The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-05-30 00:00:00

ALtrrs,--In this country there have been 1,886 natura-
lised since 1844.
THE .LBPROST is spreading so rapidly in Norway, that
fears are entertained of its becoming a general sickness,
as in the middle ages.
GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS are in the north of England
and midland counties inspecting the prisons and barracks,
with a view to finding accommodation- in the interior of
the country for prisoners of war.
THE CONSER VATIVE PARTY in CaillinitlliMit is rumoured,
intend to invite Mr. Warren, Q.C., to stand on the conser-
vative interest, at the ensuing election. There are already
three liberals in the field, and a fourth has just with-
drawn.
ROYAL PATRONAGE OF BOTANY.—Mr. o'o3ll, teacher
Montrose, has received orders to prepare a collection of
the plants of Forfarshire, as well as•those indigenous to
Balmoral, for the especial use of Her Majesty the Queen.
—Montrose Review.
DEULLEEP SINGH, the young Maharajah who was
brought' by Ghoolab Singh into Lord Hardinge's camp in
1846, and under our protection was soverign prince in the
Punjab%until 1849, has arrived at Calcutta on his way to
Europe, where he is proceeding to improve himself. He is
now 17: years of age, and has embraced the Christian
religion.
A MODERN JOAN OF Anc.—The wife of one of the offi-
cers of the 11th Hussars, and sister to the great African
lion hunter, accompanies her husband to the East. Her
habiliments are prepared for active service. She is to have
a black belt, in which two of Deane and AdaMs's revolvers
are placed. She has been practising daily at the shooting
gallery in Dublin, and promises to avenge her husband's
death should he fall by leading on his troop against our
common enemy.— United Service Gazette.•
CONSEQUENCES OH CRIME.—Aboat a year since a man
named Tennant. in Barnwell, laid himself down on the
railway at Paper-mills, and allowed the train to pass over
him. After his death, his wife, whose supposed infidelity
had been the cause of his suicide, went to live with her
paramour, and eventually they agreed to emigrate together.
The woman took with her on board the vessel £22, all the
money they had, sewed in her stays. As they were at the
very point of sailing, the man said he had left something
on shore, and told his victim he would. go and fetch it, and
return within an hour. Instead of returning, he kept
ashore ; the deluded woman sailed, and the wretch, it is
said., has returned to Cambridge, and boasted that befoie
leaving the ship he had taken the money from the unhappy
woman's stays.
LAMBS.—The lambing season may now be considered
over in the south of Scotland, and it has been a very
favourable one. The report from that large district of the
upper portion of Dumfriesshire and Kirkcudbright, lying
between the Nith and the Ken, represents this, with very
trifling exceptions, as the best season known for many
years. There were no severe snow-storms during the
winter, and plenty of grass, which circumstances brought
the ewes to the lambing season in much better condition
than last year, and as they have plenty of milk, the lambs
are much stronger. There are fewer twins than usual,
but, on the other hand, there has been a smaller amount
of deaths and fewer barren ewes ; so that, on the whole,
the crop may be considered an average one in quantity,
and beyond that in quality. Some accounts from Scaur
Water are not quite so good.—Dumfries Courier.
THE ARGENTINE CONFEDRRATION.—The treaty for the
free navigation of the rivers Parana and Uruguay, signed
on the 10th of July by Sir C. Hotham and the provisional
director of the Argentine Confederation, has been laid
before Parliament. The confederation concedes the free
navigation of the rivers, wherever they may belong to her,
to the merchant vessels of all nations, and agrees to main-
tain beacons and marks pointing out the channels, such
navigation to remain free to the merchant flag of all nations
in case of war between any of the States of the river Plate
or its confluents' excepting in what may relate to muni-
tions of war, such as arms, gunpowder, lead, and cannon
balls. A uniform system is to be established by the con-
federation for the collection of Custom-house, harbour, and
other dues. No favour is to be granted to the flag of any
other nation which shall not equally extend to the British.
The high contracting parties, considering that the island
of Martin Garcia may impede free navigation of the con-
fluents of the Plate, agree to use their influence to prevent
that island being held by any state which shall not adhere
to the principle of free navigation. The treaty was
ratified on the 11th of March.
INSANITY ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN PRODUCED DT
MESMERISM.—At the Northampton petty sessions, last
week, the father and mother of a lad named George Walker
attended before the magistrates to implore their help
under the following circumstances :—Two years ago, when
the electro-biology mania raged in the town, the lad was
unfortunately one of the subjects who was operated upon
by Mr. Reynolds, the lecturer, and by the Rev. T. Milling.
ton. For six weeks his parents were ignorant of what had
occurred, but were conscious of a melancholy change in
the boy's demeanour. . The fact at last transpired. The
boy became so violent that it was necessary to subject
him to temporary restraint. He was visited by both the
biologists, and Mr. Millington attended him with great
diligence and anxiety. The case was submitted by the
rev. gentleman to Dr. Eltotson, who directed that the
demesmerising process should be continued, with an as-
surance that it would in the end be successful. A com-
plaint was made at the time before the magistrates, and
Mr. Millington and Mr. Reynolds both attended to meet
it. Nothing came of it, some of the magistrates being dis-
posed to think that the violence was feigned. For a time
the demesmerising process seemed to be partly successful,
though the lad never became what lie had been previously.
With his growth, however, the insanity also grew, and the
unfortunate lad has now become, to all appearance, a con-
firmed lunatic. His insanity was too obvious to be
doubted, and the magistrates made the proper order for
his admission to the asylum as a pauper lunatic.—North-
ampion Mercury
PROFESSORSHIPS FOR THE NEW UNIVERSITY OF
3/mmol7mm—A university is to be founded at Melbourne.
i The appointment rests with Sir J. F. IV. Herschel, Bart.;
G. B. Airy, Esq., Astronomer Royal ; Professor Malden,
of University College, London ; Robert Lowe, Esq., M.P. ;
and Sir William a Beckett, Chief Justice of Victoria. The
salaries of the professors arc fixed at £l,OOO per annum,
besides a residence in connexion with the university. A
total abstraction from political or sectarian influence insist
be rigidly enjoined ; and it will be considered desirable
that the professors should be men under the middle age ;
of approved diligence in literary pursuits ; graduates of
one of the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London,
Dublin, Edinburgh, or Glasgow ; and designated by some
particular excellence in their collegiate career; accus-
tomed, if possible, to the inculcation of knowledge (with
clearness and readiness) in the department to which they
propose to apply themselves ; and more especially of such
habits and manners as to stamp on their future pupils the
character of the loyal, well-bred English gentleman.

iIE3IP n e FRANCE.—The French Government have pro-
hibited the exportation from France of all hemp the growth
of France or on which the French import duty has been
paid. Many British merchants and manufacturers had
made purchases of hemp at Havre and Nantes, and have
been much annoyed to find the removal of their property
to this country prohibited, especially as it was so much
needed here for manufacturing purposes. The applica-
tion of our Ambassador at Paris to the Government has
been fruitless, and our merchants have been obliged to sell
again in France, and at a loss. So far as we understand
there is no prohibition on the exportation from France of
foreign hemp lying there in bonded warehouses, being
considered us only in transitu. It is well for traders to
know that by the provision of a Customs' act of 1814 the
French Government may prohibit the exportation of
goods of French origin, growth, or manufacture, and those
considered such by payment of import duty, whether they
have become the property of British merchants or not,
and that purchases are made in France subject to the
risk of such a prohibition, which has been actually applied
to hemp.
A NEW SAINT.—The beatification of Germaine Cousin,
a French peasant girl, of the hamlet of Pibrac, near
Toulouse, has been celebrated with great splendour at
Rome, and has created no small sensation in the religious
world of this country, especially in that of her own neigh-
bourhood, from whence both clergy and laity in Consider-
able numbers proceeded to witness the ceremony. The
Univers makes the event the subject of a leading article
of great length, beginning with, "France counts one
advocate and one protector more in heaven." The new
saint was born in 1579, and is described as deformed in
her right hand, a victim to scrofula, and to a cruel step-
Mother. In a state of half starvation she kept the flocks
of her father until she died, at the age of two•and-twenty.
Her claims to beatification are set forth as follows :—She
became the queen of the plains when she kept her flock,
and nature suspended its laws to honour her. Impetuous
torrents stayed their course to give her free passage; the
wolves respected her sheep, which latter never strayed
beyond her crook ; the commonest trees of her father were
always loaded with the finest fruit, and his crops were
exempted from the uncertainties of the seasons. In the
middle of winter her morsel of dry bread changed into
flowers before the upbraidings of her harsh stepmother;
at her death the Queen of Heaven, with a choir of angels,
came to bear her from her couch. Forty years after her
death her body was discovered in a state of complete pre-
servation. Her proces, or ecclesiastical suit for beatifica-
tion, was first instituted towards the end of the seventeenth
century. Miracles increased round her tomb, and the
suit, renewed in 1843, has, after ten years, been finally
carried through that Roman Court of Chancery, the Con-.
gregation of Rites. The solemnity took place on Sunday,
the 7th inst., at St. Peter's, before the portico of which
immense standards depicted the life of the new saint and
her miracles. Inside, we are told, the well-known bronze
statue of St. Peter was clothed in his cloak of cloth of gold,
fastened by a large diamond, and wore a triple-crown set
with jewels, to receive into the kingdom of which he held
the key the new saint. The tribune was hung with four
large paintings, representing the four miracles proved
before the Congregation of Rites in support of the claim
of beatification. These were a miraculous multiplication
of paste and meal in a convent of Bourges, obtained by the
saint's intercession; and the healing of the sick children,
one by the application of a linen cloth which had touched
the body, and which the mother of the child is represented
receiving from the hands of the curd of Pibrac, and apply-
ing to her infant. These paintings are executed by French
artists at Rome. Besides the above, the postulant of the
beatification, in this case dgr. Estrade, canon of Toulouse,
and honorary chamberlain of the Pope, offers to the latter
four presents—a painting, a life, an engraving, and a relic
of the saint. The painting represented the miracle of the
flowers, by M. Langlois, also a French artist ; the life was
written by M. Louis Veuillot, chief editor of the Univers,
in receiving which his Holiness expressed " all his paternal
benevolence for the author." On receiving the relic, the
Pope uncovered his head, kissed it affectionately, pressed it
to his forehead, and again kissed it with the tenderest
devotion. These presentations took place after the cere-
mony at St. Peter's, in the Pope's private cabinet, to
which about thirty of the clergy and inhabitants of
Toulouse, who had come to Rome for the occasion, were
admitted. At the file of the beatification, the French
Ambassador was present, as well as the General of the
French forces in Rome, with his officers in full dress, non-
commissioned officers, and soldiers, the 40th regiment of
which did duty on the occasion. The officiating bishop
incensed the relic of the saint, and recited the first prayer
of public worship officially addressed to her. "Let us
hope," says the Univers, "That the Church, France, and
the world, will reap the fruits of this first invocation to
the shepherdess of Pibrac, become now one of the powers
of Paradise In the evening the Pope descended from
his apartments to prostrate himself before the new shrine,
and all Rome is described as eagerly joining him in the
invocation.