The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-04-12 00:00:00

FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

AN EXPORT TAX of 2s. per cwt. is levied on Cuban
sugar. This impost is levied to support the troops,.found
necessary to prevent a rising of the slave population.
AT LAST !—Daniel Tucker, who has been so often
warned to " git out of the way," is said to have been, run
over by a train of cars-in Arkansas.
THE KING OF PRUSSIA has offered the Madiais an
asylum in his country, but it is thought that they will
prefer proceeding to England.

THE MARQUIS RICCI, the Legate from the Apostolic
See, who arrived in Paris on Sunday last, brought a
cardinal's hat, which the Emperor is, on Sunday next,
to bestow on the Archbishop of Toulouse.
A De.:,.zn AwrisT at Copenhagan, named &Bier,
has just produced a brilliant specimen, of a new art—a
large portrait of Thorwaldsen engraved in stylography—
draw n with a stylus on a black mass with a thin white
coating, and thence transferred to copper by means of the
electrotype. The effect is very fine.
FEMALE. LYNCH LAW.—The Cleveland Herald says
that on the Ist ult. some 30 women, well backed by
gentlemen, proceeded to a grocery in Ashland, and asked
the owner to discontinue the sale of liquor and the use of
a bagatelle board, which had enticed many of the youths
and some of the married men from their homes. He re-
fused, and the " ladies " chopped his bagatelle table into
firewood, and emptied his liquors into the street. They
then visited another grocery and a tavern, both of which
capitulated.

THE BORNEO PIRATES.—The amiable Proteges of Mr.
Hume, the bloodthirsty Borneo pirates, have again been
slaughtering peaceful English residents in their vicinity
and plundering their property. Lord Clarendon has
ordered the Admiral on the station to revenge the bloody
deeds lately perpetrated ; and we suppose Joseph will in-
dite the Admiral for wilful murder. Their late outbreak
against life and property was caused solely by the reports
which reached them to the effect that the British Parlia-
ment were about to punish Sir James Brooke for his at-
tack on the pirates in 1849.
A SCENE AT A BALL.—We read in the Presae :
" An arrest took place at the ball given by the Legislative
Body to the Emperor, under the following circumstances
—A lady still young, very pretty, and well known in
what is styled the beau monde, under the title of the
Baroness —, was accompanied to the ball by a per-
sonage in a high position. She had already danced several
quadrilles, when it was observed that she suddenly gave
signs of mental aberration. Her gestures and her re-
marks left no doubt on this head, and she was at first
taken out of the ball-room, and afterwards conveyed to
the guard-house. The commissary of police on duty
having conceived some suspicions as to her legel claim to
the title which she pretended to bear, inquiries were
made, and the result was that she not only had no r:ght
to the title, but that she was the lawful wife of a fcrr'er
in the neighbourhood of Paris, and that she derived her
means of existence from a source not of the most honour-
able kind. On this information the pretended baroness
has been kept in custody."

ACCIDENT.—At some rejoicings at Cunnobie by the
tenants of Sir John Maxwell, the horses of the baronet's
carriage were taken out and replaced by some of the more
enthusiastic of the tenants, when one, named John Fer-
guson, fell beneath the wheels, and was so badly crushed
that his life is despaired of.
SOUTH DEVON RAILWAY.—An accident occurred on
Tuesday, at Dawlish, which was likely to have been
attended with fatal results. An engine attached to a
passenger train ran off the line and was almost preci-
pitated into the sea. Had not the driver turned off the
steam at the moment he did, there is little doubt but that
the whole of the passengers must have been killed. The
scene where the accident occurred was near Breeches
Rock, where the landslips took place some time since.
WILL SCREW-BOATS STEER WITHOUT STEAM ?—Mr.
Robert Young, a passenger by the Australian Royal
Mail Company's steam-ship Adelaide, which sailed from
Plymouth on the 3rd of January, in a letter to the St.
Helena Herald of the 3rd of March, writes :—" The
screw of the Adelaide cannot be lifted, and, in conse-
quence of some peculiarity. in her construction, she will
not steer without steam while the propeller is in the water.
Being therefore dependent upon fuel, and not only for
progress, but also for the supply of fresh water by means
of condensed steam, the captain unquestionably adopted
the most prudent course. We reached this port on the
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