The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-15 00:00:00

gage 15,1847.

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Mr. Mallaby has been appointed chairman of the Dr-
Ikenhead Dock Commissioners.
Another of our relit ving officers—Mr. Norton—died of
'typhus fever on Wednesday.
Reporters are in future to be admitted to the meetings
of the Birkenhead Dock Commissioners.
The screw steam-ship Sarah Sands, will sail to-day for
New York.
The new landing stage seems likely to weather the
storms. On Thursday it was subjected to the fury of a
gale of wind and a strong tide, and stood the test well.
IMPORTS FROM IRELAND.—In twelve days 484 tons,
5,670 quarters, 595 sacks, and 1,348 barrels of wheat were
exported to Liverpool alone, besides hundreds of barrels
of flour, oats, &c.
The operative saddlers of this town are endeavouring to
bring about a reduction in their daily hours of labour
from thirteen to twelve during nine months of the year.
Nearly all the masters have complied with this request.
The Chinese junk " Keysing," bound from Hong Kong
to London, was spoken by the Flora Kerr, (arrived here
on Friday from Calcutta) on the 9th of April, in lat. 26 S.
long. 11 E.

We are glad to observe a great improvement in the
Church of England North School. The present master,
Mr. John Bowes. has been recently appointed, and is from
the. Training College, Battersea. We congratulate the
committee on their choice.

PARISH SURGEONS.—There are at present thirty-nine
surgeons in the employ of the parish. They are distributed
as follows :—District surgeons, 13 ; Assistant ditto ditto,
16 ; Workhouse ditto, 5 ; Lazaretto ditto, at present, 3 ;
Industrial Schools, 1 ; Great Howard-street Sheds, 1.
THE FEVER SHEDS.—Mr. Brereton Nightingale, the
late house-surgeon to the Liverpool Workhouse, in refe-
rence to•the alarm respecting the fever sheds, offers " an
assurance that the apprehensions of contagion from at-
mospheric influence, spreading over so large an extent of
surface, is entirely out of the question, even supposing the
virus of typhus to be as communicable as that of the
plague of Egyptian notoriety."
MARRIAGE HONOURS.—A very ludicrous scene took
place in Church-street on Monday morning, on the occa-
sion of the marriage of a butcher, the bride and bride-
groom having each attained the age of sixty. Several of
the butchers from St. Andrew-street, with two asses and
carts decked with flowers and shrubs,. made their appear-
ance before St. Peter's Church ; and no sooner had the
loving couple got out of the church than they were lifted
into the vehicles, and with shoutingsaccompanied to their
residence.
THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE GENERAL
ELECTION.—There appears to be •a simultaneous action
going forward among all Protestants, without regard to
•sects, against any further grants to the Roman Catholics ;
and to this extent a large portion of the known candi-
dates, who are in the field of promise, appear to go.
The LIVERPOOL STANDARD, one of the most successful
of the provincial Journals in the Protestant, cause, bears
evidence to the great preponderance of sound Protestant
feelings in the constituency of that rich and influential
mart of the national commerce.—Shrewsbitry Journal.
In connection with Atlantic steaming it may be men-
tioned that a new vessel called the Guadalquiver, intended
ultimately for a South American station, is expected to be
despatched from Liverpool to New York about the 20th
of July. She will be taken out by Captain Hosken, a
circumstance which will be regarded by many persons
with gratification, since whatever opinions may be enter-
tained respecting the loss of the Great Britain, confidence
is placed in him from the singular success of his previous
long career.—Times City Article.—The Guidalquiver is
at present in the Trafalgar Dock, and is intended to sail
between New York and Havana.
FATAL ACCIDENTS.—On Sunday week, John Dowling,
aged 21, son of John Dowling, clothier, Suramerseat,
was drowned while bathing in the canal.—Yesterday
week, Joseph Hutton, a young man, was killed near the
Northern Hospital. Deceased was sitting on the shaft
of a float which he was driving, when the horse broke
into a gallop, by which he was thrown down and the
wheel passed over his body ; he was carried into the hos-
pital, where he died, about five hours after being admit-
ted, of rupture of the liver.—On Wednesday, the body of
a man unknown was found floating in Victoria Channel.
He had on barragon trousers, blue jacket, stripe shirt,
and strong Wellington boots.
FATAL ACCIDENT TO A STRANGER.—On Friday, an in-
quest was held before the borough coroner, on view'of the
body of a man unknown. About six o'clock that morn-
ing, a labourer of the name of Hugh Meigham went to
work on board a vessel called the Columbia, lying in the
Waterloo Dock. On removing the main hatches, the
deceased was found lying on some iron in the hold, with
his face downwards, quite dead. The following address in
pencilling, was marked in the memorandum book found
on him:—"Thomas Reddy, Avonside Iron Works, St.
Philliy's Bristol;" and on a slip of paper there was the
following address;—" Rt. Spaven, Westmoreland, Oneide
County, State of New York."

fiaTiCiT;A CHILD BY FALLING FROM A WINDOW.
—On Saturday, an inquest was held before the borough
coroner, on view of the body of Margaret Sherry, aged
eighteen months, who lived with her parents in Oriel-
street. On Friday afternoon, a girl, named Franklin,
was nursing the deceased, and placed her on the stone, or
sill, under the garret window, upon which she sat, the
girl having her arms round her, and looking through the
windovi. While deceased was in that position, the young
,woman turned her head, and at the moment deceased

mace a twitch, slipped from the nurse's arms, and fell
down into the cellar opening below. When picked up,
she was found to be dead. Verdict, " Accidental death."
DREADFUL ACCIDENT.-On Tuesday last, about two
o'clock, as five men were descending the shaft of the new
railway tunnel, at King-street, Edge-hill, the rope slipped
from the drum, and the whole of the five men went to the
bottom, a depth of thirty-two yards. In a very short time
after one man was quite dead. The other four were con-
veyed to the Infirmary : two have since died, and a third
is not expected to recover. The accident is attributed
entirely to the recent heavy rains. Mr. Park, surgeon,
Edge-hill, was speedily on the spot, and rendered all the
assistance in his power. The name of the man who was
killed was Ilaies ; the two who died at the Infirmary
were named Metcalf and Simmons.

MOTINY.—On Wednesday,' the ship America, Captain
Williams, bound from Liverpool to Calcutta, put into
'Cove, when the master came ashore and lodged an infor-
mation against ten of his crew for an assault. The crew
got advance notes for two months, amounting to £4 10s.
each, which they cashed in Liverpool, and when two days
at sea they seized the captain and tied him down, and the
first mate having interfered they also tied him. The
captain parleyed with them, when it became evident their
object was to quit the ship at the next port, and thus
defraud the owners of the two months' advance; and Mr.
Williams having pledged his word to run into Cove, they
untied him and the mate. They were tried for the assault
on Saturday by the magistrates at Cove, and were sen-
tenced to two months' imprisonment and hard labour.
ANOTHER ACCIDENT AT EDGE-HILL.—An inquest
was held on Saturday, before Mr. Curry, on view of the
body of Thomas Jenkins, a miner, aged about twenty-six
years. On Friday night, after deceased and another had
been at work in the tunnel in course of construction at
Edge-hill, he came up the shaft in a skip, and was safely
landed. He then went to a fire, which was lighted about
a yard from the mouth of the shaft, and in a few minutes
was observed in the act of falling. He fell down the
shaft to the bottom. He was found insensible, but when
brought up, he somewhat recovered. He was taken home
to Edge-hill, and died the same night. It appeared he
had stepped back from the fire to the mouth of the pit.
jury
The depth which he fell was thirty-two yards. The
returned a verdict of " accidental death." The deceased
was a witness on this day week at an inquest on the death
Of three persons who were killed at the same works.
TESTIMONIAL TO THE ORIGINATOR OF PUBLIC WASII-
HOUSES.-Yesterday afternoon week a gratifying testimo-
nial was presented to Mrs. Catharine-Wilkinson, the ori-
ginator of public washhouses, and at present the matron
of the Corporation Baths and Washhouses, in Upper Fre-
derick-street, in this town. A large party was invited at
the mansion of C. Lawrence, Esq.,Mosl97:bill,ato witness