The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-10-04 00:00:00

The Duke of Roxburghe is to have the green riband, vacant
by the death of the Eail of Lauderdale.
THE SCHOONER GIL BLAS.—THE AWARD TO THE PILOTS.
—The owners of the schooner Gil Blas, Capt. Herbert, lately
from Africa, with a most valuable cargo, which vessel was in
contact off Dover with the steam-ship Royal Adelaide, Capt.
Soy, and abandoned by the master and crew, with the excep-
tion of a black boy ; but sdbsequently fallen in with by pilots
on the French coast, and taken into the harbour of Ostend,
have paid to the latter (the pilots) the sum of 25,000 francs,
about £l,OOO sterling, in lieu of all claims for salvage. In con-
sequence of Samho being found on board alive by the pilots,
the Gil Blas was not derelict.

Lire ASSITRANCE.—That only about 80,000 persons in
the united kingdom should have taken advantage of life as-
surance, being but 1 in 62 of heads of families, surely affords
a striking view of—shall we call it the improvidence of man-
kind, or shall we not rather designate it as their culpable sel-
fishness ? For, what is the predicament of that man who, for
the gratification of his affections, surrounds himself with a
wife and children, and peaceably lives in the enjoyment of
those precious blessings, with the knowledge that, ere three
months at any time shall have passed, the cessation of his
existence may throw wife and children together into a state
of destitution ?

A DISCOVERY.--L' Impartial, a Valenciennes paper,
gravely announces the following :—The manufacturers of
native sugar are saved. Beet-root is about to rise again
more triumphant than ever. The inhabitants of the Nord
will, indeed, make no more sugar, but they have just found
oqt that beet-root can make the most delicious wines. The
vine is done for, and beet-root takes its place. This is not a
mere invention. We know on good authority that the mayor
of Artres is a member of the company which is about to turn
this discovery, which is to prove a new source of industry to
our district.'

THRAPSTON, SEPTEMBER 29.—This morning, at eight
o'clock, a fire broke out at Lilford House, the seat of the
Right lion. Lord Lilford, which at its first appearance
threatened the destruction of that beautiful mansion. The
fire commenced in the drawing-room, and was first discovered
by one of the female servants ; how it originated is not at
present ascertained. Fortunately there was an abundant
supply of water, and the fire-engines from Oundle, Thrap-
ston, Titchmarsh, and Wandenhoe, arrived quickly on the
spot, the fire was speedily got under ; the damage will pro-
bably amount to near £lOOO. The Thrapston engine, with
16 firemen, was on the spot, a distance of five miles in 18
minutes.

On Saturday a beautiful little Arabian horse, of a dark
chesnut colour, arrived at the royal' stables, Windsor, in
charge of an Arab, accompanied from town by one of the
royal servants, having been sent by her Majesty's Consul
General at Tripoli. The little animal, shortly after his arri-
val, was taken into the quadrangle of the Castle, and was
there inspected by her Majesty and the ladies and gentlemen
of /he Court. The Arab formed an object of much attrac-
tion (being dressed in the costume of his country) as his
beautiful charger. This morning the Arabian was again
taken to the Castle, and was ridden round the quadrangle by
one of the royal grooms for another inspection of the Queen.
—Windsor Express.