The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1852-02-17 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. . _ _ .  The magistrates of Middlesex talk of withdrawing the license from publicans who hire barmaids to figure in the Bloomer costume.  The case of Mrs. Cumming, lately declared a lunatic, is to be re-heard before the Lord Chancellor and a full court of appeal. The body of a gentleman, supposed to be one of the passengers in the Amazon, has been picked up on the north coast of Devon.  On Sunday week, at Thorne, Doncaster, Eleanor, the wife of Mr. Henry Smith, hairdresser, was safely delivered of three fine boys, who, with the mother, are doing well. A gateway of the Royal Pavilion, at Brighton, was blown down by a gust of wind on Tuesday last, killing a female, and dangerously wounding Mr. Sheriff, a gentleman of fortune, residing at Kemptown. A surgeon, named Armorer, whilst dissecting a corpse at Newcastle-on-Tyne, a few days ago, accidentally wounded his finger with one of his instruments, and he has since died from the effects of the wound.  An " Established" minister, near Balmoral, wanting a wifo without wooing, gave a friend in Edinburgh an order for one, and was supplied, almost, " by return of train." At the flood which occurred at Holrofirth in 1799, an innkeeper was drowned, and his body was found in the river at Wakefield, where it had been carried by the flood. He had nothing on but his shirt. The destiny of the Exhibition building is not yet sealed; but if it remains, a new roof must inevitably be constructed. The cost of that and other repairs is estimated at about £20,000. In the Anatomy School at Oxford, among other curiosities, they show the skeleton of a woman who had ten husbands, and was hanged at the age of thirty-six for the murder of four of them.  The Times refused to publish the advertisement of the Roman Catholic Defence Association, as the assumed titles in the advertisement are contrary to law ; but the same advertisement appeared in the Morning Chronicle. The skeleton of a female was found beneath a slab, in front of the fire-place of an old house at Reading, which some labourers were pulling down last week. The slab bore an inscription dated 1707, and the house is supposed to have been standing about 200 years.  A remarkable circumstance in the corn trade is noticed by the Hull News :—" At the present time there are not 1,000 quarters of foreign barley, malting or grinding, in the three important ports of Hull, Newcastle, and Leith. Last year, at the same time, there were above 100,000 quarters. The Hon. Mr. Doyle said. in the course of a late debate in the Halifax Legislature, (Nova Scotia,) that the most obnoxious thing within his recollection was the labels which he saw everywhere in Lancashire and Yorkshire,— " All persons trespassing on these lands will take notice that there are spring traps set, strong enough to take off the legs a/a horse." On Tuesday last a general assembly of the academicians was held at the Royal Academy of Arts, in Trafalgarsquare, London, when William Calder Marshall, Esq., was elected an academician, in the room of Wm. Wyon, Esq., deceased, and Richard Partridge, Esq., professor of anatomy, in the room of Joseph Henry Green, Esq., resigned, and John Prescott Knight, Esq., was appointed professor of perspective.