The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-08-06 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS

Lord Torrington has been recalled, and Sir Emerson
Tennent is not to return to Ceylon.
The Earl of Clarendon arrived at Osborne House on
Thursday, on a visit to the Queen and Prince Albert.

The Vice Chancellor of England is in a very precarious
condition.

Prince Albert bas been elected High Steward of Windsor
in the place of the late Duke of Cambridge.

Lord and Lady Stanley returned to town on Saturday;
from visiting the Duke and Duchess of Richmond, at
Goodwood Park, during the race meeting.

Several of theofficersof the London and North-western
Railway Company passed along the Coventry and Nun-
eaton line, for the purpose of inspection, on Wednesday
last,. The line was to be opened for traffic yesterday.
At a special meeting of the Town Council of Edinburgh,
on Thursday, it was unanimously resolved to present the
freedom of the city to Viscount Gough. Lord Gough
arrived i n Edinl,urgh on the same evening.
Lately a scorpion was found in a sawpit in Chatham
Dockyard, taken out of a piece of Italian oak, alive. It
is of the species of a blackish colour, described by natu-
ralists as one whose sting causes odd motions of the limbs,
and a laughter like that of fools.
The Lord Bishop of Lichfield consecrated a new church
at Smallthorn, in the parish of Norton-in-the-Moors,
near Burslem, on Friday last. The seats are all free, and

with open benches ; an-cit;iec:alculatedto accommodate a
congregation of three hundred persons. The cost of the
church was about £l5OO.
OCEAN STEAMSHIPS.—The American steamer Wash-
ington left new York on the 20th ult., and arrived at
Southampton on Sunday. The British steamer Hibernia
left Boston on the 24th, and arrived at Liverpool also on
Sunday, having stopped on the 26th at Halifax to receive
the mails.

At the recent Glasgow fair, Anderson, the Wizard of
the North, had .tn enormous structure, with a frontage
250 feet in length, being an excellent representation of
Balmoral Castle. It was walled round, had real trees
planted inside the enclosure, and the terrace was orna-

mented with hothouse and other plants from the Botanic-
gardens. The east of erecting this building is said to
have been £l,OOO.

WRITINC

-There is an old saw that says, " He who
runs can read,"—but so plain and effective, and so per-
fect are the systems of attaining the art of writing, that
men may now• become competent in the latter art at even
more than a running rate. Mr. Thompson, now a um-
fessional in Liverpool for 20 years excels in rapidity of
comma- 'tion al A few easy lessons

aniea-. nis predecessors. _
free not only a cramped hand, but make a novice equal
to many professed masters.

GREAT MEETING IN ESSEX--A public meeting Was
held in the Agricultural Hall, Saffron Walden, on Satur-
day, in support of the ,rest cause of urotection to native
industry

Upwards of 700 of the gentry, clergy, farmers,

were presen

was filled by Nlr. R. Birch Wolfe, an'extensive landowner
and a first-rate farmer. Mr. Paul Foskett and Mr. E.
Ball attended as a deputation from the National Associa-

tion in London

The Times, of yesterday, publishes an authentic copy
of the protocols finally agreed on, and executed on Fri-
day, by the plenipotentaries of the chief powers of

Europe. The principal articles of this declaration were
already known. They express the unanimous desire of
the Powers for the maintenance of the Danish posses-

he %vie,

of Denmark in regulating the succession in his Royal
House. It is to be hoped that the production of the
agreement will put an immediate end to an unjust and
unnatural war.

THE ARCTIC EXPEDlTlON.—Lieutenant Power, R.N.,
of the Emma Eugenia transport, arrived at the Admi-
ralty on Thursday, bringing despatches from Captain
Austin's expedition in search of Sir John Franklin. Tlie

expedition was " all .well," and was to

1 from the

yr 'laic 121.1 isliums on toe Zia of June. 'tie trampon
also brought intelligence of the American Franklin expe-
dition, consisting of two schooners, which arrived at the
islands the day after Captain Austin sailed, and proceeded
to the northward on the 29th of June, likewise " all
well."