The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-04-23 00:00:00

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SECOND EDITION.

Standard-office, One o'clock,a.m.

FEARFUL SHIPWRECKS AND OTHER DISAS-

TERS IN THE WEST INDIES.
On the Sth of March, as the Royal-mail steamer Eagle,
with the mails on board for Europe, was wing out of
Demerara. site ran foul of the schooner Tay, laden with
sugar from Essequibo, and with a large number of pas-
sengers. The schooner was so seriously injured that she
immediately went down, and in the rush to the boats six
persons lost their lives; amonest them were two of the
family of Mr. Hendy, of Demerara, who were drowned
before the eyes of their parents, and could not be saved.
The American schooner, J. B. Lindsey, left port of
Spain, Trinidad, on or about the Ist of February. While
yet in sight of that place, at night, the mate and a pas-
senger were murdered and thrown overboard by the crew.
The captain was severely wounded, but contrived to secure
the cabin door against the murderers, and for days kept
hem at bay. Afterransaekingthe vessel for money,themis-
creants took to the schooner's boat, and with an axe
attempted to scuttle the vessel, but their design was de-
feated by the cook, who cut the boat's painter and set
them adrift. The captain then crawled on deck, and
by threatening to fire on the boat prevented the murderers
f•om n t truing on board. The boat then made for the
Spanish Main, and the captain contrived to reach St.
Thomas in the schooner, where he was taken care of by
the American consul, who has circulated handbills through-
out the West Indies, offering a reward of 200 dole. for
the capture of the murderers.

A tornado of terrific violence passed over the town and
I amour of Nassau (Bahamas), about one one, a.m., on.
tl.e 30th March, bearing down everything in its course.
About fifty houses were destroyed, many of them being
actually smashed to atoms; trees of immense size were
torn up by the roots; several small vessels in the harbour
were sunk and others dismasted. A large schoon

er, on

the stocks, was blown over and t
were killed and several badly
listed not more than one minute
The record of various shier
Liverpool vessels will be found in another column

laniaged. Eight persons
wounded. The tornado

nr, disasters to several

ship Clarence was wrecked through Navin

" missed stays?'

whilst nearing her boat sei
VICE-CHANCELLO

for provisions,

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URDAY,

SHARPE v. TAYLOR.—This case came before the court
upon exceptions to the Master's report, whereby he had
found the value of a certain shin called the Victoria, to
have been, in May, 1840. £7485. The' exceptants
in-
sisted that her value was not more than £l5OO or £l6OO.
It appeared she had been built in America, and having
been wrecked off Liverpool, was bouslit by the plaintiff
arid the defendant, who have repaired her, and employed
here in the American trad,. The object of the bill was to
obtain an account of the profits of the adventure, and of
the amount realised by her sale. The arguments have
occupied the greater part of
eluded

are not yet con-

EXFE( TED ACCOUCHEMENT OF THE QUEEN.-At a
late hour last night the several members of the cabinet,
the Lord Chancellor, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and
the principal members of the Queen's household were sud-
denly placed on the qui rice by an intimation proceeding
from the palace that symptoms had developed themselves
of the approaching and early accouchrnent of her Ma-
jesty. At the late hour of half-past one this morning,
there was nothing beyond this intimation to denote that
there would be any immediate increase to the Royal Fa-
mily. All we can state to relieve the public mind is,
that shortly after dinner the Queen expressed herself
rather unwell, and that symptoms presented themselves
which leave little doubt that within 24 hours that event
will occur in which the nation feels so deep an interest.—
Herald of yesterday.

SCENE INSIDE THE GENERAL POSTOFFICE A STORM
OF NEWSPAPERS.-It was then just drizzling newspapers.
The great window of that department being thrown open,
the first black fringe of a thundercloud of newspapers
impending over the Post)ffice was discharging itself fit-
fully—now in large drops, now in little, now in sudden
plumps, now stopping altogether. By degrees it began
to rain hard; by fast, degrees the storm came on harder
and harder, until it blew, rained, haile3; snowed news-
papers. A fountain of newspapers played in at the win..
dow. Waterspouts of newspapers broke from enormous
sacks, and engulphed the men inside. A prodigious main
of newspapers, at the Newspaper River Head, seemed to
be turned on, threatening destruction to the miserable.
Postoffice. The Postoffice was so full already, that the
window foamed at the mouth with newspapers. News-
papers flew out like froth, and were tumbled in again by
the bystanders. All the boys in London seemed to have
gone mad, and to be besieging the Postoffice with news-
papers. Now and then there was a girl ; now and then
a woman ; now and then a weak old man ; but, as the
minute-hand of the clock cre near to six, such a tor-
rent of newspapers came tumbling in together pell-mell.
head over heels, one above another, that the giddy head
looking on chiefly wondered why the boys springing over
one another's heads, and flying the garter into the Post-
office with the enthusiasm of the corps of alrobats at M.
Franconi's, didn't post themselves nightly along with the
newspapers, and get delivered all over the world. Sud-
denly it struck six. Shut Sesame ! Perfectly still weather.
Nobody there. No token of the late storm—Not a soul,
too late ! But what a chaos within ! Men up to their
knees in newspapers on great platforms; men gardening
among newspapers with rt

r and delving-

among newspapers as if a r.ew description of rock ha
been blasted into those f'agmeets ; men going up and
down a gigantic trap—an ascend', r and descending-room
worked by a steam-engine—still taking with them nothing
but newspapers ! All the history of the time, all the
chronicled births, deaths, and marria ;es, all the crimes,
all the accidents, all the vanities, all the changes, all the
realities, of all the civilised earth, reaped up, parcelled
out, carried about, knocked down, cut, shuffled, dealt,
played' gathered up again, and passed from hand to hand,
in an apparently interminable and hopeless confusion, but
really in a system of admirable order, certainty and sim-
plicity, pursued six nights every week, all through the
rolling year Which of us, after this, shall find fault
with the rather more extensive system of good and evil,
when we don't quite understand it at a glance; or set the
stars right in their spheres ! —Household Words.
CHIEF JUSTICE SAUNDERS.—" OUR LEGAL WHIT-
TINGTON."—" He was at first," says Roger North, " no
better than a poor beggar boy, if not a parish foundling
without known parents or relations." There can be little
doubt that, when a boy, he was discovered wandering
about the streets of London in the most destitute condi-
tion—penniless, friendless—without having learned any
trade, without having received any education. Butaltbongh
his parentage was unknown to the contemporaries with
whom he lived when he had advaaeed himself in the
world, recent inquiries hare ascertained that he was born
in the parish of Barwood, close by the city of Gloucester;
that his father, who was above the lowest rank of life,
died when he was an infant, and that his mother took for
her second husband a man of the name of Gregory, to
whom she bore several children. We knew nothing more
respecting him, with certainty, until he presented himself
in the metropolis ; and we are left to imagine that he
might have been driven to roam abroad for subsistence,
by reason of his mother's cottage being levelled to the
ground during the siege of Gloucester; or that, being
hardly used by his stepfather, he had run away, and had
accompanied the broad-wheeled waggon to London, where
he had beard that plenty and riches abdtmded. The little
fugitive found shelter in Clement's Inn, where " he lived
by obsequiousness and courting the attorneys' clerks for
scraps.' He began as an errand-boy, and his remarkable
edsiltigiennche obligingiasndfavour.
Expressing disposition carneateeadgear
ambitiongerieralintetor-
learn to write. one of the attorneys of the inn got ",a
board knocked up at a window on the top of the stair-
case. This was his desk, and, sitting here, he not only
learned the running hand of the time, but court band,
black letter, and ingrossing, and made himself an "expert
entering clerk." in winter, while at work, he covered
his shoulders with a blanket, tied hay-bands round his
legs, and made the blood circulate through his fingers by
rubbing them when they grew stiff. llis next step was
to copy deeds and law papers, at so much a folio or page,
by which he was enabled to procure for himself wholesome
food and decent clothes. Meanwhile he not only picked
up a knowledge of Norman-French and Law Latin, but,
by borrowing books, acquired a deep insight into the prin-
ciples of conveyancing and special pleading. By-and-bye
the friends he had acquired enabled him to take a small
chamber, to furnish it, and to begin business on his own
account, as a conveyancer and special pleader.—Camp,
bell's Lives of the Chief Justices.

GOOD

W I F

The greatest blessiog in a house
Is a kind and careful slmause,
One who studies bow to inal:e„
For her loving husband's sake,
His domestic lot appear
Full of comfort and good cheer;
He may till his easy chair,
She is gliding everywhere•,
Naught escapes her watchful eye,.
All that's wrong (loth she espy;
" Waste not, want not," is the theme
Of her thoughts and nightly dream ;
She seeks not luxurious food,
But things healthful, cheap, and good,
And her household ware is seen
Humble, but yet bright and clean.
When he cometh home at eve
She loth smiling welcome give ;
Children, each with rosy face,
Spring to meet his warm embrace;
And each young and joyful call
Is to him most musical ;
And he seeks each whim to please,
Whilst„they cluster round leis, knees.
To the tire is brought his sea.
And' with easy, slippered feet,.
Round about he casts his gaze,.
And his group of love surveys.
Oh I how sweet the light that lies,
I n his partner's gentle eyes
lABloll
ear
ser.sshiioen"ogdodocai dimpling
cilfllcaioantfrtgi
emoruonl, matronit,7e.ilher face,
astgecr? e ; •

Now the husband slyly brings
Forth a heap of new bought things;
little
le,
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What a source of rapturous joy r.
WhatNBITE3 orouohuuy eiglfnhottpahrthlemahtl :nmtislamerelnoaale:ttslaitte" unhe ec
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views
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of :uruoeoltsnn'
ni
er, :hart,
es,
Made with all his usual art
Inspects them, and admires them more,
Inquires the price—when tha she knows
Still more her admiration wows;
Thus all are pleased, wife, boy, end man,
By HVAIt'S good and honest plan,
The goods he sells allay all strife,
And Sweeten man's domestic life
By giving joy to each good wife.

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