The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-26 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

Mr. Scott has contradicted the report of his intention
to resign the representation of Walsall.
The ship Isabella, of Leith, was wrecked on Fluider's
Island, Bass's Straits, on the 22nd June. Crew saved.
The hands at Stockport have returned to work, at an
advance of five per cent. on their wages. _

The Glasgow Herald mentions a lame beggar, horribly
distorted, who maintained his father, mother, brothers,
and &eters in idleness. His receipts averaged 10s. a day.
EARL OF DYSART.—The consistory court have granted
the prayer of this eccentric nobleman for a restitution of
conjugal rights.
On Friday evening six sheep, which had strayed upon
the Hull and Selby Railway, were run over by the mail
train, and killed upon the spot.
Ou Sunday week K. H. Hoppner, Esq. many years
since a judge in Bengal, and lately resident in Bath, com-
mitted suicide by cutting his throat with a razor.
On the 7th instant, a boat was upset in Kirkwall Bay,
Scotland, and nice persons who were in it met a watery

grave.
The borough fund of the City of York is enriched £3OO
by the refusal of the three members of the Council first
elected to serve the office of Mayor. •

O❑ Saturday week, and again on Monday night week,
an extra Gazelle was published, consisting together of
fifty-six sheets, containing almost exclusively notices con-
cerning railway and other private bills.
Mr. Locke, the eminent engineer, has received from
the King of the French a magnificent diamond ring. for
his attention to his Majesty on the South-Western Rail-
way.

There are now residing near flubbertstone, Pembroke-
shire, a brother and sister. Henry and Margaret Banner,
of the respective ,ges. of 97 and 101, the latter of whom
can read well without the use of glasses.

THE MINISTRY AND THE EAST INDIA COMPANY.—
A London contemporary announces that ministers medi-
tate a complete change in the Government of India, by
introducing a measure next session tantimount to the ex-
tinction of the political power of the Court of Directors.

FIRES IN LONDON.—No fewer than 800 fires have oc-
curred in the present year in London, but they have not
been of so extensive a character as in former years. The
number of lives lost, however, is, we regret to say. much
greater than the average.

No FOG IN WALES.—A. Welshman has almost as little
idea of a fog as a Japanese or torrid-zone man has of ice.
While London has been enveloped in fog we have had a
clear blue sky, a bright sun, and weattier such as would
convert the coldest utilitarian into a worshipper of naeure,
amidst the scenery of South Wales.— Welshman.

MORTALITY IN LONDON.—The total number of deaths
in the metropolis during the week ending last Saturday
was 1,072, showing a considerable increase of mortality
probably caused by the unseasonable state of the last ten
days. The weekly average for the last five years has
been 946.

IMPORTS.—The steamer from Rotterdana has this week
brought 100 quarters of garden beans for seed, 940 bushels
of onions, with several sheep, swan geese and wild ducks.
Considerable imports of French apples have also been
made this week, principally from Ostend and Dunkirk.—
Hull Packet.

On Monday week the sloop Ranger, of about 80 tons
burden, belonging to Goole, and laden with potatoes, came
in contact with a collier brig in the river, below Graves-
end. The sluop sunk almost immediately, and carried
with her the master, who perished. The rest of the crew
were saved.

On the 11th inst. two men, carriers, were returning
from Pocklington to Leeds, with three carts laden with
passengers, when they commenced racing, and one of the
carts, with seventeen persons in, was overturned, and
two women, one of them the wife of the driver, were
killed. The men have been committed to York castle on

TbOondyMofonidraymaansoinn est
a charge of manslaughter.
for-
merly a merchant in very good circumstances, who died
solely from want, which he chose rather •to endure than
was AFFECTINGhe
lheld
at
Camberwell,Occyn. n
go into the workhouse. His
.daughte.r appeared at the
inquest and gave a heart-rending detail of the privations
which they had endured. ,
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SIMPLE MODE OF PURIFYING WATER.--It is not
generally known that pounded alum possesses the pro-
perty of purifying water. A table-spoonful of pulverised
impurepope
alum, sprinkled into a hogshead of water, the water
found
finest spring water. A
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stirred at the time, will, after, lapsethdheeto s
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THE:FRUITS OF THE EARTH.—Fine strawberries,:7
perfect growth and flavor, were gathered on MondaY wet
in East-street, and ripe raspberries appear in various
grounds in this vicinity. Potatoes of the best quality are
selling in this town and neighbourhood from 3s. to 3s. 6d.
per bag of eight score (1601bs.)—Taunton Courier.
nulmNbseArNoefTiYnmAahtfeOsN inG
thQeuRA
Retreat of
pared with the total number of Friends in England ear!
Scotland; the proportion of insane is somewhat
than 3 in 1,000. This is a much larger portion than
prevails among the rest of the community.
labour sugar whatever has been entered since the net:l
came into operation on the 10th instant ; but if ther
THE SUGAR DUTIES.—We cannot learn that any free'
been any, it has been quite insignificant in quantity,
the
its effects have been much more than counteracted by id!.
news of the destruction of the sugar in Cuba in the reed'
hurricane. .11atteaypepaerasr,sthfraotni, come,
INSTINCT OF RATS.—An old man named Turner, _ea
on Cotton's Common, while gripping last week in a Pl‘`::
of land in Bardelph parish, cut into a rat's cave, where
el
discovered two pecks and a half of beans carefully !Wand
up. They had been carried, no:doubt, one by one' 8/%1,
hoared up for the winter. He took his prize home for
e somey nso nth,
his pig.—Starnford Mercury.
_sdhooorrt
ot if mme
Mr. Stevenson,
shop-door
Bristol, and then deliberately dashed in a pane e` it.
window, and grasped 28 gold wedding rings. Mr. S. w„A
nessed the felony, and succeeded in snatching two grt
watches which hung near the rings from their reach
ipevaewsntbierodktehre, handlecoiiee
.os fet
retet :tee,
being unable to get the door open for some time, ,but
escaped with their booty.
SUICIDE FROM DISAPPOINTED AFFECTION.---
An
quest was held at Brompton, on the body of a soldier r
the 11th Regiment, who had shot himself while on ;
in his sentry-box, in Chatham Dockyard. The ditga
ee,
of a girl whom the deceased bad desired to marry s
that on the morning he committed the dreadful doe
she had told him it was no use his seeking her delight:lr:
for that she was about to be married to another mos
The deceased, she said, shed tears. She told him it
of no use his fretting—she thought nothing about hire'
THE BRAIN.—At the inquest held on MondaY
upon a person who survived for three dais a dreadful Id'
jury of the brain, Mr. Wakley said that a short time ehgat
a man was struck on the head with a pickaxe, and, tbee,
although his brains escaped from the wound and ce
smeared his hand, he was able to run without assisstab
to the Lendon Hospital. Upon arriving at the Hose
he was asked how he felt, *lien he replied that her,
much better since he lost his brains. Mr. 'Wakley it;
ther said that it was almost incredible how long Petae
survived injuries of the brain.
A Dissenter lately insured in a London fire-office,Ba!
had the misfortune to be burnt out. In the policy of !"..
surance was a clause, that the minister and churcbee''
dens of the parish shall certify or declare that the firedS
happened by a simple accident. Being a Dissenter, IL
opposed to church rates, and because the minister Wei
does not know whether the fire took place by accident ,are
design, the minister and churchwardens refuse to rdel
the declaration. Counsel have been consulted upon 01'
clause, and it is said to be fatal to the goodness of the
claim. A ~est
FATAL ACCIDENT AT KINGSTON RUSSELL.—n
distressing accident happened at Kingston Russell oe
Friday, the Bth inst. Mr. and Mrs. .1. Homer, of oeri
tinstown, had been spending that day with a Par get
friends and relations, at the house of Mr. Sansotn+.;
Kingston Russell. On departing about 11 at night
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their four-wheel carriage, the night being dark, ehti"e'
after leaving the house, the horse went too near the had,'
and the vehicle was overturned, the splashing-beard stras
ing Mrs. Homer's chest, and, melancholy to relate, id ;
few moments she breathed her last. Mr. Homer escall
uninjured. The deceased lady was in the prime of
and has left a family of young children.—Shereeree
Journal.
MURDER.—On Tuesday. night last, a very shockio
murder was committed at Yarmouth, Norfolk upon tbet
body of Harriet Candler, a poor widow woman, who kePe
a small chandler's shop there, last Saturday, the decea9e
had received £l5O as a portion of her husband's moth!!
and uncle's property, and having no present use for ni
she had probably told her neighbours that she should Put
it under her bed till her son came home. This seems' to
have excited the cupidity of the murderer, for early I
Tuesda night, the doer of her room was found open,ed
shoe herself lying down by the side of the till, literallf
deluged in blood, her scull having five wounds upon it'
A knife, covered with blood, lay by her, but the surged°
thought the fatal wound had been inflicted by a " elee„.te
cutter," used in her trade. The money was gone ire—
under the bed, and also the till money.
COSTLY VIOLINS.—A sale has been concluded at Cre-
morne House, Chelsea. of a variety of articles made us
of at t, e different public entertainments offered there by
the Baron de Berenger. Among the lots offered were two
violins, one made by Maximilian Zacher, in the year 1752'
and the other by Jacobus Stainer, in 1650. The
tioneer stated that there were many instances of violins uY,
these unrivalled masters producing considerable sum'
is:
and he alluded to the singular terms of sale of one t
Count Trantmansdorf, Master of the Horse to Charles
VI., who, after paying down a large sum of money, agree
to.pay a certain number of dollars till his death, which,,
with other gifts, amounted to between 8000 and 9000 doe'
lars, or about £6OO. The same violin is now in the Pos-
session of an eminent musician. The Stainer violin was
sold for 55 guineas, the first offer being 25 guineas. Oa
La, her violin was knocked down for 30 guineas.
THE PLEASURES OF HANGING.—At an inquest on the
body of a person who had committed suicide the other
day, Mr. Wakley, the coroner, observed it was extraor-
dinary how pleasing the effects of hang'ng were. That
was apparent from the fact, that of all the persons who
committed suicide by hanging, the majority were found
either in a sitting posture or with their feet or kneeS
touching the ground. In one instance a young lady, who
was watched by two females, one at either side of her bed,
strangled herself with the strings of her night-clress,with-
out their knowledge. On another occasion a man hung
himself while stretched upon his face, with his nose al-
most touching the ground. A short time since he lit
an inquest at Balls Pond upon a man who having
be
himself up, the cord broke before he was dead, and .
survived the attempt thirty-five hours. He stated tea"
he had enjoyed the most pleasing sensations while
pended. Persons who committed suicide by hanging,
went off in a sleep and died without pain. He did noe
who%speak of malefactors hanged at the Old Bailey,
necks were broken, but of those who, like the decease'.
hung themselves without subjecting their bodies to a jell'
In the latter case neither was the neck broken nor wee,
the windpipe closed, but a congestion of the brain ensued'
which caused death.
SINGULAR INCIDENT.—Between two and three etb S
ago we announced that an infant female child had beehe
found covered up in a basket amongst the goods at t
railway station at Ayr. It was ascertained that the Par;
col had been handed in to the booking-office at Glasil
tbe
on the preceding day—had been carried down on
goods- truck, and locked up all night in one of the en,
houses at the station, when the attention of the Pdrtele
was only directed to it by some faint cries issuing frl3ng
the basket, while they were turning over and arrangle;
bales and boxes for delivery. That the life of one le
young and tender—for the infant was believed to be Ori;
a fortnight old—could have been sustained under edee
trying circumstances is not a little remarkable ; but te,
forsaken " wee lassie" was immediately put to a lit'et:
she has thriven apace, and is now a healthy and inter's, e
ing child. For long the authorities were in search of te
'.‘
mother who could send h r child on such a, perilous Pliey
ney, and we learn that, within these last few days, ter,
have succeeded in tracing her out, and apprehending h`
She was brought to Glasgow from her father's residencej
who is a respectable small farmer in the neigebourbele
nte dA boiler,s Association, iwa thi
(nth, Ms €
ern.
era,' it_rpi
of Ayr; and has since been committed for trial.
child is illegitimate, of course, and the girl, we belie la'
states that her intention was to send it to her father 1
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The
two internal flues, about 2 feet 6 inches diameter e
simple construction, of the cylindrical form, and conteided,
extent tl
ing the whole length of the boiler. Each flue conteinedee
separate furnace, which, surrounded in every direction it
water, formed ready absorbents for the radiant heat, 'le,
passed off from the fire. On this plan the gasses fretiit
both fires were carried forward through the whole lelig.e
of the flues to the opposite end, where they unite, '
e.
Where a new and additional process of combustion t3"„er
place. From the description thus given, it would itPli'ee
that the operations of the double flues were useful intact
fecting the ignition of the gasses as they came in cood
respectively from each furnace. The otiginal intentionot
the double flues and fires was not to lessen the smoke' elle
to enlarge the steam span, and prevent whet is teclelleer
called priming in the boiler; it, however, exhibited P7or,
liar properties, and by a simple process of firing the `fect
paces alternately, the whole phenomena of nearly Petit is
combustion is accomplished. To effect these objeels;ety
only necessary to charge the furnaces alternately e'ene
half hour, and it will be found that during the tieee ;0-11
fire is replenished with fuel, the other is making gae.'ct 9
the currents from the clear burning fire passing on -ced
higher temperature than the carbonaceous matter evd,'eye
in the newly charged furnace, the prod ucts arc ignited
°ko
moment they come in contact, and the nuisance of erd°
by these simple means prevented.
RECEIPT STAMPS.—IMPORTANT SUGGESTION. ;0
the city article of the London Times of ThuredaY+ to
remarked that " the subject of the stamp on receiPi
one which engages some attention among the trading eet
terest, and a suggestion has been made by an intelligoe
member of that interest, following the principle dt.
„se
universal penny postage, to tax all receipts for sums duecl
£5 at Id. only, and make it compulsory to give stet 9
receipts in all cases, which he thinks would Prdu".,,eot
revenue of £1,000,000, while the tax yields at the ere.; to
time a sum less than £200,000." The writer geese°i-die
say that the respectable party alluded to proposes roafee,
paper to be used shall be issued, stamped, as heretaoef
by the Government, which is to print on the samen ac'
a form of receipt ; besides which, he would allow a' arer
knowledgments of the receipt of money written on PO
which bears the Post-office stamp, as evidence of r",• is.
through the Post-office, to be considered legal recelet,
All other paper to be used as invoices, accounts-our'ese.
&c., to be found by persons requiring it, and to benro,
sented for stamping at the Stamp-office. Ile Preenr
also, that all banker's checks should have the 11601
stamp attached to them, which will make then' 'uief
vouchers, instead of being tire means commonly tri
col'
as they now are, of evading the tax altogether. Tile. be
culation of the amount to be raised is admitted Ible,
startling, but it is added that it appears at least Pose et
and the plan would induce better habits of busines,
taking vouchers for all payments, a practice which '-et
prevent litigation and disputes. It would also Preleo
country bankers from evading the provisions of the 'll.,
Bank Act, which is of daily occurrence in various War