The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-09-25 00:00:00

THE PATENT right of the " Perambulator"—fashionable
child's carriage—was sold by auction last week for £8,000;
the returns for the past year were stated by the auctioneer at
£30,000. _ _

THERE are many bankruptcies in St. Petersburg—twenty in
in one day. But, according to the government, the State
financial establishments—savings-bauks, institutions of credit,
and so on—are in a very flourishing condition.
A SCOTCH gentleman in San Francisco has organized a mili-
tary company of his fellow-countrymen, who are to be dressed
in complete Highland garb. He sends to Edinburgh for the
uniform, at a cost of $5,000.
REDUCTION IN THE PRICE OP BITTER ALES.—The Burton
ale brewers, in consequence of the satisfactory accounts from
the hop plantations, have announced a reduction of Os. a barrel
in the price of pale or bitter ale. The reduction, it is stated,
does not apply to Burton or sweet ales.
THE DEAD BODY of a respectable mechanic has been found
lying underneath St. Vincent's Rocks, near Bristol. It is
supposed that he had been drinking somewhat freely, and
having ventured too close to the edge of the rocks, missed his
footing and was precipitated to the bottom, a height of not
less than 406 or 500 feet.
THE PROPOSED CAMP AT STIRLING.—We understand that
official notice has been received by Mr. Dewar, of King's-park
farm, that it is not the intention of Government to establish a
camp at Stirling at present. Whether this be owing -to the
advanced period of the season, or the necessity for the militia
regiments being sent abroad, we are not aware; but we think
there is more likelihood of the subject being more fully entered
into next season.—Stirling Journal.
AT THE MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, John Clark, a sailor, was
convicted of stealing a coat and contents from a house near
the Commercial-road. Clark meant to steal a coat only; but
in a pocket were a hundred-pound and a fifty-pound note ;
these he sold for 100 sovereigns; £BO has been recovered.
Mr. Bodkin sentenced him to prison for eighteen months.
Had the culprit known the contents of the pocket when he
stole the coat, the sentence would have been ten years' trans-
portation.
Tan following is the list of fees which each of the. gallant
officers in the Crimea has had to pay on being nominated a
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Hon. Order of the Bath :
To the Dean of the Order, £22 6s. Bd. ; to the Genealogist,
£22 ; to the Bath King of Arms, £22 ; to the Registrar, £22 ;
to the Secretary, £22 ; to the Gentleman Usher, Z 22; to the
Messenger, £lB 13s. 4d. ; to the Bath King of Arms for the
Book of the Statutes, £0 13s. 4d. ; to the Secretary, for notice
of election, £6l3s. 4d. Total, £164 6s. Bd.
KITTEN SWALLOWED BY A COD.—A correspondent in Kirk-
wall alludes to a recent notice in our Stromness news of a
rabbit's leg being found in a ling's stomach, and adds of his
own knowledge something more wonderful, being nothing less
than the discovery of an entire kitten in the stomach of a cod
caught not long ago in Kirkwall Bay. These facts show that
fish in general are not particularly fastidious in the selection
of their food.—John o' Groat's Journal.

A Cs nrclus QUESTION of decency is pending settlement in
the Court of Justice at Calcutta, where an action has been
commenced against a commercial gentleman residing in that
city for ejecting a Baboo who made his appearance in a rail-
way carriage in that Arcadian simplicity of undress for which
the native population in Bengal are remarkable. The Baboo
claims 1,500 rupees as damages. The Mofussilite insists that
ladies shall be protected by the exclusion of half-clad native
gentlemen from the first and second-class railway carriages.
AN ACCIDENT occurred on the Paris and Versailles Railway
en Sunday, when two trains, one laden with passengers re-
turning from Versailles, the other loaded with luggage, going
out of Paris, dashed tcg,ether near the Paris station. The
consequence was, that at least nine persons, including five
children, were killed, and seventeen persons badly wounded..
The legs of two young girls, sisters, were cut clean off; and
the body of a man was found with both legs cut ofF, and a
childs tilled by the death embrace in his arms.
LITERARY 'OCRIOSITY.—The Fife Herald says We
have just received, from a friend in China, a copy of the "Pil-
grim's Progress," translated into Chinese by W. C. Burns,
missionary of the English Presbyterians at Amoy." It is
something near the size of 'demy Bvo., about half an inch
thick, and nicely printed on smooth yellow paper, manufac-
tured from rice straw. It is embellished by a number of illus.
trations,a-cmarkably well executed ; the figures and faces are
quite Chinese. It is not printed with types, but each page is
engraved on wooden blocks, which come toiform a cheap and
convenient stereotype. The book costs about 4d. per copy."
HYLHOPHODIA.—On Sunday week, a shepherd's dog be-
longing to Mr. Edward Kenward, of &acted, went mad. It
had `been bitten about five weeks previously, in a hayfield,
by e, strange dog; but uo symptoms of hydrophobia had
shown themselves until Saturday, on which day it bit the cattle
and-sheep it was•tentiing more severely than usual, and-sceraed
savage. On Sunday it bit Mr. Kenward's son, a young man
17 "years of age; it also bit three cows, two yearlings, •and
three pigs. Mr. Renward has received some medicine from
Mr. Killick, of Groom-bridge, for his son, also for the cattle,
atnd so far all'has gone well.—Sussex Express.
STRANGE 'PAVIC.—The Courier de la Vienne states that
I:last week, at the fair at Ballac, an extraordinary panic sud-
denly took possession of all the oxen, which, with the rapidity
of a flash of lightning, overturned the barriers and took to
flight in all directions, knocking down every person in their
way. The fair, which a few moments before 'was covered
.with numerous beasts standing perfectly quiet, suddenly
assumed somewhat the appearance of a field of 'battle, people
wounded, and unfornanately -some killed, lying about in all
'directions. The number of the former is said to be from 60
to-70, and of the latter 3or 4.
FIVE HUNDRED HUSIIAMS Waairnn.—'Last week, at the
Halifax Borough Court, John Thomas, a sawyer, was charged
by Mr. Jennings, relieving officer, with having left his wife
and family chargeable to the union. The relief given had
been after the rate of •7s. 6d. per week. The --officer pressed
for a eocviction on the ground that there were no fewer than
500 deserted wives within the Bradford union, with 1,017
children, involving an annual expenditure in relief of nearly
£20,000. Mr. Cheeseborough (one of the magistrates) ex-
pressed his regret to hear-this, and said it-showed a very low
state of morals. The defendant was allowed a week to repay
the amount of relief which had been given to his family.
.TFFE CHOLERA. IN ASIA. MlNon.—Letters from Constan-
. tinople of the 6th of September announce an outbreak of
cholera in Asia Minor, extending over the -fertile districts of
Samsoon, Bafra, Djanik, and all the villages in the back
country, including Marzavan and Yusgat, as far as Tocat, in
one direction, and Erzeroum in the other. Murrain among
cattle is also ravaging at Samsoon, Sinope, Alatcham, Alad-
, jan, Kopnj, Cavak, and Trebizond. The contractors for the
and forces are suffering heavy losses from the disease, and
particularly in the oxen destined for the 'French, which are
not so strong as' those purchased for 'British account. At
Samsoon and its immediate environs as many as 1,500 car-
'cases of oxen, sheep, and horses are rotting where they
happen to have fallen -emitting the most disagreeable stench,
-and so poisonous ia fallen,'
air that bubonic diseases, resembling '
plague, are manfesting themselves, the only scavengers being
' the jackals, dogs, vultures, and crows. 'Khan Yazy is the
very centre of putrefaction.
A FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT took place at the East India
:Company's warehouse, Hart-street, London, on Monday. A
• man, named James • Dixon, was painting some stone-work at
the top of the warehouse, seventy feet high, when he was
seized with a fit, the board on which he was sitting broke
'and he was suspended in the air by the leg, which got entangled
with the frame-work. He remained in this frightful position
for the space of twerityffive minutes, the blood rushing out of
his nose and ears. !Bundles of straw and sheeting were
placed beneath to•catch him, should he fall; the royal fire-
escapes were sent for torescuehim from his perilous situation,
but were found to be. too short. Hundreds -of persons ran in
all directions to witness the scene, and the thoroughfare was
completely blocked up, and large bodies of police were sent for to
.keep the crowd back. At last a captain of. a vessel passing,
aahoed for a rope, ascended-to the top Of the building, made a
running noose knot, let'it down the poor fellow's arm, and,
amid the breathless anxiety of thousands,:pulled him up in a
-state of insensibilty. He remains in a most precarious state.
AN UNEXPECTED Fa:usu.—Speaking •of the tendency of
temperance orators to set forward themselves as previous ex-
amples of the blighting .erects of drink, the London corres-
.pondent of the Inverness _Advertiser says.:—" This predilec-
tion -was smartly satirized the other evening at .a temperance
meeting. A person in the lan got up and said, My friends,
three months ago I signed the pledge. (Clapping of hands
and approving cheers.) In.a. month.afterwards, my friends, I
.had aeovereign in my pocketa thing I never had before.
(Clapping and loud cheers.) In another month, my friends,
I. had:a good coat on my back—a thing I never had before.
(Cheers and clapping much lender.) A fortnight after that,
my friends, I bought a coffin: The audience was going to
cheer here, but stopped and looked serious. You wonder,'
continued the lecturer, ' why I bought a .coffin. Well, my
friends, thought the coffin because I felt pretty-certain that
if I kept the pledge another fortnight I should want one.' 7.,
A TIP:PRES-EY CHIMPANZEE.--On Monday, the residenters
in -the neighbourhoood of Drygate, Glasgow, were aroused
from their propriety at seeing a brown,coloured creature, ap-
' .parently of-the ottrang-ou tang species, nearly six feet in height,
gambolling mischievously through the streets, stark naked,
and uttering a.kind of wild Tipperary howl, or war-whoop,
and fastening upon passengers. People werein a quandary as
,to what the creature was ; and some were :disposed to regard
it as.one of the zoological specimens intended for exhibition
during the sitting of the British Association, which had con-
trived to elude the vigilance of its keepers. At length a
crowd of bold men .closed in upon the animal ; and one of
them, with more penetration than the rest, recognised in this
wild man astartled Irish cobbler, named Moore. Having got
him into a sack, he was conveyed by the police eonstab!es to
safe keeping, in North Albion-street. On Tuesday, Moore was
charged before Bailie Gilmour, at the Central Pollee Court,
with having been drunk and disorderly, and having struck a
weaver. The magistrate had doubts as to the prisoner's sanity ;
but it appeared from the statement of his wife, the mother of
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claimed denropproof-
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whiskey
found. The assault was proved, but the bailie sympathised
with Moore's wife and children, and having given him a severe
reprimand, imposed a mitigated penalty of half-a-guinea.
THE USE or HELIGOLAND.—At the foot of Denmark, out
in the North Sea, in front of the mouths of the rivers Elbe
and Weser, facing Cuxhaven, in Hanover, and also command-
ing the island of Neuwerk, is another little island, called by
us Heligoland (Helgoland by the Germans.) Britannia has
struck her trident on the isle of Heligoland, and hoisted the
union jack on the top, to give notice to all whom it may
concern that here is a depot for the Foreign Legion which the
English Government is raising in Germany, to help us and our
real allies in the Crimea. Look at the map of Europe ; there
is a spice of humour in the choice of the spot. The advantages
which it offers for the purpose are quite out of the common
way. In time of peace Heligoland is an advanced sentinel,
who can constantly keep her eye open on what is passing in
the north of Germany. In war she is a little Gibraltar, from
which, as a centre, Britannia can send her cruisers to wander
about, her scouts to spy, and even her smugglers to trade. At
all times, therefore, in spite of its tightness and exiguity, Heli-
goland is-by no means to be sneered at as a possession of im-
portance to the United Kingdom, being a sort of outstretched
snail's eye, which allows us to watch whatever is in the wind
on the North German coast at the mouths of its two main
commercial arteries—Holstein and Holland. According to
the reports of the Government agents from all quarters,
notwithstanding the covert repugnance of some Governments
re-
cruiting for the Foreign Legion goes on most satisfactorily,
and the open hostility of others. Great numbers of recruits
are constantly arriving at the Heligoland depot, where a con-
siderable number are still being trained and organized, and
where they are behaving themselves so well that the fashion-
able world of the Hanse Towns, although a little frightened at
first, are again flocking to their favourite dot in the ceean for
their annual sea-dips in it,-1-Household Words,

JULIUS CRELECICI, a Russian commissariat officer, has
"bolted" from Simpheropol with 160,000 silver roubles, and a
false passport. He is advertised in the Silesian Hue and cry.

THE HANGO MASSACRE.-Dr. Easton, surgeon, R.N., and
Mr. Sullivan, Master's-Assistant, who were captured in the
Cossack's boat at Hango, were exchanged at Odessa on the
18th inst.

THE SPECIE ARRIVALS of the week, including those on
Saturday from Australia, have amounted to £1,300,000. The
exports have included £530,000 to India, Egypt, &c., besides
large sums to other parts for grain purchases, war expenses,
&c., the totals of which are unknown.
ABERDEEN RAILWAY.—From the report of the directors
of this company, we find that the gross receipts for the half-
year ending the 31st of July were £56,992, and the expendi-
ture £26,994, showing a balance of R 29,998 to meet £13,351
interest on debentures, and £6,047 Arbroath and Forfar rent
—together £l9,399—leaving a free surplus of £10,600, the
total disposable sum being £10,851. A dividend on the 6
per cent. preference stock (28,3000 will be payable on the
11th November, leaving a balance of £2,551 for the next
account. At the half-yearly meeting held on Wednesday, in
London, a dividend of 6 per cent. was declared, payable Nov.
12th, and the arrangements proposed by the directors for
amalgamating with the Midland Railway of Scotland were
adopted.

A MEETING AT SEA.—Amongst the passengers by the
Tamar, which arrived with the West India Mail on Tuesday,
was a gentleman from Australia who had come home by way
of Panama, and did not know' when he left Australia, by what
ship he should reach England, as he could not get on board
an English steamer before reaching St. Thomas in the West
Indies. This gentleman parted with an intimate friend in
Australia who was about to proceed to England by way of the
Cape, in the sailing ship Washington Irving. In the Atlantic
Ocean, the Tamar, from St. Thomas, spoke the ship Washing-
ton Irving, 80 days out, and the two Australian friends recog-
nised each other and exchanged momentary salutations from
the rigging of their respective ships. Thus, after a separation
of three months, and traversing one half of the globe in diffe-
rent directions, they met in the ocean desert. -The Washing-
ton Irving passenger had laid a wager with his friend that he
would reach England first, and has lost.
Trin HARVEST IN DEVONSHIRE.—There are few districts
in Devonshire in which the harvest is not now completed ;
and the accounts from almost every quarter are of the same
satisfactory nature. The grain crops generally have been
exceedingly good, and, on the whole, above the average. The
wheat crop varied somewhat in different localities, but except
in a few instances there has been little cause for complaint.
Smut made its appearance here and there, but it did not extend
far, and consequently caused little injury. On the whole the
yield was large, and the grain exceedingly good. Barley and
oats have also been a good crop, though there have been more
variations than in wheat. Potatoes are nnfortnnately affected
with the disease, though not to such an extent as has been
generally reported. Still there is no denying that it does
exist, and it has already had the effect of raising the price.
The crop of apples, to which great attention is paid in Devon-
shire, is, generally speaking, much below the average, the
orchards in many places having scarcely any fruit on the trees.
MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.—On Wednesday morning, a woman,
about 18 years of age, very neat and clean in her person, and
who gave the name of Fanny Elliott a few minutes before her
death, was brought to Charing-cross Hospital, London, by
two police-officers, in a frightfully-mutilated condition. It
appeared from the statement of one of the constables that, as
he was standing on the Waterloo-bridge, he heard a bumping
.as of some soft heavy substance striking against fheabutments
of the bridge, and terminating in a loud splash into the water.
Assistance was procured, and in a very few minutes the de-
ceased was discovered under the fourth arch from the Surrey
side, but not under water. She was forthwith conveyed with
all possible care to the above hospital. Upon the surgeon
examining her he was greatly surprised to find that she was
bleeding profusely from several large wounds on various parts
of the body, some of which presented the appearance of having
been caused by impalement. This was the more singular, as
there are no spikes or other instruments to produce such
injuries on any part of the bridge. A short time before she
expired, her senses returned, and upon some questions relative
to her position being put to her, she resolutely declined all
communication, further than that her name was Fanny
Elliott, but would not say where she lived. After life had
become extinct, the body was examined more minutely, when
it was discovered that several ribs had been fractured, the
breast-bone broken in, and the fleshy part of the lower portion
of the body torn away, besides a large hole in the ancle.
FEARFUL BOILER Exixosiosr.—An inquest was held at
Kibblesworth colliery, near Lamsley, in the county of Durham,
on Friday, on the body of John Bewley, an engine-tender, who
was killed by a fearful boiler explosion which took place at
that pit on Wednesday. The explosion happened at 8 o'clock
in the morning, and at first it was thought the pit had fired,
but on the smoke clearing away the nature of the accident was
ascertained. It appears that Bewley was intrusted to take
care of the boilers at bank, and finding, as it is alleged, some-
thing wrong in boiler No. 2, he had proceeded to examine it,
and while standing on the top of it„ it had exploded with terrific
force, carrying the unfortunate man high into the air and
hurling him a distance of 200 yards from the pit. One of the
banksmen was blown over the bank a considerable
distance, and a breaksman was thrown- into the engine-
house. Three firemen were very severely scalded,
while several workmen were more or less injured. The
body of the boiler opened out like a fan at the time of the
explosion, and was carried over the engine-house and landed
in an adjoining field. One end of the boiler was likewise hurled
over the bank, and the other within a few yards beyond
where the body. of Bewley was found. The body of Bew-
ley was not much disfigured, but from the deep indentation
made in the soil in the spot where it fell, it was evident he
must have been blown a great height into the air. The boiler,
weighing between two and three tons, was blown upwards of
100 yards from the place where the explosion occurred.
Four men are very badly scalded, but hopes are entertained
that they will recover. It did not transpire at the inquest,
which is adjourned, how the explosion was occasioned, but it
is supposed that Bewley, finding that the boiler WAS short of
water, had attempted to hastily supply it, and had thus caused
the explosion.
RUSSIAN PRIZES.—A return was issued from the Parlia-
mentary Paper-office, on Saturday, of all vessels captured
during the present war, against which proceedings have been
taken in the Court of. Admiralty; with the names, tonnage,
cargo, and colours ; by whom captured, and when ; the grounds
of capture; and the particulars of proceedings and amount, of
proceeds. It includes 135 vessels, mostly of small burden,
none exceeding 600 tons, and very few approaching that ton-
nage. Nearly half of the prizes were sailing under Russian
colours at the time of capture ; of those under neutral flags, 27
showed that of Denmark, but we find in the list Swedish,
Norwegian, Dutch, Hanoverian, Hamburg, Lubeck, Mecklen-
burg, Oldenburg, Prussian, Austrian, Moldavian, Tuscan,
lonian, Greek, and Monte Videan. Two vessels were captured
under British colours. Most of them were taken by cruisers
of the British squadron in the Baltic, but a few were seized in
British ports, three instances of this kind having occurred in
the port of Liverpool. These were the Christian, a small vessel
under Lubeck colours, and without cargo, seized on the 11th
August, 1854; the Rapida, 399 tons, laden with tallow and
bones, under the flag of Monte Video, seized 2nd November ;
and the. Helsingoer, seized 28th June last, under Danish
colours, with a cargo of wheat, beans, and cotton. The gross
proceeds of the captured vessels and their cargoes is not yet
fully ascertained, but the amount must be considerable. In
some cases the cargo, being evidently neutral or British
property, has not been detained; and in others a portion of
the cargo has been restored to the claimants, sometimes on
the ground of its being the private venture of the master,
at others on being shown not to be Russian property. It
has sometimes happened, too, that a prize has been released by
order of the lords of the admiralty, in virtue of the right which
the crown reserves to itself of restoring any prize, up to the
final adjudication. No portion of the proceeds is distributed
until after the accounts have been taxed and allowed by the
admiralty registrar, when the balance remaining after payment
of expenses is distributed amongst the captors through the
prize department of the admiralty at Somerset-house.
WAR ANNIVERSARIES.—September is distinguished for
being associated with many a great battle and commander.
On the Bth, we had the anniversary of Oliver Cromwell's
death, recalling to our memories the civil warfare of the 17th
century, and the deeds of blood under the protectorate. On
the 6th, the capture of Malta (1800). On the 11th, the battle
of Stirling (1297). On the 12th, the death of Prince Blucher,
one of the Waterloo heroes (1819). On the 13th, the killing
of General Wolfe (1759). On the 14th, the landing in the
Crimea of the allies engaged in the present warfare. On the
15th, the taking of Cadiz (1596). On the 17th, the siege of
Gibraltar (1782). On the 18th, the bombardment of Messina
(1848). Wednesday, the battle of Poictiers (1356), and Thurs-
day, the battle of the Alma. We may add that the 7th was
the anniversary of the bloody battle of Borodino, in 1812, and
of the great battle of Konlikoff, 436 years before, which was
fought between Dinitric, the Russian grand prince, and the
Tartars, in which the former, for the first time, obtained a
glorious, but, as it proved in the end, fruitless triumph over
their merciless oppressors. Moscow was, both after Konlikoff
and Borodino, taken and burned. The forces on both sides at
the latter battle, in 1812, were nearly equal, but the French.
had a vast superiority in cavalry, and in the quality of part of
their troops. We are told by the historian Alison, that the
Russian force was 132,000, with 640 pieces of artillery ; but of
these, 10,000 were militia, from Smolensko and Moscow, who
had never seen service, and 7000 were Cossacks ; so that for
the shock of battle they could only count 115,000. The
French force consisted of 133,000, of whom 30,000 were
cavalry, and they brought into the field 590 pieces of cannon.
By this battle the Russians had to lament the loss of one of
their bravest and ablest generals, Prince Bagrathion, who died
of his wounds ; and of Generals Kaitaikoff and Touczkoff
killed, and 30 generals of inferior rank wounded. 16,000
killed, 30,000 wounded, and 2000 prisoners, presented a total
loss of nearly 50,000 men. On the French side, besides
Generals Montbrun and Caulaincourt, and many others killed,
30 generals were wounded ; and the total loss was 12,000
killed and 38,000 wounded. The trophies of victory were
equally divided; the Russians took 10 pieces of cannon from
their enemies, who could boast of 13 captured from them.
BIRMINGHAM InoLs.—Non olet, is the principle of free
trade, no less than of the Roman Emperor. What signifies it
by what means money is made, so it is made. So think the
Birmingham manufacturers who supply the Hindoo market
with idols. Who would have supposed that from the heart of
a Christian country such an advertisement as the following,—
retranslated into English from the Hindoostani,—could be
sent forth ? We copy it literally :—" Yamen (god of death,)
in fine copper ; very tasteful. Nirondi (king of the demons,)
in great variety; the giant he rides is of the boldest design,
and his sabre of the present style. Varonnin (god of the sun)
very spirited ; his crocodile in brass, and whip in silver.
Couberen (god of wealth ;) this god is of the most exquisite
workmanship, having stimulated the best powers of the manu-
facturers. Smaller demi-gods and minor demons in every
variety. No credit, and discount allowed for ready money."
We wish we could believe that the whole was no more than a
clever hoax; but we fear it is but too true. There is a sound
of reality about the business-like addition "no credit, and dis-
count for ready money," which painfully accredits the "very
tasteful god of' death," and the very spirited god of the sun,
with crocodile in brass and whip in silver." As for Couberen,
the god of wealth, he naturally bears away the palm. Who
doubts that he "stimulated the best powers of the manufac-
turers ?" He is worshipped by the people of Birmingham
every whit as fervently as by the devotees on the banks of the
Indus and the Ganges ; they have just put up his statue "of
exquisite workmanship," in their market-place ; and it would
have been well for the sculptor if he had gone on their own
principle of "no credit." As it is, the Peel statue exhibits the
ruling passion strong in death ; it is a standing memorial of
broken promises. Mr. Hollins, the artist, who made the statue,
and is left to pay for it himself, is after all no worse off than
the British people who made the man, the living idol, and who
found in the end that he left them to pay for their whistle at
A pretty omart price,—John Bull.