The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-10-28 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

There is- a talk about Mr. Labouchere being raised to
the Upper House, as Baron Hendon.
One of the last Exhibition trains on the Great Western
Railway consisted of 151 carriages, containing about 5,000

persons.
On Tuesday a great Masonic dinner waOltiven at Ports-
mouth to Lieutenant General Sir C. J. Napier, G.C.8.,
by the lodges of that. town.
A rumour prevails in Edinburgh that it is the intention
of Lord Rutherford to resign his seat on the Bench at the
sitting of the Court in November, and retire into private life.
At the Waltham Agricultural Society's meeting on Sa-
turday, the Marquis of Granby advocated a return to mo-
derate import duties, which alone would enable the agri-
cultural interest to prosper in this country.
The election of a representative in Parliament for Brad-
ford took place on Tuesday, when Mr. Robert Milligan, a
Liberal, was elected without opposition, there being no
other candidate.
Among the changes on the Common Law side of West-
minster Hall, it is supposed that the judgeship, vacant by
the resignation of Mr. Justice Patteson, will be offered
either to Mr. Watson. Q.C., formerly member for Kinsale,
or Mr. M. D. Hill, Q.C., the Recorder of Birmingham..
A man died of hydrophobia last week, at Beverley..
His sufferings wer for a time dreadful, but the adminis-
tration of chlore ,rm greatly mitigated them, and it is
stated that the 1 ior fellow's last hours were in conse-
quence almost trat.
A woman was recently discharged from one of the Cum-.
berland prisons, who had grown so fat while in durance
that the surgeon was afraid she would actually lose the
sight of an eye from mere obesity, and he had put a seton
tbrough the back of her neck to prevent such a catastrophe.
It is expected that about a thousand artisans will be
regularly employed at the extensive works of the York,
Newcastle, and Berwick Railway Company at Gateshead,
when the building now in course of preparation shall be
completed, and the necessary accommodation shall have
been provided for them.
Mr. Hawes is about to resign his office of Under
Secretary of State for the Colonies. upon his appointment
to that of D. putt' Secretary at War in the place of the
Right Hon. Lawrence Sullivan, who retires after upwards
of forty years' service. Mr. Hawes is succeeded in the
Colonial Department by Mr. Frederick Peel.
F. L. S. Merrywether, Esq., has been appointed Post-
master-General of New South Wales, with a salary of
£BOO per annum. D. Forbes, Esq., a magistrate of the
territory and its dependents, has been appointed a visiting
magistrate of the Invalid Establishment and gaol of Para-
matte pro tem.
The first half-year's inhabited house duty is now due in
place of the window-tax, and will have to be paid on all
houses above £2O a-year, at the rate of 9d. in the pound,
except farm-houses, public-houses, houses with shops and
warehouses on the front basement story, which are to be
liable only to 6d. in the pound.
The vacancies caused by the elevation of Vice-Chancel-
lor Sir J. L. Knight Bruce and Lord Cranworth to the
offices of Lords Justice 3, have been filled up by the ap-
pointment of Master Kindersley and Mr. James Parker,
Q.C. The vacant Mastership in Chancery, it is believed,
will be conferred on Mr. Swanston or Mr. W. M. James.
The Railway Times estimates the total receipts since
the Ist of July at £4,248,358, which, on 6,134 miles, gives
an average of £692 lls. 10d. per mile ; and as the
return for the same period of last year was only £3.575,941
on 5,917 miles, or £604 7s. per mile, the difference is
shown to be in favour of the present year to the extent of
no less than £BB 4s. 10d. per mile.
The town and neighbourhood of Bury St. Edmonds has
been thrown into a state of great excitement, in conse-
quence of a young person, moving in the better station of
life, who resided with her uncl-, a person of great respec-
tability, at Crawford, near Bury, having been committed
for trial for two distinct murders, the victims being her
own illegitimate children.
The audience at the Leeds theatre, " the offended gods,"
pelted the performers off the stage last Tuesday night
week with broken victuals, apple cores, halfpennies, and
such like missiles, because The Merchant of Venice
was concluded at the fourth act, and they desired to have
the fifth. The row lasted an hour, and the theatre was
not cleared until half-past eleven o'clock.
_ A Scotchman, new from the Highlands, and en route

for London. arrived in I ork by the two o'clock morning
train one day recently, and having got outside the station
for refreshment, he delayed his return until the whistle of
the train announced its departure. He instantly started
off in chase, and was found, at daybreak, at a distance of
nine miles from the city, still pursuing his hopeless task,
and much fatigued.
The effect of the Australian gold discoveries, as regards
the demand for shipping at London, has been to cause activity
in freights, but very little alteration in the number of pas-
sengers. Freights are nearly doubled, the present quota-
tions being 50s. to 60s. per ton, and the goods chiefly sent
out consist of miners' clothing, tools, and general iron-
mongery ; meanwhile, the applications for passage have
been scarcely above the average.

George Deacon, a religiou-s monomaniac, known in
Yarmouth as " The Prophet." having created a dis-
turbance by his ravings, jumped into the river in order to
escape from the police who wanted to take care of him.
He declared that he was the chosen one of the Almighty,
that the Bible told him to "flee from the ungodly," and
that it was impossible that he could sink ! It was only by
great exertions that some men who were near were able
to rescue him.

A foreigner was to have appeared before the West-
minster magistrate, on Saturday, on a charge of defacing
the wall of Henry the Seventh's chapel ; but he absented
himself, though his passport had been detained to com-
pel him to appear. Mr. Foster Owen, High Constable
of Westminster, stated that the last few months' ex-
perience at Westminster Abbey showed that it is a popu-
lar error to suppose that foreigners do not deface public
structures.
On Tuesday the first of the " penny omnibuses" made
their appearance in the metropolis. Passengers were
conveyed from the end of Tottenham-court road to the
Edgware-road for one penny. The vehicles were abun-
dantly patronised. It is understood that the entire lead-
ing thoroughfares of the metropolis have been parcelled
into penny and twopenny stages, and that omnibuses are
forthwith to be put on for the conveyance of passengers
at those rates.
At the quarter sessions for Hereford, on Saturday, Mr.
John Sparrow Taylor, an attorney, was indicted for steal-
ing two goslings, of the value of 55., at Kingston, in Sep-
tember last. It seems that the two birds were missed
from the flocks, and they were found in the prisoner's
possession—one was dead and the other alive. The pri-
soner denied stealing them, but said that he had a New-
foundland dog, and that the brute killed the bird. His
address to the jury occupied several hours. He was found
guilty, and sentenced to be imprisoned for three calendar
months, with hard labour. The case excited great interest.
At a meeting of attorneys on Tuesday, at Freemasons'
Tavern, London, to consider their conflicting claims with
barristers in matters of fees and appearances at the County
Courts, it was, after some discussion, resolved to present
a requisition to the council of the Law Institution, and
the managing committee of the Metropolitan and Provin-
cial Law Association, requesting them to take the neces-
sary steps for promoting a proper understanding between
the two branches of the profession on the subject of
County Court advocacy; and for that purpose, should
they deem it advisable, to call a general meeting of the
profession at large on the subject at an early day.
THE SWELL MOB AT THE EXPOSITION.--At the first
opening of the Crystal Palace there were only three doors
opened for the entrance, and the persons entering were
supplied with cards, which directed them to the places re-
served for their accommodation. There were police
officers skilled in the knowledge of the persons of the most
remarkable thieves in Europe stationed at the doors, and
when members of what is called " the swell mob" pre-
sented themselves, they received cards which sent them
all to a particular box, where some 37 of the confraternity
found themselves assembled, to practise upon the pockets
of one another.