The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-07-20 00:00:00

July 20, 1847.

/Loud gelvo.

Ur. Lassell, near this town, has ascertained the exist-
ence of a sattellite to Neptune.
It is intended to build a new church in Sackviile-street,
Everton. The subscription for the purpose already
amounts to £2600.
Dr. Hodgson, of the Mechanics' Institute, is about to
leave. He has accepted the office of Principal of the
Chorlton High School, Manchester.
A match was played on Saturday last, between the
Claughton and the Highfield Cricket Clubs, when the
Highfield won, with four wickets to go down.
The committee for conducting the election of Mr.
Cardwell, have taken a large shop and premises at the
corner of Castle-street and Derby-square, which will be
used as committee-rooms until the election is over.
On Wednesday, a boy, named Gunning, residing in
Kent-street, was run over by one of the sweeping-ma-
Thines, in Great George-street, and got one, of his arms
frightfully crushed ; he was taken to the hospital, where
it was found necessary to amputate the limb.
The Rev. Dr. Wiseman, and the Bishop Sharpies, of
Liverpool, have recently proceeded to the Court of Rome
'on business of importance to the Roman Catholic Church.
—Guardian.

On Tuesday last, the first detachment of the 2nd regi-
ment of foot passed through this town, on their way from
Birmingham to Dublin. On Thursday, the head division
Passed on the same route, taking steam from the Clarence
Dock. .

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF TEA.-Some time during
Wednesday night, the warehouse of Messrs. Littledale
and Co„ m Carlton-street, was broken into, and three
chests of tea stolen, value £4O; the outer padlocks were
forced off and the inside locks broken to pieces. A crow-
bar was found inside the warehouse.
WOODSIDE FERRY.—The ferry committee have deter-
mined to increase the facility for crossing the Mersey, in
such cases as may seem to require that accommodation,
by reducing the charge for a night boat ',between 12 p.m.
and 5 a.m.) from 30s. to 10s., so that, on any emergency,
parties may engage a steamer for the latter sum at such
hours as the regular boats have ceased to run.
DEATH FROM DROWNING.—On Tuesday last, whilst a
boy, named James M`Laggan, was crossing Burlington
Bridge, and endeavouring to walk on the parapet wall, he
fell into the canal. A boy who was with him at the time,
gave the alarm, but ten minutes had elapsed before he
was taken out, and then he was quite dead. Verdict ac-
cidental.

To ELECTORS.—Persons already on the register, if they
have changed their qualification, must make a new claim.
All poOr-rates and assessed taxes due on the 20th of
April, must be paid on or before this day, the 20th of
July, by all the electors for cities or boroughs, or they
will not be inserted in the next register. The2oth of July
is also the last day for sending in claims for counties.
" NEVER TOO LATE TO LEARN."—In Liverpool it is
absolutely necessary to write a good hand. To those who
cannot do so we again recommend the establishment of
Mr. Thompson, Clayton-square, who for a period of
nearly twenty years has maintained, in this town, the
highest character for ability and uprightness in his pro-
fession, as a teacher of writing, book-keeping, stenogra-
phy, &c. Mr. Thompson is ably assisted in the ladies'
department by Mrs. Thompson, to whose announcement,
in another column, we direct the attention of ladies suffer-
ing from defective education in their earlier years.
THE BIRKENHEAD DOCKS.—A memorial to the Com-
missioners of the Woods and Forests, signed in two days
by not less than 6000 of the inhabitants of Birkenhead
and the neighbouring townships, was forwarded to their
lordships yesterday week, respectfully urging upon them
the advantages which will result from completing the
Birkenhead docks. A petition to the House of Lords on
the same subject has also received extensive signature.
It expresses approval of the bill for the construction of
an additional dock, &c., as of great advantage to the
town and trade of Birkenhead and the surrounding dis-
tricts ; and as there are also numerous clauses in the said
bill very essential to the economical and expeditious car-
rying on of the trade which may frequent the docks, it
prays their lordships to pass it into law.
LORD JOHN MANNERS ON 'CHANGE.—Lord John
Manners arrived in Liverpool on Thursday, and measures
were immediately taken for assuring the electors that he
really was a candidate. On Friday his lordship was in-
troduced on 'Change by Mr. E. Molyneux, Mr. Chap-
man, and others. His lordship addressed the multitude
assembled from the window of Messrs. Littledale's office.
He candidly confessed that, under ordinary circum-
stances, he was not the individual to represent
Liverpool, but as affairs had gone out of their
ordinary course, some gentlemen of Liverpool who ap-
proved of his public conduct bad requested him to be-
come a candidp.te. After dwelling for some time on the
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distress in Ireland, and the inadequacy of the measures
proposed for her relief, his lordship adverted to the en-
dowment of the Roman Catholic priesthood of Ireland, a
proposition which he said he should vigorously oppose.
He ridiculed the idea of finality in the existing mo-
netary laws, and expressed his determination to give
the subject his best consideration, calling to his
aid the experience of practical men. He gave it
as his opinion that a determined attack would be
made in the next Parliament on the Navigation-laws,
and exhorted the community of Liverpool to speak out on
the subject. He declared the present tariff most rude and
absurd, and signified his opinion that it would be for the
Protectionists, with Lord Stanley at their head, to lick it
into shape. All his political sympathies, he said, were with
Lord Stanley and Lord George Bentinck. A person in
the crowd asked his lordship whether he would vote for
an extension of the franchise ? His lordship replied that
he was not prepared to vote for the extension of the suf-
frage, as proposed by some people. Another individual
asked whether his lordship would vote for the imposi-
tion of church-rates ? Lord John Manners replied in
the affirmative. Several rounds of cheers were given, and
his lordship shortly afterwards withdrew.
BEAUTIFUL OPTICAL ILLUSlON.—OnWednesday even-
ing last, about sunset, after a bright and warm day, the

appearance of the landscape in the Wm' all peninsula, as
seen westward from the ridge of hill on which stands
Wallasey Church, was at once novel and beautiful. The
mist which some time before had begun to rise from the
extensive low marsh lands of Wallasey and Bidston gra-
dually accumulated in dense sheets apparently of one per-
fect level, there being not a breath of wind to produce the
slightest undulation. A similar thin film of haze lay on
the adjacent waters of the Irish sea on the north, having,
in appearance precisely the same level and elevation as
the interior mist. The higher portions of the land dis-
tinctly visible over this general level of haze which ex-
actly resembled an immense expanse of the smoothest
water, giving an entirely new aspect to the peninsula as
far as the eye could reach towards the river Dee. Had a
stranger looked upon it for the first time he would not
have questioned but that it was like many parts of Hol-
land, at certain seasons, a low country on the sea coast
nearly submerged in water. Leasowe Castle had an ex-
tensive lake on the eastward of it, extending to the bot-
tom of Wallasey village. Farmsteads on slightly elevated
knolls resembled small wooded islands. The hamlet of
Moreton, with its lofty trees, became isolated as amidst a
large area of water; Bidston with its hill, church, light-
house, &c., stood out like a respectable promentory ab-
butting up the placid summer ocean ; the sandhills looked
like a long ledge of rocks; and there were not wanting
tops of trees and other objects here and there, resembling
vessels. The metamorphosis was, indeed complete; and
there were, we learn, not a few stragglers near Wallasey
Church who, on jocular assertions being gravely made by
bystanders, believed for some moments that the long-
dreaded irruption of the sea, through the sandhills into
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',a...bey root, nan at lenr,otli been lamentably realized,
and that Birkenhead would be ruined as a port, and in-
volve Liverpool in the same calamity by sanding up the
river Mersey and the dock walls.
BURIALS WITHIN CROWDED PARTS OF THE TOWN.—
We have long, in common with many of our friends and

ice, and

had hopes that it would be put down by law, if common;
decency and the general feelings of the community
did not effect that object. We have, however, been dis-
appointed. The Health of Towns Bill, so long discussed
in the present session, and which might, or ought, to have
removed the evil, has been abandoned ; and !is.some pri-

meteries, still persist in interring the remains of their de-
parted-friends within them, we are left in statu quo. The
churchyard of St. Nicholas's, in the vicinity of the Ex-
change, in the centre of the business part of the town, and

&c., all thickly tenanted, has not only for
many years been desecrated by being (with open gates)
made into a common thoroughfare, to save the idle, or
unpunctual, a short walk round its angles ; but burials
still almost daily take place within its already overfilled
area, to the annoyance, and often the disgust, of passers-
by, and the endangerment of the public health. The soil
is wet, and the gases that arise from it necessarily taint the
air. A few days ago, three interments there took place in
one day, amidst the curious gaze of numerous idle assem-
blages. From one grave the remains of a body were sho-
velled out to the surface, mingled with the clammy earth,
leaving the coffin, with the exception of the lid, still com-
paratively fresh, and the whole shell was then broken up
with a pickaxe with furious haste, and thrown up piece-
meal, to make room for the new tenant. The yard also
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warehouses

serves as a

'or oung, and a g
for all who 'choose to use it,ne eny couraging aloungin disrespectplace for
the dead, which cannot but be demoralising to the living.
surThe constant treading on the grave-stones, that cover the
face all over, has also nearly obliterated all legible
'trace of many of the inscriptions ; 'and the probability is
that in private graves parties are

...... ingtea in death who
view eacn other in life. Surely something should be
to arrest the evil, for the safety of the inhabitants
the credit
when pestilence is ravaging the land). ~(1
the credit of the town.

kit tiers of our-intramuTal'ehurelil:
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as being still used,
ards are also to be comlaied of,
though not to the same extended
ELECTION OF W
ALLASEY -

—The
lection of commissioners for lighting,paring,i'oilTErusds:y
last.
improving,
the parish of Wallasey, took gl,
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There ..sere. ten commis

vLect— namelv
seven for three years, in the place of Messrs. Jose -1:
Christopher Ewart, Thomas Fisher, Charles Holland,
Harold Littledale, James Leay, deceased, Wm. Mann,
and Thomas Peers ; one for two years, in the place of
Mr. John Parry ; and two for one year, in the place of
Messrs. George Hammerton Crump and Richard Parry.
The election caused a good deal of excitement throughout
the rural district, which, though little used to such doings,
(the act for the appointment of commissioners, obtained
only a few years ago, being the first induction,) exhibited,
on a minor but spirited scale, all the bustle and manoeuvre
of a parliamentary contest. Squibs in abundance, several
of them clever and laughable, were posted on walls, field-
gateposts, &c., " astonishing the rustics ranged around,"
and the spirit of party rose to a considerable height, but
goodhumour generally prevailed. The polling took place
at the: Queen's Arms Hotel, Liscard ; the voting com-
menced at nine o'clock, and terminated
at three. 'Active
canvassers for each party, some of them old stagers, were
busy in all directions over the extensive district, In Rd-