The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-05-29 00:00:00

TATTERSALL'S, MONDAY.

This room was crowded until near seven o'clock, but busi-
ness was not by any means brisk. Songster was again backed
at 3 to 1 to .£6OO or .E7OO : his friends, however, flagged to-
wards the close, and suffered several offers on the same terms
to pass unheeded. Launcelot's position, as second favourite,
was undoubted, and for the greater part of the afternoon the
highest offer against him was 4 to 1 : an advance of half a
point, about half-past five o'clock, led to engagements to the
amount of three or four hundreds, but the layers against him
were numerous, and 9 to 2 was the offering price at the finish.
Theon and Assassin were backed at the odds mentioned be-
low, and left off steady. Bokhara, Scutarie, and Confederate
were at 25 to 1 each ; 28 to 1 was offered against the first of
these in three or four quarters, and 20 and 22 to 1 taken in
another, but the average was as we have stated : his party
was select. Muley Ishmael advanced to 33 to 1, which was
taken two or three times : the same odds were accepted about
Cormorant, and 40 to 1 about Drayton, all to small amounts.
Wardan was declared not to start in consequence of being
amiss. Closing odds

THE DERBY.
4 to 1 against Sott's lot.—t
3to 1 „ Mr. Etwall's Songster
9to 2 „ Marquis of W estminster's Launcelot
6to 1 „ Duke of Cleveland's Theon.—t
Bto 1 „ Lord Albemarle's Assassin •
17 to 1 „. Lord Kelburne's Pathfinder
25 to 1 „ Mr. Houldsworth's Confederate
25 to 1 „ Sir G. Heathcote's Bokbara
25 to 1 „ Lord Exeter's Scutarie (the Velvet colt)
30 to 1 „ Mr. J. Gill's Prince Albert
33 to „ Mr. Fowler's Cormorant.—t
33 to 1 ~ Lord Jersey's Muley Ishmael.—t
40 to 1 „ Mr. E. Peel's Drayton.—t
50 to 1 „ Mr. Osbaldeston's grey c. out of Fairy
Queen's dam
1000 to 10 ~ Colonel Wyndham's Gift colt.—t
1000 to 500 on Scutarie against Muley Ishmael (t) ; 600 to
400 on Prince Albert against Muley Ishmael (t) ; 1000 to 500
Pathfinder against Cormorant (t) ; 1000 to 30 against Mr.
Osbaldestone's lot and Solace colt (t).
THE OAKS.—No betting.

LOSS OF THE ENGLISH STEAM-SHIP VULTURE

Advices from Riga of the 16th instant state, that the steam-
ship Vulture, commanded by Captain Wylde, which sailed
from London the lst of May, and passed the Sound on the
sth, was stranded off Arendsburg, on the island of Oesel,
about eight days since, on her first voyage this year, and (as
the passengers who arrived here yesterday suppose) is totally
lost. The value of the cargo, mostly indigo, amounts, it is
believed, to £150,0M, and that of the vessel to £10,000.
Borsenhalle, 22d May.
A gentleman who has arrived in London from Hamburgh
reports 80,000 trKirks as being insured in that city.
Extract of a letter from a passenger on board the steam
ship Vulture, dated Isle of Oesel, May 11 ;—" About ten
P.m Friday, the Bth instant, I was awoke by the ship strik-
ing, and hastening on deck found she had struck on a reef of
sunken rocks, called the Canal Rock, about sixty miles from
Daggers' Orb, at the entrauce to the Gulf of Finland. It
rained heavily, with thick fog all night ; at daybreak the
vessel was half full of water. We determined to make for
the shore on a raft, but in the course of the morning a lugger
had put off to our assistance, and in her the crew and pas-
sengers reached this place about midday, but baggage, cargo,
and ship will all be lost, as she is just breaking to pieces."

Last week sonic unknown individual sent five £lOOO notes
to the Society for the Propagation or the Gospel in Foreign
Parts.

THE LATE SIR RICHARD PULESTON, BART.—We have
this week to record the death of Sir Richard Puleston, Bart.,
which took
place at Einral on the 19th instant. Many de-
part this life leaving but little remembrance of their exist-
ence ; but the death of this lamented gentleman is an event
not to bq passed by in silence. His amiable manners and
brilliant wit often made him the companion of Royalty, and
both Bishop Heber and Mr. Sheridan have spoken of his
superior talents with admiration. As a sportsman, he was
well-known to fox-hunters as a man of great judgment in the
" noble science ;" and on one occasion, after having for a
time given up " a country," on his return to it, with his
hounds, he was met and greeted by many hundreds of his
sporting friends. His charities were numerous, but little
were they known, for he gave to all whom he considered in
distress, without ostentation. In private life he was a pat-
tern and bright example of all that does honour to the human
• heart, and this many a weeping eve can now testify, for there
is not a domestic in his house who does not deeply lament
their amiable mastt.r. His pions resignation and unrepining
patience forsook 14n, not in the hour of need and sickness,
and his calin and peaceful end proved that his mind rested
on religious consolation and hope. Few were ever more sin-
cerely lamented, and his memory will long survive in the
minds of his sorrowing friends. Sir Richard was born 3d
September, 1765, and was twice married, first, to Ellen,
- daughter of William Boates, Esq., by whom he had issue—
Richard, b6rn 20th June, 1789, and Charlotte Anne (married
to J. G. Norbury, Esq., of Fulmer) • and, secondly, to Emma
Elizabeth, daughter of J. Corbett, Esq., of Sundorn Castle,
Salop. The deceased assumed the surname and arms of
Puleston, by sign-manual in 1812, in compliance with the
testamentary injunction of his maternal uncle, J. Puleston,
Esq., of Emral, and was created a baronet by George Iv. on
the 2d November, 1813. Sir Richard was Lieut.-Colonel
of the Ancient Britons. The deceased is succeeded in the
baronetcy by his eldest son by his first marriage, Captain
Puleston, of this city, who is married, and has a numerous
family.--Chester Courant.

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Emptrfat Varliainent

HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY.

Lord BROUGHAM presented many petitions, one against
war with China, his lordship expressing a hope that the war-
like proceedings had not been commenced in a desire to ob-
tain compensation for the confiscated opium.
Lord ELLENDOROUGH stated that he proposed, on Mon-
day, to move for the select committee on the subject of
" printed papers."
The Archbishop of DUBLIN presented a petition " on the
subject of the Articles and the Liturgy." That petition gave
rise to an interesting discussion, in which the Archbishop of
'CANTERBURY, the Bishop of NORWICH, and the Bishop of
LONDON took part.
Their lordships then adjourned till Monday.