The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-05-20 00:00:00

At the Central Criminal Court, on WednesdaY,v,CY
Lowe, in the employment of Messrs. Samuda, at BLanoi
wall, was tried for manslaughter, for having occasio,
the bursting of the steam-boiler on the late exPl°' re.
The jury found him not guilty ; and Baron Alderson
marked, that though the catastrophe was an awful 00
he believed it to be purely accidental.
MORTALITY IN THE COLONIES.—At a late mept- log
os
the Statistical Society, an interesting paper was reads.
the mortality of the army, in the course of which tif
lowing tabular result was given in regard to the 01,40
establishments :—" Annual mortality per 1,000;40
South Wales, 14.1 ; Cape of Good Hope, 15.51
aoady
Scotia and New Brunswick, 18; Malta, 18. E
(Upper and Lower), 20 ; Gibraltar, 22.1 ; lonian Isla
28.3 ; Mauritius, 30.5 ; Bermuda, 32,3 ; St. Helena,4 ;
Tennaserim Provinces, 50 ; Madras Presidency,•
Bombay Presidency, 55 ; Ceylon, 57.2 ; Bengal Presto;
cy, .65_; Windward and Leeward command, 85 ; Jam
143 ; Bahamas, 200 ; Sierra Leone, 483.
TAWELL'S CHILDREN.—At length there is a cert."
loti
that a provision has been made for the children of the
ceased culprit Tawell and Mary Hart. On ThursdaYolo
brotheruart, and
oncallsetdated
thatthe a will motherwl w
ofas
the
madem by murdered ered
him the
previous to his execution in which he bequeathed to tt.
children a life interest of £l5 a-year each ; but Mr. To
well added that the property out of which the beg;
was made is forfeited to the crown, and that it was neer&
sary to memorialise for a remission of the forfeitil.,t
when, no doubt, such remission in so far as this becioeiii
was involved, would be made by the crown. Mr. Tavi„ij
further stated that the widow of his late brother sc°"oia
make a provision for the children, if this property, ee
not be made available for their support, to that extent.
CIRCULATION OF PRIVATE AND JOINT-STOCK. BAI4
—The Bankers' Magazine gives the following as the trtb,
rage weekly circulation, for the four weeks ending the J,te,
12th, 19th, and 26th April, as published in the Gaz6ks,
viz. :—Private Banks, £4,681,211 ; Joint-stock 13:166,
£3,306,255 : total average for the month, .£7,98"' as
As compared with the circulation in March, there is of
increase of £386,708 ; but a comparison with that p,
April, 1844, shows a decreased circulation of £1,060,nb
On comparing the above returns for the past month vlbe
the total fixed issues, it appears that the following Islore
comparative state of the circulation, viz. :—The
cb
banks are below their fixed issue £329,886 ; joint-sq'
banks are below their fixed issue £171,066: total be°
the fixed issue, £500,952.
THE SMALL Pox AND VACCINATION.—The sn3
pox has lately been so prevalent in Norwich, that a c,?reoi
mittee of health was formed to devise means for cheal
the ravages
2,170 individuals—s ofthedisease.From their researches it 813;
pears, that, in 531 families (taken without selectioali
comprising
Not
Vaccinated. • 3-„
1 664 persons have had the small pox : of these 1536
84 1 425
";
506 „ escaped the disease altogether 4
„ died from its effects l4l

2170.. Total.
Only four of this large number died after vaccination!
One of these was a man 93 years of age ; the other tbree
were suffering from teething, or otherwise ill when °lf
cinated ; and were never properly under the influence
the cow pox ! ! t
THE DUTIES ON GLASS.—We have ascertained tba
ue
the green bottle trade has dealt perfectly fairly by ,6,
public. Immediately upon the repeal of the duties, ttte,it
reduced their prices from 425. per gross to 265., an
ll
the duty being )55., they gave their customers the '-
and instant benefit of its removal, and something more.
The duty on plate-glass was 2s. 101 d. a foot, or thereAi
abouts ; therefore every square foot ought to be solute;
2s. 101 d. below the price which it bore immediately
fore the sth of April. Up to that time 2s. Md. a I°-8
was paid to government by the maker ; after that tilt
the 2s. 101 d. was no longer paid. If £lOO was a c.ab,
price for a given quantity of sheet-glass three einn'ut
since, the honest charge for the same quantity now ong"
of glass to be £33 Gs. Bd. ; or, in another form, a square Aor
which formerly sold for Is. will produce to the yen. ,
the same rate of profit if now sold for 4d.—Gardeners
Chronicle. _ _

MR. D' ISRAELI'S NEW WORK " SYBIL ; OR, 14
Two NATIONS," has just appeared. The Morning
says, "If ' Coningsby' be the most brilliant of n''"
D'lsraeli's works, assuredly Sybil' is the most patrioded
and interesting. The Two Nations represent the divided
power of the state, capital and labour—the oppressor an
the oppressed. In Sybil' Mr. D'lsraeli presents to till
public eye—vividly but veraciously—the actual state ana
condition of the working classes of this country. He. 1411
bare the wide-spread social evils, the appalling neon--
grievances that have been created and entailed on re
country by a rule of successive factions. The work befq,"
us bears in every part the full impress of Mr. D'lsraeli
better genius; it is original, sparkling, eloquent, terse,
and passionate ; but it is free, or nearly so, from in
D'lsraeli's worse quality—individual bitterness; not
of
that there are lifelike portraits and personal sketches rr
public men, the originals of which may be easily guessed.
SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.—During the Thunder storfe_
on Saturday last, a remarkable circumstance occurred t`i
two sisters, daughters of a professional gentleman
Bristol. One of them was at a house in Bristol when th
lightning entered the drawing-room in which she was 6it;
ting, and struck her on the head, causing a lump to rtbt
upon it almost instantaneously, depriving her of the sigehe'
of the left eye for a considerable time, and drawing
mouth aside, as if she had been attacked by paralYrit
With the exception of a degree of numbness on tile le,
side, she has recovered from the effects of the
Her sister wai at a friend's house, about five miles 6°.-0
here, and, at nearly the same period at which the abett
occurrence took place, the lightning entered the room 10
which she and the family were at dinner;—the paper 11,0
torn from the walls, part of the skirting boards also teed
away, and a gun which was in the room (happily cbargl
with powder only) exploded ; but, providentially, none
the party sustained any personal injury.—BristolJourna
The meteorological table for the quarter, compiled fr°lll
the weekly tables furnished to the Registrar-General bit
Professor Airy, of Greenwich Observatory, show,
est
the mean height of the barometer was 29.788 ; the highest 4
point of the thermometer, 59.0 Fahrenheit; the low.
point, 8.8 (in February) ; the mean of the highest Pn'no
in each day, from six observations, 40.0 ; and the Oen,
of the lowest on each day, 30.9 ; being a difference of 9,..";
the mean of 72 observations was 35.4. The average it,,ge t
point (mean of 72 observations) was 31.7 ; the high 8,
point of the self-registering thermometer in the sun, t'u'b.,
and the lowest on the grass, 6 8 ; the mean of seven, the
servations being respectively—highest point 49.6, and
lowest point 23.8. The general action of the wind
in January, N.E., S.S.W., and S. ; in FebruarY,
N.N.W., and variable ; in March, N.E., N.N.E" 8-1
W.S.W. The average temperature in the months of
February and March was exceedingly low, whilst that of
January was tolerably high for the season, the loge
age°
r
point of the thermometer having been 29.8. The ave
amount of horizontal movement of the air was
miles ; mean amount of cloud (0-10,) 7.5, and the rlan"'
tity of rain, 4.80 inches.
THE IRON TRADE.—The reduction of 40s. per ton, arti;
nounced last week, has been general throughout the S° of
Staffordshire district. The present price is probably /title
higher than can be steadily maintained until some e` is
heavy orders for rails are cleared off. The speculatle'a a
pig iron in Liverpool which has existed has receive title
very serious check during the past week. Many nf, of
needy holders have pressed sales, and large parcels
Scotch pigs have been offer dat 755.' per ton. EarlYthe
March purchases were made at 110 s., and none of .0
makers would take orders under 120 s. The price of e
in this neighbourhood has not been subject to the s`',.es.
fluctuation. The above reduction was decidedly net id
sary to prevent a very awkward state of embarassmen" Of
several branches of trade. Moreover the feverish stat.eoo
the present year's market is expected to occasion the Ito
trade a permanent injury, in the fact that the Arneri.coe.
are now strenuously endeavouring to produce more Ira to
The produce of iron last year in the States arnount.e,icli
500,000 tons ; the estimate for the present year is
larger;
and in ten years it is calculated that the mo'nereat
reach a million of tons, unless the fall in prices in
the
Britain should be such as to render it cheaper for „le
Americans to purchase our produce than to manufaey"
for theinselves.—Wor
BAcester Journal.
LONDON PRIVATE NKERS.—The following is —,-eto n•
of the firms which attend the Clearing House in 'Loh
bard-street, with the number of partners in each et,
viz., Barclay, Bevan, Tritton, and Co., Lombard-strb-ill,
6 partners ; Barnard, Dimsdale, and Co., 50, Coro pa
4 partners ; Barnett, Beares, Barnett, Bradshaw, :its,
Co., Lombard-street, 6 partners ; Bosanquet, Fra 00,
and Whatman, 78, Lombard-street, 3 partnerS ; Brno;
Janson, and Co., London (Ahcburch-lane), 5 partlier
Curries and Co., 29, Cornhill, 5 partners ; Denison, era'
wood, Kennard, and Co., 4, Lombard-street, 4 pattAlyet
Fullers and Co., 65, Moorgate-street, 2 partners ; ,`"era;
Halifax, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street, 6 partyart'
Hanburv, Taylor, and Lloyd, 60, Lombard-street, 6,Pnest
ners ; Hankey, 7, Fenchurch -street, 4 partners; qui);
Lloyd, and Co., (Lothbury), London, 4 partners ; 0
bock, Forster, and Co., 11, Mansion-house-strent,;:rk
partners ; Martin, Stone, and Martins, 68, lOS:ster
street, 5 partners ; Masterman, Peters, Mildred, ivi"
man, and Co., 34 and 35, Nicholas-lane, Lombard-0;0d.
6 partners; Prescott, Grote, Ames, and Co., 62,11°100
needle-street, 4 partners ; Price, Marryat, and Co.,,ttirtiO,
William-street, London, 3 partners; Robarts,
and Co., 15, Lombard-street, 4 partners ; Rogers, v barn'
Sharpe, Boycott, and Co., 29, Clement's-lane, Lo°,, Col
street, 5 partners ; Sapte, Banbury, Muspratt, an ° Le
77, Lombard•street, 4 partners ; Smith, Payne' At.
Smith, 1, Lombard-street, 5 partners ; Spooner'wers,
wood, and Co., 27, Gracechurch-street, 2 par..tpete;
Stevenson, Salt, and Son, 20, Lombard-street, 3 Pa'.oo.'ol
Weston and Young, 6, Wellington-street, St. Sella- CgAd
Southwark, 2 partners ; Deacon, 9‘,0,, ,
Birchin-lane, 6 partners ; Willis, Percival, and tc'siiiioP,
Lombard-street, 6 partners ;—in all 26 firms► 01110 re;
112 partners. Of these, six firms have each' 6 P,,,A,;r 110,16
six have 5 partners each ; seven have 4 each ; 'rula tPa
3 each ; and 3 have two each. In the following tire 80,,
partners are all of one name, viz., Smith, Pall' 'Sal
Smith, 5 Smiths : Hankey, 4 Hankeys Stevensontopen.
and Co., 3 Salts ; and Fullers and Co., 2 Fullers.
cfistarli
the clearing firms carry on business at any great
g. the•° g
from the clearing-house, which forms a part 0. e filler
Post-office in Lombard-street. Twelve of the° side.;
are located in Lombard-street itself, and the regitispi'
in the streets surrounding. %Resides carrying n° on 11
in
sin
eLondon,ssin
Manchesteress r . Jon es
underLl
Lloyd, and Co. ; end Messrs. Brown, Janson, `,milli
carry on business at Leeds under the firm nt s bare
oeyfidr,m andof MC oe
s. ,srcsa.r.t.(r.:
returned all 118
the business is carried on. Three other firms unit otbetbe
theirrow n
p,
aarnt
nde
rCs oa.s
residentT h r Three banking kt
the
g ifihaffes,
etv
eats
bsecrus
two partners resident on the bank premises, soe t of •,r
i‘jos
have each a partner resident at the bank. easY the
other bankers reside in London, or within an i>ltance. Some reside at a considerable distance
country.