The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-03-12 00:00:00

Letters, addressed to the STANDARD OFFICE, will receive
immediate attention.

SHADDOCKS AND FORBIDDEN FRUIT.
j MIDDLE WOOD begs respectfully to recommend the
el • FRUIT lately arrived, per the Sisters, from Nassau.
It is unquestionably the best that has been' imported. For
Invalids it is the most grateful, and for "Desserts it is not
equalled. It is held in high estimation at the Royal Table,
and approved of by her Majesty ;. and though a few years
ago it was scarcely known, it it now had in preference to
every other.—.T. M. has also Ainerican Apples, the finest
fruit imported this season ; Black and Green Grapes ; Por-
tugal Plums ; French Ditto, Raisins, Almonds ; Turkey and
Faro Figs ; Spanish Chestnuts, Walnuts, &c;—and now
landing, Seville Oranges, for Marmalade, Preserving, Wine,
&c, by the chest, hundred, or dozen ; also, St. Michael's
Oranges of the first quality ; Bottled Fruits, for Tarts, &c ;
Shaddock Marmalade, Preserved Ginger, Limes, Tamarinds,
large Tafilat Dates.—The extensive Stock of the above, and
every other choice Fruit, will enable J. M. to sell from 10 to
Li per cent under any other establishment in town.
Shaddocks and Forbidden Fruit forwarded to any part of
the Kingdom, selected of the same quality as those so highly
approved of by her Majesty, in packages 40s each.—Seville
Oranges for Wine, 6s per hundred.

Family FrUit Warehouse,
No. 6, Parker-street, Church-street

BONDED VAULTS.
TO be LET, those large and commodious BONDED
VAULTS, in Redcross-street,,known by the name of
" Knowles 91." comprising an are of 468 square yards.
Having lately undergone co rable repairs, they are now
in excellent order, and contain' g a large quantity of Goods,
which, if desirable to the tenant, will be allowed to remain at
the customary charge. A Lease will be given, if required.
Rent moderate.

To be LET, Double and Single OFFICES and WARE
HOUSE ROOMS.

Apply to BATY and GIBSON, Wine Merchants, Crown
Chambers, Redcross-street. (One concern.)

SQUINTING

MR. R. ATKINSON , SURGEON,Of s, who has cured
many hundreds, in Leeds and • •erpool, of the above
distressing Deformity of the E may be consulted for a
short time longer, at Mr. CRAW RD's, No. 34, Bold-street,
Liverpool.—Attendance daily from Eleven to Three o'clock.

BULLOCK'S TURKEY RHUBARB & CAMOMILE
PILLS, for both Sexes, in boxes, Is. I ;d. and 2s. 9d.
These celebrated Family Pills are excellent for Stomach Com-
plaints, Indigestion, Bile, Loss of Appetite, Languor, Sick
Headache, Heartburn, Pain in the Side, Giddiness, Dizziness
of the Eyes, Drowsiness after Alials, Lowness of Spirits.
Sallowness of the— Complexion/Singing in the Ears, Flatu,
lency, and Habitual Costiveness. They purify the Blood and
remove Eruptions from the Skin. Their operation is mild and
pleasant, cleansing and strengthening the Stomach and
Bowels.

Prepared only by Mr. BULLOCK, Family Chemist, Princess-
street, Manchester ; and sold in Liverpool by PRIESTLEY,
Lord-street ; SWIFT, Bold-street ; KING, Soho-street ;
HOWELL, Dale-street; RAWLE, Church-street ; Asistiq ALL,
St. James's-street ; TIERNAN, London-road and Everton ;
Rolm RTS, Ranelagh-street ; LLOYD, Parker-street ; DRIVER,
New Haymarket ; PROCTOR, Berry-street; JONES, Berry-
street ; Smirff, Woodside ; KERSHAW, Ormskirk : and all
respectable Druggists.

EVANS, SON, aild CO., and Ross and NIGHTINGALE,
Wholesale Agents, Liverpool ; and BARCLAY, London.
Ask for " BULLOCK'S TURKEY RHUBARB & CAMOMILE
PILLS."

A SEASONABLE THOUGHT.—A. married lady, who was in
the habit of spending most of her time in the society of her
neighbours, happened one day to be taken suddenly ill, and
sent her husband in great haste for the physician. The hus-
band ran a short distance, but soon returned, exclaiming,
" My dear, where shall I find you when I get back ?"

THE Ass-ON-HIS.KNEES.—A Derbyshire farmer's wife
came to Sheffield a few days ago to look after a sum of mo-
ney due by a tradesman to her husband, but to her mortifi-
cation she was told that he was a bankrupt, and that nothing
could be done till the assignees met. The worth• dame went
home with a rueful countenance, and informed her husband
that their friend Mr. Diddler had become a bankrupt, and
nothing could be done till the ass-on-his-knees met, the
meaning of which puzzled John very much ; he enquired
amongst his neighbours, but no one could inform him when
such a remarkable meeting was likely to take place ; at,last,
the affair having come to the ears of the sages of Foolow, we
understand that august body have called a council to endea-
vour to unravel the mystery.—Sheffield Iris.

THE IMPORTANCE OF WATER.—The best water for horses
is soft, fresh, and pure rain, river, or pond water ; and it is
absolutely necessary, to preserve health in the stable, that a
constant and ample supply should be on the premises. In
order to effect this, when well or spring water is the only
water to he obtained, it should be put into troughs, having
some clay or chalk at the bottom, and softened before use by
exposure to the sun and air. Such is the effect a change of
water has been known to produce in a horse, that in some in-
stances even the loss of a great race has been, with much
show of reason, ascribed to this cause alone, and careful
trainers have even gone so far as to carry with a horse, on
the eve of an important engagement, a supply of the water to
which he has been accustomed.

rIIE HUNDRED 1S not long ago since the
Americans reduced the hundred weight from 112 to 100
pounds. The odd twelve bothered them in their calculations,
and was observed not to be of the smallest use in any respect;
so, having resolved to cut down the hundred weight to what
it ought to be—namely, one hundred pounds—they imme-
diately, and without any fuss, executed their resolution. This
is a small matter, but it is characteristic of the country in
which it took place. We question if the British could ma-
nage to take the odd twelve pounds from the hundred weight
without a twenty years' talk. It does not signify that nobody
can explain how or when the odd twelve originated : "There
it is—that is sufficient : it must not be meddled with : would
you ruin the country with your intended improvement ? Let
the hundred weight alone ; we have become a great people
with it as it is, and with that let us be content."—Chambers.

NATURE OF CONSUMPTION.—The English printer who
seeks in the fashionable shops of Ghent and Brussels, or any
other of the chief cities of Belgium, for English prints will be
disappointed ; they are rarely to be found ; nothing meets
his eye but what is French, for the most part excellent in
taste, and fine in execution ; or if, perchance, he does not
alight on something English in the second or third rate shops,
or the depots of English merchants, and of reputed excellence
at home, it is only to make him feel the more the irresistible
conviction of English inferiority of taste. Three classes of
prints are sold in Belgium. The first or the highest class for
the wealthiest customers is almost wholly French ; nine-
tenths of it at least are the production of Alsace, or the
neighbourhood of Paris—muslins. jaconets, fine cambrics,
mouselines de laine, and the intermediate variety of tissues
produced by admixture of cotton, silk, woollen, and even
linen. These goods, compared with those of English, fetch
higher prices, not so much from their finer and better tex-
tures, or more brilliant and faster colours, though in this re-
spect they are pre-eminent, as from their superior taste in
design, and that harmonious felicity of colouring, which dis-
tinguishes the productions of a people who hold undivided
and undisputed sway over the whole empire of taste. The
largest portion of the prints consumed in Belgium is of home
manufacture, and by the lower classes and country popula-
tion. It consists chiefly of what may be considered as the
national print of Belgium, the Mignonette, and similar styles
of one, two, and three colours, protected by a duty which
exceeds 25 per cent. No foreign manufacturer can success-
fully compete with the Belgian on his own soil in the lowest
class of prints, protected by such a duty. An intermediate
kind between this purely Belgian and the highest, or French
style, is one adapted to a middle class of customers, and bet-
ter able to support the heavy import duty. Here the English
printer beats out the French, and makes his way into the
market of Belgium to realise a scanty profit. It is in this
class that the contraband trade so much complained of is
chiefly carried on.—Thompson's Notes' upon time present
state of Calico Printing in Belgium.

OPIIININE PROCESS.—This is the name given by Mr.
Morison to a peculiar method of printing, by means of cy-
linders, of which that gentleman is the inventor and patentee.
The principle which forms the basis of the process is that, if
two cylinders be made to communicate motion one to the
other, by means independent of the contact of their services,
they will give off on each other, or on any intervening sur-
face, exactly the same quantity of ink as may have been re-
ceived, by one or morc of them, from another cylinder moved
by the same influence as the first. By the application of this
principle, Mr. Morison is enabled to supply a surface of types
with a constant and equal coating of ink; and whether the
types, or other surface to be printed from, be placed on a
cylinder and moved circularly, or a vibratory movement,
backwards and forwards, be imparted to a plane surface, as
the supply of ink keeps pace with the movement of the sur-
face, impressions may be taken as rapidly as two men can
supply and take out paper. The inventor has further applied
this principle to cylinder printing in colours, which is effeetel
by fixing round a drum a number of cylinders, each su I
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with colouring matter from a separate i nkingapparatus,paper and
so arranged that their several impressions upon the
supplied by the drum combine
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by means of cogs. A little literary production,
been produced by Mr. Morison,fro
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the most flexible substances,. without wearing or depressing
them. The designs. in the above-mentioned pamphlet are
printed partly from cork,. partly from leather and soft wood,
and others from. relief drawings, executed by scratching on
the reverse side of a thin plate of metal--a method which
admits of producing designs with the greatest rapidity.