The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-02-18 00:00:00

LOCAL AND PROVINCIAL NEWS,

Captain Richard Ainley, of this port, has been appoint-
ed superintendent of the Sailors' Home.
There were no less than seven cases of sudden deaths
this week brought under the notice of the coroner.
The subscription to the Manchester parks has now
reached upwards of thirty thousand pounds.
The clock of St. James's Church is now lighted nightly
with gas.

It will be seen by an advertisement in another column,
that Mr. Christopher Mac Rae has been appointed agent
for this town to the Palladium Insurance Company.
The Summer Court for the relief of Insolvent Debtors
will be held at Liverpool, on the 7th August next, and at
Chester., on July the 23d.
BnaLIN PATTERNS.—An immense -quantity of these
articles are advertised in our paper of to-day, by Mrs.
Girvan, who is about to make extensive alterations.
A numerous deputation of between fifty and sixty gen-
tlemen, on the subject of cotton, including Mr. Mark
Philips, M.P. ; Viscount Sandon, M.P. ; Sir Howard
Douglas, M.P. • Mr. Oswald, M.P.; and Mr. Brother-
ton, M.P., had an interview with Sir Robert Peel in
Downing-street on 'Wednesday.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Monday, Charles Bond, while
going down the hold of the ship Warwick, lying in the
Waterloo Dock; slipped off the ladder and fell on the
lower deck ; his left shoulder and right collar bone were
dislocated, and owe of his ribs fractured. He died shortly
afterwards.
CAUTION TO LOAN Soniarms.—A case was brought
before the sitting magistrates on Thursday, in which the
borrower had introduced—sanctioned by the Loan Soci-
ety—the mom ~f a second person—his sister—in the
bond, without the knlwledge of .the sureties, and after
they had become bondsmen. The sureties had'been called
upon to pay, the borrower failing to do so, but the sub-
stitute was considered illegal and the demand not allowed
ROYML LIVER TREATRE.—The spirited
of this-unique little theatre is daily becoming more ap-
preciated ; and the -opera, as evinced by the nightly in-
creasing audiences, is triumphantly successful. Balfe's
beautiful production, " The Bohemian 'Girl," has been
received with such .unbounded applause, that it will be
the leading feature of the present week. On Friday Mr.
Marley, who plays Devilshoof to the detter, takes his
benefit

anagenaent

CALEDONIAN'SPCIETY.—We are glad to find that the
Scottish inhabitants of this town are about to form them-
selves into a society, on a similar principle to that of the
Scottish Corporation of London. Something of the kind
is very muchwanted in Liverpool, paTticularly now that
'the Scottish Agency is no more. qlf the proposed new
.society .be but 'half as successful in its sphere as the
.metropolitan association has been. ,it will be of no small
service; and we that the attempt now made will be
carried out with zeal and energy, tind supported liberally
by our brethrec from the north.

LIVERPOOLGUARDIAN SOCIE.M.—On Thursday even-
, ing, the twenty-second anniversary dinner of this society
' was held at the Angel Hotel, Dale-street. Mr. Pringle,
the president of the society, took the chair, and
George Wood, vice-president, the,viee-chair. The csual
loyal toasts were drank with ninth enthusiasm. The toast
of "The Manchester Guardian Society" was responded
' to by Mr.'-famuel Cottam, theeseeretary of that society,
and a number of gentlemen were, called upon to address
the company present. The society now numbers about
1,700 members. About 120 sat down to dinner.
TRADE or LANCASHIRE.-=ln the month of December,
1841, there were 139 mills in the county of Lancaster
working what is called short time; there were, likewise,
an equal:nunber entirely stopped in consequence of the
badness of .trade. This stagnation was eqa,l to about
4,071 horse-power, and 20,115 -operatives unemployed.
What is the-contrast now 'All thr. factories in the coun-
try capable of being worked are employed ; and, notwith-
standing the prodigious improvement in machinery, the
labour of the mill-operatives is in good demand, at wages
averaging from 15 to 20 per cent. advance from the low-
est point. :Manufactories are being enlarged in Manches-
ter, Stockport, Ashton, Oldham, Rochdale,. Blackburn,
&c. ; andie is confidently anticipated, that within a year
and a half the productive power in the weaving depart-
ment will be increased by nine or ten thousand 10eaas.
POSIAGANS AND EIDERSELLRES CASES.—The follow-
ing parties,were adjudged to pay the fines as. given by
Mr. Rushton, on Friday ;—Mary 13anestre-
street. 40s. and costs; John Wainwright, Greenland-
street, 40s. and costs; Henry.Aiston, Litherland-alley,
40s. and .costs ; Mary Highfield, Chapel-street,s49s. and
costs ; Thomas Denton, Bluudell-street, 40s. and costs;
Joseph Wareham, Scotland-road, 40s. and costs; t.Robert
Cowan., Po-wnall-street, acquitted; Benjamin Francis
Oakey, Preston-street, charged with having given.a plain
and fancy dress ball, at which :fifty prostitutes were pre-
sent. was acquitted; Peter HeyesfClive-street, Park, 40s.
and costs :;:.Joseph Thomason., Mill-street East„.4os. and
costs ; George Glover, Gascoyne-street, 60s. and costs ;
James Nuttry, Mill-street, acquitted ; John Mlinge,
High-street, Edge-hill, 405.. and ,costs; Wm. Rianer,
Mill-place., as. and costs.
COMMERCIAL HALL CONCERTE, TUESDAY EVENING.
—These concerts are now beoonaing a general resort of
recreation for.all classes, so that it may now be said that
an intelleetuaLand rational amusement is provided for the
people on twoevenings of the week, Tuesday and Satur-
day, and at so reoderate a cliargeas to come within-the
reach of all. :Sri E. Cust, who was present on Tuesday
evening last, appeared much gratified.at the sight of such
an assemblage to enjoy so delightful a treat. The vocal
talent consist .of Mrs. SunderiandoMiss Rose Joseph,
Mr. Hornby, and Mr. Crank, and the concert was in all
respects a moat-interesting one. Mrs. Sunderland was,
greatly applauded. We perceive that Mr. W. J. Ham-
mond is engaged for next Tuesday and (Thursday evening,
and that gentleman has prepared a highly interesting
comic and novel entertainment for the ocemsion. We be-
lieve the family of the Earl of Sefton are.expected.

SPECIMEN OF LusERALISM.—At the annual meeting
,of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce and Manufac-
rtures on Monday, a,gentleman was excluded from the
:board of directors—on which he had served, as all parties
:admit, with great zeal,z.nd ability,—and excluded on the
sole ground that, at the last election for South Lanca-
shire, he acted as chairman of the committeefor that can-
didate to whom a majotity of the meeting were politically
imposed. On thatoccasion Mr. Entwisle heat the Anti-corn-
law League ; and if .ve may judge from what we.hear upon
thesubject, and from the,parties who put themselves for-
ward at the meeting on Monday last, the league have
chosen 0 revenge that defeat upon Mr. Birley,the chair-
man of Mr. Entwisle's committee. We must confess that
this appears to us a very strange and a very unwarranta-
ble proceeding, and one calculated to prove exceeding'
mischievous in its consequences.—Manchester Gezaidian.
LANCASHIRE Asslzr.s.—Au official notice has been
issued from the prothonotary's office, specifying the rou-
tine of business to be transactedat the ensuing assizes for
the county, which commenced at Lancaster yesterday,
and will,eosomence at Liverpool on Saturday, the 22d of
March. The jury process for causes at Lancaster was
issued at Preston yesterday, and swill commence at Liver-
pool on Saturday, 22d of March. Rule days after the as-
sizes, Thursday, 27th of March. The causes intended to
be tried at Liverpool will be entered in the following or-
der.:—lst List Salford Hundred. 2d List —West Derby
Hundred, or elsewhere. The entry of causes at Lancas-
ter will close at nine o'clock this morning, and at Liver-
pool at twelve o'clock at noon on Monday, 24th March.
The causes in the 2d List will not be called on for trial
before Friday, the 28th March. The business of the pub-
lic offices will be transacted at Preston during the assizes
as usual.

THE ROYAL INsTitrorrost.—On Friday. the annual
meeting of the proprietors was held at the institution,
Colquitt-atreet, the Rev,. Rector Cardpbell in the chair.
The report was marked by few features of novelty. The
following are the beadsc—The finances are not quite so
satisfactory as at the end af the last year. A payment
for three years parish rates, and another for making the
warehouse contiguous to the institution fire-proof, have
precluded the possibility of purchasing additional speci-
mens. The medical school having been transferred to the
Infirmary, had caused a reduction of income on that ac-
count also. The museum, therefore, remained in statu
quo, with the exception of some additional humming birds.
The curator expresses an ardent wish, before any addi-
tional specimens are purchased, that internal alterations
and enlargements should be made, which would cost about
£2OO. The schools go on satisfactorily, the admissions
being more for the last year than for several years. Three
scholars of the universities and two wranglers have been
added to the number of the previous distinctions ,• and the
account of subjects read in the last half year by the upper
classes spews that, in addition to the ordinary elements
of useful knowledge, and a classical and commercial edu-
cation, the institution provides instruction of a high aca-
demical as well as scientific character. The scholarship
projected by some of the former pupils has, through their
liberality, been founded. This is to be called " the Iliff
Scholarship." The committee of the Canning statue hav-
ing offered the committee of this institution £360 for the
foundation of a scholarship, on condition that the sum
should be made up to £5OO, the committee solicited
subscriptions from the proprietors to completethe amount.
They have succeeded with very considerable difficulty, and
there will now be also a Canning scholarship attached to
the institution. It is earnestly hoped that both these
picture gallery remains as before. The report paid a
scholarships may be increased by future subscriptions.
The
well merited compliment to the late Mr. Thomas Win-
Burnley, so long a liberal contributor. The number of
visitors on the free days had rather fallen off. In conclu-
sion, the committee appeal to the proprietors and the
public for an increase of patronage to the institution asan
establishment for the promotion of science and the, fine
arts. The report was unanimously confirmed. The ac-
counts of receiptp ppd expenditure were also passed.

BIRKENHEAD POLICE-COURT.—On Monday last, Char-
lotte Edgar was committed for trial, charged with robbing
the house of Mr. W. Rowe, at Seacombe, on the 30th of
December last. The prisoner was formerly a servant in
Mr. Rowe's employ. On the same day, Ruth Smith
was committed for trial for stealing a quantity of delph
ware from the house of Captain Denham, at Seacombe,
on Sunday week. Two men were fined 2s. 6d. each, and
one man 55., for evading the toll at Woodside Ferry on
Sunday night.

MANSLAUGHTER.—On Tuesday an inquest was held
at Burnley, on the body of Patrick Markey, a hatter.
He h,d been unwell, and sent his wife for some arrow-
root to Mr. Heaton's, a druggist. Mr. H. being out, his
father, by mistake, gave her two ounces of arsenic. Two
other persons were also served with the same poison. On
the mistake being discovered the utmost dispatch was

used to recover are deadly mixtures—in two of the cases
with success, but the deceased had previously swallowed
an ounce of the arsenic, and died after four hours of ex-
cruciating agony. A verdict of manslaughter was re-
turned against Mr. Heaton and John Curl, the shop-boy
who assisted.—A man named Booth, residing at Bury,
has been committed to the Liverpool assizes on a charge
of manslaughter. Some boys pelted him with snowballs,
and twice knocked off his hat. He became enraged,
picked up a piece of coal, and threatened to throw it at
them, if they threw another snowball. Another was
thrown, and Booth then flung the piece of coal, which
struck a boy named Bamford on the head, fractured the
frontal bone, and caused death. The deceased was stand-
ing near to the boys who had been pelting Booth.

INQUESTS.—On Friday, two inquests were held before
the Borough Coroner. The first was on Jane Nelson, an
elderly female, about 80 years of age, who, while crossing
Oldhall-street, and approaching the arches of the Ex-
change-buildings, was knocked down by one of Thomas
Lenthe's carts, and both the wheels went over her legs.
She was removed to the Northern Hospital, where mor-
tification set in, and speedily produced her death. There
was no blame attributable to the driver, as he did all in
his power to pull of and avoid the deceased.—The se-
cond was on James Connell, 53 years of age, who com-
plained of the cold and a pain in his inside, went to bed,
and died before a surgeon was able to reach his premises.
—On Saturday two inquests were held ; the first on the
body of James Malanney, aged about forty. The deceased
was a labourer, and lodged in North John-street, and had
complained for the last six months of palpitation of the
heart. He was attended occasionally by a medical man,
but it appeared that no medicine bad latterly been pre-
scribed for him, his case being considered hopeless. On
Friday night he went to bed in his usual health, and early
next morning was found dead. Verdict, after a post-
mortem examination, of death from natural causes.—On
view of the body of a new-born female infant; found in a
chamber of the Grand Junction Railway Inn, (Mr. W.
Kirby's,) Lime-street. A female servant in the bouse,
named Ann Thomas, kitchen-maid, has been suspected of
being encienle, and was spoken to on the subject by one
of the other female domestics, but denied the fact. She
complained occasionally of a pain in her back and head.
but was able to follow her work, and on Friday morning
she Was requested to go to bed, which she did, and was
treated as for an ordinary complaint. About three o'clock
in the afternoon of the same day, another of the female
servants, who did not suspect anything wrong, went into
her room, and found in the chamber utensil the dead body
of the child., (full grown,) of which she had apparently de-
livered herself. A surgeon was immediately sent for, ard
she afterwards acknowledged that she had delivered her-
self. She did not state whether the child was born alive
or not. Mr. John Whitley, surgeon, stated that he had
been accidentally at the inn that morning, and being tolu
by Mrs. Kirby that the young woman was ill, he went up
stairs to see her. She complained of her head, and he or-
dered her a little aperient medicine, which it appeared
afterwards she did not take. He was sent for to the house
that afternoon. On entering the room he saw the child
in the chamber utensil, with its head down. Hot water
yes ordered, with a view to restore animation, but all his
efforts were without effect. The naval cord had been torn
asunder. -He found that the mother had been recently
delivered. He asked her why she had not told him of her
precarious state in the morning, and she said she did not
now of what she had been delivered, or that she was de-
livered at all ; that she could riot accountfor it. He exa-
mined the body of the child, which was full grown. In
his opinion the child was born alive, but was immediately
afterwards suffocated. Death would probably have taken
place in this way in a few seconds. He was of opinion
that she had been delivered whilst sitting on the chamber
utensil. This she stated herself, and els.) that she had
torn thecord with her fingers. She could have done this
without lifting the child. The coroner summed up, and
theTary returned a verdict to the effect that the mother
secretly delivered herself, and that the child was suffocated
trot-want of assistance during birth. The mother will,
of course be committed so soon as she can be removed,
for trial at the assizeS•forthe offence. The coroner re-
marked that the case was one of so serious a nature that
he simild transmit copies of the depositions to Mr. Rush-
ton, the magistrate.