The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-25 00:00:00

dverpool

The screw-steamer A
for Southampton on the 18th of A

The Royal Mail-steamer Chusan -arrived at Melbourne
m the 20th of July, with. the mails of the 4th of May,
irom England, and sailed oil the 21st for Sydney.
A person named Quinn, who absconded from Messrs,
Train and Co.'s., of this town; in July, 1852, with £1,300,
captured in Melbourne, and has been brought back
Eagle.

The boi, containinx £lO,OOO in gold, which had been
lost. overboard, in Melbourne Harbour, from the steamer

a diighig:bell had been constructed,

le to recover it

id every attempt had

from th

The-accounts from Geelong state that a decided im-
provement was observable in the yield of gold from
Balaarat. The last escort that arrived in Melbourne
brought down nearly 6,000 ounces-, besides leaving a large
quantity behind.

Great excitement had been caused at Melbourne in con-
sequence of the M`lvor Private Escort Company's escort
having been attacked and robbed, on its way to Melbourne,

account states t

hat the escort was ro'

of gold dust and a large amount of gold coin, and that
four men,in charge of the escort had been killed. A later
account states that the escort was attacked by twenty
men when about fifteen miles from the Mount M`lvor
diggings).and that the amount of dust stolen was 8,000
ounces, besides £4,000 in gold coin: No official account
of the robbery had, however, reached Melbourne at latest
advices.

The latest accounts from Perth, Western Australia, are
to the 10th July. The operations at the Coal Shales, on
the Preston river, were to be discontinued, in consequence
of the workmen employed not being able to sink deeper
without proper materials, and the boring apparatus sent
by Ail
not being sufficiently equipped.
Ail descriptions or goods and merenanaise were rapidly
accumulating in Melbourne ; from, twelve to fourteen
arrivals from foreign ports every day. Gold was still
rising, and was quoted at £3 17s. 6d. per ounce. Martell's
brandy, in bond, was quoted at
16s. Per dozen; case brandy, 51s

Bass's ale

fleece wool brought 1841 to 21}d.; slipe 17d to 181 d.;
lambs, 21. d.; hand-washed, 201 d.; fine Adelaide flour, £27
to £2B per ton ; hay, £23 per ton ; oats, 12s. per bushel;
maize, 15s. per bushel ; hams, 91 per pound ; cheese,
colonial,.Bd. per pound; Cheddar cheese, ls. 3d. per pound;
butter, Is. 4d. per pound ; lunch biscuits, 9d. per pound ;
choeola; 9d. per pound; Kent hops, ls. 3d. per pound.
Timber and building materials in good demand, at very
high prices. Bricks, English, were selling at £l7 per
1000 ; eptirtering boards, 465. to 59a. per 100 feet ; joists,
565. to 675. per ditto; battens, 545. to 60s. per ditto ; laths,
40s. to- 41s. per 1000 ; shingles, 735. per ditto ; grooved
and tongued boards, 7-Id. to Bd. per foot ; and lime, 15s.
to 20s. per bag. Superior draught horses were realizing
from £BO to £118; inferior ditto,.from £55 to £75; supe-
rior hacks, from £3O to £42 ; in&rior ditto, from £l5 to
£25 ; working bullocks. £35 to £45 per pair for superior
ones ;. and £2O to £25 for inferior.

The barque Tory was wrecked on the 15th July, whilst
on her passage from London. She was bound to Port
Stephens, with two hundred and eighty passengers, prin-
cipally for the Peel River Gold Mining Company, and
machinery, and had reached to. within seven miles of her
destination when she met with the disaster. All the
passengers were saved.
A. correspondent, writing from Balaarat on the 11th of
July, says, One or two rushes have occurred during the
last two or three weeks, without any material result.
Prince Regent's, or Norton's: Gully, continues to attract
the greatest numbers ; whilst that portion of the Eureka
abutting on the flat, which was last worked productively,
was gradually being abandoned until within the last
day or two. Claims are, now being made upon the
fiat, which are gradually extending into the valley
leading to Balaarat, and,, should a few of these claims
turn out well, there is no doubt that the whole,
of the valley to Balaarat will be turned up during the.
course of the next few months. The escort returns
give a very imperfect estimate of the quantity of gold_
produced, and chiefly indicate the quantity sold each week
upon the ground, whilst great numbers are hoarding
their gold, and refuse to sell more than is sufficient to
-supply their immediate wants. The roads are in the
most wretched state, and no attempt is made to repair
them, or even to make the approaches to the camp to-
lerably good. Whenever a rush occurs in the neighbour-
hood of a road, as frequently happens, claims are sure to
be marked out, and often holes several feet deep dug in
the road itself. The commissioner, as a matter of course,
makes his appearance on the following day, and, should
he be so fortunate as to catch the delinquents, fines them
also, as a matter of course; but no attempt is made to
restore the road to its former state, or even to fill up the
holes, and the carters are daily compelled to find out
fresh tracts for their drays. Not satisfied with compelling
storekeepers, schoolmasters, parsons, doctors, and law-
yers to take out licenses this month, a carter was caught,
when looking for his bullocks in the bush,. and fined five
pounds for not having a license."
_ _

A correspondent of the Melbourne Argus, writing
from Mount Wlvor diggings on the 19th July, says,

" Since my last communication the diggings at M`lvor
have °lightly improved, in an far that ground hitherto
neglected, or but badly prospected, has within the last
week had a more thorough trial, by sinking through, in
cases, no less than three, four, and even five, bottoms of
clay, and coming down to the hard rock, at a depth, say,
from thirty to fifty feet. In consequence of this deep
sinking on the rising eminences and gullies between, run-
ning along the creek south from the Melbourne Private
Escort-office, a heavy rush has taken place, and a consi-
derable amount of gold has been secured by those who
have reached the hard rock bottom. So many false
bottoms of clay above referred to have puzzled, until
lately, the diggers at Arlvor altogether. One would
think the first clay was, the true bottom ; another would
imagine the second clay the real thing; another digger
the next clay, and so on. Gold certainly is found more
or less lying on these day bottoms, and the best and surest
way at M`lvor to sink a hole is, first, down to the hard
rock ; that reached, then drive under as far as you can ;
when that is completed, then fill up the hole to the lowest
clay bottom ; drive on that again, and so on up to the highest
day bottom in the pit. Another thing I may mention is,
that at M`lvor the washing-stuff has quite a yellow red
kind of colour, and not that bluey white colour, as at Forest
Creek and other diggings. This has deceived many old dig-
gers; so much so, that in one instance two men realised a
heavy weight of gold in nuggets on the Commissioner's
Flat, but, not knowing the nature of the soil, threw away
their washing-stuff. The two men afterwards separated ;
one went to Bendigo,hut the other remained at M`lvor,and,
becoming better acquainted with the soil, went back to his
41 out from what they had
:dnesday, a fifty-two
, in a pit behind the
n a fine crystalised
I, taken out by a lad
den Hill, in posses-
Lble rush had also
ie Bald Hill, about
Private Escort Com-
understand, the dig-
The long flats lying
Ivor Creek are also
lizaers are
rush pre-
,t

holes, and in the fi

week wa

thrown away, ten ounce

among tn
sion of Dr. Waugl

iring the

rather

Among

er impro
at the at

did atone Darr

aCki and offices_for the

'ars that be,' in

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1853._

amount somewhere about £5,000. The foundation folis
same is now being laid down by the contractors, .'lll4 ye.
be completed in a few months. Various other
meats are also in contemplation at the Camp, iu con,ean
with the barracks and offices above mentioned."' the
The following was the retail price of necessaries at
3.l`lvor diggings :—Raisins, ls 6d, to 2s. ; currants,
coffee, 38.; tea, 2s. 6d • sugar loaf,* 2s. 6d.; ditto niols'l
6d. to 3!;'
10d. to ls.; hams, 2s.' 6d. to 3s. • bacon 2s.
bread, 3s. 6d. per 41b. loaf ; butter,' 4s. 6d. ; tobaco, P''
Bs.; ditto, C., 9s. • cheese, e-e 2s. 6d. to 38 • candles, sPerall'
43.; ditto, Sydney, 2s. • 'so'ap s 6d • flour,' best Adelatied,
£9; oatmeal, is. 6d. • potatoes,' 15..; onions, 2s. ar°
£3 14s. 6d. to £3 15s.'

FOREIGN

MISCELLASr.

A NEW
STYLE OF RAILWAY, substitutingtrter .." d
atmospheric pressure, has been proposed both here Ow.,
France, with a view to economical working od see
{1
from accident. The actuating power is to be obtabre4
AT'
means of continous water-power between the rails by
ficial pressure. when
WHITTLING.—An American paper states that
man refuses to pay a debt among the Mormons, they
on
three officers, called whittlers, who take their stationr,
front of the debtor's house, each with a jack-linifegthe
bundle of sticks, and whittle away, day after clan ped
delinquent knocks under. It is said 'that the ran'
seldom fails. Ley
THE MoßMoslTEs.—Advices fromthe Great Sgtto
acquaint us that the Indians had been very troublesourne
or
the Mormonites in Utah, killing many persons. o)n,ve•tany
Young had issued a proclamation, calling all the ou4ecin
forces of the territory into service. He had also ate' and
wall to be built around the city, twenty feet of
eight feet thick, with a ditch on the outside. A "'''lol
fifty armed men had been sent out, but no captures

been made. Hot work is anticipated. 0 the
MAGNETIC HASPOON.—In Abo is now exhibited horse,
curious a magnetic apparatus, composed of twelve eteJ
shoe magnets, which face each other; two oilflia•
cylinders, closely covered with isolated copper wire'
ing between, are moved by the usual winch, Vie' The
effect is very great, the shocks being dreadful. ,eat
electric power is conveyed by an isolated copper bY 3
tached to the harpoon. This apparatus is to be us'• rr,
large whaler now fitting out in Abo. The inventor i 5
fessor Jacobi, of St. Petersburg. c qtle,
TIIEA sr 2.Es. SUNK AT NAVARINO.—The Officia",;:
of Savoy states that an inhabitant of ChamberrY .""kjasy
anY
quitted that place, to attempt, in concert with a
Of the
organized for that purpose, to save some contents
vessels which were sunk at the battle of Navarill°' pi op
S
ticularly the Admiral's ship, a three-decker, whieb,;ol
said, had on board at the time she went down, been
6,000,000 f. in gold. All the necessary apparatus, 0
embarked, a number of divers have been engage"'
addition to the ordinary divine-bells. all the recerlt

tions for such purposes.' will be'put in requisition. miss
Miss CuivislicalixmL—When it was notified tfoceo
Cunninghame, at Lucca, that the Grand Duke I,au
an. order for her release, she positively refused to leaveirx
prison on an act of grace, as she said she had bed
het
prisoned a month without being brought to trial, a,"„;01
advocate had told her that no verdict could be eb""gid
against her, as she had not transgressed the law'i
therefore she would not go out until she had ea ?Sr',llo
In the evening it was announced to her very ci
go she must She still refused, and then she was t°l-dc,i'reef
if she did not go freely she would he carried out 193" "a 1
upon. which she replied, " Give me that in writing, °.ll
will go." They did so, and accordingly out she iventr..to
ACCELERATED COMMUNICATION WITH INDIA.--18 1e
b '
a twelvemonth of the present date a railway vv.' be 0
pleted from Ostend to Trieste, a distance of 1,500 tel','Es•
which there are even now only two considerable breittle
Letters, passengers, and parcels will then ocellPY to
more than two days from the shores of the Chantle to
those of the Adriatic ; four days. more will take til,T;
Egypt, and by the aid of the railway from Alexatl"-
. og koes:?.

Cairo, now rapidly advancing, they may within 51'si ate
be afloat on the Red Sea, and in 12' days thereafter Edon.
Bombay, or within three weeks of their leaving 1ie.13 to
• ' his date the electric telegraph, now prelArl'Aviei,
ross the Mediterranean, will have reached Shed
1,000 miles of wire which have already ref tbe
will connect every great town in India ,we
.jombay ; so that before the year 1856 expire; CO
shall. have communication by electric telegraph
eleven days' time with every part of India, and by s',-,`"Are•
and rail from Bombay in twenty-one.—Morning
nicle.. t
LAMENBURG (VIENNA).—From Grorietta we
Laxenburg, which was the favourite place 01 ',.)beof
Theresa, and contains " a great sham" in the $11,3,,r, in
a Gothic castle, which she erected and made her 1.101-',"'wss
furnishing, and we may therefore infer from it wiT'4.o4l
her taste. What, then, shall we say ofthat which we' fee
a copy of " The Chamber of Torture, said to be ° old
simileof the justice-chamber actually existing ill 5:„
castle somewhere in the Italian Tyrol ii In the 001`;0•44
a circular' table, inscribed along its edge with th sib"l
Diseik justieiam moniti, et non temnare divo .5 :3
which the judges or inquisitors sat. Above the table Iwo
pulley fastened in the roof, to which the PrisTiretroeir
attached by the arms and legs, and racked, to ex'e,....aer
fession.7 Below, in the dungeon, is an effigy of a Pr;;lyli
chainedqo the wall ; and when you enter, the -11.,l'ealise3
remains,behind, and by means of some mechal“l'-cballig'
the prisoner to lift up his hands and rattle
_llll thl4
Alas ! that a woman should have made ainjulot Jaw°
wretched mockery on the name of j ustico i°of the clia
wleiat estimate Mr. Newman gives in his 1-7, 40-vs tasi
NIA left ?)*f-elvfxribiltled'hebryeshaer
the Builder. taUen,
PHOTOGRAPHIC EN GR. AVI N G.—A discussion 5,01b0,,
hduetsclentaxthinnkt_th.ActoarVespondott o
place in Paris as to the respective rights of gr. "•'. yew
of London, and M. Niepce de St. Victor,- as to the in roe
tion of photographic engraving on plates of Talbotsteel
processes- of these chemists are different. Mr. too
uses, for-the substance impressionable to light, a uloligel
of gelatine and bichromate of potash, which is and aIY
and browned on the immediate contact of light, ,_311„b104
where the light acts, whilst the part covered by tue
to be copied remains untouched, and may be also); the
moved by water. M. Niepce has aimed to Perfect., de-
process which his uncle, the inventor of heliogrAns $
scribed in the year 1827. The sensitive . substancl
solution, of bitumen in essence of lavender, aPPlid:,.tbe
layer ; this varnish changes its properties while tin "0
action of light. The parts exposed to the sun becoreg of
soluble in a mixture of essence of lavender andfro the
petroleum, so that they may be easily separated t
soluble part not impressed, which represents the ,t,ll/4A
to be reproduced. The liquid employed by Mr' f po'
for biting in on steel after his design is bichloride o
tinum, and that of M. Niepce a mixture made of one 1,0•01
of nitric acid, eight parts of distilled water, and
tiA
alcohol.

and the

IRELAND

Mr. HERCULES M`Dowwnix, son of the P 104051 of
trst
Trinity College, Dublin, has been appointed Re-.9' ,
the Court of Bankruptcy in Ireland.
A FAILURE has taken place in the Dublin stf'ilitle.j
change on the part of a junior broker, whose
are estimated at £lO,OOO. t
neflAid 0,1
THERBERT .—This vacanc
death of Major Fairfield, AGENCY
is stated to havey, beep e 50
by the appointment of Major Hareourt. It is 01/t
snuggest berths imaginable, being worth abOt free'et•
per annum, with a town ancleountry house rev roc( ce
P
THE POTATO.--1 he digging of the potatoes +bey dir
ing fast. Accounts are more satisfactory than t`
been for some time past. The actual extent a:, e
ease is far less than was anticipated. Oa, so tile
sandy, and bog soils, the yield has been goo "bees "of
healthy tubers. Heavy and fresh grounds havedioos,o
strongholds of the disease. Fears of the rePe`;(l
the scenes of the " black year " are abating ej"
of plenty are again pervading the poor mad; dice
Clare Journal. 1 a e
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—A man, named ° X'"a
vernment pensioner, attempted self-destruction „„aaio
~,
He went into a shoe-maker's shop, in Greate, Mlt
street, and having asked for the loan of a k,
he got, forthwith went to the door and Cut '}t,ose 411
On the alarm being given, he tried to stab
,„00Pcoir
came near him, and endeavoured to open the "',cas
his fingers. Having been at last secured, he pal'
veyed by the police to Jervis-street hosplta' of
where he lies in a precarious state. .
WILLIAM DARGAN, ESQ.—At a numerous
the exhibitors of the Dublin Exhibition, held
at the Music Hall, Abbey-street, Dublin, ,it prayol,c
mously agreed that, in order to record la r;vde,9l:o
manner their sense of the valuable serviee,s et), Of.itea
Mr. Dargan to his native country, that genlipes'poi"
11
be invited to a public entertainment at the re,4
general laxly of exhibitors : and a corninittelpe cr'
ti
to carry out the requisite arrangements oe '
Dublin Evening Mail. Lip
otos ti;
SCOTCH FARMING IN IRELAND.-011 SP') Arthlit
1,000 sheep arrived here from Scotland, lied V, aeigfg
and special steamer. They were forway. t/o'F,sts"t
Pollock, Esq., of Glasgow, to his propertY Toed
bourhood, lately purchased in the Inei°,ldersta;liiiiiiees,,e
Court, from Mr. J. Beatty West. We the 'll for ttt
Mr. Pollock intends to farm the whole 'Lords 4„,..10041-
property himself, and has engaged four 6"-i,roPer'rstee
purpose. While a large proportion of tl,ells uncle,olo'
be kept in pasture, the amount cultivated, 'le i„ctivalical;l
will be the largest under the direction °ttion is at
the country. A peaceful and social rev°l,,uterft St/in tbe,
unequalled in the annals of history.-0;re" stated t'is." co,t,;
THE MAYNOOTH COMMISSION—It 'Sci olle .0
var ,3111
commissioners have already spent waiters is tstsS
continuously in inquiring into several
e not, we nude
roe,
scope of their commission. They have College, fron,'ll;ld /40,
confined their examination to witnesses
or past connexion with St. Patrick_s_.,sein
supposed to be prejudiced in favour ctfolntss 7rora sefter; fe;
sought for information and
dmeopreenmd eenett
ins ogusrtebe se.
commissioners I tis f u
g the mass °f,i, of tl'fa.
gr:,:siutataeddioutirlialtfoer
eticileaPepoit
pose of considering and di
inquiry, and that in December which they have accumulategdersottnin_
vestigate further,
INTRUSION orrr,
he Countess of St. Gernicereli
Lord-Lieutenant and
the drawing-rooms of the iiiar!..t,
sitting telyrewseilyinraeleattgail—.enpotrto e
Lodge, between e
went and seated in one
of
and twealvne—d
him be's' the
His Excellency demanded of
replied f
vita cip
manner. apdpgha.ranse7f entered
afirroimn at
in, e actlinest
bre.,osc,ol,
ocr''ac-lnovicakills,ses:7l/11eleirli:;g51:1'vtl:0
most sangfroid that he had entered
lay.bxeelleaeltuov tgbeenrtelenn:dniwYhat was his business. Heb
and that he desired an interview.
His
der Nos reasoll
moiled the attendants, by whom the w.
a be
and given into the custody of the polio I.o_
veyed to Bridewell-lane station-house, ts,jr, beeni
fi
managed to effect his escape, and has not since pest
everY,
of. The sentries,• whose duty it is to ch deciareaAola
entering the Viceregal Lodge after sburerisseothe
he did not pass them ; and the members 1,
not 0-s ars t)'t
and the servants stated that they it appe ois
party is the Rev. Henry Stannar. „ unsouutais
h. hapn for some time past, paweritao:4
stranger in the lodge during the ilaigelletro• wan, dinifilidf,
`front

..s,
very eccentric in his habits
abou+ of age

„,e. Mr. O'Callag
his apprehension, and the pelicC
searching for him.

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