The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-08-01 00:00:00

AMERICANISMS

A new paper is to be started in New York, to be con-
ducted entirely by ladies. We have not heard what name
is to be given to it. [Nothing new in this. We have
newspapers conducted by old women in this country.—
ED. L. S.]
QUIET MURDER.—The New Mirror gives a receipt
for killing a woman quietly. Take a young lady, and tell
her that she has a very pretty foot. She will then wear
small, thin shoes—go out in the wet—catch a cold—the
cold will become a fever—and she will die in a month.—
American paper. _ _

The Van Ruren (Ark.) Intelligencer, says there is " a
busy fellow" in Newton county, who keeps a distillery
which manufactures a hundred barrels of whisky per week ;
an extensive flouring mill ; grows ten thousand bushels of
corn each year; raises Berkshire pigs and Durham cattle;
is building a new barn; swaps horses when good bargains
offer; is winding up an old mercantile concern—besides
taking care of a wife and six responsibilities. He does
not do all the manual labour himself, but the way he keeps
strikers in a stir is worth looking at.
RUMORED BATTLE WITH A PlRATE.—Accounts from
Nassua, N. P. to the 17th instant, received at New York,
mention a report that a British man of war brig of eighteen
guns had an engagement with a piratical barque, during
which the brig was sunk and all hands lost. This engage-
ment, it is stated, was seen by several of the crews of small
drogers who were passing at the time. The New York
American doubts the correctness of the report, but sup-
poses that there may be some fire where there is so much
smoke. This is the third or fourth report of pirates which
has reached us from that quarter.

FIRE CAUSED BY A BULL'S EYE.—We learn from the
Atlas, ti-at a store on Central-street was set on fire yes-
terday, by the focus formed by the rays of the sun, con-
centrated, during the intense heat of yesterday forenoon,
through a bull's eye in a window in the roof. A gentle-
man, sitting in another store in the neighbourhood, dis-
covered smoke issuing from the roof—and, upon giving
the alarm, the upper loft was examined, and the pine
frame work was found in a blaze of fire, at just the place
where the focus produced by the glass fell upon it.—Ame-
rican paper.
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Jog SMITH IN TROUBLE AGAIN.—News was brought
to St. Louis, on the 29th ult., by the steamer Osprey, that
Joe Smith, the Mormon Prophet, had been arrested and
placed in jail at Ottawa, and further, that when the intel-
ligence reached Nauvoo, two hundred horsemen of the
Legion started immediately for Ottawa, with the inten-
tion of liberating him. The steam boat lowa had also
been chartered at Nauvoo by the Mormons, and is at
present ascending the Illinois river with one hundred and
fifty armed men, to second the attack of the horsemen on
Ottawa. Ottawa is situated up the the Illinois, and is
distant about three hundred miles from this city. We
believe the Prophet has been travelling in the northern
part of the state, for the purpose of keeping from the
arrest made under the requisition of the Governor of
Missouri, which accounts for his being lodged in jail at
Ottawa.

SINGULAR PHENOMENON.—A singular phenomenon
has lately been frequently observed at our harbour. When
the tide is making, the water will come rushing two or
three feet abreast into the harbour, at the rate of four
miles an hour, for ten minutes or so, and all at once turn
and rush out again as fast, and again turn and pour into
the harbour with its former violence, and continue to ad-
vahce and recede times without number, when apparently
without any cause it will resume its former quiet manner
of fulfilling its destinies. We have observed somewhat
similar phenomenon have taken place at Perth Leith, and
at Valetta in Malta, which have been ascribed to earth-
quakes. but we cannot see how this can be the true solu-
tion. when this has been observed in our harbour frequent-
ly, and only when the tide is flowing. We shall he glad
to hear from any of our scientific friends if they can solve
the difficulty.—Montrose Standard.

LONDON TRADES.—From the population returns for
1831, we learn that in London there are—tailors, 14,552 ;
carpenters, &c. 21,967; shoemakers, 16,565 ; smiths, bra-
ziers, tinmen, 8,582; goldsmiths, silversmiths, jewellers,
&c., 3,349; printers, 3,628, bookbinders, 1,569, type-
founders, 128, total 5,323: copper-plate printers, en-
gravers, &c., 1,091 ; dyers, 1,381. Taking the population
of 1831, the proportion of the great trades to the mass of
the population would be, in round numbers, as follows,
allowing only one• fifth for boys and apprentices, the popu-
lation 1,471,941 being taken as 1,500,000 : 18,000 tailors,
1 in 83 or 1.2 of 100; 28,000 carpenters, 1 in 54 or 1.8 of
100 ; 24,000 workers in leather, 1 in 62 or 1.4 of 100 ;
18,000 workers in metal, 1 in 83 or 1.2 of 100; 7,000
printers, &c. 1 in 217 or .4 of 100. These facts abund-
antly show the great extent to which trade is carried in
London, where armies or nations of tailors, of shoema-
kers, or of carpenters are engaged in the prosecution of
their respective arts.—lllustrated Polytechnic Review.
BATHING PREDICAMENT EXTRAORDINARY.—Yester-
day morning week, a gentleman and his lady, on a visit
to the far-tamed bathing town of hedcar, not satisfied
with the restriction and forms attendant on bathing from
a machine, starttd early in the morning in their phaeton
to a favourable si of two miles up the sands; the I,dv
providing herself with a bathing dress; the gentleman, as
gentlemen generally do when bathing, declining such in-
cumbrance. Ater undressing on the sand, and placing
their clothing in the carriage, they took to the water, but
had scarctly recovered from their first " dip," when to
their dismay they observed the horse start away at a
smart trot with the carriage, and
them in rite primitive style of our fitst parents. Afre'r
son e time it was arranged for the lady to proceed to
lklarske, where she arrived barefoot and barehead, and
after relating the unfortunate but laughable account of
the horse, succeeded in borrowing a dress for herself and
husband, which was forwarded in all speed to him ; and
he was soon recognised by the messenger, patiently en.
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during his woeful plight, though up to the chin in water.