The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-11-27 00:00:00

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

ACCORDING to the Vienna journals it is in contemplation to
have a universal exhibition in that city in 1859.
SOUTUWARIC ELECTION.-Sir Charles Napier was elected
M.P. for Southwark on Tuesday, without opposition, in lieu of
Sir W. Molesworth, deceased.
THE directors of the Northumberland and Durham District
Bank have ordered all their employes who adorned their face
with a moustache to shave or resign.

IT is rumoured in circles likely to be well ihformed that
there is a probability of the youthful Prince of Wales becoming
a member of Oxford University.
Sm. Jolts JERVIEL—The Lord Chief Justice of the Court of
Common Pleas is so seriously indisposed as to prevent his
attention to his judicial duties.
THE house of a pawnbroker in Glasgow was broken into a
few nights ago, and jewellery carried off to the amount of about
one thousand pounds.
Tan Globe states that the government has given orders for
the immediate prosecutson of those persons who were engaged
In the late case of Bible burning, at Kingstown.

Tuunn youths, each under fourteen years of age, garotted a
youth, also under fourteen years of age, in Glasgow, one even-
ing last week, and robbed him of £2.
Ike is stated that there are 200 iron gun and mortar boats
building, or ordered to be built, by contract, for the Crown, by
'British and Scotch shipbuilders. They will be all steamers, and
-the mortar boats will be so built as to form pontoon bridges.
A mu which destroyed property worth about £15,000
occurred at the extensive soap and oil works of Messrs.
,George Hutchinson and Co., Port Dundas, Scotland, on Satur-
day wed-.
iluEas are now under government contract as war ships
about 240 steamers and 200 sailing' ship(s. The maximum
price paid by the government for the hire of these vessels is
£2 1.65. per ton per month, and the minimum price is 16s. per
lon per month.
Tun Pednie says it is informed that the difference between
England and the United States, although not definitely ar-
ranged, is iu a way of settlement, and that the efforts of the
American ambassador in London have contributed to this
:happy result.
;Os Sunday evening, a gentleman residing in the neighbour-
hood of ICnowle was reading something rather amusing to his
;wife, which caused her to laugh so immoderately that she
burst a blood-vessel, and was a corpse before medical as-
sistance could be procured.—Briatol Times.
PiII.NIX/IXENT FOR PASSION.—A jury, at the Court of Com-
mon Pleas, have made .a gentleman, named Tichmarsh, pay
dearly for getting in a passion. Mr. Tichmarsh engaged a
Miss Melvexile as governess_; and, his wife dying, retained her
in charge of his house. After some three or four months he
found fault with the lady on several occasions, and one day,
while they were at tea, be suddenly got up and rang the bell
for the servant, and told her to turn the table to Miss Alice
(his daughter), far, he said, " T won't allow such a fiend as her
there ; she is a vile wretch ; let her go to the kitchen, it is
too good for her; she is a she-devil, she is a wolf in sheep's
clothes," and used other offensive language. The defendant
admitted most of the slander, but said that he was worried
and irritated. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for
£76 for the slander, besides £2l damages for abrupt dismissal
before the termination of their contract.

GREAT FIRE IN PARIS.—On Sunday week, a furious fire
burst forth in the large government buildings at Chaillot, in
the Quai de Billy, where a large quantity of grain and flour,
for the supply of the army in Paris, is kept. The fire was of
so alarming a character that at first it was supposed by spec-
tators at a little distance that half Paris was in flames, and
the excitement was intense. The houses on both sides of the
river, from the bridge of Jena to the towers of Notre Dame,
were crowded to their summits. The bridges became impass-
able, and the excitement, especially while apprehensions for
the Fine Arts building, and even for the Machinery Gallery,
remained =allayed, was great as it was excusable. The Con-
stitutionnel says the building (which is destroyed) cost two
millions of francs, and that the materiel and flour it contained
were worth fully that sum. The Monitettr says the damage
has proved not to be so great as at one time was feared. Only
one storehouse of corn has been burnt, the immense supplies
of corn and flour remaining almost untouched. A young man,
at great peril, made his way through the flames to the engine
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rendered valuable service. Stores were kept on the premises
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granary to the steam-engine, caused by an accumulation of
soot, and the granaries being built of deal, rapid combustion
ensued. The Emperor was on the spot from half-past eight to I
ten o'clock, accompanied by several State functionaries,

A PARIS correspondent says :—" The apartment destined
for the future offspring of the Empress is already prepared.
It is close to the Emperor's cabinet."
TIIE Journal de Bruxelles says that the King of Belgium
will farther decOrate with the order of Leopold those Bel-
gian exhibitors who have done honour to their country by
gaining prizes in the Paris Exhibition.
Accourrzs from Holland, Belgium, and the seaport towns
of France, state that there is a general rise in sugar and
coffee, and large purchases have been made on English
account.

ON Monday, a seaman, at Greenock, while quarrelling with
his wife, struck her on the head with a stick, which tore the
outer portion of one of her ears completely away. The ruffian
has been arrested.

FRANCIS BAILEY, residing at Kensington, London, while
in a state of somnambulism, the other day, got out of his bed-
room window, and fell to the ground beneath, a depth of 30
feet. He died shortly afterwards. -

ADULTERATION OF COFFEE AND PEFFER.—A return is-
sued on Thursday states that in the half-year ending the 30th
June last, there were 43 cases of adulteration in coffee, and 10
in pepper detected : 31 of the former, and 7 of the latter were
prosecuted to conviction, and the penalties paid.
TEE Journal de Constantinople says that M. Meynadier
will open a theatre at Sebastopol in the spring. At Constan-
tinople also the same director is about to establish a French
theatre, where farce, drama, opera, and even the ballet, will
be produced.
THE fortifications of the Germanic Confederation, at Ulm,
on the Danube, are nearly completed. This place, famous in
the last war for the surrender of a large Austrian army to the
French, will be one of the strongest fortresses in Germany.
FOUR different attempts to set fire to Mr. Hartley's pre-
mises on the Dublin Steam Wharf, Lower East Smithfield,
London, were discovered on Wednesday, but they all failed.
A large reward has been offered for the discovery of the in-
cendiaries.

Two boatmen on the Regent's Canal have been committed
for trial on the charge of Manslaughter, for having dragged
and towed through the water a young woman, whose life
would have been spared had they rendered her proper assist-
ance after she was discovered in the water.

A RUSSIAN PRINCE was recently assassinated in open day
light by some recruits from his villages, who afterwards at•
tempted to fire his chateau. When, at nightfall, his family,
anxious at his prolonged absence, sent in quest of him, his
body was found seated in his carriage, with his head on the
seat beside it.

A Fzaz took place on board a ship in the harbour of White-
haven, on Monday week. One of the apprentices had nt t
extinguished the light on turning into his berth, and.during
the night it was upset and ignited the bedding. Before the
lad:was awakened by the flames, the greater part of the hair
was burned from his head. There was no serious amount of
damage done to the vessel.

A FEW days ago a workman employed on the North Staf-
fordshire Railway fell asleep on au upturned wheelbarrow
placed across the rails. While he was in that condition a
train approached at a rapid rate, and the engine struck the
barrow, and threw it and its slumbering occupant completely
off the line. The man was severely bruised, but not per-
manently injured.
TICE Times exclaims against the expense to which the
country will be put by an extra assize at twenty-eight places,
and, looking at the inconvenience to grand jurymen, petty
jurymen, and officers of all kinds, suggests, though in a
crude way, whether arrangements might not be made with
the railways for bringing all the prisoners for trial to the
Central Criminal Court.
THE PRESS IN PRIISSIA..—At Coblentz there is published
a newspaper, called the Rhine and Moselle Herald. The
conductors of this paper, in their issue of the 14th instant,
inform their subscribers that the Government had caused to
be intimated to them its decided disapproval of the tone they
had taken in discussing the events of the day, and had
threatened them with strong measures. The committee of
the paper announce that, as they cannot belie their principles,
the journal will, on the 31st of December next, cease to appear.
A similar threat on the part of the Government, not long
since, destroyed the independence of the most influential
newspaper published on the Rhine.

DANGEROUS SHOAL IN TEE CIIINA ROUTE.— Captain
Irvine, of the Cairnguorm, just arrived at London, from
Canton, reports that, whilst standing to the southward, the
ship one- evening suddenly struck three times on a reef or
shoal, situated in lat. 1 10 S., and lon. 106 54 E. The ship
was backed immediately, and soundings were taken, but no
bottom was found at 20 fathoms, and there was no appearance
of shoal water near. On the passage out, Captain Irvine saw,
at Anjer, a notice left by the American ship Celestial, of her
having tacked within 15 feet of some rocks above water,
in lat. 1 18 S., lon. 106 50 E., which are not laid down in any
chart.

SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.—According to an
arrangement come to at a general meeting of the enumera-
tors and members of committees, held in March last, the
estimates of the average produce per acre for the whole of
Scotland are now being taken, the period then fixed having -
been between the 15th and 30th November. This plan has
the advantage of getting the estimates taken about the same
time, instead of, as last year, running over a period of three
months. It must be obvious that these estimates, however
correct, cannot be used until the returns of acreage are all
made. The returns of acreage and stock for twenty counties
are now complete, not a schedule having been withheld, and
there is every reason to expect that within the next fortnight
the remaining counties will be equally well brought up.
INTERESTING DISCOVERIES.—During the past week exca-
vations have been made in the gigantic tumulus at Veryan
Beacon, in Cornwall. Great expectations were entertained by
the people in the neighbourhood that " the golden boat and
silver oars" which tradition relates to have been buried there
with King Gerennius would have been discovered. - Although
not successful in this respect, the explorors found under the
central cavin of stones a " Kistaven," or chest of unhewn rocks,
about four feet six inches in length, two feet in breadth, and
two feet six inches in depth, which, no doubt, contained the
ashes of the ancient Cornish king. Other discoveries of in-
terest were also made. Had a sepulcharal urn been found, it
was intended to inter the ashes in Gerrans Church, near which
King Gerrans is said to have lived and died ; but, as the ashes
were mixed with charcoal, earth, and stones, and what appear-
ed to be the dust of rotten wood, it waa determined to leave
the grave in the same state as it was found, and it will now be
restored to its original height and appearance.
IRISH AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.—The Registrar-general
has addressed fresh circulars to the Boards of Guardians of the
several unions in Ireland, soliciting their assistance in com-
piling returns of the rates of produce for the year 1856 of the
various electoral divisions. Government being desirous of
ascertaining the quantity of food produced in Ireland during
the present year, have directed returns to be collected showing
the extent of land under each description of crop. These re-
turns have now been received, but, in addition to the informa-
tion which they afford, it is most important to ascertain as
near as possible the average rates of produce of each crop.
To accomplish this object forms have been prepared, dividing
each crop into classes, and an assumed rate of produce is
given to each class. These returns, if completed, will be of
vast public importance, and the assistance of country gentle-
men is requested by the Registrar-general in making up the
returns.

THE SUGAR QUESTION.-At the time when the emancipa-
tion of the slaves was in agitation, a great number of indivi-
duals totally abstained from the use of sugar, with the idea
that they would thereby diminish the receipts of the slave-
holders. A similar movement, though from a totally different
cause, is now fast gaining ground, and already we hear that
thousands are denying themselves the gratification of their
palates, among both high and low, to bring down the present
exorbitant price of sugar. In the manufacturing districts
especially is this the case. Many thousands of the mill hands
have voluntarily taken the sugar pledge, and, should this
agitation spread generally among the working classes, who
consume vast quantities of the juice of the sugar cane, it will
soon produce its effect on the market, beneficial to the con-
sinner. We understand that the great rise in price has sell,
sibly diminished the receipts in the grocery shops, and it is
feared by the retail trade that the consumption of tea and
_coffee-will alsa suffer diminution.-

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A NEW LIFE BOAT.—A successful trial of the qualities of Mr.
T. C. Clarkson's patent cork life boat was made on Tueiday, at
Portsmouth. She is constructed of alternate layers of sheet
cork, canvas, and thin wood, adhered by adhesive substances,
which give elasticity, with greater strength than ordinary
wood. She was launched from the dockyard wall into the
harbour, having on board the inventor and four others, volun-
teers from the ships in the port. The height of the wall
from the water was ten feet perpendicular, and being plunged
from the edge of the wall without anything to guide her or
keep her upright, she entered the water safely, soon righting
herself, from her buoyant qualities, and not having shipped
much water. She was then capsized, but immediatey
of placing her on her beam ends, appeared to possess so great
an amount of buoyancy as to render upsetting almost impos-
regained her proper position ; and in two or three other till%
Bible. There were also a number of contrivances displayed
for clearing her of water in the event of shipping a sea. By
taking portions of her to pieces, a raft was formed, capable of
buoying up 10 or 15 persons. Altogether, in cases of emer-
gency, the boat and her fittings was represented to be able to
support 200 persons, though only 27 feet long, and 7 feet 6
inches beam.
DARING BIIEGLART.—A few evenings ago a most daring
burglary was committed at the house of the gatekeeper at
Burton Railway Station, near Nottingham, Three men, one
wearing a mask, and the others having their faces blackened,
about midnight awoke the wife of the gatekeeper (her husband
being from home) under the pretence that they wanted to
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against the defendants, as
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rance for freight. It ap ea that the vessel on her passage.
to Boston met with some') r injuries which it became necessary
to repair, and accordingly
for that she put into Fayal, in the Azores,
purpose. She was detained there, however, for six
weeks, and then proceededwith her passengers to Boston.
The plaintiff
sought to recover the expense of maintaining
the emigrants at Fayal during the progress of the repairs,
and the action was turned into a special case for the opinion
of the court, whether the underwriters were liable to those
expenses.---Lord Campbell now delivered the judgment of the
court. By the contract entered into the owners were com-
pelled to victual the emigrants at a special rate during the
voyage and during the period of detention. In this case the
49th section of the Emigration Act did not impose on the
master any duty to forward the passengers in any other vessel
to their orioln • • al destination, and he would have been guilty .
of a breach of duty if he had not maintained them during
the term necessary for the repairs of the vessel at Fayal, and
had not then carried them on to Boston. For the loss in-
curred by this detention the underwriters could not be held
liable.
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ainst owners of emigrant ships wished to protect
themsg such prolongation of voyages, they must
resort to same other form of pocy. In this case the juulg-
ment of the court would be fork the defendants.—Judgment accordingly,

EXCELLENT HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, &c., EVERTON-
VILLAGE.
By Mr. J. HEYES,
On THURSDAY next, the 29th instant, at Eleven o'clock precisely,
on the Premises, No. 3, Everton•village,

T_
HE excellent HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, and
other Effects, the Property of a Lady declining housekeeping,
comprising Sets of Mahogany-framed Chairs, in Hair Cloth, Sofa
with Loose Cushions and Bolsters in Hair Cloth, capital Maho-
gany Pedestal Sideboard. Pembroke, Card and other Tables,
Chimney Glasses in Gilt Frames, Brussels Carpet, Fenders, Fire
Irons, &c-
The CHAMBER FURNITURE will include Mahogany Fourpost,
French and Camp Bedsteads, with appropriate Hangings, prime
White Goose Feather Beds and Bedding, Mahogany Wardrobe,
Painted Chests of Drawers, Mahogany Night Commodes, Venetian
Stair Carpets, Fenders, Fire Irons, &c. ; also, a Capital Eight-day
Clock and a very excellent Ancient Clock, in Mahogany Cases ;
together with the Kitchen Utensils, Portable Weighing Machine
and other Miscellaneous effects.
To be viewed on the Morning of Sale, when Catalogues may be
had on the Premises, and at Mr. J. HEYES' Offices, 20, Dale-
street, Liverpool, and Great Crosby.

BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEE.
BREWERY AND FIXTURES.
By Messrs. BYFORD and SON,
THIS DAY (Tuesday), the 27th instant, at Six o'clock in the
Evening, at the house of Mr. Edward Ford, " Swan Inn,"
London-road, in Liverpool,
APiece of Freehold LAND, containing 356 square
yards, with the Brewery and other Outbuildings thereon
erected, situate in Islington-row, Wilton-street, Liverpool, now
in the occupation of Messrs. Forshaw and Renshaw, together with
the Steam .engine, Boilers, and other Fixtures and appendages
thereunto belonging.
The Premises are capable of Brewing 80 Barrels, and may be
inspected any day.
For further particulars apply to Mr. J. C. Gaocorr, Solicitor,
8, Basnett-street ; to Mr. GEORGE DODD, Solicitor, 5, James-
street; or to Messrs. BYFORD and Sox, Auctioneers, Clayton-
square.