The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-30 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN DOWAGER

(From the Court Circular of Friday.)
The account of the health of her Majesty exhibited at
Marlborough House yesterday to the nobility and gentry was
as follows :

" The Queen Dowager sat up for several hours yesterday
without being fatigued, and though troubled with her cough
towards morning, her Majesty is in every respect as well as
yesterday. " DAVID DAVIES, M.D.
" Sudbury Hall, November 25, 1841."

(From the Herald of Saturday.)
Sudbury Hall, Friday afternoon, four o'clock.
The bulletin of to-day, which I have the pleasure of
transmitting to you, will afford to your readers the liveliest
satisfaction, for the intelligence of her Majesty's progressive
recovery cannot be otherwise than gratifying to the nation.
The happy change which a few days has made is truly sur-
prising, and without entering into the exaggerated and erro-
neous details given at different times by your contemporaries,
exhibiting to little or no advantage their bad taste, I have to
observe, and that upon the best authority, that no doubts
exist as to the eventual recovery of this august member of
our royal family, from a severe and very alarming attack.
The painful interest experienced by the public will be entirely
relieved by the ratifying information that no further bulletin
of her Majesty s health will be issued until Monday, when
I sincerely trust a still more favourable announcement will
be exhibited.

At half-past eleven the physician in ordinary to her Ma-
jesty, Sir D. Davies, caused the following bulletin to be
issued :

" The Queen Dowager sat up again yesterday for some
hours, and her Majesty feels herself refreshed this morning
from having had a comfortable night's rest.
" DAVID DAVIES, M.D.
"No further bulletin will be issued till Monday next.
" DAVID DAVIES, M.D.
" Sudbury Hall, November 26, 1841,
Friday morning, hairpast one."
Up to this hour (four o'clock) no change whatever has
taken place, and her Majesty continues improving.

Hitchen, M.A., late of Pembroke College,
Cambridge, and Assistant Curate of Clapham, to be Rector
of the Collegiate School, and Assistant Minister of St
Marv's Episcopal Chapel, Glasgow.
Rev. Robert St. John Shirreif, 8.A., to the Curacy of
Barston, Warwickshire.
ford Rev. Richard Woods, to the Vicarage of Mocollop, Water_
Sudbury Hall, November 28, 1841_
. In the course of yesterday the Queen Dowager again sat
p,
"In the midst of life we are in death t . The whole town up for a long time, and had acquired so much strength that
was shocked on Friday at learning that the Venerable the she was able, lam informed, to walk to and fro across the
Archdeacon Hutchins was no more ! This lamented clergy_ room, and this morning the
reports, which 1 trust to-mor-
man dined on the preceding evening with his Excellency the Y, are that her Majesty has passed
row's bulletin will verif
Governor, and soon after ten o'clock quitted the Government another good night. Though still occasionally harassed by
House in his usual excellent :health and spirits. He rose at her cough, this complaint, I am told, is to a certain extent
his ordinary hour, seven in the morning, and while in the
mitigated, and is becoming more similar to the character it
bore before the present serious attack of illness.
act of dressing, fell to the ground, and almost instantly ex-
pired !—Hobart Town paper.

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'Flit& was an action of libel brought by a Homan Catholie
priest against a clergythan of the Established Church. The
facts of the case are well known to the public; and have
been within a few days reported at great length in this paper,
upon the occasion of the discussion upon a motion in arrest
of judgment. The general ground upon which that motion
rested was, that the paper which contained the alleged libel
was not in fact libellous at all, and contained no direct charge
of any kind against the plaintiff himself.
Lord DENMAN, in delivering the judgment of the court,
adverted to the several topics which had been used in the
discussion, but went on to observe, that it was unnecessary
for the court to enter into any consideration of their re-
spective merits upon the present occasion, as there was an
independent ground upon which the court was of opinion
that the rule for arresting the judgment ought to he made
absolute. The court had all along doubted whether any im-
putation against Mr. Hearne was contained in the paper,
but if there were, it only related to his conduct as a Catholic
priest in regard to the administration of the sacrament, or
the imposition of penance upon a member of his congrega-
tion, and it was perfectly impossible for the court to take any
judicial cognizance, or to have any judicial information as
to the plaintiff's duty in respect to that subject. It had
been contended in the argument, that the want of any suffi-
cient allegation upon this point was caused by the evidence
which had been given at the trial, and which was to the effect
that the particular statements in the libel were such, that if
the plaintiff had acted in the manner there imputed to him,
he would incur the displeasure of his ecclesiastical superiors,
and be exposed even to the loss of the temporal advantages
which he derived from his office. But to this it had been
properly answered, that no evidence could establish that
which was not in issue upon the trial, and, indeed, the evi-
dence referred to appeared to be inadmissible, upon this
very ground, that it was irrelevant to the subject which had
been made the subject of controversy upon the record. The
same observation was a sufficient answer to the argument
that the defective allegation in the declaration was cured by
the verdict. It was not enough to allege in such casas malice
upon the part of the defendant, and to prove injurious con-
sequences to the plaintiff. A libel must be expressly alleged
upon the record, before this Court could order a judgment to
be entered up. The consequences of a contrary practice
would be extremely injurious to the public. Words pro-
nounced with the most innocent intention may cause the
greatest injury to an individual, and the most malicious in-
clination of a libeller may be disappointed by the result. If
the Court were to dispense with the necessity of having a
libel upon the record in order to support the judgment, any
words, however general, coupled with a charge of a malici-
ous intention, would be rendered libellous, if it should be
shown as a matter of fact that they had been followed by in-
jurious consequences to the plaintiff. For these reasons the
Court was of opinion that the rule must he made absolute
for arresting the judgment. Upon the subject of granting
a new trial, Lord Denman observed that as the defendant
at the trial had not taken advantage of the defects of the de-
claration, but merely depended upon the bona fides with
which the statement was made, and even persevered in as-
serting that he believed the statement to be true, he had by
such conduct disentitled himself to obtaining the new trial
which he had applied for. The present judgment would be
therefore arrested, and there would be no new trial of the
case.

EXTRAORDINARY VOYAGE.
A VESSEL BROUGHT FROM THE WEST INDIES BY TWO MEN

On Tuesday evening the schooner Whim, Captain Ker-
ridge, belonging to Harwich, arrived in the West India Im-
port Dock from St. Domingo, with a cargo of mahogany,
after a passage of 64 days. The voyage was performed under
the most extraordinary circumstances, and is, we believe,
unparalelled in the annals of navigation.
The crew of the Whim, on leaving St. Domingo, consisted
of five persons—viz., the captain, mate, two men, and a boy.
Four days after sailing the mate, George Strutt, (unmarried,
but the only support of a widowed mother,) caught a severe
cold during a succession of tremendous gales, which pre-
vened him from attending to his duty, and notwithstanding
the usual remedies, which were kindly furnished by the
captain, he gradually got worse, and on the twelfth day he
expired. Next morning his body was consigned to a grave
in the abyss of the ocean, the prayers for the dead having
been previously read over it by the master.
Captain Kerridge being thus deprived of the services of
his chief officer, his duties were necessarily rendered doubly
laborious and irksome ; but, unfortunately, he had soon to
contend with greater hardships and privations.
A few days after the death of the mate, one of the seamen,
named Michael Shey, a native of Kinsale, Ireland, was
attacked with a lingering disease, and being confined to his
hammock in the forecastle, he was unable to perform any
kind of duty. In this state he has arrived with the vessel in
the West India Import Dock. About the time of the mate's
death the apprentice got also disabled, in consequence of a
severe ulcerated leg, which made him unable to stand, and
he, too, has been brought home an invalid, and it is feared
amputation of the leg will become necessary to save his life.
There was now only left the captain and one seaman, named
John Lilly, to bring the schooner to England, a distance of
nearly 4,000 miles ! This they deemed a task almost im-
practicable ; but as their own lives, vessel and valuable cargo
must be sacrificed if they did not persevere, Capt. Kerridge,
and his only remaining seaman (Lilly), resolved on prosecut-
ing at all hazards the voyage. The weather was, at the ad-
vanced period of the season, unusually tempestuous, Capt.
Kerridge stating that he never experienced such a continua-
tion of heavy gales, at times approaching to a hurricane. The
foreyard and part of the schooner's sails were blown away
during one of these tornados, and they were not replaced by
others, the captain having to steer the vessel, and one man
being incapable of making a refit of sails, &c. In this partly
disabled state the voyage was continued, and Capt. Kerridge
and Lilly, when almost worn out with fatigue, discried a ship
at some distance from them, and on nearing each other Capt.
Kerridge solicited from the master of the stranger vessel one
of his crew to assist him, at the same time acquainting him
with his distressed condition. Capt. K. was answered by the
master that he also was short of his crew, and could not spare
any of his men.

Captain Kerridge did not fall in with another vessel until
he reached longitude 15 W. Having perceived a sail at a
short distance, hetoisted a signal flag, and the ship, belong-
ing to St. John's, New Brunswick, and bound for Liverpool,
immediately bore down upon him, and the captain kindly
gave Captain Kerridge one of his crew. Thus manned, the
Whim successfully accomplished the remainder of the voyage,
and that notwithstanding having been exposed to the dis-
astrous gales.

Strange to state, Captain Berridge did not have a chro.
nometer on board the Whim, and his arrival from St. Do-
mingo, under all these extraordinary circumstances, is
almost a miracle.

The schooner and her valuable cargo are, we understand,
partly insured, and as the owners, underwriters, and others
have been, by Captain Kerridge's unexampled courage and
indomitable perseverance, as also that of Lilly the seamen,
prevented from sustaining a heavy loss, it is to be hoped that
such untiring zeal, suffering, and fatigue, will not be per-
mitted to go unrewarded.

The above facts are specially deserving the kind consider-
ation of Lloyd's.

THAMES TUNNEL.—A. thoroughfare was yesterday effected
in this work, and made use of for the first time by the whole
of the directors and some of the original subscribers, who
had assembled on the occasion. The shield having been ad-
vanced to the shaft at Wapping, a considerable opening was
cut in the brickwork, and it was through this the party who
had met at Rotherhithe were enabled to pass, thus opening
the first subterranean communication between the opposite
shores of the river. Upon their arrival at the shaft the party
were greeted by the workmen with most hearty cheers. A
curious and interesting incident was connected with the
event ; a few bottles of wine, preserved since the dinner
given on the occasion when the foundation stone was laid,
with the understanding that it it was to be drunk only when
it could be carried under the Thames, having been opened and
enjoyed by the company to the health of her majesty and the
infant prince. It was remarked too, as a singular coincidence,
that a seal on one of the corks bore the impress of the Prince
of Wales's feathers, a circumstance that caused some merri-
ment. The engineer, Sir J. Brunel, appeared highly gratified
at the happy result of all his past anxiety and arduous labour.
The shield will continue its advance until it has afforded
space for the formation of the remainder of the tunnel,
which is expected to be completed in about three weeks.—
Times of Thursday.

His royal highness the infant Duke of Cornwall is the first
heir-apparent to the British throne who has been born free
of the city of London. His illustrious father having been
some time since admitted a freeman of the Goldsmiths'
Company, the young prince obtains his freedom by patri-
mony, and being of full age at his birth, may take up his
livery at any time on paying his fees.—Globe.

SUDDEN DEATII.—On Tuesday last, Stephen Darby,
Esq., a retired gentleman, was found dead in one of the rail-
way carriages, from London to Maidenhead. He was no-
ticed by the guard at one of the stations, but was supposed
to be merely in a deep sleep.

We are happy to find that it is intended to appoint an 11th
company in every regiment in India and in China, immediately
the consent of the Court of Directors has been obtained.
The necessity of this measure has been strongly impressed
on the Court by the authorities of the Horse Guards.—Naval
and Military Gazette.

RADICAL LOYALTY.—The Welshman, of Saturday last,
says :—" Since last Lord Mayor's-day, the press has been
playing at make-belief, and has not left off yet. The papers,
diurnal, nocturnal, and hebdomedal, like banquetting tables,
have actually reeled under the weight of royalty with which
the have been loaded—the columns of our contemporaries
have teemed with small talk about our young and lovely
Queen (whose loveliness by the way is rather apochryphal)
and the new-born prince—the infant, who by a miracle of
Constitutional wisdom, became of aye the moment he was
born i" The sneer at Queen Victoria is very manly cer-
tainly ; and we believe there is only one Welshman in the
Principality who would indulge in such rascality.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AND Loss OF LIFE.-All
accident occurred at the entrance of our harbour on the fore-
noon of Saturday last, which, we regret to say, terminated in
the loss of two lives. The revenue cutter Eliza, was in the
bay, and the captain and three of the hands had been ashore
on some business matters. On attempting to return to the
vessel, and going out nearly as far as the heads, the swell
running high, and the vessel being some distance off, they
judged it prudent to return ; and were, accordingly, making
the best of their way to the harbour, when, just at the pier-
head, a heavy sea struck the boat, which caused her to swamp,
and all on board were precipitated into the water. Unfortu-
nately no assistance was at hand, only a solitary boy being
on the pier-head at the time, who seeing the accident, and
being called on, ran for assistance, but before any aid could
be rendered, two of the hands had sunk to rise no more, and
Capt. Boling himself was, with difficulty, rescued, and for
some time after, faint hopes were entertained of his recovery.
Another seaman was also rescued.--Manx Liberal.

THE GREAT WILL CASE.—The great will case of Malone
v. O'Connor and others, which has excited so much public
interest during the last six years, has, it is said, been at
length compromised in the following manner:—The plaintiff
gives up all claim to the estates of the late right hon. Anthony
Malone, and in consideration thereof receives a sum of
£6OOO, and £4OO per annum, each party paying their own
costs. The estates which the plaintiff has thus renounced all
title to are estimated at over £ll,OOO a-year. The property,
however, is likely to be further litigated, as another party,
also named John Malone, has filed a bill in Chancery, to dis-
possess the defendants ; so that the harvest for the lawyers
is not yet over.

MELANCHOLY CASE.—An inquest was held at the Coro-
ner's-office, Rotherham, on Wednesday, on view of the body
of William Swift, of Rotherham, aged 27 years, who was
accidentally shot, on Tuesday night, in the park of Lord
Howard of Barbot-hall, with a gun with which he was about
to shoot a dog. His lordship had given orders to one of his
servants, who was in possession of a dog, to get quit of him ;
and he, not liking to destroy the animal himself, sent for the
deceased, who was passing through the park on Tuesday
evening, provided with a gun for the purpose of shooting
him. The groom was with the deceased at the time ; and
on their way a dog belonging to his lordship flew at the de.
ceased, who struck at the dog with the barrel of the gun,
which was not upon the cock at the time. He missed the
dog, but the percussion cap striking the ground the charge
exploded, and the shot entered the left breast of the deceased
and penetrated the heart. Instant death was the conse:
quence. Verdict of the jury, " Accidental death." We
understand that Lord Howard has evinced Insconeern at the
fatal occurrence, by kindly visiting and. relieving the widow.
of the deceased ; at the same time giving orders that she.
should not be allowed to want for anything.—Sheffield Iris.

TIMATIM.ROVAT. LIVERPOOI.

FOR THE BENEFIT OF' ME, STUART

The Tragedy of CORIOLANUS—The New Play of
MONEY—Mr. W. J. HAMMOND.
ON MONDAY next, Dec. 6, will be performed, first
tme these three years, Shakspeare's Tragedy of
CORIOLANUS ;
Or, THE ROMAN MATRON.
Caius Marcius Coriolanus Mr_ Stuart.
Cominius Mr. Chaplin. Volumnia Cleaver
Sicinius
First Citizen
Second Citizen Mr. Slaiter. Servilia . Miss 'Webster
End of the Play,
Mr. W. J. HAMMOND will sing his riginal Song, callei
THE BATCH OF BALLADS,
As sung by him three times each night, at the Strand
Theatre, London.
DANCING, by Master and Miss C. Webster.
To conclude with Sir E. L. Bulwer's last popular Mai of
MONEY ;
Or, THE INHERITANC'E.
.... Mr. Stuart. Lord Glossmore.. Mr. Lynne
Sir Frederick Blount Mr. H. Holl.
Sir John Vesey, Bart., K.G., F.R.S , F.S.A.. Mr. G. Cooke
Old Member of the Club House.. Mr. T. Lee.
Lady Franklin.. Mrs. Clarke. Georgina... Mrs. Barton
Clara Mrs. Baker.
Tickets to be had of Mr. STUART, 32, Upper Beau-street
and at the Box-office of the Theatre.

Evelyn.

ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
GREAT CHARLOTTE-STREET, LIVERPOOL

THIS present MONDAY EVENING, the 29th istant,
and during the Week, will be performed an orial and
English Drama, called
THE YEW TREE RUINS;
Or. the WRECK. the MISER, and the M RDERER.
Valentine, Mr. Howard. Cain Kyon, Mr. . Beverly.
Nancy Nibble Mrs. F. Car an.
Beatrice Pedruth.. Mrs. Nunn, (from the heatres Royal,
York, Edinburgh, &c., her first ap &trance.)
NEW SCENES IN THE ENA,
by Mons. August Arnold, M Wells, &c.
To conclude with the entirely new Drama, entitled
SUSAN HOPLY ;
Or, the VICISSITUDES OF A SERVANT GIRL.
Mr. Gravestow, Mr. Howard; Mr. Simpson, Mr. H.
Beverly; Susan Haply, Mrs. Emery; Fanny Wentworth,
Mrs. Burrowcliffe ; Caroline, Mrs. F. Carman.
The Box-office open daily, from Eleven till Three, when
places for Boxes may be secured on application to Mr. F.
CARMAN.

Centre Dress Boxes, 3s. ; Side Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, ls. 6d ;
Gallery, 6d. Second Price at Nine o'Clock ; Centre Dress
Boxes, 2s. ; Side Boxes, Is. 6d. ; Pit, is. No Second Price
to the Gallery. Private Boxes may be obtained Nightly for
Families. A limited number of Season 'rickets.