The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1833-12-06 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

DEC. 24. I. Z. Pulbronk, Great Surrey-greet, Blackfriars-road, hoot and shoe-inaker.—W. Croggon, shn., Belvedere-road, Lambeth, and fir lace-row, New-road, artificial-stone-manufacturer.—W. Tills, jun., Stutton, Suffolk, miller.—R. Biddle, Cardiff, brick-maker.—H. Redstone, Winchester, linen-draper.—J. Blake, Blandford Forum, Dorsetshire, victualler.—J. Forbes anti D. Russel, Mark-lane, wine-merchants.--T. Cocks, Little Lant-street, Southwark, oilman.  A merchant in Boston advertises for sale a camel-hair shawl, the original cost of which in Calcutta was 1,000 dollars.  The immortal Locke was a first-rate piquet-player, being far more distinguished for that talent in Oxford than for hiti metaphysics. As some men were clearing a cesspool in Wellington-street, St. Benedict's, they found, at the bottom, three chamber lamps, which appealed of great antiquity. Not supposing them of any value, they were sold at a small price. One of them being sent to a jeweller's shop to be cleaned., it was discovered to be silver, of curious workmanship, and at least 300 years old.—Nortvich  Mercury. EmicriANTs.—The accounts which have been received at Elgin, relative to the emigrants who went to America this seat son, give little encouragement to others to follow their exampleBy the return of a person who went out to America, along with mpny.others from this part of the country, we learn that Mr. Skirving, from Forres, is no more. Mr. "James Thomson and two of his daughters, and Mr. John Thomson's wife, did not survive many days after their arrival in America • and a young man, a son of Mr. Thomson's, was so very ill, when the person we allude to left that country to return home, that he was not expected to recover. It is melancholy to think that it is not vet.four months since these two brothers, with their families, left this country. where they had plenty of employment, and sailed for America in the best of health, taking with them upwards of £5OO each, and,that in all probability there are not more than two or three alive out of the eight persons composing the two families. We never advocated emigration, as we always considered that the man who had a suffietency to pay his passage, and support himself until he could cultivate land, or otherwise establish himself in a foreign country, could have laid out his money with greater advantage and benefit in his native country. When any person prospers in America, we are sure to hear of it ; but it is seldom we hear of the miseries which many of our countrymen suffer when they go there. unless in cases such as here stated, where whole families are almost swept away. Strange are the tales which have been told concerning the sufferings of the passengers, in some of the vessels which left this country for America this season. In one instance the passage extended to nine weeks, with storms and hurricanes all the time. 0 ten did the captain and sailors give up all hope of ever being able to reach the land, and so impressed were the sailors and passengers with the awful situation in which they were placed, for such a length of time' that they firmly believed there was some person on board who had committed-murder; accordingly lots were cast, and the lot fell on one from this part of the country; but it yet remains to be known whether any charge of that description could be laid against biro.—Elgin Courier,