The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-01-21 00:00:00

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up available ore to the value of four thousand dollars."

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MIRACLE.-The IT iener Zeilung has
)st of the miraculous flow of blood from the
ge of our Saviour which is reported to

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France, and the Church will not fail to follow its example.
There are persons still living who remember that the il-
lustrious Joseph 11. was a great disbeliever in miracles,
and that he actually prohibited the growth of a beard on
a figure of Jesus Christ which is nfar one of the doors of
the Cathedral of St. Stephen. He ordered a couple of
sturdy grenadiers to mount guard on the spot, and so
he fear which their formidable moustachios
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obey the imperial mandate! It has long been a saying in
Austria that Joseph was born half a century too soon.
AMERICAN SHIP BUILDING.—SeveraI magnificent

clipper ships for the China trade are recorded as launched
at various ports ; one, the Inn, at Williamsburg, measur-

famous clipper-ship Oriental on her voyage from China to
London ; showing a speed per diem, occasionally, of 264
miles. Pacific papers, however, record stili more famous
runs by a ship named the Betty Bliss, built at New York,
namely, 300 miles per diem for several days in succession,
and on one day 324 miles. For the Liverpool trade a
new first-class ship of 1,600 tons was being built at
Somerset. New Orleans papers state that the steam-
ship Philadelphia had sailed from that port with 240 men
for the Panama Railroad. The St. Lawrence frigate was

being fitted out at New York to carry to London contri-
butions for the Exposition. Proposals were on foot in
Texas to form a new state out of the eastern part of that
territory.
NARROW ESCAPE FROM DESTRUCTION OF THE CITY
OF MOULMEIN.—The whole of the town of Moulmein has
been nearly blown up. It appears that there were 200
casks of gunpowder in a house belonging to a Chinaman,
named Ayan Shok ; the uppermost barrel was open, and
a spark of fire from a cheroot dropped into it ; but, for-
tunately, the powder was landed during the rains, and the
whole damaged. The powder just ignited as if it was
spunk. The alarm has been terrific to all round about.
The police are much blamed in allowing a private indi-
vidual to land and store in his house 200 casks of gun-
powder. Every Chinaman in the bazaar has nearly the
same quantum nicely stowed away in his house in the
town. A few days ago there were six carts, each con-
taining twenty barrels, ranged alongside a house, con-
taining gunpowder. The constable happened to come
tip at the moment, and, on representing the danger, he
iri.mediately walked carts, bullocks, driver, and gun-
powder to the police, under an escort.—United Service
Gazette.

TORNADO AND EARTHQUAKE AT MALTA.—Our RC-
counts from Malta by the Overland Mail, despatched on
the night of the 9th of January, make mention that, about
half-past two, a.m., on the 6th diem, from a perfect calm,
there instantaneously arose a most terrific tornado, such
as is sometimes experienced on the coast of Africa, but,
fortunately, it passed over in the short space of twenty
minutes, when it fell as dead a calm as before, without,
happily, causing any injury either to the squadron or to
the merchant shipping. At a few minutes after seven
o'clock, however, on the same morning, two very violent
shocks of an earthquake were felt throughout the island,
and were even perceptible on shipboard in the harbours,
where sentries stationed at cabin doors in the ships of war
ran in to answer bells which they found had been set ring-
ing by an invisible power. Similar confusion occurred in
the most occupied hotels and lodging-houses, in some of
which bed-room doors, with slight fastenings, were shaken
open, and the waiters running in all directions to answer
bells, when in some cases the lodgers were found sprawl-
ing on the floors, having been jerked out of their beds by
the first shock, and nearly frightened out of their senses
by the second. The first was a lift, or upward movement ;
the second , immediately succeeding, a violent shake (not an
undulatory motion) from N. W. to S.E. Tt was quite calm
at the time, and shortly previous heavy rain had fallen.
No damage whatever has occurred beyond the cracking of
a few walls in some old houses. The steam-frigate Spiteful
was on the previous evening in sight of Mount Etna,
which, though smoking, presented no unusual appearances.
Times.