The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-01 00:00:00

FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

THERE are in Cincinnati one hundred and seventy.five
persons and companies that pay an annual tax of between
five and te❑ thousand dollars.

THE United States mail-stamer, the Baltic, took to
Europe, on her last voyage from New York, 30,834 letters
and 18,000 newspapers.
ABD-EL'ICAD'ER.—A letter from Brouasa states that the
health of Abd-el-Kader is good. Ile lives in the greatest
retirement, spending all his time in reading and prayer.
It is said that he has commenced writing a religious work,
to be called " Meditations on:the Koran."

SPIRIT RA PPINGS.—In the Ohio Lunatic Asylum
there are at present confined twenty-six victims of the
" spirit rappings" delusion, the number being equally
divided between males and females.

Louis NAPOLEON has purchased for the Empress the
splendid piano of Erard, which attracted such attention at
the London ExhibitiOn. The price is stated to have been
40,000 f.

THE EMIGR TION constantly going on from New York
to California is hardly less than that from Great Britain
to Australia. On Saturday, the 5M ultimo, 2,037 pas-
sengers left New York for California.

THE Montreal True Witness,( Roman Catholic), in a
selected article on the threatened invasion of Great Bri-
tain by Louis Napoleon, makes use of the following loyal
language :—" Great Britain is the main-stay of the ene-
mies of God and Christ ; she is drunk with the blood of
martyrs, and, in the approaching contest, the powers of
two hundred millions of Catholics throughout the world
will daily and hourly ascend for her defeat."

RAILWAY. FROM NEW YORK- TO SAN FRANCISCO.—
An experienced writer, in the New York Tribune, says
" I am prepared to say, there is no obstacle in the way of
constructing a double truck railroad from New York to
Nisqually, Astoria, or San Francisco. The country from
Independence, Mo., to either of these places, is no
rougher than it is from New Yorleto Dunkirk."
INTERESTING FAMILY FRund—The Louisville Jour-
nal states that the trial of the parties surviving the last
fray in Garrard county, Kentucky., between the Hills and
the Evanses, has resulted in their acquittal. The different
clans, with the exception of the Murphys and the Mays,
have signed a formal treaty of peace. By the various
battles, assassinations, sieges, Ste., among the parties,
eight men and boys have been killed, several crippled Ind
maimed for life, and forty-eight children left fatherless.
The quarrel commenced about the year 1822.

STRANGE AND FEARFUL DEATR.—Tsvo young men
of the village of Brandee, in France, lately perished in a
very, singular manner. They went out to shote wild
ducks. In order to arrive at the marshy ground which
the birds frequented, they determined to proceed down to
the venal in a boat, and then crossing over to the other
side, to walk the rest of their way. The waters being
unusually high, in consequence of the rains, the young
men found that they could scarcely pass under the arch
in their boat. They thought, it is supposed, that by
lying down in the boat they could pass. It so happened
that the water was higher than they anticipated, so-that
when the boat got under. the arch it stuck fast, thus in-
closing the young men completely, without their having
may means to extricate •themselves. They were found two
days after dead in the boat, and clasped in each.other's
arms.

A HORRIBLE TRAOEDT took place a few clays ago in
the little village of Cauret, department of the Cruse. A.
young man named Dagu.et, son of a wealthy farmer, sud-
denly rushed on his. mother-in-law as she spas peeling
potatoes, and struck, her on the back of the head with a
hatchet until the stall was completely beaten in, and she
fell dead. Shortly. after the murderer's father entered,
and he discharged.his. gun at him. Although it was only
charged with powder, the commotion it occasioned caused
the old man to fall. He then loaded his gun, and as his
sister entered at the moment, discharged it at her. She
was wounded in. the hand and shoulder. He then knocked
her down, ancl,beat her on the head withthe hatchet until
she was dead.. He nest dispatched his father in the same
way. He did not attempt to fly, and calmly said to one
of his relatives. who came in, " All is over—take up the
bodies! You may do with me what you mean
neither to fly nor to do any harm to you or to myself V'
He was arrested, and lodged in the gaol of Gueret. As
no motive for these crimes is known, it is supposed that
the murderer had become suddenly insane.

YOU'IIIIEUL CRIME IN Amcaica.—A Fitchburg cor-
respondent of the B08:012 Traveller states that four boys
have been arrested in that city for store-breaking and
larceny. They had regularly prepared themselves for
thieving, and fitted up a small room in a barn adjoining
the house of one of them as a receptacle for stolen goods.
On examining this room a large number of articles, which
was ascertained to have been stolen, were discovered. A
book was found, in which was a long list of houses and
stores that had been entered, and an account of all the
articles taken. A ledger was also found, in which each
boy had an account, and was credited on one side with
the amount he stole, and on the other side was charged
with the amount he received of the stolen property. A
large quantity of tools, taken from different workshops in
town, were also found. The boys had regular signals,
and have been in the habit of attending public meetings
and creating disturbances. Two. of the offenders were
sentenced to the State Reform School during their
minority, and the other two were fined ten dollars each
and costs. All the boys belonged to respectable families,
and had enjoyed, as is believed, excellent home privi-
leges and instruction. The oldest was but 16 years of
age, and the youngest 13. One of the lads was the son of
a widow, whose heart is almost broken by the wickedness
and disgrace of her child.
DANES AT THE DroolNos.—The following letter from
Jens. Peter Neilsen, a saddler, late of Aalborg, in Jutland,
but now of Sydney, New South Wales, to his brother, 0.
C. Neilsen, a baker at Aalborg, is extensively published
by the Danish papers :—" Sydney, Sept. 11th, 1852. I
am now in Australia. After working 10 months in Lon-
don, and clearing half a hundred pounds, I resolved to
try my luck in Australia. I sailed from Liverpool, and
the passage cost me £3O. There were two more Danes
on board, who also intended to dig gold, and we agreed
in all and everything to enter into a partnership * *
We have now been above three months at work, and have
cone, ted 443 ounces of gold, in pieces, of from one to six
ounces, and we have moreover 134 ounces of gold dust.
DAatntishhismpirleessednisttamnoeme efrnotmwtehiaeremiinnesS,yidnnoeryciewrhtiochs;l2e
our gold, which is placed in a bank at our disposition.
You can have no idea where, and in what manner the gold
is found here; the more we go about it, the richer are the
treasures we find. In a few days we shall again go out to
the mines. * * We live here chiefly on game, which
I provide for our kitchen, for you know that I am a good