The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-04 00:00:00

COUNTRY

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1 33
2 41
13 192

36
68
38
8

109
434
55 473
167 796
152 157
90 12
112 65
49 30
27 10
109 190
136 123
94 50
61 47
1292 92
498 80
389 244
55 65

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22 2
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2 259 98
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148 77
30 39
174 236
123 110
8 34
30 12
101 46
28 14

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I POPU.

LATION.

66-120
150
653-803
533
1006-1539
325
133-458
177
84-261

314
263-577
168

118-286
418
610-1028

685
136-821
115
48-163
456
425-881
14

52-66
143

81-224
162

187-349
365

248-613
394

258-652
60
95-155
253
229-482
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326
541-867
385
212-597
129

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7 .. 299
8 198-497
11 .. 249
69-318
10 420
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ARTIFICIAL HATCHING OF CHICKENS.—An invention
for hatching chickens by artificial heat is exhibited at the
Cosmorama rooms in Regent-street, London. The hatch-
ing is performed by top contact heat, radiated through a
sheet of vulcanized caoutrhouc, over which flows a stream
of water of 100 degrees of heat. The rearing of the
chickens is performed by pipes; the chickens•nestle under
-and between the pipee. There isu t.oniinnetl-ci.reuhvtio
of the atmosphere of_the rowan around th4-ehi6ek.
FOOT RACK FOIL £lOO A.-SIDE.-011 Tuesday last, the
much-talked-of foot race,, for £lOO a-s'de, distance one
mile, between Jemes Sherdon. of Sheffield, and John
Tetlow, of Hollingwood, near Mancheyter, came off on
the Race-ground, Doncaster. Af
they both went off
sllglit lead, which he
est ease, and came

Her three raise starts
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a gallara.winner by nr

The race was ri

atinz a

FATAL FIGHT.—On Sunday week, a quarryman named
Watson, and some others, collected on Lindrick Com-
mon, Notlinghamshire. They were afterwards joined by
a " navvy" named Thomas Kay, whose dog was set to
fight with WaLson's. A dispute arose on the matter, and
Watson and Kay proceeded to strip, and carried on a
combat even after it had become dark. Kay had the
worst of it, and died next morning. At the
verdict of manslaug

was re

who has absconded:
TRIUMPH OP ART.—On Wednesday the brig
Canning, of 180 tons, new measurement, wi
wrecked and driven on the top of Dymchurch 11,11
three weeks ago, while on her voyage froin

coast of Africa, Was at length got, off from her
the wall, though her removal was thought a
was beyond the power of human art to
Through extraordinary skill the vessel was lat
on Wednesday.—Dover Chronicle.
THE LATE HORRIBLE CASE OF HOMICIDE

STAMPS ON BILLS OF EXCHANGIL—A return of the
amount of ditties received in the several years between.
1810 and 1846 both inclusive, for stamps on bills- of ex-
change, or promissory-notes' and bank-notes, shews that
the largest amount of duty was paid in the year 1818,
when it amounted to £845,749 155., and the smallest in
1832, when it was £545,801 3s. ld. In the last six years
(from 1841 to 1846 inclusive) the duties amounted to
£660,153 175., £589,394 17s. 6d., £564,443 95., £576,729
Ss. 4d., £558,586 Bs. 9d., and in 1846, £571,842 10s. ld.
At the inquest on the accident on the York and North
Midland, of the 4th ult., the foreman of the jury declared
a verdict finding all the directors of the company guilty
of manslaughter ! The jury had framed their verdict in-
culpating the directors as guilty of negligence ; and, though
impressed by the coroner as to the informality of the
finding, the foreman persisted in the verdict he had de-
livered in. Ultimately the inquisitions were filled up
" accidental death," and were signed by the whole of the
jury except the foreman.
A painful instance of the uncertainty of life has occurred
at the railway station in Bath. The Rev. John Hampden,
rector of Hinton Martel, Dorsetshire, who had been visit-
ing Mr. Caddell, of the Crescent, arrived at the station
about eleven o'clock, a.m., on Wednesday, accompanied
by his lady and Mrs. Caddell, intending to proceed to
Clifton by the train which leaves Bath at that hour.
Having secured his tickets, Mr. Hampden proceeded to
the platform, where, in a few minutes, he was seized with
a fit terminating fatally after a very short interval.

A LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS.-MF. J. Dearden, of Pres.
ton, whose assiduity in collecting remarkable documents
is well known, and whose perseveting inquiry has gained
for him a large measure of success in that pursuit, has in
his possession a letter addressed to Mr. Hudson—a draper
in York at the time it was indited, but now the sovereign
potentate of the railway world. Those familiar with the
locality of York will at once recognise the mercer and his
customer in their respective positions at the period of the
good lady's commands. The following are the terms of
the communication :

" Mrs. Preston will be obliged to Mr. Hudson to send her
per post 2 skeins of purse twist, exactly the colour and size as
the pattern green which was got at his shop the other day.
They had better be enclosed as in a letter.—Moreby Hall,
Thursday night.
" Messrs. Nicholson and Hudson, College-street."
PLAIN ENOUGH, ONE WOULD HAVE THOUGHT.—May-
wood, one of the sanitaryreporters on the state of Sheffield,
narrates a conversation which may give some idea of the
carelessness respecting noxious effluvia shown by many of
the humbler classes. "Do you not perceive an unpleasant
smell from that place behind your house ?"—" No, nowt
as I know on. What ! does not that wet which runs
down your wall smell bad sometimes !"—Sometimes ! It
does a bit of a mornin', but nowt to mean aught." "Have
you lived here long ?"—" About sixteen years." "Pretty
good health since you came?"—" Pretty middling; cons].
dering." " What family have you had ?"—" O've had
fourteen childer." " Have they had pretty good health
as well as yourself ?"—" Nay, o've buried 'em all but
three." " Were they all born in this house ?"—" No,
four were born in Derbyshire—three of these are still
living, but the youngest on 'em died here."
DEATH FROM CHOLERA.—On Thursday an inquest was
held at the Feathers Tavern, Waterloo-road, Lambeth,
on the body of Margaret Garey, aged 8 years, who it was
rumoured, had died from cholera. The parents .of de-
ceased were in very poor circumstances, and, it appeared
seldom tasted animal food. On the deceased being at-
tacked by vomiting, &c., Mr. Pope, surgeon, of Princes-
street, attended her, and administered the usual remedies,
but the disease terminated fatally. At the inquest, Mr.
Pope stated, that, from the symptoms of the child, he
should say that she had died from cholera of a malignant
form. The Coroner.—Do you mean, when you say
cholera of a malignant form, the Asiatic cholera. ? Wit-
ness.—Decidedly not, but a malignant form of English
cholera, a disease not at all infectious. The Jury re-
turned a verdict that " The deceased had died from En-
glish cholera."
Mr. Hyde Clarke suggests the application of the electric
telegraph to musical purposes. He remarks that if a suf-
ficient number of wires were used, a set of chimes might
be as easily rung as two bells—indeed, that the chimes in.
York Minster, if there are any, might be rung from Lon-
don as well as York. Where bells are placed in a high
tower, as some carillons or chimes in Flanders are, he
suggests that they might by telegraph be played with
much more convenience from the bottom of the tower
than at the top. By a proper application of wires, two
organs or two apollonicans, he observes, might be played
at any distance apart, by one performer, thus realizing by
electric telegraph what Professor Wheatstone is said to
contemplate by acoustic telegfaph,—conveying musical
sounds and compositions. We may yet, he thinks, have
electrical organs in our churches as well as electrical
clocks in our houses, and worked almost as cheaply.
PEDESTRIANISM.—FOUR-MILE RACE FOR TWENTY..
FIVE Sovs. A-SlDE.—This match for the above-named
sum and distance between the celebrated W. Jackson, the
American Deer, and J. Hayes, of Halshaw Moor, a youth-
ful aspirant, was decided on Wednesday at Peci. ham. The
course, measuring 648 yards 2 feet in circumference, re-
quired eleven circuits, minus 80 yards, to make the sti-
pulated measure of four miles. For the first two rounds
Jackson led ; in the third and fourth the men, who seemed,
especially the Dear, erciy musc!e, passed and
re-passed each other repeatedly. At this point
gone rather more than a third of th --
whose stride was truly wonderful, f
rival. He continued to
them and finally ran by t
suvorlao F
_ _ nacho _ lu

.aving
listince, Hayes,
an away from his
.‘ C 'nterval between
31 209 yards, honest mea-
som. A=Ar-.111.5...5e11123z to

him 'that halitta einotlik;i:..i.-Ti'cuit Koisii; tlielitarr4;*
ran on, but his time at completing the eleventh turn to
the winning-post ,Aas 21 minutes 8 seconds.

louse in

last, a woman was discover(
Glasgow, where she had been iromur:-.(1
by her husband, George Fay, a shoemaker. The unhappy
creature was in a horrible state of dirt and disease, and
died 'soon after in tbe hospital. At the Glasgow assizes,
on Monday, Fay was indictzd for culpable homicide, was
found guilty, and sentenced to transport& ion for life. The
only defence made by this detestable being was that his
wife was not in her right mind ; that she was a drinker,
and that her habits wcte dirty.

FUTUREE.LECTIO NS OF POOR-LAW GUARDIANS.—The
new Commis: Toners have issued several fresh instructions
to the various par:cllc3 and unions. Among these the
election of guardians is in future to take place between
the 15th and 2Gth ^n(111," rolling papers are to
commence be'ng ca-t tip on the 9th of Aprilandsurcecd-
in

CHRISTMAS BOXES
Dock having dete-,..
Christmas boxes to their customers, and h
meeting and issued an address to that effect
sing degree of excitement was c'•
posted up of " No Monopoly !" "
lion !" &c. ; and by public requisitio,
held in the Temperance-hall, a spacious buitai“,,
lent for the purpose, when certain regulations were
adopted for obtaining groceries and other articles direct
from Bristol, Liverpool, and London markets. The local
paper states that " orders to the amount of £3O were sent
off this week, and the sum to be transmitted during the
ensuing will reach nearly £1.0."
THE KIRTON MURDER.—The inquest was resumed
yesterday week, when the investigation was brought to a
close, the jury returning a verdict of " Wilful murder "
against Joseph Travis. The prisoner, it appears, is very
respectably connected. His father is a farmer, but the
prisoner himself is a joiner and cabinet-maker, and only
completed his apprenticeship afew months ago. He is about
twenty-four years of age. It appears that for some years
past he has led a most dissipated life, and he has acknow-
ledged that.--he has _leen ,addicteil to card-nlaving, and
that he has lost considerable sums of money. It now ap-
pears that deceased had gone to Kirton for the purpose
of purchasing some articles at the market, but had un-
fortunately gone to the Red Lion public-house.—Lincoln
Chronicle.
A man named John Wall, has died at Backwell, near
Bristol, from the shot of a gun deliberately fired at him
by a youth named Charles Manfield, aged only sixteen.
It appears that Wall whilst sitting in his house. -,-as
aroused by the smashing in of a pane of glass in his win-
dow, and upon the instant he heard the click of the lock
of a gun. On looking up, he was horror-struck to see
Manfield coolly looking through the window, with the
muzzle of a gun inserted in the broken pane. Before he
had time to speak, the gun was again cocked and dis-
charged, the contents lodging. in Wall's thigh. Had the
gun been discharged, as intended, when first cocked, there
is little doubt that Wall would have been shot through
the heart. Wall, on finding he was shot, cried " You
havn't done for me yet," or some words to that effect,
and Manfield, who was still standing at the window, to
see the effect of his fire, on hearing him speak, took to
his heels. He was, however, captured, and there is little
doubt that he intended to kill the man and then rob his

—The tradesmen of Pembroke
n of riving

days, while the first: nr: is not to tlke place until
after the 15th of Apr:l. In all cases where the per.
manent pauper obtains medical relief, the guirdians
shall once at least in every year cause to be prepared
by the clerk or relieving officer a list of all such aged and
infirm persons permanently sick or di—lbled as may be
a:;tually receiving relief, and such list to be furnished from
time to time to each district medical. officer. The. clerk
is twice a ycar—raraev, four weeks at least before the
layingtliet
hoev er rslieee er
and the amount
25th of March and on the 2Mt. of September resrctively
in each. year, to accert lin the cost of the relief of the poor,
mainte-
nance of the poor.—New regulations as to the admission
of paupers into the workhouse, hours of work, &c., &c.,
rte willo be
e before
require
i
have been made.
FATAL ACCIDENT FROM NAPTHA.—A. correspondent
foofrm theonepyurt

ained to abo.

very am

of the John o' Croat Tia

g kindly

gives an account of a s

ntrnal, writ ;rig rrom Stiotnness,
ular and fatal accident.. it ap-
is of the town had commenced

pears that some m(111,1(11113
the burning of naptha in

es of busi-

"ss ; and a jar of that dan7crous commodity wflf.,. lately
brought from Leith. On the evening of the llth ult.,
the persons concemed met, for the purpose of having the
said article divide:;; and, as it was in the dusk of the
evening, they thoughtlessly availed themselves of a lighted
candle, which unfortunately coming in contact with the
gas issuing from the liquid, the contents of the jar in-
stantly exploded. The persons, three in number, were in
a moment enveloped in flames, from head to foo:, and
were seen hurrying hither and thither distractedly. The
neighbours were of course not backward in affording their

aid-; but, from the inflammable nature of the substance,
the flames could not be extinguished, till nearly every rag
elpired two days after.
of clothing on the bodies of the sufferers was consumed,
and their bodies burned in a frightful manner. Mrs.
Dunnet, wife of Mr. Dunnet, merchant, after enduring
tpler.mpousnt
neextc,rtlivchi excruciating gerdeffaelfi,onugrisn, g
to extinguish the ele-
ments, had his hands and face severely burned, and is not
yet wholly recovered. Miss Inkster, aunt to Mrs. Dennet,
suf-
ferer, as it was era), on Sabbath last that death came to
also suffered fatally. She was destined to be a long
her relief.
GIPSY FESTIVAL.—On Tuesday, the annual gathering
of the reclaimed and wandering members of the Gypsy
race, took place at Spring-hill House, Southampton, the
residence of the Rev. James Crabb. This was the nine-
teenth anniversary, and though the proceedings at each
successive Pleating have varied but little, additional inte-
rest has been manifested, year by year, in the condition
wasth muchse by
and welfare of this interesting section of the human
family. The large school-room was filled with a highly
respectable assembly of ladies and gentlemen, and the
swarthy visitors occupied one end of the room to them-
selves. The absence, from severe indisposition,. of the
venerable mall through whose labours public attention
w
present,
eont, thisa long-neglectedndby non emor
more
class,thn
a
whom he is so generally and deservedly known as "The
Gipsies' Advocate." Amongst those who were present
regretted as firstabwyaka lelnpe
were several clergymen. The proceedings commenced as
usual with singing and prayer, after which the Rev. Mr.
Coney gave a brief address to the gipsies, and concluded
by reading a farewell address to them, from the Rev. J.
Crabb. The Rev. Carr Glyn called attention to the
school for gipsy children, which is now ready for twelve
boys or girls. The service closed with singing and prayer,
and the assembly retired to the playground, whilst prepa-
rations were being made in the schoolroom for supplying
the gipsies with dinner. After being regaled with a plen-
tiful supply of roast beef, plum pudding, &c., flannel and
clothing were presented to the heads of the families.
ANECDOTE OF Da. CHADMERS.—Studious persons are
sometimes surprisingly ignorant how to act on ordinary
occasions. Dr. Chalmers came home one evening on
horseback, and as neither the man who had the charge of
his horse nor the key of the stable could be found, ho
was for some time puzzled where to find a temporary
residence for the animal. _ At last he fixed on the garden

cottage, as he was a notorious thief, though so young. as the fittest place he could think of for the purpose; and
EXPENSE OF USING HARD WATER.-Mr. Wrightson, having led the horse thither, he placed it on the garden
after pointing out the extreme hardness of the water used walk. When his sister, who had also been front home,
in Birmingham, has been showing the good people how returned, and was told that the key of the stable could
much this costs them. He says Taking twelve of not be found. she inquired what had been done with the
Professor Clark's degrees of hardness to be the average of horse ? " I took it to the garden," said the doctor.
the entire quantity of water consumed in Birmingham, "To the garden !", she exclaimed, " then all our flower
and taking 100,000 gallons as the average daily consump- and vegetable beds will be destroyed." " Don't be
lion in washing the person alone—which must certainly afraid of that," said the doctor, " for I took particular
be below the mark, not being four pints to each person (I care to place the horse on the garden walk." " And did
believe the population is over 200,000)—as 100,000 gallons. von really imagine," rejoined his sister, " that he would
at sixteen degrees, would require 32,000 gallons, 24,000 remain there ? " " I have no doubt of it," said the
gallons of soap solution (or its equivalent in soap) would doctor, " for so sagacious an animal as the horse could
be required for the same quantity at twelve degrees, in not but be aware of the propriety of refraining from
order to remove the lime it contains before the detergent injuring the products of the garden." " I am, afraid,"
property of the soap can have any effect. Now, this soap said Miss Chalmers, " that you will think less favourably
solution contains as near as possible about 11 oz. of soap of the discretion of the horse when you have seen the
in each gallon, therefore 24,000 gallons=27,ooo oz., or garden." To decide the controversy by an appeal to
1,6871b5. This for one day's waste, is 615,755 lbs. for the facts, they went to the garden, and found, from the
year, which, at 4d. per pound, is £10,262 ;no trifling sum ruthless devastation which the trampling and rolling of
to be wasted among the inhabitants of a town in washing the animal had spread over every part of it, that the
he person alone. The further waste in washing linen, natural philosophy of the horse was a subject with which
&c., must of course be proportionately great, to say the lady was far more accurately acquainted than het
nothing of the extra wear and tear, for it is well known learned brother. "I never could have imagined," said
how destructive hard water is to linen, notwithstanding the doctor, " that horses were such senseless animals."...
the copious use of soap and soda. Ifogg's Weekly Instructor.