The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-03-14 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

CASUALTIES- AT SEA.—A boat has been, picked up. at West Kerby, with " Arrabella" on the. stern.; also a corpse with a lever watch in the pocket, supposed to be the master of a.vessel sunk during the night. The Lady of the Lake which arrived here to-day took up the crew of the " Agnes" of Glasgow, from Callao.to London on the 27th of. February, in latitude 424 longitude 24, the vessel having been thrown on her beam ends, in a hurricane came on the 23d, her pumps being choked and in a sinking state, The United States from New Orleans to Liverpool, took off the crew from the Fair Play, from Philadelphia to Barbadoes. The Ulbane from, Lisbon brought the crew of the Catherine from Ibrail to. Constantinople, abandoned, dismasted, and in a sinking state. At Newcastle, G. Thompson, 23, was indicted for the wilful murder of Philip Wallace, at Bywell, on Christmas Eve. The prisoner and the deceased were poachers, and on the night in question they had a most, desperate battle with, the gamekeepers of Mr. Beaumont, who had with them a large dog, half bloodhound and half Newfoundland, used for the purpose of tracking poachers. During the battle, Robert Surtees, one of the keepers, got deceased down, and held on in defiance of the blows he received from the prisoner, who at last discharged his gun at the keeper. who contrived to twist himself out of the way, and the contents of the gun. entered the body of the prisoner's comrade, and caused his death shortly afterwards. The prisoner was convicted, of mauslaughter,• and sentenced to 15 years' transportation. Cll ARA CTERIST I C .-Mr. Waddington, surgeon, of Margate, having written to the Duke of Wellington as Warden of the Cinque Ports on behalf of the sailors of Margate, with the view of getting some of them employed as pilots ; his Grace returned the following answer : " London, February 23, 1848„—F. M. the Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mr. Waddington. He has received his letter of the 22d instant The Duke knows of no impediment to any native or inhabitant of Margate who can produce the usual testimonials of character and conduet, particularly in relation to habits of temperance and sobriety, who thinks himself qualified, coming forward to be examined as to his qualifications for being a pilot; and, if found upon examination to be really qualified, such a one will undoubtedly be appointed ;- otherwise certainly not—Joshua Waddington. Esq." Itlmumoru.--As the labourers employed on the Stour Valley line were lately excavating in' the narish of Lamarsh, near Sudbury, they discovered,, about 14 feet from the surface, embedded in gravel, the head and tusks of a mammoth, or fossil elephant. The tusks broke when they attempted to remove them, bat the teeth were taken out tolerably perfect ; and, with the fragments of the tusks, are now in the possession of Mr. Fulcher. The teeth are about 10 inches long; the tusks, when whole, measured 11 feet in length, and the breadth between them was 4 feet. On two or three of the teeth the enamel is as fresh as if they had not laid in the earth a month. Teeth of the mammoth have also, at different periods, been discovered in the grounds of R., Allen, Esq., of