The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-13 00:00:00

boy see

train fast approm
his saddle without much injur
not to be daunted by the loss

Lere was

Ins straight-a-head career, charged the railway fence,
being a stiff quick hedge, and post and rail, and cleared
over the line just in time as the train came up; one
instant and the animal must have been struck down by
engine.

idress was given, in the Christ
Church Sunday-school rooms, Bradford, on Monday eve-
ning week, by the Rev. W. Morgan, Incumbent of Christs
Church, to the parents of the children who attend the
Sune

EDUCATION

y and week-day Natiorial School, and to others, who
were freely admitted without any restriction. The room

was quite filled, and all present paid the greatest attention
to an historical detail of the progress of education since
the formation of the Society for Promoting Christian-
Knowledge in 1698, to the rise of Sunday-schools in 1781.
and there increase, and also to the National School So-
ciety, instituted in 1811, and incorporated in 1817•
Various documents were quoted and referred to in illus-
tration of these and other means employed both by
Churchmen and Dissenters to instruct the children of the

was made of ti

e enons, a statemen.
the inefficient know-

:of our population, which occas

exhortation to study it without prejudice, and in itselt
without the garbled accounts of party writers and an-
onymous hand bills. In conclusion, the clergymen left
nan's conscience what steps to take respect-
oon as he had finished this address, which
took up more than an hour, one of the Sunday-school
teachers, without any previous arrangement, proposed
that a petition in favour of the Government plan should

it to eve

ment. This was seconded and put to the vote, and it was
unanimously carried. We leave our readers to judge
from this fact what the judgment of the common people
would be on the subject of the Government plan if theY
were not misled by the garblec, its

statements and mispepre-
alsehood to truth.

ientations of thcise who pref
MYSTERIOUS POISONINI
The investigation

ATTLEBURGH TUESDAY
vened by Mr. Pilgrim, the
1-1 ult.,, respecting the deaths

Norfolk

ten O'clock, at the Greyhoundinn,iii;TieriTam, a village
about eight miles distant. James Warren, an intelligent
lad, aged 18, servant to Mr. Joseph Pearson, was the first

of the police.—Eliza Sap

t on the day in questum
the kettle for breakfast.—Coroner : If poison
been found in the tea kettle, can you form any opinion
as to how it got there ?—Witness : I cannot, sir • she cos
a good mistress to me, and I am very sorry if dud is the
case. The water that remained in the tea kettle on Sue:

clay morning tile aoctor LOOK away. 1 'mesa a nottie
the water from the kettle on the same morning to warp
my mistress's feet. I put the kettle in the copper hole 10
the back house on Saturday night. I placed it on the fire
on Sunday morning before I went milking. On ti?°
Thursday before her death, my mistress took me up in
her room and showed me some mice holes in a closet ; sne
hole, it was mixed up in some'
- 1 sr-- 'eV

put some

son in the

thing in a basin. I swept out the closet, an ,ome
of the poison were amongst the dust which she threw on
the tire, and there was no vessel on the fire when she
the kettle was not near it. On the Sun-

it there

called at the house and directed •me to fetch another tea'
kettle for tea, as she was afraid to drink out of the one
that had previously been in use : she was afraid to 110:e
tea made in it. The medical gentlemen had the kettle
which boiled the water on Sunday morning. A wrong
one was given them at first, but the mistake was rectifit
and the right one entrusted to them. Mr. G. W.
surgeon, of Norwich, deposed that on the 31st of iunrate
he made a post mortem examination of the bOdiens,..4nic.
deceased ; he had no doubt they had died fOul
He also examined some tea-leaves +o,.kettle, and
arsenic in all. The • --- a then o-
pt oceectings- were

F SELF-DES'

self de'

o Leeds, by two young
Wilson. Bolland wag
ed with his parents

Nita

April 13, 1847.

Eon! ptius.

The steam-ship Hibernia, which would leave Boston
'on the Ist may be expected here to-morrow.
On Sunday, the body of a full-grown female child was
found in the water near to Salthouse Dock.
The office fixtures of the defunct Anti-Monopoly Asso-
ciation in this town will be sold by auction to-morrow.
The Rev. Thomas Nolan preached in Trinity Church,
Dublin, on Sunday, in aid of the Swift's Alley Free
Church, in that city.
On Monday, a respectable female was delivered of a
child on board the Prince steamer, while crossing from
Woodside to Liverpool.
On Sunday last, an aged woman named Sarah Roberts,
formerly living in Albert-street, died whilst sleeping be-
fore the fire.

The Oregon, the first ship which entered the Birkenhead
Dock, did not pay town-dues on her cargo. The matter
stands over for future decision.

A man unknown, was, on. Saturday last, seen leaning
against a wall in Great Crosshall-street; he fell down, and
it was found that he was dead.

John Peters, a seaman. on board a vessel in Waterloo
Dock, died suddenly on Friday afternoon, at his lodgings
in Peter-street.

On Sunday morning, Ellen Kinsley, a female aged 76
years, formerly residing in Camden-street, arose from her
bed, and upon walking across the floor suddenly expired.
The Rev. Hugh M`Neile is announced to preach the
annual sermon in London for the Church Pastoral-Aid
Society, on Monday the 10th of May. Lord Ashley will
preside at the annual meeting on the following day.
On Tuesday a fine bloodhound, belonging to Alexander
Shand, Esq., had a large tumour abstracted from her
throat by Mr. Robert Lucas, whilst in an insensible state
from inhaling ether.
In the case of alleged murder in a house of ill-fame,
mentioned in our last, the jury returned a verdict of
" Died by the visitation of God," the surgeon's opinion
being that she died of congestion of the brain.
It is said that a small parcel delivery will be established
between Birkenhead and Liverpool three times a day,
with a trifling charge for ferry and delivery on each side
of the Mersey. This is much wanted.
From the Ist of February to the 6th of April there
arrived in Liverpool from Ireland 88,812 persons. There
are now on the parish books 11,000 Irish getting relief.
The number of emigrants since January is 29,000.
CAUTION TO NIGHTMEN.—On Wednesday, several
persons, who are not employed by Mr. Richard Pickering,
contractor to the Corporation, were summoned, and fined
40s. and costs, for illegally removing soil from ash-pits.
The splendid steam-ship Sarah Sands sailed for New
York on Tuesday, with 150 passengers, a full cargo, and
£200,000 in specie. She ran from the Rock to the Light-
ship in an hour.
The body of a male child apparently between 12 and 14
months old was found on Monday morning, whilst some
men were digging clay in a field between Hopwood-street
and Vauxhall-road.
At Liverpool alone, within the month just closed, and
chiefly towards its close, besides 186,184 bushels of peas
and beans, upwards of 127,000,000 lbs. of bread stuffs
were imported from foreign countries.
On Saturday the dead body of a supposed inhabitant of
Liverpool was found in a ditch near Manchester. He was
dressed in a blue cloth body coat, with bright buttons,
and the body is at the Swan public-house, Pendleton.
On Monday, an inquest was held upon the body of a
man named Patrick Quinn, who had died in consequence
of injuries received in blasting for an excavation at the
new north docks.

On Tuesday evening, George Neill committed suicide
FY cutting his throat with a knife. He had been confined
in gaol, and his punishment had such an effect on him as
to turn his brain.
The morning train from London to Liverpool will
shortly be so arranged as to its time of starting, and so
accelerated in speed, as to ensure the delivery of the
,London morning papers in Liverpool about noon on the
day on which they are published.
Madame Vestris has presented Mr. M. H. Simpson,
lessee of the Theatres-royal Liverpool and Birmingham,
with a fine portrait of herself. In the inscription at-
tached to the portrait, which is in the donor's handwriting,
it purports to be presented " with thanks for his uniform
kindness for many years."
On Thursday, a woman named Margaret Doyle died in
the Borough Gaol. It appeared she was under sentence
of imprisonment for four months, for felony, and had
been in the hospital, under medical treatment, for a lin-
gering disease, which disease was the cause of death.
Verdict accordingly.

MORTALITY IN LIVERPOOL.—The person employed
by the parish authorities to provide coffins for the poor
creatures who are dying daily from starvation or fever,
asserted in the Police-court, on Friday, that he supplies
More than two hundred of these fragile tenements every
w,,eek. He further stated that he received an order for
lairt.L.,Y-six dozen on Thursday last.
PUBLIC SALE OF PRODUCE AT BIRKENHEAD.
un Saturday, the cargo of the Oregon, from Patagonia,
the
first vessel which entered the Birkenhead Dock, was
offered at public auction, at two o'clock, in Gough's
Hotel coffee-room, contiguous. to the dock and ferry.
There was a spirited competition for the first lot, which
a'as sold at £6 15s. per ton, includin d bags. About sixty
tuns were sold altogether, down to £5 12s. 6d. The re-
mainder._ was then withdrawn.
,1-lEA.vn FROM SCALDING.—On Tuesday evening, Mary
Ikendrick, nineteen months old, the illegitimate child of
Elizabeth Kendrick, who resides in Ford-street, attempted
to stand on a chair, which was near the fire, but over-
balanced herself, and fell down : in her fall she seized a
Pan which stood on the hob, and which was full of hot
water. The water, of course, was spilled over the unfor-
tunate infant, who in consequence was severely scalded..
Site expired on Thursday.
MORTALITY IN LIVERPOOL IN 1846.—The parish ac-
counts have just been .published. It appears by this
return that the baptisms in 1846 were 11,648, the burials
6,970, and the marriages 3,901. The increase in baptisms
has been 472, in burials 1,917, and in marriages 316. The
greatest mortality seems to have been amongst children
under two years of age, of whom 1,911. died during the
„,tivelve months. In what is called the vicinity, such as
ucxteth-park, Everton, &c., the additional baptisms have
been 1,548, burials 4,114, and marriages 428.
THK IRISH POOR IN LIVERPOOL.—A communication
has been addressed to Mr. Austin, the Assistant Poor-
law Commissioner, from the Select Vestry in this town,
re, lzesting his immediate attendance, in consequence of
the immense influx of persons from Ireland in a state of
destitution. It appears by the statement in the commu-
nication that there have been landed in Liverpool within
ICS last nine days, the following astounding number of
;44nish emigrants ;—Men, 7410 ; women, 4,287 ; children,
-'"lB—Total, 14,615. Mr. Austin arrived in Liverpool
un Saturday.
On Wednesday evening a tea party was held on behalf
(. tae Schools of St. Barnabas, at the school-rooms, in
Greenland-street. James Lawrence, Esq., presided. The
v. Mr. Nolan, Rev. Edward Marks, D.D., Rev. J. R.
ran Omor, Rev. W. Carpenter, Rev. Robert Davies, Rev.
Crump, Rev. Thomas Irvine, and the Rev. Edward
Aeberts severally addressed the meeting. Miss Blundell
Presided at the piano-forte ; Miss Levan, Miss Fairhurst,
and Messrs. Roberts, Stott, and Evans, delighted the
audience with their vocal abilities, and were rapturously
applauded.
THE LORD WARDEN.—On Saturday, there was a most
satisfactory trial of the speed of this noble steamer, the
first that entered the Birkenhead docks on Monday.
She steamed out of the harbour and round the Northwest
Lightship, and from point to point she ran twenty-two
miles in one hour and twenty-two minutes, being at the
unusually rapid rate of sixteen miles an hour. What
makes this rapidity the more remarkable is, that she ran
the first eleven of those miles against the wind, and the
remaining eleven against the tide, thus exceeding in speed
the Princess Clementine and the Princess Helenor, both
ofi which as well as the Lord Warden, were built by Mr.
'Olll Laird. The engines of these three fine steamers
were made by Forrestr and Co.
r, INQUESTS ON SATURDAY, BEFORE THE BOROUGH
CORONER.—On view of the body of John Kennedy, a
married man living in Stockdale-street. Deceased was
aabout
33 years of age. . Five or six months ago, while in
4alicate health, he having been subject to spitting of blood,
e went out. In coming home he had a quarrel with a
named Timmaney, and said to his wife that the
t tatter had struck him, and that he returned the blow;
bat Timrnaney met him afterwards at the top of Oxford-
street, and knocked him down, and kicked him on the
tsf• The spitting of blood became greater on Tuesday
t7ft'i nand he died next day. On a post mortem examina-
-1-4 Ppea that death was caused by disease of the
trigs, but a fractured rib on the right side had accelerated
14!,death. Verdict accordingly.—On the body of Thos.
;..Lei four months old, residing with his parents in Cher-
-1:
Thee mother stated that coming down stairs
‘l3, the child in her arms, it dropped its head on her
dcuilder, became black in the face, and died in about a
earter-of-an-hour. Verdict died from convulsions. On
lilAwut. Ann Corner, aged 85, who resided in Myrtle-street.
vv4.4' went to bed on Thursday night in good health, and
aw there found dead in the morning. Verdict (after ex-
W'llation) died from disease of the lungs.—On Emma
eir, lid, aged two years and a-half. On Wednesday,
slie'reher mother was handing her to a little girl to hold,
thoktne child) accidentally fell into a pan of hot water
eiii"w,as on the floor, and her left leg was much scalded.
atid the following day she was seized with convulsions,
,suori afterwards died. Verdict : death from the con-
x%.„'uns, brought on by the scalding.
HOSPITAL.—II will be seen that on Sunday
two sermons will be preached in aid of the funds of
Vl.excellent charity, one at Edge-hill by the Rev. H.
'eGratli, incumbent of St. Anne's, Manchester, the
heb(s! at St. John's, by the Rev. Wm. Falloon. These
tiOutis will come in most timely, as we understand that
apo'unds of the hospital are deplorably low, and the calls
so fuipe charity on the increase ; in fact we believe that
is the hospital at present that the patients are
P? the floors anywhere that they can be conveniently
IR aiS". Instead of now and then a sermon being preaAied
at ;" of Ibis institution, there ought to be a contribution
the Place of worship' in the town for the admission of
kost'atients to the hospital, irrespective of sect. We do
Avealti urg:entiv call upon our Christian brethre.n, onr
the e triends, and all whose sympathies are enlisted in
aiostaPc of philanthropy, to step forward and assist this
,Uales;',e,!erving.institution. We have
.been assured. that
moile the Public will support it more liberally than it has
tires must be conducted in a different way than at
401,1 Any narrowing of its utilities we apprehend
thisdis cause will be a step which will reflect so much
lioXa_cce, upon us as a Christian community, that we do
tqctionnsv.errin to hear a whisper of the committee's in-
:4said Rev. Hugh. M`Neile has said most truly
riiedrth..at a public meeting ought to be held, and the most
on tgetic methods taken to enable the committee to carry
aobtee charitYp not in a private dwelling house, but in a
eou._ Public building. The effort now mking to sue-
S our Irish brethren is most meritorious abut
Elie same time not forget our local charities we
must.

THE WEATHER.—On Wednesday, Thursday, and Fri-
day last this neighbourhood was visited by a strong gale
of wind from the westward. By Friday night, however,
the storm had spent its strength, and Saturday was a fine
April day. Throughout Sunday there was a cold drizzling
rain, which continued to fall until early yesterday morn-
ing. Yesterday was dull and cloudy.
EDUCATION FOR. THE MIDDLE CLASSES.—A petition
signed by the two rectors of Liverpool, 22 masters in the
collegiate schools, and 21 masters in the schools of the
Mechanics' Institution, has been presented to the House
of Commons, praying that out of the £lOO,OOO annually
voted for educational purposes, a certain portioru hould
be set apart for the establishment of fellowships in the
largest towns of England, and to be restricted exclusively
to the middle classes. The petitioners suggest that each
fellowship should be of the value of £4O, and be tenable
for three years. They predicate the best results from the
adoption of their proposal.
THE LIVERPOOL LION.—On Saturday, we were fa-
voured with the first number of a new publication under
this title, illustrated after the manner of Punch, and we
are assured the work solely of Liverpool art. It is very
creditably got up as a first effort, and displays considerable
as well as artistical talent. The leading illustration of
Lord Morpeth at Birkenhead is rather too severe. The
poetical description, however, which accompanies it is
done in a very good spirit. The writer is an Ingoldsby.
As a specimen, we select the following very characteristic
parody upon a well known poem by Tennyson :

A PLAGIARISM UPON TENNYSON.
With little flags the Woodside boats
Were thickly covered one and all ;
The people wore their Sunday coats,
And
faces
thceeys
lookedwalk' a
d the
stlrl as lead,eetsw a sluggish crawl.
Their
Uplifted.was each staring eye,
In hopes some sort of, fun to spy
Throughout the streets of Birkenhead.
They only said—" It's precious dreary,
" Where is the fun 7" they said.
Each said, "I am a-weary, a-weary,
I wish I was in bed.'
They shouted when the Warden steamer
Into the Docks the first time plied,
Much food for mirth they didn't deem her,
Though to enjoy themselves they tried.
They shouted out and toss'd their liats,
And fain would think it famous fun,
Though real enjoyment there was none.
They look'd a set of gloomy flats, •
And only said—" It's precious dreary,
" Where is the fun "—they said,
Each said—" I am a-weary, a weary,
I wish I was in bed."
Up to a latish hour of night,
In hopes of sport they stroll'd about,
Then tire-works they tried to light—
The rain came down and put them out.
Still on they stroll'd, no sign of change,
All still was dull and most forlorn,
As it had been since gray-eyed morn.
To call this fun was really strange:
And still they said—" It's precious dreary,
"There is no fun,"—they said.
They said—" We are a-weary, a-weary,
We'd better go to bed."
Some purchased nuts at many a stall,
And crack'd them dolefully ; some crept
To see the people for the ball,
As from the carriages they stept ;
But still they gaped and yawned away,
No indication could they mark,
Of aught approaching to a lark ;
Still vaguely sadly did they stray,
And only said—" It's precious dreary,
There is nolun," they said :
So some of them got beery, beery,
And thus they went to bed.

AN INTELLECTUAL TREAT.—It has often been our
pleasing task to speak, in terms of the highest commen-
dation, of the distinguished principal of Great George-
street Academy, in this town. Mr. Fisher is not only a
gentleman of high literary attainments, but of great
energy and perseverance in various religious and benevo-
lent objects. On Tuesday evening he delivered a splen-
did lecture in the Royal Assembly-rooms, at the special
request of the Rev. F. Parry, the proceeds of which are
to be applied to the liquidation of a debt connected with
St. Clement's Church, Windsor. Throughout the lec-
ture, Mr. Fisher was frequently and warmly cheered.
His explanations were clear, accurate, and deeply inte-
resting, and admirably calculated to enlighten and elevate
the mind. The introductory and concluding remarks, on
the starry firmament, were not only appropriate but truly
sublime. His numerous diagrams for the illustration of
astronomy are truly splendid, and are allowed by scientific
judges to surpass anything of the kind that have ever been
painted. He gave an interesting description of the sun,
its vast magnitude, physical constitution, and boundless
influence. The various views of this central orb, some
of them in motion, were magnificent. The celestial sce-
nery of all the planets which compose the solar system,
was not only striking but remarkably beautiful, particu-
larly the phases of Venus as a morning and evening star,
and the planet Saturn with its rings and moons. The
zodiac was particularly brilliant. In the centre was the
sun, with beautiful rays issuing in all directions, around
which moved our own globe in its annual path, its north
pole being constantly directed to the pole star, thus pro-
ducing spring, summer, autumn, and winter. The revo-
lution of the northern hemisphere, with all its constella-
tions and brightest stars, was very imposing. The, prin-
cipal cometary bodies which visit our system, with their
luminous trains, were justly admired. It was clearly
shewn, and beautifully illustrated, that Lord Rosse's
gigantic telescope had triumphantly unfolded the secret
which Herschel, in many cases, imagined to be caused by
a lucid fluid, that these brilliant spots of light are real
stars of various magnitudes—all stupendous suns, glowing
in the intensity of each other's glory. At the close of the
lecture, the dissolving views and chromatropes formed a
rich treat, being admirably managed. The Rev. F. Parry,
at the close of the lecture, returned his warmest thanks
to Mr. Fisher for the rational and delightful entertain-
ment he had given, and said he would ever feel grateful
for his kindness on the present occasion. He concluded
by stating, that that gentleman had never lectured pub-
licly, or exhibited his beautiful views, but in behalf of
some benevolent or religious interest. These remarks
were immediately followed by renewed cheering from the
whole audience, among whom were several of the clergy
and families of the highest respectability, both in the
town and neighbourhood. We have just heard that Mr.
Fisher has commenced a subscription among the young
gentlemen of his establishment, in behalf of the Southern
Hospital, which will average from £lO to £l5 per annum.
This is an example welt worthy of imitation. May he go
on and prosper in his professional career, and receive the
thanks of a grateful public.