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

ND FASHION.

THE MARRIAGE of the Lady Alice Egerton, dangliter
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of the Earl and Countess of Ellesmere, with' the s°n'
George George Byng, son of Viscount Strafford, was solemn"
on Tuesday morning, at Hatchford, the noble earl's sea
near Weybridge. of
GENERAL SIR HENRY KING, C. 8., K.C.H., colonel
the 3rd Buffs, died on Monday, last week, at his residence'
in Sussex-terrace, Hyde Park-gardens. Sir Henry vine.l,
his 77th year, and had been sixty years a soldier, have°
entered the army in 1794.
M. • P for
Hon. FRANCIS CHARLES LAWLEY, late
Beverley, and who has for some time been acting as
vate secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 0/)e
been appointed Lieut.. Governor of South Australia, int 4
room of Sir Henry E. F. Young, now Governor of J'"
Zealand.
DEATH OF Mns. SOllTHEY.—Caroline Southey, n'iclq
of Robert Southey, the Poet Laureate, died on the
tilt., at Buckland, near Lymington. She was a daugin
of the Rev. Dr. Bowles, a canon of Salisbury Cathedit,
and was highly graced with intellectual accomplish.men
She was married to Dr. Southey in 1839, about a year an
a half after the death of his first wife, Edith Pricker.
DEATH or LORD MELWYN.—This venerable Scotts
judge died at his house in Ainslie-place, Edinburgh, (11,
Tuesday last. He had retired from the bench in 1862, ()rd
which he had occupied a seat from the year 1826. Ile
Medwny was in his 77th year.
THE ROYAL ACADEMY.—The season of the
Academy exhibition was brought to a close on Wednend,,li
by an elegant soiree, which was attended by nearly:7lN
the nobility and gentry.
LIEUT. Jas. EDWARD PERRY, of the 46th Regiment,,,
now undergoing another trial by court-martial, for can
si
to be inserted in The Times a letter to the Hon. Colon`
Upton, one of the members of the court.
of
THE MAJORITY OF LORD CAVENDISH, eldest
the Earl of Burlington, and heir to the estates and ell:,
dom of Builington, and the dukedom of Devonsnil
was celebrated in the old English style at Holker
Brighton. At the former place a band from LiverP
was engaged.
THE PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT Will, we 1,01
reason to believe, take place in the third week in August;
most probably on the 16th of that month, the alio
Ministerial whitebait dinner which precedes the ter'
nation of the session being given on Saturday, the
at Greenwich.—Globe.

RITHE NUPTIALS of Lieut.-Colonel Dudley Wilmot CAL
leton, of the Goldstream Guards, the eldest son of t'l„,"
Hon. Richard Carleton, of Bruton-street, and the 1-I°Yof
Charlotte Hobhouse, the eldest surviving daughter '
Lord Broughton, were solemnized on Thursday, at Sed
George's, Hanover-square. The ceremony was perforte
by the Bishop of Madras.
THE KING OP PORTUGAL and the Duke of 01:4...rtd°
arrived at the Hague on the 15th, and went to visit Pr'ff
Frederick, with whom they dined. On the following dig
they proceeded to Loo, where the King, after gl
them a most gracious reception, presented them with the
Grand Cross of the Netherlands Lion, in return for tr,
Portuguese Order which had been offered to his Maje 4).
The Royal brothers have since arrived at Berlin.
THE HON. ARTHUR GORDON, third son of the Earl, °1
Aberdeen, is a candidate for the representation of Beverieij
in the room of the Hon. C. Lawley, who has just resigll,e
his seat for that borough. The election was to take PJ`
yesterday.
REPRESENTATION OF CANTERBURY.—SIX candidete°
are already in the field for the honour of representilij
this city whenever it shall please the House of CominM
to permit the writ to be issued. The following is
list : Sir W. Somerville, Bart., the Hon. George „:
Smythe, Mr. C. Purton Cooper, Q.C., Mr. C. M. Lushie"
ton, Mr. Lennox Butler, and Mr. Auchmuty Glover.

CANADA.--The Old Countryman, a Toronto paper, say`,
"A new feature in Canadian politics is likely to be WO°,
duced. Viscount Bury, eldest son of the Earl of AAbe:
marle, is anxious to represent a Canadian constituene
We are glad of it. There is the grossest ignorance of wof
wants and advantages of Canada in the British foul
Parliament."

THE LATE ABDUCTION CASE.—At the assizes at Ci fa
mel, on Friday, Mr. John Carden, justice of the peace g
the county of Tipperary, was found guilty of attemP.ri:ea
to commit the crime of abduction. The jury acne.,a
him of the direct charge of abduction, which is an offer
punishable with transportation fora long term of
The sentence of the court upon the conviction would
pably be two years' imprisonment ; but there is a a.
indictment against him, which was under trial on 16.14'.cy,
thy—viz., one for a felonious assault on John Smithic„l,,
one of the persons who rescued Miss Arbuthnot from ne
A conviction in this case might be followed by sea A4te'i
of transportation. The trial was adjourned to yeste"
(Monday).
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DESTRUCTIVE STORMS.—The great storm in Herqo
shire, on Monday last week, was followed by anon.
scarcely less appalling, during the night of Tuesday,
tinning till nearly 10 o'clock on Wednesday morn(7o
Such torrents of rain have not been seen for years- .gars
Wednesday evening and night the Wye and other rif,
running through lands covered with partially made P;.O.-
topped their banks, and caused great destruction of Lt
party. Portions of hedges, hurdles, &c., with a Li
weight of hay and some farmyard stock, were seen tosir
through the bridges. This second storm also was dna(
tensed by damage to a church, that of All Saints,oo,l
largest parish church in Hereford. The electcich cell
struck the spire and detached a heavy stone, whicaotoe
with great impetus through the roof of an adjoinilliftireage
while the inmates were in bed. In addition to the '"
br
done to outstanding crops—a damage whieu ratberx
felt in increased cost of harvesting, as far as wheat is ',re
cerned, than in actual loss of grain, some few horses w"
killed by the lightning.
life°
TRIAL OF A NEW SCREW.—The screw steamer
was tried at Glasgow on Thursday week, and being,
first on a new patent principle adopted by her bm_Seil
and never yet tried in this country, the result was 1°""for
forward to with considerable interest. The apertunLo.
the propeller is in the centre of the rudder, which %11l
hates round the propeller, and is not in the run of the
as in all other screw steamers. The expectations feTOO
of this combination were, increased speed in preP°rd
to power applied, absence of vibration, and incred,
steering power with smaller rudder surface than 11'e0
We are informed that these expectations have all ~oef
realised ; and although the Marion is by no means a
vessel, being intended to carry 180 tons of dead wlea
on a register of 200 tons, and having only 25-horse•Pc.:lse JP
in going down the river she passed each measured mile 0'
5t minutes, and on returning, steamed from Bowling
the harbour in 50 minutes, thus proving herself U. 1.00
superior in speed to many screws of double the powe'tioo
the river. There was no vibration or perceptible W tbe
from the action of the propeller, and one spoke rp
wheel was enough to steer the vessel round.-IC°
British Daily Mail.
HER MAJESTY'S NEW YACHT, "WINDSOR CA-1" tjtf
—The workmen have resumed their labours upoo4ol
construction of the Queen's new steam yacht, Wsololl
Castle, now building at Pembroke. She is fullY CIE
advanced, and had not the great demand for small ce6`ore
taken off the mechanics, she would have been nearlY C,
pleted. She will now be fitted for paddle-wheel proPnlsig,fer
the report of the commission being in its favour, in 'rust
ence to the screw. Her engines are to be supplied blot
firm of Penn & Co., and they are to be upon
oscillating principle, realising from 26 to 28 revoluvr'of
and this, it is calculated, will give a speed of 15 knob'
17 to 18 statute miles per hour. The diameter of the 0%000
will be 30 feet, and the cylinder 84 inches, with a P'6oo'
stroke of six feet. The nominal horse-power will be isg
Her estimated tonnage is nearly 2,500 • and the fo'l°4,/
are the principal dimensions upon which she is booott'
Length over all, 315 feet ; length of keel, 300 feet ; bre', to
of beam, 40 feet ; depth of hold, 22 feet. In ord'e'lad
secure her rapid completion, a large quantity of con/
timber has been sent round from the eastern ports. 11c
EFFECT OF A CANNON BALL—Dr. Noble, in a verb,
analytic lecture at Manchester, "On the Dynamic
ence of Ideas," told a good anecdote of M. Boutibou7„o
French savant, in illustration of the power of 005 io
tion. As Dr. Noble says—" M. Boutibouse servi:eoe
Napoleon's army, and was present at many engage; le ,
during the early part of the present century. At the bA ti'
Wagram, in 1809, he was engaged in the fray; d orA,
ranks around him had been terribly thinned by eV", hi
at sunset he was nearly isolated. While relolio!riffirrer
musket, he was shot down by a cannon ball. Ids j-aelof
sion was, that the ball had passed through his on. flov;
his knees, separating them from the thighs ; for }le
denly sank down, shortened, as he believed, to the
of about a foot in measurement. The trunk of thW'
fell backwards on the ground, and the senses wee,alC6f;
pletely paralysed by the shock. Thus he lay mot" il)e
amongst the wounded and dead during the rest food
night, not daring to move a muscle, lest the loss
should be fatally increased. He felt no pain, but nrsio
attributed to the stunning effect of the shock to the
and nervous system. At early dawn he was arms,„ of
one of the medical staff, who came round to help io'
wounded. `What's the matter with you, my good 11
said the surgeon. ' Ah, touch me tenderly,' rep
Boutibouse, 'I beseech you ; a cannon ball has cal-P_A' SP
my legs.' surgeon examined the limbs referrt7,olo/
and then giving him a good shake, said, with a Jci';fo,
laugh, 'Get up with you, you have nothing the matteriittil
you.' M. Boutibouse immediately sprang up in, "On
astonishment, and stood firmly on the legs which of ej
thought he had lost for ever. felt more thankful
M. Boutibouse, than I had ever done in the whole
of my life before. I had not a wound about me. 1 boy
indeed been shot down by an immense cannon bal,"eo
instead of passing through the legs, as I firmly belies
had, the ball had passed under my feet, and had Ply-101
a hole in the earth beneath at least a foot in depth' a
which my feet suddenly sank, giving me the ides„rat
had been thus shortened by the loss of my legit,-o'D
truth of this story is vouched for by Dr. -N°
Atheneum.
I
HAZLITT'S HUT.—The three or four hours a-uagA
ployed by Hazlitt in composition enabled him to pfa 07,
an essay for a magazine ; one of his most profonon001;
masterly Table-Talks, in two or three sittings • or 0.,,di0
and brilliant article of thirty or forty pages for ihe. SP,
burgh Review, in about a week. But when he Tore
entire volume or work in hand he invariably iv,en„ 00,4
the country to execute it, and almost always to t04101,a
spot—a little wayside publhhouse called the '-ot),"4"
standing alone, and some miles distant from allorivt`j,
house, on Winterslow Heath, a barren tract of coo?
on the road to, and a few miles from, Salisbury.
ensconced in a little wainscotted parlour, looking °"coli';f
the bare heath to the distant groves of Norman.o ijOrt
some of his finest essays were written • there, Or tor
solitude and silence, many of his least unhappy EinJ ta,
spent ; there, wandering for hours over the bare he% Di
through the dark woods of the above-named &D I; 004
shattered frame always gained temporary s‘!raegeloa 0.",;
renovation. When Hazlitt was regularly en afK4
work or article, he wrote at the rate of from ten to roi;
octavo pages at a sitting ; and never, or very 40t
renewed the sitting on the same day, except whe'., 01,
at Winterslow, where having no means of ocCuPPioeo;oo,
amusement in the evening part of the day, be abtlar
believe habitually, to write after his tea. And, s'°-- a east
one of his motives for going there when he had Ory
siderable work to get through, was the knowlemC,
by that means alone he could persuade himself to
double tidea."—Patmore's Friends.