The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-01-19 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL DISPENSARIES.

LADY SKATERS.—The ornamental water in the Regent's-
park was crowded during the day, the ice being very good.
Among the assemblage were several persons of rank and
fashion, but the principal attraction were six ladies, habited a
la Rune, with silver skates suspended from their necks, who
skated in a most scientific manlier, from eleven until four
o'clock.—Courier of Saturday.
PAVED AND MACADAMISED ROADS.—It appears that Black-
friars-bridge requires fur keeping it in a proper state of repair
£lOOO. per annum, when macadamised • but it was kept in res
pair, as a paved road way, for an annual average sum of £l2O-
aica
By a return I resented to the House of Commons (1837) it ap-.
Lemeward Isl. Demerara it Berbice.
peals that the first cost of converting one mile two hundred and
Honduras
fifty yards from a London pavement into a broken stone road, New York, Boston
was £I2,S-12 ; the annual expense of maintaining which road Charleston, Savannah
hes been £lOO3. or Is. '2d. per superficial yard square.—Rail- New Orleans
Havana 12th Jan.
way Magazine.
Canada
TEA URNS.—In the ruins of Pompeii an urn was found con- British North America
taming an hollow metallic cylinder, for the inset tion of a hot Newfoundland
iron, by which water or other substances might be kept warm. Brazils
Tea urns, therefore. are not entitled to the appellation of modern River Plate
invention. East Indies
Company's Ships
TRANSMISSION OF NEWSPAPERS.—From the frequent re- Batavia
presentations made to the Postmaster-general, the Earl of Lich. New South Wales
field, of the abstraction of newspapers from their envelopes ('ape of Good Hope
during their transit, his lordship has issued an order permitting Gjiirta.al ta r
the name and address of the party to whom a newspaper is Lima, Valparaiso, Sce.
directed to he written on the newspaper itself, as well as on the Malta, Sicily, Ste.
Wrapper. This arrangement is of great importance to uewspa- Smyrna and Constantinople
per proprietors, as well as their readers, for in future no plea Malaga
cart be set up of the wrapper having been defaced or accident- Madeira
ally torn off so as to prevent. the paper reaching its destination. Isles, Cape de Verds
Lord King has been distributing his bounty to the poorer Cadiz
classes on his extensive estates in Surrey. His 'outstrip em. F„""ce,
ploys the whole of the labouring classes in the vicinity of Oak- Rolland
ham nt improving his park, and has distributed to each man amburig, Bremen, B,:c.
p.ottetrcliurrga.,RSit::.kpcco.l m
warm clothing, and 200 stone of beef among the ueeessitous
poor of the parish • -1"-' • -,4porta . .

LONDON & LIVERPOOL,
(Sailing before 12th Jan.)l

Numberof new patients entered on tlw books ofihe Dispensariesduring
the lasi week:—

ortuth. Total.
Received advice and medicine at the institution.N 265 h. So
265 530
Visited at their own houses and supplied with
medicine,
161 • 114 275

Totalat each Dispensary
426 379 805
itsuroits.
North—Rev. C. W. Lawrence, Rev. M. Fisher, and Rev. R. Croft.
South—Mr. Jordan, Mr. T. Robinson, and Mr. J. Cooper.

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