The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-05-10 00:00:00

FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

VOLCANO.—A new eruption of flames and lava from
the crater of Mount Etna occurred on the 18th ult. It
was preceded by a shock of an earthquake.

PARISIAN LADIES who don't like the emperor, have
adopted a novel way of expressing their contempt. When
he gam to the opera they look at him through the wrong
end of their glasses—thus insinuating agreement with
Victor Hugo, without opening their mouths.
A CANINE REVOLUTIONIST.—The sbirri at Rome
lately compelled an English lady to take a sprig of myrtle
from off the neck of her favourite dog, giving her to un-
derstand that the dog was white, his tongue red, and the
wreath green, thus completing the Italian tricolour.
LoLA MONTES has got into a scrape at New Orleans.
She has been arrested at the instance of Mr. George R.
Rowe, employe at the Theatre of Varieties. Mr. Rowe
charges her with having assailed him in the theatre, in
company with Mr. S. H. Henning. On her part, Lola
pontes has made an affidavit accusing Mr. Rowe of
having, in January last, put his hands upon her in a
more than indelicate manner, and to have accompanied
these daring gestures with insulting language.
PADRE GAVAzzI has been most successful in Americo.
His audiences average three thousand. A New York
paper says :—" The efforts of this most eloquent man are
destined to have a salutary and awakening power upon
the vublic mind in this cuuntry. His warning voice will
not be lost upon Americans, as to the danger to freedom,
all over the world, from the spirit of Jesuitism and the
never-ceasing and remorseless activity of the Papal
hierarchy.' . _

THE PEACE HUNLBUG.—A St. Petersburgh journal has
published an article which creates a considerable sensation
in diplomatic circles. Nothing is published in St. Peters-
burgh without sanction of the government, and without
having passed through the ordeal of the censorship ; but
the journal in question, in speaking of the so-called Peace
Deputation to Paris, and of the exploits of Sir James
Duke and Mr. Masterman, makes a severe comment on
the whole affair, and is exceedingly violent and hostile to
the Emperor of the French. The journal also speaks of
the embarrassing position of the French Ambassador at
St. Petersburgh, and hints at the possibility of his leaving
St. Petersburgh, under pretence of taking his congc%.
_ P.!tII.ISIAN DELICACY.—The hopes of the new dynasty
fFrance have been nipped in the bud. We are not
among the admirers of Napoleon 111., and the means by
which he has risen to supreme power appear to us to

afford but a slender guarantee for the stability of his
throne. But this cannot prevent us from sympathising
with him and his imperial consort on the occasion of so
severe a disappointment ; nor can we regard otherwise
than with unmitigated disgust the conduct displayed at
the ball at the Tuileries, which there was not time to
countermand, when the guests, after being made aware
of the indisposition of the Empress, and of its alarming
cause, went on dancing, eating, and drinking, as if no-
thing was the matter.—John Bull.
ANECDOTE OF A DOG.—On Thursday morning, the
24th ult., says The Newark (U.S.) Daily Advertiser, a
boyl'aix years old, son of A. L. Stiger, proprietor of the
Heath House, Schooley's Mountain, while sliding on a
fish pond, a short distance from the house, fell in. His
faithful dog sat by him, and tried to pull him out, and in
doing so pulled his hat and mittens off. When life was
nearly extinct, a boy, who was riding by, saw the dog
sitting on the ice by a hat. The dog commenced barking
as soon as the boy came in sight, and attracted his atten-
tion, so that he gave the alarm at the store, a few rods
from the pond. when immediate assistance was received.
The men were obliged to secure the dog, as he would not
let them touch the child, who, when recovered, though
to all appearance dead, was, in the course of a few
hours, restored to animation.
A SWINDLING BRIDEGROOM ARRESTED.—On the 21st
ult., the French police-officers were in waiting at the rail-
way-station at Strasburg, and on the arrival of the first
train they politely invited one of the passengers to follow
them to the Police-office. He was a gentleman from
Baden, proceeding to Paris, on his way to the United
States. The traveller, it appears, had demanded a young
lady in marriage residing near Baden : the match had been
agreed on, and all the preliminary formalities had been
gone through ; and on the day but one before the pro-
posed marriage, the father of the bride had paid over her
fortune to the bridegroom, in gold. No sooner, however,
had he received the money than be proceeded to the next
railway-station, negociated his passage to the United
States, and getting on to the first train, set off towards
Paris, carrying away the fortune but leaving the bride.
After be had departed it was found that part of the
papers which he had produced to determine the marriage
were forged, and it being cleared that he was a rascal, a
telegraphic dispatch was sent off to the Minister of Police
at Paris, requesting him to call the runaway lover to be
apprehended. This was done on his arrival at Strasburg.
On being searched the greater part of the money was
found in his possession; the rest having been spent on the
journey, or in paying his passage to A merioa. The pavers
said to be (urged web oioo found upon him, and he was
given up to the Baden authorities to take his trial as a
forger and a swindler.—Journal des Debats.

IRELAND.

THE HANGMAN who executed the two murderers at
Waterford, a few days ago, and who had to be taken to
gaol to protect him from the populace, died on Tuesday,
in Clonmel gaol, of delirium tremens.

INCUMBERED ESTATES.—The number of petitions
lodged for the sale of incumbered estates in Ireland is
2692, of which 2668 were granted, and 406 dismissed.
The total produce of the sales is 8,790,917/.175. 6J.

TERRIBLE OUTRAGE.—The Newry Telegraph report
that on Saturday morning attempts were made to burn
two houses, with their residents, in the neighbourhood in
which Mr. Chambre was nearly assasinded a short time
since.

BOILER EXPLOSION.—On Wednesday morning an ex-
plosion took place of one of the boilers in the extensive
premises of the York-street Flax-spinning Company, when
two boys were killed on the spot, and five others seriously
injured.—Belfast Northern Whig.
CLERKSHIP OF THE CROWN.—James Nangle, Esq.,
sessional solicitor Ifor Cork, has been appointed to the
clerkship of the Crown for the Queen's Bench, vacant by
the death of the late Pierce Mahony, Esq. This is pro-
nounced to be an arrant job.

CONSPIRACY TO MURDER. —A vile conspiracy
has just
been revealed, the object of which was to murder and rob
Mr. Boyd, the pay clerk to Mr. Dargan, engaged on the
Dundrum and Bray Railway. The accused were brought
before Messrs. Porter and Magee, at the head office of
police. The approver detailed minutely the plans that
had been arranged. Immediately on the murder being
accomplished, the money was to have been divided into
three equal portions, and the perpetrators to separate and
make the best of their way to Amteca. The magistrates
adjourned the inquiry to this day, (Tuesday).

THE CLERGY AND THE INCOME TAX.—It iS stated
in the Evening Mail that some modifications are to be
made with respect to Ireland, and the statement is corro-
borated in the Cork Examiner on the authority of Mr.
John Francis Maguire. The Roman Catholic priests, it
appears, are not to be exempted from the tax, but they
are to be freed from its " inquisitorial " operation, and
their own return (sent in through respective bishops) to
be accepted. It is further rumoured that the mode of
rating the incomes of farmers will be as in Scotland, on
one-third of their rent.

A FAMILY OF MURDERERS, named Stackpoole, were
executed at Ennis on Friday morning week, for the bar-
barous murder of a relative at Miltown, Malbay. Richard
Stackpoole and his wife, Bridget, were executed together.
While one of the executioners was adjusting the rope
round the neck of the female, she called out to him in
Irish, to " Squeeze it well ;" and Honors Stackpoole
(whose husband, Thomas, would also have been tried last
assizes but that he was ill), was afterwards conducted to
the place of execution. She appeared considerably weaker
than the others, and when she gained- the platform
turned round towards the reverend gentleman in attend-
ance, who addressed some observations to her, after
which she appeared to continue praying most fervently
until the dreadful fall, which terminated her earthly career.
TDB BUDGET.—The agitation produced by the threat-
ening infliction of the income tax is spreading over the
country. Meetings are being held in all directions, and
the provincial press teems with protests against the ob-
noxious measure. The movement is likely to prove as
formidable as that which put an end to the tithe system
in Ireland. The orators at the country meetings tell their
audiences that the scheme of the Chancell3r of the Ex-
chequer is an attempt at " robbery ; " that even though
parliament sanction it, and the Queen give her assent, the
Irish people will be justified in evading, and, if necessary,
"openly resisting the levy of such an unjust impost."
tarsus NATUR.E.—A curious lamb is at present exhi-
biting at the Royal Standard Gardens, Queenstown. It
is the property of a farmer named John Ahern, rending
near Foaty, the residence of Mi. John H. S. Barry. The
animal was yeaned the 25th March, and after being
dropped lay motionless for about twenty-four hours. It
then revived and has since continued in perfect health.
The legs are like those of a goat, covered with hair ; the
head and face are short, puggish, and not unlike those of
the bull-dog breed. The tongue is black, and the teeth
are only in the lower jaw, which protrudes outside the up-
per. The tail is long and nearly black ; and on each side
over the loins are stripes of a drab-coloured wool—one
represents the letter " Y." accurately formed, and on the
other the letter " N." It is in good condition, but short
and stumpy in appearance, and not equal in growth to
lambs of the age of the one referred to.—Cork Consti-
tution.