The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-06-26 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

GENERAL INTELLIGEATE.

THE Vienna Garrison is to be henceforth 30,000 infantry
and cavalry.
THE shops were'all open in Kertch when the Allies went
in, and the ladies walking about.
Ax ORDER in Council appoints Western Australia as a
place to which felons and other offenders may be transported.
A FREE LIBRARY is in course of formathin at Kidderminster.;
the corporation having furnished a room for that purpose.
A GOLD COIN of the twentieth year of Charles I. was found
a few days since at Lichfield.
A QUABERESS, 100 years of age, lately preached at a meet-
ing in Southport.
Tom .Tnumn, the celebrated little great man, has been
married to Miss Vinton, of Bridgeport, Connecticut.
TAE bankrupt metal brokers, Davidson and Gordon, have
been finally committed for trial; on a charge of issuing fic-
titious warrants.

THE length of a new cable, successfully laid down between
Holyhead and Howth, by the Electric Telegraph Company, is
70 miles, and its weight 140 tons.
THE Birmingham Mercury says that an elephant, 120
years old, is to be shot this week in that town, in consequence
of extreme age and physical weakness.
ABOUT 200 eminent scientific foreigners have been invited
by the loc.tal committee to attend the meeting of the British
ASsociation' at Glasgow, in September next. •
THE British Association for the Advancement of Science
will hold its twenty-fifth meeting in Glasgow on Wednesday,
Sept. 12th, 1855.

BELLIGERENT IN VENTIVENE SS. —No fewer than 451 inven-
tions in machinery and arms have been submitted to the ord-
nance board for approval since the Ist of January.
THE Canada Government has agreed to grant £5OO to the
Agricultural Societies of Lower Canada, by way of loan, to en-
able them to furnish seeds to farmers.

A rEw days bank, a young man was drawing a charge from
a gun at Market Harborough, when it exploded, and the 'con-
tents, catching him under the chin, shattered his head to
pieces. . . _

SINGPLAt PEOPOSITION.—The director of the prison of,
Lucerne has proposed to the Grand Council to grant a pardon
to all the persons confined in that establishment, in conse-'
quence of its being so full that no more prisoners can be
received.
NaW LINE OF OCEAN STEAMERS.—The celebrated North
Star, the well-known steam yacht of Commodore Vanderbilt,
of New York, and the first of his " European Line" of ocean
steamers, has arrived at Havre, haring left New York on the
eth instant.

ONE of the most eminent among the mercantile firms of
Bristol is about to attempt the revival of the wool trade in
that ancient city, by having direct importations of Australian
wool, and establishing an open periodical market for its sale,
together with the wools of home growth. ' -
A PEW days since a girl, aged twelve years, was sitting at'.
the foot of a pile of timbet, on the Sandside, Scarborough,and
was nursing an infant, while a boy was dancing on the pile
above. A plank rolled down and knocked both the girl and
the infant into the harbour. The girl died on the following
evening from the injuries she received, but the infant escaped
unhurt.

TUE HEIR-APPARENT OF BELGlUM.—Letters feom Malta,
of the Bth June, mention the arrival there from Smyrna and
the Pirmus, on tliet morning, in the Austrian Lloyd's steamer
Vorwearts, of-their Royal Highnesses the Duke acid Duchess
of Brabant, and their departure thence, after a visit to the
governor, Sir William Reid, on the same night, for Sicily and
the continent of Italy,accompanied by a suite:4l2 persons.
ADMINISTRATION OF OATHS ABROAD.—An act, brought
from the Lords on Monday, allows ambaseadors and other
British Ministers abroad to administer oaths and perform no-
tarial 'acts ; oaths so taken may be used -in English courts.
Documents are to be received in evidence, without proof of the
seal or signature of the ambassador or Other official person.
The penalties of perjury will attach to false 'swearers.
RIOT AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE.—On Wednesday a serious
disturbance took place in the immediate-vicinity of the CryStal
Palace,.Sydenham, between the navvies•employed at the railway
and other wealts in the neighbourhood and the pollee; mie of
whom is stated to haVe died from the injuries received in the
melee, another- had his legs broken,-and several others were
seriously Mused.
THE AFRICAN STEAM COMPANY declared a dividend of ss.
per share upon-the half dear at their meeting on Wednesday.
A discussion arose as to the disastrous. loss of the Forernnner,
and it was st?lted that a sum of £8904 Os. 7d. had been paid
into 'the •Can't of Chancery to meet all claims on her account.
The company have raised their freights 5 per cent to makeup
for her ales. The company had received 1',24,700'f0i the service
of their vessels employed as transports.
AT -Warminster a man named Joseph Collins, of the neigh-
bouring village of erockerton, has been charged before the
magistrates with illegally marrying his niece. About two
months ago the prisoner put up the banns at Creckerton and
Warminster, but on its becoming -known to the • clergy that
-the woman he proposed marrying 'was his niece, the proceed-
ings were stopped. The' prisoner, however, determined -to
effect his object, and accordingly went to Frome; where, says
the--Eorset Chronicle, the marriage was celebrated at one-of
'the chapels: He was committed's-or trial.
THE season's herring-fishing is going on iii the rsorth with
vigour and success. Every working evening from fortyto
-fifty •boats are out on Gareloch, 'mid as many on ..Lochlong,
nn which are unsuccessful. -A few evenings ago several-
-visiting parties, totally unacquainted with fishing, protured a,
neteand proceeded in a row boat -to Gareloch, where they
netted from 300 to 400 fish. Two boats arrived at Greenock
on-Saturday afternoon, with from 11,000 to 12,000 fish each
The largest quantity caught, on Lochlong has been 15,000'
Je-aker, by a Greenock boat.
..DESTRUCTIVE ;"IRE.-A letter from Bergen, in Norway'
of the 2nd instant, states that on the previous night a fire
broke out in that city, by which upwards of 350 houses we:se.
destroyed; so rabidly did the fames_extend that the inmates
-were obliged to escape in their night dresses, not having time
•15c,cave a single -article. Three of -the finest districts of the
town have -been destroyed, and it.; was only by pulling down.
houses in different directions that-the other parts of the' oWn
were saved. By the exertions of the firemen, several-of. whom
are said to have been killed, the 'bourse, the hank, and the
:royal museumewere saved. The amount covered by insurance'
'i5a48,430 crOfens (about £31,500), but that sum is equal only
1-to a.-20th-part of the loss.
IRECEIPT AND DRAFT STAMPS.-011 Tuesday a reran was
: issued, showing the-number of receipt stamps sold or issued in
'England, Scotland, and Ireland. In the four quarters -ended
October last, the number of penny receipt stamps issued was
.62,320,803,-and the revenue was a 59,670. The penny 'draft
•-stamp,in the same period numbered 0,492,900, and the revenue
£27,053 15s. Only two quarters have expired since the adop-
Aion of
.penny receipt and draft stamps.• In the two quarters
ended:She 31st March last, the number was 30,806,213, and the
.revenue £128,955 3s. 4d.
Trig JUVENILE OFFENDERS (N0..2) BILL repeals sections 5
.and .6 of the 17th and 18th of Victoria, chap. 86, and-enacts
that where any juvenile offender Flail be detained in a reform-
.atory school under the act, the parent or-step-parent shall be
liable to. contribute ss. a-week to his support, if able SO to. do.
In default of payment a distress warrant will issue, or the
Tarty besent to gaol for ten days.
A. Ideate-a-Ivrea/ SAILOR and a young Englishwoman. were
suffocated with the fumes of charcoal, cn board the ship Run-
can, of Liverpool, while the vessel was hying in the Floating
Harbour, at Bristol, early on Sunday. A Malay sailor -nar-
rowly escaped the same fate. The sulphur had been Taut into
the ballast, with charcoal, and set on fire, for the purpose of
destroying rats. The hatches were fastened down, and the
crew warned against opening them, but the two melt and
wornan.got secretly on board, and went-below to sleep. -
Now Bsenoe: Excise: DursEs.-,-On-Saturday was printed,
as a government measure, a bill to impose increased rate of
duty of excise on spirits distilled in the United-Kingdom, to
allow malt, .sugar and molasses to be used duty,
,free in the
distilling of spirit; in lieu of allowances and drawback on such
spirit, sugar and giolasses respectively; and to amend the laws
relating to the- duties of excise. On and actter the first October
next the increased duty is to be, in Great Britain Bs. 2d. a gallon.
and Gs. 2d. in lieland. Malt, sugar, and molasses are to be
allowed duty free in the distillation of spirits.
OUR FLOATING BA.TTERIES:—The first -floating' battery
was tried last week a: Sheerness, and made -61.1 Ch at essential
mess of her trial thetas yet no opinion can be given of her
capabilities beyond the fact that she would neither 'steer, Wear,
nor stay under steam or canvas; that she rolled heavily in
smooth water,. and would -certainly go to the bottom in a heavy
sea; that she broke her.denkey engine, and nearly burst her
boilers in consequence; and finally, with fires out and boilers
empty, was towed_ back ingloriously by a tag steamer, and
rescued from all further danger to herself or others by- being
lashed alongside a :dockyerd bulk.
AN action for breach of promise of marriage came on in the
Court of Exchequer on Thursday—Morris v. Berry. The
chief noticeable point was that the connection between the
parties was brought about by sidvertisernent, in which Berry,
as " a solicitor with £BOO a year," stated his desire to meet
with " a young lady of evangelical principles" and somu pro-
perty.
Miss Morris was asked by another lady, her friend, to
.accompany ,iier-to an interview with the advertiser, but the '
matter ended by the solicitor taking to Miss Morris inttead
of the original applicant. He engaged himself to her, and,
fleding her education incomplete, placed her at school ; but
soon after married another lady; and the consequence to the
plaintiff was a serious fit of illness. A verdict was given for •
, .
..eOO, by consent, the defendant, however, denying the story as
.related above to be fact.

- A RANDOM SHOT.—Not very long ago an -express train drew
up at a railway station at no great distance from the Borders,
and a gentleman bearded like a pard, accompanied by alnbble-
looking lady, left a firsttclass carriage and entered a refresh-
ment-room. Just at that moment a native who had been
paying his devotions with too great fervour at the shrine of
the jolly god, was industriously emancipating an tgbrveseing
draught frog ) a task he held in his hand, and, either thought-
lessly or recklessly, directed the cork towards the face of the
distinguished-looking traveller, who jerked aside to avoid the
missile. ." Oh ! there's a fellow to stand fire," exclaimed the
spirituous hero, " You wouldn't do for the Crimea." It was
the gallant leader of the glorious six hundred who charged at
Balakhifi to i7h6M the taunt was addressed. His lordship
was returning south from Edinburgh, where 'he had been ou
duty.—Keiso Chronicle;
- DEAD BODIES from the wreck of the John continue to come
aShcre-at intervals on the Cornish coast. At Gerrans, on the
7th, the body of a full-grown male was washed on Port Ker-
nick beach, much decomposed, and could not be identified.
At Falmouth,..on the 13th, the bodies of a man and woman
were found floating near the mouth of Helford, river; the fe-
-male appeared to have been above the lower class, as she had
on the remains of a striped -silk dress, and, in a small velvet
purse tied around her neck, were gold coins, a ring, and a
-brooch. These bodies were also very much decomposed. On
'Tuesday two other bodies, one a female, and the other a man,
with his head off, were washed on shore at Cadgwith, Ruan
Miner. The owners of the John have made an arrangement
with the Board of Trade, in accordance with which they have
placed at the disposal of the Board of Trade a sum sufficient
to meet all just claims arising out of the wreck.

A RUNAWAY Bamß.—Some little sensation was created
the other day, in the vicinity of Leeds parish church, by the
eccentric conduct of a bride that was to have been. A young
couple marched down to church, dressed in their best, arid
.attended by " bridesmaids," &c., each apparently Tery well
pleasd with the contemplation of, the knot matrimonial about
to be tied. Suddenly, however, the lady's eye caught that of
an old flame, and in au instant she dropped, the arm of her
expectLnt bridegroom, and threw herself into those of her old
laver. In a trice a coach was called; and before the astonished
bridegroom had recovered his breath, his intended bride and
her newly-found lover were driving up Kirkgate at express
speed. The bridegroom shouted and ran, and the bridci,maid
ran and shouted, and both besought the intervention of the
police, but as the officer did not "know any just cause or im-
pediment" why a young woman should not change her mind,
and substitute Dick for Tom, if the whim so took her, he
:love:, the coach to rattle off, and left the jilted bridegroom
to wend biz way homewards.

PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIG-E.NCE.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

TUESDAY.

Lord LYNDHURST postponed the motion on the Vienna
negotiations, of which he had given notice for Friday.
THE EARLDOM OF SOUTHESII.—The LORD CHANCELLOR
brought in a bill to reverse the attainder at present resting on
the earldom of Southesk. Some years age a petition was pre-
sented to their lordships by Sir James Carnegie, claiming that
title, which was dismissed by the Committee of Privileges on
the ground of an attainder, but, Her Majesty having since
been pleased to signify her assent to the reversal of that
attainder, this bill was brought in for the purpose.
FRIENDLY SOCIETIES' BILL.—Lord PORTMAN moved the
second reading of this bill. The House of Commons, after
three special committees of inquiry, had agreed td the present
bill, which it was anticipated would work well and satisfactorily
to the societies.—Lord RAVENSWORTII observed that the 39th
clause, by which building societies found themselves subject to
a new fiscal burden in the shape of stamps, had created great
dissatisfacticin. He was given to understand it was not in the
power of their lordships to amend that clause, as it was one
affecting the privileges of the House of Commons, and, if the
clause was allowed to pass in its present shape, he wished It to
be understood that it was only on account of the reason he had
just mentioned. The bill was read a second time.
The Church Patronage Transfer Bill was reported with
mendments.—Thelnsurance on Lives Abatement of Income-
tax Continuance Bill, and the Cinque Ports Bill, both went
through committee—The Duchy of Lancaster Lands, and the
Militia (No. 2) Bill were read a second time.
Their lordships adjourned at ten minutes past six o'clock.