The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-22 00:00:00

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sufficient to bear the pressure of quick trains passing over
it. We feel that the eleven remaining girders, having
been cast from the same pattern, and of the same strength,
are equally weak, and, consequently, equally dangerous
for quick or passenger trains, as was the broken one. We
consider we should not be doing our duty towards the
public if we separated without expressing our unanimous
opinion that no girder bridge of so brittle and treacherous
a metal as cast iron alone, even though trusEei with cast
iron rods, is safe for quick or passenger trains ; and we
have it in evidence before us that there are upwards of a
100 bridges similar in principle and form to the late one
over the river Dee, either in use or in course of being
constructed on various lines of railway. We consider all
these unsafe, more or less, in proportion to the span ; still
all unsafe. We therefore call upon her Majesty's govern-
ment to institute such an inquiry into the merits or de-
merits of these bridges, as shall either condemn the prin-
ciple, or establish their safety to, such a degree that pas-
sengers may rest fully satisfied there is no danger, al-
though they deflect from Ito 51 inches." The coroner
said that the first part of the verdict he would record, but
that the latter part, calling for government interference,

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might be taken notice of by the gentlemen of the press,
and would be forwarded by him to the Board of Trade.
THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.—The rain during
the past week has improved the wheat and oat crops, and,
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in toe tew patches which had a sickly appearance a fort-
night ago, a vigorous braird now displays itself. The
oats in Cheshire, along the main line of the Birmingham
railway and the Macclesfield branch, are growing with a
rapidity almost incredible, and in the course of a few days
if the weather should continue as warm as it now is, will
be " shot." At the Dog Hole farm, near the Indepen-
dent College, Withington, the beans, the vetches, and the
Italian ryegrass, in its first, second, and third crop, are
growing most luxuriantly. This grass, previous to its
first cutting, is over six feet high. Farmers would do well
to cultivate this prolific spring fodder more extensively
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y appearance of the wheat on the same farm is
undergoing a rapid change, and there is every prospect of
a large aereable amount of produce, the plant being strong
and not too thick on the ground to be well headed. The
potatoes also look extremely well here, and no complaints
of disease have been made at present so far as we are
aware. We have heard that in some of the gardens near
Winslow, the forward potatoes, kidneys principally, have
been attacked by a worm on the stems, and the tops have
fallen as though scalded ; but the farmers and gardeners
are not alarmed at this, inasmuch as it is a " disease" of
old standing, and is arrested to a great extent by nipping
the decayed part of the stem off. When that is done,
the plant, it would seem, again continues its growth.
We do not, however hear of the field potatoes in the same
neighbourhood, or at Alberley, Chelford, and westward
towards Knutsford, having suffered in the same manner.
The plants were never stronger or more luxuriant than
they are at present. From the southern division of
Cheshire the accounts are equally cheering. One of our
large dealers, who has been in the trade well nigh half a
century, and who resides at Frodsham, speaking of the
districts around Northwich, Delamere Forest, Frodsham,
Alvanley, &c., says that the plants never exhibited less
symptoms of disease. It would be too much, however,
to expect an entire extinction of the disease in one year.
The farmers, therefore, are actin prudently in sowing
cabbages and Swedes for transplanting, in case of a failure.
There will be a heavy crop of hay on the lowlands, and
the upland meadows, after the fine rains, will give out
more grass than was anticipated a fortnight back. In
some places the carrots have vegetated unkindly. .t
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tables are coming to market in larger quantities and
increased bulk, and what is of still greater importance 04
this district, at comparatively moderate prices. 1(1
The late lamented Mr. Youatt, in one of his orations tcki.,"-!
the members of the Veterinary College, observes, " thkg_
by the improvements in modern chemistry, the medicalG-,
profession are enabled successfully to treat diseases which.
were previously supposed as not within the reach of medi..
cine.' This truth has been manifested for many years, .;
but in no instance of greater importance to mankind than '1
by the discovery of 13,tair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills,