visit of George IV. in 1821 to this country.
—Dublin Freeman's Journal.

ARRIVAL OF THE "BRITISH QUEEN."—The British
Queen, from New York, arrived safely in Cowes Roads, at
three o'clock on Thursday morning. She left New York on
the 7th ult. and was obliged by the severity of the weather,
and the shortness of fuel, to put into Fayal, where she re-
mained seven days. All news by her has been anticipated.
The Clyde, West India mail steamer has not yet arrived ;
she is hourly expected. The West India steamer Medway
was at Fayal, when the British Queen left, and was to take
her departure for England on the following day.