The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-11-07 00:00:00

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are—Boxer, Biter, Cracker, Clinker, Skylark, Stork,
Swinger, Starling, Snap, Thistle, Redwing, Weazel, Dap-
per, Fanny, Hind, Jackdaw, Jasper, Grinder, Magpie, and
Lark. In addition to these the following mortar-vessels
are to be built by the same time :—Blazer, Firm, Flamer,
Surly, Growler, Havock, Hardy, Manly, Porpoise, and
Mastiff. Each large man-of-war will have one attached to

her as a tender

REPRESENTATION OF ABINGDON.—The Hon. J. W,
Fortescue has issued an address to the electors, and com.
mences his canvas forthwith. Mr. Fortescue announces

that the present government will have his support and
confidence. It is also said that an address from Major
Reed will immediately appear.
1r is intended to construct forthwith a permanent camp
Aldershot, near the site of the Chobham camp of last
. The camp at Aldershot will comprise barracks,
magazines, and other buildings necessary for the accom-
modation of 10,000 men. This will include two regiments
of cavalry, detachments of horse and foot artillery, and in-
fantry. The works are to be proceeded with with all
despatch, and it is reported that £lO,OOO will be spent
upon this camp by March next.
THE PIG QuEsrioN.—At a numerous meeting held on
Tuesday, an association was formed for the protection of
persons keeping swine, when upwards of 100 members paid
their subscriptions and joined the association, with a full
determination of resisting the proceedings of the Local
Board of Health. The meeting broke up after a toast
from the chair to the following effect :—" May the op-
posers of swine never eat pork-pie, see a ham, chew a bit
of bacon, or taste a delicious morsel of sucking pig." We
learn that similar meetings have been held in Coventry,
and the result has been that parties keeping pigs have
been heavily fined by the magistrates, and the

expelled the city.—Leicester Mercury.
REFINED ADITSE.—A policeman named Barry, on the
Blackwall Railway, has summoned Mr. John Bean, a coal-
merchant, and daily traveller on the line, for calling him
" a Cambridge undergraduate," and " a doctor of divinity,"

varied occasionally, when the old gentleman was more
than ordinarily in a rage, by the epithets " fool," " jack-
ass," and " monkey." Three months ago the old gentle-
man had been annoyed at the policeman not letting him
pass by a forbidden door at the station; and had called him
a fool, in answer to which the policeman said he was bet-
ter educated than he was. Ever since that the old gentle-
man, on arriving at the terminus, used to point out the
policeman to the passengers as "the doctor of divinity,"
the "Cambridge undergraduate," &c. The magistrate

fined him 109

THE POLICE 017TNV
ago, that a comedian belonging to t

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had determined to inflict

personal chart

sement on a

journalist of the place, for some criticism passed on his
wife, and that before meeting with the real offender he
had assaulted a banker of the place, mistaking him for the
journalist. After this he met the real offender, and
assaulted him. A warrant having been issued for his ar-
rest, he took refuge, says a Nantes journal, at the theatre,
and was actually beneath the table at which the commis-
sary of police, who had come in search of him, sat down
after examining the house without success, to draw up a
proces verbal. A trap door beneath the table enabled
the actor to get down under the stage, but the house being
surrounded by sergeants de vile, he was obliged, in order
to get out, to place himself in a trunk of his wife, who was
preparing to start for Paris, and in which he got clear off.
—Galignani.

THE BITER BIT.—On Sunday week two men, well-
dressed (teetotallers, we understand), went to a public-
house near the east end of the town, and after stating that
they were travellers, going away upon a journey, asked
for " half a mutchin" in a bottle. We are not sure
if they put the name "whisky" to it or not, but they said
" Give us the best." Away trudged the travellers, chuck-
ling at their success. Had the publican been seen inside
his domicile he would have been observed chuckling also.
By and by another knock comes to the door, and our two
travellers again make their appearance, but this time they
are accompanied by a police-officer, who directly accused
him (the publican) of having sold whisky to the travellers
on Sunday morning. The bottle at this time had not been
opened, and the publican denied the charge. It was there-
fore found necessary to draw the cork, when, lo and
behold ! the contents were found to be " pure Monikie."
Down fell the under-jaws of the travellers, and a demand
was made for the restitution of the shilling, which the
wily publican refused to give, upon the plea that he had
supplied them with " half a mutchkin of the best," ac-
cording to order.—Dundee Courier.

SINGULAR EFFECTS OF A THUNDERSTORM. —A storm
of thunder and lightning passed over the counties of
Worcester, Hereford, and Gloucester on Monday. It was of
short duration, and was preceded and followed by sharp
frosts. At Pinvin, near Pershore, Worcestershire, a Mr.
Stinton, a farmer, was ploughing with a team of four
horses, when he observed two black clouds pass, one on
each side of him, the intervening space in the heavens
being clear. In _ morsient ..w3thopt..wariiine.jie found
1111 peal of thunder and vivid flash of lightning appear-
ing simultaneously. On rising, he found his team of
horses lying prostrate and dead before him. Each horse
fell with his head between his fore legs ; the first horse
on its near side, the second on its off, the third on its
near, and the fourth also on the off side—all in a straight
line, as when in the act of drawing the plough. The boy
who was walking by the side of the horses was unhurt,
and Mr. Stinton only received a shaking. The animals'
bodies bore but slight marks of injury externally, their
coats appearing as if singed in one or two places. They
were valued at £l3O, but Mr. Stinton had insured his
stock from lightning as well as fire.
THE EPIDEMIC CHOLERA..—The following is a com-
plete return of the number of deaths from cholera and
from diarrhcea in England and Wales, for the months of
July, August, and September. The deaths in the districts
that have suffered most are separately returned ; and the
deaths from cholera and from diarrhcea in the weeks of
September are also distinguished. The returns have been
made from their register books by the registrars, under
instructions from the registrar-general. The deaths by
cholera in the three months were 15,587, by diarrhcea,
11,135 or 26,722 by the two forms of disease. The epi-
demic has exhibited less intensity than it did in 1849, and
although diarrhcea has been apparently as prevalent, or at
least as fatal, the deaths by cholera have been fewer by
28,234 than the deaths by the same disease in the three
summer months of that year. The mortality from cholera
and diarrhcea is less by one-half than it was in 1849. The
districts in what was called the London Cholera Field have
suffered most severely ; and there it is known that though
some sanitary improvements have been projected, they
have only, in a few instances, been carried out. Liverpool
has been attacked by the epidemic, but the deaths by
cholera in that town and its suburbs (the districts of Liver-
pool and West Derby), have hitherto been 953 ; whereas
the deaths by cholera in the corresponding period of 1849,
were 4,545. Liverpool has a health officer, and certain
sanitary measures have been carried into effect. The
authorities of the town deserve credit for their successful
efforts in the improvement of the health of Liverpool.
Deaths by the epidemic cholera have, during the three
months, occurred in every county except Herefordshire,
Rutlandshire, and Westmoreland ; but many districts
have escaped hitherto, and a few, such as Merthyr Tydfil,
have suffered or are still suffering severely. The diarrhoea
which is so fatal in Birmingham, Manchester, and other
districts, where few deaths are referred to cholera, requires
investigation; it is undoubtedly, in the majority of
instances, a modification of choleraic disease.—Reyistrar-
General's Report.
DIE ELECTRIC TELEGRAM—There are many per-
sons to whom the name of the Electric Telegraph is
familiar, who have not the most remote idea as to the
manner in which it works. We have known some indulge
in the idea that the insulating posts by the side of the rail
are for the benefit and domestic comfort of the railway
officials and policemen, and that the wires are stretched
for them to hang their clothes on after washing; others,
having a nearer approach to its true character of connect-
ing town to town by instant communication, exaggerate
its capabilities, and suppose it a new-fangled mode of con-
veyance, as well for parcels as for messages. The man
who applied to have his milk and butter sent up every
morning fresh from the country by Electric Telegraph,
represents a large class of persons equally as ignorant of
the true nature, character, and capabilities of the Electric
Telegraph. We do not intend here to enter upon a scientific
investigation or explanation of the discovery, or working
of the Electric Telegraph ; our readers may, in the last
number of the Quarterly Review, find a most admirable
and interesting article upon the subject, that will well re-
pay perusal : but we rather call attention to it, in order
to give additional publicity to a recent arrangement of the
Electric Telegraph Company, whereby increased facilities
are afforded to the public, to forward messages by it at a
more moderate cost than before. The arrangement is as
follows :—The company have, and are appointing agents
in every town in connection by rail with the telegraph,
who are supplied with franked message stamps of different
value, and also indicated by being printed on different
coloured papers, with which the public can supply them-
selves as they do receipt or postage stamps, and by simply
writing the message on the stamped coloured paper, and
forwarding it to the Electric Telegraph Office, at the
nearest railway station, it will be at once transmitted to
the place desired. The franked blank message sheets to
convey twenty words are printed on pink paper for any
station within a circuit of fifty miles, and are sold at one
shilling each; beyond fifty miles and within a circuit of
one hundred miles, on blue paper, at 2s. 6d. each. Be-
yond a circuit of one hundred miles, on white paper, at ss.
each. Men engaged in commercial pursuits, or professional
men, to whom instant communication with distant places
is often important, can now, having a few of these stamped
message papers in their office, address their message, and
forward it to the Telegraph Office at the nearest station,
and without further trouble or payment can ensure the
delivery of their order or message at the desired point.
Of course if the message exceeds twenty words, a propor-
tionate additional charge or franked paper is used, equiva-
lent to it. The Electric Telegraph Company do not make
any charge for the names and addresses of sender and
receiver.. The Electric Telegraph Company, whose wires
are in communication with above seven hundred stations
in this country and on the Continent, was incorporated
in the year 1846. It was only during the last year
that the " International Telegraph Company" and this
company merged and incorporated into one. This adhesion
has added much to the power and capabilities of the
manage
mut , • and when We add, that even with the ver3

partial use yet mace
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wire and forming telegraphic circles east, west, north,
and south of Europe, the company have been enabled at
'their last meeting to pay a dividend of seven per cent. to
the shareholders, we have said enough to satisfy the most
doubtful that the system is sound and successful, and that
the more it is developed the better and cheaper it will be
for the public, and more satisfactory to all connected with
it,—Bridgwater Timer,