The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-20 00:00:00

of his toaster,

William W

Plips,
Whitehead, as a deputation from James hil
the Mexicana..-
and So
American Association of Liverpool, and accompanied
Messrs. J. D. Powles and Robert M`Calmont, had an int
view with the Earl of Aberdeen on Monday, at the Foreii
office, with respect to the claims of British merchants agai
the Mexican government.

.BONNET TRAM—During the
of almost every kind for such a length of t
dom, the bonnet trade of Stewarton
prices are low, and barely sufficient to remunerate the ma,
facturer. One manufacturer has just now received an on,
for 10,000 bonnets, which will give employment to many
the trade for some time.—Ayr Observer.
The contract for bread for the Bath Union, for the next
six months, has been taken at 54-d. per 41b. loaf, being five
farthings less than for the preceding half-vear.—At Devizes
the contracts were taken, for bread, at 91d. and al 10d. per
gallon ; for flour, at 325. per sack ; for meat and suet, at
3id. per lb. ; bacon and lard, at 41c1. per lb. ; potatoes at
3s. 3d. per sack.

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The conduct of the c

frequently brings down sums

continued good

'he captain of the Offi

ships at foreign isla
seance from the natii

ey, whaleship, entertains no doi
I in rever

that the fifteen men missing have been mui
for an insult offered to their chief. The fate

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hich had pr

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formation of a c

Lancashire Steam

Preston papers for t

pany to be called the Preston and Nor
Navyptjoo Company,. the object of whir

sn a :
between the northern manufac
and Yorkshire, and ti

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ern coast of Ireland, as
land, and Isle of Man.

earn comr

ing districts of Lancashire
g ports on the east-
of Scot-

principal shipp
well as the we

The following article is from a Calais paper :—" Take
Notice—That I, Margaret Warnock, do forbid the bonds of
marriage to marry Ralph Scott and Hannah Siemit, as I have
got a claim on him." There seems to be a legal propr'-'
the course which Margaret pursues in the premises.
state it is customary to publish the bans of marriage between
those who intend to commit matrimony; and this, we sup-
pose, is the response to the " first time of askfng."

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In that

THE CHURCH IN CHINA.—.We have much satisfaction
in being able to state, that it is in contemplation to make an
immediate effort to raise sufficient funds for planting a branch
of the English Church in the new settlement at Hong Kong,
with a view not merely to provide our own countrymen, who
may be resident there, with the means of grace and edifica-
tion, but to the more effectual introduction of our holy reli-
gion into the vast empire of China.—Ecelesiastical Gazette.

On Wednesday night last, a singular occurrence took place
on the Manchester and Birmingham Railway, near Alderley.
A goods train, which left Manchester in the night at that
part of the ling passed over some obstructing bodies on the
rail, but without being

3 recei

considerable shock. It was found that a flock of sheep had
by some accident got upon the line, and that the train had
slaughtered four of them with much greater expedition than
the butcher could have done.—Manchester Guardian.
A FitEe TRADER'S OPINION ON THE PRICE OF LA-
BOUR.
—At the last meeting of the Town Council of Kendal
one of its
members—a Mr. • .c"-- '
in his Way of
thinking, 17s. v
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Had he ventured
sd°ll Tsst
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vat a weekly wage for

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