The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-07-24 00:00:00

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

THE Alps arrived at Portsmouth on Saturday, from the East
with a number of officers and invalided sailors.
DR. ALLMAN has been appointed to the chair of medical
philosophy in the University of Edinburgh.
THERE is a coffee-making machine at the Paris Exhibition
which can make 500 cups of coffee in a quarter of an hour.
LONDON AND WESTMINSTER BANIC.—The half-yearly
meeting was held on Wednesday, when a dividend of 6 per
cent. per annum, with a bonus of 4 per cent., was declared.
QUEEN VICTORIA has seat £5O to the Mayor of St. Ger-
main, as a subscription towards restoring the chapel which
contains the remains of James 11.
THE Carmel, which left Constantinople on the 12th July,
arried at Marseilles on Saturday. Her adviees from the
Crimea are to the 10th.
COLONEL MAYROL and Colonel Trobbo, Spanish Carlist
refugees, have just been arrested at Bordeaux, and expelled
from France. They have been sent to England.
THE Arabs of the pachalic of Tripoli have revolted. A
body of Turkish troops sent against them were driven back
into the city with a loss of from 1,700 to 2,000.
AT the York Assizes, Mr. Hall, the recorder of Doncaster,
has obtained £4,500 damages from the Great Northern► Rail-
way, for injuries received by an accident on that line.
THE Duke de Tarancon, the eldest son of Queen Christina
and the Duke de Rianzares, died on Saturday at Malmalson.
The deceased duke was a grandee of Spain.
LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT.-011 Wednesday morning, Miss
Weatherby was walking near the edge of the cliff at Broad-
stairs ; she got giddy, fell over a height of sixty feet, and was
killed.

THERE was no demonstration in Hyde Park on Sunday.
Carriages were warned not to enter the drive, but the excite-
ment had evidently passed away, and the concourse of persons
was comparatively trifling.
BARON ROTHSCHILD, during his short residence at Milan,
made arrangements, in conjunction with two engineers, for
the construction of several miles of railway in the neighbour-
hood.

MENDACIOCTS RI:TINIAN RIIMOIJIL—A correspondentof ttat
philo-Russian print, the Indipenaance, gives currency to the
disgraceful rumourthas Lord Raglan "committed suicide (!)
on account of the failure of the 18th."

THE BA:Nx OF 'ENGLAND have purchased for their West-
end branch establishment the mansion of the Marquis of
Anglesea (Uxbridge House,) in Burlington Gardens, Piccadilly,,
for a sum of £45,000 or £47,000.
PRINCE NAPOLEON has caused an application 'to be made
to different railway companies to 'induce them to organize
pleasure trains at reduced prices,in order to bring a number
o/Visitors-to Paris to visit the Universal Exhibition.

IN the course of the excavations' which have for some time
been goingson at " Macbeth's Castle," on Duniinane Hill, three
human skulls have been exhumed, and alsoa small coin bear-
ing-someindistinct tracings as of armorial-bearings.
IT is officially announced 'that the sum of money hitherto
annually devoted to the celebration of the Napoleon fete of
the 15th of August, will this year be consecrated to the relief
of the families of those who "have fallen;in the Pact.
I:It.ARICOTT, Napoleon's last medicaluttendant atSt. Helena,
and for whom the Emperor cherished ,a strong affection, has
just died, aged 84,. Napoleon died hOding Dr. Arnot* right
hand.

aE Commune of 'San Quisino, in Piedmont, 'has just
:devoted itself to the Holy Virgin by a legal conveyance in
good and due form, "-In presence ,of us, the notary lliorelli
and the witnesses ofthis deed, dtz:.'
THE Island of Inchkeith has been examined cby Colonel
Marryat, R.A., and Colonel Gordon, R.E., with-the view of
determining the sites of two forts, to be situate and -con-
structed as to infilade' the channels of the Forth on either
side.

PRINCE GIIIILChaS forced his daughter to eiltera'nunnery,
to which place she was escorted by a large-body of soldiers.
She is generally believed to have been the~ cause of aline'
which lately took place at .Jassy, in which'the son Of the
Hospodar was killed by =Austrian officer.
THE Archbishop of Toledo has protested against the execu
tion in :ills diocese of the law for the sale of eccksiastical pro-
perty; but the government has disreigardedthe protest, and
has placed an armed force-at the disposal of the commissioner
charged to effect the sale.
TEE •Sieele says that the fetes in celebration .of the Queen's
visit to Paris will begin oil August 1, and last a fortnight.
They will =include at the Parc of Versailles a, bal,aux
flambeaux, which will drive into the shade all rejoicings of
the 'kind it•was so frequently the scene of-in the days' of 'the
Grand Monarque.
The Bristol Times is informed that it is not an unlisted'
practice with some of the quay " imps" of that city for one of
them to purposely fall into the water, and two or three of his
companions to jump into the rescue, and thus secure both the
benefit of the Humane Society's award and the Inver/of a
swim during the present oppressively warm weather.
Ilanfritinasx EXTRLORDINARY.—The 'Maidstone Journal,
in noticing the local swimening club, containing 79 members,
first-rate -owimmers,'&e., says—" The first aquatic breakfast
is to take place on Monday next, at seven o'clock, when every
member will be required to partake •of the repast ini.tize
river."

ThEPENSE OF -Duiwise BILL.—A <return moved for by
itlr. Locke King, shows that the -sum of £1,680-was
paid to Iliessrs..T..l. Lonsdale and C. S. Greaves .(2840each)
as remuneration for -drawing nine bills on the criminal law of
England, and, 2815 to the Hon. G.L. "FElliot for preparing
the Bribery and Controverted Elections Bills of the session
of 1864.

Tun LATE 'MumEn.—ln addition-to having raise&e.roo
.or £BOO, which is placed at interest for the benefit of the
widow -and family -of the late Charles -Collard, who was Abet
by.Barthelemy, ,Whilst attempting to..orrest him after .the
murder of Mr. Moore, in Warren-street, London, the inha-
bitants of the district have erected a monument to the memory
of collard, which was, a few days ago,- placed over his grave
in 'the new cemetery of the parish at St,Fancras, at Finchley.

Tnn Cainbridffe Chronicle states that the electors have
,cause to suspect that Mr. Gonlburn will •not be a candidate for
the 'University at the next election, the right honourable gen-
tleman proposing, in consequence of failing health, to retire
from public life. Mr. Cowling, the barrister, will, in all pro-
bability, be a candidate in the Conservative interest. Mr.
Cowling was senior wrangler of his year.
A Pasruura, who had traded as" R.: and S. Gent," ap-
pliedunder the Protection Act last week. Mr. Sargood- gave
an explanation of the reason the insolvent lad traded under
:a plural style. " Gent's perfumes" wouldlave been very awk-
wardlo advertise, and when he put " R. Gent," it was mis-
taken-for" Argent," and so to avoid all 'difficulty he took his
own and his wife's Christian name, and traded as " R. and S.
Gent:"

On- the 15th of last month an infant was left at the gate of
Shoretlitch workhouse at midnight in a basket, with a note
and 2s. 6d. The note said—" My husbtuld is gone to the
Crimea, and, please God, when he returns I will take my
child again. lam sorry that I must go to service, and I will
give 2s. 6d. a week." A second half crown has since been
received, but no clue to the mother has been found. The
child has since died.

A TRAGICAL MISTAKE IN ITALY.—The p inione of Turin
relates-the following tragical event, which occurred at Belluno
on the 25th ult.:—`` Nearly all the boarders -of the college
were suddenly taken ill. The physicians called in, thinking
they were attacked with cholera, applied the •remedies usual
with that disease, but without effect, and ;fifty died. It
afterwards appeared from • a post mortem examination that
they had been, labouring under the poisonous effects of
hemlock, -which had leen unintentionally used ,in the kitchen
for parsley."
Are unpleasant occurrence took place at sea on .board the
Earl Balcarres, just arrived in the Thames, resulting in Cap-
tain Kennedy placing Captain John Moore, 32nd. Regiment,
under arrest. It is stated that a quarrel ensued between two
of the soldiers wives,, and-by order of Captain Kennedy one of
thewomen was placed in confinement; she, however, "grinned"
at the captain, and then he ordered her below ; the woman at
the same time was encieutc, and as the place she was .put in
was infested with vermin, it led to a remonstrance , between
the two officers, and the senior placed the other under arrest,
causing considerable consternation among the troops on board.
During the voyage, 34 soldiers, including 6 sergeants, died.
A CANDID Ticin.R.—The trial of William Holdswortb, alias
William Cross, and Thomas- Cole, the accomplices of Hallett
and Vile, in the burglary at the house of Miss Hoyes,, at
tern came on at the assizes on Friday. Vile, who, with
Hallett, is under sentence of -transportation for life, was
brought up, and gave.evidence that himself, Hallett. and the
present prisoners, had planned and committed the robbery.
In cross examination he said "My business for the 'last
five or six years has been that of a thief, and I lived by no
other means. I have now come here to satisfy the ends.of
justice, and I have entertained the hope that it may be for, my
bend tat some time. I have been convicted before—onee at
Gloucester, for picking pockets, for ;which I had twelve
months ; once at Portsmouth, for counterfeit coin, for which
I had-twelve months. I had three months at Exeter for
doing nothing. I had three months at Winchester for an
attempt to pick a pocket, in which I did not succeed. I have
been twice in gaol at Reading, each time for two months. I
have spent, a tidy time in custody. I have not told a lie, and
would not do so. I have been thieving long enough to be tired
of it." The jury found both prisoners guilty ; and Holds.
worth, having struck Miss Hoyes and put a candle under her
bed, was sentenced to be transported for life; Cole for twenty
years.

- THE DUNMOW FLITCH.--A curious _ceremony is to take
;place at Dumnow, in Essex, on Thursday next. Mr. W. H.
'Ainsworth, who recently published a romance on the subject of
,the renowned "Flitch of Bacon," has determined to revive
the ancient custom .of rewarding loving married pairs with
the flitch they would have earned in days of yore. There is
no fear that the festival will be prevented by a deficiency of
candidates, for the Chevalier and Madame de Chatelain, and
Mr. and Mrs. James Barlow, have already come forward as
models of wedded love and good temper. The uninitiated
may be informed that the oath to be taken is no trivial mat-
ter, being to the effect that the claimants have not repented of
their marriage, either sleeping or waking, for a year and a
day, and that no quarrel, however slight, has interrupted the
smooth course of connubial felicity. If the ancient ceremony
is preserved with all proper solemnity, the happy pair will be
carried about on men's shoulders, in a chair kept for the pue.
pose, and the flitch will be borne on A high pole before them.
The custom seems to be at least as old es the reign of Henry
111., and we believe the last flitch was given, in 1761, to John
Shakeshaft, wool-comber, and Anne his wife, of Weathersfield,
in the county of Essex.
THE CROPS IA THE UNITED STATES.—The special; corre-
spondent of the Times gives the following encouraging ac.
count of the crops in the United States :—The farmers of the
middle and western states have housed their hay crops (more
abundant, perhaps, than ever before,) and report a progect of
longer awl better autumn pasturage than they have had for
many years. Last year, owing to the drought, the cattle were
obliged to he fed almost before the summer was over. The
yield of hay in this section also has been doubled, perhaps
more, by the recent copious rains, and ripened by the hot sun
of the last few days ; so that our farmers look for equally
favourable results here. The cereal crops promise equally
well. Southern. Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri
have already harvested their wheat. More land has been in
seed there than ever before (owing to the great failure last
year,) and reports say that the yield per acre has never been
surpassed. The more northern crops promise equally well.
Occasionally one hears a story of weevil, or rust, or some
other bugbear; but you may depend upon it that the great
western plains were never loaded with a more luxuriant and
promising vegetation than now. From the cotton lands, too,
I hear the same story, though there the crop is not yet fir
enough advanced to predict results. It is now regarded as
settled that there will be no damaging summer rise of the
Mississippi. Rust, insects, and autumn frosts are the prin-
cipal things which the planters have to fear. More land is in
seed with this crop also than ever before, and the planters now
in the north say that the promise is excellent,"