The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-09-26 00:00:00

GELYERAL INT_ELLIGENCE.

Miss JANE LANGTON, the god-daughter and "dear
Jenny " of Dr. Johnson, died recently at Richmond, aged
77. And with this lady has passed away the only survivor
of all the persons mentioned in Boswell's biography.
THE PRINCIPAL WHOLESALE BREWERS of Bristol and
Bath have resolved on reducing the price of beer eommen-
surate with the recent decline in the price of malt.
IRON AND WOOD.—Out of 110 steam-packets now em-
ployed in conveying mails, 64 are built of wood, and 56 of
iron ; AS are propelled by paddle wheels, and 21 by screws.
Only 21 out of the 110 steamers have lightning conductors
fitted to them.

ALEXANDER VoN Irc-mnorin celebrated his 85th
birthday on the 14th. The illustrious philosopher is in
the enjoyment of full bodily health and intellectual 'vigour,
and continues, as heretofore, to devote himself with
wonderful activity to the interests of science.
POSTAGE TO AUSTRA.LlA4—Arrangements have been
made by the authorities of the General Post-office, to
extend, after the Ist of October next, the uniform 6d. rate
of postage, so far as regards.the s correspondence between
the United Kingdom to New South Wales, Victoria, and
South Australia.

EXTENSIVE FIRE AT Izzoxs.—On Friday evening an
extensive fire occurred at a wadding manufactory in the
city of Lyons, which extended to buildings containing
tar, and other combustible materials. The- fire was ulti-
mafely got under, but not until,damage to the extent of
200,000 francs was done.

A NEW ROUTE to the continent has been opened via
Harwich, by the establishment of a steam-packet service
from that port to Antwerp, in connexion with the express
trains on the Eastern Counties Railway. Passengers will
be enabled to leave the Bishopsgate Station at a quarter-
past eight in the morning; be taken lathe railway carriage
to the pier, and the whole voyage from London to Antwerp
will be completed in about twelve hours, little more than
half the time occupied in the passage from the Thames.
Gun COTTON FOR ARTILLESY.—A letter from Vienna
says :—Some very interesting experiments have recently
been tried here by the artillery with "exploding cotton"
instead of gunpowder, and they have succeeded so com-
pletely that cotton will in future be used. New six-pound-
ers have been cast, which weigh six cwt. less than those
formerly used, and they answer the purpose—if exploding
cotton is employed instead of gunpowder—perfectly well.
A GHASTLY FRElGHT.—Captain Klockgether, of the
Bretrien ship Hindoo, while on his passage to New York,
picked up a boat in which were four human skeletons.
The boat was full of water, but, being of light construc-
tion, had continued to float. A few remnants of clothing
were found, but nothing to give any clue to the un-
fortunates.

AN ORIGINAL IDEA.—A few days ago, a respectable
tradesman at Crewkerne was waited on by a needy man,
requesting a favour of him. The inquiry was immediately
put, " What favour do you want ?" " I want," he re-
plied, " to buy a donkey, and I was thinking that if I
could get some one to write a letter to the Queen she
would give me something towards it !"
THE WILL of the Hon. and Right Rev. Richard Bagot,
D.D., Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, has been proved
under £14,000 personalty, which he has left to his widow.
CALEDO/CIA.N RAILWAY.—At the meeting of the com-
pany on Thursday, a dividend at the rate of £4 4s. per
cent. per annum was declared on the preference shares,
and at the rate of £3 per cent. per annum on the consoli-
dated stock of the company, both less income-tax.

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Miss CLARA TiroirmiLL, a ward of the Court of Chan-
cery, has become the purchaser of the magnificent estate
of Rushton-hall, Northamptonshire, at the sum of
£165,000. The estate comprises 8,000 acres, contains a
mansion of great beauty, surrounded by a finely wooded
park, with plantations, and no fewer than 36 acres of
richly dressed garden.
MORE TROUBLE FOB THE OFFICERS OF TICE 46T1f.—
On Monday summonses were served upon Major Maxwell
and Adjutant McAlister, at the suit of the next of kin of
the boy Simms, to appear at the next County Court, and
show cause why they should not compensate the boy for
false imprisonment and the legal expenses of his defence.
The damages were laid at £5.

THE NILE.—By the latest intelligence we learn that
the Nile has been rising very rapidly, and there is now no
fear of short crops for next year. The Mahmoudieh canal,
connecting Alexandria with the river, has been so much
neglected that, although much water has been let in, there
has been such a deposit of mud that large boats can
scarcely come down.

A NEW CITY.—The commission to seek a new site for
the city of San Salvador, destroyed a short time since by
an earthquake, have selected the plain of Santa Tecla, four
leagues distant from the old site, and six leagues from the
old port of Libertand. The entire population would re-
move to the new city, which will be in the midst of a
beautiful country, abundantly supplied with pure water
from the cascades of the neighbouring hills.

FALL or A. RAILWAY TUNNEL.—An alarming accident
took place on Tuesday on the Leeds Northern Railway.
The Bramhope tunnel, about five miles from Leeds, fell in
upon a passenger train ; two carriages full of passengers,
in the centre, were buried, while the carriages behind and
before got detached. The carriages before went on ; those
behind, the place being an incline, ran back, and came into
collision with a truck full of Irish reapers. The guard of
the train was injured rather severely by the collision, but
the passengers escaped without injury. The " buried"
carriages were extricated after a considerable time, when
a lady was found to have her leg broken ; but no one else
was hurt.

FRIGHTFUL MORTALITY.—Did we lack warnings at
home to put our houses in order, one comes to us from
across the Atlantic. Seventeen persons have lost their
lives in a tavern known as Lamer's stage station, fifteen
miles cast of Galena, on the Chicago road, United States.
The mortality is accounted for by the condition of the
cellar beneath. The bottom, it is said, was covered with
water in a putrid condition, in which were floating cut
pieces of meat, decayed vegetables, and other refuse that
will gather in such places. Over this mass the meat con-
sumed by the family was hanging, and through it the
disease—whatever it may have been—is supposed to have
been communicated to the sufferers. It is said that every
person who took dinner there on Monday is now in the
grave. The hostess and four children, two servants, two
stage-drivers, the bar-keeper, the physician, who attended
the first sufferers, and the man who made their coffins,
were amongst the victims.

RATHER-COOL.—We last week recorded the escape of
a prisoner from the custody of Police-constable Furminger,
by jumping out of the train while passing through the
Lewes tunnel. The runaway contrived to effect his escape,
and, in spite of all the efforts made, has as yet avoided re-
capture. On Saturday however, tidings of his" where-
abouts" reached the constable, in the shape of a
small but heavy parcel sent from Croydon per rail. On
the parcel being delivered, and 6d. for carriage having
been duly paid, Mr. Furminger opened it with considerable
curiosity, when le discovered a pair of handcuffs, with a
polite intimation from his runaway prisoner that he had,
with many thanks, returned the " bracelets," which were
" rather too small"—a matter, however, which he, the run-
away, had "no doubt they would make all right the next
time they met !" Poor Furminger's mortification at the
receipt of this " cool" missive may be easily imagined.—
Sussex Advertiser.

Tire " GOLDEN SQUARE" OP NAPLES.—At Naples, in
a small and filthy street, called Vico del San Sepolcro, 143
out of 146 inhabitants have been carried off one after the
other by cholera. The authorities caused the three sur-
vivors to be removed, and placed sentinels at the entrances
of the street to prevent persons from visiting it. This
place of death has been since appropriately designated the
Tombo del San Sepolcro.
STRIKING Timm CoLouns.—On Her Majesty Queen
Victoria passing the Forfar Railway station on Friday, en
route for the north, the magistrates and town-council,
being refused admission to the platform, gave immediate
orders to lower a flag which had been planted at the rail-
way buildings in honour of the visit, to mark their estima-
tion of the slight cast upon the authorities in not allowing
them to look upon royalty.
EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT.—A few days ago, Mr. A.
Maylor, a respectable farmer, aged 66 years, living at Ful-
Sutton, near York, came to his death by a singular cir-
cumstance. Whilst superintending a number of reapers
in the harvest-field, one of his eyes, which had been pre-
viously injured, came into contact with an ear of corn ; in-
tense pain was followed by mortification of the brain, and
he died in four days after the accident.
SERPENT FASCINATION.--A few weeks since a little
boy, who was known to be frequently absent from
school, was noticed in the neighbourhood of Privet by a
shepherd in the employ of Martineau, Esq., to be very
busily engaged in the road. He approached nearer, and
was surprised to see him feeding two adders ! The boy
having crumbled the bread in his satchel, spread it out in
his pinafore, and the adders came and ate the food from
his lap, picking up the crumbs with great dexterity. After
feeding them he lay on the ground and played with them
all three seeming to enjoy the sport. But if the little
urchin rejoiced in their company the shepherd did not,
for with much difficulty he killed the adders, to the great
distress of their little playmate, who wept bitterly at their
destruction.— Wiltshire Mirror.

AN AWKWARD MISTAKE.—The borough of Barnstaple
was for two years deprived of its Parliamentary represen-
tatives, in consequence of the bribery which was practised
at the last election ; and, although the election took place
nearly a month since, the gentlemen who were returned
have not yet been Gazetted. This has arisen from the
mayor, who was the returning-officer, having made an in-
formal return to the: clerk of the crown. The error, it is
true, was afterwards amended, but the clerk of the crown
could not correct it without the sanction of Parliament,
and the result is, that Barnstaple is almost as badly off as
before for members. By this irregularity the mayor has
rendered himself liable to a penalty of £5OO, under the 2d
and 3d of William IV., chap. 45, sec. 76.

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THE PINCH OP WA.B IN Russu..—The Russians not in
their own country, and travellers arriving from the do-
minions of the Emperor Nicholas give but a sorry picture
of the situation in which the Moscovite nation now is.
The nobles, from inability to sell their corn, are sadly dis-
tressed, and are mortgaging their property to a great
hypothecary establishment, and the government is a cus-
tomer at the same time. The cereals now stored up in
the southern ports of Russia are estimated at not less than
16,000,000 of hectolitres. Not being able to export them,
the owners are selling them at the lowest prices. The
Russian government is obliged to take from the proprie-
tors what is required for the keep of the troops, informing
those from whom they take that the value of what is taken
shall be deducted from their contributions. Nevertheless,
this indemnification is not conceded at present.—lnde-
pendance Belge.

Tm WRECK OF THE MYRTLE.—We understand that
the second mate of the steamer Myrtle, recently wrecked
off the island of Sande, has been indicted to stand his trial
at Inverary before the ensuing Justiciary Court. The
culpable negligence under which this fine vessel was lost,
in open day„ and with scarcely a ripple on the breeze, will
be fresh in the recollection of our readers, and it is high
time that an example was made of those who so recklessly
endanger the lives of passengers and destroy valuable
property.— Greenock Advertiser.

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The iron shutters on the west side, facing
APSLEY HOUSE is undergoing repair and alteration
Hyde Park
have been opened for the first time since the mansion
was attacked by the mob on the passing of the Reform
Bill, nearly thirty years ago. The broken panes of glass,
and shattered window frames having remained undisturbed
from that time to the present, have attracted large crowds.
NUCOPt which were many who took part hi the demolition

TUE ERICSSON CALORIC PBOJEC
abandoned. _

NEW CHURCH AT JERUSALEM.—The Porte has pre-
sented to the French embassy a letter of the Grand Vizier,
ordering the Pasha of Jerusalem to deliver gratuitously th
ground required for the construction of the Latin church
of Beit-Djala.
MELANCHOLY TERMINATION OF A WEDDING.--OR
Tuesday, at Greenock, a respectable woman united her-
self to a mechanic, who resided many years in that loca-
lity. The friends were assembled, the festivities com-
menced, and all going "merry as a marriage bell," when
the unhappy woman was seized 'with a sudden delirium,
which, increasing, caused her to be removed to an asylum.

PREA.CIIING IN A: COALPIT.—The Rev. W. F. Vance,
incumbent of Coseley, has for the last three weeks de-
scended the coalpits of Lord Ward, Mr. H. B. 'Whitehouse,
and the Messrs. Bagnall, at the dinner hour of the men,
and preached to them. The rev. gentleman informed
them that, as they neglected to come to "church to hear
the gospel message, he would bring the church to them."
—Chelmsford Chronicle.
TirE Anoxic EXPEDlTlON.—Despatches have been re-
ceived during the past week at the Admiralty, from. Capt.
Inglefield, of the Phoenix, now in the Arctic Seas, in search
of the expeditions sent out to look for Franklin. The
despatches are dated July 9th, 1854. They contain, how-
ever, nothing about the missing expeditions, but refer
chiefly to the discovery of deposits of coal at different
points on the route towards Beechy Island; which is Capt.
Inglefield's destination._

rNTEXPERA.NCE IN MELBOURNE.—The expenses of the
corporation of the city of Melbourne are wholly paid from
licenses to public-houses, and fines of drunkards imposed
by the police-court.
EMIGRATION FROM GERMANY2—The number of per-
sons who embarked during the first seven months of 1854,
from 'Hamburg, Bremen, Antwerp, ands Havre,. exceeded
120,000. Several thousands left last month, and more
than 50,000 are making preparations tnfollow.

THE -Russie.N Ani-y-.—The number of the Russian
army is estimated in all at 571,295 men. We learn, from
recently received letters, that this immense force is about
to be increased by a further levy of ten in every thousand
souls throughout the western provinces. The. Jews are
included in this recruiting, and have to furnish men in
the proportion just stated. The object of the levy is
alleged to be the formation of reserve corps.
A GOOD SEOT.—It is related in a private- letter, that
during the action at Bomarsund, one Frenchman, in par-
ticular, did good service. He crept on his face and hands
under the fort, his only protection being a large stone.
He was there for sixteen hours, and fired no.less than two
hundred rounds of ammunition, and killed about one hun-
dred and fifty Russians. According as a- fellow would put
out his head, pop went the Frenchman?s,gun. The French
are dead shots at six hundred yards.

"PETREFACTION," BY THE HON. MRS. NORTON.—The
poetry of this song came warm, but not gushing, from the
heart. It is the result of a retrogressive feeling, serious,
sad, and melancholy ; and thousands will sympathise with
the fair authoress of these lines, in which the spirit of
Moore seems to linger. Mr. Barker understood his
authoress, and composed a melody, in E flat, exactly and
beautifully adapted to the words. Simple as the music is,.
let no mere mechanical musician attempt to sing it. A
depth of poetic feeling pervades both words and music,
which a gifted few alone can duly appreciate.—Examiner

LITTLE WAR PRoßLEms..—istli-; Given—An army of
occupation. Required—To find, if you can, what it has
occupied, and what has been the particular nature of its
occupation. 2dly, Given—An army of expedition. Re-
quired—To find out, if possible, the amount of expedi-
tion it has shown, and whether Pickford, or any common
carrier, would not have expedited matters much more
quickly in infinitely less time.—Punek.

NUPTIAL SCENE AT WEST HAM. —On Thursday a
delightful scene took place at West Ham, on the occasion
of the marriage of the Rev. E. Cridge, the incumbent of
Christ Church, the Marsh, to Miss Mary Winmill. The
rev. gentleman has endeared himself to his flock, and deep
was the regret of all when it was announced that the
happy occasion of his marriage was to be the signal of his
departure from amongst them, as he had been appointed
chaplain to Vancouver's Island, and intended to proccd
with his bride to his new home in the west. The people
of the Marsh district—" his own people," as they were
endearingly called—flocked to the church of West Ham
to witness the nuptial ceremony; the children scattered
flowers around the happy pair as they proceeded to church,
attended by the two bridesmaids and the Rev. A. J.
Ram, the vicar, who gave the bride away. Nor were the
goodwill of friends, and the feelings of the people towards
their pastor, confined to these evident marks of interest in
his happiness—they took a still more substantial shape ;
and, contributions having been eagerly made for the pur-
pose in the district, the rev. gentleman was presented
with a beautiful silver salver, engraved, value £3O, and a
handsome velvet purse, containing 21 guineas —the objects
being rendered doubly valuable by the tears which attested
the spirit in which they were offered, and consecrated, as
it were, these parting pledges. The Rev. Mr. Ram added
a personal token of his esteem, and many other nuptial
presents were made. After the dejeuner, which was
attended by the Rev. Mr. Ram, Lady Jane Ram, and
others, the happy pair departed for Salt-hill ; and in a few
days they were to sail for the reverend gentleman's new
charge.—Chelmsford Chronicle. _

LORD DUNDONALD AND THE BALTIC FLEET.—To
THE EDlTOR.—Sir,—Until yesterday, when I observed
the serious manner in which a conversation said to have
taken place between the chief Minister of her Majesty's
Administration and myself is now treated, I do not con-
sider it incumbent on me to "volunteer a formal public
disclosure," " in order not to allow such a statement to go
abroad uncontradicted," and therefore I now rectify the
omission, and declare that I have never been honoured by
any conversation or communication with or from Lord
Aberdeen relative to the command in the Baltic, or in re-
gard to operations to be conducted in that or any other
quarter. Permit me to add a line in justice to Admiral
Napier, against whom "the indignant dissatisfaction of
the nation" is said to be roused—namely, that success
could not have attended the operations of combustible
ships against stone batteries firing redhot shot, however
coolly unresisting walls may be leisurely demolished.
There is but one means whereby to place the opponents
on an equal footing, and that I have confidentially laid
before the government, with the hope that a protracted
defensive war should not linger on, to the disorganisation
of Europe and the ruin of our country.—l am, Sir, your
obliged and obedient servant, DIINDONALD.—London,
Sept. 21.
EMIGRATION.—The annual report of the Emigration
Commissioners has just been published. From this it
appears that the total emigration of last year was 329,937,
being 38,827 less than in 1852. There was a diminution
of 26,480 to Australia, and 13,376 to the United States,
the falling off being accounted for in the case of Australia
by the greater excitement regarding the gold discoveries
prevalent during the summer and autumn of 1852, and in
that of the United States by the departure of a smaller
number of Irish, the aggregate emigration of the latter
people throughout the year being :estimated at 199,392
against 224,997 in 1852. The remittances from their re-
latives in America were, however, larger than in any pre-
vious year, the amount sent through the various banks,
apart from private channels, being £1,439,000. With
respect to the Australian emigration, the total from the
United Kingdom to all the colonies was 61,401, or about
one-fourth of that of the United States. Subjoined are the
general figures :
United States ... 230,885
Australia :
New South Wales... ... 10,673
Victoria ... 40,469
South Australia ... ... 6,883
Western Australia .. ... 965
Van Diemen's land 991
New Zealand ... 1,420

Canada, &c
East Indies ...
Central and South America
West Indies ...
Cape of Good Hope ...
Western Africa ...
Mauritius
Hong Kong ...
Falkland Islands ...

61,401
. ... 34,522
. . , . 928
... 833
... 369
. ... 308

329,937
According to a supplementary statement, it also appears
that the emigration during the first three months of the
present year has been 49,756 persons, against 60,867 in
the corresponding period of 1853, and 59,523 in that of
1852. There has been a continued diminution in the de-
partures to the United States, but in those to Australia,
although there is a great falling off as compared with the
first quarter of last year, there is a considerable increase
as compared with the first quarter of 1852. Of the total,
49,766 emigrants, 26,128 were Irish, 2,430 English, 2,966
Scotch, and 8,233 foreign or unspecified. This proportion
of Irish is much smaller than in 1852 or 1853.

THE SPIRIT OF THE COLONIES.—The following singu-
larly graphic and characteristic communication is taken
from a letter recently received from Geelong :—" The news
brought by the ship Crest of the Wave, out 72 days from
England, has caused quite a war panic here. The startling
intelligence that hostilities were about to commence be-
tween England,France, and Russia has had the effect of re-
ducing the price of £3 19s. to £3, and meetings have been
convened with the view of forming a rifle brigade to ' shoot
the Rooshans,' should they at any time attempt a landing.
Nervous old women of the masculine gender are withdraw-
ing their money from the bank for the purpose of ' plant-
ing' it, while here and there the anxious cry is heard,
' Where are our brave diggers ?' and ere the echo of so
many voices had time to answer `where,' Here we are,'
exclaimed a deputation of those noble fellows, who had
come down to asssure the authorities of their readiness to
resent any attempt at an invasion. ' Here we are, ready,
willing, and able to fight the battles of John Bull and his
youngest daughter Australia.' True it is we are in a most
defenceless state, as there is nothing to prevent any ad-
venturous bucaniers from landing and walking up to our
banks and thanking the managers to hand over the little
' swag' of gold—about £4,000,000. Still there is some-
thing at the head of our harbour which might possibly
keep them at bay for some 24 hours, by which time the
presence of 100,000 stout-hearted diggers, each armed to
the teeth with ' Colts' Dean and Adams, or a shooting
lion' of some kind or other might be secured. Americans
as well as English are ready to defend from invasion this
young empress of the world, though each hold their own
views on questions touching their nationalities. A some-
what ludicrous scene took plac at the theatre the other
night, the performance being under the patronage of the
American Consul, and, on the arrival of that gentleman,
the band, out of compliment, commenced playing `Yankee
Doodle,' which did not exactly suit the palate of the Eng-
lish. Some of the 'gods' having misunderstood its mean-
ing, cries of ' No, no ! we won't have it !" Old England
for ever I' and ' God save the Queen ! were heard through-
out the building, while the hisses of the Americans gave
room to fear that the matter would terminate seriously,
when the Consul, a good-looking young American, 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 orchestra attempted to

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obey the summons, but the effect' it produced was so ludi-
crous 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 grogshops,"