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

)REIGN AND COLONIAL MISCELLANY

_ _.. From a review of the commerce
lf-year of 1810, it appears there has
iports of materials for manufactures,
; while there had been an increase
tbstances, with the exception of cast-
n the contrary, had decreased.
—On the 26th, 27th, and 28th
the Marquis imperiale Santo Angelo, accompanied by
acted the ascent of Mont Blanc, from Cha-
zreatest success. The weather was remark-
party could be seen with the naked eye
iu„ the whole time of the ascent. This
t Italian who has led a party to the top
id is the first who has been up since
in 1838.

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Swiss Observer of Berne relates the following laments-
ae Bth instant, Colonel Rowley, son of
the mountain called the Harder, near
) daughters and his son, who was very
prudently gone without a guide, the
lG years of age, slipped, and fell over a
he was killed on the spot. Her brother
:(1, hut caught by some grass, and held
could make a labourer hear his cries,
. Some other persons also came,
st Miss Rowley was carried back
choly event has caused universal

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OF DEATn.—Mr. John Smith, ofTyron
county, Pa., died on the 16th instant,
was stung on the back of the neck by
.fn:.;aged in making hay, and died of lock

rwardi.—Nero York Herald.
—At Stockholm it is said to be the
f small fortune, who want to enjoy coon-
,e of ground for the season, and pitch
~ Some of them are two sto-
liteen rooms. M. Blom hes a

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A LETTER.—The August No.
inierican Journal of the Medical Sciences relates a
mce of a small-pox contagion. Mr. Robert At-
Ancater, Pa., was seized with the small-pox in
ist, and after passing through a severe sickness
ease, recovered. After his recovery, he wrote a
brother, Richard Atkinson, of Wellsville, Ohio,
ccount of his sickness. The letter was written on
er, and sealed with a wafer in the usual manner.
lined on the road by the great snows which fell
'erne, it did not reach Wellsville until two or three
was written. After receiving the letter, Mr.
,n opened it, and carried it in his vest pocket
About one month afterwards he was taken
and died. There had been no cases
the place for two years, and no other
could be assigned than the letter

CONTAGION CO

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r.c-rultE.-It. is worthy of remark, that the
Queen steam-ship, the last great
chitecture that has interested the world,
"oak's Ark, the first that was set afloat,
Isainl years of practical science has done
dimensions of floating boats first given
f the universe; and if the critical cha-
,„ duly considered, it may afford
)1. the Scripture narrative. The
ixth of the length ; the depth
The British Queen is forty.
:o stern-post, 243 feet aloft ;
wire depth twenty-four feet
as long as the Queen.

6NGLAND.—The directors
aolding a certain amount of
.;;cants of London, no bankers
change is taking place. After
if 35 years, and having my far-
es, I feel that I have still some-
icti what inay be expected of the
ited ? They may have informs-
'ey move ; but 1 do know, after
-..,y were in great ignorance of the
.ny late 'friend, Samuel Thornton, a good
gentleman, the father of the directors, who
iilnes, from Wakefield,' too, and who, besides
ssian merchant had a sugar house at Hull, wrote
osely to ask, if the notes of the country bankers in
rkshire circulated from hand to hand by indorsement.
tie a buy. exchanye.—Leatham's Letters on the Currency.
PrtEtTiVING GKEEN PEASIC.—NOW is the time for those
who like a goad thing in the winter, to ,lay up .a store of
green pease. if :;'s,lleil and put into a dry bottle and corked
be kept until Winter with
perfectly tight (sea;ea) they may
ease. They should be cooked as soon as the bottle is opened,
as they will not keep well after the air comes to them.--New
Genesee Farmer.

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