The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1842-04-29 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

CALEDONIAN CANAL.—We understand the committee of the House of Commoes have unanimously agreed to recommend the completion and improvement of the Caledonian Canal, as proposed by Mr. Walker, engineer, and Sir Edward  . . Parry. There seems no doubt, therefore, that government will make the necessary advances, and preparations will be made for commencing the works. We anticipate important results from this decision, so intimately connected with the prosperity of Invciness, and the whole north of Scotland.— Inverness Courier.  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 avising them to substitute for it an active trade in the natural resources of Africa, 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 England 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 visitors 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 scarletcoloured 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 under the ivy in Arundel keep, for we need scarcely add, that the visitor was, in fact, the chancellor hi mself, the late venerable and learned Lord Eldon. —Beatties Castles and Abbeys of England.  We are authorised to contradict various newspaper paragraphs of recent date—(one or two of which, we are sorry to say, appeared in the Bull,) relating to the testamentary distribution of the late Earl Of Westmorland's property, and subsequent arrangements between the present earl and his sister, Lady Georgiana Fane. The statement circulated this last week is, we have the means of knowing, in every particular incorrect. The Earl of Westmorland has, at present, an income of about £16,000 per annum ; and the property left to Lady Georgiana does not amount to more than £2500 per annum—from which an annuity has to be paid to her ladyship's younger brother, Col. Fane. Every arrangement between Lord Westmorland and Lady Georgiana Fane has been, and is, on the most amicable footever was, nor could have been desired by his lordship, that his sister should give up to him any part of her comparatively small income. In case of any further misrepresentations, we may take this opportunity of mentioning, that the fortune of the Dowager Countess of Westmorland isentailed on Col. Fane.—John Bull.