The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-09-12 00:00:00

APPLICATIONS FOR LICENSES IN 1843

There were applications for 88 new licenses within the
borough; for 23 in Toxteth-park ; for 6in West Derby
suburb ; for lin Kill:dale, and for 1 in Everton. Of
those for the borough only 16 were granted ; and 1 for
West Derby, and 1 for Kirkdale. The following is a liat
of the successful candidates :

John Fisher, Canning-plaee, (a removal.)
James Lewin, Back Castle-street.
John Lea, Clayton-square.
Robert Harris, Dale-street.
Thomas Roberts, Great Howard-street, (a removal.)
Joseph Smith, ditto.
James Ratcliffe ditto,
Robert Taylor, Great Newton-street

(a removal

John Green, Itedcross-street
James Crellin, Soho-street.

Margaret Thomas, Horatio-street

James Morgan, Se. John's-lane
Charles Chalk, ditto.

Thomas Jones, Vine-street

Thomas Taylor, Wakefield-street

James Smith, Walter•street

Charles Austin, Derby-street, West Derby.

Henry Hough, Kikdnle-road, Kirkdale

REDUCTION IN THE PREMIUMS ON FIRE lUSURANCE
IN LIVERPOOL.—Nke beg to direct attention to the adver-
tisement of the Atlas Insurance Company, by which it will
be seen that, in some description of mercantile risks, the
directors have effected a very considerable reduction of
premium ; and we are authorised to state that all the Lon-
don offices have made a similar reduction.

A letter has bcen received at Southampton, announcing
the death (abroad) of Mr. B. Roy, formerly M.P. for that
borough, from accident while shooting.
RECEIPT FOR MAKING CISTERN CEMENT.—ASIIeS
two parts, three parts clay, one part sand, mixed with oil:
it will make a cement as hard as marble, and impenetra-
ble by water for ever.

DURY-LANE.---It is announced in a French musical
periodical, that Carlotta Grisi and Petipas are engaged at
Drury-lane, where a ballet is being got up for their ap-
pearance, entitled " The Peri.

MUSICAL. SNUFFBOX.—Tarnburini has been lately sing-
ing at Marseilles, where, previous to his departure, be
was presented by the dilettanti of the town with a hand-
some gold snuffbox.

A letter from Baden, dated the 4th instant, states that
Lieutenant-Coionel Goler is dead, in consequence of the
wound which he received i❑ a duel with a Russian officer,
who was killed on the spot, as stated in another column.

Every man has in his own life follies enough, in his own
mind troubles enough, in the performance of his duties
deficiencies enough, without being curions about the
affairs of others.

The Queen Dowager has sent a donation of £5O to the
fund of the Hereford musical festival. Her Majesty,
through her treasurer, has transmitted £2O in aid to the
subscription for the erectio❑ of an additional church at
Morpeth, Northumberland.

THE SUBLIME AND THE RIDICULOUS.—Sir C. F.
Williams, the Bankruptcy Commissioner, observed a
bankrupt leaning upon the desk. " Sir," says the great
little man (or vice versa), " you have been sworn, and
your present attitude is neither respectful to your God nor
to me !"—Farley's Bristol Journal.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—Lsst Wednesday evening, as several
young gentlemen were bathing upon the sands, near the
pier-head, one of them, a youth of 15, son of the late Mr.
Francis, High-street, was suddenly knocked down by a
wave, disappeared, and was drowned. At the time the
accident happened the tide was at its height; and in abont
two hours, the tide having receded a considerable dis-
tance, the lifeless body of the unfortunate youth was
found.-7'he Welchman.

RAMSGATE, Sept. O.—A most mysterious occurrence
took place here, which, we hope, for the public satisfac-
tion, will be cleared up by the Post-office authorities, and
the parties iaterested obtain that satisfaction their case
demands. The Agenora, fishing-smack, belonging to this
port, Snell master, when about five miles from the North
Foreland, sailing to this place, discovered a box floating
on the water; they lowered a boat, and picked it up, and
on examining its contents, it was found to contain about
90 letters, besides a number of newspapers, and from the
address on the box, it appears, they had been sent by the
General Post-office by the ship George, or Royal George,
to Sydney. some time last year; and it is surmised that
the vessel has made the voyage, and the box being over-
looked, returned without delivering the letters; and that
in order to avoid discovery and evade the penalty (X 500),
the box was thrown overboard at the entrance of the
Thames, as two 71b. weights were attached to the box, on
purpose, apparently, to sink it. It was delivered to Her
Majesty's Customs, thence to London, for the inquiry to
be instituted.—Kent Herald.

An astronomical correspondent informs us, that, since
the Ist of September, there has been a great increase of
shooting stars, and that, in the north, he has repeatedly
seen Ursa Major, with his two pointers.—Punch.

ORIGIN OF FIRE ENGINES.—The first idea of our pre-
sent fire engines was given in a curious, work called ' A
Treatise named Lucar-solace," by Cyprian Lucar, 4to,
London, 1590, page 157 ; where may be found a❑ account,
with an engraving of " a squirt which hath been devised
to cast much water upon a burning house ; wishing a like
squirt and plenty of water to be always in a readiness
where fire may do harm.

IMPORTANCE OF EARLY TRAINING.—The pursuit of
eminence in trifles, the common sign of a bad heart, is an
infallible proof of a feeble understanding. A man ma,
dishonour his birth, ruin his estate, lose his reputation
and destroy his health, for the sake of being the firs
jockey or the favourite courtier of his day. Arid how
should it be otherwise, when from the lips when other
lessons should have proceeded, selfishness has been in-
culcated as a duty, a desire for vain distinctions and the
love of pelf encouraged as virtues, and a splendid equi-
page, or it may be some bodily advantage, pointed out as
the highest object of human ambition? To set the just
value on every enjoyment, to choose noble and becoming
objects of pursuit, are the first lessons a child should
learn; and if he does not learn their rudiments on his
mother's knees, he will hardly acquire the knowledge of
them elsewhere. The least disparagement of virtue, the
slightest admiration for trifling and merely extrinsic ob-
jects, may produce an indelible effect on the tender mind
of youth ; and the mother who has taught her son to bow
down to success, to pay homage to wealth and station,
which virtue aril ceaius should alone appropriate, is the
person to wh( m the meanness of the crouching syco-
phant, the tre,,thery of the trading politician, the brutality
of the
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out and exhausted, and finally foiled in his sanguinary
object, turned hack towards the jungle whence he pro-
ceeded. Had the boatman remained in his " dinghee,"
he would, most certainly, have been carried off, as it is a
very common occurrence for " dandees" (native boat-
men) to be " puckerowed" by tigers whilst in the act of
paddling their canoes in the various rivers and " nal-