The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-03 00:00:00

PREMIUMS OF INSURAN,

LONDON LIVERPOOL,

Jamaica
Leeward Isl. Dem. & Berbice,
Honduras
Havana
New York, Boston
Charleston, Savannah
New Orleans
Canada
British North America
Newfoundland
Brazils
River Plate
East Indies
China
Batavia
New South Wales
Cape of Good Hope
Africa
Gibraltar
Lima, Valparaiso, &c.
Malta, Sicily, &c.
Smyrna and Constantinople
Malaga
Madeira
Western Isles, Cape de Verds
Lisbon
Cadiz
France
Holland
Hamburg, Bremen, &c.
Gottenburg, Stockholm
Petersburg, Riga, &e.
Oporto

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DEFINITION.—ChiIdren are inquisitive bodies—
,for in-
stance :—" What does cleave mean, Pa?" "It means to
unite together." " Does John unite wood when he cleaves
it ?" " Hem ! well—it means to separate." " Pa, does a
man separate from his wife when he cleaves to her ?" " Hem !
—hem !—Don't ask so many foolish questions, child ?"
INSECURITY OF LEADEN COFFINS, AND DANGERS RE-
SULTING FOOM INTERMENT IN VAULTS.—" From some
remarks I have previously made, my readers will easily un-
derstand that many thousands of bodies have been deposited
in places on the surface—with or witeout being placed in
lead. This is a monstrous abuse, and one that ought to.
have been annihilated in its very origin. I have repeatedly
entered places in which vast piles of coffins have been de-
posited—the general smell of the atmosphere is extremely
offensive ' • here I have seen women of delicate organisation,
oppressed with grief for the loss of a beloved :object ; sub-
ject themselves to the action of a malaria, given off in enor-
mous quantities,—possibly themselves specimens of walk-
ing sickness, led thither to contemplate the remains of what
once was an affectionate husband, a beloved child, or rela-
tive, This should not be permitted ; the power of resist-
ance ought not thus to be to be experimented with. Coffins
may be of lead, soldered, lined, and cased, yet the pestife-
rous vapours will frequently escape ; the security, therefore,
is merely imaginary. Every person who has been accus-
tomed to enter these places, can vouch for the truth of this
assertion : the disgusting stench in places largely venti-
lated, proves this. Very poisonous gases are the products
of the decomposition of the dead ; they are generated under
all circumstances, whether in the strong vnd expensive cof-
fins of the rich, or in the frail and imperfect shells of the
poor. The gaseous products of decomposition, condensed
and compressed as they are to considerably less than half
their volume by continual increments from the decomposi-
tion of the tissues (in some instances) may he retained in
their cases by the strength with which they are made; these,
necessarily, must ultimately decay and burst, when the gases
generated will be diffused throughout the vault in which they
are deposited.—Catherings from Grave Yards. By G. A.
Walker, Esq.