The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-07-20 00:00:00

FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

THE GRAND DUKE OF TUSCANY has enacted that all
young men leading an irregular life, or having contracted
habits of rioting and debauchery, shall be subjected to
military discipline.

THE QUEEI OF SARDINIA was on the 7th prematurely
delivered of a child, which died a few minutes after its
birth. Her Majesty has been ill with fever, but now gives
no cause for uneasiness.

IN THE PARIS HOSPITALS, many of the surgeons have
refused to perform operations for the present, except in
the most urgent cases, on account of the danger of gan-
grene from the excessive heat.
THE CHOLERA is reported to be raging not only at Ka-
lisch and Sieradz, hut also in the districts lying at the
mouths of the Vistula, on the frontier of Russian Poland.
In some of the villages on the Prussian frontier, this ter-
rible malady is likewise said to have appeared.
SPAIN.—We have had advices from Madrid, of the
10th. The only point of interest they contain is a state-
ment that 50 bandits had raised the flag of revolt in the
neighbourhood of Puerto Principe, but it is added that
they had all been taken, and were immediately shot.

A LONG SWIM.—The Industriel Calaisien says,—" A
German has laid a wager that he will swim across the
Channel from Calais to Dover ! We have not heard on
what day the wager is to come off, but we can state that
the German was yesterday practising his strength in the
sea in front of this place."
SINGULAR PRESENT.—WhiIst the King of Prussia and
the Empress of Russia were at Coblentz, a butcher pre-
sented them with a sausage thirteen feet long, containing
all sorts of sausage meat, and terminated with a pig's
head. Their majesties laughed heartily at the strange-
ness of the gift, but kindly accepted it.
A HINT.—It has lately become the practice on the
Austrian raiiways to place a looking-glass on the top of
the locomotive, inclined in such a way as to enable the
engine-driver to see the whole train reflected, so that he
can at once stop in case of accident. This plan has just
been adopted on the railway from Brussels to Antwerp.
FEMALE HEROISM.—During a late fire in the com-
mune of Rombly (Pas de Calais), a poor girl rushed into
the house and bore out on her shoulders an infirm old
woman, whom no one present had courage enough to
assist. Scarcely had she quitted the room with her bur-
den when the floor fell in.

A SENSIBLE WOMAN.—M. Chasneau, a French prophet,
who has recently been before the courts of justice, in
Romorantin and Orleans, has " a religion of his own, and
thousands of disciples." Olive oil and water, over which
he prays, is charged with curative virtues; but a female
follower, finding that a portion of the oil, when outwardly
applied, did her no good, took the remainder of it with a
salad !

A NUMEROUS FAMILY.—The Shah of Persia has in-
vited a number of Austrian officers of all arms to Teheran,
to aid in re-organising the Persian army. A letter from
one of the officers, received at Vienna, furnishes some
personal details respecting the Shah. He is twenty-two
years of age, and one of the handsomest men in the em-
pire. His great-grandfather, who had 300 wives, had a
crowd of children, who have had descendants in their turn,
until at length it is computed that the imperial family
comprises at least 10,000.
NEW IDEA IN AGRICULTURE.—The steward on

..... JIB •b.
I board a United States steamer has produced several crops
of excecellent potatoes by the following mode of cultiva-
:—He procured a common crockery crate, a bundle
of straw, and a few eyes of the potato, and went to work
farming it on board shin I The process of cultivating
them is with alternate layers of
at the bot-
bfrby,

this :—Fill your crates
straw and the eyes of the potato, commencing
torn with a layer of about six inches in depth of
and then a layer of the eyes, the eyes being placed about
two inches apart over the surface of the straw, then ano-
ther layer of straw on the top. Keer!..the .atraw always

and in about two mono

we about four-

er.":-American Pape