The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-12 00:00:00

official capacity, It the hightst authorities of the lan

part of th.

serve this custom, and if the
constitution itself, no reasonable objection can be

against it being observed by provincial authorities. Our
late rulers, however, in the genuine spirit of modern liberal-
ism, not only abandoned the practice, but ac.ually" reviled
and scoffed at it.

This will be a most auspicious commencement of the Con-
servative mayoralty. As it begins with the acknowledgment
and worship of Almighty God, and a supplication for his
blessing, it is to be believed that he will vouchsafe it. The
Conservative rule in this respect will stand in marked con-
trast with that which happily for us has just terminated.
In congratulating our townsmen upon the resumption of a
practice so fraught with promised good, 'we would take the
opportunity of calling their attention to the valuable institu-
tion on whose behalf the sermon before the Mayor will be
preached on Sunday next. The Bluecoat School has an
especial claim upon the liberality of all classes of the com-
munity ; and when we consider the peculiar circumstances
of this occasion, we trust that the orphan race may have
cause to bless the recent changes.
It is expected that all the mare respectable inhabitants will
accompany his worship, on Sunday morning, from the Town-
hall to St. Peter's. We purpose giving a report of the ser-
mon in the STANDAUD of Tuesday, as the sentiments of our
estimable rector on such an occasion will be well worthy of

preservation

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ST. HELEN'S CARRIP

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Thoe persons who have OCC37,

sion to transmit. packages or parcels between this town And
St. Helens, can do so at a very cheap rate, by employing 31r.
Featherstone, whose advertisement appears elsewhere.

is the exclamation of thou-

and Shakspeare
1 by corns—we'll,

says, " lames „.,
have a boot with you." Now those who want to get rid of
these walking barometers. and join in the pleasant dance,
must apply to Mr. Esenberg for relief.

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An inquest was held yesterday,. before lklr.
Currie, on view of the body of John Robert Jones, a child
of five months old. It appeared that the deceased had been
taken into the same bed with its parents on the previous
night, and was found dead when they awoke; it had .been
over lain by the mother.—Verdict accordingly.

INQUEST

STATUARY.—It will be seen by advertisement that Mr.
Anderson is to dispose by private sale his celebrated group of
figures in stone. The figures are well adapted for any gen-
tleman's hall, or would be an excellent ornament for a
garden. We hope Mr. Anderson•will soon find a purchaser,
his only motive in parting with them, that he may be en-
abled to execute another group he has in contemplation. As
the exhibition is to remain open for a short time in town, we
advise all who have not already paid a visit to do so Without
delay, as they-may soon lose the opportunity of seeing these
wonderful figures, which have been so much and justly ad-
mired wherever they have been exhibited ; they need only to
be seen to be appreciated.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.—Early
on Wednesday morning last, George M'Combe, a young
man in the employ of Mr. Clayton, brewer, Maguire-street,
while in the act of repairing the frame work of one of the
boilers, missed his footing and fell into the boiling fluid ; in
his fall he providentially succeeded in grasping the edge of
the boiler, and by'great efforts succeeded in rescuing himself
from his agonising situation, in a state of dreadful torture ;
he was immediately conveyed to the Northern Hospital,
Leeds• street, which we understand is at present so crowded,
that some .difficulty was experienced in making room for him,
though in a very dangerous state. We are happy to say that
hopes are entertained of his recovery.
ARRIVAL OF' TUE GREAT LIVERPOOL.—This steamer
reached Falmouth on Sunday last with that portion of the
mails from India, Egypt, and Malta, which was not sent by
way of Marseilles. Her dates of departure are from Alex-
andria the 22d, Malta the 28th ult., and from Gibraltar the
3d instant. We subjoin a list of the passengers, among
the names of Sir Gordon Bremer and Captain Elliot
of Chinese notoriety will be observed :—Passengers—Mr.
and Mrs. Leiver, child, and servant, Sir Gordon Bremer.
Captain Grattan, Lieutenant Fowler, Mr. Morgan, Rev. Mr.
Mannecing' Mr. Jardine, Dr. Ducat, Mr. Skelton, Mr.
Nash, Mr. North, Captain and Mrs. Hartley and servant,
Captain Cotton, Captain Rogers, Dr. Anderson, Captain and
Mrs. Elliot, child, and two servants, Miss Engledue Mr.
Chick, Miss Rogers, Lieutenant Gray, Dr. Neack, M•
Tastar, Mr. Bone, F. Camillure, Captain Russell, Colonel
Alderson, Thomas Burt, William Bowden.

By an article in the third edition of the Liverpool Standard
of the 9th instant, we are apprised of a fact sufficiently
astounding to those who anticipated, with O'Connell, a corn;
pletely subverted order of things in all the corporations of
Great Britain, upon the passing of the Municipal Bill. There,
can be no question that had the city of London succumbed
to that sweeping measure of " municipal reform" as Lord
John Russell called it, the whole empire must have been, ere
this, overrun with corporations manufactured, for the nonce,
out of the elements of whig jobbing and intimidation, 1111,1
the corrupt influence by which they are always worked. with
a Lord John Russell to halloo them on; and a few political
attorneys of London, Liverpool, and Birmingham to manage
their "legal rights" for them, by bullying their conservative
competitors into acquiescence in every species of municipal
and legal wrong_; the corporation agitators were " going a-
head," until very lately, at a fearful rate. As if to mark
with another honour the happy and eventual " 9th November
1841,"—the corporation of the second town in the empire,---
Liverpool itself, elected a conservative mayor, and eight con-
servative aldermen ! This is, indeed, a signal and substantial
indication of the returning power and extension of that noble
attachment to the existing constitution of these realms, which
in all its various and memorable manifestations throughout
the appalling dangers, and gloomy passages and protracted
struggles of the unflinching single-handed contest which Great
Britain sustained and brought to a victorious completion
against the common enemy of the liberties of Europe ; found
no more zealous, nor lofty-spirited, nor munificent, nor de-
termined champions,—none who did more honour to its
sacred cause, nor acquired more lasting reputation for their
own community,—than the intelligent population of Liver-
pool. They have now sealed their title to the gratitude of an
empire, whose greatness, commercial and political, is rapidly
recovering from any partial shocks it had sustained through
whig misgovernment,under the fostering protection of a con-
servative Government.—Morning Herald.

MEETING OF TRADESMEN'S ASSISTANTS.—On the
evening of Wednesday. the Assistant Tradesmen's Associa-
tion, hpld their adjourned meeting, in the Clarendon-rooms.
South John-street, for the purpose of receiving the report of
the deputation appointed to wait upon the employers with an
address, requesting them to close their shops at seven o'clock
in the evening. Air. Flower, president of the association,
took the chair. He said he had hoped to be able to lay
before the meeting the answer of the employers to the address
lately presented to them from the assistants. That, however,
was not the case • but he believed that something would be
done of a tangible nature very soon, although the employers
had represented to receive any address or deputation as from
the association. He concluded by calling upon the assistants
to proceed with their object, but always with respect towards
their employers. Mr. Charles Willmer, after an animated
speech, proposed a resolution which was to this effect, "that
this meeting, whilst it deplores the refusal of the tradesmen
of Liverpool to give an answer to the address forwarded to
them upon the 12th October last, and buoyed up with the
hope that those gentlemen will yet see the justice and the
good policy of granting the leisure which has been solicited
by their assistants, will wait with anxiety, yet with patient
submission, the result of their deliberations. This resolu-
tion was seconded by Mr. W. B. Jones, and carried unani-
mously. Mr. Scholefield concluded a lengthy speech by
moving, " That this meeting desires earnestly to
impress
upon every assistant, the propriety of ,1 opting at all tunes
most respectful demeanour towards the employers, and
especially in their petitions for relief from a portion of the
labour now imposed upon them ; and this meeting further
„ a
exhorts the assistants to use every possible means of con-
vincing their employers that they seek that relief only for
purposes which all wise and good men approve."
Cantidge seconded the motion. Mr. Brahain moved an
amendment of considerable length, but the ideas intended to
be expressed in it were so confused that the meeting were
unable to comprehend them, and it was therefore rejected.
The original motion being carried, Mr. Flower was thanked
for his conduct in the chair, and the meeting separated about
eleven o'clock.

SWEEPING THE STREETS BY MACHINERY !-It is really
hard to say how soon we are to arrive at that happy era when
the most severe labour allotted to human beings will be to
pick their teeth or to button their own coats. Even now
the powers of machinery are being rapidly applied as a sub-
stitute for manual power in almost every branch of industry;
and the labourer has little more to do than to stand by and
watch the working of the iron competitor, who has hustled
him aside into a merely subordinate capacity. We have
carding-machines and spinning-machines ; printing-ma-
chines and weaving machines, by whose joint agency a bale
of cotton is converted into a bale of merchandise, with
scarcely the intervention of man. Give us the aid of a cal-
culating-machine and an iron scribe to make out the invoicer
and the whole system will be complete; our corn-lands may
be turned into grazing-lands forthwith, and our population
sent out to graze therein—

" Their food the herbs, their drink the cooling spring."
As a gratifying proof that this happy state of things is at
hand, we have this week witnessed, in the good town of
Manchester—where the people are starving, we are told, by
hundreds—the very streets swept by machinery; so chary
are our neighbours in the employment of human hands to do
any work which wood and iron can be made to do. The
machinery in question is in the form of a cart drawn by-one
horse, the motion of which impels a number of revolving
brushes, which take up the dirt into the body of the cart
itself, as the receiver—upon the same principle, substituting
brushes for buckets, as the dredging-machine in our docks.
Prom the little observation which we were able to make of
its working, we should really be inclined to borrow it for a
week for the use of our own corporation; for, in candour.
we are obliged to say, that it makes a very clean sweep—a
thing rather wanted in our streets, as well as in the corpora-
tion establishment itself. We are nut so satisfied, however,
as to the prudence of thus parading before the public eye.
and, in the present temper of the public mind, the applica-
tion of machinery even to street-sweeping. This, however,
is a matter for the Manchestrians themselves to consider.
Their working classes are just now looking with no very
cordial approbation of its working., into the whole question
.
of machinery ; and we really think that it require some
sophistry to persuade them that in this case ingenuity is not a
little thrown away, and its exhibition ill-tuned andinju-
dicious.

SUICIDES IN LIVERPOOL.-011 Tuesday three inquests
were held before Mr. Curry, on view of the bodies of two
women and one man, who had put a period to their existence.
The first was on Agnes Kerr, a female of the age of 22. It
appeared from the evidence that the deceased had been living
with her sister for about a fortnight, who keeps a lodging-
house at No. 4, Suffolk-street. On Monday morning she
took her breakfast and appeared quite well. She then went
up stairs to dress for the purpose of going out, and came
down again in her shawl and bonnet, but on learning what
time it was, immediately proceeded again up stairs. In about
half an hour one of the lodgers having occasion to go into
his room, found the door locked, when he immediately told
the sister of the deceased, who on knocking at the door and
receiving no answer, broke it open, and found the deceased
lying on the floor with a great quantity of blood about her. A
razor was lying close beside her, and her throat was cut in a
most frightful manner. She was quite dead. Nothing pecu-
liar had ever been observed about the manner of the de-
ceased. The jury returned a verdict of temporary insanity.
—The second inquest was on the body of Elizabeth New, a
widow, aged 31. The deceased was in the habit of drinking
to excess, and on Saturday afternoon, in a very melancholy
mood, asked for a bottle to get some rhubarb, as she com-
plained of being ill in her bowels. She returned in a few mi-
nutes, arid poured something out of thebottle into a tea-cup,
and drank it off, and then went out. She returned in the
evening, and went to bed with a female whom she desired to
sleep with her. About one o'clock on Sunday morning the
deceased was heard to moan, when her bedfellow got up and
went down stairs for a light, and discovered the bottle on the
chimney-piece, marked " Laudanum—poison." She then
went up stairs, and tried to awaken the deceased, but with-
out effect ; and about eight o'clock she died. The surgeon
gave it as his opinion that the deceased had died from the
effects of some narcotic, which he believed to be laudanum•
In this case, also, the jury returned a verdict of temporary
insanity.—The remaining inquest was on the body of Thos.
Yates, a druggist, aged 27. The wife of the deceased deposed,
that her husband had been laboring for a few days under a
cold, with slight fever. At four o'clock on Monday afternoon,
he was sitting up stairs with witness, and was then much the
same as usual. He had no pain, but was very weak in his
body, and low in his spirits. He walked into the next room,
and got into bed, and in about five minutes she followed, and
found him lying on his face in bed. She spoke to him seve-
ral times' but received no answer, and she then shook him,
thinking he was asleep. She subsequently rang the bell for
the servant to come up. The servant turned him over on
his back to see if he was asleep, and it was then found that
he was dead. The deceased kept a shop attached to the
house. Mr. James Marshall, surgeon, deposed, that he had
been attending the deceased for the last three or four days.
He had a cold, accompanied with fever, which prostrated his
strength. On smelling at the mouth of the deceased after
his death, he perceived a slight odour of prussic acid, such as
is generally present in cases of death arising from that poison.
lie was of opinion that the death of the deceased had been
occasioned by prussic acid. John Thompson deposed that
he was an assistant in the shop of the deceased. He wal
called up to him on Monday afternoon, and found him dead
in bed. He had all his clothes on. Witness examine halt the,
deceased's pockets, and found a bottle containing a
a drachm of prussic acid. The bottle was one which ,rwits,
used in the shop, and always contained prussic acid. -.
last time Ile observed the bottle in the shop, about
thin
ago, it was nearly full of russic acid, and 'he did not till
there had been any disposed The vet.
et. re ,Jury returned a
diet of temporary insanity. a month