The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-08 00:00:00

,appall, or Birmingham, with a silver cup and salver.
The Rev. W. Hughes, Incumbent of St. David's, Liver-
)ol, has been appointed a Surrogate for the Diocese of

esday night a splash was heard at the Salthouse
of some one having fallen in. and in about an
rwards the body of a man unknown was dragged

hour of

iol from Me

VAY IRON.—A vessel, arrived at the port of Li-
-- w York, has brought, in addition to a
American provisions, 63 tons weight of
)n, consigned to order.

cargo of

On Thursday, a-little boy named John George Greaves,
whose parents live in Mill-lane, Everton, fell into a stone
delph in which there was some water, near his father's
house, and was drowned.
On Wednesday morning, a child four years old, named
Perry, living in Newsham-street, was sitting by the fire
when a piece of wood dropped from the grate and set fire
to its clothes from which it was so much injured that it

died the same night.
The secretary of the Early Closing Association declined
to accept the invitation to the Roscoe soiree. Mr. Flower,
the president of the former institution, has resigned his
office in consequence of deeming the refusal uncourteous
and most impolitic.
LIVERPOOL ACADEMY.—At the annual meeting, in the
Exhibition Rooms, on Monday, Mr. Barber was re-elected
president, and Mr. Walcott was appointed treasurer. Mr.
Buchanan was elected secretary in the place of Mr. Herd-

TER TIMES. Messrs. Lownsborough and Harding,
the estate agents, confirm the statement made in the
Journal of Saturday last, by Mr. Williams, as a favour-
able sign of the times ; that during the last month, Janu-
ary, they had themselves more applications and enquiries
for property, of various kinds, than at any previous period
since their commencement.
TRANMERE FERRY.—On Monday, the Court of Ex-
chequer gave judgment against Mr. Chamberlain, the
owner of this ferry, in his action against the Birkenhead
Railway Company. The Court decided that the branch
railway to Monks Ferry was not an evasion of the clause
in the act of parliament, which prohibited the company
from making an extension line to Woodside Ferry, until
they had made one to that of the plaintiff.
CAUTION TO MOTHERS.—On Friday an inquest was
held upon the body of an infant, aged about three months,
the child of some parties named Lloyd, who died of con-
vulsions produced, no doubt, by having had a mixture
containing syrup of poppies administered to it by its
mother. The mother having misunderstood what the
druggist said, gave the child nearly double the proper

quantity.
INQUEST.—On Saturday, before Mr. Curry, on view of
the body of Patrick Welsh, aged 30. Deceased, it ap-
peared, had been seized about Christmas with swelling
of the body and lower limbs, and had got better, but on
Thursday had a relapse, which carried him off. Mr.
Graham, surgeon, who made a post mortem examination,
pronounced death to have been caused by pulmonary
apoplexy, the result of natural causes.
A splendid service of silver plate has been presented to
Mr. James Ward, of the York Hotel, late champion
pugilist in England, by a numter of the leading mer-
chants, bankers, &c. of Liverpool, as a token of their
appreciation of his manly honesty and worth. Mr. Ward
has lately come out strongly as an amateur artist in oil
paintings, and his only daughter has made a very success-
ful debut as a pianist.
FERRY BOAT SEIZED.—It will be remembered that the
Wirral, Woodside ferry boat, lately came into collision
with the Flambeau steamer, when the vessel sunk. The
case has been before the Court of Admiralty, and in con-
sequence of the Wirral failing to enter into the required
arrangements, that boat was seized on Wednesday last,
and will, we believe, remain in custody of an admiralty
bailiff until bail be obtained for her.
BRITISH AND NORTH AMERICAN ROYAL MAIL
STEAMERS.—After the 25th March, the sailing day from
America of the above steamers, from Boston and New
York will be changed from Saturday to Wednesday, com-
mencing on Wednesday, the sth April, instead of Satur-
day, the Bth. No alteration in the sailing day from Li-
verpool, which will continue to be Saturday. The weekly
sailings will commence from Liverpool on the Bth April,
and from America on the 3rd May.