The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-13 00:00:00

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Mr. E. A. E. 'Whyte a gentleman aged 71, resident in
London and possessed of considerable property in the lands,
committed suicide on Tuesday by hanging himself with a
thick cord to a book behind the door in the store town.

The Marquis of Lam, son of the Duke of Argyle, in a letter
from Florence, anticipating the secession, has announced his
adhesion to the non-intrusionists. The Duke of Argyle, it is
said, will also join the free church.

Mr. Chapman has resigned the office of Govern( r or Mar-
shal of the queen's Prison, and a nephew of Lord Den nan,
the Lord Chief Justice, in whom the appointment is visted,
has been appointed as his successor.

Released by the recent decision in the Court of Qtoen's
Bench, Mr. Feargus O'Connor held a Repeal tnee,,Log at
Manchester on Thursday night, being enthusias

eally re-

ceived by tour or five thousand person
HYDROPHOBIA.—On Friday, James Oxley, a poor man,
residing in Cook's-place, Clerkenweil, died of hydrophobia,
having been bitten in the arm by a dog four years ago, and
although the lacerated flesh was carefully cut out at the time.

The Wakefield Bogrd of Guardians advertise for two re-
lieving officers, who must devote all their time to the duties
of the office, find sureties to the amount of five hundred
pounds, and be necessarily men of education, at fifty pouuds
a year each!!

On Friday night, a brass founder of Edinburgh, named
Matthew CrutherA, about fifty years of age, threw himself
from the North Bridge in that town, and expired in about
two minutes after he was tal;en up. He is supposed to have
committed the rash act in a fit of delis ium tremens.

The Ranger, of Peterhead, which arrived a few days ago
from Greenland, with a full cargo of oil, is about to make a
second whaling voyage, and will sail as soon as possible to
Davis Straits. We belic':c this is a circumstance unprece-
dented.—Tyne Mercury.

The average stock of bullion held by the Bank of England
during the lust month is stated to be 4:11,325,000, showing

weeks, and an increase of .f.."3,i.).12,000 as cotniiared with tli

same period last year

COLONELCIIIS OF T 111,; VACANT R.F.GMENTS.—The colt).
nelcies of the vacant regiments, namely, the 19th, 21st, 46th,
and 48th, have been filled up by the selection of General Sir
Warren Marmaduke I'eaeocke, Lieutenant-Generals Sir

William Macbea►► and Sir Robert Arbuthnot, and Major-
General Sir Charles James Napier, the hero of Hyderabad.

One of Nelson's boatswains, Henry Wyatt, aged 73, died
on Sunday. He had served the greater part of his time on
board the Queen Charlotte, and had been in twenty-tive en-
gagements with Nelson. Ile had been blind for the last
twelve years, and his principal amusement was having the
newspapers read to him by his wife.

DEATH OF MR. GOULBURN. JUN.—We exceedingly
regret to state that Mr. Henry Goulburn, eldest son of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, expired on Thursday morning
at five o'clock, at the official residence of his father in
Downing-street. Mr. Goulbourn was in the 31st year of his
age.

The Auckland Standard, not half the size of Chainbers's
Edinburgh Journal, and more than half occupied by adver-
tisements, is one shilling. It may be useful to mark this
fact, as indicative of the high value of money in New Zealand.
In a late number of this paper, a four-roomed cottage was ad-
vertised to let, at thirty shillings per week.

Her Majesty in Council on Saturday was pleased to appoint
the Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone, and in his absence
the Right Hon. Janos Earl of Dalhousie, President of the
Committee of Council for Trade and Foreign Plantations.
Mr. Gladstone and the noble Earl had the honour to kiss
hands on their respective appointments.
A few days ago 32 pigeons, belonging to different persons
at Brussels were let loose at Blois (125 leagues from Brussels),
for the prizes offered by a society in Belgium, Not one of
them arrived on the same day, and on the following day only
one reached Brussels. The owner was declared entitled to
the chief prize.
A correspondent informs us that, yesterday afternoon,
there was an urgent meeting of the members of the Cabinet
at Argyll House, the residence of the Earl of Aberdeen. All
the ministers were present, with the exceptio❑ of the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer. That the meeting was not previ-
ously contemplated is shown by the fact that the Earl of
Ripon was sent for from Putney to assist at the consultation.
Morning Herald, of yesterday. •
Cotherstone, the winner of the late Derby, is heavily en-
gaged. He is in the Derby at Newcastle, and in the Gates-
head or Lottery Stakes ; at Goodwood, in the Drawing• room,
Gratwick c, and Racing Stakes; in the Doncaster St. Leger,
Foal, and a 200 sov. Sweepstakes. In the Great Yorkshire
Stakes, in the Royal Stakes at NeWrmirket, and several large
four-year-old Stakes next year.

The t wages of a woman in Dudley, for manufacturing
twelve hundred round-headed hub-nails, are five pence three
farthings; these are made with a hammer, weighing one
pound and a quarter ; each nail receives twelve blows before
it is completed ; and, consequently, the poor woman has to
raise the enormous weight of eighteen thousand pounds in
order to earn that small sum.

A Foor..—A drunken shoemaker, at Skerton, made a firm
resolution, on Monday night last, to drown himself; and in
the presence of a number of spectators plunged into the river
Lune, but, not being out of depth, he suddenly bethought
himself that his temporal affairs were not properly arranged,
and deliberately walked out of the watery grave to bequeath
his old coat to a brother cobbler, when his friends dragged
him home, to the no small amusement of the spectators.—
Lancaster Gazette.

A COAIMON MISTAKE.—It is a common, not to say a
vulgar opinion, that everybody must /are a surname and
consequently some think that her most gracious Majesty the
Queen herself had one before marriage, but that she did not
use it, merely because she was a princess as the daughter of
a royal duke, to which some others add the information, that
Guelph was the name I—This is altogether an error.—Lon-
don Paper.

In the county of Chester there is a residence called Har-
dingwood-house, in the parish of Lawton, from which the
inhabitants every time they go to church pass out of the
province of Canterbury into that of York ; go through two
counties, Staffordshire and Cheshire ; three parishes, Wol-
stanton. Audlev, and Lawton ; three constabularies, Tun-
stall, Chell, and Nantwich ; and the two dioceses of Lichfield
and Chester.

M URDER.—A labourer of the name of Allan Nair, about
82 years of age, residing at Candyend. near Avonbridge, in
this county, was apprehended last week on a charge of mur-
der. It appears that on the morning of Sunday, the 14th
inst., a quarrel arose between him and an old woman who
lived with him and an old woman who lived with him as his
wife, concerning some trifling circumstance, when he swore
at her and beat her dreadfully on the head, arms, and chest,
with a large stick. The neighbours, hearing her cries, ran
to the spot to render her assistance, but Muir, on learning
their intention, with horrid imprecations, threatened to
shoot any one who should approach. In the morning, how-
ever. information was given to the police, who proceeded to

the house, and, finding the woman very ill in bed, imme-
diately took Mair into custody. [ler arms and chest were
dreadfully lacerated, and her head bruised, and the injuries
altogether of a nature so severe that she lingered in great
agony till early on Tuesdny morning, when she died. Mair
has been examined by the Sheriff and fully committed to
Stirling gaol on a charge of murder.—Slirling Advertiser.