The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1850-09-10 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MAYERS.  Since the above letter was received, says the Constitution, the following information on the same subject came to hand :  Monday last a party of gentlemen belonging to this city were enjoying a sailing excursion, in the Antelope yacht, belonging to Mr. Wheeler, alone the coast from Glandore to Kinsale. Passing the Old Head of Kinsale, the day unusually fine, they observed an extraordinary commotion of the sea, apparent to every one on board. The bay of K;- ,le was at the fi' In a f- time .ed with fisn. _ew moments they perceived a large serpent-like fish on the surface, that could nabe less than 120 feet in length. In shape it resembied a king funnel of an immense steamer. Unfortunately they were not sufficiently near the monster to give a description of the head and body. After lying on the surface for a few minutes it suddenly dashed ahead with a velocity, as far as could be seen for a distance of two miles, of at least 60 miles an hour. It then disappeared. It was believed that the sea serpent must have been in pursuit of the shoals of fish that thronged the bay. It is a singular circumstance that notwithstanding the unusual quantity of fish that was observable the Kinsale hookers were most unsuccessful, as it was stated that they did not obtain a single take during the evening. The gen. tlernen who have witnessed the visit of this monster, and whose statement is detailed above, may be relied on a 3 above all suspicien.  Eriitval lirtllaiw,  General Haynau left Lon Ton on Friday, still suffering from the injuries received at Barclay's brewery. The tobacco pipe makers of Leeds have struck for an advance of wages.  A new Roman Catholic cathedral was consecrated in York on Wednesday.  Hannah Curtis, who murdered her husband at Gloucester, is to be transported for life. Offers have been made to purchase the Lincoln Theatre, for the purpose of converting it into a hall for lectures and public meetings.  The Hermann steamer arrived from New York at Cowes, where she landed her passengers, and proceeded to Bremen. Her advices were anticipated by the Cambria. During two days last week Hannah Clarke, an old woman aged seventy-nine, might have been seen shearing in a field at Hellsfeld, near Kendal. A man named Lucy was suffocated at York, on Thursday, by falling into an open cess-pool in one of the streets. There is need for sanatory reform here. An equestrian statue of the Queen is about to be erected in Glasgow,—the first equestrian statue of a woman in Great Britain.  A straw bonnet maker of London has sent out a man dressed in a straw hat, straw coat, straw waistcoat, and straw pantaloons, as a puff to his shop. Forty-six churches have been erected and fifty clergymen added to the Roman Catholic mission in Scotland during the last ten years.  On Tuesday night, above twenty sheep were killed while straying or, the South-western railway, near Esher, by being run over by a train. Aninnkeeper at Darlington, named Coates, destroyed himself a few days since by shooting himself, in consequence of suspicions as to his wife's fidelity. The Master-General of Ordnance has given an assurance, through Sir G. Grey, Bart., that, for the present, at least, the ramp Arts of Berwick would not be disposed of. The reports from all parts of the country concur in stating that the weather for the last fortnight has been most favourable for the ingathering of the harvest. The Douglas Mill, belonging to Messrs. Gilroy, at Dundee, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday morning. Nothing but the bare walls remain.  On friday a fire broke out in the goods yard of the Nottingham railway station. It is reported that the consequent loss will be upwards of £l,