The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-08-29 00:00:00

RK3IIIRE DIVIDEXD.—The
Erectors of 31 per cent. per

now learn tin'
IR. (

nd Mr. Spence,
Sandbach at his beau-

SON, the celebrated sculptor
s pupil, spent last week with IT

tifut seat'iii Wales. Mr. Spence returned to Liverpool a
few days since, and Mr. Gibson will be here this week.
On Mr. Gibson's arrival from Rome, he spent several days
with Mrs. Huskisson._ _

THE NEW LAW.—On Friday there were no less than
fifty-six publicans' and beerhouse cases heard before the
magistrates. One-half of those summoned were beer-
house-keepers, who alleged in their defence that they
thought the new beer act allowed them to keep open to
twelve o'clock on Saturday. About a dozen of the infor-
mations for Sunday trading were laid under the new act.
THE LITE CHARGE OE FORGERY AGAINST A LIVER-
POOL MERCHANT.—In the course of the proceedings in
the Crown Court, on Wednesday, before Baron Platt, it
was announced that John Thomas Haselden, a tea-broker,
who was committed for trial on a charge of having uttered
a forged order for the delivery of two hundred chests of
tea, with intent to defraud Mr. William Cross, had ab-
sconded, and gone to America. His recognizances were
consequently estreated. He was bailed in two sureties of
£5OO each.

THE ATHENIAN, new screw steamer, built by Messrs.
Smith and Rogers, of the Clyde, which arrived here on
Friday week, has been fully equipped, and sailed on Satur-
day with a cargo of 1,100 tons. The Athenian is the se-
cond of four vessels to form an augmentation to J. W.
Fakelough and Co.'s line of Levant Steamers. Two
others (in frame), the Egyptian and the Armenian, will
be launched before the close of the year.
THE LUSITA.NIA, South American and General Steam
Navigation Company's steamer, Captain Brown, took her
departure on Thursday hence for the Brazils and the
River Plate, with thirty passengers, a full cargo, and a
large mail. This will be her last voyage, as, since the
company have obtained the government contract for the
conveyance of mails, she has been found to be too small
for the trade. She has been sold to the Imperial Steam
Navigation Company of France, to whom she will be
transferred on her return.
ANNUAL LICENSING SESSION.—The annual session for
renewing and granting licenses commenced on Thursday,
Police-office, in High-street, before Alderman S.
nd Mr. J. H. Turner. Before commencing the

business, Mr. Holme remarked that, as there had-been
great irregularity at the last session, the magistrates had
determined that parties applying for licenses must attend
personally. The renewals were then proceeded with, and
occupied the greater portion of the day. To-morrow
(Wednesday) the applications for new licenses will be heard,
and on the following day the applications from several of
,ies who are objected against, on account of fines,
&bout 800 licenses were renewed on

ThursUa

Ld nearly 700 on Friday

A Lr vr npooL SHIP-OWNER.—In the
tcy Court, London, on Wednesday, John Solo-
t, Liverpool, ship-owner and mer-
)ass his last examination. The balance
ed by the bankrupt commences on the first of

late Of Duke.:

t, applied to

January, 1850, at the period when he was carryin
business at Liverpool, and ends in March, 1854-
The balance sheet contains, according to the list of
creditors, the names of between 30 and 40 inhabitants of
Liverpool, and also of captains and others employed in
- running from Liverpool to Australia, and
►r wages due to them. No opposition was
bankrupt's accounts, and he passed his
Renewed protection having been granted

I examination

le certificate meeting, the sroceed-

INIELINatoI

ACCIDENT AT WATERLoo.—A boy, two
crowned on Thursday afternoon,

nd a half old, was
shore, at Waterla

umstances so st

led ever since over

firm of

ek Brothers
with

1, London

Mrs. Peek, stoppiiiB a their grandfather
Esq., of Grove-house, Shelton, Staffordshire, ii

NEW STEAMERS.—Two new first-rate screw steamers
have been ordered to be built, which, a naval contemporary
says, " will be the finest and most powerful that the world
has yet produced." One will be of 3,950 tons, 215 feet in
length by 61 feet in breadth ; and one of 4,116 tons, 260
feet in length and 60 feet wide.
AN ECCENTRIC M.P.—Mr. Divett, M.P. for Exeter,
went to the House of Commons, a few nights before the
close of the session, clothed from head to foot, from toe to
crown, in bright nankeen, which clung to him like a
second skin, something after the fashion of one of Astley's
acrobats. _

THE GREAT " Snos QUESTION" in India has been
decided. Natives are required to take off their slippers
when they enter the presence of the Governor-General ;
but many adopt European dress —are they to pull off their
boots ? This is the last regulation—Natives wearing boots,
pantaloons, and straps, will not be required to appear
barefooted.

Sconn LOYALTT.—On the Bth instant, the Earl of
Meath presided at an agricultural dinner at Edinburgh.
For some reason no toast whatever was proposed. Cries
of " The Queen ! the Queen !" were unnoticed, and then a
" round robin" was sent to the chairman, stating that
unless the toast was given, the company would leave the
table. Upon this the chairman made matters worse by
rising and giving the Queen's health as an eminent agri-
culturist,and then sitting down.

Csunms SWALLOWS.—An experiment has just been
successfully made of employing swallows to carry letters.
Six swallows taken in their nests at Paris were conveyed
by railway to Vienna, and there let go, with a small roll of
paper, containing 1,510 words, under the wing of each.
They were let go at a quarter after seven in the morning ;
two arrived at Paris a few minutes before one, one at a
quarter past two, and the other two did not make their
appearance at all.

MURDER.—On Tuesday morning, a wife was murdered
by her husband at Rochester. Mr. G. H. Smith, post-
master at Jersey, was lodging in a house in the town with
his wife; about eight o'clock on Tuesday morning he came
down and told the mistress of the house that he had shot
his wife, and desired her to send for a policeman and a
doctor. The unfortunate lady was found in bed, shot
through the back of the neck, and by direction of the
husband, pistols were found under the mattress. The
wretched man was in a lunatic asylum six months ago.

GRAIN CROPS IN AmEnicA.—The harvest in the
United States is expected to be one-fourth in yield above
that of last year. We learn from a gentleman who has
traversed Canada from London to Montreal, and visited
much of the interior, that the wheat crop of Upper Canada
will far exceed that of any other year in its amount. It is
estimated that a third more was sown last year than the
year before, and it all looks flourishing. The surplus last
year is estimated at 7,000,000 bushels. This year it is
calculated the surplus will reach 12,000,000 bushels.
Estimating the price at only $1 50c per bushel, it gives
the farmers $18,000,000 for wheat alone for a foreign
market.—Aberdeen Journal.

between the Board of Trade, the Lords Of the Treasury, and
the India Board, relative to the possibility of discovering
some new material for making paper, and thus to meet the
The India Board have communica

present scarcity

report by Dr. J. Forbes Royle, their officer in charge of
the scientific correspondence relating to the vegetabl4'
productions of India, in which he points at sevt -
in that country from which he think,
might be derived :—" The fibrous part
aloe-leaved plants have-been converted into excellent pape,
in India, where the fibres of tiliaceous, malvaceous, and
leguminous plants are employed for the same purpose. As
in the Himalayas, one of the lace-bark tribe is similarly
employed, and in China one of the mulberry tribe, and
the nettle in Holland. I mention these various
because plants belonging to the same famP*
villiam I abound in India and other warm count-*
of yielding a very abundant ano

al source
for pane
y lily an(

sutciently cheap.

es as the abov

it materiftEl for pipei

of all kind.

Some m:
ihnt

further process of bleacl

le of having

iestroye

ummy bag?,

because I have seen specimens of jute of a beautiful silky
white, both plain and manufactured into fabrics for furni-
ture, &c., as shown by the late Colonel Calvert
East

is-house

Ks the Chinese make paper of rice

Munja and Sacc

it is evident

contain a sufficiency