The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-08-13 00:00:00

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FOREIGN -AND COLONIAL.
The first sack of flour, the produce of the present liar-
vest, in France, was exhibited at the Halle, on Monday,
gaily adorned with bouquets of flowers.
The total amount of gold dust received in the United
States from California since the commencement of the
" diggings" up to the present time is 520,100,000.
According to a note in the Moniteur the cholera was
making fearful ravages in Cochin China and Tonkin, and
threatening Canton.
Sir George Anderson is appointed Governor of Ceylon,
and is to be succeeded in the government of Mauritius by
Mr. Higginson, now Governor-in-Chief of the Leeward
Islands.
There is considerable difficulty experienced in Prussia,
in recruiting the Popish priesthood. At the beginning .of
this year no less than 862 cures were vacant, for want of
clergy to undertake them.
A duel with swords took place in the!Bois de Boulogne,
on Saturday, between two representatives of the people,
MM. Brissett and Perrinen. The former being wounded,
the combat was stopped by the seconds.
Private letters from Turin of the 7th inst.,-State that
much agitation existed thz previous night in consequence
of the refusal of the clergy to administer the 'last sacra-
ment to M. Santa Rosa, Minister of Commerce, on his
death-bed. The national Guard was under arms, and
prevented any act of violence from taking 'place.
The Atlantic steamer arrived on Wednesdgs from New
'York, but the news is of no particslar importance. The
Slavery Bill, it was confidently believed, •weuld pass the
Legislature by the Ist of this month. tDr. Webster had
expressed himself resigned to his fate,-and had taken an
affectionate leave of some of his former acquaintances.
ANOTHER LYING MIRACLE.—A prkended miracle has
been displayed for some time at 'Schleimbach, near
Vienna, in the person of a girl., out df •w hose hands, feet,
and left side, bloody sweat was seen to low every Friday.
On her brow were the lettersJ.N.R. The Courts have
investigated the matter, and reported that the whole is a
fraud. produced by artificial applications.
DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. —A letter has been
received at Lloyd's, announcing the arrest of Mr. Nem-
mersen, the British Consul, and agent at Lloyd's. He
was arrested by Lieut. Hansen, the Commander of the
Schleswig Holstein gun-boats, and was conveyed on
board the steamer Kiel, which immediately sailed to Ton-
nine, when the Consul will probably be conveyed to Kiel
or Rendsbury. The Consul protested against the arrest,
but was compelled to yield.
Mon LAW IN AMERICA.—A dreadful instance of mob-
law has just occurred in Culpepper. in Virginia. A free
negro, named Grayson, had been twice tried, and con-
victed by a jury, of having murdered Mr. David Miller,
of that place, and on each occasion the court granted
him a new trial, on the ground that the testimony hardly
justified suspicion, much less guilt. A mob rose, and,
headed by several men of so called respectability, broke
open the gaol, placed a rail across two trees, and hung
him. Before he was strung up, they gave him one minute
to confess, when he solemnly declared his innocence.
Such an instance of barbarism is a disgrace to Virginia.

AN INSECT SCHURGE.—=One of the finest and richest
valleys of Savoy has just fallen under a devastating
scourge. A host of insects, which are confounded by the
people with the locusts, alighted some time since in the
valley of the Lere, near Saint Piere d'Albigny. These
herbivorous insects are a thousand times more destruc-
tive than the locust ; they are crickets (acridium.) Their
presence has been already marked by deplorable ravages
in the crops of maize, which were at first remarkably
promising. They increase and multiply in a most fright-
ful manner ; each of the females deposits in little holes in
the ground several thousand eggs, which are soon hatched.
When they have cleared •one spot of every vestige of
herbage, they proceed to another, and, unless some effica-
cious measures are adopted, the whole of Savoy will be
devastated. These insects are as much to be dreaded when
dead as when living ; for if killed by a cold rain, their
bodies exhale an infectious miasma which causes epidemi-
cal diseases.— Galignani's Messenger.
COLONY OF NATAL.—Letters have been received from
Natal to the 27th of May. The revenue had progres-
sively increased from £3,761, in 1846, to £14,669 in 1849 ;
and £4,000 of the loan from the imperial government.
of £lO,OOO, had been paid off. The revenue of the first
quarter of the present year was £8,318; and the expen-
diture for the same period, including an additional £l,OOO
returned to•the imperial government on account of the
loan, was £6,518. Natal bids fair, therefore to be soon
free from debt, and to have a surplus fund applicable to
various works, which are much required in the colony.
At date, twelve vessels were in the harbour, the largest
number ever known at one period. The Lady Bruce and
the Hebrides had arrived from London a few days after
the Edward. The Amaponda chief had ceded to com-
missioners, on behalf of the Natal government, above
four millions of acres of beautiful fertile country, lying
nearly unoccupied, between what is known as Amaponda
Land and the Natal Colony. This splendid addition to
Natal is of immense importance, not only to that colony,
but to the whole of our Cape settlements.
A PROPHET.—The following appears in the Paris cor-
respondence of the Independance of Brussels :—" I trans-
mit to you a strange story, because it is strange, authen-
tic, and of the present day. In 1847, a brave peasant of
Bitche, a little town in the arrondissement of Sarregue-
mines, department of the Moselle, announced to his
neighbour, friends, and relatives that he had a revela-
tion from above, which convinced him that Louis Phi-
lippe would soon fall from the throne. The good man
said that there were conspiracies; that the ministers,
who suspected nothing, would conduct the monarchy to
its ruin ; and that there was only one measure to be
taken—warn the King ! People laughed at the man,
but, as he loudly demanded that means should be given
to him to go to Paris to see the King, he was told that he
ought be sent to a lunatic asylum. The man was
frightened, and said nothing more, but when the revo-
lution of 1848 arrived there was a great commotion in
the little town of Bitche, and people cried, ' pre-
dicted it, and he is a prophet ! Every one consulted
him on his personal affairs, but, though so learned in po-
' litics, he knew nothing else, and his reputation as a
sorcerer evaporated in smoke. Within the last few days
the man said that he had had another revelation, that it
was of the gravest character, that it concerned the Presi-
dent of the Republic, and that, if means were not supplied
to him for going to Paris, misfortunes would occur. As
1848 was remembered, seine relatives and friends got up
a subscription, and the man came to Paris. He had with
him letters stating that he was perfectly honest, if not
perfectly reasonable, and by means of these he got access
to an intimate friend of the President. Struck by the
man's tone of conviction, the friend spoke to the Presi-
dent, and the latter desired to see him. The interview
took place on Saturday. A person who accompanied the
man from Bitche wished to be present, but the revelateur
demanded to be left alone with the President, and said
that, as the President understood German, he would con-
verse with him in that language. He remained more than
a quarter of an hour with the President; and in taking
leave of him, Louis Napoleon said, ';thank you, sir; a
thousand thanks. At any time and in any place you and
yours may count on me.' The man of Bitche leaves to-
morrow for his native place. He is full of joy."
EXTRAORDINARY MEDICAL CASES.—At the New Or-
leans Charity Hospital, two curious cases were politely
shown to us by Dr. Wednerstrandt, the house physician.
The first was that of a stout, hearty, and jolly Irishman,
who has not breathed through his mouth or nostrils for
two months. He had suffered from a contraction of the
upper part of the windpipe, and was at times nearly suf-
focated. An incision was made in the neck, into the
windpipe, below the diseased part, and a crooked silver
tube, about three inches long, with a rim on one end. in-
serted, through which the patient now breathes. In
speaking, this man is obliged to put his finger on the end
of the tube, in order to articulate. The patient now eats,
drinks, and smokes with great facility, and says that he
is heartier than he ever was before. We are informed that
the disease of which this patient has been so easily cured
is very similar to the one which proved fatal to General
Washington. The operation which modern science has
introduced had not been thought of in the days of Wash-
ington, or the " Father of the country" probably might
have survived many years longer. The second case that
we noticed was that of Patrick Markey, a fine-looking
labouring man, about thirty years of age. He says that,
on Monday night he was quite drunk, and laid down on
the side walk, near the Annunciation Market. After a
time he rose and went home to his family near by, going
to bed and sleeping until morning. On awakening in the
morning, he told his wife that he had a curious pain and
sensation in his right ear. He attempted to walk but fell
down. On an attentive observation his wife discovered
that the cavity of his right ear was filled with lead ; which
would not come out, as it was fitted to the different curi-
ously shaped cavities, and appeared to be largest beyond
the opening of the aperture. The lead must have been
poured into the ear in a melted state in order to have thus
shaped itself ; besides the patient's ear and face were badly
burned, as if by contact with a heated metallic substance.
The patient has not the least recollection or conjecture by
whom it could have been done, nor does he remember
having felt any pain in the ear until morning. A part of
the lead nearest the opening of the ear was abstracted by
a physician previous to the patient's going to the Charity
Hospital. Seeing is believing ; and we saw and felt the
metal in this man's ear ourselves. Dr. Wednerstrandt is
in hopes that as the parts become inflamed and enlarged,
nature and a little assistance will relieve the patient with-
out a surgical operation. The great wonder now is, how
the melted lead could be poured in to the ear and the man
not know it or feel it ; also, who could be base enough to
commit an act of such a diabolical character. It reminds
one of the poison poured into the ear of Hamlet's father,
while sleeping in the orchard, which we read of in Shak-
spere.—New Orleans Picayune.

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