The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-07-13 00:00:00

FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

SWITZERLAND.—The ordinary session of the two Le-
gislative Councils opened at Berne on the sth instant.
COLOGNE CATHEDRAL.—The ceremony of fixing the
key-stone of the noble arch over the western portal of
Cologne Cathedral was performed on the 25th of June,
by the King of Prussia, with extraordinary pomp.
MORE WOMAN FLOGGING.—The Vienna Gazette of
the 29th ult. contains the following sentence of the Vienna
court-martial :—" Catharine Kreted to fifteen stripes with
rods, three weeks' imprisonment, with one fast a week,
for having offended the police by word and deed."

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From California we have advices to the Ist of June. A Loess NAPOLEON has ordered innuiries to be made as
,„„a .1..1 ~r .....ttereent prevailed in San Francisco in to the condition of the numerous persons connected with
relation to a law passed by the Legislature taxing all who the press of Paris who have been thrown out of bread by
sell consigned goods, owned by persons in other states, the events of December. Some painful facts are mentioned
eighty cents on every one hundred dollars. The mer- in connexion with this subject. Several gentlemen who
chants and auctioneers refused to pay it. They held a had large incomes as reporters are now actually without
meeting the day before the steamer sailed, and appointed the . means of existence, and the number of families of
a committee to defend all suits broughtueder the iaw. A compositors who are almost starving is considerable.
fund of ,875,000 had been raised to pay expenses. The
DEATHS FROM LIGHTNING IN A CHI RCH.—A
news from the interior was very favourable. Crime was
thunder-storm broke over the small town of Esquile, in
diminishing. The crops were ripe and abundant, and the
the Pyrenees, a few days since, while the greater number
population was increasing rapidly. Gold was as abundant
of the inhabitants were at church. The lightning struck
as ever, and immense works were being constructed to
bring water to the dry diggings, some of them costing a the cross of the steeple, from whence it entered the clock,
and passed through to the inside. Two, men, who were
quarter of a million dollars. Gold had been found in
on, but not in large quantities. It seated in the gallery near the clock, were killed, one of
exist in the whole range of the Cascade M
Oreg was supposed to
ountains. A
them by the lightning entering his body, and the other
terrible collision had taken place at Stocleton, between was thrown down the staircase,. and killed by the fall. A.
third man was knocked down, and for some time it was
Captain Carphin, an Englishman, and Oscar Livingston,
feared that he was dead, but after some time he recovered.
from New York. Shots were fired. C-rphin died of his
Several other persons in the church felt shocks es the
wounds, the other being .sericeLrly i:-.jure... . lightning passed across the church over their heads. The
Some attention was beginning to be paid to s-_,rieu.tu;.e
fluid at length left the building through a window, which
I tl.e mii::ng counties, and in the vicinity of Geur;,:e-
was gmrshed to pieces
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