The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-10-21 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

Upwards of £12,000 is paid into the bank for building a
Roman Catholic cathedral at Kilkenny.

There are 800 puncheons of whiskey now in store in Lime-
rick.

Sheridan Knowles (whose wife died some time since) has
married Miss Elphinstone.—Canada Paper.
The gross total of the sailing and steam-vessels registered
in Great Britain and Ireland on the 31st December, 1841,
was 23,591 vessels, and their tonnage 3,760,315 tons.
The wheat crop of France in 1842 has almost doubled du-
ring the last thirty years, and that of potatoes increased to
almost five-fold during the same period.
PEACE BETWEEN PERU AND BOLIVIA.—A treaty of peace
was concluded between Bolivia and Peru, at Puno, on the
7th of June, under the auspices of the government of Chili.
On some of the estates in Ireland, more particularly
Drogheda, the rents, which were some time ago 15s. per
acre, are now from 365. to 50s. per acre.
The Bank of England has received light sovereigns to the
amount of £6,500,000 sterling since the proclamation, and
the average amount of new sovereigns struck at the Mint has
been £300,000 per week.
The leading mercantile firms in London have adopted the
resolution of going on 'Change at three o'clock, and leaving
at four o'clock, instead of the present custom of four o'clock
until five.

During the week, from the 7th to the 13th instant exclu-
sively, the number of passengers between France and Eng-
land who embarked and landed at Boulonge, was 1,239. At
Calais, the number during the same period was 537.
WINTER ASSIZES.—It was stated on good authority dur-
ing the late special commission at Stafford, that it is intended
by government to have a general winter assizes throughout
the kingdom, to commence in the early part of December.

TASTE OF THE AGE.—In one of the New York papers
we found an advertisement of a new almanac, entitled the
Tragic Almanac, which was to give details of all the most
horrible murders, accidents, fires, and explosions, which
had taken place during the past two years.
DUTIES.—On Monday last the new
tariff came into operation, and American timber, which for-
merly paid 10s. per load, is now cleared at Is. In conse-
quence of this reduction, so important to the timber trade,
large quantities have, within these last few days, been taken
from bond at the low rate.—Caledonian Mercury.
LEAPING UPON TRAINS.—On the North Midland Rail-
way, last week, Frederick Richardson, a " point man," lost
a foot, and an inspector of workmen on the same line,
named Utterly, had his head taken off, by the wheels of the
train passing over him, each accident being occasioned by
slipping when attempting to get upon trains in motion—a
feat to which Utterly was quite accustomed. He has left a
widow and four children.—Yorkshireman.
METALLIC CORPSES.—A paper was read at the late meet-
ing of the Paris Academy of Sciences, containing the extra-
ordinary proposition of a M. Carnay, to employ the galvano-
plastic process, after embalmment, for the preservation of the
human body after death ! The idea, however extravagant it
may appear, is said not to be new, and that beautiful speci-
mens are to be seen of small animals, birds, insects, &c.,
which have been thus preserved.
The melancholy effects of intemperate habits were mani-
fested in an awful manlier in Limerick on Thursday morning.
The wife of a pensioner from the 93d, named M'Coy, was
found dead at her residence in the Englishtown ; and on the
inquisition made before the mayor it appeared that the hus-
band had drawn his quarter's pension the previous day, and
that both had retired to bed deeply intoxicated ; there were
several marks on the deceased, supposed to be the effects of
a fall—the jury found accordingly.
GALLANT CONDUCT.—During the passage of the Princess
Royal, Captain Brock, from Madras to Calcutta, on the 22d
of July, the carpenter, who was working on a stage over the
side of the ship, by accident fell into the sea ; Mr. Burgess,
a cadet, who was on the poop, instantly threw a rope to him,
but unfortunately the carpenter did not see it and sank. Mr.
Burgess then took hold of the rope and jumped overboard,
and succeeded in reaching the man (who was quite insensible),
and snpported him until the boat took them both up in a very
exhausted state.

SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—A bull, the property of
Mrs. Middleton, of Hetningford-grey, Cambridgeshire, was
missed the Ist of last month. Seventeen days after the
animal was discovered alive in a ditch, fastened by the nose
to the ground, in a dreadful state of emaciation. It appears,
the bull having got into the ditch, had trod on the chain ap-
pended to the ring in its nose, and the ditch being of stiff
clay the chain had become strongly embedded in the soil;
the cartillage of the nose being particularly tender, he had
not been able to extricate the chain. The animal is now re-
covered.
THE OVERLAND MAIL FROM INDIA.—It is now Con-
fidently stated that the arrangements which have been pend-
ing for some time between the Bight Hon. Lord Lowther
the postmaster. general, and the Austrian Director-General,
for the transmission of the overland mail from India via Suez
and Alexandria, by the way of Trieste. Vienna, Hamburg,
and Ostend, have been concluded. This new arrangement
with regard to receiving the overland mail will, in some
manner, affect the present treaty of sending via Marseilles
to Malta, Egypt, and India, on the 4th of each month, and
by the French mail packets leaving that port on the Ist, 11th,
and 25th of the month.
THE WEATHER.—The fine weather we may safely say has
passed away ; for some mornings psst togs on a small scale
have been threatening, and occasionally made themselves
manifest in the vicinity of the Thames. But yesterday morn-
ing, about nine o'clock, a fog, which had been gradually
growing in intensity, settled down on the Strand, and, we
suppose, other localities of London, particularly those ad-
jacent to the river, which, with now some years' experience
of London fogs, was fully a match in pitchy darkness for any
of them. The gas-lamps were obliged to be lighted, and the
morning seemed converted into night.—London Times of
Wednesday.
AWFUL EFFECTS OF INTOXICATION.—On Thursday last,
an iron-lifter at Dundyvan, of thename of John Black, un-
dertook, for a trifling wager, to swallow a mutchkin of
whisky without taking it from his head. A previous allow-
ance had quickened his appetite for the undertaking, and all
things being ready, John swallowed the mortal dose—and
one glass more !—when he bied his way home from Coat-
bridge to Dundyvan, in a state of utter stupefaction ; and
though one of the most hardy and powerful men at the work,
the poisonous potation wrought so rapidly on his constitu-
tion, that in less than four hours from swallowing the draught
he was found a lifeless corpse, leaving a hapless wife and nu-
merous family to lament his intemperate and murderous
folly.—Glasgow Constitutional.
HINTS FOR SHAVING.-1. Get one case-hardened steel
razor: if a good one more not required. Try by No. 2.-
2. No edge is good which will not cut a hair held between
the finger and thumb. 3. Wash your face well with soap and
water before you begin : the oily secretion of the skin is ruin
to a razor. For which reason don't pass over the palm of the
hand : for this reason lather long and well. 4. Don't strop
much—once or twice gently, not with pressure so as to fur-
row or indent the surface of the strop, which turns the edges.
5. A steel will set a razor. If you get a razor hone don't
use oil, use soap ; use soap, not oil to your strop. 6. Shave
as mowers mow, by an up-and-down sweep, and not by a
straight-forward scrape. You may thus use cold water,
which saves trouble ; and you need only go over once, which
saves time. Avoid oil in every shape. Joiners use oil to
their tools, but Joiners do wrong.
THE BISHOP OF JERUSALEM.—We extract the following
from his Lordship's letter of August 1, 1842:—" Although
I feel very unequal to much writing, I am unwilling to let
the mail leave without adding a few lines to the full reports
which are forwarded by this post from the different mem-
bers of the mission, particularly from Mr. Nicolayson. I
feel sure you will all sympathise with us, when you hear of
the sick house we have had during the last month. Every
one of my household, excepting only the native servants,
has had an attack of fever more or less severe. The children
and the English servants have quite recovered, but Mrs.
Alexander and myself are but slowly gaining strength, this
having been my second attack. This is the trying season.
We are obliged to leave our houses for change of air, but
the only abode we can find during that time is an old con-
vent, about two miles from Jerusalem ; we hope to go there
to-morrow. We cannot be sufficiently thankful for having
all got through it so well ; and we may hope that it will bet-
ter prepare us for standing the climate in future."
THE WINDSOR STABLES.—The new stables at Windsor,
commenced under the direction of the late Sir Jeffrey Wyat-
ville, and now completed under the management of his as-
sistant and successor, Mr. Henry Ashton, are about to be
handed over to their new occupants, both human and eques-
trian; for the benefitting accommodation of the attendants
on the horses, both married and single, has been duly cared
for, at the cost of a considerable portion of the outlay. All
absence of show, consistent with good keeping, is most re-
markable throughout this indispensable appendage to a royal
residence, which has not been provided, in substitution, be-
fore it was required, since the preceding straggling buildings
would hardly be acknowledged by a decent London inn-
keeper. Those now prepared are calculated for 120 horses
and their managers, at an expense of about £70,000, the
architect, rather unusually, keeping closely to his estimate,
and yet so attending to substantiality throughout, that they
may last, for ought it appears, a century without repair, and
remain a coeval monument of the good taste and sense of
those who planned and executed the erection both of those
and the extensive addition to the princely castle.—Observer.
A pleasing illustration of the respect in which the clergy
are held by their flocks occurred at Ripple, in this county,
on Wednesday last. The Rev. G. Hill Clifton, the Rector
of that parish, returned with his lady, to whom he has been
lately united, from a continental tour, after an absence of a
few weeks, on the evening of that day, and was met at the
entrance of the grounds belonging to the Rectory by a large
body of his parishioners with hearty acclamations, and evi-
dent tokens of joy at his return. The road to the Rectory
had been decorated with triumphal arches, and garlands of
choice flowers, intermingled with white favours ; and young
ladies dressed in white presented elegant bouquets to the
worthy Rector and his lady. The music of the tine peal of
bells from the old tower, and the merry faces of the villagers,
made it quite a scene of mirthful hilarity ; and the numerous
persons present were plentifully regaled with cider at the ex-
pense of the Rector. On Friday afternoon, Mr. Clifton and
his amiable lady invited the wives and daughters of the cot-
tagers to tea, which was given on the lawn of the Rectory,
and upwards of 200 females, with 100 children belonging to
the Sunday schools, partook of the beverage, with an abun-
dant supply of bread and butter and plum cake, and departed
highly delightel. On Sunday last the choir of the beautiful
parish church, accompanied by their excellent organ lately
erected, chaunted the service of the day, and performed
several choice anthems, on the occasion of the appearance of
the bride and bridegroom within the walls of that fabric.—
Worcester Journal.

MELANCHOLY AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—OD Saturday
evening last, Mr. Charteris, farmer, Williefield, having, like
many others during this remarkable dry season, run short of
water, sent two of his servants to procure a supply from the
neighbouring stream of the Cairn. The servants' names
were Thomas Jackson and Janet Carson; and accompanied
by a little girl, a daughter of Mr. Charteris, they proceeded,
about six o'clock, with a cart drawn by a fine mule to a pool
in the Cairn, about a mile off, a little above Gribton Ford,
and nearly opposite Irongray Church. Having left the little
girl on the bank the man drove his cart some yards up the
ea
; and it would appear that from some motive or other
he had endeavoured to turn the cart round to go down again,
but most unluckily drove into deep water, where the mule
forthwith
lostits footing. Whether the unfortunate indi-
viduals were
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were drowned in the pool, without any being near who
could render the least e
assistance.
Observing their danger,
however, the girl ran away
home and gave the alarm. Short-
ly afterwards people came
but considerable delay ensuedfrn
m Wlilliefield and other places,
before a boat and ropes were
procured. The boat sailed over the pool several times before
anything was discovered, but after a torch had been lighted
the mule and cart were found in the pool, completely covered
above them.
wth water, the boat having, in fact, gone right
When drawn out it was evident that thecar
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intheir
Lightness, been floated away. It was, we understand, nearly
nine o'clock before the bodies of the unfortunate individuals
were found, who have met with so raou: nful a fate, both cut
off in the prime of life, and full of health 4nd strength.—
.Duntfries Fourier.