The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-23 00:00:00

THE NEW SUBSTITUTE FOR ETHER.

Yesterday, at the Southern Hospital,. the surgeons of
that admirable institution operated in the two following
cases, in which the new substitute for Ether, Chloroform,
was employed with great advantage and success.
John Mooney, aged 34, was brought to the hospital
yesterday morning, at 10 o'clock, with his right hand and
wrist crushed by the cog wheel of a snuff machine; the
injury was so•severe and extensive as to render immediate
amputation necessary. A dram of the chloroform was
poured upon a sponge, hollowed out, and the• sponge
then placed over his mouth and nose ; in less• than a
minute he was- insensible, and the hand was removed
without his showing any sense of pain : while tying the
last artery he asked whether it was all over, and said- that
he had not felt itat all.

The second case was even more successful, William
Anderson has been in the hospital some days, with severe
injury of a finger, and it became necessary to amputate it.
The chloroform was applied in the same way, and in
half a minute he was perfectly insensible. The finger
was removed, and the necessary dressing applied, without
his being at all conscious, and ie has not the slightest
recollection of the operation. The advantages of the-
chloroform appear to be its more rapid influence, its.
readier application, and the smaller quantity necessary.
It is much pleasanter to the patient, and is not so irrita-
ting by any means to the lungs.

Mr. J. P. Teebay, of this town, has been admitted a
member of the Royal College of Surgeons.
Miss Jessie Hammond, will make her debut at a con-
cert to-morrow evening. We have heard a most favour-
able report of her abilities:

The Rev. Hugh M'Neile will, we perceive, preach in
St. Thomas' Church, Lancaster, on Thursday evening
week, on behalf of the schools in connexion with that
church.

The case in which on Friday last the coroner's jury
returned a verdict of wilful murder against some person
or persons unknown for injuring ti man who thereby died.
is to be heard, as against some of the parties since appre-
handed, before Mr. Rushton this day.
On Friday a child named Philip Cunningham, seven
years old, and living in Nicholas-street, was reaching a
book from the chimney-piece, when his clothes took fire,
and he was so dreadfully burnt that he died on the fol-
lowing day.
We regret to announce the death of Arthur De Butts,
Esq., M.A., Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, and Vice-
president of the Collegiate institution in this town. The
deceased died at Torquay, on the 18th instant, after a very
short illness, at the residence of his father, General De
Butts, K.C.B.
DEATH FROM A NARCOTIC.;-011 Friday night a fe-
male named Foster, living in Horatio-street, administered
to her child, three years old, nearly half a teaspoonfull of
laudanum. It fell asleep soon after, and died on Sunday.
A verdict of " chance medley" was returned at the in-
quest yesterday.
IMPORTANT DECISION.—It was decided yesterday in
the County Court, in this town, that no charge can be
made for shipping any British- Sailor on board a British
Ship ; nor can anv Boarding House-keeper demand pay-
ment for any greater length of time than that for which a
sailor may actually require accommodation. The system
of boarding will in future be by the day, and not by the
week. A case involving these points came before Mr.
Commissioner Lowndes yesterday..
EXAMINATION OF MASTERS ANDMATES.—At a board
of examiners, held on the 9th instant, Mr. Lewis Reid,
chief mate of the Mary Somerville, of Liverpool, was ex-
amined and found duly qualified for a first-class mate's
certificate. And on the 17th instant, Captain Albert
Betts, late master of the Devon, of St. John's, New
Brunswick, and Mr. Charles William Walker, second
officer of the British and North American royal mail steam
ship Hibernia, were examined and found duly qualified
for first-class masters' certificates.
MR. TATHAM'S PORTRAIT OF DR. M‘NEILE.—This
admirably executed water colour painting, which possesses
not only the qualification of an excellent likeness (indeed
the best that has ever been painted of the worthy divine),
but is replete with all the characteristics that form a pic-
ture, will remain on view during the present week.
Already it has been visited by a multitude of his friends,
and we feel satisfied that in recommending our readers to
present their cards—which is the only requisite of admis-
sion—they will be more than repaid in the gratification
the will experience.
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Sunday evening,
John Bradley, a porter in the employ of the London and
North Western Railway Company, forty years of age,
went up in a train from Lime-street to Edge-hill, on the
top of a carriage. Before the train was stopped, he
attempted to get down, when his foot slipped, and he fell
between the carriages, and the wheels went over both his
legs and the step of the carriage caught his body, and
crushed him against the parapet, so that he died almost
instantly. Verdict "accidental death." There is a bye-
law against any one jumping down while carriages are in
motion.

THE RESTORATION OF • TENPENNIES" THE GRAND
SPECIFIC FOR IRELAND.—The "Council of National
Safety,', recently sitting in Dublin to consider the state of
Ireland, and to propose measures for its relief, as the re-
sult of its deliberetions, has furnished us with no less than
thirty-five different subjects, which must be dealt with by
the British parliament before the sister isle can be in a
fair way of becoming " great, glorious, and free." Only
one of these "recommendations," however, appears to us
to possess the merit of novelty. It is No. 31, and runs
as follows :—"3l. That we recommend the adoption of a
decimal system of coinage, and also an uniform decimal
system of weights and measures." After this, who can
doubt the effect which would be produced by a native par-
liament in College Green ? The Irish "tinpenny" would
be once more in the pockets of the fine peasantry, and the
hated " Saxon shilling" banished from the land. Verily
Lord John Russell deserves impeachment if he refuses
this grand specific for the cure of Ireland's evils,—" a
decimal system of coinage."
CHARGE OF MURDER.—About a month ago, a young
woman named Ann M`Kenna, went to lodge at a house in
Plumbe-street. She appeared to be pregnant, but neither
denied nor affirmed the fact. Assistance was offered to
her to precure some little articles of dress for the child,
but she said she would not want them, as it would not be
born alive. On Friday morning she complained of being
unwell, and went to bed. The landlady soon after found
her standing near the bed, and a female child on the floor,
alive and crying. The latter was put into bed to the
mother, for whom everything needful was done. The
child was heard to cry several times. In the morning the
mother said, " My God,, I don't think there is a stir in it,"
The child was then turned, and was found to be black in
the face and bleeding at the nose. No surgeon had been
sent for. She had not before said that she felt labour
pains. She was a single woman.—Mr. Callan, surgeon,
said, that the cause of death was suffocation produced by
violence. The coroner's jury yesterday returned a ver-
dict of " Wilful murder" against the mother, who was
committed to Kirkdale.
CASE AFFECTING PASSENGERS DELAYED BY VESSELS.
—At the Police-court, yesterday, a man named James
Casey appeared before Mr. Rushton on his own behalf
and that of many other passengers purposing to proceed
to America, to claim what is termed subsistence money,
for detention on shore after the date when it was stated
the vessel by which they bad paid their passage-money
would sail. It appeared that complainant and the other
passengers had paid their money, and that the vessel, ought
to have sailed on Wednesday. She had, however,, been i
detained on taking in 50 tons of iron, which set her down
in the water, and was found to be leaky, requiring time
for repairs, and replenishment of water, which was taken
out to lighten her for caulking. She has since been made
seaworthy, and will probably proceed to-day ; ' but the
court decided that the captain (though not individually to
blame) must pay, according to the passenger act, one
shilling per day for the four days detention, for subsist-
ence. The passengers are 220 in number, so that the
amount to be paid to them will be £44.
SEAMEN'S WAGES CASE.—Yesterday, before Mr.
Rushton, eleven seamen, the greater portion of the crew
of the large ship Coromandel, claimed respectively various
amounts of wages alleged to be due to them as a balance.
They had all (with the exception. of one) shipped at
Quebec for the homeward passage, and, representing
themselves as able seamen, at the high rate of £l3 a
month. Most of them claimed upwards of £ll, as the
amount due. After a very protracted investigation, the
magistrate said that nearly the whole of them had grossly
imposed upon the owners and captain of the ship ; that
they were not able seamen, but many of them, as proved,
" useless as regards navigation ;" and that, moreover,
they had refused to perform their duty on certain occa-
sions, as:stated in the log, and thus endangered the property
on board, and delayed the ship. To three only (who had
shown themselves capable) out of the eleven, he awarded
the claim made. The others had received quite enough
in the advances made to them, and should not be further
paid. One of the crew who had previously received his
full amount of claim from the captain, appeared as a wit-
ness, and the captain and another witness having proved
that he had, after pocketing the money, threatened the
captain's life,_ and used most violent and insulting lan-
guage, was taken into custody forthwith, and required to
find heavy bail for his good behaviour, or to be imprisoned
for two months. The whole of the men appeared to be
stout athletiq fellows, andwere all well dressed,

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIANITY

AMONG THE JEWS.

The anniversary meeting of the Liverpool Auxiliary to
this Society was held last night at the Concert-hall, Lord
Nelson-street. Long before the time appointed for the
chair to be taken, both body and gallery of the hall were
crowded by a highly-respectable and influential assembly,
who received in a most enthusiastic manner the deputa-
tion and the accompanying members of the clergy, and
demonstrated the sympathy they felt in the cause for
which the meeting had been convened. Of the clergy
there was a more than usually numerous attendance;
and amongst them we observed the Revs. T. S. Birks,
Dr. M`Neile, R. Davies, C. W. Lawrence, A. Thomas,
H. Carpenter, T. Nolan, J. W. Harden, D. Stewart, S.
Fenton, W. Rawson, S. Boutflower, W. W. Ewbank,
W. T. Marsh, A. Knox, J. Jones, F: Parry, Nixon,
W. Pollock, H. H. Higgins, J. Baylee, C. Hamilton,
Stogdon, W. Falloon, D. Anderson,' and Hersch ; and
among the laity we noticed H. Webster, Esq., T. For-
syth, Esq., and R. Harbord, Esq.
• The Rev. CHAIRMAN first called the Secretary of the
Auxiliary Institution, the Rev. T. Nolan, to open the
meeting with prayer, after which he opened to the meeting
a general sketch of the proceeding& of the society for the
past year. The Jewish subject, he observed, was com-
prised in four heads. The first, a typical subject, em-
braced the meaning of the Mosaic law and ceremonies.
Leviticus might be called the gospel according to Moses ;
and whatever doctrine of Christianity did not agree with
the gospel of Moses, ought to be rejected. The additions
made to this gospel by Romanists and other; in requiring
penance,. confession, &c., were not consonant with that
gospel. The son of one of his oldest friends—Dr. Marsh
—would fill up this part of the subject. It was also a
historical subject, conveying a lesson as to the causes of
national rise and decline. The Jewish history shows us
that when God scourges a nation for her sins, 'tie in the
church that the chastisement begins. Upon this subject
they might expect that evening sound instruction. from
several of the rev. gentlemen around him, and especially
from the rev. incumbent of St. Barnabas. The subject was
also religious ;• and in this feature the society assumed
a missionary character. As such, those employed by it
must be men instructed in the mysteries of Judaism ; for
they had not to meet with an uneducated people, but, on
the contrary, with a people fully informed in and conver-
sant with the pecvliar points of their own religion. The
rev. gentleman drew the attention of the meeting to the
object of the society, which was not to deal with the
Jewish nation as a whole, but with the elect portion of
that nation ; and showed that all that was of Abraham
were not included in the original promise, but that a rem-
nant would be saved, whilst the rest would be outcast, and
would continue so, until, the time when God's people
would be established in Jerusalem over all the nations of
the earth. Whether we agreed with each other on all
points in our interpretation of the prophecies, we must
not hold back our support from that society, whose object
was confined to preaching the gospel to those of the Jewish
nation who were willing to,receive it. The rev. gentleman
concluded with an eloquent appeal to the Jewish people,
warning them that neither admission to civil or political
privileges would save them, but only a cordial and saving
reception of the blessed truths of Christianity.
The Rev. T. NOLAN next read the report, as follows: