The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-10-23 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

Theobald, the father of the turf, died on Monday,
in his 85th year. He died worth upwards of half a million
sterling.
Van Tromp has become the property of Mr. Kirby, for
2,250 sous., that gentleman, on seeing him after his acci-
dent, having found it to be of too slight a nature to be of
any detriment.
GOOD SPORT.—SOIDO of the best sport we have heard
of in the Highlands this season has been at Carrour, the
shootings of T. B. Crompton, Esq., of Farnworth, who
with his friends, S. Blair, Esq., M.P. for Bolton, and E.
Woolmer, Esq., of Exeter, with the assistance of a few
occasional visitors, has bagged, from the Ist of September
to the 6th October, 1424 grouse, 629 hares, 9 black cock,
23 ptarmigan, 18 snipes, and 1 plover—total-2104. Mr.
Crompton never commences shooting until the Ist of
September, consequently the birds are strong upon the
wing, and in full feather. Game has been very abundant
at Carrour, and it is mainly attributable to the vigilance
of Mr. Crompton's keepers in the destruction of vermin
and birds of prey. In three years they have killed 22
eagles, 35 foxes, 6 foulmarts, 17 weasels, 152 hawks and
crows, 5 badgers, and 5 otters—making 242 vermin.
The weather during the month of September has been
remarkably fine, and from the Ist of October to the pre-
sent day (the Bth) the nights have been cold and frosty,
but the days bright and clear, with'a brilliant sunshine;
indeed, such a splendid autumn is not in the recollection
of the oldest man in the 'Western Highlands. Captain
William Peel, R.N., had the good fortune, on Friday
last, to bring town a fine deer, with a very handsome
head. This is the gallant captain's first successful stalk.
At the shootings of Eileen Aigas, Sir Robert Peel and Mr.
Frederick and Mr. Arthur Peel, enjoyed very fair grease
shooting during last week. Sir Robert's sport has, on
the whole, been eattiefactory.—lnrerneu Courier.

POLL„ eAL MISCELLANY.
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Earl Stanhope has had another fling at Mr. Disraeli's
amended scheme of policy developed in Essexti which he
pronounces to be as absu?d as the Aylesbury original,
" A most preposterous proposition."
ANOTHER PREDICTION.—The prediction of Fleming,
the celebrated Presbyterlan, in 1701, relative to the
Papacy, has already attracted universal attention. That
divine in the same work anticipates that in 1849 another
vial`—the sixth—begins. The reader will, perhaps, be
stantlekwhen he learns that it is to be poured out "upon
the Mathomedan Antichrist," or, as he otherwise terms it,
"The Turkish Empire !'. The events with which Europe
is now ringing form the best commentary upon this pre-
diction. We need not point attention to this startling
coincidence.

BROUGHAM ON HUN.GAILY.—A letter from Paris says :
" On Thursday evening Lord Brougham dined with the
Marqnis of Normanby at the British Embassy. All the
foreign ministers, except those of Austria and Sardinia,
ware present. An animated discussion of the extradition
question took place between Lord Brougham and
Kisseleff. On the latter asserting that all the noise
in England was made by the "liberal press," his lordship
assured the Russian minister that Whig and Tory, Lord
Aberdeen .and Sir Robert Peel, were united as one man
upon the question and resolved to support Turkey. This
silenced Kisseleff, who abstained from pronouncing
another word on politics.
We have had a good many pen-and-ink portraits of
Lord John Russell. The latest was sketched the other
day at Aberdeen, by a speaker at a Financial Reform
meeting. It is not a flattering one, but such as it is we
offer it to the reader :—" He knew of no man so little in
mind and body as Lord John Russell. He was a viper, a
gnat, a little stinging wasp, (laughter,) and there had not
been a greater upholder of infamy in the Constitution than
Lord John Russell since the Reform Bill bad passed.
(Oh, and hear.) He wanted to see Lord John turned to
the wrong side of the table, that there he might bite, and
sting, and buzz about the ears of the' Protectionists, who
were now rising, and who, if a dissolution took place to-
morrow. would have a majority in the new house."
STRANGE REASONING.—The Financial Reform Asso-
ciation•sent a deputation to Aberdeen on Tuesday to en-
lighten the lieges there who had been cheering Sir Roht.
Peel, L.L.D. The deputation con.isted of three noted'
members of Parliament—viz., Sir J. Walmsley, Mr. G.
Thompson, and Citizen Feargus O'Connor. There was
an infinite deal of nothing uttered, and much that was
worse : there was foul-mouthed abuse of the aristocracy,
mingled abuse and flattery of the middle classes, and the
grossest adulation of toe labouring population. It was
accounted a sin in members of the peerage that numbers
of them had relatives in the Army, Navy, and the Church.
When this marvellous fact was announced, the whole

meeting cried " Shame !"—as if occupation in the Army,
Navy, and the Church, belonged exclusively t ) the Aber-
deen weavers and herring-salters, and that the latter

were sorely wronged in consequence.
REPEAL OF THE NAVIGATION LAWS.—The next step
in the downward progress of the country, in consequence
of the free-trade measures, is the effect to be produced by
the act repealing the Navigation Laws, which comes into
operation the end of the present year. Preparatory to
this event, a number of vessels belonging to the Baltic
ports, in order to avoid being frozen up during the win-
ter, are making arrangements to remain here in order to
avail themselves of charters as soon as the period arrives.
It is almost unnecessary to observe that these vessels will
be offered for charter on considerably lower terms than
British bottoms, if the latter are to cover expenses. It
is another proof of the practical effect of the free-trade
measures on the condition of the labouring classes, for all
the advantage that the foreign vessels derive over British-
registered ships is based upon lower wages and an inferior
description of food. In addition to the above, it may be
stated upon indisputable authority, that the chartering of
foreign vessels has already commenced in the ports of the
United States for the purpose of loading in our North
American colonies, and that Norwegian vessels have been
already engaged at New York fully fifteen per cent. lower
than on th.t closest calculation is considered remunerating
for British shipping. Some of the vessels were engaged
to load timber, the cargoes to be taken in before the navi-
gation of the river St. Lawrence closes, and the vessels to
proceed to a French port in the Channel, there to wait
until the Ist of January, when it may be legally discharged
in our ports. These facts require little further comment.