The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-31 00:00:00

Sales
This Day

,6 RAILWAYS
23 Barnil. y Junction
5 Birkenhead, M 'et/ester& Chester..
;10 3iniungiiam and Gloucester .... 100 101
25 Ditto quarter
5 Blackburn and Preston
4 Bolton, Wigan and Liverpool
;Bristol and Exeter
3r I Bristol and Gloucester
5 Caledonian
50 !Chester and .lirkenhead
I'S '
9 Ditto new s .hares
5 Ditto half
5 'Chester and Holyhead
1 Chester and V% rexham
t.,3 Dublin and Belfast
Dublin and Cashel
63 'Dublin and Drogheda..-
23 Dundee and Perth
25 !-a.steru Counties
53s 4d ! Perpetual
13s 4d ; Perpetual, No. 2
50 ; tdinnuielr and Gla..gow
123 Ditto quarter
20 (Edinburgh, Lcith and Granton
5 I Ditto, preference-shares
1} ,Glasgow and Dumb ies ......
25 (i as..ow, Paisley, & Gree.tiock
123 Ditto half sli res
13 Ditto preference
Gnisgow and Ayr
193 Ditto quarter shares
100 ,t an., junetion
59 Da,. slatre.i
123 Quarter
23 One.eighth
100 ,;rent North of England
75 :rcat Western „
50 Ditto Half Shams ...
4 Ditto Fifth Shares
Si) Hull and Selby
1,, Ditto quarter
10 Lanca,ter and Carlisle
473 ...aneaster and Preston
19 Ditto three-quarter shares
100 ..iverponl anti Mo.nelics(ei
50 Ditto half shares
I Ditto new
23 Liverpool, Orn,skirk & P. cat 'n
100 London and nirmire4hurn.
2 Ditto £32 shares 3)3
2 Ditto quarter shares
45 k•ondeit a ltright••ll
124 Ditto Loan Notes
50 1,,011d011 and Stmt.!' Western
6 Ditto new shares
23 'London and. York
5 !Leeds and Bradford
40 ' %lane:Jester and Burning-Ilan- .522
2 Ditto quarter... .. •
23 Manchester, Bolton & Rossendale 83 1
93 •danche,der, Bolton, Bury
70 fklaneliestei and Leeds
3D Ditto half shares
2 I Ditto quarter shales .„
100. vlidland Counties
2 I I.sth Shares
13 geweasi le and Berwick
100 Newcastle and Carlisle
21 'ewcastle and Darlington June.
5 ,North British
100 -
IN Union (A.)
Ditto (B.)
50 Preston and Wyre
100 Runcorn Gap
100 Ditto preference .
1} Sheffield and Lincoln
823 Sheffield and Manchester
8 Quarter
23 Scottish Central
5 Shrewsbury and Grand Junction. 52
50 South Eastern and Dover 4,2 41
New shares
2 Trent Valley
293 Ulster
20 Yarmouth and Nerwich
50 i fork and Ncrth Midland
25 Ditto 11.11 Shares
10 Ditto, (Scarborough)
York and Selby .tso shares
Ditto .t'2s shares

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-1124 1131

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14

. 373

1-.1 4i

5:3 522

FRENCH, &e. RAILWAYS
11,u one end Amiens .
Central of France
Lyons and Avignon . •
Or.eans and Bourdeaux
Paris and Lyons
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rouen
Paris and Strausburgli
Rouen and Havre ...
Strashurgh and Basle.
SanThre and Meuse
Tours and Nantes

Si

414

BANKS, and MISCELLANEOUS,
Liverpool Hank
Ditto Banking C mpany
Ditto Borough Bank
Ditto ContinerAol
Ditto Royal
Ditto Uni n
k!on.:thestrr I irerookil Dsclrict
•Corth and South WaleA.
AndertonCarrying Company
300t;42 Water Works
C.:al Gas Company
Ditto newshares.
e.xcliange Bulledligs
'Torrington Docks
hng-
omiton Water Works
L'rerpoo, Firc an,t !Are
I ivcrtly.,i Dcek Ben I
NV-trine Assurance, Company
%few Gas & Coke Ct mpany
Ditto, quarter
Rock Ferry
tam Colvany

Stock.
100
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100
tOO
Stock
20
100

A SURGICAL PUZZLH.—Between the years 1750-60,
the medical rage of the day was for tar-water, just as
brandy and salt, hydroputhy, and other univeral remedies,
have been lashionarde lately. The newspapers teemed with
accounts of wonderful cures which were said to have been
almost miraculously brought about by the use of tar in va-
rious forms.. l'amp!ilets and scientific essays were pub-
lished, the most celebrated of which was written by Dr.
Ilttkeley, B'shop of Cloyce, called " Si,i., or a Chain of
Philosophical Reflections and Inquiries concerning Tar-
wrier." Scarcely a disease existed which the public were
led to believe was not to be cured by the invaluable bat
far frOm aromatic nostrum. Berkeley found tar-water in-
fallible for nervous cholic ; some eleciared it had cured
them of tt e gout; from others it had driven away ague,
toothache, astbmas, and consumption But the most re-
mat kable cases in which tar is said to have been curative,
were those of broken limbs. One of the most singular of
such instances is related in one of Sir Horace Walpole's
letters to Sir Horace Mann, whch has been recently made
public :—" A sailor who had broken his leg was advised
to communicate his cave to the Royal Society. The ac-
count he gave was, that, having fallen from the top of the • mast, and fractutei his leg, he had dressed it with nothing
but tar and o kum, and yet in three days was rebid to walk
as well as before the accident. The story at first appeared
quite incredible, as no such efficacious qualities were
kcown in tar, and still teas in oakum ; nor was a poor sai-
lor to be credited cn his own bare assertion of so wonder-
ful a cure. The society very reasonably demanded a
ful er relation, and. 1 suwo.e, the corroboration of evi-
dence. Many doubted whether the 1,-g had been really
broken. That part of the story had been amply verified.
Still, it was difficult to believe that the man had made use
of no other applications than tar and oakum; and how
they should cure a broken leg in three days, even if they
could cute it at all, was a mutter of the utmost wonder.
Several lett rs passed between the society and the patient,
who l ersetert din the most scleinn asseverations of having
used no other remedies; and it does appear beyond a
dcuht that the man speaks truth. It is a little uncharita-
ble, but I fear there are surgeries who might not like this •
abbreviht on of a tendiance and expense; but, on the otber
hand, you will be charmed with the plain honest simt It-
city of the tailor. In a postscript to his last letter he added
there words :---` 1 forgot to tell your honours that the log
was a wooden one.' " This story, though true, did not
occur exactly as Wa'pole relates it. The hoax was played
..ft- by a very eccentric character of the time—Sir John
11111—w.ho Lad been refused admission to the Royal So-
ciety, and revenged his disa;,point,nant by sending a let-
ter, detriling the case of the sailor as if Iron) a Country
Practitioner. The assen.bl .d w;siom of the whole body
of the felows of the Royal Sod, ty di-cussed the extraor-
dinary nature of tl;e ease a jib the utmost gravity, 'bring-
ing all tla.ir med-cal w•ti st.i!r.t.fic knowledge to bear upon
it. The retult of then 1e •rieti tit liberatiors was given to
tie world, and then Sir John Hill sent a second letter, in-
farming the society that I.c had forgotten to state one cir-
curnVa .r.e it, the ewe, w' b h was, that the sailor's leg
was a wooden rn ! This t lensantry having got extensive
currency, the untversal v rtn, s of tar and tar-water were
u.ncb less belitsed in, and at last get quite exploded.