The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-06-13 00:00:00

GENERAE INTELLIGENCE.

TnE GOVERNMENT have presented Mr. Pritchett
with £l,OOO for improving the bullet which they have
adopted.
TwlNs.—M. Ducos, the French minister of marine, is
the-father of twins. On their birth, the Emperor sent
Madame Ducos a portrait of the King of Rome; and the
two infants are to be named:by the Emperor and Empress,
in person, Napoleon and Eugene!
hiroaTATros OF GULstfo.—The quantity of guano im-
ported in the last four years has been as follows :—ln
1850,•.116,925 tons ; in 1861, 243,014 tons ; in 1862,
12%889 tons ; in 1853, 123,1:66' tons. Nearly all was from
Peru; but 6,828 tons of last year's supply came from Chili,
2,209 from Patagonia, and: 1,058 from Bolivia. A small
quantity came from Brazil, Buenos Aryes, and Uruguay,
and a little from the Falkland Islands.
CLOTHING COLONELS.—Mr. Sidney Herbert, as Secre-
tary of War, has issued a circular, putting an end to the
" clothing colonels." In,future they are to receive a fixed
annual payment in lieu, of varying profits derived from
the off-reekonings. The colonels who have just equipped
their regiments are to render an account, and receive com-
pensation accordingly.
FALSE PaETENCE.—A man named Robert Jones,
coming up to London from the country, and having
nowhere to -go for a night's lodging, pretended that he
was a deserter from the. 41st Regiment, for the sake of
getting shelter in the Westminster Police-station. Next
morning he was brought up before the magistrate, when
he was disagreeably astonished to find that he was liable,
under the Mutiny Act, to compulsory service as a soldier,
for having declared himself, although falsely, a deserter.
THE BEARD MOVEMENT.—Lord Frederic Fitzelarence,
.as commander-in-chief of a presidency in India, has ordered
his officers and soldiers in future to wear their whiskers
and moustaches, " his excellency being of opinion that
these appendages will be found most conducive to the sol-
dier's comfort in this country, by protecting him from the
scorching.rays of a- tropical sun, to which, when on field
service, he must necessarily be exposed, oftentimes for hours
together, at all seasons of the year."
PITCAII&S- ISLAND.—The committee of the Pitcairn's
Island Fund met last week to hear a statement from
Admiral Moresby, lately returned from the Pacific. It
appears that, partly from the increase of numbers and
partly from the impoverishment of the soil, a dearth has
been experienced by the Pitcairn people. It is proposed
to remove them to Norfolk Island, as soon as that island
is clear of convicts —a change which the Pitcairners them-
selves have solicited. Admiral Moresby had relieved them
in their time of need.
RAILWAY LAw.—A passenger on the Great Western
Railway, named Williams, has brought an action against
the company for the loss of his portmanteau, containing
the ordinary luggage allowed to a first-class passenger,
which- was heard in the Exchequer Court on Tuesday.
The company pleaded a by-law of their own, declaring
"that they would not be responsible for passengers'
luggage unless booked and paid for." It was, however,
clearly shown that this by-law was in direct contradiction
to-a section of their act; and that they were responsible
for passengers' luggage up to the allowed quantity.
Judgment was given by all the judges, without hesitation,
for the plaintiff, Mr. Baron Martin expressing his surprise
that the company should have raised such a question.
EDUCATION GRANT.—In the year 1853 the amount
expended from the Parliamentary vote for education was
£250,658. Two-thirds of this sum were absorbed by the
stipends of pupil teachers, and the augmentation of the
salaries of certificated schoolmasters and mistresses ; about
£35,000 in building, repairing, and furnishing schools ;
nearly £20,000 in grants to normal schools ; and £29,260
in inspection. Since 1839 the sum of £1,306,948 has been
laid out from the public funds in thus aiding schools.
The portion of this sum expended on schools connected
with the Church of England was £880,960; on schools con-
nected with the British and, Foreign School Society
£117,000 ; on Wesleyan schools £46,113; on Roman
Catholic schools (Great Britain) £24,372 (£9,789 in 1853) ;
on workhouse schools £81,784; on Schools in Scotland
connected with (1) the Established Church £78,673, (2)
the Free Church £9,745, (3) the Episcopal Church £393.
A MUSsULMAN WIFE.—It is related that in the long
inspection which Omer Pacha made two months back from
Widdin to Giurgevo and Turtukai, he was always accom-
panied by his young wife, a lady whom he married in
1849. Such an act was altogether out of conformity with
Mussulman customs, but the following is more extraordi-
nary :—During this inspection there was a sharp exchange
of shots between a Russian battery and a Turkish one.
The wife of the general, being desirous of seeing the spec-
tacle more closely, took her husband's arm, and, having
put down her veil, proceeded with him to the battery. It
is contrary to all the rules of Mussulman propriety for a
woman to take her husband's arm in public, and it was
thought the soldiers would be quite scandalised at such a
derogation from the habits of the East. But such was not
by any means the case, as they declared that by her courage
she was worthy to be their general's wife.
AN AFFECTING OCCURRENCE happened a few days ago
'at Birmingham. The father of a boy named Thomas
Morton, had for twenty-four years been engaged in the
band of the 38th Regiment of Foot, and only obtained his
discharge about four months ago, when he left England
for Egypt as a musical performer on board the
steamer,—on Wednesday returned home, and at once
proceeded to the shop of a file-maker, where his son was
employed. The boy was much excited, and having em-
braced his father affectionately, asked him to enter the
shop to see him work. The boy then took up a hammer
and chisel and begun to cut the indentions in a file which
he was preparing. Owing to his excitement he struck one
of his fingers with the hammer, and in a few minutes
afterwards turned very pale, and said he felt faint and
sick. He was taken into the open air, some water given
him, and a surgeon sent for, but in a short time after he
was a corpse. It appeared that the deceased had died
from extravassation of blood upon the brain caused by

voilent excitement.
Juv.urrial INSURBECTION.—PaisIey was the scene of a
disgraceful riot a few days since, which the magistrates
had recommended as a holiday to celebrate the anniversary
of Her Majesty's birth. In the evening a crowd of boys
and young men collected about the Cross, and began to
annoy every respectable person who ventured to pass
through it. The police force was called out, but was found
to be unable to quell the disturbance ; and the conse-
quence was, that a small collection of young blackguards
had the command of the town for an hour or two. After
some delay the water-pipes were opened, and hose being
affixed, a plentiful supply of water was thrown in amongst
the crowd, which was thus speedily dispersed. In break-
ing up, however, one gang proceeded westwards, and deli-
berately smashed every lamp for nearly a couple of miles
of street.
WRECK OF AN EMIGRANT SHlP.—Capt. Browne,
master of the ship Helen Thomson, of Ayr, writes on the
21st ult., informing the owners that that vessel went
down amongst the ice on Thursday, the 18th ult., near the
Bird Isles, 'ulph of St. Laurence. She got amongst it so
far back as the 7th ult., between Cape Ray and St. Paul's,
and when nearly clear of it a piece of ice struck her on the
larboard bow, which was stove in, and she went down
almost immediately afterwards. The ship left Troon on
the 14th April, with about 200 passengers, for Quebec, and
was progressing favourably when this happened, but the
whole passengers and crew were saved. Capt. Browne
writes that a great many lives must have been lost, had it
not been for the attention of Capt. M`Lay, of the barque
Sarah, of Liverpool, who saw the ship's signals, and sent
his boats to assist those of the ship in getting out the pas-
sengers and crew, which, under Providence, was accom-
plished with safety, and afterwards the ship went down
head foremost. A short time afterwards the barque Ava,
of Scarbro, took ten of the passengers on board. The
brig Dykes, of Maryport, took 12, and the brig Wilkinson,
of Whitehaven, also took 12, on their way to Quebec.
The remainder of the passengers were on board the Sarah
with Capt. Browne, and got into Richibucto, where he
dates his letter from. He says Capt. 111`Lay has done
everything in his power for the comfort of all on board.
THE NBW NAVAL PAY AND PRIZE ACT.—This enact-
ment in reference to the present war, which received the
royal assent on Friday, has been printed. It contains 14,
clauses, and took effect from' Thursday last. The title is,
"An Act for facilitating the Payment of Her Majesty's
Navy, and the Payment and Distribution of Prize, Bounty, '
Salvage, and other Moneys to and amongst the officers and
crews of Her Majesty's ships and vessels of war, and for
the better regulation of the accounts relating thereto."
The object of the act is to give effect to certain proclama-
tions connected with the war. It is now enacted that the
proceeds of any prize are to be paid to the naval prize
account, as well as all bounties and salvage. Parties
claiming the benefit of the act may resort to the Court of
Admiralty, which court may compel the production of the
proceeds of a prize. A penalty of £1 per cent. is to be
levied on persons retaining the proceeds of a prize contrary
to the act. There are several provisions to allow in the
Paymaster-General's accounts certain sums without the
production of vouchers. By the last section but one the
Lords of the Admiralty may, by order in council, alter the
mode of paying the navy, and also distributing prize-
money, &c. The act is not to extend to any seizures made
by the officers of Customs, &c. The new law is to be cited
as The Naval Pay and Prize Act, 1854."
AN EXPERIENCED PICKPOCKET.—The police have just
arrested the oldest and most experienced of Parisian fe-
male pickpockets—a woman nicknamed, from her dex-
terity, the Main d'Or. A few days ago they received in-
telligence that several pockets had been picked at railway
stations, and that the Main d'Or had just arrived in
Paris. Thinking that she must be the author of the rob-
beries, they set a watch for her, and saw her in the bureau
of the Passey omnibuses, near the Palais Royal. She was
finely dressed, but preserved an air of demure respect-
ability. Several ladies were in the office at the time ; and
presently the police saw her slip her hand into the pocket
of a young lady, and draw from it a well filled purse.
They immediately, in polite terms, asked her to accom-
pany them, and they carried her off to the prefecture of
police. Main d'Or made no attempt to deny her guilt, but
said it was her first offence, and that she had only recently
arrived from Holland, where her husband died a short
time ago. The history of this woman is very curious.
She married at the early age of 15, and immediately took
to thieving. Her success was such that she and her hus-
band lived in a fine hotel and kept a carriage and pair. .
After his death she lived with several emminent thieves, ,
most of whom are now in gaol. Her age at present is
,about 67, and for upwards of 50 years she has constantly
practised thieving. In the course of that time she has
frequently been condemned in France, and also in Swit-
zerland, Germany, Italy, Holland, and other countries.
A FARM ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILES LONG.—
This may not, perhaps, be anything, remarkable in Aus-
tralia or America, but in England it is a rare occurrence :
yet such is the fact, and furthermore, there is no other
farm in Great Britain with every inch of which the public
are better acquainted. The owner, or rather renter, of
this farm, is Mr. Brotherhood of Chippenham, the con-
tractor. This gentleman has an engagement for keeping
the permanent way or rails of the Great Western in
repair, and he rents at the same time all the land on both
sides of the line, slopes, &c., belonging to the Company.
In some places between the line and the fence there may
be twenty yards ; in other spots it is not more than six
feet, but all equally constitutes Mr. Brotherhood's farm,
which, however narrow, is literally 150 miles long, and
through its whole length—whether in grass or arable—
is well, and, we have heard, profitably kept by Mr. Bro-
therhood, who has risen by his own industry from
originally being a workman on the line, and whose enter-
prise is only equalled by his 'kindness and liberality to
;those he employs and others. He has a factory, at
Chippenham, where he employs 300 men.--oath Wen.

. A SocrErr is being-formed in Paris for the-purchase of
the famousplain in which the battleof Marengovvas fought.
Mn. A. T. WILLEsrexT, commoner of Christ Church,
Oxford; was thrown from his horse as he was riding on the
Woodstock road; last week, and was killed or the spot.
TAT OFFTCE:OF PiIME to the royal household, vacant
by the death:of Mackay, is filled up by Piper-Major Ross,
of the 42nd Royal Highlanders.
COST OFSZEIALS..—For an 8 inch, or 321 b. shell;: the cost
is 245., and with, powder-and wads, 38s. The guns for the
=b. hell weigh about two tons, and cost about 310. The
guns for the 681 b: shells weigh from 3} to 4/ 'axis, and
cost fr0m:x65.40 £96 each.—Herapath's Journcil
TEN.TIIOUSAND.CkrA.LRY SABRES have been taken out
of the -stores• in the Tower of London, and sent to the
government works at Enfield to be ground, previous to
being :forwarded to Constantinople, to arm the above
number•of Turkish cavalry officers.
Tun : DEFENCES OF' LEITH.—The martello • tower,
which was formerly fitted up for guns of ordinary calibre,
is now being altered; and will in a few days be mounted
with three 68-pounders. At the same time, alterations
have been made in the fort, and the live-shell store
replenished.
STEAM, TO, AssEsicA.—An important extension of the
means of steam communication between Southampton
and the 'United States is about to be placed in immediate
operation; by some of the magnificent steamships belong-
ing to the General Screw Steam Shipping Company,
hitherto used for carrying oat the Cape and India mail
contract,. now abandoned by this company. The first of
the new: departures from Southampton to New York will
be that of the Indiana, of 1,850 tons, on the 12th of July, .
to be followed at stated intervals by other steamers of
similar•or larger class. •
GBELT WEsTEns HOTEL.—On Friday the magnificent
hotel attached to the new station of this company at Pad-
dington:was opened to the public. Passengers arriving or
departibgby the trains can reach the hotel by the departure
platform under a covered gallery, without the necessity of
any intermediate conveyance. The building is of con-
siderable-extent, and contains, besides the usual arrange-1
ments-of an hotel, suites of apartments for families, an,
admirable coffee-room, and reading-room. There are also,
15 sitting-r00m5,.103 bed-rooms, 0 drOsing-rooms, a club--
room, and dining-room.
Mulrnsu ix LINCOLN sninz.—On. Tuesday last a fero-
cious and fatal assault was perpetrated in the small town
of Crowland, in Lincolnshire. A farmer named Hickling
lived there, and had a daughter by his former wife, mar-
ried to a man named John 'Baines, a tailor and draper re-
siding in the same place. On the day in question Baines
went to the house of his father-in-law, and in a few
minutes afterwards Mrs. Hickling was seen to rush, out;
followed by Baines with a poker in his hand, with which,
he struck Mrs. Hickling violently on the head, after she'
had fallen to the ground; whether knocked down by him:
or not was not quito so apparent. He seemed greatly
excited and struck the deceased several times over the.
head: with great force, using the poker with both his
hands. After striking her he ran away, but returned;
and picking up the poker, which he had thrown down,
again struck her, and again ran off. It was found that
the poor woman had her arms broken, and her skull
frightfully fractured by the blows. Baines, on being taken
into custody, behaved in a very wild and incoherent man-
ner. The coroner's jury returned a verdict of " Wilful
Murder" against him, and he was committed for trial.

AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.—Sir John Walsham. has
made a further report on the subject of agricultural sta-
tistics, from which it appears that he and Mr. Hall Max-
well (representing the Highland Society) have agreed
upon the form of schedule that should be sent to, occu-
piers, and generally upon the mode of proceeding; They
agree that the inquiry should be at first confined within
the simplest limits, and not elaborated by questions calcu-
lated to excite the distrust, and so the opposition of the
farmers. They propose that the distribution of crops and
the amount of stock throughout Great Britiain should be
ascertained on the Ist of July ; that the estimates of the
produce per acre, to be prepared by the enumerators of
the Scotch districts and the statistical committees of the
English unions, in respect of the harvest, should be lodged
with the superintending authority, by whom the results of
such harvest would have to be calculated, between the
20th of October and 20th of December; and that the
Board of Trade should publish the estimates before the
Ist of January. Sir J. Walsham believes that in England
the Poor Law organisation supplies the best agency for
obtaining these statistics, and that a voteof £15,000 would
suffice to remunerate the officials for their trouble and
defray the expenses. The English vote to be proposed,
however, stands in the miscellaneous estimates at only
£4,000 for'" further experiments."
OUR CUSTOMERS IN Ann RALIA.—Few, comparatively,
are aware of the enormous increase of our export trade
with the Australian settlements. In 1851, produce and
manufactures of this kingdom of the value of £2,807,356
were exported to those settlements ; the value of our ex-
ports thither in 1853 was no less than £14,506,532.
Among the exports of last year were—apparel, £3,633,908 ;
woollen manufactures, £1,355,755 ; cotton manufactures,
£1,032,303 ; linen manufactures, £317,318 ; silk manu-
factures, £138,430; plate and watches, £313,997; hard-
wares and cutlery, £631,667; iron and steel, £704,291;
leather, £851,560 ; butter and cheese, £207,094. These
thirsty settlers also took of us last year 206,348 barrels of
beef, and 536,772 gallons of British spirits ; while among
our exports to them of foreign and colonial merchandise
in that year (not included in the £14,506,532) were-
-1,876,438 gallons (proof) of brandy, 846,107 gallons of
rum, 88,853 gallons of Geneva, and 1,335,056 gallons of
wine. We imported from Australia last year 47,075,9631 h.
of wool (an increase of one-eighth over the import of
1852,) 125,206, cwts. of tallow, 41,987 cwts. of hides (not
tanned.) In 1851, 272 ships cleared from this kingdom
for Australia ; in 1853, 1,201.
TICKET OF LEAVE COSVICTS.—Daring the last few
weeks a large number of convicts, under the uew ticket of
leave system, hate been discharged from the Government
prisons in Dartmoor. On leaving they are supplied with
money sufficient to carry them to their last place of resi-
dence, and, in addition, they receive a post-office order for
the money they have earned by the extra work they have
performed while in the prisons. These orders are made
payable at the nearest poet town to the place of their des-
tination, so that they cannot spend the money on their way.
It is to be regretted, however, that in very numerous in-
stances they waste the whole of their available cash, which
should be spent in travelling home, in drink, which leads
them to the commission of other offences. Within the
last few weeks no less than five of these cases have been
brought before the magistrates at Exeter. In one instance
the licensed convict, a most sullen brutal-looking fellow,
threatened to murder the two policemen by whom he
was apprehended.
APPALLING DEATH.—A few nights since a young man
named James Smith, who had been an apprentice with
Messrs. Hatteraley, of Keighley, but had latterly been
wandering about the country, lay down to sleep between
two limekilns beside the canal at Bradford. One was
partly empty, but still emitted a sulphurous smoke, and
the other was burning and red, from the compression of
the calcined limestone, partly sunk beneath the edge of
the wall. A person named William Wakefield approached
the kiln about half-past six o'clock, and found the body on
the top of the burning lime. He immediately aroused a
workman, and the remains were drawn off with an iron
drag. The legs and bowels were entirely consumed, the
flesh burnt from the ribs, the eyes from their sockets, the
hair and scalp from the skull, and the arm upon which he
had fallen was entirely gone. A mass of charred and
blackened matter alone remained, scarcely distinguishable
as the vestiges of a human being. It is supposed that he
had been partly suffocated by the fumes issuing from the
nearly empty kiln, and that when rolling over in half
unconscious agony he had dropped into the one adjoining.
HORRIBLE MURDER.—At the Southwark police-station,
on Wednesday, Henry Simmons, aged 25, an advertising
agent, was charged with the murder of Rosina Murray,
widow, of Mead's-place, Newington-causeway, in whose
house he was a lodger. It was stated that about half-
past five o'clock that morning Mrs. Murray cried out to
another female living in the house, "My dear Mrs. Lar-
ter, my °dear Mrs. Larter, I am being Murdered ; I am
dead !I am dead !" Mrs. Larter got up and opened her
bedroom door, when she saw the deceased creeping up
stairs. At the top of the stairs, the deceased caught hold
of Mrs. Larter's dress, with her hands bleeding, which so
frightened her, that she fell back against the wall, and the
deceased fell exhausted down stairs again. The alarm was
given, and various residents in the house were quickly on
the spot. The prisoner was standing near, with a knife
in his hand. He said, " The great bear is dead ! The cat
flew at me, and I took a knife and stuck it. " A person
went to the nearest surgeon's—Mr. Johnson—to call his
assistance, but Mr. Johnson, speaking from his room win-
dow, refused to attend. Dr. Fleming, who afterwards
attended, gave it as his opinion that immediate medical
treatment might, perhaps, have saved the life of the
woman. The body was found to be full of cuts and stabs,
though the fatal one appeared to be the severing of the
artery of the thigh. It was mentioned that the prisoner's
conduct had frequently caused suspicion as to his sanity,
and that within the last two or three months he had
become possessed of a large sum of money through the
death of a relative, and since then he had carried on a veary
dissipated life, being continually intoxicated and in a state
of great excitement, so much so that his conduct has been
remarked by several persons. The case was remanded for

a week. -
M. KOSSUTH AT SIEEPPIELD.--011 Monday a public
demonstration was made at Sheffield in favour of the
nationality of Poland. The proceeding originated with
the Polish and Hungarian exiles and their friends. The
spirit of Kossutles speech was in the following passage:—
` Russia's overwhelming power cannot be reduced with-
out Poland being reconstructed an independent nation
with its national territory ; nor can the integrity and in-
dependence of Turkey be secured without a free and in-
dependent Hungary. All these aims would be subverted
by England taking despotic Austria for her ally. Then
you would fight for Austrian despotism, and not for free-
dom. That cannot, that would not suit you. Therefore,
if you agree with me, that the honour, the interests, and
the sympathies of the people of England are all for the
oppressed, and not for the'oppressors, pronounce your will
—protest against marrying England to despotic Austria.
Sign petitions, and do all that you lawfully can do for free-
dom, and against serving oppression on the continent."
,After the great assemblage in Paradise-square, in the
afternoon, there was a second meeting the same evening
in the Music-hall, in furtherance of the same object as the
previous one.- The audience on this occasion was by no
means large, and there were hardly as many hundreds
present as there had been thousands at the earlier meet-
mg—a fact which may be easily accounted for, inasmuch
as the admission was by ticket, for which various charges,
according to the class, were made. Several resolutions
were unanimously carried, asserting the war against
Russia was a just war, inasmuch as the latter power had
shown its aggressive character in the robbery of Finland
from Sweden, the mutilation of Turkey, the oppression of
Hungary, and the destruction of Poland. Another reso-
lution condemned the policy of the Western Powers, in
seeking the alliance of Austria in the war, inasmuch as
Austria was too intimately mixed up with the evil doings
of Russia in Hungary and Poland. M. Kossuth also
addressed the meeting at some length. He earnestly
urged upon the English and French governments the
advisability of enlisting the Poles and Hungarians in their
cause. He strongly denounced the alliance with Austria,
and argued that the only effectual guarantee which the
Western Powers could give of their dpsire to curb the en-

croacbang and aggressive spirit of Paissia was the restora-
tion of the extinct nationalities of Poland and Hungary.
The meeting was then concluded, and, three sympathising
cheera,given for 111, Kostiutlk