The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-14 00:00:00

July 14, ISIO.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE

(BY EXPRESS.)

THE WAR IN KAFFIRLAND
(From the Second Edition of the Morning

We have just received Cape of Good Hope papers to
the 16th of May inclusive, from which we regret to learn
that the Kaffirs continued their depredations, though with
but partial success.

Tne settlers have neither security for their cattle nor
for their lives ; and it is melancholy to think of the de-
plorable condition to which they are reduced tor want of a
powerful force to drive the Kaffir tribes beyond the

, or at least to

Some sharp skirmishes had taken pls
Y. in several of

several affairs, but

perty was immense

LONDON CORN EXCHANZ.'
our last report, a favourable c

the crops to maturity, and exercised its IN
minds of the millers. To-day the supply o.
short, which sold slowly at a decline of h
Foreign lost the firmness that was percer
but little changed hands at the turn rather

We have a large arrival of foreign Oats, 84
which got in this morning, and a few Irish. F
6d. per qr. lower, but fine fresh corn is so sc
buyers are compelled to pay nearly late rates.
In other grain there is no variation to notice

between the
ich the latter

ion of pro-

e otittie
heat was
ittarter.
Jay, and

cargoes of

arce that needy

SMITHFIELD CATTLE MA RKET.—YRSTF.RDAY•
The beef trade was in a very depressed state, and the prices ob-
tained on Monday last were with difficulty supported, the highest
fizure for the best Scots not exceeding Is. 10d. per Sib, and at
which a clearance was nct effected.

The cumbers of Sheep were again very extensive. Whre very
few of them were beneath the middle quality. Prime old Downs
sold steadily at full prices, and all other kinds supported pre-

vions quotations

Notwithstanding the supply of Lambs was large, the Lamb
trade ruled steady, at last week's currencies.

Calves, the number of which was
at late rates
In Piz

good, moved off steadily,

;s, next to nothing was don

Earl Grey, as Principal S cretary of State for the
Colonial Department, has appointed the lion. Capt. Grey
to be his private secretary.
On Friday, the Oriental Club gave a sumptuous enter—
tainment to Ibrahim Paella; the Earl of Auckland
presiding.

- Lord John Russell has appointed Lieut.-Colonel the
Hon. George Keppel, the son of the Earl of Albermarle,
to be one of his private secretaries.
John Hatched, Esq., Q.C., has been elec
to the Dublin Castle authorities

law adviser

On Saturday Lord Marcus Hill was re-elected for
Evesham unopposed, as was the Hon. W. Cowper for
Hertford, and the Hon. Col. Fox for the Tower Hamlets.
Lord Besborough, the new Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland,
arrived in Dublin on Saturday. He was to leave again
yesterday for England, to arrange particular huitiness.
On Saturday the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor enter-
tained his Highness Ibrahim Pacha in a very splendid
mannPr, at the Mansion House.

NUMEROUS FIRES IN ONE NlGHT.—Between Sven
p.m. on Saturday, and three a.m. on Sunday, no fewer
than five fires occurred in the metropolis.
At the York Ass'aes, on Saturday, Julian Herman
Marcus, late a sharebroker at Leeds, was acquitted of
forging the transfer of some shares in the London and
Croydon Railway.

PRESERVATION OF WATER.—Water has been preser.
ved, it is .aid, for seven years, by adding oxide of man-
ganese in the proportion of lk to 250, and agitating the
liquid once a fortnight.
On Saturday Mr. Jervis, the present Attorney-general
in the placeof Sir T. Wilde, elected Chief Justice of the
Common Pleas vice Sir N. Tindal, deceased, was re-
elected member for Chester.

Among the pensions granted by Sir• Robert Peel before
retiring from office, were £lOO a-year to Mr. Bernard
Barton, the Quaker poet; £5O each to two aged sisters of
the late Major-General M'Caskill; and a pension of the
like amount to the daughter of Brigadier General Taylor,
killed in the late war in India.
On Sunday, a fire burst out in the wood of Valmy, and
continued burning until the next day. About eight het-
tares (about 20 acres) of timber were consumed. The
fire is attributed to malevolence, as this is the second
time that the wood of Valmy has been set on fire within
a few months.—Ga/ignani.

Mr. Charles Grey has been appointed private secretary
to Lord John Russell. Mr. Grey was secretary to Mr.
Francis Baring when Chancellor of the Exchequer under
the former Whig administration. Mr. E. Crafter is ap-
pointed private secretary to Mr. Turnell..

WALKING MATCH AGAINST TlME.—Captain tleskethf,
of the 2d Life Guards, who undertook, on Friday. to
walk from the Regent's-park Barracks to the Cavalry
Barracks at Windsor and back again within twelve hours,
performed the distance (upwards of 47 miles) with appa-
rent ease, in an hour and seven minutes within the speci-
fied time.

SUDDEN DEATH.—Any inquest was; held yesterday,
before Mr. Cuirie, touching the death of Man, Galron,
aged 58, wife of T. Galron, residing in eunliffe-street.
On Saturday night deceased was taken suddenly ill, and
complained of pain in the head ; she got upon, a bed, and
a surgeon was called, but she did not rally, and died in
an hour af•.er being seized. Verdict, after a post MOT it=
examivation—Death from serous al oplexy. _

THE SOLICITOR. GENERAL.—Mr. Dundas bas been ap-
t,mortifies-
Mr. Bailie Cochrane the trouble, esp-nsP, and
von. which must nave been the results of another contested
electionted SaotlicßitriodrpoGrte.neraml.
r. This
coe
brane arrangementanticipating will
sathy:
selection of Mr. homily for the office which %ill be filled
by Mr. Dundas, issued his printed address to the electors
of Bridport, and the document was circulated in the
oin
borough on Friday last.

A cabinet council, the first of the new ministry, was
held at three o'clock on Saturday afternoon, at the official
'dence of Lord John Russell, in Downing street. The
, present were Lord John Russell, the Lord
Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdi,wne, Earl of Minto,
Sir George Grey, Earl Grey, Sir John► Flobhouse, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl of Auckland, Viscount
Murpetb, Earl of Clarendon, Marquis of Clanricarde,
and the Right Hon. 11. Labouchere. The council sat
two hours and a half.

THE Fiat: AT ST. JouN's.—Among the events that
happened during the terrible conflagration at St. John's,
(Newfoundland,) was the destruction of the Banking-
house rented by the bank of British North America,
which did not, however, belong to the bank. The vault
in which the bank treasure and papers were deposited!
fortunately remains entire, and during the whole period
of danger was guarded by a body of soldiers, this assist-
ance having been allowed by Colonel Law, at the ma-
nager's request. On opening the vault, the whole of the
contents were found uninjured, and were removed to go-
vernment (louse, the governor having granted the use of
a room, where the business has since been carried on.
Shipping and Mercantile Gazette of July 4th, 1846.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—TRURO, Friday. July HI—
roe most tearful mining calamity ever known in this
county occurred yesterday afternoon in East Wheal Ross
lead mine, in the parish of Newlyn, eight miles from this
place. A thunder storm of unprecedented violence, at-
tended with a flood which resembled rather the bursting
of a waterspout than the heaviest rain, broke over the,
n-ighbourhood. The torrents pouring from Newlyn
Downs collected towards the valley where the mine is
si-
tuated, and rushing in torrents down the shaft quickly
filled every level. Some of the people, who were alarmed
and escaped, but we believe they were very few. Others
at the first flaw of water, made their wnzatleyardstotoofthiteelaierssnuertfhaCast
reached so near as to be seen from the surface, but, ex-
hausted by their previous exertions to hasten up the lad-
ders, were beaten down by the torrent and perished.
Forty-three were drowned in the m
—theWefreaqruee beauti-
ful representations of living statues have met with unex-
r
not lose the sight of these unique perforTmhaen
Processora
m poichdLoaGpKl:er.lolLbe
approbation
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pear during three evenings this week.
de-
lightful gardens, have been re-engaged and are to re-81,-
presentation of Nelson's monumentofaritsisalceimwphissehed with
pceusb.heTahheonrelt

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE
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Yam New Orlear

Jackson. and Abt,...
veira, Dordus, from Genoa-

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