The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-10-10 00:00:00

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE

A PRINCELY DONOR.-Mr. William Ewing, insurance
broker, Glasgow, has contributed the munificent sum of
£2,000 towards the completion of a Sailors' Home there,
besides undertaking to make up other £5OO by his own
exertions.

GOVERNMENT have entered into a contract for the
manufacture of thirty-five million of ball cartridges and
52,000 bombs, for the army in the East.

TAE LAWSON OBSERVATORY project has come to an
end. In consequence of the misunderstanding as to the
value of meteorological and astronomical instruments pro-
posed to be given by Mr. Lawson, it became necessary for
the Committee to give up, as hopeless, the establishment
of the contemplated observatory at Nottingham.

Ax CLA.REiCEVILLE (Canada) some young men made
an old man intoxicated, and then completely saturated his
clothes with turpentine, to which they set fire. The man
was literally roasted before the flames were suppressed.
SAILORS' HOME, LEITH.—A Sailors' Home was opened
in this port on Monday. The Home was opened by a
public meeting of the influential merchants and shipowners
of the place. From the great interest taken in the Home
by the shipowners and mercantile establishments of the
town, the institution promises to be one of permanence,
and calculated to confer a great boon on the seafaring
community.
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SIR WILLIAM MOLESWORTR AT EDINBURGH.—On
Saturday, the freedom of the city of Edinburgh was con-
ferred by the magistrates and town council on the Right
Hon. Sir William Molesworth, First Commissioner of Her
Majesty's Works. Sir William Molesworth, in acknow-
ledging the compliment, briefly reviewed the political
state of affairs during the past year, the chief topic having
reference to the war, which, he said, he had no doubt would
be in the end neither aimless, nor eventless, nor inglorious,
nor unworthy of the reputation of England and France—.
countries renowned for naval and military exploits.
BARAGUAY Bons.—We have received the following
story, contained in a letter from the Baltic, written to
a relative at Thorn Falcon, near this town :—" Two or
three marines were on some outpost duty with a like
number of the French, when the former, in obedience to
orders received, fell to the ground on the firing of a can-
non from the fort ; but, on observing the Frenchmen to
stand up, they decided not to do so in future. Soon after
the French general came up the hill, and on a gun being
fired down went the general, likewise one of the marines,
who, as he threw himself down, cried out to his comrade,
`All right, Bill, Baraguay Bobs: " Somerset County
Herald.

IMPROMPTU JUSTICE.-Great crowds were present at
Banchory at the recent arrival there of Her Majesty, and,
amongst the rest, some pickpockets. There were also
some magistrates present, and two fellows having been
detected in picking a pocket, a quorum was mustered in
the waiting-room of the railway station, and the thieves
summarily arraigned. No magistrates' clerk could, how-
ever, be found, so the justices got hold of a reporter who
was in attendance to chronicle the scene for some local
paper. The reporter took down the depositions of the
witnesses in short-hand, but refused to " translate " unless
he was paid for it. Nevertheless the magistrates signed
the depositions, not one word of which they were able to
read, and committed the thieves for trial.
THE LAST OF THE OLD REGISIE.—We read in the
Paris correspondence of a' morning contemporary that
Baron Andre Marie Hue, who was successively first valet
de chambre to Louis XVIII. and Charles X., died on the
16th at his estate of St. Sauveur, near Bray (Seine and
Marne), where, since 1830, he lived-in complete retire-
ment. He was the only son of the M. Hue whose name
is so frequently mentioned as a faithful and valued servant
in the history of the latter days of Louis XVI.

Moßu ENCI-Listr Nzws PROM RUSSIA.—The following
paragraph translated from the Journal de St. Peters-
bourg, will be news indeed to English readers :
" Lieutenant Perry, who was on board the Tiger when it
was taken by the Russians at Odessa, has been brought
before a Court-martial. The young man has been ac-
quitted on account of the long and loyal services of his
father, but is obliged to leave the Royal Navy of England
and sell his commission. This has caused great excite-
ment, and numerous subscription lists are already opened
in favour of Lieutenant Perry."

CURIOUS Spostuvo ADVENTURE. A youth, aged
twelve, recently went hunting rabbits near Culloden ; as
he did not return home his friends became alarmed, and
went in search of him. They found his little dog at the
entrance of a rabbit-hole, and on one of the searchers
putting his hand down it he felt the boy, who had got
jammed in while pursuing a rabbit. He had to be dug
out. When brought to light, much to the gratification
and comfort of the folks around, the little fellow presented
a very extraordinary appearance ; but he coolly intimated
that he would get better when he was washed, that he had
slept for some time, and that he was sorry for the loss of
the rabbit he had pursued.

A PAINFUL. FEELING (says the Daily News) has been
produced by the announcement of the failure of Mr.
Edward Lawford, a city solicitor of standing. Mr. Law-
ford is clerk to the Drapers' Company, and solicitor to the
East India Company. The most distressing feature in
the case consists in the imputation that he is involved in
transactions of a peculiar and very painful character. [The
latter statement has been contradicted.]
A Gum, last week, who was tending some cattle at
Culsalmond, twisted the rope attached to the head of a
two-year-old stot several times round her body. The
animal took fright, and set off at full speed, dragging the
girl upwards of 300 yards. When she was found life was
almost extinct, and in a few minutes she died.
BEETROOT.—The season of 1853-4 for the manfacture
of sugar from beetroot closed with the month of August.
The quantity produced was 76,951,000 kilogrammes, whilst
in the preceding year it was 75,275,000 kilogrammes. The
quantity delivered for consumption was 68,100,000 kilo-
grammes ; in the preceding year it was 70,340,000 kilo-
grammes. The quantity remaining on hand at the end of
the season, including that standing over from former
years, was 18,713,000 kilogrammes • at the corresponding
period of last year it was 13,833,000 kilogrammes. On
the 31st of August the number of manufactories in opera-
tion was 303, and of those inactive 31; last year the num-
ber was 337 in activity, and eight in non-activity. The
falling off is caused by the manufactories having given up
the making of sugar in order to produce brandy from
beetroot.—Galignani _ _ _ _ _

Tins FORTY-SIXTII REGIMENT.—The letter of the Duke
of Cleveland (enclosing a donation of £5O to the Perry
fund), to which we have already called attention, has led
to a lengthened correspondence between his Grace and
Colonel Garrett, of which the Globe gives the following
account :—" The duke prefers a charge—namely, that
Colonel Garrettrhad shown himself incompetent to control
the discipline of the officers of the Forty-sixth Regiment,
and had winked at their ' riot, drunkenness, and de-
bauchery.' The Colonel demands explanations—the
Duke declines to give them ; the Colonel hints that duel-
ling is forbidden by the Articles of War, and points out
that those very articles direct the reference of disputes to
friends for settlement ; the Duke refers his correspondent
to a Court of Law ; and the Colonel, being unable, either
to have a shot at his censor, to subject his writings to
arbitrators, or to appeal to the Court of Law, rushes to
make a fourth and worse appeal, and publishes the corres-
pondence to vindicate his own conduct.

SPLITTING THE DIPFERENCN.—iII a letter from a
Welsh emigrant, published in the Swansea Herald,
dated " Geelong, April 29th," the writer says :—" A
somewhat ludicrous scene took place at the theatre the
other night, the performance being under the patronage
of the American consul, and on the arrival of that gentle-
man, the band, out of compliment, commenced playing
` Yankee Doodle,' which did not exactly suit the palate of
the English. Some of the ` gods ' having misunderstood
its meaning, and cries of `no, no, we won't have it—old
England for ever,' and ' God save the Queen,' were heard
throughout the building, whilst the hisses of the Ameri-
cans gave room to fear that' the matter would terminate
seriously, when the consul, a good-looking young Ameri-
can with gold laced cap in hand, came forward, and in the
course of an address characterised by much good humour,
suggested the propriety of splitting the difference, by
amalgamating the two airs, one-half to be God save the
Queen,' and the other half ' Yankee Doodle.' The orches-
tra attempted to obey the summons, but the effect it pro-
duced was so ludicrous that all present were convulsed
with laughter, and thus ended the matter. The stars
and stripes ' are very numerous here, especially about the
diggings, where they may be seen streaming by thousands
over the various American tents, stores, and grog-shops."

TIIB COMMERCIAL VIEW OP TRH 'cVAR.--FrOM com-
munications received by houses in the northern ports, in
the habit of doing agencies for Russian commercial houses,
it seems that there is a good deal of speculation and un-
easiness in mercantile circles in St. Petersburg with regard
to the effect of the war upon the course of trade with this
country on the resumption of commercial relations. The
usual course for vessels going out to bring home cargoes
from Russia is to ballast or take out a cargo of coals, the
quick ruu out in ballast being balanced against the freight
upon coals. Now, probably, neither in ballast nor in coals,
could a sbipowner run his vessel with profit to countries
having merchandise similar to that imported from St.
Petersburg ; but the present position of affairs has caused ,
shipowners to calculate and try whether cargoes that
could not be brought home profitably in a direct voyage
out and in, might not be done in a circuit of voyages, and
it seems the experiment is in course of trial. Another
circumstance seems to be not lost sight of, viz., the oppor-
tunity that is presented to shipowners, by the high price
of hemp and other Russian produce, to try substitutes,and
introduce new material into the equipment of their new
vessels. It appears that, in consequence of the high price
of hempen rope, some very interesting and successful ex-
periments have been tried by large shipowners in adopting
wire rope to the purposes of rigging.
A MANIAC SIIOT.—The Message,. du Midi relates
the following account of a frightful scene which took place
a few days since at Tournon (Ardeche). A young work-
man was returning quietly home after passing the evening
with a friend, when he met a porter remarkable for his
herculean strength, but who was known at times to be
affected with fits of insanity. The young man saluted the
porter as he passed, when the latter immediately turned
on him, saying " You salute me, do you! well, then, I will
kill you !" and immediately struck him a heaVy blow on
the head with a stick, which actually scattered his brains
against the wall. Seeing his victim lying on the ground,
he took up a large stone, with which he continued to
batter the body, exclaiming as he did so, "Mon Dieu, open
eternity to him ! Ah ! I think you are dead now—
speak and tell me that you are dead !" A gaslighter,
attracted by`the noise, ran to the spot, but he narrowly
escaped being knocked down by a large stone which was
hurled at him by the maniac, and taking, to his heels he
gave an alarm to the gensdarmes. During this time the
assassin took refuge at his own house, and after barri-
cading the door, prepared to kill his father, on whom he had
already inflicted one wound, when the gensdarmes arrived.
It was in vain that they endeavoured to break the door
open, for so great was the strength of the maniac that he
actually tore large stones from the walls of the room, and
hurled them at his assailants. To one of the gensdarmes
he said, " Ah 1 you have served 20 years, and .yet you have
not got the cross—stop and I will decorate you! " saying
which, he threw a large stone, which shattered the man's
hand, and sent his carbine to a distance of several feet.
Just at this time the cries of his sister were heard, and at
the same moment the voice of the murderer, saying, " It
shall be your turn next ! " It was now found necessary
to resort to extreme measures, in order to prevent further
bloodshed. A carbine was fired with blank cartridge,
which attracted the attention of the assassin, who came
to the window, when a gendarme immediately levelled
his carbine and shot him dead on the spot,--Galignani.