The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-02-15 00:00:00

FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

A CHRYSTAL PALACE is about to be erected in Boston.
ONE-HALF the deaths in Boston during the second
week in January, were of consumption.
CHOLERA has prevailed in New Orleans since 1849.
There were nine deaths in the week ending January Bth.
THE liquor-dealers of Florida have to pay two hundred
dollars for their license, by a recent legislative enactment.
FORREST, the tragedian, has been playing at Boston
without much success.

THE CONNECTICUT Myra was this year open thrc
weeks longer than it ever has been before during the pre-
sent century.

THE RAILROADS of the Eastern States have agreed to
raise their charges twenty-five per cent., and to abolish all
free passes.

A MOUNTAIN OF MAR:3LE has been discovered in the
Great Salt Lake Valley. The blocks are of immense size,
and of every colour and shade ; while it is supposed to be
inexhaustible.

IMPERIAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS.—The French Em-
peror's marriage is the principal topic of foreign news. It
is said that the Empress has heretofore practised billiards,
shooting, and smoking i'

GUN COTTON.—An improvement has been made by
Major Baron Lenk in the explosive cotton invented by
Professor Schonheim, and experiments are about being
made at Vienna and at Comorn, which it is thought may
lead to a great reform in the artillery.

AT the State Temperance Alliance meeting recently
held in New York, a brother of the celebrated Mrs.
Beecher Stowe said " When the Devil wanted to make
his masterpiece—to do his duty best—he made liquor and
liquor sellers."

THREE EXPLORING EXPEDITIONS are to set sail this
spring from the IThited States—one to the Arctic regions ;
one to Paragua and La Plata ; and another to China and
the North Pacific seas. Besides these, expeditions to
Africa and Japan have already sailed.
BORNEO.-/r1 this island the labours of the missionaries
of the Rhenish Society are attended with a considerable
amount of success. The New Testament has been trans-
lated into the Dyak language, and an addition of 1,500
copies has been distributed by the missionaries.

PROTRACTED SUFFERING.—The Maieritias Gazette
gives an account of a man having been 22 days at sea in a
canoe. In seven days he had consumed all his provisions,
and according to his own statement, he lived the
remaining 15 days on scrapings of wood, which he
washed down with water.

CUBA.—In an article on the island of Cuba, the New
York Herald of January 19 says :—" Sooner or later it
must be ours ; and there are abundant indications, on
both sides of the Atlantic, that the time will soon arrive
for action. The fruit may not yet be fully ripe, but we
should at least prepare the way for quietly gathering it
ere it falls to the ground from decay."
Tins. BLOOMER and her converts have been •` coming
it strong" at a great female temperance convention in
Albany. Mrs. B. denounced the opponents of the Maine
law as being only " rum-sellers and selfish demagogues."
Miss Clark suggested a happy plan of shutting up the
spirit shops. " Were all the ladies of Albany to refuse
to visit where intoxicating liquors were used, those places
would be closed in three months."

EARTHQUAKE IN SWEDEN. Two sharp shocks of
earthquake took place on the 12th ult., at Ardbra and
Unders-Vick, in Sweden. They went from south to
north, and were accompanied by a rumbling noise re-
sembling thunder. Several houses were slightly injured,
and some thick walls cracked. An earthquake in Sweden,
and at this season of the year, is considered a phenomenon.
EMIGRATION.—The local government of New South
Wales have made a grant of £lO,OOO to be remitted in aid
of Mrs. Chis'aolm's Family Colonisation Loan Society.
It may be applied either for the purpose of making fresh
advances, or to constitute a guarantee fund, according to
the judgment of the Secretary of State for the Colonies
and the London committee of the society.

THE HINDU RELIGION.—A. member of the civil service
of the Hon. East India Company, on the Bengal esta-
blishment, has placed in the hands of Messrs. Hoare,
bankers, London, in the names of the Lord Archbishop
of Canterbury, the Lord Bishop of London, and the Lord
Bishop of Oxford, as his trustees, the sum of £3OO ster-
ling, as a prize to the composer, in the English language,
of the best essay in refutation of the errors of Hindu phi-
losophy, according to the Vedanta, Nyaya, and Sankllya
systems,

THE Boston correspondent of the New York Herald,
writing on January 15th, thus notices a great improve-
ment in the weather : " Never did things look better
The effect on people is great. Several gentlemen have
paid their bills without being asked to do so more than
ten times. Quite a number of quarrels have been made
up, and any number of domestic irritations have been
allayed !"

THE RELIGION OF ROME.—The Archbishop of Besan•
con has represented to his flock, in a recent pastoral
of, great authority, that they have an opportunity of wit-
nessing the just and inscrutablejudgrnents of God towards
the whole race of inn-keepers and restaurateurs in the
sweeping destruction brought on the class of wayside
inns and places of refreshment by the establishment of
railways. But, in the opinion of the archbishop, this
appalling visitation of heaven has not been brought upon
them by the vices of their cookery or the adulteration of
their wines—it is the direct result of a criminal propensity
to serve meat dinners on meagre days !
IRON PAVEMENTS. —Workmen are paving Howard-
street, Boston, United States, with cast-iron. The
pavement is composed of circular boxes of cast-iron.
about twelve inches in diameter, and five inches in
height, divided into six compartments, so small as not to
admit the hoof of a horse. These spaces will be filled
with gravel, but some other substances, such as a com-
position of asphaltum and sand or gravel, may lie found
more suitable. The surface of the pavement is grooved
to prevent horses from slipping, and on the outer edge
of each box are keys which fit into the edges of the sun,
rounding boxes, thus binding the whole firmly together.
The thickness of the outer rim and the inner divisions is
about an inch. The street will be covered with a network
of iron, filed in with a substance to produce a smooth
and durable surface.

UNHAPPY END OF A FESTIVAL.—The second, or, as
it is called in Germany, the golden marriage of an old
couple, who had been already united for 53 years, took
place a few days since at the small Prussian village of
Naswiller, a short distance from the frontier. The reli-
gious ceremony took place in the Church of Merlebach,
in France, after which the party proceeded back to Nas-
willer to partake of the wedding-feast. During the even-
ing a trial of skill in singing was proposed, after which
three brothers, who were annoyed at being beaten, fell
on the man who had been declared the victor, and after
beating him severely with their fists, stabbed him through
the heart with a knife. They then ran off, but two of
them were soon arrested, and the third was found hang-
ing in a wood quite dead.

THE EMPRESS OF FRANCE.—The Empress Eugene,
it is said, is not the first bride that Nithsdale and Gallo-
way have given to the Bonapartes. " Jerome Bonaparte,"
the Dumfries Courier adds, "the only surviving brother
of the great Napoleon, married, in the United States, a
Miss Patterson, who was a grand-daughter of one Robert
Patterson, better known in Scotland, and indeed over the
world, as Old Mortality.' Old Mortality,' by some
accounts, was a native of the parish of Closeburn, Dum-
friesshire, though, according to others, the parish of
Hawick claims to be his birthplace. At all events, he
settled, before commencing his well-known wanderings,
renovating the tombstones of the covenanters, in Morton,
the adjoining parish to Closeburn, and married one Eliza-
beth Gray, who was for a considerable time a cookmaid
in the family of the Kirkpatricks of Closeburn. Old
Mortality's' wife, with her children, settled in Balmac-
lellan, Kirkcudbrightshire, and the third son, John, emi-
grated to America in 1776, and established himself at
Baltimore. Jerome Bonaparte married his daughter.
Truly, truth is stranger than fiction r This story, with
the exception of the last link, seems suffioiently vouched
for by the researches of the late Mr. Joseph Train, of
Castle Douglas, the result of which Sir Walter Scott has
embodied in his introduction to Old Mortality.'—(' Li-
brary edition of the Waverley Novels,' vol. v. pp. 5.9,)
Rut though that introduction bears the date of 1829, it
makes no allusion to the circumstance that the Miss
Elizabeth Patterson, of New York, whom the future King
of Westphalia married, in 1803, was the daughter of
John Patterson, of Baltimore, and the grand-daughter of
Sir Thomas Kirkpatrick's cook.

TOMB, 017 THE PROPHET DANIEL. A letter from
Persia states that in the course of works on the line be-
tween Persia and Turkey, commissioners have come upon
the remains of the ancient palace, Shushan, mentioned
in the sacred books of Esther and Daniel, together with
the tomb of Daniel, the prophet. The reader can turn
to Esther; and there-he will read of a " pavement of red,
and blue, and white, and black marble, in that palace."
That pavement still exists, and in the marble columns,
dilapidated ruins, the sculpture, and the remaining mark!,
of greatness and glory that are scattered aroun4 the
commissioners read the exact truth of the record made by
the sacred penman. Not far from the palace stands a
tomb; on it is sculptured the figure of a man, bound
hand and foot, with a huge lion in the act of springing
upon him to devour him.

GEN. HAYNAU.—The Florence correspondent of The
Boston Traveller says :—" General Haynau is staying
here ; and he associates with those who will associate
with him, but seems constantly depressed, as if conscious
of the hostile feeling with which he is constantly regarded.
His manner savors of that of a civilized Cain, defiant yet
trembling. Fie called, a few days since, upon a friend
of mine. The place being a studio, he converse:Psi:me
time upon artistic subjects, without my friend being ac-
quainted with him. At last, the Marshal asked him if he
had read anything in regard to the Hungarian war. " Yes,
through the newspapers." "`Nell, then, you know the
characters who figured in it. lam one—l am General
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in camps. lam a rough soldier, but I never did an un-
necessary cruel act. They say I had women flogged.. T
did not. The Austrian law orders women to be flogged
for certain oances, but 1 never flogged them. You have
heard how I, was treated at Mr. Barclay's brewery ill
London ; it was shameful, and the English Government
never punished the authors of the outrage." My friend
suggested that redress was open to him in the English
Courts, the same as for any other man. " No,. not for'
General Haynau," he replied.

THE FRENCH EMPEROR.—The following is an extract
from a work by Victor Hugo, one of the most able but
bitter French writers, written before the elevation of Louis
Napoleon to the Emperorship :—" Be eas7, History haS
got him fast. It may, perhaps, be flattering to the sell-
love of M. Bonaparte to be caught hold of by history at
all; but if he chance to have, and truly one would ima•
gine so, any allusion in his head as to his value as a
Political miscreant, let him divest himself of• it.. Let hira
not imagine, because he has piled up horror on horror,.
that he will•ever hoist himself up to the elevation of the
great historical bandits. We have been, perhaps, wrong,
in some pages of this book, here and there, in mentioning
his name et all in connection with theirs. Though he has'
committed, enormous crimes he will remain paltry. He
will nevei- be other than the nocturnal strangler of liberty;-
he will never be other than the man who has intoxicated
his soldiers, not with glory, like the first Napoleon, but
with wine ; he will never be other than the pigmy tyrant
of a great people. Grandeur, even in infamy, is utterly
inconsistent with the character and calibre of the man-
As Dictator he is a buffoon ; let him make himself Em-
peror, he would be grotesque. That would at once
put amend to him. His destiny is to make mankind shrug
their shoulders. Will he be less severely punished for
that reason ? Not at all ; contempt does not, in his case➢
mitigate anger. He will be hideous, and he will remain
ridiculous, That's all. History laughs, and crushes. We
question whether history, in its indignation, will not leave
him unnoticed in the mud. Great thinkers have a satis-
faction in castigating the great despots, and, in some in-
stances, even exalt them somewhat, in order to render
them worthy of their rage ; but what would you have the
historian do with this fellow '2. The historian can only
lead him to posterity by the eat. The man once stripped
of i
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skeleton laid bare and shivering;—can any one ima-
gine anything meaner and more miserable ?"