The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1842-12-13 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MISCELLANEOUS.  The slaughter of salmon in the Teviot and its tributaries has been, and is still, carried on to a disgraceful extent. Mr. Daniel Broadhurst has been appointed treasurer of the borough of Manchester. A large quantity of pheasants have been found dead at Stow. They have been poisoned. The radical corporation of Dublin has nesiath.pd a motion for a vote of thanks to the heroes of India and China. The friends of Mr. Sculley have offered a reward of £l,OOO for the discovery of the murderers of that gentleman. The forty-second anniversary of the Smithfield Club took place on Friday. Earl Spencer was in the chair. The lady of Sir James Graham is now recovering from a severe attack of scarlet fever.  Last week, a cod-fish was caught at Aberystwith which weighed 401 b. The value of exports from Canton amounts to about £8,250,000 per annum. The Manchester Chronicle, a conservative paper, is advertised for sale.  Messrs. Fernandes and Sons, extensive and respectable corn-factors, &c. in Wakefield, have stopped payment. Lord Lucan and Mr. St. Clair O'Malley have been suspended from the commission of the peace in Ireland. The Age announces that, in consequence of domestic differences, Lord and Lady Lincoln have agreed to separate. A gang of four desperate burglars was committed to trial at Preston, on Wednesday. A cousin of Lady Sale's denies that she is the daughter of the late Rev. Mr. Wynch, but of the late George Wynch, Esq., of the Hon. East India Company's Service. Captain Harvey Tuckett, who is well known to the public in consequence of his recent duelling connection with -the Earl of Cardigan, has been declared a bankrupt. It is said that Pudsey Dawson, Esq., of Hornby Castle, is likely to be appointed sheriff of the county of Lancaster for the ensuing year. Miss Robinson has fully identified one of the parties who entered her house on Gateshead Fell, and attempted to murder her.  The celebrated Vestris, who was a pensioned member of the French Royal Academy of Music, died on Monday, the sth of December, at the age of 83.  Cardinal Pole and many Romanists have admitted the doctrine of justification through faith, much more explicitly than the Tract writers.  The Duke of Rutland, a few days back, stated at an agricultural dinner that the present modified scale of corn duties might be reduced by some shillings a quarter. The testimonial to Lord Morpeth is to be presented early in the ensuing year. The subscriptions already amount to £4,000.  The town-council of London have passed resolutions urging Sir Robert Peel to " give practical effect to his declarations in free trade."  Mrs. Williams (widow of the late Rev. John Williams, missionary at the South Seas) arrived in London, from Sydney, on the 25th October. An order has been issued upon Dr. Bell and Lieut. Green, of the Tower Division, not to pass any more men for the navy, until fresh directions are issued by the Admiralty. At a private meeting of London merchants on Friday, it was determined to present Sir John and Lady Pirie with some testimonial of esteem.  Two boys, aged ten and twelve, are missing from Leicester. The most extravagant tales are current about attempts to " burke " children in the streets of that town. Earl Kinnoull and four others killed 400 head of game, chiefly pheasants and hares, at Scone Palace and the neighbourhood, in two days last week. A master mason, of the parish of Westdown, North Devon, has lately embarked on a matrimonial voyage for the fifth time. He is a fine old fellow of sixty. On Saturday week, a woman was laid out at Bolton, and took to the dead-house, when it was afterwards found that she was still alive, though she died soon afterwards.