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

MISCELLANEOUS.

The meeting of the 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 Wai ing,
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 M OURNING. —The typhus fever has been
raging in the parish of Easthope, roar Much Wentuck,
since last Midsummer nearly to the present time. In one
house seven persons were dangerously ill, three of them
died, and the 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, earned Robert Ltinnon, was summoned a few days
since before the bench of magistrates sitting in petty st•s-
sinns at Marlow, to answer the charge of damaging the
signboard and awindow at the Black Lion public house at
Little Marlow. The defendantwas con victed in both cases
as follcws :—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 William'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 saneuine that the annual
meeting for the distribution of prizes, on the 4th of June,
will he held within the walls of the renovated building.
It with 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 gloss ex-
pend.tote of £4,000, thns leaving a deficiency of £2,000
to be provided for.—Mona's Herald.

Loss OF THE SHIP PALESTINE BY FlRE.—lnten-
getice has been received within the last few days of this
disastrous event. The vessel was the preperty of Mess s.
Ashley Brothers and Co., of this town. She was almost
new, having been 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 Aden, 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 4fh of February, a hen, about half-past two
o'clock in the morning, the ship being in lat. 26 15 S.
long. 58 35 B, the watch on deck was alarmed at observ-
ing a st.ong smell of fire, which was discovered, after
peat 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
lift the ship she suddenly gave a heavy lurch, and then I
disarpeared. head foremmt. After enduring the most se-
vere privations, Captain M`Leari, 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 toe instructions of Captain
M` Lean, parts(' 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 Liver p 'Ol, 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 . ip to under a closed re. fed 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 be lett. 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 toasts to go overboard. On the 31st the
weather was fine, but the leak increasing, I ordered cargo
to he thrown overboard, which we continued at all the
day ; three of my crew sick, and the rest much fatigued.
1 plainly saw that we could not keep her up much longer,
I therefore thought it prudent to turn back and make for
the nearest lane, and the nex. moinrng we -a w a shin. She
proved to he the Philopontes, from Liverpo,.l to Bombiy,
Capt. Bell kindly came on hoard wi.h ti.e half of his crew,
and his crew kept ar the pumps, whilst ours sent up the
torrgallant 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 en the pumps fast ;
at 7 p.m., we left her with Vie water up to the lower deck
beam. 4, expectin in a very short time she would go down;
the jute kept her up, having or, b nird 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 counterfe;enz the Engiish army, and the
oth-r the Mahratta. On the one side two of the boys
were appointed to rept, a itt the Governor-General arid
the Commander-in-Chirf, a number more as generals arid
other officers. and the remainder appeared Es soldiers.
On the other side a boy represented the Maharajah
.T, are Rao, another Rim Rao Phalkeea, other General
Baptist, Maj. r Seconder and Bapoo Seetolia ; a girl of
the Kachee tribe represented Tara Blee, and of the
Koine bar tribe Rookh na Baee. It was proclaimed, that
whete'er boy in the lu-likur should refuse to come he.
should be counted as fai•hless as Jacob. A quantity of
ottn and dal was collected to represent the Commissariat
it .res, and four boys were appointed to carry water as
Bheesties ' • a mussuck was filled with cowries as a treasure
chest, and the pay of the Sepoys fixed at 8 cowries, and
that of the offieers according to their rank. About 25
canons brass and iron. of a cubit long, with a quantity of
gunpowder, were brouiht from ne bazaar, and when all
was ready the fight commenced. First the 11,11.harajah's
gong 7c immenced, and then the ripresentaises of the
Ettglisn began to int•ve onward : in this attack seven or
boys were killed, and 10 or 12 w..unded. The boy who
,is w,unded in the arm,
represented Sewaee Seconder
and was conveyed away in a dhoolie. The Mahrattd army
then having seized on Ram Rao Phalkeea and Bapoo
Sect, l'a beat them. In the evening th s news was con-
veyed to Tara Baee. She s.-nt to them to stop the fight,
but the boys stoned the noes-eager; the latter began tta
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 %%ere their own masters,
and would here and die. The messenger returned
without being able to aecomphsli his errand, and soon
after sunset the boys of themselves dispersed. Some boys
of bath sides went to their I.omi s, while some remained
as st4itinels and prepared, their fond.
On the next day
(Ng.) there was no fi the afternoon, when about
ghting'
4 o'. Lick 600 boys collected and made ready for a second
edition, and thousands of t eople assembled to see the
sport. At this moment another mr ssenger came to forbid
the fight, and offered them 300 ropes as a present. l hty
answered that they were not in eat,t of money, but that
they would fight for their salt Ind die fighting. St waee
Seeunder's representative, havi
ng hal the b:el extracted
from his wound, again came on the field and mixed with
his comrades. While thus parleying with the Baee's
mes-,iigers the evening fell and no lighting took place.
On the morning of the 25th about 310 -to 410 boils were
a ill collected. , when the "
mr"ig,rs of the Pair, again
came, and seizing some 21 or 25 b an.oisg the rest the
mock stivare Secunder, ,ht them in he sticks;
the
their seeing this fl Ttr •nwent:
r t• w oset
th,,e het oes in their couti,, inert were f e'i h ern
,‘lth earth. The Durbar has •-;u a 1 r, that a rhe
n de in the ho( tir torLio,:ing suet, sp, r.s in ti.t...re's a der
paw ut puoishineut.