The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-08-21 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Dingenes, one of the most successful rivals to Punch, has
ceased to exist.

A RAILWAY is to be made from the Danube to the Austrian
frontiers in the Buckowina.
A RABBIT'S leg was found in the stomach of a ling which
was caught, a few days ago, by a Caithnesshire fishing-boat.

POSTAGE LIBELS of the value of 10d. will no longer be issued.
The following are the labels now in use :—Penny labels, two-
penny ditto, fonrpenny ditto, sixpenny ditto, and shilling ditto.
ONE in every six of the men, women, and children of New-
castle is a pauper, and the total number of paupers in the town
exceeds 16,000.
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THERE has been a serious affray at Reading between the
Royal Bucks Militia, quartered in that town, and the police.
One of the police has received two or three bayonet wounds,
and several others are seriously injured.

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Ma. RICHARD COTTALL, an American gentleman of hide-
pendent fortune, aged 30, died in London on Wednesday from
the effects of an overdose of acetate of morphia. A coroner's
jury found that there was no evidence to prove whether de-
ceased had committed suicide or not.
THE East India Company want tenders, on Wednesday, for
the transport of 110 tons of dead weight, and 130 tons of
measurable goods, to Madras ; also, for about twenty marine
boys to Bombay, to embark between the 15th and 29th of
September.
LADIES of different classes of society in St. Petersburg have
formed themselves into a society for the succour of widows and
orphans of officers and soldiers employed in the defence of the
capital and the shores of the Baltic.
Ax Aor, which received the royal assent on Tuesday, alters
the property qualification for officers of militia. The qualifica-
tions now are :--Colonel, £6OO a-year ; lieut.-colonel, £4OO ;
major, £300; and captain, £2OO. The qualifications are not
to apply to the city of London nor to the city of Edinburgh
militia.
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ACCIDENT TO A SOLDIER.—On Thursday morning, a fright-
ful accident occurred to William Harding, aged 26 years, be-
longing to the Royals, lying at Winchester, who had leave of
absence to come to London. It appears that the man had some
blank cartridges in one of his pockets, and while he was smok-
ing his pipe in Battersea-fields, some fire fell from it, and an
explosion took place, injuring him severely. He remains in a
precarious state.
A MAN ENGIILPEED IN A QUICESAND.-011 Friday last,
several persons went from Sunderland over to the sands at the
entrance of Jarrow Slake, to dredge for shrimps. Among
them was a man named Bartram. He was dredging on the
sands at some distance from the rest when he was suddenly
heard to exclaim, "Lord Jesus, save us," and the next moment
he was engulphed in a dangerous quicksand.—His body has
not been found.—Sunderland Times.

SINGULAR CASE OF STINGING TO DEATH.—On Thursday
week as Mr. W. Ledson, miller, of Fylingdales, was going his
-usual round, he had occasion to leave his ass and pony for a
short time fastened to a gate, near one of the farm houses.
On his return he found the two animals so severely stung by
bees from the hives in a garden close by, that the ass died on
the following morning, and great fears were entertained for the
recovery of the pony. It is now, however, going on favourably.
—Yorkshire Gazette.

MISS MITFORD.—A few gentlemen have proposed to erect
to the memory of Mary Russell Mitford, authoress of " Our
Village," some memorial which shall testify to the respect
entertained by many, not only in England but in America,
for her literary talents and private virtues. It is hoped that
funds may be provided for erecting a plain monument over her
grave in the churchyard of that village which she has made
famous by her presence and her writings ; and for building, if
possible, a-school in the same parish, to be dedicated by name
to her memory.
ROMAN buexs AND GrESE.—The Paris correspondent of
the Morning Post says :--" I observe the Papal journals of
Italy arc continually spreading false reports about the Sardi-
nian forces in the Crimea. Sometimes they are beaten by the
Russians, and at others decimated by cholera. Such falsehoods
indicate the spirit of Papal priestcraft, which of necessity
sympathises even with orthodox Russia, rather than with con-
stitutional freedom." The Pope is always complaining of
annoyances which " grieve his paternal heart." One of them,
perhaps, is the habit indulged in by his children upon the
Italian press, of telling lies in his interest. It seems that
=Papal canards are not confined to Loretto flying-houses and
Rimini winking statues. Of course, these " canards," or
ducks of Popery, find some geese who believe them.—Punch.

EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday afternoon,
-as some men employed on the works at Westminster-bridge
were raising a heavy weight with one of the travelling pur-
chases, the pinion of the machine broke, and the weight being
-thrown suddenly on the cogs broke them in succession, carry-
ing round the wheel with fearful rapidity. One of the frag-
ments, about a quarter of a pound in weight, powerfully pro-
jected by centrifugal force, struck a passer-by and drove in
his chest. He was taken bleeding -to Westminster Hospital,
but as soon as his body was deposited there the surgeons pro-
nounced life extinct.

RAILWAY 'MArrionas.—At the great meeting at Sheffield
lon Administrative Reform, one of the leaders, a friend of Sir
Charles Napier, paid a tribute to railway men. He said : " I
-believe that if such practical men SG our railway managers had
been employed—such experienced.hands as Braithwaite: Poole,
of Liverpool; Watkin, of the Manchester and Lincoln; Ad-
cock, of Worcester ; Ibery, of the Southern and Western ;
Nash, the ferreter of depredations and bubbles—we should not '
have had the horrid history that we have had. If the talent
of the country had fair play, we should not have seen such
' mistakes' as we have had admitted on all hands. No person
-can go into a government depBt, and not observe the difference
from private establishments.'
SHREWSBURY-AND HRREFORD.—The half-yearly meeting
was held at Shrewsbury, on Wednesday, Mr. W. Ormsby Gore
presiding. The directors recommended an application to par-
liament for powers to raise the capital to lay down a double
line of rails, in order as soon as the traffic should require this
I-additional accommodation the shareholders and the lessee
might be in a position to sanction the necessary outlay.
Dividend warrants, after the rate of four per cent. per annum,
, less income-tax, would be issued to the shareholders, payable
ion September Ist. The accounts stated the capital authorised
to be raised by the company at £600,000, and up to the 30th
.of June last £529,292 had been received on shares and de-
bentures. 7,830 shares remained on. hand. The motion for
the adoption of -the report was carried szern. dis.
HEREFORD MIMIC MEETING.—The festival of the -three
choirs of Worcester, Hereford, and Gloucester, which takes
pace at Hereford this week, is being looked forward to with
,unusual interest and anxiety. The arrangements in the ca-
-thedral and concert-room are neaniy,completed. The concerts
-will be held at the Shire Hall, which is being appropriately
._-fitted up for the purpose. The musical portion of the festival
-will be brought to .aolose Oh Friglay morning, as usual, with
iflandel's "Messiah," and for the first-time at Hereford, a,
_grand ball will be-given on Friday night; under the patron-
age of the nobility and gentry of the county. Railway arrange-
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Boss, and Gloucester, and Midland railways.
THE NEW BEER Ao.7.—The new Beer Act (18 and 19 Vic.,
c. 118), which received the royal assent on Tuesday, came into
operation on Sunday. , R is entitled "An Act to repeal, alter,
and amend the Act of the seventeenth and eighteenth years of
her Iresent Majesty, for further regulating- the sale of beer
_and other liquors on the Lord's-day, and to .eubstitute other
provisions in lieu thereof." It contains five clauses, and de-
' 'alarm that the recited act hes been found to bnaitended with
inconvenience to the public, the said act is repealed, and the
hours for public-houses to be open are now, on Sunday, Christ-
mas-day, Good Friday, or any fast or thanksgiving day, from
one to three, and from five to eleven. The houses are not to be
opened before four o'clock outhe morning following the days
mentioned, except to a traveller or lodger therein. Houses
for public, tesort are prohibitedin the same manner from being
opened for-the sale of liquors. Constables are empowered to
enter public-houses. A penalty not exceeding £5 may be
levied for every offence against -the act, and every .separate
sale to be deemed an offence. The expression " bona fidc tra-
Teller" has been left out of the new law.
THE lionlaoirs AND THE LOcUSTEI.—The Mormons have
had a succession of beautiful crops. They have multiplied by
;immigration and reproduction beyond all precedent; they
have established fourishing branches of the parent colony in
all the cases of the great desert basin, over an immense area.
Yet they are isolated by dreary wastes and frightful and deso-
late.rammtains 1,000 miles from the frontier white settlements
on the-east, and from 500 to 800 miles from the whites of Cali-
fornia, while on the north and on the south they are flanked
by an illimitable wilderness of volcanic mountains and sandy',
deserts. Thus cut off and inaccessible to eutside relief, there
can be no other alternative to the Mormons, with the destruc-
tion of their crops for atingle season, than a large emigration
in search of bread, or starvation if they refused to move.
There is no security against the return of crickets and grass-
hoppers in still larger swarms next year ; and, in the event of
such a calamity the second time, the extinguishment of Mor-
mondom must inevitably follow. Neither the _government
nor private charity in the States can subsist for asingle winter
a community of 430,000 people, removed from 000 to 1,000
miles from any extraneous supplies, and any available means
of transportation.—New York Herald.

- THE FAME OF Hannwe.—The populace of Worcester, it
seems, amused themselves last week by hunting the hangman,
or rather persons whom they successh'ely thought were; to ex-
ecute the unhappy man Meadows. First of all it was be-
lieved that he had been discovered in the disguise of an old
gentleman from Dudley, who took up his abode near the gaol,
and -took a walk there every morning. Afterwards common
consent fixed upon a respectable farmer from Ledbury, who.,
as he walked through the streets in drab tights and white
woollen stockings, was everywhere pointed out as Calcraft, and
once getting by chance into one of the purlieus of the city,
was actually mobbed by the women and children. The real
Simon Pure, Calcraft, did not arrive until Friday night, and
took his departure on Saturday morning, accompaiiied to the
railway station by an immense crowd, curiosity being stimu-
lated by the belief that he is a man of large possessions, and
is bringing up his daughter in the first style of modern edu-
cation—with music, dancing, drawing, and so forth. These
proceedings remind us of an anecdote told of Dr. Horne, who,
if we are not mistaken, was Bishop of Gloucester. His ar-
rival at Norwich, to the bishopric of which he was translated,
collected a large crowd, and the good doctor, standing on the
steps of the episcopal palace, exclaimed, "Dear, dear, what a
multitude." "Ay, but is not half so many as come to see the
man hung on Friday," responded a worthy citizen, anxious,
it may be supposed, for the dignity of the Norwich crowds.—
Gloucestershire Chronicle.
AN INTERESTING RECRIIIT.—A sergeant belonging to the
89th Regiment appeared before the Rochester magistrates on
Tuesday, for the purpose of having a lad sworn in as a drum-
mer. The magistrate, Major Boys, struck with the boy's
appearance and manner, asked him his name, and how old he
was ? Upon his answering that he was 14, Major Boys said
he could not swear him in, 16 being the minimum age. The
magistrate was then informed by the sergeant that the recruit
was ordered to be sworn in by special authority, upon hear-
ing which, Major Boys put several questions to the lad, who
stated that his father, recently dead, awas a brigadier-general,
and formerly colonel of the 86th Regiment. His uncle, who
was still living, was a rear-admiral. The lad also stated that,
owing to his being left without father or mother, he was
induced to obtain permission to be allowed to enter his
father's old regiment, in the hope that by good conduct,
coupled with his father's former service in India and dying a
brigadier-general, he might be thought worthy the notice of
the authorities, as being the son of an officer who had died in
the discharge of his duty. The sergeant stated that the
whole of the lad's statement was corrrect. He was then
sworn in. The youth, who is well grown and with good
manners, is now with the dep6t of the 86th at Chatham
barracks. He is in the receipt of R 32 a-year from the Chari-
table Benevolent Fund, the special griant 91 her Majesty.—
South-Eastern Gazette,

THE CONSERVATIVE LARD SOCIETY.—The twenty-second
purchase of land, for allotment amongst the members, has
just been made in the centre of the town of Guildford, West
Surrey.
A MAN has been killed on the Calcutta railway, the first
accident that has happened ; though'on the Bombay line, which
has been opened two years and a half, no accident occasioning
injury to any bas ever occurred at all.
AREA OF OCEANS AND SEAS.—Atlantic, 25,000,000 square
miles ; Antarctic, 30,000,000 ditto ; Arctic, 8,400 ditto ; Pacific,
50,000,000 ditto ; Indian, 17,000,000; Mediterranean Sea,
1,006,900 ditto; Caspian, 10,000 ditto; Euxine or Black Sea
(in which our fleets are now engaged), 950,000 ditto ; Baltic,
175,000 ditto.
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THE-Earl and Countess of Derby arrived at Douglas's Hotel,
Edinburgh, on Thursday night, from the north of England,
where they had been visiting Lord Ravensw,Fth. On Friday
they drove to Roslin. They were to remain in Edinburgh till
yesterday, when they would proceed to the seat of the Dnke of
Athole, visiting afterwards the Duke of Richmond, the Duke
of Buccleuch, and the Earl of Eglinton.
Two GIPSIES were brought up at the Hereford Assizes last
week, charged with a highway robbery committed eleven
years ago. Chief Baron Pollock inquired who was the at-
torney for the prosecution, and, being told it was the magis-
trates' clerk, said—" That accounts for it. Nobody but a
magistrates' clerk would think of sending people to trial on
such a charge as this, after the lapse of eleven years. To be
obliged to live in obscurity for eleven years is as much punish-
ment as being transported. I cannot recommend the jury to
rely upon evidence of identity in a case that occurred so far
back. If the prisoners, after the lapse of eleven years, exactly
resemble the people who robbed the prosecutor, the presump-
tion is, that they are not the persons who committed that
robbery. This extensive industry on the part of magistrates,
clerks ought to be checked." The prisoners were discharged

THE FETE OP THE EMPEROR OP THE FRENCH.—OR Wed-
nesday an official dinner was given at Albert Gate House by
the French Ambassador, on the occasion of the fete of the
Emperor of the French. The company consisted of Viscount
Palmerston, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Cla-
rendon, Viscount Hardinge, the Count de Flahalt, Sir Charles
Wood, and Sir George Cornwall Lewis; and of the leading
members of the corps diplomatique. During the dessert, Lord
Palmerston proposed " The health of his Majesty the Emperor
of the French, and may his reign be long and glorious." The
Ambassador then gave " Her Majesty the Queen of Great
Britain and Ireland, and the enthusiastic reception which she
would experience on her approaching visit to France." Sub-
sequently, his Excellency proposed " The health of the sove-
reigns connected by friendship and alliance with France and
i England."

AN ARMY OF RESERVR FROM INDIA.-The Bengal Hui--
kern says The news of the intended despatch of an army
of reserve from India to Cairo has reached the Punjaub, and
rumours were afloat as to what regiments of her Majesty's ser-
vice would form a portion of the force. The 60th Rifles, the
10th, 52nd, and 70th were spoken of as the regiments most
likely to go, since, from being stationed so near the Sutlej,
their transport to Kurrachee would be a matter of comparative
ease. If all the royal regiments spoken of as destined to join
the army of reserve be really going, and its entire strength is
only to be 15,090 men, then the native infantry portion of it
will be very small, or, possibly, no sepoy corps will be sent at
all, and the force will consist of British infantry only, with
company's artillery and irregular cavalry, and possibly some
regulars, and the 14th Light Dragoons. We suppose that we
may shortly expect to receive some intelligence of a somewhat
more definite nature relatine, to the assembling of this army
of reserve at Cairo, and the-"despatch of an expedition to the
Persian Gulf, if one really be destined to proceed to the latter
locality." The 64th, which is upwards of 1,000 strong, is also
-spoken of for the same service, and will immediately leave for
Cairo.

THE DUKE OP SOMERSET, K.G., died on Wednesday, at
the family mansion, in Park-lane, London. He had for the last
two years been in declining health, but the occasional attacks
by which he was seized yielded to medical treatment, until
advanced age and increasing infirmity prevailed over a natu-
rally strong constitution. He was the eldest son of Webb,
11th duke, by his Duchess Anna Maria, only daughter and
heiress of John Bonnell, of Stanton Harcourt, Oxon. He
was born the 24th of February, 1775, and was, consequently,
in his 81st year. The late duke was twice married, first, the
24th of June, 1800, to Lady Charlotte Hamilton, daughter of
Archibald, 9th Duke of Hamilton, who died the 10th of June,
1827 ; and secondly, the 28th of July, 1836, to Margaret,
eldest daughter of the late Sir Michael Shaw Stewart, Bart.
By his first marriage he leaves three sons and four daughters.
He is succeeded in the peerage by his eldest son, Lord Sey-
mour, M.P., born in 1801. He married, the 10th of June,
1830, Jane Georgiana, youngest daughter of Mr. Thomas
Sheridan, and granddaughter of. the Right Hon. Richard
Brinsley Sheridan, by whom he has a numerous family.
TRE DUKE or MANCHESTER died on Saturday forenoon,
after a painful and protracted illness. The deceased, George
Montagu, Duke and Earl of Manchester, Viscount Mandeville,
and Baron Montagu .of Kimbolton, in the peerage of Great
Britain, was eldest son of William, fifth duke, by Lady Susan
Gordon, third daughter of Alexander, fourth Duke of Gor-
don. He was born on the 9th of July, 1799, so that his grace
had just completed his 56th year. The late duke was twice
married : first, Bth of October, 1822, to Millicent, only
daughter and heiress of the late General Robert Barnard
Sparrow and Lady Olivia Sparrow, by whom he leaves issue
two sons and a daughter, namely—Viscount Mandeville, M.P.
foi Nottinghamshire ; Lord Robert Montagu, and Lady
Olivia, married to Lord Ossulston, M.P. ; and secondly, in
1850, to Miss Dobbs, daughter of Mr. Conway R. Dobbs, of
Castle-Dobbs, county of Armagh, by whom he has a son and
daughter. The late duke succeeded to the family honours on
the death of his father, the 18th of March, 1843, and is now
succeeded by his eldest son, Viscount Mandeville, M.P., born
the 15th of October, 1823, and married in 1852 to the
Countess Louise D'Alten.
DEATH OT Mae. LAWRENCE.—The horticultural world
has sustained a loss of no ordinary character in the death of
this accomplished and energetic lady, which took place very
suddenly, at her seat, Ealing-park, Middlesex. The deceased
lady was the wife of Mr. William Lawrence, the eminent sur-
geon, of Whitehall-place. The celebrity of Mrs. Lawrence as
a horticulturist was perhaps greater than that which any
other amateur cultivator of this interesting study has attained
in our own times. Mrs. Lawrence lived at Drayton-green
until about the year 1840, when Mr. Lawrence purchased, we
believe, the estate, of Ealing Park ; and the more extended
sphere which then presented itself to the taste and energy of
the deceased lady was probably the chief cause of the celebrity
to which she afterwards attained. It was no unusual occur-
rence for Her Majesty and the Prince to honour the gardens
of Ealing with their presence ; and during the administration
of Sir Robert Peel, the whole of the ministers were received by
Mrs. Lawrence at a fke given in honour of their visit. The
deceased lady is understood to have died from a complaint of
the heart.
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ATTEMPT TO MURDER.—Colyton was, on Sunday morning,
thrown into consternation by a report that the Rev. George
Tucker, the rector of Musbury, a village a mile and a hall
distant from Colyton, had been shot, whilst proceeding to
church, by a man known as Captain Harvey, a resident in the
village. About half-past ten o'clock, the reverend gentleman,
accompanied by his son and daughter, a young lady of about
22, was proceeding to his church, and when passing the house
in which Harvey lived, they were both deliberately shot at
from a double-barelled gun. Mr. Tucker was a few feet in
Advance of his daughter when the first shot was fired, and on
turning quickly round, he observed Harvey standing in the
passage of his house, and on the same instant received a por-
tion of the contents of the second barrel in the shoulder and
side of the face, which -have been frightfully mutilated ; but
the bulk of the charge struck against the wall on the opposite
side of the lane. Miss Tucker's escape amounts almost to a
miracle, as the assassin must have fired point blank at her
head. The charge entered the poll of her bonnet, making a
hole about the size of an orange, carried away the comb in
her hair, and lodged in the wall on the opposite side, yet not a
shot touched her. Both were immediately conveyed to the
vicarage. It was feared on Sunday night, from the great loss
of blood sustained by Mr. Tucker, that he would not rally.
We learn, however, that hopes are entertained of his recovery.
No cause can be assigned for this horrible outrage. Harvey
has been at Musbury about six months ; previous to thisvhe
had resided at Seaton, where his conduct was of the grossest
character. He is a most powerful man, and has a wife who
rives apart from him. After the occurrence he locked and
barricaded the front and back doors of his house, and they
had to be broken open before he could be arrested. He was
ultimately taken into custody and committed for trial.—
Sherborne Journal.