The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-04 00:00:00

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ready had. The
the overseers have
a.
bor-
rowed, and it will require ls. 6d., rate to pay it back, which
will make a sum equal to something like 10s. ticl. in the pound.
If, therefore, the British West Indies and Mauritius, and the
sugar-growing interests in the British East Indies, present one

120,000, which tt
had

7,000, w

ruin. Your Comm
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1, have redped any profit from the change of

policy which the

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possession of the following figures with which he had been
furnished by the memorialists. They did not expect any
return for the £142,000 they had been foolish enough to
expend upon a West Indian investment. The then price
of sugar would only give them a gross return of £60,800
to be placed- against an annual expenditure of £60,300,
leaving a balance over expenditure of only a'iout £5OO to
go against the interest of the annual outlay, and preclud-
ing the recovery of a single shilling of the original invest-
ment. It was the memorial of these unfortunate persons
that Earl Grey used for such a purpose as the one quoted
above ! The answer of the English Secretary of State for
the Colonies, when charged with this distortion of an im-
portant document to support. his own views, is this—' I ac-
cepted the testimony of the memorial as
to the facts of
the case, but I did not abide by its authority in matters of
opinion.'

"The public must be left to form its own judgment on
this state of facts. It is deplorable to find an English.
statesman's name mixed up with such a transaction_
Nothing, one should imagine, but an inborn sense of
honesty and uprightness is needed in order to arrive at a-
correct decision upon this case. Who amongst our read—
ers would have taken a letter from his pocket and used its
contents in the course of business as Earl Grey did this
West Indian memorial ?"

SUICIDE OF A LADY.—At Bideford, on Wednesday
week, Mrs. Mary Madelina Bourmaster Douglas, aged
39, wife of Major Douglas, of the Royal Infantry, and.
daughter of the late Gen. Sir William Dixon, committed
suicide by taking prussic acid. She had been married to
Major Douglas about 21 years. and was the mother of ten
children. seven of whom are living. The deceased, who
had been in India with her husband almost ever since
their marriage, returned to England about twelve months
ago. Major Douglas landed at Southampton some three
weeks since, and having joined the deceased at Exeter,
they repaired to Bideford, where they were lodging when
the fatal event occurred. The deceased had appeared as
usual up to the afternoon of Wednesday, although the
persons with whom she lodged deposed that she was fre-
quently much dejected, and that her manner often sug-
gested to them doubts of her sanity. Major and Mrs..
Douglas and three of their children dined together, and
deceased seemed in good spirits, and talked with her hus-
band, with apparent pleasure, of their proposed embarka-
tion for India in October. Soon after dinner she sud-
denly rose from the table, and after the lapse of about
half a minute returned hurriedly, and rushed into the
drawing-room, where she fell senseless on the floor.
Messengers were despatched for a surgeon, who arrived_
within five minutes, when he found life not suite extinct,
but death occurred within a minute of his arrival. A bot-
tle was found on deceased's dressing table, which had con-
tained prussic acid, which it appears she had procured in
two separate quantities under pretence of poisoning eats.
A BILL STEALING AND THREATENING-LETTER Es-
TABLISHMENT.—Mr. Robinson, the Superintendent of
the P division of Police, waited on Wednesday on Mr.
Elliott, at Lambeth-office, to report to the Magistrate the
result of his inquiries respecting a gang of swindlers in the
Albany-road and Kent-road, who appear to have carried
on a system of fraud to a most incredible extent. The
transactions being carried on in writing, the persons
duped never saw the face of the sharpers by whom they
were swindled, and cannot therefore identify them. From
the number of names assumed by the swindlers, it seems
almost hopeless to bring home any specific charge to
them. The " firm" had agents in various parts of the
country, to ascertain who were

change for goods. One of
been ascertained to be Rou
in the Kent-road, and flour,
were frequently brought the
moved again. Money was

from timid persons, p-artict

exposure

In one case a t
had been duped to the am

been swindled
well

:quainted with

used togiv

~
the ground that they wer
gularly, and that they had

1 butd

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met in a northern county

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the revival c

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their private

to the officers, dap-
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Company

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.egister of Cap-

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east inbirs.

Will positively sail in a few days, and warranted first vessel.
For BOMBAY,
-4" • The splendid Ship RELIANCE,
THOMAS CROWELL, Commander;
(Who is well acquaint with the trade;)
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Prince's Dock ;to .J.S. DE WoLF, or to
W. and J. TYRER.

Will have early despatch.
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I;;ljffe,_ And will proceed to MADRAS, should sufficient
cargo off
!"19, The splendid fas g British-built Ship
GHALLEN,
aptain LLOYD JONES;
349 tons; A I at Lloyd's twelve years.—Apply to
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