The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-05-21 00:00:00

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AT GLASGOW HOUSE, 53, CHURO-STREET,

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LADIES' & GENTLEMEN'S TRAVEkLING DESKS,
DRESSING CASES, AND WOR BOXES,
ARE NOW SELLING AT A SAOGIFICE•OF

ONE-FOURTH OF THEIR USUAL PRICES.
y ADIES' or Gentlemen's Dressing Cases, at 12s. 6d.,
155., 18s., and 235.
Ditto ditto Silk Velvet, with Jewel Drawer, at 325.
and 40s.
Ditto ditto Superior Cases, from £2 to £l3, in Silver.
Travelling Desks and Pouches, from ss. 6d. each.
Real Rosewood Desks, sound good article', at 75., 10s., 12s.
and 15s.
Extra Rosewood Desks, prime wood and finish, at 16s. 6d.,

225., 295., and 375:
Very superior ditto, at 405., 455., and 60s.
The GREAT BARGAINS are the Ladies' Work Boxes,
at 3s. 6d., 4s. Gd., and ss. 6d.
An Extra Quality ditto, 10s., 155., and 19s.

BETTER CANNOT BE MADE AT ANY PRICE.
Expensively fitted-up Work Boxes in Rosewood, Ebony,
and Tortoiseshell, splendidly inlaid with Pearl, from
555. to 110 s.
GLASGOW HOUSE.

it T a PUBLIC MEETING of " The LIVERPOOL
rl COTTAGE OWNERS' ASSOCIATION," field at
the House of Mr. PREscorr, the Swan Inn, in London-
road, on THURSDAY, the 20th May, 1841, /
EDWARD FORD, Esq., in the Chair
the following Resolutions were unanimously :
Moved by Mr. EPHRAIM KNAPPER, SECr ed by Mr. JOHN
JONES,

That this Meeting has learnt with reft, that two Bills,
severally entitled, " An Act for the bet r Drainage of large
Towns and Villages," and " An Act for regulating Buildings
in large Towns," are now before the House of Commons,
the enactment of which must be detrimental to the interests
of the Owners and Occupiers of House and Cottage Property,
and subversive of the purposes which the projectors of these
measures profess themselves desirous to attain.
Moved by Mr. WILLIAM DUCKWORTH, seconded by Mr.

That a Petition be presented to the House of Commons,
respectfully and earnestly requesting that the Borough of
Liverpool may be exempted from the operations of these
Bills.

Moved by Mr. THOMAS BAKER, seconded by Mr. EPHRAIM

KNAPPER,

That the following Petition, now read, be adopted, and lie
for signature:—

" Petition to the Honourable the House of Commons of

Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled.

THE HUMBLE PETITION OF THE UNDERSIGNED OWNERS
OF HOUSES AND BUILDING LAND IN THE BOROUGH

OF LIVERPOOL,
" SROWETH,

" That your petitioners regret to have learnt that a bill, en-
titled ' An Act for the Better Drainage of Large Towns and
Villages,' and a bill, entitled ' An Act for Regulating Build-
ings in Large Towns,' are now before your honourable house.
" Your petitioners humbly submit to the consideration of
your honourable house, that, whereas these bills are recom-
mended to your adoption by the pretext, that the provisions
of them will afford an accession to the comforts and an
additional protection to the health of the occupiers of Cottage
tenements ; your petitioners, who are practically conversant
with the necessities and habits of the tenants of small
dwellings are confidently assured, that the enactment of the
measures against which your petitioners venture to protest,
must inevitably abridge the comforts and impair the health
of the lower classes of the commuity.

"Your petitioners respectfully suggest, that, as it is pro-
posed to compel owners and builders to expend an additional
outlay, for which they can only be reimbursed by a corres-
ponding advance of rental, the occupants to whom, existing
legislation allows the undivided possession of their respected
habitations, must of necessity become with other families
the joint inmates of the same abide, exposed to an increased
risk of contagion, and deprived of many of the conveniences
which they previously enjoyed.
"Your petitioners respectfully remind your honorable house
that, the erection of buildings within the limits of this borough
is controled by the restrictions of local acts, which, your peti-
tioners humbly conceive, do efficiently fulfil the intentions of
the projected bills, so far as those intentions can be consi-
dered practicable or desirable.
" Your petitioners humbly submit that, the borough of
Liverpool is entitled to exemption from the operations of the
proposed acts.
" Your petitioners, therefore, pray that they may be al-
lowed to be heard by counsel at the bar of your honorable
house, against the " Act for the better drainage of large
towns and villages," sad the " Act for regulating buildings
in large towns.

" A-nd your petitioners will ever pray."
Moved by Mr. FORBES, seconded by Mr. WILLIAMS,

That a Subscription be entered into to defray the necessary
Expenses which the Opposition this Meeting contemplates
may entail.

Moved by Mr. SOLOMON GIBSON, seconded by Mr,

THE CREDITORS who have proved Debts upon tl
Joint Estate of WILLIAM ALEXA DER OHMAN
and JAMES COLQUHOUN KEMP f Liverpool,
chants, Bankrupts, may receive a furl r Dividend of I
pence and One-twentieth part of a nny in
the separate Creditors of JAMES OLQUI
may receive a further Dividend of Nine Shilli
pence Half-penny in the Pound, on applicati(
HARMOOD, BANNER and SoN, North John-
pool, on Monday next, or any subsequent Aloi
the hours of Eleven and One o'Clock.
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BEAUTIES OF FREEMASONRY.—...._
elevates the mind of man, and gives him peace
conscience ? It is Freemasonry. "What is it that to
him the three great moral duties ? It is Freemas
What is it that renders him more fit for the, duties of so•
eiety ? It is Freemasonry. What is it that strengthens the
mind, and enables it to rise superior to difficulties ? Free-
masonry. What is it that recommends and promotes th
happiness of domestic life ? Freemasonry. What i.
yields true and solid satisfaction at that dar'
hour when adversity presses and friends look
say Freemasonry. That heavenly science w
eulogized, Wren practised, and Locke decl^
arcanum of all that is valuable to mau."
in the language of a Roman orator, cons..
provement of youth and the delight of old agt
ment of prosperity, the refuge and solace of adv
pleases at home—is no incumbrance abroad
with us, and adds amusement and pleasurr
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MANUFACTURE OF SODA-WATER.—In
lecture delivered on Friday evening, at the Royal Institution
on the manufacture of soda-water, some curious facts con-
nected with that branch of trade were mentioned. A very
great majority of what is sold as soda-water does not contain
one grain of soda, but is merely plain water impregnated with
carbonic acid gas ; not because soda is too expensive
tiele, but because the apy
water costs about £7O or
requisite to impregnate water contai
is from £3,000 to £4,000. A great
facturers from the breakage of bottl
turer mentioned that as many as tv
broken in one of the large manufactt
its yards were paved with the bottoms of the broken bo
Hence, said the lecturer, bottles that have one
test are valuable, and the gas manufacture
price for the old bottles

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EVIL INFLUENCE OF FASHION
really improved in attraction by mit
throng of the beau monde. She ma'
to step more gracefully ; her head n
gant turn, her conversation become more polished, her
more distinguished; but in point of attrac
nothing. Her, simplicity of mind departs;
fiding impulses of character are lost;—she
dined to interpret favourably of men and ti
without believing, sees without admiring ;
secution without learning mercy ; and be(
trust the candour of others by the forfeit
The freshness of her disposition has vanish(
ness of her complexion ; hard lines are perceptible in her
very soul, and crowsfeet contract her very far
pure and fair as the statue of alabaster, her
of some painted waxen effigy, is tawdry and meretriciou
is not alone the rouge upon the cheek and the false tress_
adorning the forehead which repel the ardour of admiration
it is the artificiality of mind with which such efforts are con
nected that breaks the spell of beauty.—Mrs. Gore.
TIGER JACK.—(From the Old Soldier's Budget.)—
When encamped some years since in the lower part of Bengal,
we often amused ourselves in tiger hunting; the tigers being
so numerous and daring, that we were invariably obliged to
post double sentries round our camp, as single ones were
sometimes rudely surprised. Among the many. keen and
fearless hunters in our regiment, was one, pre-eminently so,
and at the same time one of the merriest, most entertaining
fellows in the mess, who could tell a traveller's story with
embellishments, in such a masterly style, that
doubted some few of the particulars, the facts w
tifully blended with fiction, you were even want
credit for the whole. His loss therefore we shi
felt, as well for these, as for his many other ~„,„ ,
and yet it was an occurrence we daily expected, knowing his
passionate love of adventure. The appellation of tiger Jack
he obtained from the following providential escape :—The
orderly sergeant, one morning when we were at breakfast,
reported that a tigress bad been seen, with two cubs, about
three miles from our camp, and that one or two villagers were
present who knew her den. It was immediately proposed to
form a party and surprise her. Breakfast being soon
patched, each officer (off duty) retired to his tent, to pre
for the anticipated sport. Rifles loaded, powd
bullet-bags filled, elephants ready, we all ass(
time appointed, but he, who generally was the
such excursions, was " absent without leav(
were made, and to our consternation we found, that or
ing the mess-tent he had armed himself with a b
tols, his rifle, and a Goorkah knife, and attende
the villagers, had gone on foot in the direction of tb
den. Dreading the consequences of his bold imprudi
hastened to the spot, and there found our worst
alised ; he was lying, apparently lifeless, under the body of
the dead tigress, the two cubs the meanwhile licking the
blood from a ghastly wound in the fore part of the thigh, the
flesh of which was almost torn away from the bone as far as
the knee; on being removed into camp, the surgeon, to our
extreme joy, told us that he still lived, although he should
deem his recovery a complete miracle ; but under his unre-
mitting care and skill he did recover, and shortly after gave
us the following account of his desperate tight :—" On
leaving the camp, my guide told me he could place me h
hind a tree, from which I could have a fair
her lair ; but unfortunately her ladyship,
the place, was commencing a cruise, and w
a-propos ; she stood for a few seconds, an,
the crouching position, with her eyes flash
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I sprung forward with a shout of joy, and was much delighted
with the idea of the laugh I should have against you all, as I
was with my narrow escape ; I then commenced examining
her head, as I knew a wound there, from the position she
was in when I fired, could alone have brought her so sud-
denly to the earth, but never a hole could I find. On her fore-
head there was a small mark, and the skin slightly broke ;
strange thought I ; but to tell the truth, I had not much time for
reflection, for the beast jumped up and caught me by the thigh,
and trotted off very composedly. The excruciating pain of being
dragged in this unceremonious manner was rather unpleasant,
so I begged the assistance of one of her ears with my left hand,
which relieved my thigh of my weight, and with the other I
drew a pistol and shot her in the body, but it seemed to
have no other effect than to make her grip mere savagely.
By this time we arrived at home, and she laid me in an ad-
mirable position to make her own meal off my body, whilst
her two little pets could play away at my legs, a mode of
proceeding I did not feel at all inclined to sanction ; but
becoming very weak and faint, and fearing that I might lose
time by attempting anything with my knife, I grasped my
other pistol, and placing the muzzle under her breast, when
1 thought I perceived a heaving, occasioned no doubt by the
wound I had previously given her, I fired, and—here I
am, thanks to an ever kind Providence, and good friends."
Jack still lives in the enjoyment of a staff appointment,
shoots tigers, but only from an elephant, and tells as good a
story as ever. This perilous one has rio doubt been through
numerous editions since we heard its first relation.

O'CoNNELL.—Who are the Papists? Are they the u.
ligence, the wealth, the respectability of England or Irelat
Are they guided br reason, patriotism, or sacred and u
bending principle ? Are they, in one word, freemen ? Vb
answer, No ! They are the serfs of a camarilla of priests-
the dupes of a cunning conspiracy against God and man—
the victims of a faith which is compounded of equal propor-
tions of blasphemy against Heaven and malignity towards
The whole system, that spreads its ramifications
through every relationship, is far more instinct with hatred
of truth, the Bible, and the Gospel, than any other feeling.
And who is the leader of these miserable fanatics ? Is
it a talented, a good, a wise man ? Are they led on by
the aristocracy or the gentry ? Are they headed by even
Roman Catholic peers? No ! Their leader is a si-
selfish Jesuit—a concrete of worthlessness
troubled surface of an agitated country-
pure jesuitism, unprincipled politics, and papal cru-
an emanation from the bogs of Ireland, existing and nou-
rished by e'meutes, and fearing tranquillity and social or&
as his worst possible contingency. His falsehoc-
left alone, as a refutation would be too likely to count,
his patent—his abuse unopposed, because to meet it
must necessarily descend into the lowest depths of coarse-
ness, in which alone this ichthyosaurian wallows. Christians
leave him alone, because he is lost to all principle—men of
the world because he is destitute of ordinary propriety. The
Pope employs him, because he is fit and willing for any ob-
ject, and by any means. A Cataline, a Marat, and a Robes-
pierre—trio juneta in uno--compose Daniel O'Connell. •The
execration that accumulated on the first is fast converging
again on his antitype. The doom of the first be has hitherto
escaped, not because he was unworthy of it, but because of
the more fortunate circumstances in which he is placed.
" How far, O'Connell, wilt thou abuse our patience ? How
long shall thy frantic rage baffle the efforts of justice? To
what height meanest thou to carry thy daring insolenee? Art
thou nothing daunted by the union of all the wise and worthy
citizens ? nothing by the looks and countenances of all here
present."—Prazer's Magazine.
ANATOMICAL MODELS.—The Society of Arts of London
have voted their gold Isis Model to Mr. Simpson, Bedford-
,
street, Bedford-square, surgeon to the Westminster General
Dispensary, for the application of papier macho to the mak-
ing of anatomical figures, and models of morbid anatomy
Simpson,
fsome a t
o m i yearsoo l ago,
models, tu r turned his
consequenceattention
tof
tthe.ll
construction
o
difficulty and expense at that time attendant on
protii c e
subjects for dissection. The materials in general
use
rfo
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ng
anatomical owma is c
found
omodels,bewere too
wax e
expensived
of lecturers and students in general, and was too
delicate to
plaster,
cometer within
th
io whichthe the
m e for-
mer
be handled in the lecture room, without
incurring the chance
of considerable damage. The plaster of paris models were
also objectionable on account of their great weight and l,
tleness. The material which Mr. Simpson - •
worked into moulds taken from dissections
• this prosmodel of extremelightness,
and is so hard that it n
freely handled anger without d of damage.-.
surface is pointed in
oil-colour, representing the appearanc
of the dissection. The right side of the figure which Mr.
Simpson exhibited to the society, represents the superficial
arteries, veins, nerves, and muscles, the left side shows the
second and third layers of muscles, the deep-seated vessels,
and more particularly those parts concerned in surgical ope-
rations. The internal parts are removable, so as to exhibit
the natural arrangement of the thoracic and abdominal
vision ; the brain and its membranes ; the spinal marrow,
tongue, &c. Mr. Simpson conceived that his invention
would be particularlY serviceable for the study of anatomy
in warm climates,
where wax models cannot be used, nor
the natural subject be conveniently depleted, and submitted
some specimens to the Hon. East India Company, who,
his figures, which were
some time since,' purchased forty of
the us of the Eu-
ropeansent to various settlements in India, for
eons, as also for the instruction of the flatly
surgeons,
surgeons, who were assistants in the company's rnilite
h h '
is the religion of t e atter pro t eir sty
hospita
'Erssections. Thehave also been purchased b
ing v Medical Board R Royal Academy, 1
majesty's a .
ors of various hospitals of various hospitals ay ve
publinstitutions. It has been suggested that tb
cof lectures. usually
given
causes.at mechanics
scientific institutions may be exceedingly well illustrated b
y
means of these models ; their principal recommendation
Wag their extreme cheapness-.

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