The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-01-17 00:00:00

FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

HIPPOPHAGY IN AIISTRIA.—III consequence of a re-
port, by the Committee of Public Health, the Austrian
Government has allowed butchers to sell horse meat to
the public in the markets.
A NEWEIMAN'SDOG.—TheAIbany Knickerbocker gives
an account of a wonderful dog belonging to one of its car-
riers. The carrier, falling sick, sent out a boy to deliver
the papers, who, being unacquainted with the round, was
followed by the dog, which stopped at the door of every
subscriber, never missing one in a list of 600 ! At the
door of the subscribers who had not paid for a long time,
the dog was heard to howl !
THE Tows. OF SINOPE is constructed, in great measure,
with the old materials furnished from the Greek city which
a colony of Milesians built upon the peninsula. Sinope
was the birthplace of Diogenes, and the capital of Mithri=
dates. Lucullus took possession of it B.C. 71. Its houses
and fortifications contain a multitude of antique fragments,
confusedly massed together. Greek and Pophlagonian
inscriptions, busts, and mutilated statues, are embedded in
the walls on every side. Travellers state that an entire
figure is built, head downwards, into the castle wall.
LIE AMEEICANE are extending the principle of en-
couragement to native productions. At the Georgia State
fair, a premium was offered for " the best lookinr, baby."
As a purse of £5O is offered for the best baby at the fair
of next year, an active competition may be expected.
A CHEAP TITLE.—The Prince of Canino, Charles
Lucien Slionaparte, has sold all his possessions in Rome
and Roncigliono to the banker, Alessandro Torlonia, for
450,000 and one scudi. The prince, who is well known
as a man of exalted political opinions, has stipulated in
the contract that the one dollar should indicate the value
of his title as Prince de Canino, which he now sells, to-
gether with his estates.— Cologne Gazette.
FRENCH FAsnloics.—The Emperor of the French is
more successful in coercing the husbands than in dictating
to the wives of Paris. It is well known that he has been
meddling with ladies' dresses, prescribing among other
things a grand " court mantle," which is very unpopular.
Husbands don't like it on account of the expense, and
wives shrink from the dancing-master's drill, without
which the wearers of the costume cannot hope to avoid
appearin'o. ridiculous. The Empress alone has train-
bearers ; but other ladies must concentrate all the powers
of their mind upon their trains to escape a catastrophe.
At the reception on New Year's night there were not
more than two hundred ladies present out of eight hun-
dred invited.

THE FolicEs ON THE DANUBE.—By the last news from
Turkey, (says the Augsburg Gazette,) the collective
forces of Turkey on the right bank of the Danube amount
to 123,000 men, exclusive of the reserve at Shumla and
the environs, while those of Russia are far less in number.
General Liiders commands 32,000 men; his quarters are
at Brailow. Prince Gortschakoff commands the centre of
45,000 men ; his head-quarters are at Bucharest. General
Anrep, under whom are the Generals Fishbach and Dan-
nenberg, is at the head of the right wing, his quarters
being at Crajova. All these three armies, inclusive of the
reserves, do not exceed 110,000 men.
A FEMALE NAVVY.—The Courier de la Drdme tells a
story of a woman at Valence, who, her husband being ill
and unable to work, disguised herself as a man, and
worked five years as a navvy on the railways. Her hus-
band she described as her father, her children as her
brothers and sisters. Her industry as a navvy was such
as to induce the foreman to raise her wages 25 centimes
above the sum paid to the others. At length her disguise
was discovered, and the sympathy of the neighbours
speedily provided her with work more suitable to her sex.
GurrrownEE.—A monument to the memory of the
monk, Berthold Schwartz, to whom is commonly at-
tributed the invention of gunpowder, has just been erected
at Freiburg, in the Grand Duchy of Baden. The monu-
ment, which is executed by M. Knittler, is placed on a
fountain, built in the centre of the grand market-place.
It consists of a statue of Schwartz, who lived in the com-
mencement of the fourteenth century, in his monkish dress.
He holds in his right hand an•open book, and is contem-
plating a mortar placed on a stand on his left.
ANTIQUE MARBLEB.—A letter from Athens, of the 24th
ult., says :—" Every friend of the arts will learn with in-
terest that the red and green antique, those two cele-
brated kinds of marble of great antiquity, and the quarries
of which have been lost from time immemorial, have again
been discovered by the German sculptor Siegel, established
in this city. He has discovered the red antique on the
southern part of the chain of Taygete, and the green on
the northern side of the island of Tinos."

PETRIFIED MAN.—The body of the man found buried
six feet deep in Guano, on the island of Ichaboe, is exhibi-
ting in Baltimore. It is petrified and turned to a solid
mass of stone, retaining all the minute outlines of a per-
fect specimen of humanity. It has been examined by
physicians and scientific men, and pronounced one of the
most marvellous objects ever witnessed.
OLD AGH.—There died at Moscow, on the 11th of Oct.,
a certain Peter Sosnowsky, aged 122 years, 1 month, and
25 days.—Journal de St. Petersbourq.
AMERICAN SLAVERY.—The following is from a speech
delivered in the American Congress by Mr. Gerritt Smith,
from the State of New York, a new member and a leading
Abolitionist. He began the debate by commenting on
the Kosta case, passing from the consideration of Austrian
tyranny to what he called our own :—" But, sir, I said I
could not bestow unqualified praise upon our government
for its part in the Kosta affair. In one or two of those
passages of very rare rhetorical beauty which occur in
Secretary Marcy's letter to Mr. Hulsemann, he ventures
'to insinuate the despotism of Austria. Now, sir, I will
not say that there was impudent hypocrisy in that in-
sinuation, but I will say that the insinuation was in bad
taste. I will add, that it was bad policy. In our diplo-
matic correspondence we should studiously avoid all
allusions to despotism, lest such allusions might suggest
to the reader comparisons between our country and other
countries that would be quite unfavourable to us. I
admit that Austria is an oppressor ; but is it not equally
and more glaringly true that America is a far greater and
guiltier oppressor ? Indeed, Austrian despotism, com-
pared with our despotism, -which classes millions of men,
women, and children, with cattle, is but as the little
finger to the loins.—No, sir, it will be high time for
America to complain of Austria for despotism when we
have set such an example before Austria as will tend to
shame her out of her despotism, rather than to justify
and confirm her in it. In this same letter Secretary
Marcy proceeds to number, among the justifications of
Captain Ingraham, the divine law to do unto others as
we would have others do unto us.' Now, I ask you, was
it not the very acme of presumption for merica to quote,
in justification of herself, that divine command which she
surpasses all other nations in wickedly trampling under
foot ? Why, did Secretary Marcy suppose Mr. Hulse-
mann to be stone-blind? Did he suppose Mr. Hulsemann
had lived in Washington so long, and had never yet seen
the buying and selling of men, women, and children,
which is going on here continually under the eye and the
authority of the American Government ? Did he, I ask,
suppose Mr. Hulsemann to be ignorant of the fact that
the American Government is the great slave-catcher for
American slaveholders ? Did he suppose him ignorant of
the fact that the great American slave-trade finds in the
American Government its great patron; and that this
slave-trade is carried on, not only under the general pro-
tection, but under the specific regulations, of Congress ?
Did he suppose him to be ignorant of the fact that many,
both at the north and south, claim that American slavery
is a national institution—made such, indeed, by the
American Constitution ? It is, at any rate, made such
by the enactments of Congress, the decisions of the judi-
ciary, and the acquiescence of the American people. How
deep, and broad, and glaring is the brand of hypocrisy
upon the brow of the American people ! Here stands
America, holding in one hand that blessed book which
declares that God ' has made of one blood all the nations
of men that dwell on the face of the earth,' and holding
in the other that emphatically American paper which
declares that `all men are created equal;' and at this time
her feet are planted on the necks of millions whom she
has doomed to all the horrors, and agonies, and pollutions
of slavery. Recollect, too, that America is the nation
that owes more than any other to liberty, and Christianity,
and knowledge, and that therefore she is bound to surpass
every other nation in the enlightening and blessed influ-
ences of her example. Other nations began their ex-
istence in unfavourable periods; they laid their founda-
tions in ignorance, and despotism, and superstition: But
knowledge, and liberty, and Christianity waited upon the
birth of Americartuad.breathediuto her the breath oflife.”