The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-06-12 00:00:00

THE LATE RICHARD DOBSON, ESQ,

WATERLOO.—This delightful and fashionable watering place,
a most desirable summer retreat, so early in ,the season begins
to assume a gay and brilliant appearance from the great influx
of visitors that are daily honouring it with their, presence.
The beautiful Marine scenery from this spot, coupled with the
picturesque landscapes in the neighbourhood, render the
situation highly attractive to those who wish to spend their
leisure mouths away from the fatigues of business. Mr. Towers,
of the Angel Inn, bale-street, has reopened the spacious hotel,
which is fitted. up with entirely new furniture and decorations,
selected with a view to. the comfort of families. The opening
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dinner of the hotel is announced for the 24th of this month.

IEnONLAMPASTRON.—It iS said that "a prophet is not thought
of in his own country"--this, we fear, is the case of the artist
who has with great perseverance, skill, and labour, produced
the ieronlampastron—as, in consequence of the little supporeit
has yeceival, he intends closing the exhibition to-morrow. The
effeet ea entering the.r,Kint. is very singular,* ttnple of vixid
light presents itself to the eye, in the midst of the most pitchy
darkness, surmounted by two circles of brilliant stars. The
workmanship of the centre of the larger circle is most elaborate
and elegant, while the other side is equally admirable, but more
gaudy front the combination of the various shades and colour's.
The temple itself is well worthy of notice, the pinacles of, or
towers surrounding it, producing a finished and beautiful ap-
pearance. We hope to-day and to-morrow the visitors will
(ouster so strong as to induce the artist to forego moving away
his constellations, and that he will wait a short time longer.
Tits reo.ders will remember that, in the month
of October last,•the Thetis, one of his majesty's Post-office pack-
ets, was partiallvdestroyed by fire, whilstilying at her moorings
in the river.-We have the pleasure to announce that she is now
regenerated, if we may be allowed the expression, and is in active
service, under her former worthy and skilful commander, Captain
Townlev.• The Thetis is now a splendid vessel, and we under-
stand the largest on the postoffice establishment belonging to
this station. Her cabins are elegantly fitted up, and in the con-
struction. of them every advantage has been taken to afford am-
ple and convenient accoinodation to passengers. The packet
was re,construeted by ;Messrs. Humble and Milcrest, under the.
iminediate.and able superintendence of Captain Townley ; and
we offer him our sincere congatulation on the successful comple-
tion of his onerous undertaking. The Thetis has two engines-of
eighty horse-power each, which were made by Messrs. Boulton
and Watt, and completed under the personal inspection of Mr.
Bennett, the eminent engineer, of the firm of Wren and Ben.,
nett, of Manchester, whose well-earned fame will prove a suffi-
cient guarantee for the superiority of the engines. On Thursday
last, the Thetis was tried afloat for the first time, and in an ex-
cursion of three hours, her excellent sailing, and the. admirable
working of the machinery, exceeded the most sanguine expecta-
tions of all parties concerned. On Saturday evening she was put;
on the station and sailed with the mail for Dublin, with upwards
of fifty passengers on board, and nobly accomplished the pas-.
sage in eleven hours.—Courier.

ACCIDENT ON BoAnn A STEAMER.—James MorrisOn, a wa-
terman, belonging to the boat "Dick," which plies for hire on
the river, was proceeding with his boat on Tuesday last towards
Wallasey Hole, when near the west wharf he observed the body
of a man floating on the water. He towed it to Seacombe Slip
and delivered it to a police-officer. The body was subsequently
ascertained to be that of Jacob Leech, a shoemaker, residing at
Runcorn, who fell overboard on the 24th of May last from the
Duke of Bridgewater, steam-packet, as it was iiroceeding round
the Floating. Light.—An inquest was held tipon the body, and
a verdict of Accidental Death returned.
•
Bony Forikn.—Yesterday morning, at an early hour, as a
boatman was following his avocation on the river, near the Red
Noses, he'observed something floating on the water. Ou near.;
ingit turned out to to be the body of a female. Several bruises,
and apparently cuts were found about the head and face. The
body; which•appeared fresh in the water, was conveyed to Li-
verpool in order that an inquest may be held.
SFLOCKINCi ACCIDENT.,—Another inquest was held the same
day..on view of the body of a lad named George Pennington, a
plasterer's apprentice; who met with •his death whilst working
at the New Custom-house. Bernard Connell, a labourer in the
employ of Mr. Robert M`Kee, plasterer; with whom the de-
ceased was au apprentice; said that about ten o'clock the same
morning the deceased, who was doing work for Mr. McKee at
the New Custom-house, came to him upon a scaffold which was
placed inside of a dome at 'the'west side•of the Custom-house
ter some plaster to apply in a part of the work at which he was
engaged. Witness gave it to him, and he ran away with it
along the seaffolding; but he, had not proceeded far when he
dropped' to the bottom of the dome, a distance of about eight '
yards. He bled very much ; and witness immediately ran for
a surgeon; but before the surgeon arrived he was dead.—Ver-
diet, Accidental Death. •

DEATH ptiom BATtimn.—An inquest was held before Am-
brose Lace, Esq., one of the coroner's for the borough, on view
of the body of Wiliam Foxwall, a trunkmaker, in the employ
of Mr. Thomas Watson, of Lord-street. It appeared from the
evidence of Robert Barlow, also a trunkmaker, that on Tuesday
evening last the deceased, witness, and two other shopmates
went to bathe on the North Shore, in a bathing machine.
Witness and deceased swam into the stream in the river, and in
a few minutes afterwards deceased was missing, and witness
subsequently saw him dead at Breckell's public-house, on the
North Shore.—David Griffiths, a cordwainer, residing in
Towera's-buildings, who was also bathing, said that about tell
minutes'efter he get into the water he saw the deceased talking
to a boy, and heard him say that he had not bathed for thirty
years before. A short time afterwards. when witness returned
towards the shore, .near to the spot he had first seen him, he
observed a body, with the head and feet in the water. Witness
raised the beadup and saw that it was the deceased apparently
quite dead. Deceased was then taken to Breckell's public-
house, and Mr.Sharrocks, a. surgeon, was sent for, who used
every means to restore life, but without effect.—Verdict, Ac-
cidental Death.
EMIGRATIoN.—On Tuesday last, the Romulus sailed from
Greenock for Quebec, with 107 emigrants—Total emigration
this season from Greenock to New York,, 668—t0 the British
Colonies, 342.

LORD BROUGHAM, O'CoNNELL, AGITATION-DINNERS.—
When Lord Brougham goes to such places, and mingles in such
company, he incurs a necessity of acting in character. He
must abase his style, his manners, and even his feelings, down
to the level of his company, or rather below it; for as he goes
to flatter, he must subdit to the sycophant's condition of infe-
riority. In that fawning speech in which the dowager Chan-
cellor fawned upon Lord Melbourne and the rest who have
cast him off, in the hope doubtless of his (Lord Brougham's)
regaining the woolsack, the noble and learned lord was pleased
to warn his late colleagues against Yawning upon the court.
An honourable and independent•minded man will be indisposed
to fawn on any one, court or kennel; but if the necessity be
imposed, good taste and good feeling will certainly give a pre-
ference to the court. as the less offensive an t less exacting
grant. Lord Brougham, however, has chosen the other side;
he fawns upon the dregs of society, and that courtier has doubt-
less• a strong .stomach who would treat his sovereign with.
flattery as fulsome as this once able, and we believe once high,. -J
minded man, pours out before the meanest and most worth- 1
Icss of the populace.—Standard.

. It is our painful duty this week to record the decease of our
excellent and much esteemed townsman, Mr. Dobson, which
' melancholy- event occurred at Everton, on Tuesday morning
last. He pad been for some time unwell, but not so seriously
as to cause his friends to apprehend any immediate danger.
On Saturday last he was in town, but on his return home he
complained of severe pain, and " notvrithstanding every effort
was used that skill and affection could dictate he gradually de-
clined until Tuesday morning, when he breathed his last, in the
53d year of his age.
Few men have passed through life more generally and de-
servedly esteemed. It. may truly be said of him that be never
had an enemy. Firmly and conscientiously attached to the in-
stitutions of the country, he was ever ready and prompt to
ensure their stability both by his influence and example. In
the cause of benevolence he was foremost, and notwithstanding
his avocations, few have devoted so much time to the cause of
charity, or learnt so fully the luxury of doing good.
Mr. Dobson was an active and diligent member of the Sewer-
age Board—but his loss will be most felt as a member of the
District Provident Society, and as the treasurer of the Blue
Coat Hospital. For nineteen years he has filled this responsible
situation ; and the.writer of these lines has often had occasion
to admire his unwearied patience, his unremitted attention, and
his deep solicitude for this admirable institution, even in seasons
of peculiar trials and difficulties. Here his loss is almost irre-
parable. As a mercantile min he was highly reSpected for his
manliness and integrity, his decisions and his conduct were the
result of deep rooted principles; and while we deplore the re-
moval of one so active and benevolent, and whose death mar be
justly considered a public calamity, the regret is softened- by
the dheering reflect►on that "be rests from his labours," that
"his works will follow him," and that our loss is his eternal
gain.