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

GENERAL NEWS.

A Max died last week, in London, of " nervous ex-
haustion, from drinking and from chewing tobacco."
FREE PORTS.—The seven principal ports of the Canary
Islands were opened as free ports on the 10th of October.
GOLD.—The Duke of Wellington has arrived from Syd-
ney, with 21,360 ounces of gold, valued at about £86,000.

MR. URIAH SCOTT, 'Wesleyan minister, of Sherborne,
has been ordered by the magistracy to pay 2s. 6d. weekly
for the support of the illegitimate child of Jane Hunt.
MR. PETO, M.P., it is said, has purchased the building
known as the Diorama, Regent's-Dark, London, for the
purpose of converting it into a Baptist Meeting-house.

THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL
in Foreign Parts has, during the year, paid no less than
£78,500 in aid of the operations of the Church at home
and abroad.

FEVER.—A very bad type of fever has made its appear-
ance at the Kingswood Collieries, near Bristol, and it is
understood that as many as thirty persons have died there

in one week

THE EDITOR of the Agricultural Gazette begs one of
his correspondents to use, in future, something less
etherial than sky-blue ink, which does not agree well
with old eyes.

PANIC IN THE WHISKEY TRADE.—By the expectation
that the Chancellor of the Exchequer would propose to
raise the duty on the Scotch distiller, no less than
400,000 eallons of whiskey were taken out of bond lass
week in Glasgow.

DIVORCE.—In the appeal " Giels v. Giels," the House
of Lords has confirmed the power of the Scotch courts to
grant a divorce " a vincula matrimonii" after a separation
" a manse et tlioro" has been granted by the ecclesiastical
courts in England.

BARON ALDERSON gave it as his opinion, the other day,
that the term "menial" applied to all residing intro mcenia,
and that a governess so residing accordingly fell within
the description of a menial servant, and was entitled only

to a month's notice.
Miss CAMPBELL'S CASE.—Anne Campbell, late Sister
of Mercy, charged with robbing Mrs. Phillips, was tried
on Wednesday, at the Middlesex Sessions. Mr. Bodkin
withdrawing from the prosecution, the prisoner was de-
clared not guilty, and discharged.
LOVE TILL DEATH.—A servant girl has bequeathed to
the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Bene-
volent Society a legacy of £5O, out of her hard-earned
savings, in remembrance of her engagement to a young
sailor at Sunderland, who was drowned.
THE COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH have decided in the
case of " Regina v. Ashton," that playing at dominoes in
a public house, not for money, is not gaming, and quashed
the conviction of the defendant by the magistrates at West
Bromwich, as it was not stated therein that money had
been staked.

FOREIGN VISITORS.—An order has been issued to the
authorities at our different dockyards, directing that all
foreigners who may pay a visit are not to be allowed, under
any pretence whatever, to enter the workshops or view the
vessels at present constructing. This amounts to a total
exclusion.—Kentish Mercury.
SOCIETY OF ARTS.—On Wednesday the first ordinary
meeting of the Society of Arts was held in the Society's
house, Adelphi, Lord Monteagle in the chair. Mr. H.
Cole, C. 8., read a paper on the international results of
the Great Exhibition, being the last of the series suggested
by his Royal Highness Prince Albert.

GOLD FROM AUSTRALIA.—The total amount of gold
actually shipped from Victoria, and of which there were
returns only up to 26th of June, exceeded 43 tons. This
was independent of five or six tons then on its way to the
city by the escorts, and an immense quantity in the banks,
the treasury, and in the hands of private individuals.
COALS.—A parliamentary paper, just printed, shows
that last year there were 3,246,287 tons of coals imported
as sea-borne coals into the port of London, and the net
duty was £165,461 ls. 3d., at the rate of ls. Id. per ton.
The coals by railways, or landwise, in the same year,
reached 221,339 tins, and the net duty £12,071 ss. 51J.

THE LAST OF THE STUARTS.,--It is understood that
the nearest of kin to the Stuarts now living is the present
King of Sardinia, and that the last descendant in the
direct line was Cardinal York, who died some years since,
in Rome, and was interrei in the Vatican, where a tomb
is erected to his memory, inscribed, " Henry IX. King of
England."

ATILITIA.—The accounts from the various parts of
the country continue to announce the utmost propriety of
conduct, and the admirable and rapid progress made in
their military duties, on the part of the new recruits. All
those bodies hitherto incomplete in point of numbers are
being rapidly filled up, and few or no ballots are expected
to take place.

THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGA-
TION COMPANY held their half-yearly meeting on
Saturday, when a dividend of four per cent. was declared,
and a bonus of £1 per share from the profits derived on
underwriting account. This company own a fleet of 31
vessels, in addition to 11 building ; the gross total being
53,850 tons, and 14,290 horse-power.

THE CLERKENWELL MAGISTRATES have sent a " fa-
shionably-dressed middle-aged woman, named Mary Sea-
bright, to the House of Correction, for a fortnight, for
obtaining money under the false pretence of telling per-
sons their fortunes. She lived in a splendidly-furnished
house, and had numerous dupes. She drove one poor
woman out of her mind by telling her that her husband
was faithless.

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN TARIFF. —The new bill has
passed the Legislative Council, and will, ere this, be in
operation. The following are the rates of duties upon
imports :—Coffee, per cwt, lOs ; spirits, proof, per gallon,
7s ; cordials, liqueurs, &c., 7s ; spirits, perfumed, &c.,
7s ; tee, per lb, 3d ; tobacco, cigars, and snuff, per lb, 2s ;
wine, per gall. is ; all other goods, wares, and merchan-
dise are free.

THE STEAMER MADRlD.—lntelligence reached South-
ampton on Friday that the steamer Madrid, which left
that port on the 17th ult. with the Peninsular mail, and
had not been heard of at Vigo on the 23d ult., although
due there on the 20th, bad arrived at Vigo on the 24th, and
was to proceed to Lisbon the same day without calling at
Oporto. The Oporto mails were to be left at Vigo, to be
sent overland.

THE MUTINY IN THE MELBOURNE.—An investigation,
which has been going on at Southampton into the mutiny
on board the steamer Melbourne, was brought to a close
on Saturday, when James Flinn was committed for trial
at the next assizes, on the charge of murdering the de-
ceased Cohn Lamont ; and the boatswain's-mate, Chris-
tian Johanson, was sentenced to six weeks' hard labour
for not obeying the lawful commands of his captain and
officers.

A FATAL WAVE.—The Fair Kathleen, of Tynemouth,
while off Scilly on the 28th ult., on her passage to Venice,
from the Tyne, and in a gale of wind from the W.S.W.,
was struck with a terrific sea, which swept her decks,
stove in her boats, carried away the bulwarks, and
drowned the mate and two seamen. The master received
a severe scalp wound, and another seaman was disabled
by the same fearful disaster. The vessel has been got
into Cowes, strained, and making water.
A REMEDY FOR JIBBING HORSES has been suggested
by a correspondent, which, having witnessed in India, he
practised with success the other day on the horses of an
omnibus, though laughed at by the crowd on first making
his proposal to get a slight rope and attach it to one of
the fore-feet of the stubborn animal, and the person ho' '
ing the other end of the rope to advance a few
taking with him the horse's foot, when as a ma
course, the horses and omnibus must follow.
SALE OF A WIFE.—One of these disgraceful exhib
tions took place the other evening at the Cardigan Arm!
Kirkstall-road, Leeds. A man named W. Bean has coin
bited with a married woman named Martha Spence ; an
the woman's husband, W. Spence, at her solicitation,
agreed to " sell" her to her paramour. She was taken to
the Cardigan Arms in a halter, and sold, in the presence
of the company drinking there, for a sovereign. The
trio then sat down to a jollification.—Leeds Times.

BURNING OF TURPENTINE WORKS.—On Friday_a fire

broke out in the range of premises belonging to Messrs.
Grace and Co., white-lead manufacturers and turpentine
distillers, Thames.-bank, Pimlico. The various hands
employed on the mills were at once sent for, and they
went to work in a praiseworthy manner, by throwing
many tons weight of sand, gravel, and earth upon the
flames, and succeeded so well in their object that the
business of the firm will not be retarded by the damage
sustained.

FRIGHTFUL FIRE-ARMS ACCIDENTS.-Wm. Norman,
aged nine, and another boy, were playing on Saturday
with gunpowder, when they ignited it, and Norman, who
was standing over it, received the fire in his face, which
was frightfully disfigured, and it is feared that he will lose
his sight. On Sunday, as Henry Taylor and a compa-
nion was shooting birds in a field, they took separate sides
of a hedge, when Taylor's companion fired through the
hedge, the whole charge entered his arm, shattering it in
a frightful manner.
THE FLoons.—The waters still continue to cover the
land for a great distance round Windsor, and much incon-
venience to all parties, with a vast amount of positive
suffering amongst the poorer classes, is the natural con-
sequence. Subscriptions to relieve [the neceseities of the
latter have been set on foot at Windsor, Eton, and
Datchett, and it is understood that Her Majesty, with
considerate benevolence, commanded that the most de-
serving of the humble claimants should be ascertained and
relieved. The bodies of the men drowned last week have
not yet been discovered.

ELOPEMENT. —An extraordinary sensation has been
created in Sidmouth, by the elopement of a wealthy
heiress with the son of a baronet, to the great discom-
fiture of her parents, who had, it is said, a more favoured,
or rather favourite swain in view for the young lady, who,
in addition to expectations and reversions, has fifteen
thousand charms in her favour. The happy pair were
pursned by mamma, a footman, and policeman, to
Exeter, but the trio arrived just in time to be too late.
Various rumours are afloat as to the motive which in-
duced the lady to take such a step. The happy pair are
believed to be in London.—Exeter Gazette.
SUBSTITUTE FOR GUANO.—At a monthly council of
the Royal Agricultural Society, Lord Ashburton in the
chair, a report on the subject of the society's prize for
the discovery of a substitute for Peruvian guano, not ex-
ceeding £5 per ton, was unanimously adopted. The re-
port recommends £lOOO, and the gold medal of the so-
ciety, for the discovery. of a manure equal in fertilising
properties to the Peruvian guano, and of which an un-
limited supply can be furnished to the English farmer at
a rate not exceeding La per ton. The prize originated on
a proposition made by several active members of the so-
ciety, in consequence of the result of the discussion on the
Lobos Island question.

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