The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-07-24 00:00:00

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

THE Alps arrived at Portsmouth on Saturday,from the East
with a number of officers and invalided sailors.
DR. ALLMAN has been appointed to the chair of medical
philosophy in the University of Edinburgh.
THERE is a coffee-making machine at the Paris Exhibition
which can make 500 cups of coffee in a quarter of an hour.
LONDON AND WESTMINSTER. BANK.—The half-yearly
meeting was held on Wednesday, when a dividend of 6 per
cent. per annum, with a bonus of 4 per cent., was declared.
QUEEN VICTORIA has sent £5O to the Mayor of St. Ger-
main, as a subscription towards restoring the chapel which
contains the remains of James 11.
THE Carhiel, which left Constantinople on the 12th July,
arried at Marseilles on Saturday. Her adviees from the
Crimea are to the 10th.
COLONEL MAYROL and Colonel Trobbo, Spanish Carlist
refugees, have just been arrested at Bordeaux, and expelled
from France. They have been sent to England.
ME Arabs of the pachalic of Tripoli have revolted. A
body of Turkish troops sent against them were driven back
into the city with a loss of from 1,700 to 2,000.
AT the York Assizes, Mr. Hall, the recorder of Doncaster,
has obtained £45500 damages from the Great Northern Rail-
way, for injuries received by an accident on that line.
THE Duke de Tarancon, the eldest son of Queen Christina
and the Duke de Rim:mares, died on Saturday at Malmalson.
The deceased duke was a grandee of Spain.
LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday morning, Miss
Weatherby was walking near the edge of the cliff at Broad-
stairs ; she gotgiddy, fell over a height of sixty feet, and was
killed.
THERE was no demonstration in Hyde Park on Sunday.
Carriages were warned not to enter the drive, but the excite-.
ment had evidently passed away, andthe concourse of persons
was comparatively trifling.
Balton ROTHSCHILD, during his short residence at Milan;
made arrangements, in conjunction with 'two engineers, for:
the‘construction of several miles olrailway in the neighbour-
hood.

MENDACIOUS RUSSIAN BITMOrCR.—A correspondent of that
philcr-Russian print, the Intlecpentinriote, gives currency to the
disgraceful rumour thas Lord Raglan " committed suicide 0)
on account of the failure of the TBth.'
THE BANK OP :ENGLAND have 'purchased for their West
aid branch establishment the 'mansion of the Marquis •of
Anglesea (Uxbridge House, in Burlington Gardens, Picataly,
for a sum of £45,000 or £47,600.
PRINCE NAPOLEON has caused an application to be made
to different railway companies to _induce them to organize
pleasure trains at reduced prices, in order to bring a number
of visitors to Paris to -visit the Universal Exhibition.
IN the course of the'ercavations which have for some
been going on at " Macbeth's 'Castle," on Dunsinane 11111, three
human skulls have •beent.exhumed, and also a smill.coin bear-
ing some indistinct-tracings as of armorial bearings.
Iris officially announced that the sum of money hitherto
annually devoted tothe 'celebration of the Napoleon Me. of
the 15th of August, will 'this year be consecrated to 'the Taitf
of the families orthose who have fallen in the Bet.

DR. Armor'', NapoleoWsiastmelicliaTtenatnt tat. Helena,
and for whom the Emperor cherished a strong affection, has
just died, aged.napoleon died holding Dr. Arnott2s tient
hand.
Tnn Commune .cf San Quisino, in Piedmont, has :Just
devoted itself to the Holy Virgin by a legalconveyanee in
good and due form, -.4` in presence of us, the notary Morelli
and the witnesses of this deed, &c."
THE Island of rhchkeith has been examined by, Colonel
Marryat, R.A., and Colonel Gordon, RX, with- the,View of
determining the -sites of two forts, to be situate and con-
structed as -to inflade the channels of the Perth en either
side.

Pluarcretur4.bas forced his daughter to entero nunnery,
to which •place she was escorted by alarge body of soldiers.
She is generally believed to have been the cause cf a duel
which lately 'toolr place at Jassy, in which the son of the
Hospodar wasliilled by an Austrian officer.
TATS Archbishop of Toledo has protested against the execu-
tion in his diocese of the law for the sale of ecclesiastical pro-
perty ; but the government has disregarded the protest, and
has placed an armed force at the disposal uf the-commissioner
charged to 4iffect the sale.

THE eieele says that the
_Pies in celebration oPthe Queen's
visit to Paris, will begin on August 17, and last a fortnight.
They will .inolude at the Parc of Versailles a bal aux
flambeaux, which will drive into the shade all rejoicings 6f
the kind it was so frequently the scene of in the days of the
Grand 3lonarque.
The Brittol Times is informed that it is , not an unusual
practice with some of the quay " imps" of that•city for one of
them to purposely fall into the water, and two or three of his
companions to jump in to the rescue, and thus-secure both the
benefit of the Humane Society's award mnd•the luxury of a
swim during the present oppressively warm weather.

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BRBAKFABT EXTRAORDINARY.--The Maidstone Journal,
in moticing the local swimming club, containing 79 members,
first-rate swimmers, &c., says—" The first aquatic breakfast
is to take place on Monday next, at seven o'clock, when every
member will be required to partake ,of the repast in the
river."

EXTENBE -OF DRAWING BILLs.—A return moved for by
Mr. Locke "-King, shows that the sum of £1,680 was
paid to Messrs. J. J. Lonsdale and C. S. Greaves (eB4O each)
es remuneration for drawing nine bills on:the criminal law of
England, >and £315 to the Hon. G. L. Elliot for preparing
the Bribery .and Controverted Elections Bills of the session
of 1854.

THE LATE MußDEn.—ln addition to.Jiaving raised £7OO
or £BOO, which is placed at interest for the benefit of the
widow and family of the late Charles Collard, who was shot
by Barth6l6my, whilst attempting to arrest him after the
murder of Mr. Moore, in Warren-street, London, the inha-
bitanta of thentlib Li LA have ereeLed a moncnnent to the memory
of Collard, which was, a few days ago, placed over his grave
in the new cemetery of the parish at St. Pancras, at Finchley.

TELE Cambridge Chronicle states that: the electors have
cause to suspect that Mr. Goulburn will notbe a candidate for
the University at the next election, the right honourable gen-
tleman proposing, in consequence of failing health, to retire
from public life. Mr. Cowling, the barrister, will, in all pro-
bability, be a candidate in the Conservative interest. Mr.
Cowling was. senior wrangler of his year.
A PERFUMER, who had traded as " R. and S. Gent," ap-
plied' under the 'Protection Act last week. Mr. Sargood gave
an explanation of the reason the insolvent had traded under
a plural style. ',Gent's perfumes" would have been very awk-
ward-to advertise, and when he put "R. Gent," it was mis-
taken for" Argent," and so to avoid all difficulty he took his
own and his. wife's'Christian name, and tradedas " R. and S.
Gent"

Ox the.lsth of last month an infant was lefLat the gate of
Shoreclitch workhouse at midnight in a basket, with a note
and 2s. Cd. The note said—" My husband is .gone to the
Crimea, and, please God, when he returns I still take my
child again. lam sorry that I must go to service, and I will
give 2s. 6d. a week." A second half crown has -since been
received, but no clue to the mother has been -found. The
child has since died.

A TRAGICLI, MIEITAILE IN ITALY.—The Opinione of Turin
relates the following tragical event, which occurred at Belluno
on the 25th ult.:—" Nearly all the boarders of the college
were suddeulytaken ill. The physicians called in, •thinking
they were attacked with, cholera, applied the remedies usual
with that ,disease, but .without effect, and fifty died. It
afterwards appeared from a post mortem examination that
they had been labouring under the poisonous effects of
hemlock, which had been,unintentionally used in the kitchen
for parsley."
AN unpleasant occurrence 'took place at sea on board the
Earl Balcarres, just arrived in the Thames, resulting in Cap-
tain Kennedy placing Captain John Moore, 32nd Regiment,
under arrest. Xt isztated that .a quarrel ensued between two
of the soldiers wives, and by order of Captain Kennedy one of
the women was placed in confinement; she, however, "grinned"
at the captain, and then he ordered her below ; the woman -at
the same time was enciente, and as the place she was put is
was infested with vermin, it led to a remonstrance between
the two officers, and the senior placed the other under arrest,
causing considerable ;consternation among the troops on board.
During the voyage, 24 soldiers, including 6 sergeants, died.
A CANDID THIEF.—The trial of William Holdsworth, alias
William Cross, and Thomas Cole, the accomplices of Hallett
and Vile, in the burglary at the house of Miss Hoyes, at Bit-
tern came on at the assizes on Friday. Vile, who, with
Hallett, is under sentence of transportation for life, was
brought up, and gave evidence that himself, Hallett, and the
present prisoners, had planned and ,committed the robbery.
In cross examination he aaid: "My business for the last
five or six years has been that of a thief, and I lived by no
other means. I have now come here to satisfy the ends of
justice, and I have entertained the hope that it may be for my
benefit at some time. I have been convicted before—once at
Qlowester, for picking pockets, for which I had twelve
months ; once at Portsmouth, for counterfeit coin, for which
I had twelve months. I had three months at Exeter for
doing nothing. I had three months at Winchester for an
attempt to pick a pocket, in which I did not succeed. I have
been twice in gaol at Reading, each time for two months. I
have spent a tidy time in custody. I have not told a lie, and
would not do so. I have been thieving long enough to be tired
of it." The jury found both prisoners guilty; and Holds-
worth, having struck Miss Hoyes and put a candle under her
bed, was sentenced to be transported for life; Cole for twenty
years.

- THE Dricaow FLITCH.—A curious ceremony is to take
place at Dunmow, in Essex, on Thursday next. Mr. W. H.
Ainsworth, who recently published a romance on the subject of
the renowned "Flitch of Bacon," has determined to revive
the ancient custom of rewarding loving married pairs with
the flitch they would have earned in days of yore. There is
no fear that the festival will be prevented by a deficiency of
candidates, for the Chevalier and Madame de Chatelain, and
Mr. and Mrs. James Barlow, have already come forward as
modeli of wedded love and good temper. The uninitiated
may be informed that the oath to be taken is no trivial mat-
ter, being to the effect that the claimants have not repented of
their marriage, either sleeping or waking, for a year and a
day, and that no quarrel, however slight, has interrupted the
smooth course of connubial felicity. If the ancient ceremony
is preserved with all proper solemnity, the happy pair will be
carried about on men's shoulders, in a chair kept for the pur-
pose, and the flitch will be borne on a high pole before them.
The custom seems to be at least as old as the reign of Henry
111., and we believe the last flitch was given, in 1751, to John
Shakeshaft, wool-comber, and Anne his wife, of Weathersfield,
in the county of Essex.
THE CROPS IN THE UNITED STATES.—The special; corre-
spondent of the Times gives the following encouraging ac-
count of the crops in the United States :—The farmers of the
middle and western states have housed their hay crops(more
abundant, perhaps, than ever before,)-and report a prospect of
longer and better autumn pasturage than they have had for
many years. Last year, owing to the drought, the cattle were
obliged to be fed almost before the summer was over. The
yield of hay in this section also has been doubled, perhaps
more, by the recent copious rains, and ripened by the hot sun
of the last few days ; so that our farmers look for equally
favourable. results here. The cereal crops promise equally
well. Southern Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri
have already harvested their wheat. More land has been in.
seed there than ever before (owing to the great failure last
year,) and reports say that the yield per acre has never been
surpassed. The more northern crops promise equally well.
Occasionally one hears a story of weevil, or rust, or some
other bugbear; but you may depend upon it that the great
western plains were never loaded with a more luxuriant and
promising vegetation than now. From the cotton lands, too,
I hear the same story, though there the crop is not yet far
enough advanced to predict results. It is now regarded as
settled that there will be no damaging summer rise of the
Mississippi. Rust, insects, and autumn frosts are the prin-
cipal things which the planters have to fear, lave land is in
seed with this crop also than ever before, and the pTanii,s,l now
in the north say that the promise is excellent."