The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-12-15 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS.

DEATH OF A CHILD FROM DRINKING RCM.—on Friday
an inquest was held before the coroner, P. F. Curry, Esq.,
on view of the body of a child, four years old, who died
under the following circumstances. The parents of the de-
ceased, Francis and Mary Norton, lodge in a house in School-
lane. The father of the deceased was afflicted with rheuma-
tism, and a friend had given him a bottle of strong rum,
containing some mixture, for the purpose of rubbing himself.
On Tuesday afternoon the deceased was left alone in the
apartment of her parents, and by some means or other got
to the mixture used by her father, and drank so copiously as
to occasion death the following afternoon.
MELANCHOLY CASE OF HYDROPHOBIA.—It is our pain-
ful duty this week to have to publish a most melancholy and
distressing case of hydrophobia, which occurred at Flook-
burgh, near Cartmel, during the past week. The individual
who has fallen a victim to this fatal and direful malady is a
young woman named Drinkall, and who at the time resided
with her parents in Flookburgh. It will be within the re-
collection of many of our readers, that about seven weeks
ago a dog in a rabid state caused great alarm in the neigh-
bourhood of Ulverston, and many other places which it
visited, having during its mad career bit many individuals,
as also several dogs, the latter of which in most cases were
destroyed at the time. In passing through Flookburgh it
bit two children, as also the unfortunate young woman
whose melancholy death we are now about to notice. Im-
mediately after she had received the bite, which was a severe
laceration of the calf of the leg, Mr. Gaskarth, surgeon, of
Cartmel, was called in, who cut out the part affected, and
used all the means in his power to prevent any further cause
for alarm ; and from that time until Friday the 4th instant,
the young woman was considered to be going on well, when.
melancholy to relate, on the following day symptoms of hy-
drophobia began to be manifest, and until the Monday fol-
lowing her sufferings were heartrending beyond description,
on the evening of which day death put a period to her con-
vulsive struggles.—Preston Pilot.
ELIJAH ROWE—This notorious individual, who has been
incarcerated' in Kirkdale gaol upwards of three months,
awaiting his trial for burglary at the next assizes, and who
was so intimately mixed up in the circumstances of the Wi-
gan-lane murder, expired, we understand, on Thursday last,
in the gaol hospital. He has been almost from the very first
day of his imprisonment gradually wasting away in a con-
sumption. Anderton, we bear on the contrary, is in excel-
lent health and spirits.—Wigan Gazette.
SOUTHPORT.—We understand that it is in contemplation
to establish public markets in this place, the want of which

is a great inconvenience to the inhabitants. We believe that
a meeting of a number of the most influential residents has
already been held on the subject, when resolutions in favour
of the measure were unanimously adopted, and directed to
be presented to Sir Peter Hesketh Fleetwood, Bart., and
Sir Henry Bold Hoghton, Bart., the lords of the manor, re-
questing their co-operation in the attainment of this impor-
tant object, which we have no doubt will be readily obtained.
—Preston Chronicle.

SIR JOHN GERARD'S HOUNDS.—A fine stag was un-
carted near Mr. Bretherton's estate, at Rainhill, the other
day. The hounds were put on in a short time after, when a
gallant run of about 10 miles took place, after which the
noble animal found refuge in a garden, and was safely
secured. There were about 50 gentlemen in scarlet; many
from Liverpool, Warrington, &c.; also a great display of
the beauty and fashion of the county.
CAUTION TO BUILDERS.—Mr. Rushton, surveyor of
buildings, appeared on Friday, at the police-office, to prefer
a complaint against Mr. Ellis, architect, for an offence against
the building improvement act. The surveyor stated that Mr.
Ellis was putting in some window fronts in Berry-street,
which exceeded the size laid down by the act, without the
support of an iron story-post, after having been served with
notice so to do. A letter from Mr. Ellis was put in and
read, from which it appeared that the omission of a story-
post was inadvertent, and that the work had proceeded nearly
to completion before notice had been served; and notwith-
standing the want of a story-post, the beam which supported
the superstructure was sufficient to bear ten times the weight
which it sustained. Mr. John Longrig, clerk to Mr. Ellis,
stated that the beams were put in under the direction of Mr.
Ellis, four months ago, and that the surveyor had notice of
the building before the alteration was made, and that there
had been no objection to the beams or the state of the work
until the 30th of November, when the work -was nearly com-
pleted, when Mr. Ellis received notice that he must insert a
story-post; the superstructure was perfectly secure. Mr.
Rushton (the surveyor) said that he had served Mr. Ellis
with a notice, immediately upon learning that it was not his
intention to insert a story-post. As to the safety of the
building this was questionable, as the iron beam which sup-
ported the superstructure might be honey-combed. Mr.
Rushton (the magistrate) ordered a story-post to be inserted
within fourteen days.

Suspicious CASE.—Several letters have been received in
this town from parties professing to reside in London, con-
veying orders for the purchase of goods, produce, &c. to be
supplied from this port to the Isle of Man, Jersey, or Ham-
burg, and it is to be feared that some of our townsmen have
been caught in this trap. Any ilescription of goods or pro-
duce is suited to the taste of the 'writers of the letters ; for
instance, one house is requested to send soap and glass bot-
tles ; another tin plates ; a third, coffee, turpentine, and
flour, and so on, taking in nearly the whole catalogue of com-
merce and trade. Now, what appears very remarkable in
this case is, that similar letters are written from Liverpool,
by a firm of precisely the same style, to various ports of the
kingdom with similar orders, but often more extensive, as
they include Yorkshire, Lancashire, as well as other manu-
factured articles suited to every market in the world. As
there is no such firm known in Liverpool as the one assumed
for this splendid plan of operation, there is some suspicion
that all is not right, so that those who are honoured with the
favours of suoh correspondents may be on their guard.—Cor-
respondent of the Albion.

CITY OF DUBLIN STEAM COMPANY.—We understand
that the City of Dublin Steam-packet Company have de-
cided on laying down two new steamers immediately, to run,
in conjunction with their unrivalled vessels the Prince and
Princess, to and from Kingstown. As the utmost speed that
can be obtained is determined on without regard to expense,
the contracting parties are bound, under heavy penalties, to
construct them to outstrip any sea-going steamer afloat ; and
it is confidently anticipated that the average passages will
not exceed nine hours.

INQUEST.—On Tuesday, the Bth instant, an inquest was
held at Upholland, on the body of Margaret Gaskell, a child
three years old. Her death was occasioned by her clothes
taking fire on the 19th ultimo. It happened early in the
rnorning.,_ o thor of !be dooeaaed had gone- up
stairs to take her husband a light, leaving the deceased and
her little brother, a few years older, below. As soon as the
mother's back was turned, the deceased took a match, no
doubt in imitation of her mother, to light it, by which she
set fire to her clothes. Her screams immediately brought
her father to her assistance, who put out the flames, but not
before she had been very badly burned upon her belly and
breast. A surgeon attended the deceased until Sunday, the
6th instant, when she died. Verdict, " accidental death."

INQUEST.—On Thursday, the 11th instant, an inquest was
held at Golborne, in the parish of Winwick, on view of the
body of George Edwardson, whose death was occasioned by
severe burns, caused by the explosion of inflammable air in
the coal mine in which the deceased and his brother were
working on Tuesday morning last. Both of them went to
their work on that morning, and the deceased's brother knew
that there was foul air in his place of work • but the deceased
was not at all apprehensive of anything of the kind in the
place where he had to work ; consequently the deceased took
a naked candle, whilst his brother used the safety lamp.
The latter immediately found that his place was so full of in-
flammable air that he could not work, and at the same mo-
ment he heard an explosion in his brother's place, upon
which he went back to the waggon road, and there met the
deceased running towards the pit eye, shockingly burnt all
over his body. He was immediately wound up, and went
home. A surgeon was sent for, who dressed his burns, but
he only lived two days. Verdict, " accidental death."
AN OLD SERVANT.—On Tuesday, John Yates, the cap-
tain of one of the Warrington and Rnncorn packet-boats,
terminated his mortal career, in the 74th year of his age.
He had been a faithful and diligent servant to the Old Quay
Company for no less a period than sixty-four years. Few
men in hia situation in life were more respected, and he died
deeply regretted by a number of relations and friends.—
Manchester Courier.

EXPORT OF MANUFACTURED GOODS TO THE UNITED
STATES.—Phe export of manufactured goods to the principal
ports in the United States is now more extensive than it has
been at any period for the last twelve months. The packet-
ship England, which sailed on Wednesday, for New York,
and the packet-ship Garrick, which sailed yesterday, for the
same port, had freights amounting to nearly £l3OO. The
Susquehana, which sailed on Wednesday, for Philadelphia,
had a full freight; while the traders to Boston and Baltimore
fill well.—Albion.
NEW FRUIT SHOP.—By an advertisement which will be
found elsewhere, it will be seen that a new fruit warehouse
has been opened at the corner of Clayton-square. The pre-
mises are well situated for business, and the articles appear
of first rate quality.
LIVER THEATRE.--A drama of great interest, new to the
Liverpool public, was produced here last night with perfect
success. Mr. Elton was well received, and will become a
leading favourite. His acting was very fine. In our next
we shall notice the drama at length. Charles O'Malley has
lost none of its interest.
MRS. ST. ALBIN'S CONCERT.—Mrs. St. Albin's concert
at Warrington, is expected to be one of the most brilliant,
and fashionable of the season. An array of talent, as an-
nounced in the bills, will give the supporters of the " sweet
science"-an idea of the attraction to be offered.
THE MISSES SWAIN'S CoNcEitr.—The Misses Swain,
very charming singers, have announced a concert to take
place in Liverpool,in a short time, in our next we shall draw
attention to the programme.

THE THREE CARACCI.—Mr. Buchanan, with his accus-
tomed liberality and his enthusiasm and love for the tine arts,
has reduced the price of admission to see his beautiful pictures.
The reduced rate commences at five o'clock in the evening ;
this will enable the labouring classes to see these pictures.
This will be really a boon to many, and a most disinterested
act, as, if half Liverpool were to visit them at this rate, Mr.
Buchanan would not be more than remunerated.

CALIGRAPHY.—The acquirement of writing well is most
essential to all persons engaged in business ; an easy, free,
and bold hand, is very easily acquired when a good master is
engaged to give instruction. We do not know any one we can
recommend with greater confidence than Mr. Thompson : he
has been many years established in this town, and has had
pupils of every degree under him.
CHRIST CHURCH BRANCH OPERATIVE PRUEST4.7S7.
ASSOCIATION.—Last evening a very numerous meeting was
held in the Sunday School, Christian-street, attached to
Christ Church, for the purpose of forming a branch associa-
tion for this district of the Operative Protestant Association.
The Rev. G. Mansfield, curate of Christ Church, took the
chair, and addressed the meeting at considerable length on
the necessity for the establishment of a Protestant Association
for the district on the principle of self-defence against the
stealthy aggressions of Popery. The Rev. H. Carpenter,
the Rev. Peter Brown, the Rev. Fielding Ould, Mr. John
Ashbrook, and several others afterwards addressed the meet-
ing in very interesting speeches. All the resolutions were
unanimously carried, and there is every prospect that the
Protestant Association thus formed will be one of the most
valuable in the town. The meeting did not separate till
after ten o'clock.

PROFESSOR SCHWEITZER'S LECTURES ON GERMAN LI-
TERATURE.—AIthough it is not in our power, from want of
space, to furnish our readers with anything like a report of
the admirable lectures of Professor Schweitzer, now in course
of delivery at the Lyceum, we can assure them they are highly
interesting and instructive. The fourth lecture will be deli-
vered to-day. We strongly recommend not only those who
are commencing the study of German, but those who are
proficients in it, to pay the intelligent professor a visit.
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MAnCUS'S SNUFF WAREHOUSg.—Our readers, passing
along Church-street, will no doubt be much struck with the
new and very handsome shop just opened at the corner of
Parker-street, as a segar and snuff shop. This establish-
ment, we trust, will prosper, and from its very excellent
situation, there is very little doubt that it will become the
most frequented boutique in the trade. Mr. Marcus has
been many years known to the advertising portion of the
community, from his connection with the Liverpool Chro-
nicle, from his kindness and attention, and his ever readiness
to oblige all those who may be engaged with him in business,
we are confident in wishing him success we shall only echo
the desire of all his friends.

The Earl of Thanet has accepted the lord-lieutenancy of
the county of Kent, vacant by the death of the Marquis
Camden.

SUBSCRIPTION CONCERTS.—Mr. Ashton deserves the
thanks of the public for his spirit, enterprize, and we may

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say courage, in taking the management of these very delightful
entertainments. It is an old and trite adage that all cannot
be pleased, but we believe there will be found but few to
caval at his arrangements. The progremme for the next
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concert will be out in a few days ; it is replete with excellence
and good taste, and cannot fail to give every body satisfaction.
These concerts ought to- be supported by all who have any
pretentious to taste, and those who find fault should cherish
rather a wish to promote than impede musical science.
AMPHITHEATRE.—The "lion king" and his subjects have
been re-engaged at the Amphitheatre, and are drawing " the
lieges" in. On Friday there was a very full house indeed.
His worship the mayor will patronise the entertainments to-
morrow evening. On Friday Mr. Carter will take his bene-
fit ; and on Monday, Mr. W. J. Hammond will make his
appeal to his friends ;—that appeal will not be in vain we feel
quite confident : we expect that a very strong muster will be
made in his favour ; he is one who at all times deserves sup-
port ; and now that his fortunes, from his unlucky Lon-
don speculation in Drury-lane, are not of the brightest, we
do hope and trust that such a move will be made by his
many admirers as shall make him exclaim—
" Friends have so come round me
I could bear my woes again."
The entertainments are most excellently selected.

INQUESTS.—On Saturday an inquest was held before Mr.
Curry, on view of the body of Mr. George Bustard, a locker
in the Customs, aged 52 years. It appeared from the evi-
dence, that on Friday night, about six o'clock, a police-offi-
cer, on duty in Dale-street, was told by a woman that a man
who was very drunk was standing against a post at the top
of Manchester-street. He went up, and found him as des-
cribed. He asked deceased where he lived, but received no
answer. He took him to the bottom of Hatton-garden, and
there left him, as he appeared then to be able to walk. Ten
minutes after he heard that a man was lying drunk on the
flags at the bottom of Dale-street, and on going up, found it
was the same individual he had before seen. He spoke to
the deceased, but received no reply. The deceased could not
stand. He got assistance, and procured a hand-cart, and
took him to Vauxhall bridewell, taking the cart on the para-
pet, so as not to shake him. The deceased was placed in the
corner of a room, in a sitting posture. Shortly afterwards
the keeper of the bridewell, who had received the deceased,
and booked him for safety as being drunk, observed him
foaming at the mouth, and sent for a doctor, who also con-
sidered him drunk, and applied the stomach-pump, and af-
terward stimulants to restore him ; but without effect, as he
never rallied nor spoke, and died in about an hour after be-
ing brought in. Mr. Deane, the surgeon who attended him
from the time he was called in until he died, stated that on
a post mortem examination, he found the brain congested,
and was of opinion that the deceased died from apoplexy.
Verdict accordingly.—[lt did not appear that the fit of which
the deceased died was caused by excessive drinking ; and it
was stated to us (though not in evidence) that the deceased
was seen shortly before he was taken to bridewell perfectly so-
ber, and that he had only taken a little wine that afternoon.]
—An inquest wac held on Saturday before Mr. Curry, on view
of the body of Marmaduke Bateman. The deceased was a
twine-spinner, and was 69 years of age. He appeared to be
quite well on Thursday, and was at his work during the day.
At night he went to bed ' • his grandson, aged 7 years, who
slept in the same bed, had gone before him. In the morning
when the child came down stairs, he said his grandfather was
very cold all night. No notice was taken of this at the time,
but as the deceased did not come down at his usual hour, his
son went up stairs to his room, and found him in bed quite
dead. Verdict, died by the visitation of God.—An inquest
was held on Friday before Mr. Curry, on view of the body
of Elizabeth Evans, aged 67. The deceased, who lived in
Cheapside, was ascending the steps of a neighbour's house,
about a week ago, whom she was going to visit, when she fell,
and hurt her thigh. She was unable to walk, and was carried
home, where she lingered until Thursday, when she died.
Mr. Horrocks, surgeon, attended her during her illness.
When called on, he found her in an almost fainting state ;
and believed, on examining her, that she had received a frac-
ture on the neck of the left thigh-bone. He was of opinion
that the injury, and the shock consequent upon a debilitated
constitution, was the cause of death. Verdict accordingly,
accidental death.

CORRESPONDENCE.

PASTORAL AID SOCIETY,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

SlR,—Although you have expressed your intention of ex-
cluding from your columns all further communications on
this subject excepting those of an " official character," and
therefore declined inserting Mr. Clark's last letter of the
9th of December, yet, as that letter has appeared in the dlfail,
accompanied with some notes of a corresponding character,
and.as I conclude that Mr. Lawrence (who is the only per-
son wha can be properly considered as the " official" organ
of the society at Liverpool) will not consider it necessary,
after his very able, gentlemanly, and truly Christian letter,
to take any further notice of Mr. Clark, or of his gratuitous
and unfounded assertions, I hope I may succeed in inducing
you to 'break through your rule, by giving a place in your
columns to the following observations, which the perusal of
Mr. Clark's letter has called forth ; particularly requesting
that you will, at the same time, as an act of fairness towards
Mr. Clark, insert his letter also, as well as place another
copy of Mr. Lawrence's in juxta position by the side of it;
so that your readers may have an opportunity of judging for
themselves of the spirit exhibited by the several advocates.
" By their fruits ye shall know them," is a text given by in-
fallible wisdom.

But to proceed with Mr. Clark's letter. Passing by the
vainglorious egotism with which it commences, when he
speaks of the misunderstanding " between ME and the Pas-
toral Aid Society,"—" Ego et rex meus ."'—we find the fol-
lowing qu.tation from Mr. Lawrence's letter, in italics :
" The Pastoral Aid Society is ready to assist those who
agree with her in principle; the additional curate's fund
will afford scope for the Übe, ality, or supply funds for the
necessities, of her friends." This Mr. Clark, strangely
enough, construes into an admission by Mr. Lawrence that
the society is established "for party purposes !" overlooking
the fact, that if the charge applies to the one society, it must
be equally applicable to the other; for Mr. Lawrence, in the
true spirit of Christian candour, applies the same language
exactly to both. But having jumped to this conclusion, Mr.
Clark next proceeds a step further, and asserts that " the
party purposes" which he has gratuitously imputed to the
Pastoral Aid Society, leads its committee to confine their
employment exclusively to those of the clergy, whom he is
pleased to designate by the name of " Slmeonites ;" as to
whom Mr. Clark seems to glory in entertaining the same
opinions as those expressed by the editor of the Mail, who
thinks the term as properly applicable to them, as the name
of " Puseyite" is to the party who hold the doctrines of the
O. t ford Tracts. Not satisfied, however, with these two as-
s omptions, Mr. Clark proceeds to take a third leap, by as-
serting that the doctrines held by these despised " Simeon-
ites," are of such a peculiar and unscriptural nature as ac-
tually to amount to " heresy !" Now, sir, I call on Mr.
Clark to prove these three assertions, or any one of them, if
he can. Mr. Lawrence's letter most certainly affords no
support to any of them. All he says is, that each of the two
societies is ready to assist those who " agree with her in prin-
ciple." And is there not a well known and acknowledged
" principle," I ask, on which the two societies " agreed to
differ" from their commencement, totally irrespective of doc-
trine, namely, the employment of lay agents; the adoption
or rejection of which, by either, cannot have the slightest
affinity whatever to " heresy," or the least tendency to affect
its character as "a church society ?" Mr. Clark either had
read the rules of the Pastoral Aid Society before he sought
its aid, or he had not. If he had not read them, he has acted
in a very careless and unjustifiable manner, in a matter of so
much importance as that of obtaining spiritual assistance for
his parishioners. If he had read them, then his application
to the society, with the sentiments which he now publicly
avows, could only be intended as an insult, or a trap to get
it into an altercation with him, either for the purpose of di-
minishing its usefulness, or obtaining for himself an unenvi-
able notoriety, or both.

With regard to the " Additional Curates' Society," I
have no desire to pursue Mr. Clark's spirit, by setting it in
an invidious and unchristian opposition to the other ; but
this I may be permitted to say, that if the Pastoral Aid
Society, had no other claim on Mr. Clark's gratitude, as
well as that of the members of the Established Church
generally, it has at least that one, that it was the original
cause of the establishment of the other society : for the
" Additional Curates' Society" never had any existence, nor
was even in contemplation, until it was called into being by the
establishment of the Pastoral Aid Society. And when Mr. Clark
triumphantly asserts, that" the corn mittee of the Curates' fund
makes no inquiry as to the " opinions" of the clergy they
pay ;" neither, I would desire to inform him, do the corn,
mittee of the Pastoral Aid Society : but they do think it
their duty to inquire into the " doctrines," which they hold,
and which they are to be the instruments in sending them
forth to teach : for this their subscribers expect them to do :
the single object of the society, and for which it was ex-
pressly instituted, being, to extend the means of sound
scriptural instruction, according to the articles, homilies, and
liturgy, of the Church of England, throughout the length
and breadth of this professedly Christian land; but which
Mr. Clark is pleased to designate as " Sitneonitish heresy."
(See Acts 24, 14.) And this precaution I trust the com-
mittee of the " Additional Curates Fund" do not overlook.
I would heartily desire, with Mr. Lawrence, to " bid God
speed" to both societies ; and the only rivalry I would wish
to see between them is, that they should strive more and
more to " provoke each other to love, and to good works"—
and he is not the friend of either, or the true desciple of the
master, whom he professes to serve (Rom. 16, 17,) who would
endeavour to stir up any ungodly jealousy between them.
As to Mr. Clark s contemptuous allusion to the venerable
name of Simeon, and his attempt to connect it with any
thing like " heresy," I dare not trust myself to express my
feelings on the occasion. That honoured name, though long
past out by the " ungodly" and the " scoffer," as a term of
reproach, can now, blessed be God ! reflect disgrace only on
him, who can have the hardihood so to apply it. He was
raised up, in the dark days of the church, as an humble in-
strument in the hands of the Almighty, to revive her true
doctrines in the midst of us. His value was confessed by
the universal respect with which his remains were followed to
the grave ; and, " though dead, he yet speaketh," through the
lips of many hundreds of excellent ministers, not only in this
country, but throughout the globe, whose privilege it was to sit
at his feet, and hear from his mouth the sound scriptural doc-
trines of the glorious gospel of the grace of God. Mr. Clark, it is
plain, is not to be included amongst that number ; and I
doubt very much, whether he ever heard Mr. Simeon preach,
although he assumes the right to sit in judgment on his doc-
trines, and call them " heresy;" for Mr. Clark, if I am
correctly informed, did not receive his education at the Uni-
versity of Cambridge, (which was the field of Mr. Simeon's
labours), but at St. Bees, under the late Dr. Ainger.—l am,
Sir, yours, very faithfully,

A LAY MEMBER,
Qf the Pastoral Aid Society.
P. S.—l leave my name with you, although I have no
desire that it should appear in the public papers.