The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-12 00:00:00

SMITHFiELD CATTLE AIARKET.-YESTERDAY.

For Beef perhaps our top quotation is rather more freely
given for the best qualities. There are a few more Sheep, but
the average quality not so good; trade is exceedingly dull, and
late prices w►th difficulty supported, except a few choicest de-
scriptions. Calves are rather dearer, the supply beingzhorter.
Good Pigs are in demand at higher prices.

A man, named Tomkins, is in custody at Tonbricige
Wells, for attempting to murder his wife by cutting her
throat with a razor. The poor woman still lives, but-her
recovery is doubtful.

OUTRAGES IN TIPPERARY.—On the.3oth Ult., Capt.
Scully, relative of the M.P. for Tipperary, and of the
Mr. Scully who was shot some years since near Cashel;
together with Mr. James Scully, his son, and a servant
named Carroll, drove twenty-five head of cattle into a
farm, the property of the late Mr. E. Scully. The pos-
session of this farm was in dispute, and a care-taker, who
held it for the other claimant, attempting to prevent the
entrance of the cattle, was fired at, wounded, and his fife
is despaired of. Informations have been taken against
all the above-named parties.
THE CURRENCY IN CHlNA.—China has hut one coin
peculiar to herself, which is totally inadequate, not only
for mercantile purposes, but for domestic accommodation.
This is a copper one called "cash," which is a cireular
piece of money about the size of our farthing, and of half
its weight, and therefore about half its thickness. In the
centre is a square hole, for the convenience of steileing
them together, and on the coin certain characters are in-
scribed in relief. Incredible its it may appear, there are
an immense quantity of spurious " cash" in circulation.
These coin are strung together in hundreds, and com-
monly twenty in each hundred are bad. When a shop-
keeper is asked why he mixes this had coin, which he will
not receive back again, he answers, he does not know, but
it is " China custom." I have heard of one place in the
interior of China where there are none but spurious cash
in circulation.—Dublin University Magazine.
-DEPRECIATION ALLOWANCE.—Captain Huish has ad-
dressed a lone and very able letter to the directors of the
London and long
Railway, on " the present
condition of their moving stock, with rernaiks on the na-
ture and necessity of a depreciation allowance." Some
persons, pretending to great practical knowledge of rail-
way statistics, have contended for the necessity of a very
large annual allowance for depreciation of stork ; and this
assumed expense, and other equally unfounded suppositi-
tious statements respecting the extent and character of
wear and tear of rails and road, have tended to induce a
feeling of distrust in the stability of payment of good or
moderate dividends to railway proprietors. The report of
Captain Huish will dispel all, and for ever, the doubts
that exist respecting the loss annually sustained from wear
and tear of stock. He shows by clear and unquestionable
statements that the loss is comparatively insignificant, and
that the dividends of the London and North-Western
Company are not likely to be sensibly diminished by one
of the several operations which the public are accustomed
to hear are slowly but surely destroying railway property.
THE RAVAGES OF SMALL-PDX.—In these days, when
vaccination has so much mitigated the virulence of this
disorder, few can realize its destructive ravages ere Jen-
ner's discovery lessened the ills incident to humanity.
The following sketch will he read with painful interest.
It is related by Mr. Samuel Bamford, in the first number
(just published) of his " Early Days :—" Several cases of
virulent small-pox broke out-amongst the children of the
Manchester workhouse. My little sister Hannah, then in
the fourth year of her age, and as lovely a specimen of
child-like beauty as I ever beheld, took the disorder and
died ; and in 28 days afterwards, my little brother James,
then in the second year of his age, followed her to eternity.
A few weeks only had passed when my grandfather Bat-
tersby died, at Middleton ; and we were mourning after
mourning, three persons of our family and kindred having
thus been called to another world. But further trials wero
yet at hand. My mother bore up like a Christian heroine;
my father submitted in silent resignation ; whilst my uncle
was probably as much affected as any of the three. Weeks,
however, wore away, grief was mitigated, and tears were
again almost dried, when a female, whose manners and con-
versation indicated :that she had seen better days, was
announced to be ill of fever, Everything was doge for her
which good nursing and the medical skill of those days
could efect ; but she con: jutted to get worse, and her reco-
very becoming hopeless, she wished some to make prayer
for her. My uncle, as humane as he was trustful to God,
knelt down by her bedside, as had been his wont in other
cases, and prayed with a solemnity and feeling which
softened and comforted her heart, and she begged he
would visit her again before she died ; he did so, and with
thanks on her lips, and an assurance of a joyful hereafter,
she expired. In a few days my uncle became unwell; his
indisposition increased ; the strong man was prostrated by
the infecting disorder; and his last words were—' Hannah
lam coining ; Jemmy, lam coming !' I slept in the sam
room with my uncle during the former part of his illness,
and I took the disorder, which was now pronounced to be
fever of a malignant kind, or what would be called in these
days, a typhus of the worst type. My mother would nurse
me herself as much as her other pressing duties permitted;
at all events, she was determined thap. I should not suffer
front want of attendance during the night, and she had me
removed to her own room and her own Teed, my father going
to sleep in another apartmeat. She 'arts tenderly a,ssi-
duotea, nursing nee as a dove would its young ; but I eunk
and sunk, until at last consciousness departed, and I
knew no more. How long I remained in this condition I
have no knowledge, but it must have been a considerable
time; probably a week or two ; and when consciousness
returned, I was in another bed, in the same room, and
my mother was delirious and raving, in her own bed
beside me. Some days and nights passed in this manner,
my mother at times insensible, and at other times pray-
ing on behalf of herself and family ; my father also fre-
quently knelt at her bedside, praying God, 'if it se
pleased Him, to let this cup pass away : nevertheless,
not his wilt, but God's be done.' At length, one
night, as I recollect, my fat her, my brother, my sister,
and the nurses, stood around my mother's bed. She
was conscious of her approaching end, and wished to take
leave of us Ka. That was a solemn time: she would have
me wrapped ia blankets, and brought to her. Every one
was in tears. My father besought God to sustain and
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was about to leave. As the nurse held me I stretched
out my arms towards my dying parent, when, bles-
sing me with a fervent blessing, she said I should
soon be better when she was gone. I remember no
more of this sad scene. My taller went beck
to the bed front whence he had arisen to take this
last farewell; and the next. thing I recollect was ray
awakening one night. and becoming aware of a terrible
stillness. I listened to bear my mother breathing, or
praying; but nothing could I hear, end I lav some time
in a state of end foreboding. After gazing long in the
darkness, I thought I could perceive that the curtains of
my mother's bed were drawn back, and that something
white and perfectly still lay there, which I concluded was
my mother's cospae, and 1. began to cry. In a short time
there was a light in the next room, and a s.tund of feet,
and doors were opened and shut, and there was murtz
passing and repaseng, with the clatter of tea-things; and
the pencils heenn to talk, some of ;hem in a very cheer-
ful strain ; and they seemed to be sit: leg down to tea; I
then called out, nod one or two came het° t ream,
spoke comfortingly e! ; they like xis:, e.e, pxl roe so
in blankets and cerric ine into the room they had come
from, and in paaeiag my mother's bed I saw her lying
dead, and covered with a sheet."/:
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