The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-01-23 00:00:00

TO LADIES,

riety or ailments incident to the Pair Sex. Ladies even of tt
most delicate constitutions will find them particularly benef
cial, both before and after confinement; and for general use i
schools. they cannot be too strongly recommended_ The

ComPlexion,rNervims Irritability, Sick Head-ac'he and Depres-
sion of Spirits, Irregularity, or general derangement of the

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All coal strata are intersected more or less by dykes,
or faults, which have the effect of severing or discontinuing
the partings, or cells, which contain and convey the
feeders of water from place to place, and assuming that
certain portions of the red sandstone are close, and cer-
tain other parts porous, as represented in the profile—
and assuming also that a dyke, or fissure, intersects and
distorts the strata, then does it most naturally follow
that the waters in the district A cannot pass into that of B,
and it is still more difficult for those of B to pass into the

district A, which I believe to be the state of matters in-
stanced by Mr. S. Holme in his particular case. If,
then, each district, or area, is circumscribed by faults, and
the waters of other districts thereby prevented from flow-
ing to some given sinking; it depends entirely upon cir-
cumstance and experiment, whether a given sinking, has
fallen upon a district containing an extensive area, or the
reverse, and when the immense area in question comes to
be considered, how very inadequate are the trials hitherto
made, wiih a view of procuring a supply of water.
In the selection of a position for making any future
trials, much must of course depend upon the desirable-
ness of certain localities, and taking it for granted that the
upper waters will greatly discharge themselves into the
Mersey, as remcrked by Mr. Holme, it would tend to
point out to the experienced eye the lower levels as more
desirable than the upper districts, as the sinkings would,
in that case, be less deep and expensive, even although

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the water had again to be raised to some convenient eleva-
tion f.-r the supply of the town.
With respect to the expense of carrying out sinkings,
attendant with water, to the depth of 100 fathoms and
upwards, much, very much, depends upon the work being
laid out upon principles of science and practical experi-
ence ; for wanting these, the management of heavy
columns of pumps and their concomitant machinery is
attended with ruinous expense, whilst in the hands of
experienced practitioners, such operations arc only those
of ordinary private adventure.
It is not for me to enter into the consideration of legal
difficulties, or of contracts which are said to exist, in pur-
suance of the Rivington Pike scieme, but I humbly sub-
mit that the main question should be decided upon its
merits, viz., whether if the necessary supply can be ob-
tained from the sandstone, it will not be done infinitely
cheaper than by the project of the Pike ? One thing is
unquestionable, that the waters from the rock are much
more salubrious than those from the surface, since in their
nature they are always loaded with vegetable and other
impurities ; redolent of ague, fever, and the doctors only
know what beside.
MA'f'THIAS DUNN, Mining Engineer.
Newcastle-on-Tyne, Jan. 21, 1849.

GENERAL TRADE REPORT.

MONDAY EVENINC

There is nothing very darkening in the political horizon
just now, and the talked-of intervention of France in the
affairs of Italy seems to create very little sensation.
Commercially, with the exception of the report of the
Chinese markets, which it is expected are only temporarily
unfavourable, our prospects are further clearing up. Be-
sides the good news from India, the demand for
English fabrics at the Leipsic fair augurs well for an in-
creasing demand in that quarter. On Saturday Con-
sols had advanced about two points on the week, and
closed at 89f to for money, and 891 for 13th February.
In SIIARES we have had another rising market, on the
week. _

Advices from New York speak of a continually advan-
cing Flour market during the three weeks previous to the
departure of the packet, to the extent of 374 cents v- bar-
rel ; and we refer our readers to the commercial extracts
in our American intelligence for the latest quOtations for
this and other descriptions of breadstuffs. Shipments
from the northern ports of America hod almost entirely
ceased, so that with the arrival of those cargoes at present
at sea we shall cloe our account until the re-opening of
the navigation of t.ie rivers, which usually takes place
about the latter end of March. In fact, the price of
Flour quoted on the 9th instant in New York is so little
below its market value in Liverpool as at once to check
all tendency to speculation. Meanwhile the exports of
grain from the Baltic have also ceased ; but from the
nearer ports of Europe, in France and the Mediterranean,
we may have a little ,more, but not any very large quan-
tity. We have no change to report at present in the

Liverpool trade as the result of this intelligence, nor do
we anticipate any immediate alteration either here or
elsewhere, as millers and dealers seem determined to
" bide their time," whatever the consequences
February release from a state of bond
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