The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-05 00:00:00

to see the exhihition of painting
excellent.

MORE DEATHS BY FIRE.-The inquests announced in
Liverpool last week include five children who have lost
their life by fire.
-IA I .
A QUALIFIC ATION. —A sho' leepet Pro
used during the past wee' tor "

p keelitkiin 80ld-street ad

applicant grounc

)n of sharpness on thE

•ROBBERY -OF PLAT
at in at the back den,.

70n WE-

some thieves

and stole £lB. worth osf
left open only

use, Grove-stree

The back door had beer;

AMERICAN PR(
xrrived

this port f

zes,t)l2 bushels ,
bushels, 11,202 rnh,
Mr. Carter, of Seei.
~et, entertained the whole of the
men in his establishment' on New Year's Eve at Mr
Whiteman's Brunswick Hotel. A dinner was provide,'
the host's usual unsurpassed style, and the great,
rity prevailed throughout the evening
GRAND CONCERT.—Nr--

—— • • ru can a ...AO I.JI ur,
519 sacks a Indian corn, 75,233
•

Wood,- the celebrated vo-

and long W;t;;;

he Conc

NIII appear at
--hall on 1V
lair, and Si,

londay and

The vet

ior §apio

will sing on the same occasions.
- THE WEATHER.—On Monday morning a thaw set in
about eleven, and until Friday we had foggy, dirty weather,
but the atmosphere much warmer. On Saturday night
and Sunday we had a hard frost. Yesterday, thaw again
set in, and there is every appearance of a fall of snow.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—About six weeks ago, Mr. William
Owen, of Seymour-street, an old gentleman, aged 83, was

utru, manott-street. tie was at-
tended by a surgeon ; but within the last few days morti-
ication set int which terminated in death on Thursday

morning
.MRS. PARRES' ART-UNION.—The drawing of first al-
lotments in this scheme, for the disposal of so many and
valuable works of art, takes place to-morrow, at 51, Bold-
street. The admission is free, and those who do not take
shares will, at least, be repaid by an inspection of speci-
men prints, and paintings, hung in the room. The
number of shares already taken in Liverpool is immense.
TREAT TO WORKMEN.—On Saturday evening, Mr.
John Abbott, cabinet-maker, Islington, gave a handsome
supper to the numerous workmen in his employ. The
usual loyal toasts having been given, the men evinced
their gratitude and esteem for their enterprising master,
by repeated pledges of devotion to his interest,
,and
hearty wishes for his continued prosperity. _

DISPATCH

The entire earg

of the ship Duke of Wel-
of fifty puncheons of

lington, from Calcutta, consisting
rum, and upwards of seven thousan

hundred tons in

Imt week, in the ye

of eighteen working

BILL.—The Mercury of Friday denied
Le truth of the statement in our last, that rumours were
(road of the abandonment of the Rivington Pike Water
ill u-

THE W.

ui.o- contemporary is to be aware of all the
reports that are current in the town, he does not inform
us. The Journal, however, says that we are " substan-
tially right," and we can only wait for time to test the
C,211P

SCIENTIFIC NOVELTY.—Messrs. Gray and Keen, the
scientific nautical instrument-makers, of Strand-street,
in this town, have recently completed a wheel-barometer,
of improved construction, with transparent dial-plate for
ithlminsainn

the finished accuracy of ti

indications of change in atmospheric pressure are of e
Creme delicacy.

movement

ain to be mad

LAW OF MARRIAGE.---Application is ag
to parliament on the law which prohibits mainage with
the sister of a deceased wife, and Mr. Aspinall is now in
this, town collecting information on the subject. It ha,
been ascertained by actual . .

marriages of this kind, among ec
ceedingly large,, as many as fifty 1
'st in a single town, among persoi

stances,

that the number of

spectable circum-

MINIATURE PIANO.-116 lovers of novelty have been
gratified during the past week with• a gratuitous sight of
the diminutive piauo-forte just compled for the rptirmi,f_
ahlp m_ _ _

Most splendid sped
ring the dimensions