The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-04-05 00:00:00

FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

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A MAN one hundred and four years of age was im-
prisoned in Cincinnati a few days since, for stealing.
AN AMERICAN GENTLEMAN recently built a yacht et
Canton after the fashion of the far-famed America, which
appeared at the Macao regatta on the 2nd of December'
THE YELLOW FEVER.—The Highflyer, lately arrived
from Bermuda, has lost four officers and four men on the
station, and her Majesty's ship Calypso has since lost
two officers, who caught the fever by dining on board the
Highflyer ; and it is a remarkable fact, that every stranger
who went on board the Highflyer took the fever, evea
the black pilot who navigated her into Jamaica.
COTTON IN CAYENNE. Cotton is raised in variouS
quarters of the colony, but not to any considerable extent.
It is however of a superior quality, the fibre being fine and
long. In 1847 the exportation reached the sum of 350,00;
lbs. It is cultivated in similar tracts with the rocon, and
in many instances upon the same estates. It lurnishee
two crops annually, and with care can be made to produce
for ten years in succession. The average production Is
from 4to 500 lb. to the acre. The process of preparing
it for market is, as you are probably aware, very simple
and inexpensive, and it is therefore principally cultivated
in Cayenne by proprietors of small means.
A PLEASANT LAND.-"It is a remarkable fact that Cay-
enne is entirely free from many of those unpleasant elec-
tric phenomena, which are associated with the idea of
tropic climes. Not only has no pestilence ever been able
to withstand there the onset of the pure ocean breezes,
but severe squalls, hurricanes, thunder and lightning are
unfeared because unknown. Neither has the earthquake
even left a print of devastation upon its surface. Sig
Archibald Alison in his history of Europe treats it quite
freely to the epithets, pestiferous and pestilential
Mitchell informs us that the deportation to Cayenne 0f
deputies obnoxious to the ruling party during the revoltl"
Lion, was inflicted as equivalent to a sentence of death.
CONDITION OF ROME..-- Miss Grace Greenwood,
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American authoress, writing from Rome, says :—" With
soldiers and priests Rome aotually swarms. You meat
everywhere dark, sinister-looking Jesuits, in their sombre
robes, moving about by twos, at a peculiar, stealthi!
prowling gait—walking presentments of the very blackness
of spiritual darkness ; stupid, vulgar-looking Franciscan-/
in coarse gowns of brown cloth, ropegirted ; bare footfd,f
uNlaPtAediutBh.a—t
shaven: begging friars, sometimes leading asses laden
the pious offerings of the faithful—the more asses !Mr!
handsome young abbes, who contrive in some inexphcabw
nnisel/
way to. give a dandical touch to their ugly, u
costume, and who are seldom too much wrapt in heavenly
contemplation to cast searching and insinuating glans
at the young and comely women they.ehance to meet.
ref:e.lstEnisrcEaslcr
A.n excellent charitable
ineasturs..., J.. al...cm to be areemea under the patronage s:
30 000 inron.- brfl tl
thePue7p,
Paris are annually sent into the country, 29, 30r and 50
miles from Paris, to be nursed. Stern necessity compels
a vast proportion of the mothers of these children to cows
fide them to nurses of whom they know positively nothing/
except this, that they must make a profit out of a
miserably small monthly payment. The natural cow.
sequence of this state of things is the death, in numbers
far exceeding the average, of infants thus removed far
from the parent's eye. It is now intended to form fal
large establishments in the banlieue of Paris, where
children may be received to be nursed and weaned, and
where they may at all times be visited by their mothere•
The Abbe Raymond is to be the director of. these estab-
lishments, which, should they succeed,. will be an ad-
mirable supplement to the Creches, which have done 00
much good.—Daily Newe.
"A NueoErr OF A WIFR."—A recent traveller la
Australia came to the " estate of. Mr.. Badgery, whOr
besides receiving an ample income from his land, realises
large profits by supplying the diggers with butcher's meiad
and all sorts of necessaries from his. store.. In this he a
assisted by Mrs. Badgery ; a tidy, clever, bustling little
woman, who, though probably never before accustomed
to such an occupation, was,, under the circumstance/
quite equal to the task ; in fact, what a wife should be,
particularly in this young community—a helpmate to her
husband. We heard an opinion of, her, expressed loudly
to himself, from a huge-fellow who was leaning his heal
shoulders against the door-post, and watching her. "Ahl
said he, " that's what I call a nugget of a wife." Novro
a, " nugget" is a smooth,, water-worn piece of shining
gold, varying from the size of a pea to a large turnll7!
and what the Californian and Australian gold-digger°
consider the most satisfactory, thing imaginable to posses!'
To liken Mrs. Badgery to a " nugget,." therefore, waslo
his mind the greatest compliment he could pay her." _