The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-08-10 00:00:00

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THE EDGEWORTH FAMILY.—The late eminent Mr. Edge-
worth had four wives • of these the last is living, and is the
mistress of the establishment at Edgeworth's Town. She
has a son, a daughter-in-law (who Is Spanish,) and a grand-
child in the family, besides whom there are a daughter of
another of the wives, an aged and venerable sister of Miss
Edgeworth's mother, and Miss Edgeworth herself, who is the
daughter of the first wife.— The American in Ireland.
LEGISLATION.—If acts of parliau.ent were, after the old
fashion, penned, and by such only as perfectly knew what the
common law was, before the making of any act of parliament
concerning the matter, as also how far the former statutes
had provided remedy for former mischiefs and defects dis-
covered by experience, then should very few questions in law
arise, and the learned should not so often perplex their heads
to make atonement and peace by construction of between
insensible and disagreeing " words," "sentences," and "pro-
visoes," as now they do.—Coke.—[lf this were so in Coke's
time, how much more forcibly and voluminously does it
apply now.
INDIAN POISON.—One of the most remarkable vegetable
productions is a poison used for destroying animal life. It
is grown only by the Abors, a mountain tribe, inhabiting the
banks of the Sampoo. Its cultivation is kept a great secret,
and they carry their precaution so far as to boil it before
leaving their country, so as to destroy all vegetation. It is
brought into Suddia by the Abors, tied up in little bundles,
and has the appearance of a small fibrous root. It is pre-
pared for use by pounding the roots to powder, and mixing it
up into a paste with the Juice of a tree called Otenga, so as
' to give it tenacity, and make it adhere to the arrow head. So
fatal are its effects, that even a scratch from an arrow so poi-
soned is folldwed by almost instant death. This is the poison
used by all tigerkillers for poisoning their arrows.
TRAVELLERS BY STAGE COACHES.—Upon making a cal-
culation for the whole number of stage coaches that possessed
licenses at the end of the year 1834, it appears that the means
of conveyance thus provided for travelling are equivalent to
the conveyance, during the year, of one person for the. dis-
tance of 597,159,420 miles, or more than six times the dis-
tance between the earth and the sun. Observation has
shown, that the degree in which the public avail themselves
of the accommodation thus provided, is in the proportion of
9to 15, or 3-sths of its utmost extent. Following this pro-
portion, the sum of all the travelling by stage coaches in
Great Britain may ties represented by 358,295,652 miles. If
we exclude from the calculation all very young children, as
well as persons who, from their great age and bodily infirmi-
ties, are unable to travel, there will probably remain in
England 10,000,000 persons by whom that amount of travel-
ling might be accomplished; but it is well known that a very
large proportion of the population are not placed in circum-
stances that require them to travel; and, if oven it were
otherwise, that they would not avail themselves of a mode of
conveyance so comparatively costly as a stage coach. We
shall probably go to the utmost extent in assuming, that not
more than 1-sth, or 2,000,060 of persons, travel in that man-
ner• anti it places in a strong point of view the activity
• .. si-uittrettantry7riben we thus-arrive- at-the
conclusion, that each of those persons must, on an average,
travel on land by some public conveyance 180 miles in the
course of the year. This calculation is exclusive of all tra-

yelling in post chaises, in private carriages, and by steam
vessel's, the amount of which there are not any means of esti-
mating. It affords a good measure of the relative import-
ance of the metropolis to the remainder of the country, that,
of the above number of 597,159,420, the large proportion of
409,052,644 is the product of stage coaches, which are licen-
sed to run from London to various parts of the kingdom.
The licenses, which have formed the groundwork of the
calculations, include all public conveyances proceeding be-
tween one part of England and another part of England, as
well as those conveyances which travel between England
and Scotland, but not such as begin and end their journeys
in Scotland; and their travelling ig Ireland is *holly ex-
cluded.—Progress of the Nation,