The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-01-25 00:00:00

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—The anniversary of the birth of the Prophet
has just been celebrated at Cairo, with the usual festivi-
ties, and the extraordinary ceremony of the Doseh was
performed on the 23rd of December. On this occasiou
a number of dervishes and other mussulman devotees
place themselves on the ground side by side, as closely as
possible to each other, with their backs upwards, and the
Sheikh, or chief of their religion, passes over them on
horseback. None of the men thus trodden on showed
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AMERICA

ARRIVAL OF THE ATLANTIC

By the United States mail steam-ship Atlantic, Capt.
West, which arrived in the Mersey on Thursday forenoon,
we have intelligence from New York to the Bth instant.
The Atlantic brought forty-three passengers, but no
specie.

On the 9th instant the Atlantic pass,
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A bill appropriating X 19,500 to discharge the judgment
obtained against Colonel Fremont in England, while
acting in a military capacity in the service of the United
States, had passed the Senate.

The New York papers contain the official correspon-
dence in reference to the proposition of Great Britain and
France to the American Government to enter into a
mutual agreement disclaiming all designs upon Cuba and
guaranteeing its possession to Spain.
The overthrow of the Derby ministry is the subject of
much congratulation by the Liberal prints.
A despatch from Louisville announces the killing of six
firemen by the collapsing of a flue on board the steamer
John Simonds ; and from New Orleans we have tidings
of the explosion of the boilers of the steamer Fusileer,
whereby some seven or eight persons were killed.
In Mexico the revolution was still raging, and a Min-
isterial crisis had taken place. M. Mariano Yanez has
resigned his office of Minister of Foreign Affairs, and his
resignation was accepted. It was thought that President
Arista wished to form a compromise Cabinet.

The revolution was progressing in Tamaulipas with fear-
ful rapidity. Cardenas, the usurping Governor, has been
taken prisoner by the insurgents. Canales was in hiding,
it was not exactly known where. Colonel Basave, who
was in command of the troops sent to Matamoros by
Avolas, has surrendered unconditionally.

FOREIGN MISCELLANY

lion.ATio GREENOUGH, a celebrated American sculptor,
died at Boston, of a brain fever, in December last.

SUICIDES have of late been prevalent in Paris and its
neighbourhood : several cases have occurred daily for some
time past:

,oit Kiss, of Berlin,

whose
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Great Exhibition was so much admired, is occupied with
a group representing the Archangel Michael in conflict
with the Dragon.
MR. Jolts FINN, the father of a " fast" young lady,
of Melbourne, cautions all clergymen from marrying his
daughter, Mary Finn, " who is under age, and to whose
marriage her parents are opposed."
Abd.el-Kader, accompanied by his suite, arrived at
Syra on the 31st ult., on board the Labrador. Free
admission to the Dardanelles was immediately granted by
the Sultan, and the Emir was admitted to an audience.

GOLD AT THE CAPE.—Advices from Natal, of the Bth
of Noyember, announce the alleged discovery of gold in
that colony. A specimen of quartz containing about two
ounces had been left with a chemist at Pieterrm.critz-
burg, but no information could be obtained about it, ex-
cept that it had been brought from Mooi-river by a Dutch
settler, who desired to have it tested.
MELANCHOLY END.—In the Melbourne Argus it is
mentioned that a pockct-book had been turned up by
some diggers containing letters showing its owner to have
been J. Thompson Bramwell, a late arrival, and a nephew
of Alderman Thompson, of London. It contained bills
for £7OO on the Bank of Australasia. Mr. Bramwell was
understood to have left Melbourne for the mines with
£l,OOO in cash, beside the bills, to buy gold, and he has
not since been heard of.

DUEL AT BOULOGNE.—An cffair of honour at Boulogne
has caused no small sensation in the fashionable circles of
the locality. The belligerents were an Hon. Capt. C-,
of the C- Guards, and a Major M-, also holding
her Majesty's commission. The cause of the quarrel was
very trifling, arising out of a few words spoken at a public
dinner table. The major received the fire of his adversary
(happily without effect) without returning it, and imme-
diately afterwards acknowledged himself in the wrong.

POETIC JUSTICE.-A middle-aged single man was dan-
gerously ill near St. Omer. He threatened to disinherit
any nephew or niece that persisted in attending on him ;
all but one left him—of course they could not disobey the
injunctions of a dying man ; but Josephine would not
desert the perverse sufferer—he might disinherit her if he
liked. He died a few days ago ; and it was then disco-
vered that he had considered Josephine as the only relative
who had proved disinterested, and he left her all his pro-
perty—valued at 80,000 francs.

A DUTCHMAN CONSULTING THE RAPPERS.--" Ish dat
you, Mrs. Hauntz ?" inquired the Dutchman. " Yes,
dearest, it is your own wife, who—" " You lie, you
tevil of a ghost," interrupted Hauntz, starting from his
seat ; " mine frow speak noting but Dutch, and she never
said tearest' in her life,--it vas always, Hauntz, you
tief I' or, Hauntz, you tirty slikamp !' " and the Dutch-
man hobbled from the room well satisfied that the " rap-
ping spirits" were all humbug, and that he was safe from
any further communications with his shrewish "frow" on
this earth.—American paper.

A CITY OF Does.—A Madras paper contains interest-
ing canicidal statistics for the curious, from which it ap-
pears that in five years Madras had been relieved of about
19,500 dogs, whose yelling had been silenced for ever by
a very summary and efficacious process, at an expense for
slaughtering of £253. The period for authorising cant-
cide commences with the 15th of April, and terminates
with the 15th of September of each year, a period of five
months ; so that on an average, 800 dogs were
destroyed in the brief period of one month by
the club of the dog-killer, and thus put beyond the possi-
bility of getting rabid.

DEATHS FROM STARVATION.—A married woman was
found in her room, in the village of Lansingburg, (Pa.)
quite dead on the 22nd December. When discovered the
body was found in a sitting posture against the wall, and
the room presented the appearance of the most abject
want. She had two small children—one of them a little
boy three years old, was found in the bed, the other an
infant of fifteen months, was found upon the floor, al-
most dead, its life being only preserved by the warmth
communicated to its
.body by a dog, which had kept its
midnight vigil, laying close by and partly ;across the in-
fant sleeper's vital parts.

PLEASURES OF THE Taopics.—On Wednesday morn-
ing the bar-keeper of the Pavilion Hotel, Taboga, not
appearing at the usual hour, Captain M'Kinnev, the
proprietor of the house, proceeded to his room to call
him, when, to his astonishment and horror, he found
him insensible and bathed in blood. After the usual
restoratives were applied, the bar-keeper stated that on
the previous evening, after retiring, he remembered ex-
periencing the most delightful sensations, as of fanning,
which soon put him into a deep sleep, and he had no con-
sciousness of the attack made upon him until the morn-
ing. The only wounds by the bat were two small spots
on each of the great toes, from which it is calculated the
man must have lost at least half a gallon of blood. He
is at present so weak as to be unable, for a short time, to
attend to his usual business.—Panama Star.

THE ERICSSON CALORIC SHIP.—The New York Tri-
bune says :—" The performance of the caloric-ship Erics-
son, on Tuesday, the 4th instant, is considered entirely
conclusive. The vessel went down the harbour with the
wind and tide at the rate of 14 miles an hour. The engi-
neer allowed the fires to go entirely out while the vessel
lay at anchor below. On the following day they were
rekindled, and the ship was propelled back against both
wind and tide at the rate of Vs miles an hour, with but a
partial application of power. There were some imper-
fections in the working of the machinery, arising merely
from defective adjustment, or imperfect packing; but
nothing that was reckoned as casting any doubt whatever
upon the entire and perfect success of the great experiment
with the ship and engine as they now stand." The New
York Herald, of the Bth instant, says :—" The Ericsson
was put under caloric early on Tuesday morning, and
started from Williamsburg between nine and ten o'clock.
At 9 hours 56 minutes she passed the flag-staff on Gover-
nor's Island, and at 10 hours 30 minutes and 30 seconds
she was abreast Fort Diamond, thus making a distance of
7a- miles in 34 minutes and 30 seconds. From thence she
proceeded down the bay, rounded to below Spithead- buoy
at 11 hours 21 minutes, and there anchored in consequence
of a snow squall. She returned on Wednesday, and
anchored off the battery at about two o'clock in the
afternoon. The distance between the stated points on
Governor's Island and Fort Diamond being accurately
known by triangulation to be 7 miles 660 yards, the speed
attained was as stated about 14 miles an hour. The con-
sumption of fuel is ascertained to be only six English tons
per 24 hours, a saving, as compared with steam-ships, of
more than 80 per cent. As the ship draws 16 feet 10
inches on an even keel, this performance at a first trial
has astonished all concerned in the enterprise.'

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