The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-12 00:00:00

A DEALER who attends Bury (Suffolk) market was recently
weighed, when it was found that he exceeded the weight of
a family of nine persons, namely, thee e
and seven
children, by seven pounds.
Ix excavating for coal at the Rock' Colliery, Nippet-lane,
Burmantofts, near Leeds, the proprietors have recently dis-
covered a very valuable seam of iron ore, which is said to be
a continuation of the Low Moor seam.
THE WOOL CROP or VICTORIA.—The export of wool from
the several ports of Victoria in the year ended 10th October
last was 22,932,2911b5., showing an increase of 333,603 lbs. over
the previous year's shipments. The increase in the wool ex-
ported is fully 00 per cent. since 1851, and with the diffusion
of population, and the facilities now offered for transit to
Adelaide by the Murray River, the imports of Australian wool
may be expected largely to increase, even upon the present

production.
AN ALMOST EXTINCT CLAN.—The Stirling Journal thus
mourns over the impending fate of the Stewarts of Glenfin-
glass :—" At the back of Benledi there is a beautiful vale
called Glenfinglass, anciently a deer forest belonging to the
Kings of Scotland, and has for many generations been inha-
bited by a people of the name of Stewart, all linked together
by intermarriages. But, alas !we fear that the present gener-
ation is, in all likelihood, to be the last of a race who are to
enjoy the milk and honey of that delightful vale. They are
now reduced to six families ' • and, strange to say, there has
not been a marriage or birth for upwards of thirty years
amongst them, with the exception of one solitary case, and
that one too romantic to record."
OMNIBUS STATISTICS.—According to the report of the Me-
tropolitan Anglo-French Company, it appears that the week's
earnings of 182 omnibuses, stated at £3,503 Bs., gives (omit-
ting fractions) £lB 10s. as the sum earned by each. This, as
the expenses of working every omnibus are £l5 (including
duties, wages, horse-keep, and wear and tear), leaves a
profit, weekly, of £3 10s. on each omnibus, nearly doable
the amount of the original calculation. This result leads to
some singular statistical facts. At an average fare of 4d.
each, the £3503 Bs. gives 42,060 passengers as carried by the
182 omnibuses. These figures multiplied by 52 show the
year's passengers to be 210,440 ; but as 182 is less than one-
fourth of the 810 omnibuses running in London, the yearly
number of 'passengers conveyed in the metropolis would be

one million.
REPORTS ON 'Sun.—The Governor-General has recently
taken a remarkable step in advance. He has addressed a
circular to the five governments and the commissioners of in-
dependent provinces, requiring them to prepare an annual
report on the territories under their administration... Each of
these reports is to resemble a president's message, to contain
the history of the presidency or province for the year. It will
detail the improvements in legislation, police, education,
public works, and all other departments, after the fashion of
the report which Lord Elgin, some months since, presented
for Canada. These reports are to be immediately published in
India, and forwarded to England. They will form, in the
course of years, a complete index to the history of British
India. Meanwhile they will show the government at home
how we are getting on, enable them to estimate the Indian
rate of progress,. and, above all, permit them to decide on the
results of the different systems in force.
RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.—A return has just been issued of
the number and nature of the accidents which have occurred
on all the railways open for traffic in England and Wales,
Scotland and Ireland respectively, from the Ist of July to the
31st of December, 1855. From this return it appears that
seven persons were killed, and 204 injured from causes beyond
their own control. In the corresponding half of 1854, the
numbers were 9 killed and 259 injured. Eleven persons were
killed and 15 injured owing to their own misconduct or want
of caution, as against 15 killed and 12 injured, 1854. There
were passengers making a total of 18 killed and 219 injured,
as against 24 killed and 271 injured in 1854. Ten servants of
companies or contractors were killed, and 20 injured, from
causes beyond their own control, as against 20 killed and 37
injured in 1854; while 32 were killed and 35 injured, owing
to their own misconduct or want of caution, as against 37
killed and 11 injured in 1854. Twenty persons were killed
and 4 injured through crossing at level crossings; there were
3 suicides and 2 persons killed and 1 injured from miscellaneous
causes. The grand totals were—for England and Wales, 116
killed and 224 injured ; for Scotland, 8 killed and 56 injured ;
for Ireland, 10 killed and 6 injured; making together 133
killed and 286 injured, as against 123 killed and 334 injured
in 1854. The length of railway opened on the 31st December,
1855, was 6,218 miles in England and Wales, 1,087 in Scot-
land, and 988 in Ireland, making together 8,293 miles, as
against 8,054 for the corresponding half of 1854.
GREEK PIRATES.—The following is an extract of a letter
from Captain Shields, of the transport brig Radius, of Sun-
derland, from Constantinople, arrived at Malta, and dated
January 28 I think it proper to tell you of a circumstance
which occurred on our passage from Constantinople ; you may
give it publicity, to show the necessity of ships having fire-
arms in this quarter. Luckily for us, we had some muskets
and ammunition, which we had got while lying at Kamiesch.
On the 4th of January, at daybreak, in the Archipelago, a
Greek brig, which had passed us on the opposite tack before
daybreak, had tacked, and was not far from us when day
broke. It was a drizzling, rainy morning, calm and smooth.
Our ship had lost steerage-way, when it. was observed the
brig had put her boat out, and was coming on board of us.
I was in bed, and the carpenter came running down to tell
me. I jumped up, and told him to call all hands quickly, and
to send them to me to take each a musket and bayonet. I
loaded them in the cabin, as it was raining, and told him and
the mate to load their guns, and fire one off to let them know
that we would resist, and that we have fire-arms. They could
plainly see from their brig every man as he came out of the
cabin with them. By this time the boat was only a few yards
off; the carpenter fired a shot close to the boat, which seemed
to confound them. They gave over rowing, and a man on
board called to them in the boat, and they pulled round and
went back, hoisting up their boat, and a light northerly breeze
having sprung up, the brig made all sail and went away from
us; he even set studding-sail and rigged royal yards, which
were down before, and went right out of sight of us in a few
hours. There was nothing in sight but our two selves. There
is no doubt that he would have plundered us, if not murdered
us, had we not been armed. He would see our number as
daylight came, Our transport number might be some cause
of him giving us up as he did."—Shipping Gazette.
FIRES AT HALF-PRICE.—Clean out your grate; cover the
bottom with a sheet of paper, cut or folded to fit; place your
coals in the grate to the level of the top bar, keeping the
larger ones to the front to prevent waste. Light your fire on
the top, and allow it to burn downwards undisturbed. An
ordinary fire, prepared and lighted in this way, will, according
to the form and size of the grate, burn six, eight, or ten hours
without any renewal of coal, burning brighter and warmer
•than if lighted from below, as fires are ordinarily made. The
coal should be tolerably equal in size, something like Macadam
stone; place the large to the front, the small to the back. The
writer and his friends have made their fires as described for
some weeks, and can vouch for the "saving of coal," the cheer-
fulness and warmth, and freedom from smoke. Some grates
may present more difficulties than others, and servants object
to the innovation. It is "beggarly," it is "mean," &c. My
servants, now that they have learnt to make such fires, approve
the plan, as " the grates are not so dirty or so difficult to clean
as formerly." Think of -saving half the coal and most of the
smoke from the 300,000 house fires in the metropolis.—
Builder.
THE NOTORIOUS HIGHWAYMAN GAREETT.—lnformation
of an interesting character has been received by the city police
in connection with the above desperate criminal. It will be
recollected that Garrett was apprehended in Oxford-street, by
Jarvis, Webb, and Scott, three of the city detectives, on a
charge of being concerned in the great bank robbery at Vic-
toria. When captured, he had revolvers and a dagger upon
him, and, after undergoing several examinations, he was sent
from Newgate to Liverpool, heavily ironed, and removed from
the latter place to Melbourne in the Exodus, a cell lined with
iron having ,been fitted up on the main deck for his safe cus-
tody. An approver, named Quin, who had been concerned
with Garrett and two others in crimes of the deepest dye, re-
ceived a conditional pardon upon his undertaking to remain at
New Zealand until Garrett's trial came on. Quin's other asso-
ciates were executed, and Quin has violated the terms upon
which his pardon was obtained, having left New Zealand, and
is now supposed to be in London. The consequence has been
that Garrett has been nine times remanded by the district
court of Melbourne, as it has not been considered safe to pro-
ceed to trial in Quin's absence. Another charge, however, of
highway robbery, has been preferred against Garrett., by Mr.
Frizzle, chief .constable of Belfast, and Mr. Foster, inspector
of police at Ballarat, who have identified Garrett, by scars on
his left hand and face, as one of the daring robbers who plun-
dered the Belfast mail iu June, 1850, and was committed for
trial, but effected ,his escape from the vessel iu which he was
being conveyed to Melbourne. He then gave the name of
Codrington Jessington ; and it new appears he was convicted
of a robbery at Bendigo three years ago. Garrett now stands
committed for the Belfast mail robbery, and has been re-
manded for the Victoria Bank robbery. The detectives have
attached the booty recovered to the extent of £964, the reward
to which they are entitled.
MORALITY OP THE FRENCH PRESS.—The Paris correspon-
dent of the Manchester Guardian says :—I cannot refrain
from letting your readers into the secrets of a little affair that
has just passed here in Paris, and may serve to show what the
tone of morality is amongst some of those journalists who
liave left their own so-called "Bohemia" to attach themselvat
'to the governmental press. One of the most marked of these
-individuals is the musical critic Fiorentino, an Italian by
birth. When the Moniteur was founded, and M. Fould
assumed the overseership of it, a feuilletonist was wanted to
write on music, Fiorentino was their man; but Fiorentino
was :engaged at the Constitutionnel, and could not be had.
He himself suggested the possibility of writing under another
name, bat there was the new law just made, forbidding any
one to.criticise another, in no matter what shape or form, un-
less he signed his criticism with his own name. Bah !" said
,
M. Feuld, what does that matter ?we don't make laws to
shackle ourselves by them—Fiorentino will sign de Rovray,
and write the musical feuillitons of time Moniteur." So said
and so done.; awl" de Rovray" and Fiorentino have gone on
feeding Moniteur and Constitutional for the last two or
three years. The thing, has transpired here and there, but
Fiorentino has, for reasons you will soon understand; kept the
matter as secret as he could. Some time since Fiorentino, in
his own name and person, obtained from Madame Tedesco,
the singer of the Grand Opera, a yearly pension for
praising her upon all occasions. A short while back, how-
ever, he proposed to her to interest in her favour M. de
Rovray, his colleague of the Moniteur. "I never saw him,"
said Madame Tedesco, "J don't know him." "I know him,"
answered her interlocutor; " he never stirs out save to the
theatres. He is very modest; he will never pay you even a
visit ; but I could be your intermediary, and you would be
then sure of the Moniteur." Madame Tedesco agreed, and
half the sum paid to Fiorentino was to be paid to M. de
Rovray—" because," said the lady, " he is not so important
as you are, and therefore I only give him half what I give to
you." This went on, and Fiorentino enjoyed two pensions ;
but, unluckily, the other day some friend enlightened Madame
Tedesco, who found out how grossly she bad been cheated.
Thereupon she began by declaring to Fiorentino that she
would publish the whole. Au application was made to M.
Fould to dismiss M. de Rovray from the Moniteur; but he
laughed, and said he should do no such thing. So the affair
has been made up, and Madame Tedesco pays only one pension
at present ; but if M. de Rovray should take it into his head
to attack her, she will soon again pay two! This man
was decorated by the Emperor a month ago ; and when the
news of it was known, those among the other journalists,
such as Theophile Gautier, Jules Janin, &c., who happened to
have the legion d'honneur also, took the ribbon from their
button-hole in the lobby of the Grand Opera at the moment
Fiorentino walked in, and thrust it into their pockets, saying,
loud enough to be heard, that it was now a disgrace to be
" decori." This is no fault of Louis Napoleon's that he
should decorate such men ; but it is an unpardonable fault in
such a- man as M. Fould,that present individuals of
this stamp on the list Of those who are to receive the cross.