The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-10 00:00:00

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One of the New York pra'pers states, that a large ship, sup-
posed to be the North America packet-ship, wds ashisre at
Shrewsbury Inlet, with nothing but the stump of her wizen-
mast and bowsprit standing. She had painted ports, and a
double stern.

The latest advices from Canada state, that the Governor
General of Canada still continued in a very precarions state

EXTRAORDINARY PRESERVATION.— Daring the last
snow-storm, Mr. Jonathan Rigg, of Crosbyravensworth,
had a sheep which was drifted up. and covered in a great
thickness of snow. As a matter of course, the animal was
thought to have perished ; but during one day last week, a
dog belonging to the same gentleman scented it, and after a
mass of snow had been removed the sheep was found, which
still retained life, after having laid three weeks in its dismal
situation, and is likely to do well, and regain all its former
strength.—Westmoreland Gazette.

THE CORK POST-OFFICE.—The informations respectively
of Mr. George Harris, clerk of the Cork Post-office, and
Mr. Eustace Harris, merchant, of this city, tab en before M r.
Francis Bernard Beamish, mayor, and Messrs. John Bagnall
and Richard Coppinger, magistrates, on the 9th ult., were
this day lodged in the office of the clerk of the crown. They
are very_ voluminous, and contain allegations against Mr.

A. W. Webb, postmaster of Cork, of a series of transacts
commencing early in November, and ending late in January
during which time, according to the statements of the de

ponenis, he caused George to issue, as if provision had been
paid into the office by Eustace, money orders, drawn in
favour of parties in London—viz., James Whiting, Thomas
Ellis, and Arthur G. Robinson, all connected in the way of
business with the deponent's brother Joseph, of Clement's-
lane, Lombard-street, London, and who, after charging a few

shillings incidental expel
London Post-office, remi
uniformly handed the s

se on procuring payment at the
,ed the proceeds to Enstace, who
eto the accused. Mr. Webb is

sound to take trial at the approaching assizes, himself in a
.proznizance of £2OO, and two securities in £lOO each.—

Southern Reporter.
NEW POST-OFFICE ARRANGEMENTS.—In consequence
of the numerous applications that have been made by the
nerchantQ in the city, Liverpool, and Bristol, to Lord Low-
"eneral, for a more expeditious means
ween this country, the Brazils, and

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(the Ist and 15th) by steam with all the British as well as
foreign West India islands, Mexico, Carthagena, &c., and
as a commercial treaty is about to be concluded with the
Emperor Don Pedro 11. and Great Britain, an early means
of correspondence between that part of South America will
he of great advantage to the mercantile interest. Contracts
for the transmissisti of the Madeira, Brazils, and Buenos
Ayres mails, by Steam-packets, are on the point of being
concluded, and in all probability will commence with the
mails of next month. At present seven 18-gun brigs are
kept at a great expense to the country. By transmitting the
Brazils and Buenos Ayres mails by the West Ind a steam -
nackets, not only will there be a great saving to the Govern-
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