The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-01-13 00:00:00

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Same day, at Lamberton.park, Maryborcugh,
Right Hon. Arthur Mc ore.
On the 7th instant, in Bruton-street, London, in his 7srd
year, Lord Granville.
Same day, at her brother's residence, Stanley-crescent, Kirk-
dale, at an advanced age, Miss Cantrell.
Same day, at Surbiton. near Kingston, Surrey, age 1 98, hits.
Grace Brodie, relict of the late F. Brodie, Esq., of Moyvore-
house, county Westmeath.
On the Bth instant, aged 71, Elizabeth, relict of the late Mr.
J. Sudlow:

aged S 2, the

Same day, at her residente, Hamilton-square, Birkenhead,
Susanna, third daughter of the late H. Duckworth, Esq., of
Manchester.
Same day, at the residence of his mother, in Russell-street,
aged 23, Hugh. youngest son of the late Mr. Thomas Fergie,
joiner.

Same day, at her residence, Edge-hill, in the 71st year of her
age Mary, relict of Andrew Aiken, Esq., late H. B. M.'s Consul
at Riga.

On the 9th instant, at her residence, Upper-street, Islington,
Middlesex, in her 92nd year, Elizabeth, widow of the late J.
Cross, Esq.
Same day, at Clifton, Miss Elizabeth M'lver, of this town.

GALL ANT FEAT.—During the passage of Her ?Majesty's
steamer Hecla from Beyrout to Constantinople, a man
fell overboard, when the wind was blowing a gale, the sea
running very high. Not knowing that the man was a very
delicate constitution, Lieutenant Hire, regardless of the
risk he incurred, jumped overboard to his rescue, and
succeeded in grasping the man firmly at the moment be
was sinking. The engines were backed, and a boat
lowered, when both were rescued from their perilous
position with considerable difficulty.
SWINDLING BY A SELF-STYLED RAILWAY " PRO-
MOTER

—At the Central Criminal Court, on Friday, a
person named Benjamin Brown was convicted and sen-
tenced to twelve months' imprisonment for having
swindled a silly linendraner named Jacobs out of .£5O in
cash, and a bill of exchange for .12.50, under pretence of
procuring him a situation as clerk on one of two railways,
of which he called himself the projector, and which he
falsely stated to be duly registered. The lines were mag-
nilogently styled " The Albert London and Oxford Rail-
way," and the " Prince of Wales Oxford and London
Railway ! '
LORD PALMERSTON AND LORD GREY.—THE CRIST•
—The Times does not do justice to Lord Grey. He did
not refuse to sit in the Cabinet with Lord Palmerston.
On the contrary, he offered to give him the Colonial
office, and take any thing they pleased for himself. But,
recollecting Palmerston's vagaries when in office, and his
denunciation of the Ashburton Treaty, he would not act
if Palmerston was to be Foreign Secretary. Again, the
Times represents Grey as having acted with apparent
cordiality for a time, and then come out with an objection
he kept in reserve. Grey was not privy to the move, and
not very early invited to join. He stated this objection
from the first. 1 have no more to do with Grey than all
of the rest ; but fair play is fair play. Still, it remains to
be asked, was Lord Grey right, judicious ? It may be
said that the whigs ought to have formed an interim Ca'
binet to have carried the corn-law, on the understanding
that there was to be a reconstruction or resignation as
soon as this was done. By making an interim cabinets
they could, at its first meeting, have opened the ports bl
an order in council; and having done that, resigned next
day, sure that Parliament would not dare to shut theta
again. Even suppose the party could have been brought
to do this, Lord Palmerston, who would have the Fong°
office or nothing, is as much to blame as Lord Grey;
But Lord Lansdowne would not hear of so bold and
straightforward a course. Cottenham would not ; and
Palmerston himself would not. There was nothing to 116
gained worth the risk of letting Palmerston rule the Fo-
reign office during the week the President's message wag
expected. Peel has the game again in his own hands.
If he is not too twisted by habit he can do this :—lntrn'
duce and carry an act to decree that, at the end of threes
four, or five years, all duties on imported grain shall ceage
and determine : that during the year 1846 a duty of 55:
shall be levied on imported grain ; during 1847, of 49-
1818, of 3s. ; 1819, of 2s. ; 1850, of Is. This would glce
the total repealers certainty that all protective duties
would be abolished, almost as soon as foreign countries
could get additional supplies ready for us ; the land:
owners, that they had time to prepare for competition
the gradually disappearing duty would remove the terne'
tation to hold back immediately before it expired, to
order to bring in free. Peel could induce his own con'
servatives to do this ; the Buckingham-Richmond malt
contents on the one hand—the official whigs, (some
them,) and the League, (perhaps,) on the other—migl.l„
try to thwart him : but the Patrick Maxwell Stewartst id
parliament ; the Leadbetters, (Glasgow,) and all that ion
of people, would support him. But Ido not think Pe:
can get over his old shuffling habits sufficiently to do tht
Ile will try something less, and make a mess of n•
Correspondent of Tait's Magazine.

Jan. 13, 1846.