The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-07-18 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

itcraturr. against a mode of travelling which indubitably stands to give assistance ; yet it is a fact, that the opposition to
very high in general estimation, both in matters of health the employment of accoucheurs bas not been overcome
and convenient exercitation, and which hath been duly in every nation until the dangers resulting from inexperi-
P 0 E T iIY. lauded and prescribed in olden times, by many an old enced and inefficient practitioners have been so great as to
medical worthy, particularly Celsus. The cost of outfit arouse the attention of the state. In England there and supporting these noble animals being is no
nc,. the chief
ACROSTIC TO THE IRON STEAM-SHIP ) e regular instruction for female midwifes. No examination
" HELEN MACGREGOR." drawback to the more general practice of riding on horse-
under which the legislature compels them to pass. And
back; though there are other disadvantages, not to be consequently the results of want of information are most
BY A YOUNG LADY. entirely passed over -such as the manifold inconveniences appalling.
to which, in a broken, boggy, or mountainous district cln Edinburgh, Professor Hamilton has suc-
eeded in establishing a class of female pupils, many of
, whom have risen to considerable local celebrity; but he
(For the Liverpool Standard.) the cavalier is, as such, inevitably exposed. The mem- informs us that the timidity of the sex is such as to dis-
11l ark t 'cis a voice from the Ocean Deep : hers of every grade of society, however, are constrained enable them in general from the performance of any capi-
k: very wave on her bosom is speaking;
to admit, that by walking they can best maintain them- cal operations. In France the Midwife receives a regular
Lightly the winds o'er her waters sweep ;
selves in good health and elastic spirits. medical education, attends lectures, walks the hospitals,
E ach mermaid is roused from her shadowy sleep ;
Ilii eptune the stillness is breaking. 10. Finally, then, to that numerous, respectable, and and finally undergoes the examinations necessary to her
NEPTUNE. exercise-needing class, whose limited means may exclude, graduating as a doctor in medicine.
Mid the winds and the waves that obey my commands, or whose habits and tastes seek not, either of the pre- The first lying-in hospital in London was founded so
late as 1739, by Sir James Manningham, in one of the
Arise every spirit of Ocean ; ceding methods of locomotion, the subjoined directions
ards of St. James's. Parochial Infirmary, Westminster.
C ome, welcome a stranger from yon weary land, are respectfully offered in the way of " Hints," medical Sincew that period our science has been cultivated much
Glad to escape to thy free happy band, and general, in the humble hope that they may prove of
more widely and extensively. Names high in the temple
Relieved from all worldly emotion.
some little service in the shape of advice as to the pre- of fame appear in rapid succession, as Levret, Smellie,
E arch, Ocean. and Air, on thy spirits I call,
G rant me the boon which I ask from ye all: paratiou, management, and fair exertion of those &onto- Beth, Gregoire, Meckel, Siebold, Hunter, Osborne, Den-
O n the HELEN MAcGaitcoa your best blessings send, ekes of such unspeakable value, and which are em hat- man, Haighton, Clarke, Davies, &c., which bring us down
Receive her and be from her birth a true friend. ically, at all times and seasons, their own. to the present day, and to those numerous and talented
Pool Cottage, Road-side, April, 1843. individuals who are now so successfully enriching this
SOMETHING CHEAP. department of medical science.
CHARTER TER 11. PREPARATIONS PROVISIONAL Hospitals and other institutions specially devoted to ob-
BY CHARLES SWAIN. , VA- stetric cases and the diseases of women and children, have
RIOUSI Y NEEDFUL AND NEEDFULLY VARIOUS, rapidly increased. London alone now possesses thirteen
(From the Literary Gazette.) TOUCHING THE LOCOMOTIVES. midwifery institutions; Dublin has three or four; and
There's not a cheaper thing on earth, 11. All men have not the same tastes and feelings, many of the large towns in the kingdom—Edinburgh,
Not yet one half so dear :
and happy
, is it for us that adversity characterises as Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Newcastle. Bristol, &c.—
'Tis worth more than distinguish'd birth
possess similar charities.—Dr. Waddy.
Or thousands gain'd a-year : . much the phases of our minds as it most certainly does
It lends the day a new delight; our bodily faces ; yet on the point of selecting periods of
'Tis v rtue's firmest shield ; the year for pedestrian excursions, SECOND EDITION.
And adds more beauty to the night
12. Summer has, for several obvious reasons, been
Than all the stars may yield.
It maketh poverty content,
most unanimously chosen as the favourite season, pre-
To sorrow whispers peace; senting natu, e, as she does, wearing a perpetual smile, Standard-office, Three o'clock.
It is a gift from heaven sent or, when chequered by a bursting cloud, only so obscured
For mortals to increase. to brighten and dazzle again the more
. • she adds " lenh _____,„,,,,_
It meets you with a smile at morn; of days" to her other charms and
witchery of existence; ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICAN PACKET-SHIP
It lulls you to repose;
and Queen of Seasons she must ever be, though her noon-
" GARRICK."
A flower for peer and peasant born,
An everlasting rose. day ardour invites to a listless repose, so usually at once NINE DAYS LATER FROM NEW YORK.
the opprobrium and the luxurious accident of summer
--
A charm to banish grief away,
To snatch the frown from care ; tours.
13. Spring has also many claims to be considered. This fine packet-ship arrived in our river at three o'clock
Spread gladness everywhere ; The fresh and bracing winds—the sharp frosty morning
Turn tears to smiles, make dulness gay—
this afternoon, bringing papers to the 26th ultimo. She
And yet 'tis cheap as summer dew, —the early birds and their gladdening matin song—the brings no news beyond the fact that up to that date no-
That gems the .ily's breast;
A talisman for love, as true burst of renewed vegetable life— the fragrant odours of thing was known of any intention to delay the starting
As ever man possess'd. the young leaves as they escape from their winter's hard- of the Columbia steamer, which was advertised to sail on
the cloud w through As smiles the rainbg cosed envelope—the shining floweret on the hedge bank, the Ist of July, and is not telegraphed at the time of our
When threaVnin storm be gins—
oh
loading the air with its balmy fragrance all the sweeter, going to press.
As music 'mid the tempest loud, and more intoxicating for having been long locked up
tIIMMiI
As springs au arch across the tide,
That still its sweet way wins— under miserly snow and frost—the leaping rill and the - ----
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LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE, This DAY,

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(From Messrs. R. Makin & Sons' Circular.)

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tide m.

This charm, this t
Good temper-7

The receipts into this port, from the 11th to the 17th
instant, include chiefly a moderate quantity of Wheat

1 pound

ana vats, coastwise and from Ireland, with a fair supply
of Flour and Oatmeal from the latter source, and 1780

And can

To bliss or

away th

qrs.of Wheat from Danzig,

for there are

1 pondence sometimes manift

The advance and active proceedings reported in the
leading markets of the kingdom last week, produced
considerable excitement yesterday in every branch of the
Corn trade here, which neither the sellers nor buyers

.ged in a stiiki

:eeping of thes

away from our immedia
then, we commend the

but it would leac

valetudinarian

day" of the year, " th

seem to have been generally prepared to expect: the
more sanguine holders in consequence appeared disposed
to withdraw a portion of their samples, until the result of
this sudden change be better ascertained by a more accu-
rate knowledge relative to the stocks of Grain in the
hands of British growers ; the prevailing opinion being
that, without a fair supply from abroad, much less than
the usual overplus will be left in this country at the pe-
riod the new crop may become available.

merry, merry month of Mtt

tpril has often lustrot

Kirk Whit

A little sun, a little rai:

1 peevish April da;

_ .
14. Autumn, too, has its enthusiastic admirers : it is
the season chiefly worshipped by poetic temperaments—
that "genus irritabile vaturn," whose keen sensibilities,
tastes, and feelings, nursed so carefully and capriciously,
give it a colour of their own—their
"Eyes see all around, in gloom or glow

_ .
Our market to-day was tolerably well attended by town
and country millers, but the pause in London yesterday
having checked that eager desire for buying Wheat exten-
sively, which was previously observable at an improvement
of Is. per 701bs, that advance was not supported to-day,
and the transactions this morning, generally upon a
moderate scale only, place our quotations merely 6d. to
9d. above those of this day se'nnight.
English and Irish Flour may be noted ss. per sack,
and American 2s. to 3s. per barrel dearer, which being
reluctantly complied with, few sales were effected.

Dm the hear

and thus the season of calm decline—this fading chaplet
of the year is made to acquire a moody charactP-
'hough she were the personification of melanot

as a mind of more common and cheerful tone passes
through the rich colours, the laden trees, the bird's
joyous song, the falling leaf even withotit reading pauF
fully the lesson of silently-operating change, without
being started with the echo of Spring reverberating less
and less from approaching winter's icy cape! And so should
the cheerful equal mind relish every se-

)n, each traci

its own significant and appropriate of ate, re-
hearsing in beauteous types the corresponding ages of
man, until the revolution of the year-circle has completed
and pointed the moral of our life-circle.

Barley continued to be held for higher prices, and Malt
was the turn higher.—Beans and Pease fully maintained
the improved terms of Friday.

"Red o'er the forest peers the setting sun, - •
The line of yellow light dies fast away
That erown'd the eastern copse : and chill and dun
Falls on the moor the brief November day.

ARRIVALS OF CORN,
From the 11th to the 17th July, 1843, inclusive.

DESCRIPTIONS

Now the tied hunter winds a parting note,
And echo bids goof night from every glade.
Yet wait awhile, and see the calm

Each to his rest t

ueneath their parent shade.7:,—Keble.
Thus sings a cheerful poet; and we are landed in
15. Winter—wherein short days make short work, and
nipping frosts bind earth and water into one iron-faced
resistance to man's busy-handed industry: yet may, ne-
vertheless, even here, the enterprising footsteps procure
judicious and glowing exercise, in robust play of the
limbs.

Having paid our court to the seasons, in the most sea-
sonable manner we could, let us then now descend to
look into some of the dry and matter of fact details of pre-
paration for a pedestrian trip, which, though somewhat
at first uninviting, yet we premise thus much to every and
all—poet or naturalist—philosopher or man of business--
that the poetry of nature's changing garb and features,
—the science of her thousand ways of wonder working
life—the t one of her swest influence on the mind and
body—will he promoted in no trifling degree, by our secur-
ing, as far as practicable and foreseen, those conditions
actually essential to the comfort and success of a pedes-
trian ramble; for if great things are only the summing
up of small things, as, in the fable, the grateful ant stung
the leg of the man whose deadly aim was thereby diverted
from sacrificing the poor bird to whose kind act of rescue
when in danger the ant had previously owed her own
life—how can we despise even the least matter which
can exercise an influence for good or evil on our journey's
successful issue. Who has not had to experience the
hitter mortification of having a trip on foot spoilt by Anne
trifle, unheeded or unanticipated in the hey-day of
the start ! What corn began to complain on the second
day ? What sore heel from the wear of an ill-fit-
ting boot or shoe, has not destroyed all the soaring
pleasure of oar excursion, just when the country
began to open to our eager gaze ; and who that has
so paid the penalty of incaution and neglect at start-
ing does not wish to take good care that such shall not
happen again to themselves, or to any friend, indeed,
starting on a similar trip, and who will listen to the voice
of experience in the matter.

To.enter, then, forthwith into all manner of " Hints"
and_practical suggestions.

17: In the first place, the reader will be, perhaps,
snrprised to learn how many things need to be attended
to in preparing for a few days or weeks excursion into
the country ; and, further, that you must begin to train
and harden yourself a day or two before actual setting
out.

(To be continued.)

LYING-IN HOSPITALS

The art and science of midwifery is of very early origin,
coeval with, if not antecedent to, the science of medicine,
and appears to have been considered as a distinct depart-
ment of medical practice from the most remote ages of
antiquity. Thus the most ancient writer in the world
refers to the midwives who attend upon Rachel, the wife
of Jacob, upon Thamer, the widow of Er, and upon the
Hebrew women during the Egyptian captivity. The
author of the first book of Samuel makes reference to the
midwife who attended upon the wife of Phineas, the son
of Eli. Hippocrates, the most ancient medical author
extant, who lived 1,000 years after Moses, and about 400
years before Christ, collected the disjointed fragments of
information which lay scattered abroad, in reference to
midwifery, as well as to medicine and surgery, and pre-
scribed more for diseases of females than for any others.
The works of Celsns, Aretreus, Moschion, Rufus
Ephesus, Galen, lEtius, Paulus tEgineta, and many
others amongst the Greeks, abound with instructions
in
_midwifery, and several of the plans of treatment re-
commended by the moderns were clearly predicated by
ancients of the Greek school. A succession of Arabian
authors, Serapion, Rhazes, Avicenna, and Albucacis,
brings us down to the twelfth century. In the following
century the practice of medicine began to be encouraged
in England. In the year 1532, Eucharius Rhodion, a
German, published a treatise on parturition. The next
book of any importance upon our subject was published
in England in 1540 by Dr. Raynalde. Ambrose Pare in
France, and the illustt ions Harvey in England contri-
buted materially to the improvement of midwifery during
this century.

Hitherto, the practice of midwifery had been almost
exclusively confined to female practitioners, the assistance
of the physician or surgeon being required only in cases
of extreme difficulty and responsibility. The Duchesse
de la Valliere, the favourite mistress of Louis XIV., was
the first female who placed herself under the exclusive
care of a male practitioner. This event occurred in 1663.
The elevated rank of the duchesse furnished to other
ladies of all ranks of society an example !And an induce-
ment to employ male practitioners, and Julian Clement,
the attendant upon the duchesse, received shortly after-
wards the new appointment of accoucheur to the princesses
of France.

The increase of civilisation, together with its con-
comitants, crowded cities, unwholesome diet, hard la-
bour, personal and moral restraints, occupations injurious
to health and calculated to weaken the frame, stunt the
growth, and destroy that beautiful symmetry of form
which nature has given—whether the consequence of
necessity amongst the poor or the effects of luxury and
self indulgence amongst the rich—must have tended to
induce difficulty and danger in child birth, vastly greater
than those occurring under circumstances more favour-
able to health.
The increase of these difficulties would necessarily im-
press the sex with a powerful sense of danger; and the
t incapability of the ordinary midwife in cases of
linary complication or severity, would naturally
lical man

THIRD EDITION.

ABSTRACT OF AMERICAN NEWS BY THE

" GARRICK."

THE MONEY MARKET.—The New York Herald of
the 26th reports under this head that American gold is in
demand at per cent. premium, and very little can be
procured. The quantity of specie in the country is suffi-
cient for all its wants, and is constantly increasing. There
are in the New York banks 13,000,000 dols. in money;
and yet scarcely any is to be found in circulation. There
is very little prospect of a demand for business purposes,
and money can therefore be obtained on good security,
at prices never before equalled. It is expected that it
will be long before the import trade can revive, under
the present tariff.

CORN MARKET.—The improvement noticed in this
market in our last report still exists, and prices are firm,
at an advance on our last quotations. Genesee is at
5 dols. 75c., and operations to some extent at that rate.
Michigan 5 dols. 621 c. ; Southern, common, 5 dols. 50c.;
fiat and round hoop Ohio at 5 dols. 50c. to 5 dols. 624 c.
Our quotations for all descriptions during the present
fluctuating state of the market cannot be otherwise than
nominal. Many holders of Genesee demand a little above
the rates given, while others, more wary, are disposed to
operate often and remain safe.

REPEAL AGITATION IN AMERICA.—The son of the Pre-
sident of the United States is reported by the New York
Weekly Heraldto have identified himself with thisagitation!
The Herald thus describes the circumstances—" Bob
Tyler, (!) agreeable to previous intimation, addressed a
numerous assembly of repealers at Boston on Wednesday
last." The speech referred to was calculated to excite
the passions of the Irish population of the States.
In New York a meeting of the Repeal Association was
held on the 24th, and exhibited amost tumultuous scene.
The Americans have taken objection to Daniel's anti..
slavery efforts ; and the opinion of parties able to esti-
mate the feelings of that people upon this ticklish sub-
ject is that " reaction has begun," and that the "sympa-
thy" of America " has cooled down to zero." " Every
future meeting of the repeal agitation throughout the
union," remarks the New York Herald, " will present a
scene similar to this. Rows are unavoidable. The whole
agitation may, indeed, be fairly said to be at an end in
this country."

Mrs. Catharine Gilmour, alias Cochrane, who came
passenger in the Excel, from Liverpool, was arrested on
the 24th inst., on the charge of poisoning her husband in
Scotland in January last.

Yesterday she was brought up to have her first exami-
nation before Mr. Rapelyea, U. S. Commissioner, and
ultimately postponed till the Ist July.
This is the first arrest under the new treaty.

MATANZAS.—An arrival at Savannah from Matanzas
brings a report of an insurrection in the Island of Jamaica
though no particulars. An English brig was totally lost
on the east end of the island of Cuba while going in to
load.

James Gordon Bennett, of the New York Herald, visits
England during the present summer, and returns in

autumn

Mr. Legare,the Attorney-General of the United States
had died suddenly.

[Since the arrival of the Garrick we have made inqui-
ries with respect to the probable cause of the Columbia's
long passage. It is a singular coincidence that the Bri-
tannia was detained 36 to 48 hours on the corresponding
voyage at this period last year, owing to fogs on the
Banks of Newfoundland, and little apprehension is en-
tertained that any other cause has detained her on this
voyage.--Ed. L. S.]

In this country the sale of quack medicines has kept
pace with the •` march of intellect." Forty years ago they
yielded an annual revenue to the state of about £14,000.
In 1841 the amount realised was £50,000.
A REMARKABLE TREE.—Capt. Monk, has, in
his garden at Neston, Cheshire, a rose tree, of a peculiar
species, which at this time bears 3,700 flowers, besides
innumerable buds to come in succession !
Sir Peter Laurie says there is one great recommendation
in the wood pavement,—economy, which he clearly proves
by showing that, if it does not save the horse's shoes, at
all events it makes them slippers.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS.—The second
volume of this spirited and elegant newspaper, for the
half-year ending with June, is made complete with a noble
and boldly executed title-page, index, preface, &c. issued
with the wench'. weekly rsunobci of lust aaturaay. The suc-
cess of this publication has been unprecedented ; we need
' not say that it has also been deserved.
INIQUITY OF THE SELFISH PRINCIPLE. —lf men
bounded their desires after this world's goods, by what
they might fairly acquire without approximating to the
verge of another woe, proclaimed against him " that useth
his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him
not for his work," or who gives so little, it is next akin to
nothing; there would be a manifest check put to the
augmentation of estates, the embellishment of dwelling
houses, and the countless etcetera of personal emulation
and display. Waste land would not be enclosed as now
it everywhere is; the village common would still pasture
the poor man's cow, and afford picking to his little stock
of poultry, instead of being made to bear grain for the
wealthy farmer, or to form an addition to the nobleman's
preserve. The frame of woman would not be bowed un-
der such burdens as ought not even to be laid on the more
robust structure of man, nor would her mind be inevitably
vitiated by compulsory admixture with labourers of the
other sex, at such times, in such places, and under such
circumstances as render mental contamination at least a
matter of course. Children would not be immured
throughout the livelong day in gloomy buildings, and
their exhausting efforts protracted to thirteen, fourteen,
fifteen hours of labour, to the utter exclusion of every
hope that instruction, even on the most vital subjects,
may reach them. The common sense of mankind assents
to what inspiration declares—" Man goeth forth to his
work and to his labour until the evening." Twelve
hours is the limit prescribed, by universal consent, for the
work of adults ; yet under the influence of this money-
getting mania, we find employers pertinaciously refnsing
to bring the daily service even of their juvenile operatives
within that limit. No other excuse is, or can be ad-
vanced ; the market, say they, must be supplied, and
whatever advantage we sacrifice, others will seize. It
may be so ; but the policy is very short-sighted that
looks no farther than the duration of this demand;. this
unhealthy, feverish craving for a supply only to be ob-
tained by means pregnant with destruction alike to the
markets, the goods, and those who bring them there. The
least taste of licentious liberty, such as our working po-
pulation recently obtained a snatch of, is perilous in the
extreme to those who know no medium between it and
the most heart-sickening drudgery ; combined with im-
prisonment, and the constant spectacle of luxury in ano-
ther class that seems to mock their privations, and to
count them but as the beasts that perish.—Perils of the
Nation.