The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-03-12 00:00:00

qrs.; Flour, 4 brls,
—Coastwise. Wile

Beans, g 4 qn

acks 147 bne

Wheat.. tics. 6d

Aggrega'
Wheat.. 61s. Bd. Bark

Duty on Foreign Grain, &c. this week

Wheat 253.8 d. I Barley 13s. fed. Oats .13s. gd. I Rye.. 19s. gd
Beans,lls. od. I Pease.. lls. Oth I Ind. Corni3s.lod. I Flourlss.s4d

Wheat. I Barley. oa.-1

; Beans

Os. Od

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, 3

iad a vc

quiet appearance

nevertheless, a fair extent of busine

done, say to the extent of 4000 bales, 1500 of w

The sales of the week are 36,570 be
quantity we place 7500 American and 3000 Sur
lators, and 100 American and 50 Surat for export
The market closes steadily at an advance of I
lb on the prices of this day week.

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SHIPPING INTI

ELLIGENCE

FRIDAY, FEBRUAEY 12

—, from Charleston—Prince, William
from Dublin—and Reindeer, Head, from Belfast
Thompson, from

and Hibe

OFF THE POliT

-, fr

m Bombay, at Sincapore, and sailed

Caledonia, Tannion, sailed from Saugdr 3rd Jan. for Liverpool,
and Wm. Jardine. Crosby, 3rd Dec. for London
Highfield, Ward, from Bonny, at Crookhaven, out 92 days, for
Liberpool

Jolin Romilly, Kendall, from Pernambudo, at the Cove
Jupiter, Sedman, from Batavia, at Sineapore

ience at Havana

Lochinvar, Allen, henee at Trinidad
Bella Marina, Wickman ; Ann Laing,
Sim. hence at Sincapore
Iris, Graham ; and Queen Mab, Ainley, hence at Calcutta
zoe, Holmes, from the Mauritius, at diito
Jessie Logan, sailed from Calcutta, for Cork 21st January
Cheering, Page, sailed from Messina for Liverpool lath Feb
British Queen, (steamer) sailed from Portsmouth for New York
10th instant.

Windsor, and Malcolm,

The Vale of Clwyd, (steamer) from Liverpool to Beaumaris, was
on shore on the 10th instant, between Conway and Abergele ; but
came off next tide with damage.
Gunza, ---- sailed from Singapore 4th Dec.; and Chebar,
on the loth, both for China ; and Friends, Arnold, tith Dec. for
London.
Cynosure, Yabsley, hence at Beyrout
Un

e, Clarke, hence at Beyiout, sailed sth of February for

Richard, -. hence at Mazatlan.
Tapley, Mallory, hence at Calcutta.
Zante, Masters, hence at Tampico.
Superb. Edington, hence at Port Adelaide
at Harlingen.

Drie, Gezusttis, hi

CHURCH EXTENSION.—Of the many excellent institutions
to be found in the metropolis, we know of none that has
stronger claims on the, liberality of the friends of religion and
good order, than fhe >Society for Promoting the Building, re-
pairing, and enlargement of Churches and Chapels. Of this
institution her majesty Queen Victoria is patron, and its
president is the venerable Archbishop of Canterbury. It was
formed in 1818, and in the 23 years that it has been in opera-
tion, it has principally assisted in providing additional church
accommodation for considerably more than half a million of
persons, and of this number no less than 265,637 are free
and unappropriated sittings for the use of the poor. Upwards
of 2,600 parishes have applied to the society for aid, and of
these 1,741 have been enabled, by its assistance, to effect their
objects. For theincrease of church accommodation it ap-
pears by their annual report that the society has expended
upwards of £300,000, and this expenditure has caused a fur-
ther outlay of £3,500,000 from other quarters, for the same
purpose ; and even in the last year it supplied £20,000 to
that object. And it appears that within the last ten months
163 additional applications have been made to it for assist-
ance, several of which could not be complied with, because
" its funds are now exhausted." This is a matter of deep re-
gret, when we reflect upon the evils that are rife in society
from the want of that church accommodation whereby the
vast majority of the population could obtain the great bene-
fits and blessings of religious and moral instruction, to re-
claim them from the errors of their ways, and to make them
useful and respected in social life, and " wise unto salva-
tion." At present, however, it is but too evident that this
most useful society is paralysed : its most important duties,
so intimately blended with the well-being of society, and the
temporal as well as eternal welfare of, we may say, millions,
perhaps, of our fellow subjects, are suspended ; but we ar-
dently hope only for a momentary space ; for 4urely the
friends of the altar, the throne, and the people, will rally
round this excellent institution, and supply sufficient funds
to carry its righteous purposes into effect.
CHILD MURDER A r ALTRINCHAII, CHESHIRE.—On
Tuesdn, morning week, about ten o'clock, the body of a
newly-born full-grown child was found in the cess-pool be-
hind the house of Isaac Harrop, Esq., one of the magistrates
of the county, residing at Altrincham. From the evidence
at the coroner's inquest, which was held last Friday, at the
Union Inn, before Mr. Hollins, it appeared that two of Mr.
Harrop's men servants had observed traces of blood, appa-
" the footsteps of a female, on the newly-
to the privy, and after a search of two
y of the child in the soil of the cess-
evident marks of injuries on the child's
Mr. Harrop's servants gave evidence,
n the direction of the cesspool he heard the
ally became fainter; and, on

rently caused b
washed flags lea

hours discovered the bi

There w

:hat while pit

Joking into tf

cesspool, saw something about the size of
oung kittens occasinally come to the surface of the soil, and
ome person from the inside of the privy " champing"
(poking) at it with the end of a stick. He thought some one
was smothering some young kittens. A stick was afterwards
found which had been thrust into a cesspool, and had the
marks of a bloody hand about the middle of it. A female

servant deposed, with great reluctance, that on going to the
privy to see after Ann Hulme (the prisoner,) she had ob-
served something in the soil Which she took to be the body
of a child. Mr. Broadbent, surgeon examined the child,
and ascertained that it had been born alive. It had a deep
indention in the skull, as though by a blunt instrument. On
Wednesday he examined Ann Hulme, and found that she
had been delivered of a child a day or two previous. The
jury found that Ann Hulme was guilty of concealing the
birth of a child, but they made no mention as to the manner
in- which the deceased came by its death. The coroner re-
corded the verdict to that effect. Ann Hulme remains in
custody at, the Bridewell, and, when sufficiently recovered,
will he brought before the magistrates to answer the charge
of wilful murder.
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CHIMNEY SWEEPING.—As it will be a long time before
the act, for abolishing the use of climbing boys takes effect,
and as many will wish to anticipate its operation, the follow-
ing paper is reprinted as affording some useful hints in esta-
blishing men to use the machine. It becomes, indeed, abso-
lutely necessary that men should be instructed during the
time allowed by the act, and that the few chimnies should be
altered, which are unfit for the use of the machine : to protect
the public from inconvenience and danger on the Ist July,
1842 :—" The persons who have been found best adopted to
the purpose, are journeymen bricklayers, from their being
accustomed to work in well finished rooms, and from their
knowing the construction and the course of chimnies. When
the selection is made, the man should be sent to London or
elsewhere to learn the right use of the machine. When
he has acquired this information, it will be found neces-
sary to give him a clever labourer; and an agreement
should be made with him as to the fair amount of weekly
wages for him and his man,: that sum ought to be gua-
ranteed to him, and machinery provided. Cards of a neat
description should then be printed, and different districts
canvassed by a temporary committee, to secure him a rea-
sonable support. The committee should keep a weekly ac-
count of all that the agent receives. If it is more than the
sum fixed on, such excess should be laid 1?)T against less pro-
ductive weeks ; if it is under the amount agreed upon, the
deficiency must be made up to him. By these means, and by
the countenance thus afforded, the man's spirits will bear up
against the reproaches and the discouragements unavoidably
connected with a commencement in this business; and an
active committee will soon enable him to go alone. The
master may fix upon a chimney sweeper as his servant, but
on no account should the master be selected from that un-
principled and degraded class ; nor should any one be be-
trayed into employing a man to work a machine who keeps
IC's, whatever his professions may be, unless he desires to
defeated and disgraced.—From a Pamphlet by Robert
Steven, Esq.