The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-12-04 00:00:00

SzNalNG.—Singit,;..t i 5 said to be a preventive nf Consort?,
tiou and other dizi rders of the lungs The whO f(1"1
iarely azllicted ;with such di;:e.ises. They
kap' the orgiins 'brt,.last; like other Organs, in tone by ex!;.
errising them, and the bellows sound by tisr, In English
churchei, the preparation for psalui singing, is a coitgli; rn
French, the blowing Of the -nose—a wag Once Observed of a re,
lebrated French characier—* Voila en neit qui a nye Lille rob,"
Sin W. Rat.Eio n's SELF ErrrAFa.—There•iS not .extant
nn epitaph of a In.,re christian ch :meter than that which llateijklt
wrote of hims6lf in the ToWer on the evening before his Murder
On Tower Hill; it runs thus:—
"Even such is time, that takes on trust
Our youth, our joys, our all we have, -
And pays us but with age and dust;
Who in the.dark and silent grave,
When we have wandered all our ways,
. Shuts up the glory of our days:
But from this earth, this grave, this dust,
.My God shall raise me up, I trust."
On the 29th of October, 1618, ended the mortal career of SIT
Walter Raleigh, who fell beneath the axe of the headsman in
Old Palace-yard, Westminster.
TurdPoilititi RunnEit.,=The Lords of the Admiralty have
presented their thanks for the plan of a temporary- 'udder, con-
structed by Captain Allen, late of the East Imaa. CoUtpaey'i
SeiWice, and noW commanding the " Oriental;" Easandiaman,
and their lordships have been pleased to express that they
consider it to possess considerable merit." The circumstance
which induced the plan being for Warded in the adthiralty arose
Own the disaster to the Pique frikate, on 1112 r late perilous boy-
age, when the plans most generally approved for applying tem-
porary rudders heinglried td that ship unsuccessfully. Captain
Allen's invention in 4s application to the ship "Town ()Moss,"
under almost overwhelming difficulties to contend with, iii her
crossing the Atlantic, was eminently successful—not only in
the system of its operation, but conducting that vessel in perfect
safety to the port from whence she derives her name.
It is a fact worthy of observation; that a sailor was never
known to be an infidel..—New Monthly Rale Assembly.
THE CHILTERN HUNDttEDS.—A member, when duly elected,
is not only compelled to serve in parliament, but he cannot at
any futdre period either. resign his seat of be expelled from the
house, except by some legal disqualifieation. In order, therefore,
to meet the view's of those menthol.; who mav Wish to resign their
seats, it ivas4e,en the practice. ever since the year 1759; for such
members "to accept of the otiico of Steward of tile Chiltern 14_ un-
dreds, which being au appointment under the clown, their seatst
are of ne6essity'vacated. The.office. however, is a merely rio=
mina! one. The stewards who accept it desire neither honour
nor emolum,ent from it, the only salary a,ttached to the,.appoitit-
ment being twenty shillings a-year. The Chiltern Hundreds
are district's in "BucEingbanishir,!, belonging to the crown. The;appointment to the office of steward of these hundredS is vested
in the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who, as a matter of course,
grants it to every member who appliei for it.—Rantionz Recol-
lectlitis of the House (V.

The Hon. William Thomas - Spencer .Wentworth, the eldest
surviving son of Earl Fitzwilliain, will, it. is understood, not takd
the title of Viscount Milton until after the aci'ouchement of Hui
young viscountess, who is now staying with her • .sisters, the
Ladies .Jeukingon, at • Fife House; Whitehall. The great Irish
estates belonging to this noble family came to them by the death
of the last Marquis of Rockingham.

By the death of the only son of Lord towell, the latter is left
without au heir male, and consequently the title will, upon his
lordship's decease, becotne e:ainct.

STRANGE PROPHECY OF MOTHER SHIPTON.-ArROGgSt the
prophecies of Mother Shipton was the following, Which, we be=
lieve, has hitherto escaped notice :
Godde help Johanes Bulle,
• Etween foe§ Mlle and Mulle.
This being rendered into the vernacular of the present day
strikes uskils being:—
_ _ _

God help John BUD,
`Twist Mel. and Mul.
There is not the slightest doubt that the abbreviated names is
the second line apply to the present premier in England; and
viceroy in Ireland. if we were Inclined to put taith in the
witch's wisdom, we have here a durious lure before

KEEPING EGGS.—It is well known that a sitting hen daily
turns her eggs: if she • were nut to do this, not only would the
heat that is communicated from her body be unequally distribu-
ted, hut the yolk would becometnisplacid. A laying hen, that
has wade her own nest, must do the same; for she could not
lay the requisite number for a brood in a shorter space of time
than 20 days; and in a quarter of that period .the yolk would
have sunk through the white, and come in contactwith the shell,
which, being porous, would have admitted the atmospheiie air;
the viral principle would have become inert, and the egg would
he addled. Eggs intended fur use should never be suffered to re-
main iu a nest more than one day, because every additional visit
of the hens to deposit their eggs induces a warmth, which is inimi-
cal to keeping, though necessary to hatching them. As early
the third day of incubation the nature of the egg is altered, cud is
consequently rendered unfit for use. The reader will have dis-
covered that we.:think the instinct of the midlmr bird; or rather
nature, has pointed out the most perfect plan to preserve egg
fresh, and entirely equal to those that are new laid. It is indeed
effected simply by tui mug them every day.--Maga:ine of Dome's-
.:;
tic Economy.

INDIAN SUPERSTITIONS Or TICRYIN'd A ravE.-It is the ens.;
tom, when a woman of the weaver caste sacrifices herself to the
manes of her husband, to descend with his body alive into thb
,grave, which is dug near sonic sacred river; hut if the patties
dwell at a distance from any holy stream, then the grave is
prepared near the most sacred spot in the vicinity. It is dug
very. deep and large; and, after a number or initiatory rites,' at;
unintelligible as they are fantastical, the widow takes a formal
leave of her friends, who are always present upon these melan=
eholy occasions; and descends mid the chamber of death. It
frequently happens that she is so stupified nit h opium as to be
scarcely conscious of what she is about, hot goes through the
necessary forms with mere mechanical insensibility. As sotiri
as she reaches the bottom of the pit, to which she descends by a
rude ladder, the latter is withdrawn, and she is left alone with
the body of her deceased husband, generally in a rekeilting state
of decay; this she embraces, clasping it to her bosom without
t heed ielitest ex pression :of Ai/torte-ewe at. the.. effluvia
Having finished herdisgnsting caresses, she places it upon her
lap, and gives the sigual'fer the lait all. of this shot:l:Mg scene
to' commence, which' is even' more dreadful than imniolatioti
upon the funeral' pile. The earth is now' deliberately thrown
upon her, while two:perenne descend into-the.graee to trample
it tightly round the ;self-devoted eat:lit-knit. During thi.i tardy
but terrible procesS, the doomed woman sits en unconcerned
spectator, oecasiomilly caressing the corpse, and looking with
'an expression of almoSt Sublime trinnell, as the earth em=
braces her body, at the anticipated leamers ehich.await her
in the paradise of her god. The hands of her oWn children are
perhaps at that very moment heaping around her the cold dust
into which she is seen to be resolved. At length, ell 'but her
head is covered, when the pit is hurriedly filled in, and heruear•'
est. 'relatives dance over her in hunted hody with these fraelic ges-
tures which, whether they betoken eestacy or madness, it is
difficult, on witnessing-them;-to decide.-01.:ZIntalAnnuel. . .
Tits P.--They have capacities. for improvement. Of
this. the:proofs are .alitindant :cud conclusive. Their physical
powers nikty,be brouelit out. Their hiteliecis and-affections tray
hell e are of tine sense bereft, it but retires
he developed.
into the rese' The loss of sight tends to sharpen the otherseusese
and consequently, welled the smell, and touch, and hearing of
the blind, estwitsitiogly acute: Nicholas SaunderScu, blind
Crete infancy, detected spuricins rieelels which the eyes of the
connoisseurs had declared to be eyueine saltines. A very ex-
celleut likeness ief the Austrian Ltee,eor wait tinseled by a blind
men. Peter ilureng repaired al; hinds eftratchee, discovering
their defects by:the sense of •Feelieg. The touch of the blind
enables thetoto distineuish diffeic in odours. By the great de;
licacy of this rtenseetheeepeeceimekhen a cloud is passing across
the sun. A blind man. was iiont.th:tiees over the Rechesteraeuee
duct upon the-side unprotected hy-ii ntiliege end When asked if
he was not afiaid to venture in 'se dareeerous a place, replied in
the 'negative; and added, as he slipped ene ilia over the side,
that it was a sotnee hat pekerish-lueliitte place.' Others deter;
. thine the breadth of. streets. end 'height of buildings. -by dices.sound of their footsteps uS t hey.ev all: between On, Jobe Met-.
calf of Scotland,- was a projector end suivt:yer.. With the aid of
a stall., he travelled roads,escended precipices, eXplered Yalleis;
and ascertained their form and extent. ft-levees Walked
fearlessly; seeming, to see with his eats, and to ha."o `landruarlil
ire the air.' The blind assign to individuals their ace and size,
by attending eo the sound of their toiceie They hear the riimb=
ling of carriage wheels, long befere it is audintit to ()they.
When their senses are thus •edueeteil, they fiecome enasteis in
the mechanic arts; in weaving, spintrieg, bookbinding, shoe-
- making, joinery, atid ropetwisting ; es well as in the inanufae-
, tureof baskets, rugs, Mattresses, and a thousand other usefulartieleS. :Here may a world be opened lie their iudinstry
and
their skill, wherein they rosy gain a livelihotA and render them.:
selves efledtive.membei s of the down:unity.= Western, aliinild,#
Magazine.
SCRAPS, 511051 A Noee-nooe.-eSpartaeus was ri gladiato-r.
—Charlemagne could neither:read nor write---The palace
of Scone Was :pUI.III by the rabble about. the eemmeueemeut cif
the eetormation.—Buchanan occupied `4) vears iu writing his
history of Scotland.—Geneva was a.cousikferable town in the
time cif „Julies Cxsar.-e-r-But foi the victory of Charles Martel,
neat Tours, all Euroee, as well as Asia and Africa must have be-
come lelahomedan —eShakespeare's first play' was liurc:et, his
secutid ft...zpeo. and Juliet.----71'ythaguras,„the earliest Greek
pltilesopher, taught the'systent erastionemy adopted at thistlq.
Prussia was a proviure of Poland till. the year Ma--
. The invention of • the game of chess is attributed to Pyrrhus,
kint of IP,intitte_-eAristotle is ceiledelee 6tagyrite, beetkose lie
wa,-1,..in at st:igtto,o small city in Marcdoe.--There are
distitiet muscles in the human h01y..--e-At Naples, a coffin
i'or the dyad is never provided, exceet ellen particularly request
ed.--The house of Sallust is still to • be seen at Porepeh."---
Padua is the birth piece Livy, Petard).- aed Belzoni.
N enoenoN AND SCH ie t .—Major Scbill, the celebrated Prilk=
Sian tit'ealty''hllioer, in 1807, took from the Emperor seven
beautiful Arabian horses, prceented to thin by the Gland
Seignor. Enraged. at :his loss, the'Etufteror set Upon
Schilles head cafe price if one hundrhil Napoleons. Sehill gave
hitiSelflftile'Concern about the menaces the French emperor,
on whose "Bead be, in his torte, eat a price, and, to show hint
how he valued hine.he offered but a very smell situ, Napoleon
who was eery fond of hiA herses, sent to &limed them of Schilli
proud sing to pity him 4,e'Ott crowns in gold, or whatever thtev
might be worth: -He sent a letter to him on the subjecteaddresseil
= "etteei.rreiNg nes IIeiGANI*.SCIIII,L."
nnsiter to his letter was-7
- -
" Dear -Brotber.-1. ant the mute pleated 'et haring taken
seven of emir horses, as I see- by emir letter that vnii pet se
greatek value upon them; but I cannot eeeefirthe 4,610 crow us
'fir gold, as I aneinotat. all in wantof tnbut"e ; dill, should I
occasion ter any, 1 shall eie aks fled
.stiftieient in the militiley
chests of the French array which 1 ate stife of taking. If, how-
I
ever, instead of this, you will replace thelbur horses whiclnyott
stole from the Breedenbureh 'gate at you shill hate
those I have taken veithoot further payment." •
This letter toThe Emperor he addressed ;IS follews
"AC COLONEL DE Tors LES MON LONOtAiDiE
FIZERP. NAPOLEON."
We arc gratificA to learn that !ice
aivkWard riair respectir4
the pension of lqr.'Farradity has alert' settled iieu Manner qoite.
agreeable to the feelings of thategentleemie, and he is now to
receive the 'same minima uutiukilly as Mr, Professor Airey, of
Cambridge University.-i/biee.
We ate told that, at the oartieular. request of his.Mejesty.
there is to be an oritamental eta alms matte Mei Buckingham;
gardens, in a hue With the Klee's-road. The Pahren being, in
every respect ready for the reception of theiteldelet.ties,_ come
surprise has been eetpiessed that the Cotemiesioners of Woeteds,
and Forests have not given instructions thr the vetting up of
the splendid gates at the principal entriente, they having been
completed long agte-Aherning Paper, . • '
Peoviueeetee ESCAPE.— Leshireet flee Earl of Coventiy;
attended by ohe'of his gamekeei,eis, ktemiing on the elltp.
1 tic arch lately raised to form a bridge et Knight's Pool, on hie
lordship's demesne-at Earl's Crootite, when the top us the arch
t fell in, carrying with it about nine or ten lona-et' brickwork.;
IThe eittl, with great
.presenee ht Gsinct, chine to the parapet
near which he was standing, and was nitbuit; the gamekeeper
kept his tooting on the gioutti on which he Stood, which tie.:
Ik:ending in ore mass, he escaped without injury: Several
workmen .had been employed during the day below. the arch;
but fortunately the last of 'there had quitted it a quail& a ad
I Lout better the crash.----Iforcesier Guardieut;