The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-07-17 00:00:00

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

TIM whole of the property and effects of Sir J. D. PanListo
behrought to the hammer on-the 23rd of 'the present month.
GOVERNAIDNT has resolved on forming.an encampment:at
Stirling for four or five regiments of •militia.--7flundee
Advertiser.

Iv accordance with a new arrangement, a messenger as,to
leave London fer the seat of war every-Saturday instead cof
Friday.

THE SUNDAY BEER BILL.—The Select Committee on the
Sunday Beer Bill met on Tuesday, when .several London
magistrates were examined, all of -whom objected to the bill
in its present shape, and advised important alterations.
THE,case of Strahan, Paul, and Bates•.was again heard at
Bow-street Police-office, on Wednesday, when the prisoners
were further remanded for another week. Application for
bail was made, but refused.

DECIMAL eolNAGOL—Government, says ,the Times, are
stated to have resolved upon appointing a commission to in-
quire into the subject .of decimal coinage, to be<composed of
Lord Monteagle, Mr. Hubbard, and Mr. Norman.
Mr. RIISEEIII, Gun n i and Mr. O'Malley have given their
opinion that under the act 52 Geo. 111. cap. 156, ,members of
the Church of England, as well as dissenters, may protect
themselves from penalties by registering their houses as places
of religious worship, incompliance with the terms of the act.
MRS. ISIBEILA. Sruirriu-Eu, wife of Mr. M. Spraiuger, of
Ramsey, Isle of Man, and who had been residing 'for some
time past with her sister at Larey, committed :suicide, on
Monday last, by suspending herself from a beam in the bed-
room. _ _

AT THE STAFFORDSHIRE SESSIONS, last week, a man and
woman were charged with stealing £7O from a horse dealer
•at a fair at Leek. The man, no was acquitted, had been in
gaol sixteen times within ten years ; and the woman, who
was sentenced to fourteen years' penal servitude, had been in
prison eight times.
A COLLISION occurred on Tuesday evening, near the Rose-
grave station of the East Lancashire Railway, and a short
distance from Burnley, occasioned'by a passenger train from
Accrington to Colne running into a goods train. The van of
the luggage train and a waggon, loaded with iron, were smashed
*to pieces, but no serious personal injury was sustained.
FATkL QUARREL IN AN AMERICAN SHIP AT BALACLAVA.
—From aletter received from Balaclava, on the 26th ult., we
learn that a tragedy, attended with fatal results, occurred on
board the American ship Arlington. One of the men, in an
altercation with the mate, struck him, when the latter armed
himself with a pistol, and discharged its contents into the
chest of the unfortunate man. This wanton abuse of power
occurred at an anchorage where there were upwards of flay
sail to render assistance in-case of mutiny.
FEARFUL TarrrnEasTonm.---On Tuesday afternoon Not-
tingham and the immediate neighbourhood were visited by a
terrible thunderstorm, which lasted for nearly three hours,
raging during that time with remarkable violence. The rain
fell in torrents, accompanied by hailstones of a very large
size. The storm commenced about three o'clock, and con-
tinued, with very little intermission, until six. In Bilbie-
street, and in other parts of the town walls were washed down,
and considerable damage done. A great amount of damage
has been sustained in the fields contiguous to the river Trent,
by the loss of stock, &c. There has not been so great a fall
of rain for some time past.
ORDER OF AFFILIATION ON A ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST.
—The County Justices in Quarter Sessions were on Wednes-
day occupied at Durham in hearing an appeal made by the
Rev. Richard Singleton, a Roman Catholic priest, against an
order made against him by the borough magistrates of that
town for the support of an illegitimate child. The mother is
Miss Beatrice Jane Jones, the daughter of a Church of Eng-
land clergyman residing at Douglas, Isle of Man. Various
proceedings have taken place in the case, but the result of the
investigation on Wednesday was that the county magistrates
confirmed the previous order, directing Mr. Singleton to pay
2s. 6d. per week during 13 years for the maintenance of the
child. . . _ -

A STATEMENT has been issued by Mr. James Low, from
which it appears that the shipments of specie from England
to India, China, Egypt, and Malta for the half year just
ended have been £2,514,006, of which, £396,847 consisted of
gold, and £2,117,169 of silver. As compared with the cor-
responding half of 1864, this shows an increase of £140,992,
although the total export was then unusually large. The
proportion of gold, however, is smaller in the present return.
The sum included in the aggregate total as having been sent
to China this half year is £833,466, of which all but £140,624
was silver. In the first six months of 1854 the total sent to
China was £1,289,648. The recent augmentation in the ship-
ments to the East, has, therefore, been caused exclusively by
the Indian demand.
NEWSPAPERS POE THE BRITISH COLONIES AND FOREIGN
COUNTRIES.—The following notice has been issued from the
General Post-office :—" Many newspapers for British colonies
and foreign countries having been posted unpaid, contrary to
the Printed Instructions, No. 45, 1855, recently issued upon
the subject, the Postmaster-General thinks it necessary to
repeat the intimation that a postage (the amount of which
can be ascertained by an inspection of the notice No. 16, at
any post-office) is now required to be pre-paid, in addition to
the newspaper stamp, upon all newspapers sent to the British
Colonies, and upon those sent to all foreign countries except
then following, namely,—France or Algeria, Belgium, Prussia
via Belgium, and any foreign country (except Turkey) via
Belgium and Prussia, New Granada, Peru, Any newspapers
which may be posted without the requisite pre-payment, can•
not be forwarded to their destination."