The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-05 00:00:00

and was secured by
live for three days.

its ammeter w
at the thickest part of the

Dr. Inman stated that he had been told, on v

ood authority, that s

length of twenty feet in the fresh N

er tanks of lnd

POISONOUS

Polytechnic Sock

many of which had been eaten by various individua
producing in all symptoms of cholera. The seeds h

been imported from Lis,
~red to
those of the castor oil plant; some difference could be
detected, though of an unimportant nature. Mr. Hodg-
son stated, that on one day last week there had been no
less than forty cases of poisoning reported at the South
Dispensary. The symptoms in each were violent vomit-

3n, and weresur

th-e belief that cholera of a fo

liable nature had made

its appearance. On examination,
person affected had been eating
whicli bad been procured from a b

some nuts (so called)
3g that had burst in its

scription given of the seeds, the

x to the

exhibited by Mr
tients had died.

ore testimony to the

acrid qualities of the castor oil seed, one gentleman stating
that he had suffered most severely for two days from eat-
ing one only. It appeared that the comparatively mild
castor oil was procured from the Cotyledons only, and
that the substance which acted so powerfully upon the
system resided in the albremen of the sued_

surveyor sub-

health officers in the suppression of nt
Duncan, in reply to Mr. Parker. said
the middens, the court flaggin

Dr.
that the repair of

done more than anything else to improve the sanatory
condition of the town. A case of cholera was alluded to
by Mr. Walthew. Dr. Duncan said it was only an ag-
gravated case of English cholera. Deceased was an artil-
leryman from Scotland. who had got arnnl, nn Frig..

and was attacked and died on Sunday. This had been the
only case in the town for three weeks. The attendance at
the bath-houses had amounted to 9553 persons, and the
receipts to £llB 18s. At the wash-houses, 21,400 dozens
of clothes had been washed during the week. and the re_

ceipts had been £45 17s. In addition to the above, 206
persons had bathed gratuitously. It was agreed that the
Sub-committee should be open to all the members of the
Health Committee who chose to attend, the committee
to meet at Cornwallis-street every Tuesday at 12 o'clock.
The Sub-committee appointed were—the Chairman and

Messrs. .J

Bennett, Walthew, and Hodson
SIR HUGH OF LINCOLN.—At the third meeting of the
Literary and Philosophical Society, a paper was read by

r
try connected with this person. It appears the
veral centuries there has been a tradition among
ple of Christian nations to the effect that the Je
ficed a Christian child once a year, to use his
connexion with some of their mysterious rites.
vestigations have taken pl. have cor
been convicted, and execut

ce, crimi
ions hay

place. The minute a
the murder of Sir Hugh,
coin, was compared with the fac
brought to light by s

given by Matibec

that we

fume t

_aen ente
subject, in which he

lany in-
essed or

t Lin-

f the esti

of this t

investigatic
edged the kit

Abrallar

n. in furnishing him with certain
Jewish publications, and decided that the
supported by facts, and that( it had orig
twelfth century. The investigation was thr
dicious form, which gave it more than the or
of interest ; but some of the gentlemen pr
that the charge was slightly ai

verdict was strongly in their favou
popular ballad were then produced
The first was that published by
ago; then Jamieson's, Mothers
vered by Dr. Hume in the nort
were represented in print, side 1

iary amount

nt thought

two of them read

ana various °the
Norman-French

or ells, and
h of Irel

!opies were noti
The origin of ti

a century

.sion reco-
The four

like a harmony

, including one in

times was noticed, at Damascus and Rhodes ; but, by the
exertions of Sit- Moses Montefiore, and the liberaiity both
of Turks and Christians, the question was closed in 1841;

it is to be hoped for ever

SELECT VESTRY.—At the fortnightly meeting on
Tuesday, Rector Campbell presided, and read a-letter

it to the City of

from Mr. Rounthwaite, a_
Company, in which that gentler

back io Dublin, but mil
would send back Irish v

f), the same pricial which ti

Ley were

t over.

With ref

ice to Mr. Br