The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-08 00:00:00

LOCAL ;YEWS

THE BOCCA TIGRIS.—The clever sketch exhibited in our
office window of the Bocca Tigris was drawn by Mr. Drury,
of Castle-street, when that gentleman was in the navy. It
will be observed that the Chinese defences exhibit a deplora-
ble avant of knowledge in engineering and fortification.
Strong batteries placed at the mouth of this river might keep
out the whole world if well and effectually manned.
The four giraffes just lauded at Portsmouth have been pur-
chased by Mr. Wombwell, at an expense of X2OOO, for exhi-
bition in his travelling menagerie.

Lord Francis Egerton, M.P., we understand, shortly as
aumes the command of the Duke of Lancaster's own yeo
mem.), cavalry, Colonel Braddyll, the present colonel-corn
mandant of the eorps„ retiring on account of ill health.

TYING THU CAROTID ARTERY.—This important and
daring operation, first attempted by Sir Astley Cooper in
1805, was performed on Friday morning by Mr. Nottingham,
in the presence of a number of medial gentlemen, on a girl
aged seven years, for a vacular to our extending over one
side of the face.

GALA AT THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—Yesterday even-
ing the first representation of the Siege of St. Jean D'Acre
was produced at these gardens, and went off with great eclat.
The alegorical representations of Fame aed Britannia, at the
conclusion of the siege, were beautifully effective, and elicited
several rounds of applause. The attendance was most
numerous and highly respectable. We had prepared a
lengthy notice of this favourite resort of public amusement,
but are obliged to defer its insertion until Friday.
REMARKABLY QUICK VOYAGE.—The brig Adriana, W.
Dodd, master. sailed from Liverpool 11th March, and after
contending with heavy gales for a fortnight on her outward
passage, discharged and took in a full cargo at Barbadoes,
and returned to off Holyhead in two months and eighteen
days, arriving in Liverpool June 2d, at 8 a.m.
WoNonts or STEAm.--Two gentlemen left Brussels at
three o'clock on the afternoon of Friday, and arrived in
Liverpool at a quarter before seven, p.m., on Saturday, being
a distance of upwards of 430 miles, performed in the short
space of 27 hours and three quarters. The whole of the jour-
ney was performed by steam. The travellers left Brussels
by the railway on Friday afternoon, arrived at Ostend in time
for the packet, were landed at Blackwell, proceeded from
ther ce to London by the railway, and just caught the train

from London to Liverpool as it was starting.
On Thursday, after consecrating the church of St. Barna-
bas, the Bishop of Chester, accompanied by Mr. Rector
Brooks, visited the Liverpool Female Orphan Asylum, of
which his lordship is patron, and expressed himself much
pleased with its progress, and the healthy appearance of the
children. There are now in the asylum twenty-six orphans,

who have lost both parents, all most interesting cases, and
several candidates for admission. Extensive support will be
required ; and surely there cannot be an object more truly
gratifying than the support and education of poor girls de-
prived of their natural protectors, nor any claim upon our
bounty so free from deception or imposture. The bishop
has kindly promised to preach in October next, on behalf of
the institution, with the benevolent intention of aiding in the
increase of its funds.
THE BRITISH Quezw.—This noble steamer is still on view
in the Coburg Dock. The proceeds of the exhibition are de-
voted to the relief of the families of the crew of the President,
who are in a state of the deepest distress. We trust, there-
fore, as the admission money is only sixpence, that a hand-
some sum will be raised for so evident an object of charity.
TRIBUTE OF RESPECT.--111 our last we stated that a me-
morial, most numerously signed, had been presented to the
Rev. Mr. Nolan, lately curate of St. Peter's, Stockport, but
now incumbent of the new church in Greenland-street, it

this town, consecrated on Thursday last, to induce him to
remain at the former place. This memorial, however, foiled
in its object for the reason which we gave. The parishion-
ers, however, were determined that Mr. Nolan should not
depart without some further proof of their regard, and; ac-
cordingly, just before his departure, a suitable address was
delivered by him, and at the conclusion of it, a purse, con-
taining one hundred sovereigns, was handed to the Rey.
gentleman, accompanied by the gratifying assurance that the
remaining debt owing on account of the galleries at St.
Peter's Church, would be immediately paid off—in fact, it
was virtually so—the money for the purpose being all sub-
scribed.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY IN A HOUSE OF ILL FAME.-
Rachael Pixton, a handsome, but slovenly-attired young
woman, was placed before Mr. Rushton and Sir Joshua
Walmsley on Saturday, charged with having robbed Antonio
Maria Dacros of 50 sovereigns, 3 gold pieces, worth £1 10s.
each, 3 crowns, 20 shillings in silver, several Portuguese
coins, a gold breast-pin, and a silver snuff box. Dacros, a
very fine looking Portuguese, stated, that he is the second
engineer of the steamer Oporto, lying in the Trafalgar Dock.
On the 6th May last he went with a Portuguese merchant to
a tavern near that clock, where they met the prisoner, to
whom, in compliance with her request, they gave some
drink. They ultimately adjourned with the prisoner and
another young woman to a house in Harrison-street. In the
morning the females were missing, and Dacros found that he
had been robbed of the articles above enumerated. Whether
the merchant was robbed also did not transpire, it being
merely stated that he had returned to Portugal. The girls
had seen the complainant count his sovereigns before he went
to bed. Information was given to the police, and Maguire,
on seeing the entry of the robbery, immediately remembered
that the prisoner had lodged at the house in Harrison-street
at the time mentioned. He soon apprehended her, when she
admitted the offence, saying, "The money is all gone, and I
am sorry I aver had anything to do with it." The prisoner,
on being asked if she had any explanation to offer, replied,
" I have nothing more to say." She was committed for
trial.

CONSISTENCY!-Mr. Ewart's motion, for the admission
of slave-grown sugar, was resisted by Mr. O'Connell, by the
whole anti-slavery party, and by the government, at a time
when sugar was selling at 575. per cwt. It has now fallen to
375., being a reduction of more than 2d. in the pound to the
consumer; and after this fall it is that, entirely forgetting the
poor slave, the whigs and the honest O'Connell find it abso-
lutely necessary, for the sake of the poor of England, (!) to
make a reduction of. duty amounting to 6-19th of a farthing
par pound; but whi.els would have the effect of prodigiously
augmenting the Afristua slime trade.

Tgs Quwer;.—ller Majesty's accotchenont may be ex-
pected at the end of September, or early in the month of
October.—Sunday Print.

ROYAL AGRICULTUTLAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND.—Yester-
day workmen commenced the creoiion of a building, on the
si;; of the Old infirmary

the purpose of the grand
The building will

dinner for the members of this society.
be of a circular form and of vast dimensio:

SCLUINTING.—This very great defect in the personal ap-
pearance is becoming rarer and rarer every day. Mr. Atkin-
son, of Leeds, has returned here for a short time ; so much
in demand has he been during his late stay. We are glad to
sec that he has been.thus successful.

LIR TRIAL OF TILE EARL OF STAFFORD.—We shall no-
tice this fine picture at some length in our next ; in the
mea❑ time recommend it to notice.

MR. CRONIN.—This gentleman, we perceive, will be ab-
sent from Liverpool for a short time, in consequence of the
demand for his Cervices in Manchester. lie has been very

successful we understand in many cases

THE BRUNSWICK HOTEL.—It is With very great confidence
that we recommend the Brunswick Hotel to the notice of
families and gentlemen travelling either on business or plea-
sure. It is one of the most comfortable hotels in point of
cleanliness, attention, politeness, and excellence of fare we
ever entered. We have recommended many of our privaie
friends to stay at the Brunswick, and they having invariably
felt obliged to us, we can extend our recommendation to our
rnAre numerous public acquaintance with considerable con-

STICANI !-Mr. Ball, of Lancaster, the fruiterer, has bad
green peas on his stall for a week, and from London, too !
So much for steam !
THE WAR IN INDIA.—A five per cent. loan has been
opened in Calcutta to cover the charges of the Affghau war,
which are understood to amount to about 12 millions of
rupees. The loss of life incurred down to the present date
is nearly 5,000 men, killed in action.
The royal mail steamer Columbia, Captain Judkins sailed
on Friday for Halifax and Boston. She carried out sixty

,assengers

The new ship Cornelia, which arrived on Monday evening
from New York, is the largest merchant vessel hitherto built
in the United States. She is nearly 1200 tons burden, and is
a beautiful specimen of naval architecture. She is com-
manded by Captain French, formerly of the Great Britain,
and well known in the American trade. She may be seen in
the Waterloo Dock, and is consigned to Messrs. Wadding-
ton, Holt & Co.

FIRE IN MANEsTv-LAM.—On Friday night, about eleven
o'clock, a fire was discovered by police officer 25 on the pre-
mises occupied by Messrs. Thompson & Fawcett, plumbers,
glaziers, and painters, Manesty-lane. The engines, accom-
panied by water carts, were on the ground immediately, and
before the tire could extend its ravages it was suppressed,
chiefly owing to the exertions of the indefatigable superin-
tendent of the fire police, ,vlr. Hewitt. The damage was
trifling, but, owing to the building being surrounded by large
warehouses, it might have been considerable, had it not been
speedily got under.

HER MAJESTY'S STATE BALL.—A London contemporary
—(the Timex)—seems disposed to grumble a little at the
mode in which invitations to her Majesty's state ball were
distributed on Thursday; and almost insinuates that the se-
lection of her Majesty's guests is occasionally directed to se-
cure political objects. Certainly the disproportion between
the members of the two parties in the House of Commons in-
vited on this occasion does look a little singular at a time
when a great constitutional question was under discussion.

It is a little surprising that but fifteen conservative members
of that house should be present, whilst of the opposite party
no less than 167 were dancing attendance upon the royal per-
son, and basking in the royal smile, some of whom had been
previously suspected of being slightly disaffected M their al-
legiance towards her Majesty's government.

STABIIING.—At the Police-court, yesterday, a man of co-
lour, named Baronda Johnson, was charged with having
stabbed another coloured man, of the name of George Wil-
liams, on Saturday night. It appeared that the prisoner and
two companions, all of whom were sailors, were playing at
cards together, at the house in which they boarded. A dis-
pute arose, out of which a fight commenced, which the com-
plainant. who was in bed, was called. down to assist in quel-
ling. It was during his efforts to accomplish this object that
the prisoner cut him in the hand with a knife. The magis-
trates told the prisoner he was totally unjustified in using the
knife, and they ordered him to pay a fine of 103., and in de-
fault of which, he must be imprisoned for ten days.
THE NEMESIS, IRON WAR-STEAMER.—We refer our
readers to the extracts from the official despatches giving an
account of the operations in the Canton River. In those
operations the Nemesis, iron-steamer, built at Mr. John
Laird's yard, North Birkenhead, performed a brilliant part,
penetrating, owing to her light draught of water, the inner
channel, which the Chinese had deemed impassable by
foreign vessels, and thus taking. the enemy by surprise in
quarters where he thought himself altogether unassailable.
Mr. Hall, under whose superintendence the Nemesis was
equipped and armed, and who is well known in Liverpool,
highly distinguished himself in the delicate and dangerous
operation of forcing and threading the inner pas Sage, as well
as in all the previous operations on the coast of China; and
Sir George Bremer has, in highly complimentary terms, no-
ticed the services which that gallant officer has rendered to
his Queen and his country in the Chinese waters. We may
add, that the engines of the Nemesis were manufactured by
Messrs. Forrester and Co. ; and that her guns, which did
striking executionon the Chinese works, were cast by Messrs.
Fawcett and Preston : all of this town. Liverpool may well
feel proud.of this het first iron war-steamer.
RonnErtY IN BOLD-STREET.—We beg to refer to Mr.
Davis, the optician's advertisement, which appears elsewhere.
We trust the depredators will be brought to punishment.
We .are still without any intelligence of the steam-ship
Britannia, which would leave Boston on the 16th ult., and
was due, according to the average rate of passages, on Sunday
week. Some accident, in all probability, has happened to
her machinery, but we hope it is not of any serious nature.
Should she not arrive in time to take her place in the line on
the 19th instant, the Caledonia, which would leave Boston
on the Ist, and may be expected, barring accidents, to arrive
on or before this day week, will be despatched in her place,
so that the non-arrival of one steamer will not, in all pro-
bability, interrupt the regular communication between Li-
verpool, Halifax, and Boston.

ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCII—On Sunday next two sermons
will be preached in this church in aid of a fund towards
liquidating the debt on the building. If our legislature were
true to the British principle and echoed British feeling, there
would be no occasion for such appeals as these. It is a
positive disgrace that collections have to be made for this
purpose, but it is a disgrace the removal of which we see no
prospect of, unless through the exertions and continued
liberality of the people. Our columns have lately testified
to several instances of their willingness to do so, and we
hope this opportunity of repeating their liberality will not be
lost sight of. We need only add that Mr. Ewbank preaches
in the morning, and Mr. James in the evening.

THEATRE-ROYAL.—There was a very full and fashionable
house last night at the Theatre-royal, to witness Macready's
fine performance of Richelieu. To-night Werner will be
repeated. We are glad to find that really good acting can be
thus appreciated in Liverpool. The late engagement of Yates
and Co. clearly proves that mountebanking has no charms to
draw the lieges frem their country walks and the enjoyment
of the line summer air.
PROTESTANT OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION.—A meeting was
held last night in St. Mark's schoolroom, the Rev. B. A.
Marshall in the chair, and addressed by Mr. Birkett, who
showed pointedly the true intention of the present govern-
ment, which covered by the loud cry for liberality, is really
and truly to suppress protestant principle, and re-establish
popery in this land—they being but tools in the hands of the
pope of Rome, through O'Connell.—Mr. Crisp afterwards
addressed the meeting, showing that the popish doctrine that
"heretics when strong are to be committed to God, when
weak, to the executioner," has been fully carried out of late,
in England anti Ireland, as in popish Ireland, where the po-
pulation is seven million popish, and one million and a half
protestant, no less than seven protestant clergymen have
been most barbarously murdered, whereas in protestant Eng-
land, where out of a population of sixteen millions, there is
not one million of papists, he would challenge any one to
point out to him the murder of a single popish priest. In
Ireland heretics are weak, and they have been committed to
the executioner ; in England they are strong, and they have
been committed to God. He strongly urged them to use their
best exertions to promote signatures to the Maynooth petition.
Mr. C. Bushell, who was received with the most enthusiastic
cheers, made some remarks upon the necessary connection
between religion and politics. He took a hasty review of the
degraded proceedings of the present imbecile ministry, and
asked what had they done for the benefit of the working
classes; why they had passed the penny postage plan. He
doubted not the blue jackets whom he saw before him would
work heart and hand in returning to parliament again, two
sound and tried representatives, Lord Sandon and Mr.
Cresswell Cresswell, and he begged of them firmly and stea-
dily at this eventful period, perseveringly to do their duty.—
Mr. Adshead, the secretary of the branch, then addressed
the meeting in a very spirited speech—and called upon the
protestants of Abercrounby and Rodney-street Ward for their
aid by subscribing to the association, to enable the committee
to send protestant truths and the scriptures to the poor Ro-
man Catholics.—Mr. Smith addressed the meeting on the
subject of the Romish Purgatorial Society, one of the princi-
ples of which is to pray for the souls of the members into
paradise.