The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-02-16 00:00:00

TO FEMALE INVALIDS

" No less than 31,000 females have expired from diseases
peculiar to their sex in one year."—See the Registrar-Gene-
ral's Report.

11ThR. BAYFIELD, R.N., of the University of Edinburgh,
-1--/ and Member of the College of Surgeons„tespectfully
announces to invalids, the above startling fact,, as officially
stated by the Registrar-General, and informs hem, that he
may be daily consulted (either personally o by letter,) as a
Physician-Accoucheur, by patients suffering from those
pe-
culiar
diseases, which if unattended to, qproperly treated,
quickly bring the malady to a fatal iss by undermining
a previously good constitution, cause unhappy patient to
suffer a lingering existence ; whereas 10 a timely application
to Dr. •Bayfieldi whose experience in the treatment of female
diseases for the last 16 years, he is warranted in stating, that
the disease will not only be speedily removed, but the patient
restored to her pristine state of health.
Dr. Bayfield may be daily consulted personally, at his resi-
dence, No. 18,-NORTHAMPTON-SQUARE, GOSWELL-ROAD,
LONDON, or by letter, post free, describing symptoms, &c.,
and also enclosing a fee of 10s. or a post-office order to that
amount—when the requisite medicine will be forwarded, to
any part of the three kingdoms.
Dr. Bayfield respectfully announces that his invaluable
SPASMODIC TINCTURE, so celebrated for affording im-
mediate relief in all cases of Spasms arising in the stomach,
bowels, and in the system generally, can be purchased only
of him at his residence, price 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d. and 9s. duty in-
cluded, in stopped bottles. One dose is sufficient to relieve
the most violent paroxysms.
Sole Agent—
Mr. STEVENS, Chemist, 122, St. John-street-road, London.

DEATH OF SIR ASTIEY COOPER.—The painful duty de-
volves upon us of recording the death of Sir Astley Cooper,
Bart. That melancholy event took place on Friday, at about
a quarter past one o'clock, at his residence in Conduit-street,
Hanover-square. The late Sir Astley Cooper was born on
the 23d of August, 1768 ' married 12th December, 1792,
Ann, daughter of Thomas Cocks, Esq. (a merchant of Lon-
don), of Tottenham, in the county of Middlesex ' • by whom
(who died in June, 1827) he had no issue. Sir Astley was
the youngest son of the Rev. Samuel Cooper, D.D, rector
of Yelverton and Morley, in the county of Norfolk, by Maria
Susannah, daughter and heiress of James Bransby, Esq., of
Shaftesbury, in the county of Norfolk. Having attained the
hizhest eminence in the surgical profession, he was appointed
surgeon to his Majesty George IV., and created a baronet
on the 27th of July, 1821, with remainder, in default of male
issue, to his nephew, Astley Paston Cooper, Esq. (who mar-
ried Miss Rickford, only daughter of William Rickford, Esq.,
M.P. for Aylesbury), the third son of the late Rev. Samuel
Lovick Cooper, rector of Ingoldesthorpe and Barton, in the,
county of Norfolk. Although, from the state in which the
worthy and esteemed baronet had been for several days past,
no hopes had been entertained of his recovery, his decease
had not been thought quite so near. Sir Astley's career, as
one of the most eminent surgeons of the metropolis, was re-
warded with the possession of an immense fortune, amount-
ing, it is said, to upwards of half a million of money. Sir
Astley Cooper was a member of the Council of the College
of Surgeons, a fellow of the Royal Society, and serjeant-
surgeon to the Queen. Few men have rendered more ser-
vice to the cause of science than the late baronet, and none
had stronger claims to the position he so long occupied as the
head of his profession. His death will be lamented, not only
by his own circle of relatives and friends, but by the profes-
sion to which he belonged, and by the public at large.

YARMOUTH, FEB. B.—MELANCHOLY SHIPWRECK AND
Loss OF LIFE.—On Sunday morning a schooner was dis-
covered in distress near the Scroby Sand, on which she struck,
and soon after went to pieces. The beachmen who were
watching on the shore witnessed the melancholy spectacle.
and, perceiving some of the crew lashed to part of the wreck,
immediately launched the life-boat, and by extraordinary
exertions for more than two hours succeeded in nearinc, the
wreck. They passed two poor fellows on a portion of the
wreck, who they were sure were dead. and the quantity of
pieces floating around them rendered their own a situation
of much peril. They made for the third man, whom they found
to be alive, and picking him up, brought him ashore. As the
life-boat grounded, three cheers were given for the brave
crew who had so nobly rescued a fellow-creatute from a
watery grave. He proved to be the captain of the schooner,
and was immediately taken to the Marine Tavern, where the
landlord, Mr. Roper, and Messrs C. Taylor and J. C. Smith,
surgeons, rendered every assistance that humanity could dic-
tate or skill devise. After some time the captain so far re-
covered as to be able to state in broken English that his name
was G, W. Hickman, and that he was master of the schooner,
the Active, and that he was bound from Stockholm to Lisbon,
with deals and tar ; that they had gone on a strange coast,
and had been four days without provisions ; the crew con-
sisted of eight men ; the cargo, which belonged to himself,
comprised 600 barrels of tar, of which 400 have since been
picked up, besides a quantity of deals. The greater portion
of the wreck has been washed ashore between here and Cais-
tor. So great was the admiration of the dauntless bravery of
the beachmen, that a subscription was entered into on the
spot, and a handsome sum raised to reward them for their
services.—Bury Post.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY.
—WHITMORE, THURSDAY.—A frightful concussion took
place at this station between the Manchester and Liverpool
goods trains this morning, which was unhappily attended
with the loss of life of one individual, and the destruction of
a score or more fat pigs, in addition to the breaking to piece-
meal of the waggon containing them. It appears, that the
up luggage from Manchester and Liverpool is sometimes con-
veyed in one train, but oftener by two. The trains arrive in
Warrington aboOt thelarne -Cabe and there' the business of
sorting the waggons, so far as for each to be left at the proper
station on the line, takes place. One train is despatched as
soon as it can be got ready ; and, in pursuance of the regula-
tions of the company, the other is detained an hour or more,
so as to remove as far as possible the danger attending a col-
lision. It will be remembered, that on Wednesday evening
the weather changed from a dog frost to a heavy sleet, which
covered the rails with ice of full an eighth of an inch. in
thickness ; this rendered them exceedingly slippery, and
much retarded the rate of travelling on the line. The
Manchester train, which consisted of upwards of twenty
waggons, propelled by the Wildfire engine, left Warrington
at twenty minutes past eleven o'clock at night ; and the Li-
verpool train, consisting of nearly fifty waggons propelled
by two engines,, the 'Briareus and Charon, at half-past one
o clock this morning. The Manchester train, owing to the
state of the line, was much retarded in its progress, and did
not reach this station until twenty-seven minutes past four
o'clock. The Liverpool train made much better speed, the
obstructions caused by. ice on the rails being in some de-
gree counteracted by the placing of two carriage load of pigs
and one luggage waggon loaded before the engines, and to this
may be attributed the consequences that followed; it being
generally believed here, by those competent to judge of the
matter, that the luggage in front of the engines prevented the
engineers from seeing the line before them as they ought to
have done. The Manchester train had two signal lamps at-
tached to the last waggon ; and while standing at the station
here, an alarm was given at about twenty minutes to five
o'clock, that the Liverpool train was advancing at a rapid
rate on the same line as that on which the Manchester train
was standing. Samuel Judd, one of the men employed about
the station, called out most lustily, and did all in his power
towards intimating to the engine men of both trains their ex-
tremely dangerous position. Whether the engineer of the
Liverpool train saw the Manchester train or not is a matter
of doubt ; but, certain it is, their speed was not sufficiently
slackened ; and, aided by the descent of the line at this par-
ticular spot, they came with frightful force against the wag-
gons of the Manchester train. Both engines were slightly
damaged, and two pig waggons were smashed to atoms, and
with the pigs, strewed about the late in every direction. One
of the pig-drivers, James Nester, from Tulsk, county Ros-
common, was found amongst the pigs with his face covered
with blood, one thigh broken, and otherwise injured. He
was conveyed, with all possible care, to the railway office,
and express sent to 'Newcastle for medical assistance ; but
the poor fellow never spoke, and just about the time of the
arrival of Mr. Tait, the surgeon, he breathed his last. The
other driver was also injured, but' not so much so as to pre-
vent his being removed to the Infirmary at Stafford. Twenty-
five of the pigs were killed by the concussion. The luggage
waggons were only slightly
injured ; and, strange to say, the
engineers kept their places on the'engines, and were not in.
the least hurt. The coroner's inquest was held yesterday,
at the Sheet Anchor Inn, adjoining the station, before Wm.
Harding, Esq., coroner : Mr. Swift and Captain Cleather
attended on the part of the cinnpany. The jury returned a
verdict of " Accidental death—deodand, one shilling."