The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-09-24 00:00:00

tecause his continuance in office secures that provisional
suspense which is he present desire of all. In their eve
he holds the government in commendam. A time may
come when the mistake of the revolution will be confessed
and the steps of the country retraced, while, in the
interval, misrule is eschewed, and the field left open for

intrigue or decision."

Orneral I+ltorellany.

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transported for seven years

There have been some wholesale incendiaries in Cam-
bridgeshire; in three cases the loss will amount to £7,500.
The Battersea Training School is likely to be disconti-
nued for want of subscriptions.
The late festival at Gloucester produ

1 £5.,52, about

£3O more than the last.
A labourer named At
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destroyed.

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pout 1:7;;0 worth of property was

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cent. to his tenantry at his late rent
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anti returned fifteen pc

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laid in ruins property covering at least an acre of g
and worth £lOO,OOO, broke out in Mark-lane, ni
Corn Exchange. The, fire commenced on the pr

CAnLIsLE.—The radlc'al corpofation of Carlisle, like
those of the same kidney of several other boroughs, are
growing somewhat aristocratical, nr, get elll avents, they
are less the enemies of municipal insignia' than they were
wont to be. When the Mayor went to the tale banquet
of Mayors in London he " hired" a gold chnln with
which to adorn his outward man; but he will not in
future have to go a-borrowing for such an insignia of his
office. The town council have some £lBO to spare out
of a vote for certain expenses connected with their trus-
teeship of the Gasworks of Carlisle, and that sum they
have voted for the purchase of a gold chain, which his
Worship is to wear at the forthcoming banquet at York.
THE COMMON LODGING-HOUSES OF DURHAM.—III a
report recently presented by Mr. Superintendent Robin-
son to the borough magistrates of Durham, he states that
in that town there are 14 English, 13 Scotch, and 38 Irish
families occupying common lodging-houses. containing
113 rooms, and 230 beds, or shakedowns. On my recent
inspection I found 131 men, 98 women, and 127 children,
living in idleness in those dwellings. The only employ-
ment of those children is begging and selling sand and
clay in the streets. The most of them are nearly naked,
pale, and dirty, and have neither shoes nor stockings on
their feet. I have visited these houses at all hours of the
day, but never found one empty. Both men and women
are commonly seen hanging about idle, whilst the chil--
dren, half naked, are huddled together about the fire, or
sitting amongst the ashes. During the influx of Irish at
this season of the year, from twenty to thirty individuals
—men, women, and children—sleep in one room indiscri-
minately. On Saturday and Sunday nights last nearly
500 Irish were in these houses, which are in the greatest
state of filth, and throw out most obnoxious effluvia,
contaminating the whole neighbourhood. The most of
the rooms are small, badly lighted, and worse ventilated ;
indeed, little or no air enters those dwellings but by the
doors, the windows seldom or ever being opened. The
common thieves and professional beggars, who lodge at
them, live well, and beg more food than they can eat ;
for the remainder they find a ready sale to the keepers of
the houses, who buy it for the pigs. It is quite common
at nights, when they meet together, for one tramper to
tell another the exploits of the day, informing him of all
the charitable houses in the town, and of the district,
whera the most sympathising servants live, whom they
laugh at, and where they can be served daily.

THE CAIRNGORM MOUNTAlNS.—Earl;.inthe year we
described some enormous chrystals, or Scottish tonazes.

found on these mountains by an industrious shepherd,
who is located far up on the hill. Those stones were
found after the great floods of January, 1849, and they had
never been equalled in size. Shortly afterwards, a lot of
still larger size were brought in. These two discoveries
set on fire the imaginations of many in the northern

highlands, principally labourers and farm servants, who
left their homes and wended their way to the mountains
—some from far remote glens in this county and in Ross,
carrying with them loads of meal for their support. On
the mountains they constructed rude huts of turf and
heather—oatmeal, in the shape of gruel and porridge, and
perhaps an occasional dried herring, were all to be found
in their frugal commissariat; and in good and bad weather
the search after the coveted mountain chrystals was most
eagerly pursued. We fear, however, that great has been
the disappointment and severe the hardshins onritirpri

The mountain does not yield up its jewels easily, and the
weather was changeable and sometimes very severe. We
know not whether the fortune hunters have abandoned
the pursuit; but whatever the measure of their success
have been, no chrystals have as yet been brought by them
to our market. At one time the topazes were to be found
on the surface or ere

are only found buried in the soil at great depths, or ex-
posed in the deposits left by the mountain streams after
unusually violent floods. Those splendid specimens, the
description of which led to the emigration, were obtained
after great labour and some danger, their traces having
been exposed by unprecedented torrents. It is said that
the same shepherd by whom those referred to were got has
been fortunate enough during the present season, to pick
up a good many rare specimens ; but he, it must be re-
membered, has spent many years on the bill, is familiar
with all the best spots, and traces discernible to his eyes
are not so to those of strangers. Lapidaries need not fear
to be overwhelmed by the abundance of Cairngorm stones.
The emigrants will return disappointed, like many others

who have imagined that there is an easy royal roan to for-
tune in gold or chrystalhunting.—lnverness Courier.
GREAT FIRE IN LONDON.—On Thursday a most
serious conflagration, which was not arrested until it had

soon after midnight. The building was of vast extent,
having been formerly used as the town residence of one
of the foreign ambassadors. it was five or six sto*:
high, each floor being let out as offices to co,-"
who carried on business also in the adjoinh.
The building, which was erected after designs
Sir ChristoyxherWren, presented an example of the magnt
ficence of the early city mansions. At the rear of the boy
was what was formerly the aml—
immediately behind this

,dor's private chapel

stood another similar
erection, and at the back of the last named was one of
the well-known warehouses formerly belonging to the
East India Company. This building was about 80 feet
high, nearly 100 feet wide, and extended into Seething-
lane. There were six floors in the building, each of
which contained goods of great value, consisting of tar,
oils, juniper, bristles, and drugs of every description.
The fire-engines were quickly on the spot after the break-
ing out of the fire; but the flames shot through to the
premiSes of Hayter and co., and, having ignited the roof
of the Corn Exchange, they burst through the back of
the houses there, and fired several houses in Seething-
lane. The scene at this period was awful, nothing being
seen but huge sheets of flame curling upwards,, and then
spreading in sundry directions. The firemeniwere enabled
to cut off the further spread of tbe fire in the roof of the
Corn Exchange ; but hour after hour passed away before
the least impression could be made upon the other pre-
mises on fire. The whole of the morning and afternoon
the engines were kept at work, and even as late as seven
o'clock in the evening there remained a vast body of fire
amidst the flames. The property destroyed is consider-
able ; but at present it would be impossible to form an
opinion of the exact loss, as a great many other persons
had goods in the warehouses. The Corn Exchange has
had the beautiful glazed dome burned off, and other parts
of the roof considerably injured by fire.
GRAND EXPLOSION.—A detachment of sappers and
miners, under the command of Captain Frome, chief
engineer officer of the district, has been making prepara-
tions for the great explosion of Seaford cliff for nearly
three months. The cliff is here 200 feet high, and the
gallery, in which sixteen tons of gunpowder have been
deposited, is about twelve feet from the base; it runs
200 feet into the cliff and 400 feet along it, and it was ex-
pe led that 600,000 tons of chalk will be separated from
the cliff and tumble into tle sea by the explosion. This, in

fact, was the great object of the experiment, which was,
perhaps, one of the grandest ever witnessed in England.
The preparations completed, the day fixed for the explo-
sion was Thursday last. There was a great multitude to