The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-25 00:00:00

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

The Ballyshannon Herald states that two men, named
Smith and Carr, have been arrested for the murder of Samuel
Lyons.

The Board of Works is about to expend £40,000 in re-
decorating the entire suite of state apartments at St. James's
Palace.

The fixed income of the Deanery of Durham, under the
new law, is £3OOO, and the Dean required to be in residence
eight months out of the twelve.
INLAND COALS.—We understand that in the course of
this week a quantity of coals from Clay Cross, Derbyshire,
will be brought to the London market. They are said to be
equal to the best Wallsend, and can be bought at a cheaper
rate.—Hull paper.

A gentleman resident in this town received a day or two
ago, through the medium of the penny post, a living viper,
from the foot of Ceder Idris, in North Wales ! It arrived
safely, and was not at all the worse for its journey.—Here-
ford Journal.

The Earl of Eglington has had a magnificent candelabrum
presented to him by 300 citizens of Glasgow, as the inscrip-
tion states, " as a tribute of respect. and in acknowledgment
of the courtesy which distinguished him as Lord of the Tour-
nament, held at Eglington Castle, in August, 1839."

SUDDEN DEATH OF MR. HUGH HAMMERbLEY THE
BANKER.—This gentleman died very suddenly on Saturday
evening last. He had been walking in the park and returned
to his residence at a quarter past six, when he was immedi-
ately taken ill, and was dead at seven.
DEATH OE LADY CATHERINE MACARTNEY. Her
ladyship, who was widow of the late Sir John Macartney,
Bart., died on Thursday. The deceased lady, who was
second daughter to the late Right Hon. Walter H. Burgh,
Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, was in the 70th year of
her age.

DOVER, SEPT. 19.—The Duke of Wellington keel's close
at Walmer Castle, seldom going far abroad. His grace is in
excellent health and spirits, and seems, with his select party,
to enjoy the salubrious air of this delightful locality.
Lord Albert Conyngbam, in taking leave of the representa-
tion of Canterbury, solely on the ground of his continuing
ill-health, has caused it to be distinctly intimated to the
liberal electors that it is his intention, should his health be
restored, to solicit their suffrages again.—Government paper.
EARLY SNOW.—We hear from Anhbleside, that the moun-
tain tops in the neighbourhood of Keswick were covered with
snow, which fell on Tuesday night. Our Wray correspon-
dent states, that Ingleborough was completely covered with
snow on Wednesday morning; which, however, melted away
before night.—Lancaster Guardian.

COUNTY OF SLIGO REGISTRY.—During the past year the
conservatives have registered in this county 42 new votes,
and 141 of the old registry. The radicals registered only 4
new votes, and 40 of the old registry, thus leaving the con-
servative party s clear majority of 38 new votes, and of 101
on the registry.—Sligo Journal.

TIIE EGYPTIAN FLEET.—It is confidently reported, that
Rear Admiral the Earl of Dundonald, better known in the
naval world as Lord Cochrane, has submitted to the Ad-
miralty a plan for destroying the Egyptian fleet in the har-
bour of Alexandria. This is the same officer who conceived,
and so ably executed, the design for destroying the French
fleet in Basque-roads, in 1808 ; and his name will revive
some awkward reminiscences in the minds of our blustering
neighbours.—Naval and Military Gazette.
SNOWDOIv.—It is rumoured that the oxide of titanium has
been found in some plenty on old Snowdon. If this be so,
an important and scarcely procurable chemical agent will
shortly be thrown into the market, and the capabilities of
the laboratory will be enlarged. We have seen a sample,
but have had no opportunity hitherto of testing it, either with
reference to itt acid or its metalic base. It exhibits the ap-
pearance of small laminar ruby-coloured crystals, and has a
vitreous fracture.— Carnarvon Herald.
Captain Reynolds, of the 11th Prince Albert's hussars,
whose case is the prevailing topic of conversation in military
circles, entered the army as cornet, by purchase, 19th Jan.,
1826 ' • lieutenant, without purchase, 25th June, 1829 ; cap-
tain, 14th April, 1837. The gallant officer is brother to Cap-
tain John Williams Reynolds, of the same regiment, and
both officers served with the regiment when it was on the
India establishment, and distinguished itself at the capture
of I3hurtpore, &c.
PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.—A gentleman named Freydell,
a commercial traveller of Tottenham-court-road, London, in
crossing the sands to Ulverston on Sunday evening, unfor-
tunately lost his way ; and, had he not providentially made
Chapel Island, must in all human probability have been
drowned. Here, on this barren rock, without shelter for
himself or horse, he remained during the whole of a stormy
night, until the return of daylight and the receding of the
tide permitted him to make the shore in safety.—Luncaster
Guardian.

LARGE CASTING OF BRASS GUNS.—IO the early part of
the week, the largest furnace in the Royal Arsenal, Wool-
wich, was charged with upwards of 15 tons of brass ' • and at
ten o'clock on Thursday night the fire was lighted, and at
eleven o'clock yesterday forenoon the metal, having been
brought to a proper state of fusion, was run into the moulds
constructed for eight 24-pounders, and four 12-pounder
liciwitxers. The day fixed for the casting was not generally
known, so that the spectators were not so numerous as ou
former occasions.

EXHIBITION.
THE LAST WEEK BUT ONE

CAPTAIN SIBORN' S MODEL OF THE BATTLE
OF WATERLOO.

THE celebrated MODEL OF THE BATTLE OF
WATERLOO is NOW OPEN for EXHIBITION

at the GALLERY OF THE UNION ROOMS, Slater.
street, Bold-street.
Open from Ten in the Morning till Ten at Night. Ad.
mission, One Shilling each.