The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-03-21 00:00:00

TxtE-Dtrcur of Parma and the Government of Sardi..
nia are both raising loans.
WESTMINSTER-BRIDGE..—We understand that the ten—
ders received for the construction of Westminster-bridge
are as follows :—Meyers, £305,000; Crawshay, £275,009;
Mare, £2ol;ooo.—The Builder.
Tug THEATRE at Jassy, in Moldavia, aided by a con,
siderable subvention from the Russian treasury, is getting,
up the di ama of the "Naval Victory at Sinope," which
will shortly appear on the. Jassy stage.
Tine SITE of the Great Exhibition, in Hyde-park.-.. is
now entirely covered wfth grass, and has been re-opened
for the- use of the public. It presents no traces of the
ravages effected for the time by the_ereetion of the Crystal
Palace.
ROBERT SCHAMAAN.—We hear that this celebrated
German composer and musical critic has become insane.
A violent attack of delirium tremens is said to, have
brought on this dreadful affliction.
A LINE OF STEAMERS has been advertised to rum from
Hull to- the Prussian port of Pillars, in the Baltic, taking
goods for Memel, Smovith the view of carrying on the
trade between England and Russia. It is to consist of
screw propellers of about 700 tons.
ENLISTMENT OF MILITIAMEN IN THE LINE.—The re-
striction against militiamen entering the line- is now
removed, and they are at liberty to join the regular army,
upon paying back, out of the Queen's bounty, what they
have received from the militia, about 10s.-
CAPITITLIR ESTATES.—The Marquis of Blandford's
Episcopal and Capitular Estates Bill is put off till Wed-
nesday, the 29th of March, when Sir William Clay will
move that it be read a second time that day six months.
CHEAP LODGINGS.—Lord Shaftesbury, at a recent
meeting of the London Industrial School Association, said
he knew a boy, 12 years old, who slept every night
during a whole winter in the great iron roller in the Re-
gent's Park, and got a friend to keep him company.
A WHALE of the finner species, measuring between 70
and 80 feet, has been captured in the North Sea, by two
smacks. It was towed into the Humber on Saturday
morning, and was an object of considerable interest.
A CENTENARIAN PLOUGHMAN.—A boon ploughing
was, last week, given to Mr. Kirkby, who has lately
entered upon a farm near Garstang. The first man in the
field was a ploughman 100 years old, who considered it
was his duty to do to a new neighbour, as he had always
done all his life, first as a plough driver and afterwards as
a ploughman.
MONEY ORDERS.—On the Ist of April and thencefor-
ward increased facilities will be afforded in procuring
money-orders and obtaining payment of them when such
payment is to be made through a bank. The Postmaster-
General has directed that some of the precautions required
for the security of ordinary money-orders shall in these
cases be dispensed with.
A PRACTICAL JOSE.—On Friday, while Mr. Justice
Creswell was "administering justice" in the Crown
Court, at Durham, some audacious scoundrel actually en-
tered his lordship's retiring-room, immediately behind the
bench, and carried off his luncheon. Next day the pre-
cious meal was, by order of his lordship, guarded by a
sturdy bailiff.—Galeshead Observer.
DUCHY or CORNWALL—The accounts of the duchy for
1853 have been made up. The year's receipts, with the
balance of £5,253 in hand at the beginning of the year,
amounted to £57,158. After deducting the amount of
salaries, repairs, and other expenses, and leaving a balance
of £6,000 in hand, the sum of £37,225 was paid over to
the trustees and treasurer of the Prince of Wales, who is
Duke of Cornwall.

Pooß-LAw MEDICAL OFFICERS.—There are 3,151 me-
dical officers in the Poor-law Unions of England and
Wales, at salaries amounting to £165,519. For this an-
nual sum they take charge of the sick poor of a population
of 17,335,099 scattered over an area of 34,473,538 acres.
There is one salary as high as £270, it is that of the
medical officer of the Leighton Buzzard Union and Work-
house ; the population is 17,141, the acreage 37,980.
There are two salaries as low as £2 ; the population in
each case is about 400. At Todmorden, a gentleman, who
is paid per case, received only £7 12s. last year, upon a
district -containing a population of 11,428.
CHILD STEALING BY A GIPSY AT BARNSLEY.—A gipsy
girl, about nineteen years of age, who gave her name
Sarah Clitheroe, was brought before Thomas Taylor, Esq.,
on Monday week, at Barnsley, and was charged with run-
ning away with a little boy four years old, son of Mr.
Thomas Wainwright, surgeon, of Barnsley. The girl had
decOyed the little boy from a garden occupied by Mr.
Wainwright, on the Cockerham-road, by telling him she
had a donkey for him in the lane. The child was disco-
vered by some persons who heard him crying near Smithy
Bridge, and saw the gipsy girl flogging him. They took
the child from her, and Mr. Beardsall, whose house was
close at hand, afforded protection to him till his mother
was sent for. The unfeeling gipsy had been at the house
of Mr. Tyas, solicitor, Belle Vue, to beg some clothes for
the child, for which purpose she had taught him to say,
"We have walked a thousand miles." A portion of the
child's under-clothing had been sold by the girl for 3d.—
Leeds Mercury.
AFFECTING INCIDENT.—The clergyman who officiated
on Sunday in the interment of the dead in the graveyard
of All Saints' Church, Oxford-road, witnessed an affecting
scene. During the week there died in flulme two females,
one married, the other single—of whom it was known
that as in life they had been bosom friends, in death and
the grave they were not divided. They had both been
educated in the George-street Sabbath-School, Hulme, one
of them having risen to the post of teacher, and the other
belonging at her death to the select class in that school.
They were both young, neither having completed her 23d
year, and there was but the difference of a year between
them. They. had been friends for a long time, and in that
relation their communion had been of the sweetest and
most tender character, uninterrupted by a jar, and distin-
guished by self-denial and the display of sincere affection.
One died of consumption, and the other succumbed to a
fatal attack of fever, and but a day divided them in their
death. They repose side by side in the same tomb, and
the children of the school to which they formerly belonged
attended them to their interment, under the conduct of
their conductors and teachers, as a mark of respect to their
memory.—Manchester Courier.
POISONED WELLS.—Mere filtration does not purify
cesspool refuse, though it may cause the water to look
" bright and sparkling." Dr. Angus Smith has analysed
the water from scores of wells within and near towns,
cesspools, and graveyards, and neveiliound one specimen
of water tainted. Many waters, Trgularly used, were
found, aporation, to leave a residuum, the smell of
which '
r
awful ;" and some waters, said to be "very
good," were " positively poisonous with matter from
graves, cesspools, and drains." I have personally in-
spected hundreds of instances where wells and cesspools
are sunk in alluvial deposits of sand, gravel, &e., and have
heard the owners of such wells and cesspools maintain, in
the most positive manner, that no better water could be
found than their particular pump produced ; although
they would acknowledge that the cesspool had received
the contents of one or more waterclosets, as also all the
house slopwater refuse, and had never required emptying
for twenty years. This had been set forth as matter for
special congratulation, and as proof positive that sewers
and drains of transmission were not required, and that
a public water-supply, from a pure source, was not needed.
—Correspondent of the Builder.
ATTEMPTED. MURDER AND SUICIDE.— A frightful
event took place in Birmingham on Monday, last week.
A young man, named William Taylor, a shoemaker, re-
siding with a widowed mother, after attempting to take
the life of a young woman, named Walton, cut his own
throat, and almost immediately afterwards expired. Mrs.
Taylor and her son were the weekly tenants of Mr. Wal-
ton, and it was the custom of Miss Walton to collect the
rent every Monday. The Taylors were creditable people,
and met their weekly payments regularly ; nor does there
appear to have been any cause of disagreement between
the parties. Between ten and eleven o'clock on Monday
morning Miss Walton called as usual, and Mrs. Taylor
discharged the rent. The son was pacing the front room.
of the ground floor, and Miss Walton, who was seated on
a chair behind the door, knowing that he had been labour-
ing under indisposition, asked if he was any better. This
inquiry had no sooner been made than Taylor, armed with
a razor, dashed upon her, seized her round the neck, and
drew ie razor across her throat and face. The mother
immediately ran to the rescue, but did not succeed until
the young lady had received severe wounds on the face,
arms, and body. A large gash, no doubt intended for the
throat, extended across the lower part of the face, and so
fierce and determined had been the attack, that Taylor
had succeeded in cutting through the stays, and inflicted
several severe wounds on the body. Mrs. Taylor herself
was severely cut about the arms and wrists, and, before
she could prevent him, her son had inflicted a long and
deep wound upon his own throat, which caused his death
in a few minutes. Miss Walton is expected to recover.
FUNERAL OE THE LATE C. S. ROE, ESQ.—The funeral
of this lamented gentleman took place on Tuesday last,
and was characterised by every circumstance which could
express the high esteem in which he had been held by his
fellow-townsmen and the universal regret which his death
occasioned. The clergy of the borough, with a large
number of the respectable inhabitants of Macclesfield, as-
sembled at Christ Church School, from whence they pro-
ceeded, with the teachers and scholars of the Christ
Church Day and Sunday Schools, to the entrance of Sum-
mer Hill, the residence of the deceased. The procession
then formed in the following order : .