The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-24 00:00:00

TELEGRAPH OFFICE, MAY 23

Wind at Holyhead, E.S.E. moderate in the morning ; South, at
noon, and S.W. light breeze in the evening.
10ff Point Lynas, outward bound, at 5 p.m. No. 1468, Black Cat,
schooner.
Off the port, at 7 15 p.m. 2 ships, 2 barques, 3 brigs, and 3
schooners.

LIVERPOOL INFIRMARY REPORT-MAY 21

DISCHARGED
In-patients cured
Relieved and at own request I I
Made Out-patients . .* . 1

Irregular
Dead . . ,

In-patients
Out-patients . . I
Casuals during the last week 2

2 I Remain inthehouse

Consulting Surgeons, Mr. Forshaw and Mr. Dawson.
Chaplain Rev. It. Davies.
House Visiters, Jas. Bold and C. W. Reade, Esqrs.
Apothecary, Mr. W. Burgess.
House Surgeon ... Mr. Brandreth.
E. W. JACKSON, Treasurer

NORTHERN HOSPITAL, MAY 21.
ADMITTED. DISCHARGED
. _ _

Accidents
Medical and Surgical cases
Upon recommendation

11 Cured
Attending as Out Patients
16 Irregular
Died

27
Remaining in th

e Hospital

House Visiters, Daniel Neilson and Walter 0. Heyworth, Esqrs
Treasurer, R. W. Bateson, Esq.
Chaplain, Rev. E. Maginnis.—House Surgeon. Mr. Parker.

The Toulonnais of the 17th instant states, that it was re-
ported in Algiers, that General Bedean had defeated the
army of the Emperor of Morocco, with the loss of 300 killed
and a great number of prisoners.
Some further failures have taken place at Oporto, and let-
ters from that city charge a large proportion of these disas-
ters on the Oporto Bank, who, at a crisis of great embarrass-
ment, had contracted their credits in a very extraordinary
degree.
The illoniteur publishes a decision of Marshal Soult to in-
stitute a committee, charged with preparing a grammar and
a dictionary of the Kabyle or Berbere language. The Duke
de Montebello, Ambassador of France, in Naples, landed at
Marseilles on the 15th, on his way to Paris.
THE PRUSSIAN MINISTRY.—The Augsburg Gazelle of
the 17th instant states, that M. de Rochow would continue
to direct the Ministry of the Interior at Berlin until the Ist
of July, when Count Arnim would succeed him. M. de Sa-
vigny is to preside at the Council of State, in place of Gene-
ral Muffling, who is about to resign. It is said that the
King had offered the Senate of Hamburgh a million of crowns
for three years, without interest.

THE ALLEGED FATAL DUEL AT PALERMO.—A letter
has been received from Mr. Johnson, of the 88th Regiment,
dated at Malta, the 27th of April, at which period that gen-
tleman was in good health. He had not been absent from
his regiment at all, and, of course, could not have been at
Palermo ; the story of his having fallen in a duel there is,
therefore, completely disproved, and there remains no doubt
that it was the heartless invention of some mischievous per-
son.

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—An accident, attended
with a fatal termination, occurred at the Glasgow terminus
of the Glasgow, Ayrshire, and Greenock Railway, on Satur-
day last. One of the men employed in the coke-house, it
appears, was coming out of that place when a waggon was
being run into it, and, the entrance being narrow, he placed
himself in a perpendicular position close to the wall, to avoid
its coming in contact with his person; but, owing to an in-
clination of the waggon towards that side of the entrance,
some part of it caught hold of him by the face and breast,
and he was so severely lacerated that he survived only an
hour after the occurrence of the accident. The deceased was
a young man, named Fitzgerald.—Glasgow paper.
MURDER.—On Thursday last, as a respectable farmer,
named Foley, residing in the parish of Comragh, in this
county, was returning home from the fair of Kilmacthomas,
which was held on the 12th instant, he was attacked at half-
past 10 p.m. by a party of persons, one of whom struck him
a violent blow of a stone on the head, which caused a dread-
ful fracture. The poor fellow lingered for a few hours, when
death terminated his sufferings. Owing to the praise-
worthy exertions of that very efficient officer, head-coustable
Johnson, together with the activity of his party, two persons
have been made amenable to justice—namely, Martin Shee
and Thomas Power who are now lodged in the Waterford
gaol, for the homicide, by virtue of the coroner's warrant.
Sufficient_u
praise cannot be given to the police on the occa-
sion. N cause has been assigned for this outrage.— Water-
ford Mail.

SHRIMPS.—The office of shrimps seems to
it be anala-
gous to some of the insects on land, whose task is to clear
away the remains of dead animal matter after the birds and
beasts of prey have been satiated. If a dead small bird or
frog be placed where ants can have access to it, those insects
will speedily reduce the body to a closely-cleaned skeleton.
The shrimp family, acting in hosts, as speedily remove all
traces of fish or flesh from the bones of any dead animal ex-
posed to their ravages. They are, in short, the principal
scavengers of the ocean; and notwithstanding their office,
they are deservedly and highly prized as nutritious and deli-
dous food.