The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-08-27 00:00:00

4.196 I 18 I 16,581
The second describes the " amount of horse-power, &c.,
between the Ist day of September, 1841, and the Ist day
of July, 1844," thus :
Horse-power. I Number of vessels. I Tonnage.

11,261 J 30 I 26,892
from these statistics it seems that in the first three years
of the present administration there has been an addition
of twelve to the number of our war steamers, with a cor-
responding increase of more than 10,000 tons in their
burden, as compared with the strength of the same de-
partment during the last years of their predecessors—a
period memorable for the isolation and the irritability of
France, and the grand naval demonstrations in the East.
THE LAND TAX.—A paper containing an account of
the land tax, redeemed and unredeemed, in England and
Wales has been printed by order of parliament. We
hence find that the gross total amount of the land tax in
all the counties of England and Wales (both redeemed
and nnredeemed) is £1,858,924 6s. Id. The total amount
of the land tax redeemed is £724,463, and that of the
land tax unredeemed £1,134,460. The land tax is distri-
buted as follows, (both redeemed and unredeemed,) viz.,
in Bedford, £28,433 ; in Berks. £40,197 ; in Bucks,
£46,818 ; in Cambridge, £36,462; in Chester, £27,476 ;
in Cornwall, £30,477; in Cumberland, £3,727; in Der-
by, £23,403; in Devon, £77,772 ; in Dorset, £32,026 ;
in Durham, £10,444 ; in Essex, zt88,647 ; in Gloucester,
£46,657 ; in Hereford, £20,106; in Herts, £41,783 ; in
Huntingdon, £15,278; in Kent, £80,495; in L'ancaster,
£19,406; in Leicester, £34,328; in Lincoln, £70,548;
in Monmouth, £9,612; in Norfolk, £81,819; in North-
ampton, £47,159 ; in Northumberland, £13,460 ; in Not-
tingham, £26,733 ; in Oxford, £38,127 ; in Rutland,
£5,743 ; in Salop, £28,684 ; in Somerset, £69,902 ; in
Southampton, £52,596 ; in Stafford, .£26,140 ; in Suffolk,
£72,499 ; in Surrey, £65,110 ; in Sussex .£sB' 399 ; in
Warwick, £39,106; in Westmoreland, £3,030 ; in Wilt-
shire, £50,987 ; in Worcester, £32,411 ; and in York-
shire, £88,405. In the county of Middlesex, including
both the cities of London and Westminster, the total
amount of land tax is £236,249, viz., £87,794 redeemed,
and £148,455 unredeemed.

THE ATTEMPT TO SCUTTLE A SHIP.—Mr. Day, mas-
ter of the brig Earl Vane, of Sunderland, was brought, be-
fore the magistrates of that port on Saturday, charged
with having attempted to scuttle that vessel at sea. The
vessel returned from sea, after being out for about nine
weeks on a passage for Archangel. Soon after her arri-
val an investigation took place by the committee of the as-
surance policies, when it was elicited that the cause why
the vessel had returned was, that an attempt had been
made by the master to scuttle her. When near the North
Cape, it was discovered that the vessel was making water
at the rate of nine feet per hour. On examining, they
found that two trenail holes had been bored with an au-
ger in the hold, which were plugged by the carpenter;
and, by the exertions of the crew at the pumps, the water
was greatly reduced. The master did not take that inte-
rest in assisting that he might have done. He afterwards
confessed that he had bored the holes, and that a third
had been commenced, which was also discovered ; but it
was not very deep in the timber. It appears that the
master, not being a complete navigator, the duties de-
volved entirely upon the mate, who, in consequence of the
extra duties he had to perform, treated the master with
great harshness, and applied to him horrid names. The
defence set up is insanity. The master was much agi-
tated by the very harsh treatment of the mate. He is a
timid, nervous man, and at the time was so much excited
that his conduct in some instances was like that of an in-
sane person. The captain has been committed for trial
n the charge.
SOMNAMBULISM EXTRAORDINARY.--On Tuesday
night, a lad named Smith, in the employ of Mr. Cot-
terell, a farmer, of Cleeve, awoke in great fright, on find-
ing himself crammed into some dark corner, nearly
smothered and blinded with dust and soot. Not being
able to make out his whereabouts, he tried for a few
minutes to collect his scattered senses, and found himself
with an indistinct recollection of having dreamed of
climbing to take a rook's nest in his master's field ; con-
cluding he was still up in the tree, and being unable to
get down, he cried out lustily for assistance, but without
effect. After bawling for some time he became exhausted,
and was compelled to relinquish his hold, and fell with
great violence on the hard ground. Groping about he
found himself still in his own bed-room ; and glad to
escape so easily, he scrambled again into bed and fell
asleep. But on waking in the morning, the mystery of
his night's bird-nesting was unravelled, for, to his great
discomfiture, he found his person and the bed and bed-
clothes, as well as the floor of the room, completely
covered with soot ; and from a quantity of the same ma-
terial lying in the fire-place, there is no doubt the poor
fellow got up in his sleep and attempted to climb thee
seven or eight feet up, awoke with the sensations
chimney, and getting jammed in the narrow part, m
described. Fortunately his rapid descent occasioned
and
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