The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-11 00:00:00

AMERICA.

The royal mail steam-ship America, Captain Judkins,
arrived here on Sunday at.noon from Boston, having made
the run from that port in less than eleven days, including
the stoppage at Halithx. She left Boston ou the 28th ult.,
and has brought £3,000 in specie and 103 passengers.
The Britannia arrived at New York on the 26th ult., and
the Cambria was passed on the 29th, midway between
Halifax and Boston.

The approaching presidential election continued to
excite increasing interest.
Herrera has been elected president of Mexico.
Yucatan is still in a deplorable condition.
In consequence of the disturbed state of things at
Hayti, all the coloured population were emigrating, and
the business of Port-au-Prince was expected to fall into
the hands of foreigners. The negroes are reported to
have hadabloody fight nearJacmel, in which about 200 men
and children were killed. Their blood was drunk by the
maddened wretches who slew them. _ _

Cotton holders continue to ask former rates, butbuyers
are holding off in anticipation of a decline.
The flour market continues in a dull state, the supply
being more than equal to the demand. The reports of
the growing crops continue favourable.
There is no domestic news of any importance.

The New York Courier states that it has received
positive information that the Treaty is not only ratified
and the ratifications exchanged, but that several detach-
ments of our army returning from Mexico have already
reached the United States.

Exchange on England, 1091, to 110; Treasury Notes,
1041 ; United States' Sixes of 67, 1041 ; Ohio Sixes, 1001 ;
Pennsylvania Fives, 76. Money market rather tight.
The New York cotton circular of Mr. T. J. Stewart
has the following :
" The amounts of cotton in this country, in each of the past
tnree seasons, up to the latest corresponding dates, have been
as annexed ;
Receipts at ports of the U.S. since Sept. 1,1847.... 2,204,481
Ditto same period last year
Ditto ditto year before 2,008,879
Exports from U.S. since Sept. 1, 1847
Ditto same period last year 1,025,161
Ditto ditto year before 1,400,155
"The receipts at this port, since the Ist instant, have been
16,000 bales; exports, 13,000; taken by spinners, 15,000; on
speculation, 2,000 ; stock in city, 42,000 ; amount on sale, 8,000."
If the accounts from Venezuela are to be relied on the
civil war is at an end. Trade was however owing to the
unsettled state of affairs extremely fiat.

THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—This delightful place of
amusement continues, from judicious management and
liberal expenditure in catering for the public, to become
every week, as the season advances, more and more at-
tractive. The proprietors have re-engaged Madame War-
ton, for the present week, and that distinguished artiste,
in addition to the fashionable morning performances, will
appear on the evenings of this day, Tuesday, to-morrow,
Wednesday, and on Friday, and represent, for the first
time in Liverpool, Lady Godiva, the Maid of Orleans, and
Sappho, all of which have been pronounced by thousands
to be inimitable personations—full of elegance, verisimili-
tude, and classical taste. The prosramme of the per-
formances is highly interesting. Vt e may add that the
fac-simile of Shakespeare's house, erected on the grounds,
continues to be it.ape,ted With increased interest and gra-
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NEW PLAN FOR CONSUMING, OR PREVENTING SMOKE
IN STEAM-ENGINE FURNACES.—We yesterday visited
the cooperage of Mr. James Robertson, No. 113, Great-
Howard-street, and inspected the operation of a new plan
or apparatus of his invention for the prevention of smoke
from steam-boiler flues. Several scientific gentlemen
were present, and expressed themselves highly gratified by
the success of the experiments, which, after what we
have recently heard from various parties owning steam-
works, impress us with surprise, and inspired us with a
hope that though former attempts have proved more or
less futile, the grand desideratum may yet be attained—to
the great comfort and advantage of the inhabitants of the
manufacturing districts. The manner in which Mr. Ro-
bertson's apparatus is constructed and applied we are of
course ignorant of, as he wisely retains his secret until he
can secure himself as the inventor ; but thus far we may
say, that the furnace head, a large, long, cylindrical boiler,
has only a short chimney attached ; and that repeated
shovelfuls of coal or slack, put on the fire at a time, pro-
duced little or no perceptible smoke from the top ; the
whole of the substance of matter that would form dense
smoke being dissipated in thin vapour or gasses, or rather
hot hair, which scarcely at all, even in the first instance,
discolour or thicken the atmosphere. The inventor and
those present were of opinion too that the draught of the
flue was greatly improved, and that fully the same
quantity of steam could be kept up by the same quantity
of fuel. The steamer in the boiler was, without extra ex-
ertion, kept up to an almost dangerous degree. The ap-
paratus is, we learn, quite simple and of little cost. Mr.
Robertson has been advised by practical men, who have
seen the operation of the plan, to bring it under the notice
of the magistrates, the Town Council, and other parties
interested; and, assuredly, tke advantages which it pro-
mises, entitle it to the serious consideration of all who va-
lue health and comfort in towns or places where steam-
engines or furnaces are employed.
A single piece of china, before it is finished, employs
forty hands, from the man who pounds the flint to the
designer and colourer.
A COMMON DISAPPOINTMENT.—" Large constituen-
cies," pathetically observed Mr. Brotherton, " always
expected their members to say something." And how
very often do they speak, and yet, like Juliet, " say
nothing !" There is a great reform to be worked in the
Commons. We want more work and less talk. Abuses
are not to be put down with the like weapon to that with
which Samson put down the Philistines. Is there no
city—no large constituency sufficiently courageous, in
order to show its proper value of taciturnity—is there no
electoral body bold enough to send for its member to
parliament—a dumb man ?-Punch
ANECDOTES OF AcTotts.—Billy Simpson never would
take any medicine; and his medical man was often obliged
to resort to stratagem to impose a dose upon him. There
is a piece—l do not recollect the name—in which the hero
is sentenced in prison to drink a cup of poison. Billy
Simpson was playing this character one night, and had
given directions to ye it filled with port wine ; but what
was his horror, when lie came to drink it, to find that it
contained a dose of scnna! He could not throw it away,
as he had to hold the goblet upside down, to show his
persecutors that he had drained every drop of it. Simpson
drunk the medicine with the slowness of apoisoned martyr;
but he never forgave his medical man this trick, as was
fully proved at his death, for he died without paying his
bill.—Changefor a Shilling.

DERIVATIONS AND USES OF THE ELECTRIC TELE-
GRAPH.—A remarkably ingenious etymologist has pro-
posed a derivation for the name of the useful apparatus in
question ; which, though plausible, we do not wish to be
understood wholly and unreservedly to sanction. He
supposes, that in consequence of the comparatively short,
and consequently, in a manner, surly answers given by
means of the apparatus to questions asked, that it was
first called—" I like to tell 'ee gruff," of which electric
telegraph is a recent corruption. Giving all credit to the
learned gentleman for his ingenuity, we have our doubts
as to the soundness of his doctrine, which, however, we
feel bound to submit to the judgment of our readers.
Certain errors as to the nature and functions of the
electric telegraph exist, we understand, in the remote and
rural districts of this realm, which we are happy, by the
present publication, to be enabled to dispel. We have,
then to all curious inquirers to say, that it is a popular delu-
sion to suppose that luggage can be forwarded by telegraph.
As absurd is it tt.l climb up one of the poles, put your ear
to the wires, and try to catch the intelligence which may
be in the course of being transmitted. Neither will any
effect be produced by acting like the old lady in Devon-
shire, who, after rapping at one of the posts with her
umbrella, as if to inquire whether the electric fluid were
at home, shouted out the message which she intended
should be conveyed along the wires. Other absurd myths
—relating, however, to the outward and physical ap-
pearance of the telegraph—have from time to time arisen
in primitive, turnip-growing districts, when the wires
were seen for the first time stretching along by embank-
ment and cutting. A strong feeling pervaded one district
for some months that the railway company had established
an extensive laundry somewhere on the line, and that the
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some time in the county in question before the public
mind had been disabused, and conceived a truthful im-
pression of the nature of the instrument.—The comic
Bradshaw, or Bubbles front the Boiler.