The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-12-07 00:00:00

FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

SYRIA.—The 2Berlin Spener's Gazette states, on the
authority of a private letter from Jerusalem, that the
Sultan had resolved to repair the defects in the cupola of
the Church of the Holy Sepulchre at his own expense, to
appease the disputes to which the state of the building had
given rise among the Greek and Latin Christians.

THE MONKS OF ST. BERNARD have resolved, i❑ the
event of the tunnel of Menouve being constructed, to build
a convent and hospital at the entrance to it, and to
abandon the existing convent.

COPY OF AN ADVERTISEMENT IN A NEW JERSEY
JOURNAL.—" To be sold, 231 suits in law, the property
of an eminent attorney about to retire from business.
Note : The clients are rich and obstinate."

Galignani says that several of the fashionables of St.
Petersburgh lately conceived the idea of smoking green
tea instead of tobacco, and at all the tobacco shops in that
capital, cigarettes made of it may now be purchased.
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ARCTIC SURVEY.—The Hudson's Bay Company are
about to dispatch a boat expedition. under Mr. Rae, to
the Arctic sea, to complete the survey of the northern
shores of America, between 300 and 400 miles of which
remain unexplored.

COSTS OF EMPIRE IN FRANCE.--The civil list of the
new emperor will, it is calculated, be about 30,000,000
francs, everything included. The ex-king Jerome will
probably have a dotation of 2,000,000, and his son
1,000,000, as members of the imperial family.

NECROMANCY.—The other day, M. Robin, the con-
juror, was exhibiting his skill in Rome, when he bandaged
his wife's eyes, and asked her what was in his hand, &c.,
which she answered satisfactorily. This coming to the
ears of the Pope's Vicar, the conjuror was summoned for
being in league with the devil, and it was not till he had
fully explained the secret that he was allowed to go at

FRENCH FINANCE.—Baron de Rothschild has finally
declined all the tempting offers that have been made to
induce him to join the new bank of Credit Mobilier. He
has refused an allotment of a fabulous number of shares
at par, notwithstanding the immense premium which
they realise. It is confidently asserted that the great
capitalist is going to start an opposition bank, with a
capital of 250 millions.
FIREWOOD AT MELBOURNE.—This article is a luxury
which few can possess themselves of, unless they are
lucky diggers, or are carrying on a roaring business.
This we infer at least from what follows :—" Do you
think I stole it ?" asked the saucy vendor of a barrow of
wood, at the rear of the post-office yesterday, to a gentle-
man who had the ccnscience to offer him only £3 for it.
Three pounds ! the wages for a whole week of a respect-
able mechanic for little more than a sufficient supply of
an absolutely indispensable necessary for a single house-
warming.—Australian and New Zealand Gazette.

SHIPIVRECKS.—RocheIIe was last week visited with a
violent tempest, which lasted three days. The Societ6, of
Angoule-ne, was driven ashore, and its crew succeeded in
reaching land. The Ocean of Brest states, that an Eng-
lish sloop, the Fox, was caught in the gale, completely
dismasted, and driven ashore near the Ile Bonde. Six
vessels were stranded near Camaret, and received more
injury. A Norwegian schooner, the Carl, timber laden,
ran on shore near Plcuguerneau, and went to pieces. The
crew were drowned, but the cargo will probably be saved.
Three vessels, one of them Dutch, have been totally lost
at Aberwrack.

DEATH FROM FRIGHT.—We read in the Presse:—" An
extraordinary case of death from fright has just taken
place. A few days since a young woman was passing near
the Rue Cadet, when she suddenly fell to the ground,
exclaiming, ' The rat ! the rat ! ' At first nobody could
comprehend the meaning of her exclamations, but on her
being taken into the shop of a druggist and placed on a
chair, a rat was seen to run from beneath her gown. She
was taken home to her friends in the Rue Duperr6, in a
state of delirium, which lasted four days, during which
the only words she uttered were, `The rat ! the rat ! '
and on the evening of the fourth day she expired."

THE AUSTRALIAN DIGGINGS.--A letter, dated Sydney
August 11, says :—" This leads me to a subject that is
now engrossing the thoughts and feelings of almost all
classes with a species of madness. I cannot but look on
the discovery (gold mines) as a curse to the colony ; truly
as the ' auri sacra fames'—' riches leading to poverty,
and treasures sure to cause wide-spraad ruin.' It has
already subverted all steady industrial pursuits. Sheep
and cattle stations are of necessity neglected for want
of labour. Shepherds hardly to be obtained at any
price—all rushing to the gold-fields; and from the same
cause agriculture is nearly abandoned ; so much so,
that if we do not receive large importations of wheat
or flour from America, or other countries, we shall be
reduced to a state little short of famine before another
harvest. All the necessary articles of life are nearly
doubled in price, and at the mines flour is £2OO per ton.
Meat is the only food that is still reasonable, and that is
rapidly rising in price, and must continue to do so, from
the fact that it is difficult to hire a man to drive sheep or
cattle to market; and immense numbers mustbe sacrificed
for the tallow, or suffered to run wild. I fear the settlers
will not be able to secure the coming clip of wool. Me-
chanics are now getting from 10s. to 20s. a-day, and
labourers in proportion. Even servantgirls—and bad ones,
too—are asking £2O per annum, and will seldom hire longer
than a month at a time. To add to all this anarchy and
excitement, the scenes of dissipation and vice of every kind
at the diggings, consequent on sly grog-selling, are beyond
description, and cannot be easily suppressed, when from
70,000 to 80,000 of the vilest characters on earth are congre-
gated at only one of thse spots, and no adequate force of
either military or police to keep them in order. Rob-
beries and murders are of almost daily occurrence.
This you will say is a dismal picture ; but I assure
you it is no less so than true ; and a still more serious
consequence is connected with it,—the desertion of the
sailors from every ship entering the port, which must
have the effect of preventing shipowners from sending
vessels to our shores, and consequently deprive us of those
supplies which are essential to our prosperity and comfort.
You would be ready to conclude, from the immense
quantity of gold already shipped for England, with
several millions more ready for shipment, that all the
diggers must have been successful ; but it is far otherwise ;
not more than one-tenth part, after deducting all their ex.
penses, realize an adequate remuneration for the hardships
and privations to which they are subjected. It is not all
who ' dip their finger in the pie' that withdraw it without
a burn ; but such is the demoralizing and exciting effect of
this love of ' the root of all evil,' that both successful and
unsuccessful are rendered unfit for any other employment.
Oh ! that the farmers of England (particularly those with
industrious sons), now groaning under poor-rates and
grievous taxation, would seek our shores, not to run mad
after gold, but to steadily pursue the culture of the land,
of which we have an unbounded extent, fit for all the
purposes of agriculture, and attainable at a less price, in
fee simple, than an annual rent at home, and now offering,
from a daily increase of population, an ample return for
every outlay."

ECCLESIASTICAL.

PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS

Rev. A. Baynham, M.A., Curate of Daventty, Nor-
thamptonshire, to the Vicarage of Charlton, near Pewsey

Rev. W. Calder, to the Perpetual Curacy of Fairfield.
Rev.E. Chapman ,8.A.,t0 the Chaplaincy of Gattenburg.
Rev. G. Clarke, M.A., to be Third Master of Ripton
Priory School, Burton-upon-Trent.
Rev. C. A. A. Craven, 8.A., to the Curacy of Wells,
Norfolk.
Rev. J. B. Dalison, M.A., to the Rectory of Manton,
Lincolnshire.
Rev. F. Lipscomb, M.A., to the Senior Curacy of
Hampstead, Middlesex, and to the Chaplaincy of the
Hampstead Workhouse.
Rev. W. S. Maturin, M.A.. Curate of All Saints',
Norwich, to the Rectory of Thurgarton, Norfolk.
Rev. C. S. P. Parish, of the Bengal Establishment, to
the Chaplaincy of Maulmain.
Rev. T. C. Owen, to the Rectory of Llandebrog, with
the Curacy of Llanvihangel Bachelleth, Carnarvonshire.
Rev. J. L. Robinson, Vicar of Buttevant, to be Chap-
lain to Viscount Doneraile.
Rev. J. T. Walker, M.A., to the Rectory of Ashdon,
Essex.

Rev. S. K. Webster, M.A., to the Vicarage of Ingham,
Lincolnshire.

THE REV. G. H. Nouss, Chaplain of Pitcairn's
Island, has been admitted to priests' orders by the
Lord Bishop of London, in the parish church of Fulham.
The vessels for the Holy Communion, which were used
for the first time, immediately after the ordination, were
placed in Mr. Nobbs' hands, for the church in Pitcairn's
Island.

NEW SCHOOL INSPECTORS.—The committee of council
on education have appointed the following Inspectors of
schools :—The Rev. R. F. Meredith, Proctor of East
Charlborough, Somerset ; the Rev. R. L. Koe, Incumbent
of St. Margaret's, Yalding, Kent ; the Rev. J. G. K.
Russell, Incumbent of Chantrey, near Froroe : the Rev.
W. Birley, Incumbent of Chorley ; and the Rev. T.
Wilkinson, vicar of Stanwix, Cumberland.

MORE WRECKS IN THE NORTH SEA.—A bark, sup-
posed to be one of the missing vessels belonging to the
Tyne, has been passed on the Dogger Bank. Her masts
were gone, bowsprits and jibboom standing, chain cable
hanging out of the hawse, both anchors at the bows,
hatches, bulwarks, and stern frames gone, waterlogged,
and deserted. A vessel from Wolgest reports having
passed the wreck of an English brig, supposed to be tim-
ber laden. without helm, masts, or rigging, and no one on
board. On the 27th ult., in lat. 55 58, long. 015 E, she
fell in with the wreck of the schooner Competitor, bound
to Leith, with wheat, from Hamburgh. The crew were
taken off the wreck, and on Sunday landed at Montrose.
The Martin Luther was lost on her passage from St. Pe-
tersburgh. Her master, Mr. Tillock, and three of the
crew, are drowned. The Phoenix, of Teignmouth, having
been exposed to the late severe gales, was discovered off
St. Abb's Head by the George Canning, in a sinking state.
After great difficulty the crew were rescued from their
perilous position.
YELLOW FEVER.—On Sunday, at Southampton,Mr.
Napier, late fourth engineer of the Royal mail steam-ship
La Plata, died from malignant fever. Mr. Napier is
understood to be a relative of Mr. Robert Napier, of
Glasgow, at whose factory the La Plata's machinery was
constructed, and went out in the capacity of fourth engineer
of the ship for the purpose of increasing his experience in
the working of marine steam• engines. He landed from
La Plata in apparently good health, but on Sunday week
was seized with all the symptoms of violent fever. Dr
Ware, the medical attendant, pronounces the case
malignant fever, but hesitates to call it yellow fever.
it shall be satisfactorily ascertained that the fever, which
has proved fatal to Mr. Napier, is in reality a case of
yellow fever imported by the La Plata, an inquiry should at
once be instituted in reference to the recent admission
of La Plata to pratique. The Medway is hourly expected
at Southampton from the West Indies, and may perhaps
have had yellow fever during the voyage, in which case
some decisive action will be necessary to prevent the bare
possibility of yellow fever being introduced to that port, or
landed on our shores.

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