The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-11-14 00:00:00

Lord 44.thi5.

BIRKENHEAD INFIRMARY.-Dr. James Craigie and
Dr. F. Stevenson have been elected honorary surgeons in
the place of Mr. Dixon and Mr. Lingard, resigned.
It is the intention of some gentlemen in Hull to form a
Financial Reform Association there, to co-operate with
Mr. Robert Gladstone and the Liverpool Finance Com-
mittee.

On Saturday night, Sarah Stewart, a child three months
old, living with her father in Barter-street, died suddenly
from suffocation, caused by being covered with the bed-
clothes.

On Thursday se'nnight, Martin Duffy, of Park-lane,
was going np stairs to bed, when he fell and injured his
head, which injury caused his death about a week after-
wards.

Mary Sales, who lost her husband, brother, and other
relations in the Ocean Monarch, has been comfortably
settled by Mr. and Mrs. Lynn, of the Waterloo Hotel,
Liverpool, in which establishment she has resided ever
since.

On Monday week, a man and his wife residing in Char-
ter-street, quarrelled ; the husband left the house, taking
his two children with him, with the alleged intention of
jumping into the Mersey. Nothing more was heard of
him till Thursday evening, when he returned from from
" a trip to Wales," much to the delight of his nearly
heart-broken spouse.
On Saturday night, Julia Hughes, of Chisenhale-street,
sat up till about twelve o'clock, and then went to bed to
her husband. In a short time they heard a noise, when
the husband, in a state of terror, covered himself up with
the bedclothes, and acid he hoped he might be delivered
by his guardian angel from the terrible and impending
danger he apprehended. The deceased anxious to know
what had caused the noise, got up and left the room, but
on arriving at the top of the stairs she fell headlong down,
and was taken up quite dead.
IRE YACHT CLUB DINNER.—The Courier is entirely
in error in saying that the report of this gratifying festivity
found its way into our columns " indirectly." It was,
furnished by our own reporters in the usual way. Whilst
we are on the subject we may observe that we inadver-
tently omitted to state that Lord Sefton, in proposing
" the. Lancashire witches" coupled with the toast the
health of a lady who nobly distinguished herself by ad-
ministering to the wants of the poor creatures saved from
the Ocean Monarch, Mrs. Lynn, wife of Mr. Lynn, of
the Waterloo Hotel.

A fatal accident on the South-Western Railway occur-
red at the Farnborough Station cn Friday night. A gen-
tleman who had been out shooting with a party of friends
approached one of the trains, when he slipped and fell
headforemost into the narrow space between the wheels
and the wall of the platform. The unfortunate gentle-
man was eventually got out, but the injuries he had sus-
tained were so severe, that he had expired before he was
extricated, We deeply regret to say that the gentleman
who has lost his life in this painful and distressing manner
is Mr. Stephenson Tennent, of Liverpool and Harwich.
THE HEADS OF THE BEAST.—In a sermon by the Rev.
Joseph Baylee on the sth of November, the rev. gentle-
man in lucid but solemn strains, went rapidly over the
prophecies connected with the state of the world, the
apostate Church of Rome, and the downfall of Babylon.
He argued that the Austrian empire was the seventh head
of the beast; that, most probably, the Russian empire
would swallow up the Austrian, and become tne eighth
head, under which it would be destroyed by the bright-
ness of the Saviour's appearance ; and that events now
occurring seemed to be hastening the event.

THE STEAMER " WIRRALL."-This Woodside steamer
was brought to auction on Friday, by order of the High
Court of Admiralty—for running down the " Flambeau "
—and was sold for £3,250. But the ratepayers of Bir-
kenhead will be glad to learn that she has been purchased
by Messrs I. H. Hind and Co., with the view of hiring
her to the Birkenhead Commissioners, at a reasonable rate
per diem, until the commissioners arc in a position to re-
imburse to them the bare purchase money, when the boat
will again become township property. She was almost a
ne.y, and a very favourite boat, and had cost nearly
£7,000. _ _ _

THE Docxs OF LIVERPOOL.—The extreme length of
the river wall, which forms the line of the Liverpool
docks, is within a few yards of four miles. The total
water area now available amounts to upwards of 195 acres,
and the total quay space to more than fourteen miles.
There are in all twenty-one docks in operation, exclusive
of graving docks, half-tide docks, and basins. Of these
five, comprising about thirty-three acres of water area,
and nearly two miles of quay space, have been opened
within the last few weeks. Two others, and a half-tide
dock, which will yield together twenty-one acres of water
area and one mile of quay space, are in a state of great
forwardness.
APPREHENSION OF A CLERK FOR EMBEZZLEMENT.—
On Thursday night George Breary Jackson, late a clerk in
the employ of Messrs. Pearson and Co., Marsden-square,
Manchester, was apprehended at the Amphitheatre, in this
town. The prisoner absconded from Manchester on
Saturday week, taking with him £5OO which belonged to
his employers. A portion of the money (£200) was re-
covered, being found at his own house in Manchester.
After leaving Manchester, the prisoner was traced to
Dublin, and thence to this town, where he was taken by
Inspector M`Mullen, of the Manchester police-force, and
conveyed to Manchester for examination before the
magistrates.
DEATH FROM WANT AND EXPOSURE.-011 Wednes-
day last, a wretched being, apparently in the last stage of
want, was observed near the Northern Dispensary. He
was taken in, but his case being one of sheer destitution,
he was removed to the workhouse the same day. Hewes
admitted to the workhouse about noon, and was then in
a state of collapse ; notwithstanding the efforts that were
made to restore the wretched man, death took place the
same evening. A post mortem examination was made by
Mr. Leather, one of the surgeons of the establishment,
who gave it as his opinion that the cause of death was ex-
nosure to cold, and the want of the common necessaries of
life. Deceased's name was Thomas Jones, he was about
fifty years of age, and was a single man.
BRL NSWICK CLUB.—The distribution of the seven
prizes, value ten guineas, announced in our last publica-
tion, took place on Thursday evening, after a spirited
contest between sixty members of the club, the success-
ful members being Messrs. Hall, Darbyshire, Robinson,
Daish, Smith, Ramage, and Evans. After the presenta-
tion of the various prizes by Mr. John Walker, the mem-
bers sat down to the first harmonic supper of the season,
the duties of the chairman and vice being ably sustained
by Mr. Whiteman and Mr. Darbyshire. On the with-
drawal of the cloth, a number of loyal patriotic, and corn-
plimentary toasts were given and responded to, interspersed
with many excellent songs. The festivities of the even-
ing were prolonged to the latest moment allowed by the
rules of the club, the members separating highly delighted
with the evening's proceedings.
LECTURES ON EGYPT, THE DESERT, AND JERUSALEM.
—We are happy to perceive that that truly excellent
clergyman, the Rev. H. H. Higgins, minister of St. John
the Evangelist's Church, Hope-street, will deliver three