The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-01-29 00:00:00

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berths.
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of the between-decks varies from six to SC:I,
is made by laying planks along ithreobte,aan'tse!l.o ' p.kt, .
cording to the size or build of the yelp, It1),n1
tends the whole inside breadth of the II
berths are fitted along the sides. Each bertlit; !t1
two to six beds, one placed above anotherttha_
sleeping lengthways with the ship, and Or' Uri
across, according to the capacity of the 04°10;0. 10.,.
length of the ship a table is placed aboutd 1)4
half broad, and securely fastened to the er (1.)
heavy weather. Along the sides of pas.sesget-, n 4 ir
are spaces cut out at about every seven feehe eier,
with strong glass panes, which can be 05.
for the purpose of ventilation. These Penier'rtlis
about six inches in diameter, and the
quently so fitted that one pane serves as "erbli
cabins. Of course these small windows ar the ' Nit
espdsecocoel
top
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in heavy rains, when it is impossible to ape!
Once fairly at sea, intermediate passengerZ.
into gangs of eight or twelve, and over ,
senger is placed whose office it is to 0110.'0 4,1‘,
superintend generally, in the way of seel,to' ,t)r
proper amount of provisions is weighed oto(1, ettc
and of course to look to the quality of the luoil
be easily understood that the captain of see, .r,
tons, even with two officers under him,. left :f
in looking after the proper navigation of Pad,' I
much time to bestow upon the posseng'-
duty of every one, therefore, to look t°s 1,,,!
those little comforts which all more or lea Ur
passenger on board an emigrant ship shoolbe.
mind to rough it in the best way be can; tea 'p 41)
meals,pend ed before
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cleaning their berths, or their own healthleof rt
every one on board is endangered. The scf!,
is always advertised with the vessel, and it 1-I,'ed
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adifference of 25 per cent. on the charges voe
assenger,:
difference in •
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four to five months, according to the sailing'
the ship, or the prevalence of favourable or
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A DISTRESSIN 41
G CASE OF SO

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We have read with pain, not unmingled r(
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narrative of a suicide which appeared in t j to
bf!l'
the Manchester Guardian on Saturday, gisfintii° J.
strikingly the cruelty of under-paying nerv,..da!, ,t 44
with important responsibilities. On Wedno—the, t
last, a youth of the age of nineteen, filling
of shopman to a watchmaker and jeweller in std tir
and who, for four years past, had been 01°Ill Cai
on the premises, having in his care, of courser :lar
property of his employer, was discovered t,erti
himself from a nail in the shop. " For Se' fts
we are told, "he had been in a despondinger
neither his mother, his sister, nor his ernPlo nt, '
cover any cause for his being so." Our '
continues : ,

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" He bad more than once complained that
spent too much money during a trip which be to ide(
to the Isle of Man; and he once told his eroP se. I
feared he had not done his duty. That gentleroa,,9oo,
endeavoured to rally the deceased, and had PrZ,,th! I
increase of salary. On Tuesday evening last,
pdp,
cheer the deceased, his employer treated him 1.
the theatre, and as soon as the curtain droPPe, ;pal,
turning to his sister, said, All's over now : ;ce 1.11
another play.' His sister took but little no" e
after she had bid him Good night,' at the shoeop,
'All's over in this world.' His sister replied,,,:, 10 It
unless you mean to do something at yoursell toi
rejoined, Oh, no ! I have not courage for thate p
time nothing was seen of the deceased until
hanging, as we have stated."
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nat, does the reader imagine, was ti of
conscientious young man, whose fear sosteeor iT
pent too much of it in probably the only
his life ? Just 3s. 6d. per week and his bnar"d ji `4
of this pittance we are informed that be b
R Nt
time allowed his mothei 2s. per week; th°s w,
self but ls. 6d. a week for clothing and otherre.
Who can doubt what was the cause of his roe, ~,
`"t
ponding state ? Who can doubt what svai.s.di
which had made his life miserable, and ivu!tho'
ended by self-destruction ? No one. It Wtief ; be
between his sense of honesty and his necess",,ol t
his sense of duty to his employer and his srr,ro, 'tto;
for a necessitous mother. He had been rof 411
seems, an increase of salary. Perhaps hadt,l4
been fulfilled,—had the poor boy's heart Deedt 411,,,
with a trifling accession to his means, inst;t/
to the theatre, a valuable life might have
,ko
Had dishonesty, instead of suicide, been the, t,d,Z4l-
struggle, few would have pitied the employer 'tr.

VARIETIES

It is a curious fact that Coleridge once prei,
Independent meeting-house in Taunton. fr
The rallying cry of the Arab in war 04
Tally ho ! doubtless, was brought by the Ctil•6
ORIGIN OF BY HOOK OR CROOK.—Person.
fuel wood in the King's forest were only en,t,,l` It
it of the dead wood or branches of trees 'Pp'
" with a cart, a hook, and a crook.—Notesai toll
Some time since, a person who paid a visii.t,s'
asylum in Cornwall, said to one of the intr' fit
knew, " Why, Richard, your head is getting get
is only blooming for the next world," sves. ,
reply.
roeld
A NEW' CRIME.—IMPORTANCE OF A `-' pe'
return received from the chief constable of dioll
our parish authorities, which contains the Ato
one of their police-officers, the crime is statr
attempting to Marry his Wife, being alive. rss'
A PARISH CHURCH OCCUPIED BY DIES att
only parish-Church in England occupied 11 rbell
is at Morley, near Leeds ; where, previous t°;pt!!A
there was a parochial church, which subsequi C:,
dependent upon Batley ; but, in the time °to vi,
First, it was conveyed by the Earl of Susso:,er.",
tees of the Presbyterian church, and has ne'fit'
° pi
stored to the establishment. It retains mach Appe ;
appearance, and now belongs to the le'" (,)
Trimen's Church and Chapel Architecture. ,
SOYER'S RECEIPT FOR COOKING SALM°:4.?
prepare • but if he be not fresh enough To I
him, and proceed as follows :—Put your Pro
water, using a pound of salt to every SIX 03over„
let it be well covered with water, and set it 13 t 9
rate fire ; when it begins to simmer, set it °i t it,
the fire. If the fish weighs four pounds, eotJ
half-an-hour—if eight pounds, three-quarteile,v
and so an in proportion ; dish it on a naPic'ref
lobster or shrimp sauce in a boat.
MAKING ICE.—Sir J. F. W. Herschel, 1114
the system of making ice by the expansion of
pressed air, (previously reduced to the orth°`)
ture,) in a letter to the Athenmum, saYsietrj
steam-boiler, buried some 20 or 30 feet 510 o'l4
well rammed earth, and furnished with °doer;
pump, (worked above ground,) and one cote:),
opening by a stop-cock through a rose into tbe 4f
in all probability supply ice ad libitum fi°osl''
family in the country—the condensation 100'
pot
over night."
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STATISTICS OF THE JEWS.—An 0-ffi cl 01
informs us that there are hardly more than was
to 5,000,000 Jews in the whole world ; Whey 'ell
41
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idolatry),
Christianity,bt
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Jews are thus distributed :—There are soine„o _
Syria and Asiatic Turkey; 250,000 in Buropo q
il
600,000 in Morocco and North Africa; glaboo/0,1
in Eastern Asia; 100,000 in America; an",-ja :4
in Europe—viz., 13,000 in England; 159',Att
850 in Sweden and Norway ; 6000 in yen hl'• ic,
in France : 52,000 in the Low Countriesl.,e);p4
Russia (more than one-fifth of the entire f" it/
in Austria and its dependencies ; 214,4•3nta1tt,
175,000 in the German States ; and 40001111001'0
A GHOST EXPLAINED AWAY.—In the ct let eeei
last century there was, in a town in the weic-ho,, ii
a club consisting of twenty-four members, Ear tP 9
once in the week to hold special meetings, f/
purpose of drinking punch and talking pe'erobeillittj
academy of Rubens, at Antwerp, each 113,,, eSAF:
peculiar chair, and the president's was rni.c7serf,
the rest. One of the members had been °oil
a dying state, and his chair remained, of cliqs
The club being met on their usual night,,.,; tile,
made concerning their friend, who liven 1 llir'li
house; the answer was, that he could n°o,/,?;
the night. This mournful intelligence thr.t froSii
the conversation, and all efforts to turn !eht ;A
subject were unavailing. About Inid°l7itelqii
opened ; the hitherto absent member cod, ,
himself in his own place, gazed wildly ra oott'tl,l',
nothing ; at length he again rose, walked tlii
them. It was not till after a long pause tbe".o,
pony recovered their speech, and of tours _O4
whole conversation was on the dreadful ege need:
they had just mitnessed. They sent to beea:,`,
and found that at the very hour he had ,„- cP,;, 01
club their companion died. This story v4O"-Al4,"t?
twenty-three respectable individuals wel.tost 1 ;,,
its truth ; and what could be urged agaentiolle,l;
rolled on ; the story ceased to engage 0911V3
at last forgotten, unless when occasica's,Plj
silence an unbeliever. One of the club w 005,ct,4
titioner, and in the course of his practice hsbiA;
attend an old woman, who had been in thew ''err
ing the sick. She said she had one thin,gen be
on her mind, and she wished to disburte viti,ell,g
"You remember," said she, "Mr' ----.'
8 r°'4
90. ef•
occasioned so much talk twenty years,- lef to
t he f
his nurse; and on the night he died, , time -110°Ff
something that was wanted, at which , an. 3 ~
high delirium. In less than a quarter f laresTl ~,,
turned, and found that the patient baued tllOlO,
and gone out. I was so much frighten
~topt,erii
power to stir; but very soon, too InYa:elo ift
entered the room shivering, and his teeth_d diedj fi
cold, pulled off his clothes, lay down, itsdicte ffer
I could tsaid the old woman) have cri'kueo'clo
of the ghost, but I dared not; though to the
had happened, that he must have elle '
himself."