The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-11-13 00:00:00

TUE Lord Mayor and. Aldermen of London have been in-
vited to the closing of the_ Paris Exhibition, which takes place
on the 17th inst.

THE late " murder and' suicide" in Brighton are still sub-
jects of - dispute. Dr. Arnold Ruge and other medical men
positively assert that the boy must have died from natural
causes, and a post-7nortei)i examination is demanded.
THE MISSING CLERGYMAN.—The reports which have been
going the round of the papers with regard to the discovery of
the Rev. Mr. Farmar are -void of foundation. There has nob
been any clue yet obtained to the mystery of his disappearance

HAIR DYE.—A man was plaeed a few days g.',o in a lunatic
asylum at Berlin, to be treated for mental alienation, brought
on by the use of hair dye. On eiamining the dye which he.
had employed, it was ascertained to be composed of lead, mer-
cury, and lunar caustic. It produced violent pains in the head,
and at length led to madness.
A MAID, WIPE, AND WIDOW, IN FOUR DAYS.—The
uncertainty of life has been forcibly impressed on us within.
the last few days, by the death of Mr. Edwin Caplin, of New-
port, in the prime of life. He was married on Thursday, the
25th ult., to Frances, youngest daughter of Mr. William
Hill, of Stone, near Newport. They left the island directly
after the wedding, proceeding by steamer from Cowes to
Southampton,- intending to spend a week or two in London ;
but on reaching Winchester, Mr. C. found himself too ill to
proceed any further that night. The next day he became
worse, and the following night he died.
THE AUSTRIAN CREDIT BANK.--The new General Bank
of Credit of Vienna has been placed under the auspices of
the great name of Rothschild. The new institution will
receive a privilege from the government for a term of ninety
years. -Its-operations -are to comprise all sorts of banking
transactions, industrial undertakings, loans, purchases, colo-
nisation enterprises, and so forth. The capital of the institu-
tion is to be limited, for the beginning, to 60,000,000 florins,,
with the right of increasing it to 100,000,000. An emission
of 300,000 shares of 200 florins each is to take place, for the
purpose of raising this canital. The five- banking housei:Of
the Messrs. Rothschild put 25,000,000 of florins into the

concern.
AN EGYPTIAN SNAKE STORY.—A singular case of poison-
ing occurred at Cairo, on the 15th ult. A poor man having
prepared some cubebe, a dish made of hashed meat, was about
to enjoy it with his family, when a female friend entered, and
was invited to taste some ; but hardly had the mouthful keen
swallowed by the stranger when she fell down iu horrible
convulsions, and expired in the course of a few minutes. The
man was immediately arrested, and taken before the minister
of police. There he declared that he was perfectly innocent,
and stated where he had bought the meat and. oil that 11'4
been used for the dish. A strict investigation being hist',
tuted, a dead venomous serpent was found lying in the jar
whence the oil had been taken for the buyer.—Spettatore
Egiziano.
A WOMAN BURIED ALIVE.—A distressing case occurred
at Monesiglio (Piedmont), on the 30th ult. A woman who
had had a violent attack of cholera had been buried the
evening before. In the morning, a countryman, passing
near her grave, heard some moans issuing from it,. but
instead of informing the authorities, he contented himself ,
with mentioning the circumstance to a farmer living hard by,
who took no further notice of the matter. This very farmer
hearing the same moans in the evening, got frightened, and
ran home without mentioning a syllable of the matter to any
one until the morning after. The parish authorities imme-
diately proceeded to open the grave, but it was too late, the
poor victim was dead. Evidence of her having been buried
alive was furnished by her shroud, which. she had thrown
off during her agony.— Galignani's Messenger.
DARING-AND INGENIOUS _ROBBEB,Y.—A daring robbery
has been practised upon a Mr. Brown, watchmaker, of Coven-
, try. A person called upon Mr. Brown, and, in a business-like
way, ordered twenty gold watches (value 2174) to be manu-
factured. At a given time the stranger called, and pretending
to be in too great a hurry to arrange about the payment, &c.,
told Mr. Brown to bring them over to Birmingham at a par-
ticular time, arid' that-he would' receive them-at-the-railway
station there,' and pay the amount. Mr. Brown agreed, and
went accordingly, but found no customer at the station,
though he waited two or three hours. Giving it up, he left the
railway station, and, in crossing a bye-street, he was attacked
by several men and robbed not only of the box containing
the watches, but of all the money which he had in his
. possession.. The "customer," of course, was the prime mover
in the attack.
NAVIGATION OF THE DARDANELLES.—The Ottoman Go-
vernment-has just adopted a measure long required by seamen.
The Porte has charged Captain Michel, of the Imperial
" Alessageries," to erect on the coasts of Asia and Europe,
from the Dardanelles as far as the Black Sea, a chain of light-
' houses, which will enable vessels in future to pass through the
straits, and recognise the lands, the approaches to which were
rendered excessively dangerous by the absence of lights.
Captain Michel has engaged to execute the works and cause
the apparatus to be fitted up in each before the month of
January. At a later period, the system of beacons and light-
houses will be made general, and everything induces us to
hope that before a few years are over the coasts of the empire
and the islands of the Turkish Archipelago will no longer
present any of those dangers that seamen both of the navy
and the merchant service have for a long time complained of.
The Ottoman Government has published a notice to the effect
that a government steamer will for two months be employed
gratuitously in towing vessels and boats laden with wood and
I coal for Constantinople through the Bosphorus, which they
cannot now pass in safety, in consequence of the strong
'current.
THE LAW or RAILWAYS.—On Friday, at the Huddersfield
Railway Station, a scene occurred which caused sotne excite-
ment amongst those present. A passenger had travelled
from Manchester by the seven o'clock p.m. train, which is
third class as far as Huddersfield, and afterwards first and
second class. As the gentleman wished to proceed as far as
Mirfield, he inquired whether he should get out and book by
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without one. He, however, was determined
to test the matter, and entered a second-class train, signifying
at the same time his intention to pay second-class fare from
Huddersfield to Mirfield. On arriving at Mirfield, and ten-
dering the second-class fare from Huddersfield to that place,
it was refused, and a demand made for second-class fare from
Manchester. He would not pay that amount, alleging that
he had already paid the company for conveying him between
Manchester and Huddersfield. It is stated that the magis-
trates will be called on to decide the matter.—Huddersfield
Examiner.
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Mulanzu OF A SURGEON.—Another horrid murder has
been committed within a few miles of Newcastle. Mr. Stir-
ling, surgeon, under thirty years of age, who came from
Scotland about three weeks ago, and was engaged as an assist-
ant to Mr. Watson, a surgeon at Burnopfield, a village about
seven miles from Newcastle. He left the surgery on Thurs-
day, the Ist inst., in the forenoon, and went out to visit some
patients at Spen, about three miles off, in the direction of
Gibside. He had made the visits, and was returning to Bur-
nopfield, but never reached there, the place where he was
murdered being about one mile off. The last time he was
seen alive was at one o'clock in the afternoon, when he de-
parted from the last of the patients he had to visit. His not
returning home that night was matter of suspicion ; and his
continued absence suggested the idea that he might possibly
have returned to his parents, who reside in or near Glasgow.
They were written to, and his father, alarmed at the intelli-
gence of his son's disappearance, immediately came over to
Burnopfield. On Tuesday, in examining a wood through
which the young man had to pass, not far from Gibside, and
about a mile from Burnopfield, his body was found by his
distressed parent ; when it was discovered that he had been
robbed and murdered. It appeared that he had been shot in
the groin, then beaten about the head, and his face was dread-
fully mutilated. His watch, a ring which he wore, and his
purse, had been taken away. He was well educated, gentle-
manly in his manners, and belonged to a family of great
respectability.—Newcastle Messenger.
1 HORRIBLE STORY.—On Sunday, the 4th inst., a painful
sensation was caused in this town by the prevalence of a re-
port that a child had been worried by a dog. The child was
the son of Mr. Marshall, who occupied one of some recently
erected houses in Sherwood-street, opposite the Clinton Arms.
A few minutes before 11 o'clock on Sunday morning, the child,
who was three years and a• half old, was playing with a brother
about a year older, in the back yard, in which a thorough-bred
bulldog was usually kept chained. At that time, however,
the animal was loose, and the children were lifting it into a
a small wheelbarrow, -when it is supposed they managed to
trap one of the dog's 'feet. Immediately after the inmates of
the house were alarmed by hearing a piercing shriek, and, on
going into the passage, a horrible sight presented itself. The
dog was worrying the child as it lay in the corner, and such
was its ferocity that, to use the expression of an eye-witness, it
was like a terrier fastening itself upon a rat. The child's
grandmother and a nurse-girl, raised an alarm, and the farmer,
,who was joined by Mrs. Marshall, seized a poker and the
tongs, and tried to beat the dog off, but without success. In
-the meantime the father, who heard the cries from the top of
the house, ands butcher named Jackson, mounted over a high
wall and leaped into the yard. It seemed to them as if the
dog's nose was literally buried in the child's face ; Mr. Jackson
seized the animal by its bind-quarters, while Mr. Marshall
opened its jaws, and the former then threw it over the wall.
The dog, which was covered with blood, immediately ran
round to the front, and was observed to smell two children as
it passed them. The child being' brought into the house, it
was found that his right ear was completely bitten off; there
edrksbyof the dog's teeth on the other ear, across the
nose, and on both the eyelids, while a fearful slit extended
from the right eye down to the month, and one of the fingers
was lacerated. The wounds were bandaged up, and, as the
child soon began to show signs of returning consciousness,
some hopes were entertained of saving his life. The animal
was killed the same morning.—Nottingham Journal.
PAUL, STRAIIAN, AND BATES.—The course pursued in the
case of Anderson the forger, and Cole the merchant, will be
carried out in the case of these convicts. It will be to keep
Them in Newgate whilst the proceedings in bankruptcy are
pending, and, should they be protracted over a period longer
-than the authorities of the Home-office deem it advisable that
they should remain where they are, they will be removed to
Millhank-prison. Upon their being removed back to gaol,
after their conviction, they were put into prison attire, but
they have net their hair cut close, neither is there any correc-
tionary labour they will be put to. Prisoners in Newgate are
confined in separate cells, except when taken to exercise, and
there is no chance in this gaol of there being any special relax.
- ation of the rules towards these prisoners. For the first three
or four days subsequent to their conviction, the prisoners were
in a desponding state, but have since become 'resigned to their
fate. Sir John Dean Paul is grandson to old Dr. Paul, who
lived and died in lodgings opposite St. James's Church. His
father married the daughter of Lady Ann Simpson, niece to
the Earl of Strathmore. He died a very poor man, his estate
of Rodborough having been sold in his lifetime to meet his
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Knightsbridge, the Countess of Hardwicke, Viscountess Bar-
rington, Lady Bloomfield, and the Hon. Mrs. Villiers, sister-
in-law to the Earl of Clarendon. He married a daughter of
Charles Beauclerk, Esq., of Horsham. One of Sir John's own
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ECCLESIASZICA _I INTEL LIGE C

PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.
Rev. E. J. Brewster, M.A., to the curacy of Limpicy stoke,

•
Buttan.sbalv, M.A., to the Curacy of Chinuor, axford
shire.

Rev. S. P. Downing, 8.A., to be Assistant Curate of Sutton
Wakiren, Dorset.
Rev. C.'Hal!, 11. A., to the Rectory and Vicarage of Honing-
hourn, Kent. - • .
-Rev. A. R. Lu.'low, M.A., to the Rectory of Littleton-upon.:
Severn, Gloucestershire. - •
Rev. H. Meeres, M.A., of Clare,hall, Cambridge, to the Vicar-

age of Iladdenhani, Bucks.__-
Rev. J. H. B. Mountain, Rector of Blunham, to be a Sur-
rogate for the granting of Marriage Licences, &c., in the Arch-
deaconry of Bedfordshire.
Rev. C. H. Murley, M.A., to be Assistant Curate of Hilperton
and Whaddon, Wilts.
Rev. E. G. Penny, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Rangewor-
.thy, Gloucestershire.
Rev. w. S. Turnbull, 8.A., to the Vicarage of Penieton, near
Huddersfield.

Rev. T. Turner, to the Perpetual Curacy of Norton, Glouces-
tershire, a benefice which has lapsed to the Crown.
Rev. C. R. ,t . Waldy, M.A.. to the Curacy of Winfrith New-
burgh and Burton, Dorset.