The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-07-26 00:00:00

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The porgetglipe risslpa vipro very brief, there beiug anly
eight prisoners on the calendar, and five law cases.
A son of the Rev. F. Calder, Minister of the Wesleyan
chapel in this city, has lately been ordained a clergyman of
the Established Church.

There are five competitors from Oxford for the Head-
mastership of Rugby school, and seven from Cambridge.
The annual income is estimated at about £4,000.

It is said that experiments are about being made on the
Eastern Counties Railway, under the superintendence of
Mr. Hood, for the purpose of inquiring into the cause and
phenomena of the crystallization of railway axles.—Railway
ltirgazine.

Her Royal Ilighntss the Princess Sophia continues to la-
bour under the affliction of blindness, almost total, at her
apartments in Kensington Palace, but otherwise the princess
is in the enjoyment of good health ; but, of course, receives
little company except her royal relatives.
THE SWELL MOB.—At Bristol, six members of tbe above
association of freebooters, some of them wearing spurs and
mustachios, were captured on Thursday, at the great cattle
show, in the act of conveyancing. Their heads were shaved,
their mustachios clipt, and they were sent out of the town,
as vagabond thieves, by the police.
The Courrier Francais says—" Prince Albert, the consort
of her Majesty Queen Victoria, is reported to have written a
letter to King Louis Philip on the late tragical event, couched
in terms of the most affecting condolence. The Duke of
Wellington has, it is added, likewise written to his Majesty,
expressing his deep regret for the loss the French nation and
its sovereign have sustained."
IMPORTATION OF FOREIGN CATTLE AT HULL.—The
Emerald Isle steamer, from Rotterdam, which arrived here
on Sunday, brought us the first importation .of live cattle
from that quarter under the new law. It was but a speci-
men, consisting of four cows, in calf, which we understand
found ready sale, at remunerating prices. One of the cows
calved on Tuesday morning; and the calf, with two of the
other cows, were offered and disposed of at our market that
day. The Innisfail, Gothenburg mail steam-ship, which
arrived on Tuesday, brought sixteen pigs.—Eastern Counties
Herald.

THE GRATITUDE OF THE POOR.—A pleasing instance of
this was displayed on Wednesday, the 20th inst., the birth-
day of Agnes, five years old, the daughter of the Rev. R. R.
Faulkner, of Havering. Previous to the assembling of the
ladies and friends of the National School, at the annual rus-
tic fete given on that day to the children of the Parsonage,
an elegantly bound pocket bible, bearing the following simple
and affectionate inscription, was sent to Mr. Faulkner.—
" Dear Sir,—Please to accept this trifle as a token of grati-
tude from the poor inhabitants of Haveringatte-Bower, for
your great kindness to them and their children, and may you
long live to prosper in the glorious work of the Gospel is the
earnest wish of the poor.—Havering, July 20, 1842." This
was accompanied by a " Companion to the. Altar" and a
silken purse for Miss Faulkner, from the poor.

Lord Palmerston told the House of COMM6DS on Thursday
night that " he had sufficient experience in office to know
that the members of the government would have but little
time for pheasant shooting in October." " Sufficient ex-
perience !" We should think so. After occupying a position
more or less prominent in nearly every administration for the
last five-and-thirty years, Lord Palmerston reminds the
house of the length of his apprenticeship, as if it had not be.
come a bye-word throughout the country, throwing the acts
of the Vicar of Bray entirely into the shade. Pity that his
lordship when he alluded to his " experience" did not say
how he acquired it. We know nothing about Lord Palmer-
ston's recreations in October, or his accomplishments in the
battue ; he may or may not be able to shoot flying, but thus
much is certain, that for a shot at a permanent mark his
lordship has no rival on earth.—Morning Herald.
STAMPS AND TAXES BILL.—A bill has just been intro-
duced to parliament which proposes to effect considerable
changes in respect to the stamps and taxes. It abolishes the
tax upon stage-coach drivers and guards, and fixes the an-
nual license on a stage-coach at £3 3s. for the first year, and
ss. every subsequent year. The mileage is to be I Id. per
mile wh-atever the number of passengers. The duty on pas-
sengers by railways is changed from a tax of of a penny per
bead per mile to a charge of £5 per cent. upon the receipts
for passengers. It is thought that the change in the mode
of levying the, passage duty will be of great advantage to
railroads conveying a , multitude of passengers short dis-
tances, and will induce the railway directors to provide more
accommodation for the humbler classes, who will thus be
benefitted by the chsnge. The stamp duty on bills of lading
is reduced from 3s. 6d., and that on charter parties to a fixed
tax of 55., whatever its length.

BEE SWARMING.—During the present forcing weather, it
may not be amiss to relate an anecdote just furnished by a
respectable individual, who vouches for its truth. An old
gentleman in Ayrshire, while standing in his garden, waiting
for the casting of a hive, had the misfortune to attract the
swarm, as it, rather unexpectedly, came off; and the bees,
thick and clustering, settled over his throat, his face, mouth,
and nostrils. In a moment after, his eyes were blinded by
the clinging, buzzing throng. Expecting the infliction of
instant agony from a thousand stings, he dreaded to make
the slightest movement by voice or limb, and there was no
person present. A minute or two passed—the heat was in-
tolerable, and the sensation maddening; at this dire extre-
mity of no less than probable pain or death, reason at length
suggested—and the old gentleman cautiously raised his
hands to the hat, moved it gently, imperceptibly lifting it a
few inches above his head, and then steadied the hat in that
position. The queen bee must have approved of this novel
hive, for the old man began to breathe freely ; and in a short
time the whole swarm took up their abode in the hat, which
he subsequently displayed to his friends in triumph and
thankfulness, without having received so much as a single
sting. —Elgin Courant.

SERIOUS Loss OF LIFE AT GLENTIES.—On Thursday
last, while a number of the workmen employed in the erec-
tion of Glenties Workhouse were standing together, one of
them, with no bad intention, we believe, took the bonnet off
his neighbour, and threw it into the lime-kiln belonging to
the works, which had not been quite emptied since the last
burning. The owner of the bonnet went down into the kiln
to recover it, but not making his appearance, one of his
friends also descended by the ladder, to see what detained
him, and afterwards another, and afterwards another, till
four had disappeared. The fears of the rest were now ex-
cited ; and having hastened to the kiln, they heard a faint
shriek, and with great difficulty succeeded. by throwing down
a rope, in rescuing the last of the four who descended from
the fate which had overtaken the other three. Death was
caused by their inhaling the carbonic acid gas which had col-
lected at the bottom of the kiln.—Derry Standard.
WHicu IS RIGHT?—On Wednesday last the Manchester
Guardian remarked of the trade of the manufacturing dis-
tricts in the following terms :—" We are happy to be enabled
to state, that the improvement which manifested itself last
week has continued down to the present time, and that a
more healthy feeling prevails in the market than at any period
for some time past. The large sales of produce made under
the operation of the new tariff have liberated a considerable
amount of capital which has been for some time locked up—
(loud cheers)—thereby placing additional means at the dis-
posal of the more active and enterprising merchants of the
country—(hear, hear);—and, as a general impression pre-
vails that the prices of cotton manufactures are now at their
lowest point, the inclination to make purchases for the
foreign markets has become more general." On the follow-
ing evening Mr. Mark Philips, M.P. for Manchester, spoke
as follows:—" Hehad been asked by many persons whether
trade was not improving in Manchester ? He had not the
slightest hesitation in replying that he knew of no improve-
ment, and whoever had said so must, he believed, have been
labouring under some strange hallucination." Which of
these sages, who thus contradict each other point blank, is
to be believed ?

SAVINGS' BANKS.---Mr. Tidd Pratt has just compiled a
History of Savings' Banks, with the existing number of de-
positors, amount of deposits, and every particular of every
savings' bank in the country. An appendix contains all the
returns relating to savings' banks which have been printed
by order of either House of Parliament. The following table
contains the annual returns of the total amount of depositors
and amounts of deposit for the two years-ending November
20, 1840 and 1841, respectively. The latter was published
last month, and is contained in Parliamentary paper 280:
Number Amount of Deposits,
of Depositors. including Interest.

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