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

July 14, 1 gle.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE

(BY EXPRESS.)

THE WAR IN KAFFIRLAND

(From the Second Edition of the Mor7

w Herald.)

We have just received Cape of Good Hope papers to
the 16th of May inclusive, from which we regret to learn
that the Kaffirs continued their depredations, though with
but partial success.

Tne settlers have neither security fcr their cattle nor
for their lives ; and it is melancholy to think of the de-
plorable condition to which they are reduced for want of a
powerful force to drive the Kaffir tribes beyond the
boundary, or at least to keep them in complete check.
Some sharp skirmishes had taken place between the
British troops and the enemy, in several of which the latter
were valiantly repulsed. Very little loss of life was sus-
tained in these several affairs, but the destruction of pro-
perty was immense.

LONDON CORN EXCITANG
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minds Of the millers: ' To-day the supply of
short, which sold slowly at a decline of Is

Foreign lost the firmness that was perceptible
but little changed hands at the turn rather
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which got in this-morning, and a few Irish. F,
6d. per qr. lower, but fine fresh corn is so sc
buyers are compelled to pay nearly late rates.
In other grain there is no variation to notice

;hat needy

SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.—YESTERDAY.
The beef trade was in a very depressed state, and the prices ob-
tained on Monday last were with difficulty supported, the highest
figure for the best Scots not exceeding as. sod. per Sib, and at
which a clearance was not effected.
The numbers of Sheep were again very exte
few of them were beneath the middle
sold steadily at full prices, and all of
vious quotations

sive, while very

uality. Prime old Downs
Ler kinds supported pre-

• i
Notwthstanding the supply of Lambs was large, the Lamb
trade ruled steady, at last week's currencies.

Calves, the number of which was good, moved off steadily,

at late rates.
In Pigs, next to nothing was do

Earl Grey, as Principal Secretary of State for the
Colonial Department, has appointed the Hon. Capt. Grey
to be his private secretary.
On Friday, the Oriental Club gave a sumpt
tainment to Ibrahim Paella; the Earl of
presiding

anus enter-
Auckland

Lord John Russell has appointed Lieut.-Colonel the
Hon. George Keppel, the son of the Earl of Albermarlc,
to be one of his private secretaries.

John Hatcheli, 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 particular business.

- On Saturday 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 NlGHT.—Between Seven
p.m. on Saturday, and three a.m. on Sunday, no fewer
than five fires occurred in the metropolis.

At the York Assizes, on Saturday, Julian Herman
Marcus, late a sharebroker at Leeds, was acquitted of
forging the transfer of some shares in the London and
Croydon Railway.

PRESERVATION OF WATER.—Water has been preser-
ved, it is said, for seven years, by adding oxide of man..
ganese in the proportion of i 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. About 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 months.—Galignani.
Mr. Charles Grey has been appointed private secrete/
to Lord John Russell. Mr. Grey was secretary to Mr.
Francis Baring when Chancellor of the Exchequer under
the former Whig administration. Mr. E. Crafter is ar
pointed private secretary to Mr. Turnell.
WALKING MATCH AGAINST TlME.—Captain liesketbo
of the 2d Life Guards, who undertook, on Friday. to
walk from the Regent's-park Barracks to the Cavald
Barracks at Windsor and back again within twelve hours,
performed the distance (upwards of 47 miles) with env!'
rent ease, in an hour and seven minutes within the specs'
fled time. _

SUDDEN DEATH.—An inquest was held yesterday'
before Mr. Currie, touching the death of Mary Galroof
aged 58, wife of T. Galron,vreersdiidcitn,
On Saturday night deceased was takegnaritsneurdCaduelintoillisyfftetinlslo,trriapeeli
complained of pain in the head ; she got upon a bed, 50,"
a surgeon was called, but she did not rally, and died is
im hour aner being seized.
examination—Death from serous apoplexy.

THE SOLICITOR GENERAL.-Alr. Dundas has beerier
Mr. Bailie Cochrane the trouble, expense,
pointed Solicitor General. This arrangement will save
and mortifica-
tion, which must have been the results of another contested
election at Bridport. Mr. Cochrane, anticipating the
selection of Mr. Romily for the office which will be filled
by Mr. Dundas, issued his printed address to the electors
of Bridport, and the document was circulated in the
borough on Friday last. _

A cabinet council, the first of the new ministry, nil
held at three o'clock on Saturday afternoon, at the offieje`
residence of Lord John Russell, in Downing-street. The,
ministers present were Lord John Russell. the Loll'
Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl of Mint°,
Sir George Grey, Earl Grey, Sir John Hobhouse, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl of Auckland, Visconti*
Morpeth, Earl of Clarendon, Marquis of Clanricarder
and the Right Hon. H. Labouchere. The council of
two hours and a half.
THE FIRE AT ST. JOHN'S.—Among the events that
happened during the terrible conflagration at St. John et
(Newfoundland,) was the destruction of the Banking'
house rented by the bank of British North Americo!
which did not, however, belong to the bank. The until*
in which the bank treasure and papers were depositFtil
fortunately remains entire, and during the whole perra
of danger was guarded by a body of soldiers, this assist.
ance having been allowed by Colonel Law, at the mit-
nager's request. On opening the vault, the whole of the
contents were found uninjured, and were removed to go-
vernment House, the governor having granted the use of
a room, where the business has since been carried on.--
Shipping and Mercantile Gazette of July 41h, 1846.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—TRURO, Friday, July 10.-:"
The most fearful mining calamity ever known in this
county occurred yesterday afternoon in East Wheal Rots
lead mine, in the parish of Newlyn, eight miles from this
place. A thunder storm of unprecedented violence, !It'
tended with a flood which resembled rather the bursting
of a waterspout than be heaviest rain, broke over the
neighbourhood. The torrents pouring from New1)11
Downs collected towards the valley where the mine is 01'
tuated, and rushing in torrents down the shaft quickg
filled every level. Some of the people, who were alarms_.
at the first flow of water, made their way to the surfau:
so
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previous
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perished'
Forty-three were drowned in the mine.
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ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS..•••We are glad to learn tbt!t
Professor Keller and his troupe of artistes, whose beauty'
ful representations of living statues have met with une,%'
-mpled approbation from the frequenters of these de-
and are to re-and
"'a public show'
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