The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-06-28 00:00:00

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A GENTLEMAN, ready for -Orders in September
wishes for a CURACY, with Title, in or near Liverpool,
Communications, addressed Box A 46, Postoffice, Liverpool,
will meet with immediate attention.

LIVERPOOL FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
THE COMMITTEE are prepared to receive TEN-
DERS for the supply of NEW BOOKS to the above
Library for One Year.

Sealed Tenders, specifying the discount which will he taken
off the publishing' prices, must be sent in, addressed to "The
Chairman of the Committee of the Free Public Library, Town-
hall, Liverpool," on or-before the Ist day of July next.
The books will have to be delivered, carriage free, at the
Library, in Duke street.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]
THE ICE TRADE

To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

Stit,—We are, in justice to ourselves, and to secure the con-
sumers of :ce from imposition, again obliged to notice the
advertisement of Messrs. J. H. Roles and Co., now appearing
in some of the Liverpool papers. They say "that only from
them and their agents can the Wenham Lake Ice be procured,
&c." We are in a position to prove that they have not im-
ported one ptund of Wenham Lake Ice since 1848; at the
same time, it is only right that the consumers of Ice should
know that Wenham Lake, as well as all other American Ice,
is of a very inferior quality this year, owing to the very short
frost in America last winter, in proof of which, we refer to the
New 'York and Boston press of March and April. They again
say that "they have a small shipment of Norway, such as is
sold exclusive by other dealers," and they call it "a low-priced
article." We know it to be very inferior to any other Norway
Ice imported this year, simply because it was cut a month too
soon, during the first thaw, and long before the intense cold of
the last winter, in the Baltic, set in. But they are quite silent
as to the qualities of a third sort of Ice, which comprises a large
Portion of their present stock, and is now selling by them under
the borrowed name of AlVenham Lake Ice, and therefore is used
by the gentlemen wbtS patronise them, or take refreshments in
hotels or other places, supplied by them, as if it was Ice of the
purest sort ; yet this large portion of their stock was collected
during the last frost from off the pits sopregnant with impurities
in the neighbourhood of Liverpool. Had they advertised their
business honestly,we would be happy to take no notice of them,
but the temerity with which they put forth misstatements im-
peratively demands frotn us this exposure. They may say
that this Ice was collected by them to supply Fishmongers;
but that cannot be, for Fishmongers amply supplied them-
selves during the same frost. Again, to gentlemen that will
hereafter question them, they may say they got it to supply
•steamers ; but we know that no taptain, if he knew it, would
allow the provisions he supplies his passengers with to be im-
pregnated with the impurities of the pits about this town.
We are the only parties in Liverpool who confine their busi-
ness to pure Spring-water Ice, and our arrangements this year
have been most fortunate. We have just completed the ware-
housing of 750 tons of the most splendid Ice ever imported to
Liverpool, the blocks averaging 4 cwt., and will feel happy in
submitting it to the inspection of any gentleman who may
kindly, call on us for that purpose.
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We' confidently appeal to the consumers of Ice in general,
and trust that, as we have none other than that of first-rate
quality, we may expect their patronage and support.
O'NEILL and CO.
Wenhaita Lake Ice Depiit,3oa, Exchange-street East,
Liverpool, June 21, 1853.

THE CITY OF DUBLIN COMPANY are issuing tickets
for trips to Dublin and back, in order to afford parties an
opportunity of visiting the exhibition, on exceedingly
moderate terms.
UNPROVOKED CASE OF STABBING.—The knife still
continues to be a familiar name in our criminal courts,
and a popular weapon in our streets. Yesterday at the
Police-court a seaman, named George Keeting, was com-
mitted for trial on a charge of making a most unprovoked
and wanton assault upon a young Scotch couple, husband
and wife, whom he had never seen in his life before his
attack upon them, and who had not given him the slightest
cause for his disgraceful and dangerous practice with the
knife. From the statement of William Peebles, baker,
and his wife Ann, it appeared that on Sunday afternoon
they were quietly seated at the fireside of a friend who
lives in No. I Court, Brook-street, when the prisoner
Keeting opened the door and asked for drink. The good
woman of the house said he was mistaken, that was not
the house he wanted, whereupon he went away. He had
not been long gone, however, before he returned, and this
time the mistress said she thought his coming back to her
private dwelling looked "very like a piece of imperti-
nence," and rather smartly she desired him to begone.
With this, however, the fellow did not comply ; but, in-
stead of doing so, applied a great many opprobrious epi-
thets to the decent woman, who, being " a lawful married
wife," resented the insults. and told him once more to go.
Instead of doing this Keeting took a knife out of his pocket
and staished Mrs. Peebles in the eye ; the husband rose
to protect his wife, when the regardless visitor turned to
him and stabbed him in the arm and lips very seriously.
1 he prisoner told a cock-and-bull story, to the effect that
the woman had attacked him with a long pole for the pur-
pose of robbing him, as he thought, and that this had led
hial to make the attack which wag alleged agaitat him.