The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-06-02 00:00:00

MONDAY.

The Queen and Prince Albert and the Queen Dowager
attended divine service yesterday morning in the Chapel
Royal, St. James's.
The Queen visited the Duchess of Kent yesterday after-
noon at Ingestrie-house, BelTrave square.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert took an airing yesterday
in an open carriage.
Viscount Melbourne and Lord Ilill had audiences of her
Majesty on Saturday.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Prince of Leiningen, honoured the Italian Opera with their
presence on Saturday evening.
The Queen and Prince Albert took an airing on Saturday
in an open carriage.
The Queen Dowager attended divine service yesterday
afternoon in the Chapel Royal, St. James's.
The Duchess and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge
attended divine service yesterday afternoon in St: James's
Church.

The Duke of Cambridge attended divine service yesterday
morning in Grosvenor Chapel.
The Duchess Ida and the Princesses of Saxe Weimar at-
tended divine service yesterday morning in the Royal German
Chapel.
The Prince of Leiningen visited the Duchess of Kent on
Saturday.
The Queen Dowager and the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar
took an airing on Saturday in a pony phaeton. Her Majesty
paid a visit to the Princess Augusta at Clarence-house, St.
James's.

The Duchess of Cambridge visited the Duchess of Glou-
cester yesterday.
A Cabinet Council was held ou Saturday afternoon at the
Foreign-office. It was attended by all the ministers. The
council sat three hours.

WEATHER AND CROPS IN THE FYI E Since our last
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within
being
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deg., making a dif-
ferenceenjoyingisael sea-
report of the crops and weather, we I,•,,:ni:—.
our fickle climate, the thermometer last
)arto)duction looking
the
few degrees of the freezing point, viz. 34ee1k...
end of last month it stood upwards of 70
of nearly 40 deg. ; we are now
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earth look luxuriant and beautiful.—Preston Chronicle.
An unfortunate married man was very ill-used by his Xan-
tippe ; he was even treated with an occasional thrashing. His
friend rallied him upon this, and at last spurred him on to
declare that he would make an effort to be " master." One
day not long after, his better half was so furious that he found
himself compelled to seek shelter under his table. Just at this
moment, the voice of his friend was heard in the passage.
" Come out, come out ! " cried the wife, fearful of an ex-
posure. " No, no," cried the husband in triumph, " come
outindeed, not I—l'll show for once that I am master."

We extract the following from our tiles of the Sydney Ga-
zette and of the Sydney Commercial Journal, which we re-
ceived yesterday :
(From the Commercial Journal of Nov. 5.)
CAPTURE OF BUSHRANGERS.—lntelligence has been re-
ceived in Sydney, announcing the capture of two desperate
bushrangers, by the mounted police, stationed at Bowen's
Hollow, under the charge of Serjeant Sneyd, on the 31st of
October. A day or two previous, the two men who are now
captured, and a third, made an attack upon the premises of
Mr. Brown, a few miles from Hartley, and after seciring
the male portion of the family, they robbed the place of every
article of value they Could lay their haiids upon, after which
they departed. An express was sent oft' to the mounted po-
lice at Bowen's Hollow, and Sneyd and a trooper proceeded
in search of the bushrangers, being joined in their journey by
some gentlemen of the neighbourhood. They traced them,
and came up with them near Piper's Huts. Sneyd first saw
them, and rode down upon them, on which one of the fellows
tired, but missed him. Sneyd then fired, and shot one of
them dead ;'the other two were captured. They had with
them at the time three horses and a quantity of arms, am-
munition, and money. Sneyd, the serjeant of the police,
who acted so praiseworthily on this occasion, is the same in-
dividual who, a short time since, captured three notorious
bushrangers, among whom was Lambert, who escaped from
Goat Island.

(From the Commercial Journal, Nov. 23.)
BATTLE AT WYDEMII, NEW ZEALAND.

By the Falcon, schooner yesterday, we have been put in
possession of the following particulars of a battle at
Wyhemii, New Zealand :
On the 19th Oct. a battle took place between the Nata
Rawkaw and the Nata Aber tribes of Wyhe►nii ; the for-
mer commencing the skirmish by attacking the huts of the
latter, while they were comparatively speaking, in a defence-
less state. The Nata Aber tribe, however, nothing daunted,
defended themselves like the Britons of old for sonic time,
until they received a reinforcement from a neighbouring poa
(village), when they combated with their enemies, with extra-
ordinary courage, and an evident determination rather " to
die than live conquered and dishonoured." After a hard
fight of six hours, the Nata Rawkaw tribe began to retreat,
and were finally driven otf the field. Upwards of 100 were
left dead upon the scite were the battle was fought, and a
great number were so wounded as to be unable to fly the
field.

It appears that the Nata Itawkaw chiefs were so confident
of success, and the superiority of their warlike prowess, that
they and the tribe generally were accompanied to the spot by
their wives and children ; who brought with them a quantity
of cord to bind the prisoners taken during and after the battle.
The Tory arrived the day after the battle, and the surgeons
on board humanely went across to the spot, to dress the
wounded. The Nata Aber Tribe, it is said, behaved with
particular moderation after the victory was declared to be
theirs ; which species of moderation characterized their move-
ments in the heat of the battle :—they assisted their enemies
in burying their dead, and comforting the wounded; declaring
they had no wish to tight, but if they were attacked in their
homes they would defend themselves to the last.

(From the commercial Journal of Nov. 27.)
EXECUTlON.—Yesterday morning, at the usual hour, the
following unhappy men were aroused to prepare to meet their
doom :—William Morris, John Gorman, Peter Scallion,
Joseph Saunders, and George Carey, all found guilty of high-
way robbery and murder, at the last Criminal Sessions. A
little after nine the melancholy and heart-rending procession
moved from the press-room to the foot of the awful drop, ac-
companied by their respective clergymen, who, before the
criminals ascended the platform joined with them in prayer ;
that being ended, the whole were arranged under the fatal
beam, and the executioners performed their last sad office,
by affixing the ropes around their necks ; this done, the bolt
was drawn, and all their souls were ushered into the presence
of their maker.

THE CROPS.—We are happy to learn by a gentleman re-
cently arrived in town from Appin, that the crops all along
the immediate vicinity of the roads were being rapidly reaped,
and the ear very heavy and full. One settler our Informant
states has been obliged to erect a temporary barn in conse-
quence of his crops yielding more than he could reasonably
have expected.
BREAD.—This article of general consumption, it will be
seen by reference to our market report, has taken another
rise of a penny in the two-pound loaf, How to account for
this we know not, as there really is no actual want of flour,
or how could bread be supplied even at the advanced price.
The millers and bakers will do as they like till the Govern-
ment interfere.

The five bushrangers who escaped from the Goulburn gaol
some time ago, were captured about ten days ago by Ensign
Hilliard, and a small party of the mounted police, at the
Abercrombie River, in the new county. They had eleven
guns, five horses, and a quantity of ammunition and sundry
articles.