The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1852-01-06 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,  MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.  The Caffre war costs England £120,000 a month valuable colony this. The late Lord Blaquiere bequeathed the bulk of his property to his housekeeper. An extensive illicit distillery has been discovered by the revenue officers in the island of Arran in the Clyde.  The Rev. S. B. Mawwood, cnaplain of St. George's Hospital, London, was found dead in bed, on Thursday morning. He is supposed to have died of apoplexy. The Swansea Herald states that, on Thursday week, a dredgeboat was upset off Porteinon, and that the four men who formed the crew were all drowned. _  An enormous skate, which measured nine feet in length, and six feet in breadth, and weighed nearly 300 lbs., was caught a few days since, off Aherdour, Fifeshire. Three men, named James Ellis, Edward Marshall, and John Green, are in custody in Leeds, charged with the forgery of votes on the Yorkshire Banking Company.  the'Preston Chronicle relates that, ou Sunday week, a cow belonging to Mr. Dewhurst, Mason House, ingot produced a calf which was altogether tailless. The "natural gas," generated in Chat Moss, has been applied to the driving of a steam engine on the Barton. grange farm, used for the thrashing of wheat. The Alhenceum of Saturday says, that " there can be no doubt whatever of Mr. Spencer being the discoverer of  the electrotype." A Doncaster paper says that the millers in the neigh. bourhood of Caistor were recently compelled by want of wind to stop grinding for several weeks. newspaper, printed in the Cherokee language and 3, and said to be edited with spirit and ability, is now published among the Cherokee Indians. The Rev. Dr. Lewis Forbes, of Boharm. is to be the Moderator of the next General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. A. despatch was received at Vienna the other day from London, via the submarine telegraph, in three hours and a half.  The Birmingham Gazette announces that the Birmingham tr;ennial musical festival will be held on the 7th September next, and three following days, under the most  promising auspices. The electric telegraph is now used in St. George's Hospital. London, for the purpose of transmitting the  wards. The inquest upon the thirteen unfortunate miners who lost their lives by the recent colliery explosion at Wigan has resulted in a verdict of " death from accidental causes." Mr. Thomas Burns, aged 38, son of a respectable medical practitioner at Dundee, fell among the machinery of the Dundee steamer in the Thames, on Saturday week, while in a state of intoxication, and was nearly cut in two. The mint of Strasburgh is at present coining a considerable amount of money for the Swiss government. As many as from 300,000 to 330,000 pieces a-day have been  struck off. It is said that the late Mr. Turner, the celebrated painter, has left £200,000 to found an institution for relieving artists ; and has bequeathed most of his pictures to embellish the building to be erected for the purpose. Last week Earl Fitzwilliam presented each labourer and workman on his estate, 1,300 in number, with 61bs. of beef and 6d. Eight beasts were slaughtered, and the total quantity of beef given away was 630 stones. A horrible crime was committed lately at Hospenthal, canton of Uri. Two brothers murdered their aunt, aged 70, in the expectation of finding money in her possession. Both of them were almost im mediately afterwards arrested. On the evening of Monday last the wife of Mr. David Bell, servant to Mr. Wilson, farmer, Dalenich, by Markinch, gave birth to two daughters and a son, and the mother and " bairns" are doing well.— Fifeshire Journal. There are at present only four policemen in the Exhibition building• No idea can yet be formed of the time when the building will be so fa cleared out as to admit the pubtiac. niaee. at all events, for another week.  TUESDAY, J iNITA_RY  &hipping fit:ettigritrt  6. 1852.  John Hermann, fix July, in lat. 1 N burg, 14th Oct for Rotterdan: Moulmein, for Pastor, from L long. 22 W—loni  -..