The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-10-31 00:00:00

DIVISION OF POLAND.

As the course of events evidently tends towards the
re-establishment of the kingdom of Poland, it will be
useful to mention the dates of the various partitions of
her territory :

First partition
Second partition .. April 9, 1793,
Third partition
Minor arrangements between Prussia
:and Austria touching the 'Palatinate Oct. 21, 1796.
.of Cracow , .)
Convention of Vienna, between Russia,
:Prussia, and Austria, by which the Nov. 6, 1816.
!letter takes possession of Cracow-...

.his convention was protested against by England and
France, but secretly connived at `by France on condition
that Austria, Prussia, and Russia would make no objection
to the Spanish marriages. The Poles -have a proverb that
something good will happen to their nation when Easter-
Day falls upon St. George's-Day, the feast of their patron
saint. This event took place in 1848, -the year of the
French revolution, when the anti-Polish Government of
France was overthrown, and the way paved for the re-
establishment of the power of Napoleon, who will' cer-
tainly not rest until he has restored the Kingdom of
Poland. We already hear the mutterings of the storm ;
and must not,be surprised if we see a French army in the
Rhenish provinces of Prussia before the winter is over.
As soon as this takes place, the Poles will rise. To pre-
vent it, if possible, the Czar is now going to establish
his head-quarters at Warsaw for the winter.—English
Churchman.

AFRICAN Mass.—The African Steam Navigation
Company's ship Bacchante, Captain Drury, sailed on
Tuesday from Plymouth, for Madeira, Teneriffe, and the
West Coast of Africa. She has a large number of pa.s-
sengers and a general cargo of manufactured goods, in-
chiding a quantity of specie for the Coast. The next mail
home is expected about the 15th of November by the
Forerunner, Captain Johnson. Her successor is the
Ethiope, Captain Barnwell, which left Plymouth on the
24th of September, and is now probably at Sierra Leone
• the Coast. ,

going 1c

- ADMIRALTY COURT, FRIDAY.—TIIE CENTURION :
COLLISOL—This was a suit, tried before Dr. Lushington,
arising out of a collision between two American vessels,
the Centurion and the General Parkhill, which occurred
at 9 45 p.m., on the 26th of June last, inside the Rock
Lighthouse, in the river Mersey. Dr. Addams and Dr.
Byford representing Messrs Fenwich and Aspinall, solici-
tors, Liverpool, were heard for the General Parkhill; Dr.

Robinson and Dr. Tiviss, representing Messrs. Lowndes,
Robinson, and Bateson, of the same place, for the Centu-
rion. The learned Judge referred to the Elder Brethren,
who were of opinion that the fault was wholly imputable
0 the CeUturiOn, The court pronounced aceordinziv.

CHESHIRE AND WALES.

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.—The traffic for
the week ending 22nd October, 1864, was as follows :
Passengers, parcels, &c., £2,751 lls. ld ; steam-boats,
£4lO 18s. 9d.; total, £3,162 Bs. 10d. Goods, £1,796 Os. 9d.
Total, including Carnarvon traffic, £4,520 7d. Cor-
respanding week last year, passengers, parcels, &c., £3,651
16s. 2d.; steam-boats £457 Os. 10d. : total, £3,108 17s. Od.
Goods, £1,645 12s. 3d. Total, including Carnarvon traffic.
£4,297 Bs. sd. Increase, £177 ls. ld.

THE PATRIOTIC FUND IN CHESTER.—On Monday,
at noon, the Mayor of Chester, John Smith, F.Sq., con-
vened a public meeting of the mhabitants of that city, to
organize a subscription for the benefit of the widows and
orphans of the soldiers and sailors engaged in the present
war, in conformity with the terms of the Royal proclama-
tion in the London Gazette of Friday, the 13th instant,
appointing commissioners for carrying out the object.
Some interesting speeches were delivered, and a subscrip-
tion list was opened, which amounted to nearly £3OO.
ACCIDENT AT THE GRAVING Docics.—On Wednesday
Birkenhead, a very, serious accident occurred to three
men, named Patrick Burke, Owen M`Ginn, and James
Percival, who were employed at the new graving docks
now in course of construction between the Monks and
Woodside Ferries. It appears that the three men were
engaged in blasting the rock, when, from some cause or
other, the charge did not explode. On examining the
charge a violent explosion took place, the effect of which
was that Btirke and M`Ginn were dreadfully disfigured
about their heads, besides sustaining serious injuries on
different parts of their bodies. Their sight was also much
affected. The third man, Percival, although not so badly
hurt as his companions, received several injuries. The
three men were conveyed to the hospital in Hamilton-
street, Birkenhead, and are progressing favourably.
ASSAULT ON A WOMAN.—At the Birkenhead Petty
Sessions, on Thursday, Jane Jones, wife of the master of
the Yacht "Ariel," lying at the Duke's Wharf, Birkenhead,
summoned Richard Buckingham, master of the Yacht
"Vandal," for a violent assault upon her, on the previous
Saturday evening. Complainant stated that about six o'clock
she had to go on shore to meet her husband, and in doing so,
to make a near cut, had to pass through a door leading to
a shed in which the stores of the Yacht " Vandal " were
placed. The defendant obstructed her passage, and be-
cause she refused to go back, he used offensive epithets
towards her, and struck her on the head several times.
Several witnesses were called for the complainant,
amongst others a gentleman named Janion, who stated
that he witnessed the assault, and ran up to com-
plainant, but defendant had then run away. He said to
her " where is the villain ?" intending to have given him
in charge, "and" added Mr 'Union emphatically, "I
would have given the monster in charge if I could have
got hold of him." In cross-examination as to who he was,
Mr. Janion said " I am a cosmopolite, Sir, a citizen of the
world, I have no fixed place of residence in Birkenhead
at present." It was urged for the defence, that the woman
had frequently been warned not to come through the shed,
which was private property, but she insisted upon doing
so, and the struggle ensued in consequence. The bench
inflicted a penalty of £1 and costs.