The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-20 00:00:00

At Strawberry Hill, on Monday, one suit of armour sold
305 guineas, and a bugle horn for 135 guineas.

HAMBURG SUFFERERS.—Her Majesty the Queen Dow-
ager has been graciously pleased to send the Lord Mayor
£l5O towards the fund now 'raising for this object.

The City of Dublin Steam Packet Company are building
a pier of solid masonry at Tarbert, to cost £1,500.
Colonel Bruen is at present engaged in the erection of a
church in his own demesne, capable of accommodating two
or three hundred persons.

In the last nine years the Commissioners of Woods and
Forests have expended £61,360 in improving the Phoenix
Park, Dublin.
M. Wilhem, the founder of the new school of musical edu-
cation for teaching in classes, died a few days since in Paris,
and was honoured with a public funeral.
The Miss Hamblin who killed her husband at Mobile is
a native of Bath. Her father was a member of the dramatic
company in that city at the time she was born.
An artist at Rome, named Roudoin, has just succeeded in
taking photographic drawings on stone, and printing from it.
In that way he printed a lithograph of a nebula of Orion.
The Hamburg and Bergedorf Railway was to have been
formally opened on Saturday week ; but the ceremony was,
of course, postponed in consequence of the awful conflagra-
tion at that time raging in Hamburgh.
A clockmaker of Chalons, M. Rahiet, has taken out a pa-
tent for a new clock which winds itself up in the act of
striking. The mechanism is said to be so simple that these
uew clocks can be sold at a low price.
At Marylebone, on Monday, Robert Ashby, a servant out
of place, was committed to take his trial on a charge of hav-
ing stolen plate and other property of the value of £l5O, from
the house of Mr. Chichester, 40, Upper Wimpole-street.
A fine specimen of new potatoes, of the Wicklow Bangor
description, has been sent to us by Mr. Thompson, gardener
at Colbrook. He has raised many dishes since the 30th ult.
—Fermanagh Reporter.
The Duke of Newcastle, through his steward, Mr. Wil-
mot, has lately allotted 500 cottage gardens, of half a rood
each, to the inhabitants of Bachford, at the annual rent of
one farthing per yard, to include all charges of rates and
taxes.

A glove manufacturer of Worcester has been honoured by
the command of her Majesty the Queen Dowager for a large
supply of coloured and white kid gloves. There is no doubt
that this seasonable patronage will be attended with good
effects to the trade of the city.—Worcestershire Guardian.
The account of the parish of Johnstone, Dumfriesshire, in
the new statistical account of Scotland, is thus concluded :
" Finally, in this very populous rural parish, we have neither
public-house, nor meeting-house, nor resident surgeon, nor
village, nor postoffice, nor prison, nor lawyer, nor beggar."
Mr. George, the English engineer, who was killed in the
frightful accident on the Paris and Versailles Railway, was
formerly in the service of the Liverpool and Manchester
Company. He was an intelligent and trustworthy man, and
much respected by his employers both in England and

France.
Dr. Webster, one of the governors of Bethlem Hospital,
proposes to institute a medical lunacy class, to be publicly
supported, the students of which, as on the continent, shall
have personal access to the patients, and thereby become ac-
quainted with the features of this malady, which is now much
neglected.
A frightful accident occurred in this town on Saturday
night. Miss M'Garaghan, Castle-street, being about to take
her clothes out of a chest, on opening it with a candle in her
hand, some part of her dress took fire. She immediately
shrieked out, and ran down stairs, but before the fire was
extinguished, she was so severely burnt that she died the
next day.—Sligo Journal.
Sir Edward Sugden has confirmed a judgment of Commis-
sioner Macan, in the case of Perrin, a bankrupt, to the effect
that, notwithstanding a clause affecting the bankrupt law in
the recent act for abolishing arrest on mesne process, judg-
ment creditors are not to have priority in bankruptcy cases,
but must come in, pari passu, with ordinary creditors.—
Dublin paper.

FOUR AND SIX-WHEELED ENGINES.—A writer in a me-
tropolitan contemporary says, " there can be no doubt that
had the engine to which the accident on the Versailes Rail-
way happened been a six-wheeled one, the 50 or 60 victims
of railway policy would have been spared their lives, as the
engine would in that case have run smoothly on without caus-
ing any fatal obstruction to the carriages, and there would
have been ample time to the engineers to stop the train."
Poott-LAW SURGEONS.—The poor-law commissioners
have issued new orders for the regulation of medical officers
of unions : amongst the most important, it is the wish of the
commissioners that the competition of the candidates for offi-
cers should turn upon their respective character and skill,
and not at the sum at which they may be severally willing to
undertake the office ; the guardians are required to fix the
remuneration, to be approved by the commissioners previ-
ously to advertising for tenders.
EFFECT OF THE NEW TARIFF AT EXETER.—A local pa-
per informs us that the first effect produced by the contem-
plated new tariff of government upon agricultural stock in
this district has been upon asses ; and that these animals
have already been purchased in Bideford Great Market, for
6s. each, while twelve months ago it appears they would have
sold from 30s. to 40s. each.