The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-05-04 00:00:00

FALSE IMPRISONMENT.—An action was tried on Fri-
! day, at the Birkenhead County Court, before J. W. Har-
i den Esq., in which James Parsons, a private constabie.at
Rock Ferry, was the plaintiff, and John Gregory, a but-
cher, residing in Liverpool, was the defendant. The ac-
tion arose out of a charge preferred by the defendant
against Parsons of having robbed him of five sovereigns,
which turned out to be entirely groundless, as the money
was shortly after found in the watch-pocket of the defen-
dant. The damages were laid at £lO. Verdict for the
plaintiff, damages £5 and costs.

INQUEST ON FIRES.—A suggestion which is in favour
of Liverpool will probably have official judgment upon it
in the course of this week. It is, that, in cases of fire,
the local magistrates should be empowered to hold in-
quests, with the view of ascertaining the cause, with the
power of examining witnesses upon oath. Lord Sandon
and Mr. William Brown are to have an interview with Sir
George Grey concerning it, and, if approved, there seems
to be no question that a short general measure will be
passed this session. A prescriptional practice of the kind
exists in the city of London, and the Liverpool magistrates
have held inquiries extra-judicially with considerable be-
nefit; but the advantage has always been neutralised by
there being no power either to compel witnesses to attend
or to examine them on oath. We are chiefly indebted to
Mr. Alderman Horsfall for this valuable measure.

EMIGRATION FROM GERMANY.—On Sunday afternoon,
about five o'clock, a train from Hull via' Manchester, ar-
rived at the Lime-street station with about 250 Germans,
including their wives and children. They had come well
prepared for their intended voyage, as was evident from
the number of casks of mess beef, sides of bacon, and
sacks of potatoes, which formed part of their luggage. It
was rather an amusing sight to witness the bivouac formed
on the platform, which was quite covered, during the ab-
sence of some of the male portion in search of lodgings,
which, &Om their seeming total ignorance of our language;
they would find rather a difficult task. We think some
plan might be arranged by the numerous influential Ger-
mans in town to assist these parties on their arrival in a
strange country over the temporary difficulties which thus
beset them.

LIVERPOOL AND LONDON.—We gather from a parlia-
mentary return, that at the close of last year there were
registered in the port of London 31 sailing vessels under 50 ;
2,116 of upwards of 50 tons; 90 steamers of under 50
tons ; and 197 of upwards of 50. In Liverpool, there were
registered 131 vessels under 50 tons ; 1,275 above ; 14
steam-vessels under 50 tons, and 46 above that tonnage.
The number of sailing vessels that entered and cleared
coastwise, during the year, (including repeated voyages)
was, in London, (of sailing vessels of all burthens) 32,037,
and of steamers, 2,273 ; and in Liverpool, of sailing ves-
sels, 14,055 ; and of steamers, 5,592. It is here to be re-
marked, however, as regards this item, that the tonnage
of the London steamers was 349,317 inwards, and 346,932
outward ; while the tonnage of the Liverpool steamers
was respectively 808,571 inwards, and 741,894 outwards.
The tonnage of London vessels that entered and cleared
from and to foreign ports (including repeated voyages), was
inwards, during the year, in British vessels, 449,987 tons,
and of foreign vessels, 370,380 tons ; and outwards,
235,970 tons British, and 354,236 foreign ' • whie in Li-
verpool the burthen was, inwards, 410,283, British, and
427,295 foreign ; and outwards, 405,427, British, and
479,553, foreign.

BALDNESS EFFECTUALLY CURED.—A surgeon, natu-
rally enough dating from " Cork," has obliged us with
an order to insert an advertisement entitled" Baldness
effectually cured" ; but he has omitted to add to the obli-
gation by giving us some assurance of being paid for the
same. It is true that he intimates that he " intends to
keep it standing," but we read this, probably from some
peculiarity in the composition, as referring to the account
only ; and he will excuse us if we don't agree with him
in the propriety of such an arrangement. We regret, in
some respects, that we do not feel ourselves justified in
concluding an engagement with the gentleman on the
flattering terms offered ; because a fine specimen of • the
native humour of the writer is thus lost to this part of
the world. He gravely mentions, for instance, that hav-
ing " acquired great experience in the treatment of Ca-
pillary Diseases, he is happy to inform those persons who
are afflicted with Baldness (whether in youth or advanced
life), that they may, by a most simple (!) process, re=
produce that necessary ornament" ! That 's one good
joke ; but here 's its fellow. He says solemnly, and in a
fresh paragraph, that persons afflicted with baldness, and
applying for his assistance, " will require to enclose a
small quantity of hair " ! ' Why, where is the bald man
to get it from ? But we shall be chargeable with the
advertisement duty if we proceed.—Blackburn Standard.
[We were favoured with the same obliging order, and
have treated it with a taste of the fire.]
SPREAD OF FEVER.—The Rev. Rector Campbell has
forwarded a letter to the Mayor on this subject, in which
he desires his worship to communicate to the Health
Committee the following extract from a very able article
in the Edinburgh Review, " on the causes, cure, and pre-
vention of contagious fever." Vol. 41, p. 433.—" As to
contagious effluvia and the distance at which it may affect
persons exposed to it, there is, we think, the most con-
vincing and satisfactory proof deduced from along course
of experiments and observations, that the exhalations ra-
diate from the body of the patient only to the distance of
two feet, provided the noxious vapour be not accumulated
and condensed in the room for want of ventilation. This
sufficiently shows how unfounded are the fears that many
express at living in a district of a town where fever is
prevalent, or in the neighbourhood of fever hospitals and
infirmaries. If the precautions now recommended are
at all attended to, we may live in safety„ even in the same
house where fever exists." The Rev. Rector adds, "the
precautions alluded to are ventilation and cleanliness.
Not knowing who the author of this article is, I cannot
say what amount of deference is due to the opinion it ex-
presses ; but it is a most able article in one of the ablest
publications of the day, and if the opinion it expresses is
correct, nothing Can be more visionary than the appre-
hensions of infection from the new fever sheds. 1 have
just received a letter from a medical gentleman, who tells
me that when he was in Dublin in 1837, when typhus
raged, sheds were erected in the yard of the hospital, in a
much more crowded situation than Mount-pleasant, and
that fever did not prevail so much round the sheds, as in
other parts of town."

CARVING IN IVORY.—We have been much gratified
by an inspection, at Mr. Grundy's Repository, Church-
street, of one of the most beautiful pieces of carving in
ivory which has ever been produced, we believe, in this
or any other country. It is a figure of Christ on the Cross,
of about In inches in height, and fully sculptured. The
moment taken by the artist is just when the Spirit of the
Saviour has departed to his eternal heavenly rest, and the
greatest attention bas been paid by the carver to anatomical
accuracy, in the general proportions of the human form,
the position of the limbs, the development of the muscles,
&c. The hands are minutely and finely cut; and the
head, which reclines on the right shoulder, is executed
with great mastery and taste—the eyes upturned. the
mouth open, the thick long hair falling on the shoulders,
and the countenance retaining the finest expression of
resignation, benignity and forgiveness. The cross is of
polished black ebony, surmounted by a scroll in ivory,
inscribed, without colouring, "JESUS NAZARENUS, REX
JUDAORUM." The work was executed by our townsman,
Mr. Jacobs, modeller and carver in ivory, whose talents
becoming known to Joshua Lace, Esq., that gentleman
with a generous desire to encourage genuine merit, and
elevate it into deserved notice, liberally gave the artist an
unlimited order to execute the subject, and also sent him
to London to study the best masters in sculpture, with a
view to its more perfect accomplishment. It must be a
noble satisfaction to him to find his highest anticipations
fully realized in this production, beautiful in itself, yet
necessarily painfully true to nature, and to scriptural
record. It is said that the swallow cannot rise from the
ground without being elevated on some little sprig or
eminence. In like manner, genius may long struggle on
in lowly condition until aided to soar to a loftier sphere.
and
eiartist in this case has found that generous assistance,
nay he, for the honour of his patron, attain a loftly
position in his art !
THE ROBY DAY AND SUNDAY SCHOOLS
meeting of the subscribers to and supporters *Tlters. lit„eifont
in, le ;lel
schools, was held on the 14th instant,
and a
schools which have been established and mahrtayinaerS
wholly on the voluntary principle; and moreover the
schools with which such a champion of voluntaryism as
Mr. Corns is connected, we have turned to the report,
naturally expecting that under present circumstances,
with the stimulus given to voluntary exertion by the op-
position to the government plan of education, we should
find the schools in a more than usually flourishing condi-
tion. But what are the facts ? We quote the report
i:self

" It will be seen: from the treasurer's statement, that a large
balance is now ow►ng to him ; and it is evident to your com-
mittee, that the former scale of contribution is not sufficient to
support the schools in their present efficiency."

On turning, to the- treasurer's- account, we find that, in
April, 1843, the schools owed him about £127 ; and in
the present month, at the time when the accounts were
made up, they owed him £171; so that they had increased
their debt by £44, during the past year.—Well, under
these circumstances, the report being printed and circu-
lated, announced that the sermons would be preached on
Sunday, the 25th instant, (Sunday last,) by the Revds.
Dr. Halley and Richd. Fletcher, and the usual collections
made. ' Of course, the collections would be larger than
usual, under such circumstances, and after a direct appeal
to the friends of the, school for " increased liberality."
Not so ; the amount of the collections at the annual ser-
mons, which last year was nearly £164, was no more on
Sunday last than £l47,—a falling off of £l7, which,
under all the circumstances, does not augur well for the
permanent prosperity of the schools, or speak much for
the efficiency of the voluntary system.—[This from the
Manchester Guardian, a dissenting, liberal, and 'free-
trade paper, is a tolerably honest testimony, at all events,
to the inefficiency of the boasted voluntary system.)