The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-12 00:00:00

sent her from the wait

with asthma die suddenly. - witily persons
To Mr. MouLD.—Mrs. Parkes told me they had no
provisions or food in the house. I told her that was a
case for the relieving officer, and I would report it to him
after I had seen her husband. T advised her to put him
to bed, and give him the medicine I sent, and a little
warm gruel afterwards. She then left me. When I
visited Parkes the next day, I found him living in a small
court in Back Bolton-street, Edge-hill; he was sitting by
the fire,.apparently in a state of exhaustion. I advised
him to go to bed and keep warm. I did not see a bed in
that room, and I should say there was only one room on
the ground floor. I.saw two or three chairs. I did not
notice any other furniture.
To Mr. PEERS.—Suppose the man had not had any food
_

a tau Inn II,IiIK 1L WOUla nave been at all un-
favourable to his complaint. This man, in the early part,
must have had inflammation, and he had been ill fourteen
days before I saw him. Supposing, in addition to want
of food, he had walked the distance stated, the exertion
would certainly be unfavourable to him ; but of course I
dont know whether he had anything.
To the ASSISTANT-COMMISSIONER.—Parke! was 37

had taken cold there 14 days previously. The witness
then described the personal appearance of the deceased.
Did not recollect his wife making any observation in the
house to the effect that she had no gruel, and no means of
getting any. If she had, should at once have given her an
order upon the relieving-officer to supply her, but cannot
remember whether he gave her such an order or not.
Parkes himself said nothing about food. The fire was a
small one—in a grate made of bricks and bars. Nothing
was said to lead him to suppose there was no bed in the
house. Diseased lungs was the cause of death.
T.,A. G. Dolling, registrar of births and deaths for the
West Derby district, said he registered James Parkes
death on Friday, the 18th December. He lived in Back

nonan-street, Edge-hill. In. consequence of what took
place in the overseers office, as described, witness went to
Back Bolton-street, the same day, after registering the
death.

The witness described the shop in which deceased lived;
Margaret Parkes, widow of the deceased man, said :
I live now in High-street. My husband died on the 15th
of December. On the Tuesday before his death (the
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—itemise) for relief. He did
believe, will be the last artist privileged to paint his not get any. The doctor came to see my husband the
Grace. The picture is of life size, and is a very beautiful day he died. My husband got a doctor's note at the
composition, quiet in tonne, as most suited to the age of workhouse and brought it to me. This was the first time
the principal subject, and the calm of his private, position, he has applied for relief. He applied for relief because
in which he is painted. flis Grace is represented in full we had nothing to take to : we had pledged and sold all
dress costume, with the ribbon of the Bath across his we had. We had no food. The last time we had food
breast, and the insignia of the Garter. The likeness, we' was on Monday morning. We had had coffee without
are assured, is an excellent one—a sideface—and is full of sugar, and dry bread. On the Tuesday morning, before the character of the illustrious hero. The features are he came here, made my husband some coffee. He bad
much fallen in and attenuated, as compared with former nothing to eat to it. We had nothing at all to eat in the
likenesses. The picture has been engraved under the su- house, and no means of getting anything. A gentleman
perintendence of Mr. Grundy, and will remain for a few gave me half-a-crown on the Tuesday morning after my
days on view at his repository. To-morrow this enter- husband left home to come here. On the Friday, Mr.
prism
g purveyor for the lovers of art proposes to exhibit Tristram gave me 4s. worth of bread, and in different ar-
the grand painting of "The Stag at Bay," by Landseer. tides. This was the first relief I received from him ex-
We refer our readers to the excellent bill of fare at the cept the medical order. My husband 'had been ill at Oriental Divan, advertised in our paper to-day; every- home three weeks. He had work to go to, but could not
thing it comprises is excellent. go. The week before he died, 4s. was all we had to live on
The Liverpool Parcel Delivery Company is now in full and I sold two chairs for that 4s. The week before that I
operation, delivering parcels in the town and environs as pledged different articles to live on. My husband re-
low as one penny each.
turned on the Tuesday, at a quarter to five o'clock ; I was
ANATOMICAL.VENIIS.—A splendid new figure, of the standing at the top of the opening where we live, looking
female form, decidedly the best that has been here, is now for him ; and when he came he put up his hands for me
on view in Bold-street.
to come and help him. When I went to him he put his
THE Sicrmingo-ROPE.—The skipping-rope, a toy which hand on my shoulder, and I helped him into the house. I
is discarded by the. young girl when entering a premature asked him if he had got any relief ; it was a quarter of an
womanhood, but which ought to be looked upon as a ne- hnnr hpfor. h. IA . .

A.,- tamr uclury nu c oulQ teu me. tie said No ; but he will
rY article in every boudoir,ior private room occupied come te• visit me to-morrow." I don't know who he
bcyes
as woman of civilised life and civilised habits, is one of meant by "he." He said the donkey-cart was standing
the best, if not the very best kind, of gymnastic exercise at the door of the workhouse, and he asked them to please
that I know. It - exercises almost every muscle of the to let him have it to go home in ; but the man who was
body. There are few women who do not neglect exer- there said "No ; you must go home the same way that
cise. Men—most of whom have some necessary out-of- you come." He said that, at the public-office, in Harper-
door occupation—men almost universally walk more than street, they had paid for a car for him to go to the work-
women. Thousands upon thousands of English women house. He said, when he asked for relief, they asked him
never cross the threshold of their houses more than once how long he had been off work. He told them three
,o-week, and then it is to attend the public worship of weeks; and they then said to him, " A pretty man you
their maker; and it is seldom that in towns the distance . are to come for relief when you have been off work only
to the church or chwel is such as to occupy more than ' three weeks." He said the same man from whom he
too Minutes in going thither,—,Dr. Roberbon. Glad
askesl relief tol4 him he must walk home, and if he

atter he had left the house. Ile was gone away
was unable to meet with him. The man v
when he was in the waiting-room-
for a doctor' note. 11.- '•

s did not say he wane,.
relief. Mr. Tristram sent her to look for the mats a
quarter of an hour after he was gone, and also asked her
to send a man after him. She did so, and the man re-
turned, saying he could not find him.
The evidence here closed, and the inquiry terminated.
The Assistant-Commissioner will transmit the evidence,
and his report thereon, to the Commissioners, whose
decision will be made known in about a fortnight. -
The inquiry lasted, from eleven to half.past five o'clock.

.fly other

IMMENSE WATER. COLOUR PAINTING.
A stupendous picture is. now being exhibited at the
Royal Assembly Rooms, Great George-street, which has
excited our admiration, not only from its bpim, thv

ULU US welt
for its great merit as a work of art. The subject is—
" The angel delivering Daniel from the lions ;" and the
picture, executed by James M. Burbeck, Esq., and which
has occupied him for about 13 months. covers sin ,se

~,......, G'ill SUpel
,_ -ceu long, by 12 feet high.
-uenoeu ....
~ ... have had one in my own house, my The substance upon which it is painted is paper backed
wife, for 25 years, as bad, at times, as this. Ido not by a fine canvas.
think the man's life could have been protracted with other The object of th,
treatment. I only saw the man once alive ;he died that what fine effects water-colour drawing is cal,
night from the rupture of a tubercle or abscess. If it durinff. IT. hn. ...----,- -1

being 21

artist is said to have been to prove
ble of nro-

(ming tar mare
vv umu ue mstantty cnoiced. The wo- than this. In his mode
of treating the subject, he has
man told me the relieving officer had offered her husband shown much grandeur of conception ; and the finish of
the house ; and the relieving officer could not have ad- this Mammoth picture will bear as minute examination as
vised anything better than a warm room and rest. many portraits of the smallest size. The 'fizure dm
To Mr. PARKER.-The man was exhausted whp. t Q..,

.8 very fine

wings,,
standing over him, is a most etherial
piece of painting executed so as to prevent • that deterioration to which
water-colour drawings are liable by the uie of white
paint, the white in this figure being brought out by the
original colour of the paper. On the right corner of the
picture, two lions are painted to the life ; and on the left
is a group, two of them sleeping, and apparently over..
awed by the presence of the angel, which is painted to
the very life. The light is thrown tba

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from above, upon the. figure of the angel ; and the fact
that it comes through the bars of the mouth of the den
is maile clear by the reflection of the bars upon the rocks
of which the den is composed.
The whole picture is well worthy of the attention of
the lovers of high art. We understand that it is shortly
to be removed to London ; and earnestly advise our
fellow townsmen to nay an Early vicif f

h it is being exhibited

- - - ---
GRAND CONCERT AT THE CONCERT-HALL,
LORD NELSON-STREET.
Yesterday evening, the first of two concerts took place
at the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson street, in which the

and Mr. Sinclair. The house was well attended, and, we
believe, would have been quite full but for a mistake
generally entertained that the first concert would take
place on Tuesday (this evening) in place of last night.
The attendance was, notwithstanding, highly respectable,
and, as regarded the music, enthusiastic. Mr. Holden
presided at the piano, and, as usual, did justice and good
service to the vocalists, though many of them, as well as
the pieces they sang, were to him necessarily strange.
In the first part, and also in the second, Mr. Sinclair
evinced almost all, if not all, the powers that he displayed
in earlier life as a singer. His ballad, " Come sit thee
1 •

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by him, is worthy of all commendation

In his other

10 compote

In which he sings it gives a double
its, and Particularly in " Johnny
this gentleman was so highly

Sands" (a coiniCballad

Luau ne was warmly encored. Of Signor Sapio,
we need but say little. Ills talents had before, and for
years, been established, and he (like Sinclair) showed no
falling oft; from• advance of life. One thing was re-
marked, that Sinclair introduced his falsetto in beaUtiftd
w.h1;,,,,, ;4- _ • .

) neatly, that the

vv cLuaug IL• 110.0 ins natural voic,
gradation could scarcely be perceived.
Miss Whitnall •sang throughout with her accustomed
good taste and delicacy. Her air of " Angels ever bright
and fair," accompanied by Mr. Holden on the seraphine,
was sublime, though unassuming. Nearly all _the per-
formers were encored, and in goodnature repeated their
.11111 era

We have left Mrs. Wood to be noticed as in a post-
script of a lady's letter, which is generally the best part
of it. We were delighted by the whole of her perform-
ances, both as regarded musical talent, precision, exe-
cution, and taste. Her ballad of "We met," which
she herself accompanied on the pianoforte; was a trium-
Tliant effort, the pathos introduced being most effective.
his lady possesses extreme powers of voice and execu-
tion:

The same performers will appear this evening in the
second concert; in the same room, which is admirably
adapted for a musical entertainment.

SIR R. PEEL. AND.HIS PARTY.---Sir Robert Peel dis-
claims, we understand, the circular addressed to certain
members of the House of Commons belonging to the party
of which the ex-Premier was the head, by his late Secre-
tary of the Treasury, Mr. John Young •
with other subord.
Rieht H

)f. the late Government

n conjunction
The

,ucr uesires ILA() DC cusuni
understood, that he does hot wish to be considered as
leader of any political party in this country.-Observer
A CURIOUS CIRCUA
cat b

LNen.—On Sunday morning. 3
.1k on the surface of the frozen
to a, place where the ice was
soon succeeded in rescuing her-
frozen to the ice by her feet. A
surrounded her, and, in their

Wistech
Lnd fell in

number of sparrows the

"You cannot catch u

actions, seeined to say.
The cat, with all her natural propensity for feeding
these little tormentors, kept turning her head, withLt,
however, being able to move from the spot, until soma
person succeeded in liberating her from her conafortlea%
fostiga,—ldynn .Advertiser.