The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-09-07 00:00:00

stomach, which

disorder is described
takes place in 24 ho

VILDEK9- OF

launched 23 steam

ince the Ist

January. The tonnage amounts to 30,00 E
now on the stocks is estimated at 36,000.
HIS HIGHNESS THE. REIGN/NG DUKE 25SAXE COMM
GOTHA is engaged in composing the score of an opera, of
which Madame Birch-Pfeiffer, the authors -
popular dramatic works, has written the te.

The tannage

of numerous

ANOTHER unsuccessful attempt was made with what is
called the " navigable balloon," on Tuesdays at the
Hippodrome. in Paris. The experiment was •prevented
by the bursting- of of the balloon, and two persons were
injured, one of them seriously.
ANABAPTISTS-1N GERMANY.—The go7ernment of

Hanover has issued an order forbidding t
Anabaptists, and 'threatening with imprisonment an 3
foreign missionary of that sect who shall at

lings of

in the Hanoverian territory

D-p reach

Some Anabaptist mis-

sionaries from Bremen•have beau expelled from the prin-
cipality of Waldeck.
ST. HELENA.—The St. Helena papers which-•have just
come to hand mention that the arrival at that island of
the first mail screw.steamer, called the Australian, with
200 passengers for the antipodean El Dorado, had caused
great excitement at St-Helena. and numbers of persons
were preparing to- emigrate. It appears that labour is
scarce in the island,.and the operatives are ba
THE SALE OF THEXUB.NITURE OF LOUIS
CHATEAU D'EU is proceeding with great animation, and,
instead of realising only 80,000 francs, as estimated by the
domiae prisee, will,. it• is said, fetch more than 250,000
francs. An old chest•of drawers, in the style of Louis
XV., was purchased after a severe struggle by the Marquis
of Hertfort, for 9,ooo.francs (X 360), and a pair of curtains
fetched 6,000 francs.

SHOCKING EVEN-7:—A shocking affair has occurred at
Stettin. Two friends,•respectable brokers, went out in a
boat to shoot ducks. A bird rising near the boat, one of
the gentlemen fired at it, when his friend, at the same
moment rising suddenly up, received the whole charge in
the back of his head. The unlucky sportsman, father of
a numerous family, no-sooner saw the misfortune which he
had unwillingly caused, than he placed the second barrel
of his fowling-piece unde7bis chin and blew ota.his own
brains. The boatman had to row to shore with two corpses.
THE ACHILLI CAtE.—The Paris Univers. has nearly
the whole of its front page filled with an article, the object
of which is to increase the subscription it has opened in
aid of the funds to cover Dr. Newman in his- defence
against Dr. Achilli, and which, the Univers says, amount
to £lO,OOO sterling, while the whole amount of the sub-
scriptions in different counties is only £3,000. The
Univers announces,as an encouragement to persons tosub-
scribe, that Dr. Newman has already begun to pay the
debt of gratitude by • saying mass twice a week for his
benefactors.
THE CHOLERA.—The last accounts from Landaberg
(Silesia) state that the cholera had evidently abated. The
new cases are described-as furnished by persons who have
been attacked anti have afterwards paid no cttention to
their diet. One account says that the swallows, which
had disappeared from the town (Landsberg) during the
height of the disease, had begun to return. In Upper
Silesia there had been numerous pilgrimages to-the chapel
of St. Rochus, "to pray for his intercession." The re-
turns from Posen are to the 27th. 95 persons were at-
tacked, of whores. 53. died remained under treatment.
In Ostrowa and Jaroczyn also the disease had abated.

HYDROPHOUA IN LAMS.—Among the victims to
hydrophobia in Paris, which has made such lamentable
progress lately, and which is to be attributed to the
number of dogs suffered to wander through the streets, is
to be added a isrjent ite ville police-officer. The un.
fortunate man., who was commanded some days since to
conduct to a place of safety some dogs found wandering,
killed in his awn defence one of them which attempted
to bite him. The dog's blood gushed out and covered
his hand, which had been wounded. In two days after-
wards hydrophobia of the most violent character declared
itself, and caused the death of an active officer, the father
of four children.

CURIOUS. DISCOVERY IN PARIS.—The potice of Paris
have made a curious discovery, which will have, it is to be
hoped, the effect of checking the London thieves. Some
days since a detective officer received- information that a
female of suspicions character, residing in the quarter
Saint Antoine, frequently received bales of various mer-
chandise from England, which she sold at less than half
the value. On a closer investigation the policeman as-
certained that the woman in question was the general
agent in France for the London pickpockets, and that the
merchandise she thus disposed of was the fruit of their
dexterity, which it was found hazardous to offer for sale
in London. A large quantity of English jewellery has
been found in her possession. She has been lodged iu the
prison of the Prefecture of Police.—London paper.

MACHINE FOR DIGGING ?OTATOES•—A machine for
digging, potatoes has been invented. The inventor is
Francis C. Schaffer, of Brooklyn, New York, and the
machine is thus described in the Scientific Amerfican
" The machine embraces. a scoop, a brush cylinder, and
endless apron, connected by a moveable frame, by ope-
rating which the scoop. is made to enter the ground the
required distance and raise up the potatoes, which, by a
cylinder having a revolvng brush,the potatoes are brought
forward from the scoop to the endless apron, which carries
them away, and deposits them in a receptacle at the back
of the frame. The machine is designed to be worked by
horses ; the bottom of the scoop, also the bottom of the
receptacle for the potatoes, is formed of bars to separate
the dirt from the potatoes ; the bi ash also removes the
dirt, so that they are rendered very clean."
A SH u w an, Ut,COUN.III the last sitting of the Academy
of Sciences at Brussels a quantity of strange looking grain
was produced, and it was stated that it was part of a
considerable quantity which had fallen from the sky,
instead of rain, a few nights before, in the Rhenish pro-
%ince of Prussia. Of the actual falling of a shower of
grain there is no doubt ; several persons returning home
at night felt it beat on their faces very roughly, and the
roads were strewed with it in a circuit of several miles.
But where did this grain come from ? The natural sup-
position is that it had been carried some distance by the
violence of the wind ; but it is so different to any that is
known in this part of the world that one or two savans.did
not hesitate to express the opinion that it had come from
a star, accidentally knocked to pieces by some larger
heavenly body I—Literary Gazette.
AN EARTHQUAKE AT SEA.—The following is an ex-
tract from the log of the Tropic, just arrived in the
Downs :—" On the 17th of July, at 7 20 a.m., being then
70 deg. west from Jamaica, a severe shock of an earth.
quake, continuing nearly two minutes, the water being
quite smooth, and wind very light, ship going 2i miles
per hour, and steering west by north, when the shock
commenced on port quarter, and progressing forward,
ended on the starboard bow ; the ship had then lost her
way, and the watch below ran out of the forecastle declar-
ing the iron tanks (each containing 100 gallons of water)
were dancing in the 'tween decks. While the horrid
rumbling noise continued going along under the bottom
the sensation on deck was that of a ship tearing over rocks
at a violent rate ; in a few minutes the ship was quietly
gliding through the water at three miles per hour."
THE DUKE OF PAItMA, a young Prince, is just now
absent without leave from his dominions. It appears that
he is married to a lady older than himself, with whom he
is not on the best of terms, but who, with the assistance
of his mother and aunt, has endeavoured to turn his
attention from field sports to tho cabinet. Failing in this,
it is said the Princess intended appealing to the Court of
Vienna to transfer the sovereignty of the state from the
hands of her sporting husband to her nwn. This my lord
not.

very surprisingly objected to. He set out one day
under a pretext of inspecting his troops, numbering it is
said 81 men, but in reality for Vienna, to anticipate his
ambitious spouse. Arriving at Placentia he sent back his
two aides-de-camp, one with a despatch to his mother,
containing a blank piece of paper, the other addressed to
the first minister, investing his confidential agent, Thomas
`Ward, with full powers and title of regent, and has not
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