The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-01-06 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

IRELAND.

A special commission has been iscued for Westmeath
for the trial of the prisoners in Mullinzar gaol.
The Dubin Mail states that there wit be an explana-
tion on the subject of the late ministerial difficulties on
the part of either Sir Robert Peel or Lord John Russell.
A. child, three years old, named Farrell, residing near
Maryborough, Ireland, was, last week, torn to pieces by
a pig, in the temporary absence of the father.
The Drogheda and Londonderry coach was upset on
Thursday and the driver was killed. One or two pas-
sengers were hurt.
The Irish Colleges are to be styled respectively the
Queen's Colleges, for Belfast, Cork, and Galway. Dr.
John Ryall has received the appointment of Vice-Principal
of the " Queen's College for Cork."
Whilst Mr. John M'Curdy, of Magilligan, near Cole-
raine, was out sporting on the 25th ult , he was acciden-
tally shot dead by his servant, to whom he had previously
given a gun, and directions that he should fire at the fowl
immediately after him.

On Christmas night, at 'Corbally, near Waterford, a
quarrel took place at a public house between two men
named Hacket and Power. They were separated by the
landlord, when the f:rmer assembled his three brothers,
and, concealing themselves behind a hedge, they waylaid
poor Power, and he died of the injuries received.

MINISTERIAL CHANGEs.—The Duke of Buccleuch
will succeed the late Lord Wharncliffe as President of the
Council. Lord Ellenborough will return to office as First
Lord of the Admiralty. Lord Haddington has accepted
the Privy Seal in room of the Duke of Buccleuch.—Times.
AMAZING UNANIMITY.—The Leeds Mercrry states
that in the village of Quarmby, near Huddersfield, there
are twenty-four houses and seventeen county voters, al:
of whom signed the requisition of Lord Morpeth. So it
seems the very stones cry out to be represented by his
Lordship.
Great Protectionist meetings have been held during the
week, in Sussex, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Es-
sex, Worcestershire, Buckinghamshire, Surrey, and other
par's of the country. At a meeting at Chichester on Wed-
nesday, the Times newspaper was gibbeted and burnt, in
presence of the chairman, the Duke of Richmond !
Men are collecting their thoughts after the alarm of a
Whig-Radical Government, and with such symptoms of
returning confidence, that the Three per cents. have risen
from 92 to 94, in the short space of nine days ; a testi-
mony to the confidence which the fundholders lately
placed in a free-trade Government.—Mornino Herald.
DESTRUCTION OF A LARGE MILL NEAR KENDAL.—
On Saturday night last the neighbourhood of Kendal was
visited with a severe gale of wind and rain, which effected
the almost entire destruction of a very large and extensive
mill at Scarrs Foot, near the above town, the property of
G. and J. Braithwaite, manufacturers, which was in the
course of erection.

LORD GREY.—It appears that one strong expression
was omitted in Mr. Macaulay's letter, which appeared in
our last, relative to these noblemen. It is said that the
original letter contained some very strong expressions of
Mr. Macaulay towards Earl Grey ; one sentence particu-
larly was to the effect that the noble lord, in Mr. M.'s
opinion, is "the most arrogant, most capricious, and
most wayward of mankind."
EFFECTS OF JEALOUSY AND PASSlON.—Yesterday
week, a woman named Thorpe died at Bradford from the
effects of arsenic. The deceased had quarrelled with her
husband on Thursday, on a slight matter, and went to
live with her brother-in-law. On Saturday morning a
meddling neighbour told her a tale of her husband's infi-
delity, and i❑ a fit of passion she procured the poison,
and died soon after taking it.

A MAN SHOT IN MISTAKE FOR A WIT,D DUCK.-011
the night of Tuesday a person named Gooderson, while in
his fowling skiff in Cowbit Wash, fired at what he consi-
dered to be a group of birds ; but was horror-struck when
he discovered as the object of his aim his old comrade
Jackson, who, like himself, was in pursuit of birds : but
faint hopes are entertained of poor Jackson's recovery.—
Lincoln Chronicle.

THE BIRDS IN ST. JAMES'S PARK.—This collection,
which belongs to the Ornithological Society, at the pre-
sent time contains upwards of three hundred birds„ in-
cluding twenty-one species, and fifty-one distinct varieties.
Although some of the specimens occasionally wander to
some distance, but comparatively few are lost, as they
generally return, even after a long absence, the secluded
plantations and islands being quite congenial to their
habits.

DIABOLICAL OUTRAGE.—On Sunday, a tailor named
Porter, at Bradford, entered his father's house, on a bed
in which lay his sister, who had only been ten minutes de-
livered of a child; he dragged his sister from the bed, and
threw her into the street, where she was found by the
watchman, who had her immediately conveyed to bed
again. The watchman was alarmed by the smell of burn-
ing, and he hastened up stairs and found that the priso-
ner had broken open a box, and had taken from thence
his sister's and child's clothing, and put them on the fire,
from which in burning they had fallen on the hearthstone,
Ile then went down stairs and took up a chair, which he
raised for the purpose of striking his sister as she lay on
the bed, when his father struck him with a hammer and
felled him, he was then secured and taken to the lock-up.
—Leeds paper.
YACHT CLUBS.—Mr. James Knight, secretary of the
Royal Southern Yacht Club, proposes a magnificent re-
view of all the yacht clubs in the kingdom, to take place
before her Majesty, off the Isle of Wight, in the yachting
months of 1846. Of its magnificence some idea may be
form :•d from the fact being that there are more than 11
clubs, commanding a force exceeding five hundred yachts,
and as the statistics of such a force may be interesting to
the lovers of aquatic amusements, we may conclude by lay-
ing the following particulars before our readers:—

No. of No

No. Principally

Distinction of Clubs. Yachts. Tons. Men. Guns.Bras4)a.
Royal Yacht Squadron 102 9000 1600 400 from 2to 9
Royal Thames Yacht Club 146 4400 540 220 from to 6
Royal Western Yacht Club 74 3000 400 260 from Ito 6
Royal Southern Yacht Club 67 2800 350 230 from Ito 9
Royal Victoria Yacht Club 38 3200 420 250 from 2to 6
Royal Harwich Yacht Club 38 900 120 40 from to 4
Royal Cork Yacht Club
Royal Mersey Yacht Club
Royal Northern Yacht Club
Royal Eastern Yacht Club

Roi'al Kingstown Yacht Club.. 29 1380 230 70 from Ito 6

- - - -
621 29250 4380 1810

Deduct about 1-6th for the
same Yachts belonging to
different Clubs, you will

have a grand total of .... 530 25000 3900 1500
The seamen are exclusive of masters, cooks, and stew-
ards, which would give at least 800, in addition to the
foregoing numbers. Th 3 wages alone for the masters and
seamen exceed £120,000 per annum, and the intrinsic
value of the yachts, with their armament complete, is
more than three quarters of a million of money.

THE OVERLAND ROUTE.—Considerable discussion took
place last week between the Times and Morning Herald
as to whether the route via Marseilles or Trieste is the
most expeditious, the Herald having on the last occasion,
by the former route, outstripped its contemporaries. The
Herald gives the following explanation as to its arrange-
ments :—lmmediately upon reading the bombastic obser-
vations made by the Times in support of Mr. Waghorn's
project for conveying the Indian Mail via Germany—
offered, no doubt, as a compliment to Mr. Waghorn for
bringing the Times' despatches, and with the hope of
receiving his assistance hereafter—we determined upon
proving the utter absurdity of the assertion that the
Trieste route was the shortest, by running as rapid an
express as possible from Suez via Marseilles. The only
difficulty in our way was to obtain a steam-boat from
Alexandria to Marseilles, and to obviate this difficulty
we wrote to the French Government, stating our intention,
asking the favour that one of the usual passenger steam-
boats trading between Alexandria and Marseilles might
be placed at our disposal, and offering to pay all expenses
incurred in that service. The French Government hav-
ing considered our proposition, answered that they could
not comply with our request, but, to show their desire to
afford every possible assistance in accomplishing an object
of so much importance to England as the expediting the
conveyance of the Indian Mail, they had determined upon
placing at our disposal a French war-steamer, which
could convey our agent to Egypt to arrange the express
from Suez to Alexandria, and for the use of which ves-
sel the French Government could not possibly receive any
pecuniary remuneration, but they expected that a copy
of the " Overland Bombay Times" should be delivered
to the Government in Paris as soon as our courier ar-
rived there.