The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1842-09-09 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

PARIS AND ROUEN RAILWAY.—The general meeting of the shareholders in this undertaking, was held in Paris, on Tuesday last. It appeared that 29 millions of francs had been received, and 21 millions spent, up to the date of the meeting ; and that only 94 shares have been forfeited in consequence of the non-payment of calls.  The opening of Covent Garden Theatre has been postponed from last Saturday to next Saturday, the 10th instant, in consequence of the increased indisposition of Miss Adelaide  Kimble.  A most daring burglary, near Southampton, was committed on Thursday last ao the residence of Lady Lisle, at Millbrook. A valuable set of jewels, a large sum of money, and several articles of plate, altogether worth £2OOO, were stolen. Two young gentlemen, of the ages of nineteen and twenty, were drowned at Sharpness Point, on the banks of the Severn, on Saturday week, whilst bathing. The Archbishop of Canterbury continues daily to make some progress towards a restoration ; and, if the right rev. prelate happily escape a relapse, he will, ere long, be in a state of convalescence. No more bulletins will be issued. Two remarkable bankruptcies follow each other in Friday night's Gazette; they are that of a noble lord, Huntingtower, and Goodered, the keeper of the notorious saloon in Piccadilly.  An awful thunder-storm was experienced in Cornwall on Saturday se'nnight. Two little girls were killed by the electric fluid at East Crinnis mine, and a bargeman at Trenant Park was also struck dead.—Bristol Journal.  The collector of the poor-rates at Andover, from whom no sureties had been required, has absconded with the proceeds of the last rate. This has occasioned a fresh rate to be levied upon the inhabitants of Andover to make up the deficiency, amounting to several hundred pounds. The Great North of England Railway directors have declared a dividend of 255. per share, regretting that the depressed state of trade did not allow a larger payment. The accounts showed a balance of profit in the half-year's working of £9,503 Bs. 9d. The stoppage of the old and highly-respectable firm of T. W. Smith and Co., in the commission trade, was announced to-day, and is said to have arisen from their having given too extensive credit to a party speculating in corn, though they themselves were not engaged in the same speculation.— London Times of Monday. Sidonia Parkin has been committed to Lincoln Castle, from East Ferry, in the parish of Scotter, and in the parts of Lindsey, for the wilful murder of her own son, John Parkin, an illegitimate child, aged seven years, by giving him poison in some apple-pie. It is said tbat she did it to prevent the boy being taken to the union workhouse.— Boston Herald. Boole SnEavlis.—To give some idea of the extent of the new portion of the library of the British Museum, it has, as a point of useful information, or perhaps also as a matter of curiosity, been ascertained that the whole length of the shelves, which hold 260,000 volumes, was 42,210 feet, or eight miles. The length of the shelvesin the library at Munich, containing 500,000 volumes, taking the same proportion, will be fifteen miles and two-fifths. The king's library in Paris of 650,000 volumes, must by the same calculation have not less than twenty miles of shelf !