The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-08 00:00:00

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The deputation from the Church of Scotland to Canada
'sailed from Liverpool on Friday.
it is said that the Great Britain steam-ship is to be
launched on the Ist July.
Mr. Whitley, of Islington, one of our district parish
surgeons, died of typhus fever on Friday.
On Friday John M`Cann died of erysipelas, in conse-
`quence of an injury received on the Saturday previous, by
being knocked down by a cart.
The barque Eliza Johnstone, arrived on Friday, brings
intelligence from Paraiba to the 20th April. Nothing of
moment bad occurred from the previous advices.
The Halifax and Boston steamer Cambria, Capt. Jud-
kins, sailed at one p.m., on Friday, with a great number
of passengers.and £15,000 in specie.
Mr. William Wood, bead boy of the Royal Institution
School, under the care of the Rev. Dawson Turner,
has been elected to a scholarship at Trinity College, Ox-
ford.
SUICIDE.—On Tuesday, Edward Gavine, a pensioner,
aged 71, residing in Finch-street, was found suspended by
a piece of carpet edging to a nail on the closet door of
his bed-room. •

DISTRESSING CASE.—On Tuesday evening, an Irish
family of four persons were found lying ill of the fever in
a field near the Potteries. They were removed in a spring
cart to the fever ward. The poor creatures had lain there
since the Saturday previous, with only a blanket to cover
them.
Mr. Thornhill was elected for Scotland Ward on Thurs-
day. His opponent was Mr. Nicholson, the tanner. At
the close the numbers were, according to the official re-
turn, for Mr. Thornhill, 154 • for Mr. Nicholson, 111 ;
majority for Mr. Thornhill, 43. Mr. Nicholson was only
brought forward on the morning of the election, and
hence his defeat.

The " Swedish Nightingale," we understand, has named
as remuneration for her services at Liverpool for six nights,
the small sum of £5OO a night. She has been offered, it
is said, by a private individual, £6OO for two performances
fiere. Report says that her engagement at her Majesty's
Theatre brings her in £5OO weekly, for three nights' per-
formances, besides being provided with a house to live In,
a carriage for her own use, and covers being laid daily at
her own mansion for twenty persons !
On Wednesday morning, the body of a female child was
found in the dead-house. There was a piece of paper
.pinned to the dress, on which was marked in black-lead
pencil, the name "Anna Maria Toiz." Every inquiry
was made with the view of ascertaining Where the body
waa brought from, but without effect. It is supposed the
parents or some friends of the deceased have sailed in
some vessel from this pdrt, and deposited the body there
before their departure.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday, as Mr. W. B.
O'Donnell, brother of Dr. O'Donnell, was passing along
Rodney-street, on horseback, from some cause which
cannot be clearly ascertained, he fell from his horse, and
severely injured his head. He was taken into the house
of Mr. Bickersteth, surgeon, where he received every
attention. He was afterwards removed to the house of
his brother, and died there the next day. He was forty-
six years of age, and was out of business.
A fire broke out in the shop of Mr. Whitehead, cutler,
south Castle-street, on Thursday night. It was not ex-
tinguished until the shop was completely gutted. The
damage is about £5OO, and fully insured. The fire, at
one time, assumed a very threatening appearance; it ap-
pears that the police officers, who first arrived at the
place, acted with great indiscretion, having forced open
the doors and windows of the shop before the arrival of
the engines, thus giving vent to the flames, and endanger-
ing the whole of the adjoining property. The West of
England engine was the first to arrive on the ground, fol-
lowed shortly after by one from the fire station, under the
direction of Mr. Hewitt. Mr. M`Donald, and other of the
Harrington Company's officers, were promptly on the spot,
and a stand-pipe being inserted in their mains a powerful
stream of water was thrown on the flames which soon
yielded to its influence. An effort was made to obtain
water from the Green Lane mains, which was, however,
unsuccessful, until long after the fire had been got under.
ALLEGED MURDER AT BIREENELEAD.—On the 24th
ultimo, a young man, named Frinnigan, aged 19, who had
been present at the anniversary procession and meeting of
the! Tranmere Benefit Club, did not reach home, and
nothing was ascertained respecting him until Friday
morning last, when his body was found in the Morpeth
Dock, so marked that death appeared to have been the
result of violence. He had, on the day in question, been
in company with a stonemason, named Edward Silk, and
the latter having given contradictory accounts as to where
the deceased and he were together, and his handkerchief
and hands being moreover stained with blood, the police
took him into custody on suspicion: On Friday afternoon,
the inquest was held before H. Churton. Esq. The body
was found floating in the water. The left side of the face
was bloody, and a black silk handkerchief was stuffed into
the mouth and down the throat, and there were some
other bruises.- The left hand pocket of his trousers was
turned inside out; and it appeared that Silk had heard it
mentioned that deceased had 355. The handkerchief in
deceased's mouth was one which he had worn round his
neck. Silk did not go to his lodgings on the night in
-question. Dr. Vaughan, who had examined the body,
attributed death to suffocation, from the handkerchief
being stuffed in the throat. The deceased could not have
pushed it down himself. There being no further evidence
to be had:of those present, and in order that further
information may be obtained, the inquest was adjourned
until Friday next.
THE NEW LANDING STAGE.—This leviathan structure
has been at last fixed to its moorings, and henceforward
will be used as the landing point for passengers from the
other side of the river. It was towed up on Tuesday,
shortly before high water, from the north end, where it
had been constructed, and it presented a very singular ap-
pearance as it came up the river, headed and flanked by
seven steam-tugs, which were engaged for its transport.
There were a great number of people on board, which
gave it somewhat the. appearance of a floating island. It
has been permanently moored about one hundred feet from
the pier-head, in front of the baths at St. George's Pier,
and by means of iron bridges, 150 feet long (which are
being constructed by Mr. Fairbairn, of Manchester), it
will beavailable both at high and low water. The struc-
ture is based on 39 iron pontoons, which, though the
stage weighs upwards of 2,000 tons, are not more thsn
half immersed in the water. It is 507 feet long, 80 feet 9
inches wide, and contains 49,000 cubic feet of wood. It
affords accommodation for seven of the river steamers,
and it is calculated that 40,000 persons could stand upon
it. The decking is five inches in thickness. The iron
work has been constructed by Mr.. Sanderson, of War-
rington, and the woodwork by Mr. Tayleure, and others,
under the superintendence of the officers of the dock com-
mittee. When the bridges are completed, the total cost
of the stage will be about £40,000. Mr. Bramley Moore,
the chairman, and other members of the dock committee,
_sailed up the river with the stage. The edges of the stage
are not protected by any bulwarks or chains. It has been
thought that this would interfere with the facility of land-
ing or embarking. Massive oaken stanchions, a foot
square at the base, and secured on the inside by strong
iron knees, encircle the deck at intervals of ten feet, with
low mooring posts in the intermediate spaces, well
strapped to thedeck. Near each bow are four longitudinal
timbers, 35 feet in length, to serve as-mooring-bits, and
bearing evidence of a capacity ;for sustaining the utmost
strain to which the mooring chains may be subjected.
BEBINOTON HORTICULTURAL. SOCIETY.—The first ex-
hibition of this society for the season, appointed for
Friday, was held under the most favour ab auspices.
The weather was delightfully fine, and therewasThe
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quently a numerous and fashionable attendance.
Rock Ferry .pleasure grounds, which are n beautiful
the
marquee afforded a charming promenade, and relieveditlet
marquee where the flowers were shown from inconvenient
pressure. The collection was varied and the most enmag-
nificent which we have for some time had the pleasure of
viewing. The stand, extending the whole length of the
tent to the left, was occupied by a rich and rare display of
ericas, roses, verbenas, calceolarias, petunias, and eine-
rarias, of every description and colour, with an elegant
azalia, full of bloom, from the conservatory of Sir Wm.
Massey Stanley. The second table presented several
beautiful baskets of plants, one of which, supplied by C.
Rawson, Esq., was immensely admired, and some fine
fuschias, including two of great merit belonging to G. J.
Wainwright, Esq., (who as well as Sir W. M. Stanley,
Bart., took a great number of prizes), and R. M. Beck-
with, Esq., whose competition was little less successful.
The third table, to the right, was occupied with a brilliant
collection of pelargoniums and fuschias, and a fourth
table, at the back of this (an extension of the tent) of-
fered the attraction of a basket of plants, with numerous
fuschias, and calceolarias—all choice productions. A
small table at the entrance to this compartment was filled
with calceolarias and petunias, to each of which had been
awarded prizes. The right side of the large centre table
was wholly occupied with magnificent fuschias ; the left
side exhibited a greenhouse plant the " acacia pulchella,"
with a redundancy of bloom, belonging to Sir W. M.
`Stanley. A splendid specimen of the " Irish. Susannah
'Major," for which G. Woodward, Esq., received the gold
'medal, a gigantic cactus in full bloom, some exotic orchi-
.daciw, and other stove and greenhouse plants of infinite
variety and beauty. At each end of this table were some
'splendid baskets of plants belonging to Sir W. M. Stan-
ley, C. Stanley, Esq., and other contributors. A device
in flowers, representing a chandelier attracted much at-
tention, and had the prize
!ze tawarded to it. It was suspended
gracefully from the top of
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plants of higileinndierit from the nurseries of
collections of
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bers and asparagus.
WRITING, BOOKKEEPING, &c.
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mode of communicating in.:.terucactnio,
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system induces, recommend the advertisement inserted
elsewhere to the serious consideration of those
inevitably suffer, in an active commercial community like
ours, from a deficiency in the all-important
taught by Mr. Thompson.—See adr. requisites

ZOOLOGICAL GAILDENS.—The visitors to these beautiful
-gardens, so full of interesting objects, have again been
numerous, and they have enjoyed a week of splendid wea-
ther. It is not one visit, nor a dozen, that can exhaust
the varied attractions of this favourite place of resort. To
the contemplative mind, especially, there are always fresh
-materials for pleasurable observations, either in noticing
new habits and instincts in the animals, or in paying re-
newed or closer regard to some which had received but
cursory attention. One of the black swans is again rear-
ing a brood of young cygnets. A couple of tine herons
have been added to the inhabitants of the pool. Mr.
Atkins has also purchased a splendid tiger, which arrived
here by the ship Bellaire, Capt. Webb, from the East
Indies. Also a very elegant mouse deer, only eight inches
high, and considered a very rare specimen of the deer
tribe.

ELECTION OF BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS..--The
election commenced at ten o'clock on Tuesday morning,
with great spirit, the opponents to the Laird party rushing
numerously to the poll. The election closed at four
o'clock, the "Jackson party," consisting of the following
gentlemen, being returned by a majority of nearly 1000.—
Joseph Mallaby, gentleman, Church-street ; Christopher
Bentham, merchant, Hamilton Square; John Howe
Greene, merchant, Canning-street ; William Pike, gen-
tleman, Parkfield; Henry Fox, shipbroker, Claughton;
John Hicklin, gentleman, Camden-street; Henry James
Nicholls, gentleman, Camden-street.—The announce-
ment, on the close of the poll, was received with tremen-
dous cheers, and a procession was afterwards formed,
which chaired Mr. Mallaby and paraded the principal
streets of the town.

FATAL ACCIDENTS.—On Monday, as a man unknown,
was walking along Wapping in a state of intoxication, he
missed his footing and fell between the cellar-lid and sill
of a warehouse. He died soon after.—On Wednesday,
in consequence of the breaking of one of the bearers to a
scaffold, John Catterall, aged 27, fell into a well in course
of formation. at the Liverpool and Harrington Water
Works, Rock-street, Toxteth-park. The well is fifty-
two feet deep, and had nine feet of water in it. The poor
fellow was taken out in about an hour's time quite dead.
—On Wednesday, Thomas Hoy, a painter, fell into the
Waterloo Dock, and ,was drowned. 'He was engaged with
another man in putting the name on No. 12 pilot boat,
and, was in a small boat under the stern, when he over-
balanced himself and fell into the water.
THE REGISTRATION OF DESIGNS.—MR. HIGGS' SHOW
Room.—No act of government has tended more to ad-
vance the taste of the. country than that of giving protec-
tion to the prodUcer of any design. It has given a field
for enterprise ; it has created a spirit of emulation in every
important establishment, and each artist or mechanic
vieing with his neighbour, benefits the public by some
new and elegant production. In the Birmingham districts
it has been most available. A manufacturer is now in-
duced to spare no expense in ornamenting an article, as
he is protected in its sale by registration ; and to this we
owe a share of the credit for the recent improvements in
iron work. We were not a little surprised, in visiting Mr.
Higgs' show-room, in Lord-street, a few days since, to
see the wonderful perfection to which many manufactures
are brought. The grates, though various in design—some
elaborately beautiful in workmanship, some plain—are
principally registered. The shower baths are of various
kinds, but the registered one is decidedly the best and
handsomest. The exterior is gothic, the casting imitating
carving in oak. The interior is square, and the water is
raised by an easy rotatory motion applied to an ordinary
piston pump. For standing in the bath there is a plat-
form raised in the centre, and beneath this a receiver, so
that you never stand, as in ordinary baths, in the water.
There are registered washing and ringing machines, most
excellent inventions, that should be used by every family,
particularly where fever is so prevalent that infection may
be communicated in " things sent out to wash." Dean's
protected Indian corn mill is another of the articles inMr.
Higgs' show-room. It is worked by hand, and produces,
with one motion, fine Indian flour, meal, and hominy, all
completely dressed and ready for use. To those" who are
about to purchase, or those who are interested in the im-
provement in articles manufactured of metal, there can
be no greater field than that exhibited by Mr. Higgs.
Everything new that is good he receives as it comes out.
It is impossible, in the limits of a paragraph, to do justice
to the good effect, in this particular branch alone, that
has been produced by the protection, 'at a small expense,
of designs. You have a registered shaped tea-tray, a
stove—in fine, everything from a window shutter to a
gridiron.
_ _

THE WATER 'BlLL.—After six weeks, or nearly, of
patient and wearisome labour, the select committee on
the Liverpool Water Works Bill have arrived at the pros-
pect of release, and this day, or tomorrow, will see the
shill emerge from the ordeal in a state not very satisfactory
to any parties except the two existing water companies,
who have secured the power of selling themselves to a
tolerably good customer. The bill, however, will not be
allowed to pass through the Lords—should there, indeed,
be time, for it—without a strenuous opposition from the
town of Wigan. It is possible, too, that other parties
will secure their rights to appear there in the character of
opponents. As to Wigan, it was decided early in May
that that town should be secured 800,000 gallons of water
per day, to be delivered down the Douglas, from the in-
tended reservoirs ; at least, this was the understanding of
the parties representing the interests of Wigan, and
solely upon that opposition to the preamble was with-
drawn. It appeared, however, that the understanding of
a bare majority of the committee on Tuesday and Wed-
nesday, was that this quantity was to be the exact amount
of supply and no more ; so that, supposing ,the natural
drainage of the Douglas to send down, as it occasionally
does, considerable quantities of water, those quantities
were not to be plus the SOO,OOO gallons, but an auxiliary
and contingent part. The discussion was animated when
this interpretation of the resolution was disclosed, and.
'after it had been affirmed, the short-hand writer was re-
quested to take down many most peremptory protests, to
be available hereafter, to the manifest annoyance of the
promoters. There the case rests for the present. Sooner
than risk the loss of the bill in the lords, there is little
doubt the promoters will yield the claim of the people of
Wigan, who are admitted on all hands to want all the
water they can get to scour the town, especially as the
produce of the natural drainage of the Douglas, which
was intended to reduce the 800,000 gallons, belongs to
the Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company, who have con-
sequently a powerful voice in the matter, but who are
willing to accommodate all parties, provided no injury is
done to themselves. Too much expense, indeed, has
been incurred, lightly to risk the chances of a strong case
of honil fide opposition before a tribunal which, though it
has the character of being a remarkably summary juris-
diction, is not exposed to merely local influences, and is
incapable of being operated upon by the sudden importa-
tion of votes and voices from members who have not
heard the whole case.—Manchester Guardian.
INQUESTS ON SATURDAY.—On view of the body of
William Hilton, a young man about twenty-five years of
age; who worked at a soapery in Earle-street. He ap-
peared in his usual good health during the day, but towards
evening he was found lying on the floor behind the ware-
house door quite dead. For a fortnight previous he had
been complaining of a palpitation of the heart, and at times
he had been obliged to leave his work. The post mortem
examination showed that the immediate cause of death
was disease of the heart.—The second' was on Michael
Welsh, a young man.who was employed as a coal-trimmer
on board the steam-tug boat Powerful. It appeared that,
a little after twelve o'clock on Friday night, he went to
the Albert Pierhead for the purpose of boarding the tug
in the small boat, which was lying at some little distance
from the wall. He hailed the boat, but, not having re-
ceived any answer, he laid hold of the stern rope, which
was fastened to the pier, and endeavoured to get on board
by means of that rope. When about half way down lie
missed his hold and fell into the river, and swam to the
paddle wheel of the tug, where he hailed one of the hands,
who went down to his assistance. But the assistance ar-
rived too late, for the poor fellow was drowned ; and, in
some time after, his body was found and conveyed to the
dead-house.—The third was on Nancy Doherty, a woman
about fifty years of age, who was found dead in the passage
leading to the Night Asylum, in Soho-street. Charles
Arnott, one of the police, 'deposed, that on entering
the passage, on Saturday morning, he found a number of
wretched people lying there, and in their midst the dead
woman. It appeared that the deceased and her daughter
went to the asylum the night before with the view of
staying there for the night, having no money to procure
a lodging elsewhere, and that they were disappointed in
being able to procure admission, the place was so
much crowded. They then lay down in the passage
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showed that the immediate cause_ of death
,was disease of
the lungs, the result of natural causes.—The fourth and
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disease of the lungs, the result of natural causes.
INDIAN RUBBER DISSECTING GLOVE.—We have much
pleasure in drawing attention to the above valuable and
ingenious invention, by Mr. John Jones, Cutler, of Lime-
street, in this city, which cannot fail in meeting with the
approbation of the surgical and medical profession in all j
climates. Having inspected most minutely the gloves in j
question, we are of opinion that they must be generally
adopted. We having in our columns so often to deplore
the loss of so many valuable lives, by a simple puncture
or scratch while operating upon putrid subjects, leads us
to believe that their general use will be the means of pre-
venting so many lamentable deaths, which it has been
our lot of late years to record. We heartily wish the
ingenious inventor every success.—See Advertisement.
EASTHANI FERRY.—But a few years have elapsed since
Birkenhead was visited by parties anxious to behold its
rustic beauties, but its abbey, the priory and chapel, have
become obscured by the progress of modern enterprise,
and it is now viewed only as a striking instance of the
rapid strides of the growing commercial importance of
the Mersey. At Eastham, however, which.has ever been
considered the most lovely ferry on the river, though
time has worked wonders—though improvements have
been made in every direction—no alteration has been
made that could at all deteriorate the rustic and natural
elegancies of the vicinity, and in every movement there
has been that care and taste displayed that produces a
uniformity so necessary to harmony and beauty. The
new hotel, though replete with every modern improve-
ment, is so surrounded by lovely lawns and time-grown
trees, that it bears rather the aspect of an ancient than a
modern mansion. The new public Gardens, which have
just been completed, and which will be-thrown open for
pie-nic parties, are most beautifully laid out. Rural
oaken bowers are available in every direction, and a new
room, 60 feet long and 30 feet wide, has been erected im-
mediately under the wood, in which companies finding
their own " provision" will be supplied with liquor at the
same cost as at the generality of Liverpool houses. The
original gardens will in future become more select, as
they will have no communication with the new ones, and
will be exclusively for those visiting or staying at the
hotel. New coach-houses and new stabling are erecting,
and the whole of the old ,buildings are removed for the
Purpose of giving an uninterrupted view of the noble
estuary of the Mersey. A new road will be cut through
the wood that skirts the river, to the new slip, which now
crooked and rustic-lookingiel
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obviates the (FIEof landing at
low water. This sli -I •lis p • ll built with
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of beauty
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