The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-11 00:00:00

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The Shenandoah packet-ship, from New York, arrived
'on Saturday with £20,000 in specie.
The sentences on both Pilkington and 'Speed, con-
demned to death at the late assizes here, has been com-
muted to transportation for life.
Mr. G. V. Brooke, whose classic performances here at-
tracted crowded audiences, has made his debut in London,
and has been enthusiastically received.
COUNTERFEIT COlN.—Large quantities of base silver
coin are now in circulation, especially five shilling pieces,
which are so admirably executed as to preclude detection,
unless by very competent judges.
On Saturday there was launched from the building-
yard of Messrs. Tod and M`Gregor, Partick. near
Glasgow, a fine steamer, called the Trafalgar She is for
the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company.
Since the recent highway robberies have brought the
omnibuses more into requisition by persons residing in the
outskirts, cases of pocket-picking in omnibuses have also
become muck more numerous.
The packet-ship Yorkshire, which sailed from New
York on the 11th ultimo, arrived on Friday, with £45,000
in sovereigns. Her news has been anticipated by the
Zurich.

A chandler's shop, in Bronte-street, was burglariously
entered on Thursday night, and a quantity of soap and
candles stolen. On the same night the stables of Mr.
Sharp, Trowbridge-street, were entered, and a quantity
of harness taken.
Shortly after the ship Constantine had sailed from Li-
verpool for New Orleans, on a recent voyage, an Irishman
secretly opened his sea-chest, in which his brother had
concealed himself, with a view to obtain a gratuitous pas-
sage, and was horror-struck at finding him suffocated.
GYMNASTICS.—It will be seen that Mons. Huguenin,
yielding to the present monetary depression, has reduced
the terms for his excellent academy to such moderate
:prices as will place the advantages to be derived within
Teach of almost all classes of the public.
LAUNCHES.—On Saturday tnere was launched from
-the building-yard of Messrs. Cato, Miller, and Co., a fine
schooner, of 247 tons, the property of Messrs. Wilson and
Dawson, and intended for the Mediterranean trade. Also,
from the same yard, and at the same time, two mud
barges, the property of the Liverpool Dock Trust.
On Sunday week the Sunday School teachers belonging
to St. Saviour's Sunday and Day Schools, Windsor, pre-
sented their minister, the Rev. G. W. Warr, with a small
token of their esteem, accompanied by an appropriate ad-
dress, expressive of their respect and gratitude for his
uniform kindness and unremitting exertions.
THE LADIES' CHARITY BALL.—On Tuesday night last
the fifty-first anniversary of this most excellent charity
was given at the Town-hall. Th 4 re were upwards of 700
ladies and gentlemen present. Amongst those who were
the first to arrive, we noticed Sir Thomas B. Birch, Bart.,
M.P., William Brown, Esq., M.P., and Thos. Thornely,
Esq., M.P.
ROYAL ADELPHI THEATRE.—The united companies of
Mr. Cooke and Mr. Batty continue to attract numerous
audienzes. Tae pantomime, winch has
.heen running

since Christmas, has been nightly received with the greatest
enthusiasm,—while the horsemanship partakes of the
character that the company have so long maintained at
Astley's, in London. In the management no exertion is
spared, and the talent of the corps is such as should ever
ensure overflowing houses.

CARMARTHEN AND LIVERPOOL.—On Monday last, the
steam-tug William arrived at our quay with a quantity of
merchandize from Liverpool, brought by the packet
Mountaineer to Tenby, and there shipped on board the
William. This is the first trip, we believe. of the Moue-

taineer, and from the quantity of goods shipped from
Liverpool for this port there can be no doubt that this
speedy means of communication will be of great service to

tne tradesmen of the town, the want of which has been so
long severely felt. —Carmarthen Journal.
IMMENSE EMIGRATION PROM LIVERPOOI

twuuer, nas Kindly furnished some interesting sta-
tistics of the emigratiou from this port. The ordinary
amount is about 40,000 persons per annum, but last year
(1857) this was augmented nearly fourfold. The totals
during the whole of last year were as follows :—United
States, 103,665 ; South America. 207 • Ninrth A yric.vinon

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colonies, 30,552 ; West Indies, 155 ; other places, Africa,
Australia, &c., 100,—making in all a total of 134,524, an
increase of 74,913 over the previous year, 1846.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday forenoon, at
the foundry of Messrs. Holgate, coppersmiths, Dale
a young man, named George Lawson, an apprentice
at work, was drawn up by the strap, and carried round
the shaft. As soon as the • •

;rifler coma De stoeu,
the unfortunate youth wasex—t ted,y when a most appal-
ling spectacle presented itoel toth. the arms and one of
the legs were taken off—the- 11_

- atws aoove the elbows.
Some hasty measures were adopted to prevent the exces-
sive hemorrhage, after which he was conveyed to the
Northern Hospital.
THE FOG OF THURSDAY.—On the morning of Thurs-
day the fog on theriver was so dense that several collisions
took place ; none of them, happily, attended with serious
consequences. The Britannia and William Fawcett, be-
longing to Birkenhead, met, and part of the bulwarks of
the former was carried away. The Thomas Wilson, of
Seacombe, ran foul of the King Orry, and carried away
part of her shrouds. A collision (not very serious; oc-
curred between the Prince and the Queen of Woodside,
which disabled the latter a few hours, but she resumed
her station in the evening. A man fell into the river in
the afternoon, but was picked up.
EDUCATION IN WALES.-00 Tuesday evening, a meet-
ing was held at the Music-hall, Bold-street_ fr..

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..5 uy tne tiny. 1). lays Stephens,
Of Manchester, on the state of education in Wales, in re-
ply to the report of the commissioners of inquiry, which
has lately appeared. There was a tolerably numerous at-
tendance. The lecturer held forth for a very considerable
length of time, arguing all through that the best education
of the English language would effect no improvement in

the principa
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and free from- offence

How CHILDREN DIE

:.—One Robert Hibbing, a
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four years o

Tuesday morning, Elizabeth Ann Critcluey
old, daughter of parents living in Gerard-street,
found dead in bed. The cause of death was suffocation
arising, as stated by the surgeon, probably from being
overlain. On Tuesday, Patrick Kenny; a child four years
old, belonging to parents residing in North-street, was
left in a garret with other children, when his clothes
caught fire, and he was so sevprpi.

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