The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-07-25 00:00:00

MERCIAL ADVERTISER.

Ecuo.—An Irish guide told Dr. James Johnson, who
wished for a reason why echo was always of the feminine
gender, that "May be it was because she always has the
last word."

A LITTLE SCREW-STEAMER, of 50 tons measurement,
has been built by Mr. Pitcher, of Northfleet, for Australia.
She will be the smallest vessel that ever sailed for the
antipodes, and will be navigated by Captain Anne', a mate,
and four hands.
CUBE POE PARALTSIS.—During a recent thunder-
storm at Paris the lightning entered a room where sat a
paralytic and speechless man, set fire to the curtains, and
went out of a window, which it broke. 'The shock was
such that he recovered his speech, and has since been
greatly improved in health.
HORRIBLE DEATn.—An eccentric woman, who had not
been seen for several days, wasfound dead on the floor of
her house, in Clerkenwell. She had died from natural
causes, but the corpse, when viewed by the jury, presented
a truly shocking spectacle, the countenance and neck
having been completely gnawed away by rats.
AT LEICESTER Asslzzs, on Tuesday, a retired farmer,
named Holg,ate, brought an action against his brother,
-an attorney, at rirton, Lincolnshire, for negligence in
lending his money (as his client), upon insufficient security.
It had been lent as mortgage upon some property devised
by a will which defendant had made, but which had been
afterwards upset. He recovered the full amount, £3OO.
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IlinLromexik.—At a sale in London, which terminated
on Tuesday, of old and rare books, some extraordinary
prices were brought. There were several of Caxton's
printing, which brought respectively £lO5, £195, £230,
and £B3 ; Shakspeare's Comedies and Tragedies, first
edition, 1623, £250 ; the second edition, 1632, sold for
£lB 10s. ; the third, 1603 (burnt in the fire of London,)
for £25 ; and the fourth, 1685, for £l3.
A LITERARY CHARACTER.—At the Marlborough-street
Police-court, on Wednesday, Lionel Rayner, a comedian,
well known in literary sporting circles as " Joe Muggins'
dog," summoned Frederick }larding, the keeper of a
betting-office, for swindling him out of 10s., which he
had bet upon a horse to run at the Worcester races. The
defendant, who vainly attempted to prove that it was his
brother who took the 10s., was fined £5O, or three months'
hard labour—half of the penalty imposed by the new
betting act.

A MAGISTRATE KILLED BY POACHERS.-W. L. G. Bag-
shawe, Esq., of the Oaks, near Sheffield, and Wormhill,
Derbyshire, a magistrate for the county of Derby, and the
West Riding of Yorkshire, has lost his life in an affray
with poachers. There was a large party of poachers on Mr.
Bagshawe's preserve at Wormhill, on Wednesday night.
Mr. Bagshawe went out at the head of a band of keepers
to drive the poachers off. A long and bloody strife en-
sued. Mr, Bagshawe fought hand to hand with three
men, and was driven into some water, where he received
a blow from a gunstock that knocked him down insen-
sible. He died next day. He was a fine athletic young
man, of about 23, and was well known as a skilful oars-
man. He succeeded his father to the paternal estate two
or three years ago.

DEcniaL Coixean.—A deputation waited upon Mr.
Cardwell, at the Board of Trade, on Tuesday, to explain
their views on the subject of decimal coinage. The depu-
tation consisted of Mr. W. Brown, M.P., Professor De
Morgan, Mr. Franklin, Mr. Miller (Bank of England),
Sir J. Pasley, and other gentlemen. Sir J. Herschel and
Sir J. E. Tennant were with Mr. Cardwell. After hearing
the deputation, Mr. Cardwell said that the committee had
understood Sir J. Herschell's evidence in the sense in
which he had himself just explained it. He felt that great
advantage must arise from collecting the opinions of so
many clever and scientific persons, who had but one opi-
nion among them as to the advantages of the system.
With respect to the adoption of a decimal system of coin-
age, he thought the public mind should be previously pre-
pared for it, as history informed them that much discon-
tent had often arisen from the sudden adoption of a new
system of coinage.

A RETIREMENT FOR LORD JOHN RUSSELL.—The Jour-
nal des Debals, in an article on the recent failures of the
English government, alludes to Lord John Russell having
drowned his own offspring—his Reform Bill—in a river

of his own tears, and concludes by saying, that there will
be no resource for him but Chelsea or Greenwich. The
Debate being the best informed paper on English affairs,
we may form some idea of the extent of knowledge that
exists in France, on matters of the kind, when the highest
authority in the Parisian press expects Lord John Russell
to end his official career as a Chelsea pensioner or a Green-
wich "collegian." Fancy Lord John in a blue coat and
cocked hat, walking about Greenwich Park, offering to

show the public a-cockroach through a microscope, or
telling of the many political contests in which he had
passed his life, and asking for a trifle to buy a little extra
'bacco. Such is the termination to his political life, which
the Journal des De'bats seriously anticipates for Lord
John Russell, when pointing to Chelsea or Greenwich as
the only alternative that is left for him.—Punch.
THE CRYSTAL PALACE COMPINT.—The directors of
this company have just issued their half yearly-report.
The amount expended on capital account up to the
10th of June, 1854, the day of opening, is £910,320. The
further amount expended, up to the present time has been
£91,000; and the remaining liabilities, so far as they can
be possibly ascertained, amount to about £209,000 ad-
ditional, for completing works now in progress. In ad-
dition to the above, a sum of £90,000 will be required to
erect the water towers, and to carry out the whole scheme
of the palace and park, comprising the fountains, gardens,
terraces, and interior fittings and decorations, to final com-
pletion. The total cost of the undertaking will thus be

-21,300,000, of which it is right to observe that about
£lOO,OOO arises from objects such as the refreshment de-
partment, stabling approaches, purchase of additional land,
and improvements of the Dulwich-wood property, which
are. either productive of a large separate return in them-
selves, or are available as assets to be realised at some
future period, with every probability of a profit.. The
receipts on revenue account from all sources down to the
Bth instant, comprising four weeks from the opening, have
been as follows :—Season tickets, £35,388 ; admissions,
£13,032; rental for space. (on account of first half-year's
ient,) £12,289 ; refreshments, £11,500 ; miscellaneous, (in-
cluding stabling, cloak-rooms, &c.,) £701: total, £72,913.

A SKETCH OP THE PAPAL .STATES.—A letter from
Ravenna, dated June 12, says—The misery in the states
of the Pope is extreme. Last year the harvest and the
vintage failed, and now they would sell themselves for a
piece of bread. Mothers and even fathers sell their
daughters at the tenderest age, even of ten or twelve
years; and there is among the poor suffering creatures
universal corruption. The price of a piece of bread has
risen from three to six fold, and that of the commonest
wine (here a necessary of life, and used by all), three
times or more. When I go to take my breakfast in the
coffee-house (where, even at these high prices, I still have
an excellent mug of coffee, milk, sugar, two rolls, and
two boiled eggs, napkins, &c., in the best coffee-house,
for 9 cents-4}d.), I see little children, miserable women,
and even old men, once evidently in better circumstances,
and educated too, come and lean by the door, look wist-
fully in, and humbly wait for you to see their misery, or
beg you, for the sake of the Blessed Mary, to relieve their
hunger ! The people generally do not get one-third of
what ',they want to eat. Meantime they sustain N car-
dinals, or a good portion of this college, idle and useless
princes, besides a host of priests that eat up the land, and
a good round number of their own good-for-nothing
soldiery.: Then it requires more than 10,000 French
soldiers to keep the capital, eternal Rome, in order, and
the. Pope from running away, or being massacred, and at
least 10,000 Austrians for the north in Bologna, Ancona,
Forli, Faenza, &c. What a picture ! And yet it is not
exaggerated, but underdrawn. Meantime the nobility
are also sinking ; for the law of primogeniture has been
abolished, the estates are divided, and I can see nothing
before the papal states but universal decay, misery, and
downfall. Still the people look happy. They run after
the wooden image of St. Antonio with sweet lilies in their
hands when the priests parade him in the streets, and are
well satisfied with their sort of theatre and puppet-show
religion. Though misery (I mean want, hunger) stamps
her impress upon their faces, and makes them appear to
be thirty at twenty, still they go singing about, begging
and making the most of it, or working it in some way so
as to get something to eat somehow or somewhere. The
lower people have a theatre or a show when they can get
it for a cent or two, buy a farthing's worth of roasted
pumpkin seeds, or see 'something which makes them for-
get they are hungry. Such are the Roman people ! Still
the Opera is crowded, and the fashionables and the
beauties, and the nobles, show themselves nightly in their
gayest colours.
THE HEAT IN NEW Yonm.—Thermometers at 100 de-
grees Fahrenheit. What is to be done ? We have dis-
pensed with every superfluous article of attire; our cos-
tume is of the simplest and most uneinbarrassing nature ;
we alternate our spare moments between iced claret and a
shower-bath, yet we are reduced to a most pitiable state.
Our hair is like the dripping well at Knaresborough, on a
limited scale. Our epidermis presents superficially some-
what the same appearance as that of Venus must have
done immediately after rising from the sea. We know
that if that day was as hot as this, we should have been
very sorry to rise from the sea on any account. We should
have remained at the very bottom. There must, however,
be a great many people hotter than we are to-day—in
itself a great comfort. The lawyers in the Walker divorce
case, for example—we wonder if the heat will have any
effect on the number of Mr. Busteed's " objections ;" or,
whether he will relax for an instant his savage vigilance
towards District . Attorney Blunt. We wonder if the
cross-examinations will. be less excited and furious than
heretofore. We suspect the judge will discover at an early
hour that he has pressing business awaiting him at home,
which will oblige him to adjourn the court. What be-
comes of the cooks of St. Nicholas and Metropolitan Hotels
now a-days ? Have they been discharged and salamanders
hired in their stead? Or, do they continually anoint their
bodies with that newly-discovered anti-caloric lotion which
enables a man to plunge his hand into a cauldron of
molten lead and draw it out again unsinged ? The chefs
and their assistants of those kitchens can be no mere men
if they have lived and fulfilled their duties through the
last three days. To bake, and boil, and roast, and mix
peppery sauces, and taste scalding soups in such weather
as this requires more than mortal strength. It is our
private opinion, not generally known, because the hotels
have hitherto contrived to hush the matter up, that in
both the above-mentioned establishments an entire set of
cooks die every day, are buried in the backyard at mid-
night by the proprietors themselves, and are replaced by
a fresh set next morning. People that walk in Niblo's
orange groves every evening between the acts little think
that they are treading on the graves of innumerable cooks!
If one could see all their acquaintances now, wonderful
changes would, we think, be observable. Wonderful loose-
ness of attire, flushed faces, great consumption of brandy
and water, much smoking of cigars. Arabella Atrophy,
that lovely houri, whose waist is so divinely slender, how
should we find her now ? Slippers and no stockings, we
will wager a lungful of fresh air. White robe, loose, shape-
less, unhooked—she who seems when abroad to have been
born in her dresses—no stays! The exquisite Trophonius

Toddle—gone are all his Broadway trappings of spfendou

iiosetiglipanis,that miraculous coat, that inestimable
necktie. Almost denuded, and with wild hair, he lies
fainting on the sofa, scarce able to raise the sherry cobbler
he is imbibing to his lips. Ali! what strange looking
being is that ? Alas !it is ourselves. We caught a
glimpse of our own figure in the mirror—we who had
been so unfeelingly gloating over the miseries of others.
That glimpse was enough —we are reduced to a niece
shadow. A modern Ovidian transformation is about to
take place, and we shall become the source of some river—
hereafter to become famous—before many hours.—New
nrk Daily Tames,

RAILWAY LIABILITY.—On Tuesday, at the assizes at
York, Mr. Harper, a farmer, at Pannal, near Harrogate,
brought an action against the Leeds Northern Railway
Company, to recover damages for the loss of two horses,
and for injury to the plaintiff in consequence of a collision
with a railway train of the defendants. The collision took
place whilst the plaintiff, with his two horses and a cart,
was crossing the railway on a level, by an occupation road.
The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, damages £5OO.
THE ROYAL CBUISE.--It is reported that the first
royal cruise this season, in the Victoria and Albert, will
be a visit of the Queen to the Channel Islands. Captain
Lefebre, in his steamer Dasher, is ordered to Portsmouth,
to be in attendance on the royal yacht.
DEATH or Ma. HALE.—By letters received from Con-
stantinople, intelligence has been communicated of the
death, at the Turkish capital, of Mr. Wm. Hale, the in-
ventor of the rocket without a tail or stick. His name
will be known to many, owing to his connection with the
seizure by government, some time ago, of a large quantity
of rockets of his manufacture at Rotherhithe.

SEIZURE OP A RUSSIAN PRIZE IN GRIMSBY DOCKS.--
About three weeks ago a vessel with Prussian papers,
called the Johann Christoph, came into the port of Grimsby.
After remaining there some little time she was suspected
of being a Russian in disguise, was seized by the'custom•
house authorities, and was prevented from leaving the
docks by the officers of the Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire Railway Company. The vessel is waiting
the usual process of condemnation, after which a question
will arise of a very novel character—namely, how far the
railway company, as owners of the dock, are entitled to
share in the prize-money
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Surang.--Mr. George Jones, aged 31, a surgeon, was
sitting with his wife reading at his residence in Edward-
terrace, Pentonville, last Thursday evening, when he sud-
denly produced a small vial of prussic acid, and having
poured out the contents into another vessel, drank them
off, turning to Mrs. Jones with the exclamation, " I have
done it at last ; I have done it now." Mrs. Jones rushed
out and procured the assistance of a surgeon ; but on her
return the unfortunate man was found extended upon the
landing of the second floor, quite dead. It would appear
that upon his wife's departure for medical aid he went up
stairs endeavouring to reach his bed. He had been for
some time past labouring under mental derangement.

Tin LATE Tnomss HOOD.—The inauguration of the
public monument to this departed genius, in Kensall-green
Cemetery, was celebrated on Tuesday, when an address
was delivered by M. Milnes, M:P. The monument con-
sists of a plinth, or pedestal, of Scotch granite, highly
polished, surmounted by a bronze bust of almost colossal
size, the whole height being about twelve feet. In front
of the bust are placed three wreaths. On the slab im-
mediately beneath the bust is written poor Hood's simple
self-inscribed epitaph—" He sang the song of the shirt."
Upon the projecting front of the pedestal is the following
inscription In memory of Thomas Hood. Born 22nd
May, 1798. Died 3d May, 1815. Erected by public
subscription A.D. 1854."
EXTRAORDINARY RAILWAY FRAUDS IN NEW YORK.
—The monetary circles in the United States have been
almost paralysed by the discovery of some extraordinary
railway frauds, of which the well-known capitalists,
Messrs. Schuyler, of New York, are the perpetrators.
The New York Commercial Daily List, of the Bth
instant, says :—" The discovery of an over-issue of nearly
2,000,000 dole. of New York and New Haven Railway
Stock by the president, Mr. Robert Schuyler, has caused
great commotion in financial circles. But little else has
been thought of, or talked of, in and about Wall-street
since our last, and the admission is universal, that never
was a greater or more untimely blow given to public con-
fidence, which is the prop and pillar of public security.
The hypothecation of this immense amount of stock, it
seems, was well accomplished within the short space of
three or four month's—Schuyler, no doubt, intending, in
the course of time, to make good the deficiency to the
company. The growing stringency in the money market,
however, together with the coincident embarrasments in
the business world generally, defeated his purpose, if it
was intended, and disclosed to the world an operation, we
believe, entirely unparalleled in the annals of Wall-street.

A transaction of this character will create nearly as much
sensation in monetary circles abroad as it is doing here,
for Mr. Schuyler was as well known in Lombard-street

and in Paris, and in most of the German cities, as he is
in Wall-street. It is said that there is a considerable
portion of the New Haven Stock held both in England
and on the continent, and the result cannot, therefore,
but be injurious to American credit. The sum total of
the misannlication of nronartv is stated to hp A RA.: nnn

dollars, of which 1,906,0045 dollars consists of the fraudu-
lently-issued stock, 300,000 dollar bonds of the Harlem
Railroad Company misapplied, and a diversion of 105,000
dollars advanced on iron. As might be expected under
these circumstances, the stock market has been convulsed

railroad securities undergoing a large decline—Erie being
the heaviest sufferer. An uneasy feeling is apparent in
regard to all other stocks, and for our own part we do not
anticipate any reaction for the better for some time to
come. The business world cannot recover from the effects
of such a shock in a day, a week, or a month. Since the
above was written, it has been ascertained that Mr. Kyle,
the secretary of the New York and Harlem Railroad Com-
pany, has overdrawn his accounts to the extent of 4,000
shares of stock, amounting at a par value to 400,000 dols.
A committee of directors ma now engaged in investigating
the accounts, and in the mean time the books of transfer
are ordered to be closed. On the announcement of this
fact at the Stock Board, at the opening of the session,

yesterday, prices generally receded. The over-issues of 1
Harlem stock will, it is said, probably exceed the amount .
admitted by Mr. Kyle himself. The public mind is wak-
ing up to the necessity of having some lawful checks,
more efficient than any that are now in existence, upon
the present system of transfers ; and to that end we are
given to understand that a bill will be introduced into the
next legislature, requiring all such transfers to be regu-
larly registered, and published in the newspapers every
week. A measure of this character, or something like it,
is needed ; and we trust it will not be permitted to lie on '
the table."
ROYAL AGEICULTTEAL SOCIETY OF EIcCiLiND.
MEETING Al' LINCOLN.—The general show yard of stock
and implements was opened for the admission of the public
on Thursday, and throughout the day they continued to
pour in by tens of thousands, in spite of the sweltering heat
of the weather, and the absence of all protection from the
intense rays of the sun. The show of stock was, in many
respects, equal to the best that have preceded it ; whilst
in others perhaps it was superior. One sentiment alone
appears to have been entertained on this score amongst
acomplished judges and the most regular attendants at the
society's exhibitions. On the whole, the meeting at
Lincoln may be pronounced decidedly and eminently suc-
cessful. The display of beasts was fine, and the prize
animals justified the distinction conferred upon them by
the awards of the judges. This remark applies with equal
force to the short-horn and Devon breeds, than which a
morebeautiful collection has probably never been witnessed.
The latter most profitable and hardy breed were especially
worthy of admiration, as being all of them a very superior
description of stock, without a second rate beast amongst
them. The show of horses for agricultural purposes has i
surpassed any since the exhibition at York, which was,
wonderfully strong in the display it made. On this occa-
sion the Suffolks have not been so successful as usual.
The specimens shown of that excellent breed were fault-
less ; but other sorts of horses reared in the district have
borne off the palm, and though there were . very many
Suffolk( In the yard, they have succeeded in appropriating
but few.prizes. In the sheep classes, the Southdowns
were, for a variety of reasons, the favourites ; and when
we add that the principal exhibitors are those famed
breeders, Mr. Rigden, Mr. Scott Hayward, the Duke of
Richmond, Mr. Lugar, Mr. Sainsbury, Lord Walsingliam,
and Mr. Overman, it may easily be imagined that some
prime pens were to be found among the lot. The
Leicesters were not deemed to have been above a fair
average quality. And of the long-wools, although the im-
proved Lincolns came out in great force, the Cotswolds
seem to have the preference. The latter breed is daily
becoming more appreciated in proportion as its valuable
qualities are made known to the flockmasters, and there
are persons courageous enough to prophecy that in the
course of a few years the Cotswold may supercede even the
pure Leicesters themselves. There is a capital exhibition
of pigs, the preponderance of entries being of the smaller
sorts. The poultry'show still indicates improvement in
the several classes, and especially in the Dorkings, Malays,
and Polands. It afforded the chief point of attraction to
the ladies, by whom it was surrounded in admiring groups.
Judging from the greater interest with which the three
sorts just mentioned are regarded, one is almost led to
hope that they are recovering their old place in the public
estimation and that the popularity of the ugly Cochin '
Chinas will speedily be at an end. Upwards of 800 gentle-
men assembled at the dinner in the Pavilion, on Wednes-
day afternoon, under the presidency of the Earl of Chiches-
ter, who acted as locum fenens for Mr. Pusey. The noble
chairman was supported right and left by the Earl of
Carlisle, the Earl of Mansfield, the Earl of Harrowby, his
•Excellency. the Peruvian Minister, the Due de Mani& the
Earl of Yarborough, Mr. Yvart, M. de St. Marie, M. Le
Four, M. Cbambellan, M Boitel, M. Tisseraud, and M.
Collingnon, who have been sent to this country as a depu-
tation by the Emperor of the French ; Mr. Christopher,
M.P., Coloifel Sibthorp, M.P., Mr. Conolly, M.P., Mr.
Bankes Stanhope, M.P., Sir. J. V. Shelley, M.P., Baron
Leffert, the Earl of Darnley, Lord Goderich, Sir H.
Dymock, Sir M. Cholmondeley, Mr. C. Towneley, and Mr.
Heneage. The struggle for the general purposes plough
prize was maintained between Messrs. Howard and Messrs.
Ranson-le and Sims for four days. Never, probably, was a
match of the kind more evenly maintained, and this,
although the dynamometer was used to help the judges in
discriminating where the rival furrows left no choice. At
last Messrs. Ransome were declared the victors. Every
year the show yard of the society bears witness, with in-
creased force, to the benefits arising from that natural
distribution of the implement trade which enables Garrett,
for instance, to take the lead in horse-hoes, Hornsby in
drills, Clayton and Shuttleworth in thrashing machines,
and Crosskill iu carts and clodcrushers. In the case of
reaping machines, the prize has this year been given to
Dray and Co. Turning to the few novelties which the
present display of implements presents, we may notice as
the most important a new machine manufactured by
Messrs. Ransome and Sims on the design of Mr. E. Davy,
of Crediton, for breaking the seed bolls and woody part of
the flax plant, and for separating both seed and fibre from
the flax straw as soon as harvested, without resorting to
the tedious, difficult, disagreeable, and wasteful processes of
"steeping" and " retting." Next to this implement,
which itsinventor has christened a " decorticator," may
be mentioned a new French reaper, exhibited by M. Fer-
dinand Hazier, of L'Aigle (Orne), France. It is the first
contribution from France to the annual meetings of the
Royal Agricultural Society. A new thrashing-machine,
by Messrs. Ransome. and Sims, all the movements of which
are rotatory, though not successful enough to win a prize,
deserves commendation for the mechanical principle which
it carries out. In similar terms, may be noticed a nitchine
which has excited some sensation in the yard, both from
its appearance and name. It is simply a large hogshead,
the ends of which forms wheels, so that when in motion it
is continually rolling round, and, being filled with liquid
manure, and, having a suitable apparatus attached, it
be-
comes a very effective distributor. Ungainly as agricul-
tural implements confessedly are,
of the field, and this beats thew all
Fowler's gigantic draining plough) out (even
when it first appeared hi the trial-yard on the
the 51.11EOIlS„ lCof
the consulting engineer, who called for " the revolver,
marked sensation was produced upon agriculturistsfarmer,
'
as is
there assembled. It is the invention of. a ar
also a new and clever artificial immure datubutmer.
or.