The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-14 00:00:00

triers have neither security for their cattle not
live;; and it is melancholy to think of the de-

nn to which they are reduced tor want of a
jve the Kaffir tribes beyond the

r ful for

Some'sharp skirmishes had taken

Very little I

weep the
the latter

tamed in th
party was ii

everal affairs, but Lb

e was sus-

LONDON CORN 1

action of pro-

I.owein

fringing
e on the
heat was

ply of En
of Is. to

luarter.
fay, and

y late rat

SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET

tained on

fheure for the hest Scots not ex

which a clearance was not effected

!she ',umbers
few of them were bene.. qu..
sold steadily at full prices, and all other aim.
vimis Quotations.

of buyers.

are again
at needy

he prices ob-

le highest
lb, and at

e. whi'e very

d Downs

,ppurted pre-

Notwithstanding the supply of La
trade ru.ea steady, at lost week's currencies
Calves, the number of which was good, moved off steadily,
at late rates.
In figs, next to nothing was done.

the Lamb

Earl Grey. as Principal S cre ary Sae for the
Colonial Department, has appointed the Hon. Capt. Grey
to be his private secretary.

On Friday, the Oriental Club gave a sumptuous enter—
tainment to Ibrahim Pacha; the Earl of Auckland
presiding.

Lord John Rusell has appointed Lieu
Hon. George Keppel, the son of the Earl

Colonel the
Albermarle,

to be one or his private secretaries.
John El oche 1, Esq., Q.C., has been elected law adviser
to the Dublin Castle authorities.

On Saturday Lord Marcus Hill was re-elected for
Evesham unopposed, as was the Hon. W. Cowper for
Hertford, and the Hon. Col. Fox for the Tower Hamlets.
Lord Besborough, the new Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland,
arrived in Dublin on Saturday. He was to leave again
yesterday for England, to arrange particolarbu,iness.

On Sa-turday the Right Hon: the Lord Mayor enter-
tained his Highness Ibrahim Pacha in a very splendid
manner, at the Mansion HouSe.

NUMEROUS FIRES IN ONE N/GHT.—Between Sevea
p.m. on Saturday, and three a.m. on Sunday, no fewer
than five fire.; occurred in the metropolis.

At the York Ass'zPs, on Saturday, Julian Herman
Marcus, late a sharebroker at Leeds, Was acquitted og
forging the transfer of some shuts- Li the Loudon and
Croydon Railway.

PRESERVATION OF WATER.—Water has been preser-
ved, it is paid, for seven years, by adding oxide of man-
ganese in the proportion of 11 to 250, and agitating the
liquid once a fortnight.
On Saturday Mr. Jervis, the present Attorney-general
in the place of Sir T. Wilde, elected Chief Justice of the
Common Pleas vice Sir N. Tindal, deceased, was re-
elected member for Chester.

Among the pensions granted by Sir Robert Peel before
retiring from office, were £lOO a-year to Mr. Bernard
Barton, the Quaker poet; £5O each to two aged sisters of
the late Major-General M'Caskill•; and a pension of the
like amount to the daughter of Brigadier General Taylor,
killed in the late war in India.

On Sunday, a fire burst out in the wood of Valmy, and
continued burning until the next day. Abut eight hec-
tares (about 20 acres) of. timber were consumed. The
fire is attributed to malevolence, as this is the second
time that the wood of Valmy has been set on fire within
a few nnorithe.—Galignani.
Mr. Charles Grey has been appointed pri
to Lord John Russtll. Mr. Grey was se(
Francis Baring when Chancellor of the I
the former Whig administration. Mr

.e secretary
my to Mr.

hequer under
Crafter is ap.

pointed private secretary to Mr. Turnell
WALKING MATCH AGAINST TlMlL—Captain lieslcetb,
of the 2d Life Guards, who undertook, on Friday, to
walk from the Regent's-park Barracks to the Cavalry
Barracks at Windsor and back again within twtlve hours,
performed the distance (upwards of 47 n it s) with appa-
rent ease, in an hour and seven minutes within the sped.
fled time.

SUDDEN DEATIE—An inquest was held yesterday,
before Me. Currie, touching the death of Mart Galron,
acogidsp
.51.,18rn,
redwd.
yfoeft.opi
night
Tnt
neGeteal7le:
deceased
,aw(is residingsthakeeguoitt
u.
dep
udaliyffbeei-ldsi rea entd.
and
a Surgeon was called, but she did not rally, and died in
an !lour af,.r.r being seized. Verdict, after a post mortem
examitation —Death from serous apoplesv.

I.IIE SOLICITOR GENERAL.—Mr. Duißlas bas been ap-
pointed Subcit,-,r General. This arrar gemetit will Save
Mr. Bailie Cochrane the trouble, ell), nse, and mortifica-
tion, which mtiq have been the results of another contested
election at Bridport. Air. Cochrane, a:.ticinatbinegfiitihede
electors
s circulated in the

selection of :tlr. Romily for the offict
by Mr. Dundas, issued his
of Bridport, and the document N
borough on Friday last.
A cabinet council, the first of the new ministry, was
held at three o'clock on Skurday afternoon, at the official
residence of Lord John Russell. in Downing street. The
ministers present were Lord John Russell. the Lord
Chancellor, the Marquis of LanscLwne, Earl of Minto,
Sir George Grey, Earl Grey, Sir John Hobhouse,. the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl of Auckland, Viscount
M. rpeth, Earl of Clarendon, Marquis of Clanricarde,
and the Right Hon. H. Labouchere. The council sat
two hours and a half.

rated ad d r

Tee Fitts AT ST. JonN's.—Among the events that
happened during the terrible conflagration at St. John's,
(Newfoundland,) was the destruction of the Banking-
house rented by the bank of British North America,
which did uot, however, belong to the bark. The vault
in which the bank treasure and papers were deposited,.
fortunately remains entire, and during the whole period
of danger was guarded by a body of soldiers, this assist.
ance having been allowed by Culonel Law, at the ma-
nager's request. On opening the vault, the whole of the
contents were found uninjured, and were removed to go-
veinmrnt (louse, the governor having granted the use of

Shipping and Mercantile Gazette of July 41h, 1846.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—TRURO, Friday, July 10.
Toe most tearful mining calamity evtr known in this
county occurred yesterday afternoon in East Wheal Ross
lead mine, in the parish of Newlyn, eight arks from this
place. A thunder storm of unprecedented violence, at-
tended with a flood which resembled rather the bursting
of a waterspout than tSe heaviest lain, broke over the

tuated and rushing in torrents down the 8,
afiattlildethd y
eeesefivaerpsret,flii,eivbw'luto. fw weS a°btnee ovmef attdhheee
ypt etwtoeepi
rrle' wio
w
e wayve t oy
f
ew
reached so near as to be seen from the surface,
',stet' by their previous exertions to hasten up

quickly
alarmed
e surface
Others
.urrace, but, ex-
exertions to hasten up the lad-
ders, were beaten down by the torrent and perished.
Forte-three were drowned in the nri.nc.
ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS,---We
Professor Keller and his troupe of

are glad to learn that
arthies, whose beauti-

IUI cf." coy*. atIUTIS Or living statues nave met with tines-
amyl, d approbation from the trequ. nters of these de-
lightful gardens, have been re-entagedand are to re-ap:

is ire

Thetpublic shout

SHIPPING INTELLIGENen.
MONDAY, JULY 13,—Wind

Bar Widnes—

Benjamin Boyd, (vim Ir
rince Albert, from Marac
c-ans-02cfr-ief. Jackson, at

Julia. Deslandes, for Rio Jane
Java. Pickering. for Ma

SAILED
for Coristantinop

Lawrenc

mouiski—Polloc
Mu,nie, for dit

Ids. for Bombay—
M'lntvre, for Q

Constable, Poole, lor—Richigt

There'

hedwith

- . - . - . ..

an. from
Ludlam,

ke. from

Aurora,

Doctor, Luke.
—Ann, John:
Quebec—St.
'tray, for Rat

ohn—Lad!

Farley, or

pril. and from Fernando Fo 4th May
Charlotte, Lyon, and Swiftsure, Witt, from Bonny, at Fel

Fanny. hence at Bouny
Gaitsherne. hence at Rio Janeiro

BOrma Bank,:
it guile on-I).'

near Memnry

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