The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-05-11 00:00:00

than 635. per ton.
Lord Ingestrie has written to Lord John Russ

that " he cannot concur in the conch

imittee relative
_to Captain Warner

that the trial proved a failure." His for
many difficulties, none of which would occur in real sc

ship says that

vice, attended the operations before the committee.
A steamer, plying on the river Wye, narrowly escaped
destruction on Wednesday week, near Chepstow. Some
miners employed on the works of the South Wales Rail-
way fired a blast while the steamer was passing, and a
shower of heavy stones fell on all sides of the ve3sel.
Fortunately, only one of the smaller stones fell on board,
and the steamer and her passengers escaped unit jured.
EFFECTS OF LIVING ON ONE KIND OF FOOD.—About
sixty men, labourers on the railways in the course of
formation in this county, arc at present lying in the Royal
Infirmary, suffering from scurvy, which has been induced,
we understand, by making coffee and buttered bread, of
the best quality, their sole article of diet.—Edinburgh
A dvertiser.
Early and good news of the Greenland seal fishery has

arrived by an Aberdeen vessel, which has 9,000
her own share. Five vessels are reported as having caught
31,000 seals. This will go far to make up for the loss of
whales, who appear to have left the Greenland coast al-
together, and retreated to the upper parts of Davis'
Straits, whither they cannot be pursued, except at the

expense of a long voyag
At a vestry meeting held at Bridgewater recently the
following resolution was passed :—" That the practice of
appropriating the pews to the wealthier classes has been
productive of great evil to the mass of the population;
thlt the churchwardens, therefore, be directed to take
polsession of all the pews in this church as soon as the
present possessors thereof die or leave the town, and that
the word free be painted upon the door of each pew as
soon as it falls into hand."
KITTENS AND INFANTS.—A pretty child—
little three-year-old—was, not long ago, presented wit
the most tormented of pets, a nursery kitten, saved fl
the noyade that awaited the birth of its brothers and sis
ters. A short time afterwards the child's mamma added
two m 2mbers to the family circle, in the shape of twins.
On.being taken into the nursery to see them, she gazed on
them for some time, looking from one to the ogle:. << i li
much curiosity. Then, patting one of their plump little
cheeks with her ri -
keep this one, papa

a charming

aid, " I think we will

THE INFANTICIDES AT CARMARTHEN.—A verdict of
wilful murder has been returned against Mary Hughes,
for the murder of her three children, as stated in our last.
The mother fled, but has since been apprehended. She
had wandered over the mountains to the neighbourhood
of Llandewybreli, about ten miles off. No doubt is enter-
tained of her being quite insane. It appears she must
have carried the children up herself one by one, as to go
up to the loft she was obliged to go up a ladder, there
being no staircase there, and to come down after the bodies
were suspended, she must have been obliged to move oue
of them to the side before she could get to 111:, ladder.
At a meeting, held in Glasgow on Friday, of influential
er-makers, and others affected by

excise restrictions, they formed themselves into
National Association for the Reform of Excise Abuses,
the object of which will be to secure the return of mem
hers to parliament who will pledge themselves to use their
influence to obtain the removal of the abuses complained
of—to have the various excise regulations clearly embo-
died in an act of parliament, no part of which the Trea-
sury will have power to alter without at least a month's
previous notice—to obtain the removal of all frivolous and
vexatious restrictions, unnecessary for the due collection
of the revenue—and to procure the revision or repeal of
those excise duties which were impolitic in their nature,
or oppressive to the public.
NOVEL PROJECT.-A prospectus has been issued of a
new Joint Stock Company, to be called " The Silurian
Chemical Works," and to be established at Newport and
Cardiff, with a branch at each of those places, the object
of which is to purchase and work up refuse and other
small coal, to the extent of 2000 tons per day, or 600,000
tons per annum, into coke, tar, ammonical preparations,
and gas ; and to convey the latter product from Cardiff to
London, on a route via Gloucester, &c. ; and also to en-
able the directors of the Great Western and other railway
' companies to light the whole of their roads and branches
with gas, so as to prevent, as far as possible, all the acci-
dents that may arise from want of light in the dark and
dreary seasons of winter. It is proposed that the gas
lamps on railways should be fixed at intervals not exceed-
ing forty-five yards, which would be about forty lamps per
mile. The cost of supplying the gas is stated at 30s. per
' lamp, or £6O per mile.
A MAD SHEEP.—About two months ago, a little terrier
dog, at Cluny Castle, having been observed to be in a
rabid state, it was found necessary co kill him ; but this
was not done before he had done considerable damage,
though, we are glad to learn to none of the human species.
It appears he had gone into a park in which about forty
wethers were being fed upon turnips, killed one, and bit
other six—five of which were so severely injured, that
they were immediately destroyed. As the sixth had only
received a slight scratch on one of the hinder legs, it was
allowed to take chance. In a very short time the wound
was completely healed up, and, to all appearance, the
animal was none the worse for it. A few days ago, how-
ever, the slieperd, on going into the park with some hay
for his flock, was surprised to observe the wether referred
to chasing the others most furiously, leaping on such as
he could overtake, and exhibiting all the symptoms of
rabidness. In the words of our informant, "he acted the
dog as well as could possibly be done by any other animal
not of the canine race." This the poor animal continued
to do for about two hours aftep i. was first observed, and
at last lay down from sheer exhaustion, foaming at the
' mouth, and even imitating the barking of a dog. It was
then destroyed.—Dundee Adt'srtiser.