The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-20 00:00:00

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

THE GRADUATES of the Universities of Scotland are
seeking parliamentary representatives.
HER MAJESTY has presented a splendid pack of hounds
to the Duke of Brabant. -

No fewer than nine judges have taken their seats on the
Scottish benches since the beginning of the year 1850.
SINCE vn YEAR 1849 the returns furnished to par-
liament show that one million pounds sterling have been
expended on voyages to the North Pole.

THOMAS BOLTON, collector of the property and income
tax in the parish of St. Clement Dane, Strand, London,
has become a defaulter to the amount of £3,600.
Jour( BBOADBENT, convicted of a garotte robbery at
Hull, has been sentenced to five years' penal servitude, the
judge remarking that this description of offence was a
serious one, and it was necessary to punish it severely.
WORKMEN have commenced enclosing a considerable
area in Palace-yard, opposite the entrance to Westminster-
hall, on the site of which it is intended to erect the statue
of Richard Cceur de Lion.

A PATRIARCIL—There is a man in Orkney, now aged
nearly ninety years, who has led to the hymeneal altar
and followed to the grave eight wives. He is about to be
married the ninth time.—North British Mail.

THE EARL OF STAMFORD has presented two very
handsome silver cups, one worth £25 and the other £22,
to the tenants occupying the two best cultivated farms
under him on his estates in Leicestershire.

DIABOLICAL ACT.—The throats of nineteeen sheep, the
property of Mr. J. Shaw, of Bretton West, near Hudders-
field, were cut one night last week. A reward of £lOO has
been offered for the discovery of the miscreant.
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ME. WILLIAM RUMBOLD, who has lately retired from
the Grenadier Guards, was married, a few days since, at
the British Embassy, in Paris, and at the Greek Church,
in the Rue de Berri, to the Russian Princess Lobanoff
Rostock.

Da. SMUT', a surgeon of Peterhead, has been sent to
prison on a charge of murdering Macdonald, a poor black-
smith, by shooting him. Smith, who was not related to
Macdonald, had effected insurances for £2,000 on the
blacksmith's life.

BLYTII AND TYNE RAILWAY: A GOOD EXAMPLE.—
At a meeting of landed proprietors of the district, just
held, Sir W. Ridley, the chairman, said that as most of
the land for the docks belonged to himself, he would give
it to the company, and subscribe to the:extent of £lO,OOO
in shares.

A HINT TO FAMILIRS.—A correspondent says, "whilst
currants are so dear, now Is. per lb., Turkey black raisins
are being much used in families, mixed with currants.
They are wholesome, and can be bought at 4d. to sd. per lb.
They should be stoned. Buy each separately, two-thirds
raisins and one-third currants, and it will be a saving."l
Mn. DARGAN and Sir M. Barrington are, it is stated,
making arrangements for the purification of the Dublin
sewerage, by Bardwell's patent, which consists substan-
tially of a filtering process, by which the water is made to
pass through iron, scoria, charcoal, and sand, which not
only impounds the undissolved matter, but is said to
deprive the water of much, if not all, of its offensiveness.
The chief value of the process is said to consist in its
producing a good marketable manure from the matter
retained by the filter.

ATTEMPTED GAOL-BREAKING BY A. WOMAN.-011
Saturday night week a determined attempt was made by a
female prisoner in custody at Falkirk to escape from the
" Steeple," in which she was detained until it was con-
venient to remove her to the safer keeping of the county
prison at Stirling. The female keeper of the cell, Mrs.
Watson, had gone to the cell of the prisoner, named
Isabella Freeland, an expert thimble-rigger from Dundee,
and an old and hardened offender. After Mrs. Watson
had entered the prison house at the base of the steeple,
Freeland directed her attention to a certain part of the
room, and as soon as she had turned, seized the advantage
and began to belabour the back of the luckless keeper,
almost overpowering her. With her remaining strength
she got to a window above, and succeeded in alarming Mr.
J. Rennie, who happened to be below at the time. Upon
hearing that a prisoner was making her escape, Ms.
Rennie at once rushed to the door of the cell, and on
entering found the woman bundling up and about to take
her departure. Freeland stood at bay, and attacked the
intruder ; but in the contest she proved the weaker of the
combatants, and all her labour and daring were lost. She
has, since this attempt was made, been transmitted to
Stirling, where she will be tried. Mrs. Watson is not
seriously hurt.