The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-26 00:00:00

Jan. 26, ISI7.

Zotal Rellls.

The Cheap Omnibus Company expect to commence
operations about the middle of next month.
The troop steamer " Birkenhead," is to be used for con-
veying provisions to Ireland.
The workmen in the employ of Bury, Curtis, and Ken-
nedy, have subscribed £l5 for the poor. Numerous other
Workmen have also made collections.
Two successful surgical operations were last week per-
formed at the Northern Hospital, on patients rendered
insensible by the inhalation of sulphuric ether.
The Parliamentary Committee have declared the Bir-
kenhead and Herculaneum Docks Bill, and the Birkenhead
Improvement Bill, to have com'plied with standing orders.
Mr. Hogg, the secretary to the Mechanics' Institution,
in this town, delivered, on Tuesday, the first of the series
of lectures at the Preston Mechanics' Institution.
On Friday, an infant, only a fortnight old, named John
Dutton, living in Adwin-court,. Fox-street, died from a
dose of narcotic poison inadvertently administered to it
by its grandmother.
The Rev. Hugh M'INT
of £3OO from Lord (

as received the liberal sum

rev. gentleman
and Scotch.

3eorge Bentinck, to be applied by the
•ds the relief of the distressed Irish

On Monday, Dr. Reid delivf
sical relations of Mi
Birkenhead Meehan

turn on the " Phy-
Material World," at the
Institute, and last night he re-

sUmed the subject.
The collections, under the Queen's letter, for the dis-
tressed Scotch and Irish, are to be made in the Vllrious
churches and chapels some Sunday in the present, or en-
suing, month.

On" Tuesday night, a woman, named Mary Burns, who
was locked up at Hotham-street Bridewell for safety, was
very badly burned by her clothes taking fire. She
died on Thursday
A quarry of

Isle of Man, and last

been discovered at Foxdale,
the first shipment was made
to be used for the new docks

for Birkenhead, wh

now constructir.

On Wednesda-y last, a woman stole a looking-glass
from a shop at Windsor ; and within two hours after the
theft had been committed she was indicted, tried, con-
victed, and sentenced to two months' imprisonment.
On Thursday afternoon, about half-past five, the Dub-
lin steamer, Prince, came in contact off the Skerries with
the brig Helen, bound from this port for Havannah.
The former lost her cutwater; and the latter her cutwater
and starboard bulwarks.

GOVERNMENT IN-;II7::IRIES.—The government is making
inquiries in Liverpool as to the number of vessels in the
port suitable for the carrying of grain, and as to the
number which have sailed from this country in search of
'

cargoes of grain

The Queen's speech was expressed from London to
Dublin in thirteen hours by the Dublin Evening Mail.
Our contemporary had a steamer stationed at Holyhead,
and another at Liverpool, in case of one not arriving in

due time

From the report o'
pensary, it appears that during the past p
patients, 2,298 had been cured, 222 relieved

the Birkenheu

ospital anc

led. Mr. Jerome
of the honorary Inc

Last Thursday evening, the Right Honourable the Earl
of Sefton gave a ball to the tenantry and domestics at
Croxteth Hall. Dancing was kept up with spirit until an
early hour. Mr. Phillips's Quadrille Band, from Liver-
pool, was engaged, as usual, being the second time this
season.

FOUND DEAD.—A labouring man, named Alexander
M Donald, living in Waterloo-place, was found dead in
bed on Friday morning. He went to bed on the night
previous in his usual health and spirits, except complain-
ing of slight cold, for which he got some medicine at a
druggist's shop.
We regret to learn that the request of the letter-carriers
in this town for an advance of wages has been unsuccess-
ful. At present they receive only 20s. a week, and as they
work on Sunday, this is only 2s. 104 d. per day. In Lon-
don, with the same wages, they have no Sunday work,
and receive annually a good.suit of clothes—a uniform.
There are at present in the West Derby Union Work-
house 364 paupers belonging to Toxteth-park, and so
crowded is the house in consequence of distress in other
districts, that some of the poor, we believe, are sleeping
on the. floors. The overseers of Toxteth have also, we
believe, paid £220 in out-door relief in the course of, one

SOUP KITCHENS IN BIRKENHEAD. - The Juvenile
Charitable Society of Birkenhead, have in a mest credit-
able manner opened soup-kitchens in that locality ; tickets
are supplied to those anxious to be charitable at a very
low price ; and we hope the praiseworthy experiments by
this society, which is entirely composed of members of
juvenile years, may be successful. The soup they manu-
facture is much superior to that usually given, being prin-
cipally composed of meat, pe
Our townsman, Mr. An
hands of Mr. Ryan, the engraver, of Londo
ject is " The death of th- "

fine work in the

The sub-

way as to produc

nd is treated in such a
infpnap interact_ Thr.

a pictx]

rising artist

lot will
We i

- -11 l MI VO V • f•
enhance the reputation of this rapidly

expectations of the en etctung which raises high
grav be d for in
the course of a few months
, elt
regr mayet to learnlooke that Mr.
Ansdell leaves Liverpool shortly, to, settle in London.
DISTRICT PROVIDENT SOClETY.—StateMent of the
number relieved from the 18th to the 2.3 rd instant, both
Sys inclusive :—Relieved with bread, 1264 ; relieved with
shop orders, 174 ; refused, 5 ; number of loaves, 2432 ;
number of quarts of soup, 4309 ; number of bread tickets,
1305, or 3264- loaves. Amount of shop orders, £3O ;
amount of loaves, £6O 16s. ' • amount of soup tickets,
LIZ. 19s. lcl. ; amount for the week, £lOB 15s. Id.
English, 471; Irish, 902 ; Welsh, 46 ; Scotch, 16 ; parish
unknown, 3 ; total, 1438.
THE LIVERPOOL MEDICAL MESMERIC SOCIETY.—The

January meeting was hel
room, 6, Ranelag
the attention of the meeting what I
reflex effect of magnetic action. I
due attention to this imnartnnt

vening at their

- --
number of persons ma

be magneticall

facility, and ad

cure were brought forward
gated by medical gentlemen-prgsent
BitAzimAN SIIGARS.—As we anticipated, the sugars of
Brazil are already finding their way to this country, in-'
stead of the continent. The Swordfish arrived at Live,►
pool on Wednesday, in thirty days from Pernambuco,
laden chiefly with sugars, having sailed in company with
two

idly investi:

----- mumarty laden, from Bahia and Rio-. Others
are daily expected to arrive ; so that there will be no
danger of an ample supply for our distilleries and brew-
v
sties, as well
an' articl our tables, of that now essentially " ne-
=ouce considered. a luxury."—Morning
Chronicle.
,C"omisT ofREsPEcr —A meeting of the workmen con-
lihnected with the fitting department of the Liverpool Gas-
tngnT°
Pally, Dale-street, was held at Bairstow's Bull , irueman-street, on Wednesday last, for the purpose
of Presenting Mr. Edwards with a gold watch, chain,
Bea, when about eighty men sat down to a splendid
thSupper provided for the occasion, Mr. Charles Till -
e workni,Th ;.. ~__ , • - -

zciwards, in re
Laanks, suggested that... they Should form themselves into
a society for the sick and distressed, and presented for
that purpose £lO, and his brother added £5, and three
other gentlemen £1 each.
Mas. PARKE'S CLUB SUBSCRIPTION.—It will be seen
by an advertisement, in another part of our paper to-day,
that the shares and allotments in this collection, the
magnificence of which is only equalled by its extent, are
still on sale by the agent, Mr. Cutter, of 80ld-street.
The great satisfaction that all the allotments obtained
have g
poundiven, coupled with the fact, that for one
you obtain, at least a print published at
£1 125.,
nrobability of obtaining one varying from
-nineas, should induce all who have
at once avail themselves of the

turning

that price up to 250
not already subgcril

Present opportunity.
THE SARAH SANDS.—This noble screw
took her departure for New York from
:Wednesday, with the speech of the Queen
rd .a statement, so far as could be ascertains
o:tirtis of Ministers at this important crisi
sovet°,lll a considerable quantity of dr
beforMs.,, and several passen,--
went fro water,
milesten. • th.
e.

She had
100,00(

temined the tide remarkably well

I Buoy, a distance of at

tr ac u, aaa C4/1 Mnir
,
Pleasc:(l%,„-`"ks• The captain and all on board were well
/Vason "ith her performance, as, indeed, they had every
to be.
VI,ENT
..,84,„ A-LE MORTALITY IN A LIVERPOOL SHIP.—
hit Veoth Old. England, 600 tons register, Cat_ Joseph
4. QL . .

-•.,ureci f -au Ohanghae to Liverpool, vvitli daysrgo seveno tea
Inonth °I. £lOO,OOO, put into Cork a few ago, s
tiv,,,--s since she sailed from Shanghae. When at sea
~--v ntonths an inveterate se broke out amongst the
Zie°7 and disabled them. Captain White made sail for
i2,'!' Helena, but before arriving there four of the crew had
I'led, and were buried at sea, and on the day of arrival, the
°atswain expired. Captain White, having landed ten
Illeti in a dying state, took on board some Portuguese, and
.saill put to sea. The' working of the vessel from St.
xi "elena to Cork devolved 11,,,,,, fb.,. ..-4. ..;,.. 4_, ~........_ -_-,
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dverpool

J
unGEstuPs OF THE SMALL DEBTS COURTS ACT,
The followingearee appointed the judges in this district :•
North Lan
shire, W'X' , Mr. T. Addison ; Southwest Lance
ManchesterleY ; Sheffield, MIL
mr. Hutton ; Liverpool, Mr. W. LoWndes ;
Brandt ; Bradford, Mr. C. H. Els-
shall; and York, 'lr W. Walker • Leeds, Mr. J. H. Mar-
of Cheshire, and of the R. Whart'on. Mr. Leigh Trafford,
has been appointed tthWarringt on Court of Requests,
ehDliostrict Court of Birmingham ;
and a bill has been bro
for the appointment of a
stipendiary magistrate for ttia. lsieshire Quarter Sessions.
The London judes, under Cheshire Small Debt Act, are Mr.
Starkie, Queen's Counsel, and
—A streoributao
curers, who are expected to be abouri Amos. The tree-
bave not yet been appointed. twenty in number;
Is effort is to
CHEAP ' gAS IN LIVERPOOL.
be made by Liverpool, this session, to
public at a much more economic rate than it aasbror the
been produced. We wish well to the Guardian Gas t.l„ioerto
pang, by whom thg movement is being made, and iL;o he
success of which every town in the empire is deeply in-
terested as it will vitally affect one of the main objects of
the Sanatory Act, for without cheap and abundant light,
o conducive to health and cleanliness, the design of the
Legislative in passing that measure must, to a great
extent, be completely frustrated. The subject involved
in the agitation at Liverpool is well deserving the atten-
tion of the press of Great Britain, and we shall watch the
Progress of events there with no little interest. Much, of
"Irge, will depend on the character and capabilities of
the gentlemen (a builder and a civil engineer) by whom
due
preliminary inquiries, under the act, are to be con-
eec ; and it is greatly to be desired that, be their
decision what it may, it will be exclusively based on the
evidence to be adduced, and not the result of foregone
conchtaion.—Birmingham Journal.