The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-09-24 00:00:00

FASHION, FACTS, AND FICTIONS.

THE GREY LIST AGA IN.—The Comptrollership of the Customs
in Jamaica having become vacant, the place has been offered to
the second son of the Bishop of Hereford, Lord Grey's brother.
But the lad, though twenty-three years ofage, not being thought
competent to hold it, has declined accepting the situation.
The French are making great fun of Powlett Thomson, who
is sojourning in PTis We protest against any fowl pun being
made upon our estimable anti, " Le Poulett"—whom we have
christened, Ayes past, the " Pullet"—be it his cognomen for
time everlasting. Poor P. T. "Mutato nomine de to tabula
narratur," &c.—Ago. ,

At Vesoul, a physician, who in poisoning seems to have sur-
passed Caistaing, and almost to have equalled Brinvilliers, has
lately been arrested and committed to
_prison. lie is charged
with having successively poisoned, at Epinal, his father-in-law,
his mother-In-law, the aunt, and, lastly, the brother of his wife.
He was denounced by a mistress with whom he lived after
having deserted his lawful wife.—French paper.
RIGHT OF SEARCH.—The Postoffice people have a knack of
opening parcels sent by mail-coaches, under a pretence at
searching for letters. 'I his is a system which cannot be too
much deprecated. It is quite un:English—that is, unconsti-
tutional; and though Whiggish, quite intolerable. It is a pre-
tence only, as we believe, to cover a system of espionaye as
abominable as any other act of the Whigs. They allege it in-
creases the revenue. Does it? Why so, these men might in-
crease it by the means of burglary, which is a right of search
sometime produchNuena/ consewlences... Let the Whigs be-
ware !—Aye:'--
It is said, in a quarter where things are generally well known,
-thld Sir James Graham, after all the fine doings at the Admi-
ralty, is not likely to remain where he is many weeks longer.
Should this be the case, it will be only the beginning of a
greater movement. Sir James Graham is the best man of bu-
siness of the whole party. We merely repeat what we hear_
for ourselves we see no "outward marks" of any such removal ;
those who are in the highest places see farthest—we, in the val-
ley, wait, and only repeat what the folks on the top of the hill
say is in sight.—Jeltn Bull.
THE DONNA AND THE DOKE.—We hear that the reported
penchant of the youthful Queen, Donna Maria, for the Duke
of Lauchtenberg, has no foundation in fact. The Duke, it is
said, has not seen the Donna these five years i when, as Philo-
sopher Square would say, from "the fitness of things," she could
not be supposed to feel any very outrageous emotions for her
step-mother's brother, a gentleman, by the 0, double her age.
The marriages, however, of princes, are very unliko all others
—the.y are Oftner made on earth than in heaven.—Age.
In consequence of London, and indeed the whole of England
being now completely overstocked with lawyers, attoruies, and
other reptiles of the same description,' it has been suggested by
a naval friend, that two battalions should be immediately orga-
nised, and forthwith despatched either to Fernando Po or Sierra
Leone, there to await orders for commencing operations against
the Ashantees.—Na cal and Military Gazette.

SAM ROGERS'S LAST.—The intelligence from the seat of war
in Portugal, by the Pantaloon, has excited the wit of the banker.
—" Pantaloon! (said Sam;) if there were a pair of them, blow
me tight, I trow,ser, we should hear of breeehes."—Age.
The total amount subscribed for the widow of itobert Cully,
who was murdered at the Coldbath-fields meeting, is £330 16s. Gd.
of which £lO2 3s. 6d. was subscribed by the men of the various
divisions of the force, and £228 13s. by the public.
The Gloucester surveyors of taxes have decided that a person
borrowing a friend's horse for a single day, and placing it in his
stable for the night, is liable to be assessed at the regular rate.
NEWTON.—Twenty-five French boats, engaged in the her-
ring-trade, have been driven on shore upon this coast. Twelve
of them have been got off, but the others have become wrecks.
Their crews, consisting of about 180 men, have been all saved.
Shafto Craster, Esq., of Craster, with his usual benevolence,
has supplied them with both money and victuals. They have
also experienced great hospitality and assistance from General
and Lady Grey, I\lr. Foster, of Newton, Mr. D'Vergnon, the
Reverend Mr. Rook, of Etnbledon, and others, and have been
enabled to return to their homes. Two fishing-boats were run
down by the French boats iu the gale and lost, and the gentle-
men of the neighbourhood have subscribed and wade up their
loss to the owners.—Berwick Advertiser.

The system of reduction in the French army appears to be in
active progress. In the 7th regiment of the line, now quartered
at Valenciennes, 296 discharges and 850 leaves of absence for
six months have just been granted. 14,000 out of the 24,(X10 horses
attached to the artillery train are to be immediately sold.
At Bridgewater, Wells, and Axhiidge, the very best fresh
butter is scaling at 10d. per pound. At Wells great market prime
Cheddar cheese, three to the cwt„, sold at 6(1. per pound; and
fine dry home-cared bacon at sd. per pound by the flitch.—
Both Chronicle.
An immense quantity ofgame was in our market on Saturda v
It is supposed at least 1,200 partridges were fur sale, and they
were disposed of at the latter part of the day at Is. a head.—
Brighton Gazette.
On Sunday lust a pattern was held at Newtownlands, where
a set of ruffians congregated in murderous array, to perpetuate
a disgraceful feud, which has long been the annoyance of that
district, The Volans and the Barrets were the lioratii and
Curiatii, or "contending powers." They had a desperate en-
gagement, in which one man was beaten nearly to death, and
three women, while probably assisting their husbands to mur-
der their own brothers or cousins, shared a similar fate. The
four lie dangerously ill at present. What renders the unfor-
tunate affray the more deplorable is, that the greater part—l
might have said the whole—of those infatuated rioters are con-
nected with each other by the ties of cousanguinity.—Liazer;ok
Evening Post.