The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-29 00:00:00

G_ENBIRAE INTEELIGENCE.

IN THE CEMETERY of Pere la Chaise, Paris, antis,* is
to be exclusively destined for theviVlussulinans.
THE Cow-as-AL SECRETARY. estimates the revenue of
Ceylon for next year at £444,000, 45,-bile he calculatestlhat
the expenditure will be considerably less.
THE RIVAL 'OPERIEL-1II! the,mse Lumley Gye, a
rule nisi had been granted, to Shov.,cause why a scsourass-
sion should met;isstie to the noyalV-4./urt of Berlin, for the
examination tlf certain witnesses untof the juriSdictinu of
this court, ail& that, in the meantime, the trial be post-
poned.
VA.nror s SV<3GESTIONS are beingrunde by the witnesses
under examination before the Loritten city corporatlon
COMMISSION ;::among others, lifr.,,Sheriff Wallis n thought
that there shotEd be in future instead
instes
of a " Lord Mayor" of London. The reason he gave Ter
the proposed'ange was, that 'lit notilll be more palatable
in the city."
Tan NEVI:I.-APPOINTED IhslEembof the electric tile-
graphs in Paris took his oaths of office,iiin presence of the
Emperor; latt week. Among the Clause of this oath, was
one by whiettne new functionary swore " to keep secret
the despatches entrusted to him -Amid to give no hint re-
specting the telegraphic messages to•:a,,T body, without in
formal order fret; the Minister(of- the Interior."
A CONFERS/CB on the subject of --" The legislative
amendments; naperatively called for in the national treat-
ment of mortullyidestitute and criminal •children," has been
, convened at Birmingham, by Lords Calthorpe, Lyttelton,
Denbigh, Leigb,and Harrowby, Mr. Gladstone. Sir John
Pakington, Mr.,Adderley, Mr. It'L D. Hill, Mr. Muntz,
Mr. M. Milnes, Sir Robert Peel,-the `Loire: Mayor, the'
Mayor of Birmingham, and a long list of influential per-;
.sons. The conference is to take place on the2Oth December.
Dn. WISEMAN.—It is said that Dr. Wisenum is still at
acme, whither he went from Paris after attending at the
translation of the,relic,s of St. Theadosia, at Amiens, and
rthat it is consklered more than probable thatlbe will not
•nieturn again to' England. His health ,is stated to have
suffered considerably from the severity of his *hours in
'England since the establishment of the Papal hierarchy; ,
and a growing opinion is, we understand, . prevalent in
'Romish circles, that the Pope will employ him an some
/high diplomatic post at Rome, instead -of sending lihn back
-to superintend the affsirs of the Rommists in England.—
Momdng Herald.
17,ALLT/E OF A HUENA‘ED.-011 Thursday weekna,coach-
/Ulmer, named M`Gregor, was fined in the sum of Ss. at
the Gonbals police-court, for having instkated ftwo:dogs
to -fightand, the fine, ot being forthcomiog, :he wasJoeked
up. Al 4hort time afterwards his wife ca'led to 'know if
she conk]. get the dogovigel had been taketuto the office
along with her husband. The officer on duty suggested
that shethad better pay the fine, and so release .her hus-
band and dog together. " Kusband !" she enelaimed:; ."1
would-give Ws. for my dog, tout I would not give .sd. for
him." And•she was true to :her word, for she ,came back
with Ss. to•olsim her much-respected cur—her husband at
the same time getting out on .the strength of the woman's
regard for the !beast.—Glasgow, Herald.
FRESH ME AN BARRAGES:The physician to the
King of Sweden shows that the enormous mortality of '
the garrisoned troops in the chief European armies, that
of England inOluded, is largely owing to the small
quantity of fresh air allowed them, especially by night.
The ventilation system recommended by the author is
that of M. L6on Diwoir. The cknantity of pure air
required by each soldier he estimates at forty-eight cubic
metres, which no European army even approaches. The
European soldiery are the flower of their youth, but in
France 19 in 1,000 of these men die annually, while of
the male population there is only a mortality (between 20
and 30 years of age) of 10 per 1,000. 10 England the
mortality in the Footguards, from consumption, is 14.1
per 1,000, which is three times the average of the general
population.

LAN OF Evrniurcr. The district court of
Schaffhausen, in Switzerland, has lately furnished a useful
precedent in the law of evidence. A citizen of Schaff-
hausen was accused of having boxed the ears of another
citizen, There were no witnesses to the act, for at the
time of the alleged offence the parties were alone in the
coffee-room of an hotel. But the landlord and the waiters
who were in a room near to the scene of action, swore
that they heard the blow. The defendant, of course,
pleaded " Not guilty," and that if even the offence had
been committed, the witnesses could not have heard the
blow. In order to elucidate this very nice point, the
court adjourned to the scene of the alleged offence.
Several members took the places of the witnesses in the
case ; two of the judges were locked up in the coffee-room,
and the ears of one of them were duly boxed by the other.
It was clearly established that the blow could be heard in
the adjoining room, and that the plaintiff's witnesses were
correct in their statements, Sentence accordingly.
WONDERFUL IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ELECTRIC TELE-
GRAPH.—WonderfuI as the electric telegraph in its
present form is allowed to be, it is on the point of being
discoveries
improvements. These
es of Mr. John Walter
Wilkins, of Hampstead, electric telegraph engineer, the
patentee. It will form one of the peculiar and striking
ismuPeprorsvedemedenbtys still
are e more
thedi marvellous
characteristics of the new system that the message will be
written by the telegraph instrument iteeff. By a con-
trivance of surpassing ingenuity the transmission of the
message will be simultaneous to any number of radiating
stations without the aid of intermediate operators, only
one operator being required at each telegraph. This
invention is calculated to insure the most perfect and
unerring accuracy by the absence of quivering points and
needles, and by abstaining from the use of chemical pre-
parations, always liable to mislead and very often to fail.
The arrangement of the apparatus is managed in such a
manner as to give motion to a marker or tracer, and
thereby impress, mark, or otherwise render visible, in a
continuous line on paper, characters representing letters,
words, and figures on the recording surface, which is kept
constantly moving by means of clockwork, or other suita-
ble machinery, whilst the characters are being marked
upon it in such a manner that they may be distinctly and
easily read. There will be only one telegraph wire used,
and the message sent will be written at the place from
which it is despatched,. as well as at that to which it is
transmitted, thus enabling the sender to verify his message
aS it is written.