The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-03-04 00:00:00

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DREADFUL SUICIDE AT CHAP.ING-CROSS HOSPITAL
On Sunday afternoon a man named Samuel Bridge

patient in the above hospital, committed suicide, by

cipitating himself from the third floor window. - -
New STEAM-CARRIAGE FOR COMMON ROADS.—In

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the greatest facility, under the most pei feet control eithei
in backing, or turning to the right and left, or when in
advance. Two cabriolets containing some friends of Mr.
Verpilleux, as was afterwards a heavy cart of coals, were
attached, which it drew easily. It weighs 2 tons, is four
horse-power, runs on three wheels, and its usual speed 10
miles an hour. It bad come from Rue de Gier to St.

Etienne over a very bad road, but did not suffer in the
least. Another of 12 horse-power, is being constructed :
it will draw four loaded coal-waggons, and weighs 12,000
kilos. it is intended shortly to employ this kind of loco-
motion for the coal traffic of Bessege to the Rhone, and
from Firminy to the Lyons Railway. Its consumption
of coke is said to be very small.
Dost Sake Dean Mahomed died at Brighton, on the
24th ultimo, at the extraordinary age of 102 years,

having enjoyed uninterrupted good he
all his faculties unimpaired almost to the last hour of hi:
life—indeed, entirely so until the death of his wife, twc
months ago, since which he gradually drooped, and disc]
without any apparent physical cause. This remarkabh

kith, and ret

person, so well Known to, and estcemea as w
patronised by, the leading members of the aristocr

both the pad and present-generation, was born at Patna,
the capital of Bahar, in Hindoostanee, in the year 1749.
In early life he held a commission in a native regiment o
the Hon. East India Company's service, and served unde
General Popham, at the storming of Gwalior, in the year
1780. He was also present at the battle of Rawnuggar,
and five other engagements in the same year. Having
realised a fortune in India, he came to England in the
year 1784, with a letter of introduction from Warren
Hastings to William Pitt, by whom he was presented' to
George 111. Shortly after his arrival in England he sud-
denly lost all he was worth by the failure of a banking
establishment in Calcutta. In this extremity he first in-
troduced the system of shampooing and vapour baths as a
curative mode of treatment.
CONCOCTION AND TRANSMISSION OF THE QUEEN'S
SPEECH.—Everybody knows that the " Queen's Speech"
does not deserve its name. It is not the Queen's ; nor is
it a speech ;—it is a document. The first minister

subsequent cabinet counci

s reduce i

. . .
and it is then submitted to her Majesty. When returned
with her approval, the speech is divulged (at a ministerial
dinner) to the non-cabinet members of the administra-
tion. Thus the mere topics of the manifesto ooze out at
_ _ _ _

the clubs the night befiire the Speech is spoken. But it
is the actual text which the public is eager for ; and, that
no time may be lost, emissaries from the London evening
papers appear at the Treasury about the time her Majesty
is preparing her toilette at Buckingham Palace for the
ceremony. The moment the first gun announces that the
procession is in motion, the evening paper envoys are
obliged with copies of the document; and before the
Queen has done speaking in the house her words are in
type. Formerly the gentlemen of the press were lcckcd
in a room in the Treasury till the cortege was on its way
back. Some time ago an escape was made from this offi-
cial durance, which caused some amusement. The editor
of the government paper in Dublin was most anxious to
start for Liverpool by one o'clock, to catch the packet for
Dublin. The Speech was handed some time before that

hour, and the key was turned as usual. Presently, how.
ever, the clerks and messengers were alarmed by frantic
cries of " Fire !" They opened the door—the room was

his escape, leaving the frightened clerks to extinguish the
harmless sheet of brown paper he had intentionally igni.
ted. We, of the present day, improve on the Irish edi-
tor's plan. His was a fire escape ' • ours are lightning con-
ductors. It is at such a time as this that the wonders of
the electric telegraph become startlingly apparent. The

city of Edinburgh is about 400 miles from Buckingham
Palace. While the state procession is wending its slow
way back from Westminster the wires are charged, and—
marvellous fact !—at the same moment that her Majesty
is alighting at the steps of the Marble Hall, several of her
lieges in the Scottish capital are beginning to read her
Speech, which has taken no more than fifteen minutes to
transmit. She dines at Windsor, and before the banquet
is over, the text, verbatim et literatim, of what she had
uttered at a quarter past two has reached Dublin. Before
the Royal family has retired to rest the Speech is in every
nrineintil town in the kingdom. In these cases there had

been no anticipation, for the Speech was read off at the
London Telegraph Station from the evening papers.—
Diekeit's " Household Words." _

Rousseau was remarkably trite in conversation—
not a word of fancy or eloquence warmed him. Milton
was unsocial, and even irritable. Addison and Moliere
were only observers in society ; and Dryden has very
honestly told us, " My conversation is dull and slow, my

humour saturnine and reserved; In snort, I .to 11UL one or
those who endeavo ir to shine in company, or make re-

partees.”
IVA. CERTIFIED CURE OF SCROFULA BY HOLLOWAY'S
OINTAIENT AND PILLS.--The following certificate from
Mr. Thomas Alcorn, of Jerry's Plain, New South Wales,
was forwarded to Professor Hollowaybilli:Triiikney,
chemist, of the same place. Jae. 1-1849—" This is to
certify, that my daughter, age . ven years, was afflicted
with scrofula for three yea , and that, after she had been
attended by several res able medical practitioners with-
cut success, I was Fed to try Itilloway's Ointment
and Pills, whi cmedies in about three months cona-
n'etely enr e.r, and she is now in the best of health.
This can e verified by numerous persona in this vicinity,
TfUerel have resided for 22 years. (Signed) R. Alcorn.