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

AT the Court of Queen's Bench, on Monday, Mr. Reuben, _
Plant, iron and coal merchant, obtained £5OO as compensation
for injury received by a collision on the Oxford, Worcester,
and Wolverhampton Railway.
TICE railway calls falling due in the present month amount
to £726,783. The total calls for the first two months of 1856
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amount to £1,451,154, against £4,034,907 in the corresponding
period of last year, when the calls were chiefly for foreign lines.
A DEMAND has been presented to the Congregation of
Rites at Rome, for the beatification of Queen Maria Christina
of Naples, daughter of King Victor Emanuel I. of Sardinia,
and first wife of the reigning King of Naples. Her Majesty
died in 1836. •

THE Spanish papers state that the inundations at Seville
are so great that the governor has been rowed through the
streets in a boat, in order to convey assistance to the inhabit-
ants. In the Triana quarter, the water was entering the
houses through the balconies.

Two brothers, named Samuel and John Dyson, have been
committed for perjury, at Barnsley. It is believed that in
order to obtain,a reward of £5O, they swore that they saw a
man named Joseph Marsh leave a stack-yard at the time an
incendiary fire was discovered.

STEEL PEN MANUFACTUREES.-At a recent trial, in Paris,

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between a steel pen dealer of that city and Messrs. finks and
Wells, the manufacturers, of Birmingham, it was stated that
in the whole world there are but 14 manufactories of steel
pens, and that nine of them are at Birmingham, four at Bo-

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logne-sur-mer, and one at Paris.
IT is considered a singular incident in the history of what
Mr. Disraeli would term literary statesmanship," that on the
same day—the 19th of January—Mr. Macaulay announced he

had taken leave of political life, and Mr. Samuel 'Warren,
claiming the suffrages of the electors of Midhurst, stated his
intention to commence his political existence.

IN the year 1851 (says a Russian journal) 861, works in the
Russian language were printed in Russia, and 451 written in
foreign languages; 2,940 contributions, treating of science and
literature, appeared in the Russian journals. Of printing
offices there are 45 in St. Petersburg, 16 at Moscow, and 24 in

Le other cities of Russia.
THE ASSASSINATION OF MR. Warou.—At the Central

Criminal Court, London, on Thursday, Charles Westron was
tried for the assassination of Mr. Waugh, the solicitor, of
Bedford-row. The jury returned a verdict pronouncing the pri-
soner " guilty of wilful murder," but recommended him to
mercy, on account of predisposition to insanity. Sentence of
death was recorded.

Is 1827, the steamer America was "snagged" in the Missis-
sippi, and sunk in deep water ; in the course of years an island
formed over the wreck, and for eight years crops,of Indian
corn were raised upon it ; now the changeful Father of Waters
has attacked the isle, swept away the soil, and exposed the
America's hull, from which it is expected a cargo of lead will
be recovered.

A PEIISON, calling himself Arthur Tchermacher, Baron
Arthur, of Waldemarde, captain hi her Majesty's service and
in the Prussian navy, general of cavalry in the Prussian army,
and Knight of the Order of the Red Eagle, was hooted out of
Southampton last week. He had been had up before the
magistrates fur victimising some hotel-keepers. He carries
medals about with him to justify his pretensions to the rank
he assumes.

RAILWAY AcTs.—A return has been issued of the railway
acts passed in 1865, the length of each line, the proposed
capital stock, the number of shares authorised to be created,
and the sums authorised to be raised on loan. The acts,
which are 73 in number, may be classed as follows :—Acts
authorising incorporation of companies, 23 ; extension of time
and amendment of acts, 6; deviations, extensions, &c., for
which no new capital is required, 9 ; branches, &c., for which
new capital is required,l3 ; reduction of capital, 3 ; additional
capital for works previously authorised, 9; lease, 2; deben-
tures, stocks, &c., 7; steam-boats, 1. The increase of mileage
occasioned by the above acts is 44 miles 10 chains; the in-
crease of capital and loans, £5,253,675 13s. 4d.
PARISIAN JEWELLERY.—An amusing incident took place
last weeli at a ball given by an exalted personage in the Fau-
bourg St. Germain. The crowd which encumbered the salons
was such, and the jostling so great, that bracelets, diamond
necklaces, &c., were torn from the arms of their fair wearers.
Many disappeared for ever; but a goodly number was found
on the floor after the guests had taken their departure. Such
was the quantity of jewels collected that son excellence felt
a curiosity to ascertain the sum they represented. He there-
fore sent for a jeweller, who carefully examined the gems.
" What do you value all these at ?" said the master of the
-house. "Monseigneur," replied the jeweller, "the aggregate
value is-60 franks !" The truth of this anecdote is vouched
for. •

Foal)Es lacKENzlE's AcT.—The Glasgow Herald con-
tains a lengthened report of a meeting which took place in
that city, of delegates from the principal towns in Scotland
and England, to report upon the operation of Forbes Mac-
kenzie's Act. Mr. A. S. Anderson pi esided. Reports having
been given in from the delegates, showing the oppressive and
demoralising effects of the act in the districts where it was
enforced, after a long discussion, it was resolved to petition
parliament for its total repeal. After the conference the
members of the association, and the delegates from London,
Manchester, Liverpool, Dublin, and various towns in Scotland,
dined together in the Trades'-hall.
SMUGGLING AT HAMBURG.—A letter from Hamburg gives
an account of the mission of Dr. Rucker, who, it is said, was
sent to London by the three Hanseatic cities to assure the
English government of the falsehood of the allegations that
war materiel was being transported thence to Russia. Lord
Clarendon, says the account, received the doctor "in a
manner so little diplomatic, that a parallel is vainly sought in
history," while Lord Palmerston cried out in the midst of the
explanations, " Why, you Hamburghers are nothing but a
set of smugglers !" All this, together with sundry threaten-
ings, has grievously wounded the feelings of the citizens of
Hamburg.
MAJOR MARTIN, late of the 9th N. 1., after having served
the government and the country well and faithfully for*about
thirty years, as a military officer, has come forward to enlist,
more decidedly and more exclusively than ever, in the ranks
of the faithful followers of the Saviour, as a labourer in the
missionary field. Instead of retiring, like most men, at the
end of his long term of service, to enjoy his pension and his
private fortune amidst the ease and comforts of his native land,
he has engaged himself as a regular lay missionary assistant
in the Church Missionary Society's service, and has been
placed in the van of our missionary force at the frontier sta-
tion, Peshawur.—Oriental Christian Spectator.
A LOTTERY SCHEME.—The Journal du Loiret relates the
following scheme resorted to by a young damsel :—4 young
lady, pretty and well educated, residing in the arrondissement
of Pithiviers, has conceived the idea of putting herself up to
lottery. There are to be 300 tickets, at I,ooof. each, and to
the fortunate winner she will give herself and the 299,000 f.
by way of dowry. The lady has attached some very prudent
conditions to the purchase of tickets. She will only sell them
to persons whom she may think will suit her; and in order
to ascertain that point, she exacts a half hour's tete-a-tete
conversation with each applicant. There is no limit of age
imposed, but more than one ticket may be taken by one person.
The lottery will be drawn on the 25th of November next, at
the mairie at Pithiviers. No married men are allowed to
take tickets. It is said that a number of Englishmen have
already become purchasers, and applications are coming in
from all quarters.
Two CHILDREN BURNT TO DEATH.—The Lincolnshirk
Times contains the particulars of the death of two children
who were last week burned to death in a most shocking man-
ner at Ulceby. Thomas Jobson, aged seven years, and his.
sister Elizabeth, aged four years, with their cousin Robert
Jobson, aged two years, went out to play together in a vacant
pigsty, not fifteen yards from the house of the two elder
children. The little girl had taken some congreve matches
from a high shelf in her mother's cupboard, She lighted a
match, and the straw and furze of which the pigsty was built
were quickly in a blaze. Thomas ran away, crying to his
sister and cousin to come out of the sty ; but although in a
few minutes they were extricated from the flames, there was
hardly a trace of human features to be discerned.
THE NoßTH.—Advises from Hamburg, of the oth, state that
the sudden change from mild to very severe cold frosty wea-
ther has had the effect of causing a temporary stoppage of the
navigation, which will, however, in all probability, soon
be opened again, inasmuch as there had teen another equally
sudden change from frost to snow and heavy rain, leaving the
streets ankle deep in mud and dirt, with the barometer indi-
cating two degrees of heat. Precisely this same changeable
weather has been experienced in the North, as we learn from
the Russian ports in the Baltic and Gulfs of Finland, Bothnia,
and Riga. In the harbours of the Baltic—in Mecklenburg
and Lubeck especially—there is much stir in the shipping, and
all kinds of produce are being sent away thence to Russian
ports in great haste.
THE RECENT CHARGE OF PASSING FORGED CHECKS.—
The Cambridge Chronicle contains the following particulars
respecting George Patman, who was charged a few days ago, in
the Guildhall Police-court, London, with passing forged checks
to a large amount:—Patman came to Cambridge about twelve
months, ago. He took lodgings at the house of a lady in New-
square, and, conducting himself with great propriety, was in
course of time introduced to several respectable families. He
had previously, we should observe, made the acquaintance of
some ladies connected with one of these families at Berkham-
stead, in Hertfortshire, where he was residing. He was very
regular in his habits, a constant attendant at church, and pro-
fessed to entertain serious religious convictions. He entered
Clare College last October, having previously, we understand,
been reading with a member of the University. In College,
as elsewhere, his outward demeanour was irreproachable. He
paid his addresses to one of the ladies he had met in Hertford-
shire, and prosecuted his suit with such success that in De-
cember last he was united to her. Thism
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man was possessed of a moderate competency, that he cheer-
fully gave his consent to the union. One of these representa-
tions was that an uncle had placed £4,000 in the funds, the
interest of which was to be his, and documents were produced
in proof of this statement. These, it now turns ont, were
forged. Everything went on harmoniously till Friday, the
25th ult., five short weeks after his marriage, when intelli-
gence was received in this town that Patman, who was in
London, transacting some business for his father-in-law, had
been arrested on a charge of forgery. The news was so
astounding that at first it was not credited; but it unfor-
tunately turned out to be too true. We leave it to the imagin-
ation of our readers to picture the state of distress which such
intelligence produced in the family with which he had become
connected. There is, apparently, some mystery in the case,
no adequate motives for his conduct having been discovered.