The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-08-20 00:00:00

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ST tTIP:fICS OF FRIENDLY,SOCIETIES.—Thereare 14,000
enrol.
ed friendly societies in this country, having 1.600,000
iv:embers, an annual revenue amounting to £2,800,000,
and an accumulated capital of £6,400,000. A still greater
number of minor friend!) societies are not enrolled, and
do not, therefore, possess the privileges and means of self-
protection enjoyed by the former. It is estimated that
there are 33,223 societies in this position in England,
Wales, Scotland, add Ireland, having 3,052,000 members.
an annual revenue of £4,980,000, and with its funds
amounting to so large a sum as £11,360,000, the praise-
worthy accumulations of the purely industrial classes.
Indeed, half of the labouring male adult population are
members of benefit societies.

SINGULAR DUEL.—Among the most peculiar of the
customs of the cavalieri, was the regulation with regard to
which recalled some of the practices of early
y. The parties who quarrelled were to repair to
the next street, unsheath their swords, and fight out their
duel in public. But at the command of a priest. a lady,
or a f-eni or knight, they were enjoined to desist, and to be
completely reconciled on the spot. Of course such en-

- .
counters seldom terminated fatally. An old Maltese lady
told me that her interference had often been requested by
the friends of the belligerent parties, and irr no single in:

ad it ever failed

Maltese priest averred

that he had often been knocked up at twelve o'clock at
night to stop the warlike proceedings of some of the
ri.—Notes from Ninereh.
HATING THE AUTHOR OF " WHITEJACKET.".—
rs that some individual ambitious of notoriety has

become enamoured of the good name and reputation of
our townsman, Herman Melville, the author of Ornoo,
Typee, TVhitejacket, and other works, and has been so
far successful in his attempt to pass himself off for that
gentleman, in remote parts of Georgia and North Carolina,
that persons near the scenes of his exploits have been in-

to correspond with the

ssrs. Har

pers, of t

publishers, for the purpose of getting
ition on the subject of this stranger's claims
tip of Mr. Melville's hooks. It is believed
lerman Meville is the assumed name of
!:upee, &c. This is not the fact. Herman

is the real name of the writer of those works.
ence is in this city, where, we believe, he was

been f

Totten by his contemporar

A. HIPPOPOTAMI MAP

years since.—.N. J ourna .
—I again rode down the river

to the pool, and found a herd Of sea-cows still there; so
I remained till sundown, and bagged two very first-rate
old sea-cows, which were forthcoming next day. This

a most dangerous trap const
slaying sea-cows. It consist

d by the

ed of a sharp
ad

or spike, most thoroughly poison
Rio the end of a heavy block of thor

ree and then(

.e it vas f

sere two triggers so constructed
;ruck against the cord which led

of ea-cow which lay rotting along

the bank of the river here evinced the success of the dan-
gerous invention. I remained in the neighbourhood of

1 days, during which time

.gged no

fifteen

wnain_q's Ad

entures zn A!

IRISH BANKF.R.—I once accompanied a large party
English ladies and gentlemen to that enchanting spot,
lakes of Killarney, where, having amused ourselves
were on the point of returning to Dub-
that he had in his

of saddler in the town of Killarney
set out by way of sport to
principal object being tt

e thetr

e and converse with the pro-

;iich a banle

hop, which

ufficed to adali

whole company, we found

saddler bar

t work. One of the gentlemen

MISCELLANEOUS.

ENGLISH TOURISTS IN IHZLAISID.—The number of
English tourists now in Ireland is far greater than in any
previous season. In consequence of the numbers await.
ing a passage across the channel at Holyhead, owing to
the arrival of a crowded excursion train, an extra steamer,
the Anglia, was despatched from Kingstown on Tuesday
morning, to afford the requisite accommodation to this
influx of English tourists. . _

A Ncw PRIMA DONNA.--A Madame Fiorentini, a
Berlin prima donna, appeared as Norma at the Haymar-
ket Opera House, on Tuesday night, and even at the close
of the season has produced an impression. Her singing
is unanimously pronounced excellent ; and a London
paper says, "As an actress, Madame Florentini is graceful
and expressive, without extravagance, and her very beau-
tiful person is a constant charm in the eyes of her audi-
ence. Coming with the combined advantages of youth,
beauty, and an excellent organ, well disciplined, she can
hardly fail to create a great sensation. At the end of the
opera she was repeatedly called with the greatest enthu-

siasm.
A NOVEL METHOD OF EVADING TOLL.—A couple of
smallware dealers and showmen arrived in Fraserburgh
on Saturday, from the west, and, having to pa9i the toll-
gate at the entrance of the town, took the following me-
thod of getting through without paying the usual dues,
their movable toy-shop being drawn by a couple of dogs.
On arriving within a respectable distance of the bar, the
merchants themselves took the place of the dog horses,
and drew their vehicle. wares. andfshow-;oar, and the

pays no

other multifarious odds and ends of tl
through the toll ; and, as a cart without
toll, nor a couple of dogs without a cart,
by merchant showmen, so all the party, dogs, car
&c., got quietly through, an
small business.—Aberdeen

, 'Der-
I are

Journal,

FORTUNES OF TH
were of consideration and
ingdombire, sent(

CROMWELLS.—The Cromwelis
h county standing in Hunt-

t the fine mansion of Hinchinbroke

and descended in the female line I
Essex, of the time of Henry VIII

many of its members

well a

banner. At present seven peers of the realm trace des-
cent from the Lord Protector—namely, the Earls of Mor-

ut, as a contras

st honestly co

!ants were