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

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lower jaw, and came out at the top of the head behind the
bone of the forehead. The wounded man was knocked
down by the blow, hut immediately rose again, spoke to
the persons round him, got up into a cart, in which he
kept standing while it was being driven for more than a
mile to an inn, where he alighted and ascended a long
staircase, and went to bed in the possession of his mental
faculties. A surgeon arrived in half an hour after the ac-
cident. The upper part of the head was extensively frac-
tured, and the wound at the side of the jaw was large
enough to admit the finger. The small pieces of the skull
were removed. the larger bones adjusted, and the wounds
dressed. We shall not enter into the details of this inte-
resting case, but merely say that the patient promptly re-
covered with the loss only of the sight of the left eye."
MR. ROBERT STEPHENSON IN EGYPT.—On the 9th
ult., Mr. Robert Stephenson, the celebrated engineer,
arrived at Alexandria from Italy. He left Alexandria for
Upper Egypt, and after his return it is said he purposes
visiting the Isthmus of Suez, in order to examine per-
sonally into the practicability of forming the long-
talked-of Canal between Pelusium and the Red Sea.
The Alexandrian correspondent of the Morning Herald
says :—" He (Mr. Stephenson) seems impressed with the
advantages Egypt and the trade with our Indian and
Eastern possessions would derive from the establishment
of railway communication between the two great trading
cities of Alexandria and Cairo.- The cumbrous naviga-
tion of the Nile, at the best seasons, and impracticability
at others, for laden boats, render the advantage of such
highway so palpable, that men of less discernment have
been recently agitating the question. and urging it on
the Viceroy's attention. Produce of the value of 150
millions of piastres is annually brought down the river in
native craft. subject to the delays of navigation, the
danger and neglect of those charged with it, and the
uncertainty of arrival to meet the engagements or the
wants of the trader. It is to be hoped that this subject
will derive an impulse from the recommendation of so
competent an authority."

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AN ADROIT THIEF.—A man named Drapier, a com-
rnissionnaire, was the day before yesterday condemned
by the I', ibunal of Correctional Police to 13 months' im-
prisonment, for making free with some bottles of wine
belonging to a person in whose cellar he had been em-
ployed. Drapier had been engaged some months before
in stowing away a quantity of wine, but at the time he
was only able, in rons:quence of the presence of his em-
ployer, to abstract one bottle. The flavour of it, how-
ever, was so pleasant to his palate that he never forgot it,
and he was delighted when a few days since his services
were again called in requisition to saw some wood in the
same cellar. To his great annoyance on entering the
place he found that the cellar had been divided by a par-
tition, before which a large quantity of wood had been
piled up. His thirst, however, enabled him to overcome
all difficulties; the wood was soon removed, and a part of
the partition loosened, so as to give him access to the
wine. When there, he soon despatched six of the bot-
tles, and had just commenced the seventh, when he heard
the footsteps of his employer approaching. Quick as
lightning, he returned to the other part of the cellar
where the pile of wood had been thrown down, and fall-
ing on his face began moaning piteously. The owner of
the wine kindly assisted him, and Drapier said that when
busily employed in sawing, the pile of wood had fallen on
and seriously injured him, at the same time showing his
bleeding hands, which he had torn in removing the parti-
tion, in proof of it. Every attention was given him , snd
on his recover, he was paid for his work, although not
completed, and he was sent home. The truth, however,
did not long remain concealed, and Drapier was arrested
and nunished for the theft.—Galignani's Messenger.
A FAMILY CAST AWAY ON LAKE SUPERIOR.—A Mr.
Griswold, wife, and small child, with a boy about seven-
een, the son of a Mr. Haverstraw, set out a few weeks
since in a skiff from Eagle Harbour to reach Eagle River,
some ten miles distant up the coast. Mr. Witherell was
engaged building a government lighthouse on the point
projecting out into the harbour from tae main land, and
saw the company as they rounded the point on their peri-
kus voyage. It was blowing quite strongly off land, and
fears were entertained that a shift of the wind would
beach them on a bold and had shore. Determined to
have plenty of leeway, the little craft was observed to put
out some distance into the lake, and was soon lost sight
of. It never reached its destination. Days and weeks
passed, nothing was heard from the adventurers. The
coast between the two points was daily traversed, and
pieces of the wreck supposed to be found, but no tidings
of the sufferers. At length all hope was given up, and
their friends mourned them as dead. But the sequel
proved otherwise. After three weeks' absence this little
crew were all found safe at the Saut. They had been
picked up two weeks before by a coasting schooner on the
Canada shore, whither they had been seven days drifting.
The distance across the lake at that point must be from
250 to 300 miles. It appears that the boat got too far
from shore, and the wind increasing drove them into the
lake. Night came on, and the wind not abating the boat
was put in charge of the lad, who was a half-breed and
well acquainted with the lake. He got up a sort of sail
and put before the wind for the Canada shore. Seven
days and nights they spent on this lonely sea without see-
ing a vessel. without shelter, and without food, The
wind changed several times and kept them for days out
of sight of land. When found, they had entirely surren.
dered themselves to their fate. How they lived so long
under such exposure AA witbov-t if-Wd; is a most gnp.a-
rolJeled mystery.