The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-10-07 00:00:00

Zoral anTi Vrobiltrial BAIA.

John Gladstone, Esq., of yasque, has presented a dona-

tion of £lOO to the Caledonian Society of this town.
Reporters were Lot admitted to the conference of Scot-
tish Delegates last week.
The Conservatives have gained 123 votes for South
Lancashire, in the Oldham, Wigan, Newton, and Bolton
districts.

The two water companies have come to an arrangement
by which they divine the docks equally—one supplying
the north docks and the other the south ones.
CAtyrroN.—Two valuable gold watches were stolen
during the past week from gentlemen while putting letters
into the receiving-box at the Post-office.
Our respected and venerable townsman, John Glad-
stone, Esq., of Fasque, it is said, purposes building in
Hope Street, a philanthropic institution, which he intends
to endow and present to the town.
Mr. Christopher Bushell is about to retire from the
representation of Abercromby Ward, in consequence of
the precarious state of his health. He is now under the
care of his physicians, at Leamington.
The inhabitants of Sr. Helen's have resolved that a
splendid portrait of the late Mr. Greenall shall be placed
in the Town-hall, and that engravings of a portrait now
in possession of the family shall he published.
BIRKENHEAD CHURCH.--On Sunday morning week the
Rev. A. Knox preached an eloquent sermon in behalf of
the sufferers by the late calamitous fires at Quebec, after
which the sum of £74 was collected. _ _ _

DFSPATCII —On Monday morning, Messrs. Kendall
ar;d Co's ship The Duke, from Calcutta, was laying at
anchor in the river. At high water, whieh was at 9 52
a.m. she docked ; and by six o'clock in the evening she
had about fifty tons of her cargo discharged.
There met on 'chanite last week five merchants from
opposite quarters of the globe, all of whom bad visited
England in consequence of di.pntes arising out of docu-
ments having been burnt in different fires.
DISTINGUISHED VISITORS.—The Marquis of Lans-
downe and the Earl of Clarendon paid a •isit ou Friday
week, to William Jackson, Esq., at Birkenhead, for the
purpose of inspecting the improvements now in progress.
The men in the employ of Messrs. Milner and Son, fire
proof box makers, Lord wreet, have presented those gen-
tlemen with a handsome silver snuff box and cigar case as
tributes of esteem. _ _ .

On Tuesday, police-officer 462, was reprimanded by
Mr. Rushton, and ordered to pay all the expenses attend-
ing the arrest and imprisonment of a person named Fan-
ning, who was taken up erroneously on suspicion of steal-
ing a jacket in the Waterloo Dock.
ROBDERY.—On Tuesday Jc.hn Bartlett, a respectable
young man, was committed by Mr. Rushton for trial,
charged with robbing Mr Kent, hosier, Bold-street, of a
quantity of goods. The prisoner had only been in Mr.
Kent's employ about three months.
Great improvement. are about being made at the Rail-
way-station, Lime-street. It will be extended back to
Hotham-street ; and'one tunnel will run direct from Edge-
hill to the north docks, and another to the new docks at
the Herculaneum, which is to be commenced after the
next session of Parliament.
ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN.— According to a return
just published, it appears that the number of illegitimate
children born in Liverpool during the past twelve months,
and whose births came to the knowledge of the proper
authorities, amounted to 468, the average being nine a
week.

On Wednesday a collision took place on the Mersey,

off the Magazines, between a Dumfries schooner, called
John and Grace, and the Ellen Jackson, for Bonny. The
sloop carried away her masts, rigging, sails, and boom,
besides stoving in her bows, part of her bulwarks, and
unshipping her rudder.
On Tuesday last a very interesting ceremony took
place in Higher Bebbington, on the occasion of laying the
foundation-stone of a school, to be built for the use of the
children of the village. The stone has been presented by
Mr. Totnkinson. and the erection is to be paid for prin-
cipally by the inhabitants of Rock Ferry.
The number of Bills of Entry sold or subscribed for in
Liverpool, from 1834 to 1844, averaged about 600 annu-
ally, nearly 100 above the amount in London. The sums
received for Bills of Entry in Liverpool, amounted last
year to £3062 14s. 9d. ; in 1841 and 1843 the amount
was the largest, namely, £3090.
The new Theatre Royal, Manchester, was opened for
the first time on Monday. There was an overflowing
audience. and all went off well. The opening play was
not, as might fairly heve been expected, one of Shak-
spere's, but Douglas Jerrold's Time Works Wonders.
The opening address, written by Mr. Mark Barry, of
London, was spoken by Mr. Wallack.
On Tuesday, Mr. Rushton committed to prison, for
thirty days, eight seamen belonging to the ship Hudders-
field, bound for Bonny, for refusing to do their duty after
having engaged to work the ship. Mr. Rushton said this
practice was becoming common in the merchant service,
seamen got an advance, their notes cashed, and on being
shipped for a long voyage they make out a complaint, but
fortunately the law had provided a remedy.
OVERFLOWING OF THE RIBBLE.—In consequence of
the late heavy rains, a large tract of the low grounds near
Preston was overflowed. An immense body of water
rolled down the river, and swept away a temporary
wooden bridge, and about £l5OO worth of timber, belong-
ing to Mr. Davis, of Preston, was carried off. A number
of roots and stumps of trees, and sheaves of corn, were
swimming down the current.
PORTRAIT PAINTING.— II will be gratifying to the
friends of Mr. T. C. Thompson, R.H.A., to learn that he
has arrived, on a short visit, at 23, St. James's Road,
where we were gratified by a sight of a very interesting
though melancholy picture, by him, called " The Forlorn
Hope," suggested by an affecting story from the pen of
Mrs. S. C. Hall. The manner in which it tells the tale,
and its execution as a work of art, will no doubt render it
an attractive painting. We have also seen the bead of a
clergyman, lately connected with Everton; also that of a
voting lady,—both of which are exceedingly beautiful.
Mr. T., we doubt not, would be happy to allow any re-
spectable person to view these works, and others upon
which he is engaged.