The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-07-18 00:00:00

ACHROMATIC MICROSCOPES

Microscopic investigation being an essential feature in
Physiological Study, the research can only be satisfacto-
rily developed by the aid of ACHROMATIC LENSES ; but
hitherto their expensive character have precluded such
from general use. A MICROSCOPE can now be supplied,
most effectively constructed, with Jointed Pillar and
Tripod Stand, TWO SETS OF ACHROMATIC OBJECT-
GLASSES, TWO HUYGENIAN EYE-PIECES, forming a
combination of Five Magnifying Powers, varying from 30
to 250 TIMES LINEAR, OT 900 IO 62,500 SUPERFICIAL
MEASUREMENT, clearly defining the markings of the
most difficult test objects; a condensing Lens for Opaque
objects; Plate of Diaphragm's, Six Objects mounted in
Baisaam, &c„ &c., the whole neatly packed in Mahogany
Case, price £7 15s
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NEW POCKET COMPOUND Olt SINGLE

ACHROMATIC MICROSCOPE,
From its extreme portability, is admirably adapted for the
BOTANIST and PHYSIOLOGIST, and will be found a most
effective and useful instrument. A Triplet set of ACHRO-
MATIC OBJECT•GLASSES are arranged to be used as a
SINGLE MICROSCOPE, and, from various combinations,
SIX MAGNIFYING POWERS are obtained. Price, corn-
plete with necessary Apparatus, in a neat Mahogany
Case, £5 7s. 6d.

Manufactured and sold by A. ABRAHAM, Optician,
&c.,. 26, Lord-street, Liverpool, and ABRAHAM and
DANCER, 13, Cross-street, King-street, Manchester.

MRS. Noon.—This celebrated vocalist, after her very
short connexion with the Roman Catholics, has again
returned to her husband and the Protestant faith. On
Sunday last Mr. and Mrs. Wood took part in the musical
performances at Chapelthorpe chapel, and Mrs. Wood has,
we understand, undertaken to preside regularly at the new
organ which has just been built for that place of worship
by Mr. Booth, of Wakefield.—Leeds Mercury.
FIRE AT KENSINGTON PALACE.—About a quarter past
ten o'clock, on Wednesday night,.Kensington was alarmed
by a report that the Palace was in flames. Hundreds of

was found that a large rick of hay, containing from 70 to
80 loads, which was stacked nearly adjoining the stable,
on the north of the palace, was in flames. Several en-
gines were qnickly on the spot, but the fire was still
burning at an early hour yesterday morning. On the same
night the premises of Messrs. Taylor and Sons, Dover-
road, London, were almost wholly destroyed by fire.
NEW BARRACKS.—EXTENSIVE CONTRACT.—Within
the last few days government have contracted with Mr.
David Bellhouse, of Manchester, for the erection of bar-
racks on an extraordinary extensive scale. The site is 45
statute acres, and the erections are intended to accommo-
date 2000 cavalry and 2000 infantry. The cost, exclusive
of the land, will approach, if it do not exceed, £lOO,OOO.
The consumption of cast iron will be large. English oak
and Baltic timber are the main qualities that are to be in-
troduced. Little if any pine from North America will be
used. From the fact that there are now.also erecting bar-
racks both at Bury and Ashton, it is said that Lancashire
is to become the principal military depot of the kingdom.
There will, when the barracks in question are completed,
be accommodation in the entire county for upwards of
25,000 men, at least such is the opinion of persons who
profess to know.

NEW DUTY ON CERTAIN EASTERN PRODUCTS RE-
EXPORTED TO RRIXISH PLANTATIONS.—The commis-
sioners of customs have issued a general order drawing at-
tention to the fact, that
.whereas, under the former Pos-
sessions Act, all goods imported into any British posses-
sion in America or the Mauritius from the United King-
dom, or from some other British possession, or from the
place of growth, were exempt from duty, provided they
were the " produce of places within the limits of the East
India Company's charter ;" no matter whether those
places were China, Java, or other foreign places, now,
on the contrary, the late amended Possessions Act confines
such exemptions to goods the produce of British posses-
sions within those limits; and the commissioners direct
that wherever advantage attaches to this distinction, the
goods must, without fail, be so distinguished in the out-
ward cockets.

ANOTHER FIRE IN LoNnoN.—On Saturday morning
last, a fire of a very alarming nature took place in the ex-
tensive turpentine and oil works of Messrs. Johnson and
Pinchin, Cable-street, St. George's in the East, London.
This fire, which was accompanied by several terrific ex-
plosions, completely destroyed the factory, considered the
largest in London, and damaged between twenty and thirty
thirty houses iu the neighbourhood, including the Roman
Catholic school near the Blackwall Railway. The fire
was discovered about five o'clock. There was a plentiful
supply of water, but scarcely had the men commenced
operations, when a tremendous explosion took place,
which blew the roof of the factory into the air, and burst
through the walls on all sides, causing the destruction of
the entir? premises. The scene was terrific beyond de-
scription. For several minutes the whole of the district
was enveloped in clouds of smoke and dust, and showers
of burning atoms, splinters,land remnants of the building.
The shock resembled that of an earthquake, and the houses
for come distance round were shaken to their foundations,
every window in them being blown to fragments. Some
of the firemen bad managed to make their retreat, but
one fireman and a policeman were well nigh overwhelmed
by burning timbers, whence they were dragged in a most
pitiable condition. Other explosions, from several hun-
dred weight of gunpowder within the building, followed in
rapid succession, hurling to a considerable distance the
few portions of the ruins which had continued standing.
The engines were plied manfully, but to make any im-
pression on the enormous mass of blazing combustible
matter was impossible, and as the surrounding buildings
were rapidly burning and successively taking fire, the
utmost exertions were required for their preservation.
Upwards of fifty tons of turpentine, several thousand
barrels of oil, with lead„paint, &c., were on fire at the
time. The total amount of property destroyed is estimated
at £12,000, about one-half of,which is insured at the Sun
Office. The main fire was scarcely subdued when a stream
of flaming turpentine caused a fresh disaster in an adjacent
cooperage, where such a conflagration burst forth as for a
time baffled the efforts of the firemen. By great exer-
tions, however, this fire was subdued in about an hour.

THEFT FROM A LODGING HOUSE.—Yesterday, at
the Police Court, a young man named John Parks, a
sailor, was charged by Mary Harrison, keeper of a lodg-
ing house in Bridgwater-street, with stealing from her a
blanket and two spoons. The prisoner, it appeared, had
lodged with the complainant, and had left the house on
to fro to sea by his vessel, then at the