The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-01-03 00:00:00

TUE FORTH SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.—The steamer

Monarch, with the submarine cables for the Forth anct
Tay Ferries on board, having arrived at Granton on Wed-
nesday, the cable across the Forth was laid next afternoon..
On the junction being effected at Granton, the steamet-
proceeded slowly across the ferry, the cable gradually un-
rolling. The operation of submerging the line occupiect
about an hour and a half, and was successfully accom-
plished. The telegraph across the Tay will, we believe, be:
laid immediately.—North British Mail.
FATAL ACCIDENT. -A man named John Stone has

been killed at the Churchill station of the Oxford, Wor—
cester, and Wolverhampton Railway. The deceased was a.
besom-maker residing at Bewdley, and had taken a ticket
at the Churchill station for Brettel-lane. While waiting.
on the platform, a goods train approached, and the de—
ceased, mistaking it for the passenger train to Brettel—
lane, attempted to cross the line, although remonstrate&
with by the bystanders. He could not cross before the.
engine struck him, and inflicted such injuries as cause&
his death.

EGGS. —lt is estimated that the. United Kingdom con-
sumes 1,500,000,000 eggs yearly, of which Ireland pro-
duces nearly a third. The North-Western Railway-
frequently receives a million eggs in a day at Liverpool
from Ireland, to be forwarded to manufacturing towns.
A Boi.—During the cold weather at the beginning of
last week, the boa constrictor in Wombwell's menagerie,
to protect it from the cold, was carefully wrapped ire
flannel, and two young crocodiles put beside it, with the
view of imparting heat ; on the keeper, however, opening- -
out the flannel to look after his charge, to his utter
astonishment he discovered that one of the crocodiles had
been swallowed by the boa! This is considered to be EC
feat unparalleled in natural history.—Durham Chronicle
lirnoxEsemi INFANTICIDE.—A few days ago a brick-
layer, employed to repair the fire-place of a cottage its
Ditchling, a village about a mile and a half from the Has-
sock's-gate station, on the Brighton railway, discovered.
the bodies, or rather the skeletons, of five infants. The
house had been tenanted for 14 or 15 years by a womair
who had recently been married to a person named Mait-
land, and who is the mother of two illegitimate children,
still living. The neighbours deposed to a number of very-
suspicious circumstances; but the bodies being too decom-
posed to enable the professional witnesses to state with
certainty whether the children had been born alive, the
coroner's jury, on Saturday, returned an open verdict--
The magistrates examined the woman afterwards; and re-
manded her.

REMARKABLE ACCIDENT.—A few evenings since, as
servant girl living at one of the shops in the Corridor,
Bath, was directed to fetch a decanter from a cupboard in.
the drawing room. The girl got on a chair for the pur-
pose, when she suddenly fell through a " borrowed light ".
in the floor into the room beneath, a height of 93 feet.
The inmates, alarmed by the crash of the glass, rushed ton

her assistance, and discovered her in a hate of uncor.—
sciousness, sitting upright in a chair, with her arnt
stretched out, firmly holding the decanter in her hand-
She had, it appeared, fallen into the chair, for the seat had
sunk several inches, but the decanter was not broken,
neither had she sustained any injury beyond a few bruises
on the arm and head, and a slight scratch on the back of
the head from the broken glass or wirework protecting the
casement. There was another person in the room at the
time of the aecident, but it was so instantaneous that she
saw nothing of it, while the girl herself has no recollection
at all of falling. Mr. King, surgeon, was called in, and
of opinion, from the state in which he saw the girl,
that she had been seized with catalepsy. She is now quite.
recovered.

THE NORTH DEVON RAILWAY.—An inquest was held.
at Barnstaple, on Saturday, on the bodies of John Huxtable
and Samuel Mitchell, who have been for some time past
employed in blasting the rock by the side of Sticklepath-
hill, contiguous to the Barnstaple station of the North.
Devon Railway. About one o'clock on Thursday last, the
poor fellows were in the act of putting some gunpowder
into a hole, when it suddenly exploded, and both men
were thrown down the cliffs with considerable violence.
They fell from a height of between thirty and forty feet,.
which was alone sufficient to kill both of them on the
spot. Huxtable was taken up for dead, but, as he showed
signs of life, he was conveyed on boards to the infirmary,,
The neckcloth and the bosom of the shirt of Mitchell
were found to be on fire, and his whole appearance was of
the most distressing and pitiable character. He was also
conveyed to the infirmary. Mr.: Forester, the house-
surgeon, found Huxtable in an insensible state when
brought in ; he had a lacerated wound on the head, but
the skull was not fractured, and he expired on Friday
morning. Mitchell was very much charred about the
face, and he expired the same morning. After a length-
ened inquiry a verdict of accidental death was returned.
CHINA GRAss.—The Rheea plant, or the true Chinese'
grass, is already cultivated by natives of Assam, to make
fishing lines and nets. Its shoots can be cut down seve-
ral times a year, and its fibres they know how to separate.
Major Hannay has been able to improve the proms, by
the assistance of the Chinese in Assam. Capt. Thompson,
of the house of Thompson and Co., ropeinakers, of Cal-
cutta, found the Rheea fibre from Rungpoore to be thred

times stronger than the best Russian hemp, and the
wild Rheea everything that could be desired for rope—
making, though the cultivated kind, probably from a
difference in the preparation, he thought a little too rigid
for the running rigging of ships. But as there is no doubt
of the strength and flexibility of their fibres, it is to be
hoped that they will, when more generally known, be
more extensively employed for ropemaking both in India
and England, especially as they can be produced at a
price under that of Russian hemp. Neither the royal
nor mercantile navy need, therefore, be restricted to Euro—
pean sources of supply, for this essential part of their
equipment ; but as the Rheea of Assam, like the Chu-Ma,
of China, produces fibres of different degrees of fineness,
according as they are taken from the later or the earlier
crops, so may they, though rivalling those of grass cloth
in fineness, exceed those of Russian or of Polish hemp is
strength.—Journal of the Society of Arts.

MODERN PATRIOTISM.—When an Hungarian exile,_
newly escaped from the gaols and gibbets of Austria,
lands on English ground, he is received with profuse and.
enthusiastic sympathy. Town councils entertain and
listen to him ; ins speeches fill the papers ; and we feel a.
glow of generous exultation as we reflect that Great
Britain is the home of liberty, and that here at least the
outcast has reached a refuge where tyranny is detested
and oppression practically unknown. Singularly enough,
the result is precisely the same when a run-away Irish
convict sets foot in New York. There is the same out-
burst of generous feeling ; the speeches, though flavoured
with an extra dash of extravagance, are much in the same
strain ; and the ovations prepared for John ➢litchell by
the American municipalities bear a sufficiently close re-
semblance to those accorded to Louis Kossuth at South-
ampton, Birmingham, and London. The government
from whose hands these gentlemen have escaped—a pretty
good proof in itself that those hands were not laid one
them very heavily—is in their opinion and in that of their

entertainers not a government at all, but " a band of
knotted tyrants and enemies of the human race," " cruel_
and rapacious," " a gang of conspirators, robbers, an&
murderers." They curse its charity and abhor its
blasphemy." Their hearers sympathise and applaud. la
it the Government of Austria they are talking of ? No,
the Government of England. Stuff ! you ejaculate,
throwing down your paper with a contempt in which yom
would be ashamed to allow that there was any particle of
anger. Stuff indeed—but not so considered at New York.
It is the settled conviction of three-fourths of Europe that
O'Connell was the purest patriot and the greatest man of
his day. We take another and a juster measure of him ;
but numbers are against us, and the history of the age
will not be written exclusively by English pens. Shoul(L
it not temper slightly the peremptory judgments we forni
of other nations, to find that lies pass for truth, and a

mischievous incendiary is honoured as a hero and a martyr,
at so short a distance from Temple-bar, and among an.
English-speaking people, familiar with Engli4h literature
and English news ?—Guardian.
PURIFICATION or TnE Ana.—lt is known that sulphur—
ous acid, or the fumes of burning sulphur, constitute art
excellent disinfectant in typhus fever ; and such " hydras
dire" as sulphuretted and phosphuretted hydrogen muss:
be completely neutralizable by these fumes, the oxygen of
the one uniting with the hydrogen of the other, an&
utterly destroying them. _ For this reason we strongly

recommend frequent fumigations of dwellings, area,,
court-yards, and gardens, simply with the fumes of burn—
ing sulphur, as a very cheap as well as assuredly effectual
disinfectant, of all such noxious miasmata, at least, as are
likely to infest the precincts of human dwellings. Sul—
phurous acid fumes will hang in the air for a long time-,
and meet the enemy there face to face in deadly strife,
without anything particularly disagreeable to the nostrilEr,
except when held inadvertently above the chafing-dish or
other utensil in which the sulphur is burning, and ins_
which, by the way, it may be readily kept burning, evert
in the coldest weather, by help of a red-hot poker. .ll*
cases of typhus fever, Dr. Graham has found such fumes
to be more effectual as a disinfectant than anything else-.
. It is a singular circumstance, too, that while sulphuric
acid has been quite recently discovered to be actually aim
important cure for cholera itself, either sulphurous or
sulphuric acid will be found to have been highly esteemed
by the medical faculty of the last two centuries as a cure
for plague ! We may also mention the fact, as an interest—
in one, corroborative of the idea that the finnes of
g
sulphur might be of essential service as a PrutecthL.
against cholera, that although from recent causes
intensifying to predisposition to cholera in one petl,_en:
part of the town of Luton, that town, which irs. t,ll_,lif"l,
quarters or capital of the straw-plait and bon'
which sulphur must be constantly converterdo, 1_
the private dwellings, into -fumes of sulpht3
147,11"L`.,18-z7
perfectly free from cholera both in 1832 yid "111
who have ever
Moreover, the fact must be familiar to
through countries =-
had correspondence transmitted
districts infected with plague (at least it used to be soh.
bacenneltussedtroasnglaydoifsinsifileephtanurt„..
tiltisatfumletetieirsin, &facc.,t iiniaysuincghlcfnges
within a dwelling,
in plague'—as, for' instance,er ilnosuiwr lazarettos. As
than Achslofno.rnein,
jury to
,metallic
pliurous acid mustor
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very usual disinfectant,i andL. it is much cheaper as well as
practically more eueett
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NERVOUS DEBILITY AND DETERMINATION OF BLOOM'
TO THIS HEAD.—EXtraCt of a letter from Mr. John Lloyd,
Harlech, Merionethshire.—To Professor Holloway,
Sir,—l think it my duty to inform you that for a long time t
Waft afflicted with giddiness and swimming in the head and.
eyes. attended by loss of appetite and generally impaired
health. Every means bad faded to give me relief, and at
length it became so alarming that I was afraid of going out
without an attendant. Mr. Hughes, chemist, Hurled], ad—
vised me to try your Pills, which I immediately did, and an'
h
heaalt ppy to h
and ssa y
treng they
theffected a perfect cure, and restored ms for
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East Enbirs.

REGULAR LINE OF PACKETS FOR MADRAS.
Ras only a very limited quantity of room.—Will be despatched

_ ..
on the 10th instant.
The beautiful British_built clipper Ship
.4;'s ii‘. GAZELLE
GEORGE •.4,1
Zax
, ,
LESLIE, Commander,
~.. —.777,ame. (Who is well acquainted with the trade ;)

A 1 at Lloyd's; built in 1832; registers 334 tons old, and only
286 tons new measurement; constructed expressly for fast
a cling : loading in the Prince's Dock —Apply to
CI rI'ESWORTH. WYNNE, and LYNE.

australia.

To sail about the 10th Janaary, and takes no Steerage
Passengers.

For MELBOURNE: PORT PHILIP,
'l, . s The A I coppered and copper-fastened Ship
4 ,
1.. AGNES,
i ''''. 4, Captain LLOYD.
_ -.-.. (Who is well acquainted with the trade.)
...,
..
This vessel is quite a favourite with passengers, and having
very superior accommodation, will take a limited number in
cabin only.—Apply to PILKINGTON and WILSON,
Commercial-buildings, Water-street.

THE "THISTLE" LINE OF PACKETS

Is berthed on the East Side of the Canning Dock, with all her
Aeavy cargo on board.-'- Has ~nly room fo- measurement
goods, and will sail positiveln on the 10th instant.

- .
For MELBOURNE, PORT PHILIP,
The very superior A I at Lloyd's first-class Ship
',O IMARTIN LUTHER,
,
).; A. A. M'KEAcittE (late of the PaoonEss),
Commander;
3,241 tons register. This splendid first-class ship is newly
Iroppered this voyage.—For freight or passage apply to the
Owner, DUNCAN GIRD, 31, Strand-street, Liverpool.

"-EAGLE" LINE OF PACKETS FOR AUSTRALIA.

To the consignment of BRIGHT, BROTHERS, and co., Mel-
bourne, who provide Steamers and Lighters for Landing
their Passenger', Luggage and Cargo, immediately on the
Vessel'A arrival in Hobson's Bay.
For MELBOURNE, PORT PHILIP, and
SYDNEY,
To be despatched 11th January,
The celebrated Clipper•ship EAGLE,
tiktettl 1,700 tons burthen,
FRANCIS BOYCE, Commander.
This Vessel has made the following remarkable passages
1852.—Melbourne to London 76 days.
IBs3.—Liverpool to Melbourne.. 78 „
Me:bourne to Liverpool B3 „
And the superiority of her accommodation is well known.
To be followed by the ALBATROSS, GEVES, 1,700 tons.
Apply to the Owners,
GIBBS, BRIGHT, and CO., Liverpool.

" GOLDEN LINE" OF AUSTRALIAN PACKETS.
Goods shipped by this Vessel will he landed on the Wharf by
the Steam-tug and Lighters the owners have provided for
the purpose, and, being fitted with a Steam-engine to work
the winches, a discharge in a few days after a-rival is insured.
Will have immediate despatch.
For MELBOURNE,
(Takes no Steerage Passengers.)
The superb new Clipper-ship
GUIDING STAR,
1 at Lloyd's ; 2,004 0.m., and only 1,475 tons
per register; sister vessel to the well-known clippers Star
of the East and Miles Barton. which have just made the
remarkably fast passages to Melbourne of 76 and 82 days
respectively. Will be loaded to the het possible trim, under
the special superintendence of Mr. Mitchell, (the Surveyor to
the Underwriters,) for the express purpose of making the
quickest passage on record, an expectation her magnificent
model fully justifies. Her accommodation for Ca in Passen-
gers cannot be surpassed. To secure room, early application
should be made to the owners,
MILLERS and THONIPSON, 4, Drury-lane.

"BLACK BALL LINE OF AUSTRALIAN PACKETS.
Goods shipped by the above line are landed on the wharf
without delay, the owners having Lighters for the purpose.
Carries a full Band of Music, as well as Chess, Backgammon,
and Draft Boards. for the amusement of the passengers.
For MELBOURNE, PORT PHILIP,
Willi passengers, parcels, specie (having bullion safes), and
a limited quantity of light freight.
To tail Bth iastant,
The celebrated clipper Packet Ship
01..\ INDIAN QUEEN,
CHRISTOPHER MILL, Commander;

I-P4l tons register; A I at Lloyd's; has just completed
ber First Voyage to Melbourne and back, including deten-
tion abroad, in Six Months and Eleven Days, being the
shortest on record, the Marco Polo excepted ; her accommo•
dation for passengers is of a class rarely to be met with, and
the attention shown by the Commander is well known.—For
terms, &c., apply to the owners.
JAMES BAINES and CO., 6, Cook-street.