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

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plumber, who was working on the Grafton, lying close
to the Helen Macgregor, heard the splash, and, looking
down, saw Knowles struggling in the water, when he
immediately gave an alarm, and some polio
speedily to the spot, and rendered every possible

The unfortunate man was got out in. about five minutes
after they arrived, but it was too late to restore animation.
An inquest was held yesterday, and a verdict of "found
drowned" returned.
THE EARL OF DERBY, who recently purchased the
spacious family mansion of the Earl of Dartmouth, in St.
James's-square, will take possession of the edifice early in

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THE COURT con
almost the only intelligence contained in the Court Gil
cular during the week. It is rumoured that the I
Family will visit Balmoral about the middle of next
and after sojourning there two or three

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Windsor for the winter.
THE LORD LIEUTENANCY OF CARDIGANSHIRE will,
it is said, be conferred upon Mr. Thomas Lloyd,of Coedmore.
MARRIAGE.—On Saturday was celebrated the matri-
monial alliance of Robert S. Holford, Esq., and Miss
Lindsey, the daughter of Major-General Lindsey. The
ceremony was performed at St. George's, Hanover-square,
in the presence of a large and fashionable circle of friends.
THE QUEEN, the Prince, and Royal family were yester-
day to embark on board the Royal yacht Victoria and
Albert, Captain the Hon. Joseph Penman, and make an
easy voyage to Portland, where she was to bring up for
the night, and this day proceed across to the Island of
Alderney.

CHARGE AGAIN-ST AN OFFICER. —At the College-
street Police-office on Saturday, Lieutenant Clarke, of the
59th Regiment, was charged with indecent conduct,
on several occasions, to females in the neighbourhood of
Sandymount, near this city. After a lengthened investi-
gation the bench decided on taking the informations ten-
dered, and on sending the accused for trial at the next
commission.—Dublin Paper.

TICE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS of the French,rafter leav-
ing Biarritz, are to take up their residence for some days
in the Chateau of Pau, so celebrated as the residence of
Henry IV.

THE BISHOP OF SALISBURY has inaugurated his epis-
copate by preaching in the open air to a body of railway
labourers. The locality selected was the burial ground at
Wilton, his lordship taking up his position at the chancel
end of the now dismantled church.
WiscoxsiN.—The New York Churchman announces
that Bishop Kemper has signified his acceptance of the
episcopate of the diocese of Wisconsin, to which he was
unanimously elected a short time since, and that he will
continue for the present to exercise his episcopal mis-
sionary jurisdiction over lowa, Minnesota, and Nebraska.

TESTIMONIAL OF RESPECT.—Some members of the
congregation of the Abbey Church, Bath, have presented
to their late evening lecturer, the Rev. Morant Brock, a
silver gilt communion service, as a memorial of their
affection and esteem.
SOMETHING IN THE WIND.—The Court Circular of
Wednesday announces that Dr. Forbes Winslow had an
interview with Lord Aberdeen the previous day, but it is
not stated whether this eminent authority in cases of
lunacy was authorised to wait on the Premier by his lord-
ship's colleagues or his family.—The Press.
RAILWAY TBAYFic.—The traffic returns of railways for
the week ending July 21 amounted to £400,983, and for
the corresponding week of last year to £373,388, showing
an increase of 227,595. The total increase in the receipts
from the Ist of January to the above date is £973,437, or
10.6 per cent. over the receipts of the corresponding period
of last year.

THE BISITOP OF LONDON brought under the notice of
Parliament, on Tuesday last, the disgracefnl practices
which, since the enforcement of the Act for the prohibi-
tion of intramural burials, have sprung up in unconse-
crated cemeteries, in the neighbourhood of the metropolis.
Desecration of the offices of religion where such are
thought of at all, and violation of the decent regard due
to the dead, are the fruits of the thoughtless legislation
which abolished the existing provision for the burial of
the dead, without making, any provision to supply the
want so created. Nor is, the neglect of the dead the
only pernicious consequence which the carelessness of
the Legislature has prodticeil. It appears that the public
vehicles employed to carry the living, are frequently
turned into conveyances for corpses, to the evident danger
and detriment of the public health.—John Bull.

HARBOUR OF ST. JOHN'S (NEWFOUNDLAND,) July 12.
—Among the passengers by the Steamer was Mr. Husted,
of the firm of Husted and Kroehl, submarine engineers of
New York, who have been so successful in removing
sunken rocks in that harbour. He visits this for the pur-
pose of surveying and contracting for the removal of the
Merlin" and the Salisbury or Roby rocks to a depth
sufficient to allow the Collins' steamers to enter the
harbour without danger at all times. Aware of the im-
portance of securing the visits of that fine line of steamers,
we trust that Mr. Husted will be successful in concluding
a contract which will ensure that result.—Newfoundland
Post.

TERRIBLE EXPLOSIONB.—Two terrible :explosions of
steam coal took place on Friday on board a foreign vessel
called the Christiana Agata, while loading in the Cardiff
Docks. The vessel had taken in a cargo of steam coal,
from which a large quantity of carburetted hydrogen gas
must have been thrown off, for, on her commander going
into the cabin and striking a light with a lucifer match, a
terrible explosion took place. The cabin furniture and
other things within reach were blown about, and the
captain himself was so much burnt that he was obliged to
be carried on shore for surgical assistance. A second ex.
plosion almost immediately followed, which blew off th
hatchway lights. The crew escaped almost miraculous' e
SAVING OF FLAX SEED.—The Royal Flax Improvement
Society of Ireland has just issued a circular to landed pro-
prietors and farmers in that country, containing advice
which similar parties in England and Scotland may profit
by. It is as follows :—" Farmers are earnestly requested
to observe, that so long as the war continues, Riga seed
cannot be had in sufficient quantity for the Irish sowing.
Unless they take care to save seed for themselves, from the
crop that is now growing, they will not be able to sow the
usual quantity next spring. This would be very unfortu-
nate, as the high price at which flax must keep, during
the war, should induce them to sow largely."
SCOTTISH FACILITIES OF MATRIMONY.—The following
interesting paragraph is extracted from the last Census
report:—"English minors are legally married, without the
consent of their guardians, in Scotland and at Gretna-
green, one important object of the English Marriage Act
0f1753 is defeated. English parents of property are still
afraid, Lord Brougham says, to send their eldest sons to
the University of Edinburgh, from the justifiable appre-
hension that they might sucumb before the facilities of the
law and the charms of the women of Scotland: against
which the breasts of their youthful countrymen alone are
steeled—by habit probably—as it does not frequently
happen that Scottish heirs contract irregular marriages.'
NEW ARTILLERY UNIFORM.—The following is the re-
ported pattern of the new uniform :—Blue frock coat,
double breasted, with red collar and blue cuffs ; the collar
of the coat to be open, and to be edged with yellow cord
or twist, with which the cuffs are also to be edged and
pointed up to the arm. No epaulettes, but a plain piece
of cloth shoulder strap. The shako to be superseded by a
black felt helmet, with brass device and curb chain, and
to be finished with a brass grenade at the top, but no
plume. The double-breasted coat is to lap over wider than
at present, which, though it may take away from the
smartness and neatness of the ap2earance, compared with
that now worn, will give more warmth and comfort to the
wearer. The blue cuffs will be a positive boon to the
corps, as the red cuffs at present worn are expensive to the
men, who have frequently to pay for new ones from their
getting stained with powder. The helmet is a very com-
fortable and handsome-looking headdress. The loss of the
epaulettes will also take something from the smartness of
the uniform, but comfort and less work for the men will be
gained.—Globe.

A PLAGUE or PISMIRES.—A novel nuisance has been
introduced into this country, which promises, if not
speedily exterminated, to overwhelm the dwelling houses
of the inhabitants, into which it may perchance find its
way. This diminutive insect is not much larger than a
mite, of a sandy complexion, and so numerous in its con-
stituency, that they would appear to swarm in all quar-
ters of the tenement-wherein they obtain ingress. At
the residence of Mr. Abbot, in St James's-street, Covent-
garden, London,a colony of these ants have taken up their
quarters. No meat, fruit, nor farinaceous commodities are
exempt from their invasions. No person can trace these
creatures to their homesteads in order to destroy them.
It is supposed that they must have been brought over in
some fruit chests, introduced into Covent-garden market
from a foreign country. If a cold fowl were laid upon a
table, in the space of one hour it would be completely un-
observable as to its complexion, by the incumbent mass
of insect life.

ETHICS AND ETHNOLOGY.—Mr. B. Osborne has disco-
vered for Sir G. Grey a reason why speculations on the
turf soould be a qualification for colonial rule. That
governor, he says, must be most acceptable to the Abori-
gines who has devoted his attention to races.—The Press.
INCREASED VALUE OF AGRICULTURAL STOCK.—The
rapid strides in the value of the improved breeds of sheep
may be judged from the prices obtained at the annual sale
at Fovant, near Salisbury, when Mr. Futcher's ram lambs
commanded from £l6 to £6O per pair. Many of these
lambs weighed 24 lbs. the quarter. They combined the
fine qualities of the Sussex breed with the form and size
of the Hampshire Downs. The mistake of selecting breed-
ing stock of this description for beauty irrespective of size
is rapidly being dispelled, and the prices obtained by Mr.
Futcher for his stock is a proof that interest has obtained
a triumph over prejudice: The sale of lambs alone.realised
upwards of £l,OOO.
DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.—On Sunday, be-
tween eight and nine o'clock, the passengers by the
Forget-me-Not, London and Westminster steam-boat,
were painfully excited in consequence of the following
distressing circumstances :—lt appears that for some time
past a female, only 19 years old, has been corresponding
with a man, with whom she was to have been married on
Sunday last. Instead of this person meeting her at the
church at the appointed time, he was not to be found ;
and, after the female had waited for hours, she got on
board the steam-vessel; and when off the pier at Westmin-
ster-bridge she espied her faithless swain in the company
of another female, and, imagining that he had taken to his
arms another, she deliberately jumped into the river, and
was carried under Westminster-bridge, when a Thames
police-galley came up, and the officers succeeded,in rescu-
ing the woman, who was in such an exhausted,condition
that it was deemed necessary to convey her to the Mitre
Tavern, Standgate. Hot-water baths were immediately
procured, and Dr. Dodd was in attendance until nearly
midnight, when she was removed to the infirmary of the
Lambeth Workhouse. The person who was the cause of
her making such a rash attempt upon her life, had in.
veigled her out of the whole of her money, and had
induced her to borrow £3 from her sister, which, she had
entrusted him with to pay the expenses of the wedding.
FATAL CURIOSITY.—It is reported that the Russians
having raised a Moorsom shell from the wreck of the
Tiger, while endeavouring to ascertain its components,
exploded it, by which 17 inert were Ser‘
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