The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-07-23 00:00:00

THE MAYOR'S DINNER TO THE COUNCIL

In the evening the mayor, Thomas Bolton, Esq., invited
the members of the council to dine with him in the Town-
hall. The dinner took place in the Grand Banquetting-room,
and was of the most splendid description. The mayor pre-
sided, and at his right sat Philip Pusey, Esq., M.P., presi-
dent of the Royal Society of Agriculture ; on his left were
the Right Hon. the Earl Spencer, the Right Hon. the Earl
Talbot, and the Right Hon. Lord Sandon, M.P. The fol-
lowing gentlemen among others were also present :—Sir
Francis Lawley, Bart., Major St. Paul, Mr. Slaney, late
M.P. for Shrewsbury, Wilson Patten, Esq., M.P., Edward
Buller, Esq., M.P., the Rev. Dr. Buckland, professor of
geology in the University of Oxford, T. Law Hodges, Esq.,
Sir Charles Lemon, Bart., the Rev. Jonathan Brooks, the
Rev. James Martineau, David Barclay, Esq., M.P., Mr.
Childers, M.P. for Malton, Sir J. Johnson, Bart., the Hon.
Captain Spencer, the Hon. R. Clive, the Rev. Archer Clive,
the Hon. Spencer Montague, Sir Joshua Walinsley, Thos.
Thornely, Esq., M.P. for Wolverkampton, Mr. Geo. Wil-
braham, late M.P. for South Cheshire, G. H. Wilson, Esq.,
of Harperley Park, near Bishop Auckland, &c., &c. Alto-
gether sixty-nine gentlemen partook of the mayor's hospi-
tality. The toast of " Success to the Royal Society of
Agriculture" was proposed by the mayor, in a very neat
speech. Mr. Pusey responded in a suitable address, which
was loudly applauded. The health of the mayor was pro-
posed by Lord Spencer, who spoke in warm terms of the
cordiality with which the visit of the society had been re-
ceived, and said he had no doubt it would be attended with
the most beneficial effects. The mayor thanked the noble
lord and the company for the honour conferred upon him,
and said that it always had been, and ever would be, the
pride of Liverpool to pay respect to any association the ob-
jects of which were so praiseworthy as those of the Royal
Society of Agriculture. Many other toasts were given, and
by eleven o'clock the company departed, highly gratified
with the entertainments of the evening.

ESSAYS AND REPORTS ON VARIOUS
SUBJECTS.
PREMIUMS FOR 1811.-PRIZE ESSAYS.

1. VARIETIES OF WHEAT.—Twenty Sovereigns, or a
Piece of Plate of that value, will be given for the best re-
port on the comparative merits of different varieties of
wheat.

2. VARIETIES or BArtr.HY.—Twenty Sovereigns, or a
Piece of Plate of that value, will be given for the best re-
port on the comparative merits of different varieties of
barley.
3. VAP.IETIES OF TORNIPS.—Ten Sovereigns, or a
Piece of Plate of that value, will be given for the best re-
port of the comparative merits of different varieties of tur-

4. EFFECTS OF CERTAIN CROPS ON SUBSEQUENT
CROPS OF WBEAT.—Twenty Sovereigns, or a Piece of
Plate of that value, will be given for the best account of the
comparative effects of crops of beans, clover, vetches, po-
tatoes, rye-grass, or any other crop, upon a subsequent
crop f wheat.
5. Foon FOR LABOURERS.—Ten Sovereigns, or a Piece
of Plate of that value, will be given for the best directions to
enable labourers to prepare wholesome, nutritious, and pa-
latable food, in the most economical and easy manner.

ON MANURES AND SOILS

6. APPLICATION OF LIME.—Ten Sovereigns, ore Piece
if Plate of that value, will be given for the best account of
experiments on the application of lime as a manure.
7. NITRE AND CUBIC NlTRE.—Twenty Sovereigns, or
a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given for the best
account of experiments on the application of nitres as ma-
nures,including saltpetre (the nitrate of potass) and cubic
nitre (the nitrate of soda).
8. IMPROVEMENT OF PEAT SOlLS.—Twenty Sovereigns,
or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given for the best
essay or report on the most successful means by which the
improvement of peat soils may be effected.
ON AGRICULTURAL OPERATIONS AND IMPLEMENTS.
P. SUBSOIL AND TRENCH PLOUGHING.—Twenty Sove-
reigns, or a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given for
the most satisfactory experiment on the comparative merits
of the to processes of subsoil and trench ploughing.
10. SINGLE-HORSE CARTS.—Ten Sovereigns, or a Piece
of Plate of that value, will be given for the most satisfactory
account of any experiments to compare the relative advan-
tages of the single-horse carts which are generally used in
Scotland, with any mode of conveying agricultural produce
which is practised in any part of England, or in any foreign
country ; having regard to economy of labour both of men
and animals, quickness of work, and facility in loading and
conducting the carriage.
11. AGRICULTURAL MECHANICS.—Fifty Sovereigns, or
a Piece of Plate of that value, will be given for the best essay
on the present state of agricultural mechanics, and on the
improvements of which the various implements now in use
may be susceptible.

NEW MEMBERS.
The following is a list of the names of those gentlemen;
•esiding in or near Liverpool, who were elected members oi
society at the monthly council meeting on the 7th o:

July :
LIVERPOOL.—Riehard Formby, M.D. ; James Gaskell,
Smithdown-lane ; Elias Mozley ; George Smith, Bold-
street ; J. Marshall, M.D., Islington • Francis O'
' Neil ;
Henry Croft ; James Hallady ; Robert Crosbie ; William
Henry Gilliat ; Thomas Adams ; Wm. Price, Cleveland-
square ; Charles Mozley ; Enoch Harvey ; John Walton,
Seel-street; Robert Lindow Carr, St. Anne-street; Matthew
Wilson, North John-street; John Preseot Heys ; Sir John
Sainsbury • James Mander, Castle-street; Edward Little-
dale, Rodney-street ; James Aspinall ; Rev. Jonathan
Brooks ; Robert Bagott ; John Hayward Turner ; Thomas
Murray, Rumford-street ; John Ripley, 23, Canning-street ;
James Muir, 12, Great George's-square; Edward Guy
Deane, Mount-pleasant; William Maddy, Childwall-street ;
Thomas Durio, Moore; P. Ramsay, M.D., 69, Chatham-
street; George W. Frazer, Rodney-street ; Richard Phibbs,
Faulkner-street ; Robert Woodward ; and John Johnson,
EVERTON.—J. H. Mather • John Hodgson ; Thomas
Shaw; Robert Broadhurst Hill, Breckfield House ; Joseph
Hornby ; and John Grantham, 9, Everton-road.
KIKKD LE.—John Brown, Pleasant-street ; William
Nixon : William MacCormick ; and Edward Clark, Devon-
shire-terrace.
WEST DERBY.—Samuel Bright; Thomas Banks, West-
field House ; and James Rigby, Moss House.
AIGBURTll.—William Joseph Myers ; Richd. Harrison ;
Richard Scholes, Aigburth Hill ; William P. Bushby ; Cot-
tingham Moss ; and John Bevan.
WAVERTREE.—John Pagan.
OAKLEIGH.—Adam Ashton.

OAK VALE.—George Cunningham.
ALLEETON.—S.yarner Shand, Springwood

BRIARLEY.—John A. Tinne.
WEST DINGLE.—Joseph Brooks Yates.
HILLSIDE IlousE.—Archibald Sinclair.
NEWSIIAM HousE.—Thomas Blayds Molyneux
MUCH WOOLTON.—John Croswaite.
OTTERSPOOL.—Thomas Moss _ _ _

PRESCOT.—George Hendrie, Knowsley ; and John Heys.
(For the remainder of the proceedings of the Society see
the STANDARD.)

FATAL. EFFECTS OF A WOUND RECEIVED IN DISSECT-
ING A DEAD BODY.—M. Boitens, a French medical student,
expired in great agony a few days ago, from mortification
which ensued from a slight wound in the hand, received while
dissecting a dead body. On the third day from the accident,
inflammation appeared, and the virus overpowered its victim

in two days.
On Friday last, a cat, which had fallen in with a hare near
St. John's Church, Keswick, gave pursuit to the timid ani-
mal, and they ran a desperate course through a part of the
town ; but the hare eventually escaped from puss by taking
shelter in a timber yard, where it was shortly afterwards cap-
tured by one of the workmen.

STREETS, ROADS, TURNPIKES, AND OTHER HIGH-
WAYS IN LANCASHIRE.—From a parliamentary return,
recently printed, we extract the following particulars, rela •
tive to the roads, &c., in this county, in the year ended
March, 1839 :—The length of the streets or roads paved or
repaired under local acts was 256 miles (omitting fractions) ;
length of turnpikes, 627 miles ; length of all other highways,
2,220 miles ; making a total length of all other highways in
this county, two years ago, of 4,105 miles. It is worthy of
remark, that the length of the streets or roads paved under
local acts is greater in this county than in any other in Eng-
land ; Suffolk being the next, 252 miles ; Middlesex, 232,
and Yorkshire, 167 miles. The amount of highway rates
levied in Lancashire was, in 1837, £134,712 ; in 1838,
£142,548 ; and in 1839, X 147,991. Of these amounts, the
following sums were expended in repairs in the same years
respectively :—X108,858,
£126,427, and £130,744. The
amounts expended in law and other expenses (exclusive.of
repairs occasioned by presentment or indictment) were
51/,4 4;1,130, 'Vii total 411111 R expended in
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