The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-10-09 00:00:00

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

Ma.l). C. MITCHELL, of the Dumfries Militia, has invented
an electric tannon. It is fired without .a touch-hale, by means
of.conducting and non-conducting wink introduced into the
cannon •during its manufacture, and.out .off closett the surface.
Having no touch-hole, it cannot he spiked.
TEM BAL ChttN papers mention a melancholy accident that
occurred last w.eek at Ghent, when a man, who •was painting
the spire of a belfry, was precipitated to the ground, the rope
which sustained him having snapped. Ms body, a.dinfigured
mass, fell .close to one of his children, who was bringing him
his dinner.

IT is dated that a school or college for Turkish youth ip
about to he established at Versailles, the su3tsst having made
a grant of 1,600,00 a, francs for this purpose. Here some 800
young Mussulmans will be instructed in the European lan-
guages, the sciences, And the arts as applied to industry.
A LETTER from Braila states that two Greek merehauts of
that town went fluidal learning the fall of Sebastopol, and
that another at Bueharest was struck with apoplexy from the
same cause. The same letter states that one Swedish and
three Greek vessels have foundered at the mouth of the Salina,
and rendered the passage still more difficult, there being now
no more than one fathom ,of water over the bar.

A BERLIN despatch says that discontent in Poland and the
Ukraine has risen to a very serious height at the successive
calls for enlistment, and that a survey is about to be made to
see if Poland can furnish suffioient corn for the supply of the
army during another campaign, and the result will greatly in-
fluence Russia as to the contimmoleP of the war.

AT A BREWERY, at Waleot, a boy has met his death by fall-
ing into a vat of boiling liquid. Mr. Bailey, the proprietor,
without hesitation, plunged his arms into the scalding liquor
and brought the boy out, who only lingered half an hour.
Mr. Bailey was also very much scalded about the hands and
arms so much, indeed, that it may be months before he can
recover.

Or Warden-hill Farm, Chipping Warden, the property
of Colonel North, M.P., a large amount of property has been
destroyed by fire, caused by the accidental discharge of a gun.
The produce of ten acres of wheat, twenty-three acres of oats,
ten acres of barley, and of four acres of clover hay, three
loads of peas, and sundry agricultural implements, were a
mass of smouldering ruins in two hours.
MR. AUGUSTUS STAFFORD, M.P., is an inmate of the Aby-
dos Hospital, having overtasked his strength in attending to
the sick among the French troops during his passage from
Malta to Constantinople in the Etna. There were 800 soldiers
on board, and, when cholera broke out amongst them, Mr.
Stafford was unremitting in his attentions to the patients—
reading to them, writing for them, and cheering them.—press.
SEVERAL YOUNG AMERICANS, who have taken service
under the Czar, as physicians, &c., findit easier to get into
the Russian trap than out again. It is said that they cannot
resign their positions until the close of the war, lest they
should impart information to the disadvantage of their em-
ployers. Probably these young Russian-Americans will have
a juster idea of the system of government which obtains in
Russia, before they are done with the Emperor Alexander.--
Halifax (N. 8.) Church Times.
OUR PLODDING NEIGHBOURS THE Durcn have brought
their strupendous task of draining the Lake of Haarlem to a
close by the sale of the last parcels of land reclaimed. By
pumping out the water they gained 20,000 acres of excellent
land, which sold for 8,000,000 florins. The cost of the work
was 10,000,000 florins. In a few years all the outlay will be
repaid, and a handsome profit will accrue. This success has
revived that often-debated question, the drainage of the Zuyder
Zee.