The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-11-04 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

We regret to learn that Mr. Templeton, so long famous
in Scottish (as well as English) songs, has suffered from a
stroke of paralysis.
Circulars have been issued from the Home-office, in
pursuance of a parliamentary address, to all the town
clerks in the kingdom, requiring a return of all municipal
electors within their respective boroughs.
Recently at the Reading county court, damages were
awarded against. the Great Western Railway Company, for
injury done to a quantity of meat conveyed by them.
The meat had been spoiled in consequence of the trains
being five or six hours behind time.
In the course of a scuffle between two men in a public-
house, at Leeds, on Monday week, ono hit off the lower
lip of the other. The wounded man will have great diffi-
culty in eating, drinking, and speaking in consequence ;
and his assailant has been committed to the sessions for
trial, charged with assault.

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It is computed that upwards of £30.000 a-year will be
saved to the treasury by the discharge of clerks in the
various post-offices of Great Britain and Ireland, whose
services will be dispensed with, in consequence of not
allowing ary money to be received (torn the Ist November
for payment of letters, as all letters must thenceforth be
paid by postage stamp heads.
A boatman has been murdered at Cruden, seven miles
from Peterhead, by an intoxicated ruffian, who, seeing a
light at night in the bedroom, insisted that the place was
a public-house ; and, on the deceased opening the door,
he received a blow on the head from a stick, that felled
him dead. The murderer, who is in jail awaiting his trial,
urges that he was too drunk to know what he was doing.
A woman at Chelsea has narrowly escaped being placed
in her coffin alive. Mrs. Benham had been under treat-
ment for an internal disease for some time ; she fell into a
state of torpor on Saturday week ; and through the three
succeeding days she remained without signs of life—all
thought her dead. On Tuesday afternoon a coffin arrived ;
but at that critical point signs of animation returned, and
now the patient is gradually recovering.
On Tuesday her Majesty held an investiture of the Bath
at Windsor, when Lieut.-Colonel Reid, of the Royal En-
gineers, Lieut.-Governor of Malta. and Mr. Commissioner
Mayne, of the Metropolitan Police, were made Civil
Knight Commanders of the Bath, and having been duly
knighted received from her Majesty the riband, badge,
and star of the order, and, kissing hands, rose from their
knees respectively Sir Wm. Reid and Sir Richard Mayne,
Civil Knights Commander of the Bath, for their services
at the Exhibition.

At the Central Criminal Court, London, Freiherr von
Forster, a foreigner. who described himself as the Knight
of Starkedburg, and Adjutant of the Ist Regiment of
Prussian Dragoons, charged with stealing three £2O notes,
the property of Mr. Jourdan, one £lO note, and one £5
note, the property of Mr. Prevost, of Ghent, 'rom the
York-hotel, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, has been
sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment, with advice
to leave the country as soon as it expires, for fear he
should be indicted for other misdemeanours of a similar
character.

An awful instance of the uncertainty of human life has
occurred in the sudden and melancholy death, from con-
gestion of the brain, of Mr. Robert Cuff, Mayor of Chard,
on Tuesday evening last. On the day of his death, he
was about the town as usual, but in the afternoon com-
plained of more than ordinary pain in his head, and a
little before eight, after smoking a pipe, he was seized
with a kind of apoplectic fit, from which, notwithstanding
prompt medical aid, he expired in about three quarters of
an hour, not once recovering his consciousness.—Exeter
Gazette. _ _

Two burglars have broken into the farm-house of Miss
Nicklin, at Portway, between Oldbury and Halesowen,
and used great violence to the inmates, and committed
robbery. Mr. Nicklin, the aged brother of Miss Nicklin,
was beaten in his bed with bludgeons; and when he rose
to grapple with the robbers, a double-barrelled pistol was
fired twice in his face ; he fell down insensible, and was
left by the robbers for dead. Part of Mr. Nickliu's jaw
and many of his teeth were blown off, and found lying on
the flo,r ; but he is still alive. Miss Nicklin is wealthy ;
it was apposed she had rents in the house ; and there are
signs that the burglars were " persons residing in the
neighbourhood." Not much propertywas secured by them.
The St. Alban's Bribery Commission held their first
sitting in that town on Monday. Mr. W. Slade, Q.C.,
the chairman, on behalf of himself and his brother com-
missioners, Messrs. W. Forsyth and T. Phil'. a, stated
their intention to confine their inquiry at first to the last
election, though they had full power to go into former
ones, the exercise of which would depend upon the evi-
dence taken in connection with the last election. He re.
minded those present, and likely to be engaged in the in-
quiry, that the commission had extraordinary powers,
which they should not fail to use if necessary. The in-
quiry would be open unless they found that reports got
into the newspapers, when it would become necessary for
them to close their doors, a thing they did not wish to do.
A policeman has been nearly murdered in Shepherd and
Shepherdess fields, a haunt of thieves at Islington, Lon-
don. On Sunday, between two and three o'clock in the
afternoon, the wounded man saw from sixty to eighty
thieves, from the ages of twelve to twenty-five, gambling
and quarrelling at the back of some very old almshouses
on the spot alluded to, belonging to the Clothworkers'
Company. Having unawares pounced on them single-
handed, he was immediately knocked down and his trun-
cheon taken from him ; is was handed from one to another
of the vagabonds and he was beaten with it and other
weapons until he was left for dead with frightful wounds on
his head and different parts of his person ; and all this was
done in view of numerous persons, who knowing the vil-
lains durst not interfere for fear of a similar or a worse fate.
He was ultimately rescued by some other officers, and con-
veyed to an hospital, where he remains in a precarious state.

KOSSUTH'S MOVEMENTS.

SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY.—M. Kossuth arrived here
at two o'clock from London. He was received by the
Mayor and several members of the Corporation.

M. Kossuth was led to an open carriage on which were
emblazoned the standards of the United States of America,
of England, of Turkey, and the tricolour of Hungary, by
the Mayor, and was driven off to the American consulate.
from which floated the stars and stripes of the States from
a flagstaff.

The cortege proceeded to the residence of the United
States consul, the entrance to which was guarded by two
policemen, who overawed a mob of fifty or sixty men,
women, and children.

At six o'clock M. Kossuth, escorted by a large assem-
blage of people, who cheered him tremendously, repaired
to the banquet, which took place at the old Town-hall,
over the Bargate. The name of the guest was emblazoned
in flowers on the wall, the Hungarian banner from New
York was suspended from the ceiling, and the walls were
draped with banners—the standards of England, America,
Turkey, and the municipal flags. A number of ladies in
full dress were seated on the benches generally occupied
by the judges, barristers, and attorneys.
About 150 gentlemen sat down to dinner.
While the dinner was progressing, Mr. F. O'Connor,
who was seated some distance away from the principal
persons, came up and addressed M. Kossuth, saying—." I
love you. My heart is yours," &c., at the same time
grasping his hand.

The Mayor started up and said—" I can't allow this."
Mr. O'Connor—Why, what's the matter?
The Mayor—l won't allow this. I have been in the
habit of attending at public dinners, and I can't permit
any interruption of this kind ( loud cheers, and groans for
Mr. O'Connor). I must request you to resume your seat.
Mr. O'Connor did so, with an attempt at a smile on his
face. Subsequently he rose to speak, but was put down
by a volley of groans, cries of order, and hisses, and was
obliged to content himself with calling for cheers for
Kossuth. He left the room in the course of the evening.
After grace,

The Chair Man (the Mayor) rose to propose the first
toast of the evening. It would be well known to Eng-
lishmen what that toast must be, and he was sure their
foreign friends present would receive it with equal ho-
nour. It was the health of their lovely Queen. (Loud
cheering. three times over.)
Mr. Walker.—One cheer more for America. (Loud
cheers.)
The Chairman gave " Prince Albert and the rest of the
Royal Family," with some brief allusions to the Great
Exhibition.

The Mayor, in proposing " The Sublime Porte and the
Sultan of Turkey," said that in giving this toast he felt
a little egotistical, as, when the company last met in this
ancient hall around the festive board, it was to do honour
to some gallant admirals and officers who had come over to
England from Turkey on a mission of peace and good will.
The Chairman next proposed " The President of the
United States."

The Chairman, in a fervent and much-cheered speech,
proposed " Our illustrious guest, Louis Kossuth." (Great
cheering, again and again.)
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M. Kossuth then addressed the company at consider-
able length, and ended by saying-4 beg leave to ask you
to charge your glasses. (Loud applause.) It is to the
future of my country that I devote the activity which I
have regained by my liberty from the bondage in Asia ;
and this my liberation is, in the first place, due to the
noble feelings of the Sultan, who, in spite of the arrogant
threats of Russia and Austria, has protected my life and
the lives of my companions—who later yielded, but with
sorrow, to the pressure of the circumstances which had
forced him to surround his hospitality by detention, and
who at last, raising himself by the magnanimity of his
inspirations, and his respect for the rights of humanity
above all threats, restored me to liberty in the most dig-
nified manner. But, expressing my grateful acknow-
ledgements to Turkey, I may also return my deeply felt
thanks for the magnanimous interference of the govern-
ments of Great Britain and the United States of America
in such a high and generous manner, supported by the
public spirit of the people in both countries, and even
sanctioned by the magnanimous resolution of congress,
in obtaining the liberation of myself and of my associates.
It is therefore with the warmest feelings of a grateful
heart I propose the toast—" England, the United States,
and Turkey."
The conclusion of the speech was hailed with loud ap-
plause, and the toast was duly honoured.
Colonel Lawrence offered the following sentiment :
" May the star of freedom in Hungary, though now dim,
yet culminate and shine in the zenith ; and may the
Hungarians, as a people, be yet re-united in the land of
their fathers." (Hear.)

Lord D. Stuart returned thanks for the English branch
of the toast, Mr. Jourdain, the Ottoman consul, who was
set down for Turkey, not being present.