The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-10-03 00:00:00

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

TUNBRIDGE WELLS.—The Conservative Land Society
has acquired a second property in this popular locality,
close to the Woodbury Park estate, which was bought for
the members some time since. This is the nineteenth pur-
of land for distribution amongst the shareholders.

Mos. WARNER, the celebrated actress, died on Sunday
week. She had been suffering during many months
under a disease for the most part incurable, cancer in the
breast, and her friends were, therefore, fully prepared for
the event. She was a native of Ireland, and as Miss Hud-
dart, rendered herself famous upon the Dublin stage.
MDLLE. GEORGES, the eminent tragic actress, in con-
sequence of her great age and straitened circumstances,
has been appointed by the French minister of state to
take charge of the umbrellas and canes at the exhibition
palace next year—a post which it is said will yield about
100,000 francs for the year.
Finn Ix BOHEMIA.—The town of Sebastianberg, in
Bohemia, was almost entirely burnt down on the 16th ult.
by some children playing with chemical matches, which
communicated with a quantity of straw in a court-yard.
The church, town-house, custom-house, and two public
schools were amongst the buildings destroyed. In this
disaster upwards of 600 persons have lost all their property.
THE GOVERNMENT has conferred a pension of £2OO
from the Literary Fund on Mrs. Fullerton, the widow of
the late Lord Fullerton.
A GlANT.—There is an individual in Greenock, named
Patrick Murphy, 18 years of age, and of the extraordinary
height of 7 feet 6i inches. He weighs 21 stones, and
measures 62 inches round the chest. Murphy is a native
of county Down, Ireland.
This FixewclAL YEA.R.—The new plan for assimilating
the financial to the natural year will not, as regards the
making up of the public accounts, be carried into effect
immediately. The revenue returns for the current quarter
will, accordingly, be carried up to the 10th of October, as
heretofore.—Globe.
THE FLOATING ISLAND IN DERWENTWA.TER made its
appearance last week. Early on Thursday, as Joseph
Cockbain, boatman, was proceeding to Lodore with a
party of gentlemen from Leeds, he discovered the island.
Since that time it has been visited by numbers of tourists
and others anxious to get a sight of this inhabitant of the
deep.
PRECOCIOUS RIOTESS.—Four ragged urchins, about
ten years of age, named Cahan, Carr, Conniff, and Lynch,
have been brought before the Marlborough-street magis-
trate for throwing stones at the windows in St. James's-
square. Two windows had been broken at the Earl of
Derby's. Callan said it was Lynch, Lynch said it was
Carr, Carr said it was Cunningham, and Cunningham said
all the other three were guilty, and he alone innocent. In
this dilemma the magistrate fined the two eldest 6s. each,
and discharged the others.
FRENCH POLICE.—They know how to treat A ruffian at
Paris. A 'woman named Bachelet, appeared, weeping bit-
terly, before the Tribunal of Correctional Police to com-
plain that her son, Gustave, though under sixteen years of
age, had beaten her with great brutality. The lad, though
so young, was of great physical strength, and such a skil-
ful workman that he is able to earn not less than 4f. a day.
The tribunal, however, to convince him that he was labour-
ing under a mistake, condemned him to be confined in a
house of correction until he shall attain the age of twenty.

EXPORTATION OP EULLION.—From a parliamentary
return recently issued, it appears that in the year 1853
there were exported from the united kingdom 3,274,935
ounces of gold coin and bullion, of which 589,298 ounces
were British coin, and 2,685,637 ounces foreign coin and
bullion. The total export of silver in the same time was
279,208 ounces of British coin, and 24,340,691 ounces of
foreign coin and bullion ; in all 24,619,899 ounces. The
export for the half-year ending July 5, 1854, was 69,860
ounces of British gold coin, 55,314 ounces of British
silver coin, 2,353,563 ounces of foreign gold coin and bul-
lion • and 13,190,454 ounces of foreign silver coin and
bullion.

MANUFACTURE OF STEEL-A meeting of some of the
principal iron masters is said to have been proposed in
London, with the view of their appointing a commission
to test the value of a new patent process for the manu-
facture of steel, lately introduced into France by M.
Adrien Chenot. M. Chenot asserts that, by his system,
which principally consists of an application of electricity,
he can produce steel of a superior quality at less than a
third of the present cost, and in one-fourth of the time
now required. Some quantities of this steel are stated to
have been already delivered to French manufacturers.

RUSSIAN PROTECTION.—Letters from Jassy announce
that the unfortunate Moldavian captain of artillery, who
refused to obey General Budberg's orders to march with
his men into Bessarabia, has been carried off prisoner to
Siberia, where he his to remain during four years, and
then to serve for life in the ranks of the Caucasian army.
It is thus that Russia exercises her rights of protectorate.
The occupation by Russia is said to have cost the princi-
palities 22 millions of Prussian dollars, of which but a
small sum has been repaid in coin.
RETFORD, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. The Conservative
Land Society has just made its first purchase in the Mid-
land Counties at West Retford, close to the celebrated
Cold Well. The estate is contiguous to the Great North-
ern Railway Station, and near the junction station of the
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, and
commands extensive views of the Gamston and Ashham
woods and hills, and of the mausoleum of the Newcastle
families in the wooded ramet of Markham Clinton. The
river Idle bounds the estate. The tower and steeple of
West Retford church, and the ancient castellated tower
of the parish church of Retford being also included in the
prospect. The edifice of the Cold Well spring, from the
waters of which hot and cold baths will shortly be opened,
is now in course-of erection.

THE HOP TRADE.—The hop plant has not undergone
so severe an attack of blight as that by which it has been
visited during the past summer. There are hundreds of
acres on which a bine will not be placed this year; the
crop, therefore, will be a partial one, some districts yield-
ing a fair quantity, others producing nothing. The pre-
sent estimate of the duty is from £45,000 to £50,000, and
that even of that small amount a great many samples will
bear unmistakeable proof of the ravages of the mould.
The crop of foreign hops also, it is ascertained, will fall
short of that of last year ; and it is expected, therefore,
that they will command high rates.

THE WIIISTON TESTIMONIAL.—The Rev. Robert Whis-
ton, who was dismissed from the mastership of Rochester
Grammar School, by the dean and chapter, for an alleged
libel in his work on " Cathedral Trusts and Endowments,"
has been presented with some articles of silver plate of
the value of £3OO, arising from the surplus of £2,000
raised (as the commemorative inscription bears) " to de-
fray the expenses incurred by him in vindicating the un-
corrupt appropriation of educational bequests, asserting
the long-lost rights of cathedral schools, and successfully
defending himself during an arduous and protracted
struggle against the proceedings instituted by the dean
and chapter of Rochester."
WORILIED TO DEATH BY A DOG:--A young man, named
Fowler, has just come to his death in Leeds from being
worried by a savage dog. About a quarter before eleven
o'clock on Saturday night, as he was passing down Rock-
ingham-street, a large and ferocious bulldog jumped over
the iron palisade in front of one of the houses, and made an
attack upon him. In vain did he struggle with his canine
enemy, which aimed entirely at his throat, and had the
brute succeeded in getting hold of that part, the man's life
would not have been worth five minutes' purchase. As it
was, with much difficulty the dog was forced to relinquish
his hold, and the poor young man escaped with his life, but
sadly mutilated. He had the muscles torn off the inside of
one arm nearly to the bone, and received several other
wounds, from which injuries he died on Thursday night.

NEW GUANO ISLAND.—Private advices received from
San Francisco refer to the recent report of the discovery of
a new guano island on the coast of the Pacific. It was
understood that one of the principal American houses at
San Francisco, in connexion with some parties in the
Sandwich Islands, had received information on the subject,
and had purchased a revenue schooner, named the Frolic,
and a clipper barque, the Emily, of 400 tons, to proceed at
once for cargoes. These vessels were fitted out with as
much secrecy as possible, but were believed to have taken a
considerable number of men and a large supply of imple-
ments. The situation of the island is supposed to be
about the latitude of Acapulco. It is said that it has no
good harbour, and that the guano will have to be shipped
from it in small vessels to some port near. Other ac-
counts allege that the island is somewhere on the coast of
Lower California. . _

A NOVEL DINNER SCENR.—The ex-postmaster of Bos-
ton is in Germany. He sends home an account of a
dinner to a railway congress, at which a locomotive ap-
peared upon the table, to which was attached a train
loaded with dishes of the choicest and most solid food.
The succulent train advanced slowly, in imitation of the
passenger trains upon all German roads. After having
made the tour of the table without stopping, in order to
give a view of the good things with which it was freighted,
the train again started, making a station in front of each
guest, and ,permitting him to fill his plate according to
his appetite and fancy. The trains followed each other in
constant succession for two or three hours, departing each
time well loaded with comestibles, and always returning
empty to the depot. This is just the thing for an American
eating table, where the fashion is, according to English
authority, to gulph everything with railroad speed.—
American Paper.
AIISTRALIA.—AIthough the continent of Australia has
been colonised for more than sixty years, we know compara-
tively nothing of the country beyond the occupied strip
on the sea coast. Discovery in the interior has been hither-
to carried on with a sad want of enterprise ; yet the few
individual efforts made have opened up new and valuable
districts to settlement—have discovered splendid rivers—
and have furnished pasturage for herds of stock and flocks
of sheep which have enriched hundreds. In view of the
importance which the gold discoveries have given to Aus-
tralia, and of the continuous tide of emigration which has
been turned towards its shores—of the fleets of merchant
ships and steamers which now throng all the Australian
harbours, and carry on intercommunication on its coasts ;
looking always towards the future, when probably tram-
roads will be extended from New South Wales to the Gulf
of Carpentara, and a large and important trade will be
carried on direct with Japan, with China, and the Eastern
Archipelago ;—the interest of the northern portion of the
continent, and its capabilities, should not be overlooked.
There is little doubt that much of the effective labour for
that quarter will be drawn from China, and that the
Chinese will prove as effective and useful in Moreton Bay
and the surrounding districts, for cotton culture, and other
tropical products, as they now are in the Straits Settle-
ments of Singapore, Malacca, and Penang.—Shipping and
Mercantile Gazette.
NARROW ESCAPE OF EARL FITZWILLIA3I. —As this
nobleman, now on a visit at Marske-hall, and the Rev.
Mr. Wharton, were bathing in a heavy sea, just below the
marine residence of Mr. Pease, of Markse (York), on
Monday, one of his lordship's attendants, also in the sea,
was carried out of his depth. The rev. gentleman
hastened to the rescue—being a first-rate swimmer—bu
was soon overpowered in the death grasp of the drowning
man. Earl Fitzwilliam soon joined in the fearful strug-
gle, and now a common fate for all three seemed inevita-
ble. Mr. Pease's family and servants were alarmed, and
one of them, James Wilson, dashed on horseback into the
by swimming the animal, and the use of ropes
fely. The hot bath at Cliff-house, and medi-
mediately available. The servant was
the noble lord and Mr. Wharton
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gradually

are recovering from the en__
Save for the prompt aid of the horse, and his rider, the
result eQuid not have been doubtful,

THE: ARCHDEACON OF TAUNTON.

A correspondence has been published respecting the
proceedings taken against the Ven. Archdeacon Denison for
alleged heretical doctrines concerning the Holy Commu-
nion. We-subjoin the substance of the correspondence :
I.
"Addington-park, Croydon, Sept. 3.
" VElf. Srn,—lt is my painful duty to inform you that
a charge has been brought against you by the Rev. Joseph
Ditcher, vicar of South Brent, on account of certain doc-
trines concerning the Holy Communion maintained by you
in three of your sermons preached and published,. in which
you state---as. is alleged—
_ _

1. That the act of consecration causes the bread and
wine, though remaining in their natural substances, to
have the body and blood of Christ really, though spiri-
tually, joined to them, so that to receive the one is to
receive the other.'

" ' 2. That the wicked and unbelieving eat and drink
the body and blood of Christ in the Lord's Supper just as
much as the faithful.'

" I hereby signify to you my intention, after the expira-
tion of 14 days, to nominate five clergy of your diocese to
inquire into the justice of this charge, in accordance with
the provision of the act of the 3d and 4th Victoria, chap.
86, and to ascertain whether there be prima facie ground
for further proceedings. .

"You will have the goodness to acknowledge the receipt
of this notice.

" I remain, Ven. Sir, your faithful and huinble servant,
" Ven. Archdeacon Denison." " J. B. CANTUAII.
[The Archdeacon simply acknowledged the receipt of
this letter on the 7th Sept.l

" South Brent, Sept. 12

" VER. AND DEAR Sm—lt is, as you may suppose,
very unpleasant to me to address you with reference to the
subject on which we are at issue.
" But I am constrained to write and ask whether you
are prepared to admit that the three sermons on ' The
Real Presence,' as preached in the Cathedral Church at
Wells, and since printed with preface, notes, &c.; under
your name, have been published or circulated with your
sanction, or by your authority, in the diocese of Bath and
Wells ?

My knowledge of your candour and straightforward-
ness induces me to believe that you will not hesitate to
give me an affirmative answer to this inquiry.
" The reason I have for asking you to do this is, that it
would enable me to avoid what I might otherwise be under
the painful necessity to do in regard to this circumstance.
" In promoting the proceedings which are now being
taken against you, I hope, I scarcely need assure you, that
I have been actuated simply by a sense of duty to main-
tain the doctrine of the Holy Eucharist in the Protestant
Reformed Church of England and Ireland in its purity,
and that I entertain towards yourself personally no feeling
which is contrary to that of sincere esteem and regard.—
I remain, Rev. and dear Sir, very faithfully,
JOSEPH DITCIIEE.
" The Ven. G. A. Denison, Archdeacon of Taunton, &c."

Oxford, Sept. 14

cc Mr DEAR Sru,—The Archbishop of Canterbury has
given me notice that it is his intention to issue a commis-
sion at your instance.

"I decline to give an answer in any shape to inquiries
by private letter.
I beg to thank you for your kind expression.—Faith-
fully yours,

"GiOBGE A. DErrisort, Archdeacon of Taunton
The Rev. Joseph Ditcher."

" Bast Brent, Weston-Super-Mare, Sept. 15.
"Mr LORD ARCHBISHOP,—I have duly acknowledged
by letter, dated the 7th inst., the receipt of your Grace's
letter of the sth inst., giving me notice of your Grace's
intention to nominate, after the expiration of 14 days, a
commission of five clergy of the diocese of Bath and Wells,
to inquire into the justice of a certain charge preferred
against me by the Rev. Joseph:Ditcher, and to ascertain
whether there be prima" facie ground for further pro-
ceedings.

c, I am not aware whether the object of giving such
notice be intended to afford opportunity to the party
served to offer any observations thereon. I think it right,
however, to call your Grace's attention to the following
facts, previous to the expiration of the 14 days, premising
only, in respect of the charge itself, as stated in your
Grace's letter, that I do not admit its correctness as
expressing what I have at any time maintained or taught.
"1. It appears that so long back as the 19th of January
in the present year 'your Grace's attention had been
directed to this matter by the present complainant, and
that you then expressed your opinion to the late Bishop of
Bath and Wells in the terms following :
" The Archdeacon's benefice being in your Lordship's
patronage, the Church Discipline Act requires that the
commission should issue from me, if the case were to be
tried in that form. But it appears to be a case which can
only be satisfactorily tried in the Court of Arches, to which
your Lordship is empowered, by sections 13 and 24 of the
act, to remit it `in the first instance.' I may be allowed
to recommend this course, with the proviso that your Lord-
ship should require a guarantee for the payment of the
expenses of the case.
"2. That the late Bishop of Bath and Wells assented to
your Grace's view as to the tribunal to which the matter
should be referred, in the event of any proceedings being,
after due investigation, found to be necessary.
" 3. That, therefore, in order to the due discharge of his
office as diocesan, he required the complainant to place the
specific charge or matter of complaint before him in a
formal shape.
"4. That a copy of such charge was sent me by letter,
dated March 25, requiring explanation on certain points.
" 5. That my answer, containing the explanation, was
given by letter, dated March 30.
"6. That the late Bishop gave judgment by letter, dated
April 16.
" In order to place the matter clearly before your Grace,
I beg to enclose a copy of the entire correspondence,
adding this single remark—that I have affirmed in that
correspondence, in the strongest and plainest terms I
could employ, my unshaken attachment to and confidence
in the Church of England, and my assent ex animo, and
in the plain meaning of the words, to her condemnation
of the Roman doctrine of transubstantiation as pronounced
in Article 28 ; all which affirmation I beg now to repeat in
making this communication to your Grace.
" During the late vacancy of the see of Bath and Wells,
I presume it was competent to your Grace, being dissatis-
fied with the decision of the late Bishop in this matter, to
have sent the case to the tribunal before which alone, in
your Grace's judgment, it can be satisfactorily tried.
" Your Grace, however, did not see fit so to act.
"I have reason to believe that the present Bishop of
Bath and Wells, having been also applied to by the pre-
sent complainant, has declined to grant letters of request,
on the ground that the matter was res judicata, and that
no man ought to stand twice in peril for the same alleged
offence. _

not for me, in this stage of the proceedings, to do
more than to call your Grace's attention plainly and dis-
tinctly to these facts ; nor to add any remark as to the
bearing of this present proceeding upon the memory of the
late Bishop and upon the act of the present Bishop.
" For myself, it appears to be now proposed by your
Grace to subject me to the anxiety of a renewed inquiry,
to be conducted before a tribunal other than that which
can alone, in your Grace's own judgment, conduct such
inquiry satisfactorily.

"May I request your Grace to have the goodness to
acknowledge the receipt of this letter P—l am, my Lord
Archbishop, your Grace's humble servant,
" GEORGB A. DENISON, Archdeacon of Taunton.
" His Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate
of all England, and Metropolitan, &o."

" Addington, Sept. 16.
"Vin. beg to acknowledge your letter of yes-
terday's date, and to say, in reply, that I still retain the
opinion that the Court of Arches is the most proper place
for the trial of the doctrine which you have propounded.
And I conceive that if the result of the proposed commis-
sion should prove to be that a prima facie ground of
inquiry is made out, the diocesan will then think it right
to submit the question to that Court. But meanwhile the
law admitted of only one course, and rendered it necessary
for me to issue the commission.

" You speak of the late Bishop's correspondence with
you as a trial. But you must allow me to remind you
that no such trial is recognised by the law.—l remain,
Ven. Sir, your obedient humble servant,
" Ven. Archdeacon Denison. "J. B. CANTUAR.
_ _

" It may be convenient for you to be apprised, before the
legal notice is sent to you, that the first week of October
is at present intended to be the time for the inquiry which
is to take place at Wells."
[This is followed by a letter from the Archdeacon,
enclosing a formal protest against the proceedings, and
being acknowledged by the Archbishop, the correspon-
dence is closed.]

CIIESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWA.Y.—The traffic for
the week ending 24th September, 1854, was as follows :
Passengers, parcels, &c., £3,714 7s. 9d. ; steam-boats,
£6BB 9s. 10d. ; total, £4,402 17s. 7d. Goods, £1,662105. 6d.
Total, including Carnarvon traffic, £6,065 Bs. ld. Cor-
responding week last year, passengers, parcels, &c., £3,548
17s. 5d.; steam-boats, £646 18s. 9d.; total, £4,195 16s. 2d.
Goods, £1,496 2s. 9d. Total, including Carnarvon traffic,
£5,691 18s. 11d..__ Increase, £373 9s. 2d.

IMPORTANT OYSTER FISHERY CASE.—A dispute has
been for a long time pending as to the right of the public
to fish for oysters in the Menai Straits, near the new
tubular bridge, over certain beds claimed by the Bishop
of Bangor as part of his manorial rights. About a fort-
night ago Messrs. Russell, who had taken a lease of the
beds from the bishop, obtained an injunction to restrain
the fishermen of the neighbourhood for dredging for
oysters within the limits comprised in the lease. The
defendants on Saturday week, by special leave, moved the
Lord Chancellor to dissolve the injunction, on the ground
that the bishop had not shown such a title as could divest
the rights of the public. The Lord Chancellor, after
hearing the arguments on both sides, dissolved the injunc-
tion with costs, thereby negativing the exclusive right
claimed by the bishop.
DREAD BY WEIGHT:—In consequence of complaints
having been made to the mayor and magistrates of Ches-
ter, that the reduction in the price of bread now bears no
comparison with the reduction which has taken place in
the price of grain, a notice has been issued by his worship,
intimating That by an act of parliament, made and
passed in the 7th year of the reign of his Majesty King
William the Fourth, chapter 37, 'any baker or seller of
bread, who shall sell or cause to be sold bread, in any
other manner than by weight,' will incur a penalty not
exceeding 405.; but this is not to extend to prevei
hinder a baker or seller of bread from selling I
usually sold under the denomination of French or I_,
bread or rolls, without previously weighing the same.
Every baker or seller of bread is also required to cause to
be fixed in some conspicuous part of his shop a beam -
scales and proper weights, or other sufficient balance
order that all '
weighed in t

to presence of the purchaser thereof, exceE
- -

bread shall neglect to fix such beam and scales, or other
sufficient balance, in manner aforesaid, he shall forfeit and
pay for every
offence any sum not exceeding a."—
Oeater Courant.