The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-12 00:00:00

1841 1831
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1841 1831
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Tau Horne. AccoucHcmENT.—The tidings of this happy
event reached St. Helen's late on Tuesday night, and were
stand about with great rapidity. On the following day the
bells of St. Mary's Church were put in agitation to signalize
the eventful birth of this most " illustrious stranger," and
many were the greetings interchanged amongst the loyal
subjects of the throne resident in St. Helen's.

THE: LIVERPOOL INSTITUTION FOR DIFFICULT CASES
OF MARRIED LYING-IN WOMEN AND TILE TREATMENT
or FEMALE DISEASES.—A meeting of gentlemen having
been held on Saturday, the 30th of October, John Cropper,
Esq., in the chair, and statements having been made by
Messrs. Batty and Blackburn, setting forth, from their own
personal knowledge and experience, the frequent occurrence
of cases amongst the poorest classes of a most distressing
and painful nature, for which no provision is made by the
existing charities, and which require special medical treat-
ment under the most favourable circumstances for securing
the safety of both mother and child—the necessity for the
above provision having been thus proved to exist, a commit-
tee was appoinsed to prepare a statement to lay before the
public; and the meeting was adjourned to Tuesday, the 9th
of November, to receive the report, and that in the mean
time due consideration might be given to so important a sub-
ject. The adjourned meeting was held accordingly, when,
after further discussion and mature deliberation, it was moved
by the Rev. Dr. Raffles, and seconded by John Howard,
Esq.,—that the above-named institution be formed. It
is the object of the friends of this institution to commence
with six beds, which will admit of nearly 200 women being
relieved in the year, and for which a small expenditure will
only be required. We cannot sufficiently praise the high.
minded philanthrophy of the ladies and gentlemen who have
taken this most needful charity by the hand, and we sincerely
trust that the public will cordially joln in aiding their wishes,
and assist in establishing their plans. For further proceed-
ings see advertisement.
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PORTICO CONCERTS.—On Monday evening the fifth Por-
tico Concert will take place. The programme is unusually
goods. It will be seen that the services of several favourites
have been secured. Part First.—Madrigal—" All creatures
now are merry winded." Glee—" See the chariot at hand,"
Mrs. Armstrong, Messrs. Case, Stott, and J. Hornby.
Duet—" I've wander'd in dreams," Miss Stott and Mr.
Stott. Song—" The Water Drinker," Mr. J. Hornby, (by
desire). Duet—" My pretty page look out afar," Miss Stott
and Mrs. Armstrong. Glee—" Just like love is yonder
rose," Messrs. Lunt, Stott, and Davies. Song—" The last
adieu," Miss Stott. Solo—Piano-forte, Mr. Elliott. Chorus
(first titse in Liverpool.)—" Let the lively banja play,"
solos by Miss Stott, Mrs. Armstrong, and Mr. Stott. Part
Second.—Chorus—" Youthful Flower." Son'—" What's
a Conundrum ?" Mrs. Armstrong. Glee—" The Midges
Dance," Miss Stott, Messrs. Case, Stott, and J. Hornby.
Song—" The White Squall," Mr. Davies. Duet—" O'er
shepherd pipe and rustic dell," Mrs. and Mr. Armstrong.
Solo—" Hark, the Vesper Hymn is stealing," Miss
and Distant Chorus. Prize Ballad—" Fair Daphne," Mr.
Stott. Glee—" The Watchman," Messrs. Lunt, Stott, and
Davies. Chorus—" Queen of our Isle." Stott,

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appoiritod tbo first ;ut.ttrig ur this court for the
27t1; in.6tant, shoo it in likely a throng of buo:nesa will be
transacted, for a number of plaints have already been lodged
it the clerk's office.

ST. HELEN'S CARRIER.-

Those persons who have occa-
sion to transmit packages or parcels between this town and
St. I-Telens, can do so at 0 very cheap rate, by employing Mr
Featherstone, whose advertisement appears elsewhere.
CORNS.—‘

Oh, my corns !" is the exclamation of thou-
sands on the approach-of rainy weather ; and Shakspeare
says, " ladies who have their feet untouched by corns—we'll
have a bout with you." Now those who want to get rid of
these walking barometers, and join in the pleasant dance,
must apply to Mr. Esenberg for relief.
INQUEST.—An inquest was held Yesterday, before Mr.
Currie, on view of the body of John Robert Jones, a child
of five months old. It 4ppeared that the deceased had been
taken into the same bed with its parents on the previous
night, and was found dead when they awoke; it had been
over lain by the mother.—Verdict accordingly.

STATUARY--It will be seen by advertisement that Mr.
Anderson is to dispose by private sale his celebrated group of
figures in stone. The figures are well adapted for any gen-
tleman's hall, or would be an excellent ornament for a
garden. We hope Mr. Anderson will soon find a purchaser,
his only motive in parting with them, that he may be en-
abled to execute another group he has in contemplation. As
the exhibition is to remain open for a short time in town, we
advise all who have not already paid a visit to do so without
delay, as they may soon lose the opportunity of seeing these
wonderful figures, which have been so much and justly ad-
mired wherever they have been exhibited ; they need only to
be seen to be appreciated.
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SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.—Early
on Wednesday morning last, George M'Combe, a young
man in the employ of Mr. Clayton, brewer, Maguire-street,
while in the act of repairing the frame work of one of the
boilers, missed his footing and fell into the boiling fluid ; in
his fall he providentially succeeded in grasping the edge of
the boiler, and by great efforts succeeded in rescuing himself
from his agonising situation, in a state of dreadful torture ;
he was immediately conveyed to the Northern Hospital,
Leeds. street, which we understand is at present so crowded,
that some difficulty was experienced in making room for him,
though in a very dangerous state. We are happy to say that
hopes are entertained of his recovery.
ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT LIVERPOOL.—This steamer
reached Falmouth on Sunday last with that portion of the
mails from India, Egypt, and Malta, which was not sent by
way of Marseilles. Her dates of departure are from Alex-
andr;l the 22d, Malta the 28th ult., and from Gibraltar the
3d Instant. We subjoin a list of the passengers, among
whom the names of Sir Gordon Bremer and Captain Elliot
of Chinese notoriety will be observed :—Passengers—Mr.
and Mrs. Leiver, child, and servant, Sir Gordon Bremer,
Captain Grattan, Lieutenant Fowler, Mr. Morgan, Rev. Mr.
Mannering, Mr. Jardine, Dr. Ducat, Mr. Skelton, Mr.
Nash, Mr. North, Captain and Mrs. Hartley and servant,
Captain Cotton, Captain Rogers, Dr. Anderson, Captain and
Mrs. Elliot, child, and two servants, Miss Engledue, Mr.
Chick, Miss Rogers, Lieutenant Gray, Dr. Neack, M.
Tastar, Mr. Bone, F. Camillure, Captain Russell, Colonel
Alderson, Thomas Burt, William Bowden.

By an article in the third edition of the Liverpool Standard
of the 9th instant, we are apprised of a fact sufficiently
astounding to those who anticipated, with O'Connell, a com-
pletely subverted order of things in all the corporations of
Great Britain, upon the passing of the Municipal Bill. There
can be no question that had the city of London succumbed
to that sweeping measure of " municipal reform" as Lord
John Russell called it, the whole empire must have been, ere
this, overrun with corporations manufactured, for the nonce,
out of the elements of whig jobbing and intimidation, and
the corrup.cinfluence by which they are always worked. With
a Lord John Russell to halloo them on, and a few political
attorneys of London, Liverpool, and Birmingham to manage
their "legal rights" for them, by bullying their conservative
competitors into acquiescence in every species of municipal
and legal
.wrong ; the corporation agitators were " going a-
head," until very lately, at a fearful rate. As if to mark
with another honour the happy and eventual " 9th November
1841,"—the corporation of the second town in the empire,—
Liverpool itself, elected a conservative mayor, and eight con-.
servative aldermen ! This is, indeed, a signal and substantial
indication, of the returning power and extension of that noble
attachmei a to the existing constitution of these realms, which
in all its various and memorable manifestations throughout
the appalling dangers, and gloomy passages and protracted
struggles the unflinching single-handed contest which Great
Britain sustained and brought to a victorious completion
against the common enemy of the liberties of Europe ; found
no more zealous, nor lofty-spirited, nor munificent, nor de-
termined champions,—none who did more honour to its
sacred cause, nor acquired morc lasting reputation for their
own community,—than the intelligent population of Liver-
pool. They have now sealed their title to the gratitude of an
empire, whose greatness, commercial and political, is rapidly
recovering from any partial shocks it had sustained through
whig misgovernment,under the fostering protection of a con•
servative Government.—Morning Herald.

MEETING OF TRADESMEN'S ASSISTANTS.-011 the
evening of Wednesday, the Assistant Tradesmen's Associa-
tion, held their adjourned meeting, in the Clarendon-rooms,
South John-street. for the purpose of receiving the report of
the deputation appointed to wait upon the employers with an
address, requesting them to close their shops at seven o'clock
in the evening. Mr. Flower, president of the association,
took the chair. He said he had hoped to be able to lay
before the meeting the answer of the employers to the address
lately presented to them from the assistants. That, however,
was not the case • but he believed that something would be
done of a tangible nature very soon, although the employers
had represented to receive any address or deputation as from
the association. H e concluded by calling upon the assistants
to proceed with their object, but always with respect towards
their employers. Mr. Charles Willrner, after an animated
speech, proposed a resolution which was to this effect, " that
this meeting, whilst it deplores the refusal of the tradesmen
of Liverpool to give an answer to the address forwarded to
them upon the 12th October last, and buoyed up with the
hope that those gentlemen will yet see the justice and the
good policy of granting the leisure which has been solicited
by their assistants, will wait with anxiety, yet with patient
submission, the result of their deliberations." This resolu-
tion was seconded by Mr. W. B. Jones, and carried unani-
mously. Mr. Scholefield concluded a lengthy
speech by
moving, " That this meeting desires earnestly to impress
upon every assistant, the propriety of adopting at all times
the most respectful demeanour towards the employers, and
especially in their petitions for relief from a portion of the
labour now imposed upon them ; and this meeting further
exhorts the assistants to use every possible means of con-
vincing their employers that they seek that relief only for
purposes which all wise and good men approve." Mr.
Camidge seconded the motion. Mr. Braham moved an
amendment of considerable length, but the ideas intended to
be expressed in it were so confused that the meeting were
unable to comprehend them; and it was therefore rejected.
The original motion being carried, Mr. Flower was thanked
for his conduct in the chair, and the meeting separated about
eleven o'clock.

SWEEPING THE STREETS BY MACHINERY !-It is really
hard to say how soon we are to arrive at that happy era when
the most severe labour allotted to human beings will be to
pick their teeth or to button their own coats. Even now
the powers of machinery are being rapidly applied as a sub-
stitute for manual power in almost every branch of industry;
and the labourer has little more to do than to stand by and
watch the working of the iron competitor, who has hustled
him aside into a merely subordinate capacity. We have
carding-machines and spinning-machines ; printing-ma-
chines and weaving machines, by whose joint agency a bale
of cotton is converted into a bale of merchandise, with
scarcely the intervention of man. Give us the aid of a cal-
culating-machine and an iron scribe to make out the invoice,
and the whole system will be complete ; our corn-lands may
be turned into grazing-lands forthwith, and our population
sent out to graze therein--

" Their food the herbs, their drink the cooling spring."
As a gratifying proof that this happy state of things is at
hand, we have this week witnessed, in the good town of
Manchester—where the people are starving, we are told, by
hundreds—the very streets swept by machinery; so chary
are our neighbours in the employment of human hands to do
any work which wood and iron can be made to do. The
machinery in question is in the form of a cart drawn by one
horse, the motion of which impels a number of revolving
brushes, which take up the dirt into the body of the cart
itself, as the receiver—upon the same principle, substituting
brushes for buckets, as the dredging-machine in our docks.
From the little observation which we were able to make of
its working, we should really be inclined to borrow it for a
week for the use of our own corporation; for, in candour,
we are obliged to say, that it makes a very clean sweep—a
thing rather wanted in our streets, as well as in the corpora-
tion establishment itself. We are not so satisfied, however,
as to the prudence of thus parading before the public eye,
and, in the present temper of the public mind, the applica-
tion of machinery even to street-sweeping. This, however,
is a matter for the Manchestrians themselves to consider.
Their working classes are just now looking with no very
cordial approbation of its working, into the whole question
of machinery ; and we really think that it will require some
sophistry to persuade them that in this case ingenuity is not
a little thrown away, and its exhibition ill-tuned and inju-
dicious.

SUICIDES IN LIVERPOOL.—On Tuesday three inquests
were held before Mr. Curry, on view of the bodies of two
women and one man, who had put a period to their existence.
The first was on Agnes Kerr, a female of the age of 22. It
appeared from the evidence that the deceased had been living
with her sister for about a fortnight, who keeps a lodging-
house at No. 4, Suffolk-street. On Monday morning she
took her breakfast and appeared quite well. She then went
up stairs to dress for the purpose Of going out, and came
down again in her shawl and bonnet, but on learning what
time it was, immediately proceeded again up stairs. In about
half an hour one of the lodgers having occasion to go into
his room, found the door locked, when he immediately told
the sister of the deceased, who on knocking at the door and
receiving DO answer, broke it open, and found the deceased
lying on the floor with a great quantity of blood about her. A
razor was lying close beside her, and her throat was cut in a
most frightful manner. She was quite dead. Nothing pecu-
liar had ever been observed about the manner of the de-
ceased. The jury returned a verdict of temporary insanity.
—The second inquest was on the body of Elizabeth New, a
widow, aged 31. The deceased was in the habit of drinking
to excess, and on Saturday afternoon, in a very melancholy
mood, asked for a bottle to get some rhubarb, as she com-
plained of being ill in her bowels. She returned in a few mi-
nutes, and poured something out of the bottle into a teacup,
and drank it off, and then went out. She returned in the
evening, and went to bed with a female whom she desired to

sleep with her. About one o'clock on Sunday morning the
deceased was heard to moan, when her bedfellow got up and
went down stairs for a light, and discovered the bottle on the
chimney-piece, marked " Laudanum—poison." She then
went up stairs, and tried to awaken the deceased, but with-
out effect ; and about eight o'clock she died. The surgeon
gave it as his opinion that the deceased had died from the
effects of some narcotic, which he believed to be laudanum.
In this case, also, the jury returned a verdict of temporary
insanity.—The remaining inquest was on the body of Thos.
Yates, a druggist, aged 27. The wife of the deceased deposed,
that her husband had been labouring for a few days under a
cold, with slight fever. At four o'clock on Monday afternoon,
he was sitting up stairs with witness, and was then much the
same as usual. Flu had no pain, but was very weak in his
body, and low in his spirits. He walked into the next room,
and got into bed, and in about five minutes she followed, and
found him lying on his face in bed. She spoke to him seve-
ral times, but received no answer, and she then shook him,
thinking he was asleep. She subsequently rang the bell for
the servant to come up. The servant turned him over on
his back to see if he was asleep, and it was then found that
he was dead. The deceased kept a shop attached to the
house. Mr. James Marshall, surgeon, deposed, that he had
been attending the deceased for the last three or four days-
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MAYOR O Stinsweriunv.—On Tuesday lag, Thorns
Preys Badger. Eq., was unanimously. elected Mayor of
Shrewsbury for the ensuing year, We believe Mr. Badger is
nephew of Dr. Jeffreys, of this town.
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AMFHITHEATILE.—MR. CARMAN'S BENEFIT.-Mr .Car-
man, the polite and ever obliging box bookkeeper of this
theatre, takes his benefit on Tuesday. He puts forth a bill
of more than ordinary attraction. A new piece, written by
Mrs. Carman, will be performed : report speaks highly of it.

Tn EATRE -ROYAL .-To-night Miss Ellen Tree—the prima
donna of the English stage, talented as fair, and good as
gold—will take her benefit. " The Gamester" is to be
Played, Charles Kean and herself filling the parts of Mr.
and Mrs. Beverley. "The Belles Stratagem" concludes the
evening's entertainments. Such an intellectual treat has
not been afforded the play-goers for a long time. Miss Ellen
Tree's Juliet, on Tuesday last, was an exquisite performance.

MRS. GARDNER THE AURIST.—Those who are suffering
from deafness should by all means apply to Mrs. Gardner,
Previous to her quitting Liverpool. Her mode of treatment
has been highly commended.

LECTURE ON THE LIFE, CHARACTER, AND LABOURS OF
P. R. FRANKLIN.—Our estimable townsman, the Rev. Hugh
Al'Neile, has consented to deliever a lecture on this topic,
at the Royal Amphitheatre, on Wednesday, in behalf of the
funds of the Printers' Pension Society. The novelty of the
subject, the fame of the reverend lecturer, and the philan-
throphy of the object, can scarcely fail in securing a crowded
auditory. Mr. M'Neile, we understand, was requested to
deliever this lecture by a numerous body of gentlemen, many
of whom are connected with the United States, who wished
to hear his views b ore the Franklin's press, now exhibit-
ing in the Medical Mall, leaves this country.
SUBSCRIPTION CONCERTS.—It will be perceived, by the
advertisement which appears elsewhere, that the subscription
concerts are to take place this year as usual. The spirit and
enterprize of the projector--for hazardous and troublesome
are they in the getting up—deserve cordial support from
those wno profess to love music. There is no other man in
town, we verily believe, who would undertake the manage.
ment of these concerts at his own risk but Mr. Ashton; and
it, on one or two occasions, some trifling disappointment
should have occurred, the public ought to look at the average
quantity of delight and entertainment afforded them, and
they will find an immense balance of pleasure in their favour.
%e believe the engagements this season will be upon a very
liberal scale. We recommend those who wish to give their
Patronage to the concerts, to send in their names as early as
Possible, so that the manager may have an idea what he has
reason to expect.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—Yesterday morning, between nine
and ten o'clock, as a youth aged fifteen years, named Daniel
M`Vicar, was engaged in guiding some bales of cotton that
were being lowered from a top room of a warehouse in Or-
ford-street, east side of the Salthouse Dock, to the cellar
below, one of the bales which had not been attached to the
rope fell from the fifth story upon his head, and so dreadfully
injured him that he died in about two minutes. It appeared
that one of the men employed in the room in sending out
the cotton, put the bale on a truck, and wheeled 'it to what
be considered a proper distance from the door, preparatory
to its being sluing, and that being of an unequal form at the
end, it overbalanced when he set it down and fell over, strik-
ing the deceased, who was on the footwalk, close to the
cellar-hole. The head of the deceased was dreadfully
smashed, the skull being fractured, and the face frightfully
mutilated. His body was immediately conveyed to the
dead-house. Deceased was the son of a ship-carpenter.
An inquest was held on view of the body before M r. Currie,
in the afternoon, when a verdict was returned of " Acciden-
tal death," with a-deodand of £5 on the bide, which was the
property of Messrs. Isaac Lowe and Co.