The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-01-27 00:00:00

aotion has been occasion,

is of a le

, meant to be
Ire in-

bers, in revealing the co
strictly confidential. Two distinguished niembe
volved in this charge, and a coldness, on the part of their

The Right
ner, on 'Tuesday, the

Alexander

lonial-office, and Other gentlemen connected with that
department, Mr. Bonham, late of the Ordnance, Dr.
Phillimore, and others.

One of the Ojibbeway Indians (the bird of the tempest)
died at Brussels the other day, of the small-pox, and an-
other (the king of the bitterns) is dangerously ill. The
former was baptised by a Roman Catholic clergyman a
few hours before his death. The other Indians are still
at Ghent.

--Mr. Kirby, the owner of Lanercost, is desirous to take
a bet of £6OO to £4OO that his (Lanercost's) produce wins
the Doncaster St. Leger, in 1847, against the produce of
any other horse in England ; or an even bet of £5OO, his
produce against that of any other untried horse for the
same race. _ _ _ _

Monmouth, on Saturday, Mr. Lapham, a sporting
gentleman, was charged with stealing one of his own
horses, which, left with Mr. Newman, had been sold by
auction by that gentleman to pay expenses. The magis-
trates decided that as Mr. Newman was not a licensed
dealer, he had no right to dispose of the animal, and dis-
missed the charge.

raIUGGLED MALT.—On Friday last a large quantity of
malt was discovered in an unentered house, by Math-
an excise officer, of Solva, Pembrokeshire.
is, we understand, a young woman, who is on the eve of
being married, and the malt was intended to be converted
into cwrw da, on her bridal day. Perhaps it was only a
peck or two.
The Quebec Gazelle records the loss, at Cape Chat, of
two outward-bound vessels, one of them supposed to be
the barque Montreal, Captain Douglas, which sailed
hence on the morning of the 28th November, with the
loss of her crew and passengers. Several of the bodies
have been washed on shore, among them a woman and a

The maltster

POACHING AFFRAY.—On Saturday night a battle took
place between Bridger and Cadd, two of the Duke of
Buckingham's gamekeepers, and some poachers at Hills-
don. The keepers heard firing near " Preston Bushes"
and came up to three poachers. An affray ensued in
which both Bridger and Cadd were knocked
desperately cut and wounded. The poachers escaped.
A few days since, as Mr. Sheppard, governor of Wake
field House of Correction, was walking along the lane
leading to the prison, some person behind a wall fired a
pistol close at his head. Mr. Sheppard's hat was blown
off, and the ball entered about an inch and a half above
the head. £2OO reward has been offered for the miscre-
ants apprehension.
A Spanish Torn Thumb has arrived at Cork. The
vessel which was conveying him to London put in there

from stress of weather, a.

!own and

g propensity for

the height of an ordinary man's top-boot
age, very intelligent, and has a str
stirring the fire

—is of mature

A tree has been cut down at Ratnroerselles, for the
purpose of being converted into sleepers for the Caledo:
!Ilan Railway, of whi ch the following are the dimensions
Circumference at root where cut off, 11 feet 2 inches;
diameter at widest part, 3 feet 9 inches ; height, 90 feet ;
contents of titnLer. 106 feet. The rings of growth num-
bered 87 ; so its age may be estimated at about a century.

It has been rerniirked whenevera severe winter is abniit
to take place, that the ants bury thews-lves very deep in
the earth. Last winter, which was very severe, these in-
sects were found at the depth of two reet below the sur-
face of the earth, while this year they were only two inches
under ground. The same with the bees; last to

they had sto

ped every avenue to their hive

son the entrance to th-em is scarcely closed

MUNIFICENT DONATIONS.—ThOMES Clapham, Esq.,
of Stackhouse, near Settle, who died last Friday, has left
£lO,OOO to the Leeds Infirmary, £lO,OOO to the Wilber-
force Blind Asylum at York, £5,000 to Harrogate Bath
Hospital, and £5,000 to the Clergy Orphans' Fund, be-
sides smaller charitable bequests.

CURIOUS CIRCITAISTANC .—On Wednesday morning
the Holyhead mail was compelled to turn back new: Pen-
maen Mawr, to Conway to wait for better weather

wind came with such power for a mile round the rocks,
as to turn the four-horses and the coach completely round.
Another attempt was made to proceed by taking away the
leaders but all was fruitless. After reaching Conway
again the wind fell, so as to allow of turning out at b.
o'clock, occasiouing a delay of four hours.
FATAL AFFRA Y.—A dreadful encounter took place on
Wednesday morning, on the grounds of the Ear: of Mo-
ley.

at Siltram, near Piplloath, between a party of
, and his lordship's gamekeepers.

poache

ten in number

An unfortunate keeper; named Cottell, pursued the
sore time, when one of the_poachers levelled l;is

fired, and the keeper dropped down and immediately ex-
pired. A man named Reed, a sawyer, of Plymouth, has
been captured as being one of the party, and is now un-
dergoing an examination before the magistrates.
A few days ago, a registrar of births, deaths, and mar-

riages, proceeded to the residence of one of his neigh-
bours, not one hundred miles from Sunderland, for the
purpose of registering a birth, and on enquiring of the
mother the day and date of the child's admission to that
enlightened portion of her Majesty's dominions, received
the following characteristic reply :—" Deed, Mr. H—, I
neither know the dey of the week nor the day of the
month, but the bairn was born the day after Roger Lums-
den's pig waa killed !"
At the Stafford sessions, last week, the chairman was

lout to discharge a boy accused of stealing wt

bov, in reply to the magistrates, stated thathe had no
father, and, in a flood of tears, said that his parent had
been transported for seven years. On this a voice was
beard--" Fen his father," and a decently dressed rnecha-

nic stepped forward, and was rejoiced to claim his son.
The father had returned from transportation, and he and
his son were made known to each other in this romantic
manner. The two left the court together, the father say-
ing he had employment for his son.

FORGING STAMPS.—At the Lambeth police-office, on
Friday, Edward Watkins, an aged and plain man in ap-
pearance, and who is reputed to be worth £lO,OOO, his
wife and son were charged with being concerned in the
sale of forged bill and receipt stamps. The prisoners
have been engaged in so doing for a length of time, and
out of 933 stamps found in their two shops 791 were

prisoner being sei iously i►i, the magistrate said he would
accept bail for him to the amount of £4,000. Another
man, named Hancock, from whom the prisoners obtained
the forgeries, was remanded on a charge of forging the
stamps.

ANCIENT LETTER.-At a meeting of the Literary and
Philosophical Society last week, the President (J. B.
Yates, Esq.) handed round an interesting letter, address-

ea ny ming unarles 1, then a prisoner in the Isle of
Wight, to the Governor of Newfoundland, reccomtnend-
ing to his good offices Lady Hopkins, t 9 wife of Sir
William Hopkins, one of his staunch

erents

whom the body of it was written is rather ut et tain, Cu.
the concluding part, and the signature, are t undoubt.

weeks previous to h

,xecutior

The original was found

Yates's library,

a mass of contemporary papers in Mr
relating to the times of the Commonwealth

LEATI
Monday,

licott, 53 years of age
stated that I

was held on

Westbt

atop, on the body of Jane M ed-
The husband of the deceased,
was a schoolmaster, and had five children ;
ys had had bad health s
was rather flighty, but qu

his wife al

away a good deal lately, and used to complain of being
ungry ; witness himself has been three or four days with-
out anything to eat, and has often been without anything

ase except a

few potatoes which they h

)plied to the parish for relief ; he think; his
wife died of starvation; witness has nothing to live upon

now but what seme ne
liged to go to the paris

hbours give him, and,will be ob-

SCENE IN PARLIAMENT. --- Ti.
curious sight while Sir Robert Peel
fresh sentence brought a round of ar, ause from his oppo-
nents—the Treasury benches were n,ute and silent. A
faint cheer was attempted when the Premier stated that
Lord Stanley had persisted in thinking the supply of
-he country 0- nntato cr

mse pr

was speaking

211.1(1 LUC ap a plentiful
one, notwithstanding all the evidence that had been sub-
mitted to ministers; but it was such a che'
ill-sustained, that we really felt sorry f-
ment followed argument from "

faint, so

them. As

one of which demolished some pet theory which had been
risked at protection meetings by a noble chairman or a
stray duke.the silence became deep snd more deep.—

Morning Chronicle.

LONDONPOSTOFFICE.—In the principal (or se

cretary's) offic

there are 64 offs

3, in, the solicitor's office 4, accountant-general's
1, money-order office 170, inland and foreign office

645. The inspector of letter carriers' office, which is an
adjunct to the inland office, contains an inspector, 7 as-
sistant-inspectors, 147 sub-sorters; ship-letter office 8.
dead and returned letter office 21, London district office
bout 600. In the sorting offices there are 2 presidents,
2 window men, 14 chrks of divisions, 12 first
econd ditto, 10 scrters, 31 sub-sorters, an
aectbrs, 8 junior inspectors. 16

4 vice dittc

assorters, 12
inenertnr 9 1

total of 1600 person

appointed in the London offices

57 of tlie various " receivers" and other

I officer

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