The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-24 00:00:00

THE L IVERPOIOL STANDARD.

CONSERVATIVE UNION.

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(From the John Bull.)
t home we are getting daily into difficulty

and danger. Our colonies Murmur, our revenue dimil
nishes, and boasted prosperity grows dim ; Ministers,
wickedly revelling in the havoc occasioned by treachery
and folly, prove themselves no better than the convicted
felons whom we eject from our shores. Religion herself
looks pale and sickly in the midst of the universal discou-
ragement.

The northern parts of England and Ireland were visited
on Wednesday with heavy falls of snow.

Does this state of things preach no lesson, and suggest
no policy ? We think it does. We do not ask the hon.
gentlemen who voted against Protection to be reconver-
ted, and to become again Protectionists. We do not call
upon Protectionists who, manfully and bravely, have
fought the battle to the last, to eat their words, to deny
their faith, and to become free-traders. But since free-
trade has, against our will, become the law of the land,
we would earnestly recommend both parties to forget that
such, a term as " Protection" ever existed, and, as en-
lightened, conscientious men, taking things as they find
them, to set about such a thorough reconstruction of our
whole commercial policy as may satisfy all the lawful de-
mands of native labour, and, at the same time, alt the
pressing exigencies of the national exchequer. We have
no doubt whatever, that the people of England would
willingly consent, even at the present moment, to a mo-
derate duty upon foreign manufactured goods for the pur-
poses of revenue, for the maintenance of the national cre-
dit, and for the advantage of the whole community : and
more than this, we have now, at all events, no hope or
chance of getting.
The free-traders themselves must, ere long, demand
such a reconstruction, if they be not altogether inclined to
accept it now. Granting the principle of free trade as
enunciated by our economical quacks to be without a
flaw, its application has been so wild and aimless, so tho-
roughly independent of all rule and system, that whole-
sale ruin must speedily be the inevitable consequence of a
dogged persistance in our present course. We call upon
Conservatives, then, to reconstruct the commercial edifice,
and to do that which the present wretched Government
has no strength to achieve. We implore both sides to
forget old animosities, and to obliterate, if possible, the
marks of past collision ; to reunite upon well-understood
and accurately-defined principles,—for the sake of the
mighty and many interests of the empire,—for the sake of
the nation's faith, as well as of its material prosperity,—
in the name of the Queen they love, and the GOD whom
they adore !

John Bright, Esq., M.P , is undergoing the hydro-
pathic treatment at Wharfdale.
Amongst the candidates for the Provostship of Edin-
burgh is Mr. William Chambers.
During several days last week, herrings were sold at
Dumfries at the rate of eighteen for a penny.
Captain Mitford, R. N., with his son, have left the
Church of Rome, and joined the Church of England.
The Brussels Herald of Saturday, gives a favourable
report of the potato crop in Belgium.
The total number of the horned cattle annually sent to
England from Dumfries-shire, Kirkcudbrightshire, and
Wigtonshire, is estimated to amount to 20,000 head.
In Mr. Pilkington's garden, on the Hunger Hills, a
moss-rose tree was, at the beginning of this week, bearing
a number of roses in full bloom.—Nottingham Journal.

The Standard states that on Friday 36,000 muskets
were shipped at Southampton on board a steamer for

There is considerable falling off in the Linen trade of
Barnsley. A considerable number of bands have been
turned off. _ _

The city of London has voted an allowance of £5OO per
annum, as the salary of the medical officer appointed to
superintend the health of the metropolis.
Of 397 boys removed from Parkhurst prison, in the
course of last year, 371 received conditional pardons, and
16 free pardons.
During the past fortnight several cargoes of potatoes
have been shipped from Ramsey for Liverpool, and other
cargoes are being shipped and some ready for sea.
On Monday week, three horses which had strayed from
a field on to the Nottingham and Lincoln Railway were
killed by the mail train at a short distance from Newark.
For several weeks past the Solway Frith, which has
been comparatively abandoned by the tribe for the last 40
years, has swarmed with innumerable shoals of herrings.

The Rev. Mr. Clarke, Presbyterian minister at Dil-
reooh, near Perth, has been thrown from his horse and
killed.

THE COLONIES OF CAPE OF GOOD HOPE
AND CANADA.

Sarah Searle, who died last week at Chelsea, bequeathed
her body to Dr. Pettigrew for dissection, and it has ac-
cordingly been given up to him.
On Monday, the body of a domestic servant, named
Abbott, was found in a ditch near Rochester, with her
face covered over with a carpet. It is feared she has
been murdered.

These colonies are the remaining ones to be embraced
in our summary of the minutes of the Colonization Com-
mittee. As regards the Cape, it appears that the average
annual emmigration to that colony during the last six
years has not exceeded 398 people. Its temperate climate,
and its being nearer to England than the Australian colo-
nies, would at first sight lead to the supposition of its
proving more attractive, but the western or older division
is interspersed with vast desert tracts, while its popula-
tion is chiefly Dutch; and the eastern division, of which
Algoa Bay is the port, and which was settled by the Eng-
lish emigrants about 28 years ago, (a scheme which was
attended by many failures, and on which £50,000 of the
public
money was expended), has the drawback of possess.
ing no navigable river, added to the inconvenience suffered
from the neighbourhood of the Caffres. In point of cli-
mate and soil there is nothing to complain of, but wood is
not considered to be abundant, and the port is not good,
although it might be made so by a breakwater, which has
been talked about. Up to the commencement of the
Caffre war, however, the settlers in this division had in a
Treat degree surmounted. all .their_ difficulties. The white

Mr. Charles Braham, son of the celebrated vocalist,
made his debut at the Princess's Theatre, London, on
Monday night, in the new opera of Leolme, and experi-
enced a most enthusiastic reception.
At a recent meeting of the Edinburgh Chamber of Com-
merce a resolution approving of an attempt to induce
government to grant a higher rate of interest for deposits
in savings banks, was P dopted
The cholera is still making but slow advance in Edin-
burgh. In Leith it has broken out, and with some seve-
rity, but with nothing like the virulence that has prevailed
on the Continent.
On Tuesday, the Thames rose to such an unusual

population is 33,146, and the black, who are very orderly,
though rot industrious, 37,075, making a total of 70,221.
Its revenue has for several years been in excess of its ex-
penditure. Its live stock is valued at two millions ster-
ling, there are 35,000 acres of land under cultivation,
chiefly wheat, oats, and barley, and the annual produce of
the settlement is valued at £269,000. Sheep farming is
the principal pursuit, as requiring less labour than tillage.
This part of the colony is divided into six districts, and
comprises a sea coast of about 200 miles, extending also
about an equal distance inland. The distance from Gra-
ham's Town, its capital, to Cape Town, the capital of the
western district, is nearly 700 miles, and an overland mail
twice a week conveys the post in about five days. From
Port Elizabeth, which is about 94 miles from Graham's
Town, over bad roads, there is a steamer to Cape Town
that performs the distance in about three days. The co-
lonists are desirous of promoting immigration, but what is
wanted is a continuous rather than a large supply of really
useful English labourers. The sum expended on immi-
gration from surplus revenue was, in 1844, £5OO ; in 1845,
£285 ; and in 1846, £5885. In 1847 the authorities au-
thorised the Commissioners to proceed with emigration,
and voted £lO,OOO for the purpose, but the apprehensions
entertained among the labouring classes in England as to
the dangers of the Caffre war put a stop to it. In the old
or western colony the immense grants originally made of
Crown land have had an injurious effect. In freeholds
lately sold the price has been about 2s. per acre, and this
is now the Government upset price for country lands. In
this division there is generally an abundance of water.
The wheat grown in some of its districts is said to be the
finest in the world. A great road in course of construc-
tion from Cape Town to the eastern frontier by convict
labour is likely to promote, in a high degree, the im-
provement of the territory.
The colony of Natal is about 1,200 miles from the Cape
settlement, and 600 from Algoa-bay. It is a country
abounding with wood and water, having a very fertile soil
and a most delightful climate, although not so salubrious
as Cape Colony proper. Its only want is a safe and com-
modious harbour, and it is hoped that this may be gained.
There is no road from Algoa-bay to Natal, but Sir Harry
Smith has it in view to create one, although the difficul-
ties are very 'great. There are, however, good natural
roads for horses and ox-waggons, and before the war there
was a regular postal communication carried on by native
runners to Graham's Town, As yet there has been no
regular exploration of the Natal district. The whole area
has been estimated by the Surveyor-General at upwards of
13,000 square miles. The district seems capable of grow-
ing every useful product, and, above all, it is believed
auailable for the growth of cotton, which, unlike the Ame-
rican cotton, is not an annual, but a perennial. Some
specimens, grown experimentally in a garden, and sent to
the manufacturing districts in England, have been well re-
ported upon, and Lord Grey has instructed the local autho•
rities to give every facilities for its cultivation. Indigo is
found as an indigenous plant. Fine crops of wheat are
said to have been grown ; but the abundance of water and
a luxuriant grass, which covers a large part of the district,
render it especially favourable for pasturage. The amount
of European population is not known. The early Dutch
emigrants hold large grants, which, it is apprehended, may
prove an obstruction. Most of the new settlers, how-
ever, have bought their land from the Dutch at very low
prices. The settlement was originally formed about 11
years back by an emigration of Dutch boors from the
eastern districts, but it was not recognized by the Home
Government until 1845. It is at present governed by a
Lieutenant-Governor, who holds under the Governor of
the Cape, and about 500 troops constitute its military
establishment. For the year ending January 5, 1846, its
imports were £32,000, and its exports £lO,OOO.

height as to cause very great damage to property. Tow-
ards evening, when the tide was at its highest point, the
steam-boats could scarcely pass under the bridges.
Government has come to the resolve, on the recom-
mendation of the Board of Health, to do away with the
idle precaution of six days' quarantine, inflicted on vessels
from continental ports suspected of cholera.
Letters from; Exeter announce the rather sudden de-
mise of Mr. Thomas Gray (the ingenious but unrewarded
improver, if not originator, of the railway system), on
Sunday week, in the 61st year of his age.
At the quarter sessions held at Berwick on Friday,

there were-again no criminal cases for trial. This is the
fourth occasion, in succession, at which there has been
no business before the court.
BREAD SELLERS.—A dealer in bread has been fined
half-a-guinea, in Edinburgh, for having sold a loaf on
which the weight was not marked in distinct figures.
The conviction was made under a new statute.
At a temperance meeting in Broseley, Salop, the Hon.
and Rev. 0. W. Forester said he was informed by one of
the medical attendants of the Duke of Wellington, that
for the last two years his grace had not drunk a glass of
wine—water being his only beverage.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT SCARBOROUGH.—On Friday last,
as two men were bringing fish to the harbour from a

Ramsgate smack lying in the roads, the small boat in
which they were embarked was upset by a heavy sea,
which was running at the time, and both were drowned.:
USHAW COLLEGE.—Five bishops were present at the
recent opening of St. Cuthbert's new chapel, Ushaw, and
nearly one hundred priests. Dr. Wiseman preached at
the opening, having the previous week given a " retreat"

to the students.
The first living specimen of the tree kangaroo which has
ever reached England, has been presented to the London
Geological Gardens by Lieutenant-Colonel Butterworth,
the governor of Singapore, who has also given a beautiful
black leopard, of a rare kind.
The wife of a framework knitter, living at Daybrook,
Notts, died last week from the effects of several large
doses of tincture of colchicum, which she had taken in
the hope of curing herself of rheumatism, a disease from
wnich she bad suffered for some time.
A few days since, at Ashton Keynes, Wiltshire, a two-
var-old bull and a fat stag furiously attacked each other,
and fought until the latter dropped dead, covered with
wounds ; and it was with the greatest difficulty that the
victor was removed from the dead body of his fallen foe.
One large factory at West Ham, which has a large con-
tinental trade, has, within the last fortnight, received an
order of some magnitude from an eminent house in Paris,
which is the only order received worthy of notice from
that capital since the revolution in February last.—Essex
Standard.

A SOLDIER.—There he is—a hundred thousandth part
of a great thing called an army. A great thing wonder-
fully organized—most ingeniously devised; a very impos-
ing, a very costly thing, made up of very varied materials,
but, most homogeneous as a whole. It is hard to say
what it does not contain. Nothing so hard, nothing so
soft ; nothing so full, nothing so empty ; nothing so gay,
nothing so mournful, as not to be a part of it. Light
plumes and heavy ordnance; the empty drum and the
well-charged shell: the gay music, and the mournful
funeral-pall—there are all sorts of contrasts and contra-
rieties in it, but how complete a thing is it as a whole !
Look at the intricacy of its Machinery—the wonderful ad-
hesiveness of its parts—the unity and integrity of it.
Dispersed though it be in a fragmentary state over the
whole surface of the globe, there are chains and wires,
which take no account of space, keeping it together as
surely and irrefragably as though it were a compact mass.
Within this mighty circle, there is nothing so majestic—
nothing so insignificant, as not to be brought into imme-
diate contact with each other. The minutest component
of that great fact—the British army, has an intimate affi-
nity and is a matter of immediate concernment to the
greatest and most glorious of the realities, who give a dig-
nity and a radiance to the whole. There is a link which
unites the small child who tinkles the triangle with the
mighty warrior who conquers nations and overturns dy-
nasties, and revolutionises the world. The voice of that
small hero of the triangle may make itself heard by the
great hero of history; and not so insignificant is the child
—being an atom of that great comprehensive army—but
that his injuries will be resented and redressed by the ve-
teran of a hundred fights, and a hundred orders.—North
British Review,
THE MEANS OF DESTROYING SNAILS.—I determined
to undertake the analysis of the small gray snail, (Limax
agrestis,) so frequently found in gardens and in the fields,
and which has this year done so much damage to all kinds
of cultivation, hoping that such au investigation might
, lead to the discovery of a means of preventing the too
I great increase of these creatures. My attention was es-
pecially directed to the glutinous matter which they con-
tinually secrete, and which serves to attach their bodies
to their surfaces over which they pass. I endeavoured to
find out in what way lime, which has long been recom-
ended to cultivators as a means of destroying snails,
acted Upon them ; and I have iscertained that lime-
water, diluted with three times its bulk of water, was
sufficient for their destruction. Water, scarcely rendered
alkaline by the addition of potash, killed them still more
quickly, causing a large quantity. of slime to be thrown
out. Solutions of the metallic salts, when added to this
slimy matter, produce an abundant coagulated mass ; that
which is produced by the action of nitrate of copper dis-
solves in an excess of potash, and produces a violet-
coloured liquor. Of all the poisons which I have tried
on snails, there is none which has appeared to exert so
deleterious an influence as the alkalies. If a drop of
caustic ammonia, or of caustic. potash, be added to a
quart of rain-water, an alkaline solution will be formed
, of such little strength that it scarcely affects delicate test-
paper, and causes no impression on the. organs of taste ;
if, however, we place some snails in this solution, they
soon die, whilst other snails, placed in rain-water alone,
escape out of the vessel in which they are placed. It
would appear difficult to find more energetic poisons for
snails than those I have indicated ; I therefore think that
a weak solution of caustic potash or soda, or, what would
be still more economical, the refuse lyes which have
served for the washing of linen, diluted water, to which
a small quantity of quicklime has been added, will enable
us to attain the object we have in view more readily and
certainly than by the use of lime alone in the state of
powder, as this is speedily converted into a carbonate of
lime by the action of the air, and thus loses its poisonous
influence on the snails.-31. Bruconnot, in the Florist,

ACCIDENT FROM GUNPOWDER.—OR Wednesday, a
young man named Russell, of Bowling, near Bradford, 16
years of age, was playing with some gunpowder, when it
accidentally took fire and exploded. The whole of the
windows in the house were completely shattered to pieces,
and the lad was sadly burnt.
COLD WATER CURE.—The Montrose Review mentions
that a believer in the cold water cure has been committed
for trial, on a charge of having occasioned the death of a
labourer named Smith, by causing him to be wrapped in
cold wet sheets, as a remedy for a rheumatic fever, under
which he laboured.
Two accidents on board the Grampus, off Portsmouth,
occurred on Wednesday, by which one man lost his life
and another was very seriously injured. An iron water-
tank fell upon the former, crushing his head so suddenly
that death was instantaneous. The other man, who was
in a sling, fell from the mast, and was much injured.
LIEUTENANT E owAants.—As was anticipated by
every one who had the slightest appreciation of military
skill and successful gallantry, the special elevation of
Lieutenant Edwardes to the local rank of major has been
followed by a decoration of the order of the Bath. We
are sorry, however, to see, by the Gazette, that he is only
appointed to the third class of the military division C.B.
The Coventry Standard says that a new fraud was suc-
cessfully practised at the last Rug-ay cheese fair by two
men, who brought about a ton of the worst cheese, but
contrived to plug each cheese with a sample of the best
quality, which they gave buyers to taste, and which pro-
cured them a ready sale for their goods, as they sold
single cheeses at the wholesale prices.
How DID THEY COME !—Mr. James Ellis, of Goose-
gate, Nottingham, box-maker. has a pear-tree in his gar-
den on Windmill-hill. Sneinton, which blossomed in
Spring, and bore plentifully in July. There is at this
time another supply of fruit upon its branches, and, what
is the most surprising circumstance attending this second
bearing, it has not been preceded by the slightest appear-
ance of blossom.
SHOT IN A QUARREL.—On Monday night a surgeon
named Addison was in company with Mr. Thos. Hartnell,
a painter, drinking at a public-house in Southampton.
They left about two o'clock on Tuesday morning quarrel-
ling with each other. When they arrived at the Hound-
well, a large open space in the centre of the town, Addi-
son took a pistol from his pocket, and shot Hartnell in
the groin, who lies dangerously ill.
BELGIAN CATTLE.—The arrivals from Belgium are so
large as to attract particular attention, in consequence of
the comparative novelty of the supply of live cattle to any
extent from that country. The steamer Triton, just ar-
rived from Ostend, has brought, besides a general cargo
of the usual character, 100 sheep, individually addressed,
and 140 sheep, several calves, and the large number of
74 cases of poultry, consigned to order, the production of
Belgium.
On Sunday week, a very destructive fire took place at
the Mansion house, Vickers Island, Derwent Lake, the
residence of H. C. Marshall, Esq. Every article of fur-
niture in the library, together with the entire collection of
valuable books and paintings, were destroyed, as well as
the contents of the rooms above and below in that part of
the building, which was a wing attached to the original
premises, the latter being protected from the fire by a
strong gable-end wall. So great was the probability of
this whole building being destroyded, that every portion
of furniture at all removeable was taken out of the house.
CAUTION.—Mr. George Hancock, solicitor, of Yeovil,
received on the 23d September an intimation from the so-
licitor to the Board of Stamps and taxes that a prosecu-
tion would be commenced against him in the Court of
Exchequer for the recovery of two penalties of £2O each,
for giving unstamped receipts. Mr. Hancock replied,
admitting that in the hurry of business he had written
" settled " to two bills of costs for £166 19s. 3d., and
£169 Bs. 5d., the bills referred to. The Board replied to
this communication on the 6th October. staying the pro-
ceedings, and mitigating the penalty to the lowest sum,

Viz.,
5.
EXTRAORDINARY FEATS.—The Fife Herald narrates
the antics of a steeple and chimney climber on the top of
a chimney stalk at Newton of Abbotshall, 136 feet high.
He fixed a plank ten inches broad, and projecting about
twelve feet on each side, on the top of the chimney. In
the centre of this plank he placed a pole sixteen feet high,
having a small piece of wood on the top, which he climbed
up and stood upright on, holding a flag in his hand.
After doing so, he descended to the top of the stalk,
when he walked out to each end of the plank and struck
an axe into them. He then turned about towards the
centre, and, to the great alarm of the assembled multi-
tude, stood on his head for some time, and, returning to
his feet, he stamped firmly upon the plank on each side
of the chimney. He then safely descended head-foremost.
THE DUTCH DWARF.—A most diminutive specimen of
the genus homo has recently arrived from Holland. He
is the smallest dwarf of his age, which, by authentic cer-
tificates, appears to be ten years, ever exhibited in this
country, and is even less than the celebrated Jeffery
Hudson, whose exploits are recorded by the writers of the
time of Charles 11., and on whom Sir W. Davenant did
not think it beneath the dignity of his muse to write a
poem. This little gentleman, whose real name is John
Hannema, but who has assumed the nomme de guerre of
Admiral Van Tromp, is only 28 inches in height, and
weighs but 161 b. Ile is well dressed, active, intelligent,
and pleasing in expression of countenance.

A Herefordshire paper relates that an expectant bride-
groom visited his betrothed lady on the evening before the
day which had been fixed for the wedding, and in the
course of conversation observed, that as he intended that
the £5OO which. constituted her portion should be paid
down, be might as well take the money home with him
that evening ; but to his utter discomfiture, the lady and
her parents were so indignant at the mercenary nature of
his affection, that he was instantly turned out of the
house, and was forbidden ever again to speak to the lady.
Amongst other matters important for this country to
know, is the vast number of emigrants arriving in the
United States from Europe, and more especially from the
United Kingdom, and which are constantly adding to the
numbers, the wealth, and the power of those states.
From sunrise to noon 1800 emigrants landed at New
York, and in the afternoon 934 more landed, making
2750 in one day, all in health and spirits, and the greater
portion, says the Neu, York Herald, from Great Britain.
From May to December, 1847, there landed 129,082, and
from the Ist of January to August, 1848, 110,404 were
landed, making 239,485 in fifteen months ; of these 53,180
were Germans, and 52,49& Irish. Every month the num-
bers arriving were increasing. _ _ _

itroying

of Sheffield, were tried in December last, for des.
machinery in the Kelham grinding-wheel, belongin,
Peter Bradshaw, a razor-blade grinder, and having been
found guilty, they were each sentenced by Mr. Justice
Coleridge to seven years' transportation. At a subsequent

PRECAUTIONARY HINTS ON BODILY HEALTH.—Every
man has an unfailing barometer in his own person. He
knows, if he will know, what elevates aid what depresses
the quicksilver of his bodily health. The great thing is
to keep up the general health to the highest possible
standard ; and this is best to be done, not by resorting to
any violent changes, but by adhering to that diet and
regimen which experience has taught him to consider not
only safe but salutrry—regarding, of course, all peculiar
symptoms which may induce him to vary either the one
or the other, and adapting both to those atmospherical
viccissitudes which indicate, at all times, the propriety of
some modification, and especially when a virulent epidemic
is committing its ravages among the people. It is the
fate even of the most salutary articles of human food to
have discredit thrown upon them by the excesses of those
who have suffered by their abuse of good gifts, intended
by Providence for the promotion, not the prostration, of
the health and vigour of the human family.—Herald.
On Alonday, nineteen young women, in a very dis-
tressed state, applied to the Clerkenwell magistrate for
relief under the following circumstances.—They had been
engaged by a Mr. Owen, in Goswell-street, Clerkenwell,
to work at " ladies cloakmaking" in a room at No. 60.
Goswell-street, early in the morning till late at night, at

the rate of 9s. a week. On Saturday night the foreWoMan
took the cloaks to Mr. Pawson's establishment, in St.
Paul's Churchyard, and returned saying she could not get
the money, and the applicants were in consequence desti-
- They could not find either Mr. Owen

tute and starving

period they confessed their guilt, and divulged a variety of or the forewoman, and many of them had had nothing be-
lawless transactions of a similar nature to that of which yond a bit of dry bread during the whole time they had
they had been convicted. The result of their disclosures been at work. Some person present answered for Mr.
was the apprehension of four of the principal members of Pawson that he would not knowingly encourage such
pro-
Cor- 'ttee of the Razor-blade Grinders' Union, who ceedings, and undertook to see him and explain the cir-

were at
_the ensuing Spring Assizes arraigned on the

harge o:

rattening,

transportation

and sentenced each to ten years
ipal witnesses against them being

the lieatlicoats. In consequence the Heiithcoats' sentence
has been commuted to eighteen months' imprisonment.
SRANGE STORY.—While Mr. John Yearsley, iron-
monger, of. North-street, was acting as foreman of the
grand jury at the Lewes sessions, on Tuesday morning, he
was suddenly seized with a fit of apoplexy. In order to
allow the rest of the jury to proceed with the business, he
was removed to the large room in which they sat, where
he lay during the day attended by a surgeon, who ex-
pected every minute to see his patient depart this life. In
the evening he rallied, and was removed by his wife and
relatives (who had been sent for) to a bedroom in Mr.
Cowper's residence, at the back of the county hall. Mr.
Yearsley passed a very restless night; but on the follow-
ing morning he had recovered sufficiently to ask a variety

of questions, indicating that he had no recollection what--
ever of what had passed subsequently to the attack.—
Brighton Gazette.
ROYAL CONDESCENSION.—Her Majesty has visited the
houses of several of the humbler cotters in the vicinity of
Balmoral, and the Royal condescension will not soon be
forgotten by those who have been thus honoured. Sir

Witter Scott, whose regard for all things pertaining to
Royal dignity, was peculiarly conspicuous, describes an
old lady as holding " The King's Chair," an ancient piece
of furniture, in which some King of England had condes-

it, in all time after, from being polluted by being the
of any humbler individual ; but there are now many
" Queen's Chairs" in humbler homes than the baronial
homes of England, and as much revered as that ..-
Sir Walter describes. One old woman, whose kitchen
ingle her Majesty honoured by sitting down by, says
she would not give the chair in which her beloved
Sovereign sat for " a gueed lan's lair."—Seotsrnan.
THE CHOLERA AT Hum..----We are v"
that, up to a late hour last nivb'

tions of the prevalence of cholera in Hull. The Times of
yesterday announces that since Thursday last nine cases
of. cholera have occurred in Hull, of which seven have
proved fatal. Our opportunities of knowing how many
die of cholera here are fully eoual to those enjoyed by the

Times, and we have only to assure our readers that nei-
ther Dr. Ayre nor Dr. Horner are prepared to say t
single

peen a 1

cholera since Thursday last. In fact, Dr. Ayre and Dr
Horner are doubtful whether a single case of real Asiati
cholera has yet appeared in Hull in which the malad

was not directly imported by the person attacked from
Hamburg. Many persons here have been suddenly seized
with complaints which they fancied to indicate the com-
mencement of an attack of cholera; but, from all that we
can learn from the highest medical authorities in dull. it

is very questionable whether a single inha'
town has yet fallen a victim to the epidemic
vertiser of Friday.

THE CHOLERA.-It may perhaps arise only from that
common feeling of politeness that prompts us to pay r
attention to a stranger than one of our own housel.
that Asiatic cholera excites so much observation, w
the more formidable diseases which constantly afflict oui
population are but little regarded. When medical met
tell us that fever kills more people every year in thi:
country than the Asiatic cholera did during the ei

months in which it prevailed, the statement hardly creates
surprise. When it is further added that fever is a conta-
gious disease, which cholera is not, scarcely an effort is
made to avoid its infection. Even though we have been
told over and over again that fever is in every way, case

,
for case, a more expensive disease than cholera, no one

bas believed it

cumstances

Again, take the case of influenza and

other prevailing epidemic

In one month last year the

diseases destrOyed in London alone four thou-sand on

hundred and nine persons above the average, a number
nearly equal to half of all the persons who died of cholera

in 1831-2, and yet how little fear of these diseases exists,

and how feeble the efforts to remove their causes.
THE PRICE OF RESTITUTION.—WhiIe Miss
of Nottingham, was at George-street Chapel on

Moore,
Sunday

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Observe that the Signature of the proprietor, "G. C. Serjeant,"
is written on the Government Stamp.
_ _ _

SERJEANT'S LOTION, the only effectual Remedy
against Rheumatism, Rheumatic Gout Sciatica,itnd Lum-
bago. Sold by the Proprietor, G. C. SERJ'EANT, No. 7, Lo-
vell's-court, Paternoster-row, London; and by all Vendors of
Medicine. Price 2s. 9d. per Bottle.
This excellent Medicine, so universally esteemed, is unat-
tended with the least danger or inconvenience ; hundreds have
experienced its happy and salutary effects since it was first
introduced; and such are the properties of this invaluable
Specific that persons labouring under the most distressing
Rheumatism, Rheumatic Gout, and Lumbago, and rendered
thereby incapable of assisting themselves, have been relieved
in a few hours. _ _ _

The astonishing success which has crowned the application
of this external Medicine in the mos -hopeless and deplorable
cases, when the unhappy sufferer despaired of ever gaining
even the least relief, and this = •r the ablest advice and every
other means had completel led, most justly entitles it to the
attention of the afflicte
Amongst many whi • are being daily received are the follow-
ing testimonials :
Well-street, Cripplegate.
Sin,—l hay • een several weeks confined to my bed by Gout
and Rheuma ism,
not a part from my head to my feet free from
pain, and as helpless as an infant : not even a finger could I
move. In this unpleasant situation I was informed by my me-
dical attendant he had applied all the usual remedies, and. that
I might remain months in my deplorable situation.
Fortunately your remedy was made known tome, or I might
have been to this day confined to my bed. After a close appli-
cation of four days, my troublesome companion began to dis-
appear ; in a week I was capable of walking about my room,
and by another week's perseverance in the use of your Medi-
cine was enabled to leave. London. Fearful of another attack,
you will please to send six bottles.—l am, Sir, your obedient
servant,— D. W. STONE.

lforley's Hotel, Strand, 18th August, 1846.
SIRS I have hitherto had a prejudice against having recourse
to advertised medicines, but as I have for years been a severe
sufferer from Lumbago, as well as Sciatica, and having tried
several of the most eminent Physicians of London and Paris I
was induced by a friend to make a trial of your liquid, called
" Serjeant's Lotion." I think it in gratitude due to you to say,
in less than an hour from the time I applied the Lotion, I felt
the most pleasant and indescribable relief. The immediate
effect was to produce a short but tranquil and most refreshing
slumber, from which I awoke to enjoy that which was, from its
novelty? the greatest happiness—perfect quietude and freedom
rom roam. The number of poor souls that suffer as I have is
immense, and if the publication of this testimony can induce
one to accept of the salvation you offer, I shall feel that I have
not lived in vain.—With many thanks, I am yours,
HENRI VI LLENNEVE.

Sold by Pendlebury, Russell-street; Titherington, Oxford-
street; Hogarth, Great George-street; Fisher, Bold-street;
Coupland, Parker-street ; Gerard, Oldhall-street ; Parkinsom,
New Scotland-road ; Neal, Scotland-road ; Simpson, Scot/fit i -
road, opposite St. Martin's Market; Mackow, Vauxhall-rcui ;
Britten, corner of Dale-street and Haymarket; Smith, Groat.
Homer-street; Cox, Fox-street; Gillard, Richmond-row; Low
Islington; Walker, London-road; Parry, Christian-striet ;
Wagstaff,Great George-place ; Priestley, Lard-street; Smith
Woodside. Price. Wavertres

BIRKENHEAD.
By Messrs. WALKER and BIRD,
On TUESDAY, the 14th of November next, at the hour of One
o'clock precisely in the Aaernoon, at the Clarendon Rooms,
in Liverpool, and in the following or such other Lots as may
be agreed upon at the time and place of sale, and subject to
such conditions as shall be then exhibited and read, pursuant
to the order of E';enezer Ludlow, Sergeant-at-Law, one of the
Commissioners of the Court of Bankruptcy for the Liverpool
District, acting in the prosecution of a Fiat in Bankruptcy,
awarded and issued forth against Hugh Williams, a Bank-
rupt Lot,
I.A LL that Piece or Parcel AND, situate in
11. Birkenhead, in the cou of Chester, extending on
the west side thereof along reet of 42 feet wide, called
Jackson-street, on the nort ong the certre of a new or in-
tended new street of 18 fe in width, called Denbigh-street, on
the east along land b ging to the Chester and Birkenhead
Railway Company, don the south along land belonging to
the Commission of Birkenhead aforesaid, containing on the
west side thereof in front to Jacks )n-street aforesaid, and in-
cluding one-half in width of the said street called Denbieh-
street aforesaid, 54 feet 6 inches, or thereabouts, on the north
side thereof, running down the centre of Denbigh-street afore-
said, 158 feet, or thereabouts, on the east side thereof, adjoining'
the said land of the said Railway Company, and including one-
balf in width of Denbigh-street aforesaid 54 feet 8 inches, or
thereabouts, and on the south side thereof, adjoining the said
land of the said Commissioners, 159 feet 8 inches, or there-
abouts, and which said Piece or Parcel of Land contains, in the
whole, a I ecent admeasurement, 961 4-9ths square yards of
Land, or thereabouts, be the said several dimensions and
contents thereof a little more or less; together with the Five
Blocks of BUILDINGS, each containing Eight DWELLINGS,
now in course of erection on the said Land ; and together with
the free use and enjoyment, in common with others entitled
thereto, of the several streets, or intended streets, before-men-
tioned.
Lot 2.—A1l that Piece or Parcel of LAND, in Birkenhead
aforesaid, bounded on the north side by Pool-street, on the
outh side by a street or intended street, to be called Denbigh-
street, on the east side by a street or intended street, to be
called Cymry-street, and on the west side by Jackson-street,
and containing in front to Jackson-street, including one-half in
width of Denbigh-street aforesaid, 239 feet, and at the back,
along the centre of Cymry-street aforesaid, (also including one-
half in width of Denbigh street aforesaid,) 238 feet, and mea-
suring along Pool-street aforesaid to the centre or Cymry-street
aforesaid 49 feet 4 inches, and on the south, along the centre of
Denbigh-street aforesaid, (including also one-half of Cymry.
street aforesaid,) 51 feet, and containing in the whole 1316
square yards of Land, or thereabouts, be the several dimensions
and contents thereof respectively a little more or less ; together
with Four COTTAGES and Two SHOPS now in course of erec-
tion, and the various BUILDING MATERIALS, now being on
the said Land, and together with the free use and enjoyment,
in common with others entitled thereto, of the said several
streets or intended streets.
Lot 3.—A1l that Piece of LAND, situate in Birkenhead afore-
said, on the north-east side of a certain street or road there,
called Grange-vale, and containing on the south-west side
thereof, in front to the said street or road, 180 feet 3 inches, or
thereabouts, on the south-east side thereof, fronting a certain
street called Coburg-street, 99 feet, or thereabouts, on the
north-west side thereof, in front to another street called Hora-
tio-street, 105 feet, or thereabouts; and on the north-east side
thereof, in front to a certain other street of twenty-seven yards
wide, called Salisbury-street, 180 feet, of thereabouts. and which
said Piece of Land or Ground contains, in the whole, by a re-
cent admeasurement, 1988 square yards of Land, or thereabouts,
be the several dimensions and contents thereof a little more or
less.
The Tenure of all the above Properties is FreeLold of Inheri-
tance.
For further particulars apply at the Offices of Messrs. MAL-
LABY and TOWNSEND, Solicitors, Fenwick-street ; or of Messrs.
LOWNDES, ROBINSON, and BATEBON, Solicitors, Brunswick-
street, Liverpool.

NOTHING BRINGS ON NERVOUS DEBILITY, PREMA-
TURE OLD AGE, AND SHORTENS HUMAN LIFE,
MORE THAN DISEASES OF THE CHEST.
Protected by Her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent.
ROP E R'S ROYAL BATH -PLASTER
is one of the most important disc ries in pharmacy for
Coughs, Hoarseness, Indigestion, mas, Palpitation of the
Heart, Spinal Affections, Cro , Hooping Cough, Influenza,
Rheumatic Affections oft oints, and all Diseases of the
Cheat.
NOTICE.—The wor SIROPER'S ROYAL BATH PLASTER"
engraved on the gov nme t stamp, and the Proprietor's Auto-
graph on the ba .
SEVERE PAIN IN THE LEFT BREAST.
"To Messrs. Roper and Son.—Gentlemen,—The following
very important testimonial has been received from Mrs. Mary
Turner, Spring-street, Bury, who has been under the care of
several eminent medical practitioners, for a severe pain of long
standing under the left breast. I prevailed upon her to try one
of your Royal Bath Plasters, which in three days entirely re-
moved the pain, and she has been perfectly free from it ever
since. You may snake what use you please of the above infor-
mation, as Mrs. Turner is willing to answer any inquiries.—I
am, yours, &c., " H. MAIDEN, Chemist.
" Bury, February 12, 1847."
From Mr. W. F. Caldicott, Gainsbro'; the following has re-
cently been received
" Gentlemen —I have much pleasure in stating that your
" Royal Bath Plasters" have proved very beneficial to parties
who have used them in Gainsbro', and the neighbouroood. I
myself was cured of a severe cough by one of them.—l am, &c.,
August 4, 1847." " W. F. CALDICOTT."
Recently received from Congleton :
" Dear Sirs,—l am happy to have it my power to say. your
Royal Bath Plasters are doing most miraculous cures in our
town • and, under my own observation, I have not unfrequently
seen ;heir good effects.—Yours very truly, "J. C. CHAPMAN.
" March 13, 1847." -
Prepared only by ROBERT ROPER and Sox, Sheffield, and
may be procured of most Patent Medicine Vendors at Is. lad.
and 9d. each.