The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-05-30 00:00:00

MESSRS WINSTANLEY sold on Monday and Tuesday at
their rooms, in Church-street, a quantity of Chinese fancy
articles, ex Security, all of which brought good prices.
TEsnmosist..—The Rev. W. J. Brown, curate of St.
Thomas's Church, Toxteth-park, having been appointed
to the curacy of the parish church of Stoke-upon-Trent,
Staffordshire, the congregation of St. Thomas's, wishing
to testify their high respect and affection for him, for-
' warded to him, on Thursday, a splendid set of robes, com-
; plete, along with a suitable address.
BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS.—A meeting of the
influential inhabitants of the township was held last night,
at the Woodside Hotel, with the view of agreeing upon a
list of names to be submitted to the rate.payers as candi-
dates at the election, which is fixed for Tuesday next. E.
G. Willoughby, Esq., was in the chair. After some dis-
cussion the following names were agreed to :—Messrs.
Chas. Cook, Henry Watson, John D. Hoye, T. B. Golborne,
Robert Lamont, Wm. Keightley, Henry Hilliar, and John
Holme. The great object to be gained by the election of
the above list is to prevent the imposition of an additional
rate on the householders for the benefit of the bondholders,
and also to cut down as far as possible the expenses of the
: township, particularly as regards the extravagant mode in
which the ferry has been conducted.

SIR GEORGE CAMPBELL, elder brother of the Lord Chief
Justice, died a few days since at his seat, Edenwood,
Fifeshire. He was in his 76th year.
CAPT. GALWAY, son of the late General Sir William
Payne Galway, Bart., and cousin of Earl Dunraven, was
married on Wednesday, to the daughter of Archdeacon
Warburton, of Rathkeale Glebe, county Limerick.
DEPARTURE OF CHEVALIER BUNSEN.—His Excellency
only awaits the arrival of Count Bernstorff from Naples to
leave England for Germany, and the valuable objects of
art collected by Chevalier Bunsen at Rome and other
cities in which his diplomatic life has been spent are now
on private sale at the Prussian Legation.
TILE BIRTHDAY of her Royal Highness the Princess
Helena Augusta Victoria was on Thursday last, when the
youthful Princess attained her eighth year, having been
born on the 25th of May, 1846.
SCOTCH AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.—The Scotsman
says that a vote of £6OOO is to be proposed by govern-
ment for the obtaining of a complete system of agricul-
tural statistics in Scotland, to be carried out through the
medium of the Highland Society.
SUBMARINE. —The first portion of an electric cable,
destined to be laid down across the Mediterranean, the
longest and largest at present existing, has just been com-
pleted by Mr. Breet, the projector of the undertaking. It
is about 110 miles in length, and weighs 800 tons. The
moment it is laid, London will be in immediate communi-
cation with Cagliari.
A DR,PAYERNE has discovered a means of " submarine
navigatft." By some process, it is stated, he can supply
sufficient air to a crew of fourteen to enable them to
remain under water four hours. At Marseilles, Dr.
Payerne ant iree sailors recently went to the bottom,
and rising again at a considerable distance, climbed into
the port-holes of a man-of-war without being perceived
by the crew,
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT BELFAST.—On Friday morning
a fire broke out in the spinning-mill of Messrs. Duffin and
Co., Belfast, which completely destroyed the interior of
the building and its contents. The loss is estimated at
from £B,OOO to £lO,OOO.
THE NIAGARA, British and North American mail steam
ship, Captain Leitch, sailed on Saturday hence for Halifax
and Boston, with a full cargo and 150 passengers.
MARRIAGE.—The Earl of Durham and Lady Beatrice
Hamilton, second daughter of the Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Abercorn, and niece to the Duke of Bedford
and Lord John Russell, were married on Tuesday, at St.
George's, Hanover-square, by the Rev. Lord Wriothesly
Russell, in the presence of the Duke and Duchess of
Bedford, the Duke and Duchess of Hamilton, Lord and
Lady John Russell, Lord and Lady Ribblesdale, Lord
Aberdeen, &c.
RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION IN SWEDEN. Eight per-
verts to the Romish Church have been found guilty by
the Stockholm Consistory of having "renounced the pure
evangelical doctrine," and given over, in virtue of the
ordinance of January 21, 1781, to the civil tribunal, by
which their accuser demands that they shall, in confor-
mity with the ecclesiastical law of 1686, be condemned to
be banished from the Swedish realm, and to lose their
right of inheritance and all other civil privileges. Several
Protestant Dissenters in Dalecarlia have likewise been
sentenced lately, under the conventicle placard, to a fine
of 200 rix-dollars, or fifteen days' confinement on bread
and water.

VICE -ADMIRAL HYDE PARKER, SENIOR NAVAL
LORD OF TUE ADMIRALTY, died at his residence, Ham, on
Thursday evening. He was first Naval Lord of the
Admiralty under the Duke of Northumberland, in Lord
Derby's administration, and still retained his seat at the
Board under Sir James Graham, on Lord Aberdeen's ad-
vent to office. By his death, Capt. Michael Seymour,
Superintendent of Devonport-yard, a Capt. of the fleet
under Sir C. Napier, in the Baltic, gains his flag rank.
CARDINAL LAMDRUSCIIINI died at Rome on the 11th
instant. He was a Cardinal of the Order of the Bishops,
Subdeacon of the Sacred College, and Bishop of Porta
S. Rufina and Civita Vecchia. He was one of the oldest
of the cardinals, having been born in 1776. He was
created a cardinal in 1831, by the late Pope Gregory XVI.,
under whose pontificate he filled the office of Secretary
of State.
WHOLESALE ROBBBRY BY A SHOPMAN.—On Wednes-
day, at the Leeds Court House, William Wood, a man of
middle age, was brought up charged with stealing 140
pairs of boots and shoes, boot fronts, linings, and other
articles, the property of his employer, Mr. Paley, shoe-
maker, Briggate and Commercial-street. The prisoner,
who, some years ago, was a master tradesman of Wake-
field, had been in the service of the prosecutor about
seventeen months as shopman. Daring nearly the whole
of this period it would appear from the evidence that he
had been carrying on an extensive system of thieving up
to Friday week, when he was taken into custody. On that
day he went to the pawn shop of Mr. Rawlinson, and of-
fered two pairs of women's cloth boots in pledge, but as
Mr. Rawlinson had seen him in Mr. Paley's shop and was
somewhat suspicious, he told him to call in the evening,
and in the meantime he (Mr. Rawlinson) called upon Mr.
Paley, who called at Mr. Rawlinson's, when he was shown
the boots, as well as some others, together with some
French lasting, and other articles, which he at once iden-
tified as his property On subsequent inquiry it tran-
spired that the prisoner (upon wham was found about 40
pawn tickets) had pledged boots, shoes, and fronts, at al-
most every pawnbroker's shop in Leeds, since March,
1853, under different names. From the various pawn-
brokers not fewer than 144 pairs of boots and shoes which
he had pledged were recovered. The prisoner, who said
nothing in his own defence, was committed for trial.—
Leeds Intelliyenecr.

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