The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-08-25 00:00:00

ao case whatever bang been shown agair

appearing that all the tare

ents made by the boy Welch

ally unfounded

On Thur►+day week, some reapers working on the farm
of Mr. Jt.hn Bloomfield, of Little Stonham, entered upon
a wager as to the quantity of work they could perform,
but such was the extreme heat that three of them fell
down from exhaustion. two of whom died on the spot,

and a third lies, it is said, without hopes of recovery.
In the House of Lords, on Friday, the Contagious
Diseases Prevention• Bill passed through committee, the
Marquis of Lansdowne stating that the bill
duced to provide especially against cholera

not intro-
, generally

connected with want of proper clean-

liness and similar causes of disease
DEATH BY FLY-WATER.—Mrs. Bsrfo(
3cautiousty left some "fly-water,"'a composition
, within the reach of her infant daughter.
sweet, and the child moistened with it

Essex
for killin.,

bead she was eating. She soon sickened, and died
ignorant of the

within twelve hours

The mother w

poisonous nature of th

mixture,

ANDOVER UNION COMMITTEE

.—CLos

OF THE IN-

QUIKY.—This committee, whose inquiries have been pro-
tracted for so long a period, on Monday evening brought
their labours (as tar as the reception of evidence is con-

cerned) to a c

They haie since reported to the

DEPOSITORS IN SAVINGS-BANKS.-It IS shown by a
turn just issued, that on the 20th of November last,

in num ter 1,062.930 depositors, and in amount
8. in savings-banks. Of the number, 1,041,194
were individual depositors, and the amount £29,814,455.
The remainder of the money was deposited by charitable
institutions arid friendly societies.
A new claimant as heir-at-law to " Jemmy Wood,"

£30,7-18.8

Saturday week at Gloucester, and ter-
ping the proceedings, they being

minated by tt:

unanimously ofop-inioti that the claimant had not made
pedigree, and recorded the verdict for the defen-
A city case on the same point was tried the same
day, and with a similar result.
THE SCREW versus PADDLES.—The Rattler and Alec-
to were lashed together, and each tried to go a-head at
the highest pressure the engines could with saiety be
worked at, when the superiority of the screw was proved
.9,1 a 1•4, 1,4..01VT.• Zino,
Rat-
tier and the Polyphemus are to he tried in a similar man.

from the a

bove experiment, it is

,elievec

the result will be the same

MELANCHOLY FACT.—An insane woman was brought
before the magistrates on Wednesday, when the Mayor,
in the course of some observations, remarked that
there was not a single vacant place in any of the asylums
at York, Lincoln, Bull, or Hessle. It seems therefore

that this dreadful malady is rapidly increasing, the acco-
modations for the insane' having until a very recent pe-
riod been amply sufficient.— Hull Packet.
INGENIOUS FRAUDS.—An elderly man, named James
Wright, was committed for trial from Worship-street Po-
lice-court, on Monday, charged with having obtained se-
veral parcels, at the different metropolitan railway sta-
tions, by means of forging orders These orders pur-
ported to be signed by persons to whom goods were con-
signed • and the part of the case that puzzles the police is
how Wright. could have obtained the extensive and varied
information on which his operations were based.

THE PENNY-A-MILE SYSTEM.—Amongst the new
projects of the day is one of an omnibus company to com-
pete with the penny boats. &c., on the river. It is pro-
posed to raise 10.000 shares of £2 each ; 100 omnibuses to
be put on the roads. The company has been duly regis-

.
tered, and amongst the startling statistics of the road it is
stated that the net profit on one omnibus is, if h,lf full,
£175 3s. 6d; two-thirds full, £375 3s. 6d.; full £721 3s.

6d per cent. per annum.
THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON ON DRUNKENNESS.—
When the Duke of Wellington was examined before the
Commis.•iouers appointed to inquire into the subject of
military punishments, he gave the following pithy answer

to a question on military drun

V barn-

cliffe inquired, " Is drunkenness the great parent 'f crime
in the Briiirh army, in your opinion?" The answer of
the great captain was, given in a single word ; it was,
" INVARIABLY." Comment is here superfluous.

The two bills to abolish deodands and coo.nensate the
families of persons killed by accidents, which were re-
ferred to a select committee, have just been issued as
amended. Deodands and the forfeiture of chattels are to
cease on the 12. h of September next. There are seven
clauses in the second bill, by which it is proposed that an
action may be maintainable against any person causing

eeath through neglect, &c , notwithstanding the death of
the person injured. The act is to have immediate opera-
tion, and not to extend to Scotland.
UNFOUNDED REPORT OF VAN AMBURGH'S DEATH.
—By letters recei%ed by Mr.Wallett, the clown at Astley's,