The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-12 00:00:00

The directors of the South-Western Railway met on Thurs-
day, and came to the resolution, in conformity with the late
decision of the shareholders, to abandon their bill for the coast
ine, and pursue that for the central line.
The Rev. Dr. Vaughan, rector of St. Matthew's, Brixton,
having been acquitted of two out of the three indictments
against him for tampering with the register, the prosecutor
withdrew the third. Mr. Justice Wightman, in ordering the
defendant to be discharged, said that be thought that the
prosecutor had acted entirely under a misapprehension.
ON Saturday, an inquest was held at Walworth, on the
body of Frank Withers Rider, aged six weeks, the son of Mr.
Thomas George Rider, a commercial clerk, residing at No. 12,
Onslow-terrace, Lorrimore-road, who was murdered by his
mother, Emily, Rider, by drowning in a pan of water, on
Thursday last. Evidence having been led, the jury returned
a verdict of "wilful murder" against Emily Rider. According
to one of the witnesses, the unhappy lady is insane.
Tna FATAL COLLISION OFF FOL&STONE.—The inquiry
which was opened on Friday, at Deal, on the bodies of four of
the passengers of the ship Josephine Willis, which was run
down, on Sunday night week, by the screw steamer Manger-
ton, was resumed on Saturday morning. After a most pro-
tracted investigation, the coroner being assisted by Captain
Cannon, R.N., (late of H.M.S. Centaur,) the jury returned a
verdict of " Manslaughter" against Richard Bourchier, the
captain of the Mangerton, who, on the warrant being issued,
, was found to have left the town.

Loss OF THE STORE-SHIP SUPERB.—A wreck occurred in
the Black Sea, with serious loss of life, during the fearful
gale of the 16th of December—the store-ship Superb, of Dept-
ford, 380 tons, with stores for the army in the Crimea. The
Superb was off the coast, at Macota Bay, when the storm came
on. She broke away from her anchors, and was dashed on
some sunken rocks, and, although the cries and screams of
the helpless crew could be distinctly heard, the continuance
of the gale pretented any boat living in such a surf. The
ship broke up, and every person on board, to the number of
twenty, were drowned.
LARGE PURCHASE OF SHIPS Pen FRANCE.—On Saturday
the purchase was made, of the General Screw Steam Shipping
Company, of the Jason, Indiana, Golden Fleece, Calcutta,
Argo, Queen of the South, Hydaspes, and Lady Jocelyn,—
amounting, we hear, to nearly
£500,000. We believe this to
be the largest purchase of shipping ever made in one line, and
it ha been effected by Mr. Graham (of the firm of Maitland,
Cuthbert, and Co., of Paris), Mr. Brett (of the firm of Cunard,
Brett, and Austen, of London), and M. Beraud Villars (mana-
ger of the French Clipper Company).
PRECARIOUS SALVAGE.—The schooner Endeavour, of Yar-
mouth, reports that about eleven a.m., on Wednesday, she
saw apparently the mastheads of a vessel about four miles to
the southward of Inc'ukeith, and, on approaching, found them
to belong to a sunken schooner. The mastheads were painted
black, the name of the unfortunate vessel and the fate of her
crew have-not yet transpired; but it is added, that to the
foremastb-nd clung a Cockenzie fisherman, whom his comrades
had left at daylight to claim the wreck for salvage. The tide
was rapidly gaining on him, and our wrecker was only too
glad to escape from his highly perilous position in the Endea-
vour—the love of salvage thoroughly washed out of him.—
Glavow Mail.
GAROTTE ROBBERIES.—Another of these cowardly and
dangerous robberies, which are becoming so general about
tke metropolis was committed on Mr. Themes Bond, many
-rears collecting clerk in the establishment of Child and Co:,
'Leicester-square, who had been spending the evening on
Wednesday, with a friend at Camden-town, and returning
home, at about midnight., down Tottenham-court-road, aed
having crossed Oxford-street, into Crown•street, Soho, was
proceeding for the Haymarket, when he was suddenly seized
round the neck by a man secreted in a corner in the street,
and so tightly throttled that he was quite unable to make a
noise or offer resists ace, while two more ruffians rushed upon
him, and, having snapped his watch-guard in twe, robbed
him of his watch and 235. in silver from his trousers pocket.
There was no farther personal violence or injury, but Mr.
Bond was rendered insensible and left prostrate on the pave-
ment.

MURDER n A. CONVIM—On Friday a convict, named
Jones, No. 1,246, stabbed Mr. Charles William Hope, assistant-
surgeon on board the Stirling Castle Convict invalid hulk, in
Portsmouth Harbour. The wound was inflicted in the neck
by some sharp instrument, not discovered yet, and seems to
have divided the juoularvein, causing death in a few minutes.
The prisoner seems to have become desperate on the deceased
refusing to certify the necessity for his remaining in the lower
deck, which is a sort of invalid ward, and wreaked his ven-
geance on him in the gallery of the chapel, after leaving the
surgery when he had-Um examined. From language which
be used afterwards to Mr. Williams, the thief warder, it would
seembe intended torourder him also, as he said, "If I.could
get at :you I'd serveyou the same, you villain !" A co-
Toner's inquest on the body was adjourned.
TITLEGRAEII 'TO AUSTICALIA.—TIIC 'Genoa Corriere Mer-
vontile of the sth instant has the following :—" The Mediter-
Tatman Electric Telegraph Company, vbich is at this moment
°templed in laying down the necessary wires to unite the
island .of Sardinir. with La Calle, on the coast of Africa, intends
to establish a complete telegraphic communication between
'Europe and ,MeThourne, in Southern Australia. After opening
secondary lines between La Calle, ',Bona, Bugia, Algiers, and
'-Oran, the company proposes to run the principal lines by
Tanis, Tripoli, Alexandria, Cairo,.Suez, Jerusalem, Damascus,
-Bagdad, Buesorah, along the northern coast of the Sea of
,Oman, Hyderabad, and Bombay.,-where the line is to separate
-into twelnanches. The northern:branch will proceed directly
to Agra, whence a wire will be directed towards Lahore and
reshawur,. and thus reach within a short distance of Cabtil
and Cashmere. Froth Agra the telegraph wire will pass
through Benares and unite at Calcutta with the southern
branch, which, starting from Bombay, will pass through Ban-
-galore and Madras. From Calcutta the line will follow the
north-east •coast of the Gulf of Bengal, the peninsula of
Malacca; the Sunda islands, and' thence cross over to the north
of Australia, and, extending .along the eastern coast of that
-continent, communicate with its numerous settlements, until
it ultimately reaches Port Adelaide. The entire length of the
line-is estimated at 20,000 kilometres."

DEATU or A MISER IVICCII:e5,000 ON lIIS PERSON.--;AR
inquest was held on Saturday, at Westminster, London, on the
bodyarrederick Hoffman, aged 41. The deceased, whowas
.wellaknown in the neighbourhood for his penurious habits,
was• engaged as a waiter and-to take the hats of the company
at a. party given by M. Rothschild, a diamond merchant, of
Argyll-street, on Friday. He arrived about eight o'clock, and
performed the duties of his office, and at supper time ate' very
greedily. About' three ecleek on Saturday morning be was
seized with a kind of fit in the supper-room, and though
'medical ,assistance was immediately procured, he died in-a, few
minutes. On the body being searched, the first thing which
presented itself was some ,portions of poultry which he had
secreted during supper in his pockets, and £36 in gold and
• 21sain sliver, a Bank of England note for £lOO, a deposit book '
of the Royal British Bank for <42,225, a deposit receipt of the '
London :and Westminster Bank for £5OO, a bill of exchange
for. £15.1.-as., another for CM, a bank deposit receipt for czo,
I three parcels of pearls, three of rubies, three of diamonds, one
of rough diamonds, one of emerelds, and one of garnets. -Forty-
one- sovereigns were subsequently found in the' fob •of the
deceased's trousers. Mr. elmppel, surgeon, said he had opened
thebod,y,and, in his opinion, death had resulted from serous
• apoplexy. •M. Rothsclaild amid deceased had the precious
stones from various parties to•sell on commission. The money
he knew- nothing about He• was supposed to be so poor a
man that, some time since, a subscription was raised toesend
him into country for the benefit of his health. A verdict
of naturaladeath from serous apeplexy was returned.
CABS= PICTUREE.—Lord aPalmerston winks, night and
day—portentous fact. Whether it is because of the state'of
his elderly nerves, or because of the state of affairs, it is certain
that Henry Temple, Viscount Palmerston, is perpetually
..winking. He winks at Mr. Speaker, he winks at the Opposi-
tion, he winks at below the gangway, he winks at the cloak,
he is always winking—when he has an audience, he necessarily
.avinks at the Queen. The amount of knowingness that he
thus imprerses public life with. ie tremendous, and dub ru-
anours begin to be awful. How will the country endure the
•some-mouths uncertainty about Peace, while the Premier
,ehronically winks at the Legislature, thus throwing fresh
:feelings of doubt into the confusion ? Burleigh's nod was
:something, in its way, as a state intimation ; but Burleigh's
nod was a trifle to what Palmerston's wink is. About the
ordinary Premier, you can generally guess with some approxi-
- mate certainty. Pitt, at Bellamy's, always ordered a particu-
lar bin when he was going to suggest a new tax. Lord Liver-
aaoel used to go and walk about Covent Garden Flower
Market, afterdeaving a Cabinet Council, and the fruiterers
econld tell by his manner, in examining the bouquets, whether
Huskisson had been very obstinate, r Canning too malicious.
Peers fawn-coloured waistcoat had its• significance, like the
isTavarre white plume; it always meant mischief, and then hie
smile was twice 2S copious as ever. _Lord John gets his hair
eut.wben he is going to talk about Sydney on the scaffold, and
Hampden in the usual place. When Mr. Disraeli contemplates
a rennwkable oration, he leaves wordat the refreshment stall
in the members' vestibule to have Setters water and cherry
brandy mixed by eleven o'clock, p.m., and ready to be brought
in bythat attentivecon of a Duke, Lord Henry Lennox. But
guesses about Lord _Palmerston are over. A First Minister,
who is always winking, bewilders the oldest member past any
conjecture. When St. Vitus is in the Cabinet, the Lord Pre-
sident, only, knows what may happen. However, the English
ought to be glad that the aged Lords they select to govern
them take-to the natural relief of this excess-of activity. It is
better than paralysis. The lively wink is ;preferable to the
fixed stars.—Correspondent of the Dublin ii on-
ELECTIONS SCENIC Ar CAMERIDGE.—Mr. M. T. Baines
has been re-elected for Leeds; Mr. Labouchere, for Taunton.
Mr. George Ridley has been elected for Newcastle-upon-Tyne ;
Mr. Warren, for Midhurst ; Lord Raynharn, for Tamworth ;
Mr. Adam Black, for Edinburgh : and Mr. Martin, for Ro-
chester. On Saturday the election for Cambridge concluded
by the retirement of Mr. Denman from the contest, when the
polling stood, Walpole, 886; Denman, 419; majority, 467.
On Friday there was a riot among the Cambridge under-
graduates, in consequence of their being refused admittance to
the Senate-house. They hooted the Vice-Chancellor, and
marched up and down Trinity-street in dense masses, hooting,
• hallowing, screeching, and whistling, under the expectation
that they should have the satisfaction of " escorting the Vice-
' Chancellor to the Senate-house." About half-past seven they
• were in great force at the entrance opposite St. Mary's-passage,
where they tore down an awning that had been erected during
the day, and many of them forced their way into the enclosure.
The hour appointed for polling was half-past seven, but no
Vice-Chancellor made his appearance; and it was not until
eight o'elock that some men, who had been watchingF Trinity
gates, came tearing along, urging their comrades to whistle,
whistle." And then (says the Cambridge Chronicle) arose
a terrible yell from hundreds of voices surrounding the
entrance opposite St. Mary's-passage, at which the Vice-
Chancellor was expected to go in ; they were, however, dis-
appointed of their prey, for admittance was gained quickly and
quietly at the principal gate, on Senate-house-bill. On enter-
ing the schools, the Vice-Chancellor was greeted with
sounds both complimentary and the reverse by a dense crowd
of Masters of Arts. Whilst the polling was going on, a body
of under-graduates made an entrance into the old Court of
King's, and smashed the windows of the schools ; whereupon a
cry arose from the Masters of Arts to the effect that the under-
graduates should not have been shut out. Before the Vice-
Chancellor quitted the schools, he requested the protection of
the gentlemen present on his way home, and a body of them
responded, and formed themselves into a guard around him.
No sooner was the procession observed under the Library than
an unearthly cry arose, and when the Vice-C,hancellor merged
from the gate on Senate-house-hill he was beset by ane infuri-
ated mob, and it was with the utmost difficulty that he gained
Trinity College unharmed, notwithstanding the persevering
assistance of large numbers of members of the Senate. The
Independent says that some of the young men were captured,
• and will, no doubt, be made to suffer for this fresh breach of
University discipline."