The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-12-05 00:00:00

THE FIRE WORKS

While the dance was going on, the villagers and neigh-
bours were entertained with a splendid exhibition of tire
works in a field opposite Chester-street—to provide which
the company in their additional liberality had previously
engaged Mr. James, the celebrated pyrotechnic artist of
this town. This, which we also witnessed, was one of
the most successful displays we have yet seen. There
was a variety of beautiful wheel work. Almost every
piece used was of varied colours ; the rockets and other
projectiles were splendid; the coloured lights most bril-
liant ; and not a single " miss " occurred throughout.
The whole concluded with the " flying pigeon" and an
addendum of rockets and dazzling lights, and tt►e spec-
tators rent the air with bursts of applause. Many of
those present returned to the ball, others to their homes ;
and not a few of the strangers who had enjoyed the
festivities of the day till the downward evening train bad
left, got beds where they could, and some of them, in de-
fault, were fain to snooze at the station until the starting
of the morning train for Liverpool and Manchester, at
four o'clock on the following morning.

RELIEF OF THE INDIGENT.-Our stipendiary magis-
trate, Mr. Rushton, has addressed a letter to a contem-
porary, i❑ which he declines to receive any subscriptions
that may be forwarded to him for a poor box, similar to
the practice of the London police officers. His reason
for this determination is that' as the fees of the justice's
clerks greatby exceed the salaries, and as the surplus is
directed by aet of parliamentbe to appropriated to the indi-
gent poor, the bounty of ingividuals becomes unnecessary.
Mr. Rushton's letter was written in consequence of some
benevolent individual having forwarded to him £5.

SUYDAM,' SCHOOL SOCtETY FORTRELAND.—A meeting
in behalf of the above society was held in the Abbey
Chapel, Birkenhead, on Monday evening, the 27th ult.,
when the Rev. Robert Gage attended as a deputation
from the society. The Rev. Andrew Knox presided on
the occasion, and opened the proceedings by testifying to
the usefulness of its operations, and to the long period
that it has occupied the field of scriptural education in
Ireland. The Rev. Charles J. Hamilton then gave en
account of the funds which the "Birkenhead auxiliary had
been enabled to remit to the parent society since its for-
mation in H 39 ; and also made a few statements relative
to the number of schools, teachers, and scholars in con-
rtexion with it, the latter amounting to upwards of
241.000. The Rev. Robert Gage followed, and gave
a most interesting and instructive account of the great
success attendant upon that peculiar mode of instruction,
illustrating it by various pleasing letters which he had re-
ceived from those who had been educated at the Sunday
school, and,who are now honourably filling their different
situations in various parts of the world. The meeting
was well attended, and upwards of £7 were contributed
by those present for the objects of the society.
Shell fish have long held a high rank in the catalogue
of easily digestible and speedily restorative foods-; of
these, the oyster certainly deserves the best character,
but, we think, it has acquired not a tittle more reputation
for these qualities the 'i t deserves; for if you wish to in-
vigorate the heart, it and support your strength,
there is nothing equ rwill give so little trouble to the
digestive organs and so much substantial strength to the
constitution. Some people are indifferent about the
manner of opening oysters, and the time and place of
eating them when they are opened:, nothing, however, is
more importjnt in the eyes of the experienced oyster
eater, for thetrue lover of an oyster will have some re-
gard for the feelings of his delicate little favourite,
and will never abandon it to the mercy of a bungling
operator, but will apply to a well ,known e'cailleur, who
contrives to detach the fish from the shell so dexterously
that the oyster is hardly conscfbus it has been ejected
from its lodging till it feels the teeth of the piscivorous
gourmand tickling it to death. We would advise those
whu wish to enjoy this delicious and much ameliorated
well fed crustaceous viand, in its utmost perfection, to
call at Shaw's old-established Metropolitan Oyster
Rooms.—See advt.

AN UNNATURAL FATHER.—A man named. John Boles,
a glass-cutter by ,trade, was on Thursday brought before
Mr. Rushton, at the instance of the parish officers, on a
charge of having shamefully left his family of children in a
state of dreadful distitution, while he himself was in re-
ceipt of regular and fair wages. Mr. Rowlands stated that
on hearing of the condition of the children, on Wednes-
day, he immediately visited the place of their domicile, if so
it might be called. He found them in a room two or three
yards square, with no-fire, and no bed or bedding, save a
small quantity of straw in a corner. The eldest, a boy of
fifteen years of age, had no clothing but a few -filthy rags
wrapped about him. The second—a girl nine years old—
had nothing round her-but the remains of an old apron;
and the third, also a girl,.of six years of age, was as naked
as at the time she was born. They had no food whatever,
and the woman who kept the house was herse'f so poor
and destitute that she could do little or nothing to relieve
them. In this state they had remained for months, while
the unnatural father was in the regular receipt of twenty
shillings a-week, which he-expended upon himself. The
bay had on Monday contrived to go out, and, having
found his father, got from him the sum of two-pence—a
penny to buy coals, and a penny for potatoes ; which last
was all they had had to subsist upon from the day men-
tioned. He (Mr. Rowlands) instantly had them fed, and
sent them to the workhouse. Mr. Rushton committed
the man to prison for a month.

STRANGE OCCURRENCE.—We have received the fol-
lowing from a correspondent:—The Mormonites have
been performing a tragedy at Crewe last week, which has
caused a great sensation in that quarter. The wife of a
smith, employed on the railway company's works at
Crewe, went, in company with her husband and the resi-
dent Mormonite priest, between eight and nine o'clock
on the 23rd ult., to be baptised in a brook in the
neighbourhood. The brook was much awoollen with the
late rains, and the stream very rapid; the hank gave way,
and the woman and the priest were precipitated into the
brook. The griest saved himself; but the woman was
drowned. Drags, &c. were used immediately on the
alarm being given., but the body was not found till noon
on Friday. The priest was arrested to await the result of
the inquest, which was held on Saturday; when it appeared
from the evidence of several of the deceased's neighbours,
that she had experienced some ill usage from her husband,
in consequence of her not being willing to be baptised ;
and that she went unwillingly, in consequence of his
threats. The coroner, upon this, caused the husband to

be taken into custody, and a verdict of manslaughter was
returned against both husband and priest, who were both
committed to Chester Castle. The deceased was the
mother of three children, and was again nearly seven
months t.dvanced in pregnancy.--Manchester Guardian.

[We have personally obtained some additional particulars
on the spot, from Mr. Leopold Boydell, the superinten-

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dent of the police at Crewe. Both the parties committed
were fellow workmen. It appeared that preparatory to
baptizing the deceased she was stripped, though the night
was cold, almost to a state of nudity, having on only a
flannel shift and petticoat. She stepped from the bands

of the parties,—Thomas Cartwright, her husband, and

Jonathan Pugmire, the priest,—and was carried down by
the Coppenhall Brook, and perished about 300 yards from
the spot where they were,—about half a mile from Crewe,

on the Chester line of railway. The inquest was held
before Mr. Roskell, of Knutsford. The
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