The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-21 00:00:00

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DOCK COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.--The Committee of
Works reported that contracts had been entered into for
the plasterers' and joiners' work at the new offices, Albert
Dock.—The Sub-committee of the Marine Department
recommended lightning conductors to the lighthouses, as
one of them had been struck during the late storm,—con-
firmed.—The following appointments to the Albert Dock
were recommended by the Warehouse Management Com-
mittee :—William Careful, deposit clerk, at a salary of
£lOO per annum ; A. D. Cheshire, daily examiner of ac-
counts, £lOO per annum; Thomas Burton, examiner of
accounts, £80; George Pitt, store-keeper, £80; Wm,
Shakspeare, from the East and West India Docks, Lon-
don, warehouse-keeper, at a salary of £l5O per annum ;
W. Carr, of the East and West India Docks, ware-
housing foreman of the tea department, at a salary of 455.
per week. The appointments were confirmed.—The con-
sideration of the table of rates was deferred.— A letter was
received from the Secretary of the British and Foreign
Shipping Company (Lloyd's) representing that it was im-
possible for their surveyor to examine tie lower holds of
vessels without a light, and as they had always acted
under an impression that permission was granted, they
wished the use of lights to be continued on the same
principle as at the London docks. The Chairman stated
that there was a special clause in the new bill on the sub-
ject, and here the matter dropped.
HIGHWAY BOARD, THURSDAY.—From reports which
were read, it appeared that the works at Green-lane were
progressing slowly, owing to the want of stone. Addi-
tional stone was, however, to be supplied, and the work
carried on with !greater rapidity. Some discussion took
place as to allowing the footwalk in Great Howard-street,
opposite Mr. Howard's premises, to be contracted to six
feet, but, but it was ultimately decided that the proposed
alteration should be agreed to.—The Law-clerk reported
that he had made hooky as to the Ordnance Survey
Office, in Great George-street, being liable to rates, and
was of opinion the premises were not chargeable, but that
any rates hitherto paid were not legally returnable. He
was requested to inform Captain Hamblin accordingly.—
A discussion arose as to Mr. Deane's bill for parliament
ary expenses, which amounted to £770; the whole of
which, except £73, for attendance, &c., of the Law-clerk
at tirlrAr I, Sri be for parliamentary expenses,
, (expen-fetsi }Sr 111 leersetirk out of his own pocket) in
opposing the Liverpool Dock Bill, and the Sanitary Bill.
It was agreed that the amount be paid forthwith.—Mr.
Walthew produced a report he had drawn up, as to the
filthy state of Thurlow-street and Myrtle-street, at the
north end of the town. There was an area of 1600 yards,
having 100 houses and 800 inhabitants, and the privies in
almost every place were choked with filth, which, in some
places, was level with the footway, impregnating the air
with contagion and disease. The evil arose from the
people not having proper places to deposit their soil, there
being only seventeen privies. five of e are not fit for
use, among a whole population of tOO persons; the peo-
ple convert the eyes of the sewers into privies, by depo-
siting the contents of their chamber utensils in them.
He wished the attention of the board to be directed to
the matter, so that some measures should be adopted for
removing the evil. The Chairman said the board could
not interfere, but Mr. Walthew observed that his object
would be gained, if the matter were made public, as it
was probable some steps would then be taken by the pro-
per parties.
DESTRUCTION OF THE APOTHECARIES' HALL.—Be-
eween two and three o'clock on Friday morning, a fire
broke out in the warehouse attached to the Apothecaries'
Hall, Colquitt- street. The warehouse itself fronts Wood-
street, Back Colquitt-street running between it and the
drug mill belonging to the establishment. Mr. Superin-
tendent Leverett at the time was returning from the fire
in Sefton-street, and, seeing the flames, he hastened to
the spot. The night was windy, and it rained at the time.
No person was present, but on trying the war: house door,
he, to his great astonishment, found it ajar. The fire,
when first seen, was in the upper story, immediately over
Back Colquitt-street, but on Mr. Leverett entering, he
found the lower story also on fire. Alarm was now
quickly given, and the engines were soon on the spot, when
a flood of water was poured on the burning mass, but to
no profitable purpose. The warehouse was completely
gutted in an hour. Fears were entertained for some time
for the safety of a back house to the rear of Mr. Dew-
barn's premises in Bold-street, but a branch having been
passed along, all apprehensions were ended. About the
same time Mr. Rainford's cabinet shop was on fire, but
the excellent engine of the West of England was brought
to bear on it and the flames were soon put out. In the
meantime, smoke was seen to issue from the roof of the
splendid ball itself, and great fears were entertained for
the safety of that beautiful edifice. With his usual
promptitude, Mr. Hewitt had the hose of several engines
conveyed to the upper story, and, although the flames had
actually broken out, the roof was saved, but not until
after a full hour's exertion. His worship the mayor was
present soon after four o'clock. Superintendents Quick,
Riding, Leverett, Boyd, Abram, Andrews, &c., exerted
themselves admirably. It is impossible to praise too
highly at this and the two other fires, the conduct of
Lientenant Maxwell, the salvage agent of the insurance
companies. The finding of the dcor open by Mr. Super-
intendent Leverett has led to a variety of conjectures
respecting the origin of the fire, some supposing that
thieves had been inside ; but nothing is more uncertain
than facts at a fire. The door may have been forced by
some one who went to give alarm, and spontaneous com-
bustion is probable. The less is estimated at £19,700,
and falls on the following offices :—Phoenix £6,000,
West of England £4,000, Manchester £4,000, North
British £3,700, Royal £2,000. The drug mill was only
slightly injured. The damage is confined to the ware-
house, laboratories, and offices, which are all destroyed,
with their contents—a quantity of drugs and chemicals.
READINGS IN SHARSPEARE.---The following grati-
fying letter from Sir John Herschel), Bart., has been re-
ceived by Professor Read, of this town :—" I cannot al-
low you to leave Hawkhurst without expressing the grati-
fication I and my family have received from your Shaks-
perian readings, which, when performed as you have done,
constitute not only a most agreeable and rational source
of amusement, but of excellent instruction, especially to
young persons to whom they offer the intellectual and
moral enjoyment of the drama, divested of its artificial
excitements. lam very glad that a taste for such a form
of literary enjoyment is spreading, as, independent of
every other codsPeration, I am disposed to think that a
sufficient attention to an easy, and, at the same time, ef-
fective elocution, is not paid as a part of education, and
that it is high time that a school of classical pronunciation
of our language, founded on its etymology, and divested
of those vulgarisms which are daily creeping into and es-
tablishing themselves in it were formed. Wishing you
success in your future proceedings of a similar kind, I re-
main, Sir, your obedient servant, J. F. W. HERSCHELL.
Collingwood, 11th Oct., 1845."
PRINCE ALBERT'S VISIT—PAPIER MACHEE.—It will
be pleasing to many of those readers who visit our town
during the coming festivities to hear that there is an evi-
dent desire manifested by our tradesmen to contribute in
every way to their gratification. Mr. Keys will throw
open the whole of his establishment in Bold-street for the
inspection of the public, and we feel assured that the
many articles of taste and vertu displayed will, while they
yield no little gratification to those who examine them,
shew with what rapid strides the manufacture of papier
machee has been brought to perfection. There has of late
appeared in one of the leading London journals a series of
articles, which are more pffrticularly addressed to stran-
gers and visitors, entitled " Mornings in London." In
one of them appears the following notice of Mr. Belle-
field's papier machcce works ; and as Mr. Keys manufac-
tures here conjointly with the London establishment, we
offer no apology for its insertion, feeling satisfied its pe-
rusal will be gratifying :
" We did not care about seeing the manufacturing pro-
cess. We were more curious to see the results of labour
—and beautiful results they are! We were surprised to
learn that the application of papier mache to the thousand
and one purposes for which it is here destined, was an
invention of twenty years' standing ! so slow in this vast
struggling country is the progress towards popularity of
any elegant and useful invention. Papier mache, as made
by Mr. Bielefield, is susceptible of conversion to every
ornamental purpose for which wood and plaster have
hitherto been employed, and with fifty times the effect of
either. More plastic than the former, it yields more
readily to the hand of the artificer—destitute of brittle
properties, it incurs none of the risks to which the latter
is continually exposed. Worked into moulds of every
conceivable variety of form ; representing flowers, fruits,
leaves. scrolls, birds, stars, and all those fanciful devices
peculiar to cornices and rich picture frames—papier
machts admits of a completeness of execution, a strong
definition of outline, a tasteful finish, which neither
the chisel applied to wood, nor the most skilful
fingers to plaster can possibly achieve. And then it
is so complying and yet so obdurate—representing
at once the principles of elasticity and resistance. Pa-
pier-macb6 will receive paint, varnish, gilding—any
external coating the fancy may suggest, without absorbing

A " ragged school" has been opened at Manchester.

The Blackburn Mercury, a radical paper, ceased to
exist on Saturday week.

His worship the Mayor of Liverpool. David Hodgson,
Esq., was, on Wednesday, at the Kirkdale sessions,
sworn in as a magistrate for the county.
On Friday, a havqack, belonging to Mr. Hallgreaves,
at Canbage-hall, West Derby, took fire, and was de-
stroyed.

The Rev. W. Falloon, of this town, has consented to
preach the annual sermons in behalf of the Douglas (Isle
of Man) Daily and Sunday Schools, in St. George's
Church, on Sunday, the 16th August.
SUDDEN DEATH.—On Monday evening, Thomas
Rowdson, a porter, was found lying in the straw loft, at
the back of the Castle Hotel, in a state of insensibility,
and died in about five minutes afterwards.
The te'totallers of Liverpool held a meeting in the
Music-hall, yesterday evening week, to memorialise
Prince Albert to request people not to drink his health
on the occasion of his visit! _ _ _

Henri Hertz, the distinguished pianist and celebrated
composer, intends visiting America in the autumn. He
will start on the 25th of September from Liverpool, and
will make a tour of the United States.

On the 9th instant, a woman, named Holland, living at
Halton, near Runcorn, was run over by a train on the St.
Helen's and Runcorn Gap Railway, and killed. The
guard stopped the train, but not in time to save the poor
woman's life.

In consequence of the visit of Prince Albert, the Stock
Exchange will be closed from Wednesday evening, the
29th instant, till Monday morning, the 3d -of August;
and the settling day for the end of the month is fixed for
Monday, 311 August.

The Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society have
presented Mr. Richard Cowel with a silver medal for
saving the life of Eliza Webb, who fell into the King's
Dock on the 9th of May, together with £1 each to Jol:.n
Matthews and James Rooney, who assisted.
TOXTETH-PARK.- The annual meeting of the rate-
payers of Toxteth-park, for the election of five commis-
sioners to supply the places of those retiring by rotation,
was held on Friday, when the following gentlemen were
unanimously re-elected :—Mr. Alexander Smith,

Mr. Joseph Appleby, Mr. Thomas Williams, Mr. Thomas
Royden, and Mr. Edwin Hindley.
We see that amongst the noblemen and gentlemen who
have already accepted invitations to attend the annual
soiree of the Athenaeum, Manchester, under the presi-
dency of Lord Morpeth, M. P. may be enumerated Lord
Sandon, M. P. ; the Right Hon. Richard Lalor Shiel,
M. P. the Rigt Hon. T. M. Gibson, M. P. ; Mon-
tague Gore, Esq.' M. P. ; John Talbot Clifton, Esq..
M.P. ; and John Wilson Patt-n, Erg. M.P.
A LITERARY BULL.—On Wednesday evening last, a
fine young ox took it into his head to call at the ware-
house of Mr. James Ainsworth, Piccadilly, Manchester,
and accordingly ascended a flight of sixteen steps, and
knocked at the door of the warehouse with his horns,
Mr. Ainsworth opened the door, certainly not expecting
so awkward a customer; and the surprise seemed mutual,
for the quadruped having sufficiently demonstrated " the
march of intellect" upstairs, made a retrograde motion,
and descended no wiser than he came.
WALLASEY.-,-On Thurslay, the election of seven com-
missioners to fill the vacancies annually occurring under
the Wallasey Improvea:ent Act, took place. At the
close of the polling the numbers were—Meadows, 196 ;
Alawd-sley, 177 ; Edwards, 136; Dean, 114 •, Lester,
112; Parry, 109 ;'Goldsmith, 107; Maddock, 99; Hart-
ley, 88 ; Banner, 83 ; Jones, 71 ; Dare, 62 ; Barton, 44;
Odell, 8 ; Bewley, 8 ; Brice, 5 ; Colbourn, 4 ; Bouch, 3 ;
Gilliott, 3 ; Murray, 2; Marsden, 2; North, 1; Bateson,
1 ; Grant, 1; Daly, 1.
SUICIDE.—On Monday, an inquest was held at Man-
chester, upon the body of Hannah Barlow, aged 13 years,
who, it is supposed, drowned herself in consequence of
having been dismissed from work at a mill. She was dis-
charged on Thursday, and not again heard of till Satur-
day, when her body was found in the Peak Forest canal.
On the day before her dismissal she expressed her fear
-that she would not get her work out, and said to a girl
that was working with her that if she got discharged she
would drown herself, as she durst not return home. It
also appeared that on the Thursday she had followed the
overseer, and supplicated for her work again.
ST. MARK'S CHURCH.—On Sunday the newly-ap-
pointed minister of this church, the Rev. Mr. Pollock,
late of St. Helens, preached his opening sermon to a large
and highly respectable congregation. The anxiety to hear
the rev. gentleman, about whose appointment there has
been so much contention, was exceedingly great. He se-
lected for his text the appropriate language of St. Paul to
the church at Corinth--" I determined not to know any-
thing among you save Christ and him crucified," and de-
livered a most excellent discourse, It may be of suffi-
cient importance to many of our readers to acquaint them
that Mr. Pollock has been appointed by the lord bishop of
this diocese a surrogate for granting marriage licenses, &c.
CAUTION TO BUILDERs.—On Saturday, Edward Mor-
ris, builder, was summoned before Mr. Rushton for an
infraction of the 42d section of the Building Act, which
enacts, that, if any person having duly begun any build-
ing requiring compliance with provisions of the said act,
shall suspend the progress of such building for any period
exceeding two months, and shall again go on with the
same without giving notice in writing thereof to the sur-
veyor of the district, such person shall be liable to a pen-
alty of twerity pounds. Mr. Rushton said he should fine
him forty shillings and costs, and requested Mr. Johnson,
one of the town surveyors, to survey the buildings, which
are situated near Hope-place, and, if he found them im-
properly built, to lay another information against him.
STEALING TEA.—On Thursday, at the Police-court,
Hugh Edwards, apparently upwards of sixty years of age,
was charged with having a quantity of tea in his posses-
sion, with intent to steal it. The prisoner was employed
at Messrs. Littledale's warehouse, Waterloo-road, and,
on the morning of Wednesday, was observed with a quan-
tity of tea in his apron, and on inspecting some of the
boxes, one of them was found to have been broken open,
and a portion of the tea taken away. In his defence4the
prisoner stated that he had swept the tea from off the
floor, with an intention of putting it amongst some more
sweepings. This was contradicted, as the tea was clean,
and no appearance of having been on the floor. The
prisoner was committed for trial.
NEW DRAMA.—Mr. G. Linnaeus Banks, who for
some time past has been rising to considerable popularity
as a pcet and author, and who is now about to leave us
for a sojourn in America, has, we believe, made arrange-
ments with Mr. Simpson, of the Theatre-Royal, to have
the house for one night, early in August, with a view of
bringing out The Swiss Father, a domestic play, and one
of several dramatic pieces he has just completed. All
who are acquainted with Mr. Banks's talent, or have the
pleasure of his personal acquaintance, will agree with us
that he is deserving of the most liberal encouragement,
and should not be allowed to quit Liverpool without some
acknowledgment of the long and pleasing literary services
he has rendered society.

Two men, named -esrrol and Shaw, were charged on
Thursday, before Mr. Rushton, with being drunk and
assaulting the police whilst in the discharge of their duty.
It appeared that the prisoners were in a house in Park-
lane, on the afternoon of Wednesday, when a row taking
place amongst them and other parties, air. Johnson
called in the police. The officers 233, 632, and 624, were
using their utmost endeavours to quell the disturbance,
when they were savagely assaulted by the prisoners and
others, who had drawn together an immense mob ; ulti-
mately Inspector Muir arrived on the spot, and with the
aid of the other officers succeeded in capturing the two
offenders, and in clearing the streets of the mob. Two
witnesses came forward to speak in the prisoners' behalf.
Mr. Rushton said that a simple fine was insufficient in
such cases,—it appeared to be productive of no good ;he
should therefore commit them to take their trials for the
offence at the sessions.

DESTRUCTIVE FlRE.—About one o'clock on Wednes-
day morning, whilst constables Campbell and llaggarty
were on duty in the vicinity of the Custom-house, they
Perceived large volumes of smoke issuing forth from a
splendid pile of building situate in Coopers'-row, occupied
by Mr. M'Eachen, (late Appletons) as a cork-cutting
manufactory. They immediately caused an alarm to be
communicated to the Fire Police Station. Before, how-
ever, time was afforded for the arrival of the engines, the
flames had burst from the windows on the second floor,
and in an incredibly short period a mighty mass of fire
•seemed to pervade the entire mass of the building. Mr.
Hewitt and Chief-commissioner Brown were quickly at
the scene of conflagration, and they directed the efforts of
the brigade to the preservation of the adjoining premises,
in the occupation of Messrs. Newton, Lyon, and Co.,
copper and zinc merchants. There being but a moderate
breeze from the southwest, the powerful engines brought
into exercise checked the progress of the flames, which at
one time threatened to envelope the adjoining premises at
the corner of. South John-street, occupied by Messrs.
Dempster, the extensive shipping bakers, situate on the
west side of the burning building. Unfortunately, no
water could be obtained from the mains for three-quarters
of an hour, the flames meanwhile making rapid progress,
and at two o'clock the roof fell in with a report resembling
a peal of. thunder. The premises and contents were to-
tally destroyed.

or weakening

amalgamation of its own material

ke manner, it

will bear unscatched the assaults of all varieties of wea-
ther. Neither the hot sun, nor the bleak wind, the pat-
tering rain, the heavy dew, the biting frost, nor the treach-
erous snow, can inflict the slightest harm even upon its
smooth surface. To the expanding influences of heat,
and the contracting powers of intense damp, it is equally
insensible. Judge, then, reader, of its vast susceptibility
of conversion to purposes of permanent decorations, ex-
ternal or internal. Happily for the enterprising inventor
happily for our own character for veracity the
above enumeration of the qualities of the rare article is
borne out in hundreds of instances. Numerous are the
edifices which boast papier made architectural deco-
rations,—to wit, the House of Lords, the Pantheon, the
Grocers' Hall, the Conservative Club,—of the splendid
appearance of which latter building we lately spoke—and
many others, while the private residences adorned by
papier machtS are numerous. They should be innumerable.
This, however, is not all—nor a titheof theuses towhich the
commodity is applicable—picture frames, tables, brackets,
frames for chimney glasses, figures, chandeliers, port-
folios, &c., are made of the light yet all-enduring sub-
stance, and though infinitely more worthy of note than
the same objects composed of other materials, the price is
not a whit more extravagant. But if the produce of Mr.
pielfield's manufactory is useful to England of how much
more consequence would it be in the palaces of English-
men in the East and West Indies and the colonies, where
the opposite extremes of climate, assisted by the insidious
white ant and wood insect, combine to destroy all the
fruits of the decorator's skill. From what is known of
the elegant and costly style of life in force in the Eastern
hemisphere, we should think that an immense market for
papier rnache articles would be found in the three Presi-
dencies, and in the islands of Penang, Singapore, and
Ceylon—and to this, as much for his own sake as for that
of our countrymen abroad, we would direct Mr. Biele-
field's attention. Meanwhile, the British public will con-
suit their own interest in giving him full employ in Eng-
land.—Court Journal.

EXTENSIVE Fritv.—On Thursday evening about half-
past eight, a fire broke out in the warehouse attached to
Messrs. W. H. Ogden and Co.'s. iron foundry, Sefton-
street, a building immediately opposite the police station,
and five stories high. The fire was discovered in the
fourth story, and so great was the fury of the flames, that
in less than half on hour it had obtained a complete mas-
-tery over the building. As is usually the case, a supply
of water was not to be had for an hour. At twenty mi-
nutes to ten the roof fell in, and a quantity of chains fell
to the ground almost in a state of fusion. Mr. Hewitt,
with a strong body of the fire-police and fire-engines be-
longing to the establishment, and one from the West of
England Office, were on the spot shortly after the fire
broke out, but such was the fury with which the fire
raged, that it was impossible to subdue it until past ten
o'clock, nor was it effectually extinguished before twelve,
when it was found that the work of destruction was con-
fined to the three top stories, which are completely gutted.
At the time the fire broke out, the foreman and nine men
were working in different parts of the premises ; and imme-
diately before the alarm of fire was given, Mr. Barnes,
the foreman, had passed through every part of the pre-
mises, when nothing whatever calculated to give rise to
suspicion of fire was discernible ; indeed, the alarm was
given by persons in the street, who observed a dense body
of smoke issuing from the upper part of the premises.
The file having been extinguished before the whole pre-
.anises were destroyed is in all probability owing, in addi-
Aion to the exertions of the police, to the immense
strength of the building, which, with the exception of the
timbers, remains precisely as it was before the fire, not a
brick apparently having fallen, and the top stones on the
chimneys remaining in their original position. The pre-
mises are the property of Mr. John Addison, Romald-
kirk, Yorkshire, who is insured in the West of England
for £l2OO. Mr. Ogden's stock is insured in the Phoenix,
£1250, and in Royal, £lOOO.

Monsieur Jullien has been engaged to appear at the
Zoological Gardens, on the 27th, 28th, and 29th instant.
He has engaged apartments at the Adelphi Hotel.

REMARKABLE SPEED ON THE OCEAN.—During the
passage just made by the Great Britain iron steam-
packet from New York to Liverpool, it was ascertained,
by accurate nautical observation made on Saturday, June
13th, that this leviathan, propelled by the screw, actually
ran no less than 330 knots in the course of twenty-four
hours, producing an average rate of going, throughout
the day, of nearly sixteen statute miles per hour, a speed
never before equalled on the ocean by any paddle-wheel
steamer, or by any sailing vessel whatever. Such a veto.
city, had it continued throwhout the voyage undiminished,
would have brought her across from New York to Eng-
land in eight days and a half.—Bristol Journnl.
CREATION OF PEERS AND BARONETS.—We saw, with
Peculiar satisfaction, the name of John Gladstone, of
Fa,que and Balfour, among the persons gazetted last
Tuesday. If wealth, honourably acquired and nobly used,
added to a high and unimpeachable character, are worthy
of such a distinction, pre-eminentlyare these claims to it
possessed by the individual in question. It is within our
own knowledge that Sir John Gladstone has built (and
we believe endowed) entirely at his own cost, no less than
five churches, viz., two at Liverpool, one at Seaforth, one
at Fasque, in Scotland, where his property lies, and one
at Leith, his native. town. In the latter place he has also
founded an hospital for incurables. Such a man reflects
honour upon any honour which he may receive from his
Sovereina.—John Bull.

SWALLOWING A SOVEREIGN.—On Saturday, a sailor,
of the name of Charles M'Anulty, vvas brought before Mr.
Rushton, on a charge of having swallowed a sovereign,
the property of an elderly man named Valentine Bow. It
appeared that the complainant was passing along Union-
street on Friday evening, and that he accidentally dropped
a sovereign and a shilling. Two men, one of whom was
the prisoner, were immediately behind him ; and, on the
complainant turni,g round, and asking if they saw what
he Lad dropped, the prisoner handed him the shilling, but
denied that he had seen the sovereign. A person who waa
standing by saw the fellow rick the sovereign up, with
the shilling ; and officer 537 saw the sovereign in his
mouth. As there appeared to be no doubt that he had
swallowed it, Mr. Rushton ordered him to be committed
for trial.

RENOVATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE
INTERIOR OF THE TOWN HALL,

Few of our readers are, perhaps, aware that, for about
the last twelve months, the interior of the Town Hall,
still the most compact and beautiful of our public edi-
fices, has been under process of improvement, or rather—
in Lancashire parlance—of " beautifying," under the
auspices of our two worthy Mayors within that period—
namely Mr. James Lawrence, Mayor, last year, awl Mr.

. . ,
Hodgson, our present chief magistrate. Much credit is due
to both of these gentlemen—to the first-named, who elm-
menced, and to the latter, who has continued and carried
out these embellishments in a spirit of harmony (thou,g,h,

with necessarily some slight difference in individual taste)
which will, we think, redound to the honour of both, a 3
well as to the Town Council at large, on the occasion of
the forthcoming ♦isit of Prince Albert, and—let us hope !
—of our illustrious Queen.
It would be superfluous to revive minute details of the
suite of rooms known as, par excellence, the civic and
" private" residence of the Mayor for the time being.
Both pf the gentlemen named have submitted to personal

WEST DERBY UNION.—At the weekly meeting of the
guardians held on Tuesday, the balance in the hands of
the treasurer was declared to be £B7B 35., on which cheques
to the amount of £620 were drawn. A letter was received
from Mr. Harbord, in which he resigned his appointment
of medical officer of the southern district of Toxteth-park.
The chief cause assigned by Mr, H. for this resignation
was his indifferent state of health of late. On the motion
of Mr. Lloyd, the resignation was accepted, and a vote of
thanks was passed for his efficient services and kindness
to the poor under his care; after which Mr. Harbord,
who was in an adjoining room, was introduced, and ad-
dressed the board, expressing his obligations to the
guardians. At the close of the proceedings, the clerk of
the board announced that the putative father of an illegiti-
mate child, who had n-glected to comply with an order
thereon, and against whom legal proceedings had been
taken by order of the board, had now paid up all arrears,
namely, £l6, and costs of proceedings, £6.
Two men, named Edward and Henry Forsythe, were
charged before Mr. Rushton, on Thursday, with being
drunk and creating a great disturbance on the night of
Wednesday. Police-constable 331 stated that the two
men were returning from the races on the evening in
question, when one of them quarrelled with some person
passing respecting a pole which he (prisoner) was darrying,
to which was attached a yellow handkerchief. A row en-
sued, when the two prisoners retreated into Collingwood.
street, where they got upon the roofs of the houses, and
commenced an indiscriminate attack on the persons and
property around. In the course of this warfare, they
transferred the greater number of the bricks composing
the chimneys of the houses on which they had stationed
themselves into the streets below. A witness stated that
ten panes of glass bad been broken in the windows belong-
ing to her house. It appeared one of the prisoners had
only recently left a lunatic asylum, Mr. Rushton there-
fore ordered him to be taken to a surgeon to be examined ;
the other man was fined the usual sum for drunkenness.
DISCOVERY OF ANOTHER SAILOR GIRL IN LIVER-
POOL.—Cases of this description are now becoming so
general that they cease to excite much interest. On
Wednesday, a very beautiful female, about 17 years of
age, was detected in the act of passing herself off as a
sailor on board one of our merchant vessels. It appears
that she came here from the county of Omagh, in Ireland,
and that having habited herself in sailor's attire, she went
upon the George's Pier. Here she met with a person in
the garb of a captain, who said that he was willing to en.
gage her; but on Tuesday evening last, herself and the
captain walked into the police-office, High-street, to en-
quire alter the name of a person residing in Bolton-street,
and then the pretended female sailor was immediately re-
cognised by Mr. Leicester, the head clerk in the cffice.
He instantly said that she was a female, and it turned out
that he was right : for, upon being questioned, she ac-
knowledged that she was a farmer's daughter from Tyrone,
and that she came here in sailor's attire, with the inten-
tion of going to sea. She has been sent back to her
pareats.

SELECT VESTRY, TUESDAY. —Some conversation took
place rektivc to the propriety of negociating for the pur-
chase of a cemetery, in place of St. Mary's, which, ac-
cording to Mr. Bright, was being rapidly filled with dead
bodis, and would only• be available by the parish for
about three years longer. It was stated that the board
had several expensive works on hand, and that they had
no funds for the purchase of land; and it was understood
eventually that, though the board would not take any
nctive measures at present on the subject, they would
look out for a suitable piece of ground. A letter was
read from the Poor-law Commissioners, stating that the
late election of Mr. M`Dougall as surgeon of the Work-
house, was null and void, inasmuch as that gentleman did
not possess the necessary qualifications, and requesting
that the Select Vestry would proceed to a fresh election.
Mr. Riding moved that a new appointment be made at the
next meeting, and that the necessary advertisement be
inserted in the newspapers in the meantime. Agreed to.
The Chairman was authorised to write to the Poor-law
Commissioners, and state that the board have no objec-
tion to designate Mr. Hart "vestry-clerk," with the un-
derstanding that he shall act as head superintendent over
the affairs of the parish generally. _

CHARGE OF EMBEZZI.EMENT.—On Friday a respecta-
ble young man named William Hughes, of Orrell-place,
Lord-street, was brought up at the Police-court, on a
charge of having embezzled various sums of money from
the Benevolent Friendly Loan Fund Society of Toxteth-
park, of which he acted as secretary. Mr. Owen stated
the case. The society had between 3,000 and 4,000 bor-
rowers ; and the prisoner acted as secretary and occasional
visitor. Three cases had been selected for inquiry. The
first was that of John Davis, who paid a sum of £4 2s. Gd.
to the prisoner which had never been accounted for. Jo-
seph Ritson was then called to prove that the prisoner
received £4 2s. Gd. from a man named Davies, which he
did not enter as he was bound to do. A long corres-
pondence between the committee of the society was then
handed in, and Mr. Rushton, after reading it, said that
the letters clearly proved the matter had been treated as
a debt, and that as the transaction had been known in
May, and the prisoner was not given into custody until
July, there was no chance of a conviction by a jury. Mr.
Owen coincided in the opinion of the court, and said that
it would be throwing money away to pursue the matter
any further. Air. Rushton, in ordering the prisoner's
discharge, observed, that it was not for him to pass any
opinion upon the case, but that he (the prisoner) ought
undoubtedly to settle immediately with the society. The
prisoner was then discharged.

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE MERCURY'S ATTACK ON MR. M`NEILE

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SlR,—Justice demands that some opportunity be af-
forded to the inhabitants of Liverpool, to give an expres-
sion of their opinion in reference to that most loyal and
Christian minister, the Rev. Hugh M`Neile ; because of
the base and unmanly conduct of the editer of the Liver-
pool Mercury towards him, in refetence to a speech of
his called " Jezebel a type of Popery". Unmanly it truly
is, because it is just made at the time when the Royal
Consort of our beloved Queen is about honouring us with
a visit, and because the shortness of time, between the
allegation and its appearance, scarcely permits of the
opportunity for a disproval of the slanderous charge.
It is base, doubly so. The editor permits the misre-
presentations of his correspondent to go forth, and at
the same time adds, that he believes his correspondent is
mistaken—that the Rev. H. Nl`Neile explained, that he
referred to Popery, &c. ; yet adds, " The audience ap-
plauded the remark in such a manner, that it was evident
the Queen of England was supposed to be referred to."
Who ever saw before such a complicated statement ?,
Does the editor of the Mercury suppose that common.
g I sense Englishmen cannot see the venom of the man. in

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the heart, then tell your innocent victim you are sorry
for the assault, but be sure to add you hope it is mortal!
Who does not see that, while the editor professes to sym-
pathise, he cannot help manifesting the cloven foot ? An
open enemy before a deceitful friend !
Let the Rev. H. M'Neile have a public meeting con-
vened, by the friends to truth, justice, and common sense,
of all parties ; and, my life for it, there will not be one
out of the whole that can by any possibility so mistake
the common-sense meaning of the Rev. H. M'Neile, as
to apply it to anything else than the present system of
deception and wickedness—Popery, the modern Jezebel--
save and except the editor of the Mercury, should he be
y, he could
there, whose dishonesty is so apparent from his own ad-
mission. He says he believes the Rev. H. M'Neile ex-
plained that he referred to the Pope, or Poper
not recollect which, and I for one am satisfied he does
not care, so that he may by any possibility injure an
esteemed minister of religion, whose only fault seems to
be that he is one whom neither pope, cardinal, friar, nor
editors of newspapers can injure, unless by base and mali-
cious misrepresentations like the above, made just at a
time when there is scarcely an opportunity for refutation.
FAIR PLAY.
P.S.—At a meeting (the Earl of Bradford in the chair)
held about one month after the above unrighteous charges
bad been made by the different enemies of the Rev.
M`Neile, he expressed himself as follows, after a vote of
thanks for an able and eloquent address :—" The best
thanks you can give me is, • Come along, down with that
woman, Jezebel; down with image worship, and with
idolatry ; down with everything that! brings the curse of
God upon our dear and beloved land.' That is the first
step. Here is the address to her most gracious Majesty,
whom they falsely say I likened to,Jezebel. Oh ! for
language to give utterance to the deep detestation with
which my loyal soul recoils from the traitorous sentiments.
My lord, I love the Queen with the honest ardour of a
Christian patriot, and daily pray for her with the chastened
earnestness of a Christian minister. I am dutifully and
cordially, yes, I am enthusiastically devoted to her
commands, next to those of my Lord and Saviour, and
am willing, in obedience to them, to risk my life a thou-
sand times," &c., &c. •

inconvenience in so long giving up their domicile for the
purpose. The following diagram will sufficiently remind
our readers of the extent arid adaptation of " the pre-

mises," and, at the same' time, show the plan of the
tables in the greet ball-room, which, on the occasion of
the royal visit, is to be the banquetting-hall

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A more magnificent suite of rooms than these, on one
floor, are not to be found in England, or, perhaps, in the
world, taken as a whole.
The writer of this hasty sketch was politely permitted
by the Mayor to view the apartments, as they now are, in
course of completion. He entered by the smaller or
western staircase, which is itself fine, though not to be
compared with the great staircase, which we shall after-
wards notice. We shall thence take the rooms, with the
novelties introduced, in order, from the landing round.
The'DINING ROOM, on the west side, is a fine apart-
ment, 50 feet in length and 30 in breadth. The walls are
enriched with Corinthian pilasters of scagliola marble : the
roof is empanelled, with gilded moulding ; and the furni-
ture, including two splendid stoves, is unique and elegant.
The room has three windows with semicircular tops.
These are finished with a rich crimson coloured damask
tissue silk, beautifully and appropriately fitted so as to
fall over the arch of each window. The Royal Arms are
introduced on the drapery of the centre window, and
" The Liver" on each end window, altogether in keeping
with the light character of the gold panelling of the ceil-
ing and walls of the room. The ground-work of the
painting (all of which as well as the drapery is new) is of
a salmon colour. The finely-raised compartments of the
roof, which is coved, are d, licately guilded in the mould-
ings. The cornices from which the draperies of the win-
dows descend are highly tasteful and classical in design,
and the Building superb. The painting was executed by
Messrs Porter and Sons, and the upholstery work by
Messrs J. Hand and Sons, of our own town.

The three DRAWING Rooms adjoining, and on the
south side, the centre one of which may be called " The
Saloon," have been so altered in painting, gilding, and
other decorative embellishments, as to give them an en-
tirely new character. The
.whole may be thrown, as it
were, into one, by the opening. of large polished maho-
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three windows, making nine. The roofing. is segmental,
divided into panelled compartments, richly touched with
gold. They are furnished in the most magnificent and
princely manner. The window cornices and double ban-
nered curtains are finely and elaborately designed, the
latter of superb amber silk. These, together with the en-
riched ceilings, have a most imposing effect, and do away
with that monotony of straight lines which we frequently
meet with in rooms of this order. The drapery, especi-
ally, is truly regal in effect, and, is we think, highly cre-
ditable to Messrs. Hand, who designed and executed it,
as also to the taste and liberality of the Corporation. The
walls are chiefly of a salmon colour, with gilded mould-
ings round the recesses, windows, &c., and in the entab-
lature is a baud, on a ground-work of ultra marine, re-
sembling porcelain ; but, if we may express a crude opi-
nion, the depth of the tint is scarcely in analogy or keep-
ing with the general colour of the walls. We also ven-
ture to think, that the ceilings being considerably higher
than the tops of the windows, and consequently some-
what sombre, lighter colours than those adopted would
have produced a more lively and cheerful effect, and, at
the same time, have better shown off the gilding of, the
mouldings. This, however, is a mere matter of taste,
and it must be admitted that, in large rooms like these,
anything new is a speculation or experiment, which
neither the artist employed, nor those who may direct
Lim, have an opportunity to correct—the cost and labour
of redeeming even a slight mistake being great. In one
of these rooms we observed a beautiful fire-screen, the
centre consisting of a large sheet of plate glass, and the
frame of highly ornamented scroll-work. This is, we
learn, from London. The furniture is rich and appro-
priate ; and splendid new gas chandeliers have been fitted
up. Here, too, the painting, as indeed throughout the
entire suite of rooms, was executed by Messrs. Potter and
Sons; the drapery and upholstery by Messrs. Hand.
The renovation that has taken place in the SMALL BALL-
ROOM is, for general effect, very beautiful; but the deco-
rations are more simplified than in the last-noticed rooms.
There are four lofty windows, hung with superb crimson
and gold silk, end remarkably elegant and richly carved
and gilded cornices. Three fine crystal chandeliers pend
from the middle of the roof. This, we should say, is
more especially the " ladies' " room, and, should our
gracious Queen honour us with a visit, will probably be
appropriated for a royal levee, should such be commanded
by her Majesty. _

Queen, we entertain no doubt but that the illustrious THE REAL INTENTIONS OF THE IRISH
visitor will be surprised to find so magnificent a mansion REPEALERS.
in a provincial town. In the lower story of' the building.,
the fine Entrance Hall, the Council Chamber, the public
offices, the lobbies, &c., have bcen excellently painted,
and, where deemed in taste, gilded, by our townsman,
Mr. Troutbeck. The present Mayor's private audience-
room was painted by Mr. Porter, son of T. C. Porter,
Esq., who was Mayor of this town. It is but justice to
state, that Mr. Solomon and his wife, who have cha
the establishment, keep it in ollacial or

ness. They have'now resided within its walls eince 1811

At a glorification and soforth of " the Repealers
of the Custom-house Ward," held in the Northum-
berland-buildings, Dublin, on Sunday week, the
12th instant—Daniel O'Connell, John O'Connell,
M.P., and the rest of the tail being present—a Mr.
Carroll P T _

contrasted a previous meeting in
the same place with the current one thus
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country—to our beloved liberator and his

The following additional particu
- for this important event we extract

Liars of the preparations

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Odd-fellows, and shipping trades, as men
the Druids, to the number of 1,000, will
procession. Each society, except the Freely

ned last week

he sum o

rom the

penses. Tile master ship-builders of the port, with-the
usual spirit and loyalty, have subscribed the bandson

sum of £250, in order that the shipwrights may appear
in the procession with becoming splendour. This is
worthy of imitation by the masters of all

n exa run]

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meet to eel

in their unjust ineareerauu" ,
'ate our triumph over our• oppressors.

the trades in town

We understand Mr. Lynn will receive two guineas a
head for providing the banquet, and one gninea a-head
for providing the dejetiae.

triumph over our °nor
Robert Peei and Co

rate our

sors"--natnely, over Sir
This for Maynooth ; this for

The grand staircase is to be covered with a very rich
Brussels carpet, at the sides of which the stairs will be
enamelled, in imitation of marble. The ascent from
the vestibule, commanding a full view of that splendid
work of art, Gibson's statue of Canning, forms a coup
d'ceil of surpassing grandeur.

It was the intention of the Mayor to admit ladies to
the sides of the grand staircase, but we believe this de-
sign has been abandoned for the spacious landing at the
summit, which will command a view of the whole ascent.
The address of the Town Council will be presented by
Gilbert Henderson, Esq., the recorder of the borough, in
one of the suite of rooms adjacent to the banquetting-
hail. It is to be written on vellum, and its preparation is
entrusted to Mr. Uriah Phipps, law-stationer, Lower
Castle-street. The ornamental border is to be beauti-
fully executed with a rich gold scroll, interlaced with a
pink ribbon. At the top are to be the arms of her
Majesty and Prince Albert, surmounted by a correct re-
presentation of the arms of the town, as granted by
charter; and at the foot are tort be well-executed views of
the Custom-house and Tow:I.:hall, with the Liver in the
centre. The whole will have a very chaste and elegant

tural system; this for Mr. Moore's serjeantcy, and
Mr. Watson's expulsion, and for a loud halloo

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appearance.
The Judges' Lodgings are now quite ready for the
Prince's reception; and the whole, to the very lamps out-
side the halt-door, has undergone a complete renovation.
The state bed and bedstead arrived last week from the
cabinet establishment of Jackson and Graham, London.
The bedstead is known in the trade by the name of a half-
tester. A lofty canopy surmounts the head, and on each
side drapery is suspended in fluted folds. The headposts
and footboard are elegantly carved ; but, generally speak-
ing, although the workmanship is good, there is nothing
very extraordinary about the bedstead itself. It is not
what a state bedstead might be expected to be. There is
none of that elaborate carving about it which one sees in
the state bedstead at Hampton-court; but as the maker
has furnished neither the roofs nor footposts, but has
sent down, as we have said, a half-tester, his specimens in
the carving line are necessarily very limited.
The purple and gold chairs, which have been in Mr.
Hand's window, Bold-street, all the week, are intended
for the Prince's drawing-room. The lounger, inlaid with
green silk, and covered with open netted work, also in the
same window, is intended for the Prince's state-room ;
and the antique clock, with the elaborately ornamented
dial, is being also furnished by Mr. Hand, and will be
placed upon the mantelpiece in the Prince's drawing-
room. The several apartments above and below stairs, at
the Judges' lodgings will, altogether, present a very
elegant appearance.
We mentioned last week that the cotton-brokers, and
Custom-house clerks would discontinue business during
the visit ; and it gives us pleasure now to add that the
Stock Exchange will be closed, and that the sharebrokers,
the general brokers, and the attorneys of the town have
announced their intention of following the example set by
the cotton-brokers. Indeed, we begin to entertain some
hopes that a general bolyday will be kept ; at all events,
so little business will be done during the visit, that the
holyday will be all but generally observed.
The Morning Herald, of Wednesday, gave currency to
a rumour that preparations were being made at Ports-
mouth for her Majesty to accompany the Prince to Liver-
pool. This is not probable.

our oppressors

But hear the great Dan himself

MR. RIPLEY AND THE LIVERPOOL COMMIT-
TEE FOR THE REGISTRATION OF SHIPPING.

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