The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-03-04 00:00:00

GUANO-THE NEW MANURE.

GUANO, FROM THE CIIINCHA is from GIPS
well known islands in the Pacific Ocean the Peruvians have
for centuries past supplied, and do, at the present time,
almost entirely supply themselves with this invaluable
manure. Some sixty vessels are now constantly employed
in carrying Guano from thence to the main land, which, by
its fertilising qualities, produces the most abundant crops of
wheat, maize, and all other vegetable productions, whilst,
without it, little or nothing would be obtained from the soil.
Guano, from Chinclia, has lately been introduced into this
country by Messrs. W. J. Myers and Co., of Liverpool ;
and in offering it to the British agriculturist, it is deemed
right, in consequence of the introduction of one or two car-
goes from the coast of Bolivia, to say that they, with Messrs.
Alexander Macdonald and Co., St. Mildred's-court, London,
and their accredited agents in the country, are the only par-
ties in England from whom the Guano, from Chincha, can
be ir-ocured. On application to any of them the article' may
be had genuine, and warranted the same quality as is used by
the Peruvians, who esteem this Guano so highly that with
the utmost difficulty was the Government of that country in-
duced to allow its exportation to Europe, for fear of doing an
injury to their own agricultural interest, which could not be
remedied ohou.Al the Guano he all exported. Guano has been
applied, in this country, with the greatest success to the
growth of wheat, barley, hops, turnips, grass lands, potatoes,
and indeed every description of vegetable production, in the
whole of which the increase of crop was most apparent and
highly satisfactory, and it only requires to be known to secure
it general use by agriculturists.

LONDON AND BLACKWALL RAILWAY.—The eleventh
half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the Blackwall rail'
5
way was held on Monday last. The number of Pass_e_ingtehre
carried during the last half-year was 1,186,351, '"
arease of
money received £22,509 Us. 11d., exhibiting an
monthsr of the:
about 'lO per cent., whether compared with thereceipts of
the previous half-year or the corresponding.
the first
previous year. A dividend of 10s. per share
The voyage of the intermediate India _
stteo ~.tiez, with its
under the new arrangement, from Calcutta
pp ars that the time
results, is well deserving of notice..
Itappears
eMadras, Ceylon,
occupied was exactly a month, stopping_ %arnsedre,clared.
averaged 190 miles a day.
miles, and that the rate of goingdava
Aden, and Suez ; that the whole distance is about 4.901)
lettersHe delivered in Lomion
been
nss of six days. The
Her st oi
brought)pages onby thetbi
this vessel
eustseecl
bait seems was the exact time
in 48 days trout Calcutta, which
of November mail from Eng-
landconsumed in the deliveryinstance
of the first portion of the.
government to Calcutta iu the caused
general delivery of course being
government express, the it is inferred by those interested
and hence 1 e
~
some days later;
"comprehensive scheme," iern , when fully ma-
in it that the
oute by way of Bombay. Whether or
tured, will beat thetnr
be the case, the experi • t • • men is justly a
not this may prove
matter of great interest.
N" e i ICAL MAC.—There s not any career
LIFE OF A - 1
away the powersof life,
, wears
which so
l ,h requires a greater
activity
of mind and
is no other
which
IC) bear the changes body- He bus ...
fatigue, irregularity in his meals, and broken rest ; to live
in the midst of miasma and contagion. If in the country,
he has to traverse considerable distances on horseback, ex-
posed to wind.n d storm, to brave all dangers, to go to the
relief of suffering humanity. A tearful truth of medical men
has been established by the table of mortality
r.Casper,
published in his British Review. Of 1000 members of the
Medical profession, 600 die before their sixty-second year ;
whilst of persons leading a quiet life, such as agriculturists
mortality
or theologians, the' is ' -
individuals of each of the 1 s 4.3 theologians, 40 agri-
culturists, 85 clerks, and 82 soldiers will reach their seven-
tieth year : of 100 professors of
the he aline ‘aling art, 24 only will
reach that age Ti ' h lth •ti •
• )ey are the signposts ot ea , ie. can
show the road t old
age, but rarely tread it themselves.—
Montreal Courier.

comtnt

a by a majority of '256 to 53.
respecting the duty on flour,
Messed his satisfaction at the successful
attended the resolutions proposed by the
and said it was his intention merely to
ittee the reasons which induced him to
measure now on the table of the house,
millers of this country had not received
He conceived it was the duty of the
millers of this country such protection

to compete with foreigners, who en-
antages in bringing flour to our market.
nts had an interest in importing flour
it than corn, for the former article was
amount of duty than the latter. It
e English millers could compete with
iufadure of flour, labouring, as they
;advantages. The usual policy of this
favour the importation of the raw ma-
advantage which was derived from so
ment to the population. But im-
-1 of wheat supplanted that employ-
r of the benefit to be derived from
and cheap portion of the flour,
t of using, as none but the finest

Of the infer

imported, to avoid the payment of duty. He need
lnde to the injury which the milling interest of Ire-
removal of the prohibition on the
r. He would submit to the house,
Ivantageous to the foreign manu-
to this country in a manufactured
)uld be of less bulk, and conse-
Fie should not press the question
vished to hear from her Majesty's
I considered the point, and were
en an adequate protection to the

from t

1, that after giving the fullest con-
he could not consent to alter the
If the protection of flour were in-
Drs who would be the most prejudi-

. _
ly those whom every man must admit
our interest to favour, namely, those of
le proceeded to show that the existing

El his satisfaction at the deter-

ved, that all colonial grain should
r one year, or for some other
He urged the claims of

mother country ; and