The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-23 00:00:00

149100444 COMMUNICATION lIT Polv,..—On Tamlay
package, cQnslating of a pageboard.box,,vcry parrfully
closed and with a number of little holes in the top, camp by
post to Charles Cobbold, Esq., ii"rotighton Park, and bear-
ing an English post mark. Mr. Cobbold, not at all aware of
the contents of the box, opened it without much ceremony,
when, to his no slight surprise and the terror of some mem-
bers of his family, a lively snake sprung forth upon the din-
ing-room table. The reptile is none the worse of its extra-
ordinary trip, and now forms one of the objects of exhibition
at the Zoological Gardens.—Edinburgh Paper.

ARMING AND BROAD SWORD EXIMICISES.—The police
are being converted into something more than a semi-mili-
tary force, in order that they may perform the duties of the
milt.ry, should any sudden itnmergency render their service
necessary. The mounted horse police are being indructed in
the broad-sword exercise, under the immediate inspection of
military men, and in which they have already made great
progress. In the event of the military being called off from
the metropolis, the police will be enabled to act in their
stead ; and it will be in the power of the authorities to use
them, either as a civil or military force, as they may judge'
proper.—London paper.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY COURT.—PROOFS OF AFFECTION.
—At the above Court, on Thursday last. the following gra-
phic scene took place :--Commissioner : How do you get your
living ? Plaintiff (a pretty looking woman :) I gets it on the
streets, sir. (Laughter.) Commissioner : How, madam?
Have the kindness to tell us how ? Plaintiff : 1. sells wegita-
bles and flowers, and other things in season. Commissioner:
And how came you by that dangerous black eye? Plaintiff:
0, that's nnffink. My linsband gave it me—cos he's so
precious jealous ? Commissioner : And pray, why is he
jealous ? Plaintiff: Cos he likes me so. (Roars of laughter.)
Commissioner (laughing): You have striking proofs of affec-
tion, however.—Plaintiff: Ar, you may laugh ; but 'pend on
it, yen a man really likes a voman, he's sure to whop her,

DISTRESSING CIRCUMSTANCE.—A correspondent, who
dates his letter Rugby, June 19, sends us the following curi-
ous statement :—A few days ago the wife of the superinten-
dent of Pickford's-wharf at Rugby, saw a young man, about
years of age, staggering up to her door, evidently suffering
much pain. It Ippeared he requested some tea might be
given him, after which, being somewhat releived, he made
the following statement :—He said he was the son of a Colo-
nel Sinclair, who was lately killed in an engagement in India,
but never heard who his mother is, for he states a consider-
able sum of money was paid to a gentleman at Naples to
educate and board him till he attained the age of 21 years.
A few months since he heprd at Naples that a relation of his
had died at Leicester, leaving him heir to a fortune of some
thousands of pounds. He immediately set off thither, and
there discovered that a relative of his had drawn out of the
Bank all his money and squandered it. By the benevolence of
some ladies at Leicester, who found he was friendless and
penniless, he was enabled to return to London in search of
this party. His attempts to discover her proved fruitless, and
the poor fellow, then, it seems, in a moment of desperation,
purchased some arsenic, a portion of which he took in the
train from London.. He, however, repented of his rash act,
and got out at one of the stations near Rugby ' • he managed
to get as far as Rugby, where the woman (whose name is
Outlaw) so kindly and charitably took him in. We under-
stand his unfortunate case will be taken up by the neighbour-
ing gentry and inhabitants of Rugby, to enable him to reach
Naples, which city he has left without the knowledge or con-
sent of his guardian.—Globe.
Loss OF A FRENCH BRIG.—SFIEERNESS, Monday June
19.—T0-day the Rapid, Captain Roberts, belonging to Nevin,
put in here from nearly abreast the Swin Middle Light-ship,
having on board the master and five of the crew of the French
brig Les Deux Adeles, Captain Lanata, bound from New-
castle to Toulon, with a cargo of coals. Not one of the French
crew can understand a word of English ; but by conversing
with them in their own language, it has been ascertained that
at half-past 2 o'clock this (Monday) morning Les Deux
Adeles struck on the Long-sand during a heavy gale from
about north-east, and immediately filled and sank in deep
water. The crew took to their boats just as they stood, not
having time to save a particle of clothing or anything else,
and drove with the wind and flood-tide to the north-west.
On crossing the East Barrow-sand, the jolly-boat unfortu-
nately capsized, and two of the crew, named Duvaland Chap-
poniere, were drowned, as, owing to the heavy sea, their
companions could only succeed, and that with the greatest
difficulty and risk, in saving one of the jolly-boat's crew, who
was taken into the long-boat, which contained Captain La-
nata and the remainder of his crew. The Rapid was bound
from London for Harwich, and it was about 6 o'clock in the
morning when the watch upon her deck descried the long-
boat of the French brig tossing about at the mercy of the
waves. Captain Roberts and his crew lost not a moment in
rendering assistance, and after great and hazardous exertions
on their part, the tide at the time running ebb, with a heavy
cross sea, they succeeded in securing the long-boat, and get.
ting Captain Lanata and his surviving crew on board the Ra-
pid, in a gieatly exhausted state, where they were treated with
the greatest kindness, Captain Roberts administering every
comfort which their distressed condition required. It has
not been ascertained whether Les Deux Adeles or her cargo
of coals was insured.