The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-02-20 00:00:00

ACCEPTANCES.

P. Ih: 1 st. lb.
The Duke l3 (11 Mr. Bollinaton's
Mazeppa l2 9 1 The Dancing Master ....11 8
Waverley
Sir Thomas Lawrence .12 I Mr. liretherton's 11 5
Prince Will:am l2 (3 The Soap Boiler lO 12
All bets made upon this race are p p.
The (,11) has been tecekeil in Liverpool, and is a very splen-
did prize. The race is expected to be a fine one, as there is no
doubt that all the horses will strut.

BKTTING.
Waverley, 3 to 1 agst (taken freely) 1 Sir Thoinas,7 to 1 agst.
l‘lazoppit 4to 1 Soapler 1 to I
Duke 4to 1 I Mr. Boliingtotes 10 to 1

IRON TRADE.—Within the last month, an importation, which
will surprise our readers in the nei:zhbourhood of the iron
works. has been made to the port of Loudon; viz., a cargo of
iron. technically called " blooms," made at Madras, with native
ore and contingent materials. An impartation of iron from
Madras! What new marvel in commercial enterprise will
eclipse this ?—Mer th yr Guardian.
DANGEROUS M ISTA K E.—About a fortnight since, Alive Hil-
ton, a married woman living in
,Church-street, Middleton. sent
a little girl to a shop for a pennyworth of magnesia. Hilton
took the powder, vomited, and soon afrerwaids became very ill.
Mr. Dickens, surgeon, was s,,nt for, and said that she had
taken mercury; she became in a sad slate of salivation, and
although every assistauje has been rendered, she remains in
a very dangerous state ; she is far advanced in pregnancy. It
appears the shopkeeper mistook the powder, and gave the girl
mercury instead of magnesia,—Munchester Courier.

I'UE NIIDLAND COUNTIES RAILWAY.—When the frost takes
its departure 3000 men will be set to work between this town
and Rugby. in the formation of the railway. The line, it is
expected, will be opened in 1840.—Leicester Chronicle.

MEETING IN SUPPORT OF THE NORTHERN

HOSPITAL

On Friday evening, the adjourned meeting of the friends and
subscribers of this excellent institution was held at the Music
Hall, 80ld-street, the Mayor in the chair, tor the pu►pose or
bringing the claims of this Hospital more prominently before
the public. At 7 o'clock the hour of the meeting, the Mayor,
attended by Itev: Messrs. Barker, Buddicom, M'Neile, Oa, is,
Ste , and by Messrs. Harvey, Brown, Shiel, Hodgson, Birch,
Warner, Blackburn, and a number of merchants entered the
room. About WO persons were assembled, many of whom were
ladies; and i❑ the body of the meeting we observed agrea; num-
ber of resp,mable inhabitants of the town. We were rej mice('
to see so animated a feeling pervading so large a class.of the
co•nmunity on behalf of a charity so truly; benevolent, and in
every way so free front all possible objection. On entering the
room and taking their seats on the platform, the mayor and the
gentlemen with him were loudly cheered.
The Ms you, on taking the chair, said he should not trouble
the meeting with many words, except to express the sincere
satisfaction with which he presided over that meeting. It was
not usual to go our of the Sessions-house, but he did not know
how the chief magistrate of this town could be better otoPl"Yea
than in attending any place where the work of charity was to be
performed or promo, ed—(applause)—anywhere were the best
feelings were called forth to relieve the sufferings and the dis-
tresses of their fellow-creatures. (Renewed applause.) lie was
sure that their sympathies would be called forth for those who
were unfortunate enough to meet with accidents in anyway;
and that cold night afforded an additional motive for them to
provide the nearest place as an asylum for those who suffered
from accidents; for feeling, as they had done, what it was to
walk to that room that night, they wotial be the better able
to feel what it must be to be carried to so great a distance
on such a night as the 0.11 Infirmary, with a broken or a
maimed and bruised limb. They would, therefore, feel them-
selves impressively called upon to support the Northetu Hospi-
tal. (Applause.)
Mr. CHARLES WARNER was then called upOn by the chairman
to read the following. '