The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1836-10-21 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

XIV., when that Monarch asked him what o'clock it was? and he answered " whatever your Majesty pleases." During the high wind on Tuesday morning, a large branch was blown from off a tree in a cloSe at Waplode, which, falling with great. force on Mrs. Mary Winkley, a widow residing there, killed her on the spot.—Lincolnshire Chronicle. . Lords Loftus, Alford, and their party at Flowerdale, in .. Ross-shire, N. 8., have had excellent sport on the moors this season, having killed 900 head of grouse, 13 red deer, and 5001 b. weight of salmon, some weighing 242, 20, and 1811). each. The Board of Ordnance at Woolwich have announced to the Anti-dry-rot Company that they intend to adopt the process in Ryan's patent in all the works carrying on by that branch of the public service. The Rev. Robert Montgomery, Author of the "Omnipresence of the Deity." &c. will arrive in Dublin, (D.V.,) on the Saturday; the 22a. We understand he intends preaching duringhis stay here. —Dublin Record. • Since our last assizes, which terminated on the 25th of July, now about 11 weeks, there have been committed to our county gaol 1531 prisoners, of whom there are still confined (thanks to the Viceregal Liberator) only 380.—Clonrnel Advertiser. Horne Tooke was the son of a poulterer, which he alluded t 0 when called upon by the proud stiiplings of Eton to describe hirnself—" I am," said young Horne, " the son of an eminent Turkey merchant." , The workmen attached to Pembroke dock-yard are, it is said to be called on to reside near the establishment, to render their services more available than now in the case of any sudden emergency. In our gaol at the present moment there are near 400 persons, confined for various offences, of which 23 are for murder, and all these have been committed since our last assizes, which are scarcely- three months past.— Tipperary Constitution. At the York municipal revision the whole of the conservative objections were disallowed, Irons the signatures to the notices being by the clerk of the objector instead of himself.—Hull Observer. The sale of Crown lands, near Newark, commenced on Tuesday last. Many of the lots on that and the following -day were purchased-for the Duke of Newcastle, at high prices. The lots sold on Tuesday realised 1:18.000; those on Werluesda y £2s,ooo.—Linco/nshire Chronic e. The 'young Sir Godfrey Webster, Bart., grandson of Lady Holland, who recently succeeded to the title and estates by the, demise of his father, has just attained his majority, and is serving on board one of the line of battle ships in the Mediterranean as midshipman; the second son of the late 13arisuot. is also in the navy, and on the West India station. A letter written by Marshal Clausel,' and dated 6th October has arrived at Paris, in which he announces that authority to undertake the expedition had just reacheo Algieis. The Marshal was preparing to take the field immediately, and hoped* to be in the capital (Constantina) on the Ist of November, if the reinforcements, whibh had been' announced, should have reached their destinations by the 20th of this month. It is affirmed that some English capitalists have placed at the disposal of the Porte a sum of two millions sterling, to rebuild the quarter of Constantinople lately destroyed by fire. The Sultan, it is said, has, in return for this service, granted new rivileges and exemptions in favour of the Englisia commerce, nd especially the right to form, on the European side of the Dardanelles, a depot of the manufactures and productions of Great Britain, which are to be imported free of all duty. HUSBAND, FATHER, AND Winotv La IN