The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-10-16 00:00:00

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• GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

CRIMINAL CHARGE AGAINST THE PROVOST OF LEITH.—
A case disgusting in the extreme, has just come to light, tp
which no less a personage than the Provost of Leith is el4llll-
- implicated. The charge brought against the civic dig-
nitary is a criminal assault upon two girls, both under the
age of puberty. He has been examined before the sheriff and
procurator fiscal, and on Saturday was admitted to bail. There
is no doubt that Provost Phillips will figure rather disagree-
ably before the criminal court in Novembyr.
NARROW ESCAPE.--A few days ago, as Lord Robert Mon-
tague was sailing in his boat from Portstewart to Portrush a
squall of wind caught the boat and upset her. Lord Robert
threw himself out of her, and being a very expert swimmer
soon managed to regain the boat, and having with some diffi-
culty prevented the sailor who accornpaniedhim from sinking,
he succeeded in getting on the boat, which was now turned
bottom upwards. They remained in this perilous situation for
nearly half an hour, when they were picked up by a boat
which had seen the accident from some distance.
OPPOSITION STEAMIIRS ON THE ATLANTlC.—Commodore
Vanderbilt, the great American ship-owner, is running
steamers across the Atlantic, in opposition to the United
States mail packets. Occasionally Vanderbilt's steamer and
the mail packet start together, and the speed of the steamers
is properly tested. In one instance the Vanderbilt steamer,
the North Star, beat the crack American mail packet the
Arago. On the 22nd ult., the Arago and the Vanderbilt
steamer Ariel left New York at the same hour, both bound for
Cowes, in the Isle of Wight. They kept in company for two
days, when the Ariel shot adead of the Arago, and the latter
saw no more of her. The commander of the Arago, on
arriving at Cowes, was surprised to learn that his steamer had
beaten the Ariel.
PASSENGER TRAFFIC IN LONDON.—About 200,000 per-
sons enter the city each day on foot by different avenues, and
about 15,000 by the river steamers ; and besides the cab, cart,
carriage, and waggon traaffic of the streets, the omnibuses
alone perform an aggregate of 7,400 daily journeys through
the city. The number of passengers arriving at and departing.
‘ from the London-bridge group of railway termini, which in
1850 amounted to 558,000, had in 1854 risen to 10,845,000.
At the South Western Railway it appears that during the
same period the numbers have increased from 1,228,000 to
3,308,000. The number arriving at and departing from the
' Shoreditch station last year is stated at 2,143,000; Euston-
square station, 970,000 ; Paddington Station, 1,400,000 ;
King's-cross station, 711,000; the Blackwall station, in Fen-
. church-street, 8,144000.
A WORK OF TIME.—On one of the hilly moorland meadows,
not far from St. Austell Bay, a piece of work is in quiet pro-
gress under a shed, which the autumn tourists and excursion-
makers visit. This is the gradual reduction into shape and
polish of the huge block of Cornish porphyry which is to serve
as a sarcophagus for the remains of the Duke of Wellington.
This enormous stone, weighing 70 tons when it was originally
detached, and wrought on the spot where it was found, is of a
grain so impenetrable as almost to defy the cutter's craft.
The sawing of it into halves was a long and painful task, and,
the two men now employed in hollowing it out seem given
up to the most slow-going task conceivable at the time pre-
sent, since more than two cannot work, and the impression
made by their picks in the huge mass is a thing to be
measured from week to week, not day to day. There is ten
months' more work to be done ere the adamant rock will be
shaped and smoothed into the required form. The colour is
of an intense deep gray, mottled with black and pale buff, and
, streaked with veins of white.— Cornwall Gazette.
OUR WAR TACTICS.—Wo know not how far we may rely
upon the assertions of a correspondent of one of the Ameri-
cans newspapers, but he professes to have heard a conversa-
tion in the course of which the French Emperor thus expressed
himself :—" I acknowledge the tactics of the Crimean cam-
paign to be my own projectionf and I confess myself satisfied,
mainly, with the results. The people of France and Britain
want a faat of arms, and perhaps the people of America would
applaud another Smoleusko and Moskowa. No : France in
1913 crossed the arid steppes and and deadly snows of Russia.
I will now make Russia traverse her own wilderness to meet
us on her frontier. There is not a man who enters the Crimea
that has not undergone all we suffered in the retreat from
Moscow ! There is not a regiment that arrives at Perekop
that is not decimated. Whole battalions have been eugulphed.
The Russian loss, according to their own estimate rendered to
the Emperor Nicholas lat December, amounted to 270,000.
The allied troops at that time had not lost one-tenth of that
number. lam content to protract the struggle in the Crimea
on those terms.
THE IRON TRADE.—The making of iron has been on the
increase for half-a-century, but since the use of railroads has
been so universally adopted, the progress of the trade has been
exceedingly rapid, and the quantity made annually very large.
At the beginning of the present century the iron produced in
England was not 500,000 tons a-year •, it is now upwards of
3,000,000 tons, and the demand is still on the increase. The
In ge quantity used for railway purposes will account for the
consumption of late years; about 8,000 miles of line having
been constructed in this kingdom, 16,000 laid down in America,
on the Continent many thousand miles made, and in India,
land many other colonies of the British empire, there are up-
wards of 3,000 miles of line in progress, while in America up-
wards of 10,000 miles of new line have been sanctioned by the
Legislature. These figures sufficiently explain what has been
done with the millions of tons that have been used, and also
show the iron that will be used for some years to come, Great
as is the quantity annually made, it is, therefore, evident it
will all be wanted, and the prices be remunerative, except in
times of panic from scarcity of money, when iron will be ex-
pected to be sold at a reduced, probably not a losing, price for
a time, like other articles of merchandise.—Mining Journal.

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