The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-02-24 00:00:00

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An application was made to the post-office, the other day,
by a person who had received a " valentine," for the return
of the twopence postage; but he was informed that the post-
office never returned money paid upon valentines.
The Augsburgh Gazette mentions, under date frontiers of
Poland, the 4th inst., that a great number of Poles who had
faxed their residence in France, or in the Rhenish provinces,
had been permitted to return to their country.
A valuable portion of Earl Fitzwilliam's jewel
House, some of which were heir-looms, have, it appears,
been purloined. Suspicion attaches to some of his lordship's
domestics, and one of them, a female, is in Peterborough
House of Correction.—Leeds Mercury. '

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The Perthshire Advertiser states that the captain of the
loop James, belonging to Perth, was unfortunately thrown
overboard during a gale of wind, by the mainsail, and
His dog attempted a rescue, but perished with
his master.

drowned

PUBLIC THANKSOIVING.—The Archbishop of Canter-
bury has been directed to prepare a form of prayer and
thanksgiving to Almighty God for the success of the British
arms in China and Affghanistan, and a day will shortly be
set apart for that purpose.

CAPTAIN Ross.—We quoted a paragraph yesterday from
the Falmouth Packet, stating that Captain Sir J. Ross had
penetrated the Antarctic circle to 70 40. This was an error.
Captain Sir J. Ross does not command the expedition ; but
his nephew, Captain James Clark Ross.—Standard.
The cutlers of Paris are getting up a petition to the cham-

bers against the projected treaty of commerce with England ;
it being reported that English cutlery is to be admitted at a
duty of 25 per cent. on the value of the article, in addition to
the duty on raw material.

Four seamen were washed overboard from a boat and
drowned, off Torquay, on Saturday last. They had been to
assist at a French sloop which had hoisted signals of distress,
and they had rendered the necessary assistance, and on their
return met with a watery grave.

PURSERS.—The half-pay of these officers will:be increased
from the Ist of April next, as we observe in the navy esti-
mates an addl. ional sum of £6,200 is taken on this head.

Some are to have £155

2s. 6d. per annum, or Bs. 6d. per

How UNFORTUNATE !—We have heard of no local intel-
ligence of importance. Our reporter having chilblains, is
afraid of venturing out to seek for some this weather, and the
heavy fall of snow has intercepted all communications with
the exterior.—Jersey

"3azelle

THE GATES OF SONINAUTH.—Mr. V. Smith has placed
a notice on the Commons' books, that on Tuesday next he
will submit a resolution regarding the proclamation of Lord
Ellenborough, as Governor-General of India, to the Chiefs
and Princes of India, upon the recovery of the gates of the
temple at Somnauth.

On Sunday evening, between the hours of seven and nine
o'clock, a robbery to the extent of £6OO was committed on
the premises of the London and Regent-street Bank, Lon-
don, by some adroit thieves, who gained admittance into the
banking-house, but in what manner for the present remains
a mystery. The police are in active pursuit of the robbers.
O'Connell has postponed the discussion of the repeal
question in the Dublin Council Until Tuesday next. He did
not make his appearance last Tuesday, when the Question
was appointed for debate, until the council were about to
separate. Alderman Butt is prepared to discuss the subject
with O'Connell.

At the Middlesex Sessions, on Tuesday, a boy was indict-
ed for stealing three apples, value Id. The jury and magis-
trates expressed their indignation at such a paltry prosecu-
tion, and the lad, being found guilty, was fined Is., which
was paid by one of the magistrates, and the prisoner was
discharged.

It is rumoured that Mr. Natt, the late Vicar of St. Sepul-
chre's, London, has left to the Church Missionary Society
by his will an immediate legacy of £6,000, besides a rever-
sionary one of smaller amount. We may add that the cor-
portion of London did themselves honour by voting, on
Thursday last, the sum of £5OO to this society.

The Marquis of Ormonde's agent in the county Kilkenn,
has, by the direction of his lordship, made an abatement on
the rents due the 29th of September and Ist of November
last, of 20 per cent. (or four shillings in the pound) on all
payments made in full of those rents, before the 25th of March
or Ist of May next.

Two men were tried at the assizes of Rennes, on the 14th
instant, for having, on the 4th Nov. last, murdered an
Englishman, named William Geary, by beating him with a
stick. They were father and son ; and the latter was con-
demned to five years' solitary confinement, and the old man
to five years' hard labour at the hulks.—Paris Paper.
The Rev. W. M. Kinsey has resigned the secretaryship of
the Cheltenham District Society for the Propagation of the
Gospel in Foreign Parts, in consequence, according to his
letter " of the disclaimer by Mr. Campbell, of his words ut-
tered at the Cheltenham meeting of the society on the 10th
of November last."

WOLF HUNTING IN FRANCE.—Two enormous wolves.
vs the Messager, lately made their appearance in the park

of Apremont, near Chantilly, the property of his Royal High-
ness the Duke d'Aumale. A battue took place, in which one
of the wolves was killed by the duke, and the other by the

keepers

The Bishop of Madras has resolved in future to withhold
his license from the missionaries of the Church Missionary

Society, there being, it
tution of the Society, 1

as explained and acted upon by the

governing bod

y, that

his license will not be respected in his

own diocese

PROGRESS OF CATHOLICISM.—" The late Dr. Doyle's
calculation was that 5,000 Protestants embraced Catholicism
yearly in Ireland," so says an anti-Protestant journal, which
" remembers to forget" that the said doctor entertained
rather singular opinions touching certain tenets of Holy
Mother Church.

We have heard, and we trust that the report may prove
well-founded, that the lord mayor has presented the living of
St. James's, Duke's-place, to the Rev• Dr. Al'Caul. The
income of the benefice is very trifling ; but the suitability of
Dr. M`Caul for that peculiar post will be evident, when we
state that the great majority of the inhabitants are Jews.—
London Paper.

ANOTHER THUMP AT THE WEDGE.-Mr. Ross has
placed a notice on the Common's hooks, that on Thursday,
the 2d of March, he will move for leave to bring in in a bill
for declaring her Majesty's subjects in Ireland released from
the obligation to take the oath prescribed by 10 Geo. IV., c.
7, commonly called the catholic oath, previously to voting at
elections.

THE GATES OF SOMNAUTH.—We understand that a re-
quisition to the Archdeacon of Coventry is in course of sig-
natnre, requesting him to take measures for the drawing up
an address from the clergy of that archdeaconry, condemna-
tory of Lord Ellenborough's proclamation respecting the gates
of Somnauth. We believe the signatures of all the masters
of Rugby school are attached to the requisition.—Globe.
THE GLASGOW UNEMPLOYED.—A few of these wretched
creatures were employed this forenoon in breaking the ice in
our streets, at the rate of Is. per day. The great bulk of
them, however, amounting to many thousands, are still with-
out the means of subsistence. The meetings in the Olympic
arena are still continued; but, with the exception of hearing
speeches and suggesting new plans for relief, comparatively
nothing is being done on their behalf —Glasgow Chronicle.
NOVELTY,—A few
,days since a heron was discovered
floating down the river on a piece of ice, and from its efforts
to fly, and not being able to raise itself, several individuals
were induced to take a boat to see what was the matter with
the bird. On reaching the shoal, they found its long legs
completely frozen through it. 'They immediately set it at
liberty, on which it winged its way, with as much freedom as
if it had just risen from the bosom of a sunny lake.—Perth
Courier.

TILE FINANCE ACCOUNTS.—The finance balance-sheet
for the year ended the Lth January last, has been printed ,
and, we regret to say, it exhibits a decidedly more unfavoura-
ble aspect than was at all anticipated. The expenditure, it
appears, has amounted (in round numbers) to.. £50,915,000
and the revenue (including the incidental receipts
from the canton ransom, and score than half

a million from

46,965,000

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