The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-01-22 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

PRINCE Pozzo DI BORGO is reputed to possess great wealth)
Last winter a nephew of his Excellency's, a Captain in the En'
Royal Guard of France, was united to the daughter of tj
Duke de Crillon, upon which occasion Prince Pozzo di Bo
gave the bridegroom a fortune of 1,500,000 francs (about £6O,
stetling,) with the promise of as much more after the Ambassne '
dor's demise.
A report has been going the round of the papers for sow'
time past that his Grace the Duke of Wellington had broken
up. his establishment, previously to, and with the intention of
going abroad. We have already contradicted a rumour 01
this subject, which had found its way accidentally into our 0%1
columns, and we are now enabled in the most positive manner
to repeat this contradiction, having obtained authentic infor
mation that no such reduction has taken place in any branch
of his Grace's household.—Morning Post.
Her Grace the Duchess of Buckingham has been seriouslf,
indisposed during the past week, at her residence, Avingto*
Park, near Winchester. We are happy to say, however, than
by the last accounts her Grace was better.—Portsmouth Herald,
CONSERVATIVE CIA:B.—The inhabitants of Bath have fol',
lowed the example of those of Bristol, and have formed a large,
and highly respectable Conservative body, the first object or,
which is to declare that the present members for that city are,
not the men of their choice, but that their principles are /7,
direct opposition to the views and feelings of the great maj oral',
of the people, and to make arrangements to secure, at the nest
election, the return of men of totally different politics, anii
who are likely to stand forward in defence of the constitution
the avowed enemies of innovation and destruction.—John Thai

Three brothers, miners, in the employ of Messrs. Guest and
Co., Dowlais, have lately received an unexpected bequest o
£l2,ooo.—Bolton Chronicle.
It is expected that the King and. Queen of the Belgians will
make a trip to this country in the spring, and sojourn for a short
time at Claremont.

The amiable and accomplished daughter of the Countess d
Molande is about to be united to a foreigner of distinctio
holding a high situation at King. Leopold's Court,
On Monday last a furious attack was made on W. Fishbouril
jun., Esq. (agent to the Duke of Buckingham), who, with at
under-agent and a servant, were returning in a jaunting-c
from Clare Island to Old Castle, (county of Westmeath), aft
collecting the Duke's rents in the neighbourhood of the former,
Passing through a plantation two shots were fired at him fro;
a party of four in ambush, who afterwards sprang across the
road as if to intercept him at a turn in advance. Mr. Fish'
bourne, however, drove on and escaped. Several people whops,
he met on the road refused to have anything to do with joiningl
him in pursuit of the villains, so he wisely hastened to Olai
Castle.. The Westmeath Journal states that orders had been;
given at the neighbouring chapels for the two preceding Sun'l
days not to' pay more than a certain rent to the Duke's agentsrl
and that the Rev. Mr. Burke, parish priest, had spoken of Wi
Fishbourne at Tullystown chapel, only two miles from the abort
ambush, on both occasions in terms of the most shocking
abuse, &c.

The Dutch King's answer has arrived in the mail-packet
the Attwood, and consists of a counter-project, which it is pro-
posed to submit to all the Five Powers, although one of-them has
formally withdrawn from the conference. Upon the whole we
have reason to believe that, with an air of approach and mode-
ration, the new proposals are concocted in the same bad faith
and spirit of procrastination which have, attended these nego-
ciations on the part of the King of Holland from first to last.
—Globe of Monday Evening.

DISCOVERY OF FOSSIL REMAINS.—An antediluvian skele-
ton, of the ichthyosaurus genus, has recently been discovered
near Bedford. The skeleton itself was found lying in a hori-
zontal position, embedded,ln clay, and, rin the opinion of ouf
informant, was evidently a marine deposit. At present it is only
partially uncovered, but the length of the whole may be judged
to be from about 12 to 14 feet. It is a curious fact, that in the im-
mediate neighbourhood of the skeleton was found a number of
small stones, although none are discovered in any other part of
the same bed of clay. There is a fossil specimen of the same
animal in the British Museum.—Northampton Mercury.
Among the members returned to the new House of Commons,
no fewer than eighty are sons of peers.--So much for the pre-
text of " diminishing- the influence of the Lords in the Com•
mons' House," for the construction of the Reform Bill.!

THE LATE ADMIRAL SIR THOMAS l'sOLEY.—The late Ad-
miral Sir T. Foley, who died at the Admiralty, at Portsmouth,
on Thursday, was commander-in-chief on that station, and
whose term of service would have expired on the Ist of April
next, had been in a very feeble and defining state of health l'ot
some time past. Ile was one of the heroes of the Nile, where
he commanded the Goliath, 74, and had the honour of leadinohe
van division (after the Culloden grounded, near the island of
Bequier, by outselling the Zealous, which for some time dis-
puted the point of honour with him), and anchored close to
the French ship Conquerant. He was one of those who pos-
sessed the early friendship of Nelson, and commanded the
Elephant, 74, at the battle of Copenhagen in 1801, on board
which ship Nelson shifted his flag from the St. George during
that sanguinary conflict. Of Captain Foley's services, in his
despatch to the Commander-in-Chief, Sir Hyde Parker, Nelson
observes, "To Captain Foley, who permitted me the honour of
hoisting my flag in the Elephant, I feel under the greatest obli-,
getion; his advice was necessary on many and important occa-
sions during the battle." In the partial enrgement between
Admiral Hotham and the French fleet in 1/91, Captain Foley
commanded the St. George, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral
Sir H. Parker, and was constantly employed during the late
war. Sir Thorns Foley was an Admiral of the White, and a
Knight Commander of the Bath. The gallant band of heroes
(of whom the deceased was one) who commanded the ships
which composed the fleet at the battle of the Nile, in 1798,
which were considered the elite of the British navy, are test
quitting the stage of life. We believe the following only now
(January, 1833) survive:—Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Sir B.
Hallowell Carew, Sir Davidge Gould, Sir D. E. Darby, and
Sir T. M. Hardy, who commanded the 31utine brig. Admiral
Foley was in his 76th year. He united himself, July 21, 1802,
to Lady Lucy Anne Pitzgerald, (youngest daughter of James,
Duke of leinster,) who survives him, by whom he had a nu-
merous issue. His remains will be interred with military
honours in the garrison chapel, at Portsmouth, on Wednesday
next.

LONDON ARTISTS IN THE COUNTRY-011 Wednesday last,
a man, who gave his name Edward Bailey, and described him-
self as a stationer resident at Lewes, was eommitted for trial to
the Falkingham House of Correction, charged with stealing a
box of apparel from the Bull Inn, at Bourne. It appeared that
the box had been left by a young woman who araived there by
coach on tha Monday preceding, and had to walk from thence
to Coulby, about five nliles distant. On the way she was over-
taken by the prisoner, who said that he was going to Stamford,
and would gladly accompany her; but having, in the course of
conversation, learned the circumstances under which she had
left her box, he quitted her near the village, and retraced his
steos to the Bull Inn at Bourne, where he obtained possession
of i.. On the prisoner's person were_ found several letters, an,,
one which he had just written was obtained from the post-offic.
This was addressed to a woman in London, informing her that
the writer had escaped from H n, (supposed to mean
Huntingdon,) and that if he could live over Sunday, he in-
tended " prigging the parson's plate." This was supposed to
al ude to the Rev. Mr. Hutchinson, of Pinchbeck, who had re-
ceived a letter, purporting to come from a clerical neighbour,
requesting him.to officiate for the latter on the following Sun-
day. The prisoner, in his letter to his female friend, requested
her also to send him a, supply of mix, or counterfeit coin. b
was ascertained that an attempt was made on the Sunday to
rob the Rev. Mr. Hutchinson's house, and that gentleman has
since identified the prisoner as Edward Brown, who once lived
in his service.

ANECDOTE OF A PAINTING.-At the sale of paintings on
the 10th instant, at Porncostle, the portrait of Archibald,
Duke of Argyll, by Ramsay, was offered, and in answer to an
inquiry how a small injury to the canvass hail happened, the
auctioneer related the following anecdote :—The portrait had
been hung in a bed-room, which was on one occasion occupied,
by a female domestic; the girl, fancying that the Duke 0.1
Argyll eyed her too closely whilst she was dressing, became
indignant, and seizing a poker aimed a blow with the intent of
putting the. Duke's eye out; the poker missed the eye, but
perforated the canvass close to the fate.—Stamford News.