The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-01-31 00:00:00

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FOR A SHORT TIME ONLY.
IN THE
WOMBWELL'S ROYAL NATIONALMENAGERIE.
GEORGE WOMBWELL, Proprietor, begs most respect-
fully. to announce to the Nobility, Gentry, and Intl.;
bitants of Liverpool, that he takes this opportunity of offer-
ing his MAGNIFICENT ESTABLISHMENT for their
inspection, assuring them that there never has been seen in
any Zoological Establishment in Europe, so rare and valua-
ble a collection of animated nature, as his ample Menagerie
now affords, and trusts on this occasion to receive a share of
their support and patronage.
Since Mr. Wombwell's last visit, he has made many rare
and valuable additions, amongst others that beautiful group
of LIONS, TIGERS, PANTHERS, LEOPARDS, &C.,
which lately excited so much interest by their wonderful per,
formance at the London Theatres.
The collection consists of FOURTEEN WAGGON
LOADS OF ANIMALS, BIRDS, N:c., andvnay be seen
from Half-past Nine o'clock in the Morning until fl'all-past.
Nine o'clock at Night, at which time the animals arc fed.
For particulars see hand bills.

ON SALE,
SCOTCH and WELCH PIG IRON.
ANTHRACITIOUS PIG IRON.
RAILS and RAILWAY IRON of ecery description.
Shropshire and Staffordshire BEST BOILER PLATES.
ANGLE and RIVET IRON.
BAR, BOLT, CABLE, SHEET, HOOP, & ROD IRON,
LATHES.
PLANING and SCREWING MACHINES.
DRILLS, and ENGINEERS' TOOLS of every description.
STEEL, FILES, Circular and other SAWS, and
SHEFFIELD GOODS in general.
ANVILS, VICES, BELLOWS. &c.
HURDLES and WROUGHT IRON PALISADING.
BEST BLASTING POWDER, and PATENT SAFETY

• FUSEE.
Apply to JOSEPH JOHNSON, Canning Chambers.
Liverpool,l4lh December, 1839.

THOMAS TURTON AND SONS,
STEEL CONVERTERS AND REFINERS,
AND MANUFACTURERS OF
BEST CAST STEEL FILES,
as by machinery,
(SPRING WORKS, SHEFFIELD.)
RESPECTFULLY inform their Friends and the Public,
-EL that they have appointed Mr. JOSEPH JuHNSON,
Canning Chambers, Liverpool, their Sole Agent for Liver-
pool, North and. South 'Wales, Cornwall &c. &c., for the
Sale of their superior genuine (L 1 " Sy,tkes," Single and
Double Shear, Spring, and Best Cast Toot STE.ta. ; and
FILES of every description.
With thanks for favours already received, they solicit a
continuance of them ; and assure their Friends, that they
Will continue to supply FILES, second to none in the King-
dom for excellence and durability, and STEEL of the best
qualities.

Spring Works, Sheffield, and
Canning Chambers, north side Custom-house,
Liverpool, 18th Jan., 1810.

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STATE GE TRADE,—Our trade has declined a little during
the past week, with but little prospect of auy immediate im-
provement. Several causes may be mentioned as the occa-
sion of this ; the very bad state of the weather and the recent
fluctuations in the cotton market are the most prominent.—
Blackburn Standard.

CATCHING A TARTAR.—On Saturday evening, about 11
p.m., as Lieut. Cook, of the coast guard, was returning from
Ramsgate to Broadstairs, he was accosted by a man near
Dumpton, who turned out to be a person belonging to Rams-
gate, a journeyman baker, who, report says, attempted to
rob him ; when, after a little parleying, Lieut. Cook tool:
off his cloak and gave the fellow such a severe thrashing as
will prevent him ever making a second attempt. The gallant
lieutenant refuses to bring him to justice, on account of the
castigation he received.— Woolwich Advertiser.

A. SHARP LOOK-OUT FOR THE SPARROWS.-^FLAMSTEAD
SPARROW CLUR.—We have been favoured with a copy of
the rules of this club, which we insert for the information of
our readers :—" Every person in this club to send twelve
sparrows' heads to the clerk at Flamstead, on the last Wed-
nesday in every calendar month, to March inclusive, or
forfeit one shilling.—lf sparrows are short, two other heads
for one sparrow. No heads allowed that have not been shot
or caught in the parish of Flamstead, nor any heads that
have not been flying.—There shall be two feasts in the vicar;
the tirst on the last Wednesday in March, at the house known
as the Bird-in-Hand, Flamstead ; the second, on the last
Wednesday in October, atthe house known as the Chequers,
Flamstead ; dinner at two o'clock-each day.—Every member
to attend the feasts, or forfeit one shilling. Club hours on
the feast days are from twelve to two o'clock, when all 'for-
feits are to be paid 7 and at which timer any new article can
be made tending to improve the club.—Any person swearing
in club hours to forfrit twopence for every oath. "—Hertford
County Press.

A MISER.----W. Jones, an old man, was brought to the
Salop Infirmary a few days ggo, having, as was conceived, an
incurable disease. While undressing him, nearly 30 sove-
reigns fell out of his pocket, although he had declared that
he was without a farthing. On Monday he asked to be sent
home, and the medical officer sent him in a fly ; on reaching
his cottage he became very ill, and told a person where he
had some property secreted, and on the man going to the
spot, Jones, who accompanied him, endeavoured to seize the
money himself', but suddenly dropt down dead. On search-
ing the cottage, £250 in gold, £4O in silver and copper, a
mortgage deed for £250, and several other securities for
money were found, besides all sorts of old metal, hooks, and
every description of " inconsiderable trifles"- that could ba
gleaned, were found secreted in various places. The miser
was also the possessor of the house he resided in, and three
other freehold cottages in the neighbourhood, all of which ha
had acquired by selling herbs, vegetables, and fruit, and
occasionally begging. li is heir is a brother in the workhouse.
---Salopian Journal.
DREAuistri. -EXPLOSION OF POWDER MILLS.—We, regret
to state, that a dreadful explosion took place on Friday after-
noon, about three o'clock, at the powder mills at Elter
Water, Westmoreland, about four miles from Windermere,.
by which two men lost their lives instantly, and five others
were so severely scorched that three of them are since dead,
and very slight hopes are entertained of the recovery of the
other two. It appears that the explosion took place first in
the corning mill where the two men killed on the spot Were
employed alone; consequently there is no account of the
manner in which the accident. originated. The second ex-
plosion took places few seconds after the first, in a detached
building, about twenty yards distant, where the five wounded
men were employed. It appears, from the account given by
one of the survivors, that it appeared to him as if, inunedf-:
ately after the first explosion, a red hot iron bar broke through
the roof of the building in which he was, when the second
explosion immediately took plane. The powder exploded is
estimated at about five tons. The two reports were heard
for twelve miles round the country, and resembled thunder,
but of an unusual sound ; and many intelligent persons con-
cluded, that it was an explosion of these mills. Indeed two
volumes of smoke was seen to rise in that direction from a
distance of eight miles. The two buildings are literally le-
velled with the ground, and several cottages are injured by
having their windows broken, and doors, &c. much injured.
We regret to state, that the whole of the sufferers have. left
wives. and families.

AFFRAY WITH POACHERS. Between one and two
o'clock in the morning of Wednesday, as John Rayner,
Joseph Carmell, and William Sharpe, three watchers of the
preserves, belonging to his Grace the Duke of .Newcastle,
were on their respective rounds, they heard the report of
fire-arms. Proceeding in the direction from whence the
sound came, they discovered three men armed, who, on
seeing they were likely to be taken, began to make off. The
watchers, however, commenced a vigorous pursuit, and ap-
proaching near them, one of the poachers turned round and
levelled his gun at one of the watchers, but fortunately he
was sufficiently near to hit the fellow's arm, and prevented
him from carrying his obvious design into execution. A
most murderous attack then commenced on the keepers, who
defended themselves in a most courageous manner, and ulti-
mately succeeded in securing two of the fellows, who proved
to be Robert Ridge, of Eeelesall, and Thomas Ogden, of
Sheffield, one of whom was armed with a beautiful double-
barrelled gun, and the other with a single-barreled one.
They had already secured five brace of pheasants. After
they had been taken to Normanton lan, in the parish of
Elksley, near the place where they were apprehended, it was
found that both the prix niers were terribly mauled ; so
much so as to render the attendance of a medical man neces-
sary. During the day they were brought to Retford, and on
being closely searched by Leadbeater,- the police-officer,
several picklock keys were round upon them, which gave
evident demonstration that poaching was only one branch .of
their professional avocations. On being brought before
James Lee, Esq., and the Rev. E. H. Dawkins, they offered
nothing by way of defence, and there being no instructions
to send them for trial, under the night poaching act, et the
neat assizes, they were committed to• Southwell for three
months' imprisonment, and at the end. of that time, to find
sureties to keep the peace, or be further imprisoned for six
months.—Shetfield Patriot.

AN 'NOUN CHOULTRY.—As soon as the sun has gone
down, darkness rapidly prevails in this latitude; nor is there
any artificial or enlivening substitute in a Hindoo village for
the light of day. As soon as 1 could, theretbre, I chose my
birth in Bal-Chitty's choultry ; but it was my lot to mingle,
as one in a mixed multitude, with men of the least agievable
habits, and with them to share the troubles incident to a
common caravanserai. I spread out my mat, and lay down
upon the floor of the choultry ; my horse was picketed out-
side, in charge of his keeper; but my companions were less
attractive within. Vermin °fan offensive description—beetles,
cockroaches, bats, mosquitoes, &c,—were plentiful: the
apartment was dark, a single oil lamp was our only source
of light; added to all other incidental nuisances, one of the
heavy showers common to the petty monsoon fell after sun-
set, and forced into the choultry many who would have pre-
ferred a place in the open air. The atmosphere, confined and
heavy, became. most heavy, and all sleep fled, notwithstandim;-
my earnest solicitations. It was in vain that I tossed from
side to side, hoped for repose, or tried to coax mrself to
of the mosquitoes, the deaf-
drowsy forgetfulness. The whirring of the bats, the chirping
heavy heads, and the chat-
eonf deaf-
ening neaosra: cockroaches, riowarcfsitl[ersen,lllit
eifitscesosesto:oi itnft
ito„
and extracted from me a very deliberate
rendered- BM-Chitty no
rftee'sr.roirnitvigreiotefnoeotie.ftrn.:'.aUgleain to come under his nocturnal influence,
or to spend my vigils within his VOW s —Afassies Con finenle

VACCINATION.—HOW .
greatly it is to be lamented, that 'an
object so important as the prevention of the ravages of
small-pox, has never been efleetively brought under the con-
sideration of our legislature ! There are two modes of pro-
ceeding conjointly necessary in order to be effectual ; oneis.
the organizing vaccine institutions, and the other is, makine;
the propagation of small-pox by inoculation penal, and mak-
ing provision for insulating strolling beggars, who carryit
from place to place. How culpable is the legislature which,
with a single exception, has entirely neglected these matters.
Last: summer a beggarwoman took her place not forty'eeirds
from my door, having in her urms tt child dying of the small-
pox; on being threatened by the police, she removed to a
less public place, but that. was all. There should have been
legislative provision for withdrawing this woman front public
contact, and for disinfecting her before she was released.
My office as Physician to the Foundling Hospital has brought
before me another mode in which small-pox is propagated
throughout the land. Itinerant inoculators, availing them-
selves of the ignorance and prejudices of their fellows,.for a
small fee communicated the disease from one to another.
Some of their tickets have been brought me by foundlin.;
nurses, who mistook the instructions they receiVed abate
vaccinating the children. One these, I recollect, rest
thus, " I scratify that I have eittentated," Vic. Among the
children at present within the walls of the hospital, there are
about a dozen, whose arms attest the fact of such ejaculation.
A penalty of five pounds, or imprisooment in the common
mail for not less than one mouth, upon summary convictipu
before magistrates at petty-seeeions, would suffice to arrest
the propagation of pestilence in this mode. I regret to sax
that the fine is needed as well as incarceration, inord4 to
meet a higher elate than the itinerant inoculators. The only
exception which should be made in a law of this hied is, in
those cases where small-pox may have actually apeeercd ice
the household previously to the inoculation. Re-vaceination
has been recommended, as a practical deduction from some
of the opinions or notions which have been combeted je -the
foregoing paper. Re-vaccination of the poor generally would
be unwise, because the utmost that their improvident habits
will ever submit to is, to receive vaccination once, and the
effort to repeat it would only, in their minds, throw discredit;
on the whole matter, and thus lead to limit it in the first i„-
stance. Amongst the higher classes re-vaccination is, no no-
velty. Good sense being the guide as to the inede,l tkint
the repetition wise and to be commended.----Dr.. redeio-n.
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PrO !Kt irr Pow of Tru Ferrer ccngg iion.
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