The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-15 00:00:00

IRELAND.

vAnotreTioN.—Patrick Coghlan, of Dungarvan, con-
tleted at the Waterford assizes, of carrying off Mr. Allman,
auPrevent him from voting at an election for a dispensary
irerhge,°l3, was sentenced to pay a fine of £2O, and to be
thronedfoi4?° until the fine be paid, and also to be imprisoned
nts
baSsiNalTLArt OCCURRENCE.—A person of Dublin, who
took°,erPetrated forgeries to the amount of about £3,000,
dete„L° flight a short time ago, and was followed by two
oateees, who arrested him at Liverpool, and cominuni-
brin,,`l?: the Dublin Police-ofice that they were about to
dete7,4"ta to Dublin. Since then neither prisoner nor
tver,;''ves have appeared, and it is rumoured that they
‘aBi seen on board the unfortunate steamer Victoria.'
ARE BRIGADE.—It is understood that the result of the
don 'ngs of a meeting of Irish members, held in Lon-
sr °n Saturday, has led to the virtual disbanding of the
eusre• After a very protracted, and rather warm dis-
of 13°?' a Proposition was made, and carried by a majority
1-(3 9, that it should be left to the discretion not each
member to sit where, and to vote how, he should think
ex°„er, an opinion, at the same time, being very strongly
(e"Psed that the policy of an Irish party, independent
ll governments, was the only policy for the country.
Seir RATRICIDE TYRONE.—A man named George
weegkaor had been to Dungannon market, on Thursday
iat . and on returning home in the evening in a state of
the°xleation, he commenced to abuse his wife. His bro-
rao:; John Seignor, who is represented to have been a
the Inoffensive and peaceable man, interfered ; and,
.on
wk. other persisting in brutalities, a scuffle insued, during
lA"loll the drunken man produced a clasp knife, and
tlinged it into the side of the other, who has sinc9 died.
theer,wretched survivor decamped at the time of his bro-
s death, and has not since been heard of.
fo 1" UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN.—The commissioners
inquiring into the state of the University of Dublin,
d'lre nearly completed their report, which will be in rea-
itless soon after the Easter recess. It is stated that the
4Pact'llt will suggest various important modifications, and
all 4 will recommend the removal of certain restrictions
ingleing students belonging to the Romanist and dissent.
taininn,„°toinations, who are at present disqualified from oh-
sehoi:r3isPholarships. It is not likely that the existing
will be 11PS connected with the corporation of the college
cproesaittloon
07ened to those classes ; but it is said that the
new ones, equal in pecuniary emolument and
0 n, will be suggested in the report. The
general
nn;fp() inalr course is now open to dissenters and Romanists,
. ay also become sizars ; but rs
schahip.
'i ob
urch only. rofessor-
alPS, and fellowships can be tained olby Ca
-membersp of the

COURT AND F

ADMIRAL LAPEL.—The death of the Admiral of the
Red the Hon. Sir Thomas Bladen Capel, G.C.8., young-
est son of William, fourth Earl of Essex. by his second
wife, Harriet, daughter of Colonel Thomas Bladen ;
brother of Lieut.-General Hon. Thomas Edward Capel ;
and uncle of the present Earl of Essex. and of Commander
A. H. C. Capel, R.N.., has been reported, at the age of
ea H•
years.
PRINCE ALBERT, as Colonel of the Grenadier Guards,
p 485 expressed his intention of increasing at his own ex-
bense the band of this fine regiment from its present num-
batf thirty-two to the complement of sixty, in order
it shall be equal in strength to most of the Conti-
nental bands.
VISCOUNT MELTILLE has proceeded to India to re-
iiksurne the command of the GOth Royal Rifles, and is
eIY o appointed to one of the divisions of the army
at the seat of war in Burmali.
anl-1t INIAJEsTY and Prince Albert and the Royal Family,
TN-cording to resent arrangement, will return to Windsor
trie on Thursday next, for the Easter holidays. After
t-rnaining at Windsor for a fortnight the Court will return
° nUckingliam Palace.
of
t",Eltz is no probability of Her Majesty going to the Isle
P"e tgelidt tuonttai lk
ealter the
e in
ARporTla.l accouchement, which is
b ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT held a levee,
tj'aidesire of the Queen, on Wednesday, in St. James's
Toanc°. Among the presentations were Mr. Charles
ert Ma), and Mr. Thomas B. Horsfall.
„, Fra BISHOP OE ELY (Dr. Turton), is in a very delicate
!nate of health.
Tag Aro .
Lord war fling Post contradicts the reported marriage of
d and Alias
-Montague, daughter of Lord Rokeby.

AN AMERICA--:-.N-TP-I-6fURE OF JOHN BULL

,nom THE IsTENY YORK HERALD.)
sibilJohn Bull seldom relinquishes hat he can by any pos-
ity retain. Ever since Greatwßritain had a navy, ter-
ritorial aggrandisement has been her peculiar characteristic.
She has swallowed islands and peninsulas, fortresses and
!weseaports, with insatiable voracity. Kingdoms have been
pt into her maw, without affecting her digestion, and
whole continents have been thrust with impunity into her
'tPacious gullet. More land, more forts on which the
Utliurl..lack" may float has ever been the cry
.of her
;suPle ; with the terrors of repletion before their eyetss, „1,4 while colony after colony has been dissolving fromery La.
fore.
' magnitude, still are hungry Britons heardt
quarter added to cry
a
The last fifty years alone, a
11 Ustihave stimulated
411,4 the
acquisitions seem to. .
of a million square miles of terhritvoeryto the empire ;
lostcse enormous .
ead of glutting the appetite of the British lion.
l'''thwarrd"nad
are • atientiv awaiting orders to march
es tiwmapr d from Peshawar. General Godwin
iralt:1111Y Preventedanw by the mud of the Irawaddy from ovcr
1 tioag Birrnab. A barren soil infested with pestilential
gGeneild beasts, and venomous reptiles, cannot pre.
ills al Cathcart from extending the frontiers of the
ritish possessions at the Cape. Deserts, pregnant with
future gorses and present mineral wealth, are being
pon of triumphro lii:nd of the aborigines of Australia. A
of a new British col:nu% in London at the establishment
rooted, in faett„hiastt
the Spanish desire for territory in the
ilifissYnatirglisoanish Main. So deeply
British heart,
girt rock in the Arctic seas, so utterly (legshotlatuep
possibly
nthsaatfnrnoiazcenene"
but polar bears and seals, can
surface, he straightway plants the red cross i
drift, assumes possession in the name of Queennllsonrniaw
sad christens the spot Mug gin's Island or snook's Cape.

d ther
, itti QUEEN OF SIAM died at te
tOth of October, her infant and onlhy royal palace o,
endon
son
the 21st of August. having
A SOUTH AMERICAN BELLE.—An American writer
" Everybody smokes ir;
speaking of Paraguay, says :
Peaking of
and nearly every woman and girl, more than
A. magnificent Hebe,
thirteen years old, chews tobacco.
battaYed in satin and flashing with diamonds,hi puts you
N'act( with one delicate hand, while wi .
ers of the other she takes the tobacco out of ner mouth
l'tevious to your saluting her. An.over-delicate foreigner
Rut.rns away with a shudder of loathing under(strehscaisr,caugne):
—ancesi and gets the epithet of el salraco
sensitive
.IPPlied to him by the offended beauty for his
iVearnisliness. However, one soon gets used to these rasi?°B in Paraguay, where one h, per force of custom,.
You to kiss every lady one is introduced to ;and half
lees °4 Meet are really tempting enough to render you reck-
nf consequences."
/ a•EADFUL PREVALENCE OF 'MURDER IN AMERICA.—
1;11 all England and Wales (a population of fifteen mil-
of
'lns, 25 times that of New York City), the whole number
arrests for murder from 1825 to 1840, were 315 for the
4'145 io" Years; from 1840 to 1845, they were 347 ; and from
to 1830, they were 363 ; making an average of seventy
year for a population of fifteen millions; while New
hark citY in 1851, supplies 36 arrests for a little more
err 44 for million of population. In New York the
ists murder for the year 1852 were 32. Thus,
t,, de in New York arrests for murder for the last two
be'll.l:s
raped
up to double what they were for five years
elm ! ; u
in England they just increase with a steady and
1,. St a conventional ratio with the actual increase of
-,iPulation.