The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-26 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

Mr. Scott has contradicted the report, of his intention
to resign the reprisentation of Walsall.
Tne ship Isabella, of Lehi'. was wrecked on Fluider's
Island, Bass's Straits, on the 22nd June. Crew saved.
The hands at Stockport have returned to work, at an
advance of five per cent. on their wages.

The Glasgow Herald mentions a fame beggar, horribly
distorted, who maintained his father, mother, brothers,
and &liters in idleness. His receipts averaged 10s. a day.
EARL OF DYSART,T.The consistory court have granted
the prayer of this eccentric nobleman fur a restitution of
conjugal rights. . _

On-Fridity evening six sheep, which bad strayed upon
the [lull and Selby Railway, were run over by the mail
train, and upon the spot.

. - -
On Sunday week K. H. Hoppner, Esq. many years
since adjudge in Bengal, and lately resident in Bath, com-
mitted suicide by cutting his throat with a razor.

On the 7th instant, a boat was upset in Kirkwall Bay,
Scotland, and nine persons who were in it met a watery
grave.

The borough fund of the City of York is enriched £3OO
by the retusal of the three members of the Council first
elected to serve the office of Mayor.

On Saturday week, and again on Monday night week,
an extra Gazette was published,. consisting together of
fifty-six sheets, containing almost excluiively notices con-
cerning railway and other private bills.

Mr. Locke, the eminent engineer, has received from
the King of the French a magnificent diamond ring, for
his attention to his Majesty on the South-Western Rail-
way.

There are now residing near Hubbertstone, Pembroke-
shire, a brother and sister. Elonry and Margaret Banner,
of the respective ,ges of 97 and 101, the Litter of whom
can read well ,%ithout the usoof glasses.

THE MINISTRY AND THE EAST INDIA COMPANY.—
A London contemporary announces that ministers medi-
tate a complete change in the Government of India, by
introducing a measure next session tantamount to the ex-
tinction of the political power of the Court of Directors.
FIRES IN LONDON.—NO fewer than 800 fires have oc-.
curred in t'e present year in London. but they have riot
been of so extensive a character as in former years. The.
number of lives lost, however, is,'ite regret to say. much
greater than the average.
No FOG IN WALEs..—A Welshman has almost as little
idea of a fog as a Japanese or torrid-zone man has of ice.
While London has been enveloped in fog we have had a
clear blue sky, a bright sun, and weather such as would
convert the coldest utilitarian into a worshipper of naeure,
amidst the scenery of South Wales.—Welshman.
MORTALITY IN LONDON.—The total numberof deaths
in the metropolis during the week ending last Saturday
was 1,072, showing a considerable increase of mortality
probably caused by the unseasonable state of the last ten
days. The weekly average for the last five years has
been 946.
IMPORTS.—The steamer from Rotterdam has this week
brought 104 quarters of garden beans for semi, glO bushels
of onions, with several sheep, swan geese and wild ducks.
Considerable imports of French tipples have also been
mfaurillethaiaswt.eek, principally from Ostend and Dunkirk.—
i ,pke

On Monday week the sloop Ranger, of about 80 tons
burden, belonging to Goole, andlnlen with potatoes, came
in contact with a collier brig in the river, below Graves-
end. The sloop sunk almost immediately, and carried
with her the master, who perished. The rest of the crew
were saved.

On the 11th inst. two men, carriers, were returning
from t'ocklington to Leeds, with three carts laden with
passengers, when they commenced racing, and one of the
carts, with seventeen persons in, was overturned, and
two women, one of them the wife of the driver, were
killed. The men have been committed to York castle on
a charge of manslaughter.

AFFECTING OCCURRENCE.—On Monday an inquest
was held at Camberwell, on the body of Mr. Mason, for-
merly a merchant in very good circumstances, Who died
solely from want, which he chose rather to endure than
go into the workhouse. His daughter appeared at the
inquest and ga a heart-rending detail of the privations
which they bad endured.

SIMPLE MODE OF PURIFYING WATRR..-4t is not
generally known that •pounded alum possesses the pro-
of pulverised
soPrxiviafuter, the water
stirred at the time, will,
iwntaoter a.
hogshead
d-
after the lapse of a few hours, by
precipitating to the bottom the impure particles, so
purify it that it will be found to possess nearly all the
freshness and clearness of the finest spring water. A
paleurntl, of
sprinkled pPrni:iikYleidng
pailful, containing four gams, ma..
be purified b 3:
single teaspoonful.

THE:FRUITS OF THE EARTH:—Fine strawberries, ee
perfect growth and flavor, were gatheral on Monday weet
in East-street, and ripe raspberries appear in raw
grounds in this vicinity. Potatoes of the best quality er:
selling in this town and neighbourhood from 3s. to 3s. ba
•
per bag of eight score (160lbs.)—Taunton Courier.
INSANITY AMONG QUAKERS.—It appears from the
number of inmates in the Retreat of late yand
some 'ears. that, _Com-
pared with the total number of Friends in England
Scotland, the propor:ion of insane is bat
ase
than 3 in 1,000. This is a much larger porzion than
ll
prevails among the rest of the community.
came into operation on the 10th instant ; but if there
al;
lahTuteurEsSutegaGrA:hDUTlES.a-es: Nblie-eencaenunteortedleasirunetebtaitleannyevife;
been any, it has been quite insignificant in quantity,
,hue
its effects have been much more than counteracted by, ie.,
news of the destruction of the sugar in Cuba in the reel'
hurricane. Hein;
INSTINCT OF RATS.—An old man named Turner, piece
sohnoApCotton's Common, while gripping last week in a lt
of land in Bardelph parish, cut into a rat's cave, wbereked
discovered two pecks and a half of beans carefully Pee
and
Brist-odlo,
up. They had been carried, no:doubt, one by "e' pe.
boared up for the winter. He took his prize WO
shortu
arnntdif time
hie
era.ngsodt, sviot:se,
his pig.—Slantford Mercury.
r- nit
el:
window, and grasped 28 gold wedding rings. Mr. .gold
nessed the felony, and succeeded in snatching two gee':
watches which hung near the rings from their reach ! bat
being unable to get the door open for some time, ta".
escaped with their booty. .
An is
SUICIDE FROM DISAPPOINTED AFFEtTION.---
the 11th Regiment, who had shot himself while on dal!r,
quest was held at Brompton, on the body of a soldier o
ype
pawnbroker,
tiedhh er ud kiteahr
ahcapinia
pane
..00fft r ttb:e.,
in his sentry-box, in Chatham Dockyard. The Willed
of a girl whom the deceased had desired to metre state.,
sthhaethaodn
told hmimorinti
wasng linen committed
ektihnge dhreeteddfauulgilteeerc:
for that she was about to be married to another iesn',
The deceased, she said, shed tears. She told hien it was
of no use his fretting—she thought nothing about bite.
THE BRArN.—At the inquest held on MondAY week
,
upon a person who survived for three (Iry s a dreadful iII
jury of the brren, Mr. Waidey said that a short Ole tg°t
a man was struck on the head vuth a pickaxe, andti3
although his brains escaped from the wound and bee
saidhe
almostfel t, w
incrediblehen
how
smeared his hand, he was able to run without assis'Pe-ai
to the Lendon Hospit "Upon arriving at the lir-Pe."-a e
nhtileuercvilie s
asked
that
i how
t w
abetter since he lost his brains. Mr. Wakley
t
survived injuries of the brain.
A Dissenter lately insured in a London fire-office, ?,
had the misfortune to be burnt out.. In the policy i°
surance was a clause, that the minister and churches'',
dens of the parish shall certify or declare that the fire base
happened by a simple accident. Being a Dissenter, en
e
opposed to church rates, and because the minister ream
does not know whether the fire took place by accident or
design, the minister and churchwardens• refuse to 1e,511:6
the declaration. Counsel have been consulted upon ee",
clause, and it is said to be fatal to the goodness Of the
claim.
A t
FATAL ACCIDENT AT KINGSTON RUS•SELL.--4-.
distressing accident happened at Kingston Russell on
Friday, the Bth inst. Mr. and, M rs. J. Homer, of Mat"
tinstown, had been spending that day with a party °(
friends and relations, at the house of Mr. Sansoen,!l"
their four-wheel carriage, the night being dark,
Itingeton Russell. On departing. about II at night la
after leaving the house, the horse went. too near the bank,
-and the vehicle was overturned, the splashing-beard strip
ing Mrs. Homer's chest, and, melancholy to relate, inel
few moments she breathed her laste• Mr. Homer escaped
uninjured.. The deceased lady was in the panic of lire,
and has left a family of young children.—Sherborae
Jhurnal.
MURDER.—On Tuesday. night laet, a- very, shocking
murder was committed at Yarmouth,. Norfolk upon the
body. of Harriet Candler, a poor widow vtloman, who kepe
a small chandler's shop there, last Saturday, the decease,'
had ,received £l5O as a portion of her- husband's- mother
and uncle's property, and haling no present use for it,
she lute probably told her neighbours that she :hotted Put
it under her bed till her son came home.. This. seems to
have,excited the cupidity of the murderer, for early el
Tuesday night, the door of her room was-found litetaliy
she herself lying down by the side of the. tilli
delugedin blood, her scull having five wounds upon' it.
A knifeecovered with blood, lay by herr but the surgeon
thought:the fatal wound had been inflicted- by a "cheese
cutter," used in her trade. The money was-gone from
under-the bed,. and also the till money.
COSTIFY Venerets.—A sale has been concluded at Cre-
morne House, Chelsea, of a variety of articles made lOC
of at tea different public entertainments offered-there by
the Baron de Berenger. Among the lots offered meet's.°
violins, one made by Maximilian Zacher, in the yearlP2,
and the other by Jacobus Stainer, in 1650-.4 The auc-
tioneer stated that there were many instancesof -violins bY
these unrivalled masters producing considerable sums, .
and he alleided to the sineular terms of stile of- One to
shortly
Count Trantmansclorf, Master of the Horeeeto Charles
VI., who, .afrer paying doyen la a rge sum of money, agreed
to pay a certain number of dollars till his death. which,
with other-gifts, amounted to between 8000 and 9600 del'
tars, or about £6OO. The same violin is now in the 1,05-
session of an eminent musician. The Stainer violin leas
sold for 55 guineas, the first offer being 25 guineas. the
Za, her violin was knooked down for 30 guineas.
THE PLEAsuR.Es OF HANGING.—At an inquest-On-the
body of a person who had committed suicide the other
day, Mr. Wakley, the coroner, observed it was extraor-
dinary how pleasing the effects of hang-ng were. •That
was apparent from the fact, that of all the persons who
committed suicide by hanging, the majority were found
either in a. sitting posture or with their feet or knees
touching the ground. In one instance a young lady, who
was watched by two females, one at ell her side of her bed,
strangled herself with the strings of her night-dress, with- -
out their knowledge. On another occasion a man butte
himself while stretched upon his face, with his nose al-
most
touching the ground. A short time since he held
an inquest at Balls Pond upon a man who having.. hung
himself up,. the cord broke before he was dead, and lie
survived the attempt thirty-five hours. He stated teat
he had enjoyed the most pleasing sensations while sus-
pended. Persons who committed suicide by banging
went off in a sleep and died without pain. He didnoc
speak of malefact firs hanged at the Old Bailey,- whose
necks were broken, but of those who, like the deceased,
hung themselves without subjecting their bodies to aeerk.
In the latter case neither was the neck broken nor was
the windpipe closed, but a congestion of the brain ensued,
which caused death.

SINGULAR INCIDRNT.—Between two and three moaths
ago we announced that an infant female chile had bee°
found covered up in a basket amongst the goods at the
railway station at Ayr. It was ascertained that the per"
cel had been handed in to the booking-office at-G,:x9gteh:
on the preceding day—had been carried :down on
„t,.
goods track, and locked up all night in one of the ts
houses at the station, when the attention,oft the Pel'",
was only directed to it by some faint cries issuing fr?";
the basket, while they were turning over and arrangtes,
bales and boxes for delivery. That the life of one "
young and tender—for the infant was believed, to, be only
a fortnight old—could have been sustained under sue
trying circumstances is not a little remarkable; but the
forsaken " wee lassie" was immediately put to a ralrEe.
she has thriven apace, and is now a healthy and interest-
ing chili). For long the authorities were in search of the
mother who could send li r child on such &perilous jou-
ney, and we learn that, within these last few days, they
have succeeded in tracing her out, and apprehending her'
She was brought to Glasgow from henfather's residence;
who is a respectable small farmer in the neighbourhoca
of Ayr; and has since been committed for trial. The
child is illegitimate, of course, and the girl, we believet
states that her intention. was to send it to her father to
Ays.—Glasootv Herald.

•
New. BOILER.—At the British Aseociation, Mr. Fair'
bairn described a newly invented boiler,. which seemed to
possess many excellent qualities for the economy offset
and the prevention of smoke. The boiler was of a vtle'
simple construction, of the cylindriell form. and contained
ittw)
g
o the w
internal
le fllueensg,
tahbootutth2e feetbo diameterefiri.hclEteaschtiue
ex te d
contained a
separate.furnace, which, surrounded in every direction
water, formed ready absorbents for the radiant beat, as 't
passed off from the fire. On this plan the gasses froth
both fires were carried forward through the whole leng'il
of the flues to the opposite end, where they unite, 50
where a new and additional process of combustion takes'
place. From the description trims given, it would apPl...r:
that the operations of the double flues were useful in e
fecting the ignition of the gasses as they came in costaeqs
respectively from each furnace. The original intention up
the double flues and fires was not to lessen the smoke, but
to enlarge the steam span, and prevent what is technical"
called priming in the boiler ; it, however, exhibited Pecu-
liar properties, and by a-simple process of firing the fur-
naces alternately, the whole phenomena of nearly perfq
combustion is accomplished. To effect these objects it la
only necessary to charge the furnaces alternately &el
half hour, and it will be found that during the time ca;
fire is replenished with fuel, the other is making gae• an '
the 'currents from the clear burning fire passing off at ;
bights.. temperature than the carbonaceous matter- eyolsle
in the newly charged furnace, the products are ignited We
moment they come in contact, and the nuisance of seenl‘ -
by these simple means prevented.
RECEIPT STAMPS.—IMPORTANT SUGGASTION."
the city article of the London Times of Thursday, iTo
t ig,'
remarked that " the subject of the stamp on receipts rs
one which engages some attention among the trailing ini
terest, and a suggestion has been made by an intelligei2e
member of that interest, following the principle of the
universal penny postage, to tax all receipts for sums abc"e
£5 at Id. only, and make it compulsory to give stamped
receipts in all cases, which he thinks would pro nicest
revenue of £1,000,000, while the tax yields at the cresete
time a sum less than £200,000." The writer goes en,
say that the respectable party alluded to proposes that Hie ~
paper to be used shall be issued, stamped, as heretofor
by the Government, which is tn'print on the same PaPer
a form of receipt •, besides which, he would allow all at:
knowledgments of the receipt of money written on PaPee,
which hears the Post-office stamp, as evidence of ettEo
through the Post-office, to be considered legal receipts.
All other paper to be used as invoices, accounts-eurrete:
&c., to be found by persons requiring it, and to be Pr
sented for stamping at the' Stamp-office. Ile proposes!,
also, that all banker's checks should have the Pen
usi;
vouchers,s tan'p
attached d
of being the means commonly in instead►
as they now are, of evading the tax altogether. "Thecae
in to them, which will make them leg
:
ciliation of the amount to be raised is admitted to be
startling, hut it is added that it appears at least Posat
and the plan would induce better habits of business
tti
taking vouchers for all eayments, a practice which
mat
prevent litigation and disputes.- it would also prevee2
country bankers from evading the provisions of the at:
Bunk Act, which is of flail QCOVrenee in various WaY