The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-11-14 00:00:00

THE POSTAGE on letters to and from Canton, Shanghai}
and all parts of China, has been reduced to 6d. per letter:
A LADY advertises -in, The Times for the address of
another lady, with whom she was at school more than
twenty years ago, that she may return to her old school-.
fellow the half-crown, which she stole from the school-
room, the sin of which biwthens her conscience.
POPULARITY.—The Emperor and Empress of the
French have been in such•danger of being smothered with
flowers and petitions when they ride abroad, that the
prefect of police has been compelled to issue a proclama-
tion against throwing bouquets and letters into the im-
perial carriages, but every facility is to be afforded for
bringing petitions under the eye of the Emperor.
DANGER OF ASSA.IILTJNO A GHosT.—Mr. Nicholson, a
chemist's assistant at Norwich, was walking at Rackheath,
on a moonlight night, when he met Mrs. Ives, a resident
in the neighbourhood, and .who was walking near her own
house. Mrs. Ives was dressed in white, with her shawl
over her head ; and Mr. Nicholson, startled by such an
apparition in the moonlight, . and thinking it was a boy
playing a trick, forthwith •administered a severe thrashing
to the lady with a stick On being summoned before the
magistrates next day he was allowed to compound with
Mrs. Ives for his rashness.
A PARLIAMENTARY BLUE BOOK has been printed,
containing reports on education in the parochial Unions
of England and Wales. Of children under sixteen, the
number of in-door last year was 45,431; out-door, 258,747.

REMOVAL OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S REMAINS.—
The coffin of the deceased warrior has been removed from
the centre of St. Paurs.Cathedral to a position which is in
the middle of a squareehamber about forty feet to the east;
in this compartment of the crypt no interment had pre-
viously taken place. The resting-place of the Duke will
thus form a centre round which other soldiers may be
most honourably placed. The tomb, which has been de-
signed by Mr. Penrose, will be executed in black marble
and red polished granite,. The coffin rests in the centre of
the stone, about three feet from the ground.—lllustrated
London News.
ALMA AND ALEITERA.: COMPARATIVE SLAUGILTER.—
The battle on the, Alma has been treated as an almost
unexampled instance• of frightful. carnage in so short a
space of time. The slaughter. was greater at Albuera ;
and here is the proof. At that memorable conflict, which
lasted under four hours, there were 32. British officers
killed, and 165 wounded. The rank and file and non-.
commissioned officers killed were 854 in number, and
there were 2,467 wounded. The Portuguese regiments,
had 2 officers killed and 16 wounded, and 100. soldiers
killed and 243 wounded : total killed and wounded 3,781,
about double the number of the Alma casualties. Besides
these, about 500-men were taken prisoners.—United Ser-
vice Gazette.
AG-BICULTURAL STATISTICS.—An abstract of the
agricultural statistics of Ireland for the• year 1854 has
just been completed, and issued by order of the govern-
ment. From this return it appears that in the. total
quantity of land under cultivation in Ireland there has
been this year the large decrease of 128,575 acres, as com-
pared with the year 1853, owing to the great extent of
land which the proprietors have been recently converting
into pasture. There has,. nevertheless, been an increase
in the breadth of land under the important crops of wheat
and potatoes, the falling-off being in that devoted to oats,
barley, turnips, flax, &c.
SAVINGS BANRs.—From a Parliamentary return just
printed it appears that there are 480 savings banks in
England and Wales, which are managed by 517 unpaid
and 955 paid officers, at an annual expense of £25,478 14s.
2d, The number of accounts open is 1,068,994, and the
total amount owing to depositors £29,467,831 155.11 d., of
which £29,292,211 lls. sd. is invested with the Commis-
sioners for the Reduction of the National Debt. The
numberof savings-banks in Scotland is 45, in Ireland 51. In
the Scotch banks there are 116,113 accounts open, amount-
ing to £1,837,103115. Sd., and in the Irish banks there are
34,470 accounts open, amounting to £1,587,448 lls. 6d. In
England the number of receipts from depositors in the year
endingNov.2o,lBs3, was 1,093,780, and the average amount
of receipts from depositors £sl6s. 9d. • in Scotland the an-
nual numberof receipts was 219,546, and average amount
£3 7s. ld.; in Ireland the number of receipts was 89,060,
and the average amount £6 Os. 9d. The English banks
made in the same year 628,238 payments to depositors,
averaging £ll 10s. 10d. in amount; the. Scotch banks
made 128,694 payments, averaging £4 10s. 7d. in amount ;
and the Irish banks made 51,329 payments, averaging
£8 2s. ld. The interest paid to depositors is—in England
and Wales, £2 18s. 9d. per cent. ; in Scotland, £2l7s. 9d. ;
and in Ireland, £2 16s. sd. There are two savings-banks
in the islands in the British seas, which have 12,953
accounts open, to the amount of £335,009 18s. 2d. ; the
interest paid is £3 per annum, and the number of receipts
frpm depositors in the year was 7,845, each averaging £7
N. 7d. in amount--a higher average than in any other
part of the United Kingdom. The total number of savings-
banks in the united kingdom is 616, and the total amount
which they owe to depositors, £33,227,394 4s. 3d., dis-
tributed over 1,253, 685 accounts.
THE CZAR SELLING OUT.—A letter from. Vienna, of
the 23rd, in the Hwnburgh News, says :--" The fact of
Russian Bankers having lately made very extensive sales
in this market of Austrian securities has produced con-
siderable sensation. It is said that within the last few
days sales also took place at Amsterdam to the amount of
several millions; and similar ones were made on our
Bourse yesterday and the day before. There can be no
doubt of this being a political measure, for it is well
known that Austrian public securities are in• favour in
Russia, and that the Imperial family have invested a
great part of their fortune in the Austrian funds. About
a year ago severer millions of Five per Cent. Metallics
were purchased for the account of the Grand Dukes
Constantine and Michael, and for that of a Grand Duchess
of the Imperial family."
-TOBACCO RIOT AT CAMBRIDGE.—On Friday week a
gentleman essayed to give a lecture against the use of
tobacco in the Town-hall, at Cambridge. The room was
crammed long before he commenced, most of those present
being gownsmen, provided with pipes and cigars, and with
their pockets the depositories of squibs, crackers, and fire-
works of various .description. The lecturer had not pro-
ceeded far when he was interrupted by cries, " Three
cheers for Sir Walter Raleigh," and, becoming angered at
last with the increasing disorder, he somewhat injudi-
ciously said that he had expected, on coming to a univer-
sity town, to address gentlemen, and not a lot of black-
guards. After this the noise and confusion rendered
hearing what he said out of the question. Pipes and
cigars were set alight in all directions, and a number of
persons who entered the gallery (which had been closed
to the undergraduates) were saluted with a shower of
squibs and crackers. The tumult and disorder became so
great that the mayor was sent for, and, after repeated and
ineffectual attempts to gain a hearing, he declared the
Meeting dissolved. The lecturer then retired into the
aldermen's parlour. In the mean time the gownsmen
stormed the platform, and proposed an amendment,
"..That tobacco was anything but perniciotis." The tumult
vas at its height when an undergraduate got in an alter-
cation with the police and struck the officer. The police
then laid about them with their staves, and made several
prisoners, whom they lodged in the old session-room just
as the Rev. Mr. Edleston, of Trinity College, the senior
proctor, arrived. On the arrival of Mr. Edleston, the
prisoners capitulated, and, having given their names and
colleges, were allowed to proceed to the latter in anything
but an enviable plight.

EXPLOSION OF THE SUNKEN VESSELS AT SBBASTOPOI
—Thirteen large iron cylinders, each 12 feet long by 4 feet
in diameter, have been received at Woolwich, from Man-
chester, to be put on board the Robert Lowe, transport
steam vessel, for conveyance to Sebastopol, where they are
to be employed in blowing up the sunken ships-of-war at
the mouth of the harbour of that fortification. The cylin-
ders are of the same size as the two that were employed in
blowing up the Royal George, sunk at Portsmouth, and
each will contain a charge of one thousand pounds of
powder. Twenty-four cylinders in all have been ordered
to be made, and forwarded immediately to the Black Sea.
Some idea may be formed of the strength of the cylinders
When it is stated that the weight of each is upwards of 21
tans-when -empty. The 'powder is to be ignited by means
of voltaic electricity. Messrs. Rigby, the contractors for
the Government harbour at Holyhead, have been applied
to for a superintendent of the blasting operations intended
against the sunken ships at Sebastopol. One of their
employes, who has been accustomed for a period of two or
three years to insure the most avurate effects in ex-
ploding large masses of rocks at Holyhead, has been
engaged by the Admiralty to proceed at once to the
Crimea on that service.
' THE PATRIOTIC FUND 1798. —The year 1798 was
the period, it will be remembered, when, under the leader-
ship of Brissot, Camille Desmoulins, and the Gironde, a
universal crusade was being preached against all the
governments in Europe. The funds had fallen in
February to 49 and a fraction. The Directory had just
dictated the treaty of Campo Formio. The sovereignty
Of the people had been declared in all the country
between the Meuse, the Rhine, and the Moselle, and the
eternal banishment of their Sovereigns asserted in a for-
mal proclamation by the French government. The real
intention of this was rendered very clear by the propo-
sitions of the French plenipotentiaries at the congress of
Rastadt, who demanded that the limits of France be
extended to the Rhine. It was in this state that England,
with William Pitt at the helm, came forward manfully to
confront the rising fortunes of young Bonaparte, then only
a member of the Directory. The spirit of the people rose
with the importance of the occasion, and the threats of
invasion only stimulated the country to redoubled exer-
tions. The governor and company of the Bank of England
headed a voluntary contribution to the revenue with a
subscription of two hundred thousand pounds. " The
house of Peele (sic) and Co., at Manchester," we are told
"has subscribed £45,000 towards carrying on the war."
The Marquis of Buckingham gave £lO,OOO a year so long
as the war lasted. Robert Peele, Esq., of Manchester, for
himself and partners, gave £10,000; the Duke of Queens-
berry, £5,000; the Marquis of Stafford, £6,000; the
inhabitants of Patrixbourne, near Canterbury, £165. That
was what our fathers did, as we find the unvarnished tale
in the columns of the St. James's Chronicle for 1798.
Tnn ARCTIC SEARCIL—The San Francisco Herald, of
Sept. 30th, contains the gratifying intelligence that H.M.S.
Rattlesnake had arrived there with news that the missing
ship Enterprise, Capt. Collinson, which left England
to assist in the search of Sir John Franklin, was quite
safe, and her officers and crew in excellent health. Only
three deaths had occurred :—May 15, 1853, Wm. Driver,
ship's cook ; November 24, 1853, William Greenaway,
able seaman ; June 29, 1854, Wm. Cheeseman, private
marine. The Enterprise went into the Arctic in the sum-
mer of 1851, and passed through the Prince of Wales'
Straits, but finding the ice impracticable for her advance,
she passed the' winter of 1851-52 in latitude 71 deg.. 35
min. N., longitude 117 deg. 35 min. W. After making
every exertion to obtain the object of their voyage, the
winter of 1852-53 was passed in Cambridge Bay, Wollas-
ton Land, 69 deg. N.,105 deg. 30 min. W. Still proceed-
ing on her voyage, the winter of 1853-54 found her in
Camden Bay, 70 deg. 8 min. N., 145 deg. 30 min. W. The
ice released the vessel July 15, 1854, when she commenced
her return passage, but did not reach Point Clarence until
August 21st, when, finding the Plover had gone in search
of her, started on the 22nd to overtake the Plover, and
recall, her, which, duly performed, she would immediately
proceed to Hongkong, and the Plover to Valparaiso, where
the latter would meet the Rattlesnake. No information
was obtained of the fate of Sir John Franklin. The En-
terprise found traces of the Investigator's passage in
many places, and went within 90 miles of Winter Har-
bour ; but not being able to proceed further, on account
of the ice, went up Wollaston Strait, And there €Oll. in
with trace§ of Dr, gsl4 §cardWsi