The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-03-13 00:00:00

TELEGRAPH OFFICE, MARCH 13, 1840.

Wind North—fine breeze.
Off Great Ormshead, at 7 o'clock—United States.
Off Point Lynas, at 8 30—Monongahela, A.S. from Philadelphia,
has a pilot.
Off Great Ormshead, at g—Carena. At 11—Win. Salthouse, B B
from Trinidad
Off Voel Nant, at 11—United States, from New York

The bakers of Limerick have come to a resolution not to
work on the Sabbath hencetorward.

His Grace the Duke of Wellington dined with her Majesty
at Buckingham Palace on Monday.
On Friday, there were presented to the House of Com-
mons 12 petitions for and 50 against the repeal of the corn-
laws.

BARNSLEY BANK.—The firm of Beckett, Birks, and Co.
have retired from the banking business, jn favour of the
Wakefield Banking Company.
THE BAR.—David Dundas, Esq., of the northern circuit,
has received a silk gown, having been appointed one of her
majesty's council learned in the law.
ABERDEEN.—On Monday last, Sir George Sinclair, of
Ulster, Bart. M.P., was elected Lord Rector of the Maris-
chal College and University for one year.
The Tory has arrived at New Zealand, and several other
vessels belonging to the company, for the purpose of esta-
blishing a British colony, after the manner of South Aus-
tralia.

The marriage announced between the Right Hon. Henry
Labouchere and his cousin Miss Baring, daughter of Sir
Thomas Baring, will be solemnised during the Easter recess.
It is the intention of government, at the earliest possible
opportunity, to take the conveyance of the English mails to
Alexandria out of the hands of the present French con-
tractors.

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There will be a musical festival, on a very extensive scale,
at Birmingham, in the autumn; also the triennial one at
Hereford. It is not yet quite determined whether there will
be a meeting at York.
The marriage announced between the Hon. Captain Ber-
tram Wodehouse and Miss Macdonald, niece to the Dowager
Lady Suffield, will take place at the close of the present
month.
Within the last six weeks the number of vessels pur-
chased for the port of Dundee make an addition to its
tonnage of from 3000 to 4000 tons. Several of the newly
purchased vessels are large and splendid.
The late Duke of Bedford's wines, which were brought to
the hammer a few days since, felt tolerably high prices.
quantity of Hock, which had turned sour, however, sold for
the low price of 10s. a dozen. It was stated that some of
his grace's old rum had been in the cellars, at Woburn,
nearly a century.
DISTRESS.—In Stockport union the total expenditure of
the last quarter is £3,060 16s 41d, and for the quarter end-
ing December 25, 1838, £5,695 lOs 3d; being also an increase
of nearly one-half of the expenditure one year ago, £965 6s
lid.
It is in contemplation—indeed, already determined on—to
raise two fencible regiments, to be located with a small grant
of land each, on the frontier of Canada. The men to be sup-
plied from soldiers of long and good service, at present serv-
in Canada.
A SINGULAR CHARACTER.-0n Friday last, au old sol-
dier named 'William Lee, died in Healey Hall, in the 80th
year of his age. In his younger days' he enlisted and joined
flehe army, and coming home, after an absence of seven years.
found the same warp in the loom which he had left, and
set
to and finished it.—Blackburn Standard.