The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1855-07-24 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday morning, Miss Weatherby was walking near the edge of the cliff at Broadstairs ; she gotgiddy, fell over a height of sixty feet, and was killed. THERE was no demonstration in Hyde Park on Sunday. Carriages were warned not to enter the drive, but the excite-. ment had evidently passed away, andthe concourse of persons was comparatively trifling. Balton ROTHSCHILD, during his short residence at Milan; made arrangements, in conjunction with 'two engineers, for: the‘construction of several miles olrailway in the neighbourhood.  MENDACIOUS RUSSIAN BITMOrCR.—A correspondent of that philcr-Russian print, the Intlecpentinriote, gives currency to the disgraceful rumour thas Lord Raglan " committed suicide 0) on account of the failure of the TBth.' THE BANK OP :ENGLAND have 'purchased for their West aid branch establishment the 'mansion of the Marquis •of Anglesea (Uxbridge House, in Burlington Gardens, Picataly, for a sum of £45,000 or £47,600. PRINCE NAPOLEON has caused an application to be made to different railway companies to _induce them to organize pleasure trains at reduced prices, in order to bring a number of visitors to Paris to -visit the Universal Exhibition. IN the course of the'ercavations which have for some been going on at " Macbeth's 'Castle," on Dunsinane 11111, three human skulls have •beent.exhumed, and also a smill.coin bearing some indistinct-tracings as of armorial bearings. Iris officially announced that the sum of money hitherto annually devoted tothe 'celebration of the Napoleon Me. of the 15th of August, will 'this year be consecrated to 'the Taitf of the families orthose who have fallen in the Bet.  DR. Armor'', NapoleoWsiastmelicliaTtenatnt tat. Helena, and for whom the Emperor cherished a strong affection, has just died, aged.napoleon died holding Dr. Arnott2s tient hand. Tnn Commune .cf San Quisino, in Piedmont, has :Just devoted itself to the Holy Virgin by a legalconveyanee in good and due form, -.4` in presence of us, the notary Morelli and the witnesses of this deed, &c." THE Island of rhchkeith has been examined by, Colonel Marryat, R.A., and Colonel Gordon, RX, with- the,View of determining the -sites of two forts, to be situate and constructed as -to inflade the channels of the Perth en either side.  Pluarcretur4.bas forced his daughter to entero nunnery, to which •place she was escorted by alarge body of soldiers. She is generally believed to have been the cause cf a duel which lately 'toolr place at Jassy, in which the son of the Hospodar wasliilled by an Austrian officer. TATS Archbishop of Toledo has protested against the execution in his diocese of the law for the sale of ecclesiastical property ; but the government has disregarded the protest, and has placed an armed force at the disposal uf the-commissioner charged to 4iffect the sale.  THE eieele says that the _Pies in celebration oPthe Queen's visit to Paris, will begin on August 17, and last a fortnight. They will .inolude at the Parc of Versailles a bal aux flambeaux, which will drive into the shade all rejoicings 6f the kind it was so frequently the scene of in the days of the Grand 3lonarque. The Brittol Times is informed that it is , not an unusual practice with some of the quay " imps" of that•city for one of them to purposely fall into the water, and two or three of his companions to jump in to the rescue, and thus-secure both the benefit of the Humane Society's award mnd•the luxury of a swim during the present oppressively warm weather.  - - -