The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-14 00:00:00

..—On a small
brmed of a common gar-

den-pot, well burnt, and with holes in the bottom ; the
lower part to be filled with round pebbles, then some
smaller pebbles, then some coarse sand, and finally a
stratum of pounded charcoal, three or four inches thick ;
the use, in large filters of broken shells interspersed be-
tween the gravel and sand, is a great improvement,' inas-
much as the fragments being flat overlap each 'other, and
counteract the tendency of the sand to settle amongst the
gravel, thus preserving a free percolation through the
lower strata.
DEPLORABLE CONDITION OF LODGING-HOUSES.—At
an inquest in Bolton, last week, on the body of an infant,
the mother, in the course of her statement as to the cause
of the child's death (convulsions), said there were three
beds in the room where she slept, two of them being occu-
pied by men, and she, in the absence of her busband,
sleeping in the same room. The coroner seemed some-
what startled on hearing this, and no less so, when Mr.
Finnegan, the police officer, assured him it was a mere
trifle, for he knew one lodging-house in which there. were
fourteen beds in one room I men and women sleer

them as circumstances might justify.
FALL OF RAIN.—The following is stated in The
Dui:4er to he tl e annual fall of rain at different places in
Great Britain at d elsewhere

Inches

Bombay

Inches.
Liverpool ...... 34-119
Chatsworth... 27-664
Edinburgh 24.5
London.. 23-10
Glasgow •• • • • 2l-331
Paris
Petersburg l7-5
Uleaborg 13.5

Calcutta
Vera Cm

Plmonth ... . 44
Lancaster
39-714

...
Dover 37-52
Dumfries . . 36-919
Manche5ter............ 36.140

day. Accordingly, the parties met, each attended by his
friend. Being placed on the ground, the first fire was de-
ci.led by a toss, and won by the party giving the offence,
who had previously offered to apologise. The party who
had thrown the wine having received his opponent's fi e.
discharged his pistol into the air. The business was ulti-
mately amicably settled at a dinner which followed this

hazardous affair. We know the parties, but decline sta-
ting any names." [No doubt the murder will 'out.]—
Troolrrier's Exeter Gazette

MURDER"--;T KINSTON, WARWICKSHIRE

—An atro-

cious murder has been committed near Kineton, a market
n half-way between. Banbury and Stratford-upon-
le deceased, William Chater, was a blacksmith

I-Avon.

dozen cottages, all tenanted: He is represented, how-
ever, to have been a man of very quarrelsome and litigious
dispositiop, often engaged in disputes before the local
magistrates with his workmen and others, some of whom
have been known to threaten him, and it has been con-
_

jectured- that to some such cause his dea, ue attri-
buted. It appears that on Wednesday se'nnight he went
to the town of Kineton, about two miles from which he
resided, and that he left in the evening for. the purpose of

returning, being roznewhat Hutuu .
however, his body was found by the roads
ral desperate wounds on his head, and the traces of a

bout midnight,

le, with seve-

hard struggle aeout cue tjun, nuere ne lay. An inquest
has been held, and the jury have found a verdict of
" Wilful murder against some person or persons un-
known."_

EAST INDIA TRADE.—From the statements just pub-
lished by the London East India and China Association
of the outward and inward tonnage to and from India, for
the first six months of this year. as compared with the

corresponding period of 1845, we find thit the outward
tonnage has increased 9,015 tons, being the difference be-
tween 184,371 tons in 1845 and 203,386 tons in 1846. The
outward entries from London in 1845 were 104,216
.tons,
igainst 109,291 t- 1846; fr Livery- " 586 tons

,ons in rom
in 1845, against 60,219 tuns in 1816; and from all the
other ports, 32.5C9 tons in 1845, against 33,876 in 1846.
The inward tonnage has increased this year 6,952 tons,
being the difference between 202,032 tons in 1815, and
208,984 tons in 1846. Of these amounts London absorbs
nearly three-fourths, her entries inwards in 1845 amount-
ing to 147,663 tons, against 148,926 tons in 1846 ; the
entries in Liverpool were 47,417 tons in 1845, and
50,338 tons in 1846; and in all the other ports were 6,952
tons in 1845, against 9,720 tons in 1846. The following
are the ports and places comprised in the returns : namely,
Calcutta, Madras, Bombay, China, Ceylon, Singapore,
Penang, Phillipine Islands, Siam, Java, Sumatra, Arabia,
New South Wales, New Zealand, Mauritius, Cape of Good
Hope, and the South Seas.