The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1855-10-02 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

AUSTRALIAN GOLD-DlGGERS.—Seventeen gold-diggers from Melbourne, Australia, were landed from the ship Northumberland at Torquay, a few days ago, having with them, it is stated, upwards of 400 ounces of gold. BARON ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT has just celebrated the eighty-sixth anniversary of his birthday. Notwithstanding his great age, he still unremittingly continues his important labours.  AN AGRICULTURAL LABOURER, formerly of Trumpington, near Cambridge, has written to his friends to say that he is now earning, in Australia, £3 per week, and in Trumpington his wages were only Bs. AT AN IDIOT ASYLUM in the north of England, seven out of ten of the patients are the children of parents related to each other by the laws of consanguinity. THE ARMENIAN ARCHBISHOP OP LEMBERG, Samuel Stepanowitsch, the Nestor of Christian priests, has just completed his 105th year. THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER has conferred a sacred image, enriched with diamonds, on the Metropolitan Agathangelos, who, by his prayers and benedictions, animated the troops to devote themselves in the defence of their country at Sebastopol.  A GENTLEMAN named Inches, who had gone on an excursion to the top of the hill of Dunguaich, Scotland, lost his way and perished. His body was discovered a few days ago by a shepherd. AN EXTRAORDINARY EMBASSY from Birmah is said to be on the point of setting out for France, being the first that the Emperor of the Birmans ever sent to any power in the world. General d'Orgoni is to be at its head. Amos BARRETT, a commercial agent, committed suicide on the 6th August, at San Francisco, stating in a letter found after his decease that he was impelled to the act by the appearance of a paragraph in an interior paper, reflecting on his character.  THE GAZETTE publishes a Board of Trade notice, stating that a decree, recently published in Portugal, imposes a fine of 400 milrees upon any master of a British ship who may receive passengers without passports, or who shall omit to present the list of passengers.  M. LE MeouT, a chemist, who has acquired some notoriety for his observations of the barometer, as affected by a distant cannonade, states that he announced the cannonade and the assault of Sebastopol from the changes effected in the mercury. He adds that it takes an hour and forty minutes to receive the impression of the guns of Sebastopol on barometers in France.  IF ARCHITECTURE improved in proportion to the number of new churches built, we should soon see the revival of a lost science. From 1841 to 1851, there were 1,197 churches built in Great Britain. In London alone there are 1,114 architects !  THE CHARITY COMMISSIONERS propose to remove the pictures in Dulwich Gallery to the National Gallery—a centralisation of art, but an injury to Dulwich. A new church is to be built with the spare funds, and two open schools are to be erected.—Athenceunz.  "IT IS RUMOURED," says the Siecle. " that a company is to be constituted with a capital of ten millions of francs for the purpose of purchasing corn in foreign countries, and selling it in France without profit, reserving to itself merely 5 per cent. on the capital invested." HENRY BOOM AND EDWIN WILD have been sent to prison for a month by the Sheffield magistrates for attempting to defraud the Midland Railway Company- by getting into a train at Chesterfield without tickets, and when within a little of the Sheffield station getting out, and purchasing tickets for the remaining short distance.  Tim KEEPER OF A Grx-saor in Fox-and-Knot-court, Snow-hill, London, has baffled the city magistrates by selling gin within the prohibited hburs on Sunday just outside his house. The magistrates could do nothing on a summons under the recent Beer Act, as the house was not open, but suggested that it might be an offence against the Excise.