The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-09-05 00:00:00

£3,000 ; two circles of

pearls about the rim, '£3oo. COst of the

stones in the

crown, exclusive of the metal, £111,900,

A NOBLEMAN IN TRouniE.—Lord Frankfort is at
present labouring under the idea that he is the victim of
a general conspiracy of every body to poison his food
and to insult him wherever he goes. On Monday he ap-
peared at the Marlborough-street Police-office, and handed
to the magistrate a copy of a petition to the "Lords
spiritual and temporal of the United Kingdom in parlia-
ment assembled, " in which he prays that he, the Right
Honourable Lodge Raymond Viscount Frankfort de
Montmorenci, may be entitled to set forth his grievances
a committee of the whole house, as he had no other
,g a stop.to the outrages daily perpetrated
ho" Hr

f puttin,

as peace and honour.— _ .ardwicke advised him
but his lordship said the continentals were more
iemies than the people of England.

One of those seve

OBM IN HADDINGTONSIIIRE.—
tgh partial hailstorms of which

accustomed to read as only visiting the tropics,
took place in the parish of Humbie, on Tuesday, the 15th
ultimo, producing such damage as vividly to recal to the
mind the old law of Scotland, by which the landlord used
-re of the loss caused by such 'devastations.
accompanied by heavy rain, had
ew minutes, when the hail poured down
Many of the
one end so sharply
pointed as completely to riddle the leaves of the turnips,
besides, in many cases, cutting through the main stems.
The injury done to the crops amounted to a loss of one-
half the produce on some fields, and a large percentage
thrashed out of all those included in the district. The
shower did not last more than fifteen minutes, but will
long be remembered by those who have felt its effects.—
Edinburtih Evening Courant.

to bear a s'

Thunder and lightning

over an area embracing part of four farms.

stones measured tw

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DIE UNITED STATES' NAVY.—We have only 72 vessels
of war in our navy at present. Of these, 10 are ships of
the line, mounting 872 guns ; 13 are frigates, mounting
_ 1
are brigs,

uoti guns ; 20 are sloops of war, of 400 guns
of 20 guns ;1 schooner, of 3 guns ; 15 stc
122 guns; and 9 store ships, mounting 42 guns; giving
an aggregate of 2,115 guns. This is not, however, the
available force, by any means. Of the ships of the line,
I are at present on the stocks, carrying 336 guns. Two
frigates, of 100 guns, are also on the stocks. Deducting
these 436 guns from the grand aggregate, you perceive
that the available force of the navy is 1,679 guns. Of the
whole number, 45 are now in commission, mounting 875
guns. Of these 45, 5 are used as receiving ships, mounting
206 guns. Deduct this from the total in commission, we
find that the whole navy employed on sea service mounts
669 guns. This is a fine naval force for the greatest
nation on earth—a nation which has more sea coast than
any other two in the world.—New York Times, Aug. 16.
THE ALAND ISLANDS form an archbishop's see of about
eighty inhabited islands, and a vast number of rocks and
islets, in the province of Abo, in the Gulf of Bothnia, at
the entrance, between lat. 59 deg. 55 min., and 60 deg.
32 min. N. and long. 19 deg. and 21 min. E. The popu-
lation is 15,000, and they are all of Swedish descent. Rye,
barley, potatoes, and flax are raised sufficient for the po-
pulation. The manufactures are wool and sailcloth for
home use. The exports are salt beef, butter, cheese,
hides, cured fish, and firewood. The imports are salt,
colonial produce, and manufactured goods. These islands,
taken from Sweden in 1809, are of great political and
military importance to Russia, and contain several fortified
ports, generally the station of a part of the Baltic fleet.
Near them Peter the Great gained his first naval battle
over the Swedes in 1714. The chief island, Aland, has
an area of twenty-eight square miles, a population of
9,000, and a good harbour (Bomarsund) on its west side.

Lers, mounting

EXTENSIVE SWINDLING IN LONDON.—Two cases of
extensive swindling have just been reported at the chief
police-office, London. The frauds having been concocted
and carried out in the most systematic manner, the swind-
lers succeeded in obtaining money and goods to a consider-
able amount before suspicion was excited. The first case
is that of " a person of gentlemanly appearance, " who
figured as the manager of works about to be commenced
at Buckhorn Weston, Dorset, by the formation of a
tunnel beneath the common in the above parish to con-
nect a new branch with the main trunk line of the South
Western Railway. In his assumed capacity he honoured
the Stapleton Arms Inn with his presence, and so in-
gratiated himself with the landlord as to induce him to
advance various sums of money. He also succeeded in
obtaining money and goods from other tradesmen, and to
lull suspicion ordered a large quantity of wheelbarrows,
trucks, buckets, and ropes to be made, and his promises of
situations on the railway to the friends and relatives of
those persons whom he favoured with his orders were so
tempting, that it drew from them large amounts of cash.
At length he was found missing on the morning that the
material for commencing the works was brought home ;
and on inquiries having been made of the engineer, it was
ascertained that the tradesmen had been gulled." A
reward has been offered for his apprehension.—ln the
other case a man, under an assumed cloak of sanctity, has
contrived to obtain from the religious communities in
Clapham, Croydon, Norwood, Brixton, and other places
south of London, a large amount of money, in sums, vary-
ing from £5 to. a six-pence, on the plea that he is minis-
ter of the chapel at Bwlch Montgomeryshire, and that
in consequence of a large debt having been incurred in
enlarging and repairing it,, he has been deputed by the
congregation to travel and collect subscriptions to defray
it. Suspicions of his character and probity having been
excited by his importunate mode of soliciting the poorer
classes for donations, inquiries were instituted, and it was
ascertained that he is not at all connected with the above-
named chapel, which is not in debt, not hawing had any
alterations or repairs for about a quarter of a century.
SWINDLING AT SreEvaumn.—Bather more than a fort-
night ago (says the Sheffield Examiner) a tolerably re-
speetable-looking man induced, after much pressing, Mr.
Skelton, of 12, Gibraltar-street, to let him his front shop
for a month, representing that he was about to take up
his residence permanently in Sheffield, to teach phonogra-
phy, but that the place which he was going to occupy
would not be ready for a month. He gave the name of
H. Barr, and was accompanied by a vulgar-looking man,
whom he described as his assistant. They procured
rough planks, and with these the assistant constructed a
kind of desk and a form. On Wednesday week the shop
was opened, not as a seminary, for the teaching of pho-
nography, but as " The Equitable Loan and Discount
Office," of which H. Barr was manager. Bills were issued
stating that loans would be granted "on approved securi-
ties of from £2 10s. up to £50," and large sums on
" special agreement." The assistant now perambulated the
neighbourhood circulating bills, and reporting that "the
governor" was as rich as Croisus. It now transpires that
Barr was " G. Z." who advertised in the local papers for a
clerk. There were many applicants, and some six or
seven of these he swindled out of about £7O. He appears
first to have baited them with the offer of large salaries ;
and the sine qua non of engagement was the depositing
of a good sum of money as security for their honesty. Of
1 one young man he obtained £2O, and from five ok six
1 others he got £lO each. He appointed that the clerks
were to commence their duties on Wednesday morning,
and on that day they appeared at the door of the office.
Of course each of them thought that the others were
needy persons come to make application .to borrow, and
never suspected their true position, They waited a con-
siderable time, but still the office Nuaained closed ; and a
man appeared stating that Mr. Barr was ill and would
not be at the office that morning. The parties now began
to communicate with each other, and in a few minutes
soon found out how vilely, they had been cheated. :gr.
Skelter got into the shop, the floor of which he found
strewed with torn-up letters. The imposing ledgers, Sc.,
had disappeared with the swindlers, who, it is supposed,
decamped, late op Tuesday night for London.

A WORK of considerable interest and extent might be
written on the subject of cosmetics and the diversified mode
of personal embellishment resorted to, by various nations, in
different ages of the world. The singular, and often dissi-
milar tastes which have influenced mankind in this respect,
Would afford a volume no less amusing than instructive; but
we 'will Venture to affirm, that no preparations for the toilet,
either of ancient or modern times, can vie in excellence with
the admirable productions of Messrs. Rowland, whose inva=
hulble Kalydor, in particular—a cream-like balmy prelim-
tkon—affords the most mild and safe, yet efficacious Draserva-
'ion ever afforded for perpetuating the beauty of tho
and the chums of youth and Pnelii;eBll •