The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-09-25 00:00:00

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

IT appears that the expense of printing and stationery for
public departments for the present year will amount to
£300,470.

GOBLETS made ofquassia wood are now sold at the :leading
druggists' shopsinliew York. Water is poured into them,
which, after bag left for some minutes, is drank, as a cure
for dyspepsia.
AN inhabitant of'Corfu, who some time ago returned from
Spitzbergen after amabsence of twenty-eight years, Sound his
wife in good health,'but the widow of three husbands.
THE Towx Coralctr, OF GLASGOW propose to pavetwenty
miles of the streets of that city with the most durable descrip-
tion of granite, at a,cost of £lBO,OOO.
AT TIIE 11A3LB,IIRG THEATRE, a fountain has beenterected
in the 'Middle of the orchestra; it will play duringthe sets,
find is intended totool the house. The musicians are .arranged
on each side of it.

THE body of a respectable and wealthy female was ,found
in a house in London, on Thursday, in an advanced -state of
decomposition. It is supposed that she had been poisoned by
a sham doctor, who hail promised to marry her.

REWARD OF MERIT.—A gold medal has been awarded by
the French g9vernrnentlo Captain Corrie, of the Eng Ugh ship
Robert Finnie, of Dumfries, for having, in May last, rescued
the crew of the Louis lc,Grand, of Bordeaux.
THE QUEEN has sent check of £5O to Mr. Middleton,
station-master, at Banchery, of the Deeside railway, as a :reward
for his exertions in "expressing" the news of the fall ,of -Se-
bastopol to Balmoral
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WE have much pleasure;in observing that the Senate of•the
Brazilian Government at :Rio has approved of a bill malaing
provision for the payment of the prize-money so long due .to
Admiral the Earl of Dandonald.— United Service Gazelle.

The Vienna Press states a waterspout of a destruetitte
character occurred near Massling, in Germany, on the Sth
inst. Bridges, mills, and houses were destroyed. There are
from seventy to eighty persons missing, and forty persons have
already been found drowned.
Han MAJESTY has signified her intention of granting a
pension of £3O per annum to ithe widow of William Haigh,
,who lost his life while endeavouring to lubricate the axle of
,one of the carriages during the 'Royal journey to Scotland on
the 6th inst.
AT WARSAW, Prince Gortschakoff has been caricatured.
His likeness was lithographed thus : —From one corner of his
mouth issued " orders ;" from another, " counter-orders ;"
while upon his helmet is the word " disorder." It is not
often that Russians, and still less Poles, dare venture to act in
this way.
A WAGON laden with muslins, eaiieoes, and other articles of
the came kind, unaccountably caught fire on the road from
Rouen to Caen, on Sunday week. The whole of the goods,
ha barely
abautving" timefran to take cailvaclute,thweehmor
setens.sumed, the driver

IN consequence of the beersellers of Brussels having raised
the price.of beer from twelve to fourteen centimes, a riot took
place on ,Sunday evening last. Some of the rioters were
arrested, and are to be prosecuted. The government also
intends to prosecute the beersellers, for illegal combination.
CONTRABAND of WAR.—," A Sunderland man," writing
to a contemporary, under date of the 18th instant, says :—" At
the present time there are many thousand tons of pig iron
lying on the quays of the Sunderland Dock ; this iron is being
(and has been during the year) shipped to Stettin, The cap-
tains of the Prussian vessels say, 'We carry it to Prussia, it
then walks off to Russia.'"

SCOTTISH CENTRAL RAILWAY.-By the half-yearly report
we find that £17,150 was expended on capital during that pe-
riod. The balance due on capital is £88,406. The total re-
ceipts for the half-year were £65,066; the working expenses
£25,385. The disposable balance amounts to £25,897. The
directors recommend a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per
annum, payable on the 2nd October. The reserve fund Is
£30,192.

A VERY PRETTY ANECDOTE IS going the rounds of fashionable
"society in Paris. The Empress said to the Prince of Wales,
C should like to give you something before you leave Paris ;
can you think what it shall be ?" " A looking-glass," replied
the Prince." "And why a looking-glass ?" exclaimed the
Empress. " Because," rejoined the Prince, " I should know
it had reflected yourself; and I should prize it accordingly."
ANOTEER MURDER AT BRlSTOL.—Bristol is becoming
rather noted for serious crimes. On the 19th inst. another
case occurred. John Hale, a seaman, engaged on board a
coasting vessel, called the Cardiff Trader, was murdered by a
seaman named George Newman, who is also engaged on board
the same vessel. The deceased and prisoner had quarrelled in
a public-house, and Hale was struck with a poker on the head,
causing death in a few hours.
THE ILLUMINATION IN LEEDS.—Leeds probably (says the
Mercury) never so generally, so spontaneously, so heartily
rejoiced as it did on Monday night. The invitation of the
Mayor to the inhabitants to illuminate their houses and places
of business in honour of the downfal of Sebastopol was re-
sponded to with an alacrity and a unanimity that was little
less than marvellous. The rejoicing was confined to no sect,
or party, or class, or calling, or station—each householder,
shopkeeper, millowner, merchant, professional man, and banker,
appeared to be actuated by one spirit—the desire to do honour
to the great victory that has crowned the arms of the allies.
BANK OF ENGLAND.—On Thursday a meeting of the pro-
prietors of the Bank of England took place in the Bank
Parlour. The governor said he had to acquaint the meeting
that the present was a quarterly general court, appointed by
charter, and a half-yearly court under the bye-laws for making
a dividend. The net profits to the 30th of August last
amounted to £587,032 ss. 3d., making the amount of rest
£3,605,170 7s. 6d. After paying a dividend of £4 per cent.,
the rest would be £3,023,050 7s. 6d. The directors, therefore,
proposed a dividend of £4 per cent. on interest and profits
to the 31st of A
income tax,
ugust, without deduction on account of