The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1849-08-28 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

FACT.—It is scarcely within the verge of probability, but it is nevertheless nn indisputable fact, that on Tuesday last twelve hundred and a half of fresh herrings were bought in Douglas for one shilling.—Mona's Herald. The Duke of Sutherland has found that the closing of the fishing in his river in Sutherlandshire has increased amazingly the numbers of salmon, grilse, &c. The pools are teeming with fish. On Saturday night a fearful affray took place between some smugglers and two coast-guardsmen. One of the latter was so frightfully beaten with sticks t hat his life is despaired of. Lient. Halkett, R.N., has projected a plan for saving the fuel of large steam men-of-war, by drawing the fires instead of banking them up. The plan is ordered by the Admiralty to be tested. The late blockade has caused such an accumulation of goods at Hamburgh and Hull, that fifteen steamers are intended to be kept fully employed on that station during the remainder of the season.  A fine little boy, two years and a-half old, living at Saxby, Lincolnshire, lost his life last week through drinking some laudanum which his mother had incautiously left on a table. Another dreadful murder has been perpetrated in London, by a man named Ward. The victim was his wife ; and it appears that, at the time of the fatal deed, they were quarrelling. Joseph Fellows, a sweep, pleaded guilty at the Kidderminster Police-court, last week, to trespassing in a plantation belonging to Mr. F. W. Knight, M.P., at Wolverley, with the intention of taking firewood, and was fined one penny, and 12s. Gd. costs. The Sun of Tuesday, devotes another leader, its first, and occupying upwards of a column, to the defence of Mrs. James, alias Lola Mantes, alias the Countess of Lqnsfeldt, alias Mrs. Heald,—against the charge of bigamy. Hotel-keepers, shopkeepers, &c., in London and other places, are being victimised by scoundrels who pass forged £5 and £lO notes. The notes are well executed, but the signatures are printed with the rest of the engraving, and not written.  At Trowbridge, on Friday last, the morning up to nine o'clock, and the_ evening after six, were devoted to religious services at the several places of worship " for the purpose of entreating the mercy of God under the existing prevalence of cholera." On Tuesday, whilst shooting on the moors at Abergeldie with a party, the Hon. Mr. Portman, eldest son of Lord Portman, was unfortunately struck in the eye by a shot from one of the party. There is reason to hope that he is going on favourably. On Saturday week an idiot-boy named David James, seized a child, Richard Warner, four years old, on the banks of the canal from Brecon to Newport, in the parish of Llanvigan, and threw him into the water, where he was drowned. R. Coates completed the arduous task of walking 1,000 half-miles in 1000 successive half-hours on Monday week, at Birmingham, in the presence of at least 2,000 spectators. lie did not appear much distressed, his feet only having failed him. A boy, crossing a footpath near Nottingham, last week, was pursued by a horse, which knocked him down, hit him severely in the back, took him up in its teeth, shook him, and carried him about as a dog would do a rat. The boy was rescued by some persons who hastened to his assistance. He was severely hurt.