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

Tut Court of Common Council, unlike the Court of Alder-
men, thanked the late Lord Mayor unanimously. The same
body has voted an address of congratulation to the Emperor
of Sardinia.
A QUESTION relating to habeas corpus was decided by the
Queen's Bench last week—could a habeas corpus go to bring
up a witness from eustody to give evidence in a case referred
to an arbitrator ? The court held that the arbitrator was a
"judge" within the meaning of the habeas corpus act.
NEARLY half-a-million of sovereigns are struck off weekly,
at the eight coining presses of the Mint. In addition to the
severe pressure thus exerted on the Queen's money-makers,
they are required also to produce 2,000 Crimean medals daily,
as instalments of those ordered for the armies and fleets of
the East.
RETURN TICRETS.—A practice is well known to prevail at
Brighton, for London excursionists who do tot intend to re-
turn to sell their return-tickets. Mary Morris, of 3, Steine-
street, Brighton, has been convicted of buying and using
such a ticket, and the local magistrates have fined her £2, or
a week's imprisonment.
THE HOP DUTY.—•An account published of the produce of
the duty on hops for the past season shows that the total
realised to the revenue has been £727,940 ; of which sum the
old duty at ld. 12-20 per lb., produced 2398,035; the new
duty at id. 8-20, £294,643 ; and the additional duty of 6 per
cent., per Act 3 Vict. chap. 17, £34,661 odd.
THE SARDINIAN FLAG.—Great mistakes having arisen
with regard to the national flag of Sardinia, we think it may
be useful to state that the flag is a tricolour—green, white,
and red—with the ancient arms of Savoy, a white cross on a
red ground, borne on a shield in the centre of the white
stripe.—Morning Post.
ONE night last week, Mr. C. P. E. L. Hutchinson, second
son of the late Rev. John Lister Hutchinson, rector of Routh,
in Holderness, accidentally fell into the Humber Dock, at
Hull, owing to the chains being loose. He was got out of the
water alive, but died in half an hour from exhaustion. He
was 32 years of age. He recently lived at Crosby, Maroon,
Isle of Man, and was on a visit to Hull with his aunt.
Two meetings of the London " omnibus interest" have
been held in connection with the alleged offer of a French
company—one of those proprietors who are willing to sell
"their roads," another of those who do not. The former
meeting separated upon the resolution " That this meeting be
adjourned till the money is deposited." The other party
passed resolutions expressing indignation at any attempt to
dispose of the traffic.
THE misunderstanding between Government and the Royal
Society is at an end. We have much satisfaction in stating
that the Government has ordered the sum of £l,OOO to be
placed at the disposal of the Royal Society this year for
scientific parposes, and has informed the council of the
society that a similar sum will be annually included in the
miscellaneous estimates for the advancement of science.—
Athencewn.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN STIRLING CASTLE.—A fire broke
out the other day in the " Governor's" house, in Stirling
Castle. The fire destroyed the whole building, besides £l,OOO
worth of private property belonging to the officers of the 90th
Stirlingshire Militia. The buildings destroyed are amongst
the oldest in Scotland. The fire did not communicate with
the general powder-magazine, which contained about nine
hundred barrels of gunpowder. The cause of the conflagration
is unknown.
WILLIAM GLOVER, waiter at an inn in Piccadilly, London,
on the 7th of September last accepted a forged £lO note
offered in discharge of his bill by a stranger. The note passed
through several "hands -(including the London and West-
minster Bank) undetected, till it reached the Bank of England,
where it was discovered to be a forgery, and traced back to
Glover, the waiter. It now became the subject of an action
in the Westminster County Court, and on Saturday it was
decided that the landlord of the inn, who was out when the
waiter took the note, must bear the loss of the £lO.
FRIGHTFUL EXPLOSION.—Joseph Eltringham has been
killed, and other workmen seriously injured, by a boiler ex-
plosion at the Consett Iron-works, near Gateshead. The
boiler was one of two used in driving one of Nasmyth's patent
hammers; it burst with awful violence, and threw the
deceased forty-five yards. The boiler divided into two parts ;
one part flew ninety-one yards from its seat, and the other
part ninety-six yards. There is little doubt, from the evidence,
that the explosion had arisen from an insufficiency of water.
This is the third boiler explosion that has happened in the
district in little more than two months, by which ten persons
have been killed, and above a score dangerously injured.
DRUMMING-OUT THREE OFFICERS.—Three officers of the
3rd Regiment of Light Infantry of the German Legion
deserted, and were subsequently apprehended while endeavour-
ing to make their escape from this country—two of them in-
tending to start for America and the other for Rotterdam. A
charge of embezzlement was also laid against one of the delin-
quents ; the sum of £6O, which had been intrusted to him for
the purpose of paying the men, was applied to his own use.
The names of the officers were Lieut. Rotzol, Ensign von
Woyna, and Ensign von Prondzinski, and shortly after their
apprehension they were reconveyed to Shorncliffe, where a
court-martial was held yesterday week, and they were sen-
tenced to be degraded, and dismissed the service. The troops
were immediately paraded, and after being formed into a
hollow square, the " officers" were brought out under guard,
and placed in the centre. They were then addressed by
General Stutterheim, who pointed out to them in strong terms
the disgrace they had brought upon themselves and their
comrades. The usual forms of degradation, the tearing up of
the commissions, &c., were then gone through, and the
prisoners were marched off the ground. Only one of them had
retained his sword, which was broken in due form.—South-
Eastern Gazette.
FALL OF A LARGE BUILDING.—On Wednesday morning,
about ten o'clock, an accident of a very alarming character,
and attended with a vast destruction of property, occurred
upon the premises of Messrs. Tidmarsh, hardwaremen, of Eyre-
street-hill, Holborn, London. The warehouses extended a con-
siderable distance in Summer-street, where some old houses
have recently been pulled down. The back wall of the ware-
house was left standing, the intention being to build the new
houses up to it. A " raking shore" had been removed from
this wall, contrary to the direction of the district surveyor ;
and Mr. Tidmarsh had repeatedly intimated to the builders
that he considered the wall unsafe. Messrs. Tidmarsh and all
the warehouse-men were engaged in the various rooms, when
Mr. Tidmarsh, sen., heard a trickling of dust ; lie immediately
went round to the back, and said to one of the bricklayers,
" I'm sure this wall is not safe—l know it will fall." He had
scarcely uttered the words when the whole of the structure
fell, much of the stock being buried in the debris. Mr. Tid-
marsh, knowing he had left all his men on the premises,
rushed round to the front, and found that they had all es-
caped. One of the warehouse-men saw the wall crack, and,
giving an instant alarm, they all ran out of the premises ; but
had hardly reached the street when the warehouses fell with a
tremendous crash.