The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-17 00:00:00

in One

MAN ON FIRE.—At Exeter. last week, a workman ac-
cidentally broke a bottle of turpentine in his trousers'
pocket. Happening to come in contact with a light, his
saturated clothes took fire, and he was so frightfully
burnod that he died shortly afterwards.
THE TIMBER PLUNDERING IN THE NEW FOREST.—
The inquiry is far from approaching a close, and a party

most seriously implicated has absconded. The officers
have found timber " irregularly" obtained at the north-
ern yards and at Jersey.
ENGLISH TOLL-GATES.—A CONTRAST.—From Wor-
cester to Bromyard Downs, a distance of fourteen miles,
the charge for a horse and gig is two shillings—from Wor-
cester to Birmingham, twenty-six miles, it is only nine-
pence !

The moderately careful and the courageous have no-
thing to fear from the closest contact with cholera pa-
tients. In Hamburg the cholera nurses are perhaps the
only persons who never take cholera. They are familiar
with it in all its stages, and are not afraid of it.
On Sunday, two boys, named William and Thomas
Dennis, the one aged eleven and the other sixteen years,

sons of Thomas Dennis, tailor, Sheffield, fell into the
river Dun, where it is crossed by the Wicker Viaduct, and

were drowned

Mr. George Parsons, Mount-pleasant, Redditch, gathered
from one grain of wheat, planted in his garden, forty
stalks, which yielded the enormous quantity of two thou-
sand two hundred and twenty grains of very fine red wheat.
James M'Wheelan has been sentenced at the Ayr
Circuit Court to death, for the murder and highway rob-
bery of one James Young, in the Blackhill-road in that
county. The watch belonging to the deceased was found
on the person of the prisoner the day after the murder,
and his clothes were stained with blood.
NOVEL APPLICATION OF SCIENCE TO THE ARTS.—
Abandoned females in London, and dexterous thieves,
have adopted a novel mode of robbery. First forcibly
embracing with their arms the destined victim, a hand-
kerchief imbued with ,chloroform is pressed against his
nostrils; and with his senses disappear also his valuables!
DONItOSIN CASTLE.—No less than 90 tons weight of
superb furniture lately arrived at Dunrobin Castle, from
London, and amongst other things, two carpets, each of
which cost £5OO. These preparations are convincing
proofs that her Majesty and Prince Albert purpose visiting
Dunrobin next season.
The accounts from Scotland, regarding all crops, in-
cluding potatoes, are most encouraging. The rapid ad-
vance of agricultural science in that country is well wor-
thy of imitation. The small decrease in the produce of
the income-tax (£25,000) is a proof that the general trade
of the country is not so very bad.
A few days since, an aged insolvent was discharged by
an order of the judge of the Taunton county court, after
he had been imprisoned during eight years at the suit of
his own son, to whom he had given a note of hand for
£5O, which he failed to pay, after he had assigned all his
property, worth about £l,OOO, to his children.
Tile National Guards of Havre have honoured the Mayor
of Southampton.with a French invitation—to come and
dine with him. The offer was- accepted, and the martial
visitors having- been forwarded by rail to London, ate
roast beef at Mr. Douglas Jerrold's chop.house,,wlere
they gave as &Avast, " the fraternity of nations."'