The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-08-04 00:00:00

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HANDS ON A CHANGE OF ADMINISTRATION
Lord of the Trrasury, .£5OOO ; (

ry, £so'

tary, £5OOO ; Secretary-at-War,7 £2480 ; First Lord of
the Admiralty, £4500; Lord High Chancellor, (exclusive
)f his salary as Speaker of the House of Lords,) £10,000;
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); Lord Privy Seal, £2000;

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancast
Commissioner of Woods and Pores'

known ; Chief
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)stmaster-General,
ltrol, £3500; four
1200 ; two Joint
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£2500 ; President of the Board of C
Junior Lords of the Tn..-
Secretaries of the Treasury,
tary (Home Department), £2OO, -,,uer Secretary
(Foreign Department), £1,500; Under Secretary (Colo-
nial Department), £2000; five Junior Lords of the Ad-
miralty, each £1000; First Secretary, £2 *0 ' • two Secre-
taries of the Board of Control, each £1500; Vice Pre-
sident of the Board of Trade, £20430 ; Master of the Mint,
£2OOO ' • Paymaster-General of the Forces and Treasurer
of the Navy, £2400; Judge Advocate General, £2OOO.
Ordnance—Master-General, £3000; Surveyor-General,
£1200; Secretary to the Board, £1400; Clerk of the
Ordnance, £1200; Storekeeper, £l2OO. Ireland—Lord
Lieutenant, £20,000; Lord High Chancellor, £8000;
Chief Secretary, £5500. Household—Lord Chamberlain,
£2OOO ; Lord Steward, £2OOO ; Master of the Horse,
£2OOO ; Master of the Buck hounds, £l7OO ; Master of the
Household, £ll5B ; Vice-Chamberlain, £924 ; Treasurer
of the Household, £904; Comptroller of the Household,
£904; Chief Equerry and Clerk Marshal, £1000; four
Equerries in Ordinary, each £750; Mistress of the Robes,
£500; eight Ladies of the Bedchamber, each £500; eight
Maids of Honour, each £4OO ; eight Lords in Waiting,
each £702 ; eight Grooms in Waiting, each about £335.
BIRMINGUAM MUSICAL FESTIVAL.—We are happy
to find that the preparations and arrangements for our
forthcoming festival are being carried on by the commit-
tee of management in a manner worthy of this great fea-
ture of the present musical season. Onr Town Hall has
been decorated in a style of rich elegance peculiarly
adapted for bringing out, to the highest effects, the beau-
ties of its architectural design • and this, together with
the gorgeous embellishments and improvements of its no-
ble and fine-toned organ, and the judicious alteration in
the form of the orchestra, will at once render it (already
one of the largest) the most superb, and, as to its appli-
ances, the most complete music room in Europe. The
list of the band to be assnabled within its walls on this
occasion contains the names of nearly the whole available
first-rate instrumental talent at present to be found in the
kingdom, and comprises nearly half a hundred violins,
twenty violas, sixteen violoncellos, and ten double basses,
balanced by thirty-two wind instruments. The choir, ad-
mirably trained, will consist of eighty sopranos, sixty
altos, sixty tenors, and seventy-two basses. With such
means as these, under the conductorship of Mendelssohn
and Moscheles, and with an array of principal vocalists,
the most eminent in their profession, what admirable re-
sults may be expected from the promised performances
of the greatest works of Handel, Beethoven, Haydn,
Mendelssohn, Spohr, B‘c. ! hut while the directors have
been providing attractions calculated to draw the musical
public to the metropolis of the midland counties, they
have not been unmindful of the ease and ccrmfott of their
visitors on their arrival. A register of lodgings has been
opened at Mr. Harrison's, 30, Colmore Row, where per-
sons, desirous of engaging apartments during the festival,
may, upon application, receive information in every way
calculated to facilitate their wishes ; and a stranger's com-
mittee has been appointed to ballot for and select places
for parties who cannot conveniently attend previous to
the time of performance, or may wish to avoid the trouble
of balloting for their own places. We understand that
the detailed scheme of 'the performances will be imme-
diately published, and we expect great pleasure in referring
to R.—Midland Counties Herald.
MELANCHOLYSHIPWRECKES.—Information announc-
ing the total loss of the Mandarin and the Sir Walter
Scott, and the melancholy fate of the crew of the Sir
Walter Scott, by being frozen to death, has been received
at Lloyd's within the last few days, the particulars of
which are of the most painful description. The Mandarin
was a vessel, barque-rigged, of a superior claFs, and was
500 tons burthen, commanded by Captain John Cleland.
She belonged to Glasgow' and sailed from Calcutta in the
latter part of February last, with 216 emigrants far
Jamaica on board. Having landed t'

sury, each
ach £251

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shipped a valuable cargo of sugar,-irea
other articles, and sailed for Liverpool on the 24th of
April, and struck on a sunken rock, known as the Aligator
Rock, at Key West. Every effort wai made by the

master and crew to get off, but in coneequenee of the heavy
sea it was impossible to accomplish this, and in a few
hours she was full of water. Fortunately all on board
were saved by the boats, and landed at Key West. The
following day she fell over the rock, and became a total
wreck. The loss will prove very heavy, and insurance
to the amount of £20,000 are reported to have been
effected on the vessel and cargo. The circumstances
attending the loss of the Sir Waller Scott, Captain Byas,
are of a lamentable character. It appears that for several
months fears were entertained that she had been lost, no
tidings of her having reached her owners since last Sep-
tember. Letters, however, have recently come to hand,
stating the vessel to have been totally wrecked on the
coast of Labradore, a month after she had left Quebec
for Limerick. According to the accounts forwarded, she

was driven aground during a snow storm, and the sea and
ice breaking over. the captain and crew lashed themselves
in the rigging, in hope that their position would be seen,
and assistance rendered. In that perilous situation they
remained for two days, and perceiving no chance of being
rescued, they constructed a raft, and by that means suc-
ceeded in gaining the land. Here their condition was
almost as bad. They wandered about for miles without
meeting with any of the residents, or anything in the
shape of relief. for five days

When diicovered, with the
intense cold and want of sustenance, they were reduced to
the greatest exhaustion. The crew consisted of eighteen,
fifteen of whom, including the master. perished from the
intense suffering they had endured. She belonged to the
port of Hull. The mate and two of the seamen are the
surviv ors.—Mornitto Chronicle.

DEATH OF A BEAST.—A glutton, at Kingsbridge,
Devonshire, ate for a wager six pounds of bullock's liver,
soaked in train oil, but died a few minutes after he had
completed bis disgusting task.