The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-01-11 00:00:00

GENERAL NEWS.

THE HON. MISS STAPLETOI,7, sister of Lord Beau-
mont, has renounced the Church of Rome, and received
the sacrament at Carlton Church on Christmas-day.

CAUTION.—At Durham, on Tuesday, a person named
Thomas Blackburn, a carrier, was fined £l5, for having
exposed a slandered horse in a public fair, knowing it to
be infected.

LONDON Dom COMPANY.—At the half-yearly meeting
held on Tuesday last, the dividend declared was at the
rate of 5 per cent. per annum, and the report was unani-
mously adopted.
THE TAGUS, Peninsula and Oriental Company's steam-
ship, with the Peninsula mails, a large number of passen-
gers, and specie to the amount of about £lO,OOO, le'
Southampton on Friday.
A CompAursom.—Four hundred years have eldeed
since the invention of printing, yet books are not'i cir-
culation all over the globe; while the use of tob-'ee be-
came universal within fifty years after its discov Y*

NEW GRENADA.-Mr. William Bennett,
a 1 Captain
F. A. Ellis, R.N., left Southampton on Tu'daY' in the
,
Medway, for New Granada, in the service t the Magda.
lena Steam Company, to take measures or carrying out
the objects of that undertaking.
A KILLING TRAIN.—The mail •Ain of the Great
Western Company, on Monday nigl,
rear quarters in a deep
flock of sheep which had taken up
dashed through a
cutting between Ebley and Stornouse. Ten of them
were at once converted into mutin•

MINISTERIAL MOVEMENT
likes game o' "five-and-fort- the movements o'-leadin'
pollyticians is—there's a demo' shutilin', and thryin' to
see into each other's Imo, and the " knave" turns up
only too often.—Terry 01)risc°11.

EXTRAORDINARY MraLATION.—A foreign sailor, now
in Plymouth, on Frida dreadfully mutilated himself with
a razor, by cutting ais throat, his sides, his thumbs,
stomach, &e.; but aotwithstanding all these injuries he
got up next morni'g, walked about, and smoked a pipe !

CAPTAIN JOH; CLEMENTS, of the Lower-road, Dept.-
ford, being subect to the gont, was in the habit of taking
colchicum in doses of 20, 30, 40, and even GO drops.
Last week, having his bottle with him, he took a wine-
glass, as he said, to warm him, or 960 drops. The con-
sequence was he died in a few hours.
TILE Qvgtiv V. DR. NEWMAN.—The rule fora new
trial in this celebrated cause will be argued in the ensuing
term. It shnds the last but one in the list of new trials,
No. 20 in tie cause paper. It is understood that the ex-
penses atteidant on the proceedings of this affair will
amount to 'bout £lO,OOO. The present Attorney General
isifor Dr. Ikewman.
JUVENIL:INTEMPERANCE.—An extraordinary instance
of juvenile intemperance occurred at Redding Muir on
Saturday. Three children, all under eight years of age,
had contrivEd to obtain a bottle of whisky, and drank the
contents arnmgst them. All the three were, as a matter
of course, tacen seriously ill, and on Monday the eldest
girl died. The other two are recovering.

AftraDEß.—A man named Witham has committed a
brutal murcer in a public-house in the Lower Wands-
worth -road,near London. He was sitting drinking with
a man ruined Pollard, and threw something at him ; the
latter retaliated ; Witham then knocked him down on
the hearth, and beat his head on the stone until he died.
The ruffian Ilion resumed his pipe, till the police came to
arrest him fir the homicide.
THE CONMISSIONERS IN LIINACY.—The report made
to the lord 7hancellor by the commissioners in lunacy of
visits to insole persons during the six months ending the
4th of Augist last has lust been printed. Dr. Turner
made 123 iisits, saw 6237 patients, and travelled 3973
miles. Dr. Hume made 152 visits, saw 5511 patients, and
travelled 5694 miles. Mr. Gaskell made 137 visits, saw
7708 patients, and travelled 4676 miles. Mr. Proctor
made 100 visits, saw 5515 patients, and travelled 3809
miles. Mr. Mvine made 158 visits, saw 7808 patients,
and travelled 5819 miles. Mr. Campbell made 131 visits,
saw 7673 patients and travelled 4329 miles.
Loss OF LIFE BY FIRE.—On Tuesday an inquest was
held at the London Hospital on the bodies of two young
women, aged respectively 19 and 16 fears. The younger
was set on fire whilst standing over the fireplace, but the
elder, who was in service, had been left in care of the
house during the absence of the mistress on the night of
the 24th ult., and after the family returned home fell
asleep in an easy chair, before the parlour fire. About
three o'clock on Christmas morning the family were
aroused by loud screams, and the deceased was found en.
veloped in flame. Three large mats were wrapped round
her, but before the fire could be extinguished, she was
shockingly blackened and charred over various parts of
the body.

THE ROYAL NAVY.—The present naval force of Great
Britain consists of 545 ships-of-war (either in commission
or-in ordinary), carrying from 2to 120 guns each. Of
this number 180 are armed steamers, from 100 to 800-
horse power engines, for active sea-service (besides reve-
nue-cutters and smaller vessels). This immense fleet,
the largest of any maritime power. employs in time of
peace 140,000 able-bodied seamen, 2,000 boys, and 15,000
Royal Marines, divided into four divisions (102 compa-
nies), viz. :—First division, head-quarters, Chatham, 25
companies ; second division, Portsmouth, 27 companies ;
third division, Plymouth, 25 companies : and fourth divi-
sion, Woolwich, 25 companies; and 10 companies of
Royal Marine Artillery, head-quarters, Portsmonth.
Besides, there are 7 brigades of Dockyard Volunteers,
well trained to gunnery, viz. :—Deptford, 'Woolwich,
Chatham, Sheerness, Portsmouth, Devonport. and Pem-
broke, and 3 other battalions, Coast Guard, &c.
A SINGULAR CHARACTER.-At the late election of
coroner for Somerset, an aged farmer, named Edward
Churchis, residing at Biddisham, about five miles from
Axbridge, and who has kept his bed for nearly or quite 20
years, from rheumatic gout, by which his hands and legs
are much distorted, was conveyed to the polling place in
a Cobourg cart, to record his vote. He is quite a cha-
racter in his way, and has lived in the house at Biddisham
about 40 years. It is remarked of him that he lies in bed
and gets more money than his neighbours who work all
the day. He keeps a regular diary of every day's tran-
sactions, and puts down in writing the names of all per-
sons who come to his house each day, arid their business.
When he has any stock for sale, the cattle are driven
opposite the window of the room where he lies in bed,
that he may view them and fix the prices previous to their
being sold ; and it is said that on some occasions he will
have the sheep brought to his bedside that he may value
them. Although confined to his bed continually, he
manages the farm himself, and notwithstanding his fin-
gers are contracted and drawn backward by the disease,
he writes a legible hand, and assists occasionally iu keep-
ing the parish accounts.
HOLLOWAY'S PILLS WONDERFULLY EFFICACIOUS IN
THE CURE OF A DISORDERED LIVER.-Mr. R. W.
Kirkus, chemist, of Prescot-steeet, Liverpool, lately in-
formed Professor Holloway that a customer of his (a lady
to whom he is at liberty to refer) has been cured by the use
of these invaluable pills, of a liver complaint with which
she has been troubled for several years ; and so virulent
was the last attack, that even her life was despaired of.
In this alarming state she tried Holloway's Pills, the first
dose of which relieved her, and by continuing their use
for a short period she has been restored to the enjoyment
of perfect health.