The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
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attained his seventeenth year!

MARRIAGE IN SCIENTIFIC LIFE.—Dr. Lardner and
rs. Heaviside, now in Philadelphia, will be married this

By the last accounts_ this lady has been divorced

from Captain Heaviside • so there is nothino-* in the way of
the two philosophers becoming one. Will some one in
Philadelphia give us a description of the wedding.—From a

New York paper

CHAIN-BRIDGE OVER THE DANUBE

A coffer-dam for

a new chain-bridge over the Danube, at Pesth, is proceeding
very vigorously under Mr. Main Clark, an English engi-
neer, assisted by thirty English workmen. Their solidly
constructed piles have hitherto withstood the immense
masses of ice brought down by the Danube, to the great en-
hancement of the fame of English engineering.
On Thursday, the usual distribution of the Royal Maundy
Bounty took place at Whitehall. The recipients of each sex
were 22, the number of years that the Queen has lived ; and
they received £1 and 22 silver• pennies ; besides £1: 15s. to
each woman, as composition for the old clothing which used
to be given, and XI : 10s. in lieu of provisions which once
formed part of the bounty. On the preceding Monday and
Tuesday the Royal Minor Alms were distributed to up-

wards of 900 persons, who received ss. each, and also the

Royal Gate Charity' of 13s. each to 168 persons, all above
the age of 60 years, except in a few cases of a special nature,
such as blindness and great affliction.
'THE PRESIDENT STEAM-SHIP.—Her majesty, upon leav-

_ .
ing Buckingham Palace for Windsor Castle, left strict com-
mands that immediately upon the news of the safety of the
President reaching London, a_ special_ messenger should be

dispatched to Windsor with the intelligence, and it having
been (alas ! too confidently) stated in London, on Tuesday
evening, that some information had been received respecting
this vessel, which left no doubt that it had been heard of,
and was in safety, Mr. Rogers, a Queen's messenger, ar-
rived express at Windsor from town, shortly after 8 o'clock

that evening, and her majesty, immediately after his arrival,
had the intelligence communicated to her, through the Lord
Chamberlain, when the Queen and Prince Albert expressed
the highest satisfaction at the gratifying communication.
THE LOST WAGER.—Two young Englishmen, (says the
Gazette des Tribuneaux,) after breakfasting the day before

yesterday at the restaurant of the Marroniers at Bercy, were

crossing the bridge from the Quai de la ItapC:e to the Quai
de la Gare, when one of them took off his paletot and hat,
gave them to his companion, and plunged headforemost into
the river. Some bargemen, hearing the splash, but not hav-
ing seen the previous preparations, immediately went off in
boats, and, as the diver rose to the surface, seized him and
carried him ashore, in spite of his remonstrances, and the

joyous laughter of his friend, who remained on the bridge.
The bargemen conducted their dripping prize before the
Commissary of Police, in order to prove their claim to the
reward given by the city to those who save drowning per-
sons. How this question may be decided we know not, but
the magistrate had great difficulty in dissuading the young
Englishman from lodging a complaint agairist the bargemen,
for causing him to lose a wager he had made with his fellow-
countryman that he would jump from the bridge and swim
down to the Pont d'Austerlitz.

For several weeks past letters have been received, through
the Rochester and Chatham post-offices, by several respect-
able families, stating that the party, who is stationed out at
such a place (naming it), is either killed, drowned, on has
died of some disease, thereby throwing families into the ut-
most distress. It appears that the wretch who writes these
letters finds out respectable families who have sons abroad,
and then immediately writes to them a most' distressing let-
ter, detailing their deaths. The family of Mr. Hillier have
had three or four of these letters; also a widow lady in Ro-
chester, having an only son. The writer assured her that
her son was drowned at the place where he was stationed
abroad. It, however, happened that her son was in this

country on leave of absence, and was visiting at Stafford.
Some clue, we believe, has been obtained of the villain, and
we hope soon to hear of his being placed before the tribunal
of justice.—Maidstone Gazette.
MR. JUSTICE WIGHTMAN.—The legal gentlemen, and
others connected with the Western Circuit, are delighted
beyond measure with the new judge, whose dignified deport-
ment and agreeable manner on the bench have been the
theme of general praise. To talents of the first order he
unites a peculiar aptitude for business, with a thorough
knowledge and ready application of the law. He listens to
the arguments of counsel with the most placid and evident
consciousness of his own ability to unravel and dispel all
legal sophistry, and he decides the point, however abstruse
or difficult, with that ease and decision which at once carry
conviction to every mind. His summing up is particularly
clear and striking. With a masterly facility he selects and
contrasts all the material points of the evidence, and, by
picking out the corn with an unerring hand, and rejecting the
chaff, he submits the case to the jury in so lucid and concise
a manner that they are enabled to form a correct judgment
of the law and facts, and to give their verdict without doubt
or difficulty. Altogether, a more gratifying and perfect
judicial debut has never been witnessed ' • and it is acknow-
ledged on all hands that the elevation of Mr. Justice Wight-
man to the bench is one of the happiest legal appointments
of modern times.

LISBON, ArRiL s.—There is at present in this city a peer
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, of whom neither
Debrett nor Queen Victoria herself has any knowledge. I
mean the Right Hon. Baron Mullingar, fifth of that title,
whose ancestor was raised to the peerage on the 28th of June,
1661, by King Charles 11., in reward for services rendered to
his father during the civil war. To drop all mystification,
the individual in question is the Portuguese Count de Mes-
quitella, a Miguelite nobleman of very ancient family, whose
ancestor was ambassador at the court of Charles I. The
Count has commissioned his nephew, the Chevalier d'Horta,
now in London, to make application in the proper quarter
for the recognition of his title and rights annexed to it; and
I understand that if he should succeed so far, he intends to
make a push at once into the House of Lords (though an
alien by birth), and if successful in that too, to bid adieu to
this country and settle in England. This is rather a novel
and curious case. I have seen the original patent, bearing
the king's sign manual, as well as a number of private letters
from his majesty, and some of the other principal personages
of the British court to the count's ancestor ; and though I
am not able to judge of their authenticity, I certainly can
vouch for their antiquity, the letters especially, being as
tattered as the colours of any crack regiment after the Pen-
insular war.—Morning Herald.

NEW STEAM COMPANY IN NEWRY.—We learn by the
Newry Examiner, that a most influential meeting was held,
in the Assembly-rooms of that town, on Monday last, for the
purpose of forming a company for the purchase of a steamer
to ply between Newry and Liverpool. " A resolution," says
the Examiner, " was passed in the affirmative, and another
that the capital of the company should be £lO,OOO, a thou-
sand shares of £lO each. The following gentlemen were ap-
pointed a committee :—Rowan M'Naghten, Francis Carvil,
A. Postley, Hill Irvine, and John Donnelly, Esqrs. It is
gratifying to find the spirited merchants of Newry alive to
the encouragement of home companies. In Dublin we have
a steam company which is dividing large dividends, and in
Belfast there is another which is most prosperous. We see
no reason why in Newry, Cork, and other thriving sea-
ports, home companies for steam transit should not be es-
tablished and rendered prosperous, The good work has been
commenced in Newry, and we wish the new company every
success.—Dublin Monitor.
ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.—A strange story appears in
the morning papers, of a young lady who has been discovered,
disguised as a man, among the male prisoners at Westminster
Bridewell. The tale is, that she is of a respectable family in
Sussex ; but that, being seduced by a footman, she dreaded
the displeasure of her parents, and escaped to London in a
suit of her brother's clothes. She afterwards encountered a
variety of adventures and privations ; always keeping her sex
concealed. At last she was committed as a rogue and vaga-
bond to the Bridewell; but why, does not appear. The
whiteness of her neck excited the suspicions of a shrewd
turnkey ; although she had before, without detection, bathed
with the male convicts, and her arms had been examined by
a surgeon, who thought she had some cutaneous disease.
Letters have been sent down to Sussex to discover her family ;
for she will not tell her real name. She was known by that
of George White. She is said to ba enciente.
REPRESENTATION OF NOTTINGHAM.—In consequence of
the vacancy occasioned by the death of General Ferguson,
all parties have been on the alert, and a spirited contest may
be expected. Mr. Fox, who was the gentleman to be brought
forward as the ministerial candidate, has taken alarm at sun-
dry indications of the state of public opinion in this town,
and wisely declined the proffered honour, " safe" as the
borough used to be booked by our local whigs. Tuesday,
the " liberals" (falsely so called), held a private meeting,
and resolved to support Mr. Larpent, a thorough uninitiga-
ble Whig, the most unpopular genus of politicians ; and as he
comes recommended by Sir John Cam Hobhouse, is no
doubt a resolute partisan of the present imbecile and wanton
administration. On Wednesday, a numerous meeting of
conservatives was held at the Assembly Rooms, when the
following resolution was adopted with the most cordial en-
thusiasm :—" That this meeting, having full confidence in
the political integrity and ability of Mr. Walter, pledges it-
self to use all legitimate means to secure his election as a
member of parliament for the borough of Nottingham." An
important section of the radicals have also determined to
support Mr. Walter, in acknowledgment of his zealous and
honest opposition to the new poor-law, as well as in gratitude
for the humanity and perseverance with which (during the
time he sat in parliament for Berkshire) he uniformly advo-
cated every measnre that had a tendency to promote the
comfort and happiness of the industrious classes.
MILITARY OUTRAGE AT CANTERBURY.—On Thursday
last Captain Byng Doherty, Captain John Allgood, Captain
Edmund Doherty, and Captain John Goddard, of the 13th
and 14th light dragoons, at present stationed at the garrison
at Canterbury, were brought before the mayor and other
magistrates to answer the following charge :—William Brad-
ley, inspector of police, stated that shortly after 12 o'clock
on the previous night, the defendants, with others not in
custody, were rioting about the streets in a state of intoxica-
tion, and creating considerable disturbance. He went up
and expostulated with them, and stated that if they did not
pass on quietly he would be compelled, in the discharge of
his duty, to take them into custody. They promised they
would do so, but in a few minutes they renewed the hal-
looing and shouting, upon which he approached them a
second time, accompanied by other police officers, and being
grossly abused by Captain Doherty, he took that gentleman
into custody. Some of the other defendants attempted a
rescue, when he charged some by-standers to aid and assist,
and, finally, the whole of the above defendants were con-
veyed to the station-house and locked up. A few minutes,
however, had only elapsed, when a body of soldiers belong-
ing to the 13th and 14th regiments came to the station-
house, headed by two men dressed as officers' servants, and
one of them declared that Captain Doherty was his master,
and that they (the soldiers) were determined to have the
officers out. They then endeavoured forcibly to enter the
doors of the station• house, but were resisted by witness and
other policemen. In the skirmish that ensued, the door in
the passage which led to where the prisoners were confined
was broken in by them, and he (Bradley) was 'seized by the
throat and dragged out of the station-house into the street,
and, while there, he saw several of the soldiers try to force
the iron bars which secured the window, and by that means
obtain admission to the lock-up. They employed an iron
bar which they had obtained for this purpose' and they
threatened to knock him down with it if he dared to inter-
fere. After some time the defendants were liberated, and as
they came out singly they raised a loud shout of exultation.
Upon Captain Doherty 's release, he took off his cap and
hallooed loudly, and at that time the window shutters of the
station house were driven in, and many of the windows shat-
tered. The whole party, which consisted of between 30 and
40, then went down the street shouting and cheering.—
The defendants called no witnesses to contradict the state-
ment, and admitted that they were " rather noisy," but de-
clared that they in no way encouraged the soldiers in the
mischief they had committed, nor had they (the defendants)
assaulted anybody or damaged property of any kind. They
severally expressed their regret for what had taken place, and
said they were willing to pay any fine that the bench might
think proper to levy on them. The Mayor infornied the de-
fendants that, after maturely weighing the whole circum-
isnt a
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in their opinion that they would best discharge their duty to
the public and to the parties concerned by sending the case
before
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selvesat
thequarter sessions, and take their trial. The officers of the
14th, by the magistrates' decision, have placed them-
selves in an awkward position, in consequence of their being
under orders for India in May.

THEATRETIMAI, 1011/2”001

Und:o .limapophoiit of Mil, CLARIa, Rohl L6it,6o

Laa Night but Three of the Engagement of Miss DELCY
and Mr. TEMPLETON, of the Theatre-Royal, Drury-
lane.
91111 S present TUESDAY, April 20, 1841, will be per-
formed Auber's Opera of

FIiA

DIAVOLO

Written, and adapted to the English Stage, by Mr. Rophino
Lacy, under whose direction the Musical arrangements
will be conducted.
Leader of the Orchestra (which will be considerably aug-
mented) .
Zcrlina
Fra Diavolo Mr. Templeton.
Lorenzo
(The last night but four of his engagement.)
Lord Alleash
Lady Allcash.... Miss E. Ilonner.
After which, the Farce, in one act, called
LODGINGS FOR SINGLE GENTLEMEN.
Colonel Stanmore ..

Captain POstl ' Mr. H. Holl. I Trusty.. Mr. Baker,
Mrs. Greville .... Mrs. W. H. Bland.

Mrs. Stanmore

Miss Cleaver. I Mrs. Prattle

Mrs. Clarke

To conclude with
BOMBASTES FURIOSO.
King Artaxomines. Mr. Baker.
General Bombastes Mr. G. Horncastle
Distaffina Mrs. P. Crowe.

TO-MORROW, (Wednesday,) the Entertainments will
commence with the Drama of A ROLAND FOR AN
OLIVER. Alfred Hightlyer, Mr. H. Holl ; Maria Dar-
lington, Mrs. W. H. Bland.—After which will be revived
Weber's celebrated Opera of DER FREISCH UTZ.
Agatha, Miss Delcy ; Rodolpir, Mr. Templeton ; Caspar,
Mr. G. Horncastle ; Prince Ottocar, Mr. F. Gardner ;
Anna, Miss E. Honner.—To ccnolude with the Melo-Drama
of the WARLOCK OF THE GLEN.
On THURSDAY—A Favourite OPERA.
On FRIDAY—Miss DELCI'S BENEFIT, and the last
night of Miss Delcy and Mr. Templeton.