The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-24 00:00:00

Thomas Forsaveth, Esq., has been appointed Recor

of Cork.
The Rev. Dr. Scoresby, vicar of Bradford, has reached
home, after a voyage across the Atlantic and sojourn io
the United States of some months' duration.
LAUNCH.—On Thursday next, at eleven o'clock, a nevi;
steam-boat, belonging to the Steam Tug Company, will
be launched from Mr. Royden's ship-building yard?
Baffin-street.
HORTICULTURAL CURIOSITY.—There iS now to
garden of Henry Ashton, Esq., Woolton-wood, an apple-
tree of the peach kind, a part of which is in full bloom,
while the other part bears a quantity of delicious riPe
fruit.
VISIT OF LOUIS PHILIPPE TO ENGLAND.—We under-
stand that their Majesties and the Royal Family will
remove to the Palace of St. Cloud about the 25th, and that
the King, after seeing his family installed, will go to Eu,
from which place he will proceed to England.
CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY.—The half-
yearly general meeting of the proprietors in the Chester
and Birkenhead Railway Company was announced to
have been held yesterday, being one of the days named its
the act of parliament ; and in pursuance of the notice
several proprietors assembled in the director's-room, over
the office in James'-street. Mr. William Jackson pre-
sided; and the only business done consisted in the adop-
tion of a motion for adjournment till the 30th of January
next.

The British and North American royal mail steam-ship
Hibernia, Captain Judkins, which would leave Boston and
Halifax on the 16th and 18th instant, may be expected
here towards the end of the week. The Great Western,
which would leave New York on the 20th, will be due in
the following week.—[The Albion, from which the above
is taken, is incorrect as to the Great Western. That noble
vessel would leave New York on the 14th instant, and maY
be expected here on Saturday. Indeed, it is a subject of
speculation whether she or the Hibernia will arrive first.)
GENERAL TOM THUMB.—This small specimen of the
human kind and yet great phenomenon, gave his first
levees yesterday at the Liver Theatre, to numerous and
delighted audinences. The public are infinitely self-de-
ceived with respect to the size and conformation of the
general. We have bi en accustomed to associate
with the
idea of such beings as himself, something dwarfish and
repugnant. Geoffry Hudson, the favourite of Qneen
Hen-
rietta, was a small man cu: short; and most of the species are
inelegant in shape and appearance. Our friend Tom hasnone
of these characteristics. He is (as the bills say, and they
are, as far as we can estimate, right) but twenty-five
inches high—and as perfectly formed as many of the men
oflareer species that we see every day. He is somewhat
intantine in face, and marvellously active. He runs UP
and down the table, ranged along the pit of the theatre,
with an alacrity worthy of any of the " children of a larger
growth" who disport in the same atmospherei At the
conclusion of the performances, he saluted (price on!
shilling) a number of the rising generation, an
not a few ladies of a certain age, who appeared
delighted with the treat, as no doubt was Torn
himself. We may add that his carriage, a perfect
gem, was exhibited yesterday in all our public thorough'
tares, drawn by two ponies, with a coachman and tiger
unapproachable in littleness, and excited, wherever it was
seen, the surprise and admiration of beholders.
SIR ROBERT AND LADY SALE.—The gallant General
and his heroic Lady are expected in Liverpool this week,
on their return from Ireland ; and on Thursday next, our.
worthy Chief Magistrate will entertain the distinguished
officer at a dinner at the Town-hall, a select party being
invited to meet him on the occasion ; on the following
day, the General and his Lady, we believe, will be the
guests of bis Worship at Elms-wood. Invitations to the
dinner on Thursday evening have been forwarded to Lord
Stanley, Earl Sefton, Lord Francis Egerton, J. Wils°ll
Patten, Esq., M.P., Edward Mitchell, and Major Pot-
tinger, of the 6th Regiment of Foot, now in Chester, both
of whom have served in India with Sir Robert.
FIGURES IN STONE, ILLUSTRATIVE OF "THE CO,
TAR'S SATURDAY NIGHT.”—We invite our readers, and
all the admirers of sculpture, to an inspection of the
splendid group of nine figures, in stone, from the chisel
of the celebrated Mr. Anderson, illustrative of Burns,s
beautiful, domestic, and affecting poem, cf " The Cotter s
Saturday Night." The figures are admirably and cha-
racteristically finished, even to minuteness of detail; and
the whole are calculated, in an eminent degree, to exhibit
the " masonic" skill of the artist, and his just apprecia-
tion of the fine and natural conception of the bard of Scot-
land,—an admirable likeness of whom, as " the neighbour
lad" is happily introduced. We shall notice this im-
pressive work of art—which must have cost great and per-
severing labour, united to no common stuck of genius—
more fully hereafter. Meantime, we can but wish Mr.
Anderson every success.
COMMISSION OF LUNACY ON A SON OF THE LATE
POET CAMPBELL.—A commission de lunatico inquirendo
was opened on Saturday, at the Ship Inn, Waltham Ab-
bey, before Mr. Commissioner 'Winslow and a special
jury of sixteen gentlemen of the county of Essex, of whom
Mr. J. Colvin was foreman, to inquire as to the state of
mind of Mr. Thomas Telford Campbeil, aged 40, only son
of the late poet Mr. Thomas Campbell. The commission
was taken out at the instance of the trustees, under the
wili of a rolative, from which the subject of the commis-
sion derives an annuity. The inquiry was rendered ne-
cesaary by the demise of his father, under whose will be,
howevee, takes no property. After the jvry had been
sworn, and the proceedings were about to commence, Mr!
Campbell, having expressed a wish to be present, walked
in the court, took his seat by the side of the learned comk-
missioner. He is about 5 feet 5 inches in height, ar
complexion, very good humoured countenance, with a
stout, robust, muscular frame. He throughout paid the
greatest attention to the proceedings, arid evinced 90
symptoms of a disordered intellect. The counsel for the
commission, which was unopposed, stated, in his open:
ing address, that Mr. Thomas Telford Campbell. was
perfectly harmless, but had several singular delueont
One was, that Chinn's lozenges, which he had fons°rrot:tru".
taken, had got into his bones and destroyed his co to
to
tion ; and he had some time since accustomed himself
lie down in the son in the forest, in order, as he salee,etO
,
evaporate Chinn's lozenges out of his bones, and eral_
cate the diseases they bad engendered. He took ocesw
nal dislike to tome of the inmates at Dr. Allen's, at whose
asylum he abode, and had been known to attack sornet
when, as he said, they got into his way in the WI;
although on such occasions there was plenty of room 'eo
him, and he would afterwards say he thought he ought
thrash them well. He had exhibited some extraordinarl
conduct to the tailor who worked for tqe establisbrne°,o;
and to the slaughterman who killed the beasts, &c.,
the use of the inmates ; in the latter case he had eat!,
part of the brains of an ox which had beea just killed ;.'",
would have them warm from the head, without bel2;
cooked, and ate them without any bread. After oa
evidence had been gone through and Mr. Campbell bile
put several que-itions to the witnesses the jury
after
censultation of about an hour announced, that altholeg;
two jurors objected to give a verdict at variance wile
the medical testimony, yet that 14 jurors out of d,
were of. opinion that Mr. Campbell was of sound 0'10,5
A verdict was accordingly recorded, "That Mr. Ti3cl;-11
Telford Campbell was of sound mind." Mr. CamPt',4,
throughout conducted himself with the greatest urhanl'el,
coolness, and composure ; indeed, no one could have suroe
posad that he had been an inmate of a lunatic asyluto,
that his intellects had been impaired.