The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-20 00:00:00

IMr. RUSKIN, who.. writes .singular books on arehitec- ! LAND, in the neighbourhood of the Crystal Palace, Ii
tune, is said to dress quite in clerical fashion, and intone i risen to some £1,500 an acre.
his lectures. _ 1 , THE DUKE OF ARGYLE

dresses in brown clothes,

HEEMAsEsrr has, ou the recommendation of the Earl of ' rides in a brown carriage drawn by two brown horses,
Aberdeen, been graciously pleased to confer a pension of and everything in his house at Inverary is brown, from
£5O per annum on the - widow of the late Ettrick the paper on the walls to the chair covers and coal scut-
Shepherd.—Scotsman. tles.—Scotch Paper.
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A SCOTCHMAN IN THE RUSSIAN I'VlusrAny SERVICE. I MR. HUDSON Cleared £43,000 by the sale of the Newby-
-It is stated that General Oughterlony, a Scotch park estates. He is living comparatively retired, until
gentleman in the Russian4service, commanded a brigade his contest with the York and North Midland Railway is
in the action at Oltenitza. over. He is determined to appeal to the House of Lords,
WsoNG.—ln a lonely locality near Birmingham, last under a full belief that the decision of the Rolls Court
week, two men ordered a policeman to " stand and de- will be reversed.
liver." The constable knocked' both down, and carried LOST AND FOUND.—In a case which was tried at the
them off' to prison. Court of Exchequer, on Monday, the plaintiff', a married
LETTERS from Naples announce that another ancient woman, who said she had not heard from her husband for
town has been discovered several feet under ground, 12 years, was surprised to lose her suit, and find her hus-
between Acerno and Scaffarh It is stated that it does band, who was placed in the witness-box to defeat her
not resemble Herculaneum or Pompeii in any respect.— claim.
Daily News. FIRE AT A CONVENT.—Some of the sisters at the

IN'TIIE INSOLVENT COITET; IN- LONDON, Mr. Commis-
sioner Phillips has sent a youngscapegrace, named Riches,
to prison six months, for receiving from his aunt £lOO,
under a promise to emigrate to Australia. He- had spent
the money as soon as he got it.
RAILWAY ACCIDENT NEAR' GRANTHABL—On Thurs-
day afternoon, a collision between two coal trains took
place in the Stoke-tunnel, on the-Great Northern Railway
near Grantham, by which the guard of one of the trains
was severely and dangerously injured, the guard's van and
several of the trucks were smashed to pieces, and the
traffic of the line was interrupted:for six or seven hours.
THE SPA GAMING Rooms.—The general receipts of
the company that carries on the gaming-house at Spa
have this year amounted to -564000 f, and the expenses
of the establishment to 120,000 f., leaving a net profit of
444,000 f., of which 195,000 f. go to the 'government, and
186,592 f. to the shareholders, after deducting from the
profits the charges of the administration, the portion of
the hospitals, and that of the charitable fund for the poor
of the commune

convent in Dighton-street, Bristol, called in the police on
Saturday week, on an alarm of fire. In two different
rooms the bed furniture was on fire, and was with some
trouble extinguished. The police feel confident that both
rooms were set on fire purposely, but the sisters protest
that, as far as 'their knowledge goes, no persons had
been in either of the apartments for three hours previously,
nor had any candle or other light been taken in at all.
THE QUAY at Marseilles lately presented a very pic-
turesque and singular appearance, from the presence of a
large body of Mussulman pilgrims, who had returned
from Mecca, and landed from the steam-packet Louqsor.
Among this caravan was only one woman, who was of an
advanced age, but who was carefully concealed by the
Arabs from the gaze of the Christians. The party, the
majority of whom were from Morocco, left by a steamer
for Algiers.
A DISTRESSING ACCIDENT occurred on Saturday even-
ing, which has resulted in the death of one of the most in-
fluential and eminent iron-masters in this district, Mr. A.
B. Cochrane, sen. The deceased gentleman arrived in

STARTLING EFFECT.—Mr. Wyndham, manager of the
Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, announced a "startling effect"
last week, and on Saturday tried a new plan for the pro-
duction of artificial thunder• with such success that the
audience, under the impression that the building was
about to fall, were frightened half out of their senses ;
and, but for the manager's• exertions in calming the
people, the panic might have• been productive of very
serious consequences. _ _

Dudley, per train, and engaged a cab to drive him front
the station to his residence, near the Netherton station.
When near to the Farthing's-lane-gate the cab encoun-
tered a cart, and, the horse rearing up, the vehicle was
precipitated over an embankment about six yards deep.
The driver leaped off, but the cab and the horse turned
completely over in the fall. Mr. Cochrane was severely
injured by the accident, and, on beinc, conveyed home,
gradually became worse until Thursday morning, when
death took place.—Birmingham Mercury.
IMPROVED DWELLINGS FOR TUB WORKING CLASSES.
—A branch of this association has been formed for
Dudley and the surrounding districts, under the most
favourable auspices, Lord Ward taking an active interest
in its success, in which feeling he is extensively and
warmly supported by the iron-masters and other influential
parties in the district. It is proposed, in the first instance,
to erect a lodging-house in Dudley for the accommodation
of sixty-five single men of the working-classes, who will
be accommodated with clean and comfortable lodgings, at
a comparatively cheap rate of weekly payment. The
Branch Association has, we understand, secured the pro-
fessional services of Mr. W. Wigginton, of Dudley, as
architect.
A PERFUME IN THE SEWERS !—A few days ago, the
sewers within the borough of Halifax were glutted with
an uncommon article, and there is no doubt that the rats,
&c., frequenting these quarters had a "jolly fuddle " at
the expense of a Friend. One of those gentlemen com-
monly called Quakers has built himself a house in Skir-
coat. He is a staunch teetotaller. In removing his fur-
niture he came in contact with some good old wine which
had been crusting in his cellars for many a long year.
Our friend asked himself what he ought to do With the
vile article in the bottle ? He was a teetotaller, and to
drink it would not be in keeping with his pledge. To give
it would be encouraging intemperance, and that would be
inconsistent with the principles of a teetotaller. Then
he must throw it away, and down the common sewer it
went ; but we have not heard whether those four-footed
gentlemen with long tails have drunk the health of their
friend.—Leeds Times.
DISASTROUS FIRE.—On Saturday morning week, a
family occupying the second floor of the house, 24, Grafton-
street, Fitzroy-square, London, while in their beds asleep,
were awakened by a portion of the ceiling of their room
falling down upon their beds, a vast body of burning
wood and other things in a state of ignition falling down
immediately after into the middle of the apartment,
clearly indicating that the house was on fire at the top.
With great difficulty it was get under, when was dis-
covered a most sickening spectacle ; for in the middle of
the back room the unfortunate lodger, a man named
John Rodgers, was found quite dead, and so burnt that
it was impossible to identify him. In the front room was
found, in a state of insensibility, the other lodger, John
Cannon, so much burned about the face and head that it
was deemed necessary to remove him forthwith to the
University Hospital ; but so serious is the nature of his
injuries, that scarcely any hopes can be entertained of his
recovery.

ELoPEmENT.—On Wednesday the wife of Mr. Stocker,
proprietor of a respectablb- academy at Boughton, near
Faversham, left her home• in company with one of the
ushers, named Chatterton,.. and has not since been heard
of; the guilty parties took with them all the plate, and a
considerable sum of money; the woman left three chil-
dren and a husband in a state bordering on distraction,
and the companion of'her flight has succeeded in victim-
ising several tradesmen in Boughton and Faversham, to a
rather large amount. _ .

A CURIOUS ELLNIC.—A painting, the property of a
broker in Anderston, was the other day confided by his
daughter to a Pole; for the purpose of having it glazed.
The owner, on missing the picture, betrayed an unusual
anxiety as to its whereabouts ; which, however, was
somewhat natural, seeing that he had been in the habit
of depositing bank-notes for safety between the back and
the canvas. Upon discovering into whose possession it
had fallen, the broker instantly repaired to the Pole, and
on unscrewing the back, found, to his great mortification,
that six £1 notes had been abstracted. Information was
immediately- conveyed to the police, who had the glazier's
house searched, but none of the money turned up ; and it
having since transpired that the picture, with the hidden
treasure, had passed through other hands before it reached
the Pole, he has been discharged from custody.
A SKILFUL SURGICAL CA SE.—lt has been stated that
a person named Ponsoles, the proprietor of a travelling
menagerie, was three weeks ago at Toulouse attacked by
a tiger, when entering its cage, and had his nose bitten
off, so that it only hung by the skin of the upper lip, and
that he had received besides several severe wounds on the
head and elsewhere. When rescued from the animal, he
was placed in the hands of medical men. They began by
washing the wounds ; then they replaced the skin of the
skull, re-adjusted the ear, refitted the nose, after removing
the bones and the cartilages, which could not have become
cicatricised, and they dressed the other wounds. To pre-
vent inflammation they kept bladders filled with ice round
the head of the patient for five days. Their mode of treat-
ment was so successful, that Ponsoles is now going on well.
The nose adheres entirely ; the skin of the skull has also
adhered, but the ear is still not quite solid.—Galignani.
How THE MUTTON GOES, was shown in a case heard at the
Marylebone police-court, London,on Monday week. Ellen
Manning, cook to W. Bush, Esq., a barrister, residing at
Bayswater, was placed at the bar, charged with having
stolen part of a loin of mutton, the property of her
master. It appeared that on Saturday, a fine loin of mut-
ton, weighing upwards of 81b., was sent to the house by
the butcher, and that on its being served up for dinner it
had grown " small by degrees, and beautifully less ;" in
fact, it was fully apparent that at least 41b. weight of the
Southdown had, prior to the joint being brought up to
table, by some agency or other, been carded off. It at
length turned out, upon inquiry, that " cookey,” the
prisoner, had been seen by the parlour maid to go out of
the house at nine on Saturday evening, carrying with
her a quantity of mutton in a cloth. At half-past ten
she returr.ei, and was the worse for drink. She was
committed for trial.
THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.—The first annual
and fifth quarterly meeting of members of the Conserva-
tive Land Society, was held in the Freemason's Tavern,
London, on Thursday last. The chair was occupied by
Lord Viscount Ranelagh, who read the report of the
executive committee. From this document the eminent
success of the society was fully demonstrated. During
the first year of the society's existence, from September,
1852, to September, 1853, not fewer than 6,134 shares
were issued, and the sum of £56,075 ss. Bd. received;
while since then 1,632 additional shares have been issued,
and £19,235 have been received. The success, indeed, has
been so great as to enable the committee to propose a
bonus of £6 per cent. per annum on all subscriptions paid
on uncompleted shares up to the 29th September last, in
respect of which allotments have not been taken. They
are also enabled to recommend that such an addition be
made on completed shares, and payments made in ad-
vance, in respect of which allotments have not been
taken, as will make an equivalent on them also of £6 per
cent. on the past year. By the operations of the society,
habits of frugality, prudence, and forethought, are greatly
promoted, and social bonds have been extended and in-
creased among all classes, by the feeling of a common
interest, which, by the society's means, is made apparent.
In commenting on the report, the noble chairman alluded
to the sixteen estates acquired by the society as sixteen
forts, garrisoned by 7,768 members for defending the
counties of England ; while the cash in their strong box,
amounting to £75,000, would furnish resources for a
gallant fight. The report and balance-sheet were unani-
mously adopted. The retiring members of committee
were then re-elected ; and votes of thanks having been
passed to the committee ; to Mr. Lewis, the solicitor ; to
Mr. Gruneisen, the secretary ; and to Lord Ranelagh, for
his conduct in the chair, the meeting separated.

EXTRA.ORDINAEY OUTEAGE.—On Thursday, Mr. Thos.
Bincliffe, nurseryman, of Swinton-common, near Rother-
ham, whose house and grounds are in a lonely situation,
about three-quarters of a mile from the village, opened the
door, walked into his grounds, about six p.m., when he
was immediately seized by three ruffians, bound by both
his hands and feet, and secured to the handle of the oven
door, and threatened with instant death if he did not re-
veal to them where his money was. He gave up all the
money he had, amounting to 10s. 3d. Not satisfied, they
ransacked the house, but, finding no more cash, they de-
camped, leaving Mr. Bincliffe still bound. The cord with
which his hands were secured was new, and he succeeded in
loosening the knot, and thus freed himself from his bonds.
The villains had a lantern, but as soon as they got their
victim into the house they covered his face, so that he had
no chance of recognising them. A similar outrage was
perpetrated upon him fifteen years back. The men were
well dressed, in pilot coats.
ADAM SMITH'S KEY TO " FREE TRADE."—Merchants
and manufacturers, during their whole lives, are engaged
in plans and projects, and have thus frequently more
acuteness of understanding than the greater part of
country gentlemen. . . Their superiority over the
country gentlemen, however, is not so much in their
knowledge of the public interest, as in their having a
better knowledge of their own interest, than he has of
his. It is by this inferior knowledge of his own interest,
that they have frequently imposed upon his generosity,
and persuaded him to give up both his own interest' and
that of the public from a very simple, but honest convic-
tion, that their interest, and not his, was the interest
of the public.—Adam Smith. And thus the riddle is
resolved. To serve themselves, the commercialists have
made a tool of the people. The present high prices de-
monstrate the imbecility, before God, of all their tricks ;
and no wonder they have muffled themselves up in the
refuge of " peace-cant," to make good their retreat.--
John Bull.

BURLINGTON-HOUSE, in Piccadilly, London, is for sale.
It was built by Colin Campbell. The Press declares it to be
" the most beautiful palace, not in London alone, but in
any coun4ry north of the Alps." Our contemporary
urges :—" While large sums are demanded every year for
the increase of our National Museum, and while a picture
gallery is admitted by all to be an imperious necessity,
the opportunity of purchasing a palace unrivalled in
beauty, and adapted equally by size, space, and situation
for the purpose, is offered, and will be, we fear to the
lasting regret of all persons of taste, rejected. The
palace, independent of its architectural merits, is spacious
and handsome, while the garden to its rear would permit
future additions upon any scale that might be required.
The casino attached to the larger building would afford
convenient residence for the officers of the establishment ;
and the colonnade, while offering a matchless embellish-
ment to the national seat of art, would oppose a barrier
to the close approach of those idlers whom it is desirable
to keep away from the immediate precincts of a public
building." _

MISS SELLON IN THE COUNTY COURT.—On Tuesday
Mr. W. M. Praed, the judge of the County Court at Stone-
house, Devonshire, delivered judgment in the case of
" Callanan v. Sellon." The action was brought by Cathe-
rine Callanan, a Roman Catholic, against Miss Priscilla
Lydia Sellon, the Mother Superior of the Sisters of Mercy
at Eldad, near Plymouth, to recover the sum of £ll 65.,
alleged to be due to the plaintiff for wages. The state-
ment of the plaintiff, which was corroborated in some par-
ticiilars by other witnesses, went to show that in May,
1851, she was engaged by Sister Susannah (Miss Logan)
as a servant, at per year, with a promise that the lady
superior would also give her some old clothes. Her wages
were allowed to accumulate, and, after she had been some
time in Miss Sellon's employment, she was sent to Bristol,
where she acted as nurse and maid of all work, and re-
mained there till Easter in the present year, when she
had permission to come home to see her friends. About
a month after her return home her mother died, and in
consequence her father desired her to remain at home to
look after his family, to which the defendant assented.
The girl's father then went to the establishment at Eldad,
by direction of his daughter, to ask for her wages. He
saw Miss Chambers, who told him Miss Sellon was ill ;
whereupon he asked for £2 to be paid him on account of
the plaintiff's services, but Miss Chambers refused, and
said when the lady superior got well Kate should not be
forgotten. She only received 3s. 6d. during the time she
was in Miss Sellon's service, and never understood that
she was to receive no wages until the present action was
brought. The defence was, that the girl was taken in out
of charity, and that there was not only no agreement
whatever as to wages, but the plaintiff herself had never
demanded any until prompted by the editors of several of
the local newspapers. His Honour adjourned his decision
until Tuesday last, when, after carefully reviewing the
facts, he said there appeared to have been a hiring in the
ordinary way, and gave judgment for the plaintiff
for the full amount, with costs, £2. 18s. An at-
torney, who appeared for Miss Sellon, gave notice of his
intention to move for a new trial. The case has excited
considerable interest in the neighbourhood, and it is not
improbable that numerous other claims of a like nature
will shortly be brought into court.
THE ENGLISH IN TURKEY.—Private letters from Con-
stantinople, to the 18th November, supply some local
gossip, out of which the following are extracts :—" The
English are very popular here now, and no contempt is
expressed at the sight of the Frank dress. Our sailors are
allowed to come on shore, so many each day, and to return
next morning on board. It is very amusing to see Jack
strolling about with his Devil-may-care air ; and, consider-
ing the nature of society here and Jack's own nature, it is
remarkable that nothing serious has happened in the way
of rows ; but he is very popular. Only yesterday, one of
them, half-seas over, in the midst of the market, seized a
Turkish woman—veiled, of course—and planted a hearty
kiss on the little bit of face he saw, many Turks standing
about at the time. Only one old fellow drew a weapon ;
the others interfered, saying, Is he not one of our pre-
servers, come to cut down the Muscovite Giaour ? In the
name of Allah, let him
wsasthpalpedonem,!ne because ty o the way
guard
,-house.
inlel
showed no light (my lantern was out) ; but the matter was
soon explained. On the floor of the guard-house were
stretched some of our men fast asleep, overcome by rakee
or other potent drink. The guard had put them there to
take care of them, and wanted to know from me what
they were to do with them." * * " There are
constantly coming into town wild Asiatics, irregulars
going up to Schumla—fierce-looking fellows, with extraor-
dinary arms, from which they never separate ; some in
bits of armour, some with shields on their backs, armed as
they were in the days of the prophet likely. Yesterday
some were walking about, and I fancied I could like to
converse with one ; so I told a dragoman to call one. The
only notice he took was to pray gravely, " May Allah send
you more sense !' The day before, three magnificent fel-
lows in Albanian dress came in a boat to where I was, to
ask if I would take them to Schnmla to fight the Giaour ;
they had heard I was going there, and thought it was to
fight. I told
them, I'd like-to take five hundred such as
they if I were to fight, but not yet." * # I
cannot get any news here of what's going on : they say
they wait for that till French and English papers bring
it. People are elated' at the victories, but cannot tell
much about the fights. Some prisoners have ,been sent
here, and rather a laughable incident concerning them is,
that when they:arrived; the Turks sent them at once to be
well washed,. Fancy- the Russians being too dirty for
Turkish claanliness.r.'

A BRAVE OLD DIME.—One night lately, old Nancy
Dawson, who has completed her 87 summers, and who, up
to the night mentioned, had lived by herself, after retiring
to rest was disturbed about ten o'clock by a movement of
the bedclothes, which she fancied to be a mouse, but as the
pressure became greater, and thinking she was assailed by
a rat, which is always an unwelcome bedfellow, the old
woman prepared to get up, when she came in contact with
the hand of a man. This would have daunted most per-
sons, but it only raised the courage of the old granny, who
immediately sprang out of bed with more alacrity than
she is wont, exclaiming—" Thoo taggalt, hey a bat at
thee, whaiver thoo is." Nancy seized her stick—for she is
obliged in common to walk with two—and pursued the
villain to behind the door,where she commenced a vigorous
assault ; but, as this did not unkennel the fellow, the old
woman retired to light a candle, during which operation
the scamp rushed past her, and, after much struggling
with the fastenings of the door, succeeded in escaping. If
the fellow had not had two hats he must have escaped
bareheaded, as a hat with some wool in it was found under
the bed the next morning. Old Nancy says that she had
no fear from the commencement of her adventure to the
end of it, and only regrets that she had not light enough
to direct her artillery with more effect.—Westmoreland
Gazette. •

-15sioiNs.—The grounds of Her Majesty's retreat at
Osborne are now assuming an air of completeness and
finish which was for some time wanting. The fountains
are upon the terraces : Mr. Gruner was the designer.
The Fountain of Andromeda is thirty-six feet in diameter,
and eighteen feet in height. The base is of red granite, and
the statue, by Mr. John Bell, is of bronze. The Fountain
of Venus, on the upper terrace, and opposite Her Majesty's
chamber, is twenty feet in diameter, and fifteen feet in
height. The dolphins, stems, and statue, are of bronze,
(the latter copied from the antique,) and the work of M.
Barbedienne. The two basins are of red polished granite,
and were made by Messrs. M'Donald and Leslie, of Aber-
deen. Messrs. Orsi and Armani, of Guildhall Chambers,
trh.oenirdonorn, haamveenteaxleciauteva,d tahnectluasungweof
übnodtehrsbtasnanids;
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great success.
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the use, however, of
soil at Osborne made
difficultit
the metallic lava, the difficulty was overcome. A coat of
obtain The
asphalt, one inch thick, was first laid down, and was then
covered with 14 inch of lava, in buff colour, mixed with
Ventnor sea pebbles ; and the wear bringing these peb-
bles to the surface; the floor presents a natural and
pleasing appearance. This description of paving for gar-
dens, &c., prevents vegetation, and only requires sweep-
ing to be kept clean. The coloured lavas, too, offer a
ready means of decoration.

ASTONISRINO CURE OF AN ABSCESS.—Robert Parlett,
mariner, of Wolsoken, near Wisbeach, was afflicted with a
dreadful abscess in the arm. He had been two years in an
hospital abroad, and for a considerable time in one at home,
without receiving the least benefit, and at last was given up
by the faculty, who prononnced him to be incurable; but
after using Holloway's ointment and pills for a short time
the wound was completely healed, and his health permanently
restored. This can be attested by Al r.Abraham Catlin, and
other respectable inhabitants of the parish of Wolsoken.

BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS. Extract of a
letter written by John Molard Wheeler, Esq., Collector of
Customs, Jamaica, having been handed by his brother, at
Swindon, to Mr. Prout, for publication:—" I know you have
never had occasion to take Blair's Pills, but let me emphati-
cally tell you, in mercy to any friend who may suffer from
gout, rhuematic gout, lumbago, sciatica, rheumatism? or any
branch of that widely-allied family, to recommend their using
them. In this country they are of wonderful efficacy ; not
only am I personally aware of their powers, but 1 see my
friends and acquaintances receiving unfailing benefit from
their use. I would not be without them on any account. If
taken in the early stage of disease they dissipate it altogether :
if in a later, they alleviate pain, and effect a much speedier
cure, than by any other means within my knowledge.' Sold
by Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London; and by all respectable
Medicine Vendors throughout the United Kingdom. Price
2s. 9d. per box.