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

ettleEiS SklAii,EZ%, DECEMBER 30.

Amt.
paid. I

SHARES.

20
10e,
25
25

Sales
This Da'

ie I RAILWAYS
, Banish y Junction
5 :Birkenhead, M'chester& Chester.
Ito j iirminghtun and Gloucester
..
25 I Ditto quarter
5' I Blackburn and Preston
4 :Bolton, Wigan and Liverpool ... • 33
7u !Bristol and Exeter
30 I Bristol and Gloucester
5 'Caledonian
50 ;Chester and Itirkenhead
5 ! Ditto half
5 Chester and Holyhead
1 Chester and Wrexham
a 3 Dublin and Belfast
5 Dublin and Cashel
6:) Dublin and Drogheda
23
,Dundee and Perth
25 Eastern Counties
53s 4d I Perpetual
13s 4d Perpetual, No. 2
50 1-diriburgli and Glasgow
123 Ditto quarter
20 Edinburgh, Leith and Granton...
5 Ditto, preference-shares
13 Glasgow and Dumfries
25 Lir' asgow, Paisley, & Greenock
123 Ditto half sh res
13 Ditto preference ....
5a Glasgow and Ayr
i 23 Ditto quarter shares
100 .1 and Junction
5o Ditto half shares .
123 Quarter
.........
23 One-eighth
100 ;heat North of England
75 great Western .....
50 Ditto Half Shares
4 Ditto Fifth Shares
50 Hull and Selby
10 Ditto quarter.
10 Latica,ter and Carlisle
473 Lancaster anu Preston
19 Ditto three-quarter shares
100 ..rverpool and Manchester .
50 Ditto half shares
.. • • •
Ditto new
23 Liverpool, Ormskirk & P. est.al .
100 London and Birmingham...
2 Ditto e 32 shares.
2 Ditto quarter shares .....
45 London & Brtr-liton
123 Ditto Loan Notes
50 London and South Western
6 Ditto new shares
23 London and 1 ork
5 Leeds and Bradford
40 dancliester ann Birmingham .... 522
2 Ditto quarter.. •
23 Manchester, Bolton & Rossendale S.;
93 Kanchester, Belton & Bury
76 Ilanchester and heeds
31) Ditto half shares
2 Ditto quarter shares ... .
100 vlidland Counties ll5 1163
2 1-sth Shares
13 qewcastle and Berwick
100 Newcastle and Carlisle
21 Newcastle and Darlington June.
5 North British e7 13s. 9d.
100 IN,)rth Union (a.)
) Ditto
so Preston and Wyre
100 Runcorn Gap
100 Ditto preference
13 Sheffield and Lincoln
18s.
823 Sheffield and Manchester 9:4
8 Quarter.
23 Scottish Central
Shrewsbury and Grand Junction 5l
50 South Eastern and Dover
New shares
2 Trent Valley
296 Ulster
20 Yarmouth and Norwich
So York and N( rth Midland
25 Ditto half Snares
10 Ditto, (Scarborough)
York and Selby £s:r shares 574
Ditto e 25 shares

6 2-3
6 2-3

4i

15i 4
32s

215
1121 1

Stock

4.

.. 37i

.. 394
.. 27 274

4i

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Stock
100
100
100
100
Stock.

53 52i

FRENCH, &c. RAILWAYS.
Hiu'ogne and Amiens .
Central of France
Lyons and Avignon ..
Or:eans and Bourdeaux
Paris and Lyons .
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rouen ......
Paris and Strausburgh
Rouen arid Havre ....
Strasburgh and Basle.. . .
Sambre and Meuse .......
Tours and Nantes

3i

41i

24

BANKS, and M SCELLANEOUS'.-
Liverpool Bank
Ditto Banking C mpany
Ditto Borough Bank
Ditto Convicr.:ial
Ditto Royal
Ditto Uni n
Vanc'hester e, I Dseiriet-.
North and
Anderton Carrying- Company ....
:lootle Water Works
Coal Gas Company

Ditto newslu:l resi
g xchange Buildings
Harrington Docks
Harrington Water Works....
ti verpool Fire and Life
Livervool Dock Ben !
Marine Assurarce Company
-New Gas & Coke Company
Ditto, quarter
Rock Ferry
steam Tug Company

A SURGICAL. PuzzLts.—Between
the gears 1750-60,
the medicil 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. Pamphlets and scientific essays were pub-
lished, the most celebrated of which was written by Dr.
Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne, called " Sills, or a Chain of
Philosophical lieflections and Inquiries concerning Tar-
water.' 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
thorn of 11 e gout ; from others it had driven away ague,
toothache, astiunas, and consumption But the most re-
markable 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 case to the Royal Society. The ac-
count he gave was, that, having fallen from the top of the
mast, and fractured his leg, he had dressed it with nothing
but. tar and o ikurn, 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
fuller relation, and, I suppose, the corrob(.ration of evi-
dence. Many doubted whether the 1 g had been really
broken. That part of the story had been amply verified.
Still, it was difficult to believe that the man had made use
of no other applications than tar and oakum ; and how -
they should cure a brokon leg in three days, even if they
could cure it at all, was a matter of the utmost wonder.
Several lett• rs 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
abbrevibt'on of a:temlance and expense; but, on the other
hand, you will be charmed with the plain honest sirneli-
city of the sailor. Ina 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 exac‘ly as Wa!polo relates it. The hoax was played
off by a very eccentric character of the time—Sir John
II ill—who had been refused admission to the Royal So-
ciety, and revenged his disappointment by sending a let-
ter, deteilieg the case of the sailor as if from a country
practitioner. The asserebl (1 wisdom of the wh&e body
of the fellows of the Royal Society discussed the extraor-
dinary nature of the ease with the utmost gravity, bring-
ing all their toed cal tied seietttifte knowledge to bear upon
it. The result of a eir le -lewd deliberations wes given to
t'le world, and then Sir John Hill sent a second letter, in-
le ntiree the society that he had forgotten to state one cir-
eniestattce in the cure, w! kb was, that the sailor's leg
was aVt 00,0. . This pleasantry treeing got extensive
currency, the universal %.rtte s of tar and tar-water were
much less believed in, and at last got quite exploded.