The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-03-09 00:00:00

COLONIAL SECRETARY,

The order of the day far resuming the adjourned debate on
the motion expressing a want of confidence in the Colonial
Secretary having been read,
Mr. LEADER rose to address the house. He was sorry the
question had taken the turn it had ; it was no longer a question
as to the policy of the Colonial office, but one of whether the
present administration should remain in their places or not.—
(Hear, hear.) He was sure, however, the house would thank
his honourable friend for bringing under the consideration of
the house the danger which threatened all her majesty's colo-
nies, under the government of Lout Glenelg. The noble lord
the Secretary fur Foreign Affairs last night complained that
this motion should have emanated from the quarter it had dune,
but how could the noble lord be surprised when those with
whom he (Mr. Leader) acted had been been deceived and de-
luded by the present government ?—( Hear.) They had as long
as they possibly could given their support tojihe present pro-
fessing liberal ministry, but he repeated they had been deceiv-
ed and deluded. (Hear.) The present government had not
performed its promises, and they were only supported by mem-
bers who thought they were a little better than bon. gentlemen
opposite. ( Laughter.) He did not believe the country would
lose by any change of administration. The present ministry
professed themselves whigs, anti all their acts were grounded
in Tory principles. (Hear.) He would, therefore, rather see
a tory government in power than the present ministry. ( Hear.)
He could not, however, vote for the amendment of the noble
lord .the member fur Liverpool.
[Left sitting.]

SCWiTITUTION of MEotcar. DreLom is.—A letter in the.
Lancet of this week states, that some young men who idled
away their time have paid others to pass their professional ex-
aminations for them, and have thus obtained diplomas and
qualifications for practice which otherwise they would never
have procured. "A case is within the cognisance of the writer,
in which a young man, now practising in the eastern division
of Somerset, has obtained the medical superintendence of an
union, under the New Poor Law, consisting of four large par-
ishes, and who never underwent any sort of examination, but
obtained his diploma through a certain firm, located nut far
from Museum-street. by pay ment to the principal of sorrie..2f)
guineas, In fact the Hall and College are in possession of a
due to the ramification of as complete a system of wholesale
,
•imposition of this kind as ever was practised." That. he hall
has the power of prosecuting and bringing to punishment the
parties concerned in this nefarious proceeding we have little
doubt, but we fear that the College of Surgeons can not do so.
MELANCHOLY Loss OF LIFE—On Saturday evening, about
nine o'clock, Mrs. Goddard, wife of Mr. Goddard. bookkeeper
to the Ashton canal company, lett her house and infant child in
care of a young woman, whilst she went to her husband's office
to fetch him to his supper. When going out, she said she would
ilia be more than a few. minutes ai,sent ; but an hour elapsing
without her return, a young man was sent to inquire the cause
of the delay. On reaching the office he found it locked, and no
person inside, which alarmed him, as he knew Goddard was not
in the habit•of stopping between the office and his house. Ile
immediately had the canal dragged, when the body of Goddard
was found. and in half an hour afierwaials that of.his-vrife; but,
in both, life was extinct. The office lies at the hick of the
Soho foundry, and at the opposite side of the canal from God-
dard's house, the passage across being .a plank, unguarded at
either side; and it is supposed that Mr. and Mrs. Goddard were
crossing the plank on their way home, when her foot slipped
and she felt into the canal, and that he plunged in to rescue her.
An inquest was held on the bOdies on Monday ; and, there
being no more evidence before the jury than what is above
stated, they returned a verdict of " Found drowned."—Man-
cliester Guardian.

Steam Navigation to distant parts of the world is likely to
receive a new impetus by an important discovery which has re-
cently been made by an English gentleman of the name of
Bennett, who bag recently visited France for the purpose of
making an experiment which it is believed will be attended
with the most important results to steam navigation and manu-
facturers, particularly in that country, by means of which the
steam in engine boilers can be generated at one-third of the ex-
pense, and with less than one-third of the quantity of coals
now used.

me.—lt is melancholy to witness the present state of the
vole, owing to the severity of the weather; dead hares lying
'scattered over the fields in all directions, whole coveys of par-
tridges have disappeared, and even in preserves, where not full
't-d, pheasants are dying in considerable numbers. Many gen-
tlemen have made up their minds already to give the game a
jubilee next season ; the great fear is there will he but few sur-
vivors. Wood-pigeons and small birds have died in great num-
bers.—Glovow Courier.

A PUGILIST IN A "BOARDING" ENCOUNTER.—On the
occasion of the enemy hoarding the Tickler on hsr voyage out,
this regular right•and-left handed bitter behaved with extraor-
dinary bravery. He caught up a sword with his right baud.
whilst with bis left he grasped a double-headed shot. Thus
,singularly armed, he ruthed amongst the boarders, and dealt
destruction around him. The sword he only iisepo ward off
-the blows of his iiitagortiists, while he struck with his left hand
,with the double-headed -shot, and always with good aim and
-deadly effect. This scientific mode of fighting, nes at 1111 Cr so
novel and tremendous, that he.knockPit down-1 beg pardon,
floored—eight of the eneinN. OLIII created a comptete
.I..ruring the whole of the
he w-‘O, engaged in this extraor-
dinary conflict,- he was (as Trevallion mid me) purely for his
own satisfaction, invoking " inverted blessings" on the bodies,
-souls, eyes and limbs of the enemy.—Adrentures of a Creole.