The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-02 00:00:00

'nment

►n the pa
:e-payers
4+

and•t(i-t
r the pr(

le past week, had ti

Notes elect

!odds of which have

Lore int(

grain .of mechanical
once comprehend it

formed within every

figures and stars, in
several stations on th,

ry representations to I

this imnportant,subject

invent

,ch, though wening a u

ficant designs

We hay

*li-on view at the- Weed

itation pronounce it lea,
ible than any we have

U in I

3is composition, w

principle and its applicAatio:
unlike a spring dock, and r

placed that a complete alph

ierspersed with the nam(

way. From the cent
longest end pointing t
is to revolve round the circle of fig
hand is worked by a key similar t
when pressed, causes the finger to in(
-d 0-

iot any
ire two
abet is
ktre are

I.4(indon and North Wester!:
re of the dial is a balance.har
o the letters, while the short

In•es and stations
that of a piano

A., and on rettirning to its position, to that
the motive power being the electric fluid
is technically called '
wheel. with latch sto'

a dead

of the
n Rail-
ad, the
er one

This
which,
.let-

succeeding

toothed

If a signal has to be made to any station, the battering is
turned on, and, by a slight movement of an indicator, the
key works upon the. bell, on which-you strike the number

_
of station to be communicated with. The finger is
then worked round the dial, passing slightly on the let-
ters that spell the words of the required communication.
All railway business is done by figures and a hook of re-

the road is stopped between

on the names of the

ignify;

nd the figures passing

tations completes the sentem
ph only o

In the eleetro-magnetic tel _ _
and that may be lai& even under ground or watt

without detri/rient to the prineipl

at which there is
taneously in

requiivd it can be most situp

y station

munication
.'he sitnpli-

There is no multiplicity of wires—no magnetic needle
by their deflections, indicate the letters or word
stion or answer, but the thing is so simple that

on inspecting it, we placed ourselves in eomtnunication
by the. telegraph with one of the agents, and received the
most prompt replies to our interrogations, and that with-
out the slightest difficulty. The expense of this inven-
tion is little over half tie cost of the electric telegraph,
and we learn that it is probable that it will be adopted
on the leading lines from Liverpool, as also along th
whole length of the

1 Docl

3N TILE EYESIGHT.-

pool I

used vietttall

Mr. JOhn May

park, six

Alows with refer

;.e to the

of fourpenni ale

they generally took a
Inufrlltor j—and
actu-
who drank

ally knew one or two instaiims which part
fourpenny ale. had entirely lost their eyesig
seen fellows smoking their nasty dirty pipes,
a peuny.gla,ss of ale, and asking the laudlor
-lemon, and then a bit of sugar, and then a 11

y pkof

uothin

, - -
but therwould prevent ha
blind.—(Cheers anti laugll

Ise] yes,

)pulation fram running

EXTf NOV TRUING Fut.]
fire in Ma.son-stteet, Mr.
Water Works, tested his

F.; WITHOUT ENGINES.-At the
AVDonald, of the Harrington
plan of extinguishing tires by
the mains, without the aid of
•

one branch, th
previously, wei

nd a continuou

stream of water was poured on the sinouldering ruins by
this Means,. proving iceontestibly the superiority of the
high pressure system,--a system which, if carried out on
a comprehensive scale, will. prove of inestimable value to
the whole commautity. branch poured a coutinuottg
stream of w '' • '
until yestert

from the time it was
_put in operation
The altitude o 4 the stream of

rEktwnillg

water was mueh greater that

pal to at least three ordin
vening, Mr. M`Donald tried

piod weed by insert

ing with the first

T, of :great at

not lea3t diminished

On'

for extinguishing 'fires nt our
tirnt, will be lost in having it n
Mr. Will

,es also Zr. _Waterho
BABY RATTLRR.-7-0

at playing'en the min:
With a power such a

wing Ada

:..rtiser,l47el y
the very. highest 'termst.

ter is from the pen of
Bradshaw.

We bad vePter-

defence tl
was a case

pair of

were tri

a. few da
from a s'
ing to bt

intent to rob

the other three-were

It time, when t

ge in this tows'

ged with

has been attended wit'

prevention of crime. I c
offences, that the propor
town (as shown by the pr
of any other. The genei
is about one-third, so

watchmal

I by a

prisoners to he tried at ti

bear the
Ireland.

argent proport
Without maki

subject, v

1, with his

iii his

!you rf

that the tide of -erirr.

from Ireland. She w

;till rising in this to

,t, who gave t

the magistrat

I. I v

t the re-

ts, but tending to ti
,ut remark, while notiein

leivined gentlmilar

s in this

t calendar), far exceeds th,

number of

we might e

new corners

especially Troia

smissed the jury to their
would go through their
business with ease and in a manner that would give satis-
faction to the public. Some true bills having been found,
the trials proceeded.

time, and
) town in

On Sunday last, tt.
the Queen's letter, tv
Church. Southport. I

N'e been-more ze

wards the r

On Sunday mornii

thp_various AVesleyar

suffering Scotch .and
sum of £l2O was collected,.
£125 ; at Stanhope-street CI
street Chapel, 434
TESTIMONIAL. TO

n obedience t&

were preached in Trinity

We the undersignc

an Jackson, the

convey to Captain 11` I

made, amounting to £35, to-

exertions in .preve

from the precariou

passengers were place
the paddle-shaft, wile

n Ireland and some of the

preached in

wn, in aid of the

k Chapel the

?leasant Chapel

.
, £6O; at Great Homer-
treet Chapel, £l2 Ils.

Lui ; and we feel

CAPTAIN OF THE FIREKINC

and great exertions

prospe

at the last Vc