The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-04-30 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL FEMALE PENITENTIARY.

The Annual Meeting of the subscribers to this most ex-
cellent charity was held on Friday last. The attendance,
though not very numerous, was highly respectable. The
Rev. Mr. Lawrence was called to the chair, and the Treasurer
submitted to the meeting the account of the receipts and ex-
penditure of the year, and one of the Secretaries read the
report of the committee.
It appears that twenty of the unfortunate objects of this
society's sympathy, had been restored to their reconciled
friends or placed out to respectable service during the past
year, making the total number of these successful cases 282,
since its establishment in 1811. The number of penitents
now in the house were 58, and the sum of £438. 19s. 10d.
had been received for work (as sewing, washing, &c.) done
during the past year, being nearly one-half of the whole ex-
penses of the establishment fact which illustrates at the
same time both the industry of the inmates, the judicious
management of the ladies' committee, and the diligence of
the matron and her assistants.
The resolutions (for which see advertisement) were advo-
cated by the Rev. James Lister, John Cropper, Jun. Esq.,
the Rev. Dr. Raffles, and others, with their accustomed
ability, and they dwelt strongly on the painful fact that many
of the unfortunate victims of sinful courses, but wishful to
abandon their wretched habits and companions, had been of
necessity refused admission into the asylum during the past
year, for want of the requisite means of support. That the
institution was still upwards of £l5O. in debt, notwithstand-
ing some very handsome donations had been received during
the year, and that the operations of the society must be con-
siderably curtailed, if a generous public did not endeavour to
assist the case of these repentant and returning prodigals.
We fervently wish that these strong appeals will not be made
in vain.

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ST. JAMES'S MARICET.—This market is now undergoing
extensive improvements and enlargements. When the work
shall be completed, St. James's Market will be inferior to
none in the town in point of accommodation and usefulness
to the inhabitants of the densely populated district in which
it is situated.

WRECK.—PRINTED CALICOES.—On Friday a letter was
posted on 'Change here, addressed by Thomas Hodgson, a
customs officer at Barrow, by Ulverstone, to the Liverpool
Custom-house, dated 19th April, and stating that a large
vessel, which had been wrecked during the late gales, about
two miles from the Pile of Foundry, but of which only half
had appeared before the spring tides at the time he wrote,
was now visible. He deseribes her hull as coppered and
copper fastened, and her chain cable as. having a new hawser.
Her lading, he says, is prints, tin, pig-iron, and nail rod iron.
Her bottom was discovered the preceding Monday. A " cul-
tivator" iron, some bales of print, with wood on two sides
and three iron hoops round them, were then found ; and there
are nearly one hundred tons of iron all in one heap. Up-
wards of 25 cart loads of prints have been got off, together
with a large quantity of copper sheathing. He says the white
cotton has a coat of arms—an eagle ; and some of the printed
cottons are marked, " John Marsland and Brother, Stock-
port, British manufacture." A piece of common print is
enclosed in the letter : and the writer says, that the cotton
enclosed is " printed and published as the act directs by R.
and M. Smith and Co. Baxenden, near Blackburn, July
25th, 1838. Warranted best cotton." Some of the cotton
is marked " Peel and Co." The letter has been forwarded
here, in order to see if any of our merchants and manufac-
turers can identify the prints, and thence the vessel, all the
crew of which, it is conjectured, have perished. Up to Fri-
day evening, we understand, no one on Change had identified
the pattern of cotton in the letter, or recognised the descrip=
-don given of other portions of the cargo.