The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-06-28 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

The hay harvest is cutting in Waterford and Tipperary.
The radicals of Greenwich have determined to invite Capt.
Dundas to come forward at the next election.
The Edinburgh Evening Post intimates that the constitu-
ency of Dundee have long been dissatisfied with Sir H.
Parnell, and that it is intended to bring Mr. Hume forward
in opposition at the next election.
YORK.—It is stated that Mr. Serjeant Atcherson intends
again to become a candidate in the conservative interest for
the representation of this city, in the event of a dissolution.
—Hull Advertiser.
THE WEATHER.—We have had abundance of genial rain
with heat, since Friday, and the crops are looking beautiful.
The ground had again become extremely parched when the
rain commenced. There appear to have been thunder-storms
in many parts of the country.—Scottish Guardian.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, it is affirmed, intends
giving a series of dinners at Marlborough House ; but it is at
the same time said the guests will be confined entirely to the
particular friends of her Majesty. Sir Robert and Lady Peel
will have the honour to dine with her Majesty to-morrow.
DEATH OF SIR R. WILLIAMS, K.C.B.—It is with sin-
cere regret that we have to announce the death of Colonel
Sir Richard Williams, K. C. 8., Royal Marines, after a short
illness, at his house at Portsmouth. As the only representative
of the marine corps on the late commission of naval and
military revision, his loss will be severely felt by that distin-
guished body.—United Serrice Gazette.
TIIE TOURNAMENT.—We regret to learn that any thing
untoward should occur to retard the necessary practice for
this chivalrous undertaking. It appears that a short time
since Mr. Campbell received so severe a wound in the arm,
that not only has he been confined to his room ever since,
but it is probable he will feel the effects the remainder of his
natural life, the lance having entered the wrist, and created
a deep wound up to the elbow. We have for some time ob-
served that J. 0. Fairlie, Esq. has worn a sling, and we
understand that this arose from a broken wrist. On Satur-
day last this same gentleman, no ways daunted, tried again,
and succeeded in dislocating his shoulder.—Morning Post.
SAVINGS' BANKS.—We observe that the commissioners
have made two more sales during the week of £20,000 each,
on account of these institutions. We are happy, however,
to announce that in Manchester the notices of withdrawal
have subsided, in number and amount, to the average of
good times, while there is a steady progress in the number
of depositors and amount of deposits. The demands on the
poor-rate have also not increased as might have been expected
under the very severe depression of trade, and these facts
may be considered as conclusive evidence that the condition
of the industrious classes generally is not one of unusual
privation. In fact, the hand-loom weavers, and some other
classes, are in more general employment, and on better terms
than they have been for years, and the pressure seems to be
nearly confined to the spinners and printers. In these de-
partments many are out of employ, and considerable distress
prevails.—Manchester Chronicle.

COLONEL PRINCE.—The conduct of this gallant officer is,
we are glad to see, appreciated as it deserves by every loyal
subject in the British North American dominions. A pub-
lic dinner has been given to him in Toronto, of which we
shall publish a description in our next paper. Lower Canada
has signified to him her meed of praise. At every public
festival, particularly the recent celebrations of St. George's-
day, in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, his name has been
honoured among the brave and the loyal with the utmost
enthusiasm. Colonel Prince has done more to check the
sympathising propensity of the treacherous Yankees, by one
act of decisive energy, than all the parade of power without
its exercise, and all the falsely-calculated lenity of the
government could effect. Well he deserves the honours that
have been heaped upon him by a grateful people—the enco-
miums of every loyal mind.—Halifax Times, May 7.
AN AFFAIR AT CoußT.—Another vile report having been
made to her majesty, by one of the ladies of the bedcham-
ber, tending to impugn the loyalty and good breeding of the
Duchess of Montrose and Lady Sarah Ingestrie, by accusing
them of joining in the unpleasant demonstration of public
feeling which assailed her majesty—slightly, and her prime
minister unequivocally—at Ascot Races,—the Duke of
Montrose thought it his duty to take the earliest and most
effective means to give a full denial to the infamous slander
against his duchess and her noble friend ; for this purpose
he wrote to her majesty, and solicited an interview, when he
was met by Lord Melbourne, who produced a letter from the
queen stating her majesty's conviction that there was no
foundation for the report, but declining an interview. The
calumniator is, however, retained in her post, and we regret
to add that it is not the first false report with which she has
abused the ear of her royal mistress.—. Argus.
DISTURBANCE AT MARANHAM.—The Rapid, White,
which arrived on Friday, sailed from Maranham on the 9th
ult., and brings news of the rebels having gained possession
of all the towns and villages in the neighbourhood of that city.
They were daily expected to make eir entrance into the
place ; and, in anticipation of such an event, the vessels Vic-
tory and Campion had received orders to have their boats in
readiness to carry the merchants on board. The slave po-
pulation were thought to be favourable to the rebels. The
Governor had despatched a steamer to Paraiba for a rein-
forcement of troops.
SUPPOSED MURDER AT THE CHARTIST MEETING
LAST NIGHT.—About half past nine o'clock, last evening, a
most melancholy occurrence took place during the usual
nightly meeting of the chartists in the Bull-ring. It appears
from the information we have collected during the excitement
produced subsequent to the fatal assault, that about the honr
already mentioned, a girl named Mary Attwood, (alias Smith)
about 17 years of age, was standing between Bell-street and
the market hall steps, in the Bull-ring, when, in consequence
of some altercation, she was knocked down, by a young man
named Lowe, said to reside in Birchall-street, and death im-
mediately ensued. The body of the young woman was con-
veyed to the Tamworth arms, in Moor-street, and Mr. Bayn-
ham, and Mr. Edwards, surgeons, were soon in attendance,
but all human efforts were unavailing. The deceased was,
we understand, employed in Mr. D. Ledsam's screw mann-
factory.—Smith, the street officer, had hold of the fallow by
whom the brutal assault was committed, but owing to the
brutality of the chartist mob, he was obliged to relinquish
his grasp, and Lowe, in the scuffle, made his es,:ape. It is
due to Wilkes the chartist, to say, that he did all he could to
protect Smith, the officer.—Birmingham Advertiser, Thurs-
day.

BANctutT TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON AT DOVER.—
The preparations of the ancient ports for this festival in ho-
nour of their illustrious Lord Warden, in August next, is of
the most spirited description ; a splendid pavilion, from de-
signs of W. Edmunds, Esq., the celebrated architect of Mar-
gate, is to be immediately erected in the field of St. Martin's
Priory, immediately opposite the Maison Dieu, capable of
dining 2225 persons, beside spacious galleries for the accom-
modation of 500 ladies, fifty musicians, and 40 vocalists ; so
great an interest has it excited on the Continent, that many
distinguished foreigners have solicited the committee to al-
low them to join in doing honour to the great Duke. His
Grace has not yet fixed the day in August for the fete, but it
is much hoped that it may be the 21st, the anniversary of the
battle of Vimiera (1808), when Sir. Arthur Wellesley, with a
very inferior force, totally conquered and routed the whole
of the French army. The 30th inst, is the last day that
tickets are to be obtained.

THE LATE EARL OF ESSEX.—The will of the Earl of
Essex has been just proved in the Prerogative Court of the
Archbishop of Canterbury, Doctors' Commons, by Mr. John
Drummond, the sole executor. The property of the noble
earl has been sworn under the value of £120,000; this, of
course, does not include the freehold estates. The Dowager
Countess of Essex, late Miss Stephens, whose marriage with
the earl took place about two years since, derives an annuity
of £3OOO a-year under this will, a legacy of £lO,OOO, and the
furniture of the house in Cashiobury Park, The house and
furniture in Belgrave-square are bequeathed to her absolutely,
by a codicil lately made. The residue of this property is di-
rected to be laid out in purchase of freehold estates, and the
rents arising from the same to go in the same manner as is
directed by his said will—namely, to his nephew, the present
earl, and the heirs male of his body for ever. The will is
extremely long, being written upon no less than 40 sheets of
paper, and occuying 22 skins of parchment. The freeholds
are of great value. The Dowager Countess is, in addition to
the above, entitled by the last codicil to all monies in the
bankers' hands, and monies out at interest, or upon mort-
gages, above the value of £3OOO. The sum of £5OOO was
settled upon her on her marriage with the late earl.
SUICIDE AT NEW Youx.—Mr, Shultz, a bill broker, Com-
mitted suicide, at New York, at the close of the last month.
The event had caused quite a sensation in the monetary circles
of that city. The following account of his business habits
and engagements is copied from the Daily Express.:—" The
defalcations of Mr. Shultz, the broker, are to a much larger
amount than was supposed. He had resided here since 1838,
and, being a German by birth, well skilled in business, and of
the most gentlemanly manners, had acquired an uncommon
degree of confidence. He became a large bill broker, and by
almost every packet negociated a very large amount of bills.
By the packet of Saturday the amount of bills purchased
were large. Confidence was such in him that drawers with-
out hesitation gave him their bills, and depended on him to
procure the proceeds of the purcha§es, and return the amount.
Heretofore all his operations of this kind had been settled
with promptness and fidelity : these, however, bythis packet.
were not paid or settled. It turns out, that his habits of
life were such that he had become exceedingly embarrassed,
and the funds he received from the purchasers of bills he ap-
propriated to pay over to his own creditors, insteadof paying
it to those to whom it belonged. It is now feared, that bills
which have gone out, by previous packets, are not genuine ;
but of this, however, nothing is positively known. His pre-
sent defalcations are stated to be about thirty thousand dol-
lars."

MAIL COACH ACCIDENT—THREE HORSES KILLED.—
Cln Friday morning a very serious accident happened to the
up-mail from Cork to Dublin. When the coach was starting
from the hotel, in Kilkenny, one of the wheel horses com-
menced kicking and plunging, which set the others on their
mettle, and they immediately set off at full speed towards
John's Bridge. The coachman used every exertion to check
the alarming pace at which they were going, but all to no
purpose ; they dashed along and came with a tremendous
crash against the wall of the bridge. The coachman was
thrown from the box into the river, from which, we are happy
to say, he escaped uninjured. A blacksmith, from the Royal
Oak, who was on the outside of the coach, was also thrown
off and received a very serious wound in the back of the head,
and three of the horses were killed. By the prompt and active
interference of the gentlemen connected with Mr. Purcell's
establishment, assisted by numbers whom the catastrophe
brought together, the coach was enabled to proceed after a
comparatively short delay. The pole was broken, but no
other damage was done to the coach. On the whole, although
this shocking accident, we deeply regret to say, is likely to
produce the loss of one human life, the result is far less fatal
than from the nature of the casualty and the circumstances
under which it occurred, might have been expected. There
were two inside passengers who escaped unhurt.—Kilkenny
Moderator.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM
RAILWAY.—On Saturday forenoon a most serious collision,
which had like to have been attended with extremely fatal
consequences, occurred on tjie London and Birmingham
Railroad. At 10 o'clock the usual train at that hour, con-
sisting of 16 carriages, left the terminus at Euston-square,
for the purpose of proceeding on its journey to Birmingham.
On its arrival near Chalk Farm the train was, as usual, stop-
ped for the purpose of detaching the rope drawing the train
up the acclivity, and of attaching the engine. The train in
question being, however, more than usually heavy, it was de-
termined that an engine should be attached at each end.
That in front was attached without any accident, but the one
in the rear approached with such force that, before it could
be stopped, it ran into the hindermost carriage, dashing it
into pieces, and forcing the remaining 15 off the line. The
hindermost carriage, which is that of the first (or best) class,
was numerously filled with passengers, both male and female,
the whole of whom were, we understand, in a greater or less
degree, injured, and one of the former, named Arthur Hallam,
about 45 years of age, a footman of his Royal Highness the
Duke of Sussex, was so dreadfully injured that it was last
evening stated death had terminated his sufferings. We,
however, understand that he was immediately conveyed to
the University College Hospital, Gower-street, when, it be-
ing ascertained to whose establishment he belonged, a mess-
enger was immediately dispatched in a cab to Kensington
Palace, to acquaint his Royal Highness of the accident. The
Duke of Sussex, on learning the circumstance, with his ac-
customed benevolence, directed Mr. Beckham, his Steward,
immediately to proceed to the hospital, and ordered that
every possible attention should be paid to the unfortunate
man. Mr. Beckham was informed by the house surgeori
that Hallam 's skull was fractured, but it was hoped the brain .
was uninjured ; yet, from the nature of the severe bodily in-
juries he had sustained, no hopes of dig recovery were held
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