The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-11-14 00:00:00

DEATHS

On the 25th May, at Launceston, Van Diemen's Land,
aged 29, Mr. Hector Macdonald, of Grove-street, in this
town.
On the 24th ult., at Hatton, aged 101, Frances Croft.
for upwards of 107 years.
She and her ancestors had been tenants to Colonel Sib-
at Mergosia, canton Ticini, Switzer-
land, aged aagtnhedde hB2isss,tfMamily h
Pedrone, mother of Mr. L. Pedrone,
of Lord-street.
On the 28th ult., Rear-Admiral Charles Bowen.

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On the 30th ult., at Richmond-house, Manchester, aged
48, John Davies, Esq., Mexican merchant, eldest son of
Mr. John Davies, Hope-place.
On the 31st ult., at Douglas, Isle of Man, aged 48, James
Schofield, jun., Esq., of Brook-house, Rochdale.
On the 31st ult., aged 72, T. Melling, farmer, Tarleton.
On the 2nd inst., at Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave-street,
the Countess of Kenmare. _ _

On the 3rd inst., at Florence, aged 27, the Countess of
Strathmore and Kinghorn, eldest daughter of Viscount
Barrington.
On the 3rd inst., in his 67th year, Mr. J. E. Widelicomb,
late riding-master for thirty-four years at Astley's.
On the sth inst., aged 11, John T. Allsop, only son of
Mr. James Bamford, publican, West Derby.
On the sth inst., at Stone, Wimborne, Dorset, aged 73,
Rear-Admiral Joseph Gulston Garland.
On the sth inst., at his residence, South-street, Toxteth-
park, aged 40, Captain Robert Pearce, late master of the
barque Evangelist.
On the 6th inst., aged 45, Agnes, wife of Mr. Henry
Cole, hatter, Pitt-street.
On the 6th inst., at Hoylake, aged 79, Mr. John
Washington.
On the 6th inst., aged 4 months, Josephine, daughter of
Mr. Joseph Hargreaves, High Park-street.
On the 6th inst., aged 31, Mr. Edward Spooner, of
Seacombe-street, Everton.
On the 7th inst., aged 62, Mr. J. Whitehead, cart-owner.

On the 7th inst., at Marina-cottage, aged 23, Grace, wife
of Mr. Henry Young, and youngest daughter of Mr.
Samuel Johnson, Isle of Man.
On the 7th inst., at Oldham, aged 25, Mr. Robert
Grundy, surgeon, son of the late Mr. William Grundy, of
St. Helen's.

On the Bth inst., at the Shrubbery, Low-hill, aged 37,
Sarah, wife of William Walthew, Esq.
On the Bth inst., aged 8 months, John, infant son of Mr.
John Empson, pawnbroker, Scotland-place.
On the Bth inst., aged 17 months, Arthur Joshua, son
of the Rev. John A. Wilson, of May-place.
On the Bth inst., in Bridson-street, aged 21, Mr. Edward
J. Seddall, son of T. Seddall, Esq., vine-grower, Mahon.
On the Bth inst., at Brook-house, West Derby, Mary
Anne, wife of Thomas Harrison, Esq., of this town, and
youngest daughter of the late C. S. Fenwick, Esq., of New-
castle-upon-Tyne.
On the Bth inst., at his residence, South-hill-grove,
Toxteth-park, aged 74, Joseph Steele, Esq.
On the Bth inst., at his residence, Miles-street, Toxteth-
park, aged 65, Mr David Williams.
On the Bth inst., suddenly, aged 31, Charles Lea, son of
the late Thomas Lea, solicitor, of this town, and late book-
keeper at Mercer Brothers and Co.
On the Bth instant, aged 47, Mr. Jehoshaphat Preest,
of Blake-street, Copperas-hill.
On the 9th instant, Mr. Williamson, Sypland, Kirk-
cudbright.
On the 9th inst., in her 48th year, Mary, wife of Mr.
Walter A. Hayward, of Higher Broughton, Manchester.
On the 9th inst., aged 8 years and 10 months, Jane,
daughter of Mr. John M'Crivering, Birkenhead.
On the 9th inst., at Woodlands, Aigburth, Miss Anne
Robertson, daughter of the late Henry Robertson, D.D.,
minister of the parish of Kiltearn, Ross-shire.
On the 9th inst., at the residence of his father, Bedford-
street South, in his 17th year, John, only son of Mr.
Michael Ellis.

On the 10th inst., at Newton-le-Willows, from concus-
sion of the brain, caused by a fall from his horse, aged 37,
Alfred Octavius, son of the late Henry Leete, Esq., of
Thrnpston, Northamptonshire.
On the 11th inst., at Canterbury-street, Everton, aged
5 months, Emma Frances, daughter of Mr. William
Weightman, Litherland.
On the 11th inst., William Macfie, Esq., of Langhouse,
Greenock, in his 79th year.
On the 12th inst., at his house, Mount-street, in the
70th year of his age, Mr. William Owens, for upwards
of 54 years the valued and faithful clerk of Messrs.
Charles Horsfall and Sons.
On the 'l2th iust., at 17, Cambridge-street, aged 53,
Mrs. MeNieoll.
On th 6 12th inst., Mary, wife 'of Mr. John Pope, Lime-
street.
On the 12th inst., at Mount-pleasant, aged 70, Mr.
William Owens.

MILITARY IMPROVEMENTS.—In the course of some
interesting observations on military improvements, the
Constitutionnel says :—" Experience has shown how
strengthening food can be supplied with diminution of
weight. During the expeditions biscuit was substituted
for bread, rice was employed in rations, coffee was substi-
tuted for wine, and the biscuit broken into the coffee gave
the men strength to support the most painful fatigue.
Such was, with meat, the basis of the food in Africa. The
small volume occupied by it enabled six and even eight
days' rations to be placed in the knapsacks, and that dimi-
nished the embarrassments of the baggage train. Blankets
were found to be only a slight protection against the per-
nicious effects of damp in the nights, and the hospitals
were encumbered with patients labouring under ague
until the moment at which the tente-abri was discovered.
That was almost the salvation of the army. The tente-abri
is three feet high, four and a half long, and is composed of
three pieces of canvas, attached by buttons or strings.
Two sticks placed at each extremity serve to support it,
and it is fixed by wooden pins in the earth. Three minutes
suffice to set it up, and two to take it down. Each tent
accommodates three men ; each of the three carries a piece
of the canvas, and they divide the sticks and pins amongst
them, and so they march. The first thing they do on
arriving is to fix the tent, and to dig a trench to carry off
the water in case of rain. At night they sleep wrapped
in blankets, and with their knapsacks for pillows. They
are thus preserved from damp or rain. The tente-abri
permits an army always to bivouack in the open fields, and
does away with the necessity of dividing it amongst
different villages, so that it is always united. A guarantee
for discipline, and a protection for health, it preserves the
effective force, and ensures the duration of an army. It
is, without contradiction, one of the great benefits from
Africa, and one of the things which will have the greatest
influence on the state of our armies whatever may be the
field into which they may be called to combat. With his
six days' provisions, his camping effects, his equipment,
the piece of canvas for his tent, his blanket and GO ball
cartridges, the soldier bears a heavy
weight ; but expe-
rience proves that it is not too much for n

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strength, and that it is better for the
and to recruit his strength by good r
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