The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-06-06 00:00:00

LORD RAGLAN on arriving in Turkey intimated his
wish that the troops should shave.
THE LUsITANIA, South American and General Steam
THE Chinese Testament Fund in this country now Navigation Company's steamer, sailed on Thursday for
amounts to £lOO,OOO. Lisbon, Madeira, Rio, and the River Plate, with a full
THE MinagrestAN on board the Tiger, who lost both cargo, 40 passengers and some specie.
his legs in resisting the capture of the Russians, is the son i bas
iu n s sact ,urer,
of the Recorder of Newcastle. ARTON. a highly respectable lace manufacturer,
of at Basford, near Nottingham, hung himself on
Pouru.srTs- of Sir C. Napier are to be seen in all the Tuesday afternoon, in his counting-house.
print-shops in Paris. The galhnt admiral is quite a THE FRENCH
GOVERNMENT JousreaL, the Patrie cites
favourite with our neighbours. the Moniteur de 1'
certainly give greatArmes
pnf or a gratifying fact which will
Mr. ROBERT GREY, formerly a mason employed at
Messrs. Swinburne's glass works, South Shields, has re-leas
British
re
itioattihoenaßl British nation.ood save It is
ordered that the two
b ,
Queen " and "Rule Britannia, shall form part of the
turned to that town with his wife and family from Mel.
collection of piecesplayed
bourne, on a visit to his friends, having made a competency.
the"military bands.
One inn alone in Melbourne is said to bring him a thousand mu. RouEur LA 3
pool, had an leorsts. and Mr. B. J. Thomson, of .
interview with the Right Hon. E. Cardwell,
GREEN FOOD FOR TEE METROPOLIS.—A farmer of ion Thursday, at the Board of
Portsmouth received an order, last week, to send to London , Merchant Shipping Bill. Trade, on the subject of the
by train 1,300 dozen, or 15,600 cabbages. The order was LUNATIC ASYLUMS.—A circular, issued b: the
chair-
executed in a few hours. man of a deputation of the visiting committee of the -
PROSECUTIONS. AT ASSIKES.—Among the sums to be caster, Prestwich, and Rainhill Lunatic Asylums, in ti
voted for the current year is £250,000 for prosecutions at mates that, iu consequence of the high price of provisions,
n ,
assizes and quarter sessions, formerly paid from the county the future charge will be Bs. 2d a-week for each i
nmate,
rates. This is an increase of £lO,OOO in the preceding year. instead of 7s. 6d.
GOVERNMENT PRINTING AND STATIONERY.—No IeSS THE "LITERARY DOG," famed for his attachment to
than £255,560 is required for the stationery.—Last year the precincts of the newspaper-offices in this town, and
the vote was only £216,420, showing an increase on the whose forlorn appearance was touchingly described some
present year of £39,140. • time since, is not, we learn, really in distressed circum-
Matinee. Racism, the celebrated French tragedienne, 'stances, but " fares sumptuously every day " with another
although but a few months have elapsed since she started canine bon Vivant, at Radley's Restaurant.
for the frigid zone, has brought back from Russia 800,000 AN ELGIN TRADESMAN is reported to have invented a
francs—£32,ooo 'sterling—to Paris, and her brother has very destructive instrument. He calls it a " longitudinal
brought back some £16,000. This enormous sum is the projectile ;"it is four feet in length, may be fired from a
result of a few weeks' earnings. cannon, and will " hit to a hair " any object at a distance
MEMORIAL TO TUE LATE MR. JUSTICE TALFOURD.— of five miles; on being shot from a cannon it expands like
A committee appointed by the Oxford Circuit to determine an umbrella, explodes the moment it alights, and causes
the most desirable form in which to erect a memorial to instant annihilation to every material for many yards •
the late Mr. Justice Talfourd, have recommended the around.
erection of a monument, with a bust of the deceased, in THE LATE MURDER IN DEVON.—The man who corn-
St. Mary's Church, at Stafford.—Worcester Chronicle. mitted the murderous outrage on the young woman
Arnora,—THE MOORS.—We regret to say the tape named Richards, near Torrington, in North Devon, was
worm disease has appeared among the grouse in our higher brought up before Sir Trevor Wheeler and a bench of
moors—possibly from excessive drought. Hitherto there justices, at that town on Saturday week.—The evidence of
have been few deaths ; but we learn its ravages are great various witnesses was taken at much length. The prisoner
in Glenesk and other Forfarshire moors. Singular to say, was again remanded for a few days to ascertain the ter-
a muirfowl's nest with 15 eggs was found besides the mination of the frightful injuries inflicted on the young
sheep fold at Edendon Lodge ; in the opinion of the shep- woman, who had scarcely any chance of surviving. The
herds, it is in the "joint occupancy" of two hens, as the , prisoner was on Monday committed for trial at the assizes
female grouse has rarely more than 9 or 10 eggs. on a charge of highway robbery, and wounding with intent
SINGULAR ROBBERY.—The silver custodia, inlaid with to murder. On Tuesday morning, Harvey was removed
jewels, together with a mace of the same metal, and other to the county goal, Exeter. The girl, who had been
silver articles belonging to the corporation of Madrid, gradually sinking under beanumerous injuries for thelast
' have been stolen in a most unaccountable manner. The four or five days, expired the same day.
total value was upwards of £lO,OOO. COTTON CULTIVATION IN INDIA.—Mr. Blundell, .a'
DEATH ON MOUNT VESUVIUS.—A letter from Naples gentleman resident in India, has forwarded to Mr. Bailey,
states that, on the 14th ult., M. J. Delius, of Bremen, I -
'of . Y'
president of the Manchester chamber commerce, four
having a;cended Mount Vesuvius with a party of his samples of cotton produced in Assam, obtained by him
countrymen, went too near the edge of the crater, and, at one of the
the ground giving way under him, he fell into the abyss. horticultural societv of .Calcutta. No. I. Dens Kupas
His groans were heard from the bottom, but when some indigenous cotton, with seed in it, grown in Debrooghur;
persons descended by means of ropes he was dead. No. 2. Jaloha Kupas indigenous cotton, with seed in it,
THE TURIN AND SUSA RAILWAY, running from the grown in Debrooghur; B No. 2. Sea Island cotton,
southern side of Mount Cenis to the capital of Piedmont, gathered in Debrooghur, in December, 1853 ; B No. 2.
was opened with great eclat on the 22nd ult., in the pre- Gotton grown from .American Gulf seed, gathered in
sence of the King and Queen of Sardinia, and the Duke Debrooglitir, in December, 1853. B No. 1 and No. 2 are
and Duchess of Genoa. It has been constructed by an both grown from United States seed. The B No. lis I
English firm, the Messrs. Brassey, Jackson, and Henfrey.
,said to preserve all the characteristics of Sea Island cot-
RELIGIOUS TROUBLES IN BADEN.—Riots have taken ton, though grown so far inland as Upper Assam; the B
place at Brezingen. News from Freiburg states that the No. 2is considered a valuable cotton, and both are held
archbishop is under close arrest and confined to his apart- sufficient to prove that even excellent cotton can be grown
meats. The people had to be dispersed by the military. in India. The indigenous cotton is poor. Mr. Blundell
The clergy have interdicted the use of church bells ; they recommends that a supply of good fresh Sea Island seed
no longer celebrate high mass, nor chaunt, nor permit be obtained from South Carolina and Georgia, and sent
music in the churches. The local authorities interfered to Debrooghur, properly packed, and upon this recom-
about the bells, and ordered them to be used as usual, and mendition the chamber intends to act. directly, including
on this point the clergy have submitted. also seeds of other American cottons, the upland, the New
A Glasgow paper gives a sketch of the travels of a one Orleans, &c. • also of Egyptian and of the Brazil descrip-
pound bank-note, whichaleaving that town in November, tion. The :Brazil, Mr. Blundell thinks, might answer
1850, travelled to Edinburgh, Carlisle, Airdrie, Paris, well—the same length of staple might be preserved, and
Rome, Philadelphia, thence back again to Glasgow, and the fibre made finer and less wiry, by the soil and climate,
thence to Stirling, were it was on the 15th ult. Another suggestion which he makes is, that as land in
PRICES AT THE DIGGINGS.—We learn by letters from India pays a tax to the government, it might be advisable,
Australia that throughout the worked valleys there are should the business of growing cotton at Debrooghur be
"streets of stores and refreshment shops ; the wants of taken up by the Manchester interests, to solicit the court
the diggers are fully supplied;" but water costs ls. a of directors to forego any rent of the land for the first ten
bucket. " Prices, "it is stated, " are very reasonable for or twelve years.
every thing except water. Spirits are sold at ls. a nobbler, BENDING SHIP TIMBER.—In noticing a new machine
and bottled ale and porter at ss. a bottle." for bending ship timber, the New York Tribune says,
DREADFUL SCENE IN A POLICE COURT.—Daring the " All the immense labour hitherto spent in rounding tim-
progress of the business before the county magistrates at ber to suit ships, and houses, and machines, and furniture,
Rochester, on Wednesday, a woman named Harvey, of al- and whatever other things requiring timber so curved, is
most gigantic stature, and who had been frequently before now to be dispensed with by machines which can take the
the magistrates to complain of ill-usage on the part of her stateliest and straightest oak and bend it like a Titan-bow.
husband, was once more complaining to the sitting ma- for the use of the proudest man-of-war, or the loftiest
gistrate her husband at the time standing by her side. cathedral, and this, too, adding strength and durability to
While the woman was making her statement the husband the wood. The first experiment has just been made on
was observed to turn ghastly pale, and, swaying forward, timbers 16 feet in length, 8 inches by 10, bent to as short
appeared to fall lifeless against the table. Several of the a curve as can be used in shipbuilding. This machine is
bystanders immediately hastened to his assistance and a large one, designed for ship timber, but there is another
caught him in their arms, when in a moment they were also ready for furniture, and both have just commenced
nearly covered with blood, which poured like a torrent operations. The place of action is Green-point, where there
from the man's mouth, owing to the sudden bursting of a is a large foundry for making the machines, and large
bloodvessel near the region of the heart. He was ins- steam-vessels for steaming the timber, with other require-
mediately conveyed, apparently dead, into the open air. mesas included in the process. Henceforward all the deli-
While the means for his recovery were being used the cate curves of steamers, frigates, or yachts will be of solid
brutal monster of a wife looked on with the utmost indif- timber, fashioned by this extraordinary invention. So,
ference, never once lending any assistance to those too, all the curvilinear beauties of furniture may be
benevolent persons tending her husband, and indeed for a detailed by the same means. The statistics of the value
long time would not believe that he was not feigning ill- of such a discovery are vast beyond conception of the
ness. The instant lie was removed from the court, and uninitiated. All the immense shipping and building
before any signs of consciousness were discernable, the wo- interests of the civilised world are included in this
man actually had the audacity to return into court and discovery."
renew her complaint against what was then thought to be n
...ARRATRY.—JONES V. NICHOLSON.—ThiS was a special
her dead husband. No hopes whatever are given of the case submitted for the opinion of the court of exchequer,
man's recovery.—South-Eastern Gazette. under the order of Mr. Baron Parke, and which came
ALTERATIONS IN.THE FRENCH TARIFF.—The London before the court on Wednesday for argument. The
Gazette of Tuesday contains notifications by the Board of action had been brought by an underwriter of Liverpool.
Trade of several decrees issued by the French Emperor, against the defendant, who is a merchant in this town,
with the objection of removing obstructions to commerce to recover a sum of money paid by him under a policy of
between the two countries. By a decree dated May 10th insurance. The defendant had shipped certain goods in
the article of the ordinance of Feb. 8, 1826, prohibiting the ship Helena, and insured them, and the policy con-
the importation for consumption in France of merchandise tabled a clause that the underwriter should be responsible
the produce of Asia, Africa, and America, laden in English " for losses by barratry of the master, and other losses of
entrepals and also the importation, under the British flag, the same nature.. " The master of the Helena, who was
of European produce, except from ports of the United also a part owner, in the course of his voyage sold these
Kingdom, or of her possessions in Europe are entirely goods improperly, whereby they became lost to the defend- i
abolished ; and, in the words of the minister's report on ant, and the plaintiff; having been called on to pay
which the decree proceeds, "the maritime and commercial the amount of his risk, did so on an understanding that
relations of France with England arc placed on the foot- he should bring an action, and that if the act of the
ing of common right." By another decree, notified in the matter should not be found to be barratrons, lie should
same manner; the duties imposed by the decree of March recover. It was afterwards considered more satisfactory
5, 1852, on wood imported under the French flag from the that a special case should be stated, and that if the court
Australian and Cape colonies are superseded, and a duty should be of opinion that there was no barratry, the vets
according to weight, calculated at the rate of 10 per cent. diet should pass for the plaintiff; but if barratry had been
on the value of Australian wools in French ports, is committed, a nonsuit should be entered. The court were
established in their stead. unanimously of opinion that the act of the master was,
THE COASTING TRADE.—The Lords of the Committee according to English law, an act of barratry. They
therefore
of Privy Council for Trade have desired the Commissioners gave judgment for the defendant.
-
of Customs to give instructions to the proper officers that, ABDUCTION.—John Atkinson, organist of Appleby
for the future, in the monthly accounts of vessels employed Church, a man about 28 years of age, was brought before
in the coasting trade of the United Kingdom, under the the sitting magistrates at the Court-houses, Carlisle, on
respective heads of " Employed in the intercourse between Saturday, charged with having carried off from a boarding
Great Britain and Ireland," and "Other Coasting Vessels," school at Appleby to Gretna-green, a Misa Ann Jane
British and foreign vessel's may be separately specified. Ward, the daughter of Mr. Ward, a gentleman of highly
This distinction is to be given monthly ; but an account respectable connexions, residing in the neighbourhood of
is also, in the first instance, to be rendered to the Board of Windermere. The circumstances are as follows :—Atkin-
Trade, with the same particulars, from the date when the son was engaged to teach the young lady music at Miss
act opening the coasting trade of the United Kingdom to Bishop's boarding-school at Appleby, Westmoreland. It
foreign vessels came into operation. In pursuance of these appears that about two months ago Miss Bishop observed
directions from the Lords of the Council for Trade, the a little familiarity between bins and Miss Ward, in conse-
commissioners have issued instructions to the collectors quence of which she forbade him the school. Shortly
and comptrollers of the Customs throughout the kingdom afterwards she discovered that lie had received a locket
forthwith to transmit to the Registrar-General of Shipping from Miss Ward. She wrote to him desiring that it
a return of foreign vessels which have been entered or should be returned, and informing him that the young
cleared coastwise, between the passing of the act 17 Vic., lady was only 13 years of age, at the same time comment-
cap. 5, and the sth inst. ing in strong terms upon the impropriety of his conduct.
The locket was returned by Atkinson. On Wednesday
NEWSPAPER WRITING.—Though everybody affects se-
last the scholars had
crest', it is • a secret known to all the town, that almost
from which place they returned late at night, when the
every competent man in political life has, now and then,
used the newspaper press, the most powerful engine there governess saw . Miss Ward to bed. About 4 o'clock 'next
morning Miss Bishop awoke, and, fancying she heard a
is for acting upon opinion. An acquaintance of ours, call- .
ing one of the Bishops, had to wait beside him until
on noise below, went down stairs.
stai She found the outer door
he finished a leader for a daily paper. Several political °Pen, but,omitted lock •
thinking she had toit on the pre-
chiefs affect little secrecy respecting the fact of their con-took furthernotice of the matter, and
vions night, no
'
retired to rest. NI• hen she arose at the usual hour she
trihuting to newspapers, though they, of course, do not
wish to be identified with all their contributions.missed Miss Ward. The alarm instantly•
s You
in.
was given, and
persons immediately despatched pursuit. A young man
may think it very easy to write an article for a news-
Pe
named John Brass lead been employed by Atkinson topro-
cure..
Paper," said
" a Cabinet Minister, at a public dinner, re-
a conveyance, in which lie and the young lady,
cently, "but try it." In truth, to write a good leader on
an occurrence of the hour, acute and ready in its araccompanied by Brass, set out for Penrith, and upon their
hired gig, and they arrival at that place Atkinson a
silents, and humorous or forcible in its illustrations, with
forward to Carlisle,where they
arrived between 5 and 6
the brief statements of facts, and the skilful management
o'clock in the morning. At Carlisle they again changed
of personalities. which it demands, in reference both to .and in their conveyance, and in another hour had crossed the
the newspaper and its party, is•one of the most difficult of
all kinds of composition. The political pamphlet is aand weremarried by John :Hurray, at Sark Bar,
all were
Gretna. Here the marriage appears to have been constun-
series of leaders strung together, according to a unity of
•o'clock by rail.
its own. Nobody need to be told that, perhaps the most mated. They returned to Carlisle about 1
As soon as upon the platform, Mr. Sabbage,
piquant and powerful, certainly the most successful, of
they stepped
been
lished pamphlets of late years, was the pamphlet pub- superintendent of police, to whom information had been
lished by Mr. Bulwer, when the death of the late Earl forwarded, took all the three into custody. Atkinson
Spencer occasioned an intrigue which ousted a Ministry in denied the young lady's name, but Brass admitted that he
a day.—Westminster Review. had been employed to drive the party. The proper routine
having been gone through, Atkinson was remanded till
THE AFRICAN EXPLORING EXPEDITION.—Mr. Mac- Saturday, when he was fully committed to take his trial
gregor Laird bears the whole expense of the expedition, for abduction at the next Westmoreland assizes. Mr. Sab-
receiving a certain fixed sum for the conveyance of the bage lodged him in Appleby gaol the same night. The
three gentlemen appointed by the government to explore young lady is only 12 years old, having been born on the
the Chadda ; namely, Captain &croft, H.M.'s consul at 6th of April, 1842. She is tall and stout for that age.
Fernando Po ; Dr. William Balfour Baikie, R.N., an ex- Both Atkinson and she say they were legally married, and
perienced naturalist, who has been engaged in the survey are determined to have each other.
of the Greek Archipelago, under Captain Graves; and Dr.
ENGLISH SKYLARKS IN AUSTRALIA.—Among the
William Bleek, Bleek, ethnographer, and author of several
tengers taken on board the P. Van Marnix, Dutch snip,
memoirs on African languages. These gentlemen go oust
of while lying at Gravesend, were 12 English skylarks. Of
as passengers, and, protected by the trading
natives,character
these, one died in the Channel, but another flew on board,
the ship from the suspicion or hostility of the
observations on and was caught while the ship was skirting the Bay of
make their surveys of the river and their
productions. The Biscay, again making up the dozen ; but this one soon
the geography of the country and its .
gagged died fromexhaustion. The remaining eleven crossed the
in the steamer will not exc . .
number of Europeans line and bean first to sing in lat. 16 S., singing best in
thirteen, and those all men of .
education and resources.
boisterous rounded the Cape safe all the way to
d the boat's crew will be negroes ; weather;
The steamer's crew an the Isle of St. Paul, where one died, and two more off the
to
the total number employed being from eightyei ninety
coast of Australia; leaving eight, which entered the
men. The boats to be towed up by the pl ad, through
Heads. Upon the New Land, another died (which 'had
the swampy country below Eboe, and employed afterwards
been some time sickly), leaving seven surviving out of the
in the upper part of the river, are three in number, one
dozen, which
seven were let loose, all brisk and well, on
belonging to Her Majesty, called the Victoria, 70 feet
long by 12 feet beam, and two.. belonging to Mr.the B bool hills, surrounding Pollock's-lord ' vineyard.
Laird, When
arra
When the door of the cage was opened, the merry
each 50 feet by 8. The expedition is to be at the mouth
of the Kowara on the Ist of July, and to ascend it with n tens fl
eon
otlllbeen flew off well together in a covey—better than '
lave expected after their long confinement.
twenty
con uement.
twenty or thirty days' coal (twelve hours per day), which,
,c_.. e
nired very great attention during the voyage.
it is supposed, will be sufficient to carry her to the head The y req
of the navigable waters of the Chadda without the delayinteresting to watch their •
It may be
new country.—Galway Advertiser.
of cutting wood. From the Ist of July seventy-five days'
rising waters are calculated wpon by Mr. Laird. It re- RUSSIAN FORCER IN THE FIELD.—One of the preten-
mains to be seen whether this, the fifth ascent of the sions of Russia is to possess an effective military force of
Niger, will be more successful than the previous ones. at least 800,000 men, and which, acceording to some
This Much is certain. that no previous expedition has official returns, would even reach the figure of 1,200,000
started under such auspicious aspects as the Present The men. It can easily be conceived with what idea the Rus-
experience gained in the last twenty-three years, combined siau Government puts into circulation such figures. But
with all the appliances of improved steam navigation and if history be considered, it will be at once seen that this
shipbuilding of the day, are at once brought to bear on force never existed except on paper. At the period when
this, for African discovery, civilisation and trade, so Russia was attacked on her own territory, when her
important an enterprize, which further has the advantage nationalty was at stake in 1812, she had scarcely 200,000
of the results of Dr. Barth's and Dr. Overweg's recent men on foot. In 1813, she had great difficulty in sending
discoveries in that part of the interior of the continent 150,000 men into Germany, and in 1815, all the Russian
which is ahead of the expedition. Nor does it bear that troops that had passed the Rhine, concentrated at the
uncertain or rather indefinite character iu point of time as, Vertus, only gave 120,000 men .-1 In her enterprises
for example, the Arctic expeditions, for it is limited to abroad she has never disposed of more than 150,0(X) inen.
one season, or about seven months in all, so that it may That is about the number, we believe, of the army charged
be expected to return to England by next Christmas. it to act in Turkey, and to meet events on the shores of the
is hoped that the expedition will fall in with both Dr. Black Sea ; ouu as Russia is obliged to defend herself
Barth and Dr. Vogel. The former, according to his con- beyond the Caucasus and on the Baltic, at the same time
munications from Thnbuctoo, of October last, had deter- that bile, is obliged to augment her forces in Poland, we
mined to commence his return to Europe by way of Sakatu doubt that tne army of the Danube can easily repair its
and Bornu ; fortunately so, inasmuch as he was not awaro losses. Let no one, consequently, be deceived by the elle-
of the succour sent to him under Dr. Vogel nor the Chadda aggerations of a government which is colossal only in
tl
expedition, and might have chosen another route. Fur- extent of its territory, and which is.account
on that very
ther news from both travellers may I
•)e expected with obliged to scatter its forces on various points to resist
every mail.—Athense► m. rivers who dispose of the sea.—ConBtituttonnel,

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