The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-23 00:00:00

NOVEL MILITARY TACTICS.-EATING UP
AN ENEMY.

The capacity of a German stomach is proverbially great ;
but we never yet heard of its being brought into requisi-
tion as a weapon of offence against an enemy in the style
described in the following paragraph, by the correspond-
ent of the London Times :

" Though General Wrangel remains stationary at Kold-
ing, hovering as it were on the frontier, his countrymen
ought to do him and his army the justice of admitting that
they are doing their best to destroy the enemy by the more
quiet process of living on them. The South Jutlanders
are being " blandly absorbed " by the troops of the Con-
federation, exhausted by requisitions of supplies, which it
is perfectly understood must be forthcoming. General
Wrangel has a force of about 18,000 men in and around
the head-quarters of Kolding ; for this number of the
Danish officials and inhabitants of the district of Veile
have to furnish every day the fallowing amount of provi-
sions :—beef, 20,7001 b. ; rice, 5,2001 b. • salt, 1,400 ; but-
ter, 2,6501 b., or bacon, 5,2001 b. •, brandy, 5,100 bottles ;
bread, 40,000. • white bread, 14001 b. ; wine, 350 bottles ;
fine cigars, 3,300; common cigars, 100,000; tobacco,
4,0001 b. ; sugar, 1001 b. ; oats, 325 barrels ; 16,5001 b. of
hay, and 19,401 b. of straw. That is the bill of fare
which must every day be provided gratis for the uninvited
guests."
Wonderful trenchermen must be these 18,000 eating
men—not fighting men—of. General Wrangel. Each of
them, according to the above bill of fare, gets through
nearly 411bs. of meat per diem; nearly one-third of a
bottle of brandy, smokes 7' or 8 cigars, besides nearly a
quarter of a pound of tobacco ! We should fancy that
they are getting rather too puffy and short-windedao
light; and should pity their suffering on a forced march.
General Wrangel, if they continue to feed allithis rate,
ought to get in readiness a supply of hand-carts or bar-
rows for their removal, when they are required for
active (!) service. We should be sorry if the Danes-were
to fall upon them some day when in the torpid state after
dinner.

BANKRUPTCY COlTRT.—Yesterday, Mr. B. Isaacson,
being unopposed, passed his last examination.
SUDDEN DEATH IN THE STREET.—Shortly after eight
o'clock yesterday morning, an old man, named John
Woods, while passing along Dale-street with two friends,
sundenly fell down dead. The body was taken to No. 4
court, Newsham-street, and Mr. Cripps, of Dale-street,
was called in, but animation could not be restored.
BODY FOUND IN THE OUTWARD CHANNEL.—An in-
quest was yesterday held before Mr. Carry on view of the
body of a man, naked and unknown, found by some boat-
men floating in the water near the north-west light-ship.
He was about 5 feet 6 or 7 inches in height, and of light
complexion.—Verdict to the effect that the deceased was
unknown and was found drowned.
THE LATE LANCASTER ELECTION.—The parliamentary
committee (consisting of Lord Courtenay, Mr. Ewart,
Lord Adair, Mr. Pinny, and the Ilon. 0. Duncombe)
appointed to try the allegations of the petition against
Mr. Armstrong's ,election for Lancaster, sat last week,
and adjourned on Friday until yesterday. Of the majo-
rity of 17 votes by which Mr. Armstrong was returned,
13 have already been struck off, principally on the ground
that the voters had received parish relief.
SUPPOSED ABDUCTION OF A YOUNG FEMALE.—Yes-
terday, at the Police-court, a poorly-clad man,. named
Robert Lamb, and a ycung woman named Mary Bebbing-
ton, were placed at the bar of the Police-court, under the
following circumstances :—Mr. Rowbottom, who keeps a
public-house, (the " Mountain Dew," in Richmond-
street), said, that on Saturday evening his little daughter,
who is only between 14 and 15 years old, made an excuse
to go out to meet her mother at the market and return
with her, to which he assented. She did not make her
appearance as expected, and as she had not gone to her
mother, her parents became naturally very anxious about
her whereabouts. On going up stairs they found
that the girl had put on her best clothes, with the
exception of her bonnet. In one of the rooms there
was a safe for money, &c., and as the key could
not be found, the father broke the padlock, and, on
opening the box, found that £4O, in two £2O notes, had
been abstracted. Up to yesterday afternoon the girl was
still missing ; and the only friend or relation whom she
visited in Liverpool was an aunt in Great Howard-street.
On inquiry it was found she had not been there. She had,
however, been seen in the street with the male prisoner,
who it was stated kept a house of ill fame. The female
lodged in his house, as she said, but he himself called her
his housekeeper, and his house is also in Great Howard-
street. On the father inquiring of the man if he knew
anything about his daughter, he said, " Has she not an
aunt in Manchester ?" The father said she had, and
prisoner then rejoined, " Then she must have gone there."
Inquiry in Manchester was, however, equally fruitless, as
she had not been at her aunt's there. It further appeared
that the missing girl had called at the male prisoner's
house, and bad sent the female prisoner to her father's
for her bonnet, which she took to her. Some
circumstances relating to a correspondence between the
male prisoner and some parties in Ireland excited suspi-
cions of foul play, and the father gave both the prisoners
into custody, as having been accessory to his daughter's
leaving her home.—Mr. Rushton gave orders for the male
prisoner's house to be searched for any letters or papers
that might throw a light upon the affair. He also di-
rected that every assistance should be given to Mr. Row-
bottom in his search for his child, and remanded both
prisoners generally, of without naming a day on which
they should again be brought up.