The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-13 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

The slaughter of salmon in the Teviot and its tributaries
has been, and is still, carried on to a disgraceful extent.
Mr. Daniel Broadhurst has been appointed treasurer of
the borough of Manchester.
A large quantity of pheasants have been found dead at
Stow. They have been poisoned.
The radical corporation of Dublin has nesiath.pd a motion
for a vote of thanks to the heroes of India and China.
The friends of Mr. Sculley have offered a reward of £l,OOO
for the discovery of the murderers of that gentleman.
The forty-second anniversary of the Smithfield Club took
place on Friday. Earl Spencer was in the chair.
The lady of Sir James Graham is now recovering from a
severe attack of scarlet fever.

Last week, a cod-fish was caught at Aberystwith which
weighed 401 b.
The value of exports from Canton amounts to about
£8,250,000 per annum.
The Manchester Chronicle, a conservative paper, is ad-
vertised for sale.

Messrs. Fernandes and Sons, extensive and respectable
corn-factors, &c. in Wakefield, have stopped payment.
Lord Lucan and Mr. St. Clair O'Malley have been sus-
pended from the commission of the peace in Ireland.
The Age announces that, in consequence of domestic
differences, Lord and Lady Lincoln have agreed to separate.
A gang of four desperate burglars was committed to trial
at Preston, on Wednesday.
A cousin of Lady Sale's denies that she is the daughter of
the late Rev. Mr. Wynch, but of the late George Wynch,
Esq., of the Hon. East India Company's Service.
Captain Harvey Tuckett, who is well known to the public
in consequence of his recent duelling connection with -the
Earl of Cardigan, has been declared a bankrupt.
It is said that Pudsey Dawson, Esq., of Hornby Castle, is
likely to be appointed sheriff of the county of Lancaster for
the ensuing year.
Miss Robinson has fully identified one of the parties who
entered her house on Gateshead Fell, and attempted to
murder her.

The celebrated Vestris, who was a pensioned member of
the French Royal Academy of Music, died on Monday, the
sth of December, at the age of 83.

Cardinal Pole and many Romanists have admitted the
doctrine of justification through faith, much more explicitly
than the Tract writers.

The Duke of Rutland, a few days back, stated at an agri-
cultural dinner that the present modified scale of corn duties
might be reduced by some shillings a quarter.
The testimonial to Lord Morpeth is to be presented early
in the ensuing year. The subscriptions already amount to
£4,000.

The town-council of London have passed resolutions
urging Sir Robert Peel to " give practical effect to his decla-
rations in free trade."

Mrs. Williams (widow of the late Rev. John Williams,
missionary at the South Seas) arrived in London, from Syd-
ney, on the 25th October.
An order has been issued upon Dr. Bell and Lieut. Green,
of the Tower Division, not to pass any more men for the
navy, until fresh directions are issued by the Admiralty.
At a private meeting of London merchants on Friday, it
was determined to present Sir John and Lady Pirie with
some testimonial of esteem.

Two boys, aged ten and twelve, are missing from Leicester.
The most extravagant tales are current about attempts to
" burke " children in the streets of that town.
Earl Kinnoull and four others killed 400 head of game,
chiefly pheasants and hares, at Scone Palace and the neigh-
bourhood, in two days last week.
A master mason, of the parish of Westdown, North Devon,
has lately embarked on a matrimonial voyage for the fifth
time. He is a fine old fellow of sixty.
On Saturday week, a woman was laid out at Bolton, and
took to the dead-house, when it was afterwards found that
she was still alive, though she died soon afterwards.

LATE MUSIIROOMS.—On Monday, December the sth, a
dish of fine mushrooms was gathered in a field belonging to
Mr. Massey, of Altrincham.
It is rumoured, that agents of the Belgian government
have visited, or are about to visit Bristol, for the purpose of
examining the Great Western steam-ship.

The Bude light has been introduced into the centre of the
Market-place, Manchester, superseding the various tiers of
gas-burners previously necessary to diffuse sufficient light
around.

Every newspaper published on a Saturday will have printed
53 numbers this year at its close; the present year having
commenced and finished on that day ; a circumstance that
will not occur again until 1853.

During the last month the amount paid into the savings'
kank of Paris was 2,771,468 f., by 19,557 persons, of whom
2,513 were now depositors. The amount of reimbursements
was 2,216,000 f.

LONDON AND DOVER RAILWAY.—The gross traffic re-
ceipts for the week ending Dec. 8 amounted to £1,459 15s.
3d., being an increase on the week previous of nearly 50 per
cent., consequent upon the opening to Ashford.
On Sunday week, a stack of wheat, forty yards long,
belonging to a respectable farmer, at Bunny, Nottingham-
shire, was burnt to the ground. It is said to have been the
work of an incendiary.
Jordan, the clerk, why robbed the London Joint Stock
Bank, has now returned all the stolen money, except £4O,
having returned £3OO additional of the balance in the course
of Monday.

An accident occurred on the London and Birmingham
railway, about two miles from Berkhampstead, whereby
four persons were seriously, though it is hoped not fatally,
injured.
Sir Robert Peel anticipated an increase of £210,000 from
the additional duties on spirits in Ireland. Instead of this,
there is likely to be a deficit in consequence of a great in-
crease of illicit distillation.

On Sunday last, about three o'clock, some evil-disposed
person or persons wilfully set fire to two stacks, one wheat
and one oats, the property of Mr. Savidge, farmer, of Bonny,
Notts, by which the whole were destroyed.

There are in France two opinions about English high
churchmanship ; the first, that it is verging to Popery ; the
second, that it desires to beat down Popery in such a way as
to succeed to its ecclesiastical dominion.

Messrs. G. and T. Chidley, of Bromsgrove, Worcester-
shire, nail-makers, have closed their works. By this cir-
cumstance upwards of 800 individuals are thrown out of
employment.
It appears, from further investigation, that the new comet
in Draco is not identical with the Chinese comet of 1301, as
was imagined, but is found to coincide remarkably with the
comet of Halley.
The rural police for the district of Lonsdale, Lancashire,
has been reduced one-half since their first establishment two
years ago. The enormous expenses of the force were com-
plained of.
A flax-mill at Millvale, near Newry, the property of Dr.
Gray, was burned on Tuesday night, about eight o'clock.
The fire, it is said, was accidental. The property was in-
sured.

Galashiels is thriving amazingly just now, having more
orders for shawls, mantelings, and tweeds, than it can well
execute. Not a boy or girl is to be seen about the streets—
all are employed.— Greenock Advertiser.
It is a common mistake with amateurs to imagine that the
briskness of Champagne is a proof of its superior quality.
The fact is, that in seasons when the grapes of Champagne
do not thorougly ripen, sugar is employed.

In a recent speech at Chester, the Lord Bishop said that,
within the last forty years, there had been more churches
built in three dioceses alone—namely, London, Winchester,
and Chester (probably amounting to 400) than in the whole
country, from the Reformation to the year 1800.
On Friday last a shooting party took place at Dilworth
Castle, the seat of the Hon. Mr, Weld, consisting of six
gentlemen, who in a short time bagged the following game :
—ll9 hares, 7 woodcocks, 36 pheasants, and 46 rabbits.
Total, 208.—Domet Chronicle.

On Monday week the fog in Paris was so dense as to ren-
der the roads really dangerous. In some of the theatres the
fog entered the interior, during the performance, to such in-
tensity that the spectators in the centre boxes were unable
to distinguish the performers.
On Saturday week, a cattle-skilling, belonging to Mr.
Chillingworth, in Wiltshire, was destroyed by fire, when five
very fat cows were killed, and two others severely injured.
A large rick of hay was also destroyed. There is said to be
no doubt the act was the work of some miscreant.

The Globe says that ministers intend to propose a fixed
duty of 12s. on corn in the next session, but the Standard
flatly contradicts the statement, and declares it to be im-
possible on account of the various treaties by which Great
Britain is bound.

GRAND REVIEW IN INDIA.—We learn from private let-
ters that it was the intention of Lord Ellenborough, in course
of the present month to view the whole of the troops who
will by that time have returned from Affghanistan, 35,000 in
number.

A correspondent of the Times asks by whom, and under
what regulations, the very large sum collected last summer,
In pursuance of the Queen's letter for the distressed manu-
facturers,- has been distributed ? The public has never yet
lerrned even the amount of the collection.

It has been stated in a paragraph which originated (we be-
lieve) with the Sheffield Iris, that Lord Morpeth was pre-
paring a work on the subject of the United States. We may
say with confidence that there is no ground for the statement.
—Leeds Mercury.

Mr. Carpue, the eminent surgeon, recovered from the di-
rectors of the London and Brighton Railway, on Thursday
last, by an action, in the Queen's Bench, £250 damages for
injury inflicted by an accident, in Oct. 1841. Mr. Carpue's
injuries were very severe, and he was unable, except to a very
small degree, to attend to his medical duties.
A MUSICIAN 109 YEARS OF AGE.—There is now in St.
George's Hospital a poor musician, aged 109 years—his name
is Louis Pouche, and his portrait was in the last exhibition
at the National Gallery. He has just undergone, under the
hands of Mr. Hawkins, the most dangerous and painful
operation for hernia. Morning Post.
THE ARTESIAN WELL AT GRENELLE.—The water from
this well now continues to run perfectly pure, and of the
same temperature as at first (from 80 deg. to 90 deg. Fahr).
M. Mulot has taken great pains to ascertain the exact quan-
tity which flows from the aperture, which is now stated to be
4754 gallons in twenty-eight seconds.
A poor youth, named Charles Descombe, aged 17, went
into a house at Brixham last week, where a bark furnace was
being used for boiling fishing nets, and having gone to sleep
on the top of the furnace fell into the burning liquor, and was
so dreadfully injured that death soon relieved him of his
sufferings.
A lunatic escaped on the 4th of November from the asylum
at Haverfordwest. The keeper a few days after met him in
a field at night, and a severe battle with sticks took place;
in which the man in his senses came off second best, and the
other has not been heard of since. The magistrates have
discharged the keeper.
RUSSIAN STEAM NAVIGATION.—TWO very fine new
steamers,
of about 800 tons each, with engines of 260 horse
power, by Maudslay and Field, are now in the East India
Dock, on the point of departure for Constantinople. They
are fitted ashave been constructed here for the Russian Government;
re
Passenger and cargo vessels; and are, it is said,
destined to ply in the Black Sea and the Bosphorus.
CURE FOR HyDR,OpH
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man, lying under the frightful tortures of hydrophobia, was
cured with draughts of vinevar, given him by mistake instead
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at the hospital, administering a pound of vinegar in the morn-
ing, another at noon, and a third at sunset, and the man was
perfectly cured.
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WIND.—One of the cattle waggons, at the Northallerton
station of the Great North of England Railway, was shifted
a few days ago, by some znischevious person, from the side
rails to the main way, and the wind blowing tremendously
from the north, it was forced forward in a southerly direc-
direction at the rate of 12 or 14 miles an hour, and was not
stopped until it reached the Alne station, a distance of 20
miles from its starting point.—Great Northern Advertiser.