The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-10-28 00:00:00

In 1840 no less a sum than nine hundred and eighty
four millions five hundred andfifty eight thousand pounds
sterling was paid in cash into the clearing house by the
London private bankers without taking into the estimate
the bank of England, Joint Stock and West of Temp!e-
bar bankers. Can any thing be more preposter3us, there-
fore, than the assumption that the withdrawal of such a
sum as £30,000,000 for railway deposits under all the
circumstances of the case, is calculated to produce the

disastrous results which it has suited a purpose to pre-

diet?
BILL DISCOUNTING.—At the London Insolvent Court
last week an insolvent deposed as follows:—" I advertised
in the morning newspapers that I had money to lend from
the Three-and-a-Half per Cents, and the result was that
I had many applications for loans. Among the applicants
was a Mr. Wilson, from whom I obtained bills to the
amount cf £3600, for the purpose of getting them dis-
counted. I applied to Mr. Thomas Flight, money-lender,
who discounted them, giving me £2BOO for them. I think
Mr. Wilson got for his £3600 worth of bills about £l5OO.
I also got Mr. Wilson's title-deeds, which were subse-
quently given up to him, and I can positively swear that I
did not receive £3OO out of the £l5OO to so return them."

GREAT FLIGHT OF BIRDS.—The Mary, from Rotter-
dam, which arrived at Leith a few days ago, encountered
a severe gale off the land on her passage home; and,
during its continuance, an immense number of small
birds boarded the vessel, covering the rigging and uttering
wild cries, as evidently glad of the shelter from the great
wind which had driven them so far to sea. Safe from
one disaster, they soon were overtaken by another in the
shape of a large hawk, that pounced upon the timid
songsters and killed several of them before he could be
secured. A number have been brought home, dead and

alive, consisting of nearly all the variety of our European
songsters. The hawk is perfectly tame, and a great fa-
vourite with the crew of the Mary.—Scotsman.
THE GAME LAWS.—At the Tring Agricultural Associa-
tion meeting on Tuesday, Mr. Houghton, the vice-
president of the society, thus expressed himsilf:—" I stand
here as one of the largest occupiers of land in the kingdom.
It is not only unfair but absolutely dishonest for a land-
lord to take rent for a farm and then to stock it with game.
(Cheers.) I have stated this before a committee of the
House of Commons, and will avow it on all occasions. It
is dishonest of landlords to stock farms with vermin.
Plenty of game might do for the landlords, but it would
not do for him. If the aristocracy needed ' battues,' let
them keep their game in a room and shoot at it through
the key-hole." We understand that Mr. Houghton farms
nearly 4000 acres of laud.
NEW MODE OF DRESSING A HARE.—A gentleman,
(Mr. Gilbanks, of Whitefield House, near Keswick,) in
return for sundry kindnesses of a neighbour of his, in
doing little bits of jobs for him now and then, made him a
present of a hare. Meeting the good man's wife a few
day's after, be nsked her how they had liked the hare.
" Why," she said, " our Willy liked it varra weel, but
for her part they would never have another." The gen-
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tleman of course, was at a loss to understand this, ,If; he
had hoped to provide them both a treat, till, on asking,
her reason, she said, " She had rather pull twenty geese
than one hare, they were so bad to dress." Im,gine the
gentleman's amusement when he found out that the old
lady was such a novice in cooking so rare a dainty, that
she had not thought of "skinning " h.—Kendal Mercury.
WARNING TO PROFESSED AUTHORS AND CONTRI-
BUTORS TO MAGAZINES, &c.—By a report of the Mid-
dlesex magistrates, in session assembled at Clerkenwell,
on Thursday week, the worthy Mr. Pownall in the chair,
it appears, that the lunatics in the Hanwell Asylum have
not only taken to printing on a scale co-extensive with
their literary demand, but that several of the inmates, or
patients, have commenced a course of highly imaginative
and interesting authorship. In proof of this Mr. Tulk,
the chairman of the visiting justices, either read or sung
" a beautiful song, written by one of the lunatics," which
"elicited (from the other judges) warm demonstrations of
sympathy" (sic in report!) and applause. What the
effects of this new competition may be on the established
literature of the metropolis it is impossible to foretel ;
but they must evidently be of much importance to vested
interests.—Literary Gazette.

INDIAN SARCOPHAGUS.—A curious Indian sarcopha-
gus was last week landed from the Sharon, from Beirout.
It was put on board from H. M. ship Warspite, by order
of the British Consul at Beirout, where it had been dug
out of some ruins. The sarcophagus is cut from solid
blocks of statuary marble, comprising the lid and the
lower part or chest in which the body has been deposited.
The lid is slightly sloped from the centre, or roof-shaped ;
the lower part resembles a massive chest, on a slight
pedestal. The whole is but roughly cut, having small
chisel marks over the entire surface. The work is, how-
ever, ornamented with some taste, and the general effect
is good- There are ram's heads at the four angles of the
lid or cover, and two bulls' heads upon the front, and
one in the centre of each end, the spaces between being
filled up with something like serpents pendant in festoons
from each of the more prominent ornaments. The sar-
cophagus is 7 feet 3 inches long, 3 feet wide, and 2 feet
8 inches high.

NOVEL PROJECT.—A. novel and extensive project is
announced—the " Glasgow and Loch Katrine Water
Company." Many plans, it appears, have been proposed
to supply the deficiency of wat.er felt in Glasgow, and the
promoters of this scheme are sanguine as to the com-
pleteness and the success of their undertaking. The
scheme is to bring water by gravitation from Loch Katrine
by an aqueduct to one or more distributing reservoirs ad-
jacent to the city. The plan of taking the water from so
large a natural fountain-reservoir as Loch Katrine does
away with the necessity for artificial fountain-dams, at
once very expensive and involving considerable risk. The
water, says the prospectus, of Loch Katrine is quite soft,
and of perfect purity, even in seasons of spate, being col-
lected from a district of steep bare hills, of the primitive
formations. The level of the lake is so high above the
level of the Clyde at Glasgow, that the water may be
conducted from it to the highest ground in the neigh-
bourhood of the city.—Scolch paper.
AIR CHURN.—The Bishop of Derry has invented an
atmospheric churn. Instead of the present unscientific
mode of making butter by churning his lordship accom-
plishes this measure by the simpler manner of forcing a
full current of atmospheric air through the cream, by
means of an exceedingly well devised forcing-pump. The
air passes through a glass tube connected with the air-
pump, descending nearly to the bottom of the churn. The
churn is of tin, and it fits into another tin cylinder pro-
vided with a funnel and stop-cock, so as to beat the cream
to the necessary temperature. The pump is worked by
means of a wince, which is not so laborious as the usual
churn. Independently of the happy application of science
to this important department of domestic economy, in a
practical point of view, it is extremely valuable. The
milk is not moved by a dasher, as in the common churn;
but the oxygen of the atmosphere is brought into close
contact with the cream, so as to effect a full combination
of the butyraceous part, and to convert it all into
butter. On one occasion the churning was carried on for
the space of one hour and forty-five minutes, and eleven
gallons of cream produced twenty-six pounds of butter.

CURIOUS RECOVERY OF SIGHT.—A truly strange—
indeed, almost miraculous recovery of sight occurred a
few days since. An inmate of the alms-house, Upper
Shandon, named Edward Osborne, had been five and
twenty years " stone blind." On Friday last the poor
man, when walking in the street, was much annoyed by
some boys who persecuted him to such a degree that he
made an effort to strike one pf them ; but unfortunately—
or rather fortunately, as it so turned out—he struck a
little child who was innocently standing by. The child o❑
being struck, ran in to its mother, saying she had been
hit by a man in the street.—The woman ran out much
excited, and the child pointing to Osborne, she rushed at
him, and with her clenched fist hit him in the eye with
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considerable violence, stunning him, and, as he saic
self, " knocking fire out of his eyes." But the curious
result of the blow was, that the man actually saw the
light on the very next day. The poor man's feelings can
better be imagined than described on the restoration of
his sight, after being so long in darkness. There is an
entire change in him since—from groping along in a bent
position, he now walks erect with a smile beaming in his
face, and is overflowing with gratitude to Divine Provi-
dence. He is now, although but five days have elapsed
since he saw the first glimmering of light, actually able to
read large letters, and his sight is improving daily.—Cork
Examiner.

THE DEPRESSION IN THE STOCK AND SHARE MAR-
KETS.—The principal object for which, no doubt, the
Directors of the Bank of England came to the resolution,
on Thursday week, of advancing the rate of interest, i. e.,
to check the concoction of fresh and fraudulent schemes
for railways, has most efficiently bad its effect. Care and
caution have become the order of the day, and, as soon
as the present pressure subsides, (all practical men hold
the depression in the market to be but of a transient
character,) those projects for the construction of fresh
lines of railway upon which the deposits have been com-
pleted must rise in public estimation. Instead, therefore,
of viewing with alarm the decline that has taken place in
the public securities this week, amounting to rather over
one per cent., the circumstance should be taken as certain
proof that money has been acquired to a considerable
amount to pay up deposits upon the allotment of shares
in lines that are deemed to be essentially requisite, and
which are likely to receive a favourable consideration at
the hands of parliament. Not one of the influential cor-
porations, as far as we can judge from the result of our
inquiries, has become a seller of stock. The present de-
pression in the stock and share markets must, therefore,
he considered (as it is by all excepting those who desire
to see a lower range of prices than already given in the
i official lists) merely teroporasy.— Observer of Sunday.

SHIPWRECKS ON THE EAST COAST OF SCOTLAND.—
On Thursday forenoon the schooner Tom, of Preston,
foundered off Duncan's Bay Head, and the whole crew
perished. A small piece of the stern was washed ashore,
bearing the words "Tom, of Preston" and " Port of
Lancaster." One of the bodies of the unfortunate crew
was washed ashore on the following day, and respectably
interred, in the churchyard of Canisbay, on Saturday.
During the gale a Russian brig, name unknown, (since
put into Longpole,) had the mate, and one of the sea-
men washed overboard. The cook had three of his ribs
broken, and others of the crew were more or less injured.
At the same time stanchions and rails were carried away
and the cabin sky-light broken. A vessel from North
America was also driven ashore at Longpole, but it is ex-
pected to be got off without much damage. It is much
to be dreaded, that, when the whole news of the gale shall
have been added together, it will present a catalogue of
loss, both by sea and land, of the most deplorable cha-
racter. In the interior of the country the storm raged
with unabated violence, and a good deal of injury has
been done to the crops. Such was the tremendous surf
along the coast, that between Pulteney-town and Sarclet
several dead ling and skate were found lying in the fields,
at a considerable distance from the high-water mark. On
Sunday the gale moderated, but again broke forth on
Monday. On Tuesday the weather again became tram-
quil.—John 0' Groat's Journal.