The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1838-08-21 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

KENDAL.—The weather for the last fortnight or three weeks has been such as almost to prevent the housing of any hay: and vast quantities are now lying out in a spoiled or rapidly spoiling condition. Fears are now also beginning to possess the farmers for the safety of the grain crops, and dealers have this week advanced the prices of flour and meal, the former 3d. and the latter 4d. per stone, making flour 3s. Bd. and oatmeal 2s. 6d. The first issue of shillings with the impress of the young queena limited oSf at thui rs d ca oyi an afternoon fr o hears theau ex Mint.cee d in gOnlyly handsome profile of her Majesty by Wyon, have as yet been issued. In a few days the issue will be general. Very loud complaints continue to be made by the merchants and traders of the city at the impediments thrown in the way of business by the refusal of the bank, the post office, and other wpeuigbhlitc: departments, to receive a large portion of the sovereigns now in circulation, in consequence of their being of light —Observer. A fatal accident occurred on Thursday night on the London and Birmingham Railway to a dairyman named Pritchard, who resided near Chalk Farm. He was returning by the last train, with aquantity of hay he had purchased, and when near to Kilburn, be by some means slipped off the carriage, when the wheels passed over him and killed him on the spot. We learn from Boulougne-sur-Mer that about 100 boats from that port, with crews of 40 men each, making an effective of nearly 1000 seamen, are at present employed in the • herring fishery on the coasts of Scotland. No other port of France employs so many men in the herring fishery. A melancholy accident occurred on Wednesday last, which has deprived the service of a valuable young officer. Lieut. W. H. Vyse, of the 2d Life Guards, whilst in the act of fishing at his father's residence, in Buckinghamshire, was seized with a fit of apoplexy, and fell into the water, and before assistance could be procured he was a corpse. Messrs. Curling and Young, of Limehouse, the builders of the British Queen steam-vessel, have begun building a steam-ship, which, when completed, is to be of 2000 tons burtheu •' ;he is not to be so long as that vessel, but much wider. We understand she is to trade between London and New-York. A DlLEatsta.—The Governments of France and St.Petersburgh have both simultaneously granted the monopoly of the packet-transport between Havre and St. Petersburgh, each to a different company, so that the Havre boats cannot enter Cronstadt, nor the Russian boats Havre. According to the accounts from France, the crops there have a most favourable appearance. The Princess Augusta is on a visit to the Queen Dowager at Bushy Park. Her Majesty will sail for Malta before the equinox. She is in good health at present. We hear, that the Marchioness of Lansdowne yesterday resigned the place ofchief Lady of the Bed-chamber to the Queen.—Spectator.  Sir Frederick Lamb and Count St. Aulaire will act as Ambassadors Extraordinary from England and France at the coronation of the Emperor of Austria.  A subscription has been set on foot. headed by the Archbishop and the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury, for the pur pose of raising a sufficient sum to erect a church and clewy. man's residence in the trine of Dunkirk, the scene of the murders of mad Thom.--Kentish Paper.  The apopted son of Rammohun Roy has taken his depart.. ure for India. The Directors of the East India Company refused to sanction his appointment to a writership.