The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-19 00:00:00

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bags of wheat has taken place from Bombay.
A Glasgow inventor has obtained a patent fora machir
for cutting hides or leather into thongs, in such a maxim
that each hide may be converted into one continuous strii
Mr. J. Williams, M. P. for Macclesfield, has give
£5OO towards supplying baths and wash-houses for tl
poor of that town.
A female died a few days ago
field. The place in which she I
a cesspool

of cholera, at lludders-
ved was little better than

A fishing boat, belonging to Portskerra, in Sutherland-
shire, was lost in a storm, on Tuesday week, and the eight
men who formed her crew were all drowned.
The electric light has egain been exhibited by Mr.
Staite in London upon several occasions. A company is
in formation for introducing the light into general use.
As Mr. Wood, of Clayton-in-the-Clay, was on his way
to Barnsley in a gig, to record his vote in favour of Mr.
Denison. on Wednesday last, he had a fit and expired.
Mr. Wood was between 70 and 80 years of age.
Ayrshire was visited by a severe hail and thunder storm
on Saturday last. A flock of crows sitting on a hedge
were struck by the electric fluid, and sixty-to of them
were killed.

Sir E. K. Kerrison, says the Suffolk Chronicle, has
this week sent to a friend in Eye a hare, a brace of
pheasants, and a leash of birds, all packed within a turnip,
which measures fifty-one inches in circumference.
The news from Dumfries is sad indeed.
Chrighton, one or two of the medical gentlemen,
many of the principal inhabitants, have fallen by cholera
spasmodica, in addition to others already reported.
The report that Sir Charles Napier's squadron has been
ordered to Tangier to call to account the Emperor of Mo-
rocco for the numerous acts of piracy DerpPtrated by hip
subjects has been contradicted.

Provost
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The infant child of two " latter-day saints " recently
died of an abscess at Northampton, through the obstinate
fanaticism of its parents, who refused to obtain medical
attendance for their infant, on the ground that human aid
in cases of sickness is not only useless but sinful.

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A few days since, a labourer, who was working in a
field at Adwalton, Yorkshire, was gladdened by finding a
purse containing 388 sixpences ; but upon a closer exami-
nation of his treasure, his joy was damped by the dis-
covery that all the coins were base.

On Sunday morning week an affray took place in Kent
between some poachers and keepers, when one of the for-
mer, in the act of striking a keeper with his gun, was
killed through its breaking and exploding. The contents
entered the poacher's body, and he fell lifeless.

The Droftwitch salt trade is at present in a state of
great activity. The stock on hand three months ago of
manufactured salt was about ten thousand tons, the whole
of which has been cleared off, and all the works are em-
ployed in production to the full extent of their power.
While an old gentleman named Nottage was at meeting
on Surclay morning last, at Saffron Walden, in Essex,
some impudent thieves entered his house and stole £l7O.
On retiring with their booty, they had the assurance to
write in chalk, on the door, "Watch while you pray."
The floods in the Trent have lately been so strong that
the low lands bordering on the river have been over-
flowed in many places ; and on Sunday a sloop laden with
coal was sunk by the rising of the waters, which drowned
a boy who was in his berth on board.

In a Darlington lodging-house there is one room con-
taining nine beds. The charge per bed is threepence,
whether it be occupied by one or two persons, or the
lodgers sleep "as thick as three in a bed." One man
pays threepence ; two pay three-halfpence, and three pay
a penny each !

The tide rose to such a height in the Thames on Tues-
day afternoon, that the Essex, Woolwich, Wandsworth,
and Battersea marshes were covered with water; and se-
veral streets in Lambeth were so deeply flooded, that it
was necessary to use boats to ferry the inhabitants to and
from their dwellings.
Mr. William Underwood, farmer and grazier, of Lut-
terworth, was attacked in his own field the other day by a
large ram of the Wiltshire breed, which knocked him
down repeatedly—though he broke a gun with beating it
about the head—and would probably have killed him, had
he not contrived to blindfold the animal with his hand-
kerchief.

On Friday night a quarrel took place among a company
drinking in an inn at Badminton, and a fight ensued be-
tween Elijah Robbs, a carpenter, and James Watts, an as-
sistant in the stable yard. Subsequently Watts was found
dead in the yard, having received two mortal stabs on the
left side, near the heart. Hobbs has been committed to
gaol for the murder.
A Dumfries paper mentions that, on Wednesday week,
four workmen employed in blasting rock in the Drum-
lanrig railway tunnel, applied matches to four holes filled
with gunpowder, and retreated to a place of safety, where
they remained until they beard an explosion. They then
returned, but one of the " bores," which had not taken
fire with the others, suddenly exploded, mortally wounded
one of them, and severely injured the other three.
A Shrewsbury paper states that on Friday week, a ser-
vant girl, who was cleaning some kitchen utensils that
hung over the chimney-piece in her master's kitchen,
near St. Briavels, accidentally knocked a flask of gun-
powder from the peg on which it was suspended. The
flask fell into, the fire, and while she was attempting to
snatch it from the flames the powder exploded, and so
severely scorched her face and arms as to disfigure her for
life, although she was not dangerously injured.
On Friday morning a daring burglary took place at a
farm-house, called Winfield, about seven miles from Bir-
mingham, when several men entered, and used great vio-
lence towards Mr. Thomas Sly, an old man seventy-eight
years of age, and his housekeeper, the only inhabitants,
to compel them to be quiet. Having broken open one or
two chests, they at last found the object of their search, a
bag with five hundred sovereigns in it, the old man's
hoardings, and made off with it. They have not since
been heard of.
BIBLE BURNING.—The Roman Catholics of Birming-
ham have published an acknowledgment of this act, as
follows :—" We, the Catholic clergy of Birmingham,
having seen it stated in a letter from the Rev. Joshua
Greaves, that one of our body had burnt a copy of the
Protestant version of the New Testament, found in the
house of a Catholic, have no hesitation at once to admit
the fact; but wish at the same time to add, that the act
was regretted afterwards by the clergyman by whom it
was done, and strongly disapproved of by his brother
clergy, as soon as known "—&e.
HANSARD'S PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES.—Mr. Pen-
nigton, in his auction mart, on Saturday evening, offered
for sale Ilaward's Debates, but no person seemed inclined
to purchase them. " Gentlemen," said he, " I'll sell
them to you as a horse was sold the other day in England
by the pound." The offer was accepted, and the debates
were knocked down at lid. per pound. " What will they
weigh, do you think ?" said the fortunate purchaser to
the auctioneer. The reply, which created considerable
merriment was—" One ton and a half, about £l5 will pay
for them !"

The late Mr. Youatt, in one of his orations to th
members of the Veterinary College, observes—" That by
the improvements in modern chemistry, the medical pro-
fssion sue enabled successfully to treat diseases which
were previously supposed as not within the reach of medi-
cine." This truth has been manifested for many years,
but in no instance of greater importance to mankind than
by the discovery of Blair's Gout and Rheumatic rill&