The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-05-07 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

The meeting of tbe Royal Agricultural Society for Eng-
land for 1845 will be held in Shrewsbury.
The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Royal, and
attended by the Marchioness of Douro, Lady in Waiting,
left Buckingham Palace at a quarter before six o'clock on
Saturday afternoon. in a carriage and four, escorted by a
party of the Royal Horse Guards, for Claremont.
A HOUSE OF MOURNING.—The typhus fever has been
raging in the parish of Easthope, near Much Wenlock,
since last Midsummer nearly to the present time. In one
house seven persons were dangerously ill, three of them
died, and tbe only child which escaped that dreadful
malady was burnt to death. Few parishes in the country
can exhibit such a house of mourning as this.
COSTS IN CASES AT PETTY SESSIONS.—A labouring
man, named Robert Lunnon, was summoned a few days
since before the bench of magistrates sitting in petty ses-
sions at Marlow, to answer the charge of damaging the
signboard and a window at the Black Lion public-house at
Little Marlow. The defendantwas convictedin both cases
as follows :—for damaging the signboard he was fined 25.,
and ordered to pay 13s. costs; and for damaging the win-
dow he was fined Is., and mulct in 15s. costs !
KING WILLIAM'S COLLEGE, ISLE OF MAN,—The
restoration of King V% illiam's College is progressing ra-
pidly. The workmen are now engaged upon the roof, and
the chapel is also in a state of forwardness. The patrons
and friends of the institution are sanguine that the annual
meeting for the distribution of prizes, on the 4th of June,
will be held within the walls of the renovated building.
It will be remembered, that the edifice was insured for
£2,000, but the estimate of the necessary repairs was
£3,100 ; the trustees, however, calculate on a gross ex-
penditure of £4,000, thns leaving a deficiency of £2,000
to be provided for.—Mona's Herald.
Loss of THE SHIP PALESTINE BY FlRE.—lntelli-
gence has been received within the last few days of this
disastrous event. Toe vessel was the property of Messrs.
Ashley Brothers and Co., of this town. She was almost
new, having bee❑ launched at Quebec in 1811, and was a
very fine vessel of her class, her tonnage being between
700 and 800 tons. The vessel sailed from Gravesend in
September, bound to Men, Bombay, and Calcutta, with
a cargo consisting of several hundred tons of coals, tar,
pitch, and pine deals, which was taken on board at New-
castle. The voyage was very favourable, and all went on
well until the 4th of February, when, about half-past two
o'clock in the morning, the ship being in lat. 26 15 S,
long. 58 35 E, the watch on deck was alarmed at observ-
ing a strong smell of fire, which was discovered, after
great difficulty, to proceed from nearly the bottom of the
vessel. Every exertion was made to save the vessel, but
without success, and eventually the captain and crew were
compelled to take to the boats, and shortly after they had
ltft the ship she suddenly gave a heavy lurch, and then
disappeared, head foremost. After enduring the most se-
vere privations, Captain M`Lean, and the men in the boat
with him, were picked up on the seventh day by the brig
Solway, which landed them at the Cape of Good Hope.
The other boat, contrary to the instructions of Captain
M`Lean, parted company, and the party in her arrived
safe at the Mauritius. The Palestine was partly insured.
Loss OF THE BARQUE INTREPID.—Captain Stuart,
commander of the barque Intrepid, has published the
following account of the loss of this vessel :—" The bar-
que Intrepid left the Sand Heads on the sth of January.
1844, for Liverpool, and crossed the equator on the 19th of
of the same month. From lat. 65t014 S we had very bad
weather, with a high cross sea. On the 28th it blew a hur-
ricane. We brought the s lip to under a closed reefed main-
topsail, and main trysail, and sent down top-gallant royal
yards. The ship began to make so much water that we
could not play the pumps. The bulwarks being partly gone
on both sides, the sea made a complete breach over the
decks, washing the people from the pump, which now could
not he left. At eight a.m. on the 21th, less wind but more
sea if possible ; she was labouring to such a degree that I
expected the masts to go overboard. On the 31st the
weather was fine, but the leak increasing, 1 ordered cargo
to be thrown overboard, which we continued at all the
day ; three of my crew sick, arid the rest much fatigued.
I plainly saw that we could not keep her up much louger,
I therefore thought it prudent to turn back and make for
the nearest land, and the next morning we saw a ship. She
proved to be the Philopontos, from Liverpool to Bombay,
Capt. Bell kindly came on board with the half of his crew,
and his crew kept at the pumps, whilst ours sent up the
topgallant yards and set the sails. At night they went on
board, it being then calm : at 2 a.m, it began to blow from
the northward and the water gained on the pumps fast ;
at 7 p.m., we left her with the water up to the lower deck
beams, expectin in a very short time she would go down;
the jute kept her up, having on board five hundred bales,
until next morning : we sent the boat on board to get
some more provisions, the water then being up to her
deck; at 2 o'clock the unfortunate ship went down head
foremost, distance about two miles, latitude 17 13 south,
longitude 83 34 east, on the 3d of February."—Bombay
paper.

THE GWALIOR BATTLES TRAVESTIED.—On the 22d
of February, about 300 boys, of 10 to 12 years of age,
collected on the hills, and divided themselves into two
parties—and counterfeiting the English army, and the
other the Mahratta. On the one side two of the boys
were appointed to represent the Governor-General and
the Commander-in-Chief, a number more as generals and
other officers, and the remainder appeared as soldiers.
On the other side a boy represented the Maharajah
Jyajee Rao, another Ram Rao Phalkeea, other General
Baptist, Major Seconder and Bapoo Seetolia ; a girl of
the Kachee tribe represented Tara Baee, and of the
Koombar tribe Rookhma Baee. It was proclaimed, that
whatever boy in the in,hkiir should refuse to come be
should be counted as faithless as Jacob. A quantity.of
otto and dal was collected to represent the Commissariat
stores, and four boys were appointed to carry water as
Bbeesties ; a mussuck was filled with cowries as a treasure
chest, and the pay of the Sepoys fixed at 8 cowries, and
that of the officers according to their rank. About 25
canons brass and iron, of a cubit long, with a quantity of
gunpowder. were brought from the bazaar, and when all
was ready the fight commenced. First the Maharajah's
guns :commenced, and then the representatives of the
English began to move onward : in this attack seven or
boys were killed, and 10 or 12 wounded.
wounded in
boy who
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represented Sewaee Secunder in the arm,
and was conveyed away in a dhoolie. The Mahratta army
then having seized on Ram Rao Phalkeea and Bapoo
Seetalia beat them. In the evening this news was con-
veyed to Tara Baee. She sent to them to stop the fight,
but the boys stoned the messenger; the latter began to
explain that he came by order of the Baee, when both
sides answered, that the Baee was the mistress of her own
army and her own house, and they were their own masters,
and would here fight and die. The messenger returned
without being able to accomplish his errand, and soon
after sunset the boys of themselves dispersed. Some boys
of both sides homes, while some remained
ea sentinels
wentan
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p reptshreeidr
the food. On the next dayir
(24th) there was no.fighting till the afternoon, when about
4 o'clock 600 boys collected and made ready for a second
edition, and thousands of people assembled to see the
sport. At this moment another messenger came to forbid
the fight, and offered them 300 rupes as a present.. They
answered that they were not in want of money, but that
they would fight for their salt and die fighting. Sewaee
Secunder's representative, having had the ball extracted
from his wound, again came on the field and mixed with
his comrades. While thus parleying with the Baee's
messengers the evening fell and no fighting took place.
On the morning of the 25th about 300 to 400 boys were
still collected, when the messengers of the Pace again
came, and seizing some 21 or 25 boys, among the rest the
mock Sewaee Secunder, put Ahem in the stocks; the
others seeing this fled. Some people who went to see
these betoes in their confinement were I.elscd by them
with earth. The Durbar has reused a nrozlamation to be
made in the lush!: ur forbidding such sports in future under
pain of punishment.