The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-11-28 00:00:00

....-a had broken out,
ould not be enforced.

Mon. tpensier and his wife received E

in Austria amounts to 128,000

The number of gips
and that of Jews to 475,000

is thieves have iateiy vegan LU LUC gars
d whole streets have been occasionally left in

a consequence of these depredations.
1g of Wirtemburg has been compelled, by hi
after an ineffectual struggle, to relinquisl

300,000 florins pnr annum of his civn 11SL.
A letter from Rome, received in Paris, states that 11".
Rossi (Foreign Minister of the Pope) was stabbed in ti
wnc nro,eeding to the Chamber of Deputie

He has since died.
The Thomas Darcy Magee, the runaway fellow win
announced that it was part of the plan of the insurgent
to set the principal towns and cities of Ireland on fire, ha
revived the Nation in New York.
An Ameri,

that Frederick Jerome, wlic

paper s
such services to the unfortunate passengers of th

renderer

and is now canvassing in New York for subser
perio,lical, called " The World as it Moves."
rly and Mr. Gcorge Vandenhoff are playin
uses in the Ui

ptions to E

Mr. Macre

and their eftor

to crowd

are spolcc

one occasion, receiven high compliment of bein
called before the curtain at the close of the third act c

Julius Caesar.
General Sarazzin, who commanded under General
Humbert in the expedition against Ireland, which ended
in the capture of the entire French army by Lord Corn-
wallis, died a few years ago, at Brussels, in the 78th year
of his age. General Sarazzin was convicted of bigamy
during the empire.
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X. is sad

_ . .
on the wane, if, indeed, it be not already lost
lemn procession of his holiness to San Carlos on a recent
occasion is described as resembling the movement of a
funeral. The streets were deserted, and the Pontiff was
only welcomed by the cries of a few noisy urchins attracted
by curiosity to the spot.
A new description of robbery, called chinage, and con-
sisting thp falsification of pawnbrokers' tickets, has
come into vogue into Parls. A. rOvCALI was accosted in the
Place du Chatelet by a woman pretending to be the wife
of an insurgent of June, who implored him to buy the
ticket of a gold watch, represented to be pledged for 60f.
He gave 60f. for the ticket, but, on going to take the
watch out of pawn, found that it had been pledged for 30f.,
and that its value did not exceed 351.

The so

WOODEN GUNPOWDED..---FrOm some recent experi-
ments the fact is established that fine sawdust or rasped
wood, steeped in a mixture of concentrated sulphuric
and nitric acids, and afterwards washed and dried, will
explOde similar to common gunpowder, and if rightly
managed, with much greater force.—American paper.

SINGULAR ESCAPE

The following is a narrative of an escape from peril
and a rescue of five lives by individual gallantry, rarely
equalled, and never exceeded, in the records of high and
noble daring. It is from the pen of Captain Bryan
Milman, of the sth Fusiliers, in a letter addressed to his
father, Major-General Milman, late of the Coldstream

Guards :
" Mahehourg, Island of Mauritius, June 30,1848.
"The following account of an almost miraculous escape
that I and five other officers have had from drowning
will interest you all, 1 have no doubt. The names of
the others are Colquitt, Bellew, Fitzgerald, Home, (all
of the sth Fusiliers), and Palmer, a commissariat officer,
in whose boat we were at the time of the accident.
Colquitt and Fitzgerald are in the first battalion, and
bad come down here to stay with me and Bellew. On the
25th we made a boating party for them to visit one of
our detachments about 15 miles from hence, at Grand-
river, South-east. We left this about eleven a.m., and
after reaching our destination all safe, left it about 3
p.m. for home, the weather then looking anything but
promising ; when about four miles from home and from
the shore, we were overset by a squall. It came upon us

£9,500 to a commanding c
home

£20,000 for the sale of his coin-

mission ; while the last sum given for similar promotion
in that corps vas £14,000.

) emigrants, sailed from Dublin for the United
he emigrants, with scarcely an exception, be-

from t

e counties Limerick and Tipperary, and each
i with them sums of money varying from £2O

:very steamer that leaves the qu-ayof Dublin
)1 is crowded with emigrants on their way to

MR. O'BRIEN

ERROR CASJ

:.—On Tuesday the argu-
ut by Mr. W. S. O'Brien
Bench, in presence of the
'otwithstanding the
the public mani-

so suddenly that we had not time to do anything; tor- I
rents of rain fell at the same time, and there we were
drifting along on the side of the boat, which luckily did
not sink, without a chance of assistance, and the night
setting in. This happened about half-past 5 o'clock, and
it is dark at 6at this season. We drifted in this way for
about two hours, and at last grounded in about seven feet
water. It was almost perfectly dark, and all we could
see were the tops of the mountains in the horizon. We
supposed we were about two miles from shore.. All of us
but myself had stripped on being upset, as I knew if we
came to a swim, that I could take my clothes off at any
moment. As it turned out, I think I was lucky in this,
as they, perhaps, though wet, kept me a little warmer
than my companions. Nothing seemed to give us a
chance of being saved, except holding on till daylight,
and as it was terribly cold, this seemed next to impossible.
..At last it struck me I might be able to swim ashore to
procure assistance, and I got permission of the others to
do so. Our boatman, a Creole. who also said he would
go, started with me to make the attempt. I left them
with a hearty • God bless you !' from all. After swim-
ming some time I lost sight of the boatman, and was left
to myself. I swam back a little,_ shouting as loud as I

could; but getting no answer, and feeling for my own
sake that I must push on, I turned my head towards the
mountain tops (my only guide) and struck out my best.
I must have been swimming for rather more than an hour
when I landed. I found myself a little tired, and very
much benumbed, barefooted, en chemise, and not able to
see ten yards before me, it was so dark. My first impulse
was to fall on my knees and thank Providence, after
which, curious to say, my military schooling came to my
aid in the ' extension motions,' which brought some little
feeling into my limbs, and enabled me to continue my
work. After feeling my way for about half an hour along
the shore, shouting all the time, I came to a cottage,
where 1 was hospitably received. They told me they had
heard my cries some time, but fancied I was some drunken
man returning home, or else they would have come out
to my assistance. The poor black gave me some dry
clothes, and made me a cup of tea, and then conducted
me to the proprietor of the estate, who lived close by,
and had the nearest pirogue (a small boat like a canoe,
dug out of a solid trunk of a large tree) in the neighbour-
hood. M. Chiron, the name of the proprietor, a man of
colour, as soon as I explained my situation, and my want
of a boat to go and assist the others, immediately offered
to go himself, and his son also insisted on going with him.
I jumped at the offer, of course, and we immediately
walked down to where his pirogue was moored, and
started, myself at the bottom to serve as a guide. By
the blessing of Providence, after about an hour's search,
we heard the cries from the wreck. I think I never felt
so happy or so light-hearted in my life as I did at that
moment, for there were so many chances against our
finding it. We could not see many yards from our own
boat. It was then about 11 o'clock, so that they had
been exposed on the boat for upwards of five hours.
Luckily, with great care, we got them safe into the pirogue
without upsetting her; and by 12 o'clock we were safely
housed under M. Chiron's hospitable roof, and he fed,
clothed and lodged us for the night. In the morning the
unfortunate Creole boatman was found dead from cold
and cramp, about half a mile from the place he was sup-
posed to have landed at. The kindness, hospitality, and
truly courageous assistance afforded us by M. Chiron, at
the risk of his life and that of his son, are deserving of
all praise. It was a service of danger to go out even at
all in a pirogue on such a rough night, much more to go
and seek for five drowning men three miles at sea. lie
wished his son not to go, but the latter would not allow
his father to go without him. Constantly during our long
search, when the son was getting tired of pulling the
boat, the father would cry out and encourage him, say-
ing, ' Courage, mon fils.
"BRYAN MILMAN. Captain sth Fusiliers*"

IRELAND. were, with the Commissioners, objects of a rather too
profuse appropriation of capital; and ecclesiastical leases,
The present payments for the Irish Colleges condemned long and notoriously a source of great waste of the pro-
by the Pope amount to £11,700. perty available for giving pastors to the people, were no
There are fourteen military and naval officers of the rank i whit better under the Commission than they had been
of lieutenant-colonel, major, and captain, employed as under their more ancient and rightful owners. Such were
poor-law inspectors in Ireland. the allegations; and hence it has been that the " compo-
The Cork Reporter asserts that it has been discovered sition and management" of " the Ecclesiastical Commis-
that the fishing banks of Newfoundland extend across the sion"—as the fo;zs et °Hy° mall, has been brought under
Atlantic to within 100 miles of Ireland. the scrutiny of a Select Committee of the House of
The library of the Repeal Association, at Conciliation Commons. The result is a recommendation that their
Hall, which contained some valuable works on Irish his- lordships the Bishops, with the lay State functionaries
tory, realised £5OO. who make up the present Church Commission, shall be
4ueen's College, under the Bishop's Palace, Cork, is left to consider " great principles and important questions
nearly completed—a most superb building ; but if the affecting the Church," while the management of the funds
dictum of the Pope is accepted it must be converted either shall be handed over to " three paid Commissioners, two
into a workhouse or a military barrack. to he nominated by the Crown and one by the Archbishop
Smith O'Brien does not lose his seat for Limerick of Canterbury, the payment to be made from the funds
county in consequence of his conviction for high treason. of the Commission." Thus we are to have not one Com-
He may resign, or be expelled by a vote of the House. mission, but two ; and while the spoils of the suppressed
He will probably choose the latter alternative. canonries and prebends are to be further diverted to the
The Dublin Evening Mail says that the second lieu- purpose of supporting three active barrister (or non-bar-
' eolonel of a regiment in India lately tendered rister) cadets of the great Whig family now in power,
-.cheer of a Lancer regiment on the present machinery of commissionership is, neverthe-
zr exchange, but the offer was rejected. less, to be retained, for the better and more conveniently
• _,~+u~pr,-•ammanding a disposing of those " great principles and important ques-
tions" which, among the many great innovations of the
coming time, it is felt must inevitably be raised. And
the Church letse question is to be held in solution till
Parliament, acting under the advice of the three new
Commissioners, can put " the transactions between the
Commission and the lessees" in the way of being " car-
ried generally to a satisfactory issue." The committee,
under the head " Management of the Commission," cen-
sure the mismanagement of the Episcopal Fund, showing
that whilst since the formation of that fund up to the end
of 1847, only £93,276 were paid for the more legitimate
purpose of increasing the income of the poorer sees, a sum
--”.nded

amounting in the aggregate to £27,276 was expended on
the builning and repairs of episcopal residences, and paid
out of the fund above mentioned.
AN EVERLASTING OFFERING.—Amongst the signifi-
cant tenures by which landed estates are often held when
of ancient date, that of the Staf!'ortls of Eyara is not the
ieaaf oi.g.ular. It is that they shall keep a lamp perpetu-
ally burning on th altar of St. Helen's, at Eyam parish
church.

COURT AND FASHION

The Qucen, with Pr
Ar;ndenv. Poet

lhursday

lIE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

If M

RAILWAY AFFAIRS.

Every exertion is being made to finish the stupendous
tubular bridge over the Menai Straits by the middle of
next summer.

At the last special meeting of the Birmingham and
Oxford shareholders, the directors were empowered to
raise the sum of £333,000, as authorized by their several
acts.

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the
week ending 18th November, 1848 :—Coaching traffic,
£786 13s. 3d. ; parcels, £4O s. SJ. ; goods and cattle,
£lBo3s. sd. ; steam boats. £llB Bs.: Total, £1125125. ld.
The Brighton Company have issued an advertisement
pledging themselves that they will not• do away with return-
tickets, and offering to grant annual tickets from London
to Brighton, 60 miles, at £5O per annum.
RAILWAY DEPRECIATION.-1D a recent circular.
Messrs. Railton, sharebrokers, of Manchester, estimate
the depreciation of railway stock, about the middle of last
month, at " upwards of £120,(X10,000; that is, nearly
one-sixth of the National Debt !"

An inquiry into the value of the property required by
the London and North-Western Railway Company at
Birmingham, belonging to the governor of the Birming-
ham Free Grammar School, resulted a few days ago in the
jury finding a verdict for £39,603 10s., and £250 severage.
The claim was £42,000.
DUBLIN AND HOLYHEAD SUBMARINE ELECTRIC
TELEGRAPH.-Mr. Charles Blunt, C.E., has received
from the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty the
necessary authority to lay down his line of Submarine
Electric Telegraph between Holyhead and Dublin, and
for putting the wires in communication with the existing
lines of railway now terminating at Holyhead on the En-
glish coast, and on the Irish coast at Dublin.
The 117 arches of the Bury Railwey contain
26,187,000 bricks. The large arch over the tunnel and
works of the North Western Railway, which is 99 feet
span, and 64 on the skew, contain 2,281.000 bricks,
48,000 cubic feet of timber, and 23,140 superficial fe,t of
3-inch planking. At thest- arches 34,000 casks of cement
have been used. There is duty of 6s. 1-15,1
sand bricks.

a. on every thou-

Glancing over our traffic table of last week, says the
Railway Chronicle, it appears that out of the thirty-nine
companies enumerated in it. there .are three whose re-
ceipts for the present half-year up to the lath November.
are already greater than their receipts for the half-year
ending the 31st December, 1847: these bring the Lan-
caster and Carlisle. the Manchester, Sheffield and Lin-
colnshire, and the South Devon.