The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-09-23 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

THE NEW FISHERY ACT.—By the new Fishery Act for
England and Wales, it is enacted that all rivers in Eng-
land and Wales are to be clotted on the 13th of September

in each year; and that, in addition to tie regulations con-
cerning salmon, any person catching, or having in his pos-
session, any trout, measuring in length less than seven
inches from eye to fork, shall subject himself to a penalty
not exceeding £lO, nur less than £5.
THE ATMOSPHERIC PRINCIPLE.—A letter dated
Purtsinouth sacs—" An atmospheric apparatus is being
constructed in this d,,ckyard to drive the saws in the
wood-tnilis, which will supersede the use of steam-power
in that department, and in every other where steam is
now used, if the application is found to answer." The.
success of the atmospheric principle is stated to be in no

degree doubtful.-7'imcs. -
THE GIPSY KING AND HIS CAMP•—Information hag

been sent to the police of an enormous amount of property
found in the possession of a gipsy of the name of Lee,
who is said to be the king of that tribe, and which for the
most part is supposed to have come from the neighbour-
hood of London. It consists chiefly of watches, plate,
jewellery, and valuables of wearing apparel. The "King"
is in custody.

SOCIALISM.—The Social [Owen] Institution in John-
street, Tottenham-court-road, is defunct, like its late
prototype in the Blackfriars•road. The building changed
hands Jal.t week. Its members and finances have been
slowly dwindling down till they are considerably in debt.
The building, which is very commodious, is now turned
into a mechanics' institution. Harmony Hall, in Hamp-
ton, which cost the socialists £30,000, will shortly be
brought to the hammer.
POTATO STARCH.—Mr. Herapath, the celebrated
chemist, of Bristol, recommends that the potatoes in-
jured by the present general disease be immediately dug
up, and the starch, the only nutritious part of that vege-
table, which is not yet injured, be extracted, by which
2010 or 251 b of highly nutritous food would be the pro-
duct of every cwt. fit for using for bread, pudding, pies.
and miser varieties of food. The starch, when extracted,
will keep any length of time.
OMCEOGAPHY IN ENGLAND.—A new body has been
formed, under the title of the English Homoeopathic Asso-
ciation, to promote inquiry into the claims of homoeo-
pathy. Its president is Lord Robert Grosvenor, and its
treasurer Mr. Marshall, the chief cashier of the Bank of
England ; Mr. Leaf, Mr. Under-sheriff Ashurst, and Mr.
M. B. Sampson, appear on the committee, alo: g with Dr.
Currie, and other leading practitioners of the new system.
The association already numbers between two and three
hundred members.

PHONOGRAPHY.—This is a novelty ! It is intended by
the aid of this to teach persons to write just as they speak,
without reference to the present system of orthography ;
thus one grophy is to upset another. The professors of
Phonography believe that by adopting this system the
English will become the universal language of the world !
Let us see how it will act in our own country first, by
comparing a few extracts from letters received from differ-
ent counties :
From Northumberland.—Oor Bairn varra seick and
bard ha' th' heead.
From Yorkshire.—Mither gat uup to steek the deer
(shut the door.)
From Somerset.—lze's a bin to zee our zister Zalley

From Devonshire.—l cti t refoos sto send to foo lines.
From Norfolk.—We took too or tree turns right trow
the garden— (This must be sung.)
From London.—l rites to sea vee shan't be abel to
come cos vy my vife's kritch'd a cold cum in from the
Wictori Thee-hate-her.--Joe Miller Junior.
THE SHAREHOLDERS DUPED.—On Saturday morning
last a most ludicrous occurrence took place in this town.
A man whose name proved to be Sagar (formerly of this
town) arrived it was said from Rochdale, and immediately
gave it out that he had two or three thousand " Grand
Unions" to dispose of, and that, owing to the shares be-
loneing to a club, they were wishful to dispose of them ;
£4 3s. 6d. was the price asked, being nearly £2 below
the market price. This " windfall" coming to the ears
of the brokers, numbers of them took up a position at
each corner of Cross Church-street, eagerly watching for
the appearance of the " gentleman, who expected a parcel
by the next train." No sooner did he appear than a rush
was made who should be the first to catch him ; one
broker purchased 2110, others 20, 40, 60, and so on ; many
of the brokers actually selling a quantity of shares then in
their possession purposely to raise the needful to pay for
the expected purchase. 'Buss after 'buss arrived from
the station at Cooper Bridge, but still no parcel arrived
for Mr. Sager. Four hours passed in vexatious disap-
pointment, and the innocent dupes having been sufficiently
boxed, the supposed holder of the scrips decamped, laugh-
ing heartily at the trick he had played upon the Hudders-
field brokers.—Halifax Guardian.
AWFUL EXPLOSION IN THE ROYAL ARSENAL,
WOOLWICH.—An explosion of a most awful nature took
place in the Laboratory department of the Royal Arsenal,
at 10 o'clock on Wednesday morning, by which five per-
sons were killed instantaneously. It appears the work-
men who have unfortunately perished were employed
under their foreman, Mr. Crake, who is one of the killed,
in breaking up fuses, but it is impossible to state from
what taus.- the melancholy event took place, as none of
those inside the building escaped. The whole of the
glass of the windows was destroyed by the explosion, and
the building set. on fire, and on bursting open the door a
most awful spectacle was presented of the dreadfully
scorched bodies of four men and one boy heaped above
each other at the back of the door, to which it appears
they had rushed, but failed in opening it. The clothes of
the deci-ased are literally burned off their bodies, and
their remains blackened. The Royal Sappers and Miners
and others were soon on the spot, and with the Royal
Artillery and workmen of the arsenal five engines were
put in operation, which checked the progress of the flames.
and prevented them from spreading to the other buildings.
After the fire was got under, and a portion of the roof
taken off the building, the police proceeded to the melan-
choly and trying task of removing the dead bodies. It
-was then ascertained that four men and three boys were
killed, including Mr. Crake, the foreman, an aged but
uncommonly active gentleman. When it became known
outside the arsenal that so fetal an accident had tiken
place, the distress of wives and mothers was very great in
the uncertainty that prevailed as to the names of those
actually destroyed. The greatest sympathy has been
shown for those who have lost their husnertds on this me-
lancholy occasion. There is no means of ascertaining
exactly what was the cause of the explosion, all that is
known being that the men were employed in extracting
the composition from old fuses.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN LONDON.—On Tuesday after-
noon last, about a quarter before two o'clock, an alarm.
nig fire broke cut in the warehouses belonging to Sir C.
Price and Co., oil and colourmen, situate at the bottom
of William-street, New Bridge-street, nearly adjoining
Blackfriar's-bridge, at the right hand of which are the
City Chartered Gas Works, the gasometers being imme-
diately contiguous. So large a body of gas being in such
near contact to the flames, naturally caused serious ap-
prehensions, which were considerably increased when it
became known that several tons of oil, vitriol, and turpen-
tine were upon the burning premises. Scarcely a quarter
of an hour elapsed before sixteen or seventeen engines
were upon the spot, all of which were quickly supplied
with water. In its progress the fire communicated with a
number of carboys, containing vitriol and turpentine, and
suddenly a dull roaring sound was heard, and the flames,
which had never risen snore than ten feet above the build •
ing, burst forth to the height of at least a hundred feet,
and emitted an intensity of heat which forced several of
the firemen from their positions. A jet of blazing turpen-
tine ran from one of the windows on to the river, arid set
fire to a number of barges, and al o a floating engine,
which was doing effective service. This engine was worked
by about fifty madmen, who were thrown into the greatest
consternation by this circumstance, and only escaped by
jumping into the river, and clinging to ropes which were
thrown to them frem the surrounding boats. The fears
of the inhabitants were raise,. to a fearful pitch, as the
conflagration extended towards the gas works; but by
well-directed efforts, so terrible a cidamity as the
threrened explosion was happily averted. By f"ur
o'clock the fire was mastered, without any further mate-
rial damage than the destruction of Messrs. Price and
Co.'s premises. The origin of the fire is not known with
accuracy:but it is generally supposed to have been (*era-
sinned by the rtnireng over of some turpentine in the bon-
nie-house. Providentially only one life has been sacri-
ficed in this fearful fire, and that was the life of a men
who was assistitig at the engines. The whole loss. it is
calculated, will not exceed £5,000. Probably it will be
under that sum. The stock of M• sm... Price i- insured
in the Imperial Vire-office, and the West of England.
The premieee are insured in the Sun Fire-office.

We understand that Mr. T. C. Thompson, Royal H.
Academic'ati, who has so successfully pourtraved many
of our leading townsmen, is about to visit us profession-
ally for a short time during this autumn. He has been
engaged in making " Studies from life " for a work of
great importance, which have been successfully brought
to a conclusion for the present.
PRESERVATION OF THE another part of
our impression will be seen the advertisement of Mr.
Ayres, from whose treatise on the hair we copy the fol-
lowing remarks :—To the neglect of the hair during the
earlier periods of life, is attributable the deteriorated ap•
pearance it assumes at an age when it should be luxuriant
and beautiful. The growth is frequently impeded by the
existence and accumulation of dandruff, which, if allowed
to continue, will produce so great an enervation to the
roots of the hair as to cause it to fall off, and occasion
baldness. Tbis arises from the impracticability of im-
parting any nourishment to the bulb, owing to the incrus-
tation of scurf completely clogging up the pores of the
skin."

THE OCTAVE CANDLES.—Since the primitive ages the
ordinary tallow mould has remained nearly unimproved.
It is the only article over which the refining influence of
science and art has shed so little beneficial effect. At
last, the clouds have vanished, and the world has received
another proof of man's intellectual advancement. The
Octave Candles, a patent of Messrs. Palmer and Co.,
which, while they require no snuffing, give at least twice
the light of ordinary moulds, and what is most sin-
gular and desirable, not by more rapid consumption,
hut by burning with a thinner and whiter flame. This
flame. which is beautifully bright, is obtained by a
double parallel wick, the points of which expand
uutwardly,
thus spreading the flame, and be the ad-
mission of cold air between the wicks, it causes a more
thorough combustion, and a total prevention of smoke,
without increasing the consumption of tallow ;in fine,
the cold air prevents it being so rapidly burned. The
fl,me resembles that of a bat-wing bunter, and, if we may
judge from those we have tried ourselves, is certainty
equ.ei to that of two ordinary candles. One other great
ILlvantage is that they are- less liahk to waste and go tet.
As the price is moderate, the comfort of shear use all be
enjoyed by every class of society. One of these, as also an
ordinary candle, may be seen burning at our office during
to-day.