The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-10-24 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE LITERPWOL STANDARD.  etneral ffitatllanp.  The northern parts of England and Ireland were visited on Wednesday with heavy falls of snow.  John Bright, Esq., M.P , is undergoing the hydropathie treatment at Wharfdale. _  Amongst the candidates for the Provostship of Edinburgh is Mr. William Chambers.  During several days last week, herrings were sold at Dumfries at the rate of eighteen for a penny. Captain Mitford, R. N., with his son, have left the Church of Rome, and joined the Church of England. The Brussels Herald of Saturday, gives a favourable report of the potato crop in Belgium. The total number of the horned cattle annually sent to England from Dumfries-shire, Kirkcudbrightshire, and Wigtonshire, is estimated to amount to 29,000 head. In Mr. Pilkington's garden, on the Hunger Hills, a moss-rose tree was, at the beginning of this week, bearing a number of roses in full bloom.—Notanyham Journal.  The Standard states that on Friday .36,000 muskets were shipped at Southampton on board a steamer for Italy. There is considerable falling off in the Linen trade of Barnsley. A considerable number of hands have been turned off.  The city of London has voted an allowance of £5OO per annum, as the salary of the medical officer appointed to superintend the health of the metropolis.  Of 397 boys removed from Parkhurst prison, in the course of last year, 371 received conditional pardons, and 16 free pardons. During the past fortnight several cargoes of potatoes have been shipped from Ramsey for Liverpool, and other cargoes are being shipped and some ready for sea.  On Monday week, three horses which had strayed from a field on to the Nottingham and Lincoln Railway were killed by the mail train at a short distance from Newark.  For several weeks past the Solway Frith, which has been comparatively abandoned by the tribe for the last 40 years, has swarmed with innumerable shoals of herrings. The Rev. Mr. Clarke, Presbyterian minister at Dalreooh, near Perth, has been thrown from his horse and killed.  Sarah Searle, who died last week at Chelsea, bequeathed her body to Dr. Pettigrew for dissection, and it has accordingly been given up to him.  with  On Monday, the body of a domestic s Abbott, was found in a ditch near Roche face covered over with a carpet. It is feared she•has been murdered.  Mr. Charles Braham, son of the celebrated vocalist, made his debut at the Princess's Theatre, London, on Monday night, in the new opera of Leohne, and experienced a most enthusiastic reception. At a recent meeting of the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce ;ndt,  a resolution approving of an attempt to induce government to grant a higher rate of interest for deposits in savings banks, was F dop ted. _  The Cholera is still making but slow advance in Edinburgh. In Leith it has broken out, and with some severity, but with nothing like the virulence that has prevailed  on Continent  On Tuesday, the Thames rose to such an unusual height as to cause very great damage to property. Towards evening, when the tide was at its highest point, the steam-boats could scarcely pass under the bridges. Government has come to the resolve; on the recommendation of the Board of Health, to do away with the idle precaution of six days' quarantine, inflicted on vessels from continental ports suspected of cholera.  Letters from; Exeter announce the rather sudden demise of Mr. Thomas Gray (the ingenious but unrewarded improver, if not originator, of the railway system), on Sunday week, in the 61st year of his age.  At the quarter sessions held at.. Berwick on Friday, there were agt  1 occasion, in succession, al  bias been  no business before the court.