The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-06-23 00:00:00

DEATH OF THE EARL OF COURTOWN.

We regret to announce the death of the Earl of CourtowN
K.P., which took place on the 15th, at Cloisters, Windsor Cas-
tle, the residence of his brother, the lion. and Rev. R. B.
Stopford. The late earl was in his 70th year, having been born
August 15, 1765, exactly six days before his present majestl-
He succeeded to the title in 1.810, having married, in 17911,
Lady Mary Scott, eldest daughter of the third Duke of Buc-
cleugh. By this countess, who died in 18'23. he has issue his
shiest son, Viscount Stopford, (the family name,) now Earl of-
Courtown, who represented for some time his native county Or
Wexford in the imperial parliament. The present earl is in
his forty-second year, and married a daughter of the fourth
Duke of Buccicugh, Lady Charlotte Albinia Montague-
'Scott. Her ladyship died in 1828, leaving the present ear),
who is still a widower, three sons living, the eldest of whom,
James George Henry, now Lord Stopford, was born in April;
1823. The late Earl has left several other children—Edward,
late of the Scotch Fusileer Guards; Henry, Archdeacon of
Leighlin ; Montague, a'captain in the navy ;,and three tiau4h-.
ters—Ladies Mary, Elizabeth, and Jane, one of whom is married
to Mr. Abel Ram, of Gorey, county of Wexford. The late Earl,
who sat in the Imperial Parliament as Baron Saltersford. held
office under the last two tory administratioi s as captain of the
Yeoman Guard; and by his demise there is a vacancy in the
number of Knights of St. Patrick.

RAILWAY ACClDENT.—Yesterday the ten o'clock first-class
train from Manchester was delayed upwards of an hour in
consequence of the Fire Fly engine breaking an axletree.
Another engine was procured as speedily as possible, and the
train taken forward to Liverpool.

DEATH BY Dirowitsri.--On Sunday morning last, a person
named Bolton, a brazier, residing in Wigan, was found drowned
in the canal near the town. On the inquest, which was held'
the following day, it came out that the deceased had gone to
Hindley, where he received an account, and afterwards went
to one or two public houses, and had drank freely. About two
o'clock in the morning .he was seen by two boys on the canal-
banks, to whom be. said he _had bean intaxicated the
and had fallen asleep ou the road. He then inquired
the nearest way to Wigan, and was advised to take the turn-
pike road. This, however, he declined doing, but proceeded
along the canal banks, and about two hours after he was tonna,
standing erect in the canal, quite dead. The jury returned a
verdict of Found Drowned. The deceased has left a pregnant
widow and nine young children unprovided for.
Tue. ANCESTOR OF EARL MULGRAVE.—DIVINC.
The first diving bell was nothing but a very large kettle, sus-
pended by ropes, with the mouth downwards, and planks to sit
on fixed in the middle of its concavity. Two Greeks at 'foledh,
in 1588, made an experiment with it before the Emperor Charles
the Fifth, when they descended in it with a lighted candle, to tS
considerable depth. In 1683, William Phipps. the son of a'
blacksmith, formed a project fur unloading a rich Spanish ship
sunk on the coast of Hispaniola. Charles 11. gave him a ship
with everything necessary for his undertaking ,• but being up-
, successful, Phipps returned in treat poverty. He then endea-
voured to' procure another vessel, but failing, he got a subscrip-
tion, to which the Duke of Albemarle contributed. In 1687,
Phipps set sail in a ship of 200 tons, having previously engaged
to divide the profits according to the twenty shares. of which the
subscription consisted. At first all his labours proved fruitleas,
hut at length, when he seemed almost to despair, he was fortu-
nate enough to bring up so much treasure, that he returned to
England with £200,000 sterling. Of this sum he got E'2o,oo°:
and the Duke £90,000. Phipps was knighted by the king, and.
laid the foundation of the fortunes of the present house of Mul-
grave.
CHINESE APVERTISMENT.—The following is a specimen of
the manuscript bills, or advertisements, which it is the custom.
in China to stick up against the walls, when children have been
stolen, apprentices have run away, &c.:—" Chaugh-Chaoulia,
who issues this thanksgiving advertisement, lives outside the
south gate, in Great Tranquillity Lane, where he has opened an
insense-smoking-mosquito shop. On the evening of the 12th inst.
two of his fellow-workmen in the shop. Neahung and Atik, eins
ployed a stupilving drug, which, by its fumes, sunk all the part-
ners in a deep sleep, during which they robbed the shop of all
the money, clothes, -&c., which they could carry
.away. Next
morning, when the partners awoke, no trace was to be fotmnd of
these two men. If any good people know where-they are, and
will give information. a thanks-offering in flowery red paper of
four dollars will be presented. Decidedly I will not eat my words.
This advertisement is true. Neahung is about twenty years of
age, short stature, has a White face, and no beaosi. Atik, whose
surname is not remembered, is upwards of twenty years of age,
is tall, and no heard. Reign of Taotikwaug, 9th' year; 9th moon.
3d day.''

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