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

FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

A MAN one hundred and four years of age was nu
prisoned in Cincinnati a few days since, for stealing. t
AN AMERICAN GENTLEMAN recently built a yacht ab
Canton after the fashion of the far-famed America, lete„
appeared at the Macao regatta on the 2-nd of December-
TEE YELLOW FEVER.—The Highflyer, lately arrier,
from Bermuda, has lost four officers and four men on ta_Y,
station, and her Majesty's ship Calypso has since lo!
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, eve"
the black pilot who navigated her into Jamaica.
COTTON IN CAYENNE. Cotton is raised in Varia3
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,,,
lbs. It is cultivated in similar tracts with the vocon, att
in many instances upon the same estates. It iurnishece
two crops annually, and with care can be made to proda,,
for ten years in succession. The average production l;
from 4to 500 lb. to the acre. The process of prepel
it-for market is, as you are probably aware, very sitePA
and inexpensive, and it is therefore principally cultivate"
in Cayenne by proprietors of small means.
A PLEASANT LAND.—It is a remarkable fact that Car
enne is entirely free from many of those unpleasant eleq
tric phenomena, which are associated with the idea 11;
tropic climes. Not only has no pestilence ever been able
to withstand there the onset of the pure ocean•breezee
but severe squalls, hurricanes, thunder and lightning a!:
unfeared because unknown. Neither has the earthquake
even left a print of devastation upon its surface. fra
Archibald Alison in his history of Europe treats it= tla'. -
freely to the epithets, pestiferous and pestilentivi
Mitchell informs us that the deportation to Cayenne of
deputies obnoxious to the ruling party during the revoltv
tion, was inflicted as equivalent to a sentence of death.
CONDITION^ OF ROME. Miss Grace Greenwood_,,,
American authoress, writing from Rome, says :—"
soldiers and priests Rome actually swarms. You.- Inn
eC
everywhere dark, sinister-looking Jesuits, in their sombre
robes, moving about by twos, at a peculiar, stealth!:
prowling gait—walking presentments of the very blackness
of spiritual darkness ; stupid, vulgar-looking Franciscan;
in coarse gowns of brown cloth, ropegirted ; bare foot,:'
shaven begging.friars, sometimes leading asses laden Wl'.
the pious offerings off ''
the faithful—the more asses- they
handsome young, abbes, who contrive in some inezplicant:
way to give a- dandical touch to their ugly, unmanly
costume, and who are seldom too much wrapt in heavelil,lo
contemplation to cast searching and insinuating Klel:),
at the young and comely women they chance to meet.
PUBLIC NURSCRIES IN PARIS.--An
institution is about to be formed undo*
the empress. It is calculated that 30,000 infants born in
excellentr the
per heaminge ot
tabl°
ra,lo are annually sent into the country, 20, 30, and 52
miles from Paris, to be nursed. Stern necessity compel:
a vast proportion of the mothers of thcoo thiltfrou to
fide them to nurses of whom they know positively nothing'
except this, that they must make a profit out, of gi
miserably small monthly payment. The natural Con;
sequence sequence of this state of things is the death, in. numbers
far exceeding the average, of infants thus removed r.
from the parent's eye. It is now intended to form xis
large establishments in the banlieue of Paris, NO/
children may be received to be nursed and weaned,-
where they may at all times be visited by their mothers'
The Abbe Raymond is to be the director of these estah'
lishments, which, should they succeed, will be an ea:
mirable supplement to the Creches, which have. done 01'
much good.—. Daily News.
" A NUGGETT OF A WIFE."—A recent traveller hi
Australia came to the " estate of Mr. Badgery, srbo'
besides receiving an ample income from his land,. realises
large profits by supplying the diggers with butcher's meat
and all sorts of necessaries from his store. In. this be is
assisted by Mrs. Badgery ; a tidy, clever, bustling little
woman, who, though probably never before accustomed"
to such an occupation, was, under the eireumstaneeP
quite equal to the task ; in fact, what a wife should Mb
particularly in this young community—a helpmate to her
husband. We heard an opinion of her, expressed loudll
to-himself, from a huge-fellow who was leaning his beset
shoulders against the door-post, and watching her. "Al:''
said he, " that's what I call a nugget of &wife." Nowt
a " nugget " is a smooth, water-worn piece of shining
gold, varying from the size of a pea to a. large turnip'
and what the Californian and Australian gold-diggers
consider the most satisfactory thing imaginable to posseS9'
To liken Mrs. Badger), to a ' nugget," therefore, was 10
his mind the greatest compliment he could pay her."