The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-11-13 00:00:00

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

THE Morning Herald says that upwards of forty-one
mortar-vessels are to be immediately fitted at Portsmouth
dockyard.
SPIKE ISLAND, in Cork Harbour, is now converted into a
most formidable fortification, which will mount no fewer than
two hundred cannon.
A VESSEL called the Robert Peel, which has just arrived in
the Loire from Sumatra, has brought a magnificent tiger for
one of the public menageries. Forty armed men were, it is
stated, sent to capture him, but he killed ten and injured
thirteen of them before he could be secured.
Trts Glasgow Chamber of Commerce has memorialised the
first lord of the Treasury about the operation of Peel's Act of
1844, praying that its action may be suspended 'so far as re-
spects the Bank being restricted to its issue of notes beyond
the £14,000,000, to the amount of bullion it holds.
MADAME JENNY LIND has just arrived in Paris, accompa-
nied by her husband. She comes from Geneva, where she ap-
peared in a concert given. for the benefit of Ernst, the violinist,
and in another for the poor. ;She intends to remain in Paris
fora fortnight, and then to proceed to London.—Galignani's
Messenger.
THE Paris correspondent of the Daily News says :—" There
is a report of the discovery of a legitimist conspiracy, and of
the arrest in connection with it of a duke bearing one of the
oldest names in France. It is said that the affair is identical
with one reported in a legal journal the other day, a feature
of which was the deposit of a sum of 7,000 f. in a country 'bank,
for the purpose of suborning workmen.
THE ORLEANS RAILWAY COMPANY has organised at Ivry
a depot of grocery for the exclusive supply of its employes.
The articles are not received until examined and proved to be
of the best quality, and are furnished to the employe's at the
cost price. The company is also engaged in establishing a
bakehouse, which will soon be at work.
THE SHERIFF OF BANFFSHIRE has decided that a father
is not responsible for damage that may be done by his child.
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Sheriff held that it was the child who should be punished.,
and not the father, and on this ground assoilzied the, latter.
A P.a.rxrux, CASE has occurred at Leith. Mr. Robert
Philip, aged sixty-five, lately (till his imprisonment on the
charge) provost of that town, has been found guilty by the
High Court of Justiciary, of improperly assaulting two little
girls, of the age of ten and twelve years, the daughters of la-
bouring men. Sentence was passed of fifteen years' transport-
ation.- • The same sentence was passedthe same day on James
Samuel, a private in the Edinburgh Militia, for a similar
offence.
A LADY, with her husband, on a visit at Edinburgh, last
week, suffered so much from a decayed tooth, that a dentist,
residing in a fashionable street in the New Town, was ap-
plied to for relief. To reader the operation less painful,
chloroform was resorted to, but the effect was deplorable.
The lady remained unconscious,' and, notwithstanding that
the services of an eminent physician were immediately pro-
cured, and every attempt was made to restore her to sensi-
bility, death supervened in, the course of an hour.
THE INDIANA PRESBYTERY of the Cumberland Presby-
terian Church has suspended from the ministry one of its
clergymen for " unchristian conduct." The following are
the specifications :—" First. for associating himself with an
association known as the Underground Railroad, whose avowed
business is to assist slaves from slave to free -territory ;
second, for actually assisting slaves in making their escape
from slave to free territory, which is contrary to the laws
of the United States and statute laws of the state of Indiana."—
New York Sun.

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THE FRENCH GRIPE Caor.—A letter from Bordeaux
says :—The vintage of red wines is terminated. In all the-
arrondissement of Blaye only between 6,000 and 6,000 casks
have been obtained, instead of from 26,000 to 30,000, the yield i
of an ordinary year ; and at St. Macaire only 1,200 casks, in-
steacl of between 5,000 and 6,000. At Ambes and Montfer-
rand several owners of from 60 to 100 casks each have not
made any vintage at all, owing to the small quantity of fruit.
On the whole, the yield of 1855 will only be a fifth of an ordi-.
nary year.
DREADFUL OCCURRENCE.—A few days since a number of
persons were engaged in destroying rats in some farm build-
ings near Hatherleigh, in the north of Devon, and for that
purpose they used ferrets. While they were so employed
their attention was arrested by the piercing cries of a child,
which proceeded from an adjoining house. On rushing in
they were horrified to find a ferret in the cradle biting off the
flesh from the face of the infant. Before the animal could be
removed the poor child was dreadfully mangled ; the face
was altogether disfigured, and nearly all the nose eaten off.
COLLISION AT SEA.—About 8 o'clock on Monday morning,
while about 20 miles from Tynemouth Point, and on her
passage from Hamburg to the Tyne in ballast, the Danish
vessel Christiana Marie came into collision with the barque
Dumfries, of North Shields. The shock was fearful, and the
crew of the Danish vessel had only time to save a few things
and jump on board the barque, when their vessel sunk. They
have been landed at Shields, and are under the protection of
the Danish consul. The Dumfries was much injured. The
Rosendale screw collier reached the Tyne in tow of a tug on
Monday, with her funnel and mizenmast gone ; it has not
been ascertained how the accident happened. Seventy-eight
vessels arrived in the Tyne on Sunday night and Monday
morning.