The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-04-19 00:00:00

GLASGOW is infested at present with bards of garotting
marauders.
THE PAISLEY SHAWL TRADE is said to be in
flourishing condition at present. A single house made
sales in March to the amount of £lO,OOO.
IT is the intention of Messrs. Caird and Co. to launch
the magnificent steamer Atrato about the end of next
week, perhaps Saturday. The sight will be one of great
interest and splendour.—Greenock Herald of Thursday.
IMPORTANT TO AUTHORS. The ratification of the
copyright treaty between the United States and England
is not expected to take place this session. It requires the
vote of two-thirds of the Senate to make it law.

MR. Grasox, R.A., has completed his statue of Venus,
at Rome, and aroused the criticism of connoisseurs by
giving a slight flesh tint to the figure, blue eyes, yellow
hair, and a delicately-coloured border to the drapery.
There is much difference of opinion as to the judicious-
ness of this proceeding.

THE COLONISTS OF VAN DIRMEN'S LAND, sympa-
thising with the lady of their late Governor, Sir John
Franklin, have collected subscriptions amounting to
£1,671 in aid of the Arctic expedition. The pence of the
humblest appear in the list side by side with the £lOO,
£5O, and £lO donations.

IRON SHIP-BUILDING ON THE CLYDE. The largest
iron sailing ship.ever built is now near completion, under
the shed at Kelvinhaugh. She is to be called the Hurri-
cane, and is intended for the Australian trade. She is
upwards of 1,300 tons,—is the second ship built by
Messrs. Stephen and Sons, for Messrs. Potter, Wilson,
and Co., of Glasgow.
MR. NEELD'S PROPERTY.—Her Majesty has present
the executors of the late Mr. Neelil, who left his property
to the Crown, with £l,OOO each. He left them only £lOO.
The Queen has also granted an annuity of £lOO to Mrs.
Neale, who saved Mr. Neeld's life on his making a rash
attempt on it during a stay at North Marston, where he
now lies buried.

ROBERT OR EN, the Socialist chief, who has hitherto
been impregnable to arguments in proof of a future state,
has avowed himself a believer in the spiritual manifesta-
tions, and the thumping tricks of the American " Rap-
pers." His " conversion" is referred to the influence
of an American lady residing in Queen Anne-street,
Cavendish-square, London.
SAD GUN ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday, Mr. Frederick
Keene, of Serjeant's Inn, Fieet-street, London, was
examining a gun in his counting-house, and thinking it
was unloaded, handled it carelessly. The butt end being
struck sharply against the floor, the weapon exploded,
lodging the contents in his right jaw, and carrying off a
portion of the cheek. The wounded gentleman was at
once conveyed to King's College Hospital, and from the
extent of the wound his recovery is extremely doubtful.
BOLD SWINDLER.—Robert Pope, a butler, in the ser-
vice of Earl Jermyn, has been committed for trial for
forging the earl's name. He obtained sums of money
from tradesmen and others on the plea that his master
wanted a temporary accommodation to be secured by a
bill. In the case of a Mr. Curtis, £lOO was obtained on
a forged bill, by the accused pretending that the Marquis
of Bristol and Lord Jermyn would, as governors of
Christ's Hospital, give him a presentation for his son.
There were £6OO worth of forged bills in court.
EAST INDIA COMPANY.—A ballot for a director, in
the room of the late General Caulfeild, took place on
Wednesday. At the close of the poll there appeared for
Mr. D. C. Marjoribanks
Mr. J. C. Morris
Majority for Marjoribanks .. —3O
The five directors on the house list were of course re-
elected as usual.

A WARNING TO YOUNG WOMEN WHO CONTEMPLATE
EMIGRATING.—A deal is said about sending nut young
women to marry the men in the bush. God help such
women as marry the greater portion of such fellows as
the common class here. Their very language is perfectly
measled with obscenity and the Eilestoaths and the basest
phraseology, and they drink all they can get. In short,
this is a country to come to, as people go to India, to
make money; as to spending it here, that under present
circumstances would require different tastes to those of
most cultivated men and women.—William Howitt's
Latest Letter from the Gold-Fields.