The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-18 00:00:00

FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

THE POPE or ROME has been: ordered to play an hour
'a day at billiards, in order to keep down his corpulence.
Roman MORALlTY.—Galignani relates the murder of
one priest by another, at Currudeda, in the same province.
The guilty man was discovered: through having by mis-
take exchanged umbrellas with- his victim. It is added
that "on the tonsure of the- murdered man the letters
'M. J.' were cut. They are the initials of ' Mary and
Jesus,' and it is a common belief in the province that, if a
priest be suddenly killed, the- cutting of these letters on
his tonsure will save him from- damnation. It is believed
that they were cut by a priest from a feeling of charity."
MISS CUNNINGHAME AZ.D THE TUSCAN GOVERN-
MENT.—By the exertion of Mr. Scarlett, acting under
the instructions of Lord' Clarendon, Miss Cumunghame
has been released by the Ttiscan government. Under any
circumstances in which, an, English minister should feel
himself justified in interposing his good offices, it was not
likely that his represenUstions should be without effect ;
but when, as in the present case, his interference was
supported by public opinion, not only in his own country,,
but throughout the civilised world, the result will not
excite surprise. —Morning Post.
A FEMALE CHIMNEY SWEEP.—A woman named:
Duhamel was on Saturday placed at the bar of the Tri-
bunal of Correctional' Police on the charge of vagabondage.
" What is your occupation ?" said the President. " A
chimney-sweeper."' What ! a woman ?" " Yes ;- and
why not ? There- are men who make shirts, so that a
woman may be allowed to sweep chimneys. Besides, you
see I wear maiis- clothes." " You have no regular resi-
dence ?" " I have one at Bondy." " Inquiries have-been
made about yon there, but nobody knows you." "No
doubt you asked- for me as a woman, though I am only
known as a man. And lam not a lazy fellow, either, I
can tell you. During the summer, when there- were no,
chimneys to, sweep, I occupied myself in harvest work, and
did more work than the men." As, however, the good
character which the woman gave herself did not relieve her
from the charge against her, she was condemned to a
month's imprisonment.
REMARKABLE ESCAPE FROM PRIBOX.—About three
weeks ago a convict, named James Dunn, escaped in an
ingenious, manner from the Sing Sing prison. He made
his way under water from the prison to a point about a
mile distant, where he went on shore, and could not
afterwards be found by the officers of the prison or the
authorities. He did this-by means of a water-proof pipe,
the lower end of which he held in his mouth, while the
upper end was joined to a small bag of air which looked
like a duck, and floated upon the surface of the water.
By this means he breathed while he made his way slowly
under water. Efforts were made bythe prisonofficers to cap-
' tare him, but without avail. Learning that a number of
prisoners were aware of the escape of Dunn, and were
planning their own escape, theofficer of the prison resorted
to a ruse to give the impression that he was caught, and
was killed in the attempt to take him. A funeral took
place in the prison, and a coffin filled with shavings, said
to contain Dunn's body, was interred for the purpose of
intimidating the prisoners. Citizens of Sine Sing hearing
of this, had the coroner to make an investigation, which
brought the deception to light. Information was recently
gained at the prison that Dunn had been seen in the
upper part of New York. On Friday evening Captain
Andrews, warden of the prison ; C. C. Childs, jun., clerk
of the prison';and keepers Washburn and Baker, came to
the city, and having ascertained the residence of Dunn's
relatives, watched the house. At eight o'clock on Satur-
day morning, finding the doors locked, they burst them in
to search for Dunn. Meantime Dunn leaped :from the
window of the second stork, and ran, but was over-
taken about two blocks distant from this house. He
had a pistol in his hand when captured. He was taken
back to Sing Sing, to finish his term of imprisonment.
—New York Tribune. _ _

NEW RAILWAY' ROUND PARIS —The following is the
route of the railway round Paris, which is just on the point
of being completed on the west, north, and east of the
capital, from Auteuil to Bercy:—This line forms two dis-
tinct sections, that of the west and north-east. That of
the west comprises the small line to Auteuil, having its
starting point in the Rue St. Lazare. After passing
through the tunnel at the Batignolles, it crosses the plains
of Monceaux, passes
.under the village of Courcelles, and
runs across the Nemlly road, near the fortifications, and
then skirting the Bois de Boulogne, passes before the
Chateau de la Muette at Passy, and ends at Auteuil, about
200 paces from the pond. The other sections start from
the goods terminus of the Rouen Railway at the Batig-
nolles, passes over the road to Clichy by means of a bridge,
crosses the road from the Batignolles to St. Denis, and
goes across the plains of St. Denis eastward to the goods
station of the Northern Railway at La Chapelle, Pass,e,-,
under the high road from Paris to St. Dellis, crosses
Plaine des Vertus, after having detached a branch li'ie to
the terminus of the Strasburg Railway, passe. over the
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route de Flandres to the northward of La Ville"cte, over
the canal de l'Ourcq, and over the Panda road.. It then
enters under Belleville by a double tunnel of 1,000 metres
in length, which comes out at Charoune, bplund the COMQ-