The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-02-03 00:00:00

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Chapped Skin, or Incidental inflanimation, its 'virtues have
long and extensively been acknowledged.

Ifs purifying and refreshing properties have obtained its ex-
clusive selection by the Court, and the Royal Family of Great
Britain, and those of the Continent of Europe, together with the
" elite" of the Aristocracy and " Haute Voice ;" from the sultry
climes of India, and the Drawing-rooms of Calcutta and Ma-
dras, to the frozen realms of the Czar and the salons of ,:St.
Petersburg and Moscow.

This exotic preparation is perfectly innoxious, acting in all
cases by promoting a healthy tone of the minute vessels, and is
the most elegant as well as the most effective Toilet appendage
hitherto submitted to universal patronage.

THE NIIII.SERY:
One of the most important uses of this invaluable Preparation
is its peculiar adaptation for the use of Children and the pur-
poses of the Nursery. As a wash for Infants it cannot be too
strongly recommended ; cooling, healing, and innoxious, it may
be used.by the most delicate laity or child with assurance of the
most perfect safety and effect : it preserves and beautifies the
young and tender skin, and insures it from derangement by
external causes.

LA DIES who, while nursing, suffer pain from sore or inflamed
nipples, will find an unfailing relief in the KA LY DOR ; and from
its peculiar power to allay irritation and cool the mouth, it ren-
ders pleasing and painless that most delightful task imposed by
maternal duty. CAUTION.

Its high and universal reputation causes unprincipled Shop-
keepers to offer spurious compounds for sale under the title of
" KALYDOR," composed of mineral astringents utterly ruinous
to the Complexion, and by their repellent action endangering
health.

It is therefore imperative on purchasers to see that the words

'` ROWLAND'S KALYDOR"

are on the Envelope (an Engraving of exquisite beauty from a
steel plate by Messrs. PERKINS, BACON, and Co.) To protect
the Public from Fraud, the Hon. Commissioners of Stamps
have directed the Proprietors' Name and Address thus—.

A. ROWLAND and SON, 20, Hatton-garden,
to be engraved on the Government Stamp_ which is affixed on
each bottle. Price 4s. 6d. and Ss. Gd. per Bottle.
Sold by the.pr..9prjetn, and by Chemists and Perfumers.

*** All tithed" KALYIX)R'S"

are FRAUDULENT IMITATIONS

REPEAL OF THE UNION SETTLED AT LAST.—The ec-
centric member for Galway has put upon the books of
the House of Commons a series of extraordinary motions,
to be moved by him on Thursday next. They consist of
four bills, being a series of measures having for their ob-
ject to heal all party differences, and thereby to consoli-
date the wealth, power, and resources of the British em-
pire, simply by securing a real bona fide independent
legislature for Ireland.

REPORTED Loss OF AN EMIGRANT SHIP.—A pas-
senger on board the Sons of Commerce, Williams, from
Hobart Town to London, arrived at Pernambuco on the
21st December, reported that a vessel, with emigrants,
bound to Port Philip, supposed to be the Cataraque, from
Liverpool, had been totally wrecked on the Harbinger
Reefs, at the west entrance to Bass's Straits, and that 414
persons had been drowned. The news had reached Ho-
bart Town on the 24th September, the day previous to the
sailing of the Sons of Commerce.
OFFICIAL RESIGNATIONS.—The Morning Post has
several paragraphs of gossip on this subject, which have
not been contradicted. The following, it is stated, have
tendered their resignations in consequence of Sir Robert
Peel's free-trade policy :—Lord Arthur Lennox, brother
of the Duke of Richmond ; Mr. Milnes Gaskell ; the
Hon, Arthur Duncombe, brother to Lord Feversham
(Equerry to the Queen); Capt. William Gordon, brother
to the Earl of Abet deen (Lord of the Admiralty); the
Earl of Hardwicke (Lord of the Bedchamber) ; the Mar-
quis of Exeter (Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert).
Among the other seceders are named, the Marquis of
Granby, Lords Delawarr and Forester.

DISTRESSING CASE.—On Sunday morning, a poor
widow woman named Eliza Schovie, residing in a house in
Gomer-street, (No. 17), being enceinte and in great des-
titution, delivered herself of a child. The child, which
was born at ten o'clock, died in about three hours after-
wards. The mother was without clothing beyond some
rags, and was destitute of all the necessaries of life in her
perilous situation. It was found that she had also three
fine children equally unprovided for. Her husband was a
seaman, had gone abroad in June last, leaving her only
one month's wages, (probably all in his power,) and ac-
counts had since been received that he had died. The
beadle, with his usual alacrity in such cases, applied to
the authorities at the workhouse and readily procured the
requisite relief in clothing, food, and a small sum of mo-
ney. The case is, nevertheless, one worthy of the consi-
deration of the humane.

,EXTRAORDINARY APTITUDE OF REPLY.—We give in
another column a digest of the sermon of Dr. Pusey,
preached at Oxford on Sunday last, which appeared in the
London Times of last night, which arrived in Liverpool
at half-past three o'clock. Granting that, at the very
earliest, it could be delivered at four, p.m., it might come
into the hands of the Rev. Hugh M`Neile at that hour.
We bad our reporter at a meeting last night of the Prayer
Book and Homily Society, which commenced at seven
o'clock, at the commencement of which the Rev. Hugh
M`Neile was present, and during the proceedings delivered
a reply to the Rev. Doctor's sermon, which, for aptitude
and sound argumentative oratory, has rarely been sur-
passed even by that most eloquent and able speaker.
We regret that, in the present state of our columns, and
at this late hour, we cannot do justice to the Rev. Gen-
tleman. To all who had the pleasure of hearing, how-
ever, his speech will ever be a triumph of intellect,unsur-
passed, and not likely to be surpassed.
GRATIFYING TESTIMONIAL.—On Friday evening, the
workmen in the employ of Bury, Curtis, and Kennedy,
Engineers, met at Mrs. Rawson's, the Lamb and Flag
lon, and sat down to an excellent dinner prepared in the
best style by the worthy hostess. The object of meeting
was to present Mr. Alexander Colville, one of the fore-
men in Messrs. Bury and Co.'s establishment, and who is
about to leave the employ, with a token of respect for the
uniform kindness and urbanity invariably evinced by him
towards the workmen whom he superintended. The chair
was taken by Mr. Adam Ainslie, a foreman in the same
employ, and after dinner and the usual loyal toasts, the
health and prosperity of the firm was given with immense
cheering. The chairman then called on Mr. Walter
Stewart to present Mr. Colville, in the name of the work-
men, with the testimonial, which consisted of a handsome
silver watch, richly cliyed and ornamented, guard and all
appendages, and bearing a suitable inscription. Mr. Col-
ville returned thanks in very feeling terms, and said he
should always he impressed with the most exalted and
grateful sense of their generosity and kindly feeling, and
hoped his successor would meet with the same regard from
them that he had experienced. The health of the com-
mittee was then proposed and duly responded to, and the
evening was spent throughout with the utmost hilarity
and good friendship.

s having heard groans

i:,to a

house and found her in names. The fire was ex-
inguisherl, but she was severely buret, and died in a
short time after the accident.

THE MILITIA.—The following are the qualifications
for holding commissions in the militia :7 For colonel
£lOOO a-year landed property, or to be heir-apparent to
£2OOO a-year. For lieutenant-colonel £6OO a-year landed
property, or to be heir-apparent to £l2OO a-year. For
major £4OO a-year landed property, or to be heir-appa-
rent to -£BOO a-year. For captain £2OO a-year landed
property, or to be heir-apparent to £4OO a year. One-
half of such property must be in the county to which such
regiment belongs.
ANOTHER FATAL GUNPOWDER EXPLOSION.—On
Friday evening last, at Madelev, which is situate eight
miles south of Crewe, on the Grand Junction Railway,
some children were purloining gunpowder from a barrel
in their father's house, which was kept for blasting in the
mine, when, accidentally, one of them let a candle fall on
the barrel, which immediately exploded, and, in a moment,
reduced the house to a ruin. The children were seriously
injured, but are expected to recover. The unfortunate
mother, who was in an upper room, was carried up along
with the floor, and was literally shattered to pieces. The
inhabitants of the adjoining cottage were happily out, and
consequently escaped this dreadful catastrophe. There
were thirty-two pounds of gunpowder in the house, the
whole of which exploded. Four of the adjoining cottages
were much damaged.
SEIZURE OF THE BRIG LADY SALE, OF THIS PORT,
BY A PORTUGUESE MAN-OF-WAR.—Considerable sen-
sation has been occasioned in this town amongst the
merchants engaged in the African trade by the illegal
seizure of the brig named, whilst trading on the coast of
Africa for palm oil, ivory, &c. It appears from a French
paper, which first published the account, (substantially
correct), that the vessel, which belonged to the house of
Charles Horsfall and Son, had been two or three months
in Rio Zaire and Congo to procure palm oil and ivory,
but not being successful, was going to Ambrez to take a
cargo of copal, when she was captured, during the ab-
sence of the captain, by a Portuguese man-of-war, and
afterwards condemed by the Portuguese authorities on the
assumed ground she had on board 26 casks of water,
several bags of rice, and some bars, and that therefore
the probability was that she was a slaver. There was not
the slightest ground for such an imputation. The articles
stated are always taken out by vessels in the legitimate
trade to the coast, and are actually necessary to pursuing
it. The Portuguese judges have been over zealous in their
construction of the slave treaty between the two countries,
and a representation from her Majesty's Government
will, we trust, be promptly attended to by our ancient
ally of Portugal, so that restitution may be made. The
idea of any vessel belonging to Messrs. Horsfall being
engaged in the slave trade is, of course, preposterous.
ATROCIOUS CRUELTY.—At Manchester Police-court,
on Friday, a man and his wife, named Marshall, who
keep a beerhouse in that town, were brought up fer hav-
ing ill-treated a decrepid old woman, 67 years old, the
mother of the male prisoner. One witness said that he
was passing the house of the prisoners the preceding day,
when he perceived Marshall's wife swinging wand a
double rope, with which she was flogging an old woman,
who appeared to be fastened in a chair. The woman,
after beating the poor old creature with the rope, struck
her with her fist, and afterwards ran at her and kicked her
just underneath the knee. He then tapped at the
window, in hopes that when the woman found her bruta-
lity was observed she would desist, and his doing so seemed
to have the desired effect. Mr. Beswick, the superin-
tendent of the police, said that he had been to the house,
and found the wretched parent fastened to a chair in the
cellar by an iron chain, which was passed round one of
her arms and waist, and secured through the spindles at
the back of the chair by a padlock Her arms were left
at liberty, but on her hands they had placed a pair of lone
gauntlets, formed of strong bed ticking, which came up
to and were fastened at the elbow, the bottom portion or
fringes of these gauntlets being formed of strong leather,
like the shield used by a " hedger and ditcher." The
case was remanded.

LAUNCH.—On Wednesday, the launch of two steamers
took place from Messrs. Thomas Vernon and Co.'s yard,
Pottery. About half-past ten o'clock, everything being
in preparation, the Windsor, for such she was named by
Mrs. Grantham, left her stocks, and glided beautifully
into the water. In a few minutes afterwards the second
vessel was launched, and christened by another lady the
Ajax. The first-named vessel is the property of the City
of Dublin Company, ant is intended to ply between this
port and Belfast. She is 200 feet between perpendiculars,
has 20 feet beam, and 16 feet depth of hold ; her extreme
length over all is 230 feet. She was built under the im-
mediate superintendence of Mr. Grantham. The Ajax is
the property of the City of Cork Company, and is to be
placed on the station between London and Cork. Her
dimensions are about the same as those of the other ves-
sel, having but five feet more in length, and two inches
in depth of hold. She was built under the direction of
Mr. J. Haselden. Both vessels will be fitted up with
engines of 350 horse power, constructed by Messrs. Bury,
Curtis, and Kennedy. These vessels have been erected
in the short space of six months, and being built upon a
different construction in their fine lines, some interest is
felt as to their sailing qualifications. The keel of another
vessel. the fourth in succession for the same City of Cork
Company, is about to be laid by Messrs. Vernon, which,
we understand, is to be of less tonnage than either of the
vessels launched on Wednesday, and is to be provided
with engines of 400 horse power.
FRESH PRESERVED BOILED BEEF.—This novel, but
excellent article of importation, is brought before the no-
tice of our readers to-day in the advertisement of Mr.
Windle, of Bath-street, which appears in our first page.
It is made up, after being cooked, in air-tight tin cases,
and is principally fed on the banks of the Danube, in
Hungary, where, the pastures being rich, it is considered
excellent in quality. At the price of 40. per lb., cooked,
and free from bone, it is likely to supersede the salt pro-
visions usually supplied to ships, thereby almost ensuring
good health, and partibularly freedom from scurvy to the
crews, .for whose use it may be provided. Mr. Windle
is the only large holder and importer of it in Liverpool,

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and find; the demand daily increasing
under Sir R. Peel's abolition of the duty on
at the unprecedented low price, would be a boo
labouring classes of this country, who must be paying
from 7d. to 7d. for fresh beef with the bone in it. At
present, the stock is but limited, and owing to the Danube

being frozen, no increased supply need for some
expected. It. is really tender, mellow, add delici

le seven
taken it

bags into that room, 800 on Friday, and 300 on Saturday,
or about 1,400 in all. These men all escaped save mae.
They were luckily engaged at or near the Old Ropery
frontage, the outer or front wall of which (supported by
warehouses o❑ each side) did not fall, though it consider-
ably bulged out from between the ground and the fourth
story. We have seen one of these fortunate parties—
Peter Kelly—who keeps an oyster-shop at the top of
Hood-street. He is an intelligent man, and has given us
some interesting inforrnition. He and his two companions,
Edward Norman and Patrick . were in the jigger-
loft. The first intimation of impending danger was a gust
of wind. He was then about eight yards from the en-
trance of the warehouse stairs, and had the cat-head
gearing and ropes to jump over in making his exit. All
three of them were, at the time, in the gangway, a long
narrow scaffold boarded up at the sides, and near the roof
of the building, being the communication, for convenience,
from the jigger tackle at one front of the warehouse to
that at the other.

Immediately after the gust of wind, about three fourths
of the whole warehouse and its contents took their de-
parture and were launched into Moor-street. A crash
was first heard, and a cracking in all directions. An im-
mense cloud of dust instantly enveloped them, and they
had to grope their way. He got out of the loft first—he
scarce knows by what Providence. The others followed,
and they got down stairs with a celerity they never ex-
ercised before. They, in fact, tumbled down, and were
more or less hurt, though not seriously. Our informant
states that he found the door at the bottom jammed up,
and was almost hopeless of escaping, but felt himself
endowed, as he thought, with "the strength of a lion,"
and succeeded in forcing it open. Thankful be and his
comrades expressed themselves for their delivery.
In room No. 2 eight out of the nine escaped. Two of
them jumped out of the doorway, a height of nine or ten
feet. Six of the eight were hurt more or less. Kelly
thinks that there were six or seven thousand lons of stuff
in the warehouse altogether, including wheat in bulk,
American flour in barrels, a large lot of peas, &c. If the
accident had happened on the previous day, when the men
were employed at the Moor-street end, all of them would
have perished, except two who were at the Old Ropery
end. The missing man, Peter Tracey. was trucking at
the time, and was down the room No. 2 about two-thirds
of its length from the Old Ropery frontage. He is stated
to be a respectable, industrious man—a widower, with
three children. On Saturday afternoon one of his sons
was seen about the ruins, crying for his father, and on
Sunday his daughter was there, also in great distress.
Amongst the injured were Owen M'Kenna, aged 26, who
had his hip knocked out of joint ; Thomas Cash, disfi-
gured in the face and and hands; John Solan, hurt with
a nail in the shoulder, and also hurt in the hack. One of
them was sent to the Infirmary.
Three of the rooms were filled with wheat, one with
pease, and the others with 4000 or 5000 barrels of flour.
A great number of men were employed on Saturday, Sun-
day, and yesterday, in carting off the grain, materials, &c.,
and as the weather has been dry the destruction of the
produce will, probably, not be very great, though, doubt-
less, considerable from admixture with the rubbish. It is
still a matter of uncertainty whether there are not some
parties under the ruins in Moor-street—casually passing
at the time ; but the probability seems to be, that but one
man has lost his life. There were several narrow escapes
—especially of a servant girl at Mr. Dodd's public-house,
nearly opposite. who was shaking a carpet when the ava-
lanche took place—and two horses in a lorry who took
fright at the crash, and got away.
It is suggested that there should be appointed an in-
spector of warehouses, who shall determine what weight,
particularly of grain, the several mercantile buildings are
capable of sustaining, so that such accidents may not
recur. At the request of the mayor, Mr. S. Holme was
early on the ground, and speedily got his men to shore up
the insecure wall standing in the Old Ropery. A very
perilous piece of wall left at the south corner of the
warehouse was also pulled down by them on Saturday
afternoon. A great number of men continue to be em-
ployed in extracting the flour, wheat, pease, &c., from the
ruins, and the ends of the streets leading to the scene of
destruction are still crowded with anxious enquirers. The
ruins are yet upwards of 12 feet high in Moor-street,
although a large quantity of stuff has been taken away.
Up to dark last night when the men gave over working,
the body of the supposed only man killed had not been
found; and from the immense mass of materials, it may
be some time before the remains are found. Parts of the
upper floors at the Old Ropery end are left standing, still
supporting tiers of flour barrels.

EARLY CLOSING OF THE MARKETS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR,-It is with great pleasure I have been informed
that the Markets' Committee, having had the memorial
for the earlier closing of the markets under their consi-
deration, have kindly passed a resolution recom-
mending to the Council that they should be closed at
seven o'clock, the first five nights of the business week,
and on Saturday evening at ten o'clock, thus dividing the
difference between the wishes of the memorialists and the
present time of closing, which it is hoped will be pleasing
to the public. Too much praise cannot be given them
for the promptness they have evinced in doing away this
great evil, which has been the cause of such a desecration
of the Sabbath. . .

It is understood, however, that a petition the last few
days has been got up against the closing on Saturday
nights, but I would strongly urge upon the members of
the Council the necessity of protesting against it, and
support the resolution of the Markets' Committee, which
will be the means of lessening the disorder in the neigh-
bourhood of the markets, and will cause the shops to
have no excuse for keeping open until twelve o'clock at
night, which they at present do, thus necessarily encroach-
ing on the Sabbath before they leave the premises.
Trusting you will give this a place in your valuable
paper, I remain, Sir, yours respectfully,
AN ADVOCATE FOR EARLY CLOSING.
Liverpool, 31s/ January, 1846.

TIIE AIILIT

James Graham stated in 1.

Commons, that at present ther

itention of ca

ing out the militia ; the only step contemplat,d by govern-
ment being to submit to the consideration of parliament

added, that-undtr the presnii law the government could
call out the militia at a fortnight's notice.