The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-01 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

The borough of la.-naresborough is taking steps to deliver
itielf from the disgrace of being atis-repreaented 14. parliameilt ;
Mr. ltich and Sir Win. Inigitby are mentioned•its caudinates.--;'.
Halifax Express. . . .
On Friday night souse miscreant shot two valuable horses in •
a field near Ginaborue. They were the property of a po.a• than;
to whom the' loss will be all but ruin—CortitcaU Royal Gazette.
ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH,
understand that the Bishop of CheSter has .anuouticed his in-
tention of eonseerating this church on Friday, the 11111 instant.
Mrs. Ann Mitchell, of Boshant,-who died lately at the great" .
age of 100 years, walked to the church on the Easter Sunday
preceding in her.wedding4s,Own, which was Made for her eighty
years beforegath Gazette.
•
Shot should not be used in cleaning bottles, as they are made
of a compound of lead and arsenic. One persou died and three.
others suffered froth drinking perry from a bottle that had been
cleaned with shot The same reasoning' applies to . wine, ale,
and porter, in betties. The antidote, says a chethical gentle-.
man, must be twofold, a weak solution of Sulphate ofDlagues►at
i
or Epsom Salts, would neutralise the lead, by forming an n-,
soluble Sulphate. PerdXyde of iron, he adds, 1 can also stale.
positively, from repeated experiments, is an effectual Specific
for arsenic.
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SPINNER'S lEitsi.t.rre.—The feeling. prevalent amongst the
spinners in Bolton, Oldham, Preston and other towns, relative
to a rise in their wages, hai been introduced into the factories
in Blackburn. 1n some large establishments notice has been
given, and in Sine concern we hear ttie Men have actually left
Qrk.safaWsehcotpiori o hope
thatt
atlhiee,mniacteternrer be amicably arranged,
then r vthe ti and to
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CURE FOR VENOMOUS BeritS.—A Monsieur Tschiffely half
written from Blois to the French Aeadetnv of Sciences, to state
that during his stay. in Braiil he cured fotirteen negroes bitten
by venomous aerpents, by the external application of essence of
turpentine: He continued the application for an hour; and
even succeeded when the wound had been inflicted forty-eight
hours before. He has cured the stings of scorpions, .arc. in the
same ecianni!r ; and believes that this remedy would be effica-
cious for the bite of mad dogs.. .
Extract of a letter from Capt. Dunlop, of the ship Malabar,
of and from Greenock to the Cape of Good Hope, dated the 28th: --
of August, lat 16. 34. S., long. 30.36. W. On the. 13th of
August, lat. 7. 31. N., long. 16. W., tell in with the Java, East • •
Indianian, from London for Madras, out '27 days from
with about 500 souls on board, all soldiers from tile depot except
the crew and about 30 women Very faw.sick oti hoard, and un •
contagion. Supplied them with 17 cwt. of breadjour jars of peas, •
two jars of pearl barley, and one bag of rice. Parted Company
on the 16th, lat. 5. 24. N., long. 13. 20. W."
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AN AMERICAN INSINUATION.---" 1 say," said a liungiy-.
looking vagabond to a vender of atinsageS, "is them there
sasseugers good uns ?" " Yes, they are, l calculate, you stupid
'minus. You'd like to hinder me the sale of theta, you insidious .
scandal-monger, I.suppose." " I don't know nothing special
about them messengers," retorted the inquirer • they may be
good sasseugers, and I don't say they aint, but this I will say,,
that whenever you see them kind of sassengeis, you never bee.
no dogs about."
A .FIRST-RATE PUGlLtsT.—Among the escapes and ralven.
tures of the day. that of Lieutenant O'Connor, of our regiment As
was one, of the most singular. Seeing a number of Spaniard;' ~.N.
in disorder, he mistook them for Cliapelgorris, and ran up to—a.
rally them, when he found that he had tumbled into the hands • •
of the Carlists. A musket snapped in his face and a bayonet */..1.i
at his breast informed him of his awkard mistake. Part ying,'°r-.
the latter with his fist, be struck right and left in the approved •'
style of pugilism, and, flooring both his antagonists, who were
considerably astonished at this novel mode of conductitig the
battles of the Queen, he took to his heels, and being a first-rate
leaper, cleared walls and ditches, and rejoined his regiment
with the loss of his hat, sword, and cloak, which had fallen in
the scuffle. This interesting match was witnessed by the old
Spanish Governor at the Caw le, who viewing the action through
a telescope, declared that he saw a British officer attacked by
two Carlists, liberate himself bovoida.' —Twelve Months in time
Bmitish Legion.
"SA lISAPA RILT.A.—Mr. WRAY, of Holborn-hill, the Proprie-
tor of the ALTERATIVE-TONIC Pow nees, having observed con-
stant disappointment attending the exhibition of the pharmaceu-
tical and other preparations of Sarsaparilla, induced him to set
on foot, with the assistance of the ablest experimental chemists,
an analysis of its properties ; the result of which proves that
true Sarsaparilla, carefully selected and separated from all
impurities, is in substance most effectual, and that the various
preparations under the denomination of decoctions, t.xtracts.
essences, syrups, Vic., hitherto used, can never be depended upon
for producing. any real or permanent benefit. But, though
Sarsaparilla in substance only is to be preferred, vet the action
may. be materially assisted when combined with auxiliaries. By
a trial of many years' continuance he has found that the altera-
tive-tonic Powders he now offers to the public have justified his
most sanguine expectations, and therefore feels himself bound,
by motives of humanity, to confine them no longer to private
practice, but to allow the public the full advantage of so valuable
a medicine. Persons iu the habit of taking quinine will find,
his powders by far the most efficacious tonic."—Morning "ive).-

user.
BIRTH ,EXTRAORDINARY.-011 Sunday Morning the wife of
the dwarf, Don. Santiago de los Santos, herself a dwarf, was de-
livered of a well-formed male infant, at their residence, 167,
High Holborn, near Museum-street. The infant, though it
came into the world alive, did not survive its birth above an
hoar-. Its length is 131, inches; its weight is one pound four
ounces and a half avoirdupois; it is in every respect well-formed.
It was carried in a coffin to St. George's Church, Bloomsbury•;'
but, being there refused sepulture, it was taken home, preserved
in spirits, and will be exhibited for some time previously to
being deposited in one of our public museums. Doti Santiago,
who is only 23 inches high, is at present in his fiftieth year. He
is a native of the Spanish settlement of Manilla. He became
acquainted with his little wife at Birmingham, of which town
she is a native. Her name was Ann Hopkins, and her height
33 inches; ieing 13 inches taller than himself. She is 31 yeara
of age; and is really -a
.pretty little creature, possessing much
symmetry and grace. "tier father stands six feet one inch and
a -half; without his shoes ; her, mother is of the middle size ; and
..
'her brothers and sisters (of. whom. there are nine in all) are tall
and rebust., Thelittle don and donna live together very aft,e-
tionately, their attachment having been mutual, atm at first
sight. 'Fhe.only diflerence of opinion is, that she being a pro-
testant they do not worship together; and that ever since the
attempted robbery of her husband by his countryman she hates
all Spaniards, and pouts, and frets, and scolds, whenever she
sees him converse with one. They were married on the 6th of
July, 1831, in the catholic chapel at Birmingham, and two days
after at St. Martin's Church in the same town, by the Rev. Mr.
Foye, the high bailiff giving the bride away.—Morning Herald.
RAILROAD IN RUSSIA.—On the 9th of this month a trial
was made at St. Petersburg of the radioed between that city
and Czarskjiscto. The locomotive engine not having arris csi,
horaie were employed to draw the train of waggons. The cross d •
of persons who had assembled to witness this novel attempt -
were highly satisfied.. with the result. Engines are daily ex-
pected from England. The railroad from Pawluwsk to St.
Petersburg will be completed in the course of next month.
Tuough it has been represented that this railroad is• under the
especial protection of the imperial goverinnent of Russia, „it •
is the work of a company of shareholders, who received from
tha emperor an ordinance, dated March '2l, granting various
privileges. Some description of this Russian railroad may not .- .
prove uninteresting.- The line commences nearly. in the centre
of St. Petersburg, continues in almost a straight line, and with -,
a medium rise of one in 1,028 for about 18 miles, and terminates •
in the great park of Pawlowsk. The rails, locomotive carriages,
and other railway machinery, were contracted for in this cowl-
try by the Chevalier von Geutsner, the engineer, and are to be ,
admitted into Russia duty free. The locomotives will be, it •
seems, remarkably powerful, the width of the track hieing laid
down at six feet, instead of four feet eight cud a half. It is de-
elared that Stephenson's engine, on trial, was propelled sixty-
five miles and a half, and Hackworth's at the rate lot 72 miles
per hour. The engines are to he provided with apparatus in
advance of the engine for clearing away the frozen sleet and
snow from the rails ; and each is to carry a trumpet instrument i
that will perform, by mechanism, flourishes and marches with a
' power equal to that of a brass band ! The work was con;-
enced in April last. and is to be completed this October.
ism proposed that the whole line should be lighted with gas.
German paper.
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IMPORTANT TO LEGAL, GUNTLENIRN AND OTHERS.—A
curious circumstance has just come to liagthitti,owtpgihethtocanlitasufoerletghael ~
gentlemendiat e
exceedinglyat t eri ti ono f the
careful government.asto thekind of paper which they
next few months. At
been supplied in the course of last
the'West Riding sessions held in Leeds on Wednesday last, Mr.
..
Maude, the senior barrister, handed up to the chairman a sheet
Sir John Key, the contiactor to his Ma-
bearing the watermark, " .1 • Key and Co.,'
office in London, and from thence furnished for
the use of the insolvent court, and was actually in use by H. H.
when the period of- the execution of wills. ilud :Whet'
, the chief commissioner, on his circuit at Wake,: •
field, on Friday lase Mr. Maude said that nothing was [mire
jmclieegesoutnint'i:snisnsd( stationary
eut:Pl'Entieesingirl:bs'ewrlasbin dispute, than to examine the littler-mark
of the paper, and if it was subsequent to the alleged date of the.
instrument it was deemed conclusive of being fraudulent; and
ietriisreasifththeirsefnoerwe apsrvafuctlictoe
ot' contemplatepost-dati thngtehemais•actheire.fi'nua•
hrkichinmpaigpehtr
was henceforth to prevail. With the sanction if the learned
chief commissioner of the insolvent court, he hail thought it right •
to mention the subject in order to put the members of the pro- •
fession on their guard. The rev. chairman said that the lion.
baronet who contracted for the supply of his Majesty's stationary
office was already pretty celebrated, and he thought this caution
would not much increase his reputation.—Louden paper.
Mr. William Hurst, of Leeds, the celebrated tine-cloth manu- '
factures, and whose talent, benevolence, and ingenuity, have
procured hint the title of "the benefactor of Yerkshire;" came
up to take the benefit of the Insolvent Act on Saturday, at Brad-
ford. He was opposed by Mr. Leather and Mr. Naylor. His-
debts amounted to £3I,(XX). Mr. Hirst has• pat forth a states
ment of his affairs, in which he has reflected on the characters
of :his opposing creditors. in carrying. on his large manufac- •
tory he had sunk a large-private fortune in the erection and in- :
vention of machinery ; he mortgaged his estates, and ultimately
sold them to pay incumbrauces. He then gave up the manu- ..
factory to his son, from whom money was received, and this
' money was Oid to some creditors, and thereby a preference
given, on which he was opposed before the court. The Chief
Commissioner said that Mr. Hurst was public property—he
• spoke not in his judicial capacity, but as a well-wisher to his . •
.country; could not some arrangement be made between himd
and his opposing creditors, by which the court should be speitiet,
the pain of adjudicating against a man who had been one e:
.;.,
country's greatest benefactors? It was .found impesse'
in ibi
wh t
r o
bring about the arrangement, and the Chief Conimilsisein(
,a
the
was affected to tears (as was a most crowded am ce
cut from te
court,l passed sentence of nine months' imprison%
denims wahs
date of tiling his petition; and the unfortueuatetestKytiag
their re-
conve yed.back to Kothwell gaol, the peep!
to
Li:toned.— wea
spect for him by uncovering their head
Riding Herald.
This comet although only
EFFECTS oF HALLNY'S COMEwT•
ith every oegree of probability
of late celebrity, may be traced Christ, as being the first time it
to a period of 1.30 years before
appearance was attended with the
was observed. lu 1220,timts,.it,es;
during that year the heat -
most extraordinary cirtc r
inundations. in the spring of the tol-
e intense, with great
0.„,i,,an was frozen, and goods were con-
lowing year the Alew e
This comet so organised the atmosphere,
.
con-
veyed; across in carts.
attet wards there was thunder "and lightning
that a year or two
At its next return, in -1305
for 16 days successive. the Baltic
for 13 weeks between' '
Sea vr,,,. frozen 0%0.1-45
~
.t
the' Danish and ..
Swedish islands. tit 14 , i,s next appearance, there were great
• inundations, and the Baltic was covered with ice
rains,.from •
Mecklenburg to Denmark during the-following winter.
appearance was near the year 1531. Rothe;
Its next
Antwerp and Lis- •
bon suffered. frominundations; and 'a Rood is . 'd
to have
erecortee
taken place in England,.eXtentling fro i S o Nor°
folk- The summer was intensely hot• 11. °in
rshee"nre ofl --
there was frost, and the succeeding winter; yeton-t l2th
.... Junee
intensely cold. W. •
now approach the latt'appearance of the cornet, and
let our phi-
losophers ju';,e if it has ' its 'effects or not on aheatmosphere, -
the unusual eold. teul -2. ' .
;attire of the summer, aud the exceed-
ingly wet and stormyllaium , whit h has rendered the result
Of the latter harvest extreiLly doubtful, and has so organised,
the atmosphere that the approaehing winter, 1 - have no doubt; .
will be intensely cold.,—Corresponcient of the •CaltdoniatrMer.,.': • ••• . '1
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