The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-02-08 00:00:00

The North American steamer, Caledonia, Captain Lott,
sailed on Friday for Boston and Halifax. She carried out
70 passengers, and an immense number of letters and news-
papers.

PORTRAIT OF JAMES MONTGOMERY.—A portrait of
this distinguished poet, and most estimable man, has been
recently painted by Mr. Thomas H. Illidge, of Liverpool ;
an artist with whose works we are familiar, and who, we
have no douht, has done justice to the importance of his
subject—that of transmitting to posterity a copy of the form
and features of a man who has given so much enjoyment
and instruction to his plieration—
" Blessings be with them, and eternal praise—the poets."
[Our correspondent writes in very high terms of Mr. Illidge's
work ; the portrait he describes as a very striking likeness ;
the character of intellect being happily retained ; and a
degree of refinement being given to the features without im-
pairing the vraisemblance. As a production of art, too,
it merits the most marked commendation. We should like
to see it engraved ; for, although we have already two or
three prints of James Montgomery—big and little—there is
not one of them worth a straw. Mr. Illidge has also, we
understand, lately painted a full-length portrait of Lord
Stanley, for the Liverpool Collegate Institution.—Ar•t Union,
Ist Feb., 1812.]

A QUOTATION IN ANTICIPATION.—We were somewhat
amazed to find in the London Record of Thursday evening
the following paragraph :—" Colonel Torrens has offered
himself as a candidate for the representation of Liverpool.—
Liverpool Mercury." On Thursday morning, for the first
tine, the address of the worthy Colonel appeared in the
London Times, and we believe a little startled the public
of Liverpool ; and yet on the evening of the same day the
Record' quotes this paragraph from the Liverpool Mercury,
in which it never appeared, and which in its first edition of
Friday did not contain a line to intimate any knowledge that
the Colonel was disposed to honour us with an offer of his
services. How is this ? Can it be that the Colonel's address
has, after all, been intended as a feeler of the liberal pulse in
Liverpool. Certainly it would appear that the Mercury has
been playing some tricks in the matter ; and that an intention
has existed in some quarter to come upon us by surprise with
Colonel Torrens as the liberal candidate. Perhaps our con-
temporary has favoured some other portion of the London
press with a slip, in anticipation. By the bye, we notice oc-
casionally another of our contemporaries quoted somewhat
in the same way.
SUICIDE.—On Saturday night last a decent-looking man,
of the name of George Groom, shot hiniself with a pistol
beneath one of the sheds of the George's Dock. He had
a number of small stones and two-pence-halfpenny in copper
in his pocket. The deceased was sixty-five years of age, and
had been i❑ a low desponding way for some time, and from
the evidence adduced at the inquest yesterday, the jury
brought in a verdict of " temporary insanity."
- Our paper of Friday last contained a short paragraph an-
nouncing an insurrection in the Brazils, and the murder of
the vice-president, From private letters we are led no doubt
the truth of thewes statements in some measure. The follow-
ing is an extract from a communication received by a gentle-
man in this town on the 27th ult., and from the information
contained in it, it would seem as if some confusion existed
as to the facts communicated. In all probability the " head
of the custom-house" will :prove to be the person alluded to
in the intelligence brought by the Rosalie, which arrived here
on Thursday. No information of any insurrection in Ceara
is given in this letter :—Extract dated Ceara, 11th Decem-
ber, 1841, received via Maranham, 27th January, per
Emma :—" The Tinamaia sailed on the 7th, and we have
had rains ever since, which is so far satisfactory—but are
sorry to inform you that loao Facundo Castro Menezes head
of our custom-house, was murdered in his own house on the
night of the Bth instant, supposed by persons of the domi-
nant!party. He was a man of some consideration, had figured
several times as president of government, and being of a very
numerous family, spread all over the province, it is to be
feared sooner or later they will have their revenge !

SHOCKING DEATH.—On Sunday morning, a gentleman
from Belfast threw himself, in a fit of delirium, out of the
window of his lodgings, in Duke-street, and was so injured
by the fall that he died in about two hours. At the inquest
yesterday, Mr. Dick, M.D. and surgeon said, that on Friday
morning, between nine and ten o'clock, he was called to the
deceased, on board the steam-packet Reindeer, then lying in
the river, near George's Pier-head. He was labouring under
delirium tremens, and not fit to be then removed. Means
were applied, and he became a little better. He was taken to
lodgings in Duke-street. The following morning he was
much better when witness visited him, and he got up and
wished to go out. Witness remained with him all night, in
order to administer his medicines. A little after five yester-
day morning (Sunday) lie left him in bed, calm and com-
posed, and he said he felt drowsy. I told him not to be
afraid, as I would he in the next room. In about half an
hour after witness heard him calling out very loud, " Mur-
der, murder," and a noise as if he were trying to open the
window. Witness ran into his room directly, and found him
standing on the bed, trying to get down the window rod.
Witness called out to him, and asked him what was the
matter, and he replied, " Don't you see those two fellows!
You can't prevent them murdering me." Witness endea-
voured to pacify him, but he jumped off the bed, and rushed
towards a dressing-room adjoining, and pulled down the
blind and roller, and began to deal blows around him, and
called out " Police ! Police ! Is brave
name, which we suppress at the request of his relatives,) to
be murdered this way?'' He then began to break the window
of the room. W'itness immediately ran to the head of tile
stairs, and called out for help, and in a moment heard the
window raised. I ran to the deceased immediately, and
found him in the act of leaping from the window, and I had
just time to get hold of his shirt, but not sufficiently to pre-
vent him falling. He fell into the street, and never moved
afterwards. Witness got down as soon as possible
called the police, and had him taken into the house.
ness immediately procured the assistance of two surgeons
who lived opposite, and means were used to restore him, but
without avail. He died in about two hours after. He had
reFeived a very extensive compound conimonated fracture of
the skull, which was the cause of death. Sonic other evi-
dence was then adduced, and the jury brought in a verdict of
" temporary insanity.''