The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-02 00:00:00

Six,—A paragraph appeared in the Mercury yesterday,
stating that a numerous body of shipwrights and others had
held a meeting in Bond-street Rooms, to hear a deputation
from the Anti-Monopoly Society, and that a resolution was
passed requesting our borough members to support a repeal
of the corn-laws. The great number of shipwrights present
was six, including myself ; and four of us attended merely to
see that no damage was done to the rooms, as we were, and
still remain, quite opposed to the principles of the radical
Anti-Monopoly Society. The shipwrights of Liverpool are
a loyal body of men, and are not to be gulled by a set of
men whose only object is to enrich themselves and oppress
the industrious working man. We all know cheap bread
means low wages. It was some time before they could get a
shipwright to move the resolution ; and though some of the
speakers stated that they would be glad to hear and answer
any person who objected to their statements, when a person
came forward to speak they would not hear him, because he
was not a shipwright.
I am, sir, yours respectfully,
JOHN LONGWORTH.

Toxteth-park, April 29th, 1843.
[We are glad to find that our old friends are true to their
colours, but they must be prepared for all sorts of tricks by
the radicals.]

GREAT COMET.—The following is an extract from a letter
dated Pernambuco, 18th March, 1843. " A comet has been
visible here for the last three months. On its first appear-
ance it caused a great sensation; we see it every night quite
distinctly."
HYDROPATIIY •' OR, THE WATER CURE.—The individual
to whom the world is indebted, as the founder of this new
remedial system, is Vincent Priessnitz, and the place which
has for many years past acquired notoriety by the astonish-
ing cures effected there, and has been visited by the prince,
the peer, and the peasant, is Grafenberg, a distant village in
Austrian Silesia. The benefits of the water cure are now
extended over Europe. The attention of society is now fully
alive to the efficacy of this mode of treatment, which, when
properly applied, has been most eminently successful, (emi-
nently so in ladies' cases,) and, though potent in its opera-
tion, is, when judiciously managed, perfectly harmless.—
county Chronicle.
MANCHESTER UNION MORAL AND INDUSTRIAL TRAIN-
ING SCHOOL.—On Friday the corner stone of this extensive
edifice, situate in the township of Swinton, was laid by Wm'
Garnett, Esq., High Sheriff. The design of the building is
to make provision, at a distance from the Manchester union
workhouse, for the children for whose accommodation the
house itself is insufficient. The structure will be in the
Elizabethan style of architecture. The front will be 458 feet
in length ; the building will be in the form of a quadrangle,
inclosing a large space which will be occupied as play-ground,
but the total quantity of land is 23 acres, which has been
purchased of the trustees of the townships of Anlezark and
Charnock, for a perpetual ground rent of £250. The centre
of the front elevation will be surmounted by two turrets, and
the appearance of the building, as seen from the high road,
from which it is distant about 50 yards, will be very elegant.
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It is intended to accommodate 1500 children in the first in-
stance, and will be constructed so as to be easily capable of
enlargement, to the extent of accornodating 2300. The cost
of the superstructure will be about £lB,OOO exclusive of the
foundations which are already in. The building will comprise
school-rooms for boys and girls and for infants, with class
and lecture-rooms, and dining-rooms adjoining ; also various
workshops, where different trades will be taught,—the object
of the guardians being to give each of the children the rudi-
ments of a trade, in connection with so much literary in-
struction, as will cause them to be readily taken out as

apprentices or domestic servants. In the back part of the
building will be infirmaries, fever-wards, and other rooms for
the reception of the sick, with rooms for the medical officers.
The great dining ball be nearly in the centre of the building,
surrounded by the various domestic apartments, and entered
by several doors. On the ground floor will be rooms for
working, and all the necessary apparatus. The dormitories
will occupy the upper story.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

CHESTER RACES.