The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-06 00:00:00

GENERAT •TELLIGEXCE.

DEsEnTrow,trom the 74th Highlanders, is•ftsid td have
been prevalentlat the Cape .or Goad Hope.
THE NUNNERIES IN SPAIN, according to a Madrid
journal, are 803 in number, and contain 20,-613 nuns.
A CONCESSION has' been granted to a po6jector who
proposes to establish seawaterlaths at Paris,
mho has
undertaken to have seawater brought to the Park of
Monceanr. asid

MORE TRANI' TWO IluarDiria• STomars, of 'a
large
size, were seen flying round the steeple of the ehurch of
Cabadellause, in Spain. Two of them were shot, 'and fell
into the street.

THE CONTINEHT -has been visited by severe -storms,
which have occasioned much damage to the
crops. In
same places hailstones, weighing early a pound alidA half,
were picked up.
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Tn Citanimaxtatif of the London and Northwestern
Railway Company, so -unsettled since the retirement of
MT. Glyn, will, it is now said; be aectQted by the Marquis
of Chandos.

TEE FI7RNITITRE ANA ERITOT-E3 -OP,TIER LATE WARitatr
}LISTINGS were sold at `DaYlegfercl,,the sale being com-
pleted on Monday week. It was numerously attended,
and though old and considerably worn, the furniture
realised £4,000. A collection of all the evidence against
Warren -Hastings, in 13 vols., sold for eighteen guineas.
Inman :REAPERS.—Last week, upwardz of 3,000 Irish
and high land reapers were-earried by the I,'dinburgh and
Glasgow Railway to the different agricultural districts in
the east country. During the week the annual immigra-
tion of •Irish.reapers into Glasgow commenced. The Derry
steamers, as they successively arrived at the Broomielaw,
have been crowded from stenvto stern, paddle-boxes and
all, with this class of passengers.
A POWDER MAGAZINE in the neighbourhood of Ots-
thakow, in Russia, in which about .6,000 kilogrammes of
*powder were depvsited, blew up a gliort time sine with a
terrific explosion. A soldier who was on guard was
cocked to pieces, and an old man who 'lived in:a house
near the place was killed by the falling of a stone.on his
'head. The roofs of the houses and the churches in the
town were seriously injured by the falling stones, and an
immense number of tleAndows were broken.
A J Ewt SEE CoLoNY isdescribed in the J W ish Chronicle
as 'having 'lately been discovered at Singapore. They
claim tone descended from the exiles of the first Babylotii&
captivity, and are ignorant.of the second dispersion. They
embraced a European Jew visitor as a brother, and were
glad to find that be could converse with them in the He-
brew language. On his attending divine service, he was
called to the reading of the law from a beautiful scroll, the
rollers of whiela were of. silver, ornamented with filagree
work.

THE INHABITANTS OF HOLTHEA.D have presented a
petition to her Majesty, requesting that she will be gra-
ciously pleased to allow the new harbour to be called the
" Royal Victoria Harbour." It is a magnificent place,
and would afford accommodation for 100 sail of ships, and
forms a perfect basin, where ships can at all times lay in
perfect security.
THE FOUNDATION STONE of a new building for the
Athenaeum, at Melbourne, Derbyshire, has been laid by
Lord Palmerston, who followed up the formal ceremonial
by an address on the advantages which such an institution
was capable of conferring. The building, which has been
commenced, is to be erected after designs by Air. Stevens,
of Derby, at an estimated cost of about £7OO. It will
provide accommodation for an Infants' School, a Mecha-
nics' Institute, and a Savings Bank.
LORD LONDESBORGUGH, it is Said, has completed the
purchase of the Seisby estate for £270,000, from the Hon.
Mrs. Petre, widow of the Hon. E. Petre, of Selby. Mrs,
Petre, who was left sole executrix to her husband, with
the property at her own' disposal, has taken the veil in
France ; and the whole of her property will of course go
to the funds of the nunnery which she has entered.
A SINGULAR SUICIDE occurred last week in the coffee-
room of the Cathedral Hotel, London. A young man
named George F. Stanley Smith, who was shortly to have
been married, swallowed prussic acid, which occasioned
his death. From a paper found in his pocket, it is inferred
that he committed the fatal act, in consequence of feeling
an inferiority of merit, in himself, to the young lady with
whom he was about to be united.
A TRAIN on the York and Scarborough Railway was,
on Wednesday last, discovered to be on fire. On this line,
it seems, luggage is carried on the roofs of passenger car-
riages, and on the occasion referred to, it is presumed, a
spark from the engine had alighted on a pile of luggage,
and fanned by the current of air induced by the motion
of the train, speedily involved the pile in flames. Fortu-
nately the fire was discovered, and the burning luggage
removed, before any very serious damage took place.
Several of the passengers, however, were seriously alarmed
by the occurrence.