The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-03-18 00:00:00

HOZTICULTURAL

At the meeting of the Liverpool Horticultural Society
last week Mr. Mayer read a paper from Mr. Williams,
gardener at Haigh Hall, near Wigan ; the object of
which was to prove that the shorts of S wede turnips
which have been deeply buried in sand, and forced with a
slight bottom heat, are, if well blauched, equal, if not
superior, to sea-kale, and that three crops can be taken
from each turnip, and the root is still valuabldjor cattle
feeding. The roots should be forced in a dark shed or
barn.

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

-Ferns, if shewn at an exhibition, should always form

a separate class.
Henry.—The names given by Hawkins to the species of
Ichthyosauri have not been adopted by other writers.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

A youth, named Hodgson, and a man, named William
Edwards were committed for trial, on Saturday, the for-
mer charged with stealing, and the latter with receiving,
a quantity of tools from the Vauxhall Foundry. Hodgson
was an apprentice at the foundry.

On Friday night a desperate attempt at robbery was
made in Frederick-street. The officer on duty found two
men struggling in the street, one of whom a notorious
thief, named James Ogan, had got the other down, and
had rifled his pockets, which were turned inside out. The
fellow was brought before Mr. Rushton on Saturday, and
committed to take his trial at the sessions.
SPIRITUOUS FITS.—On Wednesday, an old man,
named Richard Price, who has frequently been before the
bench for imposing upon charitable persons by obtaining
from them brandy and other spirituous liquors by assu-
ming to be seized with fits, was charged as an impostor,
under the following circumstances :—On the previous
evening, the prisoner, " all shiver and shake," went to
the house of Mr. Thomas Denton, publican, complained
of being seriously ill, and requested to have given to him
a "drop of gin ;" immediately after swallowing it, he
" went off" into a fit • and so well did he play his part,
that the sprinkling of? water, the application of salts, and
all other appliances usually brought into requisition upon
such occasions, were had resort to ; nothing, however,
produced the desired effect until a glass of brandy was
forced down the throat of the fainted man, when he began
to rally, but shortly afterwards again " went off." He
was conveyed to bed, and, as he gradually appeared to
recover, a supper " suited to his condition" was given to
him, with a " drop more spirits to settle his stomach."
In the morning, he had so far progressed towards con-
valescence as to partake of a substantial breakfast • having
dispatched which, and expressed his eternal grati-
tude to his duped benefactor, he took his leave.
" Shortly afterwards," said Mr. Denton, " I heard this
was his trade, and had him taken up."—Mr. Parkinson,
the governor of the main bridewell, said the prisoner was
the same man who had been so frequently before the court
for similar impositions : at the time of the cholera he had
obtained an immensity of brandy, and had been brought
to bridewell a score of times for practising the same tricks.
—The prisoner was sent to gaol for three months.