The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-05 00:00:00

3. A yacht-boat rac
iv as won by the

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for which three were en-
one belonging to Mr. Tetley's

BAROMETER.—Mr. Abraham, in Lord-
has on view a simple and accurate indicator of
herical changes on an entirely novel principle. It

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ed by the inventor, a French gentleman, the Ane-
xorneter. It is of the size of a ship's chronometer,
.ircular scale, divided, and engraved similar to the

-barometer

The instrument is so ex-

%sensitive that the height of a building is indicated
and exclusive of the advantages of extreme accu-
d portability, it cannot be deranged by travelling.
motion of a ship cannot affect it, it is equally

meeting of the Britis

.ssociation, rcportec

peroid had been tested, by placing

er the receiver of an air-pump ; and observing its
in comparison with the indications of the long-
, they were found to agree to less than 1-100th of an
The mechanical arrangement of the instrument
is of a cylindrical chamber of copper, about 2 inches
meter, and about s.l6ths of an inch deep, exhausted
and hermetically sealed. The surface of the cham-
corrugated, and with every variation of the atmos-
the surface rises or falls.: the movement is multi-
by a system of levers, and to the end of the main
is attached a fine chain, connected with a spiral
changing the motion from vertical to horizontal. The
Ispring is fixed to an arbor or axis, on which is
idicating the changes, Thus the chain_
for the Toricelian tube, and the vacuum
The inventor has patented

substitui
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mercury

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ROFORM.—On Tuesday evening, Dr. Pettigrew
xi the course of his lecture at the Collegiate lnsti-
on physiology, that he had used chloroform in

xis of a thousand instances. l here were nve stages
ects from it. In the first, everything beautiful,
tat, and heavenly rushes at once into the mind of the
dual ; shortly after this, another stage comes on ;
ttient thinks that the people about are going round,
ill talk rationally, but is devoid of sensation ; the
stage was that in which consciousness as well as sen-
y is lost ; in the fourth, snoring and snorting be-
as in some cases of apoplexy ; the fifth stage is
. In diseases affecting the nervous system chloro-
has produced excellent remedial effects, particularly
hmas and tic dolorcux. If applied to the surface, it
ad at once. It must not be used, In.wever, in dis-
of the heart, as its tendency was to stop the action
it organ. It was more difficult to put animals under
luence than human beings ; it was a longer time be-
key were affected. Those people in the habit of
ng required much to affect them. lie had given in
ise as much as an ounce and a half; patients of this
ire usually very violent, and fancy that those about
suiting them. As to the age in which it may be ad-
:ered, Dr.Pettigrew stated that he had administered
weeks before to a child only five weeks old ; he bad
it from that age up to 84; and must unhesitatingly
:hat there was no danger whatever to be feared from
en properly administered.

STRANGE CASE OF INFANTICIDE.—On Monday, as
William Whittaker, Esq., of Bootle, was walking along
'Le- sea shore there, he saw what appeared to him to be a
-swan parcel floating in the sea, and on partially opening
be perceived that it contained the body of an infant. He
seut it to the house of Mr. Hope, the surgeon, who opened
the parcel, first taking off a sort of old black apron, tied
round with a garter; then an old piece of calico,
m-1, finally, a white lawn handkerchief, which was fas-
•*Tifti by the corners knotted very fast together. He then
=tee to the trunk of a newly-born female infant, of full
wowth, having its head, both arms, and both legs and
I..lighs, cut off or hacked off with a knife. An inquest
held on the following day, when Mr. Hope gave it as
opinion that the child had been horn alive, but that it
.7roToably had not lived more than 040 day, and that it
Auto/ been in the water about nine or ten days. The
-risatheswere washed, and upon the pocket handkerchief
irzs Mitten -neatly with marking ink, in a lady's hand,
da.e name of " Julia Charlton, 36." Mr. Hope also stated
:;*zat, •externally, there were marks of burns on the trunk,
As if an attempt had been made to destroy the remains by
:km; bat itbaving, probably, caused a strong smell, the
Iroak had been disposed of by putting it into the river.
'Me:silo stated that the body was compressed into so small
Ismacispass, that the compression caused dislocation of the
nirtes,asi both sides. The jury returned a veriitlt of " wilful
:anew against some person or venous unknown."