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

TIDE TABLE.

DAYS. Max. EVN. HZIGET HOLIDAYS, ETC.
Tuesday 31 250 311 14 9 Length of night 16h 29118
Wednes. 1 336 4 14 2 Circumcision.
Thurs... 2 429 8 1 13 4 Saturn sets 5h 50m m.
Friday.. 3 534 61 i 13 3 Venus stationary.
Saturday 4 649 727 13 6 Moon in Perigee 11 m.
Sunday. 5 8 3 537 14 5 2nd Sunday after Christ
Monday. 6 9 7 939 15 11 Epiphany.
NORTH HAY MARKET, DECEMBER 30.
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE.
s. d. s. d. I s_ ti a .1

NORTH _AY MA
AG RI CU LTC
a. d. s. d. s. d. a. 4.
Hay, old 2Plt, ollet 1 1 Potatoes, qO, 901 b.
new
Clover, new .... 0 Short-tops
Green ditto .... o n— o 0 Pink-eyes
Straw, Wheat... o 4— 0 5 Cattle. ls— 1 6
Oat 0 4k— 0 5i ITurnips, v. ton 22 0 —24 0
Bar ey
,Carrots 3+l 0 —33 0

r►tlet,a t SkiAlt6, DECEMBER 30.

Amt.
paid.

SHARES.

Sales
This Day.

20
10,
25
25

RAILWAYS.
Barns!: y Junction
Birkenhead, M'ehester& Chester..
.3irmingharn and Gloucester .... 100 101
Ditto quarter
!Blackburn and Preston
;Bolton, Wigan and Liverpool
;Bristol and Exeter
'Bristol and Gloucester
Caledonian
;Chester and ilirkenhead
Ditto new Shares ...
Ditto half
;Chester and Holyhead
',Chester and Virexham
Dublin and Belfast
'Dublin and Cashel
Dublin and Drogheda
Dundee and Perth
Eastern Counties
Perpetual
Perpetual, No. 2
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Ditto quarter ..... ......
LEdinburgh, Leith and Granton...
Ditto, preference-shares.
Glasgow and Dumfries
G asgow, Paisley, & Greenock
Ditto half sh res .
Ditto preference ...
Glasgow and Ayr ....
Ditto quarter shares
'rand Junction .....
Ditto half shares ...
Quarter...........
One-eighth
great Western
Ditto Half Shares
Ditto Fifth Shares
Hull and Selby
Ditto quarter
Lancaster and Carlisle
Lancaster and Preston
Ditto three-quarter shares
Liverpool and Aar:el:ester
Ditto half .‘iiares
Ditto new
Liverpool, Orinskirk & Preston
London and Birmingham
Ditto shares
Ditto quarter shares
London & Brighton
Ditto Loan Notes
London anu South Western
Ditto new shares ..
London and i ork
Leeds and Bradford
Manchester and Birmingham .... 522
Ditto quarter..
Manchester, Bolton & Rossendale 8;
Manchester, Bolton, 24 Bury
Manchester and Leeds
Ditto half shares ..
Ditto quarter sluu es
Midland Counties
1-sth Shares...
Newcastle and Berwick
Newcastle and Carlisle
Newcastle and Darlington June.
.4'7 13s. Qd.
,North British
North Union (A.)
Ditto (B.)
Preston and Wyre
Runcorn Gap
Ditto preference
Sheffield and Lincoln
Sheffield and Manchester

• ... 25 26 26i

6 2-31
6 2-3
50
12i

153 s 4d
113 s 4d

Stock

41

lsi i
32s

Stock

.225
1121 1131

. 35i
. 27 274

2
29i!
20
50
25
10

.... 4i

53 52i

Stock
100
lco
100
100
Stock.

115 11$

•• • • His.
• • ••

Quarter
Scottish Central
Shrewshury and Grand Junction 52
South Eastern and Dover 4l 41
New shares
Trent Valley
Ulster
,Yarmouth and Norwich
Tork and North Midland
DPW h Shares
Ditto, (Scarborough)
York and Selby .450 shares s7i
Ditto Z 5 shares

FREYwn, &c. RAILWAYS.
Bcn:ogne and Amiens
Central of France
Lyons and Avignon
Orleans and Bourdeaux.
Paris and Lyons
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rouen
Paris and Strausburgh
Rouen and Havre
Strasburgh and Basle
Sambre and Meuse
Tours and Nantes

Si

BANKS, and 111 .SCELLANEOUS.
'..iverpool B ;la a
1 Ditto Banking C .mpany
Ditto Borough Hank
Ditto Commt.rial
Ditto Royal
Ditto Uni n
, M an'..•hester & Liverpool Dset rid .
i
North ati:i South W .k.;in.
iAndertonCarrvirvz Company
I iiootle Water Works
C•r)ol f3ai (..:ornliany
Ditto newshares.
Exchange Buildings
!Torrington Docks ..
Harrington Waler Works ..... ..
Liverpool Fire and Life
Liver,,oei Dcck Beni
Marine Assurance Company
NeNV Gas & ('oke Company.
Ditto. quarter
fulek Ferry
'it-..am Tug Coaipany

A SURGICAL Puzzr.c.—Between the years 1750-60,
the medical rage of the day was for tar-water, just as
brandy and salt, hydropathy, and other univeral remedies,
have been fashionable 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. ratnp!.ilets and scientific essays were pub-
lished, the most celebrated of which was written by Dr.
Berkeley, B:shop of Cluyne, called " Shis, or a Chain of
Philosophical Reflections and Inquiries concerning Tar-
witer." Scarcely a disease existed which the public were
led to believe was not to be cured by the invaluable but
far from aromatic nostrum. Berkeley found tar-water in-
fallible for nervous cholic; some declared it had cured
them of tl e gout; from others it had driven away ague,,
toothache, asthmas, and consurnptic:n 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, which has been recently made
public :—" A sailor who had broken his leg was advised
to communicate his ca4e to the Royal Society. The ac-
count he gave was, Vast, having fallen from the top of the
mast, and fractured his leg, he had dressed it with nothing
but tar and o kum, and yet in three days was able to walk
as well as before the accident. The story at first appeared quite incredible, as no such efficacious qualities were
known in tar, and still less in oakum ; nor was a poor sai-
lor to be credited on his own bare assertion of so wonder.
, ful a cure. The society very reasonably demanded a
ful er relation, and, I suppoFe, the corroboration of evi-
dence. Many doubted whether the leg had been really
broken. That part of the story had been amply verified.
Still, it was difficult to believe that the man bad 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 cure it at all, was a matter of the utmost wonder.
Several lettirs passed between the society and the patient,
who persevered in the most solemn asseverations of having
used no other remedies ; and it does appear beyond a
doubt that the man speaks truth. It is a little uncharita-
ble, but I fear there are surgeons who might not like this
abbrevnit,on of attendance and expense ; but, on the other
hand, you will be charmed with the plain honest aim/ 1:-
ety of the sailor. In a postscript to his last letter he added
these words :—' I forgot to tell your honours that the leg
was a wooden one. " This story, though true, did not
occur exactly as Walpole relates it. The hoax was played
nff by a vet y eccentric character of the time—Sir John
111—who had been refused admission to the Royal So-
ciety, rind revenged his disappointment by sending a let-
ter, detriling the case of the sailor as if from a country
practitioner. The asset-al.-el wisdom of the whole body
of the fellows of the Royal Society discussed the extraor-
dinary nature of the case with the u'rriost gravity, bring-
ing all their medical aid scier,t,fic knowledge to bear upon
it. The result of their le,roed deliberations was given to
Vie world, and then Sir John Hal sent a second letter, tn-
h,,t he had forgotten to state one cir-
fru%n'i'g theiatn'nE.e *
in"t}e;:Ycore, vr; tell was, that the sailor's leg
was a wooden one I This pleasantry having got extensive
currency, the un:versal vrtur s of tar and tar-water west
muds Ices belie; cd in, and at last got quits exploded.