The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-09 00:00:00

month

GUN COTTON AS A PROPELLER OF MACHINERY.—
Isaac Mickle, Esq., of Camden (New Jersey), is applying

The engine is constructed on the plan of the ordinary
steam-engine, only there are two cylinders, one working
in the other. The gun cotton is ignited by electricity,
engendered and applied in a novel manner. Any degree
of power may be obtained. It is safer than the ordinary
steam-engine, and one person can run it.
THE GERMAN CATHOLICS.—I sincerely regret to say_

that ifte chief elder of Czerski's flock at Schliiedemula
has been here, and that their union with Ronge's party
has now been finally consummated. There is not at
present one single flock among the late seceders from
Rome in this country which has adhered to the faith
of the Gospel, excepting that called " the Apostolic
Catholic," under the Rv. Dr. Jettmer, in this city,
which, I am happy to say, has much increased and conti-
nues to receive constant accessions. The union between

the German Catholics and the infidel Friends of Light is
at hand, and a direct motion to that effect was brought
forward at the synod recently held at Magdeburg.—
Letter from Berlin.
MINING IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA.—The Adelaide Ob-
server, in a lengthy article on the labour market, says—
" Although we have an abundance of copper and iron in
our hills, the colonists have not yet attempted to supply
their own wants with the pig, or malleable iron, which
might be produced here in great abundance, and of a
quality not to be surpassed. Sheet and pig-lead the colony
will soon cease to import ; and may supply, for exports.

to this species of mineral productions, is more
Miners employed at day work do not consider t
sufficiently paid at 30

per week

many are re(

wiring 40

to 425. In consequence of the increased demands of
miners in some localities, proprietors and explorers have
felt themselves compelled to resist what they consider
palpable encroachments, and prefer suspending operations
for a time. At tutwork, tribute, or ton-work, the earn-
ings of miners have been very considerable. Quarrymen
labour under great temptation to turn miners—but they
may earn, in their own employment, 21s. to 255. per week.

PARISIAN GOSSII).—Thue raigioUs world are all on the
tiptoe awaiting the result of a negotiation pending be-

and a lady of the most illustrious rank-Lthe Duchess de
Talleyrand, known in this country as the Duchess de
Dino—who has announced her determination of return-
ing to Protestantism, from which she had been peisuaded
some years ago. You can form no idea of the ;excite-
ment to which this determination has given rise, and I
am told that in the church of her parish, in the Fabourg,

St. Germain, litanies to the Virgi

day in her behalf. Her objectin again changing her
creed is said to be to procure a divorce of herself from her
husband, she having fixed her affections upon ai young
Polish gentleman, whom she is about forthwith to ,marry.

dl for aid
Inahinnal

The.event will cause much interest

the late Prince Talley-

corn from. Liverpool, besidts-tta.o.

with the admiration due to hi
beauty.—Leiter in the Atlas

IRELAND,

There are now 153 persons in Clonnliel gaol for trial at

muting •the local market prices
retain a famishing fixity. Bread, meat, and other articles
of domestic use, such as butter and milk, are becoming
_ unapproachable by the middle classes. In the last week,
y stand aghast, and know not 12,760 quarters of beans, from Alexandria. and HMO ors.

of Indian • corn, were landed, ex-ship, free of duty.'
The nrrivnln nt Tiprry rnriciefincr nf 1 Ilfifilun,Ple of Tnfliat

stis laden - With

Inisn SAVINGS BANKS.—Leinster, excluding the City
of Dublin itself, exhibits a total increase in the deposits
on January 1, 1847, as compared with that day the previ-
ous year, of not less than £36,000. This would excite no
remark in ordinary years. The total deposits in the pro-
vince on the latest of those dates are
~£965,315 ; and
£36,000 is not much more than proportionate to the usual