The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-13 00:00:00

INTELLIGENCE.

ONE FIRM IN BRISTOL alon
Africa.

sends twenty ships to

ring WOOD of an extensive tract of Prussian forest Ii
?Jst purchased for the English nraivy. _ _ _

A. BALANCE-SHEET AF THE ArXiZON FUND is adver-
tised, by which it appears that the subscriptions were
£13,283, and that there is now a.balance in hand of £9,811.
TEE TOTAL NUMB= OF Exam :axons at the New York
, _Exhibition, both foreign and American, is 4,383. This is
.about one-fourth the number .contributing to the London

xhibition.
THE BARNSTAPLE Com.mtssiox continues its inquiries
ad they seem likely to lead to disclosures which will rite

lose of St. Albans and the other peceant boroughs.
RRINGEMENTS are making for the. performance of
m operas in Edinburgh ,in December and January
il nights a week

/Jell, and afterwards in 6
during the month of February

asgow ,so

$E JOURNEYMEN CALINET-nA,RELS of Birmingham
have resolved to demand an increase of ten per cent. on
their wages. They have requested an _answer from the

TIIE NUNNERY AT PRI/CC ETHORPB, Ilea= Nuneaton, has
been broken into, and four c indices, with patens, one of
the former being richly set with amethysts, two ciboria,
four silver candlesticks, and ,the cross of a monstrance,
with other church and domestic plate, were ,stolen.
Two BOATS belonging to the new steamer ;Bengal, which
left Southampton, on the 25th alt„ for the Cope and India,
have been‘washed ashore at Weymouth. As a portion of
the davits are attached to the boats, it is evident that they
had been washed away by a sea.
A DESTRUCTIVE FIER occurred on Saturday morning
at the extensive factories and buildings. of Messrs. Russell
and Co., ironAhipbuilders and engineers, Mill-wall Poplar,
as also the establishment of Messrs. Napier, engineers, of
the same place.
IRON LIGHWOUSE.—A new cast-iron lighthouse, in-
,fendpa for the Falkland Islands, loos just been co. hated
Messrs. H. and M. D. Grissell, of London. These
;gentlemen have recently executed a similar lighthouse for
,Reemuda. The total height of the tower is 67 feet,and
its weight,,includuw that of the lantern, nearly 50 ,tons.
.Coi.Lisrox.—On Monday evening H.M. steamer lika-
clamanthui came into collision, off Plymouth, with a large
passenger vessel, supposed to be an American liner. The
Rhadamanthus struck the merchantman obliquely about
the mizen chains, her bowsprit grazing the Miele length
of her side. The vessel, however, appeared to have sus-
tained little damage, for she continued her course, al-
though the steamer followed her for an hour and a half,
firing guns and signal lights.
POOR NEEPLEWOMEN.—A large number of sempstresses
employed at the most inferior description of under cloth-
ing have at length refused to work for the miserable pit-
tance doled out to them ; female waistcoat makers, and
those employed in slop clothing, have also turned out for
an advance of wages ; and the tailors, cap makers, and
others employed in the large exporting houses, have made
a demand for an increase of pay, alleging that the advance
that has taken place in the prices of bread, meat, coals,
and other necessaries requires that a proportionate ad-
vance should be made in their pay.
CHOLERA AT NEWCASTLE.—Between twenty and thirty
cases of Asiatic cholera have occurred in Newcastle and
the immediate neighbourhood within the last few days,
all terminating fatally. It appears to have broken out at
a place called Bill Quay, on the south bank of the Tyne,
towards Shields, the first case reported being that of a
woman residing there, who was seized on Thursday week,
and died the day following, shortly after she had been
brought to Newcastle. Since then five more cases have
occurred at Bill Quay. Diarrhoea is very prevalent in the
district.
POSTAGE STAISPS.—There is a provision in the new
Stamp Act (16th and 17th Vict., cap. 59) which will take
effect from the 10th of next month, to facilitate the pur-
chase of postage stamps or stamped envelopes without a
license. It is provided by the 15th section that the Post-
master-General, in writing, may authorise and appoint any
person in the service of the Post-office to sell postage
stamps at any particular house or place to be specified for
that purpose ; and also any messenger or other person
employed in the delivery of letters sent by post to carry
about for sale and to sell at any place postage stamps ; and
all such persons shall during the, period that such authority
and appointment shall remain unrevoked, without any
license, be at liberty to sell at any house or place specified,
or, if authorised, to carry about postage stamps, and shall
Rot be liable to any penalty or forfeiture..