The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-26 00:00:00

THE:FRUITS OF THE EARTH.—Fine strawberries, ot
perfect growth and flavor, were gathered on Monday week,
in East-street, and ripe raspberries appear in various
grounds in this vicinity. Potatoes of the best quality are
selling in this town and neighbourhood from 3s. to 3s. 6d-
per bag of eight score (1601bs.)— Taunton Courier.
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INSANITY AMONG QUAKERS.—It appears from
number of inmates in the Retreat of years, that, com-
pared with the total number of Friends in England and
Scotland, the proportion of insane is somewhat less
than 3 in 1,000. This is a much larger portion than
prevails among the rest of the community.
THE SUGAR DUTIES.—We cannot learn that any free-
labour sugar whatever has been entered since the new law
came into operation on the 10th instant ; but if there has
been any, it has been quite insignificant in quantity, and
its effects have been much more than counteracted by the
news of the destruction of the sugar in Cuba in the recent
hurricane.
INSTINCT OF RATS.—An old man named Turner, living
on Cotton's Common, while gripping last week in a piece
of land in Bardelph parish, cut into a rat's cave, where he
discovered two pecks and a half of beans carefully packed
up. They had been carried, no:doubt, one by one, and
boared up for the winter. He took his prize home for
his pig.—Stamford Mercury.
A short time ago, some thieves tied the handle of the
shop-door of Mr. Stevenson, pawnbroker, College-street,
Bristol, and then deliberately dashed in a pane of the
window, and grasped 28 gold wedding rings. Mr. S. wit-
ceased the felony, and succeeded in snatching two gold
watches which hung near the rings from their reach • but
being unable to get the door open for some time,
escaped escaped with their booty.
SUICIDE FROM DISAPPOINTED AFFECTION.—An in-
quest was held at Bronapton on the body of a soldier of
the 11th Regiment, who had shot himself while on duty
in his sentry-box, in Chatham Dockyard. The mother
of a girl whom the deceased had desired to marry stated
that on the morning he committed the dreadful deed
she had told him it was no use his seeking her daughter,
for that the was about to be married to another man.
The deceased; she said, shed tears. She told him it was
of no use his fretting—she thought nothing about hiene
THE BRAIN.—At the inquest held on Monday week
upon a person who survived for three doe s a dreadful in-
jury of the brain, Mr. Wakley said that a short time ago
a man was struck on-the head with a pickaxe, and that
although his brains escaped from the wound and be-
smeared his hand, he was able to run without assisstance
to the London Hospital. Upon arriving at the Hospital
he was asked how he felt, when he replied that he was
much better since he lost his brains. Mr. Wakley fur-
ther said that it was almost incredible how long persons
surviDveidssiennjtuerrielsatoeflythiensburraeind in a London fire-office, and.
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had the misfortune to be burnt out. In the policy of in-
surance was a clause, that the minister and churchwar-
dens of the parish shall certify or declare that the fire has
happened by a simple accident. Being a Dissenter, and
opposed to church rates, and because the minister really
does not know whether the fire took place by accident or
design, the minister and churchwardens refuse to make
the declaration. Counsel have been consulted upon this
clause, and it is said to be fatal to the goodness of the •
claim.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT KINGSTON RUSSELL.—A most
distressing accident happened at Kingston Russell on
Friday, the Bth inst. Mr. and Mrs. J. Homer, of Mar-
tinstown, had been spending that day with a party of
friends and relations, at the house of Mr. Sansom, at
Kingston Russell. On departing about 11 at night in
their four-wheel carriage, the night being dark, shortly
after leaving the house, the horse went too near the bank,
and the vehicle was overturned, the splashing-beard strik-
ing Mrs. Homer's chest, and, melancholy to relate, in
few moments she breathed her last. Mr. Homer escaped
uninjured. The deceased lady was in the prime of life,
and has left a family of young children.—Sherboree
Journal.
MURDER.—On Tuesday, night last, a very shocking
murder was committed at Yarmouth, Norfolk upon the
body of Harriet Candler, a poor widow woman, who kept
a small chandler's shop there, last Saturday, the deceased
had received £l5O as a portion of her husband's mother
and uncle's property, and having no present use for it,
she bad probably told her neighbours that she should put
it under her bed till her son came home. This seems to
have excited the cupidity of the murderer, for early on
Tuesday night, the door of her room was found open, and
she herself lying down by the side of the till, literally
deluged in blood, her scull having five wounds upon R-
A knife, covered with blood, lay by her, but the surgeon
thought the fatal wound had been inflicted by re" cheese
cutter," used in her trade. The money was gone from
under the bed, and also the till money.
COSTLY VIOLINS.—A sale has been concluded at Cre-
naorne House, Chelsea, of a variety of articles made use`
of at t e different public entertainments offered there by
the Baron de Berenger. Among the lots offered were twee
violins, one made by Maximilian Zacher, in the year 1752,
and the other by Jacobus Stainer, in 1650. The auc-
tioneer stated that there were many instances of violins by
these unrivalled masters producing considerable sums.
and he alluded to the singular terms of sale of one to•
Count Trantrnansdorf, Master of the Horse to Charles
VI., who, after paying down a large sum of money, agreed
to pay a certain number of dollars till his death, which,
with other gifts, amounted to between 8000 and 9000 dol-
lars, or about £6OO. The same violin is now in the pos-
session of an eminent musician.- The Stainer violin was
sold for 55 guineas, the first offer being 25 guineas. The
Zaf her violin was knocked down for 30 guineas.
THE PLEASURES OF HANGING.—At an inquest on the
body of a person who had committed suicide the other
day, Mr. Wakley, the coroner, observed it was extraor-
dinary how pleasing the effects of banging were. That
was apparent from the fact, that of all the persons who
committed suicide by hanging, the majority were found
either in a sitting posture or with their feet or knees
touching the ground. In one instance a young lady, who
was watched by two females, one at either side of her bed,
strangled herself with the strings of her night-dress,with-
ont their knowledge. On another occasion a man hung
himself while stretched upon his face, with his nose al-
most touching the ground. A short time since he held
an inquest at Balls Pond upon a man who having hung
himself up,. the cord broke before he was dead, and be
survived the attempt thirty-five hours. He stated that
he had enjoyed the most pleasing sensations while sus-
pended. Persons who committed suicide by hanging
went off in a sleep and died without pain. He didor
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speak of malefactors hanged at the Old Bailey, whose
necks were broken, but of those a ho, like the deceased,
hung themselves without subjecting their bodies to a jerk.
In the latter case neither was the neck broken nor was
the windpipe closed, but a congestion of the brain ensued,
which caused death.
SINGULAR INCIDENT.—Between two and three MOTO'S
ago we announced that an infant female child bad been
found covered up in a basket amongst the goods at the
railway station at Ayr. It was ascertained that the par-
eel had been handed in to the booking-office at Glasgow
on the preceding day—hart been carried down on the
goods truck, and locked up all night in one of the out-
houQes at the station, when the attention of the Pottes
was only directed to it by some faint cries issuing frfeln
the basket, while they were turning over and arrang't
bales and boxes for delivery. That the life of one
young and tender—for the infant was believed to be ent
a fortnight old—could have been sustained under sue%
trying circumstances is not a little remarkable ; but t"
forsaken " wee lassie" was immediately put to a nurse ;
she has thriven apace, and is now a healthy and interest-
ing chill. For long the authorities were in search of the
mother who could send h r child on such a perilous
ney, and we learn that, within these last few days, they
have succeeded in tracing her out, and apprehending her.
She was brought to Glasgow from her father's residence;
who is a respectable small farmer in the neighbourlitioa
of Ayr ; and has since been committed for trial. IV
child is illegitimate, of course, and the girl, we bel ver
ie
states that her irgention was to send it to her father
Ayr.—Glasgow Herald'.
NEW BOILER.—At the British Association, Mr. Fah'
bairn described a newly invented boiler, which seemed, tOl
possess many excellent qualities for the economy
and the prevention of smoke. The boiler was of a yeti
simple construction, of the cylindrical form, and containef
two internal flues, about 2 feet 6 inches diameter extee,r;
ing the whole length of the boiler. Each flue cont "-
separate furnace, which, surrounded in every direction bir
water, formed ready absorbents for the radiant beat, as
passed off from the fire. On this plan the gassee. fro
both fires were carried forward through the whole leng`a
of the flues to the opposite end, where they unite, 'l9
where a new and additional process of combustion take_t
place. From the description tnus given, it would apPel,
that the operations of the double flues were useful in eet
fecting the ignition of the gasses as they came in conts:f
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respectively from each furnace. The original intentioa
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the double flues and fires was not to lessen the smoke,
to enlarge the steam span, and prevent what is techniea7
called priming in the boiler ; it, however, exhibited peck,
liar properties, and by a simple process of firing the Irueet
naces alternately, the whole phenomena of nearly pere. ,0
combustion is accomplished. To effect these objectalt;),
only necessary to charge the furnaces alternately e'leas.
half hour, and it will be found that during the time ,4
fire is replenished with fuel, the other is making gas' 8,0
the currents from the clear burning fire passing off 07ea
higher temperature than the carbonaceous matter evoivito
in the newly charged furnace, the prod ucts are ignited
vice
moment they come in contact, and the nuisance of sea
by these simple means prevented. fp
RECEIPT STAMPS.—IMPORTANT SUGGESTION•IE
the city article of the London Times of Thursday, is
remarked that " the subject of the stamp on receiPin,
one which engages some attention among the trading 0
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terest, and a suggestion has been made by an intell,g`tbe
member of that interest, following the principle nreeee
universal penny postage, to tax all receipts for surnsale'nee
£5 at ld. only, and make it compulsory to give sta
receipts in all cases, which he thinks would produ. eseot
revenue of £1,000,000, while the tax yields at the P to
time a sum less than £200,000." The writer
oses goes the
say that the respectable party alluded to prop ths';_re,
paper to be used shall be issued, stamped, as beretotaeper
by the Government, which is to print on the samese.
a form of receipt ; besides which, he would allow a eeer
knowledgments of the receit of money written on lfstira
which bears the Post-offices tamp, as evidence of Penis,
through the Post-office, to be considered legal reea.!evt,
All other paper to be used as invoices, accourits-ealli.e.
&c., to be found by persons requiring it, and to beoP.es,
sented for stamping at the Stamp-office. He prePe'eof
also, that all banker's checks should have the Pre'del
stamp attached to them, which will make them i;!se,
vouchers, instead of being the means cornmonly,i.a..
as they now are, of evading the tax altogether. the be,
culation of the amount to be raised is admitted
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startling, but it is added that it appears at least pn"s'_.
and the plan would induce better habits of busine e_oe
taking vouchers for all payments, a practice which
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prevent litigation and disputes. It would also Pre !eel,/
country bankers from evading the provisions of the
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Bank Act, which is of daily occurrence in various waY