The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-12-22 00:00:00

afterwards

had caught fire. An inquest v
Wm. Pemberton, Esq
Prescot.—Verdict, Ac

The tolls of the Bath Trust were
Robinson for £lO,OOO. per year ; tl

ing off has been comparatively trifling.
The sheep stocks in the upland districts are in
healthy and thriving condition, indeed, much more
has been the case during the last four years ; and this
able state of matters will in the spring tell greatly for
neflt of the store farmers.—Newcastle Journal.
The late Mr. Culley, of Coupland Castle, near Wo

said to have
to have exceeded in value the fee simp
is scarcely an instance on record, we believe, of wh_
affected by milldew, when grown on the land where r
been eaten off by sheep.—Newcastle Journal.
REPRESENTATION OF WALSALL.—We have just

that there is a vacancy in the represen
consequence of the retirement of Mr
Law Circala? .

a of Wa

VESSEL

DESTINED FOR

government had been making ii
Bengal, but that their destinatio
since heard on got
for a large numbe
burden, and their dentin

thority

as compensation, a good round sum for the run d
the island. They take uo cargo from this port, but 01
ing at Chusan will be held available for general set
East Indian Telegraph.
GENUINE HONESTY.—A traveller for a Newcastle
lost his pocket-book, containing .f. 300, between Hex
Alston, a few days ago ; and on missing it he retu
the hope that it might be recovered. On the road
with a person named Batey, and inquired if he had
pocket-book. Batey replied in the affirmative, and
it, with the money safe. Five pounds having
him for his restoration, he inquired if the tra
principal in the firm, and on finding that he w
fused to accept the donation.—Newc
A correspondent of the John o' Groat Jo,
ing the loss of a Prussian galliot on one
Islands, naively says, " The natives will deriv
from the disaster.' It must have been an ill
that blew nobody good; and the Orkneymen se,
themselves very scurvily used by the elements. 0
friends long derived plentiful harvests from the se,
frequently furnished the plenishing of their house.
means of keeping up a cheerful blaze during the lo
of their stormy winter. But the law which for'
had reached Tain, has now, we hope, advar,
northward, and taught the peop' -
propriety and the justice of ree
the sea has washed upon their
The King of the Belgians has issued th,..
dated the 16th instant :—" Article 1. Our wc.
Prince Leopold Louis Philippe Marie Victor
title of Duc de Brabant, which title shall in futt
borne by the eldest son of the King, or, in defth
by the King's eldest grandson. Article 2. Our v
son Prince Philippe Eugene Ferdinand Marie C
douin Leopold George shall bear title of C'
dres."—Galignani's Messenger.

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LORD AUCKLAND'S RESIGNATION Or
GENERALSHIP OF INDIA.-Our readers (C,
may not perhaps be aware that Lord Auckla,
resignation of the governor-generalship of Ind
of Directors some months back. We now xi'
we have no doubt of the fact, that his lordship's
has been accepted, the intelligence having reach,
by the last overland mail. The Hon. T. C. Roberts,
ber of the Supreme Council and deputy governor of
has been appointed to succeed provisionally to the
generalship, which high situation it is expected he
ttnue to fill till September, 1843, the date of the e
of his service as member of the Supreme Council as
governor of Bengal.

DISGRACEFUL OUTRAGE.—SOMe time
hotel in town was the scene of one of the mos
outrages to men moving in the sphere of gentle
possibly be imagined, and which, it is undo
shortly occupy the attention of the Supreme
the discreditable affair be hushed up by the offe
the amount of the damage sustained by the 1
and the expense of the legal proceedings alret
It appears that three individuals, on a given da
hotel in the New Town at a late hour in the ('
having been served with refreshments, which
dered, proceeded in the most wanton maneeF
furniture of the apartment (the commercial r
cupied, and perpetrated other outrages whic'
the most degraded of the " lords of err
breaking open and soiling letters addresse
table gentlemen, visitors to the hotel in
pockets of a great-coat belongio,-
which was hanging in the room, t
minations by writing on the window-blinus, ...
of the hotel, with the recital of which we cannot
columns. The station which the accused have
occupied in society renders the disgusting outrag
unpardonable. A summons to answer the off
Court of Session has been served on two of the
but the third, an Englishman, has hitherto ev
searches of the messenz-
_Edinburg h Observer.
DEATH OF HER SERENE HIGHNESS TH
PRINCESS OF REUSS-KOESTRII Z. Intellig
death of the above princess was received at
Palace on Friday last. The deceased princes:
daughter of Prince Henry Reuss dtEbersdorf, w
June, 1759, and was widow of Prince Henry
Schleiz-Koestritz, who died 22nd September,
mother of the present prince and great-aunt to
the Queen. In consequence of the death o
highness the court was ordered to go into m(
yesterday until the 31st instant.
PREPARATIONS AT WINDSOR FOR THE R
HER MAJESTY.—WINDSOR, DEC. 19.—Her
ing expressed a desire that the new riding-hol
completed at the earliest possible moment, Me,
and Peto, the contractors, have guaranteed th,
ing should be fit for the use of the Queen by M
the 21st inst. The only work required to be pert
plastering a portion of the interior walls ; but it is
the late severe frost will retard the operations of
men for a short time beyond that period. Should t
severe weather continue, it is not improbable that
ty's departure from Buckingham Palace for the c'
postponed for a few days beyond the- time r
upon by her Majesty. It is fully expected ti•
of the christening of the Princess Royal v-'
The alterations and other arrangements connt,
royal kitchen are fast approaching towards completim
the arrival of the court a public meeting of the
will be held for the purpose of voting coney-`
to her Majesty and Prince Albert on a
Royal. " Better late than never."

to an Engl.

Ley perpetr

ill take t

Tun WORLD COMING TO AN END.—Yesterday twc
brothers were seen shaking hands together in the street,
A LAWYER'S SIMILE.—" The witness, my lord, stood
plump opposite the defendant—plump, my lord plump as
partridge."