The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-12-10 00:00:00

tutionelle Zeitunq has been seized

The news from the centre of operations is much less
pacific than the intelligence from Olmutz. The-Bavarian

)art of t

4th inst. Austrian troops were expected at Fulda.
Frankfort it was reported on the 4th that a general a
tack on the Prussian positions was
The mobilization of the Wurten-
decreed

army bad been

MERCANTILE ENTERPRISE IN ARIERICA.—The New
York correspondent of the- Times says—" The trade with
California, and the restrictions removed by modifying the
navigation laws in England, have combined to effect a
revolution in the naval architecture of this country that
has neretofore been unparalleled. Never before has such
a competition existed among shipbuilders as to who
should model the fleetest vessels; and their efforts have

certainly been seconded by the greatest disregard o

on the Part of the enterpr'ising:tnerchants in whose ser-
vice they have laboured. A recent instance illustrative of

this was the order of a well-known house in the Canton
trade, whose instructions to their builder were to furnish
them with a ship of 2000 tons burthen with as little delay
as poisible, while the only properties stipulated for were
the most perfect combination of beauty and speed consis-
tent with strength, but without any limit as to expense.
Nor is this by any means a singular instance of a growing
disposition to possess the fastest and finest shik.
be set afloat. ;
_and well have their owners been repaid thus

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far, not only by the preference they have everywhere met
with, but also by the extravagant ,rates of freight they
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their voyages have been performed. ;General orders have
been received from California to give such ships the pre-
ference at any difference of freight; in consequence of
which they now obtain one dollar per cubic foot for ordi-
o, and double that price for fine goods; while
fashioned and more slowly sailing competitors
ht at a half or five eighths of :dollar. The
lately left here for the Pacific

o Canton, there take in a cargo for.this port or London,
nd clear the whole cost to her owners •by the time she is
,ne year old. The last overland India mail brings intel-
igence that another of this class, called the Oriental, had

obtained in Canton a ft.(
when the g

ng rate was £3

of the same

London of £6 per ton
reabout. The capacity

nnage which are

y Are expected to clear themselves in a year or
ie Sea Witch has twice gone round the world

Canton, performir.

ig each voyage

►in a twelvemonth, in►•lusive of both pot

structinn of this description of ships, and to encourage
every improvement that can add to their sailing proper-
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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

A royalmernmiasion is aboutcto be issued to inquire into
the law of divorce.

In the Queen's -Bench,.-on Saturday, an action was
brought by the Duke of Brunswick against the Sun news-
paper for libel. A verdict was returned for the defendant,
the judge observing that the plaintiff had put a construc-
tion on the words which they would not bear.
It is the intention of the government to offer a peerage
to Mr. Baron Parke.(formerly :Fellow of Trinity College),
Cambridge,) for his long and able services, and he is to
sit in the House of Lords for the hearing of appeals
after the opening of parliament.
On Friday, in theCommors Pleas, an action was brought
by a bill-discounter against. Lieut. Baldwin, son of the
M.P. for Totness, on three bills of exchange. A verdict
was returned for the defendant, on the ground that the
bills were given for gambling debts, and that the plaintiff
knew of that fact when he took them.
A WILL CAU6E.—In the. Court of Queen's Bench,
before Lord Campbell and a Special Jury, the ca'e of
Dryden v. Fryer, commenced.on Monday. The action
was brought to try the validity of a will made by the late
Sir Gregory Page Turner, a gentleman possessed of
large landed property in 'Bedfordshire, Oxfordshire, and
Kent. The testator, who was always a man of eccentric
habits, became of age and entered Avon the possession i❑

1806. Shortly after he mixed in society much below his
rank and station, and of dissolute,eharacter, who sought
his company with a view to their own interest : he became

y evincec

lunacy was obtained against him in. 1814, which, however,
was suspended in the followinglrear, his mind having in
the interim undergone a change for the better. A few
years afterwards, his insanity relapsing,, a second commis-
sion of lunacy was sued out against him in 1821, which
was also superseded, but not until a considerable interval
had elapsed. _ Between the removal of the second comis-

Mn and his death,in 1843, he made and executed a will,

to make v

ar wnicn was in question, and his competency
ch was affirmed on the part of the plaintiff,
iy the defendant. The trial, which occupied

ay, terminated in the