The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-10-12 00:00:00

IIOMAS DISMORE, SILVERSMITH and JEWELLER,
T 35, BOLD-STREET, (from Dismore and Sons, Manufac-
turers, London,) respectfully announces to the Nobility,
Gentry, and Visitors of Liverpool and its Vicinity, that he
has on Sale a variety of JEWELLERY, of the choicest
description, the quality and reasonable prices of which he
trusts will give every satisfaction.
Diamonds, Pearls, &c. &c. purchased, or reset in the
,newest fashion.

YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY.
CALL OF FOURTH INSTALMENT OF £8 PER
SHARE.
THE Directors of the York and North Midland Railway
Company having, in pursuance of the provision; in the
Act, resolved to make a CALL OF £8 PER SHARE,
payable on or before SATURDAY, the 13th day of October
next, Proprietors of Shares in this Company are hereby
required to pay, on or before that day, to any of the under-
mentioned Bankers, the Sum of £8 on each of their respec-
tive Shares.

BANKERS.
London Messrs. Barnetts, Hoare, and Co.
London ... Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co.
York The City and County Bank.
York The Union Bank.

The Bankers have been instructed to charge Interest at the
rate of Five per Cent. per Annum, according to the Provi-
sions of the Act of Incorporation, from the 13th day of October
next, on all Sums tendered after that day.
GEORGE H U DSON, Chairman audDeputy-Chairman
JAMES MEEK, S of the Board of Directors.
By Order,
GEORGE BAKER, Secretary.
York and North Midland Railway Office,
York, 6th September, 1838.

InOurance Noticro.

NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE SOCIETY

ESTABLISHED 1821.
CAPITAL, £550,000.
TRUSTEES.

Right Hon. Lord Wodehouse, Rt. Hon. the Earl of Orford.
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Lord Lieutenant Sir Henry Jardine.
Sir Jacob Astley, Bart. M.P. I Charles Savill Onley, Esq.
Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart.

DIRECTORS.
E. T. Booth, Esq., President.
Lieut.-Col. John Harvey, Vice-President.
Anthony Hudson, Esq. Isaac Preston, Esq. Recorder
George Morse. Esq. of Norwich.
William Herring, Esq. Charles Evans, Esq.
Col. Sir Rob:. John Harvey, Edward Steward, Esq.
C.B. Lewis Evans, Esq., M.D.
George Seppings, Esq. Thos. Blakiston, Esq., R.N.
Secretary--Samuel Bignold, Esq.
THE Public are respectfully reminded, that alt Insu-
rances renewable in the eLI-VERPOOL AGENCY
on the 29th day of September, 1838, must be paid at the
Office, Exchange-street West, on or before the 11th day of
October, or the Society will cease to be liable for the Sums
insured.
The RETURNS of PREMIUM for the three years end-
ing the 29th September, 1836, are now in course of payment.
In proof of the public approbation of the principles and
conduct of this Company, it may be sufficient to state that
its business now exceeds FIFTY-FOUR MILLIONS. -
Prospectuses may be had of R. L. MILLER, Agent.
Treasurers-I'llE LIVERPOOL BOROUGH BANK.

QUACKERY IN POLITICS AND PHYSIC.—You have laws
a regulatin' of quack doctors, but none a regulatin' of quack
politicians; now a quack doctor is bad enough, and danger-
ous enough, gracious knows; but a quack politician is a
devil outlawed—that's a fact.—Sam Slick.

Nova'. MODE of Ski AVING.—While I was in the shep-
herd's encampment I saw a shaving performed.in a very ex-
traordinary manner The thighbone of a sheep was broken,
and the marrow of it smeared on the patient's head, cheeks,
and chin. The shepherds generally carry a sheep's thigh
bone, to be ready for the operation, struck in their garter,
just as a Highlander wears his little knife for ham-stringing
deer.—Urguhart's Travels in the East.
FUTURE PROSPECTS OF EGYPT.— I fear there is no hope
for Egypt—at least, at present. There is a gleam in the sky,
but, like the false down in India, it will fade away, and deeper
darkness will succeed. Yet the true dawn will come at last,
and brighten into perfect day; and then, and not till then,
will Egypt, Christian Egypt, rise from the dust, and resume
her seat among the nations.—Lord Lindsay's Letters on
Egypt.
THE POTATO.—What can be more curious than the cir-
cumstance, that when the potato is propagated by cuttings.
these cuttings will produce roots of the same quality; but
when it is propagated by seed, scarcely two roots resemble
each other. This is the case generally of trees and plants.
A cutting of the golden pippin will produce a golden pippin;
a seed of the same tree will produce a crab. If it was not
for this law of nature against us, we might perpetuate all
fruits.

INDICATIONS OF A SEVERE WINTER.—Many animals have
a much warmer fur in the winter than in the summer months,
and this winter coat, it has been observed by naturalists, is
found far advanced in the preparatory autumn. This boun-
teous provision of nature seems to have been extended to the
♦egetable world; and it has been observed that the pellicle
of onions is much thicker on the approach of a severe win-
ter than on that of a more temperate season.—Curiosities of
Medical Experience.

PUGNACIOUS CAMELS IN THE DESERT.—AbOUt the mid-
dle of the day, as usual, the sheik rode ahead, and, striking
his spear in the sand, and had coffee prepared before we came
up. While we were sitting around the spear, two of our
camels so far forgot the calm dignity of their nature, and
their staid habits, as to get into a fight • and one of them,
finding himself likely to come off second best, took to his
heels, and the other after him ; they were baggage camels,
one being charged with my boxes of provisions and house-
keeping apparatus, and his movements indicated death to
crockery. I will not go into particulars, for eggs, rice,
macaroni, and lamp-oil make a bad mixture; and though the
race and fight between the loaded camels were rather lu-
dicrous, the consequence was by no means a pleasent thing
in the desert.—Stephens's Incidents of Tray.fl, 4'c.
MaTarsioNe.—l've been afeerd to ventur on matrimony
myself, and I don't altogether think that I shall spekelate in
that line for one while; it don't jist suit a rovin' man like
me. It's a considerable of a tie ;—and then it ain't like a
horse deal, where, if you don't like the beast, you can put it
off in a raffle or a trade, or swop and suit yourself better; but
you must make the best of a bad bargain, and put up with it.
It ain't often you meet a crittur of the right metal: spirited,
yet gentle; easy on the bit, sure-footed, and spry; no bitin',
no kickin', or sulkin', or racin' off, or refusin' to go, or run-
nin' back, and then clean limbed and good carriage. It's
about the difficultest piece of business I know on.—Sans
FISHING IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA.—The king stood erect in
his bark canoe, while nine young men, with short spears,
went up the river, and as many down the river, until, at a
signal from him, they all dived into it, and returned towards
him, alternately swimming and diving; these divers trans-
fixing the fish under water, and throwing them on the bank.
Others on the river brink speared the fish, when thus enclosed,
as they appeared among the weeds. In this manner they
speared, with astonishing despatch, some enormous cod (Peel's
perch;) but the largest were struck by the chief from his
canoe, with a long barbed spear. The death of the fish, in
their practised hauds, was almost instantaneous, and caused
by merely holding them by the tail, with the rills immersed.
—Major Mitchell's Expedition into the interior of Australia.
LLD I CROUS MISTAKE.—A great restraint is placed on the
expression of public opinion throughout the Austrian domi-
nions, but more successfully in Austria Proper than in Hun-
Vary. Here politics are freely discussed; not so there. At
ienna, an Englishman in a cafe was speaking to a friend
about his partiality for tea, and observed in the language of
the country, " Ich liehe thee," or, "I am fond of tea." One
of the undress police, catching indistinctly the last three syl-
lables, immediately accosted him, saying, Sir, "liberte" is a
word not to be uttered in Austria!" In fact, as Napoleon
decreed impossible to be excluded from the French language,
so liberty is declared not to be Austrian.—Elliott's Three
Great Empire's.
How To BoTriElt MINISTERS.—SaIaries are a never-end-
ing theme for you; officials shouldn't be paid at all; the ho-
nour is enough for 'em; a patriot sarves his country for
nothin'. Take some big salary for a text, and treat it this
way ; says you, there's John Doe's salary, it is £750 a year,
‘'
that is '2 a day. Now, says you, that is sixteen common la-
bourers pay at 6d. each per day; shall it be said that our
great marinouth official is worth 16 free citizens, who toil
harder and fare worse than he does? Then take his income
for ten years, and multiply it. See, says you in ten years
he has received the enormous sum of £7500; then run over
the things £7500 would effect on roads, bridges, schools, and
so on, and charge him with havin' been the means of robbin'
the country rif all these blessin's; call 'em blood-suckers,
pampered minions, bloated leeches."—Sam Slick's Sayings
and Doings.
AN EAKriii.Y PURGATORY.—Certain convents were said
to have an apartment or dungeon into which the friars every
day, during the warm season, brushed or shook the fleas from
their habits through the aperture above (being the only en-
trance), and where, whenever a frail brother was convicted
of breaking the most fragile of his vows, he was let down
naked, and with his hands tide ! This earthly purgatory was
called "Le Pulciara," that is the Fleary ; and there the
culprit was left, till it was deemed that he had suffered punish.
ment enough in this life for his offence.—The Doctor.
INSTANTANEOUS GINGER BEER.—FiII a bottle with pure
cold water, then have a cork ready to fit it, also a string or
wire to tie it down with, and a mallet to drive the cork, so
that no time may be lost; now put into the bottle sugar to
your taste, (syrup is better,) and a tea-spoonful of good
powdered ginger, shake all well, then add the sixth part of an
ounce of super carbonate of soda; cork rapidly, and tie
down—shake the bottle well—cut the string—the cork will
fly—then drink Ginger Beer.
STATE OF HEALTH IN THE METROFOLIS.—We regret to
state that the small-pox have been for some time very preva-
lent in various parts of the metropolis, and exceedingly fatal.
The bills of mortality for the past week mention 45 deaths as
owing to that disease alone, and we have heard from several
registrars that they have had a very large proportion of deaths
to register from that cause. The bills of mortality give an
increase of 560 deaths upon the past week, principally attri-
buted to age and debility, consumption, convulsions, and
sraall-pox.—Observer.
A Parolee's NOTION OF WHlGS.—(Slightly altered from
the Globe. )—A farmer ire the neighbourhood of Godalming,
Surrey, dining with one of the inhabitants of that town a
short time since, and politics being introduced, the conduct
of the Whigs was commented on by some of the party, when
the farmer observed—" Why, now, gentlemen, I can com-
pare their general conduct to nothing better than that of some
of my pigs. I feed them with pease in my farmyard; those
who happen to be within the gate eat the pease very orderly
and quietly—you hear no noise or grumbling amongst them;
but presently come a parcel of other pigs from the field, and
being without the gate, they run to this side and that, push
the gate with their nose, squeak, halloo, and kick up a dis-
turbance ; but the moment I open the gate and introduce
them to the pease, they become as quiet as so many mice in
a full barn."—John Bull.
PERILOUS SITUATION OF THE DUCHESS OF BUCCLEUGH.
The young and beautiful Duchess of Buccleugh made a nar-
row escape last week, on the mountain of Ben Nevis. The
duke has been deer-stalking in Badenoch; and the duchess,
on Monday last, undertook to ascend Ben Nevis, on foot,
from Corpach Inn, at the western end of the Caledonia Canal.
She was accompanied on the expedition by a young gentle-
man, a near relation of the duke; and they took with them
a guide, who proved subsequently imperfectly acquainted
with the road. When on the summit of the mountain, the
day, which had been previously been fine, became hazy, and
night was at the same time drawing on. The little party
were soon enveloped in a dense mist, and the guide became
perfectly bewildered. The duchess, with a degree of moral
courage scarcely to have been anticipated in a young lady of
delicate nature and constitution, exerted herself to keep up
the spirits of her companions and to nerve them to persever-
ing exertion. Iler efforts had been unavailing _amid that
wilderness of precipices and morasses—for who can say what
would have been the effect of exposu're to the inclement night
air on so delicate a frame ?—but for the sagacious exertions
of Mr. JohnM`Donald, proprietor of the Ben Nevis distillery.
The long delay of the duchess had excited alarm, and the
inhabitants of Fort William were mustering to the rescue,
when Mr. Ll`Donald mounted his horse, and, taking with him
a large hand-bell, cantered out into the dark night. The
sound of the bell caught the ear of the wanderers; and the
duchess and her noble relativim were, by this ingenious de-
vice, rescued from their ilang2.roua situation. Mr. M`Donald's
plaid being converted into a tempoary pack-saddle, the noble
lady was conveyed in au almost exhausted state to Fort
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