The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-01-15 00:00:00

DONIESTZC.

BRIGHTON, JAN. 11..—Their Majesties continue in good
health. Yesterday the King gave audience to the Marquis
Conyngham and Lord Palmerston. In the afternoon his
Majesty, accompanied by Lady Sophia Sydney, took an airing
in a close carriage, preceded by outriders. The Queen did not
leave the palace. The Princess Augusta, accompanied by Lady
Mary Taylor, took a carriage airing. The health of the Duchess
of Gioucester is nearly re-established. Her royal highness has
been visited by several ladies, and congratulated on her con-
valescence. Lord and Lady F. Fitzclarence, and the Earl and
Countess of Errol, continue on a visit to their Majesties. Baron
and Baroness Rothschild, Lord Ernest Bruce, and Lord Ainelius
Beauclerk, visited their Majesties on Monday.

His Majesty is expected to go in state to the House of Peers,
to open the first session of the new parliament, on the 4th or sth
of February.—Court Journal.
We understand that the time fixed for the final departure of
the Court from Brighton is the 21st of February. Brighton
Gazette.

Lady Ann Coke is to be created a Peeress: the advanced
age of the venerable proprietor of iloikham, and various other
causes, having determined him to persist in declining the
honour of the Peerage —Court Journal,

ROYAL FISH.—On Tuesday morning a fine sturgeon was
taken off Brighton by Samuel Carden's boat. On landing,
Carden carried the royal fish to the palace, as a present to his
Majesty, who was graciously pleased to accept the same. It is
a little singular that for many years past our industrious fish-
ermen have never been fortunate enough to capture a sturgeon
but when the royal family have been staying at Brighton.—
Brighton Herald.
There are two candidates already in the field for the vacant
Irish representative Peerage—Lord Downes, better known in
this country as Sir Ulysses Burgh, an intimate friend of the
Duke of Wellington, and Lord de Vesci. The latter will have
the Castle support; we have heard so, at least.—Court Journal.

There is a rumour current at the West end of the town, that
Lord Palmerston is about to retire from the Foreign Office, and
to be succeeded by Lord Durham. This rumour has been so
often prevalent that we should not notice it now, if it were not
general among persons who ought to know something of what
.passing at head-quarters.—Sun.
The attempt to raise a new loan fin. the Portuguese regency
has been abandoned, after producing subscriptions to the ex-
ten;.: of £140,000 or £150,000. It is said, however, that the bills
lately drawn from Oporto on the agents here, and which were
refused acceptance when first presented, have since been taken

We hear that the Duke of Richmond has declared that there
are no grounds for entertaining the expectation that he is to
succeed the Marquis of Anglesey in the Viceroyalty of Ireland.
—London Standard.

The venerable Earl of Egremont was last week /considered in
a very precarious state of health, and Sir Matthew Tierney was
sent for express to Petworth. Sir Matthew found the earl in
a sound sleep, and left him on Friday morning, considering
his lordship out of immediate danger. On Tuesday, accounts
were received in Grosvenor:place of the earl's perfect recovery.

SUDDEN DEATH.—William Facey, hair-dresser, of Kilming-
ton, was in the habit of going daily to Shute House to shave
Sir W. T. Pole.- On the 27th ult. he waited on the baronet as
usual, and left him in high spirits. Five minutes afterwards
the butler saw him kneeling near a bench, and gasping for
breath; a rupture of some vessel in the brain or head was sus-
pected. A jury sat on Monday ana gave a verdict of " Died
by the visitation of God."

The Earl of Dudley and• Ward, who for a considerable time
past has been residing at Norwood for the benefit of his health,
which it was generally understood was rapidly improving, has
again been attacked in a very alarming manner, with a return
of his unfortunate malady. On Tuesday, decided symptoms of
the disease began to show themselves; and increased to such
extent as to require the medical aid of Dr. Holland, who re-
mained the whole of the night with the noble earl. Early on
Wednesday morning, Sir Henry Halford and Dr. Warren
were sent for to Norwood, when a consultation was held, which
lasted for some time. After it was over, Sir H. Halford re-
turned to town. About nine o'clock on Wednesday evening,
a fresh summons arrived for Sir H. Halford. We have heard
that the symptoms of the disease are of such a nature as to leave
but very slight hopes, in the minds of the faculty and the atten-
dants, of the recovery of the noble earl. In the event of the
death of the noble earl, the title and estates will descend to his
brother, who is at present in holy orders.—ilforning Herald.

TRANSPORTATION OF CONVICTS.—At the Winchester ses-
sions, the chairman, alluding to the alterations that had taken
place in the criminal law, by which the capital punishment was
taken from certain offences, such as forgery and sheep stealing,
and some others, said he thought it his duty before he came to
the sessionslo call on the Secretary of State for the Home De-
partment, to ask under what circumstances a mitigation (if any
was allowed) might be made in the punishment of transporta-
tion for life, and how obtained, if by an appeal through the
chairman to the sessions to the Crown, or otherwise. The an-
swer he received was, that under no circumstances would any
diminution of punishment take place, and that all persons con-
visted of crimes contemplated by the act wouldinvariably be
trarsported for the term of their natural lives. It is important
that this should be distinctly known.—Brighton Gazette.

MISERABLE END OF A PROFLIGATE.—An inquest was held
last week at Worcester, ou the body of Captain Storr, whose
career afforded a melancholy illustration of the consequence of
extravagance and prodigality. When stationed some years
ago with his regiment (the King's Own Staffordshire Militia),
at Windsor, he formed a matrimonial connection with an ami-
able and respectable lady in that town,_ with whom he received
a fortune of E 20,000. This, however, he squandered away, and
at length rendered the woman to whom he was indebtedlor it
dependent upon parish relief. This was readily afforded by the
authorities of St. Peter's at Worcester, but as they were aware
that Captain Storr was still in possession of some part of the
wreck of his wife's property, they caused him to be appre-
hended, in order that they might arrange with him to set apart
a weekly sum for her maintenance. To this arrangement he
readily acceded and was liberated; but having failed to comply
with the terms of it, he was again taken into custody in Lon-
don about a fortnight since. He was conveyed to Worcester,
and on the 27th committed us a " rogue and vagabond" to the
county jail for deserting his family. It was observed upon his
arrival, that his state of health was such that it was not possi-
ble he could long survive; he had been suffering from consump-
tion for some time, and his malady had been probably aggra-
vated by his removal from bed at three o'clock in the morning,
by the officer who conveyed him to Worcester. lie was imme-
diately placed in the hospital, where every attention was shown
him, but after lingering a few days, be closed his earthly career
in jail. Captain Storr was about 55 years of age. The coro-
ner's jury retuned a verdict of " Died by the visitation of
God, but that his death was accelerated by the injudicious re-
moval of the deceased from. London to Worcester.

We regret to announce the death of the Right Hon. Lord
Blayne), a letter was received in town yesterday, announcing
his lordship's decease, at his seat in the county Monaghan.;
this causes a vacancy in the representation of Monaghan,
hislordship'S eldest son, the Hon Cadwallader Blayney, having
been lately returned.—Freeman's Journal.
Frederick Angerstein, Esq., second son of John Angerstein,
Esq., of Weeting-hall, Suffolk, will shortly lead to the hy-
menial altar the beautiful and accomplished Miss Blayney,
youngest daughter of the Right Hon. Lord Blayney, of Castle
Blayney, Ireland, and niece to the Earl of Caledon.
COMMITTAL FOR CONTEMFT. Mr. James Farquharson,
who reported for the Times some proceedings which took place
at a meeting of the Duke of York's creditors, was committed
on Tuesday to the Fleet prison, for contempt of Court. Dl r.
Farquharson refused to give up the name of the gentleman
who had furnished him with the information, considering that
it would be a dishonourable breach of private confidence to
do so.

POLITICAL. INCENDIARIM—The Edinburgh Evening Pa.t
tells us that the house of Mr. Carnegie, of Glendig, in Perth-
shire, has been burned to the ground because he voted for Sir
George Murray 1 This is a specimen of free election with a
vengeance.
MILITARY MovEmEwrs.—The Standard of last Thursday
night says, "We have made anxious inquiries respecting the
following announcement in this day's Guardian, and have every
reason to believe it correct. The civil war 'upon an extended
scale' cannot be long postponed:—' We learn, upon such autho-
rity as we think may be relied upon, that two regiments of
cavalry, one of which is stationed at Brighton, and two regi-
ments of infantry, have received orders to embark for Ireland.
We are further informed that ten regiments of the Englith
militia are instantly to be called out, and sent to that country.'
It is said that the government has determined to put down the
new volunteers in Ireland, and that a proclamation to that
effect may be soon expected."

CORONER'S INQUEST.—An adjourned inquest was last night
held at the Bull public-house, St. Ann's-court, Dean-street,
Soho,_ on the body of Signor George Deville, aged 45, an .Ita.
Tian by birth, and one of the principal singers at the King's
Theatre. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased, who
was intimately acquainted with SPagnioletti, the leader of the
band at the King's Theatre, and other distinguished Musical
characters, was engaged to sing at the above Opera-house .next
season. On Tuesday night last he retired to bed at his custom
ary hour, at his residence; No. 34, Wardour-street. On the
following morning his servant went up to call him, when, re-
ceiving no answer, the door was burst open, and he' was dis-
covered in bed a corpse. A surgeon was sent for, who gaye it
as his opinion that he detieaSed had died of apoplexy, and a
verdict to that effect was accordingly returned. A large sum of
money; 'together with his gold watch and appendages, was found
under his pillow.—Times.
WHIG PROSECUTION FOR LIBEL.—In the Court of King's
Bench, on Friday, the Solicitor-General moved for a rule,
calling upon Mr. Chalk, and two others, to show cause why a
criminal information should not issue against them for a heel
on Mr. M. A. Taylor, M.P. for Sudbury, published in their
journal, the Chelmsford Chronicle. The alleged libel was con-
tained in the report of a speech of Mr. Alexander Baring,
delivered at a meeting at Braintree, in Essex. Mr. Baring is
there made to say, that as to Sudbury, there could not be found
a better man than Mr. Wrangham ,_• but that a Whig—as old a
Whig as Mr. Westernwent to Sudbury, and the consequence
was, the electors came to poll with Conservative colours in their
hats and Whig money in their pockets; that in no part of the
country had there been Kreater corruption. than was practised
by this veteran Whig at budburv. Mr. M. A. Taylor, it Seems,'
wrote to Mr. Baring on the sup ject; but Mr. Baring neither
distinctly denied nor affirmed the correctness of the report.
Mr. Taylor then instituted his proceeding against the printers
of the newspaper. He swore positively that the charge was
false and groundless ; and after a little demur on the part of the
Court—who said that the only doubt iu their minds was as to
whether the imputation was meant to apply to Mr. Taylor—a
rule Nisi was granted.
GENTEEL BEGGARS.—On Wednesday last, two respectably
dressed men, having the appearance of the superior class of
seamen, and one of them wearing a splendid eye-glass round
his neck, went into a public-house, in Salford, .kept by Ms.
Lyons, and inquired for the landlord. Finding that he wail
not at home, they inquired for James Lyons, his son, to whom
one of them handed a document purporting ,to be a certificate
signed by Thomas Thomas and lienry 'V ivian, Esqrs., two
magistrates for the port of Swansea, of the loss of the brig
Mary, bound from Jamaica to London, laden with sugar,
coffee, by which the bearers had sustained a loss of £3001!;
at the same time he pulled out a memorandum book in which
were entered the names of persons who had contributed towards
their loss, some two pounds, others one pound, and none less
than ten shillings. Amongst the contributors were—Sir Thos.
Salisbury, Sir John Nicholl, Sir Charles Morgan, the Hon.
NV, B. Grey, Lord Foley, and about twenty clergymen, and in
the whole, the subscriptions appeared to amount to upwards of
£2OO. Mr. Lyons told them that he could not afford to give
his money for any such purpose, upon which the spokes.
man became very importunate, and made use of language
which comported but ill with his character as a suppliant foe
charity. Finding that he could not get rid of his troublesoine
customers by any other means, Mr. Lyons threatened to send
for a constable, but this had no effect upon them, the spokes-
man declaring that he would let Mr. Foster the magistrate,
know how he had been treated, if any such indignity were of-
fered to him. At length, however, they pretended to go away;
but a short time after, the spokesman was found concealed un-
der the stairs of the house, and then Mr. Lyons put his threat
into execution, and they, were conveyed to the New Bailey, the
other man, who had not spoken, being found loitering about
the door. When brought before the magistrates on Thursday,
they gave their names Thomas Davies and James Cooke,
neither of which corresponded with the names in the certificate,
and they denied all knowledge of each other, further than hay-
ing accidentally met at the door of the public-house. Mr. Fos-
ter said that their object clearly was to aefraud the public by a
fictitious story, and therefore he should commit Davies, who
had been most prominent in the business, to the tread-mill for
fourteen days as a vagrant. Cooke was discharged with a
caution not to be found in the town again after this, on pain of
sharing iu the punishment of his companion.—Aftssieheasr
Courier.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE.--A
lament-
able loss of life occurred at Ashton-under-Lyne, about lour
o'clock on Sunday evening. Six boys, members of a Sunday-
school, instead of attending there, were amusing themselves im
sliding on the ice of a small reservoir of water, at the top of
Cricket-street, when one of them having purchased a root of li-
quorice, his companions all flocked around him, nearly in the
centre of the pond, where it was four or five yards deep, and
partly by the pressure of this congregated body, as well as by
the frantic jumping of one of them upon the ice, it gave way,
and plunged all six into a watery grave. Two little girls and a
boy, who happened to be the only persons present when the
others fell in, and were standing at the edge of the pit, instantly
raising the alarm, a married man, named Knott, hurried to thn
spot, and supposing his eldest boy was one of the number, from
perceiving a hat similar in colour to his son's on the surface, be
plunged into the pit, and was immediately surrounded by the
little victims, who clung to him so eagerly, that he perished
along with the rest, in his humane endeavours to save them.
Fortunately his boy was not one of the number. The specta-
tors of -this shocking scene being fur the most part females, no
asisstance could be rendered, in due time, to the sufferers. At
last, they were brought out of the water by three seamen, Who
procured a boat, grappling-irons, and drags. All of them were
dead. Knott has left a wife and five children to regret his un-
timely fate, and none of them except the oldest can earn au*
thing. Two of the boys named Andrew, were brothers ; that
remainder were all " piecers," employed in the cotton-mills,
and had parents, who live within a few paces of each other, and
nearly opposite the fatal spot. The inhabitants of the town,
sharing in the general gloom which this woful event has spread
over the neighbourhood, have kindly entered into a subscription,
for the benefit of the families concerned. It is worthy of re-
mark that, on Saturday, the day before the occurrence, these
boys, along with others, were severely repremanded by Mr.
Newton, the constable, for going near the pit, and threatened
with law if they did so agam.—The inquest on the bodies was
held on Tuesday evening, before W. S. Rutter, Esq., the coro-
ner, and a respectable jury, at the parish office. Only twe
witnesses were examined, a boy, named Abraham Walker,
eight or ten years old, and brother to one of the boys drowned;
and a young woman, about eighteen years of age, named Mary
Ogden. Their evidence corresponded with the detail we have
given. The first saw the accident occur, and was on the ice at
the time, but was saved by two young girls, who pulled him oft
Accordion to his testimony, only one of the boys jumped upon
the ice. the female witness spoke to seeing Knott attempt to
save the boys, while they were struggling to gain the bank.
She did not hear any shrieks from the bottle sufferers. The
jury, without any hesitation, returned verdicts of "accidental
death.--The following are the names of the deceased :—ThOti.
Knott, the humane individual who attempted to save the °them,
about 40 years of age, a In:icklaYer's labourer; Henry and Joe.
Andrew, brothers, the former 16 and the latter 13 years of
John
—their father keeps a small shop, in Old-street, Ashton;_ John
Shaw, 12, Robert Walker, 13, Joseph Bradbury, 12, and \Va.
Bates, 11 years old, all piecers.—Manchester Cuurier,