The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-09-05 00:00:00

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

A CORRESPONDENT or - says-. that houses
should be painted in the autumn : woodwork painted in
October, he says, looks better at the end of four-years than
if painted in June it would at the end of two.
THE LATE Rms. IN AIRDRIE.—The Glasgow Herald
contains an extract of a letter from Sir Archibald Alison,
Bart., sheriff of Lanarkshire, written to the authorities of
Airdrie, expressing his satisfaction with the arrangements
made and carried out for suppressing the late riots in
connexion with the popish disputes in that locality.
HOLTROOD PliicE.—Sir William Molesworth, Chief
Commissioner. offler Majesty's Works, &c., has visited
Edinburgh, and inspected the Palace of Holyrood and the
other public buildings, with a view to various improve-
ments being carried. out.
YOUTHFUL HEROIS3I.—A boy twelve years old, who
fought at Silistria by the side of his father when the
father was killed, has been presented to Omar Pasha, by
some English officers who witnessed his bravery and filial
devotion. Omar has sent him to the Seraskier, and re-
commended him to the Sultan.
A RESIDENT WHALE FlsHEßr.—Accounts have been
received in Aberdeen from Captain Penny, of the Lady
Franklin, that his expedition to Davis's Straits, in fur-
therance of a project of a resident whale fishery, has been
most successful. Heis now at Orkney, with the Lady
Franklin full of boiled oil, and the Sophia is expected to
follow, also a bumper ship.
EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF HER MAJESTY.—The eques-
trian statue of Her Majesty, commissioned by the inha-
bitants of Glasgow to be executed by the Baron Maro-
chetti, has been cast. The granite pedestal on which it
is to be placed was erected in St. Vincent Place last week,
and the completion and inauguration of the statue will be
shortly accomplished.
THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO SCOTLAND.—It has now been
determined that Her Majesty's visit to the Highlands
shall take place next week, and the 14th is the day men-
tioned as that on which the Royal party will arrive in
Edinburgh on their way northwards. They will leave
London in the morning, reaching Holyrood, it may be
presumed, about seven or eight o'clock in the evening.—
Scotsman.

THE Bunch

MEITMENT OF CHOLERA..—The following treatment
has been found highly efficacious at St. Petersburgh :
The patient, as soon as he suffers from the premonitory
symptoms—as soon rather, as he becomes aware of them—
should lie down on his back, warmly wrapped up, should
apply a large mustard poultice to the abdomen, keeping
it on for a quarter of an hour or twenty minutes ; and
should drink three or four glasses of hot mint tea. This
mild treatment, while it can do no harm in any instance,
will be found successful in by far the greater number.

CONSUMPTION OF TEA.—A parliainentary paper just
issued states that, during the year ending the sth of April,
1854, 55,549,454 lbs. of tea were delivered from the
bonded warehouses in the United Kingdom for home con-
sumption. Of this amount 29,998,362 lbs. were delivered
at the port of London, 6,758,5401b5. at Liverpool,
3,536,752 lbs. at Dublin, 2,752,185 lbs. at Glasgow,
1,757,326 lbs. at Leith, 1,592,5911b5. at Belfast, and
1,265,297 lbs. at Bristol. The duty received on the aggre-
gate amount was £5,181,908.
A MOUNTAIN OF LIME.—In Scotland an important
geological discovery has lately been made. Zore-More, a
large mountain near Applecross, on the west coast, on
beinc, accidentally excavated, presented a substratum of
pure° lime, within five feet of the surface ; and on prose-
cuting
.the discovery by a further excavation, it was ascer-
tained that the whole mountain, except an average surface
of twenty feet, consists of lime fit for burning or agricul-
tural purposes. The hill appears to have been at one
time a stupendous limestone rock which has been submit-
ted to the action of intense heat. On the summit of the
mountain volcanic remains, vitrified stone, and lava, have
been found.
NEW TREATMENT OF CROLERA.—In King's College
Hospital the new mode of treating cholera, namely, not
checking the diarrhoea, has proved very successful. Dr.
Geo. Johnson, who has the charge of.the cholera wards,
considers that the purging in cholera is mainly an effort
of the organism to throw off the virulent principle which

is at the root of the disease ; he therefore, in his treat-
ment, does his best to aid this eliminating process by
gentle means, and gives half-ounce doses of castor oil
every half-hour. Some of the patients thus treated were
admitted either with severe purging and vomiting, or in
the cold and bine stage. A mustard poultice was usually
place on the pit of the stomach, and the castor oil given
every half-hour until the action of the bowels was well
established.

CONSUMPTION or WINE. —From a parliamentary
paper just published, it would appear that, although the
population of the United Kingdom has almost doubled
itself during the present century, the quantity of foreign
and colonial wine consumed has decreased rather than

increased during that period. In the year 1800, 7,294,752
gallons of foreign and colonial wines were charged with
duty for home consumption, but in 1853 only 6,813,830
gallons were so charged. In the intervening years the
consumption has fluctuated between the two amounts,
rarely rising to the higher one, but frequently falling
below the lower. The largest consumption was in 1803,
when 8,226,464 gallons were charged with duty. Only
one other year (1825) registers 8,000,000 gallons, and after
1800 only three years (1802, 1828, and 1839) reach even
to 7,000,000 gallons. The lowest consumption was in the
year 1816, when only 4,057,038 gallons appear to have
paid duty, whereof 3,698,993 gallons were foreign, and
358,040 gallons colonial wines.
TRIAL OF FORTY THIEVES.—The Court of Assizes
(says Galignani) in July, 1852, tried a band of 40 thieves,
headed by a man named Routier. One of the gang, a
.man named Lalourcey, who was sentenced to eight years'
hard labour, recently made revelations which inculpated
14 other persons. A searching investigation was made,
and the result was that the judicial authorities considered
that there was sufficient ground to cause the prosecution
of five out of the 14, one of them being Lalourcey him-
self. These five were accordingly arrested, and were on
Saturday brought to trial before the Court of Assizos.
Lalourcey accused them of 23 robberies, some of them
dating from 1845; but the number on which they were
prosecuted was considerably less, the principal one being
the robbery in 1845, from a tradesman named Vittoz, of
a group in bronze of two wrestlers, the artistic value of
which was 2,000 f., but which was sold to a second-hand
dealer for 60f. only. The result of the trial was that
three of the accused—a man named Peigne, and two
women named Lefebvre and Sacsavin—were acquitted,
and that the other two—Lalourcey and Boileau, were con-
victed. They were severally condemned to five years'
imprisonment, with hard labour; but, as they are already
under condemnation to eight years of the same punish-
ment, the sentence will not take effect.
GAS AND WATER CASTINGS.—The following statistics
of the present and prospective demand for castings for
gas and water works has been furnished us by Mr. Thos.
Edington, inspector of castings, in this city :—Contracts
taken, August, 1854 : —Melbourne, 20,000 tons, Liverpool,
3,000 tons, water pipes. Contracts advertised during
August, 1854:—Chelsea, 11,600 tons water pipes, &c. ;
Preston, 2,000 tons ; Oxford, 1,170 yards water pipes; 3
tons bends, branches, &c. ; Hamilton, 4,170 lengths of
water pipes, &c.; Melbourne, 18 miles of main gas pipes,
with bends, branches, &c. ; Bangor, Ireland, casting for a
gas work ; Newport, Monmouthshire, 4 iron gas purifiers,
&c. ; Malvern, 12,300 yards main gas pipes, syphons,
bends, &c. ' • 50 street lamps, retorts, condensers, purifiers,
&c., and 150 yards connecting pipes, &c. ; Mile End, Old
Town, 30 iron lamp posts; Southport, 3 miles of main
water pipes ; York, gas pipes, &c.; Omagh, Ireland, gas
pipes ; Endfield, water pipes, &c. ; Queenstown, gas pipes,
lamp posts, &c. ; Birmingham, 50 tons pipes. Other cast-
ings will soon be required for Calcutta, gas • Valparaiso,
gas ; Liverpool, gas ; Wallasey, water ; Grantham, water ;
Grimsby, water ; Kelso, water ; Haverhill, gas ; Beccles,
gas and water; Halifax, water.—Glasgow Herald. •
Gl..4..xo.—Among the many islands scattered over
the face of the great Indian Ocean, are two very re-
markable insular features, which, on account of their
utter sterility and barrenness, are seldom touched at by
mariners. These islands are known, the one as that of
St. Paul, the other as Amsterdam. In the year 1826, I,
with a small party of the crew of a ship bound for Madras
in the East Indies, landed on the desolate island of St.
Paul. The aspect of it, from a southerly bearing, brought
to my remembrance the western boundary of the Isle of
Wight, the same comprising a chain of elevated hills, ter-
minated by three detached rocks running into the ocean,
similar to the position of the Needles. The whole of this
barren tract is of basaltic formation, and is doubtless of
volcanic origin, as there was a crater on the summit of
one of the acclivities which was, at the time we viewed it,
inactive ; nevertheless, in juxta-position with this orifice,
was a spring, the waters of which were highly endued
with caloric, like unto those observable in the wells of
Bath and Clifton, in Somersetshire. This island was re-
sorted to by myriads of marine birds, including the dif-
ferent tribes of petrels, albatrosses, penguins, auks and
boobies, among the fastnesses of which they constantly
'roost and breed. It is also resorted to by a variety of
seals. The islands of St. Paul and Amsterdam are far
remote from any point of land, and are on this account the
principal rendezvous of ocean birds, which, there can be no
doubt, deposit prodigious quantities of organic manure or
guano, on these lonely spots. This useful material, in the
process of agricultural improvement, was not acknowledged
as an essential feature in commerce thirty years ago, or I
should have directed my attention more immediately to
an object which has proved hitherto a theme of consider-
able interest to speculative capitalists ; nevertheless, I feel
assured in my own mind, from all the contingent circum-
stances connected with the above-named islands, that the
same cannot fail to produce an incalculable quantity of
guano.—Bell': Weekly Messenger.
Tna SPANISH Passs.—The following is a speech of
General San Miguel, made at a recent dinner given by
the press of Madrid to the Ministers " :—" Gentlemen—
As an old journalist myself, and as the patriarch of jour-
nalism, unfortunately, by my advanced age, I drink to a
free press. ' I drink, gentlemen, to an institution which
neither irons, nor laws, nor transportation, nor exile can
destroy—(Bravo, bravo 1--a voice:. " Long live General
San Miguel! ")—because thought is an emanation from
the divinity, and there is no power in the world, there are
no laws, which can extinguish its powerful voice. The
press has no other corrective than the press itself.
(Bravo, true.) The press has no other corrective than it-
self, the good sense of the public, and public education.
It is only by this that the press is elevated and great.
This is what we see in England, the classic land of liberty.
A free press is a press that thinks, a press that administers,
a press that does the work of diplomacy ; it is, in a word,
a great social lever, which acts 'upon the interests of the
state. Gentlemen, I flatter Inyself that the epoch we have
all wished to see for the press has now arrived. (Yes,
yes.) I hope the pres", will be found worthy of its high
mission, that journansts will so exercise their calling that
they may be suPr.;:icated to continue in the performance of
their exalted te.,sk. I have been a journalist in times of
danger and 'revolt, and to have been a journalist is for ma
the brigttest recollection of my life ; it is the title on which
I mos*„ pride myself. I drink, then, to a free press, to a
laajle press, which does not descend to vulgar things,which
condescends not to insults and personalities, to the press
which respects the secrets of families. (Thunders of ap-
plause.) 1 drink, finally, to the noble men of this noble
priesthood who have invited
.us to this banquet, which
I will be famous, because it willinaugurate a new era, in
which the free and independent press of Europe will show
to the entire world that there are in Spain journalists
who know how to write, to think, and to interest them.
selves in the public cause." (Immense applause.)
Several journalists apppoached to embrace the yeueraNe
PIMA