The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-05 00:00:00

Jan. 5, 1847.

Earal AtIDO.

The Lord Bishop of Newfoundland is expected to visit
Liverpool this week.

Our townsman Mr. Jackson, has executed an excellent
bot.: of the late mayor, David Hodgson, Esq.
The Liverpool Reform and Anti-Monopoly Associations
Are to be amalganiated urttle-r the title of the " Reform
And Free Trade Association."
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On an average upwards of 500 operatives attend daily
to see the. exhibition of paintings, and their conduct is
excellent.

MORE '
DEATHS BY Fins.—The inquests announced in
Liverpool last week include five children who have lost
their life by fire.

A QUALIFIC ATION. —A shop keeper in 80ld-street ad-
vertised during the past week for a "sharp boy." One
applicant grounded his qualification of sharpness on the
fact of having " cut " from four places.
ROBBERY OF PLATE.—On Wednesday, some thieves
got in at the back door of Mr. Ford's house, Grove-street,
and stole £lB. worth of plate. The back door had been
left open only a few minutes.
AMERICAN PROVISIONS.--In four days last week there
arrived at this port from America, 62,697 barrels of flour,
28,642 bushels and 7,519 sacks of Indian corn, 75,233
bushels, 11,202 minots, 753 bags of wheat.
Mr. Carter, of Seel-street, entertained the whole of the
men in his establishment on New Year's .Eve at Mr.
Whiteman's Brunswick Hotel. A dinner was provided in
the host's usual unsurpassed style, and the greatest hila-
rity prevailed throughout the evening.
GRAND CoNcERT.--Mrs. Wood, the celebrated vo-
calist, and long a stranger to us, will appear at the con-
certs, to be given at the Concert-hall on Monday and
Tuesday next. The veteran Sinclair and Signor Sapio
will sing on the same occasions.
THE WEATHER.—On Monday morning a thaw set in
about eleven, and until Friday we had foggy, dirty weather,
but the atmosphere much warmer. On Saturday night
and Sunday we had a hard frost. Yesterday, thaw again
set in, and there is every appearance of a fall of snow.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—About six weeks ago, Mr. William
Owen, of Seymour-street, an old gentleman, aged 83, was
run over by a spring cart, in Elliott-street. He was at-
tended .by a surgeon ; but within the last few days morti-
fication set in, which terminated in death on Thursday
morning.

AIRS. PARKES' ART-UNION.—The drawing of first al-
lotments in this scheme, for the disposal of so many and
valuable works of art, takes place to-morrow, at 51, Bold-
street: The admission is free, and those who do not take
shares will, at least, be repaid by an inspection of speci-
men prints, and paintings, hung in the room. The
number of shares already taken in Liverpool is immense.
TREAT TO WORKMEN.—On Saturday evening, Mr.
John Abbott, cabinet-maker, Islington, gave a handsome
supper to the numerous workmen in his employ. The
usual loyal toasts having been given, the men evinced
their gratitude and esteem for their enterprising master,
by repeated pledges of devotion to his interest, and by
hearty wishes for his continued prosperity.
DISPATCH.-The entire cargo of the ship Duke of Wel-
lington, from Calcutta, consisting of fifty puncheons of
rum, and upwards of seven thousand bags of sugar, (being
about seven hundred tons in all,) was discharged and de-

posited in one of the transit sheds at the Prince's Dock,
last week, in the very short space of eighteen working

TEE WATER The Mercury of Frid denied
the truth of the statement in our last, that rumours were
-abroad of the abandonment of the Rivington Pike Water
Bill. How our contemporary is to be aware of all the
reports that are current in the town, he does not inform
us. The Journal, however, says that we are " substan-
tially right," and we can nly wait for time to test the
issue.

SCIENTIFIC NOVELTY.—Messrs. Gray and Keen, the
scientific nautical instrument-makers, of Strand-street,
in this town, have recently completed a wheel-barometer,
of improved construction, with transparent dial-plate for
illumination at night. From the large size of the dial-
plate, and the finished accuracy of the movements, the
indications of change in atmospheric pressure are of ex-
treme delicacy.

LAW OF MARRlAGE.—Application is again to be made
to parliament on the law which prohibits marriage with
the sister of a deceased wife, and Mr. Aspinall is now in
this town collecting information on the subject. It has
lieen ascertained by actual inquiry, that the number of
marriages of this kind, among people of every class, is ex-
ceedingly large, as many as fifty having been found to ex-
ist in a single town, among persons in respectable circum-
stances.

MINIATURE PIANO.—The lovers of novelty have been
gratified during the past week with a gratuitous sight of
the diminutive piano-forte just compled for the redoubt-
able General Tom Thumb. it is a most splendid speci-
men of workmanship, and, considering the dimensions,
the tone is most brilliant. It has been exhibited at Mr.
Smith's, music warerooms, Lord-street, and may be
classed as another of the novelties for which he has gained
celebrity.

HANDSOME AND SEASONABLE GIFT.—We see, by the
list of donations to the District Provident Society, that
Mr. Robert Gibbons, of London-road, has, with a com-
mendable liberality, presented 240 loaves of bread. This
is a worthy example, and we trust it may be followed by
other tradesmen : for th. • • • -

value of

enaoie nomers
w--ue more than usually liberal, and to relieve the wants
of those who are suffering from the scarcity.
LAUNCH.--On Saturday last, a fine schooner, of about
180 tons burthen, was launched from the yard of Messrs.
John Dawson and Co. She is built expressly for the con-
veyance of machinery, her spacious hatches and accom-
modation for any freight of this kind being 50... in,. 4,-. —..

much, anct her whole aea-rauc-e ect,
nch credit on thee gentlemen b whom she wasrefl built.
She went off the stocks in admirable style, and was
christened by the lady of the owner the " Ann Powell."
After the launch, the owners and a few friends dined at
the American Hotel, where an excellent dinner was served
up in Mr. Wilde's best style.
A few evenings ago, a young woman went to the shop
of Mr. Fingland, chemist, Wavertree, with a witness,
and asked for some arsenic. Mr. F. observing something
.unusual in her appearance, wrapped up some tartar
emetic, and gave it to her. She had previously obtained
a penny-worth of arsenic from a shop in town, but finding
this not sufficient, she mixed that which she had pur-
chased from Mr. Fingland in water, and swallowed it
also, believing that it would speedily terminate her
sufferings. It did so, but in a very different method from
what she anticipated. The dose, being very powerful,
brought on violent vomiting and purging, and thus saved
her life. She is now doing well.
_ LADIES' CHARITY RA T - -

the funds of the-" v..,
Ladies'.Chari .A.LL.-1 he annual ball in aid of
ty took lace on Wenesd
evening at the Town-hall, on which occasion there was a y numerous and fashionable assemblage, about 1,200 persons
being present. Mrs. Nichol officiated as lady patroness,
and Messrs. W. Moss, Jacques Myers, and N. Bold as
stewards. Amongst the company present were—The
Mayor, G. H. Lawrence, Esq. ; William Brown, Esq.,
M.P.,and lady ; James Aspinall, Esq. ; Elias Arnaud,
Esq. ; Mrs. Arnaud and family ; J. H. Tu).,-... v—
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