The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-23 00:00:00

SINGULAR COMMUNICATION. BY POST...—On Tuesday
package, consisting of a pasteboard box very carefully en-
closed and with a number of little holes in the top, came by
post to Charles Cobbold. Esq., Broughton Park, and bear-
ing an English post mark. Mr. Cobbold, not at all aware of
the contents of the box, opened it without much ceremony,
when, to his no slight surprise and the terror of some mem-
bers of his family, a lively snake sprung forth upon the din-
ing-room table. The reptile is none the worse of Its extra-
ordinary trip, and now forms one of the objects of exhibition
at the Zoological Gardens.—Edinbursth Paper:

ARMING AND BROAD SWORD EXEILCISES.—The police
are being converted into something more than a semi-mili-
tary force, in order that they may perform the duties of the
should any sudden immergency render their service
necessary. The mounted horse police are being instructed in
broad-sword exercise, under the immediate inspection of
military men, and in which they have already made great
progress. In the event of the military being called off from
the metropolis, the police will be enabled to act in their
stead ; and it will be in the power of the authorities to use
them, either as a civil or military force, as they may judge
proper.—London paper.

MIDDLESEX COUNTY COURT.—PROOFS OF AFFECTION.
—At the above Court, on Thursday lest, the following gra-
phic scene took place :—Commissioner : How do you get your
living ? Plaintiff (a pretty looking woman :) I gets it on the
streets, sir. (Laughter.) Commissioner : How, madam?
Have the kindness to tell us how ? 1 sells wegita-
bles and flowers, and other things in season. Commissioner:
And how came you by that dangerous black eye ? Plaintiff :
0, that's nuffink. My husband gave it me—cos he's so
precious jealous ? Commissioner And pray, why is he
jealous ? Plaintiff: Cos he likes me so. (Roars of laughter.)
Commissioner (laughing): You have striking proofs of affec-
tion, however.—Plaintiff Ar, you may laugh ; but 'pend on
it, ven a man really likes a voman, he's sure to whop her,

DISTRESSING CIRCUMSTANCE.—A correspondent, who
dates his letter Rugby, June 19, sends us the following curi-
ous statement :—A few days ago the wife of the superinten-
dent of Pickford's-wharf at Rugby, saw a young man, about
years of age, staggering up to her door, evidently suffering
much pain. It appeared he requested some tea might he
given him, after which, being somewhat releived, he made
the following statement :—He said he was the son of a Colo-
nel Sinclair, who was lately killed in an engagement in India,
but never heard who his mother is, for he states a consider-
able sum of money was paid to a gentleman at Naples to
educate and board him till he attained the age of 21 years.
A few months since he heard at Naples that a relation of his
had died at Leicester, leaving him heir to a fortune of some
thousands of pounds. He immediately set off thither, and
there discovered that a relative of his had drawn out of the
Bank all his money and squandered it. By the benevolence of
some ladies at Leicester. who found he was friendless and
penniless, he was enabled to return to London in search of
this party. His attempts to discover her proved fruitless, and
the poor fellow, then, it seems, in a moment of desperation,
purchased some arsenic, a portion of which he took in the
train from London. He, however, repented of his rash act,
and got out at one of the stations near Rugby ; he managed
to get as far as Rugby, where the woman (whose name is
Outlaw) so kindly and charitably took him in. We under-
stand his unfortunate case will be taken up by the neighbour-
ing gentry and inhabitants of Rugby, to enable him to reach
Naples, which city he has left without the knowledge or con-
sent of his guardian.—Globe.