The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-07-16 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL BANKING COMPANY.

ARETURN of 4 ONE POUn_per_SHARE out of
the Capital Stock of e'LIVERPOOL BANKING
COMPANY will be mad he Proprietors upon application
at the Bank, on or a HURSDAY, the let August proximo.
y order of the Directors,
WILLIAM WILSON, Manager.

BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL, to wit.
GILBERT HENDERSON, Esa., RECORDER.

THE COURT of QUARTER SESSIONS of the
PEACE for the BOROUGH will be held in the Sessions
house, Chapel-street, on MONDAY, the Twenty-second day of
July instant, at Ten o'clock in the Forenoon.
No Traverse will be tried unless entered on,ttre—first day of
the Sessions, or previously, at the 0 eirlif the Clerk of the
Peace, No. 4, Brunswick-street.
All Indictments for 111!sde ours found at these Sessions.
against persons admitte Bail, must be entered for Trial
before Twelve o'cloe i the day after the discharge of the
Grand Jury, or t ial will stand over.
WRIGHT, Clerk of the Peace.
Clerk of I e Peace's Office,
Liverpool, 10th July, 1850.

STIVENS'S
ORIGINAL GREEN GINGER WINE,

PATRONISED BY ROYALTY.
M HE superiority and increased demand of STIVEN S'S
I ORIGINAL GREEN GINGER WINE has called forth a
'lost of imitations. This Wine has met the apj,3*. 'al of the
-Faculty, who pronounce it the
ri.
BEST BRITISH CORDIAL
:cNT.
It is prepared with ingredients in greatest perfection : a
caution is therefore necessary t event disappoin.:nent.
Observe the name, " JOI STIVENS and C 0.," over no
:lick of each Bottle. 24 factory, Temple-street, Bristol
154, Upper Thames- et. London ; DUKE-STREET and
HENRY-STREET, LIVERPOOL ; and may be had of all
respectable Gropers, Chemists. and Confectioners, throughout
the kingdom. "-Many of-their other Wines are very choice, and
close imitations of Foreign at less than half the cost.

PROPOSED NEW SCHOOL-HOUSE FOR ST.
JUDE'S DISTRICT.

THE DAILY and SUNDAY SCHOOLS connected
with ST. JUDE'S CHURCH contain 215 Boys and ISO
Girls, whose religious instruction is in accordance with the
p-inciples of the Church of England. The Girls' School is
attached to the Church, and for that, consequently, no rent is
paid. The Boys' School, being held in a hired room, involves
a serious annual charge upon the funds, which hinders the
efficient working of the Schools, am' involves the Directors in
difficulties from which they are desirous to free themselves by
the erection of a new School-house.

The sum required for the Building is €2,000. Of this, 500
will be contributed by the Government Commissioners, leaving•
.€1,500 to be obtained from private sources.

COMMITTEE.

The Rev. JosrAn B. LOWE. Incumbent of St. Jude's Church,
Chairman.
The Rev. T. F. SUTTON, Secretary.
J. W. PILCH ER, Esq., Treasurer. .--
~e,,,,, Mr. EDWARD BATTY, Mr. CHAS. C TIKSWORTH,
~THOS. GREEN, ~ RIC D SANDERS,
~ JOSEPH BURBACH, „ C . DUNCAN,
„ G. J. IHLER, , .T. KEIOHTLEY,
~ Wm. MILNER, • . , SAMUEL GOULD,
„ THOS. SHERLOCK, ~EDWARD BYFORD
~ CnAmdzion, Admiral BELL,
The following D eTIO:
Mr. G. J. Duncan . 50 0 0
Mr. Wm. Milner. 25. 0 0
Mr. T. Milner (la e) 25 0 0
Mr. Jno. Tvsore 25 0 0
Mr. J. W. Pilcher 25 0 0
XY Z 25 0 0
Misses Leather .... 25 0 0
Rev. Dr. Carpenter 2O 0 0
Mr. Win. Jones lO 0 0
Miss Butterworth 2O 0 0
Mr. Edmd. Molyneux 10 0 0
Mr. Chas. Cotesworth.2o 0 0
Mr. Geo. Arkle 2O 0 0
Mr. Edwd. Byforcl 10 10 0
Messrs. Woodall and
Jones 10 0 0
Mr. Robt. Roberts 10 10 0
Mr. Edward Jones 10 0 0
Mr. Riclid. Sanders lO 0 0
Mr. G. J. lhler lO 0 0
Rev. Dr. M`Neile 5 0 0

NS have been received :

Miss Billintre £5 0 0
Mr. Harwood Banner. 5 0 0
Mr. Wm. Carn.... 5 0 0
Mrs. Saltmarsh
Misses Saltmarsh
Mr. Richmond
Mr. J. Hubback 5 0 0
Mr. G. J. Ihler, jun 5 0 0
Admiral Bell
Mr. Adam Hodgson
Mrs. Shiel 5 0 0
IMr. W. Titherington 5 0 0
Mr. J. H. Macrae
Mr. Jas. Steains 2 2 0
Mrs. Dwyer 2 2 0
Mr. R. C. Gardner 1 1 0
Mr. R. A. Payne 1 0 0
Mr. Kennedy
Mr. C. Cameron 1 0 0
Mrs. Solomon 1 0 0
Mr. J. Edwards

Eiteraturt,

VARIETIES.

NOBILITY OF NAME.-1.010 week, were married, at
Plymouth, Mr. Duke to Miss Lord, both of Prince Town.
NOT WIDE AWARE.—Among the casualties received
at the Bristol General Hospital last week, was a woman
who had dislocated her jaw by yawning !
No fewer than three separate translations of Macaulay's
" History of England" are now being issued from the
German press.
FEATS OF MEMORY.—We once knew a young lady who
would from sheer memory take down a sermon, word for
word, after the lapse of several hours. She could not re-
port it as the preacher spoke, but she could afterwards.
She wrote out, for instance, a sermon some three-quarters
of an hour long, and sent it to the preacher, who, on com-
paring it with the MS., found not a particle altered. We
have known a man who had some dozen of the chissics by
heart, and, when in stupid company, would throw himself
back in his chair and read Euripides off from his own
mind. Mr. Smee should have alluded to the extraordinary
instances of memory exhibited by diseased minds. The
case is well known of a servant girl who, when mad, could
repeat half a grammar. She had merely heard her master,
a German student, recite it at intervals, and could not
remember a word when sane.—Aflas.

THE DETECTIVE POLICE.—If thieving be an art (and
who denies that its more subtle and delicate branches de-
serve to be ranked as one of the Fine Arts ?) thief-taking
is a science. All the thief's ingenuity, all his knowledge
of human nature, all his courage, all his coolness, all his
imperturbable powers of face, all his nice discrimination in
reading the countenance of other people, all his manual
and dignital dexterity, all his fertility in expedients, and
promptitude in acting upon them, all his Protean clever-
ness of disguise, and capability of counterfeiting every
sort and condition of distress, together with a ?treat deal
more patience, and the additional qualification, integrity,
are demanded for the higher branches of thief-taking. If
an urchin picks your pocket, or a bungling "artist" steals
your watch so that you find it out in an instant, it is easy
enough for any private in any of the 17 divisions of Lon-
don police to obey your panting demand to " Stop thief !"
But the tricks and Contrivances •of those who wheedle
money out of your pocket rather than steal it, who cheat
you with your eyes open, who clear every vestige of plate
out of your pantry while your servant is on the stairs,
who set up imposing warehouses and ease respectable
firms of large parcels of goods, who steal the acceptances
of needy or dissirited young men,•—for the detection and
punishment of such impostors a superior order of police
is requisite. To each division of the force are atta-'hed
two officers, who are denominated " detectives." The
staff, or head-quarters, consists of six sergeants and two
inspectors. Thus the detective police, of which we hear
to
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rations of their craft. They have not only to counteract
the machinations of every sort of rascal whose only means
of existence is avowed rascality, but to clear up family
mysteries, the investigation of which demands the utmost
delicacy and tact.—Dickens' Household Words.
THE KILKENNY CATS.—The story generally told is,
that two of these animals fought in a sawpit with such
ferocious determination that when the battle was over
nothing could be found remaining of either combatant
except his tail—the marvellous incident to be drawn
therefrom being, of course, that they had devoured each
other. This ludicrous anecdote has. no doubt, been gene-
rally looked upon as an absurdity of the Joe Miller class;
but this I conceive to be a mistake. I have not the least
doubt that the story of the mutual destruction of the con-
tending cats was an allegory designed to typify the utter
ruin to which centuries of litigation and embroilment on
the subject of conflicting rights and privileges tended to
reduce the respective exchequers of the rival municipal
bodies of Kilkenny and Irishtown—separate corporations
existing within theliberties of one city, and the bounda-
ries of whose respective jurisdiction had never been
marked out or defined by an authority to which either was
willing to bow. Their struggles for precedency, and for
the maintenance of alleged rights invaded, commenced
A.D. 1377, and were carried on with truly feline fierce-
ness and implacability till the end of the seventeenth
century, when it -may fairly be considered that they had
mutually devoured each otherto the very tail, as we find
their property all mortgaged, and see them each passing
by-laws that their respective 'officers should be content
with the dignity 'of their station, and forego all hope of
salary till the suit at law with the other " pretended cor-
poration" should be terminated, and the encumbrances
thereby caused removed with the vanquishment of the
enemy. Those-who have taken the story of the Kilkenny
cats in its literal sense have done grievous injustice to the
character of the grimalkins of the " faire cittie,'" who
are really quite as demure and quietly disposed a race of
tabbies as it is the nature of any such animals to be.—
Notes and Queries.
THE STORE-ROOM OF THE WONDERFUL OLD WOMAN
Ei OF THREADN
EDLE-STREET.—The apartment n which
the notes are kept previous to issue, is the Old 'Lady's
Store-room. There is no jam, there are no pickles, no
preserves, no gallipots, no stoneware jars, no spices, no
anything of that sort, in the Store-room of the Wonderful
Old Lady. You might die of hunger in it. Your sweet
tooth would decay and tumble out, before it could find
the least gratification in the Old Lady's Store-room.
There was a mouse found there once, but it was dead,
and nothing but skin and bone. It is a grim room,
fitted up all round with great iron safes. They look as
if they might be the old lady's ovens, never heated.
But they are very warm, in the City sense ; for when
the Old Lady's two storekeepers have, each with his
own key, unlocked his own one of the double locks
attached to each, and opened the door, Mr. Matthew
Marshall gives you to hold a little bundle of paper, value
two millions sterling; and, clutching it with a strange ,
tingling, you feel disposed to knock Mr. Matthew Mar-
shall down, and, like a patriotic Frenchman, to descend
into the streets. No tyro need be told that these notes
are representatives of weightier value, and were invented
partly to supersede the necessity of carrying about pon-
derous parcels of precious metals. Hence--to treat of it
soberly—four paper parcels taken out, and placed in our
hands, consisting of four reams of Bank notes ready for
issue, and not much more bulky than a thick octavo vo-
lume—though they represent gold of the weight of two
tons, and of the value of two millions of pounds sterling,
yet weigh not quite one pound avoirdupois each, or nearly
four pounds together. The value in gold of what we
could convey away in a couple of side pock2ts (if simply
permitted by the dear Old Lady in Threadneedle-street,
without proceeding to extremities upon the person of the
person of the chief ,cashier) would have required, but for
her admirable publications, two of Barclay and Perkins's
streacest hones to dom.—Dickens's Hounhold Word..