The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1847-11-09 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

CHILD STEALING.—At the Chelmsford quarter sessiong, on Friday, a girl, aged thirteen, was sentenced to seven years' transportation for stealing a little girl three years old, which she had been intrusted to nurse. It is said that the late Professor M'Cullagh was preparing an edition of Butler's " Analogy," confirming the original arguments in favour of revelation by the modern discoveries of science.  Last week, after.a harvest supper at Grantown, Invernessshire, the whole of the shearers (20) were taken ill, and still lie in a dangerous state. It is supposed that some one must -have poisoned the food. Owing to the pressure of the money market, the shipbuilders of Sunderland have proposed to reduce the wages of their carpenters from 275. to 245. per week. A strike is the consequence. • A circumstance, with reference to the high rate of interest, has been made known in the city. A number of eight months' bills have been sent over to Holland, discounted there at, the rate of four per cent., and the proceeds promptly received in gold by one of the steamers. On Sunday morning week, a most desperate affray took place near Devizes between the Marquis of Ailesbury's keepers and some poachers, and which has since terminated fatally to one of the latter. A verdict of " justifiable homicide " was returned at the inquest. The Custom-house officers finding thirty bottles of brandy on board a yacht, belonging to Mr. Oliver, have seized it. The owner considered himself entitled as a member of the R.Y.C. to have on board such a quantity of spirits. The oaks throughout England are said to have borne an unusual quantity of acorns this year, and it has been suggested that farmers should cause these acorns to be gathered.for the food of their pigs, as the crop of potatoes is so scanty. A Norfolk paper states that the Mayor of Yarmouth celebrated the Thanksgiving-day on Sunday fortnight, by giving a sumptuous collation to upwards of 400 of his friends in the Town-hall after church ! Toasts being given ! ! A colony of Highlanders, amounting to about 1,000, have purchased two entire townships in Marion county, lowa. They take their own mechanics and artisans with them, and have selected the site for a town. About 3,000 more are expected to join them next spring. A meeting of Mr. Peter Borthwick's creditors took place last week, when it was agreed among them that he should set aside £1,500 per annum for their benefit. He was described as a barrister, and his insolvency is attributed to election expenses. . .  The Duke of Marlborough has caused an official circular to be sent to his tenantry, giving them leave to destroy hares and rabbits on their farms by any means except guns. For this concession he expects they will preserve the winged game, for which he reserves to himself the exclusive right. A diabolical letter was received by the mayor of Rochester on Monday morning, couched in abusive and disgraceful terms, and ending with the recommendation to insure his life, as well as his house, warning him that both were in danger. A similar disgraceful epistle was sent to Capt. Baker.  The fog was so dense in London on Tuesday evening, that foot passengers required to be provided with torches, and the omnibuses, cabs, and other carriages, though furnished with lights, were forced to proceed at a very slow pace, as otherwise they were continually in danger of running against each other. A most alarming fire broke out on Friday, in the extensive premises of Messrs. John Black and Co., rope and sail makers, at Lancefield, near Glasgow. The value of the stock destroyed is estimated at £3.000, and that of the buildings at between £3,000 and £4,000 ; but we are glad to learn that both are insured. A letter from Lord Cloncurry was read by the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion-house Police-office, on Monday, detailing the tricks of agents for foreign lotteries, and showing that they frequently sold fabricated tickets, and that if English holders happened to draw a prize, the illegality of the purchase was pleaded against papment. The Morning Post states that orders have been given at the Woolwich dockyard to prepare the Plover schooner to sail in search Of Sir John Franklin, if within the next ten or twelve days the government shall receive no intelligence of that officer and his exploring expedition to the arctic regions.