The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-08-18 00:00:00

IMEICELLANEOUS

The next meeting of the Provincial Medical Association is
fixed to be held at York. • '

boys at Eton are 590 in number, fifty more than last

The meeting of the British Association of Science com-
mences at Glasgow on the 17th of next month.
According to the census of New Orleans, there is not a

married woinan in that city under thirty years of age

ding June 30th, there were 192 fires in

New York, involving a loss of 3,225,409 doll

Mr. Vandenhoff and his daughter are playing at St. John's,
New Brunswick. Fanny Elssler is gone to Washington.
Ladies originally wore masks, as the sole substitute known
to our ancestors for the modern parasol—a fact, perhaps, now
first noticed:

Prince Louis Napoleon is the son of Louis, the ex-King
of Holland, and Hortense Beauharnois, daughter of the Em-
press Josephine, and was born in 1304.
A native of Legbourne, Lincolnshire, who was transported
to Botany Bay twenty-one years ago, returned home the
other day a gentleman of fortune
Mr. Yates,

Mr. P. Bedford, and Mr. and Mrs. Keeley
have, during the present week, been amusing the Birming-
ham public with their original parts in " Jack Sheppard."

GROUSE SIIOOTING.—We understand that on Wednesday
the grouse on the Welsh moors were found tolerably abun-
dant, and strong on the wing. Good sport was enjoyed.
Recent statistical calculations that have been published,
show that American bank stock and canal and railway shares,
to the extent of nearly 200,000,000 dollars, are held in Great
Britain.

Of the last five centuries, France has spent three hundred
and twenty-Six years in foreign and domestic wars, and dur-
ing that perithl IS4 great battles have been fought.

The motion for a communication to inquire into the pro-
priety of giving the Mayor of Lancaster a salary, has been
negatived by a considerable proportionate majority in the

town council

There are 11 railways in Lancashire, eight of which are
completed, and the whole of which form an extent of 1431
miles, and were executed at a cost of 43,604,000.
Why is the penny postage stamp like an idle schoolboy ?
D'ye give it up ?—Because he has to be lickt and put in a
corner, to make him stick to his letters.
Earl Grosvenor foregoes his usual grouse-shoot excursion
to Scotland this year. and will try the Denbighshire hills, in
the lordship of Bromfield and Yule, recently conferred by the
Crown on his noble father.

The electors of lierefor►lshire are about to call forward
Joseph Bailey, jun., Esq., M.P. for Sudbury, as a candidate
for the representation of the county of Ilereford at the next
election.

As Mr, Chas. A. Harty, thi►d son of Ate late Sir-Robert
W. Harty, Dublin, was cutting bread and butter the other
day, the knife slipped, inflicting a wound that brought on
lock-jaw, of shich he died on Monday.

Two of the' children baptized by the Rev. Dr. Gordon,
when officiating in the north of Scotland, in contempt of the
interdict of the supreme court, were named Non-intrusion
Rohm tsou, and Anti-Patronage M`Kay !

CRICKET.--SUSSEX V. ALL ENGLAND.—This match
which commenced ou Monday, terminated on Tuesday in fa-
vour of All England by four wickets, after some of the finest
play ever witnessed.

Scott, the American diver, has repeated his performance of

jumping from a height of 140 feet into the water from the
Chain Pier, several times during the week. He continues to

attract umnerous spectators.—Brighton Gazette.

BIRNIINGRAM DISTRICT BANK.-At a meeting of the
shareholders of the Town and District Bank, which was held
on Tuesday last, we understand that a dividend of seven per
cent. was declared.—Birmingham Advertiser.

Among the causes to be tried at Warwick Assizes, is one,
we understand, Muntz v. Sturge. being an action brought
by the mayor to recover from Mr. Joseph Sturge his share of
the expenses incurred by the erection of booths at the election
for this borough.—Birmingham Advertiser.
On Wednesday, as the Midland Counties railway train,
from Leicester to Nottingham, was passing near Kedgeworth,
a full-grown partride rose in the air, when, coining in contact
with the chimney of the steam-engine, it fell dead into the

tender

From a published statement of the receipts and expenditure
in connection with the turn-out of power-loom weavers,
which lasted about five weeks, it appears that the total income
was £2033 Os. 64d., of which £2032 l is. 41d. was expended
in relief, leaving 38. It in hand.—Stockport Advertiser.
*HARBOUR OF REFUGE.—Captain Bullock, R.N., who has
been for some time employed in making a survey for a har-
bour of refuge in the small Downs, is now engaged in boring
for the chalk on the. Goodwin, with a view to fix a means of
saving the lives of shipwrecked sailors thrown on those dan-
gerous sands.—Preston Pilot.
Rtsnoritsm.—During the late assizes, trials for ribbonism
took place in the following counties :—Antrim, Cavan,
Derry, Donegal, Down, Leitrim, Louth, Longford, Limerick,
Monaghan, end Tyrone. Some idea may be formed of the
extent of the ribbon conspiracy from the above enumeration.
—Dublin Evening Packet

KREOSOTE.—A fcw drops of Kreosote to as many gallons
of ink will effectually prevent mouldiness. When added to
whiskey, it gfves it the peat flavour ; and we may say that a
large quantity of " genuine Ifollands," sold in London, is
nothing more than gin, or cheap whiskey, with the addition
of a little Kreosote.

It appears from a parliamentary return that, since 1830, no
less- than one hundred and ninety-two railway acts have passed

through parliament, the amount of capital authorised to be
raised by which was upwards of sixty-two millions sterling.

WELSti HONESTY.—Mrs. Anne Williams, a grocer at
Merthyr, Glamomanshire, died five or six years ago, owing
£5OO debts inoye.tbhan there wet..; assets to pay. Her daugh-
ters opened a public-house at Rumney ironworks, and have
saved £lOOO. They now invite the creditors of their deceased
parent to come in and be paid.

SuicinE,-;-The wife of a respectable tradesman, in the
neighbourhood of the Horse Fair, put a period to her exist-
ence on Sunday morning last, by cutting her throat. A co-
roner's inquest was held on Monday, when the jury without
hesitation, brought in a verdict of temporary insanity.—Bir-
mingham AdvertLyer.

At Mr. Hewer's late ram salc,'in Gloucestershire, several
shearhogs fetched the sum of 82 guineas each! Mr. Hewer
still retains possession of one very uncommon shearhog, for
which he refused 140! but he says money will not purchase

him. He was shown previous to the auction commencing,
and was considered by many of the company not to possess a
fault.

GIIENT.—The culture of exotic plants has been so mach
attended to at Ghent, that it has become an important branch
of industry in that city. There are more than 400 green-
houses there, belonging either to amateurs or to floral gar-
deners, who annually send to France, Italy, Germany, and
Russia a quantity of these 'plants, amounting in value to
about 1,500,000 francs.

THE PORTSMOUTH BANK ROBBERY.—James Wm. Coles,
late principal clerk of the Portsmouth Bank. who was appre-
hended on suspicion of being concerned in the robbery which

took place at that establishment, has been discharged after
undergoing two examinations, there being no evidence to
sustain the charge brought against him.
A Yankee editor gives the following as the most approved
mode of killing fleas :—" Place the animal on a smooth pine
board, and hedge him in with putty ; then read him an ac-
count of all the railroad and steam-boat accidents which have
happened in the last twelve months. As soon as he becomes
so frightened as not to be able to stir, draw out his teeth,
and he will starve to. death.

NEW ENGINE OF WAR.—M. Billot has invented a ma-
chine which discharges 2000 balls, of half a pound each,
every minute, or 120,000 per huur without cessation. Its
action may be continued or arrested at the will of the party
in charge of it. The discharge takes place at four different
points, and may be directed at as many objects, or united
against one. -The machine weighs about 851b5., and its range
is about 3280 feet ; but, if one' were constructed of about
14 cwt. its range would be quadrupled.- The use of the
machine does not depend upon gunpowder, air or steam, as
a motive power.

A most diabolical attempt was made last week to poison
the whole of the passengers, between sixty and seventy in
number, of the steamer New York, on her trip from Cincin-
nati to Pittsburgh. It appears that a warm discussion on the
subject of abolition had been carried on during the day
amongst the-passengers, a large party of whom were anti-
abolition men. The steward of the boat, being unwell, em-
ployed a black man to bake the bread for supper ; immediately
after eating it, the passengers were taken violently sick with
vomiting, &c. The black man was immediately examined,
who acknowledged his guilt, and that he intended to have
poisoned all the passengers. He was then confined the
steward's room, but in the confusion of the moment he
jumped out of the window, and it was not known whether he
was drowned or bad reached the shore. There were two
kinds of bread on the table, and it was soon ascertained that
those who had not eaten the corn bread escaped. • Every
alleviation possible was afforded to the sufferers, many of
whom it was feared for a few days would not recover; none,
however, died. Amongst the sufferers- was the Rev. J. F.
Clarke, Pastor of the Unitarian church at Louisville, who
lay one or two days very sick at Pittsburgh, from the effects
of the poison, but has since resumed his
„journey. The above
took place near rtlarrietta. Portions of the corn bread have
been brought to this city to be analyzed.—Cincinnato
Chronicle, June 29.

EXTRAORDINARY NARRATIVE.—The following extraor-
dinary narrative is given in a recent letter from Milan :—" A
priest, on returning a few nights ago from visiting a sick
person in the country, near Pistoja, perceived lights in the
windows of a farm house belonging to a friend, and, suppos-
ing that there was a family meeting, entered with the inten-
tion of partaking of their festivity. On reaching the first
floor he found the daughter of the house suspended from a
beam in the ceiling. He immediately cut her down, and
took means to restore her. She recovered her senses, but
before she could speak, she urged him blr her gestures to go
into an adjoining room. Here he found the father and
mother both dead, having been evidently murdered.. On
returning to the poor girl, who was about 15, she had reco-
vered her voice, and told him that the house had been entered
by five men, one of whom was the priest's servant, who had
first killed her father and mother, then hung her, and after-
wards decamped with all the plate, jewels, and money.
Having placed the resuscitated girl in good hands, the priest
went home. His servant went to him as usual to assist him
in undressing, but he desired the man to go to the cellar, and
bring up a bottle of wine, as he was fatigued and thirsty•
The servant went down, and the priest, stealing gently after
him, succeeded in locking him in. He then hastened to the
magistrate of the place, who, on hearing his tale, sent some
officers to his house, where they entered the cellar, and
seized the servant and two of his four accomplices, but the
remaining two effected their escape. The whole of the
booty was also found in the cellar."
WONDERFUL MACHINE.—A great degree of interest has
recently been excited in Presburg by the invention of a
machine which promises to effect a wonderful revolution in
the art of printing. The inventor is a person named Joseph
Von Kliegel, and the machine is said to possess the twofold
power of superseding the operation of the hand in composing
and sorting or distributing types. Only the model has, as
yet, been produced ; but a committee has been formed at
Presburg, under the superintendence of Count Imolung
Bathyany, for the purpose of raising the funds necesuw-Y f
the construction of the machine. Von Kliegel has givEt%
his invention the name of Typographische Schnellses
Sorter machine. Though capable of conjoint oirrat:-,
the process of composing and distributing types. vi t
powers of the machine, being quite distinct and
of each other, are capable of acting separately. LI. ."
Kliegel has pledged himself first to complete that pnrtion
the machine applicable to type-sorting. A sheet .f • •ti,
type may, it is said, be broken up and distributed ww.:
duration of an hour and a half by an operation which wo.
no manual aid, and may be made to act day and night.
ten sheets may be hrgTe_
clock work. I n the course of a day

up and distributed. The composin g machinels ak'
tributing machine, so that the type-boxes may be instant••
neously transferred from the latter to the former. Thl
distributing machine is worked by means of a handle, turned
like that of a mangle. The composing machine acts by means
of a key-board, like that of a piano-forte, which must be
touched by the compositor. It is expected that by the aid of
this invention words may be composed as rapidly as the/
can be spelt. Even a slow, unpractised compositor mal
compose a sheet of Cicero type in an hour and a half ; and he
requires no other help than that of a boy to lift from the
machine each page as it is completed.

THATRE-ROYAL, 4Jii'ERPOOr

Mrs. STIRLING, of the,Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lana, is
,engaged for a LIMITED PERIOD, and will make her Second
Appearance at this Theatre THIS EVENING.
Second Week of Mr. W. FARREN,.of the Theatre-Royal,
Cnyent-Garden ; and the Last Week of Mr. ANDERSON,
of the same Theatre.
THIS present TUESDAY, August IS,
will be performed
Shakspeare's Comedy of
AS YOU LIKE IT.
... Mr. Anderson.
Orlando .. Mr. Howard.

Jacques
Touchstone ..

Mr. Baker

Amiens

Mr. G. Iforncastle.
Rosalind Mrs. Stirling.
Celia.. Miss Cleaver. Audrey.. Mrs. Clarke
After which, the new Drama of
ASK NO QUESTIONS/;
Olt, THE OLD INVALID. /

iviathias.

GriffinhOOl