The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-12-26 00:00:00

occupied by Elizabeth of Hungary, the hal

singers, and the apartment where Luther worked on his
translation of the Bible.

A NEW FEATURE has been 'added to the Crystal Palace
in the shape of a news-room, the price of admission to
which is a penny each visit, or 10s. a-year. The papers and
reviews are filed—writing materials are at hand—a post-
box is provided—and the telegraphic despatches are exhi-
bited on the boards.
THE NEW ROYAL STEAM YACHT.—By command of
Her Majesty, the new royal steam yacht;now n(
for launching at Pembroke, is to be named t

ray read
Victori

and Albert, 'and the present Victoria and Albert is to have
her name changed to the Osborne.

DESPATCHES from Hanover announce that the govern-
ment is occupied in reinforcing the army, and principally
the artillery. The greatest activity prevails in the arsenals,
and important orders have been given for arms for the
infantry.

THE PAINTINGS in the chapel at Fontainebleau, by
Freminet, injured by time and carelessness, have been re-
vived, under the direction of the Minister of State, M.
Achille Fould, by M. Theodore Lejeune. The chapel was
built about 1529; and it was in 1603 that Henry IV. led
Freminet to 'visit Paris, and commissioned him to decorate
this edifice.

A PARTY of rich gentlemen have arrived at Jerusalem
with the purpose of commencing a colony in Jericho.
There are many similar projects proposed in different parts
of the land. At Tyre and Sidon an architect has arrived
from England, accompanied with men and means to com-
mence a colony.

JOHN lirGuEs was executed at Melbourne on the 22nd
of September, for the murder of Mr. Abraham Marcus,
whilst 'he and his family were en route for the diggings.
After his conviction the culprit boasted of having been
concerned in thirteen different murders, one of which was
committed a few minutes after Mr. Marcus's life was
'taken.

PUBLIC INCOME AND EXPENDITURE.-By a parlia-
mentary return, just published, Of the public income and
expenditure for the year ended 10th of October last, it
appears that the total income amounted to £55,296,566
16s. 7d., and the expenditure £56,183;935 19s. 2d., being
an excess of expenditure over income of £887,369 2s. 7d.
The balance in the Exchequer on the 10th October
amounted to £5,626,529 9s. 11d.

EXTRAORDINARY PRIZE.—Mr. George Mansfield, son
of the late Mr. Mansfield, shipbuilder, of Lyme Regis, has
had £5,000 awarded to him us salvage for recovering
60,000 sovereigns from the ship Sacramento, wrecked at
Port Philip on the 28th of April last. His boat's crew,
six in number, were also awarded—one £2,000, and the
others £1,500 each ; makiMg a total of £14,500.
Two MEDICAL MEN have given evidence at an inquest
at Wells, and the Jury have returned a verdict, that an
Italian organ-grinder, named Batt, died from apoplexy,
caused by making a hearty meal of new bread and hot tea.

THE LAST PIECE IN CAM REFORM has now been carried
out. The watermen are clothed in uniform, placed under
the superintendence of the police, who are to prevent
them spending their timein public-houses, are to be paid
at the police-stations, and'forbidden to take any gratuities.
IT has been resolved by the committee of the Royal
Caledonian Asylum that nnchildren of civilians shall be
admitted to the institution so long as there are any pro-
perly-qualified candidates, who are children of military or
naval men.

BATTLE OF LOCKSMITHS.—In the Court of Queen's
Bench, on Thursday, Messrs. Parnell, the lock manufac-
turers, of the Strand, London, brought.= action against
Mr. oater' foreman•of Mr. Chubb, :lock manufacturer,
St. Paul's, for a libel. In the Great Exhibition, a lock of
the plaintiffs was exhibited with • a label attached to it,
offering 200 guineas, cm 'certain conditions, to any one
who would pick it. The defendant did pick it, and claimed
the 200 guineas, but, not getting !the money, he pub-
lished an advertisement which contained the alleged libel.
The jury found for the plaintiffs, damages £3O, on the
grounds that the defendants °did -not comply with the
conditions, having, without authority, entered the stall,
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and stated that be could open any locks if allowed time.

Ties VESTIGMS.—A Mr. Page, who has been a writer in
Chambers' s Edinburgh Journal, writes to the Athe-
rheum, accusing Mr. R. Chambers of 'being the author of
the Vestiges ,of Creation. Page was asked by Mr.
William Chambers to write a review of the book for the
journal, but after reading it, declined, stating his belief as
to the author. Mr. William Clambers received this
announcement with apparent surprise ; but denied all
knowledge of the matter, and there the subject dropped.
Some time after;however, and when the work was being
severely handled by the reviewers,. Mr. Robert Chambers
alluded to the matter, affecting ignorance and innocence
of the authorship, upon which 'Mr. Page remarked, that
had he seen the sheets before going to press, he could
have prevented some of the blunders. The consequence
of this remark was, that Mr. Robert Chambers sent him
the proof sheets of the second or third edition of the
Vestiges, with the request that he would enter on the
margin any eorrectiens or suggestions4hat occurred. Mr.
Page states that dle .made some notes-; but he does not
say whether the notes were adopted into the reimpression.
However, he has, as tie declares, " made s. clean breast of
it " at length, and he concludes with the remark—" If
merit is attachable to the work, the author will reap his
high reward—if demerit, the blame will, at least, fall on
the right shoulders."

THE PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESS.—An action was tried in
the Court of Common Pleas, on Wednesday, brought by
Mr. Fox -Talbot, who has hitherto been acknowledged to
be the discoverer of photography, who bad obtained the
Royal Society's medal for the invention, and after whom
he art was named Talb3type, against a person named
Laroche, for theinfringment of the plaintiff's patent. The
defendant was engaged in taking photographic portraits,
and used what is called the "collodion -process." The
questions for the jury to determine were, whether the
plaintiff was the first and true inventor of the process, and,
if so, whether the .collodion process WWI an infring,ement of
it. Their verdict was that Mr. Talbot was theinventor,
and, on the other part .of the ease, that the defendant was
not guilty.

ACTION AGAINST TIIE -"'EXAMINER " FOIL 'LIBEL.—
In the Queen's Bench, on Wednesday, an action was tried
before Lord Campbell, in which Mr. Birch, formerly the
proprietor of a newspaper,, published in Dublin,•called the
World, sought to recover damages from Mr. John Forster,
the editor and proprietor of the Examiner, for a libei.con-
tained in that paper. The alleged libel was contained in
an article commenting, with •great severity, on the con-
duct of the plaintiff, who, some time ago, made himself
conspicuous by bringing an action, in Dublin, against
Lord Clarendon, for money which, he said, was due to
him, for writing articles in his paper in support of "law
and order" in Ireland. The %defendant pleaded justifica-
tion. The plaintiff conducted his own case, and called
Lord Palmerston, Sir Charles Wood, and the Earl of
Clarendon, who gave an account of the various proceed-
ings which had taken place between Mr. Birch and the
Government. The Attorney-General appeared for the de-
fendant, and, in support of the plea of justification, the
articles in the World were put in evidence, and it was
proved that the plaintiff had been twice committed to
prison for libel. Alexander Robinson, formerly manager
of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Insureueo Office,
stated that, in 1842, the plaintiff wanted £6O or £7O not
to write and injure that office, as he had the European.
Qther witnesses gave similar evidence. The jury gave a
verdict for the defendant.

Altcrt..voLoGisTs.—The Morning Post reports a meet-
ing of the Archaeological Association, very discreditable to
a bony of savans. It appears that, for some time past,
heartburnings have been going on within the society,
which have now broken forth. Mr. Hugo, the secretary,
complains that Mr. Pettigrew, the treasurer, arrogates to
himself all the conduct of the society, issuing circulars and
calling meetings, &c., without consulting the secretaries
and council, whose names he nevertheless appends to the
business notices, The treasurer's friends met the question
boldly, by proposing him at once as president of the asso-
tion. Mr. Jowitt and others remonstrated that this mea-
sure was of a piece with the course that had driven so
many of the best men away from the society, but the mo-
tion was carried by 35 to 22. Many of our readers will
no doubt remember that this association is a schism from
the Archaeological Institute.

FATAL COLLIERY ACCIDENT.—An accident of a most
remarkable character, by which four lives were lost, oc-
curred on Monday evening, last week, shortly after seven
o'clock, at the Northside Colliery, Bedminster, near Bris-
tol. Four persons, named Frederick Pike, Charles Row-
land, John Woodbridge, and Simon Durbin, entered the
" cart" as usual, for the purpose of descending the pit to
their work. When they had got some distance down, a
bolt broke and threw the whole of the machinery out of
gear, affecting first the small cog-wheel, which was broken
in halves, and subsequently the side wheel, which was
broken to pieces. The rope then broke, and the four men
were precipitated to the bottom of the shaft, where the
" cart" fell into a " crock" of water, and the rope fell on
them. John Melson and several other men proceeded to

tance, but it was nearly two o'clock
6 before the rope could be removed so
arch could be made in the water for the bodies.
re at length got out they were all dead, and
as found in the " cart" in a sitting position.
the force of the concussion of one portion of the
j against the other, that a large piece of the cog-
wheel was forced a distance of about 50 feet through the
.00f of a cottage, and fell into a bedroom at the foot of
L. The cottager's wife was putting her child to bed
rime, but was standing at one side. One arm of the
weighing about two cwt., together with a smaller
distance of a quarter of a mile into a
sels, and was buried some feet in the

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