The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-05-03 00:00:00

SCOTCH MORALITY.—It is stated that 30,000 of the
people of Glasgow get drunk every Saturday evening.

SOME HENS belonging to a gentleman at Wayne, which
were constantly supplied with l►me-water, have lately laid
four times the number of eggs they did formerly.
CHEPSTOW TUBULAR BRIDGE is at length completed,
and after having undergone an examination by the Govern-
ment Inspector of Railways, has been certified to be fit
for traffic.

PROTESTANTISM.—Since the last published account,
dated March sth, eighty-two more have renounced the
errors of Romanism in St. Paul's, Bermondsey. Many
more have it in contemplation to take the same step.
OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVERHAMPTON RAlL-
way.—The third section of this line, from Evesham to
Wolvercot, near Oxford, will be opened on the 7th of
May, instead of the 2d, as recently announced.
PROSPECTS OF THE BAR.—As an example of the de-
clining state of the learned profession, we may mention
that no less than 22 sets of chambers are now to be let in
the Middle Temple alone, which numbers 250.
VALUE OF WASTE PAPER.—A Sum of not less than
£12,000 to £15,000 annually will be saved to the country
by the recent order, requiring all Government offices to
return their waste paper, &c., to the Stationery Office.
THE BISHOP ELECT OF LINCOLN.—On Tuesday a
silver salver was presented to the new bishop of Lincoln
by the teachers and children of the schools of St. James's,
Westminster, as a small token of their affection and
gratitude.
EXTRAORDINARY DIGESTION. —On cutting open a
cow at Homeburn, a few days ago, there was found in its
inside a large table knife, which, with the exception of
a small portion of the point protruding between the ribs,
was in good condition, and not at all corroded.

THE Nottingham Journal announces the fact that a
proposal is afoot in the metropolis of the lace district to
establish " a general commercial exchange," to be go-
verned and managed upon the same principles as are ob-
served in those of Liverpool and Manchester.
THE SHAKSPERE FESTIVAL —A demonstration in
honour of the natal day of Shakspere took place on Tues-
day at Stratford-upon-Avon, and was celebrated with all
due honours. An immense number of " pilgrims "to
the shrine of the poet came into the town from Birrnirg-
ham, Oxford, and the surrounding neighbourhood. In
the evening a dinner took place at the Town Hall, at
which Mr. B. Webster presided.
A GOVERNMENT BILL was printed, on Thursday, to
consolidate the London and Edinburgh Gazelles. The
reason is, the great expense at present incurred by reason
of the separate publication and management of the two
Gazettes. After the passing of the bill, the Gazette, to
be called the London and Edinburgh Gazette, is to be
published in London, and a permanent agency in Edin-
burgh.
STEAM BETWEEN GERMANY AND AMERICA.—Messrs.
Fritze and Co., of Bremen, are on the eve of commencing
a spirited competition against the two United States
steamers, Washington and Hermann. They intend to run
the two steamers, Hansa, 2000 tons and 1,000 horse-
power, and the Germania, 1,600 tons and 600 horse-
power, which they recently purchased from the German
fleet, between Bremen and New York. They will start
once a month, and take the same course and touch at the
same places as the United States steamers.
PREMATURE BALDNESS.—Mr. J. Sergeant, bookseller,
of Linton, Cambridge, has made public a curious case of
a young man named Haylock, of Ashdon, whose hair came
off entire from some very unaccountable cause, and left
him in a state of premature baldness. He purchased
from Mr. Sergeant several popular preparations, which he
applied, but without any effect whatever. At last, how-
ever, he made trial of the macassar oil of Messrs. Row.
lands, of London, and exhibited to the most incredulous
the proof of its efficacy in a thick crop of hair. Mr. Ser-
geant permits a direct reference to him on this very inter-
esting fact.—The Observer.
ADULTERATION OF COFFEE.—The Lancet of last week
contains a remarkable statement of the extent and manner
in which the recent regulation for preventing the adultera-
tion of coffee is being evaded. Out of 34 samples, all
purchased as coffee from as many shops in the metropolis,
only three were found to be genuine, the proportion of
chicory in the majority of cases being equal to about 50
per cent., while in some instances there was scarcely any
coffee whatever. Ten of the adulterated samples were
altogether without the required label, stating them to be
a " mixture of chicory and coffee," and in those where it
existed it was generally concealed from immediate obser-
vation by the mode of folding the wrapper.
THE COINAGE.—A Parliamentary paper, just published,
contains an account of all gold, silver, and copper moneys
of the realm coined at the Royal Mint from the Ist Jan-
uary to the 31st March, 1853 :-4,304,227 sovereigns were
coined in that period • their value was £4,304,227 2s. 3d.,
and their weight '92,11.8113. 3oz. 9dwts. 16gr. Half_
sovereigns coined—number, 62,260 ; weight, 6661 b. 20z.,
19dwts. 10gr.; value, £31,130 Ss. 4d. ; making the
total value of the gold coinage during the quarter
£4,335,357 109.7 d.. Of silver money, 382,214 florins were
coined. to the value of £38,214 ; 847,440 shillings, value
£42,372 ; 483,120 sixpences, value £12.078 ' • 4,158 four-
pences, value £69 6 1.; 4,488 threepences, value £562d. ;
4,752 twopences, value £39 12s. ; 7,920 silver penny
pieces, value £33—total value of the silver coinage during
the quarter, £92,862.
CHEAP LAW.—In the Insolvent Debtors' Court the
other day, some information was given respecting the
comparative expense of the superior and county courts.
The commissioner having remarked that the action in the
case before him had been brought in one of the superior
courts, he wished to know the difference in the expense of
going to the superior and the county courts. An attorney
stated that, in cases under £2O, judgment could be ob-
tained now in a superior court where no appearance
was entered, for £2 165., whereas in a county court it
would cost £4. Another attorney said that in the county
courts the fees out of pocket were upwards of £3, and in
the superior courts only ss. For a summons to £2O
in a county court the fee was £1 135., and the hearing
fee upwards of £3, even by consent, whereas in the
superior court an order could be drawn up for 4s.

ELECTRICITY IN THE HOUSE OF CONIMONS.—In the
course of the last few days an electric telegraph station has
been opened adjacent to the lobby, by the Electric Tele-
graph Company, for the use of parties engaged in parlia-
mentary proceedings, and direct telegraphic communication
is thereby obtained with all parts of the country, and
intelligence transmitted to the provinces of divisions and
debates. Operations were commenced for placing an
electric clock over the principal entrance to the lobby,
and a general system has just been introduced of notifying
to members in all parts of the house the precise moment
of a division by the electrical ringing of 30 bells in various
directions, the bells being set in motion by an apparatus
in charge of one of the officers of the house at the lobby
door. Wires are also being carried from the house to the
Carlton, Reform, and other clubs, for the intercommuni-
cation and information of members.
THE GREAT ENCAMPMENT. Captain Blackwood
Price's field-battery, quartered at Shorncliff, have received
orders to hold themselves in readiness to join the camp to
be formed on Chobham.common, near Windsor,:in the be-
ginning of June next. The battery is composed of 6
guns, S 5 horses, and 138 non-commissioned officers and
men. The officers who will accompany it to camp are
Captain Blackwood Price, Captain James R. Gibbon.
Lieutenant Francis Miller, Lieut. Frederick S. Seale,
Lieutenant Charles Lennox Tredcroft, and Assistant-
Surgeon William Perry. Captain F. A. Campbell's field-
battery at Chatham, of similar strength, has also been
ordered to join the camp at the same time. The 6,h
Dragoon Guards (carabineers), under the command of
Lieut. Colonel H. R. Jones, at present stationed at Can-
terbury, and the 13th Light Dragoons, under the com-
mand of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles E. Doherty, at
present stationed at Hounslow, will form a portion of the
Cavalry Brigade.
OPERATIONS OF THE NEW LEGACY DUTY.—The full
bearing of the application of the legacy duty to land we pre-
. some the Chancellor does not see. and, therefore, we
will say a word or two on it. Btyond a certain affinity
the legacy duty is 10 per cent. " Well," many may say,
" we would not mind giving up to the Chancellor of the
Exchequer 10 per cent. of the estate if any one would
leave us one." That is very well in its way, but just let
us look at the arithmetical operations of the tax. The 10
Per cent, is not a 10 per cent. of one or two years' in-
come, but 10 per cent. of the value of the property,
which to avoid inconveniently sacrificing the principal,
says the Chancellor, he consents to spread over 8 years'
rent. Now, much of our landed property pays only 2to
2} per cent. For simplicity of calculation say 2 per cent.
Thus for 8 years the fortunate legatee receives only 2-
10-B—f per cent., the other 11 going to the crown, or
out of Xl.OOO per annum he receives X. 375. But suppose
at the end of 4 years this legatee should die (no unlikely
occurrence), and leave his property to a second party,
removed as far in blood propinquity from him as he was
from the first testator, a second 10 per cent of tile value
of the same property will have to be paid during 8 years,
the first being also in the course of liquidation. For
remember, Mr. Gladstone says the two duties co-exist.
Then for 4 years the two 10 per cents. will make up 21
per cent. annual charge, or 4 per cent. more than the
rent. So that the second legatee would have to pay a
per cent. instead of receiving anything from the coveted
legacy—that is, in place of an accession to his income of
£l,OOO a year, or even £375, the happy man would have
to pay annually for duty £250 a year. A few such lega-
cies, as Pyrrhus said of his victory over the Romans, and
he would be undone.—Herapath's Journal.
PLAGIARISM.—There can be nothing more disagreeable
to a person than being imposed upon by "false pre-
tencee," nor can anything annoy one so much as being
made the dupe of some unprincipled designer. Yet such
is the case, and among the commercial community too;
for no sooner does a party, by devoting his capital, ex-
perience, and attention, in bringing some article of manu-
facture to perfection—no sooner does he earn for his pro-
duction a justly entitled reputation, than some unprin-
cipled persons immediately get up some base imitation,
having nothing further to recommend it than its appro-
priated name. We are led into these few remarks by
seeing before us Two Packets of the (now all but) univer-
sally known Glenfield Patent Starch ; and so much alike
are they to a casual observer, that we, by outside appear-
ance, would think they were the same; but, on closer
inspection, we notice they
is the only difference) that
the one wants the well-known name of R. WOTHERSPOON
on the packet. This is the spurious; and to such an
extent has plagiarism gone, as regards woodcut, type,
&c., without close observance you could scarce know the
one from the other, so far as external appearances are
concerned ; as for internal, we can easily imagine what
to
purchasers,
rubbish it must be composed of, and that
their regret and annoyance, will at once discover it when
applied to Linens,
to
&c. We are gratifiedobserve from
the London papers that Mr. Wotherspoon , the manufac-
h
rer of the Glenfield Patent Starch, has obtained injunctions
in the Court of' Chancery against these parties, which will
in all probability put an end to the fraud. We
a haredearequiitne
aware that no respectable merchant will lend
carrying out such base imposition, but to such an extent
has it gone that it is actually sold to merchants as the
original, and they
.and the public generally should be
particular in observing that the original and only Manu-
facturer's name, R. WOTHERSPOON, be distinctly printed
on every Packet—without this none is genuine. It can
be obtained at most shops in town.