The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-03-11 00:00:00

ESSENCE OF CAMOMILE AND GINGER.

This preparation is a compound of two of the most valuable
medicines in the vegetable kingdom. It combines the stomachic
properties of the Ginger with the aromatic and bitter qualities
of the • Camomile Flowers. The proprietor earnestly recom-
mends this essence to all those suffering as hereafter mentioned:
ill he asks is a fair trial, for he can assert; with the greatest
confidence, that he never knew of its failure in any of the cases
it is recommended for, excepting where it has been neglected to
be properly persevered in, for indigestion, sensation of fulness,
pain and oppression after meals, loss of appetite, whether
arising from excess or want of tone and energy of the digestive
organs ; also for rheumatism, gout, spasms, cramps, hyster►cs,
flatulence, in immoderate perspiration, nervous, hypochondriacal
and bilious affections, heartburn languor, general debility, or
a delicate state of health, whether the result of long illness, or
constitutional weakness; it is certain in affording instant relief
in the most violent sick headache. Forty drops of this Essence
is eaual to half a pint of Camomile tea.

These Preparations are prepared only by Da.crsms WOOD-
HOUSE, Operative Chemist Extraordinary to His Majesty, 18,
King William-street, New London Bridge, and sold by him
wholesale and retail; EVANS, SON and Co., 15, Fenwick-street;
C. MAWHOOD, 20, South John-street, near the New Custom-
house; G. WHITLOW, Druggist, Mount-pleasant ; Ross and
NIGHTINGALE, Chronicle-Office, Liverpool; and to be had of
all medicine venders in town and country. Country venders
may he supplied through their town agents. Sold in bottles at
2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., 10s. 6d., and 21s. each.

BA RRISTERa—A legal servant of all work. One who some-
times makes his gown a cloak for browbeating and putting
down a witness, who, out for .his protection, might occasionally
knock down the barrister. Show me the conscientious coun-
sellor, who, refusing to hire out his talents that he may screen
the guilty, overreach the innocent, defraud the orphan, or im-
poverish the widow, will scrupulously decline a brief, unless the
cause of his client wear at least a semblance of honesty and
jnstice;--who will leave knaves and robbers to the merited in-
flictions of the Jaw, while he will cheerfully exert his etoquence
and skill in redressing the wrongs of theiinjared. Show me
such a'phcenix of a barrister, and 1 wilt admit that he richly
deserves—not to have been at the bar! All briefless barristers
please to consider themselves excepted (run the preViims
censure, for I should be really sorry to speak ill 'Of any man
without a cause."—Paul Chatlield.
MORaY'S GRAVE.—It was rumoured in Paris that several
persons had been arrested for depositing garlands upon the
graves of Morey and Pepin, the accomplices of Fieschi ; the
following, however, is the simple fact :—A female named Grou-
velle, who had shown strong political feelings, and by her im-
portunities obtained the clothes in which these tWo men were
executed, in order to keep them as relics, entered the burying.
ground and deposited on their graves several garlands orna-
mented with red ribands: On being desired by the keepers to
withdraw, she asserted that, though she was not of their families,
she was commissioned -by them to watch over their remains.
The keepers persevered to ordering her away; the female re-
sisted, and at length was conducted before a commissary of
police, who, after reproving her, ordered her to be released.
The commissary of police, however, of the quarter, accompanied
by three officers, came to her house, and demanded possession
of the clothes of Pepin and Morey, which she stated that she
had purchased from the persons to whom they had fallen as a
perquisite, upon being authorised to do so by the relatives of
the deceased. A {complaint upon this matter has been lodged
by her with the procureur du mi.
Cosi PA “ISON OF SPEED.—A French Scientific Journal states
that the ordinary rate is per second—
Of a man walking
Of a good horse in harness
Of a rein-deer in a sledge on the ice ..
Of an English race-horse
Of it hare
Of a good sailing ship
Of the wind
Of sound .. .
Of a twenty-four pound cannon ball
Of the air, which, so divided, returns into space l3OO

CAMBRIDGE PITT CLUB.—OR Wednesday last the members
of the University Pitt Club dined together at the Red Lion
Hotel, in this limn. The roue► was appropriately and taste-
fully decorated for the occasion with wreaths of flowers, forming
the names of. Pitt, Wellington, Camden, Peel, &c. The chair
was taken by the president of the club, A. J. K. Mackenzie,
Esq., of Trinity College ; and A. Watson, Esq., of Corpus
Christi College; the secretary officiated as vice-president. The
various toasts were all indicative of the strong attachment of
the company to those valuable and revered institutions which
the collective wisdom of no one age could hare produced, and
which bear such evident marks of the talent and caution of their
framers. We need not say they were severally received with
the most enthusiastic applause.--Cambridge Chronicle.
Da. RITCHIE DEFEATED AT BA RIIHEA D.—Dr. Ritchie of
the Potterrow, appeared in the neighbouring village of Barr-
head, on Wednesday night, for the purpose of wiping off the
disgrace brought upon the voluntaryisurof that quarter through
the recent defeat of Mr. Harvie of Calton, by Mr. Charles
Leckie. After delivering his lecture, and challenging contra-
diction of his statements on the part of any one present, the
Rev. Doctor encountered the same individual; who surpassed
all his former efforts in the cause of establishments, and-fairly
put the voluntary mountebank hors de combat. We understand
that a full detail of the proceedings will be published intrnedi,
ately. The discussion commenced at a quartet past eleven, and
terminated•at two o'clock yesterday morn lug, amidst enthusi-
astic cheering for Mr. Leckie, and cries of "The church for
ever !" A vote ofcensure on the doctor was only withheld in

pure compassion, the victors not wishing to tarnish their laurels
by triumphing over a fallen foe. It was impossible to pin the
doctor for hallo. minute to any given point ; but in spite of all
his efforts at
.evasion, and they made his adherents blush, his
opponent grappled with argument after argument, such as they
were, and, to use a favourite expression of the doctor's, " took
them by the lug and threw them at the back of the fire." We
learn that the village was yesterday to be placarded wish "The
church for ever !" " Voluntaryism the infidel's ally!" &c.
The voluntaries are in " doleful dumps" about their second re-
pulse.—Glasgow Courier.

SINGULAR SUPERSTITION.—One extraordinary sursti-
tious custom still remains among the Jews at Algiers. When
a man dies they believe that the devil stands in ambush before
the house, in order to get possession of the corpse on its way to
its last abode. As the rabbis, however, surround it all the way
to the interment, his infernal majesty is cowed by their presence;
but still he follows the procession in hopes of finding some
favourable opportunity, or of slipping into the grave along with
the defunct. When the body, therefore, is near the opened
grave, the beareis suddenly retreat with it to a certain distance,
and the rabbi attending them throws some pieces of gold as far
as he can in different directions. The devil, who is by this
time either in the grave or near it., is tempted by his avarice to
go and pick up the money; and whilst he is thus employed,
the corpse is hurried back to the tomb, and earth thrown over
it. One day that I talked about this custom to a Moor, who
has a bigoted hatred of the poor Israelites. I asked him if it
was not unlike a jew to throw away his money? " Ah, yes,"
said he " but it is-very like a jew to cheat the devil.''—Camp-
bell's Letters in the New Munthly.

MELANCHOLY Loss oe LIFE.—On Wednesday week the
whole of the west country fishing boats from Buckie, Port-
ridckie, Portessie, and Cullen, besides a noinber from the smaller
fishing towns along the coast, having put, to sea the day before,
there suddenly overtaken by the violent storm, and scattered.
A he gallant, seamen were seen from the shore vigorously braving
the storm in their fragile barques, and endeavouring to gain the
land ; but being overtaken . by the darkness of the night, were
oblio-ed,,w.makii,for Cranially or kleratolule; anttflie 'Whole 'Or
the are now,
it is believed, accounted for, after enduring
the greatest hardships and privations from cold, hunger, and
fatigue. The boat from Cullen, however, it is our melancholy
duty to relate, was totally lost in entering Croinartv, on what
the seamen term the Three Kings at the Legs of -Cromarty.
Eler crew, consisting of seven men, met a watery grave, all of
whim, with the exception of one man, William Runcie, have
left wives and numerous families to lament their loss. The names
of the men who were lost are, William Findlay, George Hartley,
Gardiner, George Hay, William Findlay, George
Runcie, and William Muncie.

REPORTED CONFESSION OF THREE MURDERS.—We have
have been informed that an individual, who sometime ago acted
in an inferior capacity at one of our inns here, and is now in a
neighbouring town, imagines himself on his death-bed, and has
confessed himself guilty of the atrocity of three separate mur-
ders. We have heard some of the particulars, but as the mat-
ter will undergo a judicial investigation, it would be premature
to publish the confessions of a man who may be labouring under
delirium.—Fifeshire Journal.

HIGHEST MOUNTAINS IN TILE UNITED STATES.—In an
article published .in the Raleigh Register, it is stated that the
highest mountain in the United States is to be found in North
Carolina. Mount Washington, in New Hampshire, has hitherto
been accounted the highest mountain, its highest peak being
6234 feet above the level of the sea. According to the writer
in the Register, the loftiest peak of the Black Mountain. in
Yance county, is 6746 feet above the level of the sea. The
Editor of the Register vouches for the respectability and science
of the writer, and well remarks that the fact itself is not so as-
tonshing as that the discovery should not have been sooner
made.

"Hx LOVED Hsu."—The force of this first expression, of
such au attachmerst.seems to have escaped notice. Isaac, from
all that appears, was the only'one of the patriarchs who had no
opportutijty exhibiting a preference to his wife before mar-
riage. He had never seen her till She stood unveiled in his
tent as his wife. It seetned, therefore, necessary to add, that
"Ite'lcived her" when he clicVeee her. It is remarkable; that
what merely arose from circumstances in the case of Isaac, is
now amply illuwated by the established practicei of the east.
The women being completely secluded, and never seen with Out
veils, no opportunity. of personal acquaintance, or even of in-
spection before marriage is afforded. The man sees his wife
for the first time unveiled when he enters the room into which
she has been received on her arrival at hii house Raving,'
previously formed,no idea of her person and qualifications, but
from the general and exaggerated praises of the old nurse,.wlio.
is usually his agent, this is a critical, and anxious moment; and
it is a most happy circumstance for both, 1-... en the account.of
inch a transaction can conclude with the emphatic words "hi
toned her."'—Giciesio xxiv, 67. , .