The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-06-27 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ANECDOTE OF THE REDBREAST.—Last winter a pair of robins were daily fed near the kitchen door of Mr. James Neild, of Oulton, the male bird occasionally flying through the open window to pick up the crumbs from off the floor, and so remarkably tame has he become that he will fly to and feed out of the hands of one of the family. During the present season they have reared three broods of young —the nests being built in an old wall within a few feet of each other—and are again occupied in the construction of another nest. Whenever gardening operations are in progress, one of the old birds is generally near to pick up the vermin, and it is a remarkable fact that these valuable birds will sometimes carry to their young in a few minutes between forty and fifty small worms and grubs. During a heavy shower a few weeks ago, the gardener took refuge in an arbour at some distance from his work, when he was quickly followed by his innocent companion, who perched on the branch of .a tree, warbled his song of joy, as if in gratitude for the bounties of Providence. _  etntral  The hay harvest has comtnelited in Northumberland, and the crops are abundant, particularly those of old grass. Mr. Joseph Roebuck, manager for the Messrs. Pickford, at Worcester, 'committed suicide last week. The Duke of Bedford has purchased the horse " Justice to Ireland," for £2.500. On Thursday, the take of salmon was so great in the Tyne that large fish were sold in the market at 6d. per lb. PUBLIC HEALTH BlLL.—This bill passed in the House of Commons on Tuesday. We do not anticipate it will encounter much opposition in the Lords. A new London daily paper is to be commenced next month, at two-pence. It 'will support the reform movement.  A crow's nest with young may now be seen on the summit of one of the spires at the eastern end of Durham Cathedral.  GILMOUR AGAIN !—This worthy is now pouring in his orders upon the outfitters, having some joys he wishes to send to sea! In one number of the Times this week there were no less than seventy advertisements of governesses wanting situations.  Lady Elizabeth Moncrieffe died on Saturday, at her residence in Chapel-street, from the effects of the injuries she sustained by having accidentally caught fire. At Witney, Gloucestershire, a young woman, who had been married only six weeks, was hawked about last week, with a halter on her neck, for sale by her husband. Ann Sykes, a young girl in delicate health, died last week at Thurstenland, in consequence of eating a quantity of unripe gooieberries, The sticks of rhubarb Which took the premier prize at the Macclesfield show were each 37 inches long and 9 lb. 13 oz. weight. A vessel arrived in the docks from Hong-kong and the Cape of Good Hope respectively, has brought 1,020 parcels of iron.  The Times is now lending its valuable aid to the exposure of the " Count Touzery gang," who have, for the last three years itinerated with roods, pretending to be custom-house seizures and the like.  Sir John Richardson and his party arrived at. Lake Superior on the 29th April, and left a few days after, on their journey overland to the Arctic regions, in search of the lost expedition of Sir John Franklin. On Friday, Edward Moody was sentenced, at the Central Criminal Court, to transportation for twenty years, for uttering forged five-pound notes. He was convicted of three several offences.  Dr. Chambers, the leading fashionable physician in the metropolis, has been obliged to retire into the country for the benefit of his health, and it is doubtful whether he will ever be able to resume his labours.  Prince Albert has sent a contribution of £25 towards the erection of the monument recently completed to the memory of the late Mrs. Siddons, which is about to be placed in Westminster Abbey. Lord Nugent, in accordance with the wishes of his lamented lady, has purchased twenty-five acres of land in the neighbourhood of Weedon, for the purpose of allotting them to the poor for ever. Last week, at Lincolnshire, Mr. Hitchins, coroner, stated that in the course of ten years he had held 111 inquests on the bodies of persons who had perished from accidents caused by drunkenness.