The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-10-12 00:00:00

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about five years of a

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sed her intention of sell
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them is rapposed to have been the only rem
Christie had to the foul deed. The bodies of Mr
and her grandson were found fearfully mangled, i

vAth an axe, and lif

murderer

ded in

!en on Tuesday

his trousers, anti the wristbands of his shirt
and 14s. in silver were found on him.

Tn EQUINOCTIAL GALtS.—These destructive

the forerunner of an approaching early wi
with truly fearful severity. _ They have

ant fall of

along the coast several days,
from the S.S.W., accompanied with a
rain inland. floodine the country and occasioning it

, -
culable mischief ; while off many parts of the coast vessels
have, by the effects of the gale, been wrecked, many lives
perishing thereby. In the Downs it has been most se-
werely felt. Among the many disasters that occurred a
ship called the Elizabeth, M. Boynos, of Jersey, was
wrecked on the main between St. Margaret's Bay and

sense ni

_IA several veseels, though having two chains out,
were swept from their moorings, and were driven foul
of others with great violence ; booms, bulwarks, &c.
were carried away, and other mischief done. Upwards
of a dozen ships lost their cables, spars, &c. and were
nigh being driven ashore on the Goodwins. Off Dunge-

ne-ss, Neva Romney, and Rye, four 'vessels, named the
Laurel, of Whitby, the Thomas and Ann, from Dieppe,
the Honoria, for London, and the Wiiliam, from Liver-
pool, were cast ashore, and probably will become total
wrecks. Northward of the Thames., along the coast, off
Harwich, Aldborough, Yarmouth, and Bridlington, no
fewer than thirty coasting vessels were driven ashore.

DUPLEX RUDDER AND SCREW-PROPELLER.—Captain
E. J. Carpenter, R.N., has patented an invention in the
art of propelling vessels by screw. The peculiarity is.,
that two screws are made use of instead of one, which
greatly increases the speed, while the ship is steered by
two rudders, which in an equal degree increases the con-
trol obtained over her. In order to obtain these results,
the vessel is built on a principle different from any that
has hitherto been adopted. From the stem to the mid..
ships section the keel is laid down the same as in other
vessels-4 but from the midships towards the stern the keel

place of this single keel, two new 'keels start from the
midships. and are continued in parallel lines to the stern,
the distance between them varying, of course, according
to the size of the vessel. Each of these keels is fitted
with a stern-post and rudder, and between the keel and
the stern-post of each there is an orifice, in which the
screw -works, according to the common principle. One
screw propeller is placed a little -in advance of the other,
so as to allow both room to work, and yet so near that,
when both are in action, they constitute in fact one pro-
peller with double power. The two rudders are so con-
nected that they can be steered by one person as easily as
the single rudder on the old principle, while, by a slight
alteration in the machinery, one of the screws or one of
the rudders can be unshipped at pleasure, and the vessel
worked with one only.

TIM FOLLOWING CURIOUS STATISTICS CONCERNING
INSANITY in the metropolitan county are derived from
the•r:Torts of the visiting justices of Hanwell and Colney-
hatch Lunatic Asylums :—At the Hanwell Asylum during
the year 190 patients were received—viz., 88 males and
102 females. The causes of their disorders in the males
being moral in 31 cases, and physical in 31 others, the
rest being unascertained. For .the females the moral
causes were 5, and physical 19. The moral causes in the
males ,are thus enumerated :—Poverty,.3 ; domestic un-
happiness, 2 ; disappointed affection,3; grief,3; dissipated
habits, 1 ; over study of religious sulljects, 3 ; anxiety. 2;
political excitement, 1 ; remorse, 1 ; disappointed expec-
tations, 1. On the female side—disappointed affection,

1; fright, 1; poverty, 2; grief, 1. They were mainly
divided as to religious principles as follows;—Church of
England, males, 48—females, e 8; Roman CatholicF
males, 4—females, 4 ; not ascertained, males, 32—feme'
23. As reeards education, the following _
obtained:—Well-educated, male, I—females, 18
educated, males, 15 ; read and - —^l^-
30 ; read. mat...
g 9

r►te, mat

s, 43. At the Colney-hatch Asylum 411 males
nd 669 females had been received. Causes of disorders :

—Mal

moral, 89 ; physical, 140. In the female branch

i one n

TRANMERE SC

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last year, the caper

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On this day (Tuesday) the sere

by the rector of the pan

of Holt-hill S

1. A pr

the Britan

accomp

11 be up Holt-hill, through Higher Tranmere,
ell-lane, to the site of the new schools adjoin-
ay station. After the ceremony the parties

interested will dine at the Britannia Inn

MATCH BEWEF.N THE CHESHIRE BOWMEN AND THE

ARCHERS OF WARWICKSHIRE.-TiliS match took place
at Leamington Spa, on Tuesday and Wednesday last
Warwickshire was represented by ten,

and Cheshire by

eight archers ; and the match was decided by a comparison
of the six highest scores on both sides. Warwickshire

.. . .
but Cheshire carried off the honours by a score of 2796
against 2730 (Warwickshire). The leading scores were—
Cheshire, Rev. J. Taylor, 156 hits, value 670 ; Mr. 0. K.
e 1 Prescot, 123-507; Rev. G. Mallory, 111-459; Mr. C. K.
P--- ' - • Rev. C 1,--- 'lle, 103-369 ; and

.escot, 110-458 ; _ i. urrinviltt ,
Mr. G. Mellor, jun., 85-633. Warwickshire
Edwards, 144-574 ; Major Granville, 111-479
Luard, 118-448; Rev. C. Beek, 115-429; Mr
ville, 109 —413 ; Rev. W. R. Bedford, 99-387.
match will take place in Cheshire next year.

—Mr. G
Rev. 0
B. Gran•

A return

HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO CHESTER,

There is much excitement in the ancient city of Chester,
and also in Bangor and the neighbourhood of the Britan-
nia bridge, on account of the anticipated visit of Her
Majesty on the return of the Court from Scotland to
Windsor. The Queen, Prince Albert, and the youthful
members of the royal family will arrive at Holyrood Pa-
lace, in Edinburgh, from her Ml.jesty's Highland home,
this evening (Tuesday). To-morrow (Wednesday) morn-
ing, the royal party will leave Edinburgh at Bh. 40:n. by
railway for Carlisle, whence they will travel under the
management of the London and North-western Railway
Company, to Warrington ; and thence, by the Birken-
head, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction line, to Chester,
where Her Majesty may be expected between two and

,e o'clock to-morrow afterno-on

After staying a

minutes for refreshment, the Queen will proceed -by the
Chester and Holyhead Railway to Bangor, and remain
for the night at the Penrhyn Arms Hotel, in that city, where
an extensive range of apartments has been engaged for
the royal family and suite. It is expected that, on Thurs-
day morning, Her Majesty will take an excursion to the
Britannia Tubular Bridge, and will then return to Chester,
or, more properly speaking, to the Saltney Junction,
where the directors of the Shrewsbury and Chester Rail-
way will have the honour of receiving the royal party, for
the purpdse of conducting the illustrious visitors along
their picturesque line to Shrewsbury ; thence the carriages
will proceed by the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Rail-
way to Wolverhampton, where the London and North-
western Company will again " do suit and service" by con-
veying the royal train to Birmingham ; and there the direc-
tors of the latter company will "no doubt avail themselves
of so auspicious an opportunity to open that expensive
but convenient junction-road the " Birmingham extension
line," which will thus enable the Queen to step from the
royal carriage on the narrow gauge line at Camp-hill to
the Great Western saloon on the broad gauge, without the
discomfort, as must otherwise be the case, of driving from
the New-street Station, in Birmingham, to Snow-hill—
the terminus in that town of the Birmingham and Oxford
Railway. Under any circumstances, however, the Great
Western Company will have the honour of conducting
her Majesty from Birmingham to Windsor along their

new route from the midland districts to the metropolis ;
so that this propitious excursion will prove a really " royal
advertisement" for the line which was opened a few days

. ,
since, and for the Shrewsbury alliance with the Great
Western.

The Nester Courant gives a long list of royal visits to
Chester. We subjoin the more recent ones :

1494. Henry t
ft

Seventh at Chester and Hawarden

rnusement of stag-hunti

James the Fir

Chester

an anthem sung a

" sumptuous banquet by th

citizens, the ord

great pomp

hthOod being offered to the Mayo

by the same."