The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-08-01 00:00:00

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THE MARRIAGE of the Lady Alice Egerton, clai
of the Earl and Countess of Ellesmere, with the
George Byng, son of Viscount Strafford, was solevd
on Tuesday morning, at Hatchford, the noble ear'''
near Weybridge. Wei
GENERAL SIR HENRY KING, C. 13., K.C.H., Co 10.
the 3rd Buffs, died on Monday, last week, at his resloll
in Sussex-terrace, Hyde Park-gardens. Sir HearYidil
his 77th year, and had been sixty years a soldier,
entered the army in 1794.
THE HON. FRANCIS CHARLES LAWLEY, late
Beverley, and who has for some time been acting-n
rate secretary to the Chancellor of the ExcheiVeril
been appointed Lieut.-Governor of South Australi%ls
room of Sir Henry E. F. Young, now Governor 01'
Zealand.

DEATH OF MRS. SOUTHEY.—Caroline SoutheY,"?
of Robert Southey, the Poet Laureate, died on tllO
ult., at Buckland, near Lymington. She was ada
of the Rev. Dr. Bowles, a canon of Salisbury 94.
and was highly graced with intellectual accomPils:fi
She was married to Dr. Southey in 1839', about
a half after the death of his first wife, Edith Frick!':4
DEATH or LORD MEDWYN.—This venerable SS
judge died at his house in Ainslie-place, Edinbarail
Tuesday last. He had retired from the bench in 11.,
which he had occupied a seat from the year 1826.
Medwny was in his 77th year.
THE ROYAL AcADEasY.—The season of theJ
Academy exhiLition was brought to a close on 'WO'.
by an elegant soiree, which was attended by ne,arlYd
the nobility and gentry.
LIEUT. JAs. EDWARD PERRY, of the 46th Res-
now undergoing another trial by court-martial, for „00
to be inserted in The Times a letter to the Hon.

Upton, one of the members of the court. id
THE MAJORITY OF LORD CLVENDISH, eldest;
the Earl of Burlington, and heir to the estates and
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dom of Burlington. and the dukedom of Deo_ll
was celebrated in the old English style at HolkPeil
Brighton. At the former place a band from Liv I
was engaged. 0
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THE PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT will,
reason to believe, take place in the third week in A ,4
most probably on the 15th of that month, the '''6
Ministerial whitebait dinner which precedes the If
nation of the session being given on Saturday, the',
at Greenwich.—Globe.
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THE NurrlALs of Lieut.-Colonel Dudley Wilw7
leton, of the Goldstream Guards, the eldest son
Hon. Richard Carleton, of Bruton-street, and theifi
Charlotte Hobhouse, the eldest surviving (10001
Lord Broughton, were solemnized on ThursdaY4t.
George's, Hanover-square. The ceremony was Per'
by the Bishop of Madras.
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THE KING OF PORTUGAL and the Duke of ori
arrived at the Hague on the 15th, and went to visit 1.1
Frederick, with wom they dined. On the folloWit)
they proceeded to Loo, where the King, after .10
them a most gracious reception, presented them al, t
Grand Cross of the Netherlands Lion, in return2l4
Portuguese Order which had been offered to his WI,
The Royal brothers have since arrived at Berlin.
THE HON. ARTHUR GORDON, third son of the nt
Aberdeen, is a candidate for the representation of Bere`4
in the room of the Hon. C. Lawley, who has just
his seat for that borough. The election was to tag
yesterday.
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REPRESENTATION OF CANTERDURY.—Si, x Ted
are already in the field for the honour of rep
this city whenever it shall please the House of Cent!
to permit the writ to be issued. The followingos
list :—Sir W. Somerville, Bart., the Hon. Ge
Smythe, Mr. C. Purton Cooper, Q.C.,Mr. C. M. L
ton, Mr. Lennox Butler, and Mr. uchmuty Glow

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CANADA.—The Old Countryman, a Toronto psPeri;
"A new feature in Canadian politics is likely to be 0
duced. Viscount Bury, eldest son of the Earl °filo
marle, is anxious to represent a Canadian colistLt
We are glad of it. There is the grossest ignoranrof °,,ve,
wants and advantages of Canada in the British 110 From
Parliament." ei the u
THE LATE ADDUCTION CASE.—At the assizes elfil, train
mel, on Friday, Mr. John Carden, justice of the PT
the county of Tipperary, was found guilty of atte4 had
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to commit the crime of abduction. The jury 110° ~ hi
him of the direct charge of abduction, which is set id! "ulWa
punishable with transportation for a long terra of Passers
The sentence of the court upon the conviction wow Cop
pably be two years' imprisonment; but there iSII ssill notice(
indictment against him, which was under trial on. it ' Illterel
day—viz., one for a felonious assault on John Ste_
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one of the persons who rescued Miss Arbuthnot frog trodac
be A conviction in this case might followed by sample
of transportation. The trial was adjourned to 9 most fl
(Monday). _ji Icivesith!,
DESTRUCTIVE STORMS.—The great storm in 1107 e, laberiP
shire, on Monday last week, was followed by ..., or tion
scarcely less appalling, during the night of Tuesowc:A for" an
tinning till nearly 10 o'clock on Wednesday nl vj l silla
Such torrents of rain have not been seen for Yee"'Ar, 'iu 'IP]
Wednesday evening and night the Wye and other, n :?,it
running through lands covered with partially Oe'or 6 Is eu",e2
topped their banks, and caused great destruction 6 be r'Zi
perty. Portions of hedges, hurdles, &c., with or iif Couri
weight of hay and some farmyard stock, were see ° ,11 A,,,
through the bridges. This second storm also vi... 08 ti,i Some
tensed by damage to a church, that of All !.:;6 , bailie(
largest parish church in Hereford. The eitkiebio 'street,
struck the spire and detached a heavy stolsn'ing b 2 them ,
with great impetus through the roof of an aarTue (IV, „I'm ti
while the inmates were in.bed. ,In additipn tO ,' 1,-0. -Lae di
done to outstanding crops—a damage which Will
4 that tl
felt in increased cost of harvesting, as far as whe!.. • ho
cerned, than in actual loss of grain, some few her'
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killed by the lightning. 14 charee
TRIAL OF A. NEW SCREW.—The screw stearae„.,r to. blade a
was tried at Glasgow on Thursday week, and "`"..‘ 4*lled.
first on a new patent principle adopted by her u #
the ea'
and never yet tried in this country, the result Weld., epa
forward to with considerable interest. The ape. .7:70L it/1:d
the propeller is in the centre of the rudder, whie,,':lo 'ever i
lates round the propeller, and is not in the run opr;-900 not the
as in all other screw steamers. The expectations
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of this combination were, increased speed in . A Preaenl
to power applied, absence of vibration, and lh .02 4.a1l inii
steering power with smaller rudder surface theli.a ri There i
We are informed that these expectations have 705. Rut,
realised ; and although the Marion is by no meanie llgop, I„he T 0
vessel, being intended to carry 180 tone of des"_.,
...f eefore-i
on a register of 200 tons, and having only 25-horr, 007, 'eioners
in going down the river she passed each measured %arid,'
6.i minutes, and on returning, steamed from 8e.:41/0, 1011, ar,-
the harbour in 50 minutes, thus proving here%fi/A0 140ve tl
superior in speed to many screws of double the r- that tt
the river. There was no vibration or perceptible d_2 Pita, th
from the action of the propeller, and one spoke tir.' • 'the con
wheel was enough to steer the vessel round.
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British Daily Mail.
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HER MAJESTY'S NEW YACIIT, "WINDSOR `-
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—The workmen have resumed their labours '4,oej -tis'uch I
construction of the Queen's new steam yacht, ftf 2 ;.,e ete,
Castle, now building at Pembroke. She is Prioej i',704.€
advanced, and had not the great demand for sw!,,itrAi 4rket
taken off the mechanics, she would have been tle"',,, ,1.3. for
pleted. She will now be fitted for paddle-wheel por e .14 a
the report of the commission being in its favour,il fj 11,ty
re
ence to the screw. Her engines are to be supply 9 ,p'e by
firm of Penn & Co., and they are to be lcjari li)tild 1
oscillating principle, realising from 26 to 28 re ~„01/:j .2itita
and this, it is calculated, will give a speed of 15_.'"'Afa 0,11. y,
"gt chi
17 to 18 statute miles per hour. The diameter ofn,
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will be 30 feet, and the cylinder 84 inches, wit}) the°t/
stroke of six feet. The nominal horse-power
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Her estimated tonnage is nearly 2,500 ; and the bp, s6__.‘l
are the principal dimensions upon which she is aIA
Length over all, 315 feet ; length of keel, 300 feet;orber) atz.,ete
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of beam, 40 feet ; depth of hold, 22 feet. In litri
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secure her rapid completion, a large quantity of '
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timber has been sent round from the eastern port' -mat
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EFFECT OF A CANNON BALL.—Dr. Noble, in Al. i Ina ti 0
analytic lecture at Manchester, "On the Dr2All;aot the
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ence of Ideas," told a good anecdote of M. 8041 . „tile oi
French savant, in illustration of the power al • in in,
tion. As Dr. Noble says—" M. Boutibouse Place.
Napoleon's army, and was present at many en,. , Lttuale
during the early part of the present century. At t'wooo ' r thi
Wagram, in 1809, he was engaged in the frsY;botv 14,.„rtlic
ranks around him had been terribly thinned b 9 Bo
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at sunset he was nearly isolated. While eew—' 14111 A
musket, he was shot down by a cannon balt,:gliedgs_ Iblii
sion was, that the ball had passed through "L'en4/0
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his knees, separating them from the thighs ; '",a 'A'
denly sank down, shortened, as he believed, to t_vj,',
00- Were,
of about a foot in measurement. The trunk "ire 1434'
fell backwards on the ground, and the sense looti°, 0 Si
pletely paralysed by the shock. Thus he lag °f OJA,, 1,41110
amongst the wounded and dead daring the t`-pf '7 14
night, not daring to move a muscle, lest the 10,664 tbi° tlolle
should be fatally increased. He felt no pain, Pl'the i
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attributed to the stunning effect of the shock t°,,aor
and nervous system. At early dawn he was i'" li WO 44
one of the medical staff, who came round to
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wounded. ' What's the matter with you, my r...prlr ..,§
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said the surgeon. ' Ah, touch me tenderly, h" A .
Boutibouse, ' I beseech you ; a cannon ball 100_40, ilti ft
manydltehgsen.'
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geooxadmisnhedaketl,iesailidm, Is e"'" ' fit)
with etttor kat
, laugh, `Get up with you, you have nothing the Na SeDt
you.' M. Boutibouse immediately sprang i4:',00,.
astonishment, and stood firmly on the legs voyirfal
thought he had lost for ever. 'I felt more thal,!",de.
M. Boutibouse, ' than I had ever done in the lel; • / i
of my life before. I had not a wound about °IA `
indeed been shot down by an immense cannort„Aß
instead of passing through the legs, as I firmlir
had, the ball had passed under my feet, and muntiketi
a hole in the earth beneath at least a foot in ti,e,',97,
which my feet suddenly sank, giving me the i,t` ''',,,i
had been thus shortened by the loss of my lee*
truth of this story is vouched for by Pr'
Athenteum

aii4HAZLITT'S HUT.—The three or four hours
ployed by Hazlitt in composition enabled hint ti'esopi
an essay for a magazine; one of his most PO °of qj
masterly Table-Talks, in two or three sitting° ;
and brilliant article of thirty or forty pages for to
burgh Reriew, _in about a week. But when I'oo
entire volume or work in hand he invariably
the country to execute it, and almost always t°,
spot—a little wayside publHiouse called t'',/if
standing alone, and some miles distant from f eV)
house, on Winterslow Heath, a barren tractf
ccot
on the road to, and a few miles from, Salishm:_; co'
ensconced in a little wainscotted parlour, logo
the bare heath to the distant groves of
some of his finest essays were written ; ther
solitude and silence, many of his least unliaPPY 00,9 Or
spent ; there, wandering for hours over the barefoiii,
through the dark woods of the above-named 'IVO
shattered frame always gained temporary streea ofli
renovation. When Hazlitt was regularly ens to
tor.);
work or article, he wrote at the rate of from le„ri
octavo pages at a sitting ; and never, or %ell '.'op
renewed the sitting on the same dayf except v`,.'ursti;o6
at Winterslow, where having no means a oe' viro,
amusement in the evening part-of the d"Y' dot', p
believe habitually, to write after his tea. And 1,13de
one of his motives for going there when he ''„,ledrAf'
siderable work to get through, was the knkto
by that means alone he could persuade bito3e
double tides."—Paimore'e Friends.