The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-07-19 00:00:00

19, 1853.

FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

THE KING OF BAVARIA, during his visit to Rome, re-
ceived from the Pope a rare relic, declared to be a small
piece of the robe of the Virgin Mary, set in a valuable
gold frame.
THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO.—The 38th anniversary
was celebrated, on the 18th ult., at Amsterdam, by a
parade and display of flags on the public buildings. In
England it passed nearly unnoticed.
THE JESUITS.—The election of the general of the
Jesuits took place at Rome on the 2d of July. The new
general is Father Becks, provincial of the province of
Austria, and a Belgian by birth.
A ROMISH CONVICT.—An American correspondent of
tile Tablet mentions, " that the notorious Leahy, soi
disant monk of La Trappe, who has for some years past
been gulling the Protestant public as an ' anti-Popery'
lecturer, has been convicted of murder in Wisconsin, and
sentenced to the penitentiary for life."
AUSTRIA.—The prospects of an average good harvest
are daily confirmed by advices from all parts of the em-
pire, but especially from Hungary, where the crops pro-
mise great abundance. Fruit is also very plentiful this
summer in Austria. The weather has been exceedingly
hot for some days past. The late inundations in several
parts of the empire have fortunately done no great harm.
The waters in the rivers have returned to their usual level.
FEMALE REBELS.—The court-martial at Pesth has
sentenced the Countess Blanche Tekely to ten years', and
Miss Clara Lovei, a governess, to fifteen years' imprison-
ment. The thirteen months during which a certain Eliza
Bernvallner, a chambermaid, was under examination, is
considered a sufficient punishment for her. The crime of
which these three women, " and others whose trials are
still pending," were accused, is "an attempt to cause
the violent separation of Hungary from the Empire, to
secure its independence, and to bring about and further a
new revolution."
ANOTHER ROMISH CONVERT.—Dr. Achilli appears
likely to gain further notoriety in America, by the founda-
tion of a new sect, or rather as the reviver of the errors
and extravagances of Swedenborg. Our authority for
this statement, the Record, remarks :—" It is a melan-
choly conclusion to his career, that a priest who professes
to have come out of the Church of Rome, as a Protestant,
should take up a belief in the doctrines of a madman who
fancied himself a prophet, and declared that• he had him-
self seen Luther amongst the lost spirits condemned to
darkness for having taught the doctrine of justification by
faith."

SPENDING MONEY IN MELBOURNE.—In compliance
with the custom, an affianced couple went into a draper's
stores, the lady to receive a present at the hands of the
gentleman. He selected a shawl, such as could be sold
in London at four guineas, for which was asked £5. The
fair one hinted that she would like a better ; upon which
the draper showed one worth about five guineas, but he
named £25 as its price. The trick succeeded—the gen-
tleman handed him a £5O note to receive change ; when
the draper, adroitly comprehending the character of his
customer, easily prevailed upon him to take another £25
shawl instead of money !
A MUSICAL BRIGAND.—A man named Marino Gam-
betia, an accomplice of the bandit, Pietro Spina, now in
prison at Nice, has just been arrested. He was formerly
a gondolier at Venice, but soon rose to be a singer at the
theatre of the Fenice, owing to his fine voice. He com-
mitted several petty thefts there, left the situation, got
acquainted with a band of thieves, and ultimately joined
the band of Pietro Spina. At length his fine voice be-
trayed him, and he was arrested by the police at Cueno
while serenading his mistress, whose treacherous maid
was in the pay of the authorities.
THE MANUFACTURE OF GLOVES.—A complete revo-
lution is about to take place in the manufacture of gloves.
Two inhabitants of Grenoble invented, about the same
time, a machine for sewing gloves ; but, instead of com-
peting with each other, they agreed to unite the advan-
tages of each invention. One found means to sew me-
chanically the fingers of gloves ; while the other, after
sewing the remainder of the glove, was compelled to em-
ploy operatives to sew the fingers. The inventors, by
combining the two machines, have produced one which
sews gloves perfectly. This discovery has produced a
great sensation at Grenoble, where the manufacturers
were not able to supply the demand for want of a suffi-
cient number of operatives.
DEATH OF AN AMERICAN RAPPER.—The Massachu-
setts Gazette states that Miss Nancy Sherman, who died
on the 15th May, starved herself to death. She belonged
to the American Rappers, and had been what is called a
" medium," for pretended spiritual communications,
until she became quite insane. About a month before her
death she attempted to hang herself, but was prevented.
She then announced that the spirits had forbidden her
eating any more, and for three weeks she studiously ab-
stained from partaking of any food, living on water alone,
although at times so tortured by the pangs of hunger as to
writhe in agony. The last week was passed in fearful
alternations from convulsions to momentary consciousness,
with constant relapses, until death finally put an end to
her sufferings.

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How LITERARY MEN ARE PATRONISED BY THE
AMERICAN GOVERNMENT.—Theodore S. Fay, Minister
resident in Switzerland, is a native of the City of New
York. He became early connected with literary pursuits,
and was associated with Morris and Willis in the old New

York Mirror, a weekly paper. He was secretary of Le-
gation to Prussia, under the late Henry Wheaton, and
has been continued under his successors at the Court of

Berlin. He married a daughter of the late Barent Garde.
nier, a distinguished federal lawyer, member of Congress,
and editor in his time, some forty years since. To please
the literary class still further, the President has appointed
to consulships two other authors, viz : Hawthorne of Mas-
sachusetts (General Pierce's biographer,) and Donald G.
Mitchell, formerly of Norwich, Connecticut, but for soma
years a resident in New York—better known as Ik Marvel.
He is said to be writing, or contemplating, a work on
Italy, and goes to Venice, where there is not much official
business for a consul. Mitchell is thirty-one years of aga,
and is but little, if at all known in politics.—New York
Herald.
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LORD ELLESMERE IN AMERICA.—In the New York
Herald, under the heading " The English Nobility on the
Wing," we find the following letter, dated "Bagg's
Hotel, Utica, June 21" :—" The Earl of Ellesmere and
suite arrived at this house last evening, at 8 o'clock, in
the express train, for New York. The noble Lord looked
fatigued and ill; he wore his left arm in a sling, and
appeared to be suffering from his late attack of the gout.
The Conntess appeared well, and her beautiful daughters
attracted much attention, but they seemed not to relish
this specimen of an hotel. It does not certainly compare
favourably with their country inns in Old England.
Aside from the usual excitement of new-comers, the
arrival of the noble party created no attention whatever.
The people seemed as if live Lords were ' around' in these
diggins' every day. One of the boys from the Leander
attracted more notice among the other boys, by the gold
lace and crown on his cap, than all the rest of the party
put together. I was amused with a specimen of Yankee-
dom in the railway station when the train came in. He
was a plain countryman, about 40 years of age. He was
sitting on a pile of three or four trunks, with his back
against a post, and his straw hat in his lap. I thought
him a good subject to astonish, and said—' Do you see
that party corning along ?" Val,' said he, what of 'em ?'
That is the Earl of Ellesmere, just arrived to attend the
Crystal Palace Exhibition.' The what ?' he inquired.
Lord Ellesmere, a British nobleman.' `Then, he's an
Englishman,' he replied, very quietly ; he's got a good
deal to see 'afore he ;its home again ;' and in a moment
he added, Guess he'll put up at Bagg's Hotel, over night.
Wal, that's the way these places live.' It was amusing
to see how unconcerned the presence of a live lord found
and left him. The arriving and departing trains kept up
an eternal clatter at this house throughout the night.
When there were no bullgines (as Burton says) to bellow
forth, the cats wawled, and the gay larks of the early
morning hours sang their jovial songs, which were not
subdued by the open windows. Oh ! for a quietnight once
more ! I have not had three hours' consecutive sleep in
a week ! Trenton Falls is rapidly filling up. Lord
Ellesmere's party go over there this morning,. and expect
to reach Niagara on Friday. From the brief conversation
held with his Lordship some days ago, he appeared to be
a remarkably sensible, moderate man, and one who can
see through the peculiarities of the people-,whatever real,
goodtlere it 3 in our lustituttons and our 011Ar4Mr."