The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-05-11 00:00:00

May 11, 1847.

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Two pick-pockets, apprehended on the ferry, boats have
been committed to prison for a month.
Three hundred and forty-two pounds have been raised
by the congregation of Trinity Church at Birkenhead for
the Irish and Scotch. The balance in hand is £2l.

Col. White, of Woodlands, near Dublin, on his pas-
sage from that port to Liverpool, was seized with an apo-
plectic fit, and died at the Adelphi Hotel on Tuesday.
On Wednesday evening, Rosa Kegean, about to embark
in a Drogheda steamer, fell down, and died from disease
of the heart, at the Clarence Dock.
On Wednesday, a middle-aged female, named Margaret
Whittle, residing in a cellar in Hunter-street, fell in a fit
beneath the grate, and was burned to death.
A fire broke out, on Saturday, in the premises of Messrs.
Ewing, ship bread bakers, Queen-street, and considerable
damage was done to the stock.
Mary Burns, a stout masculine woman, well-known in
London, according to the reporter of The Times, as
"Liverpool Poll," has been committed to Newgate for
manslaughter, she having killed a painter.
Mr. George Vandenhoff arrived here from America, on
Thursday, in the Yorkshire. The New York papers were
unanimous in giiing him such a farewell of praises and
good wishes as few actors are fortunate enough to obtain.
Mr. Gibson, the celebrated sculptor, now in Rome, has
just completed the freize of a mantle-piece raised to the
height of six feet from the ground, representing "The
Hours leading the Horses of the Sun to the Chariot of
Apollo." It has been executed for Earl Fitz william, and
is spoken of as a work of great artistic beauty.
Mr. Thomas Rowlandson has obtained the prize given
by the Royal Agricultural Society for the best essay on
the burning of land for manure. This is the second prize
Mr. R. has obtained from the society.
The emigrants who have left Londonderry for America
and Canada since the commencement of the season amount
-to 5003, and it is said that 3500 have left that port
to proceed by Liverpool and Glasgow. It is calculated
•that 8000 more will have left before September.
BIRKENHEAD DOCK BILLS.—The parliamentary com-
mittee have passed the bill for constructing a new dock
and altering the culvert. The preamble of the bill for
altering the mode of assessing the frontagers upon the
upper pool was also declared proved on Wednesday.
The number of horned cattle exported from Ireland to
Liverpool between Ist Jan. and 26th April last has ex-
ceeded that exported in the same period of 1846, by 5,581.
The excess in sheep was 2,000, but in pigs there has been
.the enormous decrease of 100,138.
THE CORPORATION WATER BILL.—On Thursday,
Mr. Rendel, the engineer, was examined before the par-
liamentary committee, and approved of the plan for sup-
plying the town with water. This closed the case for the
promoters of the bill, and Mr. Hill addressed the com-
mittee at great length in opposition to the bill. On Fri-
day, after the examination of several witnesses, the chair-
man said, that perhaps it might be convenient to the parties
to state what was the opinion of the committee in cases
similar to those of Mr. Chippendale. It had been re-
solved, that the committee were of opinion that the de-
terioration of the quality of the water was a matter for
compensation only. Mr. Webster said, under these cir-
cumstances, he would offer ne further objection to the
preamble of the bill. The committee then adjourned to
yesterday, (Monday.)
THE LAKES.—Parties leaving Liverpool at 3 p.m. may
reach Milnthorpe by railway in time for the mail coach at
half-past seven, and be at Newby Bridge, at the foot of
Windermere lake, at half-past nine the same evening.
The whole lake district may thus be travelled with ease in
a very few days.
INCLUEST.—On Saturday, an inquest was held, before
Mr. Curry, on view of the body of Richard Reed, aged
18 months, who lived with his parents in Chapel Build-
ings, Cockspur-street. On Thursday morning, deceased
'went out into the yard, and by some accident fell down
into the privy midden, where he was soon afterwards
found floating in the water with his face down, and quite
dead.—Verdict, " Accidentally suffocated."

THE FUCHSIA CHALLENGE.—This long talked of match
is settled at last ; the gentlemen composing the committee
of the Bebbington Horticultural Society have arranged
the terms which are as follows :—Four gentlemen of Che-
shire will show. two Fuschias each, against a similar num-
ber shown by any four Lancashire gentlemen, at the first
show of the Bebbington Society at Rock Ferry. The
stakes, we understand, are to be £4 aside.
The Vice-Chancellor has dissolved, with costs, the in-
junction granted to the Corporation, and restraining Mr.
Norris from erecting his house in Islington and corner of
Christian-street. His honour said that the case was re-
markably plain. The language of the act obtained in
1842, applied to any house "which now projects" and the
house of the defendant rather receded than projected from
the line of the houses on each side, neither could the area
be said to project within the meaning of the act.
THE SWATARA, from Liverpool, left Belfast with 290
passengers for Philadelphia, and having been dismasted
in the gales of Monday and Tuesday, put into Lough
Foyle on Sunday week, and is now lying at Moville.
This is the third time that she has been obliged to turn
back, under jury masts, since she left Liverpool, about
nine weeks ago. Before she left Belfast, a few weeks ago,
where she was refitted, typhus fever broke out among the
passengers to an alarming extent, and many were cut off
by its ravages. Fever is still prevalent.
On Tuesday, the mail steamer Britannia, Captain Har-
rison, started from Liverpool with the mails and passen-
gers for Halifax and Boston. The amount of specie
shipped by this vessel is considerably less than by previ-
-ous steamers for some time past, amounting to only
£150,000. In proof of this diminution arising solely from
the present monetary pressure, and not from any altera-
tion in the exchanges. it is said that upwards of £lOO,OOO
was put on board the steamer, and afterwards re-landed,
without any arrival from America having occurred in the
meantime.
UNEXPECTEDLY CAUGHT.—OD Tuesday week, Super-
intendent Leveratt, being on his way to London, to give
-evidence before a committee of the House of Commons,
on the Water Bill, whilst seated in the train at Stafford
station, observed a fellow steal a parcel from a lady who
was getting into a carriage, seized the thief, apprised the
lady of the theft, and gave him into the custody of a
policeman, who conveyed him to Stafford. The following
day the prisoner was recognised as being a man who, a
day or two previous, had committed a murderous assault
in the neighbourhood, from which he was making his es-
cape to London.
MR. GEORGE VANDENHOFF.—Mr. W. J. Hammond
has secured the services of this gentleman (who has just
'returned from the United States) for five nights • he will
make his first appearance on Wednesday. The New York
Mirror thus speaks of him on his departure. He has our
best wishes, and those of many sincere friends here, for
his success on the other side of the water. There is a
great opening for him there just now, where the English
-stage is confessedly so much in want of young and vigorous
talent, the infusion of young blood, to revive it. His
style is energetic, elegant, fervid, and yet free from vio-
lence and exaggeration.; and in this country he has esta-
blished for himself a solid reputation as a refined and clas-
sical artiste . His range of characters is extraordinary in
its compass, embracing the highest roles in tragedy and
comedy. We recollect on one occasion he performed (and
to the entire satisfaction of his audience) two characters of
extreme opposition, Cato and Doricourt ; somewhat of a
feat for any man. In Hamlet, Benedict, Ranger, Mer-
cutio, &c., there are few actors who have won greater ap-
plause ; while in the characters of Kitely and Matthew
Elmore, he surprised his audience by the exhibition of a
totally different order of talent ; and his Falconbridge, in
the revival of " King John," will not soon be forgotten.
Success to him in his own country, from which, we trust,
he will return to us with the halo of a great European re-
putation.

MR.
GOODALL'S FAREWELL CONCERT. —Mr. John
Goodall, our townsman,tluiesie_hai
celebratedl violinist, took his
Wednesday. As
farewell benefit at the m
regards the talent displayed, it ; on Ue
was a '
sfirst-rateintlsfftalr.
The star of the night was Mr. Goodall ; as a v
is unequalled save by one or two, his command of the :ein-
strument is surprising, and he pours mind into his music,
his execution ranges from power and rapidity to the gen-
tlest and softest notes the ear can retain, and indeed,
under his guidence, the violin " discourses most eloquent
music." As a violoncello player, he is second only to
Linley, and yet a man possessing so much genius is com-
pelled to leave his native town to seek that support from
strangers which is withheld from him at home. This fact
does not speak well for the taste or liberality of our proud
.Salopians. When Mr. Goodall has made for himself a
high name in the musical world, which he assuredly will
do, then, in the flush of his fame and prosperity he will
be proudly claimed as a townsman by those who have left
him to seek a shelter for his great talents in a distant
town. Mr. Adams presided at the pianoforte, and ac-
companied the songs, exhibiting a very great command of
the instrument which he touches with infinite skill. His
Concertante Duet with Mr. Goodall was brilliant in the
extreme. The concert, as a whole, however, went off
with great eclat. It was a pity the audience was so
scanty, for every lover of music absent on the occasion
has lost a rich treat. We regret to state that Mr. Goodall
must sustain considerable loss by his speculation ; but it
is not the first time that men of genius have had to strug-
gle with neglect, and had the cold shoulder of those who
ought to be their friends turned upon them. It is to be
hoped—nay, we are assured, that in Liverpool Mr. Goodall
will make hosts of friends; already he has been taken by
the hand by several gentlemen who admire his wonderful
Powers on the violin and the more he becomes known so
much the more will he be appreciated.—Shrewsbury
Corpervative.
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bookkeeping, &c.; and, again directing attention to the
same subject, we feel that we can, with the confidence
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W"o must inevitably suffer, in an active commercial com-
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