The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-08-29 00:00:00

cDARD, AND GI

MARK

S NEW

SCHOOLS

LIE inadequac;

f the school accommodation provided
for the large and populous district of St. Mark's having
been long felt and acknowledged; the Rev. Wm. Pollock,
incumbent, has exerted himself zealously to have the de-
ficiency supplied, and, aided by the support of many in-
fluential gentlemen and ladies connected with the district,
has been so far successful in the object that a new school-
house is to be erected, the first stone of which is to be
laid by the mayor, this day, at two o'clock.

ENERAL - COMMtitu_.

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ion that Liverpool is in a
because the calendar is low, I m
number of persons apprehended for

;r of summary convictions,

e also diminiihed in the same proportion ; because, if I
find that the calendar is low, without any corresponding
diminution of summary convictions and apprehensions for
these offences, I should pause in pronouncing the opinion
that the town is in a satisfactory state as to crime, It is,
however, a matter of congratulation that your labours on
this occasion will be light, although I am quite sure that
you would grudge no amount of time and attention, if you
thought your labours would lead to a more effectual sup-
pression of crime. With these observations, I may, with-
out further detaining you, dismiss you to your duties.
The trials were shortly afterwards proceeded with.

THE PROPOSED HIGH-LEVEL RAILWAY

FOR THE DOCKS,

Greeks have been arrested, upon suspicion of being the
authors of the conflagration. The cholera is on the de-
cline; but the Ist battalion of Rifles, and the 20th and
23rd regiments, all three in the Bosphorus, have lost men
by the epidemic. Officers have gone home, invalided,
from almost every regiment. Great preparations are
making here for embarking the troops, which, it is said,
will take place on the 20th. The bay is filled with vessel.'
500 in number, and a fleet of large transports is
Baltschick. Great numbers of flat-bottomed boats, for
landing troops and heavy guns, have also arrived.
VIENNA, TIIIIIISDAY.—Athens advices me-
General Kalergi, who had retired to the Pirmi.
King declining to confirm tyre execution of a min,
proposition for incorporating all the irregular tr
into the army, had returned to the capital, and beer
sent at a cabinet council. Not a word is k.
certain Russian counter-propositions spoken of at B
No reply has yet been received to the Vienna note
9th, and none is expected until the beginn:
Prince Napoleon had returned to Constantinople, sick
Sir Edmund Lyons had sailed into the Black Sea wit
his division. Ships of war and transports are still pro.
ceeding there, but the object of the expedition is kept
strictly secret. The cholera is raging at Adrianople. The
French forces intended for that city have been ordered to
return to Gallipoli.
Forty thousand Russian troops are said to be encamped
round Sebastopol.
Sixty thousand men have embarked for Sebastor
The moveable column commanded by tn
General Manuely, and latterly organised in order to .1-
on the frontier of Montenegro, has just been disband,
Four thousand horses belonging to this corps ha,
sold.
The Russians have evacuated Bralia, Galatz, and Fos-

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The Piesse, under date Orsova, August 22, states that
the cholera had broken out at Rustchuk.
A band of Caucasian mountaineers, commanded by a
son of Schamyl, have made a razzia into the province of
Tiflis. They have sacked several places, put some people
to death, and carried off a general's wife, and a Princess
Orbelian, her sister. The news caused a panic at Tiflis.
Two Lancer regiments have been sent by forced
marches from Odessa to the west.
VIENNA, SATURDAY.—The PreBSe has advices from
Bucharest of the 23rd, stating that on the 22nd Omar
Pasha, with 25,000 men and 30 guns, entered Bucharest.
His reception was enthusiastic.
The fire at Varna broke out in several places at one and
the same time. Several of the Greek incendiaries have
already been shot.

Plats, SUNDAY EVENlNG.—Advices from Constan-
tinople of the 17th state that 500 shops and private houses
had been destroyed by the fire at Varna.

The expedition for the Crimea was to sail on the 20th.
It was composed of 70,000 men, 20,000 of whom were
Turks.

VIENNA, FalDAT.—Prince Gortschakoff is said to have
received intimation from St. Petersburg that no direct
answer will be given to the last propositions forwarded by
Austria, but that she will be asked what her intentions
really are. The armaments here are on a greater scale than
ever. Two Russian agents who set Varna on fire have been
arrested. The magazines of stores, the depots, and powder
magazines were not injured.
BERLIN, FRIDAY.—The French troops at Bomarsund
suffer extremely from cholera, and will probably embark
again immediately. It is expected that the fortress will
be blown up and abandoned. Several vessels have sailed
for Hango.