The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-10-02 00:00:00

FOREIGN

AND COLONIAL MISCELLANY

Louis Napoleon's stud of horses, which were seized at
Boulogne, were sold by auction there on Friday last. Some
of them, of well known 'pedigree, are on their way to Lon-
don, and two are entered to compete for the Kingsdown cup
of £lOO value.

MURDER OF A SERVANT.—TIIF Gazette de Liege states,
that a few days ago, an Englishman, named Rising, living at
Marche, bad a violent altercation .with his servant, and was
carried so far by his passion as to seize a knife, and plunge
it several times in the body of the victim. His wife and sis-
ter endeavoured to prevent him from committing this crime ;
but he was deaf to their entreaties, and the cries of the un-
fortunate man, who was so badly wounded as to expire the
next evening. Early in the morning, Rising had fled from
Marche, and had made his escape through LiZge. He had
formerly travelled for the house of Stevens and Vander-
nerchem of Brussels. The unfortunate servant has left a
widow and two children.

The Havre Journal mentions the loss of the Cadiz packet
to Havannah, at the entrance of the old Bahama channel.
The date of the accident is not mentioned, but the letter
from Havanuah which► brought the news was written on the
20th ult. There were SO passengers on board, of whom only
20 were saved by means of_ a raft.—Galignani's Messenger.

The king of the French has just confe-rred the order .73f the
Legion of Honour upon Capt. Plucket, of Dunkirk. It ap-
pears from the report of the services of this officer, who is
now 81 years of age, that during the late war, when he com-
manded a privateer, he destroyed. 48 vessels of the enemy,
took 54 guns, made 500 prisoners, and received four wounds.
TEXAS.—An extract from the Courrier of S'alverton, of
the 12th of August, announces that they had received an ac-
count from Matagorda, dated the 9th instant, stating that a
corps of 2500 Mexican and Cherokee Indians had invaded
Texas and burned the small towns of Vittoria, Dimwits, and
Luineville. A captain and a major had been killed, and the
wife of the former carried off.

DREADFUL FIRE AT DEVONPORT. •
PARTIAL DESTRUCTION OF TILE ROYAL NAVAL ARSENAL-

HALF A MILLION OF PROPERTY DESTROYED

A)liipping Kritelligeurt.

TUESDAY, Szrresthem. 28.—Wind N.W. fresh

ARRIVE D Wiuser, from Leghorn—Narraganset,
—, from Boston—Perthshire, —, from Jamaica—Julia-
Caroline. Torgerson, from Tonigsberg—James Owens,
from Halifax—Roscoe, Huttleston, from New York—Jessie, —,
from Pictou—Lilburn, Clarke, from Alexandria.

Phernix, Hartley, hence at Antigua
Lima Packet, Singleton, hence at Trinidad
Josephine, Scott, hence at St. Jago de Cuba
Margaret Hightleld, -, from Barbadoes, at ditto
Seabird, , and Acadia, hence at Quebec
Alcyono, , hence at the St. Lawrence
Thomas Lowry, Graham, hence at Sydney, N.S.W.
Scotia, Walsh, hence at Baltimore
United States, Swanton; Ville de Paris; Birmingham, and Hal-
lowell, hence at Bath

Rajah, St. Pctersburgh, Trask, Persian, Robins; Ex-
change, Atkins; Damascus, Bliss, and Ajax, Crabtree, hence at
Boston
Orozimbo, , hence at New Bedford
St. Leon, Westcott, hence at Castile
Franklin, Rogers, hence at Castine
Huntress,Venny ; John Cumming, Thayer, and Superior, Fisher,
hence at New York 6th Sept. _ _

Mary, Cook, from Honduras for this port, at ditto; Captain sick,
put in to land him
Walter, Boyd, hence at Philadelphia
Hudson. Page, tlnd Moslem, M'Laren, hence at ditto 2nd instant
United States, Britton, hence at ditto 3rd
Rienzi, Morton, hence at ditto the 4th
St. Lawrence. Chase, hence at ditto the sth
Solon, Buckman, hence at ditto the 6th, with loss of main mast,
and sprung fore topmast 18th Aug.
Paragon, Carr, and Agenoria, , hence at Providence
Ligonia, Blanchard, and New Hampshire. hence at Port-
land

Embleni, Turner, hence for New York, at ditto
Julia, - , Powhattan, Briggs; Eurotas, Crosby, and Meri.
dian, Williams, hence at Virginia

Heroine, Mill, hence for Savannah, off Cape Romain 28th Aug,

Irt, Ludlow, and Tiber, Lamb, hence at Bahia
Union, Pelham, hence for Van Diemen's Land, at ditto, leaky,
and must lighten to repair
Nightingale, -, hence at Pernambuco
Lemnos. Rowell. and Eliza Scotland, Smith, hence at Rio Janeiro
James Ray, Maim, hence at ditto, and sailed 16th July, for
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