The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-04-17 00:00:00

CAUTION TO HOUSEKEEPERS.—A gentleman, residing
in Upper Parliament-street, informs us, from his own
immediate knowledge, that a number of females are, at an
early hour in the morning, in the habit of calling at houses
in that neighbourhood, Grove-street, &c., on pretence of
selling tape, pins, &c., and communicate with the female
servants who may be rst accessible, and who are induced
to hand them large quantities of cold meat, &c., in return
for trifles, to the evident. and, to many, unaccountable
defalcations of the larder. He himself has been a large
sufferer in this way, and we cannot do better than direct
the attention of housekeepers and the police to the fasts ;
for if this unauthorised "liberality" in servants be allowed
to go on, it will inevitably lead to offences of a graver
character.

The Rev. Dr. M`Neile is at present in London, and we
perceive that our metropolitan friends are making the
most of his talents. On Sunday morning the rev. doctor
preached in Regent-square Chapel, on behalf of the Me-
tropolitan Training Institution ; in the evening, in St.

Michael's Church, Chester-square, for the Ladies' Hiber-
nian Female School Society. Yesterday (Monday) he
spoke at a meetinz in Freemasons' Hall (at which Lord
Ashley presided) of the friends of the first-mentioned in-
stitution. This evening he will preach in St. Dunstan's-
in-the-West,' Fleet-street, on behalf of the Scripture
Readers' Society ; and on Thursday he will preach in St.
Paul's Church, Cheltenham, after Lord Ashley has laid

the foundation-stone of the Church of England Training
College, for eighty school-masters, about to be erected in

OPINION OF THE MAYOR OF LIVERPOOL AT RIO.—We
lied at Rio, in

mmercio, pt

t chief

gistrat

resided for many

years, the following observations, on his appointment to
the honourable office which he now fills with so much
credit :—" The Sr. John Bramley.Moore, head of the
house of Srs. John Moore and Co., of thi. ~item I
cently been elected Mayor (chief municipal

agisirate) of

Liverpool. The Sr. Bramley-Moore resided malty years
in Rio de Janeiro, where his obliging manners and his

noble and generous character gained him the esteem of
all he Brazilians and foreigners with whom he came in
contact. On his return to his native country, the Sr.
Bramley-Moore employed all the time that remained from
his laborious occupations, in the service of his fellow-
townsmen, and, after a most honourable career in offices
of public importance, has been raised to the highest post
of honour which his fellow-citizens were able to offer him.
The Brazilians, who know how much he interested him-

self in the prosperity of the empire, and how anxious he
still is for its continuance, will doubtless receive with
pleasure the intelligence of so honourable an appointment,
and one which so worthily recompenses the services which

this gentleman has rendered to his fellow-citizens."
ELECTRIC TELEGRAPHING.—The steam ship America,
Captain Harrison, which sailed from Boston on the 21st,
and Halifax on the 23rd ult., reached the Mersey early on
the morninz of the 3rd inst., after a rapid run of little
more than 91 days from the atter port. Messrs. Will-
mer and Smith had a summary of the news brought by
the America placed in the hands of a clerk i

n charge of
the electric telegraph here about three o'clock ; but from
nagement and bungling a delay of 61 hours took
he transmission of the message, much to the
London press, and the great disappoint-
ment of the commercial community. Notwithstanding
this unwarrantable delay, the company's chief clerk here
refused to make any abatement in the charge. On the
contrary, by a species of ingenuity anything but com-
mendable, he endeavours to force Messrs. Willmer and
Smith to pay more than one-half more than they have
been hitherto charged for such communications. We
deeply regret to be obliged to stigmatise the manner in
which the Electric Telegraph Company's officers carry on
the business connected with this wonderful and highly-
important invention. To advertise " instantaneous com-
munication," and yet take 61 hours to transmit a message
of 60 words, is really too bad.—European Times.