The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-02-10 00:00:00

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A CONSCIENTIOUS LEGATEE.—A Liege journal states
that the brother of a shepherd at that place, who died lately
at Dork, in Transylvania, has received notice of his being
heir to a fortune of 1,500,000 f., which his brother had be-
queathed to him, but which, in the event of no claim being
made by the heir, is to go to the poor of Dork. The shep-
herd, who is 67 years of age, has refused to touch the legacy,
assigning as a reason, that he could ❑ot be happy with a for-
tune acquired by a man who, by his misconduct before he
left France, had abridged the days of his parents. The cou-
sins of the old man, however, who are less scrupulous, are
said to have commenced proceedings against him as a lunatic,
bled to claim as his representatives.

SUDDEN DEATH OF A BROTHER OF THE I
SIDNEY SMITH.—CIo Tuesday, Mr

DATE SIR
M,P., held

i and Horses, Welbecklstreei, (.;aven-

dish square, on the body of Mr. Courtney Smith, aged 69 or
70, Park-street, Grosvenor-square. The deceased was bro-
ther of the late gallant Sir Sidnc: `' '
baker, No. 69 Hinde-street, Mancheste

Smith. Stephen Stanners,
-square, stated that
ibout half-past

the deceased, on Saturda
two o'clock, entered his shop, saying " May I be allowed to
rest for a few minutes ?" Witness, who was behind the
counter, said, " Certainly," and deceased sat down upon a
chair, immediately upon doing which he placed his right
alarm on the counter, and, resting his head in his hand,
seemed to faint. Witness thereupon asked him if he felt
unwell, but he was unable to answer, and merely shook his
head. A surgeon being instantly sent for, deceased, on his
arrival, was pronounced to be dead. The Right Hon. R.
Vernon Smith, M.P. for Northampton, deposed that the
deceased, who was a gentleman of independent fortune, was
his uncle. Witness had not seen him for six months, but he
had ascertained that deceased left home on Saturday, about
one o'clock, beina in the enjoyment of his usual good health.
The jury returned a verdict of " Natural death."

TIC DEATH 0

—The Inverness Herald details t

ch occurred durin

H IGH L AND

melan-

g a snow storm in the

r Riconich of Rea, Sutherlandshire,ar
ig female, of the name of Dolina
herd in Assynt, to meet her on the 13th ult
at her sister's house in that parish, and accompany her o
visit to her mother, residing at Edderachylis. Althout
day was snowy and drifty, the piper kept his appoint
girl did not make her appearance, he proc
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,r mother's, leaving injunctions that the girl
ipt to follow him on so stormy a day. Shortly
ived, and accustomed to the inclemency of
the weather, would listen to no caution and brook no delay.
She took the road and soon missed it, and became benumbed
and overcome with cold. When it was discovered that she
had not arrived at her destination, the whole inhabitants of
the countryside turned out in quest of her. After several
days of fruitless search, she was at last found frozen, in a
sitting posture, beside a stream, within a mile and a half of
the ferry of Kyle Sku. She appeared to have been in the
act of changing her stockings for a dry pair she carried with
her, when she was arrested by the hand of death ; and was
found with one hand holding her plaid about her head, and
the other resting as a support to her body upon her knee.
THE STORM.—LOSS OF LIFE.—At high water this morn-

ing, about half-past three, the tide, owing to the strong
northerly wind that lasted all the previous night, was so high
in the river Thames that the houses and wharfs on the banks
at Lambeth, Vauxhall, and several other places, were flooded
to an alarming extent. The houses in Upper and Lower
Fore-streets were inundated to the depth of upwards of ten
feet. And in consequence of the rapidity of the flood, aided
as it was by the wind, much damage was done to the numer-
ous vessels lying in the river, and also to the ground-floors.
of the various houses, more especially to the premises be-
longing to Mr. Fleckney and Mr. Lancaster, publicans, whose
cellar stock has been severely injured. With such rapidity
did the tide overflow that the police were unable to get round
towards the river side to call up the parties. The overflow
in the nighbourhood of York-road was the highest ever
known, and boats took the place of the usual mode of con-
veyance. This was also the case at High and Broad-streets,
Lambeth. At Westminster-bridge the rapid current ren-
dered the lighters and other craft totally unmanageable, and
one man, name unknown, was thrown from the steerage of a
lighter by the concussion of the vessel with one of the wrecks,
and has not yet been found. The lighter, however, was,
after much tossing to and fro, brought to a mooring. The
amount of damage done to the small vessels lying up in the
river is very great. The inhabitants of the Belvidere-road,
at Bankside-road, at Bankside, also sustained much loss by
the overflowing of the river.—Tim
SrE,

.E IN SELKIRK COURT.—On January 31st two men
ging to Galashiels, John and Adam Dryden, brothers,
were tried, on a charge of day poaching, before Major Pott
and Sir James Russell, of Ashiestiel, when a scene occurred
certainly very uncommon in a court of justice. One of the
panels, Adam, sat with a stick in his hand, which he brand-
ished in a threatening manner towards the Court, keeping at
the same time his bonnet on his head. The superintendent
of police, seeing this, took it off, and laid hold of the stick,
when in an instant two fellows jumped from the gallery and
assisted the prisoner in struggling for the stick, which was
broken in the scuffle. One of the justices directed the offi-
cers to let the prisoner alone, who accordingly wore his bon-
net and kept the broken stick during the whole of the trial.
The result was, that the two prisoners were convicted in full
penalties faith expenses, which not being forthcoming, Adam
was sentenced to two, and John to four months' imprison-
ment. Upon this they both declared that all the officers of
Selkirk should not take them to gaol ; and it was only after
a desperate struggle between them and the officers that they
were placed in a cell in the Council-house, where they im-
mediately commenced breaking the windows and furniture.
John Dryden was soon after dragged by the police towards
the gaol, the officers being followed by some hundreds, a
great part of whom seemed determined on his rescue ; but he
was at length securely lodged in that strong-hold. The su-
perintendent of police then called out an additional force,
and having hound the other prisoner hand and foot, carried
him also to the gaol. I t would appear that these despreradoes
have been educated in their lawless oocupation by their own
father, who is at present in Jedburgh gaol for illegal fishing,
and was not long ago a month in Selkirk prison for the same
crime.—Caledonian Mercury.
NEW PATENT OMNIBUS.—A patent omnibus, constructed
for the purpose of affording greater —^.--"-

..,olic tha❑ are given by the
has just been completed by Mr. Warburton, of
—w-road. An experimental trip was made with it on
Saturday afternoon. The patent omnibus is about the usual
length, and has a coupe, over which the driver has his seat.
Immediately behind the coupe is the portion of the omnibus
which constitutes its chief feature—this is a sort of railway
carriage, with room for four persons, and is fitted up in such
a manner that it can, at the pleasure of those seated in it, be
made into four isolated compartments, each having its win-
dow on the side of the carriage. The doors of this portion
of the omnibus open like those of a private carriage, with
this difference, they are necessary double for the convenience
of the passengers. The steps are so contrived that passen•
gers can be easily taken up from and set down on the kerb.
Each of the four compartments alluded to is furnished with

ion and conveni-
neles now in

iced close a

also with a flexible tube,' having an ivory mouth-piece a
tached to it. This tube runs along the top of the omnibu
and has its outlet on a level with the head of the conductor

1 the c

.', which the omnibus is required to b(
ibus is ventilated b

'eans of narrow

sauze wire fixed immediately over the windows,
binder part of the vehicle is precisely the same as the
The fare in the carriage portion is Bd.,
and in the coupe and the hinder part W. The fore wheels of
this omnibus are of the same diameter as the hinder wheels.
This, while it renders the draft lighter, makes the "pulling
up" a more difficult matter, and a sort of drag, at the corn_ ly' mand of the conductor, has been placed on the hinder axle-
ancbo_

It appeared
to the court, therefore, that the case was perfectly plain, as
it was the scope of all the acts of parliament on the subject,
)ods once chargeable for arrears could not be discharged
an actual bona fide sale. No such sale had taken
present instanc
e entered for the crown

THE 7TH DRAGOON GUARDS.—After a continuous tour
of home duty, the long duration of which is unprecedented
in the military annals of this country, the ith Dragoon
Guards have at length been placed under orders for foreign
service. They are to proceed to the Cape of Good Hope so
soon as the requisite arrangements for their conveyance
thither can be completed. It has also been determined to
send the Ist battalion of the 45th Regiment to the same
station.—U. S. Gazette.