The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-23 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

PRINCE ALBERT'S APPROACHING VISIT.

We have already given the probable routine of proceed-
ings on this interesting occasion. The only new particu-
lars, at all in a state to be pronounced upon with cer-
tainty. are the facts that the royal yacht, the Fairy, will
be ordered round from Portsmouth, for the use, if re-
quired, of his royal highness, and that provision is to be
made for a number of our fair townswomen at the Albert
Duck warebouses, where a splendid dejeuner wsll be
given on the occasion. The statements, given by several
of our contemporaries, with respect to devices of all sorts
covering the buildings round the Exchange area, the
number of the invitations given, the illumination of the
Town-hall and other similar particulars, are pure inven-
tions. Nothing of the sort is determined upon ; and, with
respect to the course of the procession, and manv other
matters, the statements are only probabilities. Nothing
decisive is arranged ; nothing can be arranged, until the
prince's pleasure is known; and it would therefore be
only misleading our readers, and perhaps imposing upon
them inconvenient and expensive preparation., to give
them further circulation in our columns. Everything,
we are assured, will be done by the committee to gratify
their fellow-townsmen.
There is one matter to which attention has been directed
by a number of correspondents, viz.. the desirableness of
of his Royal Highness's visit being made a general holiday
to the tradesmen and working classes of the town. It will,
to a great extent, be so in any event. The shops in the
line of the procession will be closed as a matter of pru-
dence, and even necessity; and it would materially pro-
mote order, if a general holiday on the occasion were re-
commended at once, and arrangements made to dissipate
the crowds, who will flock into the streets in inconveni-
ent numbers, by amusements or shows in various parts of
the town. It would not, either, be an unworthy step on
the part of the parish authorities, if the fare at the work-
house were made a generous one on that day, and the
visit of royalty to our town be made an occasion of rejoic-
ing to our poor fellow-townsmen. The public, we are as-
sured. are waiting with some:anxiety for intimation as to
how the •• Prince's Committee" wish the days to be ob-
served by the inhabitants generally.

The Liverpool Sanatory Bill passed the Standing Orders
Committee of the Lords, on Friday.
On Sunday last, the sum of thirty-tvsepounds was col-
lected at Wallasey Church for the Church Missionary
Society, after sermons by the Rev. W. W. Ewbank and
the Rev. Dr. Byrtb.

On Sunday morning last, after a sermon by the Rev.
S. W. Saunders, Vicar of St. Ishmael's, Pembrokeshire,
the sum of this teen pounds was collected in West Derby
Chapel, for the Incorporated Society for Building, &c.,
Churches.

TERMINATION OF THE STRIKE.—We have elsewhere
announced that the strike at Birkenhead was at an end,
and we are extremely glad to say that the struggle has
also ceased in Liverpool. The master-masons have re-
solved to yield the 275. per week to the men, and half an
hour refreshment time each afnrnoon.

LAUNCH —To-morrow, at eleven o'clock, a splendid
new ship, of about 600 tons, will be launched from the
bdilding-yard of Messrs. P. Chaloner and Sons, Baffin-
street. She has been built for John Worrall, Esq., and
is intended for the Calcutta trade. She will be command-
ed by Captain Williams, late master of the Robert Finnie.
CHURCH EXTENSION.—We understand that the Lord
Bishop of Chester will preach in St. Michael's, Pitt-
street, on the morning of Sunday, July sth, in behalf of
the Building Fund of St. Simon's Church. We are
happy to know this, as we regret to learn that, owing to
some public societies being unable to make the exp cted
grants, there is still a considerable deficiency in the fund
requisite for completing the church. We tru,t that the
attendance of friends will be numerous, and their contri-
butions liberal on the cccasion. The first stone of the
church will be laid on the 14th of July.

POLICE COURT, YEsTEßDAY.—Georgeina Dowling,
for robbing a man named Michael Kennedy, in Waterloo-
road of 7s. 6d and a tobacco-box ori Saturday night, was
committed to gaol for two months.—A woman named
Mary Coke was charged with robbing a flatman from
Lancaster of two £lO notes, and a £5 note from his pc r-
son on Saturday night, in Salthouse-lane, ani the case
being so far proved, (though no money was found upon
her,) she was committed for trial at the sessions.—A res-
pectably dressed young man was charged with robbing a
gentleman named Tapson, in Anon-street, of some
clothing and a few articles of jewellery. The prisoner's
brother-in-law lodged in the house, and the prisoner
was in the habit of getting his meals there. Some of the
articles were found at pawnbrokers. He was committed
for trial.

GREAT HEAT OF TOE WEATHER.—Dur'ng the whole
of the past week the weather in this rn ighbourhood has
been literally scorching, the extreme elevation of the ther-
mometer having been, on Tuesday last, 71 degs.,Wednes-
day, 80, Thursday, 83, Friday, 79, Saturday, 71, Sunday,
78, and yesterday 81 degrees. This is a very high average.
On the 7th instant, however, the greatest hew. rea-hed 87,
an elevation which it has not attained since the commence-
ment of the present century. In the commencement of
1842 we had a similar hot month, the extreme temperature
on the 12th of June being 86. It differed, however, from
the present month, the latter portion of it being marked
by heavy rains. In June, 1826, the thermometer reached
84 degrees, with great drought throughoutthe month. We
had nothing so high es this since the June of 1799, when
the thermometer, we believe, approached 9J degrees. We
have not, however. the precise temperature at hand ; but
are correct in stating that it was the highest on record.
Yesterday we had some thunder, with a refreshing shower,
which must have been most grateful to the parched vege-
tation; and the atmosphere at present indicates a further
fell.

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half a mile. A company of gentlemen, of whom Mr.
Bernard was one, have taken a lease of these quarries,
and a railway and leading stages, with other works have
been constructed between the quarries and the sea. On
Friday ;ast, Mr. Arthur Holme of this town, under whose
superintendence the works r.re being done, was engaged
during the day, principally in levelling, and was assisted
by Mr. Bernard. The day having been intensely hot, and
both parties fatigued, Mr. Bernard proposed that they
should bathe about seven o'clock in the evening. Mr.
Holme, Mr. Bernard, and another young gentleman
named Phillips, accordingly pushed off from the edge of
the hay in the boat and dropped the anchor about twenty
yards from the shore where the water was only about six
feet deer. While Mr. Holme was dropping the anchor
Mr. Bernard undressed and plunged in, the former
having only taken off his coat. Mr. Bernard made
one stroke, when suddenly throwing up both his
bands, he turned on his back and sunk in that po-
sition. His companions shouted to the workmen who
were employed on the stage, and both of them plunged in
after him. Mr. Phillips having unfortunately got his left
arm entangled in his shirt sleeve, was himself in imminent
danger, and his life was saved with difficulty ; but, Mr.
Holme, who is an excellent swimmer, dived several times
to the bottom, but a strong tide ebbing, he was unable to
reach his friend. He had the presence of mind to pot a
stocking on a boat hook, and several men plunging into
the water to his aid, they soon got out the body, but not-
withstanding that not more than seven or ten minutes had
elapsed, it was too late, for life was quite extinct. Every
application that could he resorted to was tried, but in
vain ; and there is no doubt, but the sudden plunge, after
exposure all day in such intense heat, had caused internal
cramp, for after the first stroke he sunk to the bottom with
his face upwards, arid m-ide no motion, the water in that
place being clear as chrtstal. Mr. Bernard had formerly
been of the firm of Bernard and Ledson, extensive ware-
house keepers in this town, and he was about to become
the resident manager of the quarries in question. He was
deservedly respected, and his sudden and melancholy end
has plunged an extensive circle into profound grief.