The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1856-02-26 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

RUGELEY POISONING CASES.—Since the termination of the inquiries into the circumstances attendant upon the death of the persons for the murder of whom Mr. William Palmer has been committed for trial on the coroner's inquisitions, much additional information, we are informed, has been obtained, and will be produced at the trial of the prisoner. In order that he may have every opportunity of knowing the nature of this additional evidence, it is intended that the examination of the prisoner shall take place before the magistrates, on a day yet to be fixed, when the whole of the evidence will be gone into and the cases completed, for presentation of bills to the grand jury. The hearing will take place, we believe, in the county prison. We believe that the bill introduced into parliament for the purpose of removing such trials to the Central Criminal Court, London, prepared with a special view to this case, has passed several of its stages in the House of Lords, without opposition.—Staffordshire Advertiser. THE LOCAL DUES ON Saivism:l.—On Tuesday, a special court of the Common Council was held in London, for the purpose of receiving and acting upon the report of the Consolidated Committee on the Local Dues on Shipping Bill iu Parliament. Although the notice was extremely short, there was a large attendance of members. Mr. Woodthorpe, the clerk of the court, read the report. Mr. Wood said there was never an occasion on which it was more necessary to call the members together for the purpose of opposing au injurious principle. It was not because the Corporation of London was touched by the obnoxious measure, but he thought they were called upon to act for their brethren in Dover and Liverpool, and other towns which would be affected by its operation, The committee looked at the bill calmly and dispassionately, and they found that the non-compensating principle was its prominent feature, and then came to the unanimous conclusion that it should receive the most vigorous opposition. TICE ARMY EsTI!ATEB for the year ending the 31st of March, 1857, have just been issued. The grand total amount that will be required for the financial year ensuing is stated to be £34,998,504, against the sum of £28,670,497, in 1855.56, thus exhibiting an increase of £6,328,007. The sum of £32,758,280 is required for the effective, and £2,240,22-1 for the non-effective service. The items are thus distributed : viz., £10,950,398 for the land forces (246,716 in number) ; £3,150,129 for the embodied militia; £BB,OOO for volunteer corps • £408,595 for the army works corps ; £169,026 for the war department; £22,791 for "head-quarters, military departments ;" £514,141 for civil establishments ; £915,301 for artificers' wages ; £9,886,261 for clothing, barrack-furniture, &c., provisions, forage, fuel, and light - £4,371,165 for land and sea stores ; £2,044,069 for works and buildings ; £238,404 for the educational and scientific branches ; £25,400 for rewards for military services ; £67,000 for the army pay of general officers ; £519,094 for the pay of reduced or retired officers ; £220,420 for widows' pensions ; £83,558 for pensions,. &c., to wounded officers ; £32,096 for " in-pensions ;" £1,168,392 for " out-pensions ;" and £124,264 for superannuation allowances. Of the sum voted last year, £13,718,678 was under the head of " army," £9,990,165a.mder " ordnance," and £4,961,654 under that of " commissariat." Miss P.