The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-05-10 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Sarah, from Liverpool, at Bayonne the sth inst.
Dement, from Hobart Town ; Statesman and Son'
banda, from Calcutta ; Charlotte, from 2Taranhatu;
Captain, from Trinidad ; Caroline and Reserve, from
Jamaica—all at Gravesend the 9th inst.
Spectator anti Fortitude, from Columbo ; Queen and
Columbine, from Callao; Leo, from Buenos Ayres;
Aurora, from Bahia ; Cressy, from Demerara—all at Dew
the 9th inst.

LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET.--THIS DO'
We continue to receive very scanty supplies of Grain;
Flour, and Oatmeal, coastwise and from Ireland ; and
tnose into this port from abroad, during the week endini
yesterday, are altogether comparatively unimportant
while, beyond a fair quantity of Flour, the exports are
very moderate in amount.
There was a good attendance at our market this morn'
ing, and the supplies being moderate of most descriptions'
there was a fair demand at about the prices of this (10
week.

AIRS. STOWE has published a letter in the Giasgoto
Citizen, of Saturday, advocating marriage with a deceased
wife's sister.

PASSENGERS by the Clyde steamers will learn with
pleasure that within the last few days a post-office receit,
ing-box has been placed on the steam-boat quay 8'
Greenock.

ON Thursday night, when the Briton steamer was sail'
ing from Ayr to Stranraer, John Watkins, a young 0181!
belonging to the latter place, jumped overboard and _
drowned. He had only been married a fortnight.
A JEW CHURCHWARDEN.—The parishioners of St•
George's, Botolph.lane, London, having elected a Jed'
Mr. Henry Levy Keeling, of the firm of Keeling and
Hunt, for their churchwarden.

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RAILWAY EXTENSION.—The opening of the oxfor
Worcester,7and Wolverhampton Railway, between Esle'
sham and Wolverhampton, about fifty miles in lengti"
took place on Saturday.

LUDWIG TIECK, one of the few survivors of a past oge
of German literature, died at Berlin on the morning of th°
28th ult. He was born at Berlin on the 31st of 311'r;
1773, so that a few days only were wanting to complete
his full measure of fourscore years.
STANFIELD'S chief picture in the Royal Academy this
year is, we understand, the second of a series of coot'
missions given by Mr. Peto, M.P., to the principal En 4:,
lish artists for works illustrative of leading incidents
British history.
HENRY FRANCIS HOWARD, Esq., late Secretary of
Legation at Berlin, is appointed her Majesty's Envoi
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Coll3r ,
of Brazil, in the room of Henry Southern, Esq., G'
deceased.
EDITORIAL ADVANTAGES.—The New York Churc
ra
man Says g
It may not ha ener tl
rAlly Icown tb,'t Cc~lto
get one important item of subsistence at a low price: tUcY
get bored for nothing."—lt may he satisfactory to our
Transatlantic brother to know that this sort of hospitality
is as rife on our side of the Ocean as on his.
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT has Pre'
sented to the United Service Institution a work of extreme
interest at the present moment. It is the " Enquele
Parliamentaire sur la Situation et Organization des
Services de la Marine Militaire." This inquiry 'O5
completed immediately before the coup d'etat, but oat
published nor even printed.—United Service Gazette.
RAILWAY REQUIREMENTS.—The Railway Record
contains some elaborate statistics compiled from al?
official parliamentary estimates, showing that the tali!
amount of capital required for new railway works by tlw,
railway companies before parliament this session amounts
to £24,121,6-18. There were several other money bills
for new railway works, representing about anotbef
£6,000,000, but they have been withdrawn since the
ession commenced.

A KENDAL PAPER relates that a few nights. since 1/
thief stole a hive of bees from a cottage between Hawlis't
head and Sawrey, but neglected to secure the mouth 0'
the hive. Before he had proceeded far with his boot)",
the disturbed bees swarmed out of the hive, which tbo
thief instantly dropped ; and the occupant of the cottager
who chanced to look out of the window at the time, s 11:
by moonlight the unlucky plunderer running, away wit'"
the bees buzzing about his head.
DETERMINED ATTEMPT. AT SUICIDE.—On Monday'
woman named Elizabeth Groom, aged 44 years, residing
in Perrin's-street, Chelsea, made a desperate attempt of
self-destruction, by swallowing a strong solution °.,
American potash, which is used by laundresses in theft
business, and is a most destructive alkali. As she Op
that it was not acting. rapidly enough, she seized a knIA
and cut her throat. On being discovered, she 0;1
removed to St. George's Hospital. She is a !nerve,
woman, and although her husband and friends ac aO9
panied her to the hospital, they declined giving 013'
particulars, and the cause of her rashness is unknown: ere
SUGAR REFINING.—A joint deputation, on the subjeet
of refining sugar in bond, had an interview with the Ear,
of Aberdeen, on Friday, at his official residence in Dow.ll
ing-street. The deputation consisted of Mr. IMartlllf
Provost of Greenock ; Mr. Wrede, of Greenock ;
Richardson and Mr. M`Ewan, of Glasgow ; Messrs'
Crum, Russell, C. Marryat, S. Cave, and Macgreg°"
and was accompanied by Mr. John Macgregor, 1111:'
Sir James Anderson, M.P., Mr. Alexander Hastie, lq•!ed
Sir Jas. Matheson, Bart., M.P., Colonel Blair, M.'•;",
Mr. Cowan, M.P., Mr. James Baird, M.P., Moffat"
M.P., and Mr. Forbes, M.P.
INTEMPERANCE IN THE SCOTCH RURAL DISTRICTS/
The leading cities of Scotland were lately contending 4.0
the palm of sobriety. We are now threatened with, s,
similar contest between town and country. In the Gill?,
gow papers a brief letter is published from the Rev. fl,pe
Johnstone, of Maryhill, a village some three or four Init',l
out of Glasgow, relative to the drunkenness of the rig',
districts, and descriptive of a Sunday evening indoor scat;
in his neigbourhood, which he says "beggared aaY,,
known in the Cowgate of Edinburgh, or the Saltmarkey
of Glasgow !"
HORRIBLE OCCURRENCE AT Poneesmotme.
Friday this neighbourhood was thrown into an ungswil
state of excitement by the report that a child had beer
killed by a bear belonging to the 38th regiment. Thz-bel,
was kept in a yard, in Nicholas-street, and the chiele
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to the bear, and he died in twenty minutes.
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MONEY ORDERS FOR THE COLONIES —Tne e-
master-Genetal is establishing a money-order systeUl 0
be
tween this country and the colonies. So far as relatedto
the receipt and payment of money in the colonies, an big
its transmission to and from the United Kingdool;
Lordship intends fto avail himself of the agency 0' stsl
diary banks, except in any case where the colonial P°to
arrangements are not under his direction, and whereee•
authorities of the colony may prefer to undertake Oise, its
siness themselves. The receipt and payment of mon7or
the mother-country will form a branch of the rnoneye° err
system already existing. Advertisements will shortlY4
pear, inviting tenders from bankers for the performa°'
the duties referred to. /
How TO KEEP EGGS FRESH FOR SIX MONIISIg
It is not generally known that the only plan of preeoro4
eggs perfectly fresh for any length of time, is to s freo,
them over, the day they are laid, with lard or butter' eel"
from salt. A small piece of the size of a wain; the
suffice for a dozen eggs. Take them one by one lieelb
palm of the hand, and two or three turns will effect...it, ot,
close up the pores ; then place them in an open bre, o'
basket, loose, on the pantry shelf. At the expira.'wteeY
3iX months they will be found as sweet as the d°loo.
were laid, if the above directions have been strictly
plied with.
Al AMOROUS TRADESMAN.--A singular affZuricba
submitted a few days ago to the criminal court of ine
Of''
A Bavarian tradesman established in that city coal 400
that two men named Orni had swindled him out 01,_eireo,
on the promise of making him marry
who they said had fallen in love with him, aa_deSeoplic
girl in the village was accused of being their ae°_.„-teeo, le
by personating the heiress. The gullible tracee,,eol,
appeared, not only paid his money freely, but haed 11'
thcstr•eer;
interviews with the girl, and took her to
es to sic,
whilst she on her part carried imprudence so far 'To Tie
the wedding contract in the name of the helress;eeeing
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position was discovered on the worthy man ,be co
presents to the residence of the young lady. .I_, iget..
condemned the two men to two and three 7:rr,', ee
a wealthy. leyotteg
sonment, and the young woman to nine ne
same punishment,

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