The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-24 00:00:00

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reland

is Works, Ireland

printing and stationery,
ations, &c., in Ireland, .44,930.
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tal expense for the year 1843 will be £771,736; for 1841
£738,472; for 1842 it was £760,167. In 1843 there
11, therefore, be an increase of £33,264, as compared with

ICAL OCCURRENC

On Monde

night, b

t and nine o'clock, an occurrence of a tragical nature,
4ch is at - !Tit involved in mystery. took place at the
re-lane, Temple-bar. It appears that a
'tleman having met with a female in the public street,
lny her to the above house, a house
Way thither. h""'"--

they called at
nd had something to drink at each,

rival at their destination the gentleman was
but, according to the statement of
s Susan Emerson, they proceeded
second floor back room, where she

to get a light which bad gone out, and
leman had thrown himself out of the
-yard, f,'" -r-stones,
He

her return ti

ndow into the bac

bleeding frinn different parts of his head

is not expected to survive.—London paper.
ALARMING OCCURRZNCE.—We have been favoured with
the perusal of a letter, dated March 2, from a gentleman at
Clapham, near London, to a friend of his in this town, from
which we make the following extract :—" I bad a most peri-
lous passage up to London by the Vivid. We left Hull a
little before noon, and as we approached the ocean the wea-
ther became exceedingly thick and hazy, which at night made
the darkness intense. At one o'clock the packet struck upon
a sandbank with great violence, and remained stationary,
lobsided, eight hours, a tremendous sea breaking over us all
the time. There seemed little or no hope for our lives. The
sailors said that the boats, to which we thought to have re-
sorted, would not live five minutes in such a sea. It is im-
possible to describe the scene of confusion and despair which
I witnessed then; all were expecting, every moment, to be
engulfed in the dark billows of the raging main. There were
about 40 passengers in all on board. At length the much
lano•Pri_fm• ..............a L •

was on

1 more perilous,

and, if possible, r

noke was seen to ris

the hold-

he ship was

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THE TifAlms TUNNFL.—On Saturday, at a meeting of
,he directors of the above undertaking, it was definitively
arranged that the ceremony of opening this great national
work should take place on Saturday next, the 25th instant.
His Grace the Duke of Wellington has promised to officiate
on the occasion. The circular staircases and the eastern
roadway are now finished, hut some time will elapse before
the thoroughfare for carriages can he opened. Both arch-
ways are perfectly dry. At the conclusion of the ceremony
on Saturday, the directors will dine with their friends at the
London Tavern; and it is expected that the noble duke, who
has always taken great interest in the undertaking, will
honour the company with his presence.
resent invoiven
YEOMANRY.—A parliamentary return, just published, of
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Temule-bar. It annpsss ... the number and expenses of the effective yeomanry of Great
Britain, in the year 1842, states the number of troops to
have been 247, containing 831 officers and 13,358 men ; the
total expense connected with whose maintenance was
£101,831 Ss. lid. The amount voted by parliament was
£82,458, thus showing the excess of expenditure beyond the
vote of parliament to have been £19,373 Bs. 11d. The
reason of the excess arose from unforeseen charges on ac-
count of corps called out in aid of the civil power. Six
yeomanry corps, containing six troops and
serving gratuitously, are to be placed up
on •
establishment from the first of next month , and several
a t4ho er 72p memna,nen now t
1 the flaf;-,
I 1.., additional corps, to consist of 16 troops and 935 men, are
expected to be raised for the year 1843.
A RAILWAY BALL.—On Wednesday last, a party of
ladies and gentlemen, bent, as a quaint old author has it, on
' tastefully fitted up, to Colchester. Here they
two vans
'etetxtthraeeratinetgrothpeolfir
wgisthoftheearhealf witphasttlietefonrienegpgsnogfe pleasure,"
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spent a pleasant hour in visiting the Castle, the Priory, and
the other objects of interest. On returning to the train
they found a sumptuous luncheon spread out in the van, and
as the train whirled off from the station the travellers sat
down to the ample board. The healths of the ladies of the
party closed the feast ; and then passed on to the next van,
where quadrilles and country dances were kept up with
spirit—probably being the first railway ball on record—
while :their steed was performing a gallopade through the
hills and by the villages of Essex.—Norwich Mercury.
DISASTER. AT SEA.—On Monday last the Providence,
one of the Newlyn fishing boats, landed at Penzance Captain
Lancaster and three of his crew, who sailed from London
for Gibraltar. .and Barcelona in the Hope, of Hull, a short
vevrabsoard, piled
laebstoy thee thfaeth sohloduldab inoourteas 60
increase
thear -
hboeaarnrdeistime ago. It appears that the Hope encountered a heavy
in the carcass, prepared for gale of wind off Cape Finisterrc, and was thrown on her
wjahtetenrthfoerntufantnetealnydreonnoehendiatnho vessel again and
were washed over-
n
ie then laid at anchor, with 40 fathoms of chain was saved, whilst the former, whose name was John Vincent,
Jut the captain slipped the anchor, in order to run met a watery grave. Ultimately they were under the ne-
All hands were at work at the fire, some heaving cessity of cutting away her masts, which had the desired
board, some with buckets of water, handing them effect of righting her, and a jurywast having been rigged,
rthe
nd others tearing up the deck. But yet it is pro- after beating about for some days, they fell in with a French
fire could not have been got under—for it blazed vessel 50 miles west from the Land's-end, bound to New
when the air was admitted—had not a great wave foundland. Finding their vessel was making water rapidly,
or us, and poured upon the fire. It was proved to the crew abandoned the Hope, and got on board the French-
iated by the spontaneous combustion of a number man, by fastening a line which was thrown to them round
cotton, in consequence of the violent rocking of their waists and jumping overboard. The fishing-boat fell
during the night. After this we had a tolerable in with the Frenchman shortly after the men were taken on
,ge, but were 44 hours at sea."—Bradford Oh- board.—West Briton.