The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1836-09-02 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

LIVERPOOL STANDARD.  HARRY, ADY, AND DAN.  Air—" Though many grave doctors there be," Ste.  Though many great humbugs there be, The three, the most famous of auy, Are Ady, the great Harry B, And Dan—mighty Dan, of Kilkenny. The theorist, puffer, M.P., By different methods each cozens ; A spouter is famed Harry B. ; While Ady writes letters by dozens. And Dan, who will ne'er be outdone By his learned or bank-searching brother, Can spout by the hour, like the one, And scribble long letters, like t'other. When Ady large fortunes declares He'll get if a sov'reign is sent ; Dan writes, that to end all their cares They've only to pay up the rent. And Harry, like Daniel and Joe, (With always an eye to the cash), ' Is a stanch man of " letters" we knout., •  And writes lots of " promising" trash, Declares that the country would be Made happy by his education, And humbly. proposes that he Should again have a snug situation. A pistol or weapon of war Ady's too strict a quaker to touch, And Dan does all fighting abhor,, Poor Dan quakes a little too much.  Now Harry will brag and disclose How at Windsor he's always a chair, And Ady oft boasts that he knows Sir Peter, and eke the Lord Mayor. Ads/ once told a Black that he knew Of a fortune of no paltry figures, And Daniel once diddled a Jew Who wanted a seat beside Vigors, It has been proposed to erect A statue to each of the three, At Billingsgate, some did project. Some voted for Stinkomalee.  Ah ! never so ably they show That they've the alchymical skill To scribble, and humbug, and so Quite snugly their pockets to fill. On high, in the House they should stand, As the fittest of possible places, And he grouped side by side, hand in hand, As the three modern liberal Graces.—Timer.  At the last sitting of the Acadeinie de Medicine, Dr. Scipion Pinet related the following extraordinary, caw of suicide. A lady of fortune,. appeasing to be in possession of every sourcei)f happiness, suddenly, from some unaccountable impression, was overcome by/ideas of self-destruction. After contending against them for sl?veral.days in vain; she deliberately prep'ared to yield to them, She took a pair of scissors, and made au incision with them sufficiently large to suffer her boWels to protrude, and then, cutting them into small pieces, made them up in a packet, concealed them under the mattress, and the❑ laid herself on her bed to die: Before she expired, though in the greatest agonies, she related the circumstance herself to Dr. Pinel, who was called in to attend her.—Galiynani's Messenger.  SeowrxNEUus Comiusziox.—An instance of spontaneous combustion is reported in the French papers, to have taken place at Nunay, in the department of Avalon. A very fat woman, aged 74 years, and addicted to drinking brandy at 27 degrees, lived alone, and one evening returned home as usual, but, as she dii not appear among her neighbours the next morning, they knocked at her door. No answer being returned to repeated domands, they summoned the mayor, who forcea the door and exposed a horrible spectacle, accompanied by an extraordinary smell. Near the chimney laid a heap of something burnt to:cinders, at oneend of which was a head, a neck, the upper part of a body, and one arm. At the other end'were some of the lower part, and one leg, still retaining a very cleat] shoe and stocking. No other traces of fire were to be seen, except abbe flame which played along the surfacepf a long train of, grease, or serous liquor, which had been produced by the combustion of the body. The mayor found it impossstle to extinguish the flame, and summoned all the authorities; and, from the state of the apartment and comparison of circumstances, it was concluded among them, that previous to going to bed, for which she had evidently been making preparations, the woman had been trying to ignite some embers with her breath. The fire communicating with the body by means 'of the breath, combustion probably took place, and would appear to confirm an opinion entertained by several learned men, that that which is called spontaneous combustion of the'hurnan frame, never takes place without the .presence of some ignited body near the person predisposed to combustion. A surgeon who bled an habitually drunken person, accidentally put the blood extracted near a candle, when immediately a blue flame appeared on thesurface, which he found extremely difficult to extinguish.  FANCTE A Lf, AT