The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-04-07 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

GENERAL MISCELLANY.  The Queen has subscribed £lOO towards erecting baths and pleasure gardens for the working classes at Bradford.  Sir J. South announces that the comet discovered at Kiel on the 15th is not a new one, but the comet of Biela. A nest of young well flushed blackbirds was offered for sale in Bristol market on Wednesday.  Canadian butter is now selling at Sunderland for Bd. per lb. ; a large consignment has been made to merchants in that town.  Madame Catalini has nearly lost her voice, and it is said she has probably made her last appearance in public. In Covent Garden market, on Tuesday, strawberries were sold at 2s. 6d. the ounce.  Fine new potatoes were selling last week, in London, at from 3d. to sd. per pound. Captain Egerton, brother of Sir P. Egerton, M.P., has died of the wounds he received at the battle of Ferozeshah.  A tradesman in Huddersfield, on Monday week, received 6d. in a letter from some party who had defrauded him of that amount.  On Sunday week the barque A genre arrived in St. Katharine Docks. from Boston, with twenty-five cases of turkeys, geese, and capons : also six boxes of red reindeer of superior quality. They were packed in ice. It is very remarkable that the three last Coroners of that division in the County of Devon, in Mr. Partridge's jurisdiction,—viz., the deceased and his two immediate predecessors—committed suicide. The patent right of Mr. Bencraft in his ingenious sad. dl', for Great Britain and the Colonies, was sold on Saturday last, at the Auction Mart, London, for fourteen hundred guineas. _ _ _  Mr. V. Matthews, who felt into a vat of boiling liquor in Marsfield Distillery, a few days ago, and was actually boiled to death, lost his father, in 1826, by a similar accident in the same distillery. _ _  On Wednesday a terrific fire totally consumed the extensive premises kno NU as the Canada Steam Staw-mills, situated at Rotherbithe-street, London, near the Commercial Dock, the property of M.-ssrs. Vertue and Co. At the Coventry Assizes, William Garratt pleaded guilty to having stolen certain moneys belonging to the Postmaster-General, and was sentenced to be transported for life,  Among the visitors to the baths and wash-honses for the labouring poor in George-street, London, last week, were the Earl of Fortescue, Lord Ebrington, Lord Sandon, and Sir R. and Lady Inglis. On Tuesday five large pieces of ordnance, intended, it is said, for India, arrived from Wigan at Birmingham, on their way to London. They are 56-pounders, each weighing 3 tons 5 cwt., and are eight feet in length. _  there also-fell a most distinguished officer—l allude to Lieut. Col. Taylor, of her Majesty's 2lth Regiment. He was the son of Lieutenant Colonel Taylor, of the 20th Light Dragoons, who fell in the battle of Vimiera, thus establishing an hereditary and double claim to the grateful recollection of his country. With the permission of the house I will briefly recapitulate the services of Colonel Taylor. Lieutenant Colonel C. T. Taylor commande  On Friday, two pigeons were tossed at the starting of the railway train at. Brighton for London, and one of the birds arrived at its home in thirty minutes less time than the train.  The Stamford Mercury states, that so exceedingly scarce is copper money in Lincoln, that some of the tradesmen have been actually compelled to give change in  postage stamps. At the London Court of Bankruptcy, on Wednesday, Maria Theresa D'Asmar, commonly known es the Princess D'Asmar, obtained her interim order to be delivered. frrm debts to the extent of about £290. France and England are now within an hour and a half's sail of each other, the Onyx steamer having made the voyage from Dover to Calais in that time, in a trial of speed with the rival steamer, the Princess Alice. A young woman, who was married but a week before at Birmingham, has been committi-d to prison for robbery, on the information of her husband, who discovered that she had a quantity of goods in her possession that she had stolen from her late master.  There are hundreds of English girls—many of them from Leeds—in the flax-mills of the north of France ; and the cotton, flax, and woollen•mills of almost every foreign country have either English overlookers or English workmen, together with English machinery. Whilst Valentin slate from Kerry, is used in the houses of parliament for rcofing, the projectors of the Roman Catholic Cathedral at Killarney, within 40 miles of VL. lentia, are importing slate from Wales, a distance of GOO  miles l  A destructive fire, through the carelessness of the carter, broke out in the stables of Mr. Clarkson, farmer at Faccombe, near Andover. The out. houses, live stock therein, stacks, &c.' soon became a mass of cinders. The causer of the mischief escaped with difficulty. The property is insured. The Minister of Commerce in France has made a powerful and remarkable speech, condemnatory of the folly of Sir R. Peel's free-trade policy. He shows that the trade of France has doubled since 1830, when a protective system was fully acted on in that country.