The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-07-31 00:00:00

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

AT STIIRMINSTER PETTY SESSIONS last week, William
Thick, of Stalbridge, was summoned for swearing several pro-
fane oaths. Defendant admitted the offence, and was fined
6s. and costs.
A SIGNIFICANT FACT.—There is so great a pressure of
business in Doctors' Commons, owing to the war, that con-
siderable delay is caused in granting probates.—Letter from
London.
A ROBBERY was recently committed in a house in Clifton,
while the family were absent at afternoon service. The thieves
left written on the kitchen table the words, "You should
watch as well as pray."—Bristol Times.
A NEWCASTLE NEWSPAPER, in noticing the state of trade
on the banks of the Tyne, says that the manufacture of Epsom
salts is pretty brisk, and that one firm alone is manufacturing
20 tons a week.
THE DIRECTORS of the East India Company have given the
necessary notice of their intention to reduce the rate of inte-
rest on India bonds from 4 per cent. to 31 per cent., from the
21st of July next.
Lola MONTES, with a theatrical troop under her charge,
left San Francisco on the 6th of June, in a sailing vessel ( the
barque Fanny Major), bound for Australia. She will join the
stage there, and will afterwards go to Europe, via" China, Cal-
cutta, and Sebastopol.
THE PITMEN of Northumberland celebrate the birth of a
child by throwing a "luck-bag" of salt into the fire. The
other day, at Blythe Folly, a miner; who had had an addition
to his family, threw, in mistake, a bag of gunpowder into the
fire ! The house was shattered, but no one was killed.
THE Morning Herald states that in the course of a few
months we shall count our gun-boats by scores, instead of by
twos and threes. Such a fleet is building, and ordered to be
built, that within the next six months we shall have the most
effective powers for prosecuting naval warfare in all classes of
powerful ships.
MESSRS. BASS, of London, have several large vessels on
their way to Balaclava with their renowned ale and porter, of
which they purpose keeping up a floating depot of 800 tons, in
their ship Tartar, for supplying the wants of the army at a
very trifling advance upon London retail prices.
A PARTY OF NEGROES, dressed in the newest style of
Parisian fashion, are now visiting Paris. These ebony gentle-
men are functionaries at the Court of his Imperial Maiesty,
Faustin I.—better known as Soulouque. Among them are
General Count Eloa, senator, Grand Chancellor of the Empire
of Haiti; Viscount Elba, his son; Baron Simom, senator;
and the Count de Val, senator.
BY the death of Mrs. Ferguson, in East Lothian, Lady
Mary Christopher, or her husband, Mr. Christopher, M.P., in
her right, will succeed to an estate, the rental of which was
last year £38,000. yr. Christopher has also in Lincolnshire

estates to the value of 214,000 a year in right of his wife, for
which he takes the name of Christopher. His original name
was Dandas, -and he will now have to take the name of
Nisbet.

THE Rev. S. Sunderland, vicar of Penistone (and rural dean),
left home on Wednesday morning, in company with the Peni-
stone schoolmaster, to go by an excursion train to Chatsworth
and Haddon Hall. On leaving the train at Rowsley Station,
the rev. gentleman got into a cab, bat the horses were restive,
and, thinking it unsafe, he got on the top of an omnibus,
which,before he had proceeded far, everset,and precipitated him
on to the road. He died a few hours afterwards.
EXCHAIZGE OF COLONIES Iran FRANCE.—A rumour is
current throughout the West Indies of a contemplated transfer
of Dominica and St. Lucia to France, in exchange for the
French colony of Chandernagore in the East Indies. The
Antigua and other colonial papers have given free circulation
to this rumour, adding that, the matter is under consideration
of both governments, and will shortly be concluded, but they
cannot trace it to any regular foundation.—Morning Chronicle.
MADRID has been shocked by a frightful visitation to one
'family of cholera. On the night of the 11th, Lieutenant-
•Ceneral Schelly, who has been living for some time in the
neighbourhood of Seville, his daughter, his two sisters, his
head servant, the wife of the latter, and three domestics, all
died from this dread plague. At the departure of the,courier
the wife of the deceased general, his mother, and his -brother,
the Marquis of Villa-Wilvestre, were in a state of agony not to
be described.

TITE Lew Loans.—lt is the love of mischief, we suspect,
which is still strong in Lord Lyndhurst, rather than a pas-
sion for law reform, that inspires his attacks on-so defenceless
an object as the Lord Chancellor. Nothing has been done,
no doubt ; no doubt, there is something whimsical in the half-
reasons which that dignitary gives for his •own inability to
legislate : and it is not perhaps a mere vulgar error that the
Solicitor-General alternately thwarts and ;tyrannises over a
superior whose powers he despises and whose temper is too
gentle to resist. All that can be said however is that, so long
as the two men are kept in their present relative position,
somebody else ought to be charged with the duty of finding
rational employment for the House of Lords.— The Guardian.
THE RIEMT or FOOT PASSENGERS.--411 the course of a
trial before Mr. Justice Coleridge, on Saturday, where a
widow sued Tor damages, her husband 'having been run over
and killed by an omnibus, the learned judge said he wished to
make an observation. There was one thing it was really right
to state. When passing along a street, the side pavements
were for foot passengers, and the centre of the street was for
carriages,. and those persons who wished to cross were bound
to watch their opportunity—to use due care and caution; but
at the end or corner of a street, if a foot passenger wished to
cross, it should be known that the -centre of the street be-
longed as much to the foot passenger as to the carriage, and
he had as much right to tell the driver of a carriage to wait
for him as for the driver to make him wait.

A l!floa-nnu SELLING lEEE Bain.—One day last week, :a
woman, named Mary Green, who stated she was a native of
Bedwin, Suffolk, left her lodgings in Barnsley with her
female-child, four months old, and returned in the evening
withouta. These circumstanceseorning to the knowledge-of
Mr. Woodruff, constable, the woman was taken into custody
on suspicion. She was asked to account for her missing.
.child, and then stated that a shopkeeper at Silkstcrne had
offered her a sovereign for it, and 'that she had accepted-the
sum and sold the baby. On the tiflicer going to Silkstone he
found this statement to be correct, and that the infant had
beeu•:purchased for the suna named, by Mr. J. Berry, clothier.
Mr. Berry is a married man, but-has no children. The affair•
created. considerable excitement amongst the villagers, who
assured the constable that the child would be well treated by
its new parents. The mother of the infant stated that her
husband was lame and could not work, and she was unable to
nourish the child.

ROYAL ASSENT.—The Royal Assent•was given bY Conurdssion
on Monday to the following' bills :—Lady Raglan and Lord
Raglan`Annuities ; Endowed Schools (Ireland); Gold Wedding
fags ;, Commons Enclosure (N 0..) ; Spirits (Ireland) Act
Amendment ; Friendly Societies • :Dublin Carriage Act
Amendment ; Christ Church (Todinorden) Marriages ',Vali-
dity -; ,Barial-grounds (Scotland).; Bills of Exchange :and
Promissory Notes ; Waveney Valley Railway ; Edinburgh
and ,Glesgow Railway ; Wisbeach ,Port ; Bolton and Nightin-
gale ; Royal Medical Benevolent College ; LondonderrY
and 'Coleraine Railway ; Cavendish-baidge and Hull and Ward
Road ;.'llsgenham Docks ; London ',Necropolis and National
Museum ; Honiton Road ; East OfMFife Railway ; Gateshead
and Hexham Roads ; Portsmouth 'Railway ; Shrewsbury Im-
provement ' • Great Northern London Cemetery ; Mid -Kent
and North Kent Railway ; Barrow Harbour ; Birken-
head:and Liverpool Dock (Trust)-Yrroperty of Birkenhead
Dock Trustees ; England and Ireland Improvement Commu-
nication;-Furness Railway; LivetToOt Docks; South Stafford-
shire Railway, Livesey's :Estate ; Pedder's Divorce. ;
Cromarty.Estate ; Hammond's Estate; 'Livesey's (Blackburn)
Estate.
A •COLO'7I2ED SISTER or MERCY ax BALAIELANA..—A
letter from the Crimea says We have at present a ladyef
colour in Balaklava, and occasionally in•carap, who is quite an
original hiller way, and an amusing specimen of the adapta-
bility to circumstances of the darker specimens of the genus
hosao. She is both a Miss /Nrightingale :and a Soyer in her
way. A native of Jamaica, she has travelled extensively on
the Americaneontinent, and has acquired .great experience in
the treatment of cases of cholera ancidiarrhcea. Her powders
for the lattempidemie are now so renowned, that she is con-
stantly besettwitli applications - and iit must be stated, to her
honour, that she makes no charge' for her Powders. She is
often seen riding out to the front With-.baskets of medicines
of her own preparation, and this is particularly the case after
an engagement with the enemy. Herealinary powers are
also so great that even Soyer told her the.other day she knew
as much about cooking as himself. Mrs.:SeaeOle is, moreover,
a highly intelligent woman, and a further proof that the race
from which she .pprang is one capable .of high intellectual
—development. She may well exclaim with QiheilB—

" Mistake me not for my complexiOn—
The burnish'd livery of the golden sue:"

A Titopstr.--General Pelissier has just presented to the
library of Algiers ,as volume of the History. of,- the Life of
Christ, which was taken in the chapel of the cemetery of
Sebaitopol. It is in:the Slavonian language, .and in 7the folio
form, is bound in theaneient style and gilt, =ldles two clasps
in copper. On the topeover, in a gilt wreath, are the three
personages of the Trinity. On one of the blank, leaves is
written in Russian, " This book belongs to the Church of the
•Siiints of the Cemetery;" and lower down "Month of
December—the priest Altin Bringin was here the .27th Deeem-
ben, 1827." The whole life is divided into twelve parts, one
• for each month ; and the -volume in question eomprises the
part for the month of December. The book was printed
at Moscow, and the paper is of a grayish colour. The titles
of the chapters and the first- etters of each paragraph are in
red, ink, and this gives it the: appearance of the earlier pro-
ductions of the typographic art. The bottoms of the pages
are wort' from constant Use, and.some of the pages are so dirty
as to lvarrant the belief that -the Russian clergy are not
rigorously required to officiate with clean hands ; while other
pages are stained with drops of;yellow wax which evidently
fell fromtbe candles which it is the.eustom to burn in honour
of the saints. General Pelissier, in transmitting the book to-
the library of Algiers, wrote the following lines, and they
have been. asted in one of the fly leaves :—" Heltd.quarters
before Sebastopol, 9th of June, 1855. History of the Life
of Christ. Taken in the chapel of the ;cemetery of Sebasto-
pol, where victory carried us. The sacred objects and several
other things were conveyed to the monastery of St. George,
but this book was reserved by him who had the discretionary
power, in order that it might be presented to the library of
Algiers. It is in the Slavonian language and printed in the
Slavonian characters.—Pelissier."

TILE WELL-KNOWN DR. VERoN, for some time ehief owner
and editor of the Coastitutionnel, formerly a seller of quack
medicines, lessee of the Opera, gourmet by profession, a sort
of factotum or French Barnum in notoriety and universality—
and humbug ! published lately, as all the world, or at least all
Paris, knows, his memoirs, under the title of " Memoires d'un
Bourgeois de Paris." The book is a compound of twaddle, of
gossip occasionally amusing, and of plentiful abuse of the
author's enemies and praise of Ids friends. Worthless as the
production is, its gossip and scandal combined have procured
for it the honour of a second edition, to which appears pre-
fixed the following characteristic letter from Louis Napoleon,
addressed to the doctor on receipt of a former copy of the
work, and in grateful memory of "the traveller's dinner 'at an
inn," and former "relations" between the parties :—" Palais
des Tuileries, Bth March, 1855. My dear Mons. V6ron,—l
have received with pleasure your " Meimoires d'un Bourgeois
de Paris," and I shall read the two last volumes especially
with so much the more interest, as they resume the faithful
souvenirs of a man who has seen much, who has judged
soundly, and related without passion. Do not doubt that it
will be extremely agreeable to me to find once more, in the
writer who is collecting useful materials for the history of our
times, the same man whose disinterested sympathy afforded
me in days of difficulty the important support of one of the
principal organs of the press. Receive my sincere thanks,
and believe in my good wishes, NAPOLEON."—No one can
accuse Louis Napoleon of turning his back upon old friends;
and, whatever may be thought of the letter in other respects, it
cannot be denied that it required no small courage in a French
Emperor to allow of the publication of such an epistle, ad-
dressed to his friend V4ron, in Mg own satirical capital.—
Guardian,