The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-06-20 00:00:00

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The rate of discount of the Bank of England has been
reduced from Four to Three-and-Half per Cent.
Poor Tom Steele died at Peele's Coffee-house on Wed-
nesday.
Three men were drowned in Loch Lomond, on Tuesday,
by the upsetting of a boat.
On Wednesday, the bakers throughout the metropolis
reduced the price of the 41b. loaf Id.
A considerable quantity of cider has been imported into
London from the United States.
The local rates of Leicester are eighteen shillings in the
pound. It is believed at present to be the most distressed
town in the country.

In London, during the last seven days, the scarlet fever
has killed just three times its ordinary number, and typhus
and small-pox nearly twice the average number.
Large importations of cherries and other fruits have
been received in London, during the past week, from
France, Belgium, and Holland.
The sale of the estates of the Duke of Buckingham, in
Bucks, Oxford, and Northamptonshire, has realised
£262,990.
An unusual quantity of salmon has this week been
taken in the Tyne and sold at the low rate of sixpence
per lb.
On Friday, W. T. Smith, Esq., of Kentish Town,
whose intellect has been latterly impaired by paralysis,
blew out his brains with a blunderbuss.

In the poisoning eases at Bristol, the jury have returned
a verdict that the deceased died of prussic acid, but there
was no evidence by whom administered.
At Bradford, three chartists were on Friday committed
for trial for illegal drilling to military exercises, and one
for seditious speaking.
A man has been committed for trial charged with set.
ting fire to a stack of straw, at Bishop Middleham.
scoundrel had been refused relief by the owner of the
straw.

DEPLORABLE DEATH.—On Saturday, the Rev. E. Spen-
cer, a relative of Earl Spencer, was found dead in the
arch under the Adelphi. Deceased died of the effects of
drunkenness.

On Sunday, the house of Mr. Isaac. a halter, on the
Parade, Plymouth, was burnt down, in consequence of the
ignition and explosion of a barrel of naptha from a lighted
candle, and two children were burnt to death.

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On Saturday, at the Central Criminal Court, nine
Chartists were found guilty of a riot on Sunday, the 4th
instant, at Bishop Bonner's-fields. Sentence was de-
ferred.

Many of the shipwrights of Sunderland who had the
opportunity to work at the reduced wage of a guinea a
week have declined to do so, and nearly the whole of
these working men are now out of employment.
Prince Albert presided on Friday afternoon at a meet-
ing of the. Commission for Promoting and Encouraging
the Fine Arts in the rebuilding of the Palace of West-
minster.

The times are su bad that a great number of pawnbro-
kers in tho metropolis have given notice that they will not
take in pledges, it being next to impossible to get rid of
unredeemed goods by public sale.
The Hereford Journal states that haymaking is now
extensively in operation in that vicinity, but that the
crops generally are neither heavy nor remarkable for their
quality—a fact attributable to the extraordinary drought
and unseasonable heat of the early part of May.
An amusing joke was played oft in the House of Lords
the other evening, when some noble lord. as Lord
Brougham entered the house, put a hair broom on his
seat. There was a general laugh at the noble lord's sur-
prise.
Nearly 200 young women, under the charge of six ma-
trons, sailed last week from Plymouth, in the Royal
George, for Sydney, New South Wales. These girls were
all selected in the Irish Union Workhouses, and are sent
by the Australian Land and Emigration Commissioners.
On Thursday week, the sum of £1,600, raised for the
relief of the widow and family of William Wyatt, and re-
warding Thomas Wyatt and others, who assisted in the
capture of the Adlington murdereas, was presented at
Macclesfield.
At the Old Bailey Sessions, on Wednes 'ay, tl e trial of
Mr. Barnes, surgeon, of Thaxted, for the abduction of the
daughter of the Rev. Thomas Harvey, was postponed, it
being suagested as probable that the affair would be corn-
, promised.
DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—The " anti-monopolists,"
as a morning contemporary facetiously termed the troop
of French actors whose performance at " Old Drury" has
given such offence to the English public, leave London
this week, after giving two farewell performances for
which they modestly charge only a guinea!
A few days since some sawyers, employed in a building-
yard, at Plymouth, who were sawing a fine elm that had
been blown down by the wind, found a sparrow's nest,
containing an egg, in the centre of the tree, which was two
feet nine inches in diameter at the place where the nest
was discovered, and which was perfectly sound.
Early in July the new Romish Cathedral in Saint
George's Fields is to be opened, with a " pontifical"
service by Dr. Wiseman. Tickets are already selling at
one or two guineas each ; and it is expected that the " per-
formance will yield as much, or even more, than one of
Jenny Lind's benefit concerts !

THE HONEYSUCKLE.—The Gardener's Chronicle, in
a recent number has suggested the raising of varieties
from this beautiful creeper, and we allude to this matter
because a neighbour in the country has sent to our office
a pretty specimen of a variety, grown in his own de-
lightful garden. It is of a bright scarlet color and quite
new to us.
THE MURDER IN COLD-BATA FIELDS PRISON.—The
coroner's inquest on the body of William Woodhouse,
late a warder in this prison, who was stabbed to death by
George John Hewson, one of the prisoners, on Saturday
morning week, has terminated in a verdict of wilful
murder against Hewson, who has been committed to
Newgate for trial.
TILE CASE OF POISONING AT A PUBLIC DINNER.—The
inquest upon the body of Mr. William Cornfiel, one of
the sufferers, was concluded on Tuesday night, when the
jury returned a verdict of " Manslaughter against Edmund
Franklin and Edward Randall." Franklin is the pastry-
cook who furnished the dinner and Randall is the pastry-
cook's assistant.

SUDDEN DEATH OF FATHER AND SON.—On Monday,
Thomas Watts, one of the under-porters at Trinity Col-
lege, Cambridge, dropped down dead. On the day but
one following (Wednesday last) the father of the deceased
dropped dead, as he was on his way to tell another son
when the funeral of his brother would take place. Both
died of disease of the heart.
FOREIGN FRUIT.—The first import of cherries at Hull,
took place on the sth inst., and consisted of 150 baskets
brought with 50 baskets new potatoes and a few cucumbers,
from Rotterdam. These were followed, on Friday, by 700
baskets cherries, 100 ditto potatoes, and 50 ditto green
peas, brought from Antwerp. On Monday, the Seagull
delivered upwards of 1,000 baskets cherries, 15 baskets
cucumbers, and 200 baskets potatoes.
THE EMIGRANT SHIP OMEGA.—This ship, which was
supposed to have foundered after the emigrants had been
taken out of her, has been passed, perfectly sound, 80
miles west of the Scilly Lights, by the barque Franklin.
Not a soul was on board, and the vessel was drifting with
the current, leaving little doubt that had the emigrants
remained on board every one would have been saved.—
Montreal Transcript, of May 20.
On Friday, the Lord Mayor of London, accompanied
by the sheriffs and several of.the aldermen, all attired in
court dresses, went in state carriages to visit the Chinese
junk, Keying, which is now exhibited at Blackwall. The
Chinese at first mistook the footmen, who wore splendid
liveries, covered with gold lace, for the turtle-loving dig-
nitaries of the corporation, and accordingly made deep
salaams to them, until the interpreters explained which
were the masters and which the servants.
Peter Carlton, an Irishman, servant to Major Turner,
was brought up at London police-court the other day,
charged with bigamy. His second wife did not wish to
prosecute him ; and, on the magistrate asking explanation,
it appeared that his first wife, who represented herself to
him, in the commencement, as a widow, had another
husband living, when he married her. He had deserted
her when he discovered that fact, and considered himself
free to go to the altar a second time. This curious case
has been postponed.

STEAM V. HORSEFLESH.—A gentleman, well known on
the turf, has challenged the best engine belonging to the
Great Western Railway Company to run half a mile for
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1,000 sovs., the steamer to travel per rail, and the biped
on the Reading race-course, which is parallel with the
line.

About 560 of the British lace-makers near Calais, ex-
pelled from France by the events of the late revolution,
have been sent to our Australian Colonies, by the bene-
volent exertions of Lord Ashley, Lord Robert Grosvenor,
and others. The last of three ships chartered by the
Emigration Commissioners for their conveyance, sailed
from Gravesend near London, on Monday.
MURDER AT SHlELDS.—Yesterday week, at the Shields
races, a quarrel took place between two men in one of
the tents frequented by loose women, with some of whom
the belligerents had been drinking, and a fight ensued,
when one of the men, named Moody, stabbed the other
with a knife. The wound proved fatal in a few minutes.
The quarrel originated in the attentions paid by the de-
ceased to one of the women, which excited the jealousy of
Moody, who was soon afterwards apprehended.
On Thursday a little boy, five years old, travelling with
its mother and servant, by the third class train on the
Midland Railway, fell out of the carriage as the train was
proceeding, either from the opening of the door or over-
balancing himself through the window. The train was
stopped as soon as possible, as was the-down train, and
an engine was sent on to find the boy; but before its
arrival the boy had been picked up by a policeman, with
no further injury than a few scratches.
During a heavy thunder-storm which visited North-
wich and its neighbourhood, on the 3rd instant, two
milch cows, belonging to Mr. Dunn, of Hartford, were
struck by the lightning while grazing or lying down in
the orchard near Mr. Dunn's house, and died very soon
after. And on the next day, during another heavy thun-
der storm, Mr. Edgerley, farmer, of Wicham, near
Northwich, had a valuable cow and calf struck dead by
the electric fluid.

EFFECT OF CHARTIST DEMONSTRATIONS.—A corre-
spondent had a ship at one of the ports of Porto Rico
waiting to take cargo under regular charter; and, in con-
sequence of the news arriving of the general disturbed
state of Europe, and of the intended Chartist meeting on
Kennington-common, the merchants refused to load the
ship ; and in this case the owners of the vessel sustain a
very considerable loss. Several other ships were in port
at the same time, and also lost their cargoes.—Plymouth
Journal.

ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB.—The contest for the
prize of £lOO, open to all Royal Yacht Clubs, without
respect to tonnage, took place on Tuesday last. Eight
yachts started, all belonging to London, Plymouth, and
Southampton. The distance to be sailed was from Erith
round the Nore Light, and back. The winner was the
3fusquito, of 50 tons, belonging to Charles Mars, Esq.,
of London, which performed the distance in 7 hours, 25
minutes, 50 seconds. The Heroine came in second, the
Secret third, and the Daring fourth.
MURDER.—On Monday night, two men, named Ben-
nett and. Cook, were returning home from a cider-house,
about a mile distant from Ledbury, when near to Brad-
low turnpike, they were accosted by a fellow named
Samuel Taylor. A few words passed between them,
when Taylor struck Bennett a tremendous blow, which
felled him to the ground. The poor fellow, as soon as he
could recover himself, importuned him for merny, but to
no purpose, nor did he desist until Bennett fell a corpse.
The villain then made off, and has not yet been taken.
EMIGRANT SHIPS.—The consul of the United States
has transmitted to Lloyd's a copy of an act of congress,
dated the 17th of May, regarding the ventilation and pro-
visioning of emigrant ships. The first section of this act
makes it incumbent on all vessels carrying fifty passengers
or under, in the between-decks, to have a house con-
structed on the combings of the hatchway, with two doors,
so that one may at all times be open for the purpose of
ventilation. Where more than fifty passengers are car.
ried, a house must be constructed at each end of the deck,
one to be furnished at the top with an outlet for foul air,
and the other to be se constructed as to admit fresh air.
Cooking apparatus must also be furnished on deck.
THE SUPPOSED MURDER AT BATTERSEA.—On Wed-
nesday, the Coroner for Surrey resumed the adjourned
inquest respecting the death of James Charles Gosling,
the deceased
Gosling,a sbe being
of
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place,
aged twenty-three, the party who was found in the river
Thames with a pistol wound in the forehead, and who it
was believed had been murdered and afterwards thrown
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and
described him as having been very eccentric in his con-
duct, and incoherent in his language. He had frequently
said, that if he wished to commit suicide he should shoot
himself in the head and fall back into the river, so that no
ifieAdirsth.
inquest should be held on his body. The Jury returned
a verdict—" That the deceased destroyed his own life, he
being at the time of unsound mind."
MORE CHARTIST ARRESTS AT BINGLEY.—Three more
of the Chartists, engaged in the late riot and rescue at
Bingley, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, were taken
from their beds early on Thursday morning last, and
committed to York Castle by Mr. W. B. Ferrand. One
of the prisoners was liberated on bail, and the others
were escorted by Mr. Ferrand, with six of his keepers
(armed with double barrelled guns) and about eighty con-
stables, to the railway station, whence they were sent off
to York Castle. Two more men were taken into custody
the same morning, on the charge of throwing stones and
using threatening language to Mr. Thacker, magistrates'
clerk, and one of the Bingley constables. The firmness
and decision of Mr. Ferrand as a magistrate have almost
put an entire stop to the illegal proceedings of the Char-
tists in his locality.
ATTEMPTED MURDER AND ROBBERY AT HARROGATE.
—On Monday morning, about half-past five o'clock, when
the female servant of Mr. Todd, boot and shoemaker, at
High Harrogate, opened the house door, a man rushed
within the house, and seizing hold of her, tied a handker-
chief over her mouth to prevent her screaming. He then
commenced rifling her pockets. but finding little of value
there, he drew a razor, and attempted to cut her throat
with it, inflicting two severe gashes. When he had
frightened the young woman out of further resistance, he
hastily ransacked several of the drawers, from which he
removed several articles of silver plate ; but hearing a
whistle, (which was supposed to be given by an accom-
plice stationed near,) he suddenly decamped, leaving the
bulk of the property behind him, but taking with him the
handkerchief which he had tied round the girl's mouth.
INCREASE OF PAUPERISM. The rapid increase of
pauperism in the parishes comprised in the Huntingdon
union offers a melancholy example of the rapid decline of
the rural population in comfort and respectability, or else
that the wholesome state of self-respect which kept a man
from the parish has been broken down, and the example
of one becomes the standard and rule for the many. The
Huntingdon union embraces 83 parishes, with a popula-
tion at the last census of 18,229—by the quarterly return
made at Lady-day, it appears that nearly one-fifth of this
number were receiving parochial relief, namely 3,416,
which is an increase over the same period of 1844 (four
years) of upwards of 1,300. The parish of Ramsey with
a population of 3,679, stands conspicuous in the increase
—at Lady-day 1844, the number of their poor receiliv, in
and out-door relief was 465—at the same period in 1848 it
was 1 410—maVng considerably more than one-third of
the whole population in a state of pauperism.
DEATH OF JAMES WATT, ESQ.—Our obituary of this
week records the death of James Watt, Esq., the last
surviving son of the illustrious improver of the steam
engine. lie was born on the sth of February, 1769, and
was therefore, in his 80th year. Inheriting a large share of
the powerful intellect of his distinguished father, to the
extension of whose fame he had for the last thirty years
shown the most zealotrl and truly filial devotion, he united
to great sagacity and a masculine understanding the varied
acquirements and literary tastes of a well-cultivated mind.
His name will long be remembered in association with that
of the late Mr. Boulton, as they were for nearly half a
century successfully engaged in carrying out those inven-
tions and improvements by which the genius of his father
was immortalized. For the last eight years of his life he
had comparatively retired from active business, and had
devoted much attention to the improvement of his exten-
sive estates in the counties of Radnor and Brecon.—
Birmingham Journal.

A GIRL. KILLED BY HER BROTHER.—On Monday, a
little interesting girl, named Mary Ridgwell, aged nine
years, and her brother, aged twelve, were playing together
in a yard fronting th,Ar parents' house, at Chelmsford.
The little girl was noticed going:to a pump with a pail in
one hand and a mug in the other, when the brother de-
manded the pail, which he got possession of. The deceased
then said, " You shan't have that," meaning the mug she
had in her hand, and, on his endeavouring to get it, she
threw some water which was in it over him. He then
struck her across the back, and they kicked at each other.
A painful blow appeared to have been inflicted on the
lower part of her abdomen. She reeled towards some
palings and swooned away. She expired in the course of
twenty minutes. From fright, apparently, the boy ran
away from his home,. and was taken on the Colchester
road, about two miles and a half from Chelmsford. The
jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against the boy
William Ridgwell, and be was accordingly committed for
trial at the ensuing assizes. . .

TRANSPORTATION FOR FORGING. At the Central
Criminal Court, London, on Thursday, John Wilkinson,
a respectable looking man, apparently over 60 years of
age, and described as a labourer, removed by habeas from
Bristol, was charged with forging a transfer upon the
Bank of England. It appeared that while the prisoner
was in business in Mint-street, Borough, in 1838, his son
married a lady under age, but by whom he got £l5OO for-
tune. Of this £lOOO was invested in the Bank of Eng-
land Three per cent. Reduced Annuities, in the name of
the prisoner and a neighbour of his, named William Shep-
pard, as co-trustees for the son and his children ; and so
it was supposed to remain until 1847, when it was dis-
covered that the prisoner, accompanied by a person
falsely representing William Sheppard, forged a deed of
transfer, by which lie drew the whole of the £lOOO out of
the bank, and converted it to his own use, thus leaving
his real co-trustee liable to his son and the children. The
jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced to be
transported for life.
DISINTERESTED GENEROSITY. —Mr. Warren, the
author of " Ten Thousand a Year," the " Diary of a
Physician," and last, though by no means least memorable,
the dramatic narrative " Now and Then," in the course
of a lecture delivered in the hall of the Law Society, in
Chancery-lane, said. " a short time ago, a gentleman of
large fortune, a man, in fact, worth his £40,000, was in-
dignant with his only child, a daughter, for marrying
against his wishes. lie quarrelled with her—he disin-
herited her—he left his whole property of £40,000 to his
attorney, and to two other gentlemen, all of whom were
residing in Yorkshire. What did the attorney do ? lle
went to his two co-legatees, got them to sign their re-
spective claims over to himself, and then made over every
sixpence of the £40,000 to the daughter and her chil-
dren ! " The above gratifying circumstance is literally
true. The gentleman of fortune was a manufacturer in a
town celebrated for its linen manufactures within the
district of the circulation of • thi; paper, and the disin-
terested attorney is one of the brightest ornaments of his
profession in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

June 20, 1848.

A disgraceful attempt has been made in London, by
number of blackguards, to prevent the French company'
who have taken Drury-lanetheatre from tieing heard. Mr.
Macready felt this insult to the foreign artists so acutely`
that he addressed a letter to the manager, stating that
" not only on the stage and in society, but from vett
many artists of the various theatres it. Paris, I experienced
the most gratifying and liberal attentions. It is with
equal pain and surprise I have heard of the disreputable
proceedings at Drury-lane." The row, which commenced
on Monday, was continued on Wednesday night.
FATAL AFFRAY.—An inquest was held on Thursday,
at the New Inn, at Longford, near Glocester, on the
body of a Mr. Organ, a respectable inhabitant of that
city, whose death was occasioned in the following man-
ner :—Mr. Organ had been dining with a convivial party,
celebrating the anniversary of a society of which he was a
member, at the New Inn. He left the house to go home,
somewhat exhilarated by the good cheer of which he had
partaken, when he was insulted by three fellows of disre-
putable character, one of them a returned transport, and
a pugilistic contest was about to commence, when a fourth
person, named 'bulge, a man of very indifferent charac-
ter, came up and struck Mr. Organ a blow which felled
him to the ground. He was carried into the New Inn,
but it was discovered that life was nearly extinct, and he
expired in half an hour. The men were taken into cus-
tody, but succeeded in getting away from the police.
Rudge and another were subsequently re-captured, and
are in custody. The inquest was postponed.
IMPORTANT TO PUBLICANS.—RESTRICTION OF TUB
SALE OF BEER, &c.—The Earl of Harrowby has laid on
the table of the House of Lords a bill, which has been
read a second time, intitled "an act for regulating the
sale of beer and other liquors on the Lord's Day." The
bill is a very short one ; and after reciting that " whereas
the prohibition against licensed victuallers and other per-
sons in London, Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-
upon-Tyne opening their houses before the hour of one
o'clock in the afternoon on the Lord's Day has been
found to be attended with great benefits," it proceeds to
enact " that no licensed victualler or other person shall
open his house for the sale of wine, spirits, beer, or other
fermented or distilled liquors, or sell the same, on Sun-
days, Christmas Day, or Good Friday, before the hour of
one in the afternoon, except refreshment for travellers, or
for supplying the wants of any person or persons who
shall usually victual there." It also enacts " that every
person so offending against this act shall be liable to
penalty of not less than twenty shillings, nor more than
fifty shillings, for every such offence; and every separate
sale shall be deemed a separate offence."
JUVENILE WRETCHEDNESS AND CRIMINALITY IN
LoNDoN.—Lord Ashley state that the number of these is
30,000 at the least. From an analysis of a portion of the
class, he deduced the character of the whole. In fifteen
ragged schools—and it should be remembered that only
the best of their order are attracted to the school—there
are 1,600 pupils, from five to seventeen years of age, in
regular attendance. Of these, 162 have confessed that
they had been in prison several times-116 had run awl!
from home-170 slept in lodging-houses, nests of every
abomination-253 admitted that they lived altogether by
begging-216 had no shoes or stockings-280 had no caps,
hats, or bonnets-101 had no linen-249 never slept in a
bed. Some of the children could not remember ever
having slept in a bed in their lives ! Those who have any
occupation other than begging and thieving, sell lucifer
matches in the streets, sweep crossings, hold horses, and
so forth ; and when they cannot afford the price of their'
miserable lodging, sleep, in inclement weather, in door-
ways, under arches, sheds, porticos, in yards, stables and
out-houses--where no rich man would suffer his dog to
lie at night. From this class, too long unknown and ne-
glected, springs up inevitably the great body of our crimi-
nal offenders.

TRAVELLING SWINDLERS. The Devon Chronicle
states that two individuals, having the appearance of,
gentlemen, arrived in Teignmouth last week, and took 111)
their abode at the Devon Arms. One of them, an agree-
able person, took a seat in the tradesmen's room on the
same evening, and immediately joined in gossip. His
conversation was humourous, his appearance and address
bespoke a man who had seen life; and he was acknow-
ledged to be excellent company. He dined at four,
smoked his pipe, ate a pint of strawberries for suppers
and with his friend, who was less interesting, but equally
respectable, retired for the night. Evening after evening
many tradesmen retired from the fatigue of business to
spend an hour or two at the Devon Arms, listening to the
details of travels and adventures so pleasantly described.
They were on equally agreeable terms with the host, and
everything which they ordered was placed to account for
future settlement. At length, a pleasure party over the
bar in a yacht was proposed. The strangers were invited;
the host was to accomnany them and be caterer. The
day came on Wednesday, when the party were all ready,
with the exception of the strange gentlemen, who, unfor-
tunately could not accompany them, one being ill, and
the other obliged to watch the progress of his disposition.
The party went. The strangers also went, but another
way. The indisposed gentleman got better about eleven
o'clock, and his watchful friend proposed a ride on horse-
back. They ordered dinner at five o'clock, and started
for their ride, but they never rode back, nor have they
been seen in Teignmouth since. A leather trunk, which
they could not conveniently take away, was left behind,
and the next day the landlord shook it but found it
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SUCCESSFUL M TREATENT OF CHOLERA IN _
—At the meeting of the Medico-Botanical Society, on
Thursday night, Mr. Guthrie read letters which had been
received from Prince Woronzow, the commander-in-chief
of the Russian forces in Circassia, and from Dr. Andre-
osky, his physician, detailing a new ant successful plan
of treating this formidable disease. It would appear that
the Prince's attention was first drawn to the matter by
noticing that a certain regiment of Cossacks suffered but
slightly from cholera as compared with the other troops.
On inquiry of the colonel, he learned that the recovery Of
the Cossacks was attributed to the use of an elixir called
the Elixir of Woronege—a preparation of a somewhat
quackish description, the principal important ingredient
of which was naphtha. Dr. Andreosky, finding the quan-
tity of elixir in possession of the colonel to be but small,
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determined to try naphtha by itself. He first used it in
;hperowing
more
severe cases with equal advantage, and finally found It
effect a cure even during the most extreme collapses.
dose which he gave was from 10 to 15 and 20 drops 1.11
,glassful of wine, repeated if the first dose did not remain
on the stomach, or if the symptoms required it, which
was not often the case. The naphtha used in the Russian
army is not the ordinary naphtha of the shops, but the
mineral naphtha obtained from Beker, on the shores of
the Caspian. It should be of a white or rose colour, and
used without previously undergoing the process of distil-
lation. Mr. Guthrie stated, in conclusion, that he had
sent to Circassia to procure a bottle of this naphtha, and
when he had received it, he would place it in the hands of
the secretary, that the members might be able to ascertain
precisely what are its properties.
A SUBTERRANEAN FIRE.—At Lower Haugh near Ro-
therham, on the estate of Earl Fitzwilliam, an extensive
bed of coal beneath the village is on fire, and has been in
that condition, burning with greater or less intensity, for at
least twenty years. The coal in certain places bassets out
—that is, it comes up to the surface of the ground ; and it
was at one of these bassets that the fire originally corn'
menced, having been ignited by a " clamp "—(a fire for
burning stones intended for road materials). The sub-
terranean fire les continued to advarce in various direc-
tions up to the present time, its progress being manifest
by the appearance at intervals of smoke and flames at the
surface of the ground ; the spread of which has been
generally stopped, however. by puddling the eruptions
with clay, &c. A feeling of apprehension as to the ulti-
mate fate of the village has always continued to prevail,
and it is stated that a good many years ago the destruc-
tion of the mausoleum of the Wentworth family Was
threatened the approach of the fire, but happily the
calamity wasavertd by severing the bed of coal, for which,
purpose a shaft was especially sunk. Latterly, the we"'
of destruction appears to have been going on with un-
wonted rapidity, and, naturally enough, has created a
corresponding degree of alarm. Our informant saw two
beautiful detached cottages, the foundation of which is 5°
much undermined and sunk that one or both of them hal
ceased to be occupied ; the walls of one of the cottages had
quite separated, and the building must have tumble
a
down had not means been resorted to for keeping it to-
gether. The ground, in several large tracts, is one huge
hotbed, and where the heat is not so intense as to destrei
vegetation, the villagers turn it to very good account in
raising early crops of vegetables. Peas were seen, sou
weeks ago flourishing luxuriantly in the open air ; and Po'
tatoes are so forward, that one crop has been already se-
cured, and a second crop got into the ground. The ex-
posed earth is( quite warm even in the depth of wintece;
iTshceonuntinnautaulralylalsiceeant
deinnggenadnedrsadaudlitseargarteineagbtlhe
and the
doubtless to the detriment of animal health ;
houses in the wcrst localities are often filled
strongly charged with sulphur, rendering them, as
habita-
tions, little better than a coal-pit. The cellars are worse'
MOVING A HOUSE.—Within the last fortnight the_
Americans have been outdone in this kind of work,
Messrs. Ransome and May's, Orwell Foundry, Ipswich'
where a brick-built house, two stories high, 26 feet by 1.7,
has been moved a distance of 70 feet, and raised
without sustaining the slightest crack in the walls or ce°,
ings, or even in the papering of the rooms. The remove!
was accomplished under the direction and superintendence
of Mr. Worby, the manager of the works ; and the viodul
operandi seems to have been this :—A series of holes,,,u,
esmatoinkoes,ptiret,
inches square, was first made through thweitbhrwicakrera!iArclose to the ground, at intervals of three feet, all roan:
the house. Through these holes were inserted cantaleveY,,
or pieces of timber about four feet long, and the ear,e
inside and out, having been cleared away, the ends we
made to rest on blocks of wood ; so that during the r_s
moval of the foundation, the superstructure would 1.;
entirely on them. The next operation was to remowe,lf._
foundation, and to lay in its place long pieces of tieney':
11 inches square ; these had a coat of mortar laid on the
bed for the trickwork, and were then lifted up t° nth- '
walls, forming a kind of framework, on which, the eas
levers and blocks being removed, the house sto
firmly as it did on its original foundation. The buteiotell
was then raised to the required height, one Side. Dios
elevated at a time, and a number of longitudinal tin?
of great strength laid underneath, and continued aw;
the ground as far as the new foundation. As a Pr%c by
tionary measure the sides of the house were bound A
means of stout planks run up at the angles, and fasti.e_laiery-
together with iron rods. The whole of this prelim
work occupied some time to complete, the workreellheou.
turning to it when they had nothing else to engage,i_ing
' The timbers, along which the house was to slide, rioaaght •
been well greased, three bottle-jack screws were b
toot. bearlocomotion up o n one o endinm eonf c
et e.
Theframework, r
rate
0 andf t
long delay
.(•).
to
about one foot in five minutes, but as a ot
curred each time the screws were refixed and g din a
day. The house is now standing on its second foy.
as beep
play, not more than 25 feet could be accom
none the worse for the experiment to which it h
subjected,—Suffolk Chronicle. r a st, eh lel i nPrrg"e?,
Plisneation,

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