The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-12-07 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

(From the Morning Herald.)
Our worst predictions have been verified—the rebellion,
only partially smothered in the early part of this year in
Canada, has again burst into a flame, and Heaven only
knows where it may end! Troops we have none; nay. so
hardly pressed are the authorities, that the 96th regiment,
intended for New South 'Wales, and now in Ireland, cannot
be noticed for their new destination, in consequence of their
not being able to spare the 86th regiment from this country
to replace them there. This, to say the least of it, is rather
an awkward predicament for my Lord Howick and his col-
leagues. After all the admonitory warnings we and others
have from time to time given them of the necessity of send-
ing such a force to our North American colonies as should
not only have kept in awe the disaffected, but have given
confidence to the well-disposed, ministers will be obliged,
when called upon, to acknowledge that months since Sir
John Colborne had asked for an augmentation to his military
strength, but, as is their wont, they have permitted the day
for action to pass. Now the winter has set in, and our brave
troops there, and the loyalists, are left by their inertness and
indolence to struggle with the malcontents as they may.
Some short time since we stated that less than 20,000 men
would na suffice to place us in a position to meet the de-
mands likely to be made from Canada and Indi4, and now
strong doubts are entertained whether even that number will
be sufficient.

We understand that three companies of artillery, intended
as reliefs for others in the West Indies, have been counter-
manded, and now await orders for Canada.
The two battalions of rifles are very likely to be sent to
Canada, should occurrences there render an immediate force
necessary.
The 23d Highlanders, and not the 23d fusiliers, have pro-
ceeded from Nova Scotia to Canada, the latter expect an
overland march, which they consider as very preferable to a
conveyance by water.
The serjeant-major of the 11th light dragoons, lately
eazetted to an ensigncy in an infantry regiment is, we un-
derstand, to be appointed to the adjutancy of his old corps,
vice Ready, on the eve of exchanging into another regi-
ment.

The following regiments are not at all likely to return
home as early as expected:-16th and 54th from India; 58th
and 61st from Ceylon.

Some new regulations are very soon expected to appear
respecting regimental messes. • It is certainly high time that
some reform should take place in such arrangements.
The following generals now compose the acting committee
of the board of officers for the inspection and regulation of
the clothing of the army :—President, Lieutenant-General
Sir J. Fuller; Major-Generals H. Shadforth, Sir David
Ximenes, K.C.H., Henry D'Oyley, and George James
Reeves, K. H.

We have already announced that Mr. Sergeant Arabin
has been appointed Judge Advocate General of the United
Kingdom, vice Cutlar Fergusson, deceased.
We understand that Sir Gaspard le Merchant, late of the
legion, is likely to succeed to the command of a British regi-
ment. The superior officers of that force have certainly no
reason to complain.

On the night of Saturday last, the body of a woman was
discovered by two young men, belonging to Whickham,
lying in a shocking state of putrefaction, and her face and
feet devoured by vermin, in Ravensworth Woods, near to
the "Tile Shades." The youths were so afraid, that they
hastened home, and stated to their friends what they bad
seen, who immediately came, and found her as described by
them. She turns out to be a person of the name of Eleanor
Brownlee, well known at Gateshead Fell and in the district,
as " Deaf Nelly," or " Pot Nelly." She had been in the
habit of travelling the country with a basket, containing nuts,
oranges, and a few articles of pottery ware, and was much
respected at many of the houses she called at. The village
children were all glad when Nelly made her appearance
with her "bonny pots and nuts." She had, on Saturday the
10th instant, gone to Ravensworth with her basket; and oa
her return, night overtook her, when she called at a farmer's
house, near "Cow Close," and asked for a lodging, but was
refused ! She had then attempted to find her way through a
very dreary part of the woods, near to Mrs. Todd's, the
Ravensworth Arms public-house, and must have suffered
much from the heavy rain that'was then falling. Her basket
and stick were picked up a short distance from where she
was found. She was within a few weeks of being one hundred
and three years old—was in Gateshead when "Duke Willy"
came through this borough, on the 28th of January, 17:16,
during the rebellion—and saw the Trinity Chapel in flames.
She was on Newcastle Bridge on the morning of Sunday the
17th November, 1771, when it fell, and was rescued holt.' her
perilous situation by some keelmen, with long ladders. She
had attended the great Leipsic fairs, as saleswoman for the
late Warburtons, of Warburton Place Pottery, Cart's Hill.
Pity but she had called at the door of some "fine old English
gentleman," and escaped so awful a termination of her long
and interesting life ! —Gateshead Observer.

-linports.

EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, 4,,
Petrel, (336) W Turcan, from Bombay, with 123 bls wool, 25 cs
gum arabic, 118 ps ebony wood, z bxs curry powder, 411 bls 16 hf
bls cotton, 1 ppe Marsala wine, Finlay and Alston-9ehts gum ara-
bic, Skinner and co-624 bgs pepper, 10 bgs 2 frazils F coffee, 821
bls 48 hf his cotton, 1 bx musters, 1 bag pepper, 1 bag rice, 2 kegs
mango pickle, 2 hxs curry, 1 bgF sugar, 3 bxs coats ualtn, order—
P D

Victory, (590) W Blackley, from Calcutta, 31 chts indigo, 1873
bags saltpetre, 1500 bags rice, 26 chts lac dye, 300 bgs cuteb, C 5 ps
redwood, 4521 ps sapan wood, 954 bags linseed, 12 bls raw silk, 310
bls jute, 100 bales hemp, 5 bls cow and 1 bale buffalo hides, 1 bhd
sherrry wine, 2 bxs feather tippets, 2 cs retd goods, U Boggs-100
hgs 14 hhds sugar, Bates, Sons and co-100 hgs saltpetre, J Bibby
and co-64 chts teel oil, Gledstanes, Kerr and co-324 bags sugar, J
Gladstone and co--422 sks flour, 45 sks ground rice, 138 bgs 1 cask
rice, 1 cask sugar, 1 box conts unkn, Heyworth and co-1 bx cants
unkn, Leech and Harrison-936 bgs 15 hhds sugar, 37 chts lac dye,
7 cs corahs, 6 bls silk 8 chts indigo, 61 bls safflower, 10 bls 1 parcel
raw silk, 1 box a portrait, 1 box conts unkn, 52 Ns cow hides, 1 la
sugar,
feathers
I,sk 1 bfloux pric consumed on kles, 2 es silk
the pcvoyage—P De geods, order-3 bgs 119 e, 1 bag