The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-17 00:00:00

crease of

'er last

An additi

I LOOO in

men is added to the force in India. The number of men
in England, on the Ist of January last. was 29,568; Ire-
land, 19,634; in our colonies, 37,170; and, in India,
26,505 ; making, with recruiting pasties, a gland to!al of
113,577; and as the establishment is now to be 123,100
men, we consequently require 2 523 men to be reerui,ed

RAPIDITY IN EQUIPPING A. LINE-OF

ATT/.E SIl I P

One of the greatest act
years is that which has

majesty

men's in nautical affairs of fat,

'en per`ornaed by the New of her

ship Rodney in the

little more tl
day last, was a mere hull, without spars, stores, or arma
ment ; and on Wednesday, at mid-day, she was all ataunt,

8 hour

The Bellerophon, 7S, on Mon-

ready for sea

triumph of the skill and

energy of British officers and British seamen . His royal
highness Prince Albert embarked from Osborne house in
the Fairy steam yacht, and proceeded to Spithead to view
the Be lerophon.

It would appear that ere long the Atlantic Ocean will
be traversed by steamers so as to make the communication

at least weekly.

eontr-ct has been entered into by the
ed States with the Ocean Steam
rtered in New York, for the esta-
to run between New

Navigation Company,

blishment of a line-01 steam shit

York and Europe. A vessel is to take her departure
twice in each month, for Cowes and Bremen. The Govern-

ment is to pay 400.000 djs. per annum for the conveyance

tons burthen, and they are to make their voyages with
speed, not I, ss than that of the British and North Ameri-
can line. The arrangements for building are in active pro-
gress, and it is expected that the first will be ready to
start on the Ist of January, 1847
THE PROSPSCT OF TIE E
," We wish we could say to cur reader
much ca

EXT CROP OF POTATOES.-

—there is not so

gran concerning the next

potato cr

nod the anticipations of its pending ruin are unrounded.
On the contrary, every new fact which comes to light
renders the danger more apparent, and we must repeat

our warning ihat-there is.nO ctrtainf, that any English

ry pro

n the pre

ps ; but

many persons will have sound c
state of our knowledge it is quite impossible to s

sound sets cannot be distinguished from un-
sound ones, and therefore the cultiv .tion of the p9t(tto is
literally reduced to a game of chance."—Gardoiers'

Chronicle,

CURIOUS DEATH —On Monday week,
who had been in the habit of visiting a quack doctor,
named Jones, at Bilston, for the purpose of advice, on
one of Ma visits asked Jones to give him a small syringr,
which Jones accordimtly dill. The boy, on his way. home,

a boy, a

put the syrin

nto a pOol of water

kind afterwards in-

for the purpose of unwrapping the worsted which

fastened round the syringe. • Soon afterwards hib mow h
became.iefl.med, and he went to Jones for advice. Jones
told him that he could do nothing for him, nor could any

it is believed

hat some part of the matter remaining upon

it produced the mortification

of the Agricultural Association, EJinburah
in reference to the assertion of Professor Lin

st weck
sr, " tha

diseased sets of potatoes will produce diseased crops,"
stated th,t that was an opinion which he considered
stronger than the circumstances warranted. tie pro-
ceeded to show that the opinion of Professor Lindley was
founded upon potatoes which had been forced, and which
played unsound like the sets. But the circumstances of

potatoes grown in the hot atmosphere and fermenting
soil of a forcing-house were widely different from those
subjected to the open air. As to seed, Professor

ston said that the variety of potatoes calico cups,
sound, although from a diseased district, would be less
likely to fail than sound buffs, fl *t reds, or lumpers,
brought from a district in which no di_ease had hitherto

appeared.
THE DEATH OF " PUBLICOLA."—This oracle of th
seditious and the infidel, who is less well-known to publi
fame or infamy by his real name of " David Williams,'

odical preparations of social and rrligious poison appeared
weekly in one of the Sunday journals, and were eagerly
read by the agricultural and manufacturing population.
The responsibility incurred is awful to contemplate. The
character of the man who so recklessly incurred it may
be learned from a single circumstance. He had been for-
merly in a Government officd (we believe in an Audit-
office) : but for some offence, which we will not stop to