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

28,431 0

29,105 0
1,359,934 0
4,000 0

Pension to the Duke of Marlborough
Ditto to the Duke of Grafton
Ditto to the heirs of the Duke of
Schomberg
Sum paid to the Commissioners of
the Milford Haven road fund, to-
wards repayment of principal and
interest of Exchequer Bills for
making such road, to lieu of addi-
tional rates of p.istage formerly
charged on letters by that route 433 0 el 438,216 10

3,407 10

2,900 0

1,173,727 10

Of this sum, however, the charge on the car.

respondenCe of Goveinment amounts to ....
Leaving the actual revenue derived from the -

134,112 0

Post--office
1,039,615 10
The total number of letters posted in the three kingdoms
(including foreign and ship letters) during 1853, was
410,817,489, being 322 millions and seven-tenths in
England and Wales ; 40 millions and two-fifths in Ire-
land, and 40 millions and three-fifths in Scotland. Of
the 329 millions and seven-tenths in England and Wales,
232 millions and a half were posted in the country ; 54
millions and two-fifths in London for delivery in the
country and abroad; and 42 millions and four-fifths in
London for delivery in the London district. The net
revenue, which fell upon the introduction of the reduced
rates of postage from £1,614,353 to £410,028 per annum,
has recovered to £1,032,615, still leaving a deficiency of
revenue of more than half a illion pounds from the uni-
form penny-postage. The amount passed through the
Money-order-office in 1840, the first year of its existence,
was £311,727 ; in 1853 it was £9,920,296. Of this latter
sum England and Wales supplied £8,339,938, Ireland
£778,196, and Scotland £802,102. The profit on this
department last year was £14,402 in England and Wales,
and £517 in Scotland ; from which must be deducted a
loss of £770 incurred in Ireland. The returns to the 3rd
of July last past show an increase of £166,000 on the year,
and £128,000 on the quarter.
THE VINE Drsiresz.—Advices from Oporto, with re-
gard to the vine disease, state that, owing to a long pre-
valence of cold foggy weather, it has continued to in-
crease, although hopes of an improvement were beginning
to be entertained from the effects of a change to warmth
which had just set in. From the Upper Douro the recent
accounts were more favourable in relation to certain dis-
tricts, and some persons even thought it likely as much
wine may be produced as last year. Around the city of
Oporto, however, the young grapes seemed entirely gone.
Throughout the Minho province they looked better, but
in the Beira the blight was general. Apples and fruit of
all descriptions, particularly almonds, and likewise the
potato crop, were less infected than in former years, and
promised to be abundant. A disturbance which had
taken place in the city, owing to a great advance in
Indian corn, caused by the stocks having been bought up
by speculators, had been promptly suppressed, although
some of the master manufacturers of the place appeared
disposed to turn it to account by urging the poor, with
whom it forms an important article of food, to the belief
that their privations would increase with every step
the government may take in departing from a prohibitory
tariff.

&woman CASE or BIGAMY.—EIIen Frankleton, late of
Bradford, was tried at the York assizes, last week, on a
charge of bigamy. It appeared that the prisoner, on the
17th April, 1837, was married to Daniel Frankleton, a
whitesmith, at the parish church of Halifax. They lived
together for a few years, and then separated. Frankleton,
the husband, formed an attachment for a young woman
named Margaret Scott, with whom he cohabited for some
time, and then proceeded with her to New York. In
February last Scott came to England from America,
leaving Frankleton in a good state of health. After sepa-
rating from her husband the prisoner went to reside at
Bradford, where she kept a disreputable house. In the
early part of last year the prisoner inveigled into her
house a retired gentleman of ample means, named Jonas
Knowles, a widower, upwards of 50 years of age. Mr.
Knowles was very much addicted to drinking, and unable
to transact any kind of business. He resided in the house
along with the prisoner for a short time, and she persuaded
him to marry her. Accordingly a marriage settlement
in favour of the prisoner was drawn up by an attorney,
and the prisoner, consequently, became possessed of a con-
siderable amount of property. On Margaret Scott's arrival
in this country, it was ascertained that Frankleton was
alive, and the prisoner being afraid that she should be
prosecuted for bigamy, made overtures to Scott, and en-
deavoured to prevail on her to go back at once to America,
and induce Frankleton to leave New York, and go and
reside in the interior of the country, where he was not
known, so that it might be supposed he was dead. The
party who instituted the prosecution frustrated the designs
of the prisoner, and Scott and Frankleton's mother became
witnesses in support of the charge of bigamy. The de-
fence set up was that the prisoner had not heard of her
husband for upwards of eight years, that she was under
the belief he was dead, and that, consequently, she could
not be guilty of the charge imputed to her. The jury
found her guilty. Sentence was deferred.
I COAL MINES IN TIIRKEY.—A concession of the coal
mines in the valleys of Kozlou and Zangeldek, near
Heraclea, has at length been obtained by the English go-
vernment. Lord Stratford, finding that the private in-
terests ofseveral of the Pashas were opposed to this desirable
measure, had an audience with the Sultan, and after, it is
said, some difficulty, succeeded in convincing him that the
interests of the Turkish government would be best served
11 permitting the mines to be worked by English capital,
directed by English skill. The Turkish government will
receive a high rent for the coal, and the French govern-
ment bepermittedto share in the benefits of the concession,
although, in order to avoid confusion, the management will
be entirely intrusted to Englishmen. The Turkish go-
vernment still retain the greater portion of the coal-fields
in their hands, but the district conceded will, it is stated,
supply, under efficient direction, during the first twelve
months, about 60,000 taus of coal ; after that period a
greatly ineseased quantity. These 60,000 tons of coal
will awply. supply the necessities of the two fleets, and,
includes the rent paid to the Turkish government, can
be. supplied at the rate of £1 per ton,;. whereas, at least
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