The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-09-18 00:00:00

Loral Reins.

The Unitarian Chapel, Hope-street, is to be opened on
the 4th October.
The inmates of the Female Orphan Asylum were, on
Thursday last, provided with healthful and innocent en-
joyment at the Zoological Gardens.
On Friday a fire took place on the premises of Mr. T.
Harrison, ship-bread baker, Ansdell-street. A portion
of the flooring of the bakery was destroyed.
On Saturday, a child, named Edmund John Jones, aged
three years and a half, was run over by a horse and cart,
in Dale-street, near the bottom of Moorfiel3s. It survived
only a few minutes.
A refreshment room, under the superintendence of Mr.
Hilliar, is about to be opened at Monk's Ferry railway
station.
Mr. Lewis, so well known as the manager of the Liver-
pool theatre, died in Paris on Friday week, after a short
illness.

On Monday, a flatman named Richard Wild was
drowned in the river whilst attempting to jump from a
flat into a boat.

On Wednesday evening a lorry, while turning in Red.
cross-street, backed into the window of Mr. John Carter,
hair-dresser, and broke the entire front.
The Liverpool Hunt Club will hold their autumn meet-
ing on Wednesday and Thursday, at Hoylake. Mr.
Topham is clerk of the course, and the races are numerous.
ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—This is the last week of the
season at this delightful resort. No doubt the public will
be sorry to witness the close of the numberless attrac-
tions.

On Sunday week Evan Thomas was found dead upon the
top of a brick-kiln near the Boundary-road. About three
weeks ago he buried his wife, who died from cholera, and
since that time had been drinking very hard.
A fortnight since a message was forwarded through
the Electric Telegraph Company, from this town to Pa-
ris, and forty-eight hours were occupied in its delivery,
and £1 14s. 6d. was charged for transmitting the message,
which consisted of only six words.
The burgesses of Rodney-street Ward are very pro-
perly taking steps to secure the re-election of Mr. Samuel
Holme. Prior to November a meeting of the ward will
be held; when Mr. Holme will give an account of his
honest and straightforward stewardship.
ABUNDANCE OF WATER.—One of the two wells at-the
Kirkdale Gaol recently fell in. To remedy the accident
the other well was bored some five-and-twenty yards
deeper, and such was the gush of water subsequently:to
the operation, that at the present moment the one well is
capable of supplying fully the requirements of the prison,
and even those of the vicinity in addition.
CRICKET.—A match was played on Saturday week be-
tween eleven of the Liverpool Collegiate Cricket Club and
eleven of the Tarvin Hail Club, on the ground of the lat-
ter, in which the Tarvin eleven were victorious in one in-
nings by 149 runs. The Liverpool club scared 56, whilst
the Tarvin club in one inning scored 205. The two clubs
were entertained sumptuously in the evening by the Prin-
cipal of Tarvin Hall.
It is the intention of the Health Committee to purchase
or rent several thousand acres of waste land near the
shore, in the vicinity of Ince or Formby, and apply to
these the manure conveyed thither from Liverpool in
boats. The farm operations are to be carried on by able-
bodied paupers from the parish, and it is supposed that
the profits will not only pay the cost and the value of the
manure, but leave a surplus in favour of the Corporation.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On the 6th instant a shandry, dri-
ven by a boy. with whom was a man, ran over an old
man, named John May, in the Old Haymarket. The boy
was driving at a slow trot, and May, who was on the foot-
path, attempted to cross the street ; but the horse knocked
him down, and trode upon him. He was conveyed home
in a car, and attended to, but died on the 14th instant.
It did not appear that the driver was to blame.
On Sunday week a young man whilst bathing between
Egremont and Seacombe got out of his depth and was
drowning. Mr. Verley, watchmaker, Renshaw-street,
hearing his cries for help, took off his hat, coat, and
handkerchief, and, rushing into the' water, seized the
drowning man by one arm, and swiming with the other
rescued him from immediate death. Mr. Verley's wife
and family were on the beach, and in a state of great
trepidation during the performance of this noble and
courageous act. A gentleman at Seacombe kindly fur-
nished Mr. Verley with a change of apparel.
HEALTH OF THE TOWN.—At the Health Committee
meeting, on Thursday, the medical officer reported that,
for the week ending the Bth of September, there was an
increase of 87 in the general mortality of the borough,
and 105 in the deaths from cholera. The deaths from all
causes were 758, and from cholera 488. Since Saturday,
there had been a decrease in the number of deaths from
cholera, and during the four days there were 456, against
656 in the corresponding period of the previous week.
A conversation ensued relative to the evils arising from
burials in the town, and the medical officer was desired
to report on the subject.
THE PUBLIC BATHS.—During last year ending the
30th ult., the number of baths, &c., used was as follows :
Frederick-street—Total number of baths used 25,282;
receipts, including wash-houses, £417 3s. Bd. Paul-
street—Number of baths used, including those granted
gratuitously, 79,013 ; receipts from baths and washing,
£907 14s. sd. There had been a great increase in the
number of baths used during the year, at both establish-
ments, and at Paul-street the receipts exceeded the ex-
penditure by £BO 7s. 9d. In Frederick-street, the
expenditure had exceeded the income by £75, owing to
the great amount of repairs required in the machinery, &c.

MADAME SONTAG IN LIVERPOOL.—MISS Whitnall
has always been most liberal in the musical treats which
she provides for her friends. At her annual concerts we
have had the gratification of hearing the first artistes of
the day—the most eminent talent, in fact, within reach.
For her approaching concert, however, she has outdone,
in the excellence and liberality of the engagements made,
her former efforts. The first time for years the beautiful
Countess of Rossi—the Sontag of former days—will de-
light a Liverpool audience ; and amongst the other emi-
nent artistes engaged are the Lablache, Signors Calzolari
and Belletti, and Mons. Thalberg. The concert will be
under distinguished patronage; and we trust that the mu-
sical public of Liverpool will shew their appreciation of
Miss Whitnall's liberality by cramming the amphitheatre
on the occasion. The concert, it will be seen, takes place
on the first proximo.
PRIZE ESSAY ON DIRECT TAXATION.—The essay to
which has been awarded the prize of £7O, offered by the
National Confederation for the best essay "On the sub-
ject of National Taxation, and the Equitable Adjustoaent
of the same," has just been published, and is elsewhere
advertised. The basis of taxation proposed is the capi-
talised income derived from labour, and all sorts of pro-
perty, estimated at so many years purchase :—for exam-
ple, the wages of a labourer, at 74 years, leasehold pro-
perty at 124, real property, consisting of houses, at 15,
and land at 20 years, which, for Great Britain and Ire-
land, is estimated at £6,274,508,125 ; a tax of per
cent. on which would realise a revenue of £47,058,811.
The enormous saving in the expense of collection, the
unspeakable advantages of freeing industry, commerce,
and manufactures from the incubus of the Customs and
Excise, the checks upon jobbing, patronage, and needless
expenditure, the doing away alike with smuggling and the
preventive service, and many other advantages, social,
moral, and political, anticipated from the proposed
change, are strongly insisted on.
ITALIAN OPERA AT THE THEATRE ROYAL.—On Tues-
day evening the opera announced was " La Figlia del
Reggimento," Alboni supporting the part of Marie, and
some curiosity was felt amongst musical critics to witness
her in a character which Jenny Lind had made her own.
She was in excellent voice, and her appearance was the
signal for hearty applause. We cannot say that the im-
personation was a very successful one. With the fair
Swede fresh in our memory, and especially the enthusiasm
with which she threw her whole soul into the character,
Alboni's exertions did not strike us favourably. Her
singing, however, was magnificent in some portions of the
music, and occasionally her acting was most racy. It
was not Lind's Marie however, but altogether a broader
and more masculine character. Only a few of the best
known portions of the opera were given, the concert con-
cluding with the last act of " Cenerentola." Here Alboni
was once more herself, and magnificent. Her " Non piu
Mesta" excited a perfect furore, and Tagliafico's rich
comedy was inimitable. The house was better filled than
on the preceding night; but it was not a bumper, as it
ought to have been.
THE LIVERPOOL FLORAL AND HORTICULTURAL EX-
HIBITION.—This show came off, at the Corn Exchange,
on Thursday last, and with great satisfaction to all present,
whether interested in the products of Flora or Ceres.
The plants were numerous, and many of them fine speci-
mens of their respective kind. Amongst them was a
beautiful specimen of the Cassia Corimboses, sent by
Charles Wilson, Esq., of Allerton. The Heaths sent by
the same gentleman, and by Mr. Farrie and Mr. Mus-
grove, were also fine. The fruits were particularly fine.
The grapes, from the Earl of Derby, Thos. Weld Blun-
dell, Esq., Jno. Cropper, Esq., and R . C. Gardner, Esq.,
could hardly have been surpassed. The vegetables were
also of first-rate quality ; some splendid roots of celery
were exhibited by George Brown, Esq., T. W. Blundell,
Esq., and Mr. Thomas Hayes. Amongst the articles
shown, not for competition, was a splendid series of wire
manufactures, from C. D. Young, and Co., of Derby-
place, St. George's Crescent ; two baskets of potatoes,
from Mr. George Barry, seedsman, South Castle-street,
one of which was Fox's Seedling, the other Turner's
Flukes; they were remarkably fine, and excited much
attention. Another lot of potatoes wes regarded with
much interest : it consisted of four new seedlings, raised
by Mr. John Harrison, of Ince Blundell. None of them
showed any symptoms of disease. Mr. Skellon, of the
Liverpool Botanical Gardens, obtained the first prize, for
• the best collection of twelve indigenous plants gathered
within twelve miles of Liverpool. The show,
_ in this de-
partment comprised many fine specimens. Mr. Skirving
sent a splendid collection of Coniferae in pots, which being
placed in the elegant flower-stands of C. D. Young, and
Co., had a fine effect. We have but space to notice the
first or head prizes, namely :—Heaths and Groups of
Plants, A. Fairrie, Esq., T. Davies and Co. ; Fuchsias,
Mr. Leatherbarrow : Geraniums, James Stringer, John
Gray, Chas, Rylance ; Roses, R. Griffith, Esq., C. Ry-
lance, Harold Littledale, Esq. T. S. Gladstone, Esq.,
Mr. Skirving, and all the gentlemen before named, were
also successful in obtaining other prizes. Amongst the
successful competitors in other choice specimens were
H. Winch, Esq., C. Wilson, Esq., R. Griffith, Esq., 11.
Littledale, Esq., Mr. W. Musgrove, T. W. Blundell,
Esq., W. H. Hutchinson, Esq., R. W. Preston, Esq.,
Thomas, Hayes, Esq., and others. Amongst the win-
ners of the prizes for fruits were Mrs. Phillips, T. W.
Blundell, Esq., the Earl of Derby, H. Wynch, Esq., and
many other of our neighbouring horticulturists. Mr.
Gribbin's excellent band performed through the day, and
the large ball of the Corn Exchange was most tastefully
decorated with flowers and evergreens. The energy with
which these exhibitions have been got up reflects much
credit upon Mr. J. B. Leatherbarrow, the indefatigable
secretary.

A steam-packet, (the Edward,) belonging to Messrs.
Finch and Co., has commenced running between Toxteth
Slip and the Pottery Slip to New Ferry. It cannot fail to
prove a very great accommodation.
LICENSING SESSIONS.—The annual sessions for the
granting of licenses, &c.' was held on Wednesday, in the
Crown Court, before the Mayor, John Holmes and Hugh
Hornby, Esqrs. The court was crowded. There were
278 applications for new licenses, but of these only fifteen
were granted, as follows :—John Kirk, Hygeia-street ;
Jno. Bullen, Walton-road ; Jos. Savage, Great Oxford-
street North; Silvester Matison, Great Howard-street ;
Joshua Wilson Nelson, Gibraltar-row ; Thomas War-
rington, Chapel-street; Samuel Parsonage, Harrington-
street; John Martin, Water-street; Samuel Gardner,
South Castle-street ; Richard Lupton, Vine-street;
Robert Fleming, Hotham-street ; John Scott, Norton-
street; Mary Parry, Grafton-street; Samuel Walker,
Miles-street. The following licenses were forfeited :
Thomas Chester, Brownlow-hill ; George Caldwell, Bur-
lington-street; Margaret Gaynor, Down-street; John
Weeks, Edmund• street ; Martin Joseph Curwen, Henry
Edward-street; John Bamber, Limekiln-lane; Thomas
Potts, Norfolk-street; William Murray, Rupert-street;
William Bond, Scotland-road ; John Mulwell, Vauxhall-
road ; William Humphreys, Chadwick-street; William
Morrison Kenneth M'Lean, Litherland-alley. The
Mayor then read a list of persons cautioned, observing,
that he hoped all publicans would take warning.
THE NEW SCREW STEAMER, THE VICTORY.—On
Wednesday the beautiful model screw steamer Victory,
Captain Coppin, made a trip round the Black Rock for
the purpose of testing her sailing qualities, which proved
to be very great. She was built by Messrs. Alexander,
Denny, and Brother, of Dumbarton, and belongs to the
North-West of Ireland Steam Packet Company. She is
150 feet long, 26 feet 6 inches in the beam, and 13 feet in
the hold, and will carry 40 cabin and 500 deck passengers.
Her machinery was supplied by Messrs. Hick and Son,
of Bolton, and her engine is 175 horse power. She is
provided with a spar or grating deck for the use of deck
passengers, and this is so constructed as to form a com-
plete and substantial covering and protection for the deck
passengers. She has been inspected by Capt. Denham,
the Government inspector, and is much approved of by
him, as being well adapted for passenger accommodation.
She is worked by twenty-three hands. Her state-rooms
are beautifully fitted up with blue-cushioned seats and
every requisite for comfort and ease. The state-rooms
were painted by Ballantyne ; and the surrounding pieces,
which are executed with great talent, represent subjects
of an historical character, chaste and beautiful in design
and execution. This new steamer is destined to ply be-
tween this port and Londonderry.
LIVERPOOL PROVIDENT CLERKS' ASSOCIATION.—We
refer our readers to the advertisement containing the
prospectus to this society, which will be found in another
column. There have been many societies of a general
character established in Liverpool, but none for clerks
exclusively till the present one. From a careful perusal
of the rules and tables, we are pleased at being able fully
to recommend them to the serious attention of the Liver-
pool clerks. It must be borne in mind that this is a local
institution, and we think it necessary to call attention to
the fact, that the high patronage under which it makes its
appearance consists of noblemen and gentlemen of oppo-
site political views, who have kindly given their support
and countenance to the society from a conviction of its
utility and necessity, without reference to any political
bias. We have been informed by the secretary, that a
most lively interest has already been evinced by those for
whose benefit the association is intended, and that he is
literally besieged by applicants for information as to the
nature of the rules, &c. It is scarcely necessary for us to
say more. The institution is formed for the benefit of a
large and respectable body of men, whose interests have
been lost sight of, and it only remains to be seen whether
they, as a body, will respond to the call. We believe the
Custom-house, Post-office, and Railway clerks will be
about the first on the list, with the exception of some 300
or 400 Mercantile and Law clerks, friends of the promo-
ters, who have been aware of the proceedings of the so-
ciety from its commencement, in April last.
MODEL BATHS AND WASH-HOUSES.—A third suite of
baths arid wash-houses have been ordered to be erected
by the Health Committee, from plans proposed by the
borough engineer, and specially designed to combine the
highest possible degree of convenience and comfort, with
simplicity in construction, and economy in expense. The
site selected is at the junction of Cornwallis-street and
Leveson-street, which forms the east corner of the spa-
cious square enclosing St. Michael's Church and Cemetery,
and possesses the rare advantages of being elevated, salu-
brious, and yet central to a large population, inhabiting
one of the most dense parts of the borough. The build-
ing is designed in the simplest Italian style, two storeys
in height, and with projecting roof, and includes first,
second, and third-class baths, two classes of washing
stalls, each of which will be distinct and separate from
the rest, with improved and original contrivances for
wringing and drying the clothes. There will be three public
plunge baths. The wash-houses Nill form an important
feature in the institution, and great attention will be paid
to details. The drying of the clothes is intended to be
effected by means of a blast of highly desiccated air, a prin-
ciple perfectly novel. The first stone of the structure
was laid on Tuesday, in the presence of a numerous
assembly of the principal i,,habitants and public men of
the borough, with their families, by J. A. Tinne, Esq.,
for several years the chairman of the Health Committee,
and a most indefatigable sanitary reformer, to whom his
colleagues presented a very elegant silver trowel on the
occasion, as an expression of their respect, and as a
souvenir previous to his departure to the West Indies,
and a consequent resignation of his office.
THE PICTURE OF THE MISSISSIPPI.—BariVard'S pic-
ture is the accomplishment of a life. He appears at an
early age to have set before himself this task to paint the
largest picture in the world, and circumstances assisted
the object. Banvard (which is a corruption of Bon
Verd) is of French lineage, though in manners he is
thoroughly American. Being exposed to reverses in
early life, he left his native city, New York, and went to
Lou'.sville, Kentucky, where he was engaged by a drug-
gist ; but instead of compounding medicines, as was his
duty, he was engaged in sketching with chalk or coal, a
proceeding which induced his master to discharge him.
The young painter, for he was then but sixteen, set up a
shop for himself, which was a failure. His next attempt
was at a dioramic exhibition on the Wabash River.
Here he and some companions fitted up a boat for the
purpose of exhibiting a diorama to the villagers on the
banks of the river, but the speculation appears to have
been unfortunate. At one time the voyagers meet a
storm, and are nearly swamped ; at another the painter
takes a fever ; and at a third the boat lodges on a sand-
bank. The co-partners often had to adopt a somewhat
whimsical tariff of admission. Money was scarce, and
the belly was of more consequence than the pocket, so
that it was not uncommon for a family to come and see
the show, the father bringing a bushel of potatoes, the
mother a fowl, and the children a pumpkin a piece as the
price of admission. In a short time, as business was
bad, the dioramic company dissolved partnership, and
Banvard painted a panorama of the city of Venice, which
was a successful exhibition, but which he soon lost by the
sinking of a steamer. His next attempt was a floating
museum, but this ruined the exhibitor. The only thing
now left to the artist was a small boat, in which he went
down the river from St. Louis to Cincinnati. From this
he continued to sail down the Ohio river, penniless and
friendless, and living upon the nuts he gathered on the
banks of the river. On this river the artist came to a
small town, where he got some painting to do ; and here
he sold a revolving pistol for twenty-five dollars. With,
this capital he bought a larger boat, purchased some pro-
duce, and went a speculating. His method was to buy
calico in large towns, sail up the river to the settlements,
and traffic with the people for produce, such as giving a
yard of calico for two pounds of bees' wax, &c. When
his stock was sold out, the artist trader returned to the
large towns, and converted his goods into money, by
which he made some thousands of dollars.

SAINT GEORGE'S HALL.—A cursory view of the in-
terior of this noble building enables us to furnish a brief
description of its progress towards completion. Although
the otter or of the pile is justly appreciated, even now, as
a splendid specimen of architectural taste in the German
style, the beauties of its proportions, and the amount of
its chaste decoration, will be much more conspicuous when
the present walls enclosing the large area of ground are
superseded by appropriate railwork. No one, who has
not personally visited and inspected the building from end
to end, can form an adequate idea of its magnitude and
elegance, in collonades, roofing, and general construction
and embellishments,—all of the last peculiarly rich without
being in ought gaudy or meretricious. The great hall is
even yet in a crude state, so great is the amount of work
to be accomplished. The room is one of the largest in
Europe, or in the world. It is 169 feet in length ; 65 feet
in width, and 84 feet in height. There is a superb col-
lonade of polished granite on each side, with smaller
columns at each end. Eighteen of these columns, each
in five pieces, and all of the Corinthian order, are of red
variegated, or mottled, granite, and four of shorter stature,
at the ends, of grey granite, from the north of Scotland.
The large columns are of great height, with rich capitals,
and they are all polished to the brightness of a mirror,
showing to perfection the beautiful mottle of this ada-
mantine kind of stone,—far exceeding marble. The
columns are now encased in upright spars of wood, to
preserve them from injury from the plaster-work with
which the walls have yet to receive a final coating. Be-
tween each column there is a lateral arched recess, form-
ing, as it were, a continuous gallery on both sides for
spectators or quiescent visitors at a ball or public meet-
ing. The roof is of semi-circular form, the arch being
from end to end. This roof is of perforated tile or brick
work, for ventilation, and will be beautifully finished in
empanelled compartments, the air-holes being left open.
There is an outer and flat roof over this. The arch was
cast over the immense smq,lF Mos,qrs. S. and J. llolme,
and the tiles were figot tWe Vinufantory of Mr. Rollitreup,
p
of Manchester, the tentee. We are informed that the
mere perforation of the bricks has saved a weight in this
interior roof of about 1500 tons. The hail, including the
galleries, will, it is said, accommodate 7000 persons.
There is a large arch at the south end, which, being open,
admits a cheerful volume of light. Each of the courts of
assize is approached by a wide colonaded passage leading
from the great hall. The flooring of these courts is laid
already, and the whole of the interior work so far com-
pleted that it is hoped they will be ready for the transac-
tion of business at the next August assizes. The crown
court and grand jury room are nearly finished. Our
readers will observe that a lofty framework is now in
course of erection against the portico at the south end of
the building. This is for the purpose of hoisting up the
fine architecture alto-relief work, by Mr. Cockerill, which
is to enrich the triangular pediment over the fine Grecian
columns at that end. The steps and ballustrading to be
fixed at the same end are all ready for deposit, and it is
expected that they will be laid down before Christmas.
There is still, however, much to be completed in the
general building, (including the concert-hall at the south
end,) so far as relates to the interior, and we imagine
that full two years will elapse ere the workmen finally
leave the building.