The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1847-11-23 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

TIMBER UNDER HEARTHSTONES.—The recent fire in Drummond-street, Euston-square, when a poor lady was miserably burnt to death, has b en ascribed to ignited cinders falling through a crack in the hearthstone. A great sensation has been caused at Norwich by the apprehension of Mr. George Thurtell, the well-known florist, and latterly professing landscape-gardener, un suspicion of several felonies. Several of the children attending the infant school at Bury, in Norfolk, narrowly escaped death last week, from the effects of some seeds of the laburnum tree, which they had imprudently eaten. Some thieves, on Sunday night, concealed themselves in the office of the London station of the Great Western Railway, and carried away the safe containing £l2OO in gold and notes. The Rev. F. Oakeley, a well-known seceder from the church, was ordained a Roman Catholic priest on Sunday last, by the Rev. Dr. Wiseman, at an ordination held in the chapel of St. Edmund's College, near Ware. A London law stationer has sued the Earl of Mornington, in the Westminster County Court, for the expense of copying some deeds, and the noble defendant has been ordered to pay the amount claimed. A man was found drowned a few days ago at Hammersmith. He was twice identified—first, as a natural son of Lieut.-General Sir Brent Spencer ; and next, as Mr. G. A. Polland, of the firm of Polland and Hopewell, army acf!outrement manufacturers.  Mr. George Thomas Dunn, elected Mayor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, has declined the honour, and paid the fine of £lOO. Sir John Simpson, elected Mayor of York, has done the same. Other gentlemen must, of course, be appointed. _ _  A subscription has been begun for the purpose of erecting a bust or some other memorial of the late Dr. Mendelssohn, in some appropriate public building in London; and the Queen and Prince Albert have intimated their intention to contribute £5O.  GLUT OF FlSH.—Billingsgate Market was on Saturday completely glutted with a supply of soles and herrings. At such a low rate were these fish sold that the dealers were retailing herrings at twenty a groat, and good-sized soles at id. the pair. On Thursday afternoon, the conductor of one of the London and Blackwall omnibuses, being falsely accused of theft by a passenger, who had left his Macintosh cape in the omnibus, became so much excited that he burst a blood vessel, and fell dead in the street.  A case of shooting, with intent to murder, occurred on Tuesday at Cawstou, about eleven miles from Norwich. A respectable farmer, named Page, was fired at by his brother-in law.. The cause of quarrel was a refusal on the part of Page to lend his relative two sovereigns. A few days ago, two brothers, named White, residing at Shaston, in Dorsetshire, quarrelled, and fought for some time; during the fight one of them fell on a brick floor with such violence, that he fractured his skull and died within a few hours.  The chief Rabbi (Dr. Alder) says the Jewish Chronicle, has recently established a Talmudical Society, for the purpose of maintaining the study of the Talmud. The society meets twice a week, for one hour, at the rey. doctor's house.  On Friday night, a young man, named Harkins, who had set fire to a corn-stack, near Greenock, concealed himself in a hole which he had made in a heap of bark in a tan-yard adjoining, and was found dead next morning, the superincumbent mass having fallen upon and smothered him. The late Sir George Philips, Bart., died possessed of personal property amounting to £30,000, which, with his freeholds in the counties of Warwick, Worcester, Oxford, Gloucester, Lancaster, and elsewhere, he has left to his son, Sir George Richard Philips, Bart., M.P., his sole executor.