The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-07-31 00:00:00

AN addition of 400 German recruits was made to the
Foreign Legion, at Thorncliffe, on Thursday.
THE banking establishment of Messrs. Strahan, Paul, and
Bates, in the Strand, has been purchased by the directors of
the London and Westminister Bank for the sum of £20,000.
UPWARDS of £30,000 of sugar duties were paid at the
custom-house, Greenock, on Saturday and Monday, in con-
sequence, it is supposed, of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's
late speech on the subject of the expense of carrying on the
war exceeding his estimates.
PRIZE MONEY.—The Gazette publishes a royal proclama-
tion, which orders that all officers and crews of British vessels
of war who shall be sent in charge of any ships which shall be
hereafter detained by any British vessels of war, shall share
in any prizes captured in their absence by the ship on the
books of which they may be borne at the time of such prizes
being captured, in all respects as if they had been actually on
board of such vessel at the time of such prizes being captured
by her.

GREAT JEWEL ROBBERY.—On Monday morning, between
two and three o'clock, the premises of Messrs. Barber and Co.,
jewellers, of Cheapside, London, were entered by thieves, and
a large quantity of gold watches and other jewellery, amount-
ing to upwards of £2,000, were carried away. The robbery
consists of 400 gold rings, set in diamonds, emeralds, and
rubies, diamond necklaces, 138 gold watches, 43 silver watches,
100 and upwards of gold Albert and brequet chains, 50 gold
pins, diamond studs, gold brooches, &c.
THE FAILURE OF STRAHAN, PAUL, AND BATES.-011
Wednesday, Sir J. D. Paul, Mr. Strahan, and Mr. Bates were
again brought up at the Bow-street Police-court, London.
No further evidence was adduced, and they were again
remanded till Wednesday next.—An examination meeting in
the Bankruptcy-court took place in London, on Thursday.
The Marquis of Westminster was present. The bankrupts
were in attendance, but were not examined, and one or two
creditors, who wished for information in reference to ceri
securities, were recommended to put themselves in commum
cation with the solicitors. It was said a dividend would be
declared on the 13th of October.

SINGULAR TELEGRAPH ERROR.—The Independance Beige
has a curious story of a mischance which nearly befel General
Castellan, at present commanding the army of Lyons. He re-
ceived a telegraph message from Paris, in which, by the sub-
stitution of que for de, the " death of the Emperor" was
announced, instead of that of a distinguished companion in
arms. General Castellan, it is said, after some hesitation, de-
cided to dictate to his soldiers a proclamation full of noble
sentiments and sympathies, but in which, regarding the army
as the only palladium of order and of society in Paris, he traced
out as their first duty that of acknowledging the head of the
elder Bourbon "as the saviour and sovereign of France." The
error, it is said, was discovered in good time, but not before
the proclamation had been submitted to several of the superior
officers at Lyons. The Emperor, it is said, only smiled when
he heard of the affair.

ON TUESDAY, before the Hyde-park Disturbances Com-
mittee, Sir R. Mayne was called as the first witness on behalf
of the police. He gave the details of his orders as to taking
up their stations, &c. "Any persons making a noise, shout-
ing, frightening horses, or creating disturbances, were to be
cautioned, and if they did not desist, to be taken into custody.
The prisoners were to be taken in cabs." Half-hourly reports
were sent to him from the park ; and he wrote at half-past
four, in answer to Inspector Hughes, " Now act vigorously in
compelling all rioters to move up the road." At five o'clock
he wrote, "All persons shouting at the carriages to be re-
moved from the railings." With regard to the injuries done
to the police, Sir R. Mayne stated there was one struck in the
back with a stone, one knocked down by a blow on the head
and slightly cut, one thrown down and slightly injured, one
had his eye blackened, forty-five were assaulted, seven kicked,
twenty-five struck with stones, and thirteen with sticks.
LORD SHAFTESBURY'S RELIGIOUS WORSHIP BILL, which
has now passed the lords, after reciting in the preamble the
law as laid down in the 2nd George 111., chap, 155, enacts as
follows :

"I. From and after the passing of this Act, nothing contained
in the above-mentioned Act shall apply to the congregations or
assemblies hereinafter mentioned, or any of them ; that is to say,
(I.) To any congregation or assembly for religious worship
held in any parish or any ecclesiastical district, and con-
ducted by the incumbent or curate of such parish or dis-
trict, or by any person authorised by him :
(2.) To any congregation or assembly for religious worship
meeting in a private dwelling house, or on the premises
belonging thereto:
(3.) To any congregation or assembly for religious worship
meeting occasionally in any building not usually appro-
priated to purposes of religious worship.
And no person permitting any such congregation to meet as
herein mentioned in any place occupied by him shall be liable to
any penalty for so doing.

„
IL So 'much of an Act passed in the second and third years
of King William the Fourth, chapter one hundred and fifteen, as
enacts that her Majesty's subjects professing the Roman Catholic
religion, in respect to their places for religious worship, shall be
subject to the same laws as the Protentant Dissenters are sub-
jected to, and so much of an Act passed in the ninth and tenth
year of her present Majesty, chapter fifty-nine, as enacts that her
Majesty's subjects professing the Jewish religion, in respect to
their places for religious worship, shall be subject to the same
laws as Protestant Dissenters are subject to, shall be respectively
read as applicable to the laws to which Protestant Dissenters in
England are subject for the time being after the passing of the
Act.”

TILE NEW BEER ACT.—On Thursday,. the committee re-
assembled, and agreed to report to the following effect :—"The
committee find that, owing to the late period of the session at
which they were appointed, and the short time still remaining
at their disposal, it has been impossible to carry the inquiry to
its full extent. The committee are convinced by the evidence
already produced (and which is of a character entirely to be
relied upon), that the act of last session, restricting the sale
of beer and liquors during certain hours of the Sunday, has
been attended with- unnecessary inconvenience to -the public.
The committee, in consequence, feel it their duty to recommend
to the consideration of the house an amendment of the Sale
of Beer Act of 1854, which will admit of the opening of li-
censed houses from one to three o'clock, and from five to eleven
o'clock in the afternoon of Sunday, and the other days named
in the act. The committee are further of opinion that it
would be desirable to omit in clause 1 of the act the words
' bona fide,' as useless for the purpose of definition and tending
to create doubts as to the intention of the legislature:' A
clause was, we understand, proposed but not persisted in, to
the effect that the subject was of sufficient importance to justify
the renewal of the committee in a future session, and the
words " has been attended with unnecessary inconvenience,"
were substituted for "calculated to cause very considerable in-
convenience." On a discussion of the question as to whether
the committee " felt it their duty unanimously to recommend
the matter to the immediate consideration of the house," the
words "unanimously" and "immediate" were agreed to be
omitted.

TAXES ON DOMESTIC SERVANTS.—A writer in the Times,
in allusion to the letter of a previous correspondent, complain-
ing that " the well-paid, well-fed, and easily-worked class of
upper domestics, including stewards, butlers, grooms of the
chambers, cooks, upper coachmen, and grooms, housekeepers,
and female cooks, are not taxed to the income-tax lender sche-
dule D," says, " I entirely concur with Omega,' that this
very numerous body are fit and proper persons to bear the
burden and heat' of the tax collectors' visitations. I have,
during the last eighteen years, been employed in trading with
the aristocracy through their upper servants, and am prepared
to state my conviction that many thousands of such persons,
whose wages vary from 50 to 100 guineas per annum, exclu-
sive of lodging, light, firing, and food, as those who ought, at
a time like this, to put the shoulder to the wheel beside the
small and hard-worked trader, who, by his position, comes
within the grasp of the assessor more readily; for I think no
one can deny that 50 guineas and board and lodging are quite
equal to the assessable point which the government tax com-
mences at, without once thinking of numberless other sources
of an upper servant's income in the shape of perquisites, pre-
sents, allowances, &c. I throw out this hint to the authori-
ties, and would suggest that the best method of carrying it
out would be to ascertain from my lord,' or ' Sir James,'
through the medium of his return paper, the wages paid to his
domestics, and bring all those into charge whose nominal
wages are £5O, or near it, believing that this would be a plan
which would materially add to the return under the head of
taxes.' "

THE TURKISH SULTAN AND THE ENGLISH ARMY.—
The following is a translation of the autograph letter ad-
dressed by the Sultan to the late Lord Raglan, thanking him
for the services of the English army. An autograph letter of
D. similar tenor was addressed at the same time to General
P-clissier

To LORD RAGLAN.
MY Loan,—The Queen, my august and intimate ally, has sent
you to defend my cause, which, being a just and legitimate one,
becomes the cause of the whole civilised world. You, and the
brave army which you command, have responded to the expec-
tations of your country and of mine. You have deserved general
admiration by your glorious exploits in a trying climate. The
new feats of arms you have just added to the many brilliant
actions performed in the Crimea, together with my soldiers, whom
I love as my own children, give me the hope of a definite and
proximate result, which will be as glorious for these great allied
nations es the commencement of the campaign. 1 experience a
feeling of higher satisfaction that a thing so terrible as war should
have been the means of uniting my people with the great nations
of the west by indissoluble bonds. As long as the noble thirst
for glory will make the human heart beat, those who have struggled
with fraternal emulation, those who have mixed their blood
together on a foreign soil, will remember companions whom
they regarded as brothers. That which has hitherto been the
scourge of mankind, will have procured the satisfactory result of
bringing nearer to each other the people whose governments were
already allies ;-this war will bear the germs of a durable peace,
rich in wholesome fruit, between nations who desire to appreciate
one another. Being desirous to offer to the brave combatants in
the Crimea a proof of my lively satisfaction, a public testimony of
my gratitude, I have charged my aide-de-camp, General Etliem
Pasha, to bring you this letter. I flatter myself with the hope,
my lord, that all the brave officers and soldiers under your orders
will be convinced.that we make no distinction between any of the
soldiers fighting for the common cause, and that the affection I
feel for them finds an echo in the heart of the whole population
of Turkey, which rejoices to recognise in them the most ancient
allies of my empire. I pray God to give you the moat glorious
success, and to have you in His holy keeping.
Palace of Tch6ragan, the 12th Schewal, 1271."
PERMOITS F1,00D.-0/3 Wednesday, about two o'clock, p.m.,
a torrent of water broke suddenly into the works now in pro-
gress for deepening and rebuilding the Fleet sewer, opposite
Clerkenwell, London. A temporary canal had been cut from
a point a hundred yards up the stream to carry the water past
the position of the working to a point fifty yards below. A
weir eight feet high has been constructed to turn the stream
into the temporary channel. This had been damaged by the
floods two weeks ago, but was now strongly piled and but-
tressed. Before it could overflow it turned aside a body of
water which ran on a descent six feet deep, by twelve or four.
teen wide, and this torrent rolled over a fall of several feet
into the former bed of the sewer. It rolled in such a body
on Wednesday about two o'clock. The rains of the past week
had swollen the ancient Fleet rivulet, but up to the instant of
peril, no danger was apprehended. Either an unusual discharge
from the Hampstead and Highgate or other reservoirs, or
heavier rains than fell about Clerkenwell, had fallen within
the area of the north-west drainage, and sent down an
outnheexrpleacbotedureflrosod, flood.
were Fromin channel, a ifionretly, buildingbricklayers, piers for
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the arches, or digging foundations, carrying materials on
narrow ladders and planks— men above men, in the intri-
cately busy working hive—no means of escape but by one or
two narrow ladders ; when suddenly the labourers highest on
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the planks cried that the flood had risen above the weir. It
rolled over, brought down a portion of the side works, and
came roaring and crashing down the dry channel. The men
rushed to the ladders, or leaped upon their fresh and frail
walls, or clung to planks, helping one another, or crying fran-
tically for help. The open archway was within a few yards,
and the next outlet was into the Thames, two-thirds of a mile
distant. The roaring torrent dashed underneath the clinging
workmen into the black throat of this sewer, and every man
knew that should the, weir give way and the pent-up waters
which were lodged backward towards King's-cross follow
its fall, they would be swept with all they clung to irrevocably
to destruCtioii: The imminence of danger for a brief space
produced confusion, but presently courage and coolness over-
came the panic. The weir did not give way. The men above
assisted the men below, and they stood in safety, with many
strangers, attracted by their cries for help, to see the flood
washing away the new brick-work, but otherwise doing no
harm, - •