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

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

GENERAL _INTELLIGENCE.

TILE total value of the mineral produce of Spain, in 1854,
was equivalent to £2,400,000 ; mines gave employment to
80,000 or 90,000 people.
A CRiDLE in the shape of a vessel, and forming a chef
d'ceuvre of different arts, surpassing in beauty and taste the
celebrated one of the King of Rome, will be presented by the
city of Paris to the child of the Emperor and Empress of the
French.

Tae Constitutionnel states that a veterinary surgeon has
been demonstrating among the Cuirassiers of the Imperial
Guard, that he can cure glanders and farcy. Seven horses,
given to him as they were about to be slaughtered, have been
treated with complete success. • .

AT the half-yearly meeting of the London and County
Bank, on Thursday, a dividend of five per cent. for the half-
year and a bonus of five per cent. (equal to a dividend of 15
per cent. on the year), both free from income-tax, were de-
clared upon the paid-up capital of the bank.
AT Exeter, last week, a boy, named Frederick Daw, was
summoned by the Rev. F. Turner for using abusive language
to his children, one of whom is an invalid, while walking in
the street with his servant. The bench fined the defendant ss.
and expenses, or, in default, three days' imprisonment.
THE forests and mountains of the Eiffel, in the province of
Treves, in Prussia, have for some time past been infested by a
band of brigands, who have even stripped poor foot-passengers
of their clothes, and some of these have in consequence been
frozen to death. The authorities have just sent detachments
of cavalry and infantry to hunt out the robbers.
EARLY on Monday, last week, some burglars effected an
entrance into Thurnscoe-hall, near Barnsley, the residence of
the Rev. Thomas Wood Simpson, rector of Thurnscoe, and
stole four silver dish covers, four silver decanter stands, sugar
tongs, two hams, two flitches of bacon, and other articles,
worth between £2O and £3O.

AT a recent meeting of the subscribers to the Leicester
Hospital, a gentleman moved that the use of wines and liquors
in the hospital be henceforth prohibited, contending that they
were unnecessary and prejudicial. The medical officers, how-
ever, being of a decidedly contrary opinion, the motion was
negatived almost unanimously.
THE Scientific American says that several instances are
lately recorded where persons who were in the habit of read-
ing much in railway carriages had become nearly blind. It
appears the jolting motion causes the eye to strain in catching
the separate letters, and makes their effect en the retina very
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injurious.
THERE were 800 more women than men committed in Aber-
deen, during the past year—a melancholy fact, as regards the
fair sex, unparalleled in any other place hi the kingdom. The
principal cause of this fearful state of matters is alleged to be
the enrolling of the militia, and the increase of drunkenness
and vice consequent thereon.
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FROM motives of competition with the Great Northern, the
North-Western Railway Company are now taking passengers
from Euston station to Peterborough, a distance of 110 miles,
for 3s. first-class, and 2s. second-class; and to Doncaster, by
two fast trains daily, for 6s. and 35., being at the rate of one-

fifth of a penny per Mile.
BEESTON Ceturien, one'ef the oldest in the parish of Leeds,
was severely damaged by fire on Monday last. The disaster
is attributed to over=heating of the flues. The organ was
totally consumed, and a large part of the roof destroyed. Parts
of the communion furniture are asserted by high authority to
have been in use from the time of Richard I.—that is, from
what is technieally called " time immemorial."
BENJAMIN &oat, 'blanket manufacturer, of Earlsheaton,
near Leeds, came up at the Leeds District Court of Bank-
ruptcy, last week, before Mr. Commissioner Aryton, on his
adjourned last examikration. In the course of the interroga-
tories his Honour said to the bankrupt, " You have already
perjured yourself twenty or thirty times. Do you emit to
spend the rest of your life in York Castle!'" At the end of
the-inquiry the -bankrupt was committed for perjury, and his
lest examination ;adjourned, without protection and•sine die.
Wednesday, after the Recorder of London had sentenced
et prisoner to six years' penal servitude, the -rascal exclaimed,
Bo you call this a fair trial ?" and, drawing from his pocket
,a piece of coal tibout the size of a large apple, threw it with
:great force and precision at the head of the Recorder. For-
-tanately, he had observed the movement °kW:prisoner, and,
quickly moving his head upon one side, escaped ablow that
would have done him a serious injury, for the missile struck
tthe wall close by the side of his lordship's face, and broke into
pieces.
A FEMALE GOVERNMENT CLEME.—It has Ternained for the
Civil Service of this country to receive among its regular ser-
vants one Of the fair sex. The Master of the -Rolls has led the
way in this novel experiment of introducing 'female labour to
a service generally accepted 'only by the -Other sex. Sir John
lias;eve -understand, actually appointed Ya female clerk to the
State Paper-office ! It is rather remarkable, that while rules
are established excluding maletelerksabeveu certain age from
entering ',the public service, the new;laly,elerk is a married
lady-with four children.—Speetator.
COLONIAL Timer. Mr. Archibald, an extensive landed
proprietor of Nova Scotia, having discovered a valuable-iron
mine orr one of his estates in thateOuntry, has conceived the
idea oferepropriating its proceeds totheararposes of the War
• Department. A 6-pounder :gun has' been cast from a sample
of the -metal, and this he has -conveyed, to England. The gun
has gone through a thorough process ottrial at the proof-but,
at 'kilerich, and stood some good testswell. Mr. Archibald
• has laid a proposal before the commanding officer of the Royal
Gala-factory Department to enable him to work his mine under
• a cantract to supply the lkiltish Government alone.
SERIOUS alarm was created • in' Cambridge, on Saturday
evening, by the occurrence of afire-in the hall of Caius College,
.wbich4nts only recently -been completed at a great expense
from designs of Mr. Salvin, and' the interior of' which is
one-Or the most highly:finished-specimens of modern decorated
workier the kingdom. The hall- is situate immediately over
:the and the chimney of ‘the!kitchen, which runs -up
behind the wainscotting of the hallehad, it appears, caughtfire,
and;the heat had also ignited' the wainscotting and floor of:the
hall. 'On the alarm bein.ggiveri the-Vice-Chancellor was -among
the,earliest arrivals; the students and townsmen worked
heartily, and in a short-time' the,misellief was stopped. .Dr.
Guest, the master of thenallegeethen mounting a table, ,pub-
heir-thanked those presort for their: ald. Of course, the-or-
namental work of the hare- so lately-executed, and the -kitchen,
are-damaged by the foods of water poured in—the hall,: also,
iv !the partial destruction of the' floor.
ME.. HENRY Joys DISTIN, one of 'the Saxe-born-blewing
family, recently engaged an Austrian named lischendorf -as
foreman at his horn manufactory in Cranbourne-street,Loadon,
for seven years, agreeing !to pay biro a certain per centageon
the work done. •Thecgreement was voidable by notice; and
payment of £5O. The-master, however, found histradesopros-
perous, that his feeemanmade £floreS7 a week ; and-thinking
this Ur) much, endeavourw.l to get- him to enter into another
agreereent, whereby -he was to be: paid 50s. a week, and a
mailer per centage. 'The kreman,refused to accede to
proposal, and, beingreforeigner,teneglected his work ontlae
Vollowing day, and wentaway to consult the Austriarrarebas-
sadore who told him led-Ledbetter consult a solicitor.. Here-
turned -to his work at four o'clocklhe-same day, but was them
told that he had broken 'his -tontra! by absenting !himself
without leave, and discharged. 4ejury-in the Court of ,Queeri'zs
Beneb,last week, gave him -.a -verdict -against Mr. Distill; fir
ofethe sum by which the-agreement was voidable.

A BILL TO AMEND TEE I,d_W-.•.01' PARTNEREEIP.-4The
following is the bill brought in by Mr. Lowe :—Whereaseitis
expedient to amend the law , relating -to partnership : Be ict
therefore enacted by the tQa.een's most excellent Majesty,; hy
and with the advice and ,consent of the lords spiritual .and
temporal, and Commons, in this present parliament assembled,
and by the authority of the same, as follows :-1. The advance
of capital or money to be used in: any ~trade or undertaking,
not beingthe trade of a breaker, upon a contract with the per-
son carrying on such trade or undertiking, that the person
making such advance shall receive, a share of the profits or
shall bear,a share of the loss of the trade or undertaking, ehall
not, of itself, render the person making-each advance liable to
third parties as a partner in such trade or undertaking. :2.
No contract for the remuneration of a servant or agent of any
person engaged in any trade or undertaking by a share of the
profits °f sac trade or undertaking shall, of itself, renelersuch
servant or agent responsible ,as a partner therein. 3. in the
construction .cf this act the word " person" shall include a
partnershipefirm, a joint-steel company; and a corporathm,
Tern Cenrenomen ComPharr.—A meeting.of
the shareholders in this company .was held on Wednesday, at
the Clarendon-rooms, for the purpose of-considering the posi-
tion of the company in reference to the-Edinburgh and Glas-
gow
Company, and the steps which should.be taken to bring
about a pacific policy, and put a final stop tothe existing com-
petition, which is injurious to both ,companies. Mr. Gillosv
was called to the.ehair, and explained the present position
affairs between the two companies, and,concladed with a
restlution that a committee be appointed to address a circulr
the shareholders, soliciting their support to the following reso-
lution, to be propesed at the neat half-yearly meeting :
" That a committee •of gentlemen in whose judgment and
principles the sharehelders may have- onfidence, be appointed
to examine into the present position and management of the
company, and through whose intervention an attempt may be
made to conclude a fair,and mutually beneficial joint-working
agreement with the Edinburgh and Glasgow Company, similar
to that lately entered into between the Scottish. Central and
Edinburgh, Perth, and Dendee Companies ; andel* effecting
this, it should also be aimed at that the' est understanding
should be maintained with the last-named companies*"
The resolution was seconded by Mr. Joynson, and adopted,
after which the meeting separated.
RETURNS .01? MARRIAGES, BIRTIIS, AND DEATITEL—The
quarterly return of the registrar-general states, in the qtrerter
that ended on September 30, 1855, there were celebrated in
England 37,151 marriages, being 999 fewer than in the cor-
responding quarter of the previous year, and slightly ender
the average of the ten preceding and corresponding quarters.
In the quarter ending December .31, there were registered
148,853 births, being an excess over the same quarter in 1864
of 2,394; and the deaths were 97,119, being 0.167 under the
average of the season. In the whole year 1855, the number
of children born in England was 635,128, or 208,881 in excess ,
of the deaths (426,292).; the number of marriages was 57,132 ;
and the total number of emigrants from the United Kingdom
was 166,253, exclusive of 10,554 foreigners. The deaths in
1855 were nearly 12,000 fewer than in 1854; the rate of mor-
tality was 2.269 per cent., or nearly 22 in every 1,000 inha-
bitants. This improvement in the public health was general ;
but in Lancashire and Cheshire the improvement was less
extensive than in other counties; and in Liverpool and West
Derby there was absolutely an increased rate of mortality, the
deaths having been 3,487, or 273 more than in the last quarter
of 1853. In Manchester and Salford, on the other hand, the
deaths were 2,306, or 374 less than in 1853.
Tun LATE BURGLARY AT PORTSEA.—The thieves who
effected an entrance into the Portsea premises of Messrs. E,
and E. Emanuel, of Portsea, on the 16th of December, when
they escaped with at least £l,OOO worth of jewellery, have
been captured by Mr. Leggatt, the superintendent of the
Portsmouth police, with the agency of Mr. Wootton, the post-
master of Mount-street, Lambeth. Their names are James
May and William Henry May, bricklayers, and Henry Phillips,
labourer. As the principals admitted their guilt, it is unne-
cessary to detail the evidence, which was very conclusive,
notwithstanding. The prisoner William Henry May told
Superintendent Leggatt how the robbery was effected, and
how they waited in the bottle store in the back street, by
which an entry had been made into the premises robbed,
until half-past five o'clock in the morning, because they knew
the police went off duty at five. The whole of the house-
breaking implements (a complete and modern " establish-
ment") were left behind, and a bunch of picklocks was found
in the box of May, together with nearly the whole of the jew-
ellery, &c., stolen.. 31 duplicates were also found in the box for
articles pledged in London. All the prisoners have been corn-
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