The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-01-03 00:00:00

men(; and if they had not fortunately learned that Mr. John
Wright 'had some suitable ground in Nayler-street, they
would yet have been at a stand still, They called upon Mr.
Wright, and explained to him. their object. That gentle-
man immediately entered into their views ; allowed theth to
have the land at the comparatively low.price of 255. a yard ;
and in the most liberal manner, subscribed the stn ,of £lOO.
towards the erection of the church. Nothing, indeed, could
be more kind than his conduct towards their' ; and lieseem'ed
most anxious to forward.thewishes of 'the society by any
means in his power. They had been equally fortunate at the
south end of the town. After the land (wilt. Of a plot) Was laid
out for the Southern Hospital, there was, just: As. much left
as they wanted for their church, so that its acquisition was
aeeidental.- There had aISO been -great'lliflienity hi finding; a
Site for the church „ be: ureeted talAW.ii34atikst9o,o,and
piece of land further out pf.the town? and near theAlarying-
toh docks; had'been taken 'for-it 31W ksyard.
That • gentletrM,.. who had privately forwarded,the same ob-
ject as that of the society, had his contracts now in a state of
forwardness, and the building; lie was' glad to ahhounce,
Would be commenced, in -March,. or as early as the weather
would permit. The cost of the church and,its endowment
(£2000) would be in all £7OOO. Nor was that the only -work
of -piety and humanity.in• which that . benevolent -individual
was at present engaged.. was building. a Scotch national
chhrch in his native town of Leith, to which schools would
be attached, and also an hospital for females afflicted with
incurable diseases.
,This latter. work he had. undertaken on
the suggestion of his own 'daughter, who had been so afflict-
ed. She hadtemmiserated the_ situation of those who, when
found incurable, were ejected_ from our ordinary hospitals,
and her father had coinplied With lier'iimane request. The
erection and endowment of these buildings in would
be £30,000.; and, with a rare disinterestedness, the excellent
founder purposed to give the whole 'up into the hands of
others; fur the public good. • Whatever revenue might arise
' from the seats in the.new church liere was to be appropriated
part to the necessary repairs of the church, and the residue
to the augmentation of the clergyman's salary. (Hear, hear.)
• In reply to a question, the Treasurer, Mr. E. MoLystux,
stated that the total amount hitherto subscribed towards the
funds of the society, as per list, was £20,021 19 0
Amount received in full of subscriptions 7,862 5. 6
Do. do. in instalments of do. 2,655 0 0 •
Do. of subscriptions of which nothing.
has yet been received
Do. received as annual subscriptions l3 8 , 0
Small bills paid by. treasurer

Amount in Royal Bunk, with interest, to
the 31st December, 1839 7,684 14 2
Amount in the Bank of Liverpool, with .
interest, to the 31st December, 1839 3,103. 1 5

Amount in banks Ist January, 18.40., £10,787 15 7
He, concluded by expressing his deep regret at the dernis7e of
several of the sphscribers—including the Rev. Mr. Cardwell,
Mr. Eden and Mr. Eccles. The motion was passed.

The CHAII6IAN.said the
.next part.of the business of the
meeting was: to coMPlete the forMation of the committee for
the ensuing year; as the rules required that One.4hird should
retire annuallynamely, four clergymen (out of.',the twelve,)
mid eighi laYMen, out of the twenty four who constituted the
lay portion of the committee. The names of those retiring had
been drawn agreeably to .the rules... They were all, however,
re-eligible, if the meeting thought fit to return them or any
of theta. -The rev. gentleman here read the names of the
twelve, including that of Mr. Eden, deceased.
The names of the live clergy were first proceeded with,
and the following- were unanimously chosen—theie marked *
being re-elected.
The Rev. Mr. North* (to remain as secretary .) the Rev.
Dr. Tattershall,* the Rev. Mr. Carpenter, and the Rev.
Mr. Gladwin.

The meeting then proceeded to elect the eight laymen as
follows t--Mr. John Eden (in the room of his deceased
faiher.) Mr. Edward Cropper,* Mr. Parker,* Mr. Robert-
son Glad,tone,* Mr. Edwards,* Mr. Alston, Mr. Hugh
Hornby,* and Mr. Birch.*
In reply to a question, the CHAIRMAN said the total
amount subscribed was £20,021 19s. He stated that it was
yet impossible to say how far the funds, if all collected would
extend in the building of churches, until the two undertaken
were completed ; but he thought it desirable that the Com-
mittee should be on the look-out for another site ; and that
it' a very desirable one should be found, that they should be
empowered. to. purchase it.
• In reply to Mr. M`NEILE the CHAIRMAN said he con-
curred in the suggestion, that the names of the subscribers
should be, appended to the printed report • and that, as this
was customary, it should be understood diat the motion for
printing the report should embrace that understanding. He
added, that it would be well that the subscribers should be
apprized that the second instalment, was due that day (the
first of the year), there being an impression amongst some of
them that the first instalment was only then due.
This concluded the business of the Meeting, and the Chair-
man having vacated the chair, thanks were voted to him by
acclamation, and the assemblage dispersed.

INQUESTS.

(Before PHILIP FtNen CURRY, Esq. coroner.)
DEATII FROM BURNING.

On Wednesday last an inquest was held on view of the
body of Catharine Jump. The deceased, who was the wife
of a ship-keeper, was 60 years old, and lived in Banastre-
street. On the evening of the 31st. October, while the
deceased Was sewing, her shawl caught Are at the candle, and
her clothes were soon afterwards in a blaze. She ran out
into the street, and two female neighbours going to her assis-
tance, laid her in the channel, and extinguished the flames.
She was much burnt over her back and .her breast. They
bathed her with linseed oil. She was afterwards attended
by Mr. Thomas, surgeon, who prescribed the -usual reme-
dies ; but typhus fever supervened, and the deceased died
from exhaustion, on Monday last. Verdict—" Death from
burnitig.!', • • • ' • •

r irpE4Tif VIM*: Fp‘crunr, .0F SKULL.
IYeSterdit:.," an' inquest was held on view of the body of
John Hickson. The deceased was employed in -the stables
liclongiuge itbe,rl3.9yA. Hotel, • in; ,Dale,street, and was
in' the habit' of sleeping in the hayloft, over_ the stables,
tin . •
WhietiAlie entY,iteeesS • was by a trap-door, • to reach
which, - a Itulflgy,,,o4 fixed perpendicularly against the
wall. The ilecedsect was found lying in the stable at the
fdiSt of the laddei'SieWeiday.inorning, quite dead, and with
body. The deceased, it appeared,
was in the habit of drinking hard, ;and when last seen (be-
o'elthek.on'the previons evening) he
(Rlllsl ixoxy named. Cadman, • used to
sleep hay-loft mid was sleeping there on Tuesday
ii} Her tlttelleittitiettridt'lig\vaSt !Anis& tipsy when he went
Alptsleteri)(betweea six and Seven .o'clock), and did not know
thhaieAtty lidinippened to, the deceased until lie
.was
, "Mid ttrltr-that he was 'dead. • This witness said he
lad soinuititues haiiilibfew words with the deceased, only in
joke Onittnigliring Aly..Qripps, surgeon, was called
Yit affileditttety_dft the *dejegi4d being found.;- but the body
Asias ithevistireil and (the derdeased he'd evidently been dead'
symlwilrfr. The skul was fractured, and. a portion of. the
bone prease4' upon the brain. It appeared, too that, the
ifeoc was dislocated ;•. 'hitt the injury td the head was Siiffi •
cient.to account for death. Verdict,. ".Found dead, with a
inert-el fracture of the which lie died • but hoW he
received thefracture. there was no eY.idetioe to show." • '
.DEATH 11X FA :scr. Ll 4, iNWO DOCK.
On the same day an inquest was held on view of the body
of William Carss. The deceased; whinwes- about 35 years of
age, was chietinate of thebarque Turk, .of,:Newcastle, lying
in the King's bock. Ile left the vessel about three in the
`afternoon -of Monday, and retrirned'iti 'the'dock, to go on
board, about eleven at night. One of the sailors then in the
vessel went•on shore to assist him to come on board, as he•
was• very. tipsy. They had several vessels to cross before
they could get on board their own ship, .which was, in- the
middle of the dock. There was a plank placed from the
quay to the nearest vessel, and the before-mentioned sailor
offered to assist the deceased over it ; but he, would not
allow him. The deceased then went on his hands and knees.
on the plank, and-When about half way along it, he fell side-
ways into the dock. Assistance was immediately procured,
and a young man went down with a rope, and fastened the
deceaSed to it and he was taken- out. He had not been more
than a minute in the water but was quite dead. Mr. Gas-
kell, surgeon, was instantly called in to the deceased; who
was carried to a neighbouring house, and he used every means
to restore animation for an hour, but without effect. On
introducing the air pump into the nostrils, a quantity of
blood issued which is not usual in cases of drowning. Mr.
Gaskell added, that from the account he had received, com-
bined with this circumstance, the deceased must either have
died in a fit, or struck against something, but there were no
external marks of injury. He was of opinion that the de-
ceased did not die from the effect of drowning. The same
gentleman afterwards made a post mortem examination of
the body, and said—" the lungs were filled with air, which
is positive evidence that the deceased did not die from drown-
ing. At the end of the windpipe I found a piece of meat, and
in the trachea I found several smaller pieces, and these, in
my opinion, were the cause of death, by producing suffoca-
tion. Ido not think the immersion in the water had any-
thing to do with his death." • Verdict accordingly--" Acci-
dental death, through suffocation."

A paragraph having appeared in some of the newspapers
regarding the will of the late Miss Jones, of Stow, we are
authorised to state, that the fortune left by her is very greatly
exaggerated, and that no person has any right to any part of
her fortune except her legal heir and executor.—Edinburgh
paper.

CHELTENHAM AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—The
railway bridge across the Lansdowne road, at Cheltenham,
was opened a few days back, and now forms the " permanent
way to Gloucester and South Wales. The portion of the
road extending from the bridge to the proposed station, and
the junction within the Gloucester and Birmingham line,
which has been so long in a state of unprogression, it is ex-
pected will be proceeded with immediately, the centering and
other impediments to the thoroughfare under the bridge hav--
jag been removed.—Gloucester Chronicle.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL AND THE CHARTISTS.—We have
ascertained, from an authority perfectly unexceptionable,
that Lord John Russell has been served with a subpoena to
attend as a witness at the approaching trial of the Chartist
leader, Frost. It is well understood that the object of the
legal advisers of the unfortunate prisoner is to call upon the
Secretary of State, who appointed him a magistrate, to speak
to the character of the man to whom he delegated so im-
portant a trust ; and, further, we believe we do not hazard
a very presumptuous anticipation of the line of examination
intended to be pursued by the eminent lawyers retained for
the defence, if we say, that they expect to be able to esta-
blish, beyond cavil or controversy, that the first of the
Chartist meetings at which inflammatory language was used,
and dangerous doctrines inculcated, was immediately subse-
quent to, and a direct corollary from, the celebrated Liver-
pool harangue of the noble secretary who is about to be
brought forward—a most reluctant witness. We are quite
aware of the ludicrous terrors that beset, and the extraordi-
hary efforts made in the precincts of Downing-Street to con-
ceal the fact of the service of the subpoena, but our readers
may rely upon the statement we have submitted to them.—
Britannia.

PROGRESS OF SOCIALISM.—The socialists are most in-
dustriously spreading the poison of their doctrines through-
out Liverpool, Birmingham, Sheffield, and other large pro-
vincial towns. Able and zealous men are engaged as mis'
sionaries, a sort of itinerant ministers of vice, to each of
which is assigned a district of circuit of country, which he
is taimpregnate with the germs of Bocialisoz. They are un-
happily, succeeding in their work of demoralisation to an
alarming extent, not merely in our manufacturing districts,
where the population is dense, and public morals are at the
lowest ebb, but in many a quiet and country village ; work.
ing insidiously, distributing their tracts, and entrapping the
unwary by their fervid zeal for 'the dissemination of their
tenets. Their tracts generally contain the most awful
blasphemies and the most depraved language, denying al-
together the existence of a God, and charging upon, Christi-
anity the majority of the evils which overrun the world. And
yet the head of this atrocious system was publicly presented
to our youthful and unsuspecting Sovereign, in the sight of
all England, by Lord Melbourne; —Morning Herald.

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INTERESTING TO LADIES.-11C more delicate the beauty
of a female, the more susceptible is it to the effects of our
rigid winters. The fine skin of England's lovely women is
not calculated to withstand exposure to their own climate,
without the assistance of some soothing application to allay
the smarting irritability produced by the action of a wintry
atmosphere. No discovery has effected this purpose except
Rowland's Kalydor, the application of which not only re-
moves the tenderness of the skin produced by cold, but all
cutaneous eruptions. In addition to these advantages, by
imparting a pliancy to the surface, which is delightful and
luxurious to the sensation, it decidedly prevents the skin from
being susceptible to the attacks of bleak biting. winds,—
See advt.