The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-09 00:00:00

higher

s in almost

very department of in-

austry, it is, perhaps, a more-prudent. economy to

a graceful

)n of additional remune:

tion to deserving servants, than to wait until the

demands for increase become Brea*

.er than ti

means of satisfying them

The .employers who do

not wait to be asked, are generally better served
than those who pay no more than they are obliged.

The subject of the smoke nuisance, with reference
to the steam-boats which ply on the Mersey, was
brought before the Health Committee, on Thursday,
and a suggestion made that the invention of Mr.

LER STEVENS should be tried. It was applied to
the Genova steamer, previous to her last trip to
Genoa, and was found to answer admirably, no
smoke being perceptible, even directly after firing.
The ferry steamers, from the landing-stage, are
usually a very great nuisance to Liverpool, from
the immense quantities of foul smoke which their
funnels emit, and some plan should be devised for
compelling them to abate the nuisance. This
would be no hardship, 'but an advantage to the
owners, as the invention to which we have alluded
has not only been proved to be efficient for the
purpose, but also effects a considerable saving in
the cost of fuel, a proportion of which the inventor
would be willing to accept for his patent right.

The proceedings at -tile annual-meeting of the
Royal Insurance Company, on Thursday, were of a
far more favourable character than many had been
lea to anticipate. The fears which had been en-
tertalillea of the heavy responsibilities from insur-
ance transactions in America were shown to be in
a great measure It was stated that
the
although groundless.
balance of loss against the Company,
after the extensive fire at Montreal, was no less
than '3-7,°'39, it had been reduced by the end of

the year to only 0,273, and that while the whole
of the American losses, including 813,000 at Nev

Orleans; were £23,000, the premiums received were
£27,600, thereby leaving a profit to the Company
of £4,600. In the' life_ department the business
had also been very successful; and the shareholders

were gratified by the announcement not only of a

dividend but a bonus

The township of Birkenhead, which may be con-
sidered one of the most important suburbs of Liver-
pool, is largely partaking of the general improve-

went, owing to the raj

VILLIAM

d increase in the commerce

At the monthly. meeting of the Corn-
Yassioners, on Tuesday, Mr. HUGHES stated that
land had risen in value fully twenty-five per cent.
during the last three months, and small houses
'welt difficult to be obtained. Much of this is
c-ving to the vigorous prosecution of the outer
"w°l:3l' under the contract with Messrs. BASSETatth e 43., and the improvement will be still greater
On the
conviction of the outer wall, which will en-
able the contractors to give employment to about
fifteen Inuidred additional men. Birkenhead has
now the means of advancement almost withinher own
hands and, on a future occasion, we shall point to
a few details to which attention might be directed
withadvanta,.
it was at one time thought that
Birkenhead would be a rival to Liverpool ; but the
public have now grown wiser, and view the im-
provement at the other side of the Mersey as a
Valuable aid to the commerce of the port.
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of the port

have been asked whether w

igers depe

Ldent on

the return of Messrs. HOESFALL and LIDDELL
are decided by what has transpired. Of this there

:lemen w

t to be
.no doubt, for those gl
'fled,- and have since. taken their seats in the

House of Commons, s
bers for Liverpool. An
foolish as to la

oken, and voted, as mem-
man who could be so
a wager on the success pi their

pponents, desi

erved to lose

The amusements during the

eels have been

aore than usually active, as though our

fellow-

townsmen were determined to enjoy the season.
Mr. C. MATHEWS, from. London, has been drawing
large houses at the Theatre; Royal, and Mrs. FITZ-
' and Mr. .BUCKSTONE has'e succeeded
At the Zoological Gardens the conductor has
preyed a liberal catere

Avds of visitors ;

,r, and been rewa

ded with

fine weather has en-

,bled the ferry boats to reap a rich har%

e• numbers who have rushed to breathe the pure

Eimemoimer.m_s_l,_wersammswemi

fixed for the terMination of its evolutions, in consequence
of its having received an order to repair immediately to
the Baltic. _ _

A letter from Copenhagen, of the 28th ult., states that
the cholera was then increasing in intensity, 346 new
cases being announced, and 184 deaths. There have been

in all 4,759 cases, and 2,508 deaths.
PnusslA.—The Queen left Berlin on Monday for Vienna
and Isehl. On the King's going to join her Majesty an
interview will take place between him and the Emperor
of Austria

The accounts from Coburg respecting the health of the
Duke and Duchess are highly satisfactory. The cholera
having appeared on board several vessels from Copenhagen,
all such are kept strictly in quarantine.
AUSTRIA.—The Emperor Francis Joseph, and several
members of the Imperial Family, intend going to Ischl
immediately after the nuptials of Her Imperial Highness
Maria Henrika, which are to take place at Vienna, by
proxy to-morrow..(Wednesday). ,
PERSIA.--Prince- Dolgorouki, the Russian Envoy at
Teheren, demands the cession of the province of Azer-
baidjan, one of the richest in the monarchy, as compensa-
tion for the non-payment of an . immense sum of money
(80,000,000 of roubles), which he pretends is owing from
the Scah to the Czar. The province of Azerbaidjan is
contiguous to the Russian possessions to the south of the
Caspian Sea:
rt from I TURKEY.—Riots have occurred in various parts of

being caused

the fanaticis

tions Of the population.

of certain por-

The Hos Polars of Moldavia and Wallac

zor orci

thia, acting

.inee Gort:

had suspended provisional,

koff's, of course—

all -relations with the Sul-

tan. The accounts more recently received state that the
Hospodars, in consequence of their compelled refusal to

pay -tribute to the Porte, have been summoned to Con-
stantinople, and that the Consuls of England and France
in the Principalities have had Orders to lower their flags.

The fortilica tions of the Russian troops are being ear-

.oughoiit the