The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-10 00:00:00

DOINGS TO-DAY

The room was strongly supported. An influential ar-
rival or two from Liverpool, soon after one o'clock,
caused some alterations. Closing prices:—

CLEARWELL STAKES

Even betting on Voltri, then 6 to 4 on him against
Wadastra ; then 25 to 20, 20 16, &c. &c., against Voltri,
closed with 11 to 10 against him, and 6 to 4 against
Wadistra. Voltri was backed freely at sto 4, 120 to 80
wanted as the circle broke up.

THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.
25 to 1 wanted on Collina.

THE CESARP.WITCH

The field against four; 7 to 1 against Lady Sale.
Whistle Binkie, Shocking Mamma, and Alice Hawthorn,
we chronicle hors de combat. Certainly 50 to 1 was
offered against two of them.
6 to 1 agst Armytage (offered, 7 taken)
7 1 —Trueboy (taken, then offered)
10 1— Arcanus (offered, 11 to 1 taken)
70 —lo Heseltine's lot (offered)
100 7 The Currier (offered)
15 1 Winesour (offered)
100 6 —Fidhawn (nominal)
100 4 Blackdrop (taken)
100 4 Decisive (taken freely)
100 4 Reciprocity (taken freely)
100 3 —The Conqueror (taken freely)
lOU 4 Yenus cotTereCl)
100 2 Alice (offered)
THE DFRBY.

10 and then 11 to 1 was laid agst Voltri ; a Liverpool
gent offered 10 to 1 in hundreds, then 11 to 1 was laid.
12 to 1 offered agst Ugly Buck, 21 to 1 agst T'Auld
Squire, 1000 to 35 agst Seaport, 40 to 1 agst Joe Lovell
(taken), 100 to G agst Rattan (taken on Tuesday freely).

CALLING IN THE DEFICIENT GOLD COIN.

The following proclamation appeared in the Gazette of
Tuesday :

AY THE QUEEN,--A PROCLAMATION.

" VICTORIA R

" Whereas it has been represented unto us that, al-
though under our proclamation of the 3d day of June,
1842, a large amount of the gold coin of this realm de-
ficient in weight has been withdrawn from circulation, yet
there is much of the gold coin of this realm deficient in
weight still in circulation, contrary to the tenor of
our proclamation aforesaid, and of two proclamations
issued, one by his late Royal Highness George Prince
Regent, in the name and on behalf of his late Majesty
King George the Third, bearing date the Ist of July,
1817, and the other issued by his late Majesty King
George the Fourth, bearing date the 6th of February,
1821 ; and there being reason to believe that sufficient
attention is not paid to the weighing of the said gold coin,
and the directions given in the Acts of Parliament now
in force with respect to the cutting, breaking or defacing
such pieces thereof as are found to be of less weight than
those declared by the last of the aforesaid proclamations
to be current, and to pass and be received in payment;
we do by this our Royal proclamation declare and com-
mand, that from and after the date hereof every gold so-
vereign, of less weight than five pennyweights two grains
and a half, and every gold half-sovereign of less weight
than two pennyweights thirteen grains and one-eighth,
be not allowed to be current or pass in any payment what-
soever. And we do hereby strictly require and command
all our loving subjects, and particularly all the officers,
collectors, and receivers of our revenue, strictly to con-
form to the orders hereby given, and to the directions and
regulations enacted and established in the several Acts of
Parliament now in force, and from and after the Ist day
of January next to cut, break, and deface such pieces of
the said gold coin as shall be found deficient in weight.
And we do hereby further ordain, declare, and com-
mand, that the said gold sovereigns and half-sovereigns
of the weights last above described shall pass and be re-
ceived as current and lawful money of the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, every such sovereign
as of the value of twenty shillings' and every such half-
sovereign as of the value of ten shillings, in all payments
whatsoever.

" Given at our Court at Windsor. this second day of
October, in the year of our Lord 1843, and in the seventh
year of our reign.
" GOD SAVE THE QUEEN."

DISASTROUS SHIPWRECKS AND Loss OF LIFE.-In-
formation was received at Lloyd's Coffee-house on Mon-
day of the loss of the undermentioned vessels at sa :
The schooner Princess Augusta of Lunenburg, during
very rough weather, capsized, at about fifty miles west of
Cape Sable. The crew, consisting of five persons, being
excellent swimmers, succeeded in regaining the wreck,
but, owing to the increasing fury of the waves, they were
again washed overboard. One of the crew, a young man
named James Sponagle, was the only person who was
saved, and he succeeded in lashing himself to the wreck
with a rope, and thus saved his life. Among the persons
who perished was Sponagle's father. The schooner Mar-
garet, of Glocester, fortunately passed the wreck in time
to save the young man, for he was picked up by the cap-
tain of that vessel in a very exhausted state, having been
on the wreck five days without any sustenance. The Ca-
ledonian, (an American ship,) during a dreadful storm on
the 18th ult., at eight o'clock in the evening, whilst on
her voyage from New York for Cette, endeavoured to
escape the fury of the storm by taking shelter in that port,
but owing to the violence of the storm was obliged to
enter by another way, namely, the small passage, where
she struck and lost her rudder, by which she became un-
manageable, and after having drifted about for sometime,
at length struck on the rocks and went to pieces. For-
tunately the whole of the crew were saved. The Aire, of
North Shields, struck on a rock near Bridsand, coast of
Norway, whilst on her passage from Archangel to Lon-
don, on the 7th of last month. It appears that the master
and crew remained with the vessel two days and two
nights, when she was got off the rock with three feet of
water in her hold and in a rapidly sinking state, when the
Hannah More, Captain Block barn, from Onega to Lon-
don, happened to be passing, and took the crew and master
on board. It is reported that the master of the Aire (Mr.
Kennedy) had the vessel set on fire previous to leaving,
in order to remove so dangerous an impediment as she
would be if left in the place she was in, it being a fre-
quented road for vessels. The British schooner Rebecca,
Captain Sawyer, whilst on her voyage from Honduras for
New Orleans, was wrecked on Tortugas. The vessel was
entirely lost, the crew and cargo were taken to Key West.
The Ellen, Captain Carey, from Halifax for Buctouche,
was dragged from her anchors, off Marie Joseph, on the
30th of August last, during very rough weather,. and was
lost; the master and crew were fortunately saved, and
taken to Halifax in the Isabel.