The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-07-18 00:00:00

came upon in:encampment that attracted attention,

turned out to be a grand hunting company for the
Sir St. George Gore, an Irish baronet, has taken

his head that it will be fine sport to hiint buffalo, &c , on
our great western plains ; so he packed up his trunks, and
started for a regular summer campaign. He brought the
nost magnificent pack of dogs that were ever seen in this
Between forty and fifty dogs, mostly greyhounds

country

and staghounds, of the most beautiful breeds, compose
this part of the expedition. He had a large carriage, and
probably a dozen large waggons to transport provisions,
&c. These require five yoke of oxen to each yr--
These with th -TM

ie horses, men, tic., made up c,
mnpany. Sir St. George is a fine-buil

posing

light-haired, and resolute-looking man. But there are
other things besides fun in such a trip, and it will try the
manner of stuff of which he is made before he returns."
GRAND MILITARY OPRRATIONS AT CHATHAM. -- On
Thursday Prince Albert was present at some brilliant
manoeuvres, at Chatham, and was loudly cheered on his
appearance upon the ground. The troops employed con-
sisted of the 35th regiment, Royal Marines, the 80th and
94th (recently returned from India), Provisional Battalion,
Royal Artillery, the Royal Sappers and Millers, and the
Sappers and Miners of the East India Company's service.
The whole of the troops of the Garrison were engagt-d in
the attack and defence of a fortified town, and for carrying
out the different operations with effect they were broken
up into separate divisions, having no connexion with each
other. Each division represented a distinct and separate
part both in attack and defence. One of these operations
was the defence of ditches of a fortified place against an
assault by rockets, forgasses, hand grenades, live shells,
musketry, and pierriers, followed by the mode of throwing
a body of troops across a river upon rafts of cylindrical
and indiarubber pontoons. The proximity of the River
Medway rendered this experiment peculiarly interesting.
The use of the helmet and diving dress was also exhibited.
At the close of the operations the Royal Engineers gave a
splendid entertainment, in their mess-room, to a large
and distinguished party. Prince Albert honoured the
festival with his presence.
EXTRAORDINARY TRIAL FOR MURDER.—At Hertford
Assizes, on Tlnirsday, Miguel Yzsquiardo, aged twenty-
four, was placed at the bar to take his trial for the wilful
murder of George Seales, a boy about fourteen years of
age,who was employed in watching a corn-field at Mimms,
when the prisoner (a stranger in that part of the country),
who was trespassing, on being remonstrated with, killed
him by blows upon the head with a bludgeon. It ap-
peared that soon after his committal the prisoner stated
that he should not again speak (probably expecting by
that means to escape his trial), and for several months he
had been mute. On being now arraigned he refused to
plead, and the jury having found that he was wilfully
mute, ordered the trial to be proceeded with, and a plea
of not guilty to be recorded. The prisoner was then asked
in the usual form whether he desired to be tried by a
jury composed of half foreigners or by a jury of English-
men ? No answer, however, could be obtained from him.
The judge said that if the prisoner did not dissent, he
should take upon himself to direct that the trial should
take place before a jury of Englishmen. The prisoner
still maintained an obstinate silence, and after a short
interval his lordship directed the jury to be sworn, and
the prisoner was given in charge to them. The jury re-
turned a verdict of guilty, and the prisoner was sentenced
to death.

SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.—The Greenock Advertiser
gives an account of an adventure which befel Lachlan
Graham, of Greenock, a man of 40, who is paralysed, and
has been accustomed to amuse himself with roaming about
the shubbery of the cemetery and looking for birds' nests.
In tracking a linnet on the 13th ult. he fell down, and was
unable to rise. His voice being also affected by paralysis,
he could not make himself heard at any distance, and,
owing to the height of the furze, there was no chance of
his being seen. He lay there for an entire week, subsist-
ing on :few cherries and beans, and the young shoots of
the whins, and was at last saved from perishing through
the instrumentality of the bird which he had been so in-
tent on securing or plundering, for as he lay near the nest
a mason employed on a tombstone on his way to work,
seeing the linnet fly home, followed, and found Graham,
who had been advertised for by his family, and who showed
the power of the ruling passion by his first words to the
mason,—" There's the nest !" After the excitement of the
moment, however, he became insensible, but, through
medical treatment, he is recovering.
RUSSIAN AGGRESSION AND EXTENSION.—The Journal
de la Statisque Universelle publishes the following table
of the successive encroachments of Russia from the 14th
century up to the year 1832 :

GRAND DUCHY OF MOSCOW,

Extent in Geographical Popula-
In 1328, at the accession of Yvan Miles. tion.
(Kaleta) 4,656 6,290,000
In 1462, at the accession of Yvan 1... 18,474
In 1503, at the death of Yvan L...... 37,137
In 1584, at the death of Yvan 1L... 125,465

In 1645, at the death of Michel 1.... 254,361
In 1689, at the accession of Peter 1... 263,900 16,000,000

EMPIRE OP RUSSIA.
In 1725,attheaccessionofCatherineI. 273,814 20,000,000
In 1762,at the accessionofCatherinell. 319,538 25,000,000
In 1796, at the death of Catherine 11. 331,851 33,000,000
In 1825, at the death of Alexander I. 367,494 56,000,000
In 1831, at the taking of Warsaw.... 369,764 60,000,000
That is to say, that during the last two centuries Russia
has doubled her territory, and during the last 100 years
has tripled her population ; her conquests during 60 Years
are equal to all she possessed in Europe before that period ;
her conquests from Sweden are greater than what remain
of that kingdom ; she has taken from the Tartars an ex-
tent equal to that of Turkey in Europe, with Greece, Italy,
and Spain; her conquests from Turkey in Europe are
more in extent than the kingdom of Russia without the
Rhenish provinces ; she has taken from Turkey in Asia
an extent of territory equal to all the small states of
Germany ; from Persia, equal to the whole of England
(United Kingdom) ; and from Poland equal to the whole
Austrian empire. A division of the population gives-
-2,000,000 for the tribes of Caucasus.
4,000,000 for the Cossacks,tbe Georgian s,and the Khirguiz.
5,000,000 for the Turks, the Mongols, and the Tartars.
6,000,000 for the Ouralians, the Finkmders,andthe Swedes.
20,000,000 for the Muscovites (of the Greek Church).
23,000,000 for the Poles (Roman and Greek Church united).

60,000,000
The population of ancient Poland counts for two-fifths of
the total, population over an eighth part of the territory,
and the Muscovite population for one-third of the total
number over a tenth of the territory ; in other words,
even at the present time, the Polish elemont is in a great
imiority as compared to all the others,