The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1835-06-12 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

VII.—" There we saw all the royal progeny, except Arthur, the eldest. Henry, then only nine years ofd seemed a boy of goodly promise; on his right was Margaret, his sister, aged eleven, since married to King James of Scotland; the Lady Mary, four years old, was playing on his left, and the infant Edmund was carried in arms." In the same curious document he relates a singular conversation which be had with Groscyn in the boat that plied at Larribeth ferry, as he returned from a visit to Archbishop Wareham, to whom he had been presenting his new translation of the Hecuba of Euripides.---,Fraser's Magazine. Shine of the circumstances of a mysterious oc6urrence which have transpired during the past week have excited groat horror in Monty,ornervshire and .Shropshire. It appears that on Friday week Mr. Thomas Evans, a respectable mercer of POol, expired.at Berriew, the residencg of his sister, to which he had 014 in consequence of ill health. An inquest has been subsequently held upon the body, and a verdict of " Wilful murder" returned against the wife of the 'unfortunate deceased and a person named Edward Rogers, who was his shopman: The wife of the,deceased has absconded-With Rogers, and it is supposed the parties are endeavouring, to escape from England: On the night before Mr. Evans died, his wife and Rogers packed up valuable goods in the shop, 'out were prevented frbm carrying them off by the prompt interference of the neighbetirs; they, however, escaped to Shrewsbury, thence posted to Hay Gate, or Welverhampton, and were then taken up by the Wender coach, and it is 'supposed were set down at IslingtOn. Such are some of the facts. Among the rumours as to the evidence at the itoptest; it.is stated that Mr. Evans died by poised (tartrate-of antinmy) administered in small doses from time to time in his medieine. It hii said that the woman is accomplished, that her friends are highly respectable, and that she will be entitled to considerable property on the death of a relative. It is also said Mr. Evans met with her at Bath, and that they were married at GretnaGreen. The dying man, although conscious of the injury .he had sustained from his wife, was so much infatuated that he seemed to wish that the supposed guilty parties might escape. There are three children living. • The Moscow Gazette contains an official invitation to pr ofessors; native and foreign, to become candidates for the vacant chair of veterinary medicine and surgery in the 11.1ediciechirurgical Institute of the University of Wilna. The annual salary is 5000 roubles which, after 10 years' service, is increased 500 roubles. After 25 years of irreproachable service, the professUr is at liberty to retire on full salary; which he is permittted to enjoy even in a foreign country, with the title of Emeritus Professor. The Earl of Gosford, Captain of the Yeoman Guard, ap pointed Chief Commissioner to Canada, will take his passage for that colony in the Pique, new frigate, Hon Captain Henry !tons, which has been waiting at Spithead 70 days to take out the commissioners. Sir Charles Grey, brother-in-law to Lord Dinorben, who was formerly a judge in India, is associated with his Lordship in the commission, which has been signed by his Majesty.—Standard. Considerable excitement, not to say alarm, has been created in this town for the last two days by the receipt of intelligence from London that a Committee of the House of Commons, which, it has leaked out,has been quietly sitting two months, in reference to the merits of Valentia Harbour,' in Ireland, had come to a decision to recommend that port being made thepermament establishment for the packets in- preference to this.— Falmouth Packet.