The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-29 00:00:00

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It is stated that 10,000 tons of potatoes have been sent
from Wisbeach by railway only this season.
We are sorry to hear that Mr. Richard Comfier, "the
Factory King,' is dangerously ill.
The American steam-ship Washington would leave
New York on the 20th instant for Southampton.
Nottingham coals are advertised in London at 255. per
ton, and are said to be the best in that market.
SWANS ON ESTHWAITE LAKE.—A number of these
birds are, through private liberality, likely soon to orna-
ment this beautiful water.

Mr. Hawksley has been requested by the Earl of Lons-
dale to report on the practicability of obtaining a good
supply of water for Whitehaven.
On Monday night; Stephenson's biscuit manufactory at
Wapping, London, was destroyed by fire. The river,
for miles, was most brilliantly illuminated.
It it stated to be a fact that there are persons employed
in Christian England in casting idols for the Indian mar-
ket.

The destruction of farm property by fire is reviving in
the northern part of Essex. Five or six fires of this de-
scription have occurred in that district within a short
period.
A Dumfries paper mentions that a mouse's nest, con-
taining a litter of dead young ones, was lately found in
the interior of part of a bun, which had been placed in a
covered jar, by a jeweller of that town, some time before.
AUSTRALIAN WHEAT.—The vessel Harpley, arrived in
the docks from Launceston, Van Diemen's Land, has
brought 2,599 bags of wheat, the produce of that distant
colony.
At Colesford, Gloucestershire, John Ravenhill, farmer
and horse-doctor, has been committed for the man-
slaughter of James Fox, which he undertook to cure of a
bad leg.
The pro-papist and latudinarian government has recently,
caused each Roman Catholic soldier in her Majesty's ser-
vice to be supplied with a neat edition of the Douay muti-
lated Bible.

Mrs. Hills, wife of Mr. Hills, Dryburn-cottage, North-
umberland, died a few days since in consequence of having
taken a quantity of oxalic acid, which she kept for cleaning
bonnets, and which she mistook for Epsom salts.
On Wednesday. Mr. Wakley held an inquest on the
late Mr. " Romeo" Coates, who died on Monday from
injuries received by being thrown down by a cab. The
driver has not been discovered. The jury returned averdict
of " manslaughter" against some person unknown.
A " fin " whale, which measured 46 feet in length, and
25 feet in girth, and which was estimated to weigh four
tons, was found dead on Saturday week by some Kentish
fishermen, who towed it into Folkestone, where they sold
the carcase for the sum of £l4.

An Oxford correspondent of the Athenceum states that
he has succeeded in transferring drawings made on paper
with lithographic chalk to zinc pipes, which may be made
by means of the anastatic press, to produce impressions
that cannot be distinguished from lithographs.
THE GROWING WHEAT.-At Wakefield, Newton,
Stanley, Altofts, Normanton, Warmfield, Crofton, Meth-
ley, Castleford, Pontefract, and Yorkshire generally, the
growing wheat was never known to look better at this
time of the year, than it does at present.
- A love affair, which very nearly had a fatal termination,
has occasioned much gossip at Frampton-on-Severn, and
Newport, in Gloucestershire. The young lady threw her.
self into the Berkeley Canal, but was got out after sus-
taining a sad ducking.
Foxhunting seems to be declining in Leicestershire, for
the number of horses belonging to members of the Mel-
ton hunt now stabled in that town is only 204, or 70 less
than the number shown by an average for the last five
years.

The moveable feasts, namely, Easter and Whitsuntide,
this year happen almost as late as they can ever occur:
the one being on the 23d of April, and the other on the
10th of June, the first day of Lent being on the Bth of
March.

Six men were drowned in the Tyne on Tuesday. They
were workmen employed preparing the coffer dams and
erecting the gears for the high level bridge across the river
at Newcastle. They had only been engaged at the works
within half an hour of the accident.

the bachelors gave a very grand fancy-dress ball, at
the Assembly Rooms, at Cheltenham, on the 22d inst.,
which was attended by all the fashionables there and in
the neighbourhood. The most magnificent Circassian
costume ever introduced into this country, from Kizliars-
kaja, was worn by Mrs. Cox, of Harwood Hall, Essex.
At the dinner of the Royal Society of Musicians, on
Tuesday, the patriarch Braham contributed the once fa-
mous " Hearts of Oak " with prodigious vigour and
energy, although on the threshold of eighty years of age !
Nothing could exceed the enthusiasm with which the old
man was greeted on all sides.
On Sunday last, a notice appeared on the church door
of a rural village in•the northern corner of the county of
Leicester, informing the inhabitants that a vestry meeting
would be held on a certain day, for the purpose of appoint-
ing proper persons to collect the "asses" taxes for the
ensuing year.

THE TONGUE SOWN UP UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF
CHLOROFORM.—At Mill Bank, Ayton, a young boy who,
while falling from a tree, nearly severed his tongue in
two, refused to allow it to be stitched together. Dr.
Colvil applied chloroform, and, while the boy *as under
its influence, performed the operation.
AN IRISH MODE OF WARMING A PRISON.—It appears
from a statement recently made by the Rev. George Chet-
wade, one of the visiting justices of the Aylesbury county
gaol, that " the pipes for warming the reception cells of
the prisoners ran outside' instead of ` inside,' and that
therefore no warm air came into those cells at all."
THE RIOT AT EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY.—The trial
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supposed to be ringleaders of the late riots, was brought
to a conclusion on Friday. Two have been suspended
from their studies, or what is called " rusticated" for two
years, one for one year, and one for three months.
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TRANSMISSION OF BOOKS BY POST.—CAUTION.---We
understand that many book parcels have been charged as
letters in consequence of disregard by the public of the
regulations of:the treasury. The mistakes consist chiefly
of paying the postage in money instead of stamps, and of
printing on the envelope the name of the bookseller,
which, though allowed in newspapers, is forbidden as re-
gards books.
BELGIAN POTATOES.—A. vessel justanived in the Thames
from Antwerp has brought 103 tons weight in bulk of
potatoes, the produce of Belgium. No importation of
potatoes from Belgium to a similar extent has taken place
for a considerable time past. A steamer just arrived from
the same Belgian port has brought 400 sacks, and the
steamship Soho has also brought the large quantity of
751 bags and 4 casks of the vegetable, the produce of
Belgium.
SUICIDE ON A RAILWAY.—On Saturday week, Mr. R.
Oakly, florist, of Southampton, went to the Nine Elms
terminus of the South-Western Railway, and having
placed a paver parcel on the buffer of a waggon, deliber-
ately laid himself down on the rail, a short distance from
the coke ovens. A Richmond train coming up passed
over him, mutilating his body in a most dreadful manner.
Mr. Oakley was 25 years of age. An unsuccessful lawsuit
was, it is said, the cause of his suicide.
VOLUNTEERS.-A number of gentlemen in London have
resolved to form themselves into a regiment, to be termed
"The Queen's Own Volunteer Rifle Corps." The num-
ber at present proposed is six hundred, but probably it
will be materially increased after it is fully known to the
public. The uniform will be dark green, with black
braiding, bronze ornaments, and a light cap. A com-
manding officer has been appointed and approved of, and
the captains of companies and subalterns will be chosen
by the gentlemen forming the corps.
Last week, a number of Irishmen and their wives pre-
sented themselves at the Plymouth workhouse, and de-
manded relief, declaring that they were starving, and un-
able to obtain employment, although they were perfectly
willing to work. One of the guardians ordered them to be
immediately employed in carrying stones in the yard of
the workhouse ; and so well did this labour test operate,
that on the following day all these lazy and clamorous
paupers, who had hoped to be maintained in idleness, dis-
appeared. _

At an adjourned inquest, held on Tuesday, at the Mill-
bank Prison, on the body of Patrick M`Ginty, who was
sent from Glasgow gaol under sentence of transportation,
with a certificate from the gaol surgeon, that he was
strong enough to be removed, the jury found that
M`Ginty's death was accelerated by the journey, and re-
' turned a verdict of " manslaughter" against Gibson, the
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apprehension of Gibson, which he said would be obeyed
equally in Scotland 'as here.

TURNIP MEAL.—At an adjourned meeting of the Agri-
cultural Chemistry Association, held in Edinburgh yes-
terday week, Professor Johnson detailed the result of an
analysis of a new manufacture from turnips, invented by
Mr. Caird, of Baldron, Wigtonshire. The meal contained
22 per cent. of water (which may he reduced to 10 per
cent. by drying), 46 per cent. of impure sugar, 4 per cent.
of gum, 1 per cent. of oil or fat, 8 per cent. of fibre, 43,
per cent. of mineral matter or ash, and 13 per cent, of
protein compounds. By mixing the meal with linseed
whereby the protein compounds would be increased, its
nutritive qualities will be, it is said, as rich as those of
any description of grain, and it is expected that it will
form an excellent food for cattle.

SLEEP.—The poet Young says, " Sleep is great Nature's
second course—the balm of hurt minds.', Johnson says,
"It is the parenthesis of human woe." Sleep being thus
appreciated by mankind, how desiro e to be that
all should tranquilly enjoy " repose," the general
obstruction to which is t gan unhealthy action of the
liver or other viscera. little attention to the " young
disease," by hay' recourse to a mild aperient, often pro-
duces the salutary effect, and for such purpose
Frampt ' ill of Health stands prominent in public
opinion.

ATMOSPHERIC CHANGES.—Although changes in the
temperature are more prevalent in the temperate zone
than in other latitudes, there is scarcely a spot to be found
where such great differences exist as in Great Britain,
varying in a few hours some 29 de re. The ef-
fect of such rapid changes o odily health is very af-
flicting to many thous of persons, especially those in
the middle or mom,a6inced ages of life, causiug attacks
of those painfikl•Csorders, Sciatica, Gout, and Rheumat-
ism. Ha pjOK for those who are afflicted with those pain-
ful diseasrs, chemical science has produced that excellent
medicine, Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills.
SICK HEADACHES, BILE, AND INDIGESTION, CURED
BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—The innumerable proofs of the
efficacy of these invaluable pills in the cure of bile, sick
headaches, and indigestion, are so convincing, that every
person subject to these distressing complaints-should im-
mediately have recourse to them forrelief, for no medi-
cine has hitherto been disserfd that possesses such
powerful properties in cupeg the above named disorders.
It acts so peculiarly o'Ee system, that all the impurities
of the blood removed, and the patient becomes per-
manently. and invigorated. Holloway's pills are
m also on ible remedy for liver complaints, and ranks
in the highest atimatifax o general foray medicine.