The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-05-13 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS.

TRADE OF LIVERPOOL.- Last night the Telegraph an-
nounced no less than seven ships off and belonging to this port,
direct from Canton, with teas, &c. They will all be in the
river this morning. This fact, we suspect, will rather asto-
nish the London people.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON THE RAILWAY.-012 Sunday morn-
inc, as a train of carriages was proceeding from this town to
Button,' at a rapid rate, the axletree of the engine-tender broke.
The engineer, who was unfortunately standing betwixt the en-
gine and the tender at the time, fell through in consequence,
and the succeeding carriages successively passed over different
parts of his body. When taken up he was quite dead, his head
being completely crushed and both his legs broken.
NEW CEMETERY AT KIRKDALE.—The owners of the land
on which the new church at Kirkdale is built, and also the pro-
prietors of land adjoining, have determined to unite their re-
spective properties, "and form a handsome and commodious
public cemetery, to be so laid out that the church will stand in
the centre, and thus form a beautiful ornament to the burying
ground. The cemetery will be open to members of every re-
ligious denomination, on the same principle as at the Low-hil-
Necropolis. 1
THE INDUSTRIOUS FLEAS.—It will be seen by an advertise-,
ment elsewhere, that the Industrious Fleas are to be exhibited
for a short time in Church-street. Those persons who have
seen them before, will recollect the reception they obtained on
their former visit.

THE WEATHER.—The late cold and unseasonable weather
has passed away, and for the last ten days we have been
favoured with uninterrupted warmth and sunshine. Vegeta-
tion has made rapid progress, and the country around Liver-
pool has a most promising appearance.

WHOLESALE FISH MAkKET.—The directors of the Liver.

pool and Manchester Fish Company, having purchased the
building, are now disinantlins " Zion Chapel," a small dissent-
ing meeting house near the '1 heatre Royal, for the purpose of
turning it into a wholesale fish market, or auction room for the
sale of all the fish taken by their boats to the retail fishmongers.
FIRE AT BARON-HILL.—The town of Beaumaris was, on
Wednesday last, thrown into the greatest consternation, intel-
ligence being received, about seven o'clock, that Baron-hill,
the mansion of Sir Richard Bulkeley, Bart.. M.P., was on fire.
The inhabitants immediately hastened to the scene of devasta-
tion, and vied with each other in rendering every assistance to
arrest the progress of the flames, but they had gained so power-
ful a head, that the destruction of the new portion of the house,
which was in course of erection, and in which the lire originated,
was obviously inevitable. The old part of the mansion, how-
ever, through the exertions that were made, and the favourable
position of the. wind, was saved ; but great damage was done to
the furniture &c., through a premature haste in their removal,
by throwing them out through the windows, under an appre-
hension that that part would fall a prey to the flames. The fire
fortunately was prevented from gaining ground about eleven
o'clock, and from that time it began to abate.—Chester Courant.
THE ROcK FERRY COMPANY.—We understand the directors
of the Royal Rock Ferry Company have let the hotel to Mrs.
Dobson, late of Southport, who is now busily engaged in deco-
rating the house in a style of elegance and .comfort, which
cannot fail to ensure the patronage of the public. The grounds
are being laid out in a very tasteful manner, which, combined
with the natural beauties of the surroundingscenery, will render
this one of the most fashionable watering places in the neigh-
bourhood of Liverpool.
THE THEATRE.—Mr. Kean's engagement terminated on
Friday evening, when he took his benefit in Richard the Third,
before a tolerable house. Miss Ellen Tree, who has been
starring at Belfast, and from which place she is on her way to
London, has been playing some of her most admired characters
at our theatre since Monday evening. She is engaged for ten
nights. We understand the house has not been so well attended
this week as might have been expected. The fine weather
with which we have been favoured, will perhaps, in some degree
account for that, as many persons prefer taking recreation in
the country, or upon the water, to sitting for three or four
hours together in a theatre. Last night Knowles's play of the
Wife, Mariana by Miss Ellen Tree, Julian St. Pierre by Mr.
Stuart, was represented. The heroine of this play, which is
one of the finest pieces of dramatic writing which has been
given to the world since the days of Shakspeare, was admirably
personated by Miss Tree. The audience did not fail to mark
with their frequent and warns approval their estimation of this
accomplished lady's acting. We have not room to go into de-
tail, and will only observe that we trust the play will be repeated
with the same cast of characters before Miss Ellen Tree's en-
gagement is concluded. Julian St. Pierre found an able repre-
sentative in Mr. Stuart. To night, under the patronage of
Lord Stanley and William Bluudell, Esq., stewards of the
races, the play of the Hunchback will be repeated for the last
time this season, to conclude with the performances of the Rus-
sian Rope-dancers and the farce of Simpson and Co., Mrs.
SiMpson by Miss Ellen Tree.

THE HOLY HAND.—We take the following extract from a
communication made to us by a gentleman of Warrington upon
whose veracity we have the most implicit reliance.—On Friday
last I was at Newton, when one of the Manchester trains arrived;
a poor woman alighted from one of the carriages, and inquired
at the railway-office the way to Garswood. She carried in her
arms a child which appeared to be very ill. After the woman'
had left the office, one of the porters said that he thought she
was going to Garswood to see a catholic priest in order to get
her child rubbed with the holy hand. As I had heard in my youth
of the miraculous cures performed by the holy hand I was in-
duced to follow the poor woman in order to ascertain if that were
the cause of her journey. On asking her, she frankly admitted
that she was going to Garswood to have her child rubbed with
the holy hand, and that she had been persuaded to do so by se-
veral of her female neighbours who had been much benefitted
by the friction the reverend priest's holy paw." We have heard
something of a legend of the holy hand. If the reverend priest
of Garswood take money for his miraculous cures, he is, we be.
lieve, amenable to the laws under which fortune-tellers are pu-
nished as cheats and impostors.

THE LANCASHIRE YEOMANRY CAVALRY.—The commanding
officerof the Royal Lancashire Yeomanry Cavalry- has received
orders from the office of the Secretary of State for the Home
Department, for that regiment to assemble on the 12th of June,
at the delightful town of Blackpool, for a period of permanent
training
_and exercise. The Furness troop of the corps will
meet at alverstone on the 10th, and (proceed forthwith to the
place of rendezvous.
EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY COMMITTEE ON THE BILL.—
At a latestage of the proceedings on Tuesday, during the cross-
examination of the engineer (J. Braithwaite, Esq.) Mr. Hol-
combe informed the committee that he was instructed to with-
draw all opposition to the measure on the part of the Great
Northern Railway.
THE LATE RICHARD DOBSON, ESQ.— A monument to the
memory of this much lamented gentleman hasjust been erected
in the chapel of the Blue Coat Hospital, by a private subscrip-
tion among the trustees of that institution, for the purpose. The
design and execution is by Mr. Solomon Gibson, of this town,
and consists of a white marble cencetophice, in the form of an
antique column or cippus enclosed within a recessed niche of
black and gold marble. In front, on a projecting plinth, which
forms the fore-ground, are candelabra, from which is seen to
issue a representation of the perpetual fire. The following in-
scription is on a pyramidal tablet, crowned with festoons and
flowers :—" Sacred to the memory of RICHARD DOBSON, born
20th October, 1781. Died 9th June, 1835. Who, for the last
sixteen years of a life devoted to the cause of public charity,
was the able treasurer, and kind and faithful friend of this in-
stitution. This monument has'been erected by the trustees as
a sincere, but very inadequate, tribute of gratitude for his in-
estimable services."—" Blessed are the dead which die in the
Lord. Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may -rest from their
labours, and their works do follow them."—Rev. xiv, 13 v.

A WILL.—In the course of the evidence adduced on the
" Vaux claim of Peerage" now before the House of Lords the
following document was produced:—" In the name of God,
Amen. This 4thday of October, in the year of our Lord 1742,
I, the Right Hun. Richard Lord Viscount Fitzwilliam, of the
kingdom of Ireland, being in perfect good health, and sound
of mind, memory, and understanding, vet considering the un-
certainty of life, do make and ordain this my last will and tes-
tament in manner and form following. * * * I give to my
eldest son Richard Fitzwilliam ls. and no more, which I take
to be sufficient for a wretch who, in contempt of sense, shame,
and conscience, has clandestinely sold the remainder of his
family estate to a man whom I have raised from famine and
nakedness, and who has paid his benefactor (as far as in hini
lies) with the destruction of my posterity. Item I give to my
second son William Fitzwilliam the son of £lO and no more.

* 4.* * Item, I give to my daughter Frances Evans, and to
her husband George Evans, my case of spectacles, to be equally
divided between them. ** * Item, I give to my third and
youngest son, John Fitzwilliam (who has treated me with the
decency which one gentleman owes to another),•my house and
freehold, with the copyhold also annexed, together with my
horses, coaches, plate, books, and all my furniture which are
now at Thorpe, in the county of Surrey, or elsewhere, to him,
his heirs, or assigns, for ever."

SINGULAR ANCIENT CUSTOM.—The Bishop of Lincoln pro-
sened a petition to the House of Lords, on Tuesday from the
Lord of the Manor of a place in the vicinity of Caistor, in the
county of Lincoln, against au absurd custom performed on
Palm Sunday. of holding a whip over the clergyman when in
the pulpit. This ceremony was performed last Palm Sunday.
A New ACCOMPLISHMENT.—The following ludicrous phrase
appears in the petition of .the Canterbury town council for the
abolition of the punishment of death—" except in cases of wil-
ful and accomplished (! !) murder."

Ou Monday morning the little and interesting village of
Holbeton, which is about nine miles from Plymouth, was
thrown into great confusion by the alarm of fire. About
half-past nine o'clock flames were observed issuing from the
thatch over the oven, which was in the rear of the house oc-
cupied by Thomas Rabbich, a baker. The wind being very
high at the time and in the direction of the line of houses, the
thatch of the house was almost instantly one mass of fire ;
whilst portions of the ignited straw were driven by the wind
on to the houses adjoining, which, being also thatched souse
three feet thick, soon took fire; in fact some of the houses which
were furthest from the bakehouse were burnt down long before
those between. Such was the fury of the devouring element,
that within an hour and a half no less than 13 houses were com-
pletely destroyed, and the inmates deprived ofall shelter, and
their furniture burnt or very greatly damaged; fortunately no
lives were lost.

DESTRUCTION OF THE PYRAMID'.—The Pasha, as if he had
not done enough for immortality, has given orders that one of
the pyramids of Geasa shall be pulled down, in order to furnish
stones for the Barage. This only was wanting to consummate
his glory. The fame of him " who fired the Ephesian dome"
will sink into obscurity before the lustre of this achievement.
Old Cheops must yield to Mehemet Ali—he who has stood on
the rock of ages, the wonder of the world, who has seen bar-
barism and civilization alike respect him, must at length give
way to the spirit of thrift, and bow his lofty head at the foot of
his modern Attilla.—Extract of a Letter from Egypt, dated
March 4.

MANCHESTER MAIL OVERTURNED IN CONSEQUENCE OF A
CLOUD OF DusT.—On Monday night week, as the Liverpool
and Manchester snail was travelling from this city between
Hocks and Kendal, a dense cloud of dust arose.which for a brief
space completely blinded the coachman, and before it bad passed
one of the wheels run against a wall, and the coach was over-
turned, the outside passengers being all more or less bruised,
but no serious injury was sustained. Hunter, the guard, was
thrown off, and received several severe contusions : he has been
remarkably unfortunate of late, having been overturned four
times within the last two years. When be recovered from the
shock, he procured a cart.and.proceeded with the bags to Ken-
dal.—Carlisle Patriot.

BEETHOVEN OF HIMSELF.—Music is a higher revelation
than all this world's wisdom and philosophy. It is the wine
which inspires new creations; and I am the Bacchus that
crushes out this noble juice for mankind, and makes their spirit
drunk; and when they arc sobered again,—then you see whit'
a world of things,they have fished up, to bring back with them
to dry land again. I have no friend.. I must needs live alone
with myself; but 1 well know that GoD is nearer to me in Inky
art than others: I commune with him without fear: evermore
have I acknowledged and understood hint: and .1 am not fear-
ful concerning my music—no evil fate can befall it—Musical
World.