The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-03 00:00:00

in exact

t not only is a large portion of the g
1 manu

but tilt the b:

'eci from white tiour
nourishing, while the animal life fed on th
iable to become . diseased. The author, in
di introduced in the last edition, proceeds .to say
ince the first-publication of the preceding part of thi
note, Professor Johnston, of the University of Durham, ha
subjected the meal and flour of wheat to chemical analysis

bran is

I thereby illustrated and confirmed the conclusions
Iravvn by the author of this tract from his own experi-
s and observations, and the statements of previous
—Wide " Blackwood's Magazine " for June,
According to this analysis, the flour of wheat
contains, at the lowest estimate, twenty-two per cent.
I€B3 of the staminal principles of nutrition than the entire
meal ; and, if to this is added the smallest allowance for
the matters destroyed by fermentation, we shall be under
the mark in saying, that fermented flour bread contains
twenty-five per cent. less of the nutritious ingredients
than unfermented meal bread. This loss in quality,
together with the loss in quantity given at page 12, fur-
nishes data for a correct estimate of the relative value of
the two as articles of diet. Hence it appears that for
every seventy-five loaves of fermented white bread we
might possess one hundred of unfermented meal bread ;
and in every three of these at least as much nourishment
as is contained in four of the other."

writers
1847.)

PIZARRO AND MS BAND.—On the 24th of September,
1532, five months after landing at Tumbez, Pizarro
marched out at the head of his little body of adventurers
from the gates of San Miguel, having enjoined it on the
colonists to treattheir Indian vassals with humanity, and
to conduct themselves in such a manner as would secure
the good-will of the surrounding tribes. Their own ex-

istetice, and with it the safety of army and the success
of the undertaking, depended on this course. In the
place were to remain the royal treasurer,
_the veedor or

the command of the garrison was intrusted to the con-

Lador, Antonio Navarro. Then putting himself at the
head of his troops, the chief struck boldly into the heart
of the country, in the direction where, as he was in-
formed, lay the camp of the Inca. It was a daring enter-
prise, thus to venture with a handful of followers into the
heart of a powerful empire; to present himself, 1,
face, before the Indian monarch in his own camp, en-
compassed by the flower of his victorious army ! Pizarro
had already experienced more than once the difficulty of
maintaining his ground against the rude tribes of the
north, so much inferior in strength and numbers to the
warlike regions of Peru. But the hazard of the game, as
I have already more than once had occasion to remark
constituted its great charm with the Spaniard.
brilliant achievements of his countrymen on the like ok.
casion, with means so inadequate, inspired him with con-
fidence in his own good star; and this confidence was one
source of his success._ Had he faltered for a moment.

had he stopped to calculate chances, he must inevitably
have failed ; for the odds were two great to be combated
by sober reason. They were only to be met triu
by the spirit of the knight-errant

'rescoteB History

and Coniuest of Peru

SHERWOOD FOREST.—The decayed ferns in some place
form a soil which is yards in depth, and the surface is
covered with mosses in beautiful variety, and studded with
bluebells, foxgloves, violets, and other sweet wild flowers,
their appointed seasons. In the spring, whilst the ferns
nrid yellow around you, and the oaks are blanched
iilitude is broken by rooks arid jackdaws
hollow sockets of the trees, and
--y pennons to the music of their own
cawing ; or it some tiny bird flits through the colossal ruins
of the forest, it is only to utter mournful shrenes, or sad,
melancholy pipings. The rooks and daws are the only
fures, (save the night owls) which have then

their dust

ss, aithougl

pletely taken up with

lmost total excl

qt.lently

nails it

k having I

Lge to no,

In piece goods not the slightest alteration ha
place, a moderate bu

out change in valu,

holders, ge-nerally sly
mule twist which buy

yarn, however, a fair
lower descriptions of (

not as

and w

been done wi

t submit to ; in re
es is reported ; tl

ted goods hdve h

last, but the better descriptions continue comparativel
tracted more atten

neglected; Turkey red goads
tion, and there has been a fah

late ; in w

liens w

tory position, the advance in va'
proportion between ti

having as yet apparently 1
dealers ; the further reduc

triprovemnt to nc

ines in a most unsatisfac

Le at home and great dis

.
regained the declide a
; in other descriptions fair
is has been done, but unaccompanied by any int-
ent in prices ; iron maintains its value, but there
epelter has. been placed petty freely
la. to 10 Company's rupees
been but little doing in beer,

Tent there and herE
uctive of no effect or
e value of tile copper

as quoted in our last, brought for
it has
busine
prove
is but

few buyers, ark

little doir

A from 10 Company's rupc
3a. per maund. There has,

;s's and Alsopp's are firm at about 85r. per hogs
No improvement had taken place in the money

Of FREIGHTS the Circular says :—When we last wrote
the rate of homeward tonnage had rather a downward
tendency, which continued up to the arrival of the Bom-

on the 14th ; the favourabl

ay expro_ advises of rice
brought by that opportunity however checked this, and
the demand for China and Mauritius having further re-
duced the limited amount of tonnage previous available
for Gnat Britain, shippers have bad to give way ; our

quotations being aboui the rates_ now current, and for

present every prospect of these being ma

A.‘ccounts received iii London, ye

sterdam Bourse refer to fresh flatness
public securities, caused by a general

osition to effect

The letters from Rio de Janeiro brought vest(
the Express packet quote the rate of Ex(
London at 270. ; Pa.is, at 345 to 348; and
at 645. The price of the local Six per Cent. Stock was
831. About £135,000 had been done since the sailina of

age upo

packet. Coffee had experienced a slight deciim
Superior, 3,100 reis; good fir
s ; good second, 2,500 reis to 9

rcis tc

The lasi lute

iligence. received from Para,

sented that country

dreadfully fray

ty repro
the corn

bined ravages of drought and locusts. The r
change at Buenos Ayres on the 15th of May v
3d. ; the Six per Cent. Local Stock, 98 to 100
count 1 to 1-1 per cent. per month.

2d. tc
nd dis-

A WEASEL HARE-HUNTING.—A few eve/
a gentleman was driving up the Kirkbean rc

he was pa

ing as it chased by ski'

proaching nearer, the pursuer was discovered to I
weasel, which followed its prey with amazing swiftt
and apparently by the scent; for when the hare got

smelt the track and continued the chase. The noise of
the gig-wheels alarmed poor puss, and she made a despe-
rate attempt to leap the roadside fence, in which she
failed, fell back, and was nearly caught by the little var-
mint. A boy, at this juncture, jumped out of the gig to
secure them both, but before he could do so they ran
away in different directions. The hare was very much
exhausted. 'id appeared to have been chased for long
and would very probably fall a prey to its
—.Dumfries Courier.

and severely ,
determined pursuer

Loss OF Mn. GALE'S
tion of Mr. Gale to gi

BALLOON

tunity of witnessing

inacly uappeneu mar, in tne cou
t of wind from W.S.W. broke tl
=rhino_ flmq 1

carrying with it sand

but it

they were carr

nettirn

ie, rose immedie
weights, &c. ; 1

scat, that

It of betwee

,recipitaied to the ground. F,
y injured. Many hundred F
,

t it W

'derly mo