The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-24 00:00:00

NEW MUSIC.

Do you ever List to Music. Leoni Lee. Albemarle-street,
London ; James Smith, 80ld-street, Liverpool.
An excellent and truly pathetic song, illustrative of the
tender feelings; the words and music by Mr. Joseph
Robinson, who, we learn, is about to be located amongst
us ; dedicated, by permission, to the Countess de Grey,
and admirably adapted to the piano accompaniments. The
words, as also the music, will, we predict, become po-
pular :

Do you ever list to music,
At the silent hour of eve,
When all nature is reposing?—
Oh 'tis then the heart cloth heave
'Tis then the soul expandeth,
When it hears those notes divine;
Th, y expel all wordly visions,
Unto which we oft incli, e.

If the mind is torn by sorrow,
Or misfortune's chequer'd shade,
Then, oh ! then 'tis music's sweetness
Mat( s the heart cease to upbraid :
In the hour of mental anguish,
There is nought to me so dear
As the sound of music wailing,
When it steals upon mine ear.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S,—THURSDAY.
A. very thin attendance, and only the following bets
laid :

CHESTER CU P.

500 to 10 agst Pagan. 1000 to 20 agst Corranna,looo to
20 agst Rowena, and 1000 to 30 agst Aristides. Offers
to take 40 to 10 about Winesour.

DERBY.

850 to 50 agst Icas, 1000 to 30 agst Old England, 2000
to 60 agst Ironmaster, with a qualification ; 4000 to 100
agst Fitz Allen, 500 to 10 agst Cabin Boy, 350 to 10 agst
Laird o'Cock pen ; 1000 even between Anti-Repealer and
the colt out of Calypso's dam. Offers to lay 20 or 22 to
I about Ram, and to lay 30 or take 33 to 1 about the colt
out of Calypso's dam.

CREWE SCHOOLS.—A public examination of the chil-
i dren educated in the schools, erected by the directors of
the Grand Junction Railway Company at Crewe, for their
workmen's children, took place on Friday last, in their
! respective school rooms, when were present J. Moss,
Esq., his lady, and Miss Moss, who take a great interest
in these schools, the Rev. J. Simeuck, chaplain, the Rev.
J. Cooper, rector of Coppenhall, with other ladies and
gentlemen, besides a large number of the parents and
friends of the children. This being the first examination
it excited considerable interest. The infants' school was
the first gone through. It was delightful to see ninety
babes assembled together, with their happy faces, beaming
with docile intelligence, and answering questions that
would puzzle many an adult, proving the value of the in-
structions of Miss Davis, their kind teacher. This, as
well as the other school rooms for the boys and girls, was
tastefully decorated with evergreens, indicative of the
coming Christmas, and presenting a delightful and poeti-
cal effect, wreathing as they did the scriptural pictures,
doctrines, precepts, and aphorisms, which adorned the
walls of this truly college for babes. The visiters next
proceeded to the girls' school, which is under the manage-
ment of Miss Armstrong, who is deserving of every praise
for the manner in which her pupils acquitted themselves
at their first examination. The boys' school is conducted
by Mr. Hardman, and, although a smaller number of
scholars attend this school than the other, it was equally
delightful to find that every attention possible had been
given to raise its character as a proper seminary for the
sons of the workmen. The system of tuition is a mixture
of the Bell and Lancaster, and is well adapted for this lo-
cality. The boys are better taught than most work people's
children. The examination terminated, and the children,
to the number of 250, with their teachers and friends, !
were entertained, through the kindness of the committee,
with tea, &c.
PREVENTION OF ACCIDENTS ON THE MERSEY.—We
have of late years had to record not a few fatalities, from
time to time, to parties crossing our river, which, though
they may generally be ranged amongst the fearfully long
catalogues of " accidents" that, at first sight, appear to
be inseparable from the rapid mechanical loco..iotion now
demanded by the mass of our dense population, may, we
think, on maturer reflection be attributed, to a great ex-
tent, at least, to the want of due regulations to be ob-
served by those who present difficulties or needless ob-
structions to the passage of the ferry-boats. We are re-
minded of this by several lamentable accidents which
have recently taken place on our cwn and other rivers.
We would suggest, in order to avert as far as possible a
recurrence of such accidents—First, that on all dark or
cloudy nights every vessel anchoring in the stream should,
by a local regulation—which may be readily framed, and
sanctioned by parliament—be required to carry two good
lights, one forward (say white), and the other aft (say
red), red and white being the most distinguishable—all
other colours but red being found to be less brilliant in
the distance. Secondly, that all such vessels should,
during thick fogs, be required (in addition to carrying
such lights to point out the position and length of their
hulls) to continue to sound a bell, gong, or other land in-
strument to give warning to approaching vessels that
may not possibly see the lights. This latter plan is
frequently adopted from motives of individual security,
and a desire that smaller craft may avoid danger; but
there is no peremptory regulation to this effec . Third,
smaller vessels to carry one light somewhere about the
centre aloft, and also in fogs to sound a bell. A fine in
the event of non-compliance, should be imposed. Fourth,
the compulsory application to all steam vessels plying on
the river of the steam-whistle. The railroad has its
whistle, and why not the steam boat? which might be
kept up during the whole of the passage in a crowded
river during a fog. While on this subject, it occurs to us,
that vessels large and small, are often, we think unneces-
sarily, permitted to anchor in the river, particularly towards
the Liverpool side, greatly to the interruption of the grand
highway by water to and from the Cheshire ferries. Op-
posite George's pier, so many generally lie (some of them
for days together), that it is difficult for a river steamer
to thread her way through them even in broad day,
and, we may add, often dangerous during the strong runs
of our spring tides. Most of them, it may be said, are
waiting to dock, or otherwise to discharge, or to proceed
when favoured by wind and tide to their destinations.
But surely many of them might quite as safely lie at an-
chor in the Sloyne, anchor or beach on the Cheshire side,
or be otherwise disposed of. The subject is one which
we think highly worthy of the attention of the dock com-
mittee, or the conservators of the navigation of the river,
who might readily obtain the opinion upon it of practical
nautical men, which, we have reason to believe, will gene-
retry accord with our own. The interests of Liverpool
and Birkenhead especially are becoming so intimately
welded, and the transit of passengers and effects so great
between them, that it is high time something should be
done to abate, at least, the growing, evil we have pointed
out.
THE HAND GYMNASIUM.—We are glad to perceive
that this excellent finger exercise, which we have pre-
viously reviewed at length, is daily growing into more
favourable reputation. To those who play any instru-
ment, the piano in particular, it is invaluable—giving the
fingers, in a few hours' practice, a freedom that would
require an immense labour to attain on the instrument
itself. Mr. Smith, of Bold-street, whose advertisement
appears in another column, has just received a fresh
upply.