The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-19 00:00:00

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San. 19, 1847.

Korai Rays.
Thee are 136 horses entered for the Tradesmen's Cup
at Liverpool; and 45. horses for the Derby Handicap.
A highly-respectable gentleman in this town has retired
from the Evangelical Alliance, in consequence of the
resolution of the British branch of the Alliance, " that
no slaveholder be eligible for membership."
A meeting of the Roman Catholics of this town was
held on Friday last, when a liberal collection was made
for the relief of Irish distress ; eleven firms have put
down their names for £lOO each.

A correspondent of The Times remarks, that, " hitherto,
the Irish poor-rate has not reached sixpence in the pound
on the average, while in Liverpool the rates are swelled to
four shillings by the influx of Irish paupers,"
A petition to the House of Commons, for the use of
sugar and molasses in breweries and distilleries, was last
week numerously and influentially signed in the Ex-
change News Room.
Mr. F, L. Hausburg, of Church-street, (according to
his usual custom at this season,) has, during the past
week, distributed clothing to his work boys, and coals to
his numerous workmen.
Mr. Capes Ashlin, who filled, with so much credit to
himself and satisfaction to the board, the situation of
treasurer to the Highway Commissioners, will, we are glad
to find, be appointed treasurer to the new Health Commit-
tee.
ROBBERY AT Rock FERRY.—On Tuesday night, at
the Rock Ferry, near to the spot where Mr. Peacock was
robbed and murdered some time ago, a man returning
from a fair at Ruthin, was knocked down and robbed
of .t2l.
MERCANTILE DESPATCH.—The lluma, from Malaga,
with 5139 packages of raisins, and 43 pipes of oil, was
discharged in the Albert Dock, on the 12th instant, and
the whole of her cargo housed and piled in the warehouse
in four hours and twenty minutes.
PRAISEWORTHY EXAMPLE. Messrs. Sanders and
Claxton, corn merchants, have given orders to their ware-
housemen to give to their working men an advance of 3s.
per week in their wages. Mr. Sanders went personally to
all the corn merchants to solicit them to make a similar
advance.
An inquest was held on Saturday before Mr. Curry, on
view of the body of Elizabeth Bennett, wife of John Ben-
nett, car-driver, Marquis-street, and who was 47 years of
age. She had been suffering from asthma, and on Fri-
day morning was found dead in bed. On a post mortem
examination it was found that deceased had died from
pulmonary apoplexy, the result of natural causes.
SHOP ROBBERY.—On Tuesday evening, the shop of
Mrs. Tonge, smallware dealer, &c., Clarence-street, was
robbed of a quantity of steel-pens, pencils, and other
articles. The thieves cut part of a pane of glass from the
window, and carried off all the property within their
reach. The robbery was not discovered until the shop
was being closed.
behalf of that A sermon was preached by the Rev. Fielding Ould, in
Christ Church, on Sunday week, in
valua-
ble institution the Eastern Dispensary. The collection
amounted to £2B 13s. 6d. Mr. Ould intends appealing
to his congregation, on Sunday next, for a collection in
relief of the awful destitution which prevails in various
parts of •Ireland.
Mrs. Thornton, of The Elms, West Derby, distributed
on Christmas Day, according to her usual custom, a
number of sheep to her poor tenants, also nearly 100
pieces of flannel to the female scholars of the West Derby
School, and a pair of stockings and reward books to the
same number of boys of that school. The new church at
West Derby has been erected at the sole expense of this
benevolent lady.
SMALL DEBTS ACT.—The following places will be
comprised in the Liverpool district !—The Liverpool old
borough boundary, together with Toxteth-park, West
Derby, Croxteth-park, Everton, Kirkdale, Walton-on-
Hill, Bootle-cnm- Linacre' Fazakerley, Kirkby, Waver-
tree, Allerton, Garston, Childwall, Litherland, Lunt,
Netherton, Orrell, Ford, Sefton, Aintree, Great and
Little Crosby, Ince Blundell, and Thornton.
DARING ROBBERY IN LIMEKILN-LANE.—On Friday
afternoon, a fellow knocked at the door of Mr. Charles
Williams, of Gildart-gardens, and learning that he was
not at home drew a razor from his pocket, and threatened
to kill Mrs. Williams if she made any alarm. He then'
stole her pocket containing half-a-crown_; and from a box
up stairs abstracted six sovereigns. He then knocked
Mrs. Williams down and escaped.
FRENCH FRUITS.—A vessel arrived at this port from
Bordeaux, has brought an entire cargo of plums and
prunes, the production of Frank, in a dried state, con-
sisting of 220 barrels, 203 half-barrels, and 130 quarter-
barrels of the latter description of fruit, and 57 cases and
122 boxes of the finer kind, known in the trade and by
the public as French or imperial plums. A complete
cargo, and to such an extent, of these articles is most
unusual.;
DISTRESSING CASE.—On Thursday week, a family
named Connor, consisting of nine persons, lately come
from the county of Mayo, Ireland, were found likiddled
together in a cellar in Ashley-street, Toxteth-park, in a
most deplorable state of destitution, where they had lain
all night upon the bare flags, and had nothing to eat or
drink. To add to the calamity, one of the number, a
boy, was found dead, having expired about five o'clock
the same morning.
SIGNOR SAPID S CONCERT.—It affords us much plea-
sure to find, by advertisement,' that Signor Sapio has
decided on giving a rich musical treat, in the shape of a
concert, on Wednesday evening, the 20th instant, at the
Concert-hall, Lord Nelson-street. The list of names en-
gaged for the occasion is worthy the notice of the dilettanti
of our town, and, no doubt, Signor Sapio will have a
bumper, so as to reward him for the great exertions and
expense this concert must necessarily put him to.
SixouLAß. ACCIDENT.—On Friday a leading horse, at-
tached to one of the waggons belonging to Messrs. Ken-
worthy and Co., was placed so near the edge of the King's
Dock that it fell in. Happily the dock at the time was
free from shipping, owing to the prevalence of easterly
winds. The horse found room enough to swim about,
but nearly an hour elapsed before the parties were able to
pilot it to the crane, where it was hoisted up, greatly ex-
hausted. The horse is said to be one of the most valuable
of the kind in the town, and it is yet uncertain how far it
has been injured.
DEATH FROM SWALLOWING HOT LIQUID.—On Thurs-
day morning last Mrs. Collins, who lives in New Bird-
street, placed a kettle of hot cocoa on the hob by the fire,
while her son, aged three years, was playing about.
While she was washing her hands, she heard the child
call ont, and found his clothes wet with the liquid. She
thought, as he was not scalded in any part of the person,
that he had been drinking out of the kettle. Mr. Cameron,
surgeon, was called, and found the little sufferer labour-
ing under inflammation of the windpipe, of which he died
next day. He was of opinion that the inflammation might
have been caused by his swallowing hot water.
THE RELIEF OF THE POOR.—We stated last week that,
of the Irish paupers in this town for the week ending the
9th instant, 29,417 individuals had been relieved at the
Parish-office, and for the week ending the 16th instant,
64,900 have been relieved. It will thus be seen
that the numbers in the last week were more than dou-
ble those in the preceding. We regret to state, that in
Lace-street, Midghall-street, and others of the lowest
purlieus of the town, in which the paupers have taken up
their abodes in great numbers, fever has been very much
• upon the increase within the last fortnight. This, indeed,
was to be expected, for, as Skibereen and other parts of
Ireland incontestibly prove, disease follows famine almost
as certainly as effect is produced by cause. The accounts
we have heard from the relieving-officers of the deplorable
state of some districts of the town, where whole families
are
vsiicctknimesss as,roea
Jndrudlyeaatphpiasmbnugsy. in
cutting down tuhpeowrirbeedtchseodf
liow lying
jestfyacthltostiaL,hieved a
ART-UNION os• LONDON.—his DON. Th
Victory which 'must be hailed with sat
admirer of the fine arts, and well-wisher for the aCivaenvecrey-
ment of our country in the increase of knowledge, taste,
and refinement, as connected with the arts generally. A
royal charter of incorporation having been granted, the
existence of this society is no longer precarious, but esta-
blished on a basis which must secure its future prosperity
—the funds, operations; and management, receiving com-
petent superintendence. The council will make such
future
be distrtar;
tednge.ments as will present an accumulation of
advantages. Works of a more beautiful and elevated
character increasing in number, variety, and value, will
and as all obstacles are removed which
prevented
scrupulous parties from becoming subscribers,
have d
CO little
meccasoubt but that the list for this year will be
printS7 the
3' ligmented. We direct attention to the nu-
and seven
Prizes, i asie-a/ Specimens which will be distributed as
steitlieocitied b audition to the usual proportion of works to be
Prize-holders ; as, also, to the two beautr-
Fertootk engravings in outline of the compe-
past year
titled ores s, and to which every subscriber will be en-
Past year
for Liverpool
tions should
aPreective ".Prizes. The engravings, &c., of the
now being delivered by the Honorary Secre-
IVfUSICAL
diffusion and
~Mr. John R. Isaac, to whom subscrip-
paid without delay, thesame being now due.
nrcATlON.—Notwithstanding the boasted
very certain cultivation of music in the present day, it is
vated, but t
beth, the that it was not only more generally culti-
Among
theiedmuch better purpose, among our ancestors.
solid and substantial most '
glorious
classes in fhe days of Queen Eliza-
glorious era in our country's annals, a
attainments indelecrla
able
skill
inits knowledge of music, and consider-
ctice, were almost universal. Such
person who had
prweteernetisoon gteonearalliblyeradilffeudsuedca,
education
—t
aannyy
b?tyrayoerd gentleman moving in respectable society—who
ift-nurtured, 1 of the art, was looked upon as mean,
Of thisow-bred, and unfit to mingle in good com-
pany.
who resentPyroofs might be drawn from the writers
the pdagive
he
y, ners of the " Elizabethan age." In
40Nyledge of the science and "'skill in
music " have
marvellous feats of execution
and legerdemain, anirce music 9
is too frequently regarded but
as a frivolous pastime. Tt is nevertheless certain that
what has not inaptly been nevertheless the " divine science,"
"in and intellectual enjoyments,
is one of our most
and should therefore be cultivated
iniicneilin3ant by Mr. Hack-
proper manner.
We refer our readers to the annoui
ett, who has recently been ap
who desire a
fineerganist of St.
Peter's church • and doubt not but t
of
author
of sound musical education will avail themselves
pro-
fessional skill. Mr. Hackett is well known as of an excellent work on Psalmody.
We Perceive that Mons. Jullien will give a grand con_cert, at the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson-street, on monda
evening, Feb. 22nd. y
MECHANICAL SURGERY.—We feel pleasure in directing
the attention of surgeons and invalids to the advertise-
Inent of Mr. George R. Bell, which appears in another
colußAmn.
ILLIE'S PATENT VENTILATORS.—The value of good
ventilation free from drafts, is becoming better under-
stood every day. Of this we have satisfactory evidence in
th e,
tgreat and growing demand for the above simple, effec-
iv and withal cheap, appliances for the securing a suffi-
cient supply of pure air. They are highly recommended
by the Health of Town's Commission. Mr. J. A. For-
rest, of the Old Haymarket, is the patentee's agent for
,Liverpool,--See adv.