The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-04-14 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

GENERAL MISCELLANY.  On Friday night week, the grand stand on Sutton Coldfield race-course was set on fire, and wholly destroyed. Mr. Rich, a reformer, has been returned unopposed for the borough of Richmond, Yorkshire. Her Majesty's royal charities to the aged and poor were distributed on Monday and Tuesday last, to upwards of 250 persons, ss. each. On Wednesday. the election committee of the House of Commons decided that the Hon. Mr. Lindsay had been duly elected far Wigan. Five hundred distress warrants to recover poor-rates have been issued during the past week in the parish of St. Clement Danes.  Measures are now in active progress for the erection of two out of the four public baths contemplated in Birmingham. On Tuesday the extensive ropework and sailcloth weav ing premises of the Gourork Ropework Company, at Glasgow, were destroyed by fire. On Friday an awful fire occurred in Limehouse. Six houses were destroyed, and thirty poor persons rendered homeless. The majority were uninsured. The Anniversary of Shakspere's birthday will be celebrated at Stratford-on-Avon on the 23rd instant. It is expected that several eminent literary characters will attend.  Russell, so well known in the sporting circles as the plaintiff in the numerous qui tarn actions which excited so much attention last year, has been before the Insolvent Court, London. On Saturday week, a woman and a little boy were found buried in the snow, in the pass of Glenlyon, Scotland. She died soon after the discovery, but the boy was taken to a cottage and cared for. A few days since, a poor fellow met his death at Huddersfield, through the brutal practice of kicking. His opponent has been committed for trial on a charge of manslauzhter.  EmpsE.—There will be an annular eclipse of the sun on Saturday, the 25th instant, partially visible at Greenwich. It will commence at 5h.32 m. afternoon ; middle, 6h. 14 m. afternoon ; and end 6h.4 m. afternoon. _  On " all-fool's day," a poor Irishman inquired at the office of the Glasgow Citizen for a copy of the paper containing the account of the passing of the repeal act, and the triumphant entry of O'Connell into Dublin ! Yesterday week, the freedom of the city of London was voted unanimously, in gold boxes worth 100 guineas each, to Sir H. Hardinge, Sir H. Gough, and Sir H. Smith, the heroes of the war in the Sutlej, and also to Maj orGeneral Pollock.  Mr. S. R. Brooking, of St. John's Wood, having died of injuries received by a fall from his horse, his wife was inconsolable,—insisted on sleeping in the same bed with the corpse of her husband, and in the morning was found dead by his side. Mr. Edward Lawes Pyrn (who was removed from the list of lieutenants of the Royal Marines, and who was acquitted, at the last Winchester assizes, for being concerned in the duel at Gosport, in which Mr. Seton lost his life), has been restored to his former rank in that corps.  At Bodmin assizes, Mary Pearce, post-mistress at Stratton, was sentenced to seven years transportation. She had taken postage stamps off letters-which passed through her hands, and these stamps she had placed on letters for which the people paid her postage. Mr. Hudson, painter, of Douglas, Isle of Man, lost life last week by jumping from the paddle-box of the King Orry steamer, and missing his footing, as she was leaving the pier at Douglas. The brother of Mr. Hudson committed suicide the same week by cutting his throat.