The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-22 00:00:00

FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

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THE SLY GROG TENTS in Melbourne still flourish,
though the proprietors are caught now and then and fined
X5l).

GOLD DIGGERS.—No less than 17 lb. of gold was
found by the police in one week on the persons of drunk-
ards in the streets of Melbourne.

A RELIC.—Ono of the most interesting relics in Phila-
delphia may be seen in North Second Street, viz., the
first lightning rod erected by Dr. Franklin, which still
stretches its attenuated finger towards the heavens.

AN AMERICAN PAPER informs US that Mr. Stephen-
son, the builder of the Britannia-bridge over the Menai
Straits, is on his way to Canada, it is said, to build a
similar bridge across the St. Lawrence at Montreal.

THE MAYOR OF MELBOURNE, Australia, has been
re-elected by the new council. His allowance has been
fixed at £l,OOO for the year 1853, and that of the Town
Clerk at £B5O.
IN Melbourne gold has been collected in the gutters by
children, and scraped up from the footway in Collins-
street. An old steam-boat paddlebox has been converted
into a " gold office," and is doing very well.
GOLD, it is stated, has at length positively been dis-
covered in New Zealand, about thirty miles from Auck-
land, in the Gulf of Houraki, where ten men obtianed in
ono day about £4O. The Government had issued pro-
clamations with regard to it.

A NEW FRENCH FLEET.—It is said that instructions
have been received in New York from Louis Napoleon to
contract for the immediate construction, in New York, of
a fleet of war steamers, but we don't know whether the
story is true or not.

RIOTS have prevailed at Charleston, Massachussetts,
caused by the alleged abduction of Miss Cochran, a
ponvvrt from Rome to Protestantism. The mob rose and

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burned a Popish chapel, and did not disperse till tile
military had fired upon them.
REPUDIATION OF MORMONISM IN NORWAY. ,
Norway, where not only all Christian sects, but the Je,s°'
likewise, enjoy free toleration, the Government has de e'
tided that the Mormons, not being Christian Dissenters,
shall not be permitted to perform any public act of wer,
ship or instruction in the Norwegian kingdom, or ev
allowed to make oath before any court.
THEtionisbNeinet
being organised
York
reports
o Orleans
et
ah
na
st f
or i anothernvad
invading
etti
island of Cuba, and wresting it from the possession ;.'n
Spain. A colonel of the late Hungarian army is to the command of the expedition. It is not known whether
the Lone Star Association has anything to do with it.
THERE is a good sprinkling of Chinamen in Melbourne,
to add to the other motley costumes of the town. One
day in December last, two of these, who had been in the
bush, entered Melbourne most awkwardly, ridiculously,
and yet more conceitedly attired, in soldiers' scarlet emote
and black upright caps.
ONE day in November, 1852, Mr. Hargraves, the 0 11,11;
nator of the grand movement of gold digging in ' •
Australian fields, arrived in Melbourne, after making
circuit of all the principal gold fields of this colony. 1470
any stranger newly come, he had to go from housee
house, and from street to street, to find a lodging f0r..,,P.
night. He eventually got shelter in a small public ho
AMERICA AND Euttors.—The New York Herald
—" The universal sentiment of the people of the Unit
States, regarding the relation of America to Europe, ifj
at length been spoken out in language unmistakeable. or,
in the most solemn form, by thevoice of their chief
niagi
trate. The era of the trans-. Atlantic colonization.
America is closed that of its avowed self- expani!ij
greatness, through its own vital energies, commences feli
the inauguration of Franklin Pierce."
THE FRENCH COURT.—The ordinary days at the
Tuileries, when there is no reception, pass off, writes
Paris correspondent, monotonously enough. The 01'
press works embroidery, or needlework part of the eve;
it g. About ten o'clock Bonaparte plays at vinyl el
with the ladies and gentlemen of the court, and, afters
few tours de banquier, retires with the Empress,
continues to display the warmest proofs of attachment
his bride. All that she asks she obtains ;, except
matters of public policy, there he is impregnable.
Muumuus in the gold fields are said to be'on the je:.
crease, but this is only because more bodies- have bet;
discovered. There always have been, and there continr.
to be, many murders at the different diggings; and 7;
their vicinity, which are never known. A gentleman
seldom murdered ; but with the ordinary run of Ir.
working men diggers—especially if a single monolith
wife to cause any vigorous search or inquiry after,- bine
what more easy than to make him drunk, or catch hill
ready drunk to their hands-, and then, if he has gold, abort
him he is sure to boast of it, and his murder often bill
as a matter of course, and nobody ever hears anythiag°
the matter.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—A letter from Ade Tail
states that some of the passengers by the Cleopatra call
upon Captain Cumming to land them free of expense,'
which he refused to-do, and intimated that if they did 11..°'
immediately leave the ve.ssel,.they would be charged
extra sum for each day they remained on board ! In Ow
sequence of this intimation 18 of the passengers seized the
first opportunity of getting off the ship, which was offered
by a little craft employed in supplying water to the vessels
in harbour. This boat being already topheavy by the
weight of the tank it carried, was not at all suited for Os,
conveyance of passengers. The natural consequence (11
overloading it ensued ; it was capsized in a puff of wind'
and three of the passengers were drowned. The sufferers
were a clergyman, named Hiern, recently of Barnstaple'
Devonshire, his son, and Mr.- Henry Holloway. 0111_,;
Hiern has left a widow and nine chileren, bereaved
strangers in a-strange land.
A SCENE OF TumULT IN THE AMERICAN CONGRESS,
The New York papers of the 4th, in reporting the pre',,
vious day's proceedings, say :,-1t was now eight o'clock
The galleries-were densely crowded, and the lobby meta:
bers present had greatly increased in numbers. So mai'
noise prevailed that it was next to impossible to conalge'
bend the legislative proceedings. Members were col!"
tinually going to and returning from the anteroom' 10
which were liquid and solid refreshments. Amendment
to the navy bill were still discussed• and voted on. SOL
members, weary of the dry proceedings, had retired '7
chat with lobby friends and smoke cigars. The falling 0*
a lady's fan from the gallery, hitting an honourable 01:
tleman below upon the head, but not seriously woundies
him, excited some little merriment: Just about this 01°:
ment, a burly old member came into the ball with a hull'
of bread and ham in his hand, eating-thereof most heartily,
The proceedings were frequently interrupted by the receP'
tion of messages from the Senate.
NEW LILY.—The Panama Star mentions a beautga
lily, with a bulb-root, long oval leaves, and a stock four
feet in length, found only on one particular part of the
Isthmus, near Panama. It is named Espiritu Santo'
and is thus described :—" The plant possesses little
beauty beyond what is contained in the flower itself.
which is of a most elegant and peculiar formation. Ilie,
outward part, which- is smaller than a pigeon's egg, 1
sembles a curious-shaped vase, on. opening the lid °
which the most perfect and beautiful facsimile of the
dove is found within. The head is- turned over its boo'
appearing as if it were about to take-its farewell of eartl!!
and soar to some brighter region. No person can see till'
extraordinary flower for the first time without a deg
feeling of wonder and admiration at the perfection 11n!
beauty displayed in its- formation, and every succeedies
time it is met with the observer gazes upon it with ill•
creased admiration and curiosity.'' The flower is elss..
where styled the Paradise Flower, and if we remember
rightly there is a sonnet to it in a collection of poems, by
the Rev. J. W. Burgon, of Oriel College, Oxford,
FEARFUL PREVALENCE OF MURDER IN AMERICA.
—The latest American papers are filled with the detail'
of numerous revolting murders.—Four workmen in the
Glasgow mills, at Hadley, Mass., were attacked by seven •
men some days ago, by whom two were so severely 10;7
jured that one has since died and another is not expecte
was
to recover.—Among the ruins of a stable which'
burnt at Lawrence, Mass., on Friday morning, were'
found the charred' remains of a man, supposed to have
been murdered.—A.. sailor,, named John M'Cabe, vat'.
killed a few evenings since in an affray with some rowdier
in Water-street, New York. He was intoxicated at the
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time.—On the 4th instant,. in Orange-street, New yorirt
Wm. H. Cotton.was shot in the head by a pistol in tit!,
hands of Peter Gillespie.—At Selina (Albany), on tin
14th ult., Mr. George Sharpe,.of Burnsville, was murdeqt
by a man named Noles.--716. Memphis Eagle of the'.
22d February says Mr. Cawthorn, of Holly Springs' Was
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killed in that place on the 16th, by a man named Roswell''
Cawthorn and- Roswell had quarrelled, the latter drerr..:
knife and cut the juglar vein of the former, causing.th'"-
to expire almost instantly,.
ROMANTIG-SUICIDE.— ea
Grt scandals have aris,„
Camarata, a cousin of the Emperor's, committeden„nil
connection with two recent suicides in Paris. The
tiY7
by blowing his brains,out,./eaving a box with some letters'
and papers to Mdlle. Marthe, the actress, who. was is
England.. She, however. returned to Paris, vvhen the'
authorities demanded the box, as containing family
papers, should be delivered up to the Emperor. As 510
refused, to give it up, a rigid search was made by, th
police,.but nothing belonging to the Count was fouud ;.ani!
as Mallle..Marthe refused to say where the bees
deposited, the commissary made some observations which
were construed by her into a menace. This _visit shooA
the nerves of Mdtle. Marthe, but she had'-promised 0
sup with some friends, and she contrived, ta.appear
during the evening. On her return, she told the portrw
not to come into her rooms until late the next morning'
as she felt fatigued, and wished to sleep longer anal
usual. At the same time she asked for a charcor4hrazier'
to enable her to warm some coffee. She had given an
appointment for the next morning to a gentleman who
arrived. at nine o'clock, and rang the bell, of Mdlt,
Marthe's apartments, without receiving any answer. xi:
then,went to the portress, and obtaineda key of the apart'
ment. On going into the bedroom, he saw, that the bed
was unoccupied, and the door of the boudoia was fastened
on the inside. The door being forced open, the room
was soon filled with thefumes of charcoalondMdlle.Marthie
was lying dead on the floor, and near her three charcoal
braziers—two of her own and one she had borrowed troll:,
the portress. She has, it is said, left property to t,l!
suiptde
amount of nearly twenty thousand francs a-year. Chrfi
tian burial, it is said, was refused to the Count, but
granted to the actress.