The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-24 00:00:00

THE FACTS ; AND THE CIRCUMSTA

AS YOUR LORDSHIP
STATES THEM. The deputation sought an interview with
you at the House of Lords, and pressed you to introduce the
the way most likely to be beneficial. Your
,ht the attempt would be useless, and all but
Besting that some other peer should be applied
the deputation urging the matter further, you
*der the subject, and they were to see you

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greed to iecou

and did

:ing it ; and the subsequent inier-
myself had with you, and the hos-
•eceiced, were gratefully felt, and
unities for furnishing your lordship

e necessary details for the motion. I can only account

of the writer of that ar

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diabolical assassination of Mr.

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ising to see the remarks of our radical contempo-
A writer in the Liverpool

ondenc

that during this
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signature makes the following curious confession :

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Editor, I make no comment on
this controversy. Indeed, like Macbeth, I am afraid to
think of what I have done,' in making to you this communi-
cation, for the fate of Mr. Roebuck warns me of the tribula-
tion and woe with which the vengeance of the league, accord-
ing to the admonition of the hon. member for Stockport, is
ready to overwhelm the thoughtless wight, whom a love of
fair play may prompt to rebut by evidence any false or erro-
neous statements made by its associates. or its agents, to the
disparagement of Lord Brougham."

As we anticipated, an attempt was made to exclude the
gallant Commodore Napier from the Senior United Service
Club. The ballot took place on Tuesday last, when there
appeared no less than 13 black balls against his cdmission.
It is know❑ that one black ball in ten excludes the candidate ;
and it therefore follows that the gallant officer must Nava
nine times the 13 balls, and one over, in order to neutralize
the efforts of the hostile clique—that is to say, he must have
had 118 white balls. For the credit of the club, we are glad
to state that he was hailed on the occasion by an approving
salute of 195 white balls.—Observer.

FINING PRINCE ALBERT.—The lawn in front of Dulwich
College is exceedingly well kept, and, in order to preserve it,
the public are requested to keep on the gravel walk, and there
is a custom among the boys of the college to fine any one
they can detect trangressing this rule. Prince Albert and
one of his equerries visited the gallery on Saturday last. and
dismounting at the chief entrance, walked on the forbidden
lawn up to the college, which being seen by one or two of the
boys, they forthwith went to the equerry and told him he had
incurred a fine of 6d. which he readily paid. " I saw t'other
chap a doing the same," said one of the hopefuls, and goinr,
up to the Prince, told him he wanted 63. of him also, which,'
pulling out his purse, rather chap laughingly paid. The
confusion of the youth, on being told that it was the husband
of our Queen that he thus accosted, may be imagined, not
described.—Sunday Times.

SALARIES AND EXPENSES OF PUBLIC DEPARTMENTS.—
Me sums required for these services, for the year ending
March 31, 1844, will be—Two houses of Parliament,
£67,350 ; Treasury, £53,800 ; Home Department, £26,000 ;
Foreign ditto, £66,273; Colonial ditto, £25,557 ' • Privy Coun-
cil-office, and Office for Trade, £33,000; Lord Privy Seal,
£2,000 ; Paymaster-General, £35,393 ; Controller of the
Exchequer, Paymaster of Exchequer-bills, and Paymaster of
Civil Services, £18,413; State Paper-office, £2,550 ; English
Ecclesiastical Commissioners, £3,000; Poor Law Commis-
sioners, £51,608; Mint, including coinage, £50,948 ; salaries
and expenses of public records, £11,775 ; inspectors and
superintendents a the factories, £B,BBO ; offices in Scotland,
£1,815; household of the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland,
£6,464; Chief and Under Secretary's-office, and Privy Conn-
.7ll-otllce, Ireland. £22.260; Paymaster of Civil Services,
Ireland, £4,937 ; Commissioners of Public Works, Ireland,

_.u„ u, £4,950.
4771,736; for 1841
, .4, irs4Z it was In 1843 there
therefore, be an increase of £33,264, as compared with
and £11,569 as compared with 1842.
TRAGICAL OCCURRENCE.—On Monday night, between
eight and nine o'clock, an occurrence of a tragical nature,
but which is at present involved in mystery, took place at the
house No. 4, Shire-lane, Temple-bar. It appears that a

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gentleman having met with a female in the public street,
agreed to accompany her to the above house, a house of
ill-fame. On their way thither, however, they called at
several public-houses and had something to drink at each,
and on their arrival at their destination the gentleman was
in a state of inebriety ; but, according to the statement of
the girl, whose name is Susan Emerson, they proceeded
together up stairs to the second floor back room, where she

im for a moment to get a light which had gone out, and

on her return the gentleman had thrown himself out of the
window into the back-yard, falling upon the flag-stones,
where he lay bleeding from different parts of his head. He
is not expected to survive.—London paper.
ALARMING OCCURRENCE.—We have been favoured with
the perusal of a letter, dated March 2, from a gentleman at
Clapham, near London, to a friend of his in this town, from
which we make the following extract :—" I had a most peri-
lous passage up to London by the Vivid. We left Hull a
little before noon, and as we approached the ocean the wea-
ther became exceedingly thick and hazy, which at night made
the darkness intense. At one o'clock the packet struck upon

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a sandbank with great violence, and remained stationary,
lobsided, eight hours, a tremendous sea breaking over us all
the time. There seemed little or no hope for our lives. The
sailors said that the boats, to which we thought to have re-
orted, would not live five minutes in such a sea. It is im-
le to describe the scene of confusion and despair which
;ed then ; all were expecting, every moment, to be
in the dark billows of the raging main. There were
,ers in all on board. At length the much
as only to reveal to us

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the ship was
. quantity of mutton in the carcass, prepared for
he London market, was piled above the hold ; about 60 car-
'uses were thrown overboard, lest the fat should increase the
ire. We were then laid at anchor, with 40 fathoms of chain
able out ; but the captain slipped the anchor, in order to run
er ashore. All hands were at work at the fire, some heaving
oods overboard, some with buckets of water, handing them
uickly, and others tearing up the deck. But yet it is pro-
able the fire could not have been got under—for it blazed
ariously when the air was admitted—had not a great wave
-asked over us, and poured upon the fire. It was proved to
save originated by the spontaneous combustion of a number
)f bales of cotton, in consequence of the violent roelcing of
he packet during the night. After this we had a tolerable
good passage, but were 44 hours at sea."—Bradford Ob-