The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-12-02 00:00:00

A FRESH GEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY

Our geological philosophers have recently been making
strange discoveries. This world, according to them, is not
the world, of whose formation out of chaos Moses wrote,
but a much older world, out of the macadamised fragments
or " vestiges" of which that of the inspired writer must
have been formed. The latest discovery, as to its age,
has just been made by a Mr. James Heywood, of Man-
chester, who fixes the printmark noticed upon a certain
stone recently found at Tintwistle in Cheshire, as having
been impressed 500,000 years ago. or nearly 491,000
years before our own generally•received date of the year
of creation. It appears that at a quarry now wot king at
Tintwisle, in Cheshire, about a quarter of a mile from the
Hatfield station of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway,
a block of stone has been found, about eight feet in length,
containing three foot prints; but whether of a bird, an
animal, or a man, an assembly of :mans, recently held on
the spot, do not appear to have been able precisely to de-
termine. A Dr. Black, who read a paper on the subject,
conjectures that the marks must have been made when the
stone was "soft and pulpy;" but how it got so deep into
the quarry from which it was taken be does not specify.
The feet could not have been those of a bird he thinks ;
and were not those of human feet, not being oblique
enough to each other, though it was " well known that
savage tribes generally walked with their feet pretty
straight torward." He " could not assign the impressions,
it human, to any antediluvian age within the record of
Sacred History !" and he concluded by expressing a hope
that " the talented members of the society present
would be able to throw greater light on these phe-
nomena than he had been able to do." A num-
ber of other conflicting opinions were hazarded, in
the course of which Mr. Rhodes, the discoverer,
remarked that the marks had been greatly altered since
the stone was first seen, upwards of 3000 persons having
put their feet in them, by which admission, Mr. R. will
be pretty generally thought to have " put his foot" in his
discovery; and, ultimately, a want of ability to solve the
riddle was acknowledged, and the wonderful piece of
stone ordered by the meeting to be sent up to London, to
he referred to the Metropolitan Committee of Geologists.
Can the wholeaffair be anything like A ilie Ailsie's lang ladle,
which so puzzled Sir Walter Scott's Antiquary, and was
but a common horn spoon after all ?

" NO OATS IN ALL GLO'STER."

(From the Gloucester Chronicle.)

The last numbrr of the League contains the following :
—" A correspondent sends us the following letter, which
he received from Messrs. Sturge of Gloucester, arid to
which he adds the judicious comments contained in his
own letter :

' Gloucester 11 am., 12,

Mr. —, Cheltenham,—ln reply to thy favour we should
have been glad to have complied with thy request, but regret to
say we have no oats of any description by us at present for any
of our customers.—We are, very respectfully,
J. and C. STURGE. per T. M. STURGX.'
To the Editor of the League.
Cheltenham, Nov. 17, 1q45.

I send you a letter I have received from Messrs. Sturge,
cornfactors, of Glo'ster ; siuce which I have sent over my ser-
vant to Gl,,'ster, and the report is, there are no oats in all

Glo'ster.'"

A lone tirade against " the monopolists," of the most
approved " famine" class, follows.
At the very time that these letters appeared in the
League, no less than thirty corn-laden vessels (nearly all
of which had cargoes of oats) were lying in Gloucester
docks. So much for this clap-trap of these free-traders!
Ten of the forego•ng vessels, as may be seen from our
shipping returns, were consigned to the firm of J. and C.
Sturge. Mr. T. M. Sturges letter to his friend at Chel-
tenham is dated the 12th. The vessels, if we mistake
not, did not make very speedy voyages in consequence of
boisterous weather, and we cannot help thinking it some-
what odd, that Mr. Sturge should have had no advices by
post about these cargoes—that he should have written so
laconically. The letter might really have been got up
for the columns of the League.

We subjoin a paragraph from the Dublin Warder of
Nov. 22, from which it will be seen that an enormous
quarvity of corn (chiefly oats we believe.) was exported
from Ireland the week before last:—

"The laigest export of corn from the Irish ports to the Eng-
lish ma. kkt ever recorded took place last week, having exceeded
100,0 0 barrels of grain, of which 70,000 were from Limerick,
and other southern ports."

We may remind the reader that " oats are admitted at
this moment at a duty of only sixpence per bushel; and if
there were any scarcity of this important article, they
would soon b: admitted under the present law at a penny
or two-pence per bushel."

HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES
OF THE CHEST, CHELSEA, LONDON.

A meeting of governors and directors of this charity
took place at the Board-room, in the Chelsea Hospital,
Colonel Le Blanc in the chair. It was stated that the
new hospital fur consumption, now in the course of erec-
tion at Brotnpton, would be ready for the reception of
patients and the transmission of those from the present
establishment at Chelsea, about Midsummer next, when
it was the intention of the committee of management to
hold a second fancy fair and bazaar, similar to that held
last year, in honor of his itoyal Highness Prince Albert
laying the foundation stone of the new hospital. The
interior arrangements having, after mature deliberation,
been adopted by the menical officers, and approved of by
gentlemen of experience in such matters; it is expected
that the new hospital will offer facilities for treating con-
sumption, which no other institution possesses. The
warning am! ventilation will be on the most approved
principles, with arrangements for the application of tem-
perature of various degrees, so as to approximate that of
different climates, and with means for the impregnation
of the atmosphere of particular apartments with various
gases; vapours, &C.
The following statement will show the magnitude of
the evil which this institution was formed to remedy. Of
the 60,0(X) deaths which occur every year in Eugland and
Wales from slow- and lingering
diseases, about 36909 are
probably due to Pulmonary Consumption. One-ninth,
thetelore, of the total mortality at all ages, and more than
and as the duration of the disease, taking one raze with
one-tilth of the miltality of adults is due to this cause;
another, is about two years, it follows that about ;Two
persons are constantly suffering from consumption, being
at the rate of four persons in every thousand of all ages,
and eight in every thousand adults.

Again, of the.4s• ,000 deaths occurring every year in the
metropolis, about 5,600, or one-eighth of the to!al mortality
of the metropolis at all ages, and little less than one-fifth
of the mortality of adults, arises from this fatal disease:
and upwards of 11,000 persons, being about One in 170 of
the entire populotion ol: the metropolis, and more than one
per cent, of the adults, are constantly wasting away under
the attacks of this lingering malady,
Of these 10,000 cases, about three-fourths occur in
males, of whom a large proportion are working men, un-
able to provide fur themselves and families,sptematically
excluded from our general hospitals, and uniting in their
own persons every conceivable claim to sympathy arid
assistance. . _

the following liberal donations were announced : from
the Misses Champion, £5O, the Misses Carbonell, 60 gui-
neas, Edward Nuirne, Esq £3l 10s., an anonyrni,us con-
tributor signing himself" A Pharisee," forwarded £lOO,
The Hon. Colonel G. Upton, the stun of 100 guineas, as
reported in the London daily press of the 18th and 19t1;
instant,