The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-11-28 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOiI STANDARD.

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as important to Indhi-as the inventions of Arkwright
were to Lancashire—has been accomplished by Mr.
Mather. Mr. Mather, we believe, was formerly con-
nected with an engineering firm at Liverpool. He was
then a resident for some time in the district of Tinevelly,

in the north of the Madras presidency.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—On Tuesday, William Day
appeared on his last examination. The solicitor for the
assignees said he had made an arrangement with Mr. Peil,
a claimant on the estate, whereby Mr. Peil agreed to
receive from the assignees the sum of £6OO, and forego all
further claim on his debt, which was £2,600 ; and that a
deed for this purpose had been prepared and executed by
the assignees, but that the bankrupt refused to sign.
Unless the bankrupt consented to sign the deed, he (the
solicitor) should ask his Honour to commit him. It was
added, that this arrangement would enable the assignees to
pay the creditors fifteen shillings in the pound. His
Honour, having looked over the deed, advised the bank-
rupt to execute it, which he then did, after which he was

:o pass

sis examination

ACCIDENTAL DEATH IN A DOCK BASIN.—An inquest
was held on Saturday before the deputy-coroner, on view
of the body of John Goforth. Deceased was upwards of
seventy years of age, and bad latterly been employed by
his son-in-law, a young man named Wm. Stitt Jenkins,
as a watchman of goods at the dock quays. On Thursday
night last, deceased had to watch a quantity of American
apples on the quay of the Coburg Dock, and after calling
at the hut of the quay watchman, lie went out in the dark,
and by some means missed his way and fell into the dock,
at a time when the water was very low. His body was
found_next morning on the strand near the dock. Blood

flowed from the heiid, and the probability was that he had
fallen from the dock-gate bridge, when the tide was out.
His skull was fractured at the base.

SHIPWRECK, AND SINGULAR ESCAPE.—Captain W.
Hampton, of the schooner Annie, of Poole, from Leg-
horn, at Dublin, states, in a letter to a firm in Liverpool,

tnat, on the 4th instant, about 260 rniles
Clear, he fell in with a boat containing two men, the one
dead and the other alive. He picked up the man who was

master of the Jockey schooner, of Leith, from Galatz,
foundered on the 28th ultimo, and the captain had been
exposed in the open boat from that day till he was rescued,
without meat or drink. The schooner, it appears, sprung
a leak about 150 miles S.W. of Cape Clear. Her pumps
became choked, and as she was sinking, a. Dutch brie bore
down to her assistance. Three men jumped into the boat,
but the vessels came into collision, and one man was killed.

DREAIM—On Thursday
a captain of the flat Lucie
dreamed that her daughter fell overboard, and was
drowned. Her anxiety was great on awaking • and the next
aday she called repeatedly at the owner's office to inquire
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where the vessel was lying. She did not come down the

SINGULAR FULFILMENT 0
night the mother-in-law of

river until the evening,wlren, on her arrival at the entrance
of the Clarence Dock, the parents of the captain's wife
went on board, and the mother, after communicating

the vessel then occupied was the precise spot indicated in
her dream, and endeavoured to persuade her daughter to
leave the vessel. Failing in this, the parents went away,
and before twenty minutes had elapsed the dream was
literally fulfilled ; the unfortunate young woman, who was
only twenty years of age, and hut two months married,
fell backwards into the river, was carried by the force of
the tide under some flats anchored ahead, and the body
has not yet been found.
THE WATER INQUIRY
instituted an inquiry int

The Water Committee have

publicly male, respecting attempts on the part of certain
officials connected with the water works, to allow the water
to run to waste, in order to further the Rivington Pike
scheme. The Sub-Committee for conducting the enquiry,
met on Tuesday, in the Board-room of the late Harrington

Company, in Hotham-street. Mr. Morris, chairman of
the Sub-Committee, presided, and there were also present,
Messrs. Nicol, (chairman of the Water Committee)
ennett, and Tinne.
'k notes of the evi-

was in

present, but they wererequ

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•aiv, until the

course of proceeding was decided upon. It was ultimately
resolved by the committee, that until the proceedings had
terminated, no report should appear. Mr. James Mac-
donald, on the part of the allegationists, examined two
witnesses, and the proceedings were adjourned. On
Saturday and yesterday, the proceedings were again re-

sumed, but they are not likely to closefor a day or two.
Miss EMILY GRANT'S GRAND CONCERT.—We cannot

treat to be afforded by the concert of this fascinating vo-
calist, to be given at the Concert-hall this evening, under

attention to Miss Grant's own merits .as a highly educated

arttste walla ne like endeavouring to add a " pertume to
the rose ;" as wherever she has been heard, whether in
the metropolis or elsewhere, the leading musical journals
have been so unanimous in her praise as to make her
fame almost European as a sound musician, a distin-

whether in public or private lii:e she has invariably com-
manded the respect and esteem of all. Independent of
the officers, several of the most distinguished families of
the town and neighbourhood are on the reserved seats,
including Lord Sefton, William Brown, Esq., M.P.
Charles Scarisbrick, Esq., Scarisbrick-ball, JoROI Brooke
Yates, Esq., William Rathbone, Esq., the Misses Yates,
&c., &c. ; and, as Miss Grant has most liberally placed

the prices within the reach of all parties, she well deserves
an overflowing house. Independent of the other attrac-
tions,. Miss Grant brings out a pupil, (a fellow towns-
woman, we hear,) and by general request sings her
far-famed Highland Echo Song, which she has made

exclusively her own, few venturing to attempt it after her.
MYSTERIOUS POISONING OF SEVEN PERSONS.---One

that has ever come under our notice occurred on Friday,
at the Old Swan, near this town. One of the children of

at a small shop in the village, and shared it with hi; Boren
brothers and sisters. Shortly after having eaten it, the

wen were seized with the most nrien

region of t

stomach, and ey

1, ,which in

two of the sufferers was accompanied by the appearance
of spectral illusions, such as sometimes attend a highly
excited state of the brain and circulation. Medical aid
was immediately called in, which, for some time, appeared
unavailing. Although the violence of the symptoms were
• I al—

T had violent vomiting of blood

case, where tui
the whole of th

sufferers are, we understand, still in considerable danger

) clue ent cause for

arming e

rvant,

discovered. Under present circumstances, no blame can
attach to the vendor of the liquorice, as he does not manu-
facture it himself. It is unfortunate that none of the

liquorice

; those of
of others,

for examina'

'emanis
Some, however, purchased from the same person, is, we
understand, about to be submitted to chemical analysis,

ien it is to be hoped som
infui and mysterious case
A HARD CASE

lirown on

-Journal.

Ifercury mentions a case of ex-
im is a young captain of

ip, in whit

sel, who, While
_sitting writing in the Cabin- in the

•ecently, was waitec

by a respectable

DEATHS BY BURNING.--On Saturday, Thomas Pest,
who was much burned at the gas works in this town
through some children having set fire to some shavings,
on the 14th inst., died at the Toxteth Hospital.—A few
days since, William Jones, a child eight years of age,
living in Holly-street, was left in the house with another
child of six years old. The poor lad's pinafore, by some
means took fire, while, as he stated he was warming a bit
of glue at the fire, and he was so much burned that
he died soon after.

On Tuesday evening a lecture was delivered in Exeter
Hall, by the Rev. Dr. M`Neile,- Canon of Chester, to the
members of the " Young Men's Association," on the
Distinctive Features of Protestantism and Popery. The
chair was filled by the Right Hon. Lord Ashley, who was
supported by the Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, R. C. L. Bevan,
Esq., and a great body of the clergy and laity. The
Great Hall was filled in every part, more than 3,000
tickets having been purchased long before the day of

TILE WINTER ASSIZES.—At the assizes which com-
mence here on the 9th proximo, there are indictments
from Liverpool, Manchester, and Ashton-under-Lyne,
against a great number of persons for conspiracy, unlawful
assembling, sedition, &c. The Manchester chartist in-
dictment, as it is called, includes no fewer than 46 indivi-
duals ; that from Liverpool includes 4 ; and that from
Ashton-under-Lyne, 34. Independently of these trials,
however, the criminal business at the approaching winter
assizes is said to be heavy ; that from the borough of
Manchester is quite as large as at any ordinary assizes.
IRISH IMMIGRATION.—The select vestry have deter-
mined to adopt the most summary means for the imme-
diate removal back to their respective parishes, every
native of Ireland whom they have reason to think are
paupers. This course must inevitably entail severe suffer-
ing to the aged, the ailing, and to children, during the
rigours of winter, but the wholesale deportation of these
poor creatures by the union officers or landowners of that
mismanaged country, leaves no alternative to the guar-
dians of the parish funds here. The number of deck
the Irish steamers, last

week, is fully equal to that of the previous week.
COTTON CLEANING IN INDlA.—There is reason to
believe that an important success has been at last achieved
in the enterprise of cotton cultivation in India. A me-
chanical invention has been exhibited and submitted to a
public trial at Calcutta, which promises to impart a high
degree of efficiency to the churka or cleansing machine of
the Hindoos. Thisreally great achievement—an achieve-
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ment

down. The building is in the style of the early decorated
t eriod, and is erected of blue limestone, hammer-dressed
and coursed, the quoins, tracery, &c., being of beautiful
freestone. It is 150 feet long by 60 feet wide. The nave
is 50 feet wide, and the side aisles 15 feet wide each. The
roof is supported on each side of the aisle by seven pillars
of beautiful polished Drogheda limestone. Although the
weight which the pillars have to support is great, such is
the quality of the stone that the diameter necessary is
only two feet. The pillars rest on circular pedestals, and
have ornamented capitals of freestone. The roof, which
is of oak panelling, is fifty feet in height. The body of
the church is lighted by means of eighteen windows. At
the north end of the nave there is a splendid window,
with stone frame-work, handsomely carved. At the top
of this there is also a window in the form called St.
Catherine's wheel, and the whole of the gables are
finished with beautiful crosses, richly carved in stone.
The chancel, at the south end,• is lighted by three large
windows. The interior walls are of dressed freestone, and
at the east side there are fourteen small apartments or
vestries, to be used as confessionals. At the north-west
corner there will be a gallery for the choir, and an organ
will be fitted up. The chapel is calculated to hold from
1500 to 1800 persons. At the north-west corner stands
an immense square tower, eighty feet in height. The
top is finished with open tracery or battlements, and here
the spring of the spire commences. The spire will also
be eighty feet in height, but its erection will be delayed
for some time. The principal front is in Salisbury-street.