The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-05-24 00:00:00

A LAPLAND GIANTESS, measuring seven feet two
inches, and weighing twenty.four stone fourteen pounds,
is being exhibited at Aberdeen.
C. ROBINSON, ESQ., of Plympton, exhibited at South
Brent fair, a cow and calf; the former two feet eleven
inches high, and the latter, which is ten months old,
twenty-four inches.

THE MAGNIFICENT CHURCH OF BOSTON was re-
opened on Thursday, after a reparation and repewing
which had cost about £4,000, the, whole of which was
raised by voluntary contribution.
THE MILITIA.—In consequence of the number of men
who have volunteered from the militia into infantry
regiments of the line about to proceed to foreign stations,
it has been found necessary again to enrol men for the i
first-mentioned service, n order to fill up the vacancies.
FATAL FIRE AT BRADFORD.—An alarming fire broke
out on Tuesday morning, at the worsted mill of Messrs.
Walker and Co. The mill is left a complete wreck, and
it is reported the loss will amount to £15.000 or more.
Four men were killed, two remain in the ruins, and six
were taken to the infirmary severely wounded.

HATCHING.—A novel mode of hatching chickens has
been put into operation in Lincoln, on the premises of a
fellmonger. The eggs are placed in water, which is kept
up to the requisite warmth by means of a solar lamp ; and
many fine chickens thus hatched are running about the
premises.

•
KOSSUTH has made the avowal that he is, in several
countries, but not in England (!), laying up materials for
making war against Austria. Messrs. Cobden and Bright,
the especial mouthpieces of the Peace Society, take the
part and speak much in praise of this belligerent Hun-
garian. Can the force of inconsistency or " humbug" go
beyond this?—Church and State Gazette.
CURE FOR ERYSIPELAS.—The editor of the Salem
Observer gives a public cure for erysipelas, from which
lie has been a great sufferer. He says " a simple poultice
of cranberries, pounded fine, and applied in a raw state,
has proved in my case, and a number also in this vicinity,
a certain remedy." In this case the poultice was applied '
on going to bed, and the next morning, to his surprise,
he found the inflammation nearly gone; and in two days
he was as well as ever.
ANOTHER BOILER ExrtostoN.—A boiler burst on
Saturday week, at the fire-iron and glass-cutting factory
of Messrs. Davis, of Dudley, killing four persons, and it
is feared fatally injuring a fifth, and some others seriously :
—" The effects of the explosion on the factory are
altogether ruinous, the building being wholly destroyed,
together with all the machinery, which was blown into
the air, and scattered over the houses adjoining • in many
cases the large masses of iron, some weighing five
hundred, six hundred, and even seven hundredweight,
falling on the houses and breaking through the roofs.
The engineer, named Joseph Millward, was blown to a
great height in the air—probably nearly 100 feet—and,
falling on the roof of a house about eighty feet from the
factory wall, his weight carried him through the slating
and ceiling of the attic to the floor of the room. The
unfortunate man was not dead when he was found in the
room nearly half an hour after the explosion, but did not
survive more than an hour. Besides the engineer, there
were killed—Elias Sheldon, about twenty years of age;
Peter Ellis, who has left a widow and five children; and
George Stokes, a married man, with no children. The
remains of the poor fellows are shockingly mangled."
FORM or CHIMNEYS.—Some very elementary con-
siderations will show that a greater momentum is ob-
tained by a chimney increasing in size upwards, and thus
allowing the air to expand. If a person blows in at the
expanded end of an ordinary straight trumpet, he will
find that there is a great expenditure of wind to no 1 ur-
pose, the force being entirely lost, and no vibration pro-
duced in the metal. But if he turns it round, and blows
in at the small end, he will find that a small quantity of
air forced in will produce a powerful vibration through
the whole length of the instrument. They same thing
takes place in chimneys, which are only a peculiar kind
of wiod instrument; a gradually increasing width pro-
ducing a greater " draft ' than a straight or contracted
flue. From this, it follows that the mouth of the flue
next the fire must be as small as is practicable, and ex-
pand upwards from this point. The best known exam-
ple of the working of this principle is in the advan-
tage of the register-stove over the old-fashioned, wide-
mouthed " inverted funnel" shaped flue, which was
from time immemorial placed over every fireplace ; the
register-stove has a small mouth and an expanding flue
above. It is high time that we went to the root of the
matter, or, in other words, to the place where smoke
first enters a flue, and not where it escapes.— Correspon-
dext of The Builder.

MURDER BY A 130 y.-A verdict of wilful murder has
been returned against a boy, named Edwin Hucker,
under ten years of age, of Keynsham, near Bristol, who,
it appears, pushed another boy, William Saunders, a
companion, into the river Avon, when he was drowned,
in the presence of a third boy, named Evans, who told
his relations that he was in the meadow, and saw Hucker
there lying down on the grass, and that the little boy
Saunders came up and jumped on to his neck, at which
Hucker got into a passion, and said he would hit his
head off. Evans further stated, that about an hour after.
wards he saw Saunders on the bank of the river picking
some sorrel, which grew on its edge, and that Hucker,
who was behind him, pushed him into the river, and
said, "D— it, he's in the river." Evans likewise
stated, that the copper mills were a little way off, that
there were people there, and he was running to get some
one to pull out Saunders, whom he saw struggling for
five minutes, but that Hucker would not let him do so,
but, on the contrary, held him down by his pinafore, and
said, that if he offered to go, he would push him in also,
and jump in himself. After this, Rucker followed him
nearly as far as Stoates-hill, and told him not to say any-
thing about it, and he would give him something on the
Friday, which was the reason why he did not tell where
Saunders was when he was missed at first. The body
was found some days afterwards, but in such a state of
decomposition that it would not have been recognised but
for some peculiarity in his boots, and a bag found in his
pocket.

LhaACsCOYbnet of t
h the
amountparliamentary
legacy-
dutypub-
lished,
edo
ni
£1815,23,08.f04565,53552.
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olondwi;liclehgaleegyacdvudtyut
;35 total
3t
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amount of capital on which said duty has been paid since
1797, .C 1,657,064,075 Os. 2d., and total amount of duty
paid within that period on such capital, £47,401,273 9s.
duty
paid was
t thereon,
In Ireland, in the year 1851, the amount of capital on
which legacy duty was paid was £2,432,258 17s. 5d., and
the duty £58,444 Bs. 4d. ; in 1852, capital, £2,570,237
10s. 7d., and the duty paid thereon £61,513 Os. Ild. The
amount of duty paid in 1851 on probates and letters of
administration in Ireland was £66,075, and in 1852 the
amount paid was 67,877. The amounts of revenue received
in the united kingdom in 1852, for stamp duties on -lega-
cies, &c., are as follows :—England and Wales, stamp
duty on legacies, £1,225,212 Is. 5d.; on probates, &c.,
£996,995 15s. 6d. In Scotland, stamp duties, on legacies,
£92,849 19s. 3d.; on probates, &c., £70,429105. In
Ireland, stamp duties on legacies, £62,273 16s. 11d. ; on
probates, &c., £67,887. The total amount of duty re-
ceived since 1797 was: on legacies in England, £44,736,159
7s. 61. ; in Scotland, £2,870,902 15s. 7d. •, and in Ireland
£1,275,720 9s ld. Grand total of legacy duty paid since
1797, £48,882,782 12s. 4d. ; duty on probates, adminis-
trations, and testamentary inventories, in England,
£35,660,888 12s. 2d. •, in Scotland, £2,041,386 Os. 2d. ;
and in Ireland, £1,693,595 Bs. 10d. Grand total of duty
on probates, &c., since 1797, £39,395,870 Is. 2d.
COUNTY COURTS.—When it is considered that since
the establishment of the county courts, in 1847, to the
31st of December, 1851, the amount sued fcr therein is
£6,777,372, the importance to the trading community of
a means being afforded them of ascertaining the names of
the parties against whom judgment has been given in
these courts is obvious, particularly as there are 499
county courts established throughout England and Wales,
in any of which persons may consent to a judgment under
the lth section of the 13th and 14th Victoria, chap. 61,
although not resident in the district of the court, so as to
conceal the fact from their neighbours. For the protec-
tion, therefore, of trade, and in pursuance of the 15th
and 16th Victoria, chap. 54, the commissioners of Her
Majesty's Treasury have established an office in Landon
(I, Parliament-street,) in which the names, addresses,
and occupations of all parties against whom judgments
have been entered, for £lO and upwards, in the county
courts since their establishment, and which are still un-
paid, as well as of those persons against whom judgments
are entered at the present sittings of the courts, are re-
gistered in alphabetical order, so as to enable any person
to discover whether a person applying for goods on credit
has an unsatisfied judgment standing against him. The
entries are so arranged that a search can be made with
great facility and rapidity. [This will no doubt operate
very beneficially as a check upon men who repudiate pay-
ing their debts without legal compulsion, and rely upon
the ordinary secresy of such transactions to contract fresh
debts, and leave their creditors to the expense and delay
of legal proceedings to obtain their just claims.]
ROMANTIC FREAK.—The ancient adage, " there's
many a slip between the cup and the lip," was curiously
verified the other day by a singular nuptial freak within
the walls of our old parish church of Holy Trinity. We
would not wish to increase the bitterness of the quasi
bridegroom's disappointment, and, therefore, refrain
from giving his name, contenting ourselves by introducing
him, pro tern, as Mr. Peter Simple. The story is brief,
and may be told in a few words. It happened one day
that Peter fell in " with a canny Scotch lassie fra yont the
Tweed." He met her glance, and the soft witchery of
her smiles overpowered him—he listened to her voice
—what exquisite melody. Peter felt that he loved her,
his palpitating heart told him so. Somewhere Disraeli,
in °nerd his novels,says, "there is no love, but love atfirst
sight," and such glorious love was Peter's—burning, in-
tense, as the passion that glowed in Romeo's breast, and
fired the soul of Faust. He whispered to her his love,
and thrilled her ear with delicious vows. She yielded
him her hand and heart, and they became all in one to
each other ; so happy, indeed, were they in each other's
society, one might almost say of them
" They should have lived together deep in woods
Unseen, as sings the nightingale."
Weeks flew by, and the nuptial hour was fixed. It was
a beautiful morning—and the sun shone as it ought to
shine on wedding days—warmly and brightly. The
marriage breakfast was concluded, and the bride was pre-
sented by her happy mother with a handsome dowry,
amidst the greetings of her friends. To church they
went; a larger group of spectators than ordinary were
gathered for there were several other weddings that
morning, and the sun-light streamed down upon them
through the gorgeous tinted windows with a mellow
blaze. " Wilt thou have this man for thy wedded hus-
band ?" said the priest, distinctly and solemnly, and the
echo of his voice vibrated through the " long drawn
aisles." There was a hush amongst the spectators as
they peered into the face of the blushing maiden, when,
to their infinite surprise, she stepped back a pace or two,
and, in a voice of desperate firmness, answered, " I will
not ! " and quietly disappeared. Still the sunlight
streamed in through the gorgeous coloured panes—but a
shadow fell on Peter's brow, as he stood bewildered,
gazing on the scene, lamenting " Love's Labour Lost ;"
whilst the worthy priest was scarcely less astonished than
the reverend monk of old, who felt the weight of Petru-
chio's fist,—Thal Packet,