The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-09-14 00:00:00

Lawler Luau any miler colour. Ine juage inquired now it
could in any way be made palatable, and the answer he
received was, " Oh, its seasoning that does it."—Local

CONSUMPTION of SUGAR.—There has been an aston-
ishing increase in the consumption of sugar during the
last four years ; the consumption in each of the years was

as follows—

1844
1845
1846
-1847

CAA' fs
4,037,921
4,879,780

Year ending Aug. 7.

4,723,474
5,980,684

ugars were

ceding year,and of about 100,000 tons when compared with
the year 1844, the last year of the old duties. This is an in-
creased consumption of not less than 50 per cent. In 1844,
the duty on British plantation sugar was 245. and 5 per cent.
per cwt., ; and that on for6ign sugar, 635. and 5 per cent.;
and the total revenue yielded by the article was £5,087,830.
In the year ending August 5, 1847, the duty oe British
plantation sugar was 14s. per cwt. ' - and that on foreign,
of various kinds, 21s. 245. 6d., and (on refined) 285.; and
the revenue, £4,707,770. Thus, the loss from a series of
reductions of duty, by which revenue of the amount of
upwards of £2,000,000 was sacrificed, is now not more
than £335,692, or less than the fifth part of the original
sacrifice !

SWALLOWING HALF-CROWNS.—At the Worship-street
police-office, London, on Monday, C. Thompson, alias
Townley, was charged with having in his possession a
large quantity of counterfeit coin, and aiso with assaulting
a serjeant of police, who took him into custody. On Sa-
turday evening, as Seijeant Brannan, of the G. division,
was reconnoitering in plain clothes, with a constable, in
the neighbourhood of Old-street, he saw the prisoner, in
the company of two other men, whom he at once recog-
nised as notorious " smashers." On observing that they
were watched, the whole of them made off, but the ser-
geant overtook and seized the prisoner, who drew from
his pocket a handful of half-crown pieces, which the ser-
geant endeavoured to wrest from him, when he was grap-
pled by the prisoner and flung heavily on the pavement.
The prisoner then commenced swallowing the counterfeit
coin, four of which he had got rid of, and had transferred
the last two to his, mouth, when the sergeant struck him
a sharp blow under the jaw, which compelled him to drop
them into the road. With the assistance of the other offi-
cer, the prisoner was then handcuffed and conveyed to the
station-house, when, upon being searched, nine other
spurious half-crawns and five-shilling pieces were found
in his possession.—The prisoner was remanded for the at-
tendance of the Mint authorities. •

DRAINAGE OF LAND.—The first and grand object in
the pursuit of agriculture is the efficient drainage of the
land, which had for years been to a great extent neg-
lected, and is but yet beginning to be duly appreciated.
Mr. Simon Hutchinson, of Manthorpe Lodge, Grantham,
IT done the country great service by the publication of
his experiences in the art in a pamphlet entitled " Prac-
tical Instructions on the Drainage of Land," has already
reached a fourth edition. The author recommended air
drains, in addition to the usual parallel drains—a system
then new to the public ; and experience has fully proved
the accuracy of his deductions. The experiment has
been tried on a large scale, at Marnham, this year, and
has fully succeeded, the air-drained portion of a large field
of turnips, having produced a finer crop of turnips than
the other portions of the land, from, it appears the
draught of air constantly passing underground, and es-
caping by the outlets, added to a " steamy evaporation,"
frequently visible, arising from the drains. He has con-
sequently arrived at the conclusion, " that drains two
feet deep, with air-drains to facilitate evaporation, &c.,
are equal to drains two feet six inches deep, without such
auxiliaries. The plan is simple and cheap, and we re-
commend Mr. Hutchinson's little, but valuable work, to
all practical agriculturists.