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

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

CHEAP FARES.—The reduction in fare: on the Cale-
donian, and Edinburgh and Glasgow Railways has in-
creased the number of passengers by 40,000 a week, or at
a rate of more than two millions a year.
A PROJECT is on foot to erect a public monument on the
field. of Agincourt, to the memory of the French soldiers
who fell in that battle.

BARNUM, with the modesty which has always been his
failing; recently put up the manuscript of his own auto-
biography for sale by auction. The highest bid was that
of Mr. James Redfield, who purchased the copyright for
$75,000.

Ting EDINBURGH Sunscittrnolf to the Patriotic
Fund now exceeds £7,000 ; that of Glasgow, in less
than a week, was close on £16,000. The inhabitants of
Portobello have sent £202 to the treasurer of the Edin-
burgh fund.
PROROGATION OP PARLIAMENT.—On Thursday last,
Parliament was further prorogued to Thursday, the 14th
December.

THE EMPEROR LOUIS NAPOLEON has given orders to
build six theatres at the camp of Boulogne, and four at St.
Omer; all the expenses to be defrayed from his private
purse.

RAILWAY COMPETITION. —The London and North-
Western Company have reduced the fares from Coventry
to Birmingham to less than one penny per mile first class.
The charges were respectively 3s. (kl., 2s. 6d., and ls. 61-d.;
they are now is. 6d., is., and 6d.—Railway Times.

LONGEVITY IN CANADA. -At the time of taking
the census, there were in Upper Canada, aged 100 and
over, 14r males and 19 females. The oldest was Captain
Jam, an Indian residing in Alnwick, whose age is stated
at 120 ; and his wife, also then living, had attained the
age of 100. _

STAMPED PUELICATIONS.—The present regulations to
enable them to pass through the post free, are, that they
must not exceed three ounces in weight. Each stamped
publication must consist of a single sheet, or of two or
more sheets fastened together; and it must be folded so
as to show the newspaper stamp.
MUSICAL MOUSE.—A silversmith, named Bennett, re-
siding in Bilbury-street, Plymouth, has, for the last
month, had in his possession a mouse which sings like a
bird. The little songster generally tunes its pipe in the
evening, between eight and nine o'clock, and often con-
tinues for a couple of hours together. Another mouse of
similar musical predilections is also a denizen of Mr. Ben-
nett's kitchen, but, with becoming prudence, it has hitherto
declined to follow any of the wiles employed by the silver-
smith and his friends to lure it into a trap.
THE minim ROMANIST Bishops have been nearly
wrecked on their way to Rome. A violent storm suddenly
arose during the voyage from Marseilles to Civita Vecchia,
which entirely disabled the steamer in which they were
passengers ; and they were getting into a boat which had
been launched to save the lives of the passengers, when,
fortunately, a vessel came up and rescued all of them.
PART OF ROTTERDAM has been submerged by the giving
way of one of the dykes. A vast extent of ground is under
several feet of water, many houses are undermined, and
choice gardens totally submerged. The cemetery is a lake,
and the relics and insignia of interred mortality are float-
ing on its surface. The injury gone to property is very
considerable, Lut no lives have been lost.

Government of Canada is a coalition composed of Old
CANADIAN POLITICS are a ctiAous study. The present
Tories and French Radicals ; and the first acts of the
new Parliament have been to pass, by immense majorities,
1, a Ministerial Bill for the confiscation and distribution
of the Clergy Reserves ; 2, an edition of the Maine Liquor
Law in its most stringent form. What may we expect
next from Sir Allan McNab ?—London Guardian.
Tire NEW YORK CRYSTAL PALACE was closed on the3lst
ult. In noticing the fact, the Herald says :—" It lived a
miserable existence, and died a lingering death. It was a
speculation, however, upon which, though many have losty
money, some must have realised a little. The stock,
which, about the time of the inauguration under the
auspicies of. President Pierce and half his Cabinet, was
inflated to 175 per cent., had fallen yesterday to 1 1.4,
being a decline of 75 per cent. premium to 98 3-4 per
cent. discount. An awful fall.
FRANKLIN'S FATE.—In 1850 the Admiralty offered a
reward, which is still outstanding, of £lO,OOO "to any
party, or parties, who, in the judgment of the board, shall,
by virtue of his or their efforts, first succeed in ascertaining
the fate of the crews of the Erebus and Terror." This
fact ought to be made known through the remote regions
of the Hudson's Bay territories, and thus cause a search
to be made on the North American shores or elsewhere
which may yield positive information.
A LADY TRAINER.—A letter from Paris says :—"ln
consequence of the success obtained by Madame Isabelle in
breaking in horses for the army, the Minister of War
lately authorised her to proceed officially, before a com-
mission, composed of general and superior officers of
cavalry, with General Regnault de St. Jean d'Angely at
their head, to a practical demonstration of her method on
a certain number of young cavalry horses. After 20 days'
training the horses were so perfectly broken in that the
minister no longer hesitated to enter into an arrangement
with Madame Isabelle to introduce her system into all the
Imperial schools of cavalry, begining with that of Saumur.
The advantages of this system appear to be these—to train
the horses without fatiguing them ; to diminish greatly
the number of restive horses ; to lessen the number of
accidents; to train any number of horses at the same time;
and to lessen considerably the expense." The way to
accomplish these objects is evidently a secret worth
knowing.
WANT or LABOUR IN CANADA.—In a recent letter Sir
C. P. Roney says, speaking of Canada, " We have had here
a singularly prosperous year, but the sudden failures in
the timber and shipping trade at Liverpool have produced
very serious effects at Quebec. With this exception every-
thing is of the brightest in Canada ; our greatest want
being emigration. The government of Canada has just
appointed a commission to secure a proper representation
of the products and resources of the province at the Paris
Exhibition next year, and parliament is about to vote
£lO,OOO for the purpose ; so we are determined not to be
behind hand in our efforts to shine at the World's Fair.' "
Everybody who knows, and who dote not know, Sir C. P.
Roney will be able to give their due weight to the remark
respecting emigration. Sir C. P. Roney is himself en-
gaged in extending railways in Canada, and he finds the
only bar to their quicker progress the want of labour.
Therefore he is enabled to speak with confidence on the
subject.—Hull Advertiser
ECONOMY IN THE Uss or GUANO. It is always well
to mix the guano, before being applied to the soil, with
common salt or charcoal, on account of the power which
they possess of attracting moisture in dry seasons from
the atmosphere. I have seen a mixture of the two of
about three times the quantity of these to one part of
guano attended with the most important results as regards
increase of crop. As it must ever be an object to econo-
mise the use of this valuable and expensive manure, the
admixture of it with superphosphate and salt cannot be
too strongly recommended ; not only does the former of
these make the guano go much further, but, on account of
its Axing the ammonia, both are improved in value. The
better plan is to mix them together a few days before they
are applied to the soil. SAMUEL Pum.—Agricultural
Gazette.

WASTE LANDS.—This term' comprehends all grounds
that are unfit to bring crops to maturity by reason of the
natural constitution of the soil, or by the adversity of the
climate. Little control can be exercised over the latter
element. In some few cases only has an alteration been
effected on the climate of any country where an obvious
influence has arisen from terrestrial conditions. Some
benefit has been derived by draining and clearing; but, in
general, the effects of climate are beyond control. On the
other hand, the most valuable and lasting alterations are
possible with the soil. Good lands are rendered profitable
by means of cultivation ; indifferent soils are raised into
value by application of energy and durable aid, while very
poor lands are usable in a way that yields some degree of
remuneration for the expenditure of time and capital.
Experience very soon determines the altitude or elevation
of position above the sea at which grain crops can be
matured into ripeness. Green crops will grow at a much
higher elevation ; but as the two kinds of crops must be
combined, the cultivation ceases with the ripening of grain
crops. (?) Below that mark of elevation, no lands may
remain uncultivated, except where the formation of the
surface prohibits all convenience of operation. Wherever
a railway station is located, dwellings are placed and gar-
dens are' formed, by which it is shown that deep digging
of the soil, whatever it may be, and constant. manuring,
produces a fruitful ground, which soon becomes a source i
of easy profit: The most obdurate clay, the most arid
chalk, the most hungry sand, and the most barren heath,
are seen to be converted by these simple means into fruit-
ful soils. J. D. Agricultural Gazette.
A HINT TO TRAVELLERS IN GERMANY.—Our country-
men travelling on the Continent cannot be too frequently
cautioned that the commissionaires of all hotels are under
the immediate control of the police, to whom they are
bound to give daily report of the strangers whom they
show about the place, or whose errands they execute.
The power of a president of police is above and beside
the written law, and our constitutional ideas of the liberty
of the subject have little or no place in his considerations.
Where strangers therefore indulge in disrespectful lan-
guage against the head of the State, or manifest a curio-
sity about the persons of democratic leaders or the scenes
of revolutionary excesses, they may chance to find them-
selves exposed to many disagreeables, even to a removal
across the frontier. Diplomatic reclamations can never
procure an indemnity for these annoyances, which, how-
ever, are easy to avoid by abstaining from affording the
occasion. The great number of thefts that have lately
taken place of money letters, the majority of which come
from England, render it necessary to be cautious always
to register all letters with' money enclosures. Subaltern
officials of the post, with salaries varying from £45 to £6O
per annum, cannot be expected to withstand the tempta-
tion of pocketting heavily-weighted letters not entered in
their list of money letters. The long passage of the tra-
velling post-office from Cologne to Berlin offers an
admirable opportunity for the perpetration of these embez-
zlements. It was only last month that an assistant sorter
was arrested at Minden, with 3,000 thalers about him,
the produce of letters that he had secreted and the con-
tents of which he had appropriated. That this was no
isolated instance in this person's practice was evidenced by
his being provided with a loaded four-barrelled revolver.
MATRIMONIAL ALLIANCE ASSOCIATION. Lawrence
Cuthbert, secretary of the above society, was charged, on
Monday, at Bow-street Police-office, London, with assault-
ing .Mr. Edwardes, the landlord of a private hotel in
Norfolk-street, Strand. It appeared that a young gentle-
man, residing in complainant's house, had met with one of
the advertisements of the association, and was tempted to
call at the office, where he was shown into a well-furnished
apartment ; and, having previously paid £lO, was directed
to take up a position near the Duke of York's monument,
agiven day, at noon, where a lady would
meet him, and wave a white handkerchief as a signal of re-
cognition. The appointment waskept by a nicely-dressed and
' good-looking lady, with whom he was_ soon on

terms of affectionate -regard, and who informed him that
she had to pay no less than £25, when they parted, but
.eed to have another interview, to be arranged through
• When the young gentleman called again
a further sum was demanded before a second
interview could be arranged; and then he confessed every-
thing to Mr. Edwcuides, who at once determined to see his
righted. The result of .his calling on this
a violent attack upon him by one of the
the warrant being granted, the 1114 tier

the seer(

Iwas array

ed by the repayment of

WINTSR.—On Tuesday last there was a heavy fall of
snow in, Paris. _ - .

Loan DUDLEY STUART, M.P., is seriously ill at Stock-
holm, of typhus fever and small-pox, and inflammation of
the lungs.
THE WASHINGTON arrived at Southampton on Sunday,
from New York, with $1E4,731 on freight.
A PATRIOTIC MOTHER.—The landlady of a public-
house in Ipswich has just bestowed upon her infant the
sonorous and spirit-stirring name of "Alma Sebastopol."
SHIELDS, Tynemouth, and Sunderland, were visited by
a severe storm, on Wednesday, and several maritime dis-
asters are reported.
MR. HUDSON, M.P.—The bankruptcy proceedings
against Mr. Hudson, 31. P., have dropped altogether, it
being established that there was no foundation for them 1,
in law, or in fact.
THE TABLES TURNED.—In the year 1813 the corpora-
tion of Leicester subscribed 100 guineas in aid of the fund
for the Russians suffering from the invasion of their coun-
try by the French !—Leicester Journal.

AT THE PARIS Bovizsx, on Friday, there was a general
rumour that the Earl of Aberdeen is about to resign
office, and is to be succeeded by Lord Palmerston. This
rumour appeared to give satisfaction.
A SIGN OF THE TIMES.—The New York Herald re-
lates that the mobocracy of Ellsworth fell on Mr. Bassett,
a Romish priest, tarred and feathered, add rode him on
a rail. The cause of this violence we have not ascertained.
GUANO DISCOVERY.—The St. Thomas Tidende, dated
Oct. 25, says that in the island of Ayes guano had been
discovered. It is heaped up in mounds computed to con-
tain some three or four hundred thousand tons, answering
in quality to that taken on the Chincha Islands. Captain
Wheeler claimed the guano on the island, by right of
having first disvovered it.
SMOKE CONSUMPTION.—An order has been issued in
Paris by the prefect of police that, within a delay of six
months from this time, all proprietors of manufactories
where steam-engines are used, are either to consume
their smoke or confine themselves to burning coke.
THE TAGUS, which arrived at Southampton a few days
ago, has brought two cows, a calf, and a bull, of a most
diminutive size, as a present from the King of Portugal
to the Queen. _ _

DEATH OF A. MAN IN THE 103RD YEAR OP HIS AGE.—
Philip Robinson died in the Rye Union Workhouse, on
Saturday, Nov. 11, in the 103rd year of his age. He was
born in Cambridgeshire, on the 28th of May, 1752. He
remained with his sight, voice, and hearing, unimpaired,
free from pain, cheerful and happy, with his Bible and his
pipe, until Saturday last, when the poor old matchman
died.—Brighton Gazette.
Dr air ow U.'onAcco AND SNIIFF.—From an official
document just issued, it appears that the duty on tobacco
and snuff in the year ended the sth of January, 1852,
was £4,466,469 ; in 1853, £4,542,572 ; and in 1854,
£4,728,642.

ILLNESS OF THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY.-It is
reported at the Treasury that Mr. Hayter, M.P., will be
unable to resume his official functions as patronage secre-
tary, in consequence of the severe attack of cataract under
which he is suffering. The right hon. gentleman is at
present in Paris.—Civil Service Gazette.

THE LA.TB Me.you of BIRMINGHAM.—At a dinner
given lately to Mr. James Baldwin, papermaker, late
Mayor of Birmingham, that gentleman said, " Very few
had more reason to be thankful to Birmingham than he
had, for, having come to that town a poor boy, an ordinary
amount of industry, and a conscientious desire to discharge
the duties of a citizen and a tradesman, were the only
qualities that had sufficed to raise him to the position of
their chief magistrate, and, to find amongst the company,
whose guest he was, two gentlemen for whose father he
had driven the plough."

MIDDLETON HOUSE, the Oxfordshire mansion of the
Earl of Jersey, was in imminent danger of destruction
from fire on the night of the Bth instant. The floor beams
under the fire-place of Lady Clementina Villiers's bed-
chamber took fire, and the floor itself was nearly ignited
when it was discovered and extinguished. The furniture
in the chamber, and in those under it, was considerably
damaged.
CRIMINAL INFORMATION AGAINST A COUNTY COURT
JUDGE.—The Court of Queen's Bench granted a rule, on
Thursday, calling on Mr. Marshall, the judge of the
County Court of Wakefield, to show cause why a criminal
information should not be filed against him, on the ground
that he had maliciously excluded a barrister, named Shaw,
whom he suspected of being the author of a report in the
Wakefield Examiner, from practising in his court.
MR. BRIGHT AND HIS CONSTITUENTS.—During the
week placards have been issued in Manchester, calling on
the constituents to resent the insinuations against the
British soldier, contained in Mr. Bright's letter to Mr.
Watkins. We understand it is also in contemplation to
present a requisition, calling on him to resign his seat.
SYMPTOMS OF A WINTER CAMPAIGN.—It is said that
contracts were accepted on Friday by the War-office for
wooden houses for the army in the Crimea. The houses
are to be of a size sufficient to accommodate twenty men
in each house, and on the whole are to provide lodgings
for 20,000 men. So pressing are the authorities in en-
forcing expedition ou the contractors, that the latter have
undertaken to have 200 ready for shipment on Monday.—
Standard.

EXPLOSION OF GUNPOWDER.—On the morning of Wed-
nesday last, at a very early hour, a frightful explosion of
gunpowder took place in a gun-shop in High-street, Bel-
fast. The explosion was of a most formidable character,
and blew out the entire front of the shop in which it took
place, together with that of the shop adjoining. The pro-
prietrix of the gun-shop, Mrs. Nicholl, was killed by the
explosion, and her remains were found in course of the
day in a dreadfully-mangled state. Several other persons
were seriously injured.
MUNIFICENT BEQUESTS.—The will of the late John
Hinehliff, Esq., late of Notting-hill, has just been proved,
by which he has bequeathed the following sums in stock
for charitable purposes, payable after the decease of his
widow, now in her 89th year, viz.: Indigent Blind So-
ciety, £l,OOO ; Deaf and Dumb Society, £l,OOO ; London
Truss Society, £l,OOO ; Journeymen Tailors' Society,
£1,000; Asylum for Idiots, £1,000; Westminster Hospital,
£1,000; Charing-cross Hospital, £1,000; Middlesex Hos-
pital, £1,000; London Fever Hospital, £1,000; St. Mary's
Hospital, £1,000; Cancer Hospital, £1,000; Magdalen
Hospital, £1,000; Lock Hospital, £1,000; Houseless Poor
Society, £500; Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, £5OO.

GLASGOW UNIVERSITY.—The election of Lord Rector
of Glasgow University took place on Wednesday, the
retiring rector being the Earl of Eglinton. Three candi-
dates were proposed, namely, Mr. Disraeli, M. P., by the
Conservatives ; Mr. Thomas Carlyle, by the Liberals ; and
the Duke of Argyll by the Presbyterian section of both
parties. Mr. Carlyle was withdrawn at a late hour when
the students went to the vote on the two other candidates,
and the result was, that the Duke of Argyll was elected by
a majority in all the nations. The state of the vote was as
follows :—Argyll, 299 ; Disraeli, 147. A protest was taken
against the validity of the duke's election, on the ground
that his grace is Chancellor of the University of St. An-
drew's, and that it is therefore illegal to hold office in two
colleges.
NOT ONE WOMAN OR CHILD SAVED.—The New York
Express denounces in these strong terms, the dastardly
conduct of the Arctic's crew :—" In that fearful struggle
were many helpless women and children, but their pitiful
appeals for life were unheeded by the robust cowards who
had stolen the boats, and turned their backs upon those
whom it was their duty to preserve, or at least
endeavour to preserve. Oh 1 what a manly spectacle
that must have been ! Hardy, rough-handed, broad-
shouldered, strong-framed men accustomed to a
business, too, the constant hazard of which, one would
naturally think, deadens, in some degree, everything like
personal fear—men like these treacherously deserting
feeble and delicate women, and shutting their ears to cries
from little children, that should have touched hearts of
adamant. It is enough to make us all ashamed of
humanity, and envy the better nature of the beasts of the
field. Not one woman saved ! Not one child !—at least
we have, at the moment we write, no assurance of the fact."

POLITICAL FEELING IN ROME.—The events of the
war occupy the attention of all, classes in Rome, and there
can be no doubt about universal sympathy for the allies.
The Papal Government looks with jealousy on the ambi-
tious designs of Pope Nicholas, and remembers the cruel-
ties to which Roman Catholics have been exposed in the
dominions of the Czar. Not long since the Cabinet of St.
Petersburg sent a special envoy to the Court, or Rome, em-
powered to make new propositions concerning the Holy
Places, of a conciliatory nature ; but the Pope replied that,
under existing circumstances, he must leave the question
entirely in the hands of the Western Powers, and parti-
cularly France. It is generally understood that, ere long,
a large number of the French garrison, now in Rome, will
leave for the East. The number of French troops here is
about 7,000—certainly more than necessary for public
tranquillity. Yet the Pontifical Government has no wish
to be left without them. The position of the Pope and his
government is beyond measure difficult. The Austrian
army in Bologna consists of 12,000 men, who are paid by
the Pontifical revenue. This force alone absorbs a large
portion of the resources of the country, and is ever a source
of jealousy to French vanity. Yet the Pope has neither
the wish, the power, nor the decision to get rid of them.
Another element in this distracted country is the Repub-
lican or Mazzini party, which is, no doubt, both powerful
and numerous. The triumvir is not) nearly so popular in
Italy as he was. The affair of Parma has been very much
blamed by the sensible Liberal party in Rome, who are
becoming more practicable and moderate in their views.
The one subject on which all men unite is the utter inabi-
lity of priests performing ministerial lay offices, and the
consequent desire to see the executive in the hands of those
who would be able to administer law, and work govern-
ment machinery, without that spiritual bias which makes
the churchman a bad statesman and useless divine. The
political state of Rome is altogether most complicated.—
Morning Post.
NOMINATION OF SHERI' r-.3.—0n Monday, the annual
nomination of sheriffs for vie" various counties of England
and Wales, with the exception of Middlesex, Cornwall,
and Lancaster, took place in the Court of Exchequer,
Westminster. The Chancellor of the Exchequer presided
at the meeting of the Lords of the Privy Council, held for
the purpose, and wore his gold robe of office. The names
of the following gentlemen were agreed to as liable to
serve the office of sheriff for, the ensuing year for the
counties mentioned, respectively :
Cumberland.—Thomas S. Spedding
Vane. Bart.; Charles Featherstonehaugh, Esq

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Cheshire.—John Chapman, Esq
Naylor, Esq.; William Atkinson, Esq,
Derbyshire.—Peter Arkwright, Es
Esq. ; W. Hatfield De Rhodes, Esq.
Shropshire.—Willoughby Hart Sitwell Bucknell, Es
Edwary Lloyd Gatacre, Esq. ; Edmund Wright, Esq.
Staffordshire.—Richard Dyott, Esq. ; Thomas Willi
Gifford, Esq. ; Samuel Bowles Shaw, Esq.
Warwick.—Chandos Wren Hoskins, Esq
N. Pole, Bart. ; Henry Spencer Lucy, Esq.
Westmorland.—John Hill, Esq.; Burson.
William Wilkinson, Esq.
Yorkshire.--James Brown. Esq. ; Sir George 1

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