The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-12-28 00:00:00

FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

ACCOUNTS FROM PALERMO, of the 33th ult., state that
the eruption of Mount Etna had entirely ceased, the crater
only emitting a faint light or flame from time to time.
THE BAVARIAN GOVERNMENT has ordered that 1,1
every parish a public magazine of corn shall he established
at the cost of the parish, for the purpose of making Pro'
vision against dearth.
FREEDOM OF OPINION IN ROME. Accounts from
Rome of the 14th instant state that the French had
arrested 21 young men for ridiculing the new emperor on
the occasion of the proclamation of the empire. The
consulta di stata is still sitting.

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LADIES SLEEVES.—A German physician is said to
about to publish a scientific condemnation of the present
loose sleeves worn by ladies. He asserts that they pro-
mote rheumatism and all kinds of complaints, and recory
mends a return to the long and close sleeves of a former

period.
SENOR MARTINEZ DE LA. RosA, a nephew of the late
Spanish ambassador at Rome, and an attaches of the
Spanish legation in that capital, was mortally wounded
while fencin4 with a friend, a short time since. The,
button slipped off his adversary's foil, which penetrateu
his lungs. and inflicted a fatal wound.
NEW ZEALAND LITERATURE.—" Robinson Crusoe,':
in the Maori language, by Mr. Kemp, has been publishes
under the direction of government. It consists of
demy octavo pages, and is pictorially illustrated, 11',"1
number of copies printed is 1000, and it is intended to se"
the work at a price which sill cover its cost.—New
Zea-
land Gazette.

INDIAN SUTTEE.—Letters from Bhooj mention that a
Suttee had lately taken plane in the immediate neighbour'
hood of that station. It is said that some English officer
pulled the woman off the pile, and that she was willing °
be saved, but the attendant Brahmins dragged her back:
and on her attempting a second time to escape, dashed
her brains out.

As AMERICAN SWINDLER.—There has recently beep
arrested near St. Louis, United States, a man callini
himself Houghton, who had a short time before victimize
some wealthy citizens of Bloomington, Illinois, out of
about 5'50,000, under the pretence that he was a wealthy
gentleman from Leeds, England, and was about to estab'
lish a bank there under the new banking law of the stare'
A large portion of the property has been recovered.
had pursued his business in many places, with much 51°'
and address, for some time.
THE MADIAI.—The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa, ef
the 16th instant, quotes the following, dated Florence, IPe
13th :—" The wife of Madiai, who is confined at Volterra
for proselytism, has been tick for some days. It is 511
that the Archduchesses, feeling for her deplorable cow'''
tion, have tried to influence her to re-enter the Catholic
Church, in the hone of obtaining her pardon. It is be-
lieved that she rejected their offers. A perouisition
made in the house cf Stefano Fiorelli, editor of t"e.
journal Esperanza, by eight gendarmes and an officer'
After a search, which lasted about seven hours, the Bev
darmes withdrew without finding anything."

A HIGH BRIDGE.—On the Buffalo and New York City
Railroad, which is 423 miles long, with a continuous track
of six-feet gauge, there is a singular piece of carpentry, °,
the shape of what is known as the " High-bridge," fler°s,,.
the Genesee river, at Portage, Wyoming county, ,
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York. This bridge is 800 feet long, and 234 feet h'4,,
from the bed of the river to the rail. The masonry in t'
river is 30 feet high ; the trestles, 190 feet ; and the trus,s,;
14 feet. It contains 1,692,000 feet B.AI. timber ; 10S,"t1
lbs. iron in bolts, &c. ; and 9,200 cubic yards cen3el',
masonry. It was commenced Ist July, 1851, and ODI,
pleted—so as to be crossed with an engine—August 11.
1852. It is estimated that one of the trestles, or bat"
will sustain a weight of 3,109 tons in addition to its ow 3
weight and that of the truss above it.

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ABD-EL-KADER.—Letters from Marseilles anus„ne
the arrival of Abd-el-Kader in the evening of the I,lt.''
From an early hour of the morning of the 15th a e(3lle
derable crowd collected round the entrance of the Bite' d
l'Empereur, where the emir took up his quarters ; al3r,
police agents had to be stationed to keep the passage ele%-
Abd-el-Kader received the visits of many Algerian Arai:,
who were on their way from the pilgrimage to 3leec,
The pilgrims long waited for the hour of seeing the
They prostrated themselves in respectful silence at 0
feet, and appeared to treasure up the words that fell frfhe
his lips. As all, however, could not be introduced to :be
holy man, a deputation was chosen to convey to hial.„,`
esteem and the prayers of his countrymen. The , -D;le
was to have left Marseilles on the 16th, on board
Labrador.
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REPORTED RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF GAMIYG-11'-:4y"P
IN PARIS.—The Paris correspondent of a daily paper it
—" Ever since the advent of Louis Napoleon to pewerito
has been rumoured from time to time that he intenote of
re-establish lotteries and gambling-houses in Paris. her
late the report has been renewed ; but I must own t;r-of
in the present state of public opinion on the sliti.Je',o3•
gambling, I did not attach much credit to it. A elfcLeso
stance has just happened, which, if correct, wenl";-fea
to show that there is some ground for the report. P.-c,Ol.
days ago, M. Mires, the proprietor of the Pays and, the
stitutionnel, is said to have called a meeting m that
editors of those papers, and announced to rhea% tecl
lotteries were to he re-established, and that he ell)15 to
them to support institutions of that class, as beneficial
humanity, morality, and civilisation."
INGENUITY OF FRENCH THIEVES.—A thief re.-
„pritlY
satered one of the fashionable ready-made linen shls for
Paris, and asked to see sundry articles for his wue,.';,e,
whom, he said, ho was preparing a pleasant serP'" be
" But," said he to the attending damsel, " 1 wish r°,:be
sure of a correct fit. My wife is about your height ;will
has, like you, a fine figure—the carriage of a queen: or
you be so obliging, since my wife has just your s'ze"2''
very near it, to try on this chemise over your clres'o,"o,
She complied, and the thief, pretending to draw it 1 'Ober
attached it, by means of a large carpet pin, to acs
clothes. He then ordered a dozen like it at five f,ra elf
each. The shop girl, well satisfied, attempted to ta,L'ethes
the chemise, but finding that, as she raised it, her e'°,,oo,
also came up with it, she ran into an adjoining ea,
when the thief made off with all he could lay hands aP
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THE SARDINE FISHERIES.—On the coasts of Pr"- are
which are upwards of sixty leagues in extent, there of
taken annually, on an average, 576,000,000 sardinegite
which one-half are sold fresh, the other preserved'aberf
sums received for the sale is 3,585,000 f. The "- 00
employs about 160 vessels, and 3500 men and boys' fieb
shore the preparation, conveyance, and sale of the wo•
give occupation to 4500 persons, of whom 2500 are, Bre"
men ; and in the interior of the country 4400 ners°f aeig
occupied in the sale. The making and repairing ° :org'
employ, during the winter, 3000 families, or 9000 Peri, 01;
of whom one-half are females. The fishing lasts ,°eend
average 210 days, from the beginning of April to
of October. The sardines then disappear, and the "i•bel
men are unable to explain what becomes of them' 1,, ill
only leave when they have obtained their full groat rana
April sardines again appear, but they are youngei,e
smaller than those which abandoned the coast at
of the preceding season. f
A ROBBER'S DEVICE.—The criminal tribunal ;wet'
lin, tried, a few days ago, a married couple named:' other
for stealing a considerable quantity of plate ar'abeale
articles of value. The case was curious, from the 5'003;
which the accused concocted to avert suspicion from edgf
The woman was cook in a wealthy family, and after
when her master and mistress returned home, "of t'
short absence, they found her lying on the fl')°,,r, of if
dining-room, bound hand and foot, and in a state
sensibility, caused by the administration of el"°," te
All the drawers and closets were opened, and the P,l3soista:
other valuable things were taken away. Medical vete j
ance was procured for the woman, and she soon red:lndere(
She then stated that she had been hound and.re„coaf
senseless by thieves ; but the police, from exanaM'a
they
the premises, doubted the truth of the story, sr)ledgej
pressed her:with questions, until at last she ackna",.
ba
that it was hOn Tier husband, who, with her c ni"l3-eci adperpetrated the robbery, and bound her, and hrested
ministered the chloroform. The husband was 9rera°ef
and he made the like admission. The tribunal calf vest-
,
the man to three and the woman to two and a 135'

imprisonment. elates
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NAnnow ESCAPE.—The indipendance Be/9,e nrt hlt
the following story :—" An extraordinary acelu,%.sw;h9
just happened on the Northern Railway, at Mat'`l;l4,;,'4
n.qir Herrin, to J. B. Dencv, a bombardier of `";ee
Artillery. He was on furlough, and had gone t° to ce,:
friends at Trith St. Leger. He stayed at Anzi3
brate Saint Barbe, with some miners, and left ,qlttePil-e
toxicated. His way lay across the railroad,' but ;hat
going over it, he turned up the line, not knowing, the
was about, and finished by lying down between (10;;I:
and going fast asleep. The train from Anzin
the line at its usual hour, arid the engine and tett.,"n)ger',ki,
all the carriages pessed over him, yet, without ir;englitja-e
him. It was nearly dark as this happened,' but dat ~-er
driver had caught a glimpse of Dency, and left vc°rniirriv,;e
next station that a body was lying on the line.
of railway servants set.cut with lanterns and WiePit;l3
drunken man extended on the grourd and still Ed op
although the engine had inflicted a. scalp wou
ineta',;l
head and broken two of his fingers. He w9'
aroused, when he declared he remembered 9°l-oprol"
what had passed, and was greatly astonished on
how narrowly he had escaped a terrible danger.

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DISCOVERIES IN CHINA.—The return of io
from Pekin, after a sojourn of three years at t".ye 0'01.1315
that city, has created a sensation in the sciea,l of dg.
Ile is about to lay before the public a reev'tp3ter6b'tlic
journey, which took but fifteen days from St. `;ctiag,ber
He has collected a vast deal of information re9P; t
hasae
rdoissscoolf.
eirvatiedreitoicresofofCchiilirlias,tiaalniidty
granite, 11P the .0;
is graven, in Chinese characters, an outline 5 relsoo
and sufferings of Our Saviour, with proPhecidc 0°,004
to the general resurrection of mankind and to 19;
destruction of the globe. This cross is suPOseli3l ht'
to the second century after Christ. M. 11larec—os 1005
1101 01
brought the agate of C
cup Terns-Khan,_ w 010 e
for sacrifice in the great temple. It is of Inns" 0° -001'
beauty, both of design and execution, cut fron) cite the
I,es f
stone, measuring about thirty-seven inc— rso o o
ference, and carved with mysterious etablehed
course of the sun. The surface is highly P0"5,,,ter5 jjes'
a coarse gray colour, upon which the Chwar,,
which it is graven stand out distinctly.the9o-
- the sacred apes bending forward into
01 1.0
are wonderfully beautiful in execution, and :1000.00/
thing of the kind produced in modern times'
discovered,
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BRISTOL AND EETER RA ILIVAIr•--) rre -fi
serious and alarming accident, which Wu Brit°,,rol
Yatton and Cleveland Junction branch of the
Exeter Railway, owing to the negligence of ~le eng.e.oo,,
whose business it was to turn the points, "sir,
the mid-day train, instead of rcaching h,,%g rh"
getting to the station, ran on the short slut orts eti fhe
the engine-house. It knocked down the sullitter everis
shed,
toesdtroyed both the gat,:s, and, indeecl,„4 lrt
shed pieces. The bricks and mortar ,nouej
direction, and the engineer was seriously iniarger'footir
of the falling bricks. Several of the Pa-had at 0145
received contusions and bruises—one lady J e t
knocked out, and a gentleman had his foreleaeng°.
'fbe d co'
by the rim of a fellow-passenger's hat.
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ECCLESIASTICAL.

PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS

Rea. E. Allen, to the Perpetual Curacy of Castle Church,
Staffordshire.

Rev. W. D. Astley, M.A., to the Rectory of East Lang-
don, near Dover.

The Rev. Thomas Bibby, A.M., to the Incumbency of
Norton, Gloucestershire—patron, the Dean and Chapter
of Bristol.

Rev. H. J. A. F. De Salis, to the Rectory of Fringford,
Oxfordshire.
Rev. C. Dodgson, M.A., Rector of Croft, to the stall
of a Canon Residentiary in Ripon Cathedral.
Rev. T. Eaton, M.A., to be Canon Residentiary at
'Chester Cathedral.

Rev. D. Foley, M.A., to the Prebend of Kilbragb,
diocese of Cashel.
Rev. P. P. Gilbert, to the Reetory of High Halden, Kent.
Rev.. M. Hetherington, to the Perpetual Curacy of
lqungrisdale, Cumberland. _ . .

Rev. R. S. Hunt, to the Perpetual Curacy of the Holy
Trinity, Markbeach, parish of Cowden, Kent.
Rev. J. Milner, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge, to
the Rectory of Elton, Stockton-on-Tees.
Rev. R. C. Morton, M.A., to the Curacy of Newland,
Gloucestershire.
Rev. H. V. Pickering, 8.A., to the Incumbency of
-Ashfield-cum-Thorpe, near Framlingham.
Rev.:H. S. Pigot, M.A.., Curate of Winwick, to the
Incumbency of Norvvick, near Bolton.

Rev. T. M. Raven, to the Curacy of Baxterley, near
Atherstone, Warwickshire.
Rev. J. M. Rawlins, MA., Incumbent of Bardsley, Lan-
cashire, to he a Surrogate for the Diocese of Manchester.
Rev. T. P. Sproule, to the Rectory of Sca'dwell, North-
amptonshire.

Rev. R. H. Taylor, to the Rectory of Halwell, Devon.
Rev. J. W. Watkiu, M.A., to the Vicarage of Stixwold,
near Horncastle.
Rev. T. Williams, M.A., Fellow and Lecturer of Jesus
College, Oxford, to the Vice-Principalship of St. Mark's
College, Chelsea.
Rev. J. Wise, M.A., to be Chaplain in the Establish-
kent of Government, of the island of Ceylon.
[The Rev. T. Fell, of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, who had
been appointed to St. Matthew's, Rugby, has been in-
anted to decline the appointment.]

MARKETS.

MARKETS FOR MANUFACTURES.

MANCHESTER.—The prevailing opinion here is, that the
quantity of the raw material is pretty sure to keep it moderate
in price; probably to bring it (with intermediate upward os-
cillations) to a lower range, by and by, than the present one.
Should this be so, it must of course tend to modify the action
of any circumstances which would raise the prices of our pro-
ductions; and this view produces a general feeling of caution
amongst buyers. But the prospects of demand for the coming
year are good ; and this encouraging fact is inducing some in-
crease of business, and causing spinners and manufacturers
rather to harden in their terms. Speaking of yarns and goods
at large, they cannot now be had at the lowest prices which the
reaction from the high range of October caused them lately to
touch. Domestics are still flat ; but there are signs of ap-
proaching business, while T cloths and printing cloths are be-
coming dearer under an increasing call for them. The Ger-
man and Mediterranean merchants are still out of the market,
but the India and China houses, influenced by fill ourable ad-
vices, continue their operations, under the action of which 40's
and 50's mule yarns have gained id. per lb. of what they had
lost, and water twist and 40-inch shirtings are becoming
dearer. At the same time the greater demand for Eastern
fabrics and printing cloths is leading to purchases of suitable
yarns by the manufacturers, and to a consequent hardening in
terms on the part of the spinners of medium counts. The
principal cause of anxiety respecting the future is the long-
continued fall of rain, which is now felt to be of serious import.
LEEDS.—The markets for cloth have been rather inactive ;
but this is proverbially a dull month, so that the slight falling
off in the demand excites little or no attention. The business
doing both for the home and the foreign markets rather exceeds
than falls below that at the same period last year.
ROCHDALE.—The market previous to Christmas Day is
always considered the last market in the year, as very little
business is attended to from that day to the new market,
which is always held on the first Monday after the 6th of Jan.
or old Christmas Day. We have had a thin attendance of buy-
ers, and a more limited amount of business transacted, than
on the previous week. The wool market has undergone little
change for some weeks past. The demand is steady, and
prices are firm.