The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-04-11 00:00:00

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

By the screw-steamer Sydney, which arrived on Sunday,
at Plymouth, we have intelligence from the Cape to the
7th of February. The ordinary date of departure for the
mail-packet is about the 24th, but, as she has been de-
tained by defects in her machinery, it is probable that the
Hydaspes will bring intelligence to a later date. She left
Mauritius on the 7th of February, and at Table Bay
would have to fit a screw, weighing five or six tons, taken
out for her by the Indiana. The Hydaspes has been
hourly expected for the last ten days, and the Meander,
44, will shortly arrive at Plymouth from the Cape station.

SIR FITZROY KELLY has addressed the House of Lords
for five days in an appeal case. Lord Brougham said he
recollected a case in which a counsel had taken eighteen
days in his statement and arguments.
EMANCIPATION OF THE JEWS IN TURKEY.—We are
authorised to state that Lord Clarendon has intimated to
one of our most distinguished co-religionists, that the
privileges to be obtained for the Christians in Turkey
will be extended to the Jewish subjects of the Porte.—
Jewish Chronicle.
EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF ADDUCTION.—Jas. Water-
house, twenty-two years of age, a married man, with one
child, has been committed for trial, at Huddersfield, for
the abduction of a girl under the age of sixteen. The
prisoner's wife, a young and beautiful-looking woman,
about the same age, was in court during the hearing of
"the case before the magistrates, and watched with intense
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Interest the proceedings.

SEIZURE OF RUSSIAN WAR-STEAMERS.—Some twelve
months since, a contract was entered into between the Rus-
sian Consul General and Mr. Pitcher, for the building of
two wooden screw-steam frigates. The work went on, and
certain moneys were paid on the contract. About two
moths ago the Government communicated with Mr.
Pitcher, recommending the discontinuing of the building
of the ships. Attempts were then made, as we are informed,
to either sell or transfer them to a neutral Power. In the
meanwhile the work proceeded ; one ship was so far com-
pleted as to be ready for launching, and the other was in
a forward state. The facts were submitted to the law
officers of the Crown, and after a careful inquiry and con-
sideration of the whole case, the government, on Tuesday,
sent down orders for the seizure of the two ships, and in
pursuance of that direction, Mr. Scanlin, of the Custom
House, took possession of the frigates in Northfleet-yard,
and placed officers on board of them, who continue in
charge. The machinery for them, of the value of £30,000,
was also seized by the customs authorities. The vessels
are of 1,300 tons, and pierced to carry 28 guns. They are
not named, but the one ready for launching bears the
figurehead of the Czar. We are assured that the Ad-
miralty did not entertain any negotiations for the purchase
of the steamers.—Shipping and Mercantile Gazette.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS-TUESDAY, APRIL

The Bills of Exchange Bill was read a second time on
the motion of Lord BROUGHAM, a-nd ordered to be re-
ferred to the select committee on the Common Law Pro-
cedure Bill.

The Chimney-sweepers Bill was ordered to be referred to
a select committee, on. the motion of Lord SHAFTESBURY.
Certain returns as to the wives and children of soldiers
serving in the East were ordered, on the motion of Lord
ST. LEONARDS, after some discussion, in which the Duke
of NEWCASTLE, Lord DERBY, and other lords took part.
Their lordships adjourned at twenty minutes to seven
o'clock.