The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-04-29 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

FRIDAY, APRIL 29.—Wind S.E.
ARRlVED.—Palestine, , from Laguna—Gl,zaner, Gale, and
Cornelia, French, from Mobile—Venilia,Vickers, from Apalachicola
—Bridget, Wade, and Fernandes, --, from Lisbon—Lamport,
—; Belmont, Brown, and Pandora, ----, from New Orleans
—Friends' Increase, —, from Newhaven—Fanny, Sloan, from
Charleston—Richard, —, from Marseilles—Jamaica,
from Hambro'—Coeur de Lion, ---, from Maranham—Mes-
senger, Cargill, from Marseilles—Louisa & Julia, Stormer, from
Wolgast—Augusti, Longhall, from Teignmouth—Caledonia.
from Trieste—John Bolton, --, from New Orleans—Sisters,
—, from Nassau—Espindola, --, from Mobile—lndustrie,
—, from Venice—Blorenge, --., from Calcutta—and Ca-
rena, --, from London.

Off Holyhead, at 7 a,m. No. 9306, Paddy from Cork, supposed to
be No. 5906, Jane Walker, she telegraphed from Mobile ; and at 9
a.m. No. 5631, Isabel, 8.8.
Wind at Holyhead, at 11 a.m. South. light b reese.
Off Great Ormshead, at 8 30 a.m. No. 2 t 6g, Veracity, Schooner,
and a schooner with T.P.L. in her fore topsail, in want of a pilot.

MILITARY INLELLIGENCE.—THE NEW APPOINTMENTS
—The Gazette of Tuesday night states that the following
military appointments have ben made :—His Royal High-
ness Prince Albert succeeds to the colonelcy of the 3d regi-
ment of Scots fusilier guards, vacant by the demise of the
Earl of Ludlow • Lieut.-general Sir Arthur B. Clifton,
K.C.B. and K.C.H., 17th lancers, is appointed to the 11th
hussars, vice his Royal Highness Prince Albert; his Royal
Highness Prince George of Cambridge goes to the 17th lan-
cers, vice Clifton ; Lieut.-general Sir J. Stevenson Barns,
K.C.8., is appointed to the colonelcy of the 20th regiment
of foot, vacant by the decease of General Sir Wm. Houstoun;
Lieut.-general Sir A. Woodford, K.C.B. and G.C.M.G.,
governor of Gibraltar, to the 40th regiment, vacant by the
decease of Lieut.-general Sir Lionel Smith ; and Lieut.-
general Sir Dugald Little Gilman, K.C.8., succeeds to the
appointment of second colonel commandant of the rifle bri-
gade, vice Sir J. S. Barns.
The body of a young man, named Henry Lawrence, was
one day last week casually discovered suspended from a tree
in Tiddesley Wood, near Pershore, being in a state of de-
composition, and greatly mangled by the birds ; the legs were
tied, and it was evident that the unhappy man had climbed
up to the branch, sat upon it while he fastened his limbs, and
then, placing the rope round his neck, and affixing the other
end to the branch, have thrown'himself from it. The body
was immediately conveyed to the Talbot, in Pershore. The
inquest was held on Thursday before C. Best, Esq., and a
respectable jury, who returned a verdict to the effect that the
deceased was " found banging." It appears that the unfor-
tunate man was from Hartill, Northamptonshire, and came
into this neighbourhood soon after the Birmingham and
Gloucester Railway commenced, and had been employed on
the line as a plate-layer, but had lately been out of work.
During his residence here he had married a young widow,
who stated on the inquest that they lived on very good terms
together; but the general opinion of the neighbours was
quite the reverse of that, and it was known that they fre-
quently quarrelled. The widow said that the deceased left
home in very good spirits on the 28th of February, in search
of work.— Worcester Journal.
The Malta Times has a circular by Mr. Warrington the
British consul at Tripoli, dated March 26, addressed to the
different chiefs of the interior and northern coast of Africa,
representing to them the folly as well as cruelty of the slave
trade, and advising them to substitute for it an active trade
in the natural resources of Atrica, such as gold dust, ivory,
ostrich feathers, gum, skins, indigo, &c. This circular has
been translated into Arabic and profusely distributed. The
petty officer of the Cambridge, who was condemned to death
for the murder of a boy, was to be sent from Malta to En-
gland in the Weasel in a few days, the sentence being that
he is to be hung on board of any British ship at the pleasure
of the Admiralty. The Polyphemus left on the llth for
Naples, conveying there the distinguished Hindoo the
Dwarkanauth Tagore, on his way to England. Whilst in
Malta this gentleman displayed great liberality in donations
to the charities of the island.

Some years ago an elderly gentlemen, on his way through
Arundel, took advantage of a short stay at the Norfolk Arms
to visit the castle. He was much pleased, as all sensible vi-
sitors must be, with every thing he saw, but most with the
grave moping owls of the keep. But, of all the family, one
had that peculiar sagacity of expression which appeared to
engross the whole attention of his visitor. His horns long,
and horizontally projecting from either temple; his scarlet-
coloured eyes, that seemed as if they had become inflamed
by long-continued study ; his wings that hung loosely about
him like a professor's gown ; his face, his feet, every feature,
in short, seemed to say, " this is no common owl.' "He 's
a sagacious fellow, this," observed the stranger. " Yes,
sir," said the keeper, " we always call him the chancellor."
" The what—the chancellor? " " Yes, sir, sometimes the
chancellor, and sometimes Lord Eldon—he is so very wise."
The stranger was highly amused at finding a namesake un-
der the ivy in Arundel keep, for we need scarcely add, that
the visitor was, in fact, the chancellor himself, the late vene-
rable and learned Lord Eldon.—Beatlie's,Castles and Abbeys
of England.
LOVE IN A BREWING PAN.—That the course of love
never will run smooth has become the almost every-day ex-
perience of the unfortunate victims of the ensnaring little
Cupid. " Merrie Wakefield," on former occasions demon-
strated to the world the dangers of too blind an adherence to
the ill-advised counsels of the blind god ; nevertheless, it
appears that neither Wakefield or any other field ever will
escape from the heart-burning and finger-burning conse-
quences of the tyrannies of love. Lately, a reverend gentle-
man of Wakefield, took it into his head that his house was
frequented by visitors who, though more free than welcome
to him, were not so to his maid-servants. He determined to
make an experiment, and see whether these "testimonials of
respect" were for his own or their dear sakes, and accord-
ingly informed them that he was going a journey and would
not return home that night. Didn't the hearts
oft his faith-
ful and affectionate servants leap for joy, whilst ih solemn
countenances they assured him they would pay every atten-
tion, &c. Their worthy master having got a small quantity
of luggage, took his departure. In the meantime the true
and faithful servants anxiously awaited the arrival of their
cousins, who were punctual, as usual, to the appointed hour,
or rather minute—for love thinks more of the happy minute
than any other section of time. How readily did they tell
their delighted swains that " master had gone out of town
and wouldn't be back to- night !" We didn't exactly hear
them reply that the statement was " too good to be true,
but as the sequel will prove, they discovered it was so exces-
sively good as all that. At the happy and yet fatal hour of
eight, "master" cruelly determined to return home. He
suddenly entered the house, and was just in time to think he
saw something drop into a large brewing-pan in the kitchen.
The reverend gentleman wagged his head, doubled up his
sleeves, (laughing in them at the same time,) and said, " I
think we will brew to-night." He only wanted to brew mis-
chief ! The poor fellow inside, bearing the brewing spoken
of, thought of the mashing he would get, and was already
beginning to melt from the combined effects of love and fear !
There was the consolation of thinking that she for whose
sake he was thus to be dissolved in the mash-tub, would soon
receive some portion of his alcoholic remains, and thereby
that " they twain should become one flesh !" He quietly
resigned himself to the martyrdom of the mash tub! His
reverend executioner then commenced operations by pump
ng water into the vessel, but as the animal inside was but i a
rum fish, and couldn't swim, he jumped up ir, " heavy wet,"
and instantly bolted. On inquiry it
.turned out that he was
" only a friend of the cook's.' Guardian.