The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-01-31 00:00:00

Lord Holland is confined to his room by a severe attack of
gout.

The Earl of Manvers has subscribed the munificent sum of
£4OO. in aid of the funds of the new church at Sneaton. This
liberal donation was in addition to a large plot of land given
by the noble earl for the site.
A letter from Dover states that the shipments of silver
thence during the past week have amounted to 20 tons.
The coronation of the King of Denmark is fixed for the
22d of May. . .

The Leeds subscription for relief of the poor has reached
£5OOO, and a larger sum is called for.
Lord Dinorben is, we understand, appointed Militia
'Aid&de-Camp to the queen, in the place of the late Sir W.
W. Wynn.

The county Meath election is fixed for February the 4th.
There will be no opposition to Mr; Corbally, the liberal
didate.

The Excise are seizing chicoree and coffee mixed. Parties
.having coffee licenses are subject to a penalty of £lOO for
having it upon their premises.

The Earl of Egrepiont has been elected president of the
Koval Western Yacht Club. .The' noble earl and countess
are paSsing the season at Silverton'Honse; Devon.,"
We are inforthed that the Admiralty have added £3O. per
annum to the salaries of the lieutenants of Haslar Hospital.

The small-pox still continues prevalent in Pehrith. A
number of very old people are afflicted with the disease.
The shipping of Sunderland appears to he largely on the
increase. At present there are no less than 123 ships build-
ing on the banks of the river Wear.

A BARGAIN.—A poor man bought a cod-fish in our mar-
ket a short time ago, in the stomach of which his wife found
a ring which she sold for 505.---Carlisle Patriot.
PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION.—We are happy to say that
this week a branch of the Protestant Association has been
formed in Lancaster.—Lancaster Gazette.

According to the France, a congress of the Northern Sove-
reigns was to be held next spring at Dresden, to deliberate
on the Eastern and Spanish questions.
NEW REPRESENTATIVE PEER.—The Dublin Gazette, of
Friday evening, announces the election of Lord Crofton, in
the room of the late Earl of Kingston.

We are happy to hear, from the best authority; that Sir
Ralph Lopes has completed a most successful canvass of the
borough of Westbury.
REPRESENTATION OF LICHFIELD.--Captain Dyott has
declared himself a candidate for the representation of this
city at the next election, upon the Conservative interest.
The Hon. Mr.' Spring Rice, son of Lord Monteagle' and
Mr. Alston, son of the member for Hertfordshire, have been
appointed to clerkships in the Foreign Office.—Ministerial
paper.

The distillers in Ireland, in consequence of the overstock
of whisky caused by the tetiaperaie habits of the Irish peOple,
are now seeking a mart in the West Indies and Portuguese
markets.—Limerick Chronicle.

It is reported that when a dissolution of Parliament takes
place, Mr. Kirkman Finlay of Toward Castle will offer him-
self as one of the candidates for the representation of Glas-
gow.—Glasgow Chronicle.

The Dublin Mercantile Advertiser states that Mr. Mo-
nahan, of the Connaught circuit, has been appointed counsel
to the Chief Secretary, an office held by Mr. Pigott previous
to his advancement to the Solicitor Generalship—

It is generally reported that Sir George Staunton will be
the commissioner despatched with the force destined against
China, and that he will take passage in the Pique frigate.—
Naval and Military Gazette.
FAT Ox.—A four year old Devonshire ox, fed by Mr.
Josiah Castree, of this city, was last week slaughtered by
Mr. J. Barnes, butcher, of Cheltenham, and exhibited upon
opening a most extraordinarS, yield of suet. The entire
weight of the carcase was 40 score 6 lbs ; the suet on the
kidney of the close or right side weighed fibs, without di-
vesting the sirloin of its fair proportion of fat; the girth 4
feet 2 inches, and Ifoot 9 inches, at the base. The four
quarters of the animal and also the suet were weighed in the
presence of several eminent graziers and butchers.—Glouces-
ter Chronicle.

The Hon. P. Bouverie, second son of the Earl of Radnor,
has been appointed Precis Writer at the Foreign Office, in
the place of the Hon. James Howard, who has succeeded
the Hon. Spencer Cowper as Private Secretary to Viscount
Palmerston.—Ministerial Print.

The new American steam-ship President is still lying in
Hamoaze, Plymouth, waiting the arrival of her masts, &c.,
from London, to repair the damage lately done to her in a
gale off the Start, whilst on her passage to Liverpool to take
on board her engines.
On the occasion of her Majesty's marriage, the state
apartments will be lined by the gentlemen-at-arms, headed
by Lord Foley, their captain ; and the yeomen of the guard,
with the exons, will -be stationed in the armoury-rooms,
staircase, and corridor leading to the chapel royal.
Sheridan Knowles has completed a new ballad opera for
Covent-garden Theatre, which will be shortly produced ; as
will also Leigh Hunt's new five act play, which has been
some time in rehearsal, and is already announced in the bills.
A principal pait in it is said to have been assigned to Mr.
Moore, the late debutant in Hamlet.
On Monday morning, last week, one of the loudest claps
of thunder ever experienced in this vicinity was heard, pre-
ceded by a vivid and broad flame of lightning. A cow in a
field beyond the Hurlford, on the Galston road, was killed
by, the electric fluid, and a large willow tree on the road side
was torn up from its roots by the fury of the tempest.—
Kilmarnock Journal.'

REPRESENTATION OF WIGAN.—Lord Lindsay, the eldest
son'of the Earl of, Balcarras, has issued an address to the
electors of the borough of Wigan, stating his determination
not to come forward as a candidate for their suffrages in the
event of a general election. His lordship states as his reason
that his health would be unequal to the attention necessary
to laborious parliamentary duties.
ROYAL MAIL STEAM-PACKET COMPANY..—The day for
receiving their subscriL,tions was Wednesday, the 15th inst.,
when every share was Aaken. We are glad 'to hear it con-
firmed, that they have contracted with the government to
carry the West Inuian mails for ten years, at £140,000 per
annum. Southampton is intended to be their harbour. Of
course, this will be highly benefiCial to the Southampton
docks and railways.—Railway Magazine.
John K. Booth, M.D., Joseph Walker, William Charles
Alston, and Joseph Frederick Ledsatn; Esqrs. have forwarded
their resignation as magistrates for this borough, to the
secretary of state for the home department. Our contempo-
raries have erroneously included the name of William
Chance, Esq. in a similar list to this. It will be in the recol-
lection of our readers that Mr. Chance sent his resignation
to the home-office some months.ago.—Aris's . Birmingham
Gazzetle.• • . . . ,

How COMES IT ?----We ask how comes it to pass that John
George' the -great and mighty Earl of Durham, who was sent
ont as dictator to Canada by Lord Melbourne, through a
" little bit" of jealousy (to wit—that his own nose might
not be thrust out by our good and esteemed neighbour) and
shortly afterwards returned in the pet, exclaiming that he
" had been,struck on the head by his own friends,' was one
of the 30 guests at the first parliamentary dinner this season,
given by Lord Melbourne on Wednesday se'nnigbt ?—Dur-
ham Advertiser.

The union of the provinces is, it is clear, to be one merely
legislative. Upper Canada will not be deprived of its offi-
cials, so that Toronto will lose nothing of its metropolitan
character, except, perhaps, the honour of being the place of
meeting for the united legislature ; and even this is some-
what doubtful, for we are informed that it is the intention of
the governor-general to recommend at least the first two or
three sessions to be held in Toronto. This will do away
with the suspicions so roundly expressed, that the influential
metropolitans oprae the re-union for selfish motives.—
Niagara Chrorrcie.
DENBIGHSHIRE BrAcTrow.—The election of a representa-
tive for this county, in the room of the late ever-to-be-
lamented Sir Watkyn Williams Wynn, Bart., takes place on.
Thursday next ; and from the very flattering manner in which
his nephew.has been received by all classes of the electors,
not a doubt now remains but that he will succeed to the va-
cant post oflonour, which it is rumoured, by his. friends,
Mr. Biddulph, the rejected, has serious thoughts of declining,
in consequence of finding the popular feeling so much against
his pretensions.—Chester Courant.
VENERABLE YEW TREE.—There is at presentan ancient
yew tree growing in Darley Church-yard, near Matlock, of
the enormous girth of thirty-three feet. This evergreen is
surrounded by wooden benches, which it is customary for
those who attend divine service in that church to sit upon,
especially during summer, previous to their entering the sa-
cred edifice. It is supposed to be upwards of three hun-
dred years old, and is considered one of the largest trees of
this kind, and, perhaps, one of the oldest in England.
Our Chatham correspondent informs us, that the next -de,-
tachments for India will not sail before the middle of June,
or the middle of July. It was intended to send out drafts
to the three presidencies early in the ensuing month ; but the
East India Company, do not consider that the present quiet
state of India requires any reinforcement of troops, and have,
therefore, determined to delay the embarkations until the
usual period, as above stated.—United Service Gazette.
APPROCHING MARRIAGES IN HIGH LIFE.—The Right
Hon. Henry Labouchere is about to lead to the hymenial
altar the accomplished Miss Baring, daughter of Sir T. and
Lady Baring, and sister to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Captain Charles Paget, a nephew to the Marquis of Anglesey,
will be shortly united to the beautiful Miss M`Chintock. J.
Bosanquet, Esq., nephew to Sir J. Bosanquet, will lead to
the altar early in March, one of the daughters of Lord Chief
Justice Tindal.—Morning Herald.
CONSERVATISM Al' MANCHESTER.—SOMe idea may be
formed of the growing, strength of Conservatism in this bo-
rough, by the extraordinary large attendance at the series of
dinners given to Sir George Murray, during the two past
weeks. At Ardwick, upwards •of 200 persons dined ; at
Hulme, not much less than 500 ; in No. 2 district, 260; the
dinner of Nos. 12, 13, and 14 districts, 415; and at that of

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10 and 11 district, upwards of 400; so that nearly 2,000
staunch Conservatives have already met the right hon. gen-
tleman, and, on Monday evening, he will be received by 700
more in Chorlton-upon-Medlock.—Manchester Chronicle.
There is a foreign attache of King Leopold again hovering
about our court. This functionary made his appearance at
the accession, when it was rumoured he was to be appointed
to a very confidential post about the Queen's person ; but
this was abandoned owing to a very decided expression of
public reprobation, made manifest in some very energetic
articles in the public press. Leopold, however, is determined
to have an agent at our court, and the functionary alluded to
will, no doubt, have a place immediately about Prince Albert's
person, as soon as ever the Parliamentary grant is carried.—
Cheltenham Looker-on.

EARTHQUAKE.—On the night of Wednesday, •the Bth
instant, about the hour of ten o'clock, a smart shock of an
earthquake was felt in the parishes of Carndonagh and Clon-
many, in the county of Donegal. In some places those who
had retired to rest felt themselves shaken in their beds, and
others were thrown off their chairs, and greatly alarmed. It
is said to have been partially felt. at the same time, in the
vicinity of Moville, and also within a few miles of this city.
We believe this to be but the second instance of an earth-
quake having been felt in any part of Ireland.—Derry paper,

WooLwicx.—Late on Sunday evening a sudden order
arrived for the embarkation, without delay, of a strong de-
tachment of sappers and miners, belonging to the corps of
royal engineers, stationed at Woolwich, which was carried
into effect on Monday evening, by the force embarking off
the Royal Arsenal, in the Lloyd freight ship, destined for the
'Cape of Good Hope, where, on arrival, they are to be em-
ployed upwards of 300 miles up the country, and are newly
equipped with rifle and sword, instead of only the latter, as
has been customary in that branch of the service. Two light
field guns and carriages will accompany them, and they will
take in at Gravesend several detachments from line regiments
now waiting there for that purpose.—Morning Herald.

TYPHUS FEVER.-It is singular that a spot so proverbially
healthy as Casterton should be suffering so peculiarly from
the typhus fever. In the school and village there have been
'7O more or less affected, and three have died. The state of
the servants' school is much improved the last week, and
the patients may almost be pronounced convalescent. But
there are three very bad cases in the clergy school, and the
fever increases in the village, chiefly amongst children. A
subscription has been raised for the sufferers in the village ;
and the heavy expenses and anxieties in the two schools have
been met by much sympathy and liberal assistance from va-
rious parts of the kingdom.—Lancaster Gazette.