The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-08-07 00:00:00

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

THE Yorkshire Gazette mentions an extraordinary instance
of somnambulism. A little boy was found at midnight by his
sister suspended outside the window, with his hands holding
on to the stone sill, and in great danger of falling to the
ground. The sister, with the assistance of the servant girl, ex-
tricated the boy from his dangerous situation, and he did not
recover from his dream until after his sister had lifted him
with safety into the room.
ELIZABETH ANN HOLMAN, a young woman twenty-two
years of age, dressed in man's clothes, was brought up at the
Plymouth Guildhall, on Thursday, charged with being a sus-
picious person. She stated that she had been employed as a
road and field-labourer in Devonshire and Cornwall, and had
also worked as a miner without any suspicion as to her sex.
Her reason for assuming male attire was, that she could earn
much higher wages as a man than she could have done other-
wise. As there was no proof of her having committed any
other offence, the bench directed her to be discharged.
EMIGRATION.—The total number of emigrants who left
the United Kingdom during the 40 years between January,
1815, and December, 1854, was 4,116,958, being on an average,
102,923 persons a-year. But of this number 2,446,802, or
nearly three-fifths, have emigrated during the last eight years;
and 1,356,096, or nearly one-third, in the last four years. The
average emigration of the last four years has been 339,504.
The largest emigration was in 1852, namely, 368,7'64. In 1854
the emigration was less by 45,335 than in 1852. The greater
part of emigrants go to the United States. In 1852 the num-
ber was 244,261; in 1854 it was 193,065, of which number
150,209 were Irish. In the last seven years, no less a sum
than £7,520,000 was remitted to Ireland by emigrants, to
enable their connections to join them in their adopted country.
STRDTA.N, PAUL, AND BATES were brought up at Bow°
street Police-court, on Wednesday. Mr. Bodkin, for prosecution,
produced evidence showing that Dr. Griffith's bonds were now
in the hands of Payneand Smith, the bankers, standing in the
name of Mr. Sykes, who had received them from a Mr. Beattie.
The latter was abroad, and would not be in England till Sep-
tember. Another remand would therefore be necessary. It
was proved that Strahan and Co. received the March dividends,
and that the Seyimber dividends had been paid to Smith and
Payne for Mr. Sykes, while the pass-book of Dr. Griffith showed
he had been duly credited for both the accounts. The prisoners
were admitted to bail of £6,000 each, and with two sureties of
£3,000 each, making a total bail of £36,000. On Thursday,
Mr. Strahan was bailed in the required amount by Mr. Beadon,
police-magistrate, of Wandsworth, and Dr. Gordon ; and, on
Friday, bail was entered into for the other partners.
Scoff' tc LANDED PEOPRFETONS.—The following is :the
gross total number of landed proprietors standing on the valu-
ation 'rens of the various Scotch counties in 1854—ViZ., in
Aberdeen, 341; Argyll, 181 ; Ayr, 456 ; Banff, 45 • Berwick,
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306; Ilute, 9 ; Caithness, 37; Clackmannan, 35 • Dumbarton,
263-3 Dumfries, 510 a Fdinburgh 562; Elgin, s's'- Fife, 686;
Forfar, 358 ; Haddirigton,
92.; Kinross, 161 a; Kirkcudbright, 413 ; Linlithgow, 164 ;
ist,irn, 15 ; Orkney, 329 ; Peebles, 88; Perth, 696.; Ross, 69
Roxburgh, 429 ; Selkirk, 43-; Stirling, 615 ; Sutherland, 8 ;
-and Wigtown, 60; 594 of these estates were valued at between
"Rsoo and £1,009, 387 at between £l,OOO and £2,000, 274 at
'between £2,000 and £5,000, 76 at between £5,000 and £lO,OOO,
and 32 at upwards of £lO,OOO.
ECLIPSE or AN EUROPE:IN SOVEREIGNTY.—A sovereign
state has disappeared from the map of Europe. Kniphausen
has collapsed into a seignory of the Grand Duke of Oldenburg.
This important fact is notified in an ordonnanc,e just published
by the Minister of State-for Oldenburg. Kniphausen was the
smallest-state of the Germanic Confederation : its population
did not exceed 3,500 souls, nor its territory 4,500 hectares. It
was united to Oldenburg in 1813 ; but the Congress of Vienna
not having recognized the incorporation, its separate rights
have been kept alive with Prussian aid until the present time.
A BOY WITH A REAL TAIL.—At Middlesborough-on-Tees
there exists a singular freak of nature, " a boy with a real tail."
He is about four months old and in good health. He has a
perfect caudal appendage four or five inches in length. It
springs from the vertebrae of the os-sa-^runz, not theos eoecygis
as does the tail of an animal, which is a continuation-of the
spinal structure. It has caused much interest among the
faculty, who have had a consultation whether- it would be
proper to take it of; but, as upon examination it is found to
possess the properties of a limb, having bone, muscle, feeling,
&c., and can be moved at the will of the child, it is feared the
operation might endanger the -:child's life by affecting the
-spinal cord. Itanay prove of great inconvenience to the pos-
sessor in after life, as it will intrude upon the seat of honour.
DEATH moanOLANDERS.—EIiza Massey, the wife of Jemmy
Massey, the well-known pugilist, aged only 31, has died from
glanders in Middlesex Hospital. The unfortunate deceased
resided with her husband, who kept from eight to twelve cab-
horses, over the stables situated at 9, Stephen's-mews, adjoin-
ing Rathbone-place, Oxford-street—her sufferings having been,
as described ley her medical attendants, of the mostexcruciating
nature. Herbody presented- a dreadful spectacle, immediately
after death-assuming the appearance of one mass of putrefac-
tion. The cause of the disease.is enveloped in mystery, as the
deceased never had anything to do with her husband's horses,
one of which had suffered from glanders ; and the supposition
is, that the dreadful complaint was engendered through the
deceased breathing the impure air in the mews, there being no
ventilation or drainage to the stables.
WHOLESALE MURDER.—A letter from Warsaw, dated July
12, says :—" A shocking event has just occurred here. The
night before last, as the stage-coach was on its way between
Minsk and Kalushin, it was attacked by a band of miscreants,
who first killed the horses, then murdered the driver, and five
of the passengers ; the sixth, a young lady, - contrived to effect
her escape. Seven waggons laden with corn -happened to be
passing at the time, driven by Jews. These men were like-
wise murdered, as was also a Jewish family •of nine persons,
who inhabited a public-house in the neighbourhood. Magis-
trates, aides-de-camp- of the Viceroy, and a strong detachment
of mounted police,-have gone from this place-in all haste to the
spot, and it is hoped that a clue to the murderers will be very
shortly found."

Nnorr.—On Thursday a most
daring: robbery was committed at the public•house known by
the sign of the Giant's Stores, Drury►lane, a short distance
from the Olympic Theatre. A number of well•dressed fellows,
knqtwn as companions of thieves, had been observed hanging
about, and got up into the concert-room upon the pretence of
hearing a song. The result showed, however, that they had
contemplated a more serious game than being amused with a
song, forit was discovered that while some watched the motions
of the giant and persons in the bar, others of theparty entered
the landlord's room with a skeleton key and ransacked the
place, and carried off a splendid gold watch and chain, pre-
sented by Her Majesty to Mr. Hales; also, some silver snuff
boxes, and other property, worth altogether about £l2O.
ABDIIMION.-At the Shrewsbury Assizes, on Monday,
Richard Roden, 40. years of age, was sentenced to nine months'
imprisonment for abducing Sarah Buttery, under 16 years of
age, at Wroxeter,,in Junelast. The prisoner was married and
had two children, and the girl in question lived as a servant
with her aunt, next door to him. He became acquainted with
her, an illicit connection was the consequence, and she was
ultimately sent home to her parents. In June last, Roden
sent one of his own children to make an appointment with
Buttery, and the guilty-couple met, he asking his paramour to
fly with him, as his wife had told him it was the best thing he
could do, and that, if he took her clean off, he should have
anything he wanted ; but, if he took any one else, he should
have nothing. The girl .flew with him, but the parents soon
captured her.

A LETTER rzolt Anna,trzopix states that tbe neighbour-
hood of that city had been freed in rather a singular manner
from the highway robbers who infested it. A widow, residing
near Silivria, had been plundered of all her property by a
gang of ruffians, who pretended they acted under the orders of
Yani, a robber chief, who has acquired an unenviable celebrity
-in dud locality. Yani, a species of Fm Diavolo, who boasts
that he only robs the rich to give to the poor, having heard
.of the outrage, visited the widow, and ascertained that the
attack was made in his name. He immediately set out with
a party of his band, traced the robbers, put them to death, and
recovered the plunder. Within two days of his first visit to
the widow, he returned to her with the entire of the property
of which she had been despoiled, together with the heads of
the seven robbers. " You see," said Yani, " that I have
procured you restitution, and you may be assured that
nobody shall ever disgrace my name with impunity."
IWTRODErCTION OF INDIRECT TAXATION INTO TURKEY.
—The Morning Herald Constantinople correspondent writes :
"An important measnre is under discussion at present. On
the Ist of .September next it is proposed to adopt one of the
civilised modes of increasing the revenue, by the institution
of a new tax which was held in contempt, as being tedious
and expensive in the collection. I believe it will be rendered
obligatory on every one to use stamped paper; for all public
and private .documents involving responsibility, with the
exception of certain title deeds and legal affidavits, on which
the tax will not be raised (as the cries of the Ulemah, in all
probability, might be raised with it). This measure does not
interfere with foreigners in their dealings among themselves ;
but will affect the natives, and will not be popular among
merchants and traders ; like skinned eels, however, they
will get accustomed to it at last. It is evident that the Porte
must increase its revenue by several millions of piastres, and
as it cannot raise it as in former times directly, it must do
co indirectly."
' WlLLTNElT?—Underthis heading, the New York Journal
Qfth
muoicomtomheisrceownsaaydsv:
at the mothers and young ladies. He has issued a programme
a—ntßaagrentillion' d'ohubavt,inisgguoisnegd tuop t eh
babies,
of over $5,000, which he proposes to present in premiums " to
the handsomest ladies in America." There is to be one pre-

rarumo7F,Ooo;7;;;;:i.'§3oo; one of $250; one of $200; one
of $150; six of $100; ninety of $2O; and one hundred of $lO.
The process by which the handsomest ladies are to be found
out and ascertained, is somewhat complicated, and_we leave it
for the details, which will soon be published as an advertise-
ment. Suffice it to say that, in the first instance, da,guereo-
types of beautiful women will be invited to be sent in from all
parts of the country, with or without the names,—the daguereo-
types to be returned in due time to the owners. On the 15th
of Oct. all that may have arrived " will be placed before the
public at the American Museum, or in some other suitable lo-
cality in New York." The visitors at the place of exhibition
will decide, by means of ballots, which of the portraits are en-
titled to the premiums. Those ladies obtaining the ten
highest premiums will be engraved and published in the French
" World's Book of Beauty." Each lady who may secure one
of the ten highest premiums, will he desired to sit to the best
artist in the city nearest to her residence, who will paint her
portrait from life, at the expense of Mr. Barnum, for the
French publication:

AGRICULTURAL MEET.—On Saturday, about four hundred
gentlemen interested in the success of agriculture assembled,
according to custom, at Mr. Mechi's model farm at liptree-
heath, Essex. The company proceeded with Mr. Mechi to
view the farm and stock, and pronounced the wheat, barley,
and oat crops all that could be wished, and the mangold and
other root-crops seemed to be in excellent condition. The cattle,
pigs, horses, sheep, and other live stock were all very healthy,
and their clean appearance was the theme of universal admi-
ration. Part of the day's proceedings was the exhibition of
new agricultural implements. A ponderous machine, the in-
vention of the Earl of Dundonald, for cutting up the ground
and putting down pipes for draining, attracted some attention.
A reaping machine, by Dray and Co., was tried upon some
wheat, a portion of which was very much laid, and the result
was so satisfactory that several orders were given on the spot.
This machine was considered to supply a remedy for the only
absolute defect which had hitherto existed in Hussey's imple-
ment. The inspection of the crops and farmyards over, the
company repaired to a large marquee, and partook of a cold
collation. Mr. Mechi presided, and was supported on his right
by the Lord Mayor, and on his left by the Marquis of Dro-
gheda. Mr. Mechi' in returning thanks for his health, said he
had surmounted all the difficulties which had in the first onset
beset his path, and he was happy to say that his crops this year
would well pay him. He thought that the great future for
agriculture lay ink the full developzueut of steam,