The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-04-01 00:00:00

ST. MARY'S CHURCH, KIRKDALE.—The Corporation
being about to flag and pave round this place of worship,
the minister and churchwardens are embracing the oppor-
tunity to have it enclosed with palisades, and donations
are being solicited to defray the cost of the same.
EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT AT SEA.—During the
passage of the ship Typhoon, from Portsmouth, United
States, to this port, one of her sailors, named Badger.
was struck by lightning. His over-coat, which was made
of oil-silk, escaped, but his flannel waistcoat caught
fire, and the poor fellow was dreadfully burnt about the
back, legs, and right arm. The vessel arrived in Liver-
pool on Wednesday, when the unfortunate man was imme-
diately conveyed to the Northern Hospital, where he lies
in considerable danger. .

MODEL OF TAB GLASS PALACE.—An exact model in
glass of the Crystal Palace will form one of the articles of
interest exhibited amongst the works of art on the occa-
sion of the Great Show. We understand that a copy of
this model will shortly be exhibited in this town. The
dimensions are as follow :—About eight feet in length,
by two feet in width, or, in other words, it is upon a per-
fect scale of one inch to twenty feet. The pillars. gir-
ders, and galleries, are of silver metal ; the roof and all
the outer surface in metallic frames ; but every other
portion consists of glass.
LAUNCH OF A LIVERPOOL SCREW-STEAMER.—There
was launched from the building-yard of Messrs. Denny,
at Dumbarton, on Thursday week, a fine new screw-
steamer, named the Orontes, intended for Messrs. James
Moss and Co.'s Levant line of steam-ships. The Orontes
is barque-rigged, and of the following dimensions :
Length, 191 ft. 3 in. ; beam, 28 ft.; depth, 18 ft; burthen,
about 800 tons. She is expected round here immediately
to receive her engines, which have been manufactured by
Messrs. Hicks, of Bolton. The Orontes will be com-
manded by Captain Henry Bulkeley, late of the Nile, of
which vessel the Orontes is a consort.

EXTRAORDINARY FEAT.—On Monday last, Mr. Coates,
the London pedestrian, picked up fifty eggs, placed a yard
apart, with his mouth, and, to the astonishment of some
hundreds who were present, he did not break an egg,
though he threw a sumerset with each egg on taking it off
the ground. The eggs were placed in a straight line on
the gravel walk. Coatis traversed the ground fifty times,
and conveyed each egg singly to a basket placed near the
first egg. The feat was performed in 184 minutes, being
minutes less than the stipulated time. Coates, who is
46 years old, is matched for £25, to leap over 100 hurdles,
ten yards apart, against a noted professor. The former
feat wrs accomplished near the Zoological Gardens.
SUDDEN DEATH.—On Monday, a man named Richard
Allen, employed at an establishment in Paradise-street,
was celebrating the birthday of one of the principals, along
with the other young men. He left the shop in the even-
ing about ten o'clock, and seemed at that time to have
had plenty to drink. He subsequently got into a cab, but
was unable to tell the driver his residence, whereupon he
took him to the Rose-hill police station, where he was
booked for safety, and placed in a cell with a pillow under
his head. The deceased was visited several times during
the night, and found to be going on well ; but on the offi-
cer visi;ing the cell during the morning, the deceased
seemed to have fallen off the bench. A surgeon was sent
for, and on his arrival the deceased was dead.

THE DOCK TRUSTEE QUESTION.—The East India and
China Association have passed resolutions to the effect,
that merchants and shipowners should have a greater con-
trol in the management of the Dock Estate ; that, being
dock ratepayers, they should have the appointment of at
at least a majority of the members of the Dock Commit-
tee ; but that, considering the importance of effecting a
settlement of a question which has so long agitated the
town, it is exped ent that the following arrangement
should be agreed to : namely, " The Dock Committee to
consist of twenty-four members,—twelve to be elected by
the Town Council out of their body, and twelve by the
ratepayers out of their body. The committee to elect
their own chairman and deputy-chairman. That the
Dock Committee so constituted should have the entire
management of the affairs of the Dock Estate, and that
the veto of the Council, if retained, should be limited to
any question as to the increase or reduction of the rates."
We attended Mr. George N. Comer's lecture on " The
Incidents peculiar to Mercantile Property," at his spacious
and elegant rooms, corner of Washington and School
Streets, on Saturday evening, and were very much grati-
fied with the entertainment. No man better understands
all the phases of mercantile affairs than Mr. Corner, and
few could convey the valuable information in such an
agreeable manner. Mr. Corner's liberality in delivering
these lectures—which must have cost him no inconsider-
able amount of labour and expense—entirely free, is de-
serving of all commendation, and will be gratefully
remembered by his students and those who have embraced
the opportunity of attending. As an instructor in writ-
ing and accounts Mr. Comer's fame is world-'vide. His
next lecture on accounts,
evening is to be on the interest-
ing subject of " Bills of Exchange and Promissory
Notes."—Boston Daily Times.—[Mr. George N. Corner
is, we believe, a son of Mr. James Cotner, of Everton.]

LIVERPOOL UNDER THREE QUEENS.—The following
tabular statement, illustrative of the population and
commerce of Liverpool under Queen Elizabeth, Queen
Anne, and Queen Victoria, will accompany the model of
Liverpool which is about to be forwarded to the Great
Exhibition in London :

RISE AND PROGRESS OF LIVERPOOL,
Under Queen' Under Queen Under Queen
Elizabeth. I Anne. Victoria.
1570. 1710. 1851.

Population.—
...

•
Tonnage 1 268
No. of Vessels l5

£378 19s. lid

400,000

3,536,337

23,000
£211,743
£91,000

a'3,366,284

Amount of l £272 3s. .e 70,080
Customs ..
Incomeof the
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TESTIMONIAL.-0111 Sunday week, a very interesting
event took place in connexion with the Liverpool German
Church. Sir Thomas's-buildings, Dale-street. About
forty members of the congregation, mostly sugar-bakers,
had assembled in the school-room in the afternoon, and
Rev. Mr. Hirsch was about to dismiss the
Nrs for the day, they entered the room in a

body, and presented h
the Reading-desk, spl

£139,153 78. 4d.

m with a large German Bible fi
nditlly bound in gilt morocco, &c

of the unremitti

zeal in his minist

et their deep sense
Ty amongst them,

the acceptance of the Bible as a faint token
in acknowledgment of the same. The reverend gentle-
man, being altogether taken by surprise, as well as deeply
moved by seeing who the presenting parties-were (all of
them persons in a very humble sphere of life, who had
cheerfully contributed to this testimonial out of their

and reques

weekly earnings) required some little time before he was
able to express his most heartfelt thanks.
PORTRAITS OF THE RECTORS.—The Manchester EMl-
miner, in speaking of Mr. Westcott's picture of the ve-
nerable Archdeacon Brooks, intended to grace the select
vestry chamber, says :—lt presents a fine mass've head
and face, with a full lip, denoting good humour as well as
resolution. Had the worthy rector lived in the times

generous abbott ; not only having an eye to the good
things of this world on his own account, but liberally dis-
pensing them among those who gathered round his rook-
ery. The picture is treated with greater simplicity than
the one before alluded to—deeper in its shadows—more
massive in its effects—all tending to harmonise with the

r even, about the calm bu
man, and the tone of colour which generally pervades the
canvas. The companion picture• of the Rev. Rector
Campbell is not, we believe, in so forward a state. •

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MODEL OF CHEPSTOW BRIDGE.—A model of the
wrought iron girder bridge for the South Wales Railwa
Company, and intended to span the river Wye at Chep-
stow, which is at present in course of construction at the
works of Messrs. Finch and Willey, engineers, of this
town, has been exhibited for some days past in the model-
room of their establishment (Windsor Foundry), where it

was made. The design is by Mr. Brunel, the celebrated
engineer. The extreme length of the bridge is 629 feet,
and its height from the bottom of the river 106 feet.
The number of links used in its construction is 1000.

The bridge will be a kind of suspension one, of a_very

Exhibition on Friday. In the same room there is a very
beautiful and complete working model of a high pressure
steam-engine, also intended for the Great Exhibition.
It was designed and executed by Mr. William Pemberton,
an engineer employed in the model-room. It has a glass
cylinder, with a glass steam chest, showing the action of

the piston, and a-- glass condenser, showing-the manner in
which the steam is condensed whilst the engine is at