The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-02-03 00:00:00

THL LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

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W. F. Hulton, Esq., has been gazetted a deputy lieu,
tenant for Lancashire.

The assizes will commence at Chester on Saturday,
March 28.

The inhabitants of Warrington, at a public meeting,
have decided on applying for a charter of incorporation.
At the post-office in this town, nearly 120,000 money
orders are granted during the year, the commission only
on which must amount to above £2,000.

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The bridge erected by Mr. Marsden, of Liverpool, at
Creg Willey's-hill, Isle of. Man, was carried away by the
recent flood, and both arches destroyed.
About ten o'clock, on Thursday night, a man, named
T+.omas M'Grath, dropped down and instantly expired,
at his residence in Croston-street, Toxteth-park.
ANOTHER DOOMED FRIGATE.—One of the best ra-
zees in the navy, the Dublin, 50-gun frigate, late the flag-
ship in the Pacific, has been selected by the Navy Office
for a lazaretto for Liverpool, to replace the Merlin.
We observe that the great Western steamer will start
from this port on her first trip this season, to New York,
on the 11th of April, and the Great Britain on the 9th of
May. _ . . . . .

A man of the name of Nathaniel Currie is now in cus-
tody at Minchester, charged with the murder of a young
woman named Elizabeth Ellison, whose body was found
in the Rochdale Canal, on the 10th instant.

The collections, at the opening of the Irish Presbyterian
Church, on Sunday last, amounted to the extremely libe-
ral sum of £243; and the receipts since have been £43,
making a total of £286.

Fort Anne, the residence of Sir William Hillary, at
the Isle of Man, has been sold to James Newton, Esq.,
Cheadle Heath, Cheshire, proprietor of Harrold rower,
for the sum of £l3OO.

The new iron steam-packet now building in the Clyde
for the station between Liverpool and Douglas, will be
called the Tynwald, the hill on which all the laws of the
island must be proclaimed before they are acted upon.
Fifty gentlemen were present at the annual dinner of
the Liverpool Chess Ciub, at the Adelphi Hotel, on Wed-
nesday. Mr. Augustus Mongredien occupied the chair,
and the vice-chair was filled by Mr. James Lister.

We understand that at the council meeting to-morrow
an elaborate report will be made respecting the bill to be
brought into Parliament for providing abundant water and
pure air for the town.
CHILD SCALDED TO DEATH.—On Wednesday morn-
ing week, Elizabeth Champion, a child about two months
old, pulled a cup of hot coffee over her and was severely
scalded. She died on Sunday week.

OXTON.—Thii rapidly improving township is now
lighted up with thirty patent naptha lamps. The lamps
are fitted up with what are termed coxcomb burners,
having a powerful reflector, of the butterfly shape.

John Carturit, living in Mary-street, Hampstead-road,
lately received intelligence that by the death intestate of
an uncle in Liverpool he had become possessed of £B,OOO
personal property. Carturit, who is a hatter by trade,
was in very reduced circumstances.

A set of new chairs has been introduced into the Ex-
change Newsroom. They are constructed of a light
sliadt d mahogany, and are of elegant design and work-
manship. Messrs. Hand and Son, cabinet-makers. Bold-
street are the parties by
-whom the order was executed.

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The Daily News of Wednesday, containing the—Pre-
mier's speech, was received, in this town on that morning,
by an express train, at the early hour of seven o'clock.
The other morning papers containing the debate to the
close, were received here at noon.

On Friday, an inquiry took plAe:! before Mr. Rushton
a to the expulsionot,. three members from the Maid of

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SUDDEN DEATH.—On Friday morning last, Mr. R.
Maxwell, formerly a travelling draper, was found dead,
about eleven o'clock in the morning, at his lodgings at
Wigan. The deceased, who had acquired a handsome
competency by his business, has, for several years, unfor-
tunately given himself up to great dissipation.
On Wednesday night, a man named Ingham, living in
Bostock-street, after having been drinking in a public-
house in Scotland-road, went homewards by Boundary_
road, where, in getting over a field wall about three yards
high, he fell down upon some stones. Ile was taken
home in a state of insensibility, and died on the '-
morning of apoplexy.
FEMALE BURNT TO DEATH.—On Saturday afternoon,
Mary Arvr, an aged female, was burnt to_ death in her

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EXTRAORDINARY AND ALARMING
OCCURRENCE.

About twenty-five minutes before twelve o'clock on
Saturday forenoon, great alarm and anxiety were excited
in Fenwick-street, in the surrornding neighbourhood of
Exchange Ward, and shortly after throughout the business
parts of the town, (to which the news quickly spr.,ad,) by
the instantaneous falling down of a large heavily-laden
bonded warehouse, extending between Moor-street and
the Old Ropery,—two small streets running out of Fen-
wick-street westward, and parrallel with James-street,
one of the principal thoroughfares from Castle-street to
George's-pier. It was known that a number of men (how
many was not then known) were at work within the build-
ing at the time, and the apprehension at first entertained
was that about twenty had lost their lives; but it was
happily soon afterwards ascertained that but one man was
missing, the others employed having escaped with their
lives almost by a miracle,—though there is yet an uncer-
tainty whether some one or more, casually passing along
Moto-street, might have fallen victims, a great portion of
the ruins and contents of the building having been launch-
ed into that street, which they blocked up to the height of
upwards of twenty feet. An immense number of specta-
tors speedily congregated towards the spot (and the crowd
still continues to be consideable), but, with the exception
of a few who had an immediate interest in the catastrophe,
or those in authority, they were kept at a safe distance by
the police.

The warehouse, known as " Hammond's", was the pro-
perty of Mr. John Tipping, and rented by Mr. Dean, who
again sub-let the rooms (as is usual) to several tenants,
amongst whom were Messrs. William Steele and Co.. Mr.
Slattery, Messrs Wilds, Pickersgill, and Co., and one or
two others. It had two frontages, one to each street
named ; was seven stories high from the ground ; and its
length from street to street was upwards of 30 yards. The
building was an old one, having been known upwards of
40 years; but it bad undergone repairs, and about two
years ago was furnished with iron doors as a security from
fire. It does not appear to us, on looking at the remain-
ing walls, or the mortar or woodwork, that the ware-
house was built less strongly than is usual ; and as an in-
quiry will no doubt be instituted into th cause of its
downfall, we refrain from observation further than re •
marking from what we can learn, and hare ourselves ob-
served from the middle of the ruins, that it was' not
loaded to a very extraordinary degree, though nearly full,
and that the accident is one which is involved in the
chapter of probabilities. Certainly no person would wil-
fully store valuable property, such as grain, flour, &c., in
such quantity as they believed would subject great part of
it to destruction ; and amongst the conjectures entertained
by ourselves and others, we think it likely that some of
the internal wooden props, or pillars, between some of the
floors--all of which were not equally loaded--must
have been drawn from their places in the beams above by
the slight swagging of the floors in some of the lower
stories, and bad dropped down unobserved so as to leave

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