The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1840-07-28 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

GRIM S7'ONE' S EYE SNUFF. M Skinner's Almshouses, aged 69, sight 7, restored oand head-ache cured. W. Verlin, Esq., inflammation cured, Youghal Ireland. J. J. Protherne, Esq., sight restored and head ache cured, Waterford. J. low. Nv. Chester, Esq., sight restored, Ballyclough Glebe, MalJ. W. M. Reynolds, Esq., excruciating pains in the head and opaque vision cured, Upper Starnford-street, London. J. B. Lachfield, Esq., cured of opthalulla, Thatched-house Tavern. Whitehall and Mrs. Guppy, 36, Nelson-square, BlackfriarB-road, d CUIC •d of opthalmia. Miss Mary Roades, Market-place, Winslow, Bucks, cured of opthalmia—witnesses to her cure, Mr. John Rondo, father, and R. Walker, Esq., a magistrate. Mr. A. NV Intyre, aged 65, B,Silver-street, Golden-square, cured of gutta serena and deafness. . H. Liston, Esq., Marine Library, Ramsgate, Kent, cured of cataract and deafness. Mrs. Burberow, cured, while at Jamaica, of gutta serena, 37, Mary-street, Regent's Park, London. Mr. P. Sanderson, Harper-street, Leeds, cured of cataract. Mr. H. Pluckwell, Tottenham House, Tottenham, Middlesex, cured of opthalmia. Miss S. Englefield, Paik-street, Windsor, cured of nervous head-ache. Marchioness de Broglio Solari, 26, Charlotte-street, hearing and sight restored. Decimus Blackburn, Esq., Chertsey, Surrey, head-ache, weakness and dimness of sight cured.  It is reported that Wallack will probably be the lessee for Drury-lane Theatre for next season. Balfe has been named as one of the parties in negotiation for Mr. Hamlet's splendid theatre in Oxford-street. Lord and Lady Dinorben's extensive establishment is to be broken up in consequence of the noble lord and lady's intention of passing some months abroad.  Lord and Lady Francis Egerton, and the Hon. Josceline Percy, at the date of the last letters, were cruising in his lordship's yacht off the coast of Greece, all well. Lord Ashley has deferred his motion regarding the employment of children and young persons in mills and factories till August 4. His lordship will then move an address to her Majesty, to cause inquiry to be instituted thereon. A'woman of the name of Day, of Harborough, was last week delivered of twins for the third time. She has had eighteen children.—Northampton Mercury. Nothing exceeds the modesty of the Hawkeye girls. They wont be courted by daylight, nor in the evening, unless the candles are extinguished.—Chicago Democrat.  An Irish clergyman, who preached a discourse in behalf of a blind asylum, began by gravely remarking, " If all the world were blind, what a melancholy sight it would be !"  - - •• ---- • At the Polytechnic Institution, Regent-street, there is exhibited one pound of glass, spun by steam into a thread 4000 miles long, and woven with silk into beautiful dresses and tapestry.  At the late York Assizes, Ann Gilmore was convicted of the murder of her own child, at Hull, in March last, by giving it laudanum and oil of vitriol, and was sentenced to death.  On Tuesday last, Alexander M`Glachan Smith was tried, at York, for the wilful murder of William Duke, a policeofficer, at Huddersfield, and acquitted on the ground of insanity.  We understand great preparations are making at Wentworth House for the reception of the Queen and Prince Albert, who are expected on a visit to Earl Fitzwilliani early next month.--7Sheifield Iris.  In a shop window of one of the shoemakers at Lincoln i to be seen the following inviting invitation:—" Wanted Woman's Man."  During the several days of the exhibition of the Royal English Agricultural Society, at Cambridge, it is computed that not less than 60,000 persons could have been in the town,