The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-13 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

From the forwardness of the works of the new houses of
parliament, it is expected that in two months the first stone
will be laid.

The freedom of the city of Edinburgh has been conferred
on Dwarkanath Tagore, of Calcutta, a wealthy Brahmin,
landowner, merchant, and philanthropist.
FEEDING PIGS.—It may be useful to state, that it is very
injurious to feed pigs with any preparation of the water in
which potatoes have been boiled. Potato water should be
thrown away, as it is poisonous to the porcine tribe.
The sportsmen complain that though there is abundance
of birds in this part of the country they are very wild, and
that a man must walk a good way before he bags a respect-
able lot.—Essex Standard.
An accident occurred on Friday, in Evers and Martins
colliery, at Parkhead, near Dudley, by the sudden fall of a
body of coal, whereby one man was killed on the spot, and
two others so badly hurt that one of them has died since.—
Birmingham Advertiser.

A species of gourd, known to botanists by the name of
cucurbita leucantha lagenaria, has this year attained an
extraordinary size at the Jardin des Plantes. This plant,
which assumes the form of a bottle pressed closely in at the
neck and swelling out below, is 40 centimetres in diameter,
and 60 in height. As it still continues to grow, it is not
improbable that it may reach half a metre in diametre, and
two-thirds in height.
THE BRITISH MUSEUM..—Circulars have just been issued
from the British Museum to all the publishers in the king-
dom, calling their attention' to the new Copyright Act, sth_
and 6th Victoria, cap. 48, by which it is directed, under
certain penalties, that a copy of every book, pamphlet, sheet
of letterpress, sheet of music, map, chart, or plan, published
within her Majesty's dominions, shall be delivered, on its
publication, at the British Museum. The provisions of the
said act to be enforced in every case in which any of the
above-named species of publication shall not be delivered as
the act directs.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The following calculation of the
last weekly returns of 39 railways, 1,370 miles in length, will
be of interest :—Number of passengers on 24 railways,
299,400; consequently the total for the week must be about
500,000. The receipts for passengers on 38 railways,
£72,695 12s. Id. ; ditto for goods on thirty-three railways,
£17,893 12s. 9d. ; total £90,580 4s. 10d. This is an
average of £66 per mile per week. The traffic, therefore, is
certainly at the rate of about £4,000,000 a year, and carrying
15,000,000 of passengers.—Railway Magazine.
ATTACK BY WASPS.—As Mr. Wenbam, landlord of the
Star Inn, Matfield-green, was lately passing through Par-
rock-wook, in the parish of Brenchley, he was attacked by a
swarm of wasps. Mr. Wenhem, in endeavouring to defend
himself, took off his hat to beat them off ; but the swarm in-
creasing, he was completely surrounded by hundreds of
them, and most dreadfully stung about the head and face.
Fortunately he was near a house, into which he fled for pro-
tection, and, with the kind assistance of the good woman, he
got relieved of his tormentors. Mr. Wenham had received
so much injury that it was with difficulty he reached home,
and atm ...yard}, antlers from the effects Of fliS alarming
encounter.—Sussex paper.

CHINESE BABARITY.—An unfortunate seaman of the
Cornwallis recently wandered into the hands of a party of
Chinese villagers, who immediately cut off his knee-pans,
made an incision round each wrist, and stripped the skin off,
the muscles, up to the elbows, and down off each hand to the
finger ends, leaving it dangling. In this condition the poor
fellow was abandoned. On his being found, the village was
destroyed by the boats of the ship. The man is alive, and
slowly recovering.—Hampshire Telegraph.
A WHALE.—As the Lynn steamer was on its voyage from
this port, on Saturday last, about fifteen miles from the for-
mer place, a boat was descried going at a very quick rate
with something in tow, which turned out to be a whale.
When first observed, in two feet water, the man thought it
was dead, and fastened accordingly a rope to its tail—a ha-
zard which he would not have attempted if he had been aware
that it was alive. He ultimately succeeded, by the help of
two other men, in his capture the unwieldly animal being
left by the tide on the bank. It admeasured 47 feet long
19 feet in girth. The mouth was 9 feet long and the tail 10
feet deep, and it is supposed that it would weigh 18 tons.—
Hull _Rockingham.

THE FIRE AT HAMBURGll.—Thecommittee appointed
to receive subscriptions for the relief of sufferers from the
fire at Hamburgh have just published their report, by which
it appears that the whole sum which has passed through their
hands is £27,567 19s. 7d., besides contributions made in
different parts of the country, amounting to about £13,000,
exclusive of clothing and other articles, and that the total
amount received by the committee at Hamburgh from all
countries, up to the sth of July, is £268,890. Great as these
subscriptions are, the committee remark, while expressing
their gratitude, that but little assistance has as yet been
afforded in comparison with the damage done.

IMPORTATION OF CATTLE UNDER THE NEW TARIFF.—
One of the most stirring incidents of the month has been
the introduction, by the new tariff, of live stock into this
country, from Holland. There are annually held, in parts
of Holland, fairs, at which bulls only are sold; and at one
of these, in which no fewer than 1600 of these animals were
offered, in the neighbourhood of Bremen, one of our specu-
lators purchased nearly fifty of them, all of which were in
very poor condition, at £3 10s. each, while they were dis-
posed of in Smithfield with difficulty at £7 each. Latterly,
the receipts of beasts, not only in London, but also at Hull
and other ports, have exhibited a great falling off ; indeed,
they have been scarcely worth the necessary expenses of
freight, &c., leaving wholly out of the question prime cost.
The numbers of stock imported for the metropolis during
the month have comprised nearly 320, consisting of bulls,
oxen, cows in calf, and stores. And now the item of profit
presents itself to our notice. From all that we have been
able to gather, we should say that a positive loss of quite £1
per head has been sustained by the shippers of stock to this
country ; still, however, it appears they are determined to
prosecute their enterprise. Let us take, as an example, the
fifty bulls above mentioned, which, by the way, were scarcely
fit for consumption, and we shall find that their owners suf-
fered in pocket severely by them, since the account in rela-
tion to them stands thus,—Prime cost, per head, £3 10s. ;
freight and other expenses to London, £3 ss. ; duty, £1 ;
expenses here, 17s. ; total, £8 12s. From the above it will
at. once be seen that a loss was sustained of one pound twelve
shillings each. The result of our inquiries is, that large im-
ports may be expected from Germany and Holland, where,
it appears, there is a superabundance of lean stock ; but
from France little or nothing is looked forward to. A great
deal has been said respecting the superior quality of the fo-
reign supplies ; but we beg to observe that, having ourselves
tasted some of the Dutch beef, we never saw anything worse
of the kind brought to table.—Farmer's Magazine.
AN AWKWARD CIRCUMSTANCE—In consequence of the
quantity of base coin circulated at Bristol, the magistrates
gave orders to the police to be very strict in the apprehen-
sion of persons guilty of so serious an offence. In the dis-
charge of this duty a painful occurrence took place on Wed-
nesday. Mrs. Gregory, the wife of Mr. Gregory, solicitor,
went into the High-street Market, and having purchased
some fruit, tendered a sixpence in payment. When the coin
was in the woman's hand she observed that it bore an unusu-
al appearance, and Mrs. Gregory was about to give her
another when she was astonished to find that all the silver in
her purse had the same appearance. Upon this a policeman,
not in uniform, took her by the arm, put the money in his
pocket, and said " come with me." Mrs. Gregory, in a
terrified and fainting state, was taken to the station-house,
although an explanation as to who she was had been given, the
rules of the police requiring that a person once in custody
must not be liberated before being conveyed to the station.
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