The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-07-13 00:00:00

July la, 1847.

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The County Court, during the sitting of the assizes,
will be held at the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson-street.
A new double-way bridge is about to be placed across
the south passage at the George's Dock.
There were no fewer than 11,000 visitors at Eastham
Fern, during the last week.. The other ferries had also
their full quantum of visitors.
Mr. Baker, formerly of the Theatre Royal in this
town, has been engaged by Mr. Charles Mathews and
Madame Vestris for the Lyceum Theatre, London.
The are several cases of fever in the borough gaol. On
Tuesday last, a female prisoner named Ryley, died of the
disease.
FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS AT THE ADELPHI HOTEL.—
Count Brnyere, Sir Philip Crompton, Colonel Willis,
Colonel Hall, and Captains G. Evans, R.N., Rogers,
Owen, and Ryder.
The Princess Royal, steam-ship, arrived here from
Greenock, on Tuesday morning, after ar extraordinary
short passage of 14 hours 51 minutes. We observed her
again in the river on Friday morning, looking as rakish
and beautiful as ever.

The body of a female child was found in a box in the
Mount Gardens on Tuesday morning last. From some
wounds and marks found upon the body, the coroner's
jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against some per-
son or persons unknown.
PARIS AND ROUEN RAILWAY.—We call the attention
of the shareholders in this line to an announcement in
another column, to the effect that their attendance is re-
quested at a meeting, to be held at the Clarendon Rooms,
this day (Tuesday), at one o'clock, on a subject of impor-
tance to their interests.

A grand pleasure trip to Liverpool, got up by the Man-
chester Order of Odd Fellows, is announced for this day,
Saturday being the day of return. Arrangements have
been made for exhibitions in the Zoological Gardens, and
for water trips to the Isle of Man, Dublin, and North
Wales, in connexion with this excursion.
ANOTHER OUTRAGEOUS STREET ROBBERY.—Between
eleven and twelve o'clock on Wednesday night, as Dr.
Udney, of Everton, was passing Rupert's Cottage, he was
stopped by two men. One of them knocked him down,
and the other stole from him a roll of papers, containing
lectures on Australia.

It is gratifying to observe that many of the shopkeepers
in the leading streets of the town now close their shops at
seven o'clock in the evening. \Ye hope those who remain
open beyond that hour will yet see the good policy of ac-
cording with this practice, for the health, recreation, and
mental improvement of themselves and their dependants.
On the Ist of June last, James Eastwood was employed
at the Brunswick Dock discharging cotton. The bales
were thrown over the side of the vessel, and one of them,
on touching quay, rebounded and struck him, by which
his right leg was broken. He was taken to the Southern
Hospital, where he died on Tuesday last of the injury he
had received.
THE GREAT BRITAIN.—We have to state that sixteen
cases have now been brought up and placed in their posi-
tion along the side of the ship. A government officer,
Captain Montgomery Williams, has arrived,
in
that the
render assistance. We shall announce the time
final effort is to be made. It is still considered that this
will not take place before the end of the present month.—
Downpatrick Reporter.
EXTRAORDINARY DISPATCH OF THE STEAM-SHIP
ORION.—This fine vessel, which sailed from the Clarence
Dock on Monday afternoon week, reached Glasgow, after
calling at Greenock, in seventeen hours. She discharged
it heavy cargo at Glasgow, and returned with a full cargo,
arriving in the Mersey on Wednesday forenoon, having
accomplished the voyage to and from Glasgow, including
the time of discharging and loading at Glasgow and
Greenock, in about forty-five hours.
ODDFELLOWS' GALA.—On Thursday night this gala,
the profits of which are to be devoted to the Widows' and
Orphans' Fund of the order, took place at the Zoological
Gardens. The gardens were very full, and, although, the
weather was not at all favourable for out-door amuse-
ments, dancing was kept up with great spirit in the Con-
cert-hall. The silver-plated regalia of the district was
shown to advantage on the stage ; and the emblem of the
order, lit up by fireworks, with the motto " Thanks to
our Patrons," had a very brilliant effect.
DEATH IN A VAPOUR BATH.—Yesterday week, a per-
son named Thomas Edwards, aged 34, was induced, in
order to cure a headache, to take a vapour bath, at Mr.
Mather's, St. Paul's Square. He went twice into the
bath, but was finally found in it insensible, though he had
shortly before said that he felt " very comfortable." He
was placed on a sofa and a surgeon was sent for, but he
died in about an hour. At the inquest on Wednesday, the
cause of death was ascertained, from a post mortem ex-
amination, to be pulmonary apoplexy, and a verdict was
was returned accordingly.
THE LATE REV. J. JOHNS.—Shortly after the death of
this Unitarian minister, the Liverpool Domestic Mission
made an appeal to the members and friends of the society
in behalf of his bereaved family, which has been liberally
responded to, and the subscriptions of twenty-four indivi-
duals amount to the handsome sum of £BBO, Mr. Heywood,
Mrs. Hugh Jones, Mr. W. Rathbone, Mr. Tayleure, and
Mr. J. B. Yates giving £lOO each. A committee has been
appointed for the purpose of investing and appropriating
the amount contributed in a manner best calculated to
secure the humane object in view.
AMATEURPERFORMANCE.—We have now to announce,
in addition to the facts in another paragraph relative to
the same subject as affecting Manchester, that the bene-
volent literati who are to appear in a night's theatrical
performance there for the benefit of Mr. Leigh Hunt, the
veteran writer, purpose to extend their appeal in the same
behalf to this town, in which they will appear, at the
Theatre Royal, on the 28th inst. The pieces to be per-
formed are well selected ; and we have no doubt but that
the attendance, from the object in view, as well as the
literary eminence of the dramatis persons, will be nume-
rous and respectable.
LIVERPOOL TALENT.—The youth of Liverpool distin-
guish themselves and their native town. Mr. R. G. Wil-
liams, son of Mr. Williams, of Basnett-street, whose for-
mer marked successes at our Mechanies' Institution we
have previously noted, has now obtained the senior prize
in Hebrew, together with certificates of honour in the
second Latin, Greek, mathematical, and comparative
grammar classes of the London University ; and Mr.
Alfred Thornley, also, has carried off a prize in natural
philosophy. At the annual examination of the Dissenters
Grammar School, at Mill-hall, near Hendon, the first
mathematical and the second classical prizes were gained
by Master Joseph Mellor, of Liverpool. Master E. Daw-
son, the son of Edward Dawson, Esq., of Aldcliffe, Lan-
caster, also obtained two prizes ; and Master Marsden, of
Liverpool, one.
FALL' OF A CORN WAREHOUSE.—On Tuesday night,
shortly before eleven o'clock, an alarm of fire was given
as having taken place in Suffolk-street; but which was
immediately after countermanded, the true cause being
that of the fall of a large bonded warehouse, No. 829, in
Suffolk-street, one of a lofty range commonly known as
Poole's warehouses. The one in question was in the oc-
cupation of Mr. Richard Gibson, corn broker, of No. 6,
Hanover-street, late of No. 27, Salthouse Dock, and was
heavily stored with grain in the three first compartments.
The topmost of the three partially giving way, and the
quantity of grain stored up being very large, the lower
floors, unable to bear the immense pressure, fell to the
basement, causing the wheat to issue from the windows
into the adjoining street.
BILLETTING OF SOLDIERS.—The Secretary of the
Licensed Victuallers' Society of this town has received a
communication from the war-office (in reply to an appli-
cation) respecting the case of Mrs. Farnworth, the de-
tails of which were given at length in the various
Liver-
pool papers immediately subsequent to the hearingof the
case before Sir Joshua Walmsley, to the effect that it is
not practicable to fix by the mutiny act or by regulation,
the precise hour at which a soldier billetted in a march,
upon an innkeeper, shall be entitled to claim to be fur-
nished with his hot meal; but that considering the circum-
stances under which Mrs. Farnworth was convicted of
having to furnish such a meal, the Secretary at War is
of opinion that the conduct of the soldier was irregular
and vexatious ; and he has accordingly directed the gene-
ral agent for the recruiting service to remit to Mrs. Fern-
worth the full amount of the penalty levied upon her.
LATuAm—with his usual excellent sprit will minister
to the wants of his friends on the course during the week.
His bill of fare for the daily dinner is somewhat paradoxi-
cal—for two shillings you have venison, which is certainly
making deer cheap.
The worthy host of the Woodside Adelphi will pitch
his spacious marquee to-day, in the usual place on Aintree
course, where he will provide the good things of life in
their genuine purity. His fine old cognac, and all etce-
teras—even his cigars don't need the sightest puff.
In another column appears an advertisement from Mr.
Wilkinson, of Leeces-street, who announces his determi-
nation to provide the best Wellington boots, at the re-
duced price of twenty-four shillings. As they are all
made under his own immediate inspection, he can gua-
rantee that they are not surpassed, indeed for their neat-
ness and elegance we can vouch, and they need but a trial
to rove their excellence.
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land, chemist, Parker-street, happily supersedes the ne-
cessity of our doing more than' merely calling the attention
of those of our readers who have not yet tried the healthy
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avail themselves of the present fine weather to visit these
gardens, of which an inspection is invited.
LIVER THEATRE.—We understand that Mr. Nicholson,
of the Garrick's Head, Bow-street, London, has opened
this theatre during the race week, for his " Illustrations of
poetry and song," by Poses Piastiques and Tebleaux
Vivans, an entertainment which has not only attained
great repute in London, but has created very general ad-
miration in Birmingham and Manchester, and the various
other towns where Mr. Nicholson's talented artistes have
performed on their route from London hither. The
illustrations are interspersed with music, both vocal and
instrumental, the vocalists being Mrs. Ballinger, of the
Nobility's Concerts, and Mr. Plumpton, late of the
English Opera House. The ianist is Mr. Ballinger,
composer of the "Chamois Hunter," the " Trysting
Tree," and other favourite ballads. So totally different
is this exhibition of talent from any with which we have
been previously visited, that it will not only be gratifying
o strangers, but to those who have visited similarly-
ziamed entertainments.