The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-11-21 00:00:00

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THE TOWN COUNCIL or FALMOUTR have memorialised
Sir James Graham for a division of the
.fleet to be placed
in winter quarters at that port ; a leading plea being that
Falmouth contributes a comparatively larger supply of
seamen to the British navy than any other port in the
kingdom.—Plymouth Mail.
EFFECT OF Low FARES.—The reduction of fares on
the Caledonian and Edinburgh and Glasgow Railways has
Increased the number of passengers to an extent which
the managers of these lines never contemplated. The

number conveyed by the Caledonian last week was 95,587,
and by the Edinburgh and Glasgow 26,060, making a
total of 121,647. In the corresponding week List year the
number was only 81,495 for both lines ; thus showing an
increase of 40,000 in a week, or at the rate of more than
two millions in a year.—North British Mail. • •
PERU.—We Near from Faena, under date of the 3d
October last, that General San Roman, one of General
Castilla's supporters, had left him, some say with one thou-
sand, some with three thousand, soldiers. The President,
General Echenique, was near to the insurgent General
Castilla, and although the forces of the latter had
greatly diminished by the defection of the said General
San Roman, the position occupied by Castilla on the high
mountains was such that an attack would entail an awful
sacrifice of life ; consequently the government troops were
hemming them in, and it was almost certain they would
soon surrender or fight. Dr. Domingo Elias, ine of the
principal leaders, had disappeared from Arequipa on the
approach of the government troops.
THE WAR AND THE RECRUITING SERVICE.—Never
during-the last sixteen years has recruiting Leen so active
in Leeds as at the present time. We have now in Leeds
recruiting parties from various regiments •of horse, foot,
artillery, and two regiments of militia, namely, the 2nd
and 3rd West York. As soon as hostilities actually
commeneed, there was a visible increase in the number of
recruits ; and-this increase has become greater, week by
week. Since-the invasion of the Crimea the war-spirit
amongst the-young men of the district has been roused
to an unprecedented height; and it is quite surprising to
witness the large number of recruits that are daily attested
before the sitting magistrates at the Court House.—Leeds
Paper. •

ILLNESS OF THE SECRETARY OF THE TREAEURT.—It
is reported that Mr. Harter, M.P., will be unable to resume
his official functions as Patronage Secretary, in conse-
quence of the severe attack of cataract under which he is
sufibring. The right hon. gentleman is: at present in
Paris.

A CERTAIN Secretary of State being asked why he did
not promote merit, aptly replied, " Because merit did not
promote me."

INFLUENCE OF 'STANDS ON NAPOLEON'S DESTINY.—
An island gave birth to Napoleon ; arrested in his career,
he seeks shelter in an island, and from that isknd returns
again to shake the world with the thunder of his tread;
fallen be is sent from-an island to die on an island, killed
by an island power. He issues from the sea to begin his
course; and that course fulfilled, sinks again into the
ocean. What myth may not the future found upon these
curious coincidents, when ephemeral history shall have dis-
appeared, and given place to immortal poetry Gautier's
Constantinople.
WHAT IS A MOUNTAIN?—It is to one man a mine,
where treasure may be hid; to another, pasturage for
flocks, ora site for a house ; to the artist it is chrome lake,
yellow ochre; burnt sienna, and indigo; to the geologist,
it is trap, quartz, schist, limestone, sandstone, hornblend,
calz, and the like; to the poet, it is his temple and a throne,
an oracle of pines, a ladder of angels, a landing place for
Mercury. To most men, it is a mountain and nothing
more.

AMERICAN IDEAS or HAPPINEiS.—" We are, indeed,
a happy, elegant, moral, transcendent people. We have
no masters, they are principals ; no shopmen, they are all
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Ford, second son of Mr. George Ford, of Afton Farm,
Berry Pomeroy, near Totnes, committed suicide under
very distressing circumstances, a few days ago. It ap•

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spirits. He was consequently humoured in every way by
his mother and brother, who did everything that a
mother and brother's love could devise. He was closely
watched, es it was feared be might lay violent hands on

himself. He got np on Saturdayinorning and went down
stairs with his brother, when they arranged what each
one's work should be for the day. The deceased went
into the dairy, and shortly afterwards his brother was
shocked at hearing the report of a gun. On going to the

spot he found his brother weltering in his blood. From
the position of the body and the gun, it is believed that
the deceased had placed the butt-end against the wall and
reached forward to push the trigger; so that the muzzle
of the gun having been placed against his breast, the con-
s may be tents were driven with terrific force through the chest,

thereby causing instant death. An inquest has been held
on the body, and a verdict of " temporary insanity" re-
turned.

AN EVENTFUL STORY.—The incidents of real life are
often-times more interesting and scarcely ever less in-
structive than those evolved during the development.of
fictitious narrative or story, and they at times present a
strangeness and improbability which • we generally asso-
ciate only with works of imagination. We meet every
day with coincidences as extraordinary as ever the novelist
created for the happiness or misery of his heroes—with
facts surrounded with all the romance of fiction, and much
more of the truth—with chapters in the history of real
life as full of interest as the most touching chapters of
romance, and appealing to the heart with more force, by

drawing it to tue conropiation of real sorrow and true
heroism. Fortune, amidst this hurry and bustle of actual
life, plays her strangest freaks—pushing from its highest
pinnacles some, and raising others from the humblest
spheres to unbounded wealth. Of the latter the public
hear more, because they are of a more exceptional
character, and to some extent are connected with facts
as instructive as they are interesting. Of this cate-

gory is a story communicated to us within the past
few days. Some years ago, a man in the humbler
walks of life was honoured by an offer of marriage
from a lady in comfortable circumstances, which he
accepted, and the event was soon after consummated.
During their wedlock she bore him three sons, a short
time after which her death took place. In the course of a
few years the widower sought another wife, his sons com-
mencing the world with
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and frugality, princely fortunes. Whilst 'iluisaccumu-
lating wealth, their father was struggling on s ith a nu-
merous and youthful family of girls, one of whom (at pre-
sent the only survivor), after exchanging vows of unalter-
able devotion with a youthful wooer on his departure for
the United States of America, ran away with a tailor, who
wooed and won her whilst a girl at school. Subsequently
the tailor and his wife removed to Leeds, where they lived
for many years in the humblest manner, and whilst re-
siding there one of the half-brothers died, leaving his
father and his heirs by the second wife, at the death
of one of the surviving brothers, the whole of his
estates, worth, it was stated, nearly a quarter of a
million, the surviving brother undertaking not to allow
anything to the half-sister during his lifetime. The
father died either previously or immediately after this
event, and, notwithstanding this brilliant fortune iu re-
version, the poor tailor and his wife continued to struggle
on against difficulties which only the poor know, and re-
sisting all overtures to give up their title for a present
consideration. Some twelve or fifteen months ago the
poor tailor died, leaving his wife with a family of three
daughters and a son, with scarcely any means of obtain-
ing a future maintenance. The history of that period is
one of deeply painful character—a history of want and
suffering—at times of actual starvation, relieved only by
parish relief—the family barely existing, buoyed up by
the hope of the fortune which the rapidly declining health
of the brother on whose death its reversion depended
Plated almost within their grasp. The brother tried the
waters of a neighbouring mineral spa during the past
summer, and had frequent interviews with his half-
sister, who, however, kept him ignorant of her abso-
lute destitution. He found, however, but tempory
relief from the waters, and towards autumn be re-
turned to his home in the north, where he died
last week, leaving his half-sister a shilling and mourning,
to her son an estate in India, and to the eldest daughter
a handsome fortune—the residue of his property going to
an illegitimate son. At this conjuncture the old wooer of
our heroine presents himself after a successful trans-
atlantic career, and with the chivalry of a true knight he
has vowed to see the lady of his early love righted. The
denouement we know not yet, but we have recorded these
passages in the story as presenting another illustration of
the common saying, " Truth is stranger than fiction."
There are many things in the story which are doubtful,
not in themselves, but from the circumstances with which
they are connected, and we cannot give publicity to it
with any higher authority than that the facts have been
described to us by one who is intimate with one of the
principal personages referred to, and who believes in their
truthfulness. We have omitted names, as their insertion
could answer no purpose but that of idle curiosity.—Leeds
Intelligencer.

WINTER FASHIONS,

TAMES MACLENNAN begs to intimate that,
owing to the unusual demand for MANTLES, especially
FRENCH MANTLES, he has entered into arrangements
with a First-class PARIS HOUSE, to have, through their

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so that he will be in the
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