The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-22 00:00:00

FLOWER GARDEN

Slove.—Where plants are placed on a trellis, within two or
three inches of the flue, they should be examined carefully
every day, as they often want water, althoughlthey appear
moist at the top. Very small pots containing plants should
never be placed in such a situation. We have before re-
verted to this subject, and we do so again, knowing that many
plants are lost by having the root at the bottom of the pot
dried up.

Greenhouse and Conservatory.—These departments should
now be gay with chrysanthemums, after which forced flowers
and autumn-sown annuals will come in. It is too often the
case that a quantity of useless plants are harboured here, to
the exclusion of those which are far more serviceable for de-
corations.

Pits and Frames.—Commence forcing roses and other
shrubs ; smoke them about once a fortnight to keep them
clear of green fly ; open the frames containing plants when
the weather is favourable, hut never draw the lights off when
wet.

Beds of choice bulbs should be protected by a coating of
leaf-mould ; also cover the roots of erithrinas, alstreomerias,
and similar plants. Continue to plant, prune, and dig, as
before recommended.

LARGE CLAIM FOR COMPENSATION.-Mr. Oswald
Milne has just preferred his claim for compensation on the
corporation of Manchester, for the loss of fees, not of office,
which he alleges he has sustained, and will sustain, as clerk
to the magistrates at the New Bailey to the entire of the pa-
rish of Manchester, in consequence of the Crown having been
pleased to grant a charter of incorporation to that place.
The claim made is for £34,700, a large sum, doubtless, even
if loss of office had been sustained, but which is not the case,
as the business of twenty-three out of twenty-nine townships
is still transacted at the New Bailey.
married man in Scotland was lately advised to rub him-
self well over with turpentine before going to bed, as a cure
for rheumatism, under which he suffered ; and just as his
wife had completed the operation one evening, she let the
lighted candle fall against his person, in consequence of
which his body was instantly enveloped in a blaze. She
shrieked aloud, and a person ran to their assistance, who
extinguished the flames by wrapping the man in a quilt ; but
besides suffering the loss of his hair, &c., he was some time
confined to his room, though he is now recovered.
The Northern Bee announce that a very important im-
provement has just been introduced at St. Petersburgh in
the manufacture of lamp-gas. This improvement consists
in simplifying the apparatus, by means of which this manu-
facture, which was a very complex and dangerous operation,
is rendered so simple that a man of ordinary understanding
may learn it in six hours, without being exposed to the
slightest danger. The following, according to this paper, are
the advantages of this new process, the details of which it
does not give;—`` The gas having been extracted from coals,
oil, tallow, and all fat and oleaginous substances, the price of
tife;gas is diminished by one-half; the execution of the ap-
paratus on a large scale is very cheap. It is not necessary
to compress the gas, nor is there any steam-engine required
toimanufacture it. With the old apparatus it took six hours
and.alhalf to produce the same quantity of gas as the new
apparatus produces in half an hour. The work of four men
on the new plan is equal to that of forty on the old one;
lastly, the quantity of lime necessary to purify the gas is very
inconsiderable."

ELECTION OF LORD RECTOR OF GLASGOW UNIVERSITY.
—As we anticipated, the suffrages of the students have been
given in favour of the lion. Fox Maule, who, by a gross ma-
jority of 82, has been returned in opposition to the Marquis
of Bute. On Monday, the usual preliminary meeting of both
Parties took place in the college; when, according to the
Scottish Guardian, the conservatives found themselves in a
" decided minority ;" while the Courier, with equal certainty,
declared that " two-thirds of the meeting" were the decided
friends of the noble marquis, and that there was no doubt
whatever of his triumphant election. The meeting was an
excessively turbulent one. On Tuesday, at the election, the
numbers were as follow :

Nationi Glottiani.....,
PP Transforthiani
„ Loudoniani ..
„ Rothseiani....

F. Maule. I3ute
... 92 67
... 23

Majority for Mr. Fox Maule, 82,

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Mr. Pox Maule was thus returned by a majority of all the
nations.—Glasgow Argus.

A most calamitous event has just occurred in our harbour,
and plunged several respectable families of this town into the
deepest affliction. Mr. Gaunson, the master of a small
schooner that trades between Sydney and Broulee, being at
present in port, had invited a few friends to take a sail within
the harbour, to see the regatta on the Queen's birthday.
The party consisted of Mrs. Francis Gaunson, of Lower
George's-street, and her four children ; Mr. J. Smith -add
his eldest daughter; Miss Cook; two Misses Crawford,
nieces of the Rev. H. Gilchrist, of Campbelltown, and one
or two others. The vessel was returning to the Cove at
dusk, after cruising about during the day, and had got within
a few hundred yards of Pinchgut, when a furious squall
caught her, and capsized her instantaneously. Providentially
there was a boat in tow, in which some of the party escaped,
after being all thrown into the water ; but we regret exceed-
ingly to state, that the two Misses Crawford, (recently ar-
rived with their widowed mother from the north of Ireland,)
Miss Cook, two of Mrs. F. Gaunson's children, (a son and
a daughter,) and Miss Smith. sank to rise no more.—Co/o-
nial Observer, 24th of May.
ROBBERY AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—On Monday last,
as the son of Mr. Armitage, machine-maker, of Ramsey, was
returning home between eleven and twelve o'clock, he per-
ceived a light in a carpenter's shop adjoining his father's pre-
mises, occupied by Mr. Carter, of Bury, and feeling sur-
prised that he should work so late, crept to the door and
peeped in, and saw a man named Cowling, of Wistow, taking
down different articles in the shop for the purpose of removal.
On seeing this, young Armitage quietly left, went home, and
procured the assistance of his father. They both returned,
and on opening the shop door the light was immediately ex-
tinguished by Cowling, whom the elder Armitage proceeded
to take hold of. Cowling made a most determined resistance,
I and drew a clasp-knife, with which he threatened and did ac-
tually cut Mr. Armitage on the forehead ; but the son being
close to him he took the knife from Cowling's hand. Cow-
ilng tried by kicking and other means to release himself from
the iron grasp of Mr. Armitage, but all to no purpose. Whilst
the struggle was going on the son had fetched the constable
of Bury. and the prisoner was at length taken to the Green
Dragon public-house in the village, and there handcuffed.
The constable and some other parties sat up with him all
night, and in the morning the prisoner was asked to have
some bread and cheese, to which he consented. His hand-
cuffs being removed, be appeared to sharpen his knife several
times, occasionally eating small pieces. On the landlady
turning her head, she saw the prisoner's hand at his throat,
and having uttered an exclamation the constable's attention
was drawn to the prisoner, and he suddenly seized his hand
and stayed it. As it was, a large wound was made in Cow-
ling's
of thethroat,
main arteries were severed. Th
of great length and considerable depth, but
The man is likely to
recover.—Cambridge Chronicle.
RAILWAY ENTERPRISE.---ENGLAND TO CHINA.—Thee
appointed to
the railway from England
arrangements
sttceoen
connected
to superintend the prelimi-
nary .
to China, beg to submit to the
public the following statement.
with the view of forming a
proviasirornanalgec
Company to carry out this vast
national concern, by shares,f of i• • d 1 ..0 -
her :—ln consequence of the ' consist
present
extreme difficulty at
experienced in makingthe
voyage to China and India, to-
gether with the delay and chances of shipwreck, it has been
proposed, under to con-
struct a railway from thence to the Celestial Empire. The
plan suggested for the end in view is to penetrate the bowels
of the earth through the medium of /tunnel from London
to Canton, passing through the centre of the globe, thus
obviating altogether the enormous expense usually incurred
in the purchase of land, and avoiding the opposition likely to
encountered from hostile nations.
_From the report made to
the committee by Sinko Shaft, Esq., the engineer, who has
descended some of the deepest wells and sewers in and about
the metropolis, and has sounded the earth in various places
at the outskirts, there is every reason to believe that the
centre of the globe consists of a mass of softest soil, except
where intersected by solid rocks of gold and silver, and en_
verns of precious stones ; and that from his examination,
there is no reason whatever to believe, as some have conjec-
tured, that the earth is a mete crust, filled in the interior
with nothing at all a state of things which would have
rendered the cutting of a tunnel through it an expedient of
some difficulty. As it is, however, the cutting will be ex-
ceedingly easy, except where the masses of precious metals
and jewels interpose an obstacle ; but inasmuch as this ma-
terial, when extracted, will be immensely valuable, and,
according to the most moderate calculations of our engineer,
will be many hundred times more than sufficient to cover the
entire expense of the undertaking, but little fear need be ap-
prehended upon this point. It is intended
that the terminus
in England shall be upon the pre •
sent site of St. Paul's Ca-
thedral, London, which, for the purposes of this undertaking,
is to be pulled down. It is calculate) that the journey will
be accomplished as soon as the passengers get from one ter-
Mount Vesuvi ratl way will pass immediately un-
derus, a station will be erected there, at which
trains will stop for the u
p rpose of taking in coals and lava,
or Cyclops, should there be any residing in those parts.—
Punch.