The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-09-10 00:00:00

DOCTOR REID AND ST. GEORGE'S HALL.

The public will not bear without surprise the announce-
ment that Doctor Reid is about to be permitted to expe-
riment upon St. George's Hall, and to introduce his ven-
tilating crotchets into a building hitherto conceived to be
the perfection of architecture and design. For two months
we are to have this eminent gentleman quartered upon
the corporate purse of Liverpool, trying his hot draughts
and cold draughts, devising turre's, &c. On what
grounds, we ask, is this found necessary ? Did the ta-
lented architect of St. George's Hall leave ventilation
unprovided for in his design ? Has it been found by ex-
perience that there is no breathing room in it ? We have
never heard of any such discovery ; and are only amazed
at the nonchalance with which the Council confirmed this
entiagement.
What has Dr. Reid ever done to constitute him an in-
falliUk authority on ventilation ? He has spent no small
amount upon experiments at the new Houses of Parlia-
acent, with what success no one can determine. He has
kept
_learned judges and honourable members_of
ment in a Lapland winter one day, and a tropical summer
the next, wit bout ever reaching the happy medium of a
temperate climate. Dr. Reid and artificial ventilation
are regardi.d as twin bores—no pun is meant; and are as-
sneictted with very unpleasant ideas of lavish expenditure.
Other public' buildings in our town have done without
Dr. Reid. Our Town Hall boasts of no ventilating tower.
The Philharmonic Hall, thanks.to its able architect, Mr.
Cunningham, is perfectly endurable both to breathe and
to hear in. Why St. George's Hall, in particular, is to
be indented to the Doctor is only to be accounted for on
the supposition that its architect did not know his busi-
ness. One would imagine it just as natural for a man to
arrange beforehand how air is to have ingress and egress
as how light is to be secured ; and we never hear of a
doctor being called in by a builder to determine, after its
erection, where the windows of the house ought to be put.

` The postmaster of Walton Breck has resigned his office,
in consequence of the renewal of Sunday labour.
(1- ssinday afternoon a little girl about eight years of
age ateieentany ken t..io th end was just
on the point of drowning, when a well-dressed man,' wlau
was passing, plunged into the water and sated her-from a
watery grave.

INTELLIGENCE FROM AMER/CA. The swift-sailing
steam-ship Europa, which will probably arrive on Sunday
next from Boston, will bring the particulars of the recep-
tion of Jenny Lind at New York, and a report of the exe-
cution of Professor Webster.

BIRKENHEAD DOCKS.—An advertisement appears in
the London Times, signed by Baron. Goldsmid, calling a
meeting of the bondholders in the Birkenhead Docks on
Thursday week, for the purpose of electing a trustee of
the docks in the place of James Kennedy, Esq., resigned.
BODY FOUND.—Last week, as the sloop Vale of Clwyd
was on her voyage to this port, a body was seen floating
off the Welch coast; it proved to be that of a man, and
was taken on board and conveyed to Liverpool. An in-
quest will be held to-day.
CRICKET.—A match was played on Saturday at Bootle,
between eleven members of the Bootle Club and 14 of the
Belvidere Club, which terminated as follows : Belvi-
dere, Ist innings, 40; 2nd, 41 ; total, 81 : Bootle, Ist in-
nings, 127: Bootle thus winning in one innings, with 46
runs to spare.

FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday Morning a man named
Thomas Leyland, died in the Southern Hospital, whither
he was taken on the 2nd instant. He had been employed
to assist in discharging the schooner Margaret, lying in
the Queen's Dock. Whilst at work a piece of timber fell
upon his leg; he was immediately taken to the hospital,
where it was found necessary to amputate the limb ; death
cnsued however, and the body now awaits the coroner's
inquiry.
SOCIETY FOIL THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN
FOREIGN PARTS.—It has been announced that the an-
nual meeting of this, the oldest of our. Church societies,
will be held in the hall of the Collegiate Institution, on
Monday evening next. In addition to the fact, that the
Lord Bishop of the Diocese is expected to preside on the
occasion, we understand that the meeting will be addressed
by the Rev. G. W. Pope, one of the most successful of
the society's missionaries from Southern India. This
gentleman has laboured in the district of Tinnevelly for
many years, and the statement which he has made
throughout England as to the progress of the Gospel in
that most interesting part of India, has been touching and
encouraging in the extreme. We need not say how inva-
luable the testimony of such a witness must be. We trust
that our thus noticing the approaching anniversary will
not' only serve to remind those of our readers who are in
the habit of attending our great religious meetings; but
that not a few of those who have hitherto absented them-
selves from them may he induced on this occasion to hear
for themselves what God is doing by his servants for our
heathen and colonial fellow-subjects. Since the above
was written, we have been gratified to hear that THE LORD
BISHOP OF TORONTO has kindly consented to preach for
the. Society at ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH cn Sunday morn-
ing next, and also to address the meeting at the Collegiate
on the following evening.

BRITISH AID IRISH STEAM COMPANY.—A highly
influential niceting of the exporters and importers of
Waterford was held on Thursday, at which resolutions
were made to support the Thitish and Irish Steam Packet
Company, at reasonably remunerative freights, on the
Waterford and Liverpool and Waterford and London
lines. It was stated that previous to this Company having
sent a steamer to Waterford there was very scanty accom-
modation to Liverpool. for which a higher rate of freight
was charged than from any other port in Ireland, and no
steam communication to London. Since then ample
accommodation has been supplied; and it was put to the
good sense of the meeting that they should come forward,
determined to support the British and Irish Company
who brought about so desirable a state of things, and not
fellow the bait held out in another quarter, of a nominal
charge to-day, with a view of making this Company
abandon those lines for the want of a proper freight,
with the scarcely concealed intention of afterwards, by
excessive charges, making up for the losses incurred.
Several cases of hardship and intolerance, on the part of
vdlat ought to have been a native and fosteLing Company,
were mentioned by shippers at the meeting, which was
explained by the fact of Its having lapsed into the hands
of a mere few, who used it, for the purpose of promoting
enormous ".personal gain, instead of charging moderate
and steady rates, alike productive of advantage to the
shareholders, and, to the exporters and importers of
goods. The meeting was well attended, and it. was the
cordial and unanimous opinion that the proposition made
on the'part of the British and Irish Company should be
heartily .responded to, namely, that they would perma-
nently occupy the London and Liverpool lines for the
benefit of the Waterford public in general, if they re-
ceived only that amount of support which would enable
them to do so, without loss, as to profit it was considered,
under present circumstances, out of the question. After
adopting resolutions, in accordance with the above, the
meeting separated.— Waterford News.