The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-07-31 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

AT STURMINSTER PETTY SESSIONS last week, William
Thick, of Stalbridge, was summoned for swearing several pro-
fane oaths. Defendant admitted the offence, and was fined
6s. and costs.
A SIGNIFICANT FACT.—There is so great a pressure of
business in Doctors' Commons, owing to the war, that con-
siderable delay is caused in granting probates.—Letter from
London.
A ROBBERY was recently committed in a house in Clifton,
while the family were absent at afternoon service. The thieves
left written on the kitchen table the words, " You should
watch as well as pray."—Bristol Times.
A NEWCASTLE NEWSPAPER, in noticing the state of trade
on the banks of the Tyne, says that the manufacture of Epsom
salts is pretty brisk, and that one firm alone is manufacturing
20 tons a week.
THE DIRECTORS of the East India Company have given the
necessary notice of their intention to reduce the rate of inte-
rest on India bonds from 4 per cent. to 32 per cent., from the
21st of July next.
LOLA MONTES, with a theatrical troop under her charge,
left San Francisco on the 6th of June, in a sailing vessel ( the
barque Fanny Major), bound for Australia. She will join the
stage there, and will afterwards go to Europe, via China, Cal-
cutta, and Sebastopol.
THE PITMEN of Northumberland' celebrate the birth of a
child by throwing a "luck-bag" of salt into the fire. The
other day, at Blythe Folly, a miner, who had had an addition
to his family, threw, in mistake,a bag of gunpowder into the
fire ! The house was shattered, but no one was killed.
THE Morning Herald states that in the course of a few
months we shall count our gun-boats by scores, instead of by
twos and threes. Such a fleet is building, and ordered to be
built, that within the next six months we shall have the most
effective powers for prosecuting naval warfare in all classes of
powerful ships.
MESSRS. BASS, of London, have several large vessels on
their way to Balaclava with their renowned ale and porter, of
which they purpose keeping up a floating depot of 800 tons, in
their ship Tartar, for supplying the wants of the army at a
very trifling advance upon London retail prices.
A PARTY OF NEGROES, dressed in the newest style of
Parisian fashion, are now visiting Paris. These ebony gentle-
men are functionaries at the Court of his Imperial Majesty,
Faustin I.—better known as Soulouque. Among them are
General Count Eloa, senator, Grand Chancellor of the Empire
of Haiti ; Viscount Elba, his son ; Baron • Simom, senator ;
and the Count de Val, senator.
BY the death of Mrs. Ferguson, in East Lothian, Lady
Mary Christopher, or her husband, Mr. Christopher,
her right, will succeed to an estate, the rental of which was
last year £38,000. Mr. Christopher has also in Lincolnshire
estates to the value of £14,000 a year in right of his wife, for
which he takes the name of Christopher. His original name
was Dundas, and he will now have to take the name of
Nisbet.
THE Rev. S. Sunderland, vicar of Penistone (and rural dean),
left home on Wednesday morning, in company with the Peni-
stone schoolmaster, to go by an excursion train to Chatsworth
and Haddon Hall. On leaving the train at Rowsley Station,
the rev. gentleman got into a cab, but the horses were restive,
and, thinking it unsafe, he got on the top of an omnibus,
which,before he had proceeded far, ov erset,and precipitated him
on to the road. Ile died a few hours-afterwards.
EXCHANGE OF COLONIES WITH FRANCE.—A rumour is
current throughout the West Indies of a contemplated transfer
of Dominica and St. Lucia to Prance, iu exchange for the
French colony of Chandernagore in the East Indies. The
Antigua and other colonial papers have given free circulation
to this rumour, adding that the matter is under consideration
of both governments, and will shortly be concluded, but they
'cannot trace it to anyregular fonndation.—Morning Chronicle.
MADRID has been shocked by a frightful visitation to one
family of cholera. On the night of the 11th, Lieutenant-
General Schelly, who has been living for some time in the
neighbourhood of Seville, his daughter, his two sisters, his
'head servant, the wife of the latter, and three domestics, all
died from this dread plague. At the departure of the courier
the wife of the deceased general, his mother, and his brother,
the Marquis of Villa-Vilvestre, were in a state of agony not to
be described.
THE Lim Lours.--It is the love of mischief, we suspect,
which is still strong 4n Lord Lyndhurst, rather than a pas-
;ion for law reform, that inspires his attacks on so defenceless
an object as the Lord Chancellor. Nothing has been done,
no doubt ; no doubt, there is something whimsical in the half-
reasons which that dignitary gives for >his own inability to
legislate : and it is not perhaps a mere vulgar error that the
Solicitor-General alternately thwarts and tyrannises over a
superior whose :powers he despises and whose temper is too
gentle to resist. All that can be-said howeveristhat, so long
as the two men are 'kept in their present relative position,
somebody else ought to be charged with the duty of finding
rational employment for the House of Lords.— The Guardian.

THE RIGIfT OP FOOT FASSENGEES.—In the course of a
trial before Mr. Justice Coleridge, on Saturday, where a
widow sued for damages, her husband having been run over
and killed by an omnibus, the learned judge-said he 'wished to
ntake an observation. There was one thing it was really right
to state. When passing along a street, the side pavements
were for foot passengers, and the centre of the street was for
carriages, and those persons who wished to cross were bound
to watch their' opportunity—to use due care and caution; but
at the end-or corner of a street, .if a foot passenger wished to
cross, it should be known that the centre of the-street be.
longed as,much to the foot passenger as to the carriage, and
he had as much right to tell the-driver of a carriage to wait
for him as for the driver to make him wait.

A MOTHER SELLING HER BAH-Y.—One day last week, a
woman, named Mary Green, who stated she was a native of
Bedwin, -Suffolk, left her lodgings in Barnsley with her
female child, four months old, and returned in. the evening
without it. These circumstances coming to the knowledge of
Mr. Woodruff, constable, the •woman was taken into custody
on suspicion. She was asked to account for her missing
child, and then stated that a shopkeeper at Silkstone had
offered her a sovereign for it, and that she had accepted the
sum and-sold the baby. On the officer going to Silkstone lie
found this statement to be correct, and that the infant had
been purchased for the sum named, by Mr. J. Berry, clothier.
Mr. Berry is a married man, but has no children. The affair
created =considerable excitement amongst the villagers, who
assured the constable that the child would be well treated by
its new parents. The mother of the infant stated that her
husband was lame and could not work, and she was unable to
nourish the child.

ROYAL ASSENT.—The Royal Assent was given by Commission
on Monday to the following bills:—Lady Raglan and Lord
Raglan Annuities ; Endowed Schools (Ireland); Gold Wedding
Rings ; Commons Enclosure (No. 2) ; Spirits (Ireland) Act
Amendment ; Friendly Societies • Dublin Carriage Act
Amendment ; Christ Church (Yrodinorden) Marriages 'Vali-
dity ; Burial-grounds (Scotland) • Bills of Exchange and
Promissory tes ; Waveney 'Valley Railway ; Edinburgh
and Glasgow Railway ; Wisbeach Port • Bolton and Nightin-
gale Road:; Royal Medical Benevolent bollege •, Londonderry
and Coleraine Railway ; Cavendish-bridge and Hull and Ward
Road ; Dagenham Docks ; London Necropolis and National
Museum ; 'Honiton Road ' • East of Fife Railway ; Gateshead
and Hexhasn Roads ; Portsmouth Railway ; Shrewsbury Im-
provement ; Great Northern London Cemetery ; Mid Kent
and North Kent Railway ; .Barrow Harbour ; Birken-
head and Liverpool Dock (Trust) ; Property of Birkenhead
Dock Trustees ; England and Ireland Improvement Commu-
nication ; Furness Railway ; Liverpool Docks ; South Stafford-
shire Railway, Livesey's :Estate ; Pedder's Divorce ;
Cromarty Estate ; Hammond's Estate; Livesey's (Blackburn)
Estate.
A COLOURED SISTER Or MERCY AT BALAELAVA.—A
letter from the. Crimea says :—" We have at present a lady of
colour in Balaklava, and occasionally in camp, who is quite an
original in her way, and an amusing specimen of the adapta-
bility to circumstances of the darker specimens of the genus
homo. She is both a Miss Nightingale and a Soyer in her
way. A native •of Jamaica, she has travelled extensively on
the American continent, and has acquired great experience in
the treatment of eases of cholera and dkarrhcea. Her powders
for the latter epidemic are now so renowned, that she is con-
stantly beset with applications ; and it must be stated, to her
honour, that she makes no charge for:her powders. She is
often seen riding out to the front witlr-baskets of medicines
)f her own preparation, and this is particidarly the case after
In engagement with the enemy. Her. culinary powers are
aso so great that eveusSoyer told her the other day she knew
asmuch about cookingas himself. Mrs. Seacole is, moreover,
a lighly intelligent woman, and a further proof that the race
froii which she sprang ;is one capable of high intellectual
deveopment. She may ,well exclaim with Othello—

" Mistake me not for my complexion—
The burnished livery of the golden sun."

A lwrirr.—General Pelissier has just presented to the
librarylf Algiers a volume of the :History of the Life of
Ohrist, which was taken in the chapel Of the,cemetery of
Sebastop)l. It is in the Slovenian language; and in the folio
form, is bound in the ancient style, and gilt, and has two clasps
in copper. On the top cover, in a gilt 'wreath, are the three
personaget of the Trinity. On one of the blank leaves is
written in Russian, " This book belongs to the Church of the
Saints •of te Cemetery ;" and lower down, " Month of
December—the priest Altin Bringin was here the 27th Decem-
ben,
1827." The whole life is divided into twelve parts, one
for each moat' ; and the volume in question comprises the
part for .the month of December. 'The 'book was panted
at Moscow, and the paper is of a grayish colour. The titles
of the chapters and the first letters of each paragraph.are in
red ink, and dis gives it the appearance of the earlier pro-
ductions of the typographic art. The bottoms of the.pages
are worn from constant use, and some of the pages are so dirty
as to warrant the belief that the Russian clergy are not
rigorously required to officiate with clean hands ; while other
pages are stained with drops of yellow was which evidently
fell from the candles which it is the custom to burn in honour
of the saints. General Pelissier, in transmitting the book to
the library of Algiers, wrote the following lines, and they
have been pasted in one of the fly leaves :—" Headquarters
before Sebastopol, 9th of June, 1855. History of the Life
of Christ. Taken in the chapel of the cemetery of Sebasto-
pol, where victory carried us. The sacred objects and several
other things were conveyed to the monastery of St. George,
but this book was reserved by him who had the discretionary
power, in order that it might be presented to the library of
Algiers. It is in the Slovenian language and printed in the
Blavonian characters.—Pelissier."

THE WEIL•RNOWN DR. VERON, for some time chief owner
and editor of the Constitutionnel, formerly a seller of quack
medicines, lessee of the Opera, ournzet by profession, a sort
of factotum or French Barnum in notoriety and universality—

and humbug ! published lately, as all the world, or at least- all
Paris, knows, his memoirs, under the title of " Memoires d'un
Bourgeois tie Paris." The book is a compound of twaddle, of'
gossip occasionally amusing, and of plentiful abuse of the
author's enemies and praise of his friends. Worthless as the
production is, its gossip and scandal combined have procured
for it the honour of a second edition, to which appears pre-
fixed the following characteristic letter from Louis Napoleon,
addressed to the doctor on receipt of a former copy of the
work, and in grateful memory of " the traveller's dinner at an
inn," and former "relations" between the parties ;—" Palais
des Tuileries, Bth March, 1855. My dear Mons. Vdron,—l
have received with pleasure your " Memoires d'un Bourgeois
de Paris," and I shall read the two last volumes especially
with so much the more interest, as they resume the faithful
souvenirs of a man who has seen much, who has judged
soundly, and related without passion. Do not doubt that it
will be extremely agreeable to me to find once more, in the
writer who is collecting useful materials for the history of our
times, the same man whose disinterested sympathy afforded
me in days of difficulty the important support of one of the
principal organs of the press. Receive my sincere thanks,
and believe in my good wishes, NAroLEoN."—No one can
accuse Louis Napoleon of turning his back upon old friends;
and, whatever may be thought of the letter in other respects, it
cannot be denied that it required no small courage in a French
Emperor to allow of the publication of such an epistle, ad-
dressed
to his friend Wron, in Ms own satirical capital.—
Guardian,

THE Gazette de Lyon states that, a few days since, a man,
121 years of age, passed through that city, accompanied by
his two nephews, on his way to Savoy, his native country.
This man had passed SO years at the Bagne, from which he
has just been released !
AN ACTION for libel, brought by Mr. Rudgard, an alder-
man of the Lincoln Corporation, and Mr. Brogden, the Mayor,
who is also proprietor of the Lincolnshire Chronicle, was
tried at Lincoln on Friday. The action arose out of a claim
made to waste lands by the plaintiff; and an insinuation was
made in the Chronicle that he had but " confused notions of
the important matters of meson and Mum." The jury found
for the defendant.
THE Grand Duke of Tuscany has released the unfortunate
cigar maker, Cecchetti, who was sentenced to a year of impri-
sonment for reading the Bible in company with the members
of his own family. The Marquis of Normanby had interested
himself on behalf of Cecchetti, and the Grand Duke has now
remitted the remainder of the sentence on condition of Cec-
chetti absenting himself from Tuscany during that time, and
he is now in Genoa.
SINGULAR WHIRLWIND.—On the afternon of Friday last.
there was observed in one of the plantations at Abbotsford
a whirlwind, running alonglike a dark furrow, shaking and
twisting the branches as if it had been some aerial monster
seeking to suck the trees from their classic ground. The
same phenomenon was seen in the plantations at Dryburg,
shortly before the thunderstorm which broke over the dis-
trict.—Scottish Record
MR. PENNETHORNE, the architect, makes an ominous re-
port on the state of the public offices in Dawning-street. He
describes the whole of them as ricketty. " The Colonial Office
(says he, speaking before the fall of Lord John,) is worse than
the Foreign Office." The latter "is propped or tied up in va-
rious parts :" and, adds the architect (for the admonition of
Lord Palmerston,) "the First Lord of the Treasury's Office is,
though in appearance strong, in reality in a more dilapidated
condition than the others."
SIAM.—I think it is likely a Siamese ambassador will next
year visit the Court of St. James. The gorgeous splendour of
the Court of Bangkok (as we have seen it) exceeds belief.
When I can find time I propose to write an account of my
visit and of Siam. It is a country of wonderful beauty, great
resources, various productions ; and Bangkok will, I trust,
become again what it once was—one of the largest emporiums
in the eastern world, following only Calcutta and Canton.—
Letter from Sir John Bowring.
ALEXANDER MURRAY, a cooper, while walking in the
neighbourhood of Sinclair Castle, was attacked on Friday
night by a detachment of weasels, some fifty in number,
which issued from beneath a furze hedge in a field. He kept
them at bay with a fishing-rod, while they were making
vicious springs at his person. He managed to kill two of the
pack, and struck some others, which made them retreat to
their holes. The same vermin had previously attacked a
shepherd and his dog.—John o' Groat Journal.
FAILURE Or A GOVERNMENT TRAINING SCHOOL.—The
Kneller-hall School, after a large expenditure, has completely
failed. From different sources we find that the building,
estimated at £lO,OOO, has cost the country £41,000. The ex-
penditure for five and a half years has been £21,000. A lec-
turer on English history and literature at £5OO per annum,
was one of the trainers of these teachers for pauper schools !
The number of students admitted was 120. Of those who
have left, 19 are not now teachers at all, 15 are in other
schools, and only 49 are in workhouse and penal schools.
Swiss SENTENCE.—A sentence recently passed in Swit-
zerland upon a man found guilty of sacrilege, shows consider-
able ingenuity in the art of punishment. The criminal is to
be exposed for a quarter of hour in the iron collar used at exe-
cutions, and under the surveillance of the executioner ' • to re-
ceive publicly sixty strokes of the rod, from the hand of the
same dread officer ; five years of hard labour ; to remain ten
years within the boundary of his native commune'; never to be
able to marry, and to lose all civil and political rights ; to pass
through certain religious exercises ; and, finally, to confess his
crime in the church—a rod in his hand and a cord round his
neck ! The tribunal from which his sentence proceeds is that
of Obwald.
AFFECTING INCIDENT;-011 Wednesday week, a woman,
her husband, and child, were travelling to Weston•super-
Mare by a train. When near Ashton, the child, which had
been leaning against the door (the latter suddenly opening),
fell out of the carriage, to the horror of all who witnessed it.
The woman, with a scream, was about to jump after it, when
her husband and some of the passengers near restrained her,
and fortunately so, as the train was going at full speed. The
agonising doubt of the poor parents until the train stopped at
Nailsea may well be imagined. From Nailsea, the husband
went back the line in search of his child, when he found it in
the care of a woman, who had seen it fall out of the carriage,
and, wonderful to relate, was only a little bruised about the
face.—Bath Chronicle.
Loss OF ANTIQUITIES FOR THE FRENCH NATIONAL
MUSEUM.—We regret to state that letters from the East
inform us that the greater part of the very fine collection of
antiquities made by Mr. Place and Mr. Fresnel, at Babylon,
have beendost just above the confluence of the Euphrates and
the Tigris, between the villages Lechian and Kornah. The
last advices state that they were several feet under the alluvial
soil, into which they had sunk in four fathoms of water. We
hear that Mr. Holland, commander of the Hon. East India
Company's steam-ship Comet, repaired to the spot, sent down
divers, and used every exertion to recover them, but without
success. Of the whole of this magnificent collection only two
rafts, containing 15 sculpture figures and one large bull,
reached Bussorah in safety.
DESTRUCTION OF AN ELEPHANT.—The large elephant, 120
years of age, late the property of Mr. Wombwell, being incapa-
ble of locomotion from diseased feet, the present proprietor
gave directions for its destruction in the easiest manner pos-
sible. Accordingly, Mr. E. Price, 'veterinary surgeon, and Mr.
Flewitt, chemist, of Birmingham, on Friday, proceeded to carry
his wishes into effect. In 10 minutes from the application of
chloroform the animal became totally insensible; prussic acid
was then administered without effect, and two large doses of
strychnine without producing any perceptible feeling of pain.
Not succeeding in these endeavours, a continuous application
of chloroform was made, in the hope that the animal might oink
under it, but, after three hours' perseverance in this course, no
difference of respiration being observed, the administration was
stopped, and in one hour and a-half all effects of it had passed
away. The only known means of 'destruction left were the
knife and•the bullet. The latter was first tried (the animal
again being chloroformed) and wounded a branch of the carotid
artery, from which blood flowed in a tolerably sized jet. The
opening was then enlarged with a knife, and the artery fully
divided. In a few minutes the huge animal ceased to live,
having died without a struggle, or evidencing the slightest
feeling of pain.
RUssIAN ESTIMATE or LORD RAGLAN.—The following ex-
tract from a4etter dated St. Petersburg, published in Le Nord,
shows how Lord Raglan was appreciated by the Russians :
" Lord Raglan," says the letter, " has died. During the entire
period of the command of this noble general he succeeded in
conciliating the esteem and respect not only of those with
whom his nation was allied, but also of.the enemy to whom he
was opposed. He was one of the last of the heroes of that
glorious English army which, under the command of the Duke
of Wellington, illustrated the English name on -so many battle
fields, and of which the few remaining veterans bore on their
'breasts, till lately, the honourable tokens. Lord Raglan was
on several occasions distinguished by the late Emperor Nicho-
las, as also by the reigning emperor. He will be personally
regretted in Russia by all who had an opportunity of knowing
and appreciating the nobleness of his sentiments and the up-
rightness of his character. As a subject he performed his
1, duty by obeying the command of his sovereign, and as .a soldier
by valiantly defending the honour of his flag; but even in the
execution of his duty he preserved unblemished to his death
his own personal dignity and that of his country. He has
fallen, like so many others, a victim to this disastrous war.
Honoured be his memory, and respected be his grave ! which
will be as sacred on the soil of Russia as on that of England;
and, while pointing to:it, no Russian will refuse-to say—Siste,
,viator,heroem, cakes."

Tin HoN. FECimic VlLLiEns.—The case of Wright v. Lord
Maidstone came before Vice-Chancellor Page Wood, on Mon-
day. It was a bill filed by the plaintiff for the purpose of
recovering from -the defendant the amount of a bill of ex.
,cban_ge for £lOOO, drawn:by the Hon. Francis Villiers upon,
and,accepted by, the defendant, and discounted by the plain-
-tiff. The bill alleged that there had been several renewals of
the original bill of exchange.; that, in October, 1854, the bill
then running was renewed for three months; that when that
'bill .became due the drawer brought to the indorsee a bill in
renewal of it, purporting to be signed by the defendant; that,
thereupon, the old bill was given up to the drawer, and was
cancelled or „destroyed ; that the renewal bill turned out to be
a forgery. The bill had attached to it an affidavit, as in the
case of asking to sue upon a lost instrument, and offered to
indemnify the defendant against.any loss which might occur
in the event of the bill alleged to have been destroyed being
at any time presented for payment. To this bill there was a
general demurrer for want of equity. The Vice-Chancellor
said that, in the ease of a destroyed bill, there never was any
difficulty in going at law, and, therefore, the Court of Chan-
cery had never interfered. The demurrer must, therefore, be
allowed, but he would give leave to amend.
FATAL TRUNDRRSTORMS.—On Monday evening Halifax
and neighbourhood were visited by a very heavy storm of
thunder and lightning., accompanied by a fall of rain which
completely flooded the town and adjacent country, doing a
vast deal of damage, and causing the death of a man named
Jenkinson, alias Wooleijenk, who was swept away by thee,
torrent at Waterside, which threw down the walls of a house
in Water-lane, occupied by Mr. C. Wilkinson. A child, about
eleven years of age, who was in bed at the time, was also
killed. At Bottoms, a logwood mill was emptied of its con-
tents, and thirty tons of wood washed away. The accounts
.from the neighbouring villages, especially in the northwest
direction, tell a long tale of mishaps and loss. At Queenhead
much injury was inflicted. Messrs. J. Foster and Son, of
that place, are said to have sustained a loss to the amount of
£l,OOO. Derby and the neighbourhood were also the scene
of the force with which the storm raged for several hours.
At the Derby railway-station the thunder and lightning were
awfully terrific, and in some places the rails were under
water. At Loughborough and Leicester the storm was
unusually violent ; and at Ockbrook the rain descended in
torrents for four hours. At Smalley the lightning struck the
house of Mr. J. Wright. The electric fluid entered the room
in which Mr. and Mrs. Wright were, and hurled them from
side to side ; but they were not seriously hurt. At Helper
the Union Workouse sustained some injury; and at Chevin a
cow was killed by the lightning.
DAMAG-118 FOE RAILWAY COLLISION.--At York assizes, on
Friday and Saturday, was heard the action preferred by Mr.
Hall, the Recorder of Doncaster, against the Great Northern
Railway Company, to recover compensation for the serious
injuries received by him while travelling from Leeds to
Doncaster on the 3rd of January last, for the purpose of
holding his sessions at Doncaster. The danges were laid at
£10,500. The counsel for the plaintiff)" after giving an
account of the accident, went on to state that Mr. Hall was
carefully conveyed to the house of Mr. Teale, an eminent
surgeon in Leeds, when it was found that the right thigh
bone, at the point where it meets the knee joint, was broken
in various places ; and one result was that at this moment, and
so it would be to the end of Mr. Hall's life, that leg was about
half an inch shorter than the other. The otherleg also was broken
immediately below the knee, and both the arms were broken.
It was about three months before he could leave his room, but
at present he seemed to be restored to a very considerable
degree of health. Besides personal injury, however, Mr.
Hall's professional career had been damaged by the occurrence.
He had lost two assizes, three terms, and one important year
of his practice. In 1854, Mr. Hall's income was about
£1,200, and this year, owing to his increasing practice, he
estimated that his income would have been £2,000. £5OO
for Mr. Teale, the surgeon who attended him, would be very
moderate remuneration indeed. To establish a case of negli-.
gence on the part of the company, two civil engineers
were called, who gave evidence tending to show that the acci-
dent was caused by the " facing points" near the place not
having a man to attend to them, and by the train being
pushed instead of drawn. Witnesses were then called to
prove there was no negligence, and that the disaster was
purely accidental, The jury gave £4,500 damages.

AN addition of 400 German recruits was made to the
Foreign Legion, at Thorncliffe, on Thursday.
THE banking establishment of Messrs. Strahan, Paul, and
Bates, in the Strand, has been purchased by the directors of
the London and Westminister Bank for the sum of £20,000.
• UPWARDS of £30,000 of sugar duties were paid at the
custom-house, Greenock, on Saturday and Monday, in con-
sequence, it is supposed, of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's
late speech on the subject of the expense of carrying on the
war exceeding his estimates.
PRIZE MONEY.—The Gazette publishes a royal proclama-
tion, which orders that all officers and crews of British vessels
of war who shall be sent in charge of any ships which shall be
hereafter detained by any British vessels of war, shall share
in any prizes captured in their absence by the ship on the
books of which they may be borne at the time of such prizes
being captured, in all respects as if they had been actually on
board of such vessel at the time of such prizes being captured
by her.

GREAT JEWEL ROBBERY.—On Monday morning, between
two and three o'clock, the premises of Messrs. Barber and Co.,
jewellers, of Cheapside, London, were .entered by thieves, and
a large quantity of gold watches and other jewellery, amount-
ing to upwards of £2,000, were carried away. The robbery
consists of 400 gold rings, set in diamonds, emeralds, and
rubies, diamond necklaces, 158 gold watches, 43 silver watches,
100 and upwards of gold Albert and brequet chains, 50 gold
pins, diamond studs, gold brooches, &c.
THE FAILURE OF STRAHAN, PAUL, AND BATES.—OH
Wednesday, Sir J. D. Paul, Mr. Strahan, and Mr. Bates were
again brought up at the Bow-street Police-court, London.
No further evidence was adduced, and they were again
remanded till Wedne'sday next.—An examination meeting in
the Bankruptcy-court took place iu London, on Thursday.
The Marquis of Westminster was present. The bankrupts
were in attendance, but were not examined, and one or two
creditors, who wished for information in reference to certain
securities, were recommended to put themselves in communi-
cation with the solicitors. It was said a dividend would be
declared on the 13th of October.

SINGULAR TELEGRAPH ERROR.—The Independance Beige
has a curious story of a mischance which nearly befel General
Castellan, at present commanding the army of Lyons. He re-
ceived a telegraph message from Paris, in which, by the sub-
stitution of que for de, the " death of the Emperor" was
announced, instead of that of a distinguished companion in
arms. General Castellan, it is said, after some hesitation, de-
cided to dictate to his soldiers a 'proclamation full of noble
sentiments and sympathies, but in which, regarding the army
as the only palladium of order and of society in Paris; he traced
out as their first duty that of acknowledging the head of the
elder Bourbon "as the saviour and sovereign of France." The
error, it is said, was discovered in good time, but not before
the proclamation had been submitted to several of the superior
officers at Lyons. The Emperor, it is said, only smiled when
he heard of the affair.

ON TUESDAY, before the Hyde-park Disturbances Com-
mittee, Sir R. Mayne was called as the first witness on behalf
of the police. He•gave the details of his orders as to taking
up their stations, &c. " Any persons making a noise, shout-
ing, frightening horses,•or creating disturbances, were to be
cautioned, and if they did not desist, to be taken into custody.
The prisoners were to be taken in cabs." Half-hourly reports
were sent to him from the park ; and he wrote at half-past
four, in answer to Inspector Hughes, " Now act vigorously in
compelling all rioters to move up the road." At five o'clock
he wrote, All persons shouting at the carriages to be re-
moved from the railings." With regard to the injuries done
to the police, Sir R. Mayne stated there was one struck in the
back with a stone, one knocked down by a blow on the head
and slightly cut, one thrown down and slightly injured, one
had his eye blackened, forty-five were assaulted, seven kicked,
twenty-five struck with stones, and thirteen with sticks.
LORD SHAFTESBURY'S RELIGIOUS WORSHIP BILL, which
has now passed the lords, after reciting in the preamble the
law as laid down in the 52nd George 111., chap, 155, enacts as
follows :

" I. From and after the passing of this Act, nothing contained
in the above-mentioned Act shall apply to the congregations or
assemblies hereinafter mentioned, or any of them ; that is to say,
(l.) To any Congregation or assembly for religious worship
held in any parish of any ecclesiastical district, and con-
ducted by the incumbent or curate of such parish or dis-
trict, or by any person authorised by him :
(2.) To any congregation or assembly for religious worship
meeting in a private dwelling house, or on the premises
belonging thereto:
(3.) To any congregation or assembly for religious worship
meeting occasionally in any building not usually appro-
priated to purposes of religious worship.
And no person permitting any such congregation to meet as
herein mentioned in any place occupied by him shall be liable to
any penalty for so doing.
"11. So much of an Act passed in the second and third years
of King William the Fourth, chapter one hundred and fifteen, as
enacts that her Majesty's subjects professing the Roman Catholic
religion, in respect to their places for religious worship, shall be
subject to the same laws as the Protentant Dissenters are sub-
jected to, and so much of an Act passed in the ninth and tenth
year of her present Majesty, chapter fifty-nine, as enacts that her
Majesty's subjects professing the Jewish religion, in respect to
their places for religious worship, shall be subject to the same
laws as Protestant Dissenters are subject to, shall be respectively
read as applicable to the laws to which Protestant Dissenters in
England are subject for the time being after the. passing of the
Act." _

—THE NEW BEER ACT.—On Thursday, the committee re-
assembled, and agreed to report to the following effect :—"The
committee find that, owing to the late period of the session at
which they were appointed, and the short time still remaining
at their disposal, it has been impossible to carry the inquiry to
its full extent. The committee are convinced by the evidence
already produced (and which is of a character entirely to be
relied upon), that the act of last session, restricting the sale
of beer and liquors during certain hours of the Sunday, has
been attended with unnecessary inconvenience to the public.
The committee, in consequence, feel it their duty to recommend
to the consideration of the house an amendment of the Sale
of Beer Act of 1854, which will admit of the opening of li-
censed houses from one to three o'clock, and from five to eleven
o'clock in the afternoon of Sunday, and the other days named
in the act. The committee are further of opinion that it
would be desirable to omit in clause 1 of the act the words
bona fide,' as useless for the purpose of definition and tending
to create doubts as to the intention of the legislature." A
clause was, we understand, proposed but not persisted in, to
the effect that the subject was of sufficient importance to justify
the renewal of the committee in a future session, and the
words " has been attended with unnecessary inconvenience,"
were substituted for " calculated to cause very considerable in-
convenience." On a discussion of the question as to whether
the committee " felt it their duty unanimously to recommend
the matter to the immediate consideration of the house," the
words "unanimously" and "immediate" were agreed to be
omitted.

TAXES ON DOMESTIC SEEVANTS.—A writer in the Times,
in allusion to the letter of a previous correspondent, complain-
ing that " the well-paid, well-fed, and easily-worked class of
4uhpapme rb
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and
, bgurotloemrss, g
,groomseoefpetrhse,
and female cooks, are not taxed to the income-tax under sche-
dule D," says, " I entirely concur with ' Omega,' that this
very numerous body are fit and proper persons to bear the
burden and heat' of the tax collectors' visitations. I have,
during the last eighteen years, been employed in trading with
the aristocracy through their upper servants, and am prepared
to state my conviction that many thousands of such persons,
whose wages vary from 50 to 100 guineas per annum, exclu-
sive of lodging, light, firing, and food, as those who ought, at
a time like this, to put the shoulder to the wheel beside the
small and hard-worked trader, who, by his position, comes
within the grasp of the assessor more readily; for I think no
one can deny that 50 guineas and board and lodging are quite
equal to the assessable point which the government tax com-
mences at, without once thinking of numberless other sources
of an upper servant's income in the shape of perquisites, pre-
sents, allowances, &c. I throw out this hint to the authori-
ties, and would suggest that the best method of carrying it
out would be to ascertain from my lord,' or Sir James,'
through the medium of his return paper, the wages paid to his
domestics, and bring all those into charge whose nominal
wages are £5O, or near it, believing that this would be a plan
which would materially add to the return under the head of
taxes.' "

THE TURKISH SULTAN AND THE ENGLISH ARMY.—
The following is a translation of the autograph letter ad-
dressed by the Sultan to the late Lord Raglan, thanking him
for the services of the English army. An autograph letter of
a similar tenor was addressed at the same time to General
Pelissier

ati:dalmt3h,yeeftoaLnhroeceixoyaltein:lfvr,u—o. The Queen, my august and intimate ally, has sent
To LORD RAGLAN.
you to defend my cause, which, being a just and legitimate one,
becomes the cause of the whole civilised world. You, and the
brave army which.you command, have responded to the expec-
tations of your country and of mine. You have deserved general
admiration by your glorious exploits in a trying climate. The
new feats of arms you have just added to the many brilliant
actions performed in the Crimea, together with my soldiers, whom
I love as my own children, rive me the hope of a definite and
proximate result, which will be as glorious for these great allied
nations as the commencement of the campaign. 1 experience a
feeling of higher satisfaction that a thing so terrible as war should
have been the means of uniting my people with the great nations
of.the west by indissoluble bonds. As long as the noble thirst
for glory will make the human heart beat, those who have struggled
with fraternal emulation, those who have mixed their blood
together on a foreign soil, will remember companions whom
they regarded as brothers. That which has hitherto been the
scourge of mankind, will have procured the satisfactory result of
bringing nearer to each other the people whose governments were
already allies; this war will bear the germs of a durable peace,
rich in wholesome fruit, between nations who desire to appreciate
one another. Being desirous to offer to the brave combatants in
the Crimea a proof of my lively satisfaction, a public testimony of
my gratitude, I have charged my aide-de-camp, General Etliem
Pasha, to bring you this letter. I flatter myself with the hope,
my lord, that all the brave officers and soldiers under your orders
will be convinced that we make no distinction between any of the
soldiers fighting for the common cause, and that the affection I
feel for them finds an echo in the heart of the whole population
of Turkey, which rejoices to recognise in them the most ancient
saullciecsesosf, manydetmophiarev.e
yolupirnayliGisohdotloy give you the most glorious
" Palace of Tcheragan, the 12th Schewal, 1271."
PERILOUS FLOOD.—On Wednesday, about two o'clock, p.m.,
a torrent of water broke suddenly into the works now in pro-
gress for deepening and rebuilding the Fleet sewer, opposite
Clerkenwell, London. A temporary canal had been cut from
a point a hundred yards up the stream to carry the water past
the position of the working to a point fifty yards below. A
weir eight feet high has been constructed to turn the stream
into the temporary channel. This had been damaged by the
floods two weeks ago, but was now strongly piled and but-
tressed. Before it could overflow it turned aside a body of
water which ran on a descent six feet deep, by twelve or four-
teen wide, and this torrent rolled over a fall of several feet
into the former bed of the sewer. It rolled in such a body
on Wednesday about two o'clock. The rains of the past week
had swollen the ancient Fleet rivulet, but up to the instant of
peril, no,danger was apprehended. Either an unusual discharge
from the Hampstead and Highgate or other reservoirs, or
heavier rains than fell about Clerkenwell, had fallen within
the area of the north-west drainage, and sent down an
unexpected flood. From thirty to forty bricklayers, with
other labourers, were in the dry channel, building piers for
the arches, or digging foundations, carrying materials on
narrow ladders and planks— men above men, in the intri-
cately busy working hive—no means of escape but by one or
two narrow ladders ; when suddenly the labourers highest on
the planks cried that the flood had risen above the weir. It
rolled over, brought down a portion
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came roaring and crashing down the dry channel. The men
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which. were,lodged ..backward towards Bing's-cross follow
to destruction; The imminence of danger for a brief space
came the panic. The weir did not give way. The men above
assisted the men below, and they stood in safety, with many
strangers, attracted by their cries for help, to see the flood
washing away the new brick-work, but otherwise doing no
harm,