The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-29 00:00:00

June 29, 1847.

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The Liverpool Fire Office is to be designated
Liverpool and London Fire and Life Office.'
The Birkenhead steam frigate arrived at Kingstown
harbour on Sunday week for the purpose of conveying
away troops.
It is said that a new hotel is about to be built near the
Broad Green Station on the railway, chiefly for the ac-
tommodation of pleasure seekers.
Considerable quantities of periwinkles have lately been
Aent from Kirkcudbright to Liverpool, where they are
xeadily sold.
On Tuesday morning, Clara Isabella Petrie, a child 6}
/ears old, living with her parents in Pitt-street, was found
dead in bed, supposed to have been accidentally overlain.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners have constituted a
new district for spiritual purposes out of the borough of
Liverpool, to be called the " District of Vauxhall."
The Admiral steam-ship, after being completely
,refitted,
had a trial trip on Wednesday, previous to being placed
on her old station (Glasgow and Liverpool.) She went in
splendid style.

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At St. Andrew's Church, on Sunday week, after a ser-
mon by the Rev. Rector Brooks, the sum of £4O was
collected in aid of the funds of the Liverpool Church
of England School Society.
On Tuesday, Sir Howard Douglas presented a petition
to the House of Commons, signed by 2583 seamen of the
port of Liverpool, praying that there might be no altera-
tion of the navigation laws.
COLLEGIATE SCHOOLS, LIVERPOOL.-J Michod, Esq.,
First Assistant Master in the Lower School, has been ap-
pointed to succeed Mr. Cox, as Head Master in the Lower
School.

An opposition*was raised in the House of Lords to the
-Liverpool Water Works Bill, upon the Standing Orders ;
but it was pronounced to be frivolous, and the bill has
passed the first stage. It is referred to a committee
to meet this day.
The Duke of Marlborough entertained at Blenheim a
number of the principal gentlemen now assembled at Ox-
ford in connexion with the British Association for the
advancement of science. Among the company was Mr.
Lassells, of this town.
CONFINEMENT OF DOGS.—In consequence of suspicions
of canine madness, the borough magistrates have ordered
that all dogs shall be kept in until the 31st of August.
Owners of dogs who neglect this notice are liable to a fine
of five pounds.

A deputation consisting of Messrs. Lace, 'Laird, 12;gge,
and Clay, from the Birkenhead Dock Company ; Mr.
-Bicknell, for Mr. Vyner ; Mr. Davis, for Mr. Mainwar-
ing; and Mr. Potts, for Mr. Price, had a meeting with
the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods and Forests
on Tuesday.
A practical farmer stated, on Saturday, that the crops
of potatoes coming forward at our market are so plentiful
that, if it were not for the export to Ireland, they would
"be sold at a farthing per pound. This exportwi pro-
bably cease immediately, when our own poor will, we
hope, have the benefit of the abundant supply.
boys,ply
A BOY STABBED.—On Wednesday,
Melladew and Davies, had some e altercation named
kha about
-some pigeons, when the latter drew out a clasp knife, fand
stabbed Melladew in the back. The wound is an inch
deep, but it is hoped the result will not be fatal. The
police declined to take the assailant into custody.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Thursday, as John' Evans, a
lad about fifteen years old, was going down Dale-street
with a hand-cart, he came in contact with a spring cart
which was going in the opposite direction. The shock
forced the boy butween the hand-cart and a lamp-post,
by which he was dreadfully crushed and bruised. He was
carried into the shop of Mr. Carney, druggist, where he
died in a quarter of an hour.
THE DOCKS.—A statement has just been published by
Mr. Withers, secretary to the Dock Trustees, which
shows the total revenues from rates and dues to be, for
the first six months of 1847, £273,711 15s. ; 1846,
£241,062 16s. sd. ; increase on 1847, £32,648 19s. ld.
The principal items in the above are on tonnage, £127,982
14s. ld. ; increase, £13,272 18s. sd. ; and on goods
4116,453 Os. 6d. ; increase, £17,739.
CANINE AFFECTION.—A remarkable example of the
proverbial affection that dogs so often entertain for their
masters, may now be witnessed in this town. A gentle-
man was buried a short time ago in Edge-hill Churchyard;
be was followed to his grave by a favourite dog, which has
now for three weeks sat uninteruptedly over his remains.
As nothing can induce the faithful animal to leave the
churchyard, some residents in the neighbourhood supply
him with food daily.
On Wednesday, Anthony Kerr, a labourer, residing in
.Hadley-street, was killed at the North Dock Works. The
deceased and another man prepared two borings for blast-
ing some rocks, and charged them with gunpowder. They
then stooped down to fire them, but the deceased had no
sooner applied the match to the train, than the whole
charge went off suddenly, and blew him to a distance of
about fifteen yards. He was taken up quite dead and se-
verely burnt all over the body.
The committee of the Charing Cross Suspension Bridge
find that Parliament will not sanction the sale of the
"bridge to Messrs. Jackson, Reed, Walmsley, and Fuller,
in consequence of the opposition of certain shareholders ;
and the report of the committee says that Messrs. Jackson
and Co. are disposed to waive the contract, and to forfeit
£lOOO to the company, being a portion of their deposit
-money. The resolution for cancelling the agreement with
Messrs. Jackson was carried.
ST. GEORGE'S PRESBYTERIAN SCHOOLS.--The first
annual examination of the pupils of these schools, in con-
.nexion with the congregation of the Rev. D. Ferguson,
in Myrtle-street, took place on Tuesday. The number of
_ joktirgierMiweintrVi?l,l,iii! sixty-five—all. of whom re-
J. W. Gardner, whose ability in training the. youthful
mind was strongly exemplified by the state of proficiency
to which even the junior classes have attained.
EXTRAORDINARY NOTION.—On Saturday last, a man
was observed at a pond near Windsor (Upper Parliament-
street), in search of the body of a person which was sup-
posed to be under the surface; and to find which he used
'a quart bottle containing a small quantity of quicksilver,
in•the expectation that the bottle being propelled along
the water would stop, or come to anchor, when it came over
the remains of the deceased ! The body was not found,
'though grapnels were afterwards employed.
A MAN FOUND DROWNED.—An inquest was yesterday
held before the borough coroner, on view of the body of
John Morris, aged 20 years. The body of deceased was
found on Saturday evening, near the slip at George's
Pier. The father of deceased, who is a saddler' living in
Chesnut-street, recognized the body. He said deceased
-left home on the Monday previously, and did not after-
wards return. He had been previously labouring under
fever and delirium, and had made his escape from the
hoßse.
DEATH FROM A FALL.—Yesterday, an inquest was
before Mr. Curry, on view of the body of Martha New-
ton, aged forty-seven, wife of William Newton, and who
-resided at No. 65, Gildart-gardens. On Saturday night
last, while deceased was carrying a quart of ale up stairs
in the house, she missed her footing and fell down. She
was a little intoxicated at the time. She was taken up
insensible, never afterwards spoke, and died on the fol-
lowing morning from, it appeared, concussion of the
brain, arising from the fall.
A DEAD DONKEY.—Many persons say they never saw
a dead donkey. There was one to be seen in Dale-street
on Thursday, which was killed by the 'carelessness of a
driver, who caused the wheel of his float to pass over the
.poor animal's neck. The donkey was the sole support of
a poor widow and her son, who valued it at £2. Boothbv,
• the inspector, said that a donkey might be purchased any
day in Richmond-row, for 35., but Mr. Rushton, being
a better judge of ass flesh, valued the animal at 17s. more,
and ordered the driver of the float to pay 20s.
EXPORT OF POTATOES AND PEAS FROM NEW BRIGH-
TEN.—The Greenock Advertiser, in noticing potatoes and
peas for sale in that town, says, '.The potatoes, which
are of good size, are of the Yorkshire kidney species, and
seem free from disease. Six of them weigh fifteen ounces.
They are, we understand, brought by the Liverpool
steamer from New Brighton, in Cheshire, and a fresh sup-
ply comes to hand three times a week. They are selling
at 4d. and 6d. per lb., about half-a-pint. The peas are
brought from the same place, and sell at 3s. per peck.
FEARFUL MORTALITY ON BOARD AN EMIGRANT SHIP.
—The Loosthawk, which sailed from Liverpool for Quebec,
put into Mirimichi on the 4th instant. 'When she left
this port she had on board 359 emigrants, 129 of whom
died before she reached Mirimichi, and 100 more were
seriously ill, and unable to support themselves on their
arrival. Nearly all, we believe, were Irish. These facts
speak strongly in favour of the recent quarantine regula-
tions, and prove at the same time the rapid progress of
the fatal disease—fever—among the miserable Irish,
wherever they are congregated in large numbers.
THE BIRKENHEAD THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE.—The
committee of the Parochial Assistant Association met on
Thursday, at our Blue-Coat Hospital, and "passed" ten
Students for the Birkenhead Theological College, which
is in connexion with that Association, and which, as we
stated before, the Bishop has judiciously placed under the
principalship of our widely-esteemed friend the Rev. J.
Baylee, Incumbent of Holy Trinity Church, Birkenhead.
Ten more students are likely to be admitted in July, and
a full class is expected by the middle of August, the ap-
plications for admission having, we believe, been nume-
rous.
A tea-party and festival, for the benefit of the Odd-
fellows' Widows and Orphans Fund Society, was held on
Tuesday and Wednesday last, on the gyounds of Beeston
Castle. The weather being fine, upwards of three thou-
sand people, from various parts of Cheshire, assembled to
Stubbs'
enjoy themselves at this delightful place. Roy al
Harmonic Band was in attendance, and from
their superior
•
manner of playing the most popular music of the dav
tended greatly to enliven the scene. Dancing was kept.
up until nine o'clock, when the party separated, highly
delighted with their treat. Great praise is due,
to the
stewards, Mr. Davenport and Mr. Bird, under whose ma-
. uagement the whole arrangement took place.
QUICK DISPATCH IN THE LIVERPOOL DOCKS. As an
instance of the rapid dispatch of vessels in the Liverpool
Docks, when the owners or consignees are prepared to
take advantage of the facilities and accommodation
afforded them by the general arrangements for landing
and loading, whe have to state that the Marian, of 677
tons, belonging to Messrs. C. W. and F. Shand, arrived
dfroisincharAgnigtnigua on Sunday, the 20th instant, commenced
in the Prince's "Dock on the following after-
"on, at three o'clock, and completed landing her cargo
on Thursday afternoon, at ten o'clock, having delivered
eastitufti 900 hhds. of sugar. She moreover took on board
on outward cargo of upwards of 350 tons, and sailed again
BEIVTLEYn'ain
having'aeaY morning, the 26th instant, by the early tide,
on this principle, dock only 137 hours.
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