The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-10-20 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL MISCELLANY.

Accounts from the Hague. October 9, state that his Ma.
jesty, William 1., will take the title of William Frederic,
Count of Nassau.

Some symptoms of civil war have begun to manifest them-
selves in La Vendee. Prayers have ceased to be offered in
several churches for Louis Philippe.
CEYLON COFFEE CROP.—We are informed, on the au-
thority of persons from the interior, that the prospects of the
coming coffee crops are most encouraging; the bushes being
loaded with fruit, under the weight of which they already
bend.—Colombo Observer, Aug. 3.

A private letter from Paris states that the English were
quitting that city—that the hotel-keepers were pulling long
faces—that English bank-notes were at a discount of four
sous per one pound, and that the funds were expected to go

ATHENS, SEPT. 16.—Sir Robert and Lady Inglis are here,
and are staying with Sir Edmund Lyons. Accounts have
just been received of the death of an English traveller, Mr.
Edward Archdall, who was travelling in the north of Greece.
He expired at a village near Livadia, it is said from a fever
brought on by exposure to the sun.

COAL MINES AT TFIE. HAVANNAH.—SeveraI mines of
capital bituminous coal have been discovered at Havannah,
fully equal to the best English. This is good news for the
West India and South American steam-ships from England,
that are projected to touch outward and homeward at the
great West India port.—Journal of Commerce.
Admiral Hugon, whose arrival off the Dardanelles has
been announced, had not, on the 19th ult., left the coast of
Greece, if we are to believe the following letter written on
that day by a French resident at Athens, which we find in
the Commerce :—" The French fleet, commanded by Admi-
ral Hugon, is at the Piraeus, and, it appears, does not intend
to leave these shores. More than two hundred of its officers
have taken out licenses to shoot. The admiral expects to
pass the winter in this roadstead. The Powers, it is said,
have applied to the Greek government to join them, and to
refuse the French fleet any shelter."
The Progre's du Pas de Calais states that Prince Louis
Napoleon informed a gentlemen who visited him in the €Du-
ciergerie at Paris, that when he landed at Boloagne, he had
in his coat pocket a pocket-book, in which were English
notes for £3OOO, and a considerable sum in gold, all of which,
when his coat was returned to him, after having been dried
from his immersion in the water, were missing. This jour-
nal adds, that if they did not fall into the sea, and any one
has happened to find them, they may be sent to the prince at
Ham.

The Emancipation of Toulouse has a long report of a re-
form manifestation in that town, at which M. Arago, the
astronomer, but no conjuror, was the great gun. The follow-
ing were some of the toasts :
" To the principle and triumph of democracy."
" To perseverance (id. est, revolution.)"
" To the alliance of the people ! "
" To the democratic propagandism ! "
" To the revolutionary propagandism, which is to restore
to Italy her independence and Poland her nationality. To
Germany her free unity, and to Spain democracy. To Bel-
gium and France one country. To France her preponderance
abroad, and the sovereignty of the people at home. To the
oppressed people. to whom the first cannon shot will give
emancipation. To the National Convention."

DEATH FROM A POISONOUS SNAKE COOKED IN FOOD.—
A very melancholy event took place a few days ago in Zilla
Moorshedabad. The wife of a Mahomedan in Tarkpoor,
cooked some vegetables for her children (three boys) in which
she had unconsciously cut up a small poisonous snake.
When the boys were eating the vegetables with their rice, one
of them found in his plate a piece of the snake, and immedi-
ately asked his mother if she had put fish in the vegetables.
The mother was surprised, and replied in the negative, upon
which the boy showed her the piece of snake he had found.
The woman was still more astonished, and bade her sons to
eat no more. She then examined the dish of vegetables, and
found that she had inadvertently cut up a snake with the
vegetables. But she discovered her error too late. All her
three sons died shortly after, from having eaten of the, no
doubt, poisoned vegetables.—Benyal Commercial Adver-
tiser, Aug. 5.
MORE FRAUDS OF THE CHINESE.—We have been given
to understand that a considerable amount of fraud is disco-
vered in the China goods lately imported per several vessels ;
and in order to protest against the same, a meeting of several
merehants met the day before yesterday in the house of Ebra-
him Cadoo, the owner of the ship Atiet Rahimon, when in
their presence, twenty-five chests of raw silk were opened,
and instead of twenty bundles, as usual, only nine bundles of
silk were found in each ; and to make up the weight, small
pieces of China bricks were discovered, wrapt up in grass in
the midst of them. We have also learned, that in China
piece goods, similar frauds have been practised,—small planks
and some such weighty articles being wrapt up in the middle
of the pieces. It is supposed that these pranks must have
been practised either at Macao, or by boatmen in bringing
the same there from Canton ; for individuals experienced in
China trade gave it as their opinion, on examining the same,
that it could never have been done by the original merchants
in China.—Doorbin, July 22.
IMITATION OF THE HUMAN VOICE.—We are informed
by the Fanal, Brussels paper, that M. Glantz, one of the
first mechanics of Vienna, has been at work for several
years in forming an instrument, which his ingenious mecha-
nism has at length succeeded in making imitate the sounds
of the human voice. The instrument, it is said, is now
completed, and that it acts in a manner altogether unex-
pected. It is stated to be a chef d'cpuvre of mechanism.
By pressing a spring, it executes different melodies in a tenor
voice, a barytone or deep bass. This instrument, it is further-
more added, excites, as it might naturally be supposed to do,
if the account of it be correct, the most lively sensations in
the salons of Vienna. M. Glantz intends to make an auto-
maton, in the head of which he will introduce his voice
instrument, the mechanism of which occupies very little
room.

THE CAMP AT BELMONT.—The Courier du Bas Rhin
announces that the camp of 15,000 men destined to be formed
at Belmont has already began to receive troops ; 4000 men
are already in barrack there, and this number will he increased
so soon as,new barracks are completed and rendered capable
of receiving them.
ACCURATE INTELLIGENCE.—The National of Wednes-
day announces, that on the arrival of the intelligence that an
attempt had been made to set fire to the dockyard at Sheer-
ness " an emeute burst forth in London, upon which occa-
sion the people rushed upon the hotel of one of the ministers,
and sacked his mansion !"

GREAT PUBLIC DINNER TO DR. THOMAS ROLPII.—On
Tuesday last a public dinner was given in the City-hall to
Dr. Thomas Rolph, as a proof of the estimation in which he
is held by the citizens of Toronto, for the unremitting exer-
tions used by him, during his recent tour through the United
Kingdom, to bring before the British public the resources
and capabilities of this province. The hall was most taste-
fully decorated with oak boughs and evergreens, together with
the flags and banners of the different societies in the city. A
full-length portrait of the Queen was placed at the head of
the room over the centre table. The tables were ranged in
four divisions to accommodate the large party who attended
on this occasion. The chair was occupied by his honor the
Vice-Chancellor, and the vice-chair by W. B. Jarvis, Esq.,
Sheriff of the Home District. The vice-presidents at the
other tables were the Mayor of the city, the Honourable J.
Elmsley, and Mr. Barwick.—(Toronto Patriot, of Sept. 18.)
Dr. Rolph delivered, on his health being drunk, a long and
interesting speech.

THE DEVIL AND A SociAmm—One night last week, a
young man, who has unfortunately imbibed the dangerous
and foolish principles of Owen, was in company with his
sweetheart in the lotter's house, when the subject of Social-
ism came on the carpet for discussion. The young man had
moralized to a great length, and, thinking that he had van-
quished every opposing argument, got so desperate as to boldly
assert there was not such a thing as a Devil, adding that if
there was, he wished he might pop his head in the house,
and convince him, by ocular demonstration, of his existence.
The hour when ghosts and hobgoblins generally take their
rambles was fast approaching, and still our Socialist con-
tinued to express his belief and wish. Just at the crisis a
young man who labours in the dark domains of the earth,
was on his way home, pd hearing the voices of the loving
pair, resolved upon giving them a "start." For this purpose
he softly lifted the latch of the door, and stealing gently into
the lobby, popped his sable head—and only his head—round
the partition, in full view of the disbeliever in his Satanic
majesty. The young man's eyes caught the object before
him, and believing that his wish was granted him, sprang
from the embrace of his sweetheart, leapt on the floor in ter-
ror, and did not know where to fly. or what to do in order to
be relieved from his dreadful situation. The young man
who had been so desperate as to present his black face before
them, was greatly amused, though he could not see why he
should be an object of terror to the young desperado, who
will no doubt hereafter believe in the existence of a being
who goes about as a roaring lion.—Whitehaven Herald.