The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-12-25 00:00:00

GENERAL INEeLLIGENCE.

THERE are 10,000 English militia in Ireland, and before the
Ist January 5,000 Irish militia will be in England.
CANADA produces such a supply of isinglass as may com-
pensate for the loss of the Russian imports.
SEVERITY or THE WEATHER.—So intense was the
weather on Tuesday night, that the works of the great clock
at St. Paul's were frozen. The clock is consequently stopped.
THE Duke of Argyll has decided to send out immediate in-
structions to the officers of the army post-office in the East, to
open money-order offices for the transmission of money to the
UnitedKingdom,at Constantinople, Scutari, the head-quarters
of the army, and at Balaklava.
A WOMAN has been fined ss. at Leeds, for a novel descrip-
tion of theft. She was in the habit of going from cart to cart
in the market, " sampling" potatoe and apples, and contrived
to make away with an apple and a potato from each lot she
visited, so that on completing her morning's round she had a
very heavy basketful of fruit and vegetables.
A HORRIBLE MURDER has been committed at Dresden. An
old sergeant in the army, named Jauckus, killed his wife and
two children, aged nine and two and a-half years, by stabbing
them with a poignard knife. Drunkenness and jealousy are
said to have been the cause of the act. The murderer, after
committing the crime, went to bed and slept soundly till the
morning, when he was arrested.
THE CURRAGH ENCAMPMENT.—Lord Seaton, the Com-
mander of the Forces iu Ireland, has arrived in Dublin, from
the camp at the Curragh, the severity of the weather having
forced his lordship to discontinue his field days until'the en-
suing spring, when it is his intention to open the season by
a conrse of practice in artillery and Minie rifles.
THE REV. DAVID BROWN ?Amor, minister of St. Matthew's,
St. George's-in-the-East, London, having petitioned the Insol-
vent Court under the Protection Act, it appeared at the hear-
ing of the case last week, that the insolvent's income, which
was now about £3OO a year, had been as low as £6O, en which
he had had to support 'a wife and seven children, ‘ef whom
two daughters are still living. Mr. Commistioner Phillips
said he deeply felt for the underpaid working clergy, laying
an emphasis on the void "working." Protect:kayos granted.
THE Carßoni ISLANDS.—Accounts from the Chincha
Islands announce 'that Pisco had been =deg, port of entry.
This will effect a 'considerable saving of tine—say one month
—in the voyage of vessels loading guano. There is now no
necessity for them to proceed to Callao 'for license and for
clearing papers.—Shipping Gazette.
THR Cifirk VP DR. VAUGHAN.—The 'indictment against
the Rev. I:Yr. Vaughan, which stood for trial at the Central
.

Criminal Court, on Thursday, hasbeen removed by certiorari
into thel-Court of Queen's Bench, .apPlication being made to a
judge Itt.Chambers for that purpose onlbehalf of Dr. Vaughan,
when gn order was made for the issue.
Tirt'shock of earthquake which was lately felt in the Pyre-
tees.produced a strange effect in the commune of Gencrest, at
the Oathern extremity of a smali valley, about four miles
from Montregeau. This valley 'was crossed by a rivulet
Whkh was abundant enough to 'work two flour mills erected
in the village. A very sbottiline after the shock the'rivalet
'ceased to flow, and the bed.ofahas since remainedperfettls
4;7,
GRIM AND JENNIE AND.—The two greateSt I=u
-'artistes in the world are .at thislnoment residing within-
Abors of each other—jenny !Lind at the Bedford Hotel, and
-Grisi in a mansion dose to %her, where the latter villl-remain
till after her conSnetaent,lthe accouchement of ." Ike Diva"
being daily expected. Ilaatio returned to Biighton from
Paris on Saturday last, and' is still here.—BrightodOhazette,
Ax UNFoarrs..am BAI.R.—Tbe North .of England Joint
Stock Bank which .stopped payment in New'ca'stle in the
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early part of 1847, and ther.'affairs of which save iince been in
course of settlement 'wider the Winding-up Act, has now
nearly reacbedthe'end of that process. The Molter of the
Rolls, on 3lonliay, orderid a further return of £.5 per share,
in addition 'to three.sereral calls of £3O, e„l5, mid alb, to be
paid by suelpof the.tontiqbutories as hart not elitared into any
compromise.

THE 'Amu Wakley, the coroner,-stated; atan
inquest helVast,week?that his belief, and fliatof a number
of his prefesSionorss,lhat the Emperor Niell6las committed
suicide. " ilisdeatlt-was put down to paralisis of the lungs
and brondlitis, tvihfch, according to etelyptriNlms described,
was known bylus' medical men to have been Impossible. The
official documentidescribing the Emperm4weleath, stated that
at the last he looktgeave of his fatality %Atli a firm voice-.-a
proceeding physical ly impossible if he was-suffering from the
disease Stated.in theoertificate of death."
PUBLIC APPOMTAIENTs AS i Raw OF Mnarr.—At
the meeting of the Huddersfield Mechanics' Institution last
week, presided over 'by the Dean of Hertford, the chairman
read alletter from 'Mr. John - Wood, 'Chairman-of-the Inland
RerenueComraiision, authorising the Dean to offer, as a prize
to be competed lor in the Huddereld Multiplies' Institution_
a siturtEon in the :inland revenue, Wlifeh the chairman wOl
cadlims el f ready to provide yearly--Malka es te r Guardian--
IIanmun,COISIMES' RAILWAY---,The,:mremony of cutting
the ifirst sod of This railway was dutppuformed at Heiham,
on Tuesday. ThOline commences at about a mile from HeK-
bam,,Where it irilljjoin the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway.;
it croeses the river, and taking the valley of North Tyne by
Waik, Redesmontb, Hareshaw Ironworks, Bellingham, and
Valstene, terminals in a valuable mineral district, called the
Plaithetts.
Er Irr-nre.c GOMPANY.—ne ,quxterly meeting of this
company, was held in Leadenhall-street, on Wednesday, when
sanction for tanalteration in the rammer of electing the di-
rectorywas negatived. A resolution was proposed that the
Court of Directors be abolished, atdibe responsibility trans-
ferred to the 'Crown ; but an amendment, "that the abolition
.wolla be produotive of most Nations consequences," was .car-
lied,,,aaid the resolution consequently thrown out. The war-
Tantslor the Half-yearly divides are to be delivered on 'the
Itharanuary.

SrILSDY JUSTIa.I.—On Thursaeymight a garotte robbery
was oeommitted in the parish .0-Nst. __zeter.
Information was, at once given to 'the police authorities: they
suspected two ticket-of-leave menoVba were known to be in
the:neighbourhood; traced them land apprehended them;
Iriidx.-y morning they were examined and committed by the
,county magistrates; and within twenty-four hours after the
.perpetration of;tharobbery were.found guilty, and sentenced
by Mr. Baron Parke, at the wintersesize then being held, to
twenty:. years' Inamsportation, azid;,cla accomplice to twelve
;months' imprisonment.

tOzt WEDNEISDA.-Y, 600 artisankbandicraftsmen, and navvies,
very carefully selected for the duties which they will have to
.discharge, embarked with their. difiters on board the Jim,.
steamitransport, and proceeded on Thursday direct to the Cri-
mea. They form.,a portion of Sir Joseph Paxton's Army
Wokks Corps, and have been organised by him as a special
body, ways available for the wdrk.of the commissariat,,iri-
therto,.very expensively and inefectively performed by Croats
.and other labourershlred in the East.
TErE LATE Dom' .OP MANtalanslAlß'S WILL.—The lathe
Duke., of ManchesteVs will, dated ',March, 3, 1855, has been
prayed-1w his executers; the present -duke, and Mr. Ormsby,
a Dublin barrister. His personaltyl in the province of Can-
isetburyis sworn under.. 2.15,000, =elusive of his charges, to
the moult of £35,0013, on the estate of the late duchess in.
Ireland. His grace has left-£10,10004t0 his young. &Jebel's,
now the,dowager, exeloative of her (jointure of £2,000 a-year.
He ;hoe deft £5,000 to-each. of her einfant children, and the
whole .6f his residuary personalty, estimated at upwards of.
£7oso9o,rto the present, dukes on Whom are also settled the
English ;and Irish estatas, producingfa rental of more than
£2o,oooAatzgear.
FAUNAL EXPLOSION AT BLAST ;FTSINACE.—A dreadful
explosion:.occurred on liteaday,l last, week, at the blast fur-
naces ,oMessrs. G. H. and .A. Haitkinan, Bilston. The
furnaces \were in full operation,: and in one-of them were shoat
five tons.of fused material„, when,.. without the slightest pre-
vious ,warnizg, the red-bat contents,,tif the furnace were
ejected ;about the place to qa distance of -some thirty yards,
with a irepert as of a small ,cannon. .The ..engineer, William
Sutton, was -standing with four .othersoavitbin a few feet of
the furnace; Tien the molten stream escaped. Directly that-
the fiery Alloizer poured upon them their ,clothes were in
flames. Sultenthrew himself into. wtank ofwater, and, though
badly injured, -survives. The others became insensible, and
died Soon afterwards.

11iYSTEalaW3 Cass OF POK.Q.NIZTG.--an ',the 'village of
Billesdosi, nearcLeicester,o whole family, of tiaeiname of Part-
ridge, consisti4g of grandmother, father, and two children,
were poisoned-4y the pudding partaken of-at tust Sunday's
dinner. The putiding was made by the old lad w.. 10 at dinner
asked a bailiff,aho was in possession, to partake of some,
which. he did. shortly after dinner the ,whole family were
taken ill, and the okl woman died in the course of the after-.
noon. It is fearodttbat a little boy of Sveyears, Old will also
lose his life: hopes are entertained that the others will re-
cover. Arsenic •wa,-..; found in the pudding which Iliad been
left, and a ea nistenef.arsenic was also found at :the ;house of
the old woman.

AMONG recent wilkand charitable bequests mentioned as
having been proved :ore —Thomas Monkey, Esq., banker,
£140,000; John Phillips, Esq., St. Georges-place, Knights-
bridge, £70,000; Johnalancan, M.D., £25,0003 John•Bowan,
M.D., £14,000 ; the Rev. James John Horriby,:M4, ;Rural
Dean and Rector of Winwick, £25,000'; Thoina,s Copeland,
Esq., F.R.S., of Cavendlob-square and Clapham, £lBO,OOO
personalty, and has bequeathed £5,000 to the Asylum for Poor
Orphans of the Clergy, :St.john's-wood, and £5.,000 to the
Society for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medico'
Men in London. Mrs. Elizabeth Boyton, of Dover, has 'be-
queathed £l,OOO to the Society for Promoting Christian
lcuowledge, £l,OOO for the IPoopagation of the. Gospel in:
Foreign Parts, £2OO to the Dover Hospital and Dispensary,
and £2,000, one moiety to be ,inxested for the purpose of
allowing from £1 to £5 a-year for ,mch of the inmates of the
almshouses in Dover, and the ,othor moiety for the annual
distribution of coals to old sailors .aud widows of sailors, inha-
bitants.a Dover.

FotTE CITILDREN STARVED TO REA.TH.—On Tuesday, the
parochial authorities of St. Matthew, Bethnal-green, London,
were informed of the deaths of four childnen of Jane Hiller, a
widow, residing at No. 20, George-street, Hopetown, Bethnal-
green. The wretched place where the famali lived was badly
ventilated and ill-drained, to which source the illness of the
children has been traced and fatally illustrated. Amelia,
aged four years, died on the Bth inst. ; and Frederick, aged
eighteen months,, .expired on the following morning. The
poor woman, finding that her means were so small, and that
others of her family were dying, kept the dead bodies covered
over in the corner of the room, to wait the decease of another
child, which took place on Friday morning. A fourth child
expired on Monday morning last. The appearance of the
deceased was most wretched, their bodies being literally a
heap of bones ; but whether their condition has really arisen
from mesentric disease or starvation is at present a question
for the medical gentlemen who will give evidence at the
coroner's inquest.— Globe.

TIEN QuoRN HUNT.—By the death of Sir Richard Sutton,
Batt, the large and well-known hunting establishment at'
Quorn, Leicestershire, has been broken up, and the fine stud
of horses, picked packs of hounds, &e., have been brought to
the hammer. The sale, which took place at Quern on Thurs-
day and Friday week, was attended by some two thousand
persons, including a numerous proportion of noblemen and
gentlemen, masters of hounds, huntsmen, dealers, &c. The
bidding for the horses was extremely spirited. Somerby,
whose reputation for jumping made him eagerly looked for,
fetched 360 guineas, the purchaser being Mr. Murray, of Man-
chester, and it was understood that he was to go into Cheshire..
The total sum realised for the 32 horses, sold on the first day,
was 5,812 guineas; 13 made an average of 294 guineas. On
Friday, six horses, that had been used in cub-hunting, fetched
480 guineas ; three hacks, 242 guineas ; three ponies, 100
guineas ; and the rest of the horses, &c., 2393. The saddles
and clothing brought 216 guineas, and the hound-van 16
guineas. The hounds, which were sold on the first day, in 14
lots of aye couples each, produced 1,806 guineas.