The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1843-03-03 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

DEVONPORT, FEB. 26.—Arrived her Majesty's ship Modeste, from China, left Hong Kong October 23, St. Helena January 6, with 1,000,000 dollars on board. The corttee of the Wesleyan Centenary Fund have presented e sum of one thousand pounds from that fund to the Bible iety.  A. woman of intemperate habits died at Manchester, or Thursday last, from the effects of a wound on her right shin, caused by a kick inadvertently given by her husband.  At the Wicklow assizes, on Friday, James Hoskins was found guilty of the murder of James Pugh, on the 29th January, and was sentenced to death.  A new church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, was consecrated on the 27th ult., at Roehampton, by the Archbishop of Canterbury.  A fellow named Barker is in custody in Lambeth-street Police-court, for assuming the character of a postman, and delivering fictitious letters, for which he exacted 2d. each.  An accident occurred on the Leeds and Manchester Railway on Wednesday week, but fortunately the only injury sustained was to the leader of one of the engines. Mary Taylor, one of the women injured by the Hereford coach, as noticed in our paper last week, died in the Infirmary on Saturday. Mrs. Charles Kean has been seized with an alarming illness at Bath, which renders her utterly unable to fulfil her professional engagements. Mr. Cockburn is retained to defend Macnaughten : the learned gentleman will join his circuit again at Salisbury, immediately after the trial. On Monday, a farewell dinner was given to Sir C. Metcalfe by the Colonial Society, prior to his embarkation for Canada.  The Bishop of Down and Connor has resigned his con. flexion as a patron with the Cambridge Camden Church Architectural Society.  The Tablet (the popish paper) publishes a long narative of a visit paid by the editor and two other Roman catholics to Youghal, and the blasphemous impostures practised by Father Foley and his virgins, are exposed with proper severity.  Mr. Thomas Pottinger, the brother of Sir Henry Pottinger, the able negociator of our peace with China, has been selected by the government for the chief office as resident at Hongkong, and is to take his departure forthwith.  A very beautiful panoramic view of the city of Edinburgh has been painted, and is on view in London. It represents the city on the morning of her Majesty's arrival from Granton Pier.  The entire island of Lundy, in the British Channel, the possession of which constitutes the proprietor sovereign lord of the island, is about to be sold by auction. It pays no taxes whatever.  A pamphlet, entitled " The Character, Motives, and Proceedings of the Anti-Corn-Law Leaguers," has just ap• peared, and exposes, from their own mouths, the selfishness of these gentry.  So uncertain is the fisherman's vocation, that of two boats which started together from Brighton last week, one caught mackarel worth £llO in one night, and the other returned home without a fish.  It appears that one of. the parties subjected to an Exchequer process for smuggling, has pleaded guilty to the charge alleged against him, and paid, in the way of compromise, the large penalty inflicted, of £l6B,ooo.—Morniny paper. " The Earl of Stanhope," says the Hull Advertiser, " is a water-drinker so inveterate, that, even at the royal table, he refuses to pledge her Majesty in cups more potent than are supplied by the parish-pump."  The distress of our shipping interest is so great that three companies at Stockton, whose paid-up capital is £BO,OOO, lost on an average each £1,500 last year, independent of the wear and tear of their vessels.—Glasgow Courier. On the sth of May, the anniversary of the death of the Emperor Napoleon, Louis Philippe will lay the first stone of the tomb destined to receive his mortal remains, at the Hospital of Invalids, the Chelsea Hospital of France. A vacancy in the representation of Ashburton in the House of Commons is caused by the demise of Mr. William Jardine, M.P., who expired at his town residence on Monday  morning  Some of the Paris papers seriously attack M. Guizot, because, at his grand party last week, he gave the guests every delicacy of the season, and lots of champagne and burgundy after the English fashion, and there was no singing, nor dancing.