The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-24 00:00:00

Last week a beautiful specimen of the common heron was
shot in Lough Swilly by Captain Hay, of Buncrana.
The annual festival of the Caledonian Asylum took place
at the Freemasons' Tavern, on Saturday. The Duke of Buc-
cleugh presided. Three pipers were in attendance, and the
Chisholm and other gentlemen danced the Scotch reel.
WORTHY OF IMITATION.—The Rev. J. J. Rogerson will,
we understand, preach a sermon in St. Julian's Church, in
this town, on Thursday next, in aid of the subscription for
the widows and children of the troops, serving under the
British flag, who have been butchered at Affghanistan.—
Shrewsbury paper.
The South Durham and North York Shipping Company
have announced the sale by auction of two of their vessels
and of their freehold property, used as offices at Middles-
brough, preparatory to a dissolution of the concern, which
has been anything but profitable.
On Saturday morning week, during the raging of the high
wind, the extensive floor-cloth manufactory of Mr. Moss
Lyons, situate in James-street, York-street, Walworth, was
blown down. A. workman, named John Proudfoot, was
dragged from between two huge pieces of timber, in a most
deplorable condition.

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SECOND CENTENARY OF THE SCOTTISH CHURCH IN
IRELAND.—The Rev. Dr. Cooke has addressed a letter " to
the ministers, elders, and people of the General Assembly in
Ireland," in which he calls their attention to the subject of
the second centenary of the Church of Scotland in this
country, which is now approaching.
On Thursday the conversatives of Preston celebrated their
sixth anniversary by a public dinner in the Theatre Royal.
About 300 individuals sat down to a sumptuous repast, which
was presided over by F. Sleddon, jun., Esq. Amongst the
speakers were R. Townley Parker, Esq., and C. Swainson,
Esq., the late conservative candidates for the borough. The
company did not separate until a late hour, having spent the
evening in a manner likely to excite the zeal and energy of
the people in the good cause.
The Times publishes the plan which General Sir George
Cockburn suggested to Sir Robert Peel in August last for
retrieving the finances of the country. It consists, briefly,
in the Government's withdrawing from public and private
banking establishments the power to issue paper money, and
itself issuing instead £30,000 in notes of £5, to £3,000,
which would place a like amount of revenue at the disposal
of Government ; or, if that sum were not found sufficient
for the circulation of the country, then £20,000 more might
be issued.

A vacancy has occurred in the East India direction, by the
lamented death of Lieutenant Colonel Agnew.
Several letters were received at the General Post-office by
the last overland mail via Marseilles, bearing the extraordi-
nary postmark of Hong Kong, in China.
Last week as many as 671 persons sailed from Sligo, as emi-
grants to British America.
The Queen and Prince Albert are expected to honour
Epsom Races with their presence on the Derby day, Wed-
nesday, the 25th instant.
Letters from Toulon mention that the squadron com-
manded by Admiral Hugon was met under sail on the 12th,
manoeuvring, at some distance from the island of Heyeres.
The government of Van Dieman's Land, now held by Sir
J. Franklin, has been offered to Lord Glenworth, grandson
of the Earl of Limerick.
The Journal des Debats announces that immediately after
the close of the session the import duties on hempen threads
would be raised to 20 per cent.
Some failures of large amount have occurred at Oporto ;
among them the firm of Lima Sampaio, to the extent of no
less than £200,000 sterling.
The monthly meteorological table at Greenock shows that
not a drop of rain fell in that town during the month of
April.

Mr. Lawrence Peel, now Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court at Calcutta, has been gazetted as a knight.
A whig paper, in Yorkshire, advertises for " an apprentice
to the reading, reporting, and book-keeping departments!"

What next.
The Russian merchants at Alexandria pay three per cent.
export duty ; all other merchants, England included, pay 12
per cent.
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HEAVY FINE.—We learn by the Paris papers that the
Temps has been fined 102,300 francs fer having published a
journal without the signature of the responsible proprietor.

is a sentence of extermination

The Frankfort Journal 'states that the Hanoverian artil-
ery from Stade employed more than 30,0001b5. weight of
gunpowder in blowing up houses in Hamburgh, to prevent
the spreading of the fire.
We have to announce the death of Mr. Robert Mudie, the
well-known author on natural history and other subjects.
He died a few days since at Pentonville ; and his latter days,
it is said, were not passed in affluence.
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J. Horsley Palmer, and L. Ricardo, Esq., are about to
toceed to the United States, to resuscitate, if possible, the
Irostrate condition of money matters there.—Morning