The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-02-18 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS

-Qutcx TRAVELI4IWG.—We have teen favoured with
the following extract from a letter dated Boston, Decem-
ber 31, 1844 :—"I left Quebec on Friday morning, the
27th of December, by way of the Gosford-road, Canaan,
Lancaster, and Plymouth, to Boston, 346 miles, where I
arrived on Monday, the 30th of December, with a day
and a half to spare before taking passage by the January
steamer. I would recommend this route as decidedly tte
best, cheapest, and most expeditious for passengers from
Quebec hence. It is 100 miles shorter than the route
by three Rivers. Mr. Bailie, who runs a line of stages
from Canaan, will undertake to convey passengers from
Quebec to portland in 36 hourf:, and thence to Boston in
four hours. I could have come in a much shorter time;
and when a line of stages is established in this route, the
expense from Quebec to Boston will not exceed £3 10e.
to £3 15s.—Quebec Gazette.

MIRACULOUg ESCAPE.—On Monday evening, on the
half-past six o'clock train from Birmingham approaching
Spetchley station, a man named Smith, a resident of
Peopleton, near Penshore, and who appeared to be some-
what-under the influence of liquor, jumped out of a se-
cond-class carriage before the train had fairly stopped, and
his foot catching the step, be was thrown down, part of
his body being under the train, his head being on the
outer side between the wheels of the carriage and the wall
of the station. While in this perilous position he was
dragged a distance of some yards, and all who witnessed
the occurrence anticipated nothing less than certain death
as the reward of his foolishness; however, on the train
stopping he was extricated, and it was found that he Ind
escaped with the loss of two or three fingers only from his
right hand, and after a short interval he was enabled to
proceed to his home.-- Cheltenham Examiner.

REVOLUTION AT ICHABOE.—Strange as such a fast
may be, it is not more strange than true. By letters
which have arrived in town this week, it is stated that a
complete, and, happily, a bloodless revolution had taken
place at Ichaboe, at the date of the last desp=atches. It
seems that in the operations of the first six months after
the island was visited, a host of agents or supercargoes
established themselves on the island, erecting tents and
temporary residences. In a short time they had marked
off the ground, and laid claim to all the principal parts as
their own bona fide property on behalf of themselves' and
their employers at home, erecting loading-stagesa and.
selling pits at extravagant prices. Till the revolution no
opposition was made to this mode of procedure, and the
consequence was, that ultimately no ship, unless the CBp...
tain submitted to these land sharks, could get a shovel's
breadth of ground to land upon. When an agent bad a.
ship loading at his stage, he purposely kept dallying with
the work, until another ship from his house at home
would arrive to take up the berth, although there might
be 300 other ships surrounding the little island, and wait-
ing for access to the beach. Squabbles and small fight.
were of continual occurrence, and increased till a sloop-
of-war arrived to preserve order. Her commander re-
mained till he believed his presence was no longer neces-
sary. On the following day the demurring shipmasters
held a meeting, and it was very soon resolved that a gen-
eral reform should be made instanter. There were about
300 ships at moorings, and each ship agreed to send her
proportion of men ashore with guns and bayonets, muss.
tering altogether about 1,400 men. Supercargo town wee
attacked, and its entire population put to the rout at the
point of the bayonet, and driven directly into the sea, np
to their chins, and the discomfited landlords there and
then made to swear, that from that time henceforth they
had relinquished all right and title to the soil of Ichaboe,
after which declaration they were permitted to return to
their places of abode. This summary proceeding pro-
duced au entire change in the civil affairs of the island,
and ships are now lording at the rate of 50 tons a day,
after lying idle for months.—Greenock Observer, -