The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-22 00:00:00

)REIGN AND COLONIAL

.—From a review of the commerce
-st half-year of 1840, it appears there has
in the imports of materials for manufactures,
.es, and ii,etais ; while there had been an increase
ill and metallic substances, with the exception of cast-
hich, on the contrary, had decreased.
;ENT OF Nh):s:T BLANc.—On the 26th, 27th, and 28th
the Marquis Imperiale Santo Angelo, accompanied by
guides, effected the ascent of Mont Blanc, from Chu-
- —.nest success. The weather was remark-
e party could be seen with the naked eye
thiririg the whole time of the ascent. This
‘s the i,rst Italian who has led a party to the top
L tilts mountain and is the first who has been up since
in 1838.

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The Swiss Observer of Berne relates the following laments-
-On the Bth instant, Colonel Rowley, son of
went up the mountain called the Harder, near
sith two daughters and his son, who was very
Ipruclently gone without a guide, the
It; years of age, slipped, and fell over a
;he was killed on the spot. Her brother
but caught by some grass, and held
ley could make a labourer hear his cries,
sistance. Some other persons also came,
youngest Miss Rowley was carried back
his melancholy event has caused universal
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SINGULAR CAUSL: OF DEATH.—Mr. John Smith, ofTyron
township, Fayettee county, Pa., died on the 16th instant,
fed 31 years. Ile was stung on the back of the neck by
ruble bees, while engaged in making hay, and died of lock
about three days afterwards.—New York Herald.
'AYS AT HUM E.-At Stockholm it is said to be the
if persons of small fortune, who want to enjoy coun-
,iece of ground for the season, and pitch
town upon it a moveable house. Some of them are two sto-
ontaining seventeen rooms. M. Blom has a
sale manufactory there,

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CONTAGION CONVEYED DV A LETTER.—The August No.
of the American Journal of the Medical Sciences relates a
singular instance of a small-pox contagion. Mr. Robert At-
kinson, of Lancaster, Pa., was seized with the small-pox in
December last, and after passim through a severe sickness
with the disease, recovered. 'After his recovery, he wrote a
letter to his brother, Richard Atkinson, of Wellsville, Ohio,
giving an account of his sickness. The letter was written on
glazed paper, and sealed with a wafer in the usual manner.
Being detained on the road by the great snows which fell
about that time, it did not reach Wellsville until two or three
weeks after it was written. After receiving the letter, Mr.
Richard Atkinson opened it, and carried it in his vest pocket
!veral days. About one month afterwards he was taken
with the small-pox, and died. There had been no cases
:car the place for two years, and no other
luction could be assigned than the letter

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is worthy of remark, that the
Queen steam-ship, the last great
.treliirecture that has interested the world,
ise of Noah's Ark, the first that was set afloat,
four thousand years of practical science has done
'rove the dimensions of floating boats first given
'der of the universe ; and if the critical cha-
itions be duly considered, it may afford
-nth of the Scripture narrative. The
s one-sixth of the length ; the depth
.e length. The British Queen is forty-
; stern to stern-post, 243 feet aloft ;
&king the square depth twenty-four feet
was twice as long as the Queen.
BANK. OF ENGLAtill•—The directors
mrietors holding a certain amount of
are merchants of London, no bankers
crequent change is taking place. After
.innards of n years, and having my fur"
me business, I feel that I have still some-
if so, then what may be expected of the
constituted? They may have inform-
in which they move; but I do know, after
825, they were in great ignorance of the
my late friend, Samuel Thornton, a good
ntleman, the father of the directors, who
, from Wakefield, too, and who, besides
Tchant had a sugar house at Hull, wrote
•!.:, if the notes of the country bankers in
t.rom hand to hand by indorsement.
-L eat ham's Letters on the Currency.
;.—Now is the time for those
the winter, to lay up, a store of
nd put into a dry bottle and corked
y may • be kept until winter with
ked as soon as the settle is opened,
after the air comes to them.—New

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