The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-11-06 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

GENERAL INTE.LLIGENCE.

MR. SMITH O'BRIEN has advertised a new book on politi-
cal subjects, the title being, " The Principles of Government;
or Meditations in Exile."
Tau PRESIDENT of the Poor-law Board has appointed Mr.
H. B. Cane, one of the chief clerks of the Poor-law Office, who
has been in the service of the commission from its commence-
ment, to succeed Mr. Austin as Poor-law Inspector.
JOHN WORFEY, miller, of Bromsgrove, has been fined £5
and costs, for having in his possession 6001bs. of alum, for the
Purpose of adulterating flour. The defence was that the alum
was used for mending holes in the millstones.
THE LADY SPORTSMAN.—It will be remembered that an
announcement appeared to the effect that the Game-list for the
county of Leicester contained the name of a lady as being en-
titled to kill game. This week the fair one has had her
" lovely fingers" shattered by the bursting of her gun.—
Leicester Paper.
THE BELGIAN GOVERNMENT, rather than interdict the
use of corn and potato starch in manufactures, which would be
to stop labour for the purpose of economising food, has offered
A prize of 10,000 francs for the discovery of a non-alimentary
substance to replace the use of starch in those industrial oc-
cupations in which it is now employed. -
A WOMAN, aged 115 years, has just died at Oravitza. She
had preserved her _vision almost unimpaired, and all her
teeth. Her husband, who died three years ago, had reached
the same age as herself, and both sank at last under the
burden of old age alone, for neither of them had ever
been ill.
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PAUL, STBAIIAN3 AND BnEs.—lt is stated that these crimi-
nals will remain in IN.Tewgate or the Milbank Prison until a
complete investigation of Their affairs is made and a balance-
sheet in bankruptcy filed ; and that afterwards they will be re-
moved to Gibraltar for the remaining period of their sentence.
THE following is supposed to be the number of newspapers
in the world :-10 in Austria, 14 in Africa, 24 in Spain, 26 in
Portugal, 30 in Asia, 65 in Belgium, 85 in Denmark, 50 in
Russia and P6land, 350 in other Germanic States, 500 in
Great Britain and Ireland, and 2,000 in the railed States, or
nearly twice as many as in all other nations,—American Pub-
lishers' 'Circular.

THP ORDER OF TIIE SERA.PIini, the insignia of which
Xing Oscar has just sent to the Emperor Napoleon, is the
oldest and the most distinguished of 'the orders of Swedish-
knighthood. The escutcheon of each Swedish or foreign
)right %.emains for ever hung up in the Church of Beddarhelm,
.‘vhcre the tombs of the kings of Sweden are huilt, and the
,death of each knight of the Order is announced by the tolling
'of the large bell of that church.
A REAL rara avis—a black swan—was captured off Ea-
mouth last week. It was poor in flesh, and evidently ex-
hausted by long flight, but showed by its plumage and other
indications that it had never been in captivity. It is sup-
posed that by a long suecession of storms it has been driven
from the Pacific, its only known habitation. An equally rare
fish was caught at GraVesend on Friday, during the high wind
and tide—a sword fish of 7ft. cinches in length, and possess-
ing a sword of 2ft.'6in.

TEM Calrixtr. IffLANDS nmil packet brings intelligence
that the whole of the thirty-four refugees rho signed 'the
declaration protesting against the expulsion of the managers
of the L'Homme newspaper have been ordered to leave.aersey,
by order of the British government. Amongst the spelled
are Victor Pugo and his sons. The declaration referred to
contained the most nnmeasured abuse of the Emperor Napo-
leon, and expressed bitter contempt for England, cencluding
with the words, ." Now expel us, if you choOse."
PREPARATIONS.—The Government has entered
into extensive contracts for the supply of AtiniZ rifles, rifled
and VictorinTarbines, revolvers, and cavalry •( heavy and light)
sabres. The number of firearms of all il..scriptiens required is
upwards of 100,000 stand, and 10,000.sabres. Tile contracts
are diVided among the gun manufacturers•ol London and !lir-
mingham;Liege and Namur ( Belgium), and Boston ( United
States). sword cutlers of Sheffield have taken the con-
tract for sabres.

Anotir seventeen miles below Gainsborough, on the right
bank of the Trent, stands the pretty-secluded village of Bur-
ringham. The parish is without a church, and for some time
past.24lforts have been made to raise funds to erect one. The
following novel announcement, which -has been circulated in
Brigg, looks as if it had been quoted from the Tablet:—" For
the benefit of Burringham Churcb.—To be raffled for, at half-
pest, three o'clock, a pure bred Skye terrier dog, direct from the
island; twenty shares, at ss. each. Also, a pure bred terrier
puppy, four months old, same breed; twelve shares, at ss. each?,
MR. FEARGIIS O'CONNOR'S land -scheme was wound up last
'week, at Sheffield, before the commissioner appointed by the
master in chancery. 'The object the master in chancery has in
view is to ascertain how to apportion'the surplus assets of the
company equitably amongst all the accredited claimants. From
the company's accounts it appears 'that about £90,000 is the
whole amount which was subscribed, by about seventy thou-
sand persons. On the average,-above one-third of the claim-
ants have reappeared, and about-two-thirds of the amount sub-
scribed has been claimed.
ATTEMPTED MURDER.—On the 4th ult., Thomas Franks,
residing at Nottingham, made a desperate attack upon his
wife as she lay in bed, inflicting several dangerous wounds
with a razor. He afterwards absconded from the town, und,
though active efforts were 'made for his apprehension,
nothing was heard of him until Thursday evening last, when
information was sent to the police-station that he was pacing
to and fro in disguise in front of the house in which his wife
still lay suffering from his cruel assault. Two constables
were immediately despatched to •the spot, and succeeded in
apprehending.him, in all probability just in time to prevent
loss of life, for the man had a brace of loaded pistols, and
was, to all appearance, only waiting a favourable opportunity
to assassinate his wife, and to terminate immediately his own
existence. He was placed 'before the magistrates on 'Friday
for a preliminary examination, and remanded until his 'wife
should be in a state to give evidence.
Tun NEIGHBOURS of a disagreeable inhabitant of Manilla-
crescent, Weston-super-Mare, have made her out a legal nui-
sance, and the magistrates :have ordered a summons to be
issued against the owner of the house accordingly. The -snb-
ject of the complaint is a lady named Brown, of some property;
. but, says the local report, "of a very excitable temperament,
and, from the evidence, it appeared that the most alarming
quarrelling, screaming, swearing &c., are going on at this
establishment daily and nightly. On 'Saturday and Sunday
nights last, the awful oaths and dreadful imprecations which
issued from the house caused quite a terror in the neighbour-
hood, so much so that the residents adjoining could get no
rest, and several respectable families lodging near were about
to leave."

ATTEMPT AT MIIRDER.—As Mr. Richards' a butcher of
Landrake, in Cornwall, was on his way home from the Cal-
lington Market on Wednesday, he was fired at by a person
behind a hedge. At the time .he .was leading his horserand
was within about a mile of his home. On looking up he saw
the head of a man, and he cried out " Murder, murder !" No
one, however, came to his assistance, it being a very lonely
neighbourhood, and in his mounded state he was obliged ito
return home unassisted. It was found that a large number
of small shots had entered his body, the charge having passed
over his shoulder and down his :side. Although at first con-
sidered in danger, he is now, it .said, .in a fair way of re-
covery. No clue has been obtained of his assailant.
MORMONITES NOT PROTRSTANC DISSENTERS.—At the
West Bromwich Petty Sessions on Monday, John Danger-
field and William Price appeared to:answer a summons on the
information of Edward Hanham, of !Dudley, describing him-
self as a Dissenting minister, for that the said defendants, on
the 16th day of -September last, in the parish of Tipton, did
unlawfully disturb a meeting and congregation of Protestants,
dissenting from the church of England, assembled for reli-
gions worship in a meeting-house there, duly registered pur-
suant to the statute. It appeared that the congregation in
,question consisted of Mormons, or ." Latter-day Saints," and
hereupon the magistrate said he thought the case must be
dismissed. He thought it a material allegation in the in-
formation that the congregation in question was a congrega-
tion of Protestants, dissenting from the Church of England,
within the meaning of the statutes passed for their especial
protection. Referring to the statutes on the subject, from the
first of William and Mary to those passed in the reign of
George 111., he could not at present see that the-congregation
at Great Bridge Chapel of Latter-day Saints was -such as was
contemplated by the acts of Parliament passed for, the pro-
tection of -Protestant Dissenters. He would therefore leave
the complainants to their ordinary remedy at law.
Fr,oo-DING- OF A. QUARRY.—During the severe gale on
Friday week, when the flood tide in the Firth of Forth was at
its height, the heavy sea effected a large chasm in the rocky
embankment protecting Granton Quarry, and in the coarse of
a few minutes filled up its vast basin. This quarry, oat of
which Granton-pier was built by the Duke of Succleuch, rand
from which a massive breakwater is in the course of construc-
tion, enclosing the pier in a capacious harbour, is situate a
mile west of the pier, in an angle of the coast, two sides of its
embankment being.exposed to the action of the waves. There
being, however, -nearly 100 feet of rock protecting it from tidal
inroads, no apprehension was ever entertained from its proxi- !
mity to the sea. The tide of Friday morning was the height
of the stream, and a 'heavy hale was blowing from the west,
when, between three and four o'clock, about 60 yards of the
embankment on the west side was bodily carried into the
quarry, and the waves, rushing through the gap, filled it in
five or ten minutes. Had the occurrence taker. place from an
afternoon tide the results might have been most dreadful, for
the 50 or 60 men daily employed in it would at once have been
overwhelmed. As it was, the household of the foreman of the
.quarry had a most providential escape. They resided in a
house on the brink of the precipice, and so close to the portion
.of the bank which gave way that the gable and doorway and
part of the roof and flooring were washed away, and the inmates
had barely sufficient warning to escape by a window. The
quarry, having been nearly exhausted, is not likely to be again
used, as other seams of rock are understood to exist in the
immediate neighbourhood. The gale was not attended with
any serious consequences to the shipping in the Forth.
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COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' Senocm.—A large and fine
building, which has been erected close to the Pinner station of
the North-western Railway, by the commercial travellers of
the United Kingdom, as a home and school for the orphans of
the less fortunate of their body, was opened on Saturday week,
by Prince Albert, the Lord Mayor also attending, to give a
commercial tone to the proceedings. These consisted of the
reception of the Prinee, the children singing "God save the
Queen" and the Hundredth Psalm ; the presentation of a re-
markably appropriate address to his royal highness; after
which, and a prayer by Dr. Vaughan, head master of Harrow,
the Prince declared the institution opened : and at the close of
all comes a banquet. In the address it was stated,—" Between
two and three hundred young persons, from seven to fifteen
years of age, have been or are now being carefully trained, by
this charity, for a useful and honourable career in after-life,
who, but for this institution, might have been growing up in
neglect and indolence, contracting vicious habits, and maturing
in immorality. The Board of Management refer with much
gratification to the fact, that, so exemplary has been the con-
duct of the pupils of this institution during the location of the
establishment at Wanstead, that the clergy and gentry of the
neighbourhood have expressed, in the strongest terms, their
regret at the removal of the institution. It is true that this'
establishment, from its very nature, can never be distinguished
in the higher branches of education and learning; still it is
hoped that, in all those qualities which constitute moral ex-
cellence, the scholars of this institution may vie in honourable
rivalry with the noblest in the land; and although this school
may never, like a neighbouring seat of learning, send forth
poets, philosophers, and statesmen, to give lustre to their age
and country, and to aid in the councils of their Sovereign, it
will produce, it is hoped, a succession of those hardy sons of
commerce, equally essential to the existence of a commercial
nation, and who, by their loyalty to the Monarch, their reve-
rence for the laws, and their industry and integrity, shall con-
tribute to the stability of the throne and the material welfare
of the empire."—The list of subscriptions, including one from
the Prince of 100 guineas, amounted to nearly £2,000.

THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIOSS.

ON Thursday last, the annual election of sixteen gentle-
men, to serve as representatives of the different wards in the
Town Council, took place in accordance with the terms of the
act, and nine of the candidates were returned without op-
position. These were the following, viz.:—
Ward. Candidate.
Everton ...... Mr. T. D. Anderson. Re-elected without opposition.
Scotland... ..Mr. Richard Sheil Ditto.
Exchange.... Mr. James Tyrer Ditto.
St. Peter's.. Mr. J. C. Fernihough Ditto.
Pitt-street... Mr. William Mann Ditto.
Rodney-st. Mr. John B. Branckner Ditto.
Abercromby Mr. Robertson Gladstone Ditto.
Lime-street-Mr. Jas. A. Picton Ditto.
St. Anne's.. .Mr. T. L. Hodson .Ditto. _ _ .

Two of the elections resulted in very unexpected returns.
In Castle-street ward, a Conservative candidate brought late
into the field was returned by a triumphant majority : no
ConServative having on any previous occasion been returned to
represent the ward since the passing of the Municipal Reform
act. As a counterbalance to this triumph, the Conservatives
have to regret the defeat of Mr. Arthur Henderson, a long-
tried and consistent Conservative, AO, for Six 'years, repre-
sented West Derby Ward.