The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-15 00:00:00

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THE LIVERPOOL FEMALE ORPIIAN ASYLUM
with great satisfaction that the ►iberal support

r.—We hear
given to the

Liverpool Female Orphan Asylum, lately; projected, has en-
abled the committee to take a spacious and cnivenient house
in Upper Stanhope-street, and to commence receiving
children into the institution. The children are required to
be between the ages of eight and eleven years, to be de-
prived of both parents, to be destitute of means of support,
and born in Liverpool or within seven miles. The prayers
as well as the bounty of the public are due for the success of
the benevolent and holy purpose, and we trust to see it as
extensively useful as its active promoters can desire.

POPULATION or LIVERPOOL.—The annual report of the
Registrar-General of births, marriages, and deaths i❑ Eng-
land, has been published. It appearS from the return, that
the total number of births in the year ending the 30th of
:Tune, 1839. in the district of which Liverpool is the centre,
and which, in 1831, contained a population of 218,233 souls,
was 9683, the total number of marriages 3452, and the total
number of deaths 8467. Of the persons who died 2045 were
infants under 12 months, and 4259 of the whole number were
under five years. Of those who died at the greatest age 20 2
reached the age of from 70 to 75 ; 151 that of from 75 to 80 ;
83 that of from 80 to 83; 49 that of from 85 to 90; 12 that
of from 90 to 95 ; 2 that of from 95 to 100 ; and 1 that of 100.
The district from which this return is made includes several

parishes and townships adjoining Liverpool, so that it is im-
possitle to tell from it whether the mortality within Liver-
pool proper bears so high a proportion to that of other towns,
as in the previous return ; but taking the whole district, and
comparing it with a similar district in the neighbourhood of
Manchester, the rate of mo;-tAity appears to he pretty much
the same. in the Liverpool district, the deaths were 8467
in a population of 218,233 ; whilst in the Manchester district
the deaths were 9276 in a population of 236,94 The Li-
verpool district_ includes an area of 38,060 acres, and com-

)erby, the toy
;nacre, Chi!dwell, Paza
ice Blundell, Kirkdale, Litherland, Little Crosby,
Lunt, Netherton, nrrell and Ford, Sefton, Thornton, and
Wulton-on-the-Jill!, the chapelries of Everton, Garston,
Great Crosby, Kirkby, end Warcrtree, and the extra-paro-
chial places of Croxteth and Toxteth-park. Of the families
resident in this district, 1446 are employed chiefly in agri-
Culture, 20,456 chiefly in trade, manufactures, and handi-
craft, and 21,124 in other pursuits, making a total of 43,026.

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THE REV. HUGH M`NEILE AT BELFAST.—The Rev.
Hugh 111'Nei1e preached a very interesting sermon in St.
Ann's Church, Belfast, on Sunday last, to a crowded con-

gregation.. It was a fine specimen of biblical exposition and
chaste pulpit eloquence, which riveted the attention, during

tale uenvery, of an, even me most tuougnuess person pre-
sent. The sermon was not in aid of any of our public cha-
rities, but a kindness conferred on the vicar and congrega-
tion. His text was taken from the Epistle to the Hebrews,
2d chapter, and part of the Bth and 9th verses—" But now
we see not vet all things put under him; but we see Jesus,
who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering
of death, crowned with glory and honour.'! The rev, preacher
commenced his discourse by reading from the sth verse.

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which is a quotation from the Bth Psalm, thus giving St.
Paul's interpretation of it, as referring to Christ. lie then
read the tith Psalm, showing the prophecy concerning him,
and went on to' demonstrate, by a chain of reasoning peculi-
arly his own—namely, the fulfilment of the first two portions
of it, that Jesus was the man who was made for a little while

lower than the angels, and that it was he who had suffered
death and had been crowned with glory and honour. The
third part of the prophecy yet remained to be fulfilled, the
putting of all things under him, which St. Paul declares we
have not yet seen. This the preacher contended had refer-
ence to the second advent, the coming of the Lord Jesus
Christ, as predicted by the angels at the time of his ascen-
sion—" Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into
heaven? This same Jesus which is taken up from you into
heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go
into heaven ;" thus introducing the millenium, or that pe-
riod, by whatever other name it might be called, illustrative
of Christ's personal reign upon earth.—Dublin Evening
Packet.

THE CALEDONIA, STEAM-SHlP.—This fine vessel, the
third of the line of royal mail steamers to run between this
port and Boston and Halifax, arrived on Sunday morning,
in IQ hours from Greenock. She was built by Mr. Charles
Wood, at Dumbarton, and appears to be in every point equal
to her predecessors of the same line, the Britannia and Aca-
dia, which have already proved themselves adisqrable sea-
boats, and have accomplished voyages across the Atlantic
hitherto unequalled in speed. As these vessels, though
turned out by different builders, are of equal length and
breadth, and consequently, of the same tonnage ' • and as they
have engines precisely alike, the latter built by the celebrated
Napier, of Glasgow, the description we some time ago gave
of the Britannia, supersedes all necessity for a notice of this
new specimen of the naval architecture of our northern neigh-
bours.. They are in reality sister ships in all their hulls and
equipments, the only difference being merely in the carving

and aecoratiot.

'The Caledonia has

figure-head, and the carving both on her bow
.hibits good taste and execution. As the Caledo•

a, which w

and Boston
bustle anior

ppearance in Formby Channel

.eluding the news-

for the Acadia

the latter ves,

veral boats put off to meet her. Two
harp fellows in them did not disco-
s conspicuous.

ver their mistake,

Ca;edon

.t the main, until they

ere asked from the

had been telegraphed ! The Acadia,
..cc! the period of her anticipated ar-
)r (as it will be found) :he reached the river on the

not far ex

tioart4and will sail hence on Saturday next fo-r Halifax and
Boston. The fourth and last of the four ships which will
complete the line—the Columbia, was launched on Saturday
last, about an hour before the starting of the Caledonia from
Greenock.

The banks in this town hare unanimously resolved upon
closing their establishments every Friday afternoon at one
o'clock, to cQmmence on Friday next, the 18th instant. We
understand the practice of closing the banks earlier on blank
post day has been pursued in Manchester and other large
towns for some time, without inconvenience to the public.—
Areiveastle Journal.

MR. GEACII.—This infatuated man, who was lately con-
victed of forgery, and sentenced to twenty years' transporta-
tion, passed through Bristol last week, on his way to Devon-
port. Having been subjected to the usual discipline of our
gaol, he said, on leaving it, that he would rather endure 40
years' transpostation than six months' imprisonment therein.
On arriving at Devonport he was put on board the Lord
Lyndock, convict-ship, lying in the sound. This vessel will
convey him to Van Dieman's Land.

The miserable hacks of the expiring whig-radical govern-
ment have put forth a statement that the Duke of Beaufort
the Earls of Liverpool and Sandwich, and other members of
the upper house, are about to desert their colours, and join
the service of Mr. Daniel O'Connell's masters. The whole
statement is without the shadow of foundation. The wretched
whig faction, instead of gaining political strength, is every-
where losing its supporters, as Lord Howick knows, and has
had the manliness to declare.

ILFRACOMBE.—A very shocking accident happened here
on Thursday se'nnight. A young gentleman about sixteen
years of age, of the name of Cayley, was climbing one of the
highest cliffs under the Toy, when lie lost his footing and
fell down a height of at least 100 feet.; he was piCked up by
a man who was fishing near the spot, perfectly insensible ;
his head was much bruised ; one of his legs and arms broken,
and his ancle dislocated; his friends have little hones of his
recovery. It is quite a miracle that he was not dashed to
pieces by the fall.—Bristol Journal.
DANTE.—A portrait of Dante, by Giotto, has been recently
discovered in the pantry f the -t Florence, which

was recently
a chapel attached top rison
the residence of the po-
desta.
It had been completely covered with plaster. The
poet is painted in the flower of his age, with a calm majestic
countenance.

ACCIDENT ON THE BIRMINGHAM AND GLOUCESTER
RAILWAY.'--AS the nine o'clock train was coming-up from
Birmingham on Tuesday morning near to Defford; and about
14 miles from Cheltenham, the engine and two carriages were
thrown.off the line, in consequence of the rails which had
been turned for another engine to go upon the line having
been left in that position. Fortunately, before any material
njury was done, the engine was stopped. None of the pas-
eners were injured.