The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-05-11 00:00:00

Nay 11, 1847.

total AtIDS.

Two pick-pockets, apprehended on the ferry, boats have
been committed to prison for a month.
Three hundred and forty-two pounds have been raised
by the congregation of Trinity Church at Birkenhead for
the Irish and Scotch. The balance in hand is £2l.

Col. White, of Woodlands, near Dublin, on his pas-
sage from that port to Liverpool, was seized with an apo-
plectic fit, and died at the Adelphi Hotel on Tuesday.
On Wednesday evening, Rosa Kegean, about to embark
in a DrOgheda steamer, fell down, and died from disease
of the heart, at the Clarence Dock.
On Wednesday, a middle-aged female, named Margaret
Whittle, residing in a cellar in Hunter-street, fell in a fit
beneath the grate, and was burned to death.
A fire broke out, on Saturday, in the premises of Messrs.
Ewing, ship bread bakers, Queen-street, and considerable
damage was done to the stock.
Mary Burns, a stout masculine woman, well-known in
London, according to the reporter of The Times, as
"Liverpool Poll," has been committed to Newgate for
manslaughter, she having killed a painter.
Mr. George Vandenhoff arrived here from America, on
Thursday, in the Yorkshire. The New York papers ere
unanimous in giving him such a farewell of praises and
good wishes as few actors are fortunate enough to obtain.
Mr. Gibson, the celebrated sculptor, now in Rome, has
Just completed the freize of a mantle-piece raised to the
height of six feet from the ground, representing "The
Hours leading the Horses of the Sun to the Chariot of
Apollo." It has been executed for Earl Fitzwilliam, and
is spoken of as a work of great artistic beauty.
Mr. Thomas Rowlandson has obtained the prize given
by the Royal Agricultural Society for the best essay on
the burning of land for manure. This is the second prize
Mr. R. has obtained from the society.
The emigrants who have left Londonderry for America
and Canada since the commencement of the season amount
to 5003, and it is said that 3500 have left that port
to proceed by Liverpool and Glasgow. It is calculated
that 8000 more will have left before September.
BIRKENHEAD DOCK BILLS.—The parliamentary com-
mittee have passed the bill for constructing a new dock
and altering the culvert. The preamble of the bill for
altering the mode of assessing the frontagers upon the
upper pool was also declared proved on Wednesday.
The number of horned cattle exported from Ireland to
Liverpool between Ist Jan. and 26th April last has ex-
ceeded that exported in the same periodof 1846, by 5,581.
The excess in sheep was 2,000, but in pigs there has been
the enormous decrease of 100,138.
THE CORPORATION WATER BILL.—On Thursday,
Mr. Rendel, the engineer, was examined before the par-
liamentary committee, and approved of the plan for sup-
plying the town with water. This closed the case for the
promoters of the bill, and 'Mr. Hill addressed the com-
mittee at great length in opposition to the bill. On Fri-
day, after the examination of several witnesses, the chair-
man said, that perhaps it might be convenient to the parties
to state what was the opinion of the committee in cases
similar to those of Mr. Chippendale. It had been re-
solved, that the committee were of opinion that the de-
terioration of the quality of the water was a matter for
compensation only. Mr. Webster said, under these cir-
cumstances, he would offer tie further objection to the
preamble of the bill. The committee then adjourned to
yesterday, (Monday.)
TT-In LAKES.—Parties leaving Liverpool at 3 p.m. may

reach Milnthorpe by railway in time for the mail coach at

Lage, ai

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The whole lake district may thus be travelled with ease iP n
a very few days.

INQUEST.—On Saturday, an inquest was held, before
Mr. Curry, on view of the body of Richard Reed. aced

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18 months, who lived with his Parents in Chapel Build-
ings, Cockspur-street. On Thursday morning, deceased
Went.mit intn thp yard_ mid by cmni. nnoidant fall rin.vn

mto the privy midden, where he was soon afterwards
found floating in the water with his face down, and quite
dead.—Verdict. " Accidentally suffocated."

Is settled at last; the gentlemen composing the committee
of the Bebbington Horticultural Society have arranged
the terms which are as follows:—Four gentlemen of Che-
shire will show two Fuschias each, against a similar num-
ber shown by any four Lancashire gentlemen, at the first
show of the Bebbington Society at Rock Ferry. The
Stakes, we understand, are to be £4 aside.
The Vice-Chancellor has dissolved, with costs, the in-
it_inction granted to the Corporation, and restraining Mr.
Norris from erecting his house in Islington and corner of
Christian-street. His honour said that the case was re-
inarkably plain. The language of the act obtained in
1842, applied to any house "which now projects" and the
house of the defendant rather receded than projected from
the line nn Paoli cirlP
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e said to project within the meaning of the act.
THE SWATARA , from Liverpool, left Belfast with 290
Passengers for Philadelphia,
_and having been dismasted

_es of Monday and Tuesday, put into Lough
Foyle on Sunday week, and is now lying at Moville.
This is the third time that she has been obliged to turn
back, under jury masts, since she left Liverpool, about
nine wr.plra arrn Rpfnra cha left Rplfn ct a fpur vgc.Plra %WO-

whereago! c 111 C ICIL_JJCIII.I, ICW w rczka asv,
she was refitted, typhus fever broke out among the
passengers to an alarming extent, and many were cut off
y its ravages. Fever is still prevalent.

..averpoo

amount of s

✓
ous steamers for some time past, amounting to only
X 150,000. In proof of this diminution arising solely from
the present Monetary nrogclirs.

tion in the exchanges. it is said that upwards of £lOO,OOO
was put on board the steamer, and afterwards re-landed,
without any arrival from America having occurred in the
monr.timr.

UNEXPECTEDLY CAUGHT.—On Tuesday week, Super-
intendent Leveratt, being on his way to London, to give

eviden

a committee

vvhilst seated in the train at Stafford
station, observed a fellow steal a parcel from a lady who
was LiPttinfr into a carriage, seized the thief, apprised the

on the Wa

lady-of the theft, and -gave him into tl
policeman, who conveyed him to Stafford.

day the prisoner w

day or two previous, had committed a murderous aszl-adt
in the neighbourhood, from which he was making his es-

cape to London

MR. GEORGE li

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has secured t
returned for

2•IDENHOFF.-Mr. W. J. -Hammond
ices of this gentleman (who has just

make his first appearance on Wednesday. The New York
2110 Tor thus speaks of him on his departure. He has our
best wishes, and those of many sincere friends here, for
his su...f.r.Q. rsri +IA. ntbar CLIP of the WSIfPI• Thriwn is

great opening for him there just now, where the English
stage is confessedly so much in want of young and vigorous
talent, the infusion of young blood, to revive it. His

style is energetic, elegant, fe-rvid, and yet free from vio-
lence and exaggeration ; and in this country he has esta-
`hlished for himself a solid reputation as a refined and das-
zical artiste . His range of characters is extraordinary in
its enm..—

comedy. We recoiled on one occasion he performed (and
to the entire satisfaction of his audience) two characters of
extreme opposition, Cato and Doricourt ; somewhat of a
feat for any man. In Hamlet, Benedict, Ranger, Mer-
eutio, &c., there are few actors who have won greater ap-
plause; while in the characters of Kitely and Matthew
Elmore, he surprised his audience by the exhibition of a
totally different order of talent ; and his Falconbridge, in
the revival of " King John," will not soon be forgotten.
Success to him in his own country, from which, we trust,
be will return to us with the halo of a great European re-
putation. . • _

MR. GOODALL'S FAREWELL CONCERT. - Mr. John
mdall, our townsman, the celebrated violinist, took his
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The sta

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displayed, it was a- first-rate -affair.
Olt was Mr. Goodall ; as a violinist lie
by one or two, his command of the in-
inst. and he pours mind into his music,

is unequalled sa'

his execution ranges from
tlest and softest notes ti
under his guidence-

ear can retain, and indeed

tne violin " discourses most eloquer
As a violoncello player, he is second only t

gelledmi ioleaveThisnatisre town Co seek that support fro
strangers which is withheld from him at home. This fa,

does not speak well foi
I.opians... When M

hi,h. name in the musical world, which he assuredly wil
beep then- in the flush of his fame and pro'sperity he wil
Idly claimed as a townsman by those who have left
him to seek a shelter for his great talents in a distau
"vn. Mr. Adams presided at the pianoforte, and ac•
Tnipanied the songs, exhibiting a very great command o: