The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-05-18 00:00:00

TULIEN'g CONCERT

-Mr.

Julien intends giving three

more Concerts at: the Amphitheatre, viz., on Wednesday,

Thursday, and 14'iiday

THE PRESIDENT.—It will be perceived that the British
Queen, steamer, is now open to public inspection • the pro-
ceeds to be appropriated for the benefit of the families of
the crew of the PRESIDENT. This very fine vessel is ex-
tremely well worth seeing.
PARKGATE.—This heretofore much neglected watering
place having lately come into the possession of the Hon. E.
L. Mostyn, has undergone extensive improvements ; the old
bath house and several such unsightly and dilapitated build-
ings have been razed to the ground, the pier, which was so
many years in a ruinous state, has been repaired and partially
rebuilt, the approach at the north end is paved with large
oblong blocks of mason's work, embedded in cement.
A strange sort of accident occurred at Rainhill, near Pres-
cot, on Saturday last. The London mail train, which arrived
there about half-past five o'clock, carrying the bag for the
Prescot post, which happened to be very large that morning,
and which had been given to the engineer, by the guard, for
him (as it is customary) to throw it off the engine to the
postman, who was waiting to receive it. The engineer did
so, but the bag unfortunately caught against the flag-post,
and rebounded against the engine, and caught on one of the
wheels, which dragged it upwards of forty yards before the
engine could be stopped, and it was then found that the bag
was nearly cut in two, and newspapers, letters. and small
parcels were scattered about in ' pleasing confusion' with an
appearance as if they had been in a chopping machine; several
articles had dropped out of the letters, chiefly small articles
belonging to watchmakers, which were collected, and on the
bag being opened at the Post-office, many of the letters were
found in such a shattered condition that it was with great
difficulty that their intended destiny could be traced out. It

is supposed, however, that the whole of the articles, or
nearly so, enclosed in the letters, have been found.
CAUTION TO THE BENEVOLENT.—We put our readers
on their guard against another of those begging impostors,
who have, of late years, infested this and other localities,
levying contributions from the charitable and humane. On
Friday last a rather healthy-looking young man, dressed in a
somewhat rather shabby suit of black, called at the shop of
Mr. Galt, confectioner, Lord-street, and applied for a dona-
tion for some object or another, presenting at the same time,
a petition, professedly got up by the Rev. E. Ashton, vicar
of Huyton, and bearing the signatures of several respectable
parties in the neighbourhood, with the various sums they had
given to the petitioner. among which we instance the Vicar's
name for £3, and the Churchwardens of Huyton, £7lss. Od.
Mrs. Galt, influenced by the fellow's tale and his respecta-
bly-signed petition, immediately relieved him; but he had
no sooner left her presence, than she began to suspect the
possibility of being an impostor, and, in order to ascertain if
there was any truth in the fellow's statement, she wrote-to
the Rev. Mr. Ashton, who denied all -knowledge of the
man.

The May meetings have brought to London an unusual
assembly of country visitors, and Exeter Hall and the
churches have been crowded to excess. The fortunate pos-
sessor of a ticket for the Protestant meeting might have sold
it for a guinea in the course of the morning. The Rev. Hugh
M'Neile was announced to preach at St. Cleniit's on Wed-
❑esday evening, and the attraction was so powerful, that up-
wards of a thousand people were turned away from the doors,
not being able to gain admission : and the crowd was so
dense within the church, that Mr. M'Neile was full fifteen
minutes in passing from the vestry-room to the pulpit.
We understand that the extensive firm of Messrs. Acra-
man, Morgan, and Co., of this city, have obtained the con-
tract for the building steamers, and conveying the Brazilian
mails.—Bristol Gazelle.—[The contract which was entered
into by Messrs. Acraman, Morgan and Co. is not, as implied
in the preceding sentence, with the British, but with the
Brazilian Government.]
Lord Howick last week intimated to some of his support-
ers in North Northumberland that Sir Robert Peel may be
regarded as the Prime Minister, and that ere long he may
have occasion to ask their assistance in an appeal to the con-
stituency. The noble lord has hitherto enjoyed his seat by
sufferance ; he will be lucky if he is still regarded as a fit ob-
ject of toleration by his generous opponents.
STOPPAGE OP A BANK, AT WHITBY.—An extraordinary
sensation and panic was felt in Whitby on Monday last, by
the closing of the banking establishment of Messrs. Cam-
gion, in Church-street. The parties in this old established
and well-known firm are not only bankers, but ship-builders,
ship-owners, manufacturers, and very largely connected with
the trade of the port.
THE ARCHIMEDES.—This extraordinary vessel, which
has been chartered by the Great Western Steam-Ship Com-
pany, for the purpose of making experiments on the effect
of the screw, arrived at Bristol on Wednesday. It is pro-
posed, we arc informed, to adopt the screw principle in the
large steam-vessel now building, and intended to ply between
Bristol and the United States, in conjunction with the Great
Western.

WEST INDIA PACKET STATION.—The following mem-
bers have been nominated a select committee on the West
India Mails :—Mr. Freshfield, Lord Dalmeny, Lord Vis-
count Ingestre, Captain Pechell, Captain Dunscombe, Mr.
Charles Wood, Sir Thomas Cochrane, Mr. John O'Connell,
Lord Viscount Sandon, Lord Worsley, Mr. Philip Miles,
Mr. Craig, Mr. De Horsey, Mr. Oswald. and Mr. Richard
Hodgson. We are glad to see that Lord Sandon's name
occurs in this list, and we doubt not his lordship will do his
best to see that the interests of Liverpool in this affair are
not neglected or passed over so lightly as heretofore. The
Town Council have petitioned parliament in favour of this
port, and it was presented on Tuesday evening by Sir R.
Inglis, on behalf of Lord Sandon.
Friday next, the 21st inst., being appointed by her Ma-
jesty, and gazetted, for the celebration of her birth-day, will
be kept at the Custom-house and all the other revenue
offices as a holiday.

AIR. GEORGE THOMPSON.— This gentleman, having in
his last lecture, at the Mechanics' Institute, taken a brief
view of the history of ancient India, will in his next lecture
proceed to detail the conquest of that country by the English.
The adventures of Lord Clive in India are fully as strange
and romantic as those of Cortez in Mexico, or Pizarro iu
Peru ; and we have no doubt that this portion of our history,
of which so little is generally known, will be made by the
lecturer as interesting as it is important.

REV. J. BAYLER AND DR. BUTLER.—The late con-
templated discussion between these gentlemen, was broken
off, as will be remembered, in consequence of the alleged
incompetency of Mr. Baylee (a popish reason
proof of this allegation, Dr. Butler commented upon certain
passages from letters sent privately to a Romish priest at
Birkenhead, by Mr. Baylee, and inadethose communications
the ground of his shrinking from testing his principles by the
Word of God. Publicity having thus been given to a portion
of the correspondence, Mr. Baylee has been induced to pub-
lish the whole in order that the public may judge of the truth
of Dr. Butler's ridiculous excuse. We hope the pamphlet
will be issued to-morrow, and we are sure it will be read
with interest. Mr. Baylee deserves well from the protestant
public.

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THE REV. J. BAYLEE'S LECTURES IN REPLY TO Du.
BUTLER'S BOOK.—The Rev. J. Baylee delivered the first
of his course of four lectures in reply to the book published
by Dr. Butler, the Romish priest, on Friday evening, in the
Music-hall. The Rev. Fielding Ould presided. The subject
was Transubstantiation. The entire course will be published,
in order that Dr. Butler may have no excuse for declining
to meet Mr. Baylee in public discussion. The lecture was
a compact body, so to speak, of close reasonings, based on
scripture, showing the fallacy, to use the mildest term of the
doctrine of transubstantiation. It occupied about two hours,
and elicited great applause. The second lecture, which will
be on the Sacrifice of the Mass, will be delivered on Friday
evening.

STORMING A House.—George Williams, 'William Hum-
phries, and John Fagan, were charged with having violently
attacked a house in Spittal-fields, in which they broke both
the door and the window, and caused great alarm to the fe-
male inmates. The prisoners, it appeared, were connected
with a house of ill fame, and had taken offence at complaints
made of the annoyance and inquietude they had caused to
the peaceable neighbours. There were various grades in
their delinquency, and the first was fined £5, or to undergo
two months' imprisonment; the second 20s, or fourteen days ;
and the third ss, or ten days. Two girls, who lived at Wil-
liams's house, were soon after placed at the bar, for threaten-
ing the complainants as they retired from court. They were
committed for fourteen days.

867 dinners

OBTAINING MONEY TINDER FALSE PRETENCES.—TWO
respectably dressed foreigners, who gave their names as
Dominick Geannani, and Louis Roque, wer..; placed before
Mr. Rusliton, yesterday, charged pith this oTence. Several
gentlemen stated that the prisoners laid accosted them in the
streets on different occasions, and by various representations,
that they were destitute—that they were about to emigrate,
and had not received the remittances they expected from
their friends—that they were exiles &c. &c., eltained various
sums in silver, and from one of them a sovereign. - One of
the witnesses remembered to have assisted Geannani twelve
months ago, and he then said. he was going to America. The
prisoner had made a similar statement to another gentleman
in April last year. Mr. Dowling said that he had received a
great number of applications respecting the false representa-
tions of the prisoners, by which they had obtained consider-
able sums. Geannani made a statement in defence, but failed
to convince the magistrates of honest intentions, and both
prisoners were committed to gaol for fourteen days.
CORONER'S INQUESTS.—An inquest was held yesterday,
before P. F. Curry, Esq., coroner, on view of the body of
John Downs. On Saturday night, about ten o'clock, the
deceased, who was 28 years of age, went with his brother-in-
law, William Brown, to George's Pier, intending to proceed
to Birkenhead. When they got there, the packet was about
starting, and was a short distance from the steps. The de-
ceased went down the steps first, and was followed by Brown.
Deceased made a jump to get on board, and a policeman,
who was standing on the steps, caught hold of his coat lap to
prevent him, and pulled him back, and the lap was torn off,
and deceased fell into the water. He rose again to the sur-
face, and remained a minute or two, and then sank. Before
he sank a police-officer jumped in to his assistance, and
brought him to the surface three or four times; but they
were then about seven yards from the steps, and no assist-
ance could be rendered them. The officer remained in the
water about 25 minutes in the water, and then came on shore
again without the deceased. The body of the deceased was
afterwards picked up, and was recognized by the witness.
The jury brought in a verdict to the effect that the deceased
came to his death " casually and by misfortune."—Same
day, an inquest was held on view of the body of Robert
Moss, a boy of eight years old, whose parents reside in Ma-
thew-street. On Wednesday morning the deceased and two
other boys went to play in a house which is in course of erec-
tion in that street, and which has no gable end to it, as other
houses are being built against it. They were seen in the se-
cond story of the house. While they were playing, some
one cried " the police are coming," and they ran down the
stairs. The deceased followed the other two as fast as he
could, and when he got to the landing of the stairs, he fell
over into the foundation of the houses building against that
in which they were. He was immediately taken home, and
surgical assistance was procured ; but lie had undergone con-
cussion of the brain. and"--T— died, on Saturday evening. Ver-
dict, " accidental death. Same day, on view of the body
of Robert Hughes, a working man, 36 years of age. On
Friday afternoon deceased was at the King's Dock, looking
for work. A vessel was unloading brandy, and a man was
drinking some of it through a cane, and asked the deceased
to have a dram. He consented, and sucked through the
cane for about half a minute.
in He afterwards became intoxi-
cated, and was taken home a cart. Mr. Wood, surgeon,
was called in same night, and found him in a cornotose state,
and perfectly insensible. He succeeded in recovering him,
but he died next day. On a post inortem examination, he
found the brain congested, and the right lung much inflamed.
Death was caused by congestion of the brain, arising from
intemperance. Verdict, " died from apoplexy, brought on
by excessive drinking."

LORD MELBOURNE AND THE PALACE DINNERS.—At the
Queen-square police-office, London, a labouring man was
brought up on Saturday, for obstructing the footway in front
of the House of Lords. It appeared that he was walking up
and down with a board on which was the following placard:
" Viscount Melbourne and the boy Jones. Extract from
Jones's Peep iuto the Palace
Viscount Melbourne...
E. Jones.. ..
Majority for Lord Melbourne.. —863
Thus giving your lordship a clear working majority of 863
dinners over me.—London : Pattie, Brydges-street." In
answer to the charge the prisoner said he had been employed
by the publisher of the work to carry the board, and was
told to go to the most frequented. places. As the name Mil-
burn was on the bills he thought the House of Lords the
best place to go to—(great laughter)—he didn't know he was
committing any eine. He was fined tive.shiLlings.