The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-12-04 00:00:00

DEATHS.

Lately, in his 81st year, Colonel William Blacker, J.P. and
D.L., of Carrick-house, Armagh, formerly deputy vice-treasurer
of Ireland.

On the 29th of April, at Nengone, one of the Loyalty Islands,
in the Pacific, where he had been located as a missionary by
the Bishop of New Zealand, aged 30, the Rev. William Nihill,
eldest son of the Rev. Daniel Nihill, rector of Fitz, Salop.
On the 21st of August, the Empress Dowager of China. She
was the mother of the present Emperor's eldest brother, and
was elevated to the rank of Empress Dowager only a few days
before her death. The people are to let their hair grow, as a
sign of mourning, till a hundred days from her demise.
On the 25th of October, at Madeira, aged 27, Emma, wife
of the Rev. Matthew Pomley, and youngest daughter of
Thomas Walker, Esq., Rose-cottage, Gresford.
On the Bth ult., at Blaich, near Culmbach, Bavaria, Sophia,
Baroness de Gutemburg, eldest daughter of the late Thomas
Raikes, Esq., of Sudbrooke-park, Surrey, and niece of the late
Rev. Chancellor of the diocese of Chester.

On the 11th ult., at Balaclava, Captain Richard Hutchin-
son, of the ship Duke of Bedford, son of the late John
Hutchinson, Esq., of this town.
On the 12th ult., at her residence, 13, Collingwood-street,
aged 57, after a lengthened illness, Ann, wife of Mr. Daniel
Whitney.

On the 17th ult., aged 47, Mr. John Eaton, Clarence-street,
Edge-bill.
On the 21st ult., aged 77, Sarah, wife of Mr. William
Smith, printer.
On the 22nd ult., aged 4 years, Elizabeth, daughter of Mr.
Bradhurne.

On the 22nd ult., at Woodland•cottage, Ruthin, aged 70,
Hugh Jones, Esq.
On the 22nd ult., aged 19, Joseph, second son of the late
Mr. Joseph Dodson, cattle-dealer, of this town.
On the 22nd ult., aged 9 months, Richard Houghton, infant
son of Mr. Thomas Shepard, Upper Beau-street.
On the 22nd ult., Mrs. Willoughby Moore, Lady Superin-
tendent of the Officers Hospital at Scutari, and widow of
Colonel Willoughby Moore, who perished in the Europa,
rather than forsake the burning ship so long as any of his
men were in it.

On the 23rd ult., aged 48, Mr. William Cave, cowkeeper,
Florist-street, Oxford-street.

On the 23rd ult., in Vine-street, aged 6 months, Andrew
Ratcliffe, son of Mr. Andrew Kinghorn.
On the 23rd ult., at the residence of her nephew, Dawson-
street, Manchester, aged 81, Miss Elizabeth Hill, formerly of
this town.

On the 23rd ult., at her residence, The Green, Beaumaris,
Ann, relict of the late 'William Hughes, Esq., Collector of
H.M. Customs.

On the 24th ult., aged 17, Elizabeth, second daughter of
Mr. Thomas Dry.
On the 24th ult., at Clifton, in her 80th year, the Dowager
Lady Radcliffe.
On the 24th-ult., aged 63, Harriet, wife of T. Calrow, Esq.,
of Woodhill, Bury.
On the 24th ult., at Eccleston, aged 53, Ellen, youngest
daughter of Mr. Joseph Ellison.
On the 24th ult., at the Promenade-house, Cheltenham,
Samuel Jemmett, Esq., Bushy-park, Middlesex, for fifty years
attached to the Royal Household.
On the 24th ult., at the residence of W. Hobbs, Esq.,
Summer-hill, Dublin, Rebecca A. Lamont, third daughter of
H. W. Hobbs, Esq., Netherfield-road North, Everton.
On the 24th ult.; at the house of her son-in-law, Mr. J. R.
Scott, Wilton-street, aged 54, Hannah, relict of the late Lieu-
tenant T. Freer, R.N., formerly of Baldwin, Isle of Man.
On the 24th ult., aged 2 years, Johanna Ellen, youngest
daughter of Mr. F. M. Jones, bookseller, Richmond-row.
On the 24th ult., Edar, infant son of Mr. Christopher
Bushell, of Aigburth.
On the 25th ult., aged 4 years, Osborne, son of Mr. Hugh
Jones, Seel-street. _

On the 25th ult., at his residence, Naylor-street, St. Helens,
aged 40, Mr. Henry Sanille.
On the 25th ult., Mary, wife of Mr. J. Binks, Kingstone
Hotel, Hull, sister of Mr. C. Harper, Gas-office, Newington.
On the 25th ult., at Whitnash, aged 28, Eliza Palmer, of
Birkenhead, eldest daughter of the late Mr. W. Palmer, of
Whitnash.

On the 25th ult., at Dunkenhalgh, in this county, of fever,
contracted in the Crimea, Oswald Petre, Esq., Lieutenant
Carbineers, son of the late H. Petre, Esq., Dunkenhalgh.
On the 25th ult., at his town residence, Westbourne.terrace,
Paddington, in his 69th year, Mr. Alderman William Law-
rence. He was elected alderman of Bread-street Ward in
1848, served the office of sheriff in 1849, and would have filled,
the civic chair in 1857.

On the 25th ult., at the residence or his mother, Mill-street,
Toxteth-park, of consumption, aged 19, Mr. William Cullen,
youngest and last surviving son of the late Mr. John Cullen,
master-mariner, of this port.
On the 26th ult., aged 2 years, Charles H. Cuerdale.
On the 26th ult.; aged 62, Mr. John Mackintosh, for twenty-
eight years a member of the police force.
On the 26th tilt. at
Henderson, Louth, Lincolnshire, Captain W. H.
C:11., Comptroller-General of Coast Guards.
On the 26th ult., at the residence of her sister, in Everton,
Margaret, wife of John H. Rogers, Esq., Compton-road, Canon-
bury, Islington, London.
On the 27th ult., Henry Edward, son of Mr. S. Getley,
plumber, Birkenhead.
On the 27th ult., Lady Broughton, of Poston-court, Here-
fordshire, and of Brunswick-square, Brighton.
On the 27th ult., in Clarence-street, Edge-hill, aged 29,
Mary Jane, wife of Mr. Thomas Grossmith, of the Post-office,
in this town.
On the 27th ult., aged 74, Agnes, relict of the late Mr. Wm.
Parkins.

On the 27th ult., in his 45th year, Joseph Welsby, Esq.
surgeon, Prescot.

On the 27th ult., at his residence, in the Cathedral-close,
Lincoln, aged 80, Robert Bunyan, Esq. Mr. Bunyan was the
last male descendant of the immortal author of " The Pilgrim's
Progress," and was the lineal descendant from the eldpist son of
John Bunyan. For many years Mr. Bunyan filled the offices
of county and city coroner, which some years since he resigned.
On the 28th ult., at his residence, Salisbury-street, Thomas
Blackburn, Esq., surgeon.
On the 28th of October, at the residence of her father, Mr.
John Boan, Grey-street, Toxteth-park, aged 29, Jane, wife of
Mr. Frederick Nicholson, mariner.
Orr-the-86th-tilLI-Mr.-Robept-Thomas, of Oldham-street.
On the 29th ult., at Prescot, aged 84, Mr. John Butler.
On the 29th ult., aged 5, Martha, youngest daughter of Mr.
William Jones, Berry-street.
On the 29th ult., aged 56, Harriet, wife of Mr. D. Jackson,
of Birkenhead, late of Manchester.
On the 29th ult., aged 58, Eliza, relict of Mr. James
Brownless, umbrella-manufacturer, Shaw's-brow.
On the 29th ult., at his residence, Monkstown-house, Dub-
lin, aged 85, Thomas Pim, sen., Esq. Mr. Pim was one of the
most distinguished merchants in Dublin, universally esteemed
for probity and honour in all his transactions.
On the 29th ult., at his residence, Elmgrove, Parsonstown,
aged 85, Michael Hackett, Esq.
On the 29th ult., from the effects of the bursting of a
blood-vessel, Mr. John Williams, of Bronwylfa. He had been
for some time suffering from a pulmonary affection. The de-
ceased gentleman was formerly M.P. for Macclesfield.
On the 29th ult., at the house of her son-in-law, Mr. E.
Robinson, Plicenix Inn, Mount-pleasant, Mrs. Mary War-
burton.

On the 2nd inst., at his residence, Poolton-cum-Seacombe,
John Bewley, Esq., aged 69.
On the 2nd inst., aged 71, Mrs. Leigh, widow of the late
John Leigh, Esq., of Toxteth-park, Liverpool.
At his residence, East Retford, Notts, in his 81st year,
William Bettison, Esq., father of Mrs. Michael Lea, jun.,
Scotland-road.

On Saturday, Ann Goudy, residing in Park-lane, was struck
by her husband with a poker, and sustained a contused wound
of the forehead. She was sent to the Southern Hospital.

THE Incline Plane, which was recently the cause of a legal
inquiry, and ruinous loss to her builder, has been purchased
for use in the Mersey, Liverpool.—Hampshire Telegraph.

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LIVERPOOL POLICEMEN IN AUSTRALIA.—Accounts have
reached Liverpool that eighteen of the police-officers who be-
longed to the Liverpool police force, and who volunteered to
proceed to Australia to join the police force of that colony,
were in custody at Sydney, having refused to be sworn in.
there. These men allege than faith has not been kept with,
them, and that the conditions upon which they left England
have not been fulfilled. They refused, therefore, to take the
oaths which were tendered to them prior to entering on the
discharge of duty as police-officers,. and in consequepce,of this
refusal they has keen placed ,under arrest.