The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-18 00:00:00

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day another prisoner, named James M'Kenna, died in
gaol hospital from gangrene of the legs, the result
tural causes. He had been committed on the
cember last, as a vagrant.
THEATRE-ROYAL.--The Theatre-Rr

closed on Saturday

waIIGG iill/11411 rent, 111 i
forthcoming Mr. Simpson, we
Mr. Macready was in Liverpool
ment, last week, as announced,
the state of affairs hp rpturnAd f

LIVERPOOL ART UNlON.—rhe
allotments in this union took place
lowing is the allotment of the Dri

)th De-

drawing for the vario
on Tuesday. The fc

THE SILVER CRADLE.—At the Mayor's dinner, on
Thursday last, his worship, in returning thanks for the
health of Mrs. Horsfall, informed the company that that
lady had just augmented the number of her Majesty's
subjects, and as she was, according to the legal decision
of the town-clerk, within the meaning of the charter, en-
titled to a silver cradle, it was his worship's intention not
to offend against a venerable, and in his case, a profitable
custom. It appears, if old records be true, that if a chili
be born to the chief magistrate during his year of office,
his lady is entitle to a silver cradle for the baby at the ex-
pense of the Corporation.
EASTERN DISPENSARY : CHLOROFORM.—The utility of
this new discovery needs no further eulogies than the
effects produced by it in the case of a girl, fourteen years
of age, who had been for four years labauring under a
disease of the knee-joint. Mary Jones, the patient. was
put under the influence of the chloroform about half-past
two o'clock on the afternoon of Thursday. The agent
being applied, the operation was successfully and scienti-
fically performed by Mr. Lockwood, senior surgeon of
the institution. The whole process was effected in less
than forty minutes, during which the poor child evinced
neither pain nor disturbance, but, on the contrary, abso-
lute repose. Upon her awakening, the operation being
over, she looked calmly around her, and asked, " Oh ! is
it off ?" Her stomach was not at all affected. She re-
mained tranquil and composed during the night, and ex-
pressed herself delighted at getting rid of so troublesome
an appendage so easily, and appears in every respect in a
fair way of doing well. There were present several pro-
fessional gentlemen, all of whom testified their satisfaction
at the success of the chloroform, and the expert manner
in which the operation was performed.
ANOTHER OPERATION ON A PATIENT UNDER THE
INFLUENCE OF CHLOROFORM.—On Friday night last,
an athletic man, who, by an accident, has sustained a frac-
ture of the right thigh bone, close to the pelvis, and also
a compound fracture of the left leg, underwent, at the
Northern Hospital, in presence of several gentlemen, an
operation, while he was under the influence of chloroform,
performed by Mr. William Henry Bainbrigge, one of the
honorary surgeons of the institution. Amputation of the
thigh was effected in the most skilful manner by that gen-
tleman, at twelve o'clock on the night stated. The patient
was not aware, until he awoke on Saturday morning, of
what had taken place, so completely did the inhalation of
the chloroform avert all sensation of pain. On making
inquiries, we find that he is doing well. We learn from a
gentleman who was present at a former successful opera-
tion by Mr. Bainbrigge, which we noticed last week, that
we, by mistake, stated that Mr. B. was house surgeon of
the institution named, in place of " one of the honorary
surgeons," who alone perform operations.
A THIEF IN DISGUISE.—The neighbourhood of Wind-
sor-street was thrown into a state of excitement on the
6th instant. A woman entered the house of a lady in
Buckingham-terrace, and requested her to purchase some
articles of wearing apparel, which she produced. They
were of a very inferior description, and the lady refused.
The woman became offensively importunate, and her
language and actions were extremely coarse, which
aroused the suspicion of the lady, who, upon a close in-
spection of her countenance, discovered, to her astonish-
Tent and terror, that it was a man dressed in female at-

r, assuming all the composure and firmness
nand, told him to quit the house imme-
would call her husband. The fellow said
Is your husband at home, then ?" She
mid commenced to call him by name. The

ruffian very nimbly collected his goods and made off. To
acid to her terror, just as he turned the door his cloak
,nd she saw a pistol in his hand. As soon as
ade known the inhabitants became alaimed ;
made, but no one could tell which direction he
1 many had seen him lurkinz about before

took, al
he enter

I the housi

IMPdSTORS.—It is well, at the present time, when there
are so many claims upon the means of the benevolent, to
caution the public against impostors, who endeavour to
reap a harvest in the general scramble for relief. We
have had placed in our hands a document purporting to
be a " certificate" signed for " John Booth," in behalf of
his " orphan niece," Ann, aged ten years, stated to have
been " deaf and dumb from her birth ;" setting forth
that her uncle (the bearer) is a person of excellent cha-
racter; and desirous to raise " a sum sufficient to defray

town for four years

with clothing, &

t, recommended to the benevolence of the
is dated " Vestry-room, St. Marv's,

appears to have been

of the sig

been deceived