The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-06-10 00:00:00

FIRE INSURANCE.

An official return to the House of Commons of the duty paid
into the Stamp-office by the Fire Insurance Offices for the
year 1835 :
Sun £129,114
Phoenix
Norwich Union . 61,864
Royal Exchange
Protector 54,366
County 42,319
Guardian .. 32,475
Globe 28,368
Imperial .
West of England 27,734
Alliance
Atlas
Manchester. 18,657
British . 17,475
Union 17,335
Westminster 16,313
Hand in Hand 11,168
Kent 10,445

Yorkshire £6,743
Suffolk (West)
.5,870
Essex and Suffolk. 5,438
Suffolk (East). 52`23
Newcastle-upon-Tyne 5,167
Salamander. 4,976
York and North of •

England 4,322
Bristol. 3,646

Salop
Essex Economic.

Hants, Sussex, & Dorset 2,535
Bristol (Union).. • 2,463
Sheffield 2,145

Bristol (Crown) 1,753
Bath Sun . 1,565

Birmingham District 1,480
New Norwich Equitable 1,375
Leicestershire
I ' 801
Shields, North & South 731
Reading 202
at the total amount insured upon
lv 441,489,818, notwithstanding
❑e Stock has been repealed.

London. 10,171
Leeds and Yorkshire 9,519
Birmingham 7,072
The same document shows tha
Farming Stock in 1835 was on:
the whole of the duty on Farmir

CONTEMPT OF AUTHORITY.—A summons was issued against
a man named M'Kenzie, who resides in 'lruernan-street, to ap.
pear on Saturday morning last before the magistrates, to answer
to a charge of assault. The defendant did not appear. Ains-
worth, the constable, proved the serving of the summons, and
that the man as soon as it was served, by way of expressing
his contempt for " the powers that be," took it and nailed it
outside his shutter for the edification of the passers by. The
magistrates on hearing this, issued their warrant to compel his
attendance "nolens volens."
LAUNCH OF AN IRON STEAM VESSEL.—OH Wednesday week
an iron steam vessel, which was christened the Eliza Price, after
the lady of Francis Richard Price, Esq., lord of the manor of
Birkenhead, was launched from the building yard of Messrs.
Laird, of North Birkenhead, for the Woodside Ferry Company.
This is the first iron steamer which has been adopted for the
Mersey. They have been found admirably to answer in the
Humber, and have been used both for the river transit, and for
short sea voyages.
THE THEATRE.—Durink the week several comedies have
been performed, in which Mr. Harley, of the Theatre Royal,
Drury-lane, has taken principal characters. The drania of
" Monsieur Jacques," written by Mr. Morris Barnett, has been
performed each. evening, the author sustaining the character
of Monsieur Jacques. Mr. Harley possesses that great requisite
of-a comic actor, and to which Liston mainly owed his fame-
-considerable cosourand of feature.;.and sentences which,. as,or-
dinarily spoken, possess little to excite . risibility, with this
adjunct, irresistably provoke a laugh. And we should not hesi-
tate to pronounce Ilarley's Doctor 011apod in the " Poor Gentle-
man" as a certain specific against hypecondriasis. The drama of
" Monsieur Jacques ' contains a considerable degree of high-
wrought feeling and sensibility, which was played to the life by
Mr. Barnett; and the greatest proof of the truth of the repre-
sentation was the evident participation of the audience in the
sentiment and the breathless silence with which sonic of the
bursts of deep feeling were received. It is altogether an origi-
nal piece, and calculated to interest an audience. Last night
we witnessed "The Honey Moon," in which Mr. Harley played
Jacquez„. (the mock duke,) and though he had not much to do,
that little he had was well done. Mr. Stuart as Duke Aranza, as
he general does, played well and with a just conception of the
character. Believing, however, that the most perfect acting is
that which most closely resembles nature, we think Mr. Stuart's
style occasionally rather more highly coloured than natural.
We were struck with this in the last scene, in the sentence,

" You yet shall ride the Moorish horse."
The boundaries of natural feeling once o'erstepped, the illusion
of the representation descends to acting. Miss Faucit played
Juliana; she is a good figure, but her acting posesses a Brea
fault, angry words and a laughing or sly-looking eye do no
agree, and cannot form a perfect representation of character
We were sorry to see the house but thinly attended. Perhaps
the races ;h
Novae m
nay,
0 ere were geen peas for sale at St-
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John's market on Saturday; grown at Bordeaux, and sent from
the south of France to Liverpool, by way of Cork. They were
fine, well-grown, and of good colour, notwithstanding their
long voyage, and sold at eighteen-pence a peck. This is the
first importation of the kind into Liverpool.
We are authorised to state, "that the City of Dublin Steam
Packet Company's Bill went through the Committee on Tues-
day last, the opposition to the bill on the part of the St. George
Steam Packet Company having been adjusted by the parties,"
THE INTRINSIC.—The directors of the Marine Insurance
Company have heard from their surveyor at Kilkee Bay since
our last. He informs them that in consequence of severe
weather Mr. Deane has been obliged to suspend his operations
till it becomes somewhat moderate. He had rescued from the
wreck, up to the time of writing, 426 round bars 1-inch steel,
23 flat bars 1-inch ditto, 5 pairs steam carriage wheels, 5 axles
complete, S ingots tin, 7 boxes tin plates, 100 sheets copper, 1
fly wheel, and a bundle of joining pieces. Mr. Deane expressed
himself to be most sanguine in his expectations of success, and
had sent for another diver to assist him.
111.1 D DOGS.—It behoves the authorities, now that the mad-
dog season is approaching, to warn the public against allowing
their dogs to go loose, and to authorise the police to destroy
dogs found wandering in the streets. On Saturday last a dog
in a rabid state was observed running down Church-street and
up the bottom of Lord-street, where it entered several shops
and ran out again, snapping at every thing in its way, whilst
the poor creature yelped and foamed at the mouth most piteously.
A gentleman having informed one of the inspectors of police
of the danger, he shortly arrived, and succeeded in destroying
the poor animal fortunately without its having injured •any
person.
RING FollNn.—On Monday, at the police-office, three men
were brought before the magistrates charged with offering a
gold ring to pawn which they were not able to give an account
of, one of the men said he had found it. There being no evi-
dence to the contrary, they were discharged, and the ring now
remains in the possession of Samuel Lloyd, the police officer,
till claimed. It is a stout, gold ring set round with small dark
stones, apparently garnet, engraved in the inside, "A keepsake
from J. C. D. 18A5."

FALL OF TWO HOUSES IN SCOTLAND-ROAD.—On Tuesday
morning, at about ten minutes past eight o'clock, the inhabitants
of the row of shops which form the commencement of Scotland-
road on the west side, were thrown into a state of consternation
by an accident of an alarming nature, which was, however, pro-
vidently, we might add almost miraculously, unattended by any
loss of life; not a single person having received the slightest
injury. It appears, that the shop No. 2, Scotland-road, has
been for a few weeks past undergoing some alterations, prepara-
tory to its occnpation by Mr. Hudson, druggist. These altera-
tions, we understand, consisted in the lowering of the floors of
both the shop and cellar, so as to give a better and more com-
modious front to the former than it previously possessed. From
some cause or other, which has not yet been ascertained, the
whole of the front part of the building suddenly gave way on
Tuesday morning, at the time above stated, and fell to the
ground with a crash like thunder. The building next door,
(No. 1,) being thus left without support, gave way also, and the
greater part of it fell sideways upon the ruins of the other. Mr.
and. Mrs. Chadwick, with two of their children, were in bed; in
one of the rooms on the second floor, at the back part of the
house. This room was fortunately left entire, and the family,
roused by the horrible crash, and almost unconscious of what
had happened, fled in a state of alarm indescribable, out at the
back door, which leads into Addison-street. When they arrived
at the front of their premises they saw through the cloud of dust,
which was rapidly clearing away, that their house was a heap of
ruins. If they had been up, and occupied in any of the front
rooms of the house, nothingless than a miracle could have saved
them from destruction. It was fortunate that the accident took
place while the workmen employed in altering- Mr, Hudson's
shop were absent. Eight o'clock is the breakfast hour, and they
had departed but a few minutes before the disaster occurred.
When at work they were mostly employed in the shop and cel-
lar: and from the manner in which the building fell some of
them must have been buried in the ruins. The cellar beneath
the shop of Mr. Chadwick was occupied by a poor woman who
had left her two children locked up while she went abroad On
some business. It was not until some time after the buildings
had fallen that this discovery was made. The rubbish was im-
mediately cleared away from the door of the cellar, and the two
little ones were brought tiath unhurt. Several persons were
passing at the time, and some of them narrowly. escaped injury
from the fallen materials. A little boy who did not attend to
the warning which was given of the impending catastrophe was
completely pursued, as it were, by the mass of rubbish, and only
escaped by a hairbreath. The gentleman- who superintended
the alterationS which were making for Mr. Hudson is impressed
with the opiniOn that. the accident occurred in consequence of
one of the front walls not having been knitted into the side-walls,
as well as from the general' Mr & bbl' stav; Of the
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