The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-04-21 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

OOO. The !ate Sir Wm. Hillary's house, at Douglas, Isle of Man, is being converted into a family hotel. The house was lately purchased by a Manchester manufacturer. A few days ago, a mule bird, between the linnet and canary, died at Sunderland, at the great age of twentytwo years, having been blind for nearly four years. It is said that Colonel Gough, nephew of the commander-in-chief, received no Pss than six balls in the late action, hut remained notwithstanding in the field. Mr. Macready has entered into an engagement to perform twenty nights at the Surrey Theatre for £1,600, commencing next September. _ _ .  The Post:office clerks and distributors at Bath have made an appeal to the public against the continuance of the Sunday delivery. It ought to he acceded to. At the Sessions Court-house at Beverley, the foremln of the jury declined giving a verdict because " Fee no orator."  Henry Jackson, gamekeeper to Sir Gorge Renishaw, was shot severely in the thigh, by poachers, on Frieav week. The offenders have been apprehended. A child. seven months old, has died at Camherwell, from having partaken rather freely of half a round of bread steeped in beer, which had been given to it. Mr. Charles Kemble has been reading Shakapeare to the working classes at the east end of London, with immense success.  SPORT AND DEATH —Three valuable borseswere killed in consequence of the severity of the run they had had with the Queen's steg hounds on Monday. The Jupiter, Bristol and Cork steamer, went a.hore on Wednesdaf"night, in the river, near Bristi.l ; several valuable hunters, horned cattle, and two hundred pigs, w, re drowned.  JamOs Reid, who was acquitted on the charge of murdering the old man. Branter, at. Berketvell, is again in custody, charged with rubbing the premises of the murdered man.  After various remands, the magistrates have decided on commi►ting Sheriff and Biddle to Oxford gaol for trial for the wilful murder of Mr Mobbs, on the evidence of the accomplice, Skerry. The crew of a whaling vettsel,.the Mary, have been shipwrecked on the Woodlark Islands. Seven were drowned, ot,e only escaped, the others, twenty-eight itt number, were horribly massacred by the natives. The banking house of Lathom and Co., at Dover. has stopped payment. The immediate cause is the death ot the senior partner. It is expected there will be 10s. in the pound for the creditors. In the Times an American company advertise f;.r sale saddles of American forest venison, wild geese from the American lakes, and wild turkeys from the American forests, just received, in fine order! At tt.e sale of the stock of one of the most extensive posting-masters in Glasgow, last week. the horses, between fifty and sixty in number, fetched from £25 to £3(► each. _ _  In the western division of Middlesex, the number of inquests held in cases of suicide during the past three months was exactly double the number held during the corresponding three months of 1845. At Birmingham, Thomas Leathern, who professed to be an attorney, under which character be procured sums of money font two or three prrties under false pretences, was sentenced to seven years' transportation.