The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-13 00:00:00

PRIESTLEY'S
COUGH AND ASTHMATIC DROPS,

FOR COUGHS, COLDS, ASTIIMAS, CONSUMPTIONS,
4-c.
THIS invaluable Medicine immediately relieves
I Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness, Difficulty of Breathing, and
Huskiness in the Throat.
These Drops are also the best preventive that can be taken
against Spitting of Blood and Affection of the Lungs. Persons
troubled with Asthma are considerably relieved by taking a few
doses of the Drops, as they tend to promote expectoration and
remove viscid phlegm. For the speedy cure of the Hooping
Cough they are no less efficacious. Those who are troubled
with that unpleasant tickling in the throat, which deprives them
of rest night after night, by the incessant Cough which it pro-
vokes, will, by taking one dose, find immediate relief ; and one
bottle, in most cases, will effect a cure.
Sold at 52, Lord-street, Liverpool, in Bottles at 2s. 9d., 4s..Gd,
and Family Bottles, equal to five small, lls.
PRIESTLEY'S ANTIBILIOUS PILLS,
Prices Is. lid. and 2s. Pd. per Box, duty included. These Pills
will prove highly efficacious in Bilious Complaints, Scorbutic
Complaints, Affections of the Nervous System, Lowness of
Spirits, Palpitation of the Heart, Rheumatic Pains in the Head,
Limbs, and other parts of the Body ; Oppression of the Chest,
Indigestion, Redundancy of Bile, Dizziness of the Eyes, Violent
Pains in the Temples and across the Forehead; Impaired
Memory, Sick Headache, Tremulous Action of the whole
Frame, Restlessness, and Frightful Dreams, Stuporitic Dozing,
Flatulency, Costiveness, &c.
Sold by all respectable Chemists, Stationers, and Patent
Medicine Dealers.

THE LIVFRPOOL ASPHALTE COMPANY,
THIS Company, having purchased the extensive
Works of the Polonceau Bitumen Company, is now ready
to execute Orders, in Liverpool, at the following Rates, namely,
for Footwaiks, Floor of Cellars, Warehouses, Sheds, Terraces,
Garden Walls, &c.:—
From 50 to 100 yards, at 3s. od. per square yard exclu-
„ 100 to 500 „ 2s. 9d. sive of
„ 500 to 1000 „ 2s. 6d. foun-
,, 1000 and upwards 2s. 3d. 7, dation.

FOREIGN 4- COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE

PORTUGAL

Intelligence from Lisbon to the 31st March, states that
Saldanha still remained in his old position, retained there
from the want of funds to proceed, all attempts on the
part of the Queen's government to raise a loan having en-
tirely failed. The Queen's troops are deserting daily,
while the troops of the Junta are in high spirits, and are
well supplied with money and with provisions. So strong
is the Junta that it has assumed the offensive. Sada
Bandeira sailed with an expedition of 1,250 men in the
Mindella, Porto, and the Vessuvio steamers, and, having
forced the blockade of the Douro, proceeded to the south-
ward. The expedition is most probably destined for the
Algarves, although it was reported in Lisbon that it had
landed in Peniche.

There is no truth in the rumour of Louis Philip's illness.
WEST INDIES.—The steam-ship Avon arrived at South-
ampton, on Wednesday, from the West Indies. The
general accounts from the West Indies are favourable
The prospects of the crops continue to be described
encouraging in the extreme, and th
sugar was proceeding s

lanufacture

sfactorilv

There is no politica
news of consequence from these places. The House -o
Assembly at Barhadoes has voted a sum of £2,000 as the
contribution to the subscription for the relief of the des•
titute Scotch and Irish, and considerable sums have bees
collected in most of the Island
through private channels.
RIVER PLATE.—The packet

Is for th

Falmouth on Tuesday evening last, brings news from the
Brazils and La Plata. The Seagull left Rio de Janeiro or
the 14th of February, and her dates from Monte Videc
are to the 31st of January. No political news of irnpor•
tance from Brazil has been brought by this vessel. From
Buenos Ayres, the accounts of the defeat of Riviera an
confirmed. The loss on both sides was estimated at 70t
men killed and wounded. General Oribe had successivel3
fallen in with the divisions of Flores and Medina, am

entirely cut them to pieces.. these• leaders escaping witl
only three or four men each. . .

BAHIA AND PEDN'AMBIJCO.—TiIe new ship Seraphina,
Captain Taylor, arrived at this port on Thursday morn-
ing, from Paraiba, in thirty-one days and some hours,
and brings the latest accounts yet received from Batik,
and Pernambuco, being from the former port to the 27t1
February, and from the latter to the 4th March. Consi.
derable purchases had been made of sugars at high prices
and the rate of exchange at Pernambuco had advanced tc
.30d. or upwards. The Seraphina encountered head winch
all the passage to the Channel, with heavy weather dur-
ing the past-fortnight. The Beraza left Paraiba two day;
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previous to the departure or tne nerapnina.
A POPISH MIRACLE !—A long and marvellous tale is
told in the Paris 'religious periodicals, how a French cler-
gyman lost his voice from too much preaching, how for
months he could not utter a single word—how he was de-
prived of all his strength—how he became more helpless
than a child—and how he was instantaneously cured by
throwing himself before a stone statue of the Virgin, in
one of the convents at Rome. This sample of the effects
of idolatry is -vouched for by the Rev. Mr. Newman, Lord
Clifford, and others. [An idea, however, suggests itself
to us, -how, if as helpless as a child, and " deprived of all
his strength," the priest had power to throw himself be-
fore the statue ?.]
SLAUGHTER OF CAPTAIN GIBSON, DR. HOWELL, AND
THE HON. MR. CHETWYND.—A rumour of this sad
event, which reached town last Saturday, has since been
confirmed. The gentlemen referred to were all new
corners, and unacquainted with the Kaffir character and
tactics. Captain Gibson and Dr. Howell had the charge
of 70 men, and the sick, on the banks of the Kei. Being
short of rations, they went with a party to take some
cattle for use. They fell in with a herd, apparently un-
guarded (placed in all probability as a decoy), and, accom-
panied by four Hottentots, detached themselves from the
men to drive them away. They were waylaid by about
150 Kaffirs, and the officers, with two of the Hottentots,
killed, before the soldiers, alarmed by the firing, when
two miles distant from them, could reach the spot. Dr.
Howell's horse was killed at the first fire, and his friends
sacrificed their own lives rather than abandon him. They
fired away all their ammunition, and their dead bodies
were found lying beside seven or eight of the enemy
whom they had shot. The bodies had been mutilated in
a shocking manner by the beastly savages. Captain Gib-
son was married : his wife and family are in Europe. He
was about to retire from the service, and it is said had
indeed given up his papers, and might have left the camp,
but declined to do so as long as his corps (the rifles) was
in the field. The Hon. Mr. Chetwynd was not more than
25 years old, and Dr. Howell was about the same age.

PAMINE IN MADEIRA.-From accounts up to the 20th
ulto, this beautiful and interesting island is in a deplorable
state from want of food. All the vessels had left the bay,
and with a population of 112,000, there were not supplies
for more than twelve, or fifteen day's consumption. Ame-
rican flour had advanced from 12 to 30 dollars (£6 55.)
per barrel, and every article of food in proportion. Many
deaths had taken place from starvation, and the mother
country, being involved in civil war, and nearly equally

destitute, is unable to render any assistance. Riots had
taken place. The governor had called a meeting of the
merchants, and 30,000 dollars were subscribed to send for
food of any kind, to be retailed out at cost price, the
governor guaranteeing the merchants from any loss on
their advance of money. The miserable condition of the
island hoz boon brought about by tho atoto of tho cern
markets in England—as Madeira produces only about
three months' consumption of grain in the year. The
rest has always been supplied, by Greek and Sardinian
vessels, from the Mediterranean, but now that England
has become the great market, not one of these had made
her appearance at the island, and it was feared that before
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have taken place. 'Mr. Driver of this town, who brings
the dire intelligence, says :—" Ireland certainly has greater
claims upon us for succour than Madeira, but I agree
with the Lisbon correspondent of the London Times, that
a subscription for the famishing people in Madeira ought
to be forthwith commenced in England. There are thou-
sands of persons in this country whose lives have been
saved or prolonged by the salubrious climate of Madeira,
and who ought willingly to aid in giving relief to the des-
. .

titute peasantry of thidisland." -
AMERICA.—By the packet ship Fidelia, we have advices
from New York to the 16th ult. There had been rumours
of another battle between General Taylor and Santa
Anna, in which the former it was said had been wounded.
The report was not credited. Exchange on England and
France has touched a very low point. Four per cent.
premium is all that the best bills would command and

SERIOUS ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND Noll.ll/
WESTERN RAILWAY.—On Wednesday night, an accident
occurred on the above railway, near Winsford. The expVess
train left London for Liverpool at five o'clock on Wedn'es-
day afternoon, and passed Crewe at nine. Wh'en near
Wtnsford, from some cause unknown, the engine, which was
going at full speed, got off the rails, and turned completely
over, dragging with it three carriages and a van, which
were attached. The carriages were thrown on their side.
at a short distance from the line ; but, so far as we have
been able to ascertain, none of the passengers were in-
jured. The engine-man and fireman are much hurt; the
former, it is feared, fatally. The engine was smashed,
but the carriages sustain ed little injury, and after some
delay a train, with the passengers, &c., was got upon the
line, and arrived here at two o'clock the ollowing mornin Q.
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SPEED ON THE NARROW GAUGE.—The special train
employed to carry down the visitors invited to " open "
the docks, &c., at Birkenhead, left Euston-squre at six,
a.m., on Monday. The train consisted of five passenger
coaches and two waggons, weighing some thirty-five tons,
independently of the locomotive and tender. The engine,
one of Mr. Stephenson% with outside cylinders, long
boiler, and driving-wheels of seven feet diameter, per-
formed the distance of about 200 miles as nearly as
possible in six hours ; from which must be deducted, in-
dependently of the necessary stoppages, of about 30
minutes in all, at various stations, a loss equal to more
than half an hour, caused by the working gear heating at
an early stage of the journey, which rendered it necessary
to reduce the speed to a rate of six to ten miles per hour
for several miles before arriving at Birmingham, where a
delay of 15 minutes is reported to have taken place from
the same. cause. The velocity of the train while.running
appears to have been as high as 61 miles per hour on
various parts of the line; from Wolverhampton to the
journey's end it had to fight with a violent wind, for
which an allowance of 2 to 5 miles per hour, if not more,
should be made for the performance from that point.

LONDON AND NORTH--WESTERN (LIVERPOOL TERMl-
gantic alterations at this station, sanctioned

260 yards of the Edgehill tunnel live been taken away,
in order to enlarge the station, and the rock which was
perforated by the tunnel is being excavated for a consi-
derable distance on either side. Hotham-street, which
passed over that portion of the tunnel now taken away, is
to be carried over the station yard on an iron viaduct of
enormous dimensions, the mirders and columns of which
will weigh 430 tons. The tunnel is now reduced in length
to about one mile, on an incline of 1 in 98. Although
this gradient is no longer formidable, 1 in 75 being hourly
ascended, by ordinary locomotives, at a speed of 25 miles
an hour on the Shap incline of 8} miles, on the Lancaster
and Carlisle, yet all the North-Western trains are taken

up the Edge.lllll incline by means of the chain. For this
expensive mode of working there is, unfortunately, no
remedy, for no outlet has been provided in the tunnel for
the escape of the steam from the engines, which conse-
quently falls upon the rails, rendering them too wet and
slippery for the engine wheels to bite. At the top of the
incline extensive preparations are also in progress for the
better accommodation of the daily increasing traffic. The
line is being widened for several miles, to admit of a third
line of rails, which must, sooner or later, be carried on
the whole way to Birmingham and London. Several
handsome new stations are also building on this part of
the line. These works, will, no doubt, cost a large sum
of money, several hundred thousand pounds probably, but
they are absolutely required by the circumstances of this
railway, and, indeed, they have been too long delayed ;
and while the shareholders will be benefitted, the public
will be the chief gainers, by increased accommodation,
punctuality and safety.—Railway Chronicle.