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

EARLE.-1 fear some people's necks will be broken between the operation of the act and the death of these gentlemen. (Laughter.) The MAYOR read a letter from the King of the French, acknowledging the address of congratulation lately furwarded by the Council to him. A letter from the Highway Board, calling the attention of the Council to the desi,ability of providing tanks for supplying cattle with water, and fountains for the use of the public, was referred to the special committee on the Sanitary Bill. The MAYOR read a portion of a letter received from Mr. T. B. Horsfall, thanking the Council for the vote of condolence on the death of his father.  GENERAL MISCELLANY  The import duty on wheat is now ss. A testimonial of £3,000 has been subscribed for Mr. Waghorn, the discoverer of the overland route. 'I he Rambler steamer, which struck on the Maiden Rocks, Ireland. will prove a complete wreck. On Saturday week, a flock of 7-1 sheep were killed by lightning near Priddy, in Somerset-shire. In London, there were lately 996.000 females to 878,000 males, or an excess of 118.000 ladies. The personal estate of the late Col the Hon, F. G. Howard has been valued for probate duty at £120,000. On Thursday, Ibrahim Pacha paid a visit to Woolwich, and was much interested with everything he saw. The abandonment of the proxy system in the House of Lords is now considered a necessary act of reform. The Duke of Sutherland has subscribed £2OO to the fund for the family of Mr. Haydon.  Upwards of 78:000 quarters of wheat and 4000 of oats were liberated at Hull last week. At Preston, upwards of 30,000 quarters of wheat were also taken out. On Thursday, a boy, named Joseph Wood, aged 14, whilst sculling a boat in the river Feryd, Flintshire, fell overboard and was drowned. A handle of the coffin that contained the unfortunate Mary, Queen of Scots, was sold at the sale of the curiosities of W. Upcott, Esq., for two guineas. The father of Major-General Littler kept a grocer's shop at Nantwich, in which town the late Lord Kenyon served his articles to an attorney. Three men were killed in the most shocking manner, on Saturday week, on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, by the train of waggons getting off the rails. Mr. Marsh, the celebrated chemist of Woolwich, and inventor of the test for arsenic now generally used in medical jurisprudence, died on bunday week. Fresh herrings are now plentiful in Douglas market, and of prime quality. The puce in retail for-the last few days has been from 14 to 20 for a shilling. A worthy contemporary records, under the head of domestic intelligence, nothing but births, deaths, and marA man of the world, that editor ! _ _  Mr. R. Greig, recently appointed midshipman on board the Dido, at Sheerness, committed suicide with a pistol on Thursday. A bull, and a pigeon which, at the moment, happened to be flying over it, were both killed by the electric fluid, on the farm of Mr. John Proud, at Car [louse, near Durham, during the thunder-storm of Thursday week. Lieutenant William Peel, the son of Sir Robert Peel, has been promoted to the rank of commander in the royal navy. His lieutenant's commission was dated on the 13th of May, 1844. In the year 1844, the number of public-houses and beer-shops in England and Wales was 93,606, and in that year alone no less than 117 publidthouses and 272 beershops were added to the previous number. John Edwards, who is upwards of 107 years of age, and lives in a cottage on the Wilton-road, near Salisbury, was, on Thursday week, observed at work in a hay-field near his residence.  Forty new bishoprics were created during the Pontificate of Gregory