The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-30 00:00:00

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The Finance Committee have resolved to recommend
Mr. Bally to the Council as auditor for the borough.
On l'hursday afternoon, the body of a new born female
infant was found in a brickfield, near Great,Howard-st.
It was proved to have been still born.
A labourer named Hanlon, sixty years of age, living in
Northampton-street, was found dead in a privy on Thrs-
day night. He died from disease of the brain and heart.
A child, three years old, named Simon, living in
Hague-st., Everton, was killed on Thursday through a
pile of curb stones falling upon him.
The annual dinner of the Liverpool Chess Club was held
on Wednesday evening, at the Adelphi Hotel, Mr. J. S.
Spreckley in the chair and Mr. Duguid in the vice chair.
Only thirty members attended.:
The Adele, Comelissen, from Liverpool for Ostend,
which went on shore near Cape Cornwall, on the 21st
instant, was completely destroyed by the ground swell on
Tucsday.
NEW BRIGHTON.—This delightful and fashionable
watering-place is now filling very rapidly. The weather
being so fine has induced many families to avail them-
selves of the beautiful marine view, fine shore, the light-
house, fort, '&c.
MR. GAGE AND THE CORPORATION.—We understand
that Mr. Naysmith, the arbitrator, has decided in favour
of Mr. Gage's claim against the Corporation for services
rendered during the time that the question of a sufficient
supply of water at home, and from a distance, was under
discussion in Liverpool. The balance claimed by Mr.
Gage was £159, which has been awarded to him with all
costs.

SUICIDE.—On Saturday, Betsey Davies, who kept a
stall in the Fish Market, in Great Charlotte-street, com-
mitted suicide by throwing herself into the river from one
of the Birkenhead steamers. The tide was running out
rapidly at the time, but it is thought she might have been
saved if her bonnet and cloak had not come off, and risen
at different parts in the water, in that manner deceiving
the persons who were trying to save her. It is not known
with any certainty what was the cause of the suicide.
BODY FOUND.—An inquest was held on Wednesday,
on the body of a man unknown. It appeared that as two
boatmen were in a boat on the river on Monday last,
when opposite to Wallasey Pool they saw the body of
deceased floating on the water, and took it ashore. The
body appeared to have been a long time in the water, and
the features were not at all recognisable. He had on a
pair of baragan trousers, check shirt, white singlet, and
laced up boots, but without either coat or waistcoat. The
jury returned a verdict found drowned.
DEATH FROM BEING KNOCKED DOWN BY A LORRY.
—On Wednesday, an inquest was held on the body of a
woman named Phoebe Perry. It appeared that on Mon-
day last, as a lorry was passing along Bath-street, the
deceased accidentally fell between the wheels, but the
vehicle being stopped, they did not pass over her body.
She was picked up quite insensible, and conveyed to the
Northern Hospital, where she died in about a quarter of
an hour. The surgeon who had made a post mortem ex-
amination of the body, said that the cause of death was
rapture of the liver and spleen, the result of external vio-
lence. The jury returned a verdict according to the
evidence. _ _ . _ _

SUDDEN DEATH.—On Wednesday, an inquest was held
on the body of John Cook. It appeared that the deceased,
who resided in Rice-street, went to bed with his wife on
Monday night, apparently quite well; in the morning,
the wife was awoke by hearing the deceased breathing
very heavily. She roused him, but he said nothing; she
then went to sleep again, but in about an hour she was
again awoke by hearing a similar noise. She then got up,
and called in the assistance of a neighbour, and sent for a
surgeon, but deceased was then quite dead. The surgeon
gave it as his opinion that the deceased had died from
apoplexy. The jury returned a verdict of died from natu-
ral causes.
WOOLTON FLORAL AND HORTICULTURAL EXHIBI-
TION.—This show (the first of the season) took place on
Friday in a marquee erected at Woolton village. The
attendance was numerous and highly respectable ; and
the plants, flowers, &c., produced, exceeded in number,
choiceness, and variety, those of former years. A mu-
sical band was in attendance. Amongst the successful
competitors were Mr. T. Davies, of Wavertree, Mr. P.
Ellames, Esq., Mrs. Jos. Ashton, S. L. Phipps, Esq., R.
Alison, Esq. and Messrs. J. Harrison, J. Molyneux, B.
Donald, C. Wilson, T. W. Blundell, T. R. Healey, F. H.
Foves, P. Gore, G. Bennion, J. Green, A. Dunlop, Rev.
J. S. Phillips, Musgrove, &c. The decision of the judges
gave entire satisfaction, and the whole exhibition went off
with ea*.
THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.—Last week, we en-
joyed a succession of delightful warm sunny weather,
with little or no rain ; but the dews of the night made up
to a great extent for the want of other moisture, and ve-
getation proceeded with great rapidity. The country at
large never looked more charming. Before and after sun-
rise yesterday morning several wart showers descended,
and greatly refreshed and improved the fields and gardens.
The wheats have recovered much, and may be said gener-
ally to took well. Oats never gave more abundant pro.
mise, with the exception of a slight patch here and there.
The potatoes (earlies) are in a most thriving condition,
giving promise of early and sound crops. The hay-grass
has greatly improved, and much of first crop of Italian
rye-grass has already been cut and used as green fodder.
The air yesterday, after the rain, was delightfully pure
and balmy. On Sunday evening we had thick mists, but
they were soon dissipated by the breeze. Yesterday
afternoon we had one or two delightful showers, and the
day throughout was a fine " growing one.
SPLENDID LABURNUM TREE.—There is now on the
grounds of Mr. Meadows, of the Manor House, Poulton-
cum-Seacombe, a laburnum tree in full bloom, which, for
brilliancy of size, and thickness of bloom, surpasses all we
have ever before seen. The branches ( the leaves on which
are unusually large) cover a circle of meadow ground of
about nineteen feet in diameter, and the tree is nearly of
the same height. It is completely loaded all round and
within with golden honours, in luxuriant tapering pend-
ants, averaging from fourteen to eighteen inches in length,
and it presents the appearance of a huge chandelier en-
riched with bright precious stones, but so fashioned by
the band of nature, that an attempt at its resemblance by
art would be altogether futile. It was originally planted
on another site, about seven years ago, and about three
years afterwards was blown down in a gale of wind, when
it was removed to its present position, with no certainty
of its flourishing to the extent it has attained. It has
been visited by many ladies and gentlemen of the neigh-
bourhood, and not a few from Liverpool. Mr. Meadows
will show it, as well as his delightful grounds and gardens,
to visitors who are curious in such matters, but no time
should be lost, for this magnificent shrub is of the pea
genus, and, " all that is fair must fade."

EXHIBITION OF MODERN PAINTINGS, BY
MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY.

On entering the rooms in Post-office Place, the work
which first meets us is the Cartoon, •` First Trial by Jury."
by C. W. Copeland, R.A., which carried off the 360
guinea prize at Westminster Hall. It is a noble design,
simple and classically correct, yet graphic. The murderer
—a bondsman as pointed out by his wearing a collar
round his neck—is placed by the side of the prostrate
victim, apparently on the spot where he fell, and his wife,
stooping over the corpse, is detailing to the feudal Baron
and an attentive Jury the circumstances of the murder.
The grouping and drawing of the various figures intro-
duced is most artistical and clever.

The painting, No. 1, in the large room, " Giving Alms,"
by C. Landseer, R.A., is an excellent specimen of the
artist's style. The subject is taken from the following
passage in " Styles Annals of the Reformation,"—" This
Knight and his daughter had the character of very good
almsgivers, in respect of their great liberality to the poor ;"
and the painter has given the worthy knight in the act of
distributing alms at the porch of his Hall to a crowd of
supplicants, whose various characters and conditions
are forcibly depicted. The knight himself is a fine rep-
resentative of his class ; and, amongst the other figures
that of a negro and the sturdy Flemish-looking kitchen
wench, who is bringing out a supply of provisions, are
most striking.

No. 3, " The Deluge," by F. Danby, A.R.A., is a
wonderful painting, striking in its conception, and most
masterly in detail and execution. The artist has intro-
duced as his principal object a towering rock, around
whose base the mighty flood is surging, and whose steep
sides are studded with a multitude of human beings,
frantically struggling to attain its summit. The figures
and features of the crowd stand out clearly in the wild
white light of the tempest ; and those who have already
reached the top are painted with surprising force and,
at the same time, almost the minuteness of minatures.
In the foreground, on the left, a terrific scene is intro-
duced, in which a number of figures are seen clinging to
a tree, which is giving way beneath their weight and the
force of the waters. The sky and the pouring clouds are
fiinely conc2ived and full of grandeur; and through an
opening the ark is seen riding tranquilly in the distance.
A fine effect is produced by the blood-red sun, settling at
the left hand corner. This noble work of art deServes
to be studied, and will amply repay frequent visits.
No. 5, " And Christ was subject to his parents," by
Herbert, is a beautiful specimen of the artist, chaste and
simple in its details, and solemn in conception. The
youthful Saviour is represented as entering the work-
shop of Joseph, carrying a basket of chips, in a heap of
which upon the floor a cross has been accidentally formed
by two intersecting pieces of bark. He is in the attitude
of one startled by some dim remembrance or passing
thought ; and the painter has suggested, by the quotation
of some lines, that possibly at times his destiny was thus
suggested to him. The Virgin Mother has her eyes fixed
upon her son with a mournful and solemn expression, as
if she herself were conscious of the feelings which were
passing through his mind. His figure is the most strik-
ing in the picture, which throughout is full of genius.
We observe that an engraving of this work is in prepara-
tion.