The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-07-24 00:00:00

ON WEDNESDAY evening an omnibus returning heavily
laden from Chatsworth to Rowsley was upset. The Rev. S.
Sunderland, vicar of Penistone, Yorkshire, was pitched off
and received so severe a concussion that he died immediately
afterwards. A Manchester surgeon was severely injured.
NEWS EITRAORDINARY.—We find the following absurd
paragraph in the Boston (U.S.) Puritan Recorder:—" Queen
Victoria's State coach is bullet-proof, and the glass of the
windows is six inches thick (!) When George IV. was fired
at, the glass was only broken by the ball. In this coach Louis
Napoleon proceeded on his late visit to the Guildhall, to receive
the address of the Corporation of London."
CASE OF STRAHAN AND Co.—The prisoners were again
brought up at Bow-street, on Wednesday. The counsel for
the prosecution stated that the books of the firm were under-
going a laborious investigation, which would take some time.
He asked for a further remand. No opposition being offered,
the case was, pro forma", remanded till to-morrow, Wednesday,
with an understanding that proceedings would not be renewed
till August Ist.
NEWSPAPER " OBITUARY."—We announced last week the
demise of two penny daily newspapers in Manchester, which
died in early infancy from want of adequate nourishment.
Since that time two other penny journals have given up the
ghost, namely, the Leeds and Yorkshire Daily Express and
the Newcastle Courier. The former was the offspring of the
Leeds Times, and it expired on Monday, aged 14 days, of
actual starvation.
SUPPORTING THE PRESS.—When advocating the repeal of
the stamp on newspapers, we have repeatedly stated that one
effect would be a great increase in the number of readers. As
a proof of this we give the following as furnished by a corres-
pondent :—" Four gentlemen holding respectable situations in
this town, who had not previously supported any paper, now
purchase jointly a penny daily paper the day after publication,
at half-price!" Such an instance of liberal support ought to
he made public.—Preston 'Guardian.
CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.—An allotment of estates
took place on Thursday at the offices of the society in Norfolk-
street, when the Hounslow property was offered, and taken
long before the list of rights was gone through, several mem-
bers being disappointed in obtaining plots on this valuable es-
tate. The Round Hill Park estate, Brighton, was offered at
the same time, and-all the leased lots and a considerable num-
ber of others taken, as well as lots on the Reading, West Mal-
vern, and Weybridge estates; making a total sale of land of
upwards of £5,000.
THE CommtsSIONERS appointed'to inquire into the conduct
of the police during the late riots in Hyde-park, held their
first sitting on Tuesday in the Court of Exchequer, at West-
minster, and are still daily taking the evidence offered by
any parties who have complaints to urge against the conduct
of the police. Many witnesses have bean already heard, and
the testimony given seems to prove. that many an individual
policeman acted with great brutality on that occasion ; but
the chief blame seems to centre upon Inspector Hughes, who
appears to have acted throughout 'under feelings of intense
exasperation, and to have not only encouraged, but ordered
the worst proceedings among the corps of constables under
higeommand. The inquiry is still proceeding.
GROSS CRUELTY.—At Lambeth, on Wednesday, Thomas
Ilickley was charged with revolting and systematic cruelty to
his wife, whom he had been in the habit of tying up, and
beating with a rope. In the •tourse of some monstrous dis-
closures the man averred that, on the preceding. night, his
wife had suffocated her child,Nwhile in a state-of intoxication.
Witnesses. who deposed to Laving seen the wife with blood
gushing from her ears in consequence of theprisoner's violent
blows, gave their opinion that the wife, being deprived 'for a
long time of common necessaries, and being almost worn out
with the prisoner's treatment, had slept =heavily and uncon-
sciously pressed her baby to her so closely as to cause its
death. The prisoner was sentenced to -three months' hard
labour. On Thursday an inquest was held on the body of the
-child, and a verdict of accidental death returned.
- CONFERENCE AT BIRmINGHAEL—The first Of VsetieS of
meetings or conferences in connection with foreign subjects,
proposed to be held in Birmingham, commenced on Tuesday.
A letter from the Earl of Malmesbury to the chalzman was
read, in which hiS. lordship states his inability to Attend, but,
in compliance -With a request, furnishes some useful informa-
tion respecting the 'Danish succession. "It is not true," says
the noble lord,'" that the succession is secured to Russia by
the treaty of May, 1852. There arc now four male heirs to
the Crown of Denmark alive. The treaty prescribes that if
their extinction •should become imminent, the high con-
tracting parties, namely, Austria, Prussia, Russia, England,
France, and Sweden, shall engage to take into consideration
any further proposition made to them by the King of Den-
mark for securing the succession on the principle of the inte-
grity of the Danish Monarchs. Should this remote contin
gency occur, the 'contracting powers would, therefore, meet
again to settle the Danish succession."

EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVNRY OF A COR:PLE IN LONDON.—
Rumours have been in circulation in Fulham during the last
two or threedays that a murder has been committed in the
neighbourhood and the body disposed of by placing it in .a
steam-engine. It appears that on Sunday last, about half-
past one in the morning, John Oakley, a workman at the
Imperial Gas Works, Fulham, while examining a steam-engine
on the premises, fancied he perceived alarge bundle, but, upon
closer inspection, he found that it was a female dreadfully
mutilated. 'She was immediately extricated, and conveyed
to St. George's Hospital, where she expired a few hours after-
wards, having remained insensible to the time of her death.
The part of the works where the deceased was found is always
secured at night, and no -one is allowed to remain there but
persons employed by the company. It has been ascertained
that the deceased was a married woman, named Celia Elisa-
beth Bateman, aged about 28, and that during Saturday-night
she was missed from home by her family. The police have
hitherto been unable to elicit anything as to when the deceased
was last seen alive, or in whose company she was on the
Saturday night. The inquest will be postponed for .a few
days for the purpose of making inquiries preliminary to,a -full
investigation ,of the whole affair.—Daily News.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE BALTIC.

BY the United States mail steamship Baltic, Captain
Comstock, which arrived on Sunday morning, we have in-
telligence from. New York to the 11th instant. She brought
243 passengers, and $968,036 in specie.
On Saturday evening, during a thick fog, the Baltic came
into collision with -the schooner. Sarah Ann, from Bangor for
Bristol, with slates. As the schooner was supposed to be in a
sinking condition, the master and crew were taken on board
the Baltic and landed here.
The United States mail -steamship Pacific, hence on the
30th ult., arrived at. New York, at six a.m., on the 11th inst.
The United States steamship Herman, from Southampton,
arrived at New York on the morning of the sth instant.
The fourth of July had been celebrated throughout the
United States with the usual enthusiasm. A great many
,casualties had occurred through the use of fire arms.
Captain James Smith, who was tried and founctguilty in
the linked States Circuit Court of trafficking in slaves, had been
sentenced by Judge Ingersoll -to pay a fine of $l,OOO, and to
be imprisoned for twenty-one months.
It is reported that the Robbins and Lawrence Company, at
Windsor, on the Connecticut river, have a contract with the
British government for machinery for making arms to the
amount of $lOO,OOO, and another, with individuals, f0r25,000
Millie rifles.
The Prohibitory Liquor Law went into operation on the
4th instant. The effect of it, from a clause in the bill, was
that, instead of being an act .of absolute prohibition of the
retail liquor business, it was an act of absolute free trade. In
New Hampshire, the House of Representatives had passed a
bill for this purpose by an overwhelming majority.
A convention of country bankers had met in Syracuse for
the purpose of establishing a bank of mutual redemption.
About fifty-six banks were represented. A committee of ten
were appointed to examine the different plans submitted, and
to report the most feasible scheme to the convention.
President Pierce had returned to Washington. In political
circles the:Spanish question, which had been revived in the
State Department by a speech of Mr.-Jefferson Davis, in Mis-
sissippi, was the all-engrossing one.
Several Germans had published a petition to the President,
in which they state that they were enticed away by British
recruiting agents in Nova Scotia, under pretence of obtaining
work. - When -they arrived there, that an offer was made to
them to enlist in the Foreign Legion destined to serve in the
-Crimea, and upon giving.a refusal they were imprisoned, under
;military control, at Melville Island, where they are now, de-
prived of their liberty. They ask the intervention of the execn-
Ave, as many-of them have families in New York. =
lastlionzzu.---By the arrival at New York of the steam
ship Northern Sight, with $828,972 in gold dust, and the
_steam-ship Illinois from Aspinwall, with $839,613 in gold
dust, advices have been received from California to the 16th
June. The prosperous mining town of Auburn had been
almost entirely swept away by fire. The loss was estimated
at £259,000. A fire hadalso occurred at San Francisco, which
destroyed property to the amount of $45,000. The mines are-
represented as yielding plenty of gold to the diggers in every:
Part of the state, and all classes of miners are doing better
than they have ever done in any period in California. Busi-
ness was far from being brisk or prosperous ; but in conse-
quence of the repbrted prosperity of the mines, abetter feeling
prevailed among the merchants. The Board of United States
Land Commissioners had confirmed the claims of James R.
Bolton, which embraces thirteen thousand five hundred acres
of land in the most eligible part of San Francisco, estimated
to be worth forty millions of dollars.
From Mexico we learn that Santa Anna and the whole of
the capital were in A state of gloom. One writer surmises
the speedy fall of the dictator. Twenty-three persons had
been drowned in the harbour of Mazatlan during the late
gale,- and the English shipping in port had suffered very
severely. Six merchant vessels, with cargoes valued at over
$1,000,000, were totally destroyed, and twenty-three men
drowned. The names of the vessels are—The British ship
Benjamin Elkin, from Liverpool, with a return cargo of iron
and copper : two of the crew drowned ; the English barque
John Patchett, loaded with dry goods ; the English barque
Tartar, with a full cargo, from Europe; the French ship
Monette, vessel and crew total loss, with a return cargo
of mother-of-pearl, dyewood, . and skins ; the Peruvian
brig Miguel, from Guayaquil, with a cargo of- liquors,
not Insured ; and the American schooner Copeland, in
ballast. It was reported that an American clipper of
1,500 tons burthen had foundered in the port of Ignula. Ad-
vices from Brownsville (Texas), dated 24th of June, confirm
the report-that the revolution against Santa Anna had become
truly formidable, and it was confidently expected that his re-
sources could not long uphold him against the efforts for libe-
ration which were commenced in Monterey. The Government
troops stationed in Mier and Guerrero had abandoned both
places to General Carvojal, who had crossed over from Texas
and was followed by General Garza and other leaders. Major
Potter, commanding at Fort Brown, had made an unsuccessful
effort to capture some of the insurgents. Two thousand men
had been left to garrison Monterey, and a detachment was
sent out to occupy the mountain passes and attack any of the
Government -troops they could find near. Cardena, one of
Santa Anna's commanders, had broken his parole, and asso-
ciated himself with the Seminole thief "Wild Cat." General
Woll stilt resided at Matamoros. It was rumoured that Tam-
pico had revolted against the dictator.
From Central America we learn that affairs still continual
in a disordered state. Colonel Walker and his party from
San Francisco landed at Realejo, and, after an interview with
the commander of the Castellon forces, who added 200 men to
his force, it is stated that on the following night he took San
Juan del Sur without resistance. Another report states that
Colonel Walker bad been defeated. The British ship-of-war
Buzzard was at San Juan or Greytown, protecting the Mos-
quito flag,
At Belize the local trade was dull, but large shipments of
indigo and cochineal had taken place, and the reports from
the interior were satisfactory.
Nicaragua correspondence from Virgin Bay, on. 14th of
June, states that bat of the City of Granada was ul ruins,