The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1855-12-18 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

BOOT-CLEANING saloon, to which are attached public lavatories and dressing-rooms, has just been opened in Brydgesstreet, Covent-garden, London. The admission to the former is Id.  THE Madrid papers say that in some excavations _which were recently made on the site of what was formerly the cemetery of the Nuns of Santa Clara, in that city, a dead body was found, which there is reason to believe was that of the famous painter, Velasquez. WOLVES have been showing themselves in numbers, and with great boldness, near Troyes. A woman of Fresnoy is reported to have been attacked by one whilst going to an outoffice. The neighbours, alarmed by her cries, attacked the animal, and at last one of them killed it with a bayonet thrust.  A MAN named Johnson, employed to attend to the electric light which is burnt at the top of the Lyceum Theatre in Wellington-street, London, fell from the top on Saturday, on to a row of iron spikes, two of which entered his thigh and broke off in the flesh, and from the chevaux de frise the unfortunate fellow came down on his head, which was cut in a dreadful manner. He is, however, now out of danger.  BARON ANSEL3I MEYER Rornseninn, the eldest of the brothers at the head of the renowned family of that name, died at Frankfort on the 6th inst., of catarrhal fever. He was born in 1783, and was consequently about seventy-three years of age. Professors Pfeffer and Hesse, of Munich, and Chelins, of Heidelberg, were summoned by telegraph to attend him in his illness, but Were too late. . ROBERT HANCOCK, the labourer who murdered his wife Philippa, at Northam; Devonshire, by cutting her throat and crushing her head with a hammer, and afterwards wandered away from home, but came back and made a wild confession to her brother, has been acquitted as a monomaniac; the Rev. Mr. Gossett-, clergyman of the parish, and other witnesses, deposing.thai he had long been subject to strange delusions as to the fidelity of his wife. Two bankrupts obtained first-class certificates a few days since—the first was Masters,.late of the Crystal-Palace-Hotel ; the other, William Batley, engineer and boiler-maket, Northampton, whose bankruptcy was caused by the ruinous competition of other houses, the default of a firm in meeting their bills, strikes; the negligence and dishonesty of his servants, and the explosion of two boilers. TUE Tagblatt of Berne was in the habit of copying tele-graphic despatches from the Berner Zeitung, without acknowledgment. So the editors of, the Berner Zeitung took the liberty, at the time, that the Emperor of Russia was in the Crimea, of printing in the one copy of their paper which was be supplied to the Tagblatt the following startling telegraphic intelligenco:-7" The Rmperor of Russia and Prince Gortschalsofr have been taken prisoners by the allies all which was religiously copied into the whole impression of the Tagblatt, to the great amusement of its readers. THE Commissioners of Inquiry into the, revenues, Ice., of the Inns of Law repott -that; the Inner Temple has .a gross income, in 'round numliers, of £21,000; the Middle Temple, of £10,000:; Lincoln's-inn, of £18,000; and *Gray's-inn, of £B,OOO, al exclusive of fees. But such is the system of extravagant expenditure in these establishments, thdt the Inner Temple Only shows a surplus revenue of £6,000, and the Lincoln's-inn of a "trifle under £4,000. • The 'surplus of the Middle Temple amounts to £1 Is. 10.1 d., while Gray's-inn shows an actual deficit of £320.  THE SUNDAY Btrit