The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-03-04 00:00:00

i344tilisv PICKED UP AT Brag-Two pipes of whits or
pale brandy, No, 58 and 59, scribe across the bung, and
marked iE 482 and 453, containing upwards of 10U gallons
each, were picked up a tesv days ago off St. Agnes, Cornwall,
by Captain James Brent, of the Speedwell, on her voyage
from Fowey to Swansea. The brandy has since been landed
at Swansea, and deposited in the Custorn-house warehouse.

" FREE TRADE AND NO MONOPOLY."-It is stated, in
circles likely to possess correct information, that Mr. Alder-
man Brooks, of Manchester, the man who first introduced
the " cheap and nasty" salt beef into England from America,
as food good enough for an English labourer, has £300,000
of cotton goods lying in Germany and other countries with-
out a single market for a piece. We mention this with the
view of showing the imprudence of merchants and manufac-
turers sending more goods to distant markets than the
foreigners can either buy or use. South America is so
glutted with Brittish manufactures that there is no room in
the market for any new importation, and then they bawl out
for a repeal of the corn laws as a cure for their imprudent
speculations. It is supposed that the Brazilians owe us
£10,000,000 of money. The British colonies are in the
same state, and, unless we can persuade the inhabitants o.
New South Wales, New Zealand, &c., to purchase clothe'
and stock amounting to £2OO for every individual, it is use-
less sending any more goods to Australia. Thus ruinously
have our Manchester merchants been speculating abroad,
and telling the world that the failure of their speculations
has been caused by the existence of the corn laws !—Stock-
port Advertiser.

FATAL DUEL IN MALTA.—On the afternoon of the Bth
February, (the last day of Carnival) Captain Levick, accom-
panied by his daughters, was returning home to his residence
at Florians, and was near the end of Strada Reale Lieuten-
ant Adams (who was out of uniform) was walking up the
street with four others in single file, when he threw some
sugar plums at one of the Misses Levick, a perfectly well
understood liberty during Carnival time, whether towards
friends or strangers. Upon Captain Levick observing, or
being apprised of this, he went up to Lieutenant Adams, and
struck him a blow in the mouth, which was returned. Upon
the latter reaching the regimental quarters at Floriana, he
consulted his brother officers, who declared that nothing less
than calling out Captain Levick could remove the stain : a
challenge was accordingly sent, and the parties met on the
following morning in a field at the back of Fort Ricasoli, at
the eastern entrance of the great harbour. They fired, or
rather Captain Levick, for Lieutenant Adams's pistol missed
fire; but, strange to say, he was ignorant of the fact until he
was told so two or three hours after ; at this stage of the
unhappy affair correct information is wanting, but it is said
that Captain Levick refused to apologise for the blow, whilst
Lieutenant Adams offered to express regret at having thrown
the sugar plums. The parties then fired again, and Captain
Levick's ball struck Lieutenant Adams's right wrist, broke
the small bone, and run up his arm to the elbow and then
into his body, passing through his liver• from end to end, and
at last entered the coats of his stomach. He walked from
the ground, accompanied by his second, Captain Jeffries,
and Mr. Crosse. assistant-surgeon of the 88th, who attended
the meeting, and proceeded to the quarters of Captain Wal-
pole, of the. Rifle Brigade, at the Fort, where a detachment
of that regiment is. stationed. Dr. O'Connell, surgeon of
the 88th, was sent for, and he accompanied Lieutenant
Adams, Captain Jeffries, and Mr. Crosse, who embarked,
about two or three hours after the duel, in a boat, which
landed them at the Calcars, whence they proceeded to
their quarters at Floriana. It is a singular circumstance
that during the whole of this time the deceased was perfectly
ignorant that the ball had lodged in his body, thinking the
only wound was that in the arm. He suffered no pain, and,
contrary to the expectation of some of his medical attend-
ants, expired suddenly on the following evening. Captain
Levick was arrested the same evening, The law of Malta is
excessive:y severe against duelling, the penalty attached to it
being death, both to principals and all engaged in it. The
deceased was a most amiable, kind-hearted, and gentle crea-
ture, and much esteemed by his brother officers.