The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-06 00:00:00

on the books from a Rotianist

GENERAL INTELLIG_ENCE.

DEsEirrioN,Trom the 74th Highlanders, is said to have
been prevalent at the Cape of Good Hope.
THE NCNNERIES IN SPAIN, according to a Madrid
journal, are 803 in number, and contain 20,613 nuns.
A CONCESSION has been granted to a projector who
proposes to establish seawater baits at Paris, and who has
undertaken to have seawater .brought to the park of
Monceaux.
MORE THAN

'Two litrxnErn STORES, of a large
size, were seen flying round the steeple of the church (if
Sabadellause, in Spain. Two of them were shot, and fell
into the street.

TnE CONTINENT lIRS been visittil by severe storms,
which have oftzasionod much damage to the crops. In
nr.l a hnlf alma nloncta bone4-nrickm

•were picked up.
THE CHAIRMI NBILSP of the London and Northwestern
Railway Company, so,-unsettled since the retirement Of
Mr. Glyn, will, it is now said, be accepted by the Marquis
0£ Chandos.

'IIHE FURNITURE ANDTYPECTS OR TEE LATE WARREN
HASTINGS were sold at *Daylesford, the sale being com-
pleted on Monday week. It was numerously attended,
and though old and -considerably worn. the furniture

realised £4,000. A collection of all the evidence against
Warren Hastings, in 13 vela:, sold for eighteen guineas. _

Lusa REA.Pilis.-.—Last week, upwards-of 3,000 Irish
and Highland reapers were oarried by the.minburgh and
Glasgow Railway to the different agricalturid districts in
the east country. During the week the .annul immigra-

Lion of Iris reapers into Glasgow commenced. The Derry
steamers, ac they successivelparrived at the Droomielaw,
have been 'crowded from stem to stern, paddle-boxes and
all, with this class of passengers.

A POWDER. MAGAZINE in the neighbourhood of Ots-
chakow,.in•Russia, in which about-16,000 kilogranunes of
powder wore deposited, blew up a short time since-with a
terrific explosion. A soldier who 'was on guard was
knocked -to pieces, and an old man who lived in a'house
near the place. was killed by the falling. of a stone on his
head. The -roofs of the houses and the churches in the
town were seriously injured by the falling stones, and an •
immense number of windows were broken.
A JEWISH CoLolcv is described in the Jewish Chronicle
as having lately 'been discovered at SingapOre. They
claim to be descended from the exiles of the-first Babylonish
captivity, and are 'ignorant of the second dispersion. They
embraced a European ,3ew visitor as a brother, and were
glad to find thattaconld converse with them in the He-
brew language. On his attending divine service, he was
called to the reading of the law from a heautiful.scroll, the
rollers of which were of .silver, ornamented with filagree
work.

THE INHABITANTS OF HOLYHEAD have presented a
petition to' her Majesty, requesting that she will be g.ra-
.ciously pleased to allow the -new harbour to be called the
" Royal Victoria Harbour." it is a magnificent place,
and would afford accommodation for 100 sail of ships, and
forms a perfect basin, where ships can at all times lay in
perfect security.
THE FOUNDATION STONE of a new building for the
Athemeum, at Melbourne, Derbyshire, has been laid by
Lord Palmerston, who followed up the formal ceremonial
by an address on the advantages which such an institution
was capaide of conferring. The building, which has been
commenced, is to be erected after designs by Mr.' Stevens,
of Derby, at an estimated cost of about £7OO. It will
provide accommodation for an Infants' School, a Mecha-
nics Institute, and a Savings Rank.
LORD LONDESBOROUGH, it is said, has completed the
purchase of the Selsby estate for £270,000, from the Hon.
Mrs. Petre, widow of the Hon. E. Petre, of Selby; Mrs,
Petre, who was left sole executrix to her husband, with
the property at her own disposal, has taken the veil in
France ; and the whole of her property will of course go
to the funds of the nunnery which she has entered.
A SINGULAR SUICIDE occurred last week in the coffee-
room of the Cathedral Hotel, London. A young man
named George F. Stanley Smith, who was shortly to have
been married, swallowed prussic acid, which occasioned
his death. From a paper found in his pocket, it is inferred
that he committed the fatal act, in consequence of feeling
an inferiority of merit, in himself, to
whom he was about to be united.
A TRAIN on the York and Scarborough Railway was,
the young lady with
on Wednesday last, discovered to be on fire. On this line,
it seems, luggage is carried on the roofs of passenger car-
riages, and on the occasion referred to, it is presumed, a
spark from the engine had alighted on a pile of luggage,
and fanned by the current of air induced by the motion
of the train, speedily involved the pile in flames. Fortu-
nately the fire was discovered, and the burning luggage
removed, before any very serious damage took place.
Several of the passengers, however, were seriously alarmed
by the occurrence.