The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-04-13 00:00:00

of was of no public interest

meeting of this society will be held in the Royal
tion, on Thursday next, at half-past one o'clock,
the convenience of non-resident members. On tl:
sion ladies will be in attendance. The business
all be quite new to those who attend the ordinar
ings, as it will contain summaries, recapitulatio
The Rev. Thomas Moore, joint secretary, will give
ment of the society's operations; after which the•
the exhibition of various articles in the sn‘-;-' '
Dr. V'

kx_endrick, 7f Warrington, will then read a brief
mary of his excellent paper on the Siege of Warri:
when other articles will be exhibited and expi,
Mr. Mortimer's paper on the Earls of ChesFe
Barons of Cheshire will close the proceedings, all
being new matter.

SOIREE OF THE LEARNED SOCIETIES.—The programa
of the soiree, under the auspices of the learned and sciei
tific societies of this town, has been issued, and the ticke
are in course of distribution to the various members.
was suggested by the correspondent of a coat-emperor]
that there might be too great a crush, and that the roof'
in the Town-hall should be applied for. He wrote i
utter ignorance of the arrangements, however, Ly
inconvenience will be in a great degree prevented. TI
Town-hall possesses no accommodation for a meeting
the kind contemplated, even were it placed at the di3pcs
of the committee; as where would it be possible for 5(
people (one-half of them ladies) to listen to a tediot
dramatic reading for an hour and a-half ? The promenad
would not be cut off, but in the absence of the rnuscur
its interest would be destroyed ; and the scientific enter
tainment would be out of place, or impossible. TL
delegates have decided that a dramatic reading is legit
mate, some of them against their own convictions ; an
unless that is abandomed, there must be some plan ft:
the audience to be seated.

CHARGE OF MURDER, BY STABBING, IN LIVERBOOT.
—An Irish labourer named John Dowd, about 20 years
of age, was brought up on Saturday before the coroner,
charged with the wilful murder of Thomas Conway. It ap-
peared that between one and two o'clock on the previous
Sunday morning the prisoner and several others ware beard
at high words at the corner of Albert-street and 'Warwick-
street, and shortly afterwards Dowd and the deceased
commenced fighting. After a few rounds deceased gave
in, and prisoner inciting him to continue was observed to
open a large clasp knife, and, following deceased up a
street, to stab him in the bowels. Prisoner ran away ;
but was shortly afterwards captured. Deceased vent into
n cellar near the spot, and was taken thence to the Nor-
thern Hospital, where he died at two o'clock on Thursday
morning. In a voluntary statement before the corecer,
prisoner said that deceased struck him first, and in the
fight kicked him in the head and stomach. They were
both drunk at the time of the quarrel, which originated
in a dispute as to which had known Albert-street lon ,est.
The prisoner was much distressed, and was committed for
trial.

CHARGE OF ATTEMPTING TO POISON.—Ann
Rimmer, the two women who were remanded h
on a charge of having administered oxalic acid
tea, to a girl 19 years of age, the daughter of Sar
mer, were brought up before Mr. Mansfield on
Dr. Brett, analytical chemist, stated that a bottle
taining an infusion of tea, was brought to him on M
last, which he analysed, and found it to contain 6.1 ;
of oxalic acid in the ounce ; the bottle contained
11 ounce of fluid ; the taste was a strong acid, and a
reddened litmus paper. The tea in the pot had no
acid in it, and if it had contained any it must hare
washed out : when full it would have held about 2-1
ounces. If the pot Lad been full of tea, the qr.,;:;
acid would have been equal to 162 grains, which wt
quarter of an ounce and 52 grains. The cup ‘vhi
examined contained six fluid ounces, and there WOI
401 grains of oxalic acid in each cupful of the infus
tea. Oxalic acid was a deadly poison. The sm
quantity on record which destroyed life was half an o
but lie was of opinion that a less quantity would proi,uce
death on a person of weakly constitution. Both prisoners
were committed for trial on this evidence.

THE ALTERATIONS IN ST. NICHOLAS'S CHL..
The parish church of St. Nicholas, Chapel-street
opened for divine service on Sunday, the alteratior
improvements being completed. The galleries Lay,
left as they were, but in the body private owner:
pews has been done away with, and they have he
propriated to the use of the parish. The whole of t
pews have been removed, and open pews in gothic
have been substituted. The old pulpits have zlso be—
removed, and an elegant octagon pulpit of carved oak has
been erected in their place. There is a new eagle, from
whence the lessons will be read, and prayers will be read
from the stalls. The organ gallery has been lowered
about four feet, and reduced in size. The organ has also
been thoroughly cleaned. The choir willin future be placed
in stalls near the pulpit instead of in the organ Fallery,
but in every other respect the services will be in their
former order. The circular window over the communion
has been refilled with glass, stained at St. Helen's, the
centre piece being a lamb and flag on a blue ground. The
altar has been extended to the full width of the cast end
of the church, and it has a much more appropriate aspect
than it formerly possessed.
BAZAAR IN AID OF ST. PETER'S CHURCH SCHOOLS,
&c.—Yesterday tsbazaar. the proceeds of which are to be
applied to the erection of new schools for the district con-
nected with St. Peter's Church, Everton, and to the
liquidation of the remaining debt on the new organ erected
in the above church, last year, was held at the Collegiate
Institution. The display took place in "The Lorg Room,"
and nothing could exceed it in beauty and uniqueness.
The heterogeneous mass of articles, of every doviceable
form, created great interest. Beauty on the occasion lent
her aid to the cause of charity, and the proceeds of the
day were most gratifying,—realising nearly £2OO. The
stalls were admirably presided over, by fair and inducing
ladies, whose very winningness provoked patronage. In
addition to the other inducements there were excellent
refreshment stalls, the good things of which we believe
were furnished gratuitously, and amongst not the most
insignificant were ices by Mr. Lynn, of the Waterloo
Hotel, whose heart in generosity is as capacious as is his
house in hospitality. Amongst the attractions Gribbin's
hand is not to be forgotten ; it acquitted itself ad -
To-day the bazaar will be opened at a reducer
namely, one shilling. Those who wish to be grat
the
Easter d ys, and at the sa
to Christianity,t)
should not, or
avail themselves of the opportunity thus afforded
occasione
nefit t
e of
cause the
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PRESENTATION OF A TESTIMONIAL TO THE It
NV. WARR, M.A., INCUMBENT OF ST. SAVIOUR'S
evidence of sincere affection and respect, however
strated, on the part of a congregation to the
must always be gratifying; and it is the more so,
see that the feeling is reciprocated. Such asi
been witnessed during the past week, in the •
of the clergy of this town and his congrega
members of St. Saviour's church, deeply imp
a sense of the faithful zeal and Christian Id
played in the discharge of his duties, during t
upward of five years, by the respected incur
Rev. G. W. Warr, recently entered in
for the purpose of making him a preset
testimony of their gratitude ; and on Saturday
containing fifty guineas was presented to. the

to a s

man, witn a suitable address ti.c
oLtbe congregation. On Sin