The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-08-07 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

THE,Yorkshire Gazette mentions an extraordinary instance
of somnambulism. A little boy was found at midnight by his
sister suspended outside the window, with his hands holding
on to the stone sill, and in great danger of falling to the
ground. The sister, with the assistance of the servant girl, ex-
tricated the boy from his dangerous situation, and he did not
recover from his dream until after his sister had lifted him
with safety into the room.
ELIZABETH ANN HOLMAN, a young woman twenty-two
years of age, dressed in man's clothes, was brought up at the
Plymouth Guildhall, on Thursday, charged with being a sus-
picious person. She stated that she had been employd as a
road and field-labourer in Devonshire and Cornwall, and had
also worked as a miner without any suspicion as to her sex.
Her reason for assuming male attire was, that she could earn
much higher wages as a man than she could have done other-
wise. As there was no proof of her having committed any
other offence, the bench directed her to be discharged.
EMIGRATION.—The total number of emigrants who left
the United Kingdom during the 40 years between January,
1815, and December, 1854, was 4,116,958, being on an average,
102,923 persons a-year. But of this number 2,446.802, or
nearly three-fifths, have emigrated during the last eight years;
and 1,356,096, or nearly one-third, in the last four years. The
average emigration of the last four years has been 339,504.
The largest emigration was in 1852, namely, 368,764. In 1854
the emigration was less by 45,335 than in 1852. The greater
part of emigrants go to the United States. In 1852 the num-
ber was 244,261; in 1854 it was 193,065, of which number
160,209 were Irish. In the last seven years, no less a sum
than £7,520,000 was remitted to Ireland by emigrants, to
enable their connections to join them in their adopted country.
STRAHAN, PAUL, AND BATES were brought up at Bow-
street Police-court, on Wednesday. Mr. Bodkin, for prosecution,
produced evidence showing that Dr. Griffith's bonds were now
in the hands of Payne and Smith, the bankers, standing in the
name of Mr. Sykes, who had received them from a Mr. Beattie.
The latter was abroad, and would not be in England till Sep-
tember. Another remand would therefore be necessary. It
was proved that Strahan and Co. received the March dividends,
and that the September dividends had been paid to Smith and
Payne for Mr. Sykes, while the pass-book of Dr, Griffith showed
he had been duly creditedfor both the accounts. The prisoners
were admitted to bail of £6,000 each, and with two sureties of
£3,000 each, making a total bail of £36,000. On Thursday,
Mr. Strahan was bailed in the required amount by Mr. Beadon,
police-magistrate, of Wandsworth, and Dr. Gordon ; and, on
Friday, bail was entered into for the other partners.
Seoren LANDED PROPRIETORS.—The following is :the
gross total number-of landed proprietors standing on the vain-
aticrwrolls of the various Scotch counties in 1854—viz., in
Aberdeen, 341; Argyll, 181; Aye, 456 ; Banff; 45 ' • Berwick,
306.; Bate, 9 ; Caithness, 37; Clackmannan, 35 • Dumbarton,
:263 ; Dumfries, 510 ; Fdinburgh, 562 ; Elgin, 5"5 ' • Fife, 086;
Forfar, 358 ; Haddington, 124 ; Inverness, 120 ; Kincardine,
2; Kinross, 164 ; Kirkcudbright, 413 ; Linlithgow, 164.;
Nairn, 15 ' Orkney, 329 ; Peebles, 88; Perth, 696 ; Ross, 69
Roxburgh, 429 • Selkirk, 43.; Stirling, 615 ; Sutherland, 8;
and Wigtown, 60; 694 of these estates were valued at between
£5OO and £l,OOO, 387 at between £l,OOO and £2,000, 274 .at
between £2,000 and £5;000, 76 at between £5,000 and £lO,OOO,
and 32 at upwards of V. 0,000.
ECLI`PSE OP AN EITROPEAN SOVEREIGNTY.—A sovereign
state has disappeared from the map of Europe. Kniphausen
has collapsed into a -seignory of the Grand Duke of Oldenburg.
This important fact is notified in an ordonnance just published
by the Minister of:State for Oldenburg. Kniphausen was the
.sniallest state of the Germanic Confederation : its population
did not exceed 3,500 souls, nor its territory 4,500 hectares. It
was united to Oldenburg in 1813; but the Congress of Vienna
not having recognized the incorporation, its separate rights
have been kept alive with Prussian aid until the present time.
A Boy wym A REAL TAIL—At Middlesborough-on-Tees
there exists a-singular freak sff nature, " a boy with a real tail."
He is about -four months • old and in good health. He has a
perfect.caudal appendage four or five inches in length. It
springs from the vertebrae of the or sacrum, not the os coccygis
as does the tail of an animal, which is a continuation of the
spinal structure. It has caused much interest among the
faculty, who have had a consultation whether it would be
proper to take it off; but, as upon examination it is found to
possess the properties of -a limb, having bone, muscle, feeling,
&c., and can be moved at the will of the child, it is feared the
operation might endanger the child's life by affecting the
spinal-cord. It may prove of great inconvenience to the pos-
sessor in after life, as it will intrude upon the seat of honour.
DEATH FROM GLANDERS.—EIiza Massey, the wife of Jemmy
Massey, the well-known pugilist, aged only 31, has died from
glanders in Middlesex Hospital. The unfortunate deceased
resided with her husband, who kept from eight to twelve cab-
horses, over the stables situated at 9, Stephen's-mews, adjoin-
ing Rahbone-place, Oxford-street—her sufferings having been,
as described by her medical attendants, of the most excruciating
nature. Her body. presented a dreadful-spectacle, immediately
after death assuming the appearance of one mass of putrefac-
lion. The cause of :the disease is enveloped in mystery, as the
deceased never had. anything to do with her husband's horses,
one of which had- suffered from glanders ; -and the supposition
is, that the dreadful complaint was engendered through the
deceased-breathing the impure air in the mews, there being no
.ventilation or drainage to the stables.
WHOLESALE MURDER.—A letter from Warsaw, dated July
.12, says :—" A shocking event has just -occurred here. The
knight before last, as the stage-coach was -on its way between
Minsk and Kalushin, it was attacked by a band of miscreants,
who first killed the-horses, then murdered the driver, and five
-of the passengers; the sixth, a young lady, contrived to effect
her escape. Seven waggons laden with: corn happened to be
imssing at the time, driven by Jews. These men were like-
wise murdered, as was also a Jewish family of nine persons,
who inhabited a public-house in the neighbourhood. Magis-
trates, aides-de-camp of the Viceroy, and a strong detachment
of mounted police,:have gone from this place in all haste to the
•sr4. and it is hoped that a clue to the murderers will be very
shortly found."
DARING ROBBERY IN LONDON.—On Thursday a most
daring robbery was committed at the public-house known by
the sign of the Giant's Stores, Drury-lane, a short distance
from the Olympic Theatre. A number of well-dressed fellows,
known as companions of thieves, had been observed hanging
about, and got up into the concert-room-upon the pretence of
hearing a song. The result showed, however, that they had
contemplated a more serious game than being amused with a
song, for it was discovered that while some watched the motions
of the giant and persons in the bar, others of the party entered
the landlord's room with a skeleton key and ransacked the
place, and carried off a splendid gold watch and chain, pre-
sented by Her Majesty to Mr. Hales; also, some silver snuff
boxes, and other property, worth altogether about £l2O.
ABDUCTION.—At the Shrewsbury Assizes, on Monday,
Richard Roden, 40 years of age, was sentenced to nine months'
-imprisonment for abducing Sarah Buttery, under 16 years of
--age, at Wroxeter, in June.last. The prisoner was married and
had two children, and the girl in question lived as a servant
with her aunt, next door to him. He became acquainted with
:her, an illicit connection was the consequence, and she was
ultimately sent home to her parents. In June last, Roden
-sent one of his own children to make an appointment with
Buttery, and the guilty couple met, he askingbis paramour to
fly with him, as his wife had told him it was the best thing he
could do, and that, if he took her clean off, he should have
anything he wanted ; but, if he took any one else, he should
have nothing. The girl flew with him, but the parents soon
captured her.
A LETTER PROM ADRIAROPLE states that the neighbour-
hood of that city had been freed in -rather a singular manner
from the highway robbers who infested it. A widow, residing
near Silivria, had been plundered of all her property by a
gang orruffians who pretended they -acted under the orders of
Yani, a robber Chief, who has acquired an unenviable celebrity
in that .locality. Yani, a species of Fra Diavolo, who boasts
that lie only robs the rich to give to the poor, having heard
of the .outrage, visited the widow, and ascertained that the
attack was made in his name. He immediately set out with
a party of his band, traced the robbers, put them to death, and
recovered the plunder. 'Within two days of his first visit to
the widow, he returned to her with the entire of the property
of which she had been despoiled, together with the heads of
the seven robbers. " You see," said Yani, " that I have
procured -you :restitution, - and you may be assured tha
nobody shall ever.disgrace my name with impunity."

INTRODITCTION ,OT' INDIRECT TAXATION INTO TURKEY.
—The Morning Herald Constantinople correspondent writes :
"Au important measure is under discussion at present. On
the Ist of September next it is proposed to adopt one of the
civilised modes of increasing the revenue, by the institution
of a new tax which was held in contempt, as being tedious
and expensive in tbe.colleetion. I believe it will be rendered
obligatory on every one to use stamped paper "for all public
and private documents involving responsibility, with the
exception of certain title deeds and legal affidavits, on which
the tax will not be raised /as the cries of the Ulemah, in all
probability, might be raisEd with it). This measure does not
interfere with foreigners in their dealings among themselves ;
but will affect the natives, and will not be popular among
merchants and traders ; like skinned eels, however, they
will get accustomed to it at last. It is evident that the Porte
.must increase its revenue by several millions of piastres, and
as it cannot raise it as in former times directly, it must do
soindirectly."

Wrila NEXT ?—Underthis heading, the New York Journal
of Commerce says :—Banium, having used up the babies,
much to his own advantage no doubt, is going to try his hand
at the mothers and young ladies. He has issued a programme
of over $5,000, which he proposes to present in premiums " to
the handsomest ladies in America." There is to be one pre-
mium of $1,000; one of $300; one of $250; one of $200; one
of $150; six of $1.00; ninety of $2O; and one hundred of $lO.
The process by which the handsomest ladies are to be found
out and ascertained, is somewhat complicated, and we leave it
for the details, which will soon be published as an advertise-
ment. Suffice it to say that, in the first instance, daguereo-
types of beautiful women will be invited to be sent in from all
parts of the country, with or without the names,— the daguereo-
types to be returned in due time to the owners. On the 15th
of Oct. all that may have arrived " will be placed before the
public at the American Museum, or in some other suitable lo-
cality in New York." The visitors at the place of exhibition
will decide, by means of ballots, which of the portraits are en-
titled to the premiums. Those ladies obtaining the ten
highest premiums will be engraved and published in the French
" World's Book of Beauty." Each lady who may secure one
of the ten highest premiums, will be desired to sit to the best
artist in the city nearest to her residence, who will paint her
portrait from life, at the expense of Mr. Barnum, for the
French publication.
AGRioulanalL MEET. —On Saturday, about four hundred
gentlemen interested in the success of agriculture assembled,
according to custom, at Mr. Mechi's model- farm at Tiptree,
heath, Essex. The company proceeded with Mr. Mechi to
view the farm and stock, and pronounced the wheat, barley,
and oat crops all that could be wished, and the mangold and
other root-crops seemed to be in excellent condition. The cattle,
pigs, horses, sheep, and other live stock were all very healthy,
and their clean appearance was the theme of universal admi-
ration. Part
agriculturalof
he day's proceedings was the exhibition of
new
implements. A ponderous machine, the in-
vention of the Earl of Dundonald, for cutting up the ground-
and putting down pipei for draining' attracted -some attention.
A reaping machine, by Dray and Co
was tried upon some
wheat, a portion of which was very much laid, and the result
was so satisfactory that several orders were given on_the spot.
This machine was considered to supply a remedy for the only
absolute defect which had hitherto existed in Hussey's imple-
ment. The inspection of the crops and farmyards over, the
company repaired to a large marquee, and partook
of a cold
collation. Mr. Mechi presided, and was supported on his right
by the Lord Mayor, and on his left by the Marquis of Dro-
gheda. Mr. Mechi, in returning thanks for his health, said he
had surmounted all the difficulties which had in the first onset
beset his path, and he was happy to say Cant his crops this year
would well pay him. He thought that the great future for
agrigUiture lay n the full development of steam,