The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-05-01 00:00:00

?Loral pelts.

The Bishop of Chester purposes holding a confirma-
tion in Liverpool about the end of June.
The Rev. W. 11. Moore has been appointed chaplain
to the West Derby Union.
The cuckoo was heard in this neighbourhood during
Sunday afternoon.
The West Derby Guardians have resolved to petition in
favour of the bill for regulating the county expenditure.
COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.—On Tuesday and Friday,
Mr. J. Rymer Jones delivered two lectures on the in-
stincts and habits of animals.
Excellent new potatoes have recently been imported
into Liverpool from Lisbon, and were readily sold at 2d.
per lb. three weeks ago.
The Rev. Thomas W. Moeran, 8.A., of Trinity Col-
lege, Dublin, and late curate of Youghtl, Ireland, has
been appointed to the curacy of St. Matthew's Church,
in this town.
At the Kirkdale Sessions, on Wednesday week, the
Rev. Harold Sherlock. M.A., rector of Ashton-le-Wil-
lows, qualified as a magistrate for the county of Lancas-
ter.

The Corporation have renewed the lease of the premises
in St, Anne-street for the judges' lodgings, the intention
to lease a house in Duke-street for the accommodation of
their lordships having been abandoned.
A fourth shipment of bullion to the United States
was made on Saturday ; the sum of £83,900 having been
embarked by the steam-ship Hibernia for Boston. The
total amount of specie exported now amounts to
£411,920,
The fine portrait of the Earl of Sefton, now exhibiting
at the Lyceum, and noticed by us a fortnight ago, will be
removed in a few days. The picture, and that of " The
Wounded Hound," in the same room, are well worthy of
inspection.

SUDDEN DEATA.—On Wednesday, a seaman named
John Bowman, belonging to the Ship Earl of Harewood,
died suddenly at his lodgings, in Glover-street. He had
just arrived by the vessel, apparently in good health, but,
while sitting on his chair, suddenly fell down, and ex-
pired in a few minutes. .
RAGGED SCHOOL UNION.—It will be seen that the
second annual meeting of this excellent institution will be
be held on Wednesday, at the Collegiate Hall. Charles
Inman, Esq. will take the chair, and the meeting will be
addressed by well-informed gentlemen from other towns
where ragged schools have long been in existence.
During the past cotton week,—namely, from the 21st
to Friday last inclusive,—a larger amount of cotton has
been imported than, we believe, in any preceding week.
The total receipts were 106,094 bales, in fifty five vessels
from the United States, three from South America, and
one from Bombay.
On Tuesday William Southward, a ship-carpenter, was
working, along with two other men, on a stage, at the
ship James H. Shepherd, lying in the Clarence Graving
Dock In consequence of the unsoundness of a pole on
which the stage mainly rested, it gave way, and the three
men were precipitated into the dock. Southward died
on the following day.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—On Sunday, at noon, a little boy,
named Alexander Youen, was playing with some other
children on the stairs at Albion-street Sunday-school,
when he accidentally fell over the ballusters down to the
ground floor or cellar. He sustained some very severe
injuries. He is, however, not considered beyond the
reach of recovery.
On Tuesday an inquest was held on the body of Anne
Barrett, residing in Back Portland-street, who committed
suicide by taking vitriol. It appeared that the deceased
had been for some time low-spirited in consequence of
the death of her children. On one of the witnesses ask-
ing her why she had taken the vitriol, she said " it was
foolery."

PARISH .ACCOUNTS.—We understand that Mr. Callis
has been for the last week or two investigating a number
of the items in the parish books, and, as a result, a de-
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putation, consisting of

that gentleman,

Jeffreys, and Mr. M'Millen, will wait upOn the Vestry
at their usual meeting to-day, to ask for the appointment
of a committee of enquiry.
EXAMINATION OF MASTERS AND

MATES

—At a

Board of Examiners, held on Tuesday, the 24th instant,
Captain Gustave Oscar Mellin, master of the Courier, of
St. John, N. 8., and Captain John Paxton, late master of
the George Armstrong, of Liverpool, were found duly
qualified for first-class •rasters' certificates. And, on
Friday, the 27th instant, Mr. George Park, mate of the
Elgin, of London. was found qualified for a second-class

master's certificate.
Seasonable weather has succeeded the severe and win-
terly demonstrations of the week before last. Sunny days
and a mild atmosphere, with occasional light rains, have
caused a beautiful change in the appearance of the country..
Vegetation is advancing rapidly. Yesterday was as fine
and sunny as could be Fished, the thermometer standing
in the shade, in the forenoon, at 62 degrees, and in the
afternoon, in a southerly aspect, at 641. The barometer
is steady, at about "'set fair."
VALUE OF PROPERTY IN THE WEST INDIES.—On Fri-
day, the two estates called Springhead and Quilts, situ-
ated in Barbadoes, and belonging to the assignees of Mr.
Higginson, were again brought to sale before the Bank-
ruptcy Court, by an order of the Vice-Chancellor, the
biddings having been opened by Thomas Lee, Esq., Sir
Osborne Gibbes sold these estates in May, 1846, to the
bankrupts for £32,000'; and at the sale on Friday Mr.
Lee purchased them for £6,750, subject to a mortgage of
£8,500, being the highest bidder.
DEATH OF MR. COUNCILLOR POOLE.—This gentleman,
who has been prominently before the town as a public
man during the last year or two, expired at his residence,
Walton, on Thursday, much regretted. He was carried
off by typhus fever, in his forty-fifth year. Mr. Poole
was churchwarden, a dock-committee man, a member of
the select vestry, and one of the representatives of St.
Anne's Ward in the Council. For the last-named va-
cancy, Mr. Thomas Avison has been named by the
National Confederation, but Mr. Dover will most likely
be elected.

MELANCHOLY CASUALTY AT SEA.—About eight days
ago the ship Viceroy, which arrived here on Wednesday
last, encountered a violent storm while at sea, which car-
ried away one of her topmasts. At the time four of the
seamen were standing on the yard attached to the frac-
tured spar, taking in sail, and were precipitated head
foremost. Two of them fell into the ocean and were
never again seen : the other two (Thos. Ryan and Han-
son F. Halton) fell on the deck, and were seriously in-
jured. They are now in the Northern Hospital.

GRATIFYING ANNOUNCEMENT.—We are extremely
glad to learn, that at a meeting of the clergy of the town
yesterday, at which Archdeacon Brooks presided, a reso-
lution was passed to carry out a design which has been
long in agitation—to have a simultaneous collection in all
the churches in Liverpool in aid of the funds of our six
leading local charitable institutions, viz., the Blue Coat
School, the Infirmary, the Dispensaries, the Female
Orphan Asylum, the Northern Hospital, and the Southern
Hospital. We understand that the collections will be
made in upwards of forty churches, on the last Sunday in
November.

THE REV. MR. DOVER'S RAGGED SCHOOL, NAYLOR-
STREET.—On Thursday, Mr. W. D. Thompson, of Bed-
ford-street, gave the pupils who attend these useful and
prosperous schools a most interesting and profitable treat,
by exhibiting to them the curious and distant, together
with a few more familiar and amusing objects of nature
and art, by means of his excellent magic lantern. Though
the pupils, male and female, showed themselves by their
apparently forbidding countenances, their torn, and, in
some cases, filthy garments, to belong to that class for
whom the schools were opened, yet their behaviour was
good, and their attention to Mr. Thompson very great.
An official return of the unoccupied dwelling-houses in
Liverpool; of a rental of £3O and upwards, gives the
extraordinary number of 5900; and yet the population, it
is said, has not decreased. No doubt many, to avoid the
heavy rates, reside in Cheshire. It is said, also, that
owing to the decreased revenues of more, that several
families occupy one house. Taking an average of £5O
per house, the empty dwellings would show a loss of
£300,000 a-year. Rents are, at last, beginning to fall ;
and a shop in Bold-street, which let for £120; is now un-
tenanted, although only £7O is asked. Landlords would
consult their own interest by anticipating a reduction to
good tenants; for, once empty, it is very hard to fill a
house again.

A WELL-EARNED TESTIMONIAL.—There has just been
presented to Mr. North, a service of plate, of the value
of 150 guineas, comprising, among other articles, two
massive tureens, thus described The Liverpool Ship-
owners' Association to John North, Esq., in testimony of
their high appreciation of his able and zealous services as
their Solicitor and Secretary, from the formation of the
Society in April, 1839, to January, 1849, when he resign-
ed those offices, on being appointed Solicitor of, the
Trustees of the Liverpool Docks." it is said that Mr.
North at first declined to accept the testimonial, contend-
ing earnestly that the mere discharge of a duty can never
entitle a man to reward or honour, and was only over-
ruled by the determination of the committee to carry out
the vote of the society.

PHOTOGRAPHY.—This scientific process of portrait-
taking is at present in full operation in Church-street,
under the superintendence of Mr. Beard, of London, the
son of the well-known London operator. The rooms are
spacious, and elegantly, fitted up ; and as the public have
free access, they are thus enabled to form their own opi-
nion of the accuracy and artistic pretensions of the nume-
rous miniatures which ornament the apartments, many of
which are the more easily criticised, from the fact of their
being the likenesses of individuals filling prominent posi-
tions in the town. Knowing the great outlay which has
been rendered necessary, in order to present the art in a
guise and on a scale worthy of its scientific pretensions,
it is gratifying to observe that the public have so heartily
welcomed its introduction to the town. We predict a
rich reward to the polite and spirited young gentleman
who controls the new establishment.
TEE SATURDAY EVENING CONCERTS.—The last of
these entertainments for the present season was given on
Saturday evening to a large and respectable audience.
Several of the most influential gentlemen belonging to
the town, who have given their countenance and support
to the efforts made by the managers of these concerts,
were present; amongst others we noticed the Mayor.
(who occupied the chair,) Mr. William Rathbone, Mr.
Christopher Bushell, &c. That most accomplished hu-
mourist and vocalist, Mr. Samuel Lover, gave his inimi-
table Irish entertainment, entitled " Random Shots from
Rory's Rifle" during which he kept the audience in most
perfect good temper by his sallies of wit, laughable inci-
dents, songs, and stories. In the interval between the
first and second parts, Mr. Priest, the author of the
second prize essay, proposed the presentation df an ad-
address to Jenny Lind, requesting that she will afford the
working classes an opportunity of hearing her vocal
efforts, at such charges for admission as will be within
their means, in conformity with the suggestion recently
made at the soiree, by Mr. Charles Robertson. The ad-
dress was approved by the audience, and the Mayor was
requested, to, submit it to the celebrated songstress.

THE MISSION OF DR. WNEILE.-Dr. Hugh M'Neile
has announced his mission upon earth. On Monday a
public meeting was held at Freemason's-hall, for the pur-
pose of forming a Church of England Metropolitan Train-
ing Institution. "He hated Popery," Dr. M`Neile said
at this meeting. "He was born and bred to hate it. He
had hated it through life, and he should continue to do so
until death." What must have been the parentage of a
man who was born to hate the majority of the Christian
world ? What the education of a man bred to hate them ?
ONE, whose name it might be too profane to record in such
connexion, has ordered, and with authority not to be gain-
said,—" But I say unto you which hear, LOVE YOUR
ENEMIES." Unto you, which hear I—Jerrold's Weekly
News.—[Dr. MaNeile is quite Scriptural notwithstanding
all this sanctimonious pother. ANOTHER, whose name it
is quite needless to mention to those who know their
Bibles, and therefore, of course, to the Editor of Jerrold's
Weekly News, has said,—" I esteem all Thy precepts,
concerning all things, to be right, and I hate every false
way." As for loving your enemies, it strikes us that the
most violent hater of Popery is he who has most love for
Papists. Dr. M'Neile does not say that he hates Papists,
but Popery. And query : What " love" had the writer
of the above paragraph for Dr. M'Neile when he thus mis-
stated the fact ? Are none to love but ministers ? And is
false doctrine the only thing to be loved ?]

EXTENSIVE ItOBBERI the night of Tuesaa,
the premises of Mr. Thomas Sorton, pawnbroker and
outfitter, Dale-street, were broken open, and sixty-five
watches, jewellery, gold wedding rings, and various arti-
cles of plate, abstracted. The shop next to that of Mr.
Sorton is at present empty. To this the thieves first
gained access, then went upon the roof, and there being
no person living at Mr. Sorton's shop, easily effected an
entrance by removing the slates from the roof.
ROYAL LIVER THEATRE.—Yesterday week Mr. Ho-
ward Glover's new opera, " Aminta," was to have been
produced • but the severe indisposition of Miss Sara
Flower, who sustains a chief part in it, rendered it neces-
sary to discontinue the performance towards the close of
the first act. What we heard of the music made a favour-
able impression, and elicited a regret at the untoward in-
terruption. The " Daughter of the Regiment," with
Miss Anne Romer as Maria, was then the opera of the
week. We can only say that Miss Romer has added a
new leaf to her laurels; in fact, she is constantly rising
in the favour of the audience, who well know how to ap-
preciate her talents and untiring exertions. The opera
had been much mutilated, and some of the finest airs and
choruses left out ; however, the performance in itself was
creditable. The trio in the second act, " Once more met,"
between Maria, Tonio, (Mr. Hime,) and Sulpizio, (Mr.
Delavantti,) was very ably executed; so was the famous
" Singing Lesson," which experienced an encore.
APPEAL CASES AT THE KIRKDALE SESSIONS.—On
Monday, at the Kirkdale Sessions, the Warrington Wa-
ter-works Company appealed against a poor-rate of
£lB 155., charged upon the works of the company, which
were assessed at £250. The ground of appeal was, that as
the receipts of the company were only £250, and the ex-
penses £453 125., the works of the company could not be
rated until they yielded a return. The magistrates de-
cided in favour of the appellants, ordering the name of
the company and the amount charged upon them to be
struck out.—An important appeal affecting innkeepers
in the country next came before the enert_

was John Belshaw, who keeps the Ship Inn, in Great
Crosby, and on the 11th of February last, a number of
persons came in the omnibus, which plies regularly from
Liverpool to Crosby. They got out at the house of Mr.
Belshaw, and having knocked at the door, and stated they
came from Liverpool, were admitted. Some of these per-
sons were going to Ince, two miles further on ; others
were not going further than Crosby ; but all were return-
ing to Liverpool during the day. The time they were ad-
mitted was during divine service in the afternoon, and the
only person supplied with ale demanded it as a traveller.
Mr. Pollock, in support of the conviction, said that a per-
son who went six miles outside the town, returning the
same day, could not be considered a traveller. Mr. P.
then quoted the definitions of the lexicographers as to the
word traveller, in which they agreed that the meaning im-
plied something toilsome or wearisome, and then said it
was for the bench to say whether going to Crosby in an
omnibus, getting a glass of ale, and coming back in the
evening, was wearisome or toilsome. Mr. Monk, for the
appellant, contended that these even were travellers
within the meaning of the act, and that the appellant was
bound to admit them or submit himself to an indictment.
Mr. M., in citing evidence as to the meaning of the word
traveller, showed that Dryden spoke of a man ending his
travels, although he had only gone three miles. Ile con-
tended, therefore, that the conviction must be quashed.
The bench unanimously agreed to confirm the conviction.
TAE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Those who have on
summer evenings lingered delighted amid the varied
attractions of the Zoological Gardens (and what Liverpool
resident has not ?) will learn with;pleasure that this de-
lightful resort is to be opened for the season this even-
ing, May-day. Smiling spring• has made its earliest
visit to the favoured spot, and the gardens (always a model
of neatness) already display great floral beauty, and are
rich in foliage and verdure. The scenic representation
for this summer is of the most magnificent character, the
subject chosen for illustration being the Turkish capital,
Constantinople. The painting has been executed under
the superintendence of Mr. Battie, of the Royal Vaux-
hall Gardens, London, and the result is a diiplay of taste
and talent that cannot fail to attract the highest admira-
tion. It would be impossible to convey in a brief descrip-
tion the leading feature of the striking tableau; but few
places could have been chosen affording finer scope for
the display of the picturesque. At twilight the minarets
of all the mosques will be brilliantly illuminated, and it
is considered that the portrryal of the Turkish Ramazan,
or Lent, will exceed in splendour any thing hitherto
attempted in the pyrotechnic art. The lake that skirts
the picture has been enlarged and ingeniously altered so
as to conform with the leading features of the scene. The
exhibition of fireworks will be, as usual, under the ma-
nagement of Mr. John Atkins, the prince of pyrotechnists,
and who has, we learn, been planning during the winter
many striking and novel devices. The concert-hall, which
proved during the past seasons so great an attraction, has
been richly decorated by Mr. Battie. The walls are
divided into panels, into each_ of which is inserted a
spirited scene from some of the popular operas of the
day. The menagerie has received a considerable accession
amongst the leading additions, being one of the finest
lions in Europe. The electric light, which the public of
Liverpool have never yet seen in its effectiveness, is in
course of erection, and should it succeed, we may look
for a brilliant illumination, not only of the gardens, but
of the whole neighbourhood. With these, added to other
multitudinous attractions, a well-conducted refectory,
and a fine band, discoursing sweet music from the veran-
dah on the lawn, we doubt not that the gardens will
enjoy their ancient and deserved popularity, and we can-
not do otherwise than wish the spirited proprietors every