The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1836-09-16 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

REMARKABLE TUBTLE.—Mr. Waud, purveyor of turtle to his Majesty, 38, New Bond-street, where it may be seen, is the happy possessor of an extraordinarily fine lively turtle, from the island of Ascension, weighing upwards of 600 lbs. A letter from Berlin states that great alarm is created in that city•by the great number of suicides and assassinations that have lately been committed there. An Irish estate has recently been advertised in a Cork newspaper, with temptations to a purchaser of no ordinary kind : it consists of two villages, the future prospects of wdich are set forth, by stating that one of them is let.tor nine hundred years, and the.other on a leade fur ever!-on the expiration of which terms both the said villages will be capable of, great improvement.  Sir William Temple tells a story of " ndiscourse arising, when our King Charles I. was present, as to what soh of dogs deserve pre-eminence • and it being allowed on all hands to belong either to a spaniel or a greyhound, his Majesty gave his opinion in fayour of the greyhound ;" " because," said the. King, " it has the good ,nature of the one without the fawning." A ladies' bazaar was lately opened at Oswestry, to raise funds towards.building a new.citurch,. and the ladies rendered in the account. of net proceeds, 1.:690 17s. 9d. Here, in it town of comparatively little trade, the ladies, by:earnestness, assiduity. and zeal in a good ,cause, from which-the greatest men might taken lesson, have raised for the advancement of religion a sum which is rarely offered in , that cause, even, from populous and flout ishing,cities.— Wprccster guardian. John Mitchell, a very ingenious' smith, of Redruth, has constructed a model of a high pressure steetn-engine, complete•rn all its ,parts, and worked by 'peens of condensed air in the most perfect manner. The material of which it is made in silver; -the weight of the model 1.50 grains,. occupying about half a square inch of space; anti the whole was wrought on the large anvil in a blacksmith's shop ! ! On Sunday evening the Moray, Firth, and London Steam .Navigation Companv's vessel, Duchess of, Sutherland, Captain Strachan, arrived. oil Dowues's Wharf, from Inverness, having as part of her cargo not fewer than 70 boxes of fresh herrings from 13urghbpad, packed in ice ! This is the second importation of the kind into London from Scotland, and the sales have been such as to give a profitable return.  A grocer, named Patrick Thomson, residing at Glasgow, in a public advertisement in the Glasgow Courier, states that as soon as he shall have made 150,(X)0 cash retail sales to the extent of ss. each, he will present to one of his customers his house, offices, and garden; and he proposes that the choice shall be determined in the following manner:—Every customer's name shall be enrolled in respect of each ss, purchase in a book open to every purchaser, and when the 150,000 sales shall'have effected, the 150,000 numbers, corresponding to those names, hall be put into a' wheel made, for that purpose, and abretelihe wheel has been revolved, one name or number shall be drawn from the wheel, to whom he will present the house; office, and garden, free of expense or incumbrance. He will give the customer (if he wishes it) £lOOO instead of the property, deducting five per cent for prompt payment. The enrolment commenced on the Ist September ~and Thomson states that a eonsiderable number of names dM m have been entered. Mr. Thoinson's ss. purchases would produce £37,000, and, supposing he only obtained a profit of 25 per cent., his net produce would amount to £9,375. The late town-clerli, in an account sent in to the town council, has charged the enormous sum of £47 10s. Bd. for examining and correcting proofs of the printed lists of municipal burgesses, prepared in the Autumn of 1835 ! The labour upon which the learned gentleman has set this high value is certainly nut more than equivalent to the correction of one number of this paper. We pray the,town council tq send the charge fur taxation to our r inrp (in of the supposed affection of his family for the legal profession) spites devil. We much question whether. the malicious would throw to the worthy Ex a fraction snore than the odd . —Leicester Chronicle. From a parliamentary return, published in June, 1835, it appears there were then only four religious newspapers published In:London:whose weekly circulation was 12,686 On the other hand, there were no fewer than fourteen Sunday newspapers; which may, without calumny, be styled irreligious; and their circialation amouuted.to 87,938,7-Scoitish Gait:Wan.  NUT TO as" noNE."—.A. son of .the Emerald Isle, who.happened to be on a voyage where the passengers had to sleep a night, at sea, was pressed by. his ,comrades.to,go,to bed:at the Yt there fw.uteot paOsnsa4geei,uagnads.kde'(yi usual hour, butstir,aeinduofuosrl and the reason. lose a.night's sail?" gh(e)GtroeepnbleLi;al replied, Evans's army having, as it would seem, nothing better to do, are amusing themselves with lighting each other— various duels, according to the last advises, buying taken place, arising out of the wort frivolous diFputes.  Importo. AvßicA. Mazeppa, (130) Tatchell, fm Sierra Leone, with 24 As palm oil, 9 tlB c camwood, W Weston-62 cks palm oil, Order-4 ck gum copal. 37 loads teakwood, 10 t 3 c camwood, 14 cakes bees' wax, Whcldon and Allanb-y—B • Dk  "..;iriniaeltenzie7(Bl).Scott, fm &Moil, with 650 cks palm oil, 56 elephants' teeth, 70 casks shakos 14 retd, 48 scrivolloes, W Norris-G Ok  Hope, (331) Campbell, fm Sierra Leone, with 501 logs teak timber, 30 t eamwood. 24 cks pepper, 2 cs gum copal, 2 bgs ginger, 47 chsts w salted-hides, F H Langley-13 Dk piuTISH AMERICA: Eweretta,. (35'2) Skinner, fin Quebec, with 56 ps red Si; 354,ps white, pine timber, 21 c 12 deals, 26 fins lathwoou, Brereton, Jones and co.:)— —B Dk  har+Wret, (333) Steel, fm Quebec, with 297 ps fir timber, V; ps elm 31 pa ash, 65 c 18 staves, 24 handspikes, 24 oars, Order.-13:Dk Ranger, (191) Donaldson,. fm St John, N B, with 4853 deals, 1400 staves,: Wilde% Bickersgill and co-101 pkgs bags B returned, Gibbs, Bright and oo—Q Dk Falcon, (291) M'Minn, fin Quebec, with 319 ps fir,, 38 ps elm, 13 ps ash, 4 ps birch and 1 pee butternut timber, 2i c deals, 76#"c 15 staves, Orden—g Dk Orontes, (271) Garriock, fm Sydney, Cape Breton, with 473 ps pine Si 200 ps birch timber, 12 c TO billet oai staves, 26 stave.s, 8 cords lathwood, 14 spars for exportation,. M`Leod, Houston arid co--n Dk