The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-16 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Dowager Marchioness of Conyngham has become a
Baptist.
The Irish representative bishops for the session of Parlia-
ment of 1843, are, the Archbishop of Dublin and the Bishops
of Down, Ferns, and Cloyne.
A new work by " Box," under the title of " American
Notes for General Circulation," in two volumes, is an-
nounced for publication in October.
It is expected, that the Special Commission for the trial of
the rioters in Staffordshire will be opened on the first of
October. It is understood that Mr. Godson is retained for
the Crown.

Miss A. Kemble is a cigar-smoker. A professional gen-
tleman of this city, on being introduced to her, was honoured
with the offer of a cigar from her case.—Western Times.—
[Mrs. Nisbett also smokes !]
IHE QUEEN.—A correspondent of the Aberdeen Uerald
says—" I have not said a word as to her Majesty's personal
appearance. In fact she looked just like any other tolerably
good-looking lady that one might meet in a crowd, and pass
by with the remark—' Not a bad looking gal that.' "
On Monday afternoon her Majesty's ship Superb, of 80
guns, was launched from the Royal dock-yard at Pembroke.
Her Majesty's ship Albion, 90 guns, one of the largest two-
decked ships ever built, was launched at Devonport on Wed-
nesday. She is to carry thirty-two 68-pounders on her lower
deck, and will throw a broadside of 2,0161 b. of metal. She
is built on the principle of Capt. Sir Wm. Symonds, the sur-
veyor of the navy.

The moon will be full on Monday next, the 19th inst., at
6h. 33 m. in the evening, and we believe it rarely occurs, as
has been the case in the present season, that the corn and
pulse of every description, at least in this part of the coun-
try, have providentially been brought to maturity and housed
without the assistance of the harvest moon, which this moon
is called.—Sussex Advertiser.
LORD HUNTINGTOWER'S BANKRUPTCY.—The first meet-
ing under this bankruptcy was held in Basinghall-street,
London, on Tuesday, when several debts were admitted, but
the amount of his lordship's liabilities did not transpire.

HER MAJESTY AN ANNUAL VISITOR TO SCOTLAND.—
We are assured that her Majesty seriously contemplates mak-
ing an annual visit to Scotland, not merely for personal gra-
tification, but for the health of her children. Craigmillar
Castle is to be re-built for her accommodation, if it cannot
be repaired, and fitted up as a royal residence, in which her
Majesty and family will pass some months every season.—
Edinburgh Courant.

Bath was visited on Wednesday night with a most tremen-
dous storm, accompanied by thunder and some of the most
vivid lightning that has been known for several years. We
have not heard of any particular damage having been effec-
ted by it, either in the city or neighbourhood ; a boy, how-
ever, named William Foster, on his way home from Guinea-
land to Tyning-lane, was struck by the electric fluid, and was
rendered blind for nearly two hours. We are happy to add
that he has since recovered his sight.—Bath Herald.
The following fact may give some idea of the losses which
have been lately sustained in Leeds by the owners of cot-
tage property :—An extensive proprietor of tenements of
this description has at present 130 houses, for which he
receives no rent whatever, 46 of them being empty. His
arrears of rent now due amount to £1,500. We believe that
owners of cottage property generally have incurred heavy
losses of the some kind during the last twelve months.—
Leeds Times.

SHIP-BUILDING ON THE WEAR.-At the sale by auction,
this week, of the stock in trade of timber, ship-building
materials, and vessels on the stocks at North Hilton, the
prices realised clearly indicated better prospects for ship-
builders and the shipping interest generally, oak timber
ranging from £4 to £9 10s. per load ; other kinds in propor-
tion. A revival in this most extensive and leading branch of
our local commerce and industry, so important to every
class " on both sides of the Wear" is exceedingly cheer-
ing.—Northern Times.

LEICESTER. EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY. Saturday
last a robbery was committed in the house of Mr. John Tay-
lor, under the following singular circumstances :—Mr. Tay-
lor has two residences, one at Liecester and another at Bel-
grave. Having been attacked with illness, lie remained at
the latter place till Saturday, leaving a girl about 17 years of
age to manage during the absence of the regular housekeeper.
In the night of Friday the girl arose, and proceeded to a room
in which her master had deposited a sum of money ; breaking
open a drawer she took 16 soverigns therefrom; and then cut
her hair close off, so as to resemble that of a man ; she af-
terwards entered a room in which two or three men servants
were sleeping, and putting on a suit of clothes belonging to
one of them, left the house. The man to whom the clothes
belonged, missing them upon rising, searched the house, and
finding a quantity of hair that the girl had cut off, and the
girl herself missing, he gave an alarm. Mr. Taylor, being
made acquainted with the circumstance, caused information
to be given to the police, who succeeded in capturing her, in
her disguise, with the principal part of the property upon her,
near Melton. She was immediately taken before a magistrate,
who at once committed her to the quarter sessions.
SUSPE CTED MURDERS.—On Tuesday, the 30th of August,
an inquest was held before Richard Keogh, Esq., on the body
of a female child, at the Fenaty Police Barracks, found by the
police of that station, in a field in the neighbourhood, on the
evening previous. It appeared in evidence that a girl of the
name of Faghy was known to he pregnant. Drs. Richard
Justain and Joseph Healy proved that they had examined the
girl, and that she appeared to have been recently delivered of
a child, and that the child in question was alive when born.
The jury returned a verdict that the child had come by its
death either from want of care, or violence, and that Jane
Faghy was accessory thereto. She was committed under the
coroner's warrant to Roscommon Gaol. The same coroner
held an inquest at the church-yard of Kilgefin, barony of Bal-
lintober, on the body of Henry Naghten. The body had to
he examined, and the proceedings were adjourned from the
18th to the 27th of August, and again to the 3d of September.
After a most patient investion, and the examination of a num-
ber of witnesses, and on the testimony of Drs. James Lloyd
and Joseph Healy, who had made a post inortem examination
of the contents of the stomach, and proved to the presence of
metallic poison, the jury came to the following verdict, "That
the deceased came by his death in consequence of having taken
a quantity of poison, and that his wife, Sally Naghten had
administered the same." She was then committed to gaol
under the coroner's warrant. Bills of indictment were pre-
ferred at Roscommon against this woman for having poisoned
her sister-in-law, sister to her husband, about two years since,
but were ignored.—Athlone Sentinel.

EXPORTATION OF MACHINERY.—The following letter
on this subject has just been received at the Manchester
Chamber of Commerce

" Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade,
Whitehall, Sept. 8, 1842.
" Sir,—ln reply to your letter of the Ist instant, ad-
dressed to Mr. M`Gregor, relative to the exportation of
machinery, I am directed by the Lords of the Committee
of Privy Council of Trade to inform you, that my lords
have recently recommended the Lords Commissioners of
her Majesty's Treasury to grant permission to export cer-
tain classes of machinery, to which hitherto that permission
has not been granted. Amongst the machinery for which
permission has recently thus been granted is included ma-
chinery for the spinning of cotton and wool; and it is the
intention of my wrds to recommend the adoption of the
1 ike course as respects all machinery for spinning and ma-
nufacturing the above, as well as other substances, except-
ing those which are used in, or applicable to, the spinning
or manufacture of flax, tow, linen, or lace. I am, sir, your
obedient servant,
" JOHN GEORGE SHAW LEFEVRE.
" Thomas Boothman, jun., Bsq."
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MELANCHOLY DEATHS BY DROWNING.—On Friday
afternoon last, two young gentlemen, Mr. John Lloyd, se-
cond son of the Rev. John Lloyd, Rector of Aughrim Union,
in the county of Roscommon, and Mr. Robert Marshal Day,
second son of Mr. Day, the barrister, of Dublin, went out
together in a small sail boat, on an excursion in the harbour,
and a sudden squall, by which the boat was upset, having
come on when they had nearly reached the village of White-
gates, they were both precipitated into the sea, and having,
as it is thought, got entangled in the rigging, they, after a
few unavailing struggles, sunk to rise no more. On the fol-
lowing morning, their bodies were found within fifty yards
of the shore, and, in consequence of the ebb of the tide, with
not more than five feet water over them ; and on Monday
morning they were both interred in the same grave, in the
cemetery of Cove; that as they were both called away at the
same moment, and by the same manner of death, so their
mortal remains might repose together in their parent earth.
Mr. Lloyd was a student in our university, and in his 18th
year; Mr. Day was educated for the joint professions of
engineer and architect, and had nearly finished his appren-
ticeship to Sir Richard Morrisson. He was an elegant and
ac :omplished architectural draughtsman, and had recently
er•tered his twenty-fifth year. They were both most amiable
young gentlemen, and of cultivated and engaging manners ;
and the numerous sympathising assemblage of persons of all
classes who attended their remains to the grave testified how
generally ar.d sincerely they were beloved and regretted.—
Dublin Evening Packet.
THE PROPERTY TAX ON DIVIDENDS.—By a return made
to the House of Commons, it appears the following is the
annual amount of dividends upon stock and annuities from
which the property or income tax has been stopped or de-
ducted at the Bank, for the half-year ending the sth July,
1842 :—Three per Cent. Consols, £10,799,875 13s. ' • New
;
Three-and-a-half per Cents., £4,831,113 15s. 10d. Three
per Cents., 1726, £24,579 ls. 2d. ; New Five per Cents.,
£21,469 16s. 10d. ; Annuities for terms of years, £808,116
15s. Bd.—The total amount of such dividends payable upon
individual or separate accounts arising from dividends of
£2 10s., and under £l5O per annum :—Three per Cent.
Consols, £3,761,519 ss. ; New Three-and-a-half per Cents.,
£2,233,243 Is. 10d. ; Three per Cents., 1726, £10,672 12s.
10d. ; New Five per Cents., £7,868 16s. ; Annuities for
terms of years, £106,380 7s. 2d.—Total number of such
individual accounts :—Three per Cent. Consols, 70,261 ;
New Three-and-a-half per Cents., 63,665 ; Three per Cents.
1726, 273 ; New Five per Cents., 56; Annuities for terms of
years, 2,846.
Lord John Russell appears regularly dismissed by the Ra-
dicals. He went with them as far as be could, and what are
his thanks for the past? One of the leading Radical journals
says—" If the rumour to which we have so frequently re-
ferred of late, that Lord John Russell has already intimated
his intention of resigning the leadership of the liberals in
parliament, be not true, there is one thing abundantly clear,
namely, that it ought to be true. If we have not proved to
Lord John's own satisfaction, we have, we are sure, proved
to the satisfaction of everybody else, that he can no longer
exercise the functions of leader of the opposition with credit
to himself or advantage to the country. Nature never in-
tended the noble lord to play any prominent part on the stage
of political life. He is, at a crisis like the present, intel-
lectually, as well as physically, unfit
.for the leadership of a
powerful party. When the Tories were prostrate and almost
extinguished as a party by the heavy blow which the Reform
Bill, immediately on its passing, gave them, the leadership of
a person of Lord John's calibre might have been tolerated ;
but the moment that a re-action had commenced, and every
successive week saw the Tories swelling their minority of 150,
it was high time the Whig lordling should be unceremo-
dheimat werh,o and enlarged niously thrown overboard, and a person chosen to succeed
addition
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strong sympathy with the people—one, moreover, who, in-
behind the spirit of the age, should be pre-
stead of lagging
pared to lead the nation as well as the liberals in parliament
in the onward road to further and far more extensive re-
forms."

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bowing to the myriads who assembled on all occasions during
his Majesty's visit to Scotland, every individual felt that his
Majesty's bow was particularly directed towards him. This
delusion, the effect of his Majesty's graceful manner, ope-
rated in a greater degree perhaps on the worthy citizens of
Dundee than on any otlIT of his Majesty's subjects. " His
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a wag. " His
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woulde?;;,:. said
Majesty bowed particularly
.to me, said„another ; " but I
was standing in a very conspicuous placP.
" Your figure,
too, must necessarily have attracted his Majesty's. atten-
tion," said a by-stander. In short, every citizen of Dundee
who' went to Edinburgh on this occasion had a special bow
from his Majesty. A worthy maltster had placed himself
in a crowd on a high wall fronting the road along which his
Majesty had to pass from Dalkeith to Holyrood House. In
bowing his Majesty's eye operated as a gun-shot to the
astounded maltster. " God bless me, he surely kens me,"
he ejaculated, and instantly fell backwards from the top of
the wall to the ground, a height of ten feet.

SECOND EDITION .

Standard-office, Three o'clock.

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE,—Tits DAY