The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-02 00:00:00

r of railroad

Feb. 2, 1847.

total Attys.

sixteen or
these make
per annum.
•ailroad per
progress of

!ars, in this
anifestation
Tribune;

iilway have
of the per-
'ord in Sep-
t' Chigwell,
pronounced
Cotton, of
Ind has not
ion he had
ing a large

that small
,ed for her
at the last
one of the
,f the pro-
'ay, and he
and June-
two great
o them to
rile famous
profit on
ietors have

idence be-
m English
xceeds the
• cent. per
for income
you have
me railway
le of great
ent. on the
t is nearly
the wen-
amount to—
insurance
cost of the

Four per
•ate for the
ies will, in
7overnment
reverse of
ntion to it.

'ed at the
y on Man-
lur o'clock,
as running
the same
•train was
that place.
fifty yards,
00 or 250
f the chi.-
val pieces,
rith a ter-
ligtlx, was
;cent came ,
s carriage.
ng away a
mgitudmal
o the car-
eh it fell, ,
ages were
rmed that
with pas-
t, two la-
who were
portion of
ere instan-
n partment ,
in a dun-
person in
re inju.ry,
Mountaoy
min,

The Liverpool Gas Bill was read a second time, in the
llouse of Commons, on Tuesday.
The congregation of Seaforth Church have raised £4OO
'for the relief of the Irish.
Yesterday morning week, Robert Dobson, of Chapel-
lane, got up from his bed :and went to another room,
'where he fell down and died almost immediately. The
cause of death was serous apoplexy.
•On. Tuesday, John Lara was going on board a vessel
lying in the Brunswick Graving Dock, when he acciden-
tally fell in. He was taken out almost immediately, but
Vas found to be quite dead.
Last week 969 square yards of land, situated between
Uliver-street and Claughton-road, at Birkenhead, was
sold for 41800, or at the rate of 255. per yard. It was
bought a short time ago at 18s.
An important reqnisition to the Lords of the Treasury,
Praying them to dispatch an extra mail to America on the
19th of the months of February and March, was placed in
the public news-rooms on Wednesday, and received nu-
merous signatures.
MORE DEATHS BY BURNING.—On Tuesday, inquests
were held by Mr. Curry upon the bodies of two children,
who had died in consequence of being burnt. On Satur-
day the coroner held two more inquests on infants who
had died from the same cause.
The subscription at Birkenhead for the relief of the poor
in the township amounts to upwards of £3OO. There
have been distributed considerably above 70001bs. of
bread, 6000 pints of soup, and near 30 tons of coal. The
committee solicit the - support both of the middle and
higher classes • and have appointed six collectors to go
from house to 'house, as extreme distress abounds.
On Wednesday evening last, about nine o'clock, the
lightning descended the chimney of William Moir, of 40,
Grosvenor-street, Rose-hill, and blew out the shop win-
dow, with all its contents, into the street. There were
five persons sitting round the fire, none of whom were
hurt, except a lad, who was struck on the knee by a brick
from the chimney.
•On Tuesday morning, about three o'clock, a woman,
the wife of a sailor named Lither, residing in Roscoe-
street, was found by the policeman lying upon the foot-
way in Rock-street, Brownlow-hill, in the pains of labour,
and before proper assistance could be procured, she was
delivered of a son. The police immediately removed her
to a public-house close by, and afterwards on a' stretcher
to her residence.
Mr. Charles Banning, assistant surveyor of the General
Post-office, has been promoted by. the Postmaster-Gene-
ral to succeed his brother, Mr. William Banning, (on his
retirement), as Postmaster of Liverpool. Mr. Charles
Banning has been in the service of the General " Post-office
for eighteen years in responsible situations, which have
peculiarly qualified him for the various details and duties
of his new appointment.
MANSLAUGHTER.—A warrant has been issued against
a man named James Ducie, for causing the death of an
old man named Daniel M'earthy. It appeared from evi-
dence at the inquest, which.was held on Thursday, that
M`Carthy occupied a house in Stewart-street, in afhich
Ducie had apartments. About three weeks ago a misun-
derstanding arose between Ducie and deceased, when the
former pushed deceased out of the door. The man fell
•down the step, and his head was cut by coming in con-
tact with the stones. He was shortly after attended by a
medical man, but continued to decline until Sunday,
when he expired. The cause of death was stated to be
erysipelas of the head, caused by the wound.
THEATRE-ROYAL WILLIAMSON-SQUARE.—The per-
formances during the past week have been operatic, Ma-
'-dame Anna Bishop sustaining the part of Isoline, in Balfes
opera of the " Maid of Artois," supported by Mr. D. W.
King, Mr. CorH, and Mr. Glydon. The first of these
gentlemen' appears not to have got rid of the cold under
which we noticed him labouring on Monday evening. The
piece was very splendidly put upon the stage. On Friday
evening the opera of " Somnambula" was played, for the
benefit of Madame Anna Bishop. Our opinion of the
invocal abilities of this lady has been fully sustained by the
utlional opportunities which we have had of hearing her.
e afferpieces introduced during the week, the bens of the rekular company have shown themselves very
efficient.
The Birkenhead steam-frigate, Commander A. H. In-
-gram, arrived at Chatham on Saturday afternoon, the 23d
alt., and dropped alongside the Fortitude coal depilt, and
she completed shipping her coals on Tuesday last;
amounting to nearly 400 towns. A case or two of small-
pox broke out on board, and the individuals were imme-
•cliately removed to Melville Hospital ; and those on board
who had not had the eruptive distemper, or been hitherto
vaccinated, had to undergo the operation. A few small
repairs to the ship having been compelted, she was re-
moved to Gillingham-reach, and the reserve battalion of
the 56th Regiment was to embark on board on Saturday, to
proceed to Gibralter. The strength of the battalion con-
sists of 28 sergeants, 10 drummers, and 536 rank and
file, with the regular complement of women and children,
under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel P. S. Norman.
LAMENTABLE SUICIDE.—On Sunday week, Letitia
Neale, a married female, forty-two years of age, who re-
sided in Lark-lane, Toxteth-park, went into an outhouse
in the yard, and on opening the door some time after, she
was found with her head in a reclining position. There
was a mug filled with blood between her knees, and there
was a wound across her throat. • She had a razor in her
right hand, and on raising her up 'she appeared quite in-
sensible. The razor belonged to her father, and lay in a
room to which she had frequent access. No cause could
be assigned for the commission of the rash act, as the de-
%eased and her husband lived comfortably together. The
day before, however, she seemed quite altered in her
/hind, and spoke very incoherently. She was removed
to the Southern Hospital, where it was found that the
wound had extended through the windpipe. She died of
the injury on Friday.
THE GREAT BRITAIN.-We have been favoured (says
the Dundee Advertiser) with the following extract of a
letter from Mr. James Bremner, civil engineer, Wick, to
a gentleman in this quarter ,—" I left the Great Brirain
in charge of Captain Claxton, the managing director, who
is stuffing her larboard quarter with faggots, brushwood,
sand bags and chains and bolts, &c. It is Mr. Brunel's
plan, and I am not sure of its effects ; but I hope there
will be no danger of her until April, when I expect to
commence operations to raise her. She has quarried
down six feet of the solid rock, and turned up like a plough
forward. There are four feet of sand above the rock—in
all 10 to 101 feet. She must be raised 13 feet perpendi-
cular height, and then her bottom patched, launched, and
taken probably to Liverpool ; but, if possible, to Bristol,
!)Y two steamers. The sand now in her, which the water
18 Over, will make her full 300 tons weight, so that you
see the lift will be no joke."
THE CORN SPECULATION.—The speculators in corn
Min to find the ground slipping from under them. At
ttyveTpool, on Tuesday, the market was " all sell and no
barrel
„Flour was freely offered at 2s. 6d. and 3s. per
aea.vnend baa7—v?Pctryion, but the dealers fought shy at the article,
coatimie‘ue proffered fall, The imports from America
one ship having brought ten thou-
into t, 'feta oflour, the largest quantity ever imported
b,___•Purope in one vessel. In adon to this, she
Provisions,
fifteen hundred barrels of Indian meal, and other
elesiuna. Another ship brought eight thousand barrels
flour and eight thousand bushels Bf wheat; another,
four thousand five hundred barrels of flour ; and another,
five thousand barrels of flour, and fourteen thousand
bushels of wheat. The quantity of Indian corn poured
into Liverpool is immense, and there is a very general
Opinion prevailing that prices must give way considerably.
'Wheat has already fallen from 2s. 6d. to 4s. per quarter.
_ ACCIDENT TO THE COLUMBIA, WITH Loss OF LIFE.
It is with regret we have to announce, that on the 13th
resfter
thet
, an accident, attended with melancholy loss of life,
packet ship Columbia, on hta passage from New
iil itiLseta h and
a
York to this port. She sailed'
on
experienced a succession of heavy gales an
five o'clock, a.m., when the ship, scudding before 'thet
wind, was struck with a heavy sea, which washed away
the wheel-house and winding spars, together with nine
human beings, among whom was the Captain (Rathbone),
first and second mates, five seamen, and a boy. Shortly
afterwards the Columbia was fallen in with by the Lady
calkland, from New Orleans to this port, the captain of
Which vessel put on board his chief mate to navigate the
W'mina to Liverpool. • Captain Rathbone was a man
LotO
nown and •deservedly respected by many persons
'n Liverpool and New York. For many years he
4,lli'Zinander of the well-known packet-ship Oxford,
liavessel he made some of the most rapid passages
Wich between this port and New York, and in
gresiisel he had a very narrow escape of shipwreck in
,"riven hurricane of January, 1839, when his ship was
,k,apteinell„shore in Bootle Bay. What renders the loss of
Rathbone more to be regretted is the fact, that
has te;un the eve of retirement from nautical life. He
,4' a wife and family to mourn his loss.
These • New ORLEANS ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS.—
arrive •
interesting and talented minstrels, who have just
Thi,rom the United States, gave a private concert on
Tbe—'3o,-IUeY evening, which was very numerously attended.
lie, .211
to of course, was to give to a portion of the pub-
te,',unutkit the press, a sample of the quality of their en-
ents ; and from the enthusiastic applause with
(bet Ithey were received throughout, we venture to pre-
soat they will have no cause to regret the adoption of
known.unexceptionable a mode of making their capabilities
with Most of our readers,
we dare say, are familiar
h the nature of these entertainments, in which ' the
Peculiarities of the negro character are faithfully delineated,
and the peculiar] y original music of the southern states of
used America
b y tilsiat rac
given with the instrumental accompaniments
d van}'hesita t
as castanets. _anthe banjo, and the marrow bones used
performed here a few months ago. We
_ Y have no doubt heard' the original
are given in the best we have heard. Their
any similar
one ),}f.ive the present company the palm over
as well as the words, taste ; much of the music selected,
performances
displayed upon the sitta really beautiful ; and the skill
bones, and the banjo, pi''nstruments used, especially the
bY Mr. G. Swaine, " the
prince of banjo players,37d
splendid band
beautiful southern
pieces selected, "My dearestiZVerfni• Amongst the
Racoon Track,"
refrain, sung by Swaine ;" In •%7%'7''
by Rainer, who possesses a s
; and " De
)Lose of Xlabama," by Sanford ; araiss"iee
eought
playing 0 'MRS eiN.VO
Lucy Neale,',' were rapturously applauded versione of
not to omit noticing the violin
The fine tone and execution of so young a player alr
Creditable. We recommend our readers to Pay a.nevaerelYy
visit to this company, whose stay amongst us, we believe,
will be limited to this week.
DR.....INNS AND HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT.—Dr. thins,
bwas one of the principal physicians in the island of
`,?.maica, has expressed himself in the following manner
73Pecting the surprising healing properties of Holloway's
.znntment :—" I have made many trials of this ointment
!! eases of chronic ulcers which several years' experience
it e
fthe West Indies taught me to .consider as incurable.
sly now hapy to say tha in all cases it was really an
eifieacpious.—Signed,t
E. Biarxs, 'M.D., F.S.A.,d _
curt Holloway's Ointment
4'41 st will cure bad legs however g andin
Scrofulag; likewise the most obstinate cases, of King's
or

CHARITABLE SOCIETY.—The visiters of this excelleni
institution have, during the last five weeks, paid 1247
visits to the abodes of poverty and sickness, and have ex-
pended £92 ss. 6d. in relieving 864 cases, consisting of
1789 persons. It will thus be seen there was an urgent
necessity for the appeal recently inserted in our adver-
tising columns, and which we are happy to find has met
with a liberal response. In December the funds of the
Society were exhausted, and the applicants for relief con-
tinue so numerous, that further pecuniary assistance is
still needed.

CASUALTIES AT SEA.—In addition to the loss sus-
tained by the packet-ship Columbia, from whose decks
Captain Rathbone and several of his men were swept by
a heavy sea, and never more seen, we have to record' that
the Eliza Warwick, from New York, which reached the
port on Friday, met with a nearly similar calamity, her
captain, mate, and two seamen having been washed.over-
board and drowned. The Epaminondas, which arrived
on Friday, brought the crew of the Genoese barque
Sampsona, from Genoa to Cork, found in a sinking- state
in lat. 57.30, long. 7.30. The Clown schooner, hence to
Glasgow, grounded on Friday on Burbo Bank : the- life-
boat from Formby went to her assistance.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—On Wednesday morning; be-
tween the hours of two and three o'clock, an alarming
fire broke out in the spacious premises belonging to Mr.
Challenor, situate on the east side of Mason-street, near
to Wapping, which destroyed buildings and other property
to a considerable amount, A fine horse was burnt to a
cinder. Mr. Challener's large warehouse, which was used
partly as a flour store and partly as a block manufactory,
was completely gutted. Three of the rooms were fully
stored with flour, and the other rooms contained a large
stock of blocks and steam machinery, the whole of which
have been either wholly destroyed or rendered utterly
useless. The fire next communicated with a fine ware-
house belonging to Mr. Thomas Booth, the corn mer-
chant ; and this warehouSe also, together with its contents,
has likewise been much damaged. Mr. Challener was
insured in the Star-office ; and no doubt Mr. Booth is
also insured. No correct estimate can as yet be formed
of the value of the property destroyed, but doubtless it
will amount to some thousands of pounds.
TILE PARISH-oFFlcE.—There was an increase of up-
wards of 17,000 in the numbers of Irish relieved at the
Parish-office last week, compared with the week before.
The daily numbers relieved were as follows :—Monday,
22,065; Tuesday, 25,529; Wednesday,23,3l3 ; Thursday,
24,297 ; Friday, 24,668 ; Saturday, about 24,000; total,
143,872. The cost of relieving this number last week
was upwards of £220. We are happy to state that, from
and after to-day, Fenwick-street will not be rendered so
impassable as it has been by the thousands of Irish who
have congregated in front of the Parish-office for provi-
sions, as Mr. Austin, the Assistant Poor-law Commis-
sioner, has introduced a plan by which the casual or Irish
,poor will almost wholly be relieved at their own dwellings.
Twenty-four polictmen have been selected for the purpose
of dividing the town into twelve districts, visiting each
Irish family at their several abodes, making inquiries into
their respective cases, with the view of guarding against
imposition, and imparting relief. The relief will be
granted by tickets of different colours to distinguish the
districts. There will be a house at which bread and soup
will be obtained upon the presentation of the tickets.
The twenty-four policemen will be under two inspectors,
and every two of them will have a district under their
immediate charge.
INTERESTING OPERATIONS.—On Thursday, a number
of professional and scientific gentlemen assembled at the
Eye and Ear Infirmary in this town, to witness operations
performed upon patients while under the influence of sul-
phuric ether. The proceedings excited the deepest interest.
Mr. Neill, the skilful and much-esteemed surgeon of the
establishment, was the operator, assisted by his talented
colleague, Dr. Edwards. The ether was administered by
Dr. Higginson and Mr. Yaniewiecz. An elderly man,
named John Davies, was first cut for cataract. He was
rendered, in a great measure, but not totally, insensible by
the sulphuric ether, and declared, after the operation, that
he had felt a prick in his eye.—William Massey, of Run-
corn, a veteran 66 years of age, whose left eye, through
cataract, had been almost entirely blind for six months,
and whose right eye had been blind nearly all his life, was
next seated in the chair. This was a very interesting case.
The operation, which was also for cataract, was what is
technically known as reclination. After about a minute's
inhalation of the ether, he cried twice, " You'll have me
drunk," " you are a black man," "oh ! I know what you
are." The bladder was in two minutes withdrawn, and
he fell back apparently powerless, with his eye-lids closed.
During the operation not the slightest twinge or shrug
betokened nervous sensibility. He was asked if he felt
any pain ; " no, no !" he answered in a firm voice, appa-
rently delighted to find that the operation was finished,
without his being conscious of its progress.—Jane Evis,
a young woman also from Runcorn, was the next patient.
She had, through cataract, been blind in her right eye for
thirteen years. She was much excited, her pulse beating
at 132 ; it afterwards ranged so high as 202. The ether
had an almost immediate effect, and she querulously cried
"Oh ! oh, dear ! I want to get out, I'm falling !" The
matron and the medical attendants succeeded in pacifying
her. The operation occupied but a minute, and she der
dared that she had not felt the slightest pain. Even after
the operation, she felt as if falling, but apparently reco-
vered on drinking a little wine.—ln the next case, that of
Robert M`Loughlin, employed, he said, under Mr. Jesse
Hartley, the ether produced no marked effect. He had
suffered much, he said, and heard every word that had
been uttered.—Ambrose Rossitar, aged twenty-five, from
Birkenhead, whose right eye was affected by strabismus,
causing a squint, then submitted to the (usually) painful
operation of having it couched. He coughed very much
during the inhalation, and his face became flushed. In
two minutes lie appeared quite insensible, and lay back
with both eyes closed. The muscle was then completely
cut across, the eye bleeding very much. The operation
did not occupy long, and was very skilfully performed.
At its close, the patient groaned, and asked, (as had also
a previous patient) for leave to spit out. He declared that
after a certain time he had been conscious of considerable
pain, but appeared still under the influence of the ether;
and, when questioned, his statements varied much. Mr.
Neill concluded by operating upon a boy (not etherised),
restoring to him a fine pupil, hitherto completely veiled.
The whole of the operations were highly satisfactory and
interesting, reflecting great credit on the talented surgeons.