The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-12-25 00:00:00

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

THERE are 10,000 English militia in Ireland, and before the
Ist January 5,000 Irish militia will be in England.
CANADA produces such a supply of isinglass as may com-
pensate for the loss of the Russian imports.
SEVERITY OF THE WEATHER.—So intense was the
weather on Tuesday night, that the works of the great clock
at St. Paul's were frozen. The clock is consequently stopped.
THE Duke of Argyll has decided to send out immediate in-
structions to the officers of the army post-office in the East, to
open money-order offices, for the transmission of money to the
UnitedKingdom,at Constantinople, Scutari, the head-quarters
of the army, and at Balaklava.
A WOMAN has been fined ss. at Leeds, for a novel descrip-
tion of theft. She was in the habit of going from cart to cart
in the market, " sampling" potatoe and apples, and contrived
to make away with an apple and a potato from each lot she
visited, so that on completing her morning's round she had a
very heavy basketful of fruit and vegetables.
A HORRIBLE MURDER has been committed at Dresden. An
old sergeant in the army, named Jauckus, killed his wife and
two children, aged nine and two and a-half years, by stabbing
them with a poignard knife. Drunkenness and jealousy are
said to have been the cause of the act. The murderer, after
committing the crime, went to bed and slept soundly till the
morning, when he was arrested.
THE CURRAGH ENCAMPMENT.—Lord Seaton, the Com-
mander of the Forces in Ireland, has arrived in Dublin, from
'the camp at the Curragh, the severity of the weather having
forced his lordship to 'discontinue his field days until the en-
suing spring, when-A is his intention to open the season by
a conrse of practice in artillery and Minie rifles.

THE REV. Divm Buovic MOORE, minister of St. Matthew's,
St. George's-in-the-East, London, having petitioned the Insol-
vent Court under the Protection Act,
.it appeared at the hear-
ing of the case last week, that the insolvent's income, which
was now about £BOO a year, had been as low as £6O, .on which
he had had to support a wife and seven children, 'of 'whom
two daughters are still living. Mr. Commissioner Phillips
said he deeply felt for the underpaid working clergy, laying
an emphasison'the word " working." Protection was granted.
THE OiIrECHA. ISLANDS.— ACCOAEAS `from 'the Chincha
Islands 'announce that Pisco had been 'made'aperrt of entry.
This Will 4ftect a considerable saving of time—say one month
—in theNvoTage of vessels loading guano. There is now no
necessity for them to proceed to Uallao for Ecenige and for
clearingVapers.—Shipping Garete.
Titt "CAsz or Da. VsuornlaiT.---:The 'indictment against
the Rev. Dr. Vaughan, which Stood for trial at the Central
'Criminal Court, on Thursday, 'has-been removed by certiorari
into'the Court of Queen's Bench, application being made toa
,judge at chambers for that purpose on' behalf of Dr. Vaughan,
'When an order was made for the writ'to issue.

THE shock of earthquake which was lately felt in the Pyre-
qiees produced a strange effect'inthe commune of Generest, at
'the southern extremity. of a small 'valey, about four miles
`from Montregeau. This valley 'was crossed by a 'rivulet
'which was abundant enough to 'troik two flour mills.erected
in the village. A very-short timenEer the shock therivulet
ceased to flow, and the bed of it has since remainedvarfectly
d ry.
GR/SI AND JEN-NV L11413.-rhe two greatest lyrical
artistes in the world are' at this.moment residing ivithin three
doors of each other 'End at the Bedford notel, and
Grisi in a mansion'olose to • her, 'where the latterliill remain
till after her confinement,
.the%accouchement or" La Diva"
being daily expedted. Mario *.Teturned to Brighton from
Paris on Saturday last, and isz ill here.—Brig7iton Gazette.
AN INFontfulflLTE ReNK.—The North of 'England Joint
Stock Bank which stopped payment in Newcastle in the
early part of 1.147,:and the alkirs of which ha-re since been in
course of settlement Under the Windingzup Act, has now
nearly reached file end of that process. The Master of the
Rolls, on Monday,. ordered aiurther return 'Of £5 per share,
in addition to three several, calls of £3O, gig, and £l5, to be
paid by such 'of thecontribttories as have ,n6t entered into saw
compromise.

TIM LAVE lin.--2111r:Wahley, the.cmner, stated, arca
inquest held last week, that his belief, and that of a mauler
of his profesSion, was, that the Emperor'Xicholas committed
suicide. ."Tis deatl.rvas put down tolpgralysis of the lungs
and broncliiitis, which, -according to theaqmptoms desciiibed,
was known %Ivo& medteal men to havekeen impossible. The
official •doeument;,deseitbing the Emperor's death, atated`that
at the la et he took ileswe of his family with a 'firm voice—a
proceeding physically impossible if ho was suffering from the
disease .gteted in the•tertificate of &db.."

PON= AIYrorSTMENTs AS A. NE WARD or METerm.—At
the meeting of the Huddersfield Mechanics' Institution last
week, prodded over...by the Dean ,ctf 'Hereford, the olairman
read a letter from 'Mr. John Wood,. Chairman of the Inland
BevermeCommisbion, authorising .64 Dean to offer,:as a prize
to ibe conipeted Turin the Huddersteld Mechanics' Institution,
a situation 'in ithelinland revenue, which the chairman will
hold himself readyto provide yearly..—Manchester Guardian
BaßlDElß(Catmauss' Rarzway.--LThe ceremeny,d cutting
the tfire sod. of This railway was fly performed at Ilexham,
ori Tuesday. 'The line commences at about a mile'from Hex-
nriiereit Will join the Newcastle and Carlisle:Railway ;
it,crosses theriver, and taking the valley of North 'Tyne by
Walk, 'Bedesmouth, Hareshaw Ironworks' Bellingham, arid
Palstone, terthingtes in a valcialle mineral distsicts,ctilled the
Plashetts.

Ear COMPANY.—The quarterly meeting of this
tontpanytwas held in Leadenbal-street, on Wednesday, when
s. ail:lotion for an alteration in the manner of electing the di-
rectarsmas-megatived. A resslution was proposed that the
Court,of ',Directors be abolished, and the respceSibirety trans-
ferred to the'Orownl; but an .amendment, "that the abolition
woUild'be,prrltluctive of most injurious consequeneeS7 was car-
ftied,and the consequently thrown out. -The war-
Tants.fortlui half-yearly dividend are to be delivered on the
7tll.3anuary.
Szenunyart-tsTicE.-i-On Thursday night a garotte robbery

isms ,committed in the parish of St. ThouniTs-jzzr::: _. _ zeter.
In-formationwas at once given to the police authorities : they
'saspocted two ticket-of-leave men, who were known to be in
the neighbourhood ; traced them and apprehended them ; on
Friday morning they were examined and committed by the
co cutytmagistrates ;: and within twenty-four hours after the
perpetration•ef 'the robberymere found guilty, and sentenced
by Mr. Baron; Parke, at the winter assize then being held, to
twenty years' transporta;tito, and an accornaziliee to twelve
mouths' imprisonment.
Ow'WenutneDAY 600 artisans, handicrafteuxen, and navvies,
very carefully selected,for the duties which they will have to
discharge, ensbarked,with their officers on board the Jura
steam transport, and proceeded ou Thursday direct to the Cri-
mea. They:form at portion of Sir Joseph Puttee Army
Works Cops, and haves been organised by him as a special
body .always available .for the work of the commissariat, hi-
therto werytexpensively and ineffectively performed,by Croats
and other`labourers hired in the East.
Tux lisrra DIME :sIEANCHEISTER'S Wim-,AThe late
Duke .of :Manchester's will, dated March, 3, 185-6jbas been
proved ,by executors; the present duke, and Mr: Ormsby,
a Dublin 'barrister. His-personalty in the protince,cf Can-
terbury is ,swain under: ;000, exclusive of his charges, to
the amount,of,X3s,ooo, on the estate of the late duchess in
Ireland. His .grace' has 'left £lO,OOO to his young ductless,
now the .dowager, exclusive of her jointure of £2,000 .
.near.
He has left 01!4,000 to eath .of her infant children, and the
whole of his .residuary personalty, estimated at upwards of
£70,000, to the :present dike, on whom are also settladqthe
English and ffrish estates,: producing a rental of suore'tian
£20,000 aqear.

FATAL EMRIOSION ?AT ..A.IBLAST FoRNACE.—A dreb.-dfal
explosion ,occurred. on 'Monday, last week, at the blast-fur-
naces of Messrs. .H. and A. Heickman, Bilston.
furnaces were in,full operationig.nd in one of them were ova
five tons of fused material* when, without the slightest pre-
vious warning, -the rect-hot, contents of the furnace ~were
ejected about the place to- a, distance of some thirty yards,
with a report as of r. small cannon. The engineer, William,
Sulton, was standing with founothers within a few feet.,of
the furnace when the ,molten,stream escaped. Directly that,
the fiery shower poured upon =them their clothes were: inn;
flames. Sultefath.ewthimself inictattank of water, and, though
badly injured, survives. The others became insensitsle, and
died soon afterwards.

MYSTERIOUS CABE QB 'POISO.NtMo.—In the vin age of
Billesdon, near Leicester, a,whole famEy, of the name of part-
ridge, consisting of graudmother, father, and two children,
were poisoned by the pudding Ipart*en of at last Sunday's
.dinner. The puddivg ,was made by the old lady, who at dinner
:asked a bailiff, who was ibs possession, to partake of some,
\which he did. Shortly after dinner the whole family were
-taken ill, and the old woman died in the .eourse of the after-
noon. It is feared that a aifrtle 'boy, of ,fiveyears old will also
:lose his life : hopes are entertained that the others will re-
cover. Arsenic was found -in the pudding which had been
left, And a canister of arsenic was also found :at the house of
•the,old woman.

A4solvo recent wills and charitablebequests mentioned as
'having been proved are —Thomas ,HankeY, Esq., banker,
£144000; John Phillips, Esq., St. George's-place, Knights-
bridge, £O,OOO ; John Duncan, M.D., £25,000; John Bowan,
VI.D„ £l4lOOO ; the Rev. James JOhn Hornby, M.A., Rural
Dean and Rector of Winwick, £25;000:; Thomas ,Copeland,
Esq., F.RfS., of Cavendish-square and Clapham, ,ZlBO,OOO
Persons4Yoand has bequeathed £5,000 to the Asylum ,for Poor
Orphans of ;the Clergy, St. John's-wood, and 45,000 10 the
Society for the Belief of Widows and Orphans of Medical
Men in London. Mrs. Elizabeth Boyton, of Dover, has be-
queathed £l,OOO to the Society for Promoting Christian
Knowledge, imolai) for the Propagation of the Gospel in
Foreign Parts, £2OO to the Dover Hospital and Dispensary,
and £2,000, one moiety to be invested for the purpose of
allowing from El to £5 a-year for each of the inmates ,of .the
almshouses in Dover, and the othor moiety for the annual
distribution of coals to ,uld sailors and widows of sailors, inha-
bitants of Dover.
, FOUR CHILDREN STA.RVED TO DEATH.—CII Tuesday, the
parochial authorities of St. Matthew, Bethnal-green, London,
were informed of the deaths of four children of Jane Hiller, a
widow, residing at No. 20, George-street, Hopetown, Bethnal-
green. The wretched place where the family lived was badly
ventilated and ill-drained, to which source the illness of the
children has been traced and fatally illustrated. Amelia,
aged four years, died on the Bth inst.; and Frederick, aged
eighteen months, expired on the following morning. The
poor woman, finding that her means were so small, and that
others of her family were dying, kept the dead bodies covered
over in the corner of the room, to wait the decease of another
child, which took place on Friday morning. A fourth child
expired on Monday morning last. The appearance of the
deceased was most wretched, their bodies being literally a
heap of bones ; but whether their condition has really arisen
from mesentric disease or starvation is at present a question
for the medical gentlemen 010 Will give evidence at the
coroner's inquest.— Globe.
THE QUORN HUNT.—By the death of Sir Richard Sutton,
Bart., the large and well-known hunting establishment at
Quern, Leicestershire, has been broken up, and the fine stud
of horses, picked packs of howls, &c., have been brought to
the hammer. The sale, which toe!: place at Quorn on Thurs.
day and Friday week, was attended by 60Me two
c thousand
persons, including a numerous proportion of noUle.men and
gentlemen, masters of hounds, huntsmen, dealers, &e.
bidding for the horses was extremely spirited. Somerby,
whose reputation for jumping made him eagerly looked for,
fetched 360 guineas, the purchaser being Mr. Murray, of Man-
chester, and it was understood that he was to go into Cheshire.
The total sum realised for the 32 horses, sold on the first day,
was 5,812 guineas; 13 made an average of 294 guineas. On
Friday, six horses, that had been used in cub-hunting, fetched
460 guineas ; three hacks, 242 guineas ; three ponies, 100
guineas ; and the rest of the horses, &c., £393. The saddles
and clothing brought 216 guineas, and the hound-van 16
guineas. The hounds, which were sold on the first day, in 14
lots of five couples each, produced 1,806 guineas.