The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-05 00:00:00

/Loral P.ttus.

ratt:Mshop-of Fridericton will, we believe, sail from
this week for his distant diocese.
11.7 m-ship Europa left this port for Halifax and
"Afar4.?b-s*-an Saturday, with the usual mails.
-U2f.ted States steam-ship sailed from Southampton
."..scaakiwirity for. America. She had 100 passengers.
:f..;-ts.nclay week Edward Rigby died suddenly. from
'+'. caused by excessive drinking.
-',lie:ifianday -the body of a man, recognized as that of
l'Gre.en' - a seaman, was found in the mud of the
-bock Basin.
'ail`cs,csri;PloKtN-G.-=Patties attending sale-rooms, or
Isslim,i•Lsces where there is a resort of people, should be
,'szliz-Li,r,,,g.of not having their pockets picked.
s;,ocir:rmous fresh-water trout, taken in Lough Nea,
,sscizeeEbited in the Exchange News Room, on Friday.
22:lbs.
Mayer has received definite orders to prepare the
.-iiii-z-zriaper cradle. It will cost 120 guineas. Our esti-
-sorrifssir,,rlief magistrate has-well earned the testimonial.

•••—,lv.of the watchmen in St. John's Market, named
•ai°z dropped down dead on Friday morning, whilst on
.' ettigrew, in alecture at the Collegiate Institution,
-vgar:7l4.le.y, stated that epilepsyis considered so catching,
patient afflicted with it is allowed to enter a Lon-
as an in-patient.
Sbyipson, of the Theatre-Royal, in this town, states
Wend Jenny Lind.and her party £2OOO for four
..7wetSivrnezoces at the Theatre-Royal, but that this most
Abitosti :e'er was -refused.

.4131,:-.S4and.-sy, about midnight, John Roberts, a labourer,
emit n, at one of the shafts of the new Victoria tun-
quantity of clay gave way and fell upon him.
-rzvzz,got out in about ten minutes, quite dead.
"rk. z curious fact that the name of a street running
,ewe of the new north docks, •supplies, with a
aiaZing-transpo3ition of letters, the designation of the lat-
,viam--:-Stifl.ney-street ; Stanley Dock.
zenz.z:cr—r MATCH.—On Wednesday, a match came off

.tiktturoe.arr the Kensington (Liverpool) club and the Oxton
.:113lielleb on the ground of the former at Edgehill, which
tai-in-tile triumph of the latter, which scored 103
wrizifAt.ll-eir opponents only scored 73.
liza..Ll/4turday, a seizure of no less than 4251b5. weight
-.sr was made in a cellar in Lace-street. The
VllKarair, f cf the copper have been discovered, and four
2stsrr:F:rstald in possession have been sent to gaol for three
arzws3.i2s.
.:JENNY LIND AT THE COLLEGIATE INSTITU-
:M Thursday evening this distinguished cantatrice
grilti7crThtslar, by the kindness of Mr. Lumley, the manager
vii"-.lErlft4esty's theatre, in a miscellaneous concert, to be
Aridilef.t'ae Collegiate Institution. Additional attraction
ilippracitied, by the engagement of Mons, Roger, the cele-
iikazikiFivrench tenor, Signor F. Lablache, Signor Beletti,
it is expected that one of the most fashionable
..SraiiareS ever drawn together in Liverpool will be present.
rf"CBE ROYAL.—MR. MACREADY'S FAREWELL
YemAMV,..X.ANCE.—Mr. Simpson, the lessee of the Theatre
:provides us on Thursday night with an opportu-
xteTmonagiin hearing our veteran tragedian, previous to
alt-ir.,l,:rmrrure for the United States. The able services of
Rim::Warner are also retained. The plays will be Henry
and The Jealous Wife.
i-#.ik7TM ITALIAN OPERAS AT THE THEATRE-ROYAL.
---V6e4lv.e.g to direct attention to the spirited effort making
*OLT. F. Aldridge, to present to the inhabitants of
.I.;:wavgjactrol.a series of three grand Italian operas, by an en-
4..ir.,:mant which he has formed with the elite of the
..lacznefal company of the Royal Italian Opera House, Co-
-Twie.....rerden. -The pieces will be Norma, I Purilani, and,
vix-"brearst time in Liverpool, Don Pasquali ; the nights
fr..serth, 14th, and 15th instant. The orchestral and
Arzy'x°-r.r.-atiF.,,ements are of the first order.
ANIPIIITHEATRE.—The lessee- of this house is
-115-.."..;rmil to be behind none of his contemporaries in cater-
,/..-meiftertale public, and again presents us with first-rate
Irilliefiot.tite week. .

SERMONS.—On Sunday week the Rev. D.
:4:-preached two sermons in Peinberton Church. On
Sap .sae day the Rev. W. Falloon preached two dis-
icamm in Raiphill Church, and the Rev. J. R. Conar
ithikmed. two sermons in Blackrod Church, near Bolton.
4.7
..../...w.-.sm‘avons were preached for the schools attached to
2trrzer.yattive churches.
Isti:E.LAUNCII.—On Thursday, the launch of a small
-lata-rii -finely-built ship took place at the yard of Messrs.
.tgaz?_.'filer and Co., near the Brunswick Dock. The
▪ rae,inhich has been built for Messrs. Pryde, Jones and
tierthe China trade, is 108 feet long aloft, 23 feet
armi:iii7-bmidships, and 18 feet in depth. Her burden is
• ''*r 9, new measurement ; and she is in structure all
-Sizather a builder or an owner could desire. She was
,-lociicsgirmed the Naomi. _ _

Saturday an inquest was held on view
:ttlet 'body of Ann Bogue, aged 33 years. Deceased
.her husband, and was found sitting on a stone
MatrAW.Abf destitution in Longville-street. It appeared
'll3aigf.intsirad been incontinent, and had left her husband
f:l?—vf =errata s. ago in consequence. She was taken to a cellar
Jici-VirE-street, and some brandy was given to her, and
:ca i* ea some food. She had left her husband's house
-sez.l;ime on the Ist of May. She died on WednesJay
amErt FATAL CommioN.—The following, from the

Twisters' Room, appeared in our 2d edition on Tues-
iiaelast,:—The Cosmopolitan, 'Maxwell, from Liverpool to
_:-stand St. Lawrence, Brown, from Liverpool to New
"Acsk.i.z,- were in contact on Sunday, about 25 miles S.W. of
.trod. The crew of the Cosmopolitan, except one man
got on board the St. Lawrence, which afterwards
.;mcati:tte.xt Kingstown, with damage to cutwater and loss of
:iiii&t.tawzr.t. The Cosmopolitan, which immediately sunk,
=:itaie2tf:eti to Messrs. C. Horsfall and Son, and has been
w a derelict into Kingstown harbour.
A:la:Ir. FERRY REGATTA.—A splendid regatta, under

Ace.:;,-..cal. patronage of the Royal Mersey Yacht Club,
-4;414:;.*5.ce. on Saturday, at Rock Ferry. The weather was
.413.:r.t-tt could be desired, the sport excellent, and a very
Jeueserous attendance graced the occasion. The Queen of
,itie-:Ocean, selected as the flag-ship, gaily decked, was
.:acarzzA.' near to the pier. Mr. T. Littledale and Mr.
Lle per ;acted as stewards ; Vice-commodore Grindrod as
"has--:moire. We give below the result of the contests of
--1auf,.571.--The Mersey Plate, value twenty-five guineas,
mwsnlsrari by Enigma, beating Hebe, Echo, and Ranger.
''.mot:? Wirral Purse was won by Ariel, beating Crusader
Yuen of the Dee. The Royal Rock Ferry Cup was
:5.1.2r. -by Ariel, beating Earl and Crusader, club's boat.
I:ati ies' Stakes were won by Elfin, beating Nemesis.
-'Xv"--Trial Stakes were won by Ariel, beating Crusader
..isart :Star. The Innkeepers' Plate was won by Elfin, beating
":r: e 1 and Belle. There were various supplemental
.saa...-rits. A yacht-boat race, for which three were en-
wae won by the one belonging to Mr. Tetley's
Tear.l.-tors BAROMETER.—Mr. Abraham, in Lord-

has on view a simple and accurate indicator of
-sirsw,--Flserical changes on an entirely novel principle. It
:--k4VISr".46IF,CI by the inventor, a French gentleman, the Ane-
zar•A;:larerceter. It is of the size of a ship's chronometer,
,zatrit_;c,x,irenlar scale, divided, and engraved similar to the
..ar;r:-_r wheel-barometer. The instrument is so ex-
--trzrza-y sensitive that the height of a building is indicated
•and exclusive of the advantages of extreme accu-
-mm-:..-ad portability, it cannot be deranged by travelling.
_:-rue motion of a ship cannot affect it, it is equally
am: -?..aEe for nautical purposes. Professor Lloyd, at the
-,m.sanaw:meeting of the British Association, reported that
• lications of the Aneroid had been tested, by placing
the receiver of an air-pump ; and observing its
•..vasoi4,--iu. comparison with the indications of the long-
: :.hey were found to agree to less than 1-100th of an
4-iy,-f *The mechanical arrangement of the instrument
-,,r;uv,ists of a cylindrical chamber of copper, about 21 inches
:it:ammeter, and about 5-16ths of an inch deep, exhausted
- And hermetically sealed. The surface of the cham-
lwriDvorrugated, and with every variation of the atmos-
the surface rises or falls : the movement is multi-
aria& lay a system of levers, and to the end of the main
~,?r2- -is 'attached a fine chain, connected with a spiral
3721*iazg,,•thanging the motion from vertical to horizontal. The
,agrals-pring is fixed to an arbor or axis, on which is
tae hand, indicating the changes, Thus the cham-
l▪
ima*: substitute for the Toricelian tube, and the vacuum
.-s(T.,,the.wlumn of mercury. The inventor has patented
iaitiiaityrcention.
fre.'...WROFORM.—On Tuesday evening, Dr. Pettigrew
.4.745, :in the course of his lecture at the Collegiate lnsti-
-isaer,., an physiology, that he bad used chloroform in
• Inain,nffds of a thousand instances. There were five stages
-.&-r.etts from it. In the first, everything beautiful,
ixii.,..tr-ant, And heavenly rushes at once into the mind of the
; shortly after this, another stage comes on;
leirt:-lirent thinks that the people about are going round,
,:iarsi6oveill talk rationally, but is devoid of sensation ; the
stP,.e was that in which consciousness as well as sen-
-vaiiiYSit7.ls lost ; in the fourth, snoring and snorting be-
• UM, as in some cases of apoplexy ; the fifth stage is
.;:aEAgen. • in diseases affecting the nervous system chloro-
'''W=at:bail produced excellent remedial effects, particularly
z,,..--ostismaas and tic doloreux. If applied to the surface, it
•=ztilielek at once. It must not be used, htwever, in dis-
-lAcLcw ti the heart, as its tendency was to stop the action
it :.1 organ. It was more difficult to put animals under
/cence than human beings ; it was a longer time be-
-ir ber4r were affected. Those people in the habit of
*thr.;;.-Ing required much to affect them. He had given in
- ;ma', :mse as much as an ounce and a half ; patients of this
are usually very violent, and fancy that those about
Ivaillting them. As to the age in which it may be ad-
'Likir.akziAred, Dr. Pettigrew stated that he had administered
i-A,,-,:tix,weeks before to a child only five weeks old ; he had
.*‘..nas:,,t from that age up to 84; and must unhesitatingly
-,,Azzaethat there was no danger whatever to be feared from
pmproperly administered.
".51113:2ZGE CASE OF INFANTICIDE.—On Monday, as
:1-74E•Tiiiam Whittaker, Esq., of Bootle, was walking along
_Veatisea shore there, he saw what appeared to him to be a
asc=l yarcel floating in the sea, and on partially opening
wirceived that it contained the body of an infant. He
,xtra= itto the house of Mr. Hope, the surgeon, who opened
:-Aken-parcel, first taking off a sort of old black apron, tied
4143ic-ound with a garter; then an old piece of calico,
a white lawn handkerchief, which was fas-
-:,.-hy the corners knotted very fast together. He then
zzatttv., to the trunk of a newly-born female infant, of full
4itanith, having its head, both arms, and both legs and
cut off or hacked off with a knife. An inquest
,-a!AzAxeld on the following day, when Mr. Hope gave it as
":ar-u'aariiiion that the child had been born alive, but that it
,mAlisably had not lived more than one day, and that it
,f.en in the water about nine or ten days. The
7.A..ceir-rz were washed, and upon the pocket handkerchief
-4,r37ritten neatly with marking ink, in a lady's hand,
;same of " Julia Charlton, 36." Mr. Hope also stated
arternally, there were marks of burns on the trunk,
attempt had been made to destroy the remains by
;.-butit having, probably, caused a strong smell, the
beenZsposed of by putting it into the river.
G stated that the body was compressed into so small
w..4.esuarr...-<:‘,. that the compression caused dislocation of the
upk: both sides. The jury returned a Ter 1i of " wilful
Lzsimalur.cicainst some pergon or persons unknown."

St. Stephen's Church, in Byrom-stfeeti has recently
undergone a thorough cleansing and renovation ; and by
the sanction of the bishop-and the incumbent,. the Rev.
A. Hume, LL.D., is at present the officiating minister.
On Monday Bartley Welsh, a lad nine years old, was,
with a companion, fishing for crabs at one of the Pottery
Docks, when, in endeavouring to push a piece of timber
into the water, both fell into the dock. Bartley sunk, and
his body was not recovered until some time afterwards.
His companion was rescued.
A FOOLISH MAN.—James Fowles, of Higher Tran-
mere, was, the week before last, robbed by a prostitute of
ninety sovereigns in gold. He went into a field at Tran-
mere on Thursday night week with a woman named
M'Taggart, who relieved him of the large sum above-men-
tioned. M'Taggart and two accomplices were arrested as
they were about to depart by the packet for Drogheda.
M'Taggart had £95 in her possession. She and Mary
Woods and Mary M'lver were, on Monday, committed to
Chester for trial.

-FATAL COLLISION BETWEEN A STEAMER AND A SHIP.
—We noticed last week that the Prince of Wales, Fleet-
wood and Belfast steamer, and a sloop called the Jane and
Jessy, had come into collision on Sunday morning week,
and had both got on shore on the Point of Ayr, at the
month of the Dee. The crew of the smack (now on shore)
were saved by floating ashore upon a spar. The Prince
of Wales got on the beach, but has since been got off.
Amongst the passengers in the Prince was Mrs. Gaskell,
wife of Mr. Milnes Gaskell, M. P., who came to Liver-
pool yesterday week, in great anxiety, having heard that
the whole of the passengers were lost. Most of the cattle
on board swam ashore. Her place, in the meantime, has
been supplied by the Fenelia, a fine steamer, and the
transit between Belfast and Fleetwood, the usual line of
the Prince of Wales, will be punctually continued. The
sloop has also been got off, and has been taken into
Ramsay Bay.

LOCAL MEETINGS.

SPECIAL VESTRY.

On Thursday, a, special general meeting of the parish-
ioners of Liverpool was held in St. Nicholas's Church,
for the purpose of receiving the report cf the committee
appointed at the last Easter Vestry, to take into conside-
ration the question of rating the Corporate and Dock pro-
perty. There was a numerous attendance of the trades-
men of the town, and the proceedings were of the most
unanimous character. The Rev. Rector Brooks occupied
the chair.

Mr. LOWNDES read the advertisement calling the meet-
ing, and also the report of the committee appointed at
the Easter Vestry, a copy of which will be found in our
advertising columns.
Mr. FERGUSON moved that the report of the Rating
Committee be adopted. At the last general Vestry the
parishioners appointed a committee, for the purpose of
bringing to charge the corporate and dock estates. The
committee had taken steps which, if sanctioned by the
parishioners, would lead to a very favourable result ; and
he had, therefore, great pleasure in moving that the re-
port be adopted.
Mr. T. DOVER had great pleasure in seconding the
motion. When they looked around them, and saw the
miles of sewerage about to be made ; when they found
they were to get, at an immense expense, a supply of
water from Rivington Pike, and when they heard the
chairman of the Finance Committee say he was about to
call upon the ratepayers for money to build a gaol—al-
though, by the way, he should like to know what they
were going to do with the money they would get for the
present gaol—when they saw all these things, he thought
reasons were afforded for desiring that all the property
existing in the town should contribute to the local rates.
(Applause.) The wealthy classes were fast leaving the
town. (Hear.) How few merchants, comparatively, now
lived in Liverpool ! They were living at Aigburth or
across the water. What kind of property was now gene-
rally being erected here ? Cottage property ; and that,
they all knew, did not contribute to the local burdens.
Those of them who unfortunately remained ratepayers of
the town, notwithstanding the increased ra`es with which
they were threatened, would have to make up the defi-
ciency of those who were fast leaving their residences.
Ought not, therefore, all property of the town, whether
public or private, be compelled to contribute to the pub-
lic burden ? He had a sort of pleasure, he must confess,
it was perhaps a mischievous pleasure, in attacking the
docks. (Hear.) He contended that that great estate
ought to pay local rates ; first of all, because it was a
trading company. It was not difficult to know what trade
the Docks Committee were carrying on, but it was diffi-
cult to know what trades they were not carrying on.
They were brickmakers, bricklayers, joiners, carpenters,
plasterers, coopers. porters, warehousekeepers, engineers,
blacksmiths, and he did not know what. Being a trading
company they ought to contribute to all the local rates,
as all the other tradesmen did. He said nothing about
the policy of the Dock Committee doing their work by
contract, but he knew that the railway companies did
their work by contract, and he did not see why the Dock
Committee should not do the same. (Hear.) He did
not see why tradesmen of the town should not come in
for, a fair share of the work about the docks; but if the
Dock Committee were to become traders, competing with
tradesmen, they ought to compete on fair terms, for the
taxes amounted to 25 per cent. on the rent, and the dock
aztate should certainly pay that tax too. (Applause.)
The docks of Liverpool should be taxed, because, if the
present Dock Committee did not make the docks, other
people would, and there would be no difficulty in getting
rates from such property. Docks in every other town in
England were subjected to local rates, and docks in this
town also paid rates—_ The Duke's Dock paid local rates ; 1
the Old Quay Dock Company, when it was existing, paid
local rates ; the Harrington Dock, when it belonged to a
private company, paid local rates, but now that it be-
longed to the Dock Trustees it did not pay rates. (Hear.)
There was so much unfairness in this preference to pro-
Terty, that he wondered the people of Liverpool had so
long remained without making the dock'estate contribute
to the local taxation. Besides, why should they, the
tradesmen of the town, be almost exclusively liable to the
support of the poor and the sewering of the streets, when
the merchants equally with them, derived advantage ? In
mentioning the names of two individuals, he wished not
to do so invidiously, because he had great respect for both
of those gentlemen, but it was necessary in illustration of
his subject. He would take the senior churchwarden as
a tradesman, and he would take the chairman of the Dock
Committee, as a merchant. The churchwarden was well
known as a tradesman of the town, and the presumption
was that the business of a tradesman was not so profitable
as the business of a large shipowner and merchant ; but
what was the amount these two gentlemen respectfully
contributed to the local rates ? Mr. Ferguson contributed
from £3O to £4O, 'and I.llr. Bramley-Moore about £lO.
(Cheers.) As he before said, he did not mention the
names of these gentlemen invidiously, but they were about
correct samples of the classes to which they belonged, the
one representing the shopkeepers and the other the wealthy
and influential merchants and shipowners. There were a
number of objections urged against the taxing of the
docks. They were told that they should not tax the
docks because there was no beneficial interest. But the
Dock Committee themselves had given up this point, in-
asmuch as they had allowed one part of their property,
the warehouses, to be subjected to local taxation. But
he believed the non-beneficial exemption was never in-
tended to apply to trading companies. It was only in-
tended to apply to churches and hospitals, places from
which no benefit was derived. He contended there was a
profit to some one from the Liverpool docks. They were
told by Mr. Bramley-Moore and other gentlemen—advo-
cates of non-exemption—that, if they taxed the docks,
they taxed the trade. So they did. The shipowner and
merchant would have to pay a little more ; and conse-
quently, by their not being taxed, they put that money
into their pockets. (Applause.) They were told else-
where that this tax was objectionable, because it was a
tax on trade. All taxes were objectionable in themselves;
all- taxes were taxes on trade. The manufacturers of
Manchester might as well say, " Don't tax the factories ;
you know it is the source of all our trade. If the facto-
ries are shut up, what will become of the trade of Man-
chester ? Don't tax the factories !" (Applause.) That
would be a very convenient doctrine for the manufactu-
rers, but a very inconvenient one to the rest of the rate-
payers of Manchester. And so the doctrine propounded
here was a very profitable one to the merchant and ship-
owner, but a most expensive and unprofitable one to the.
tradesman. Mr. Dover concluded an able speech by
showing that the decline of Bristol, as a port, was pro-
duced by other causes than high charges, and that although
there were no charges at all at Birkenhead, vessels would
not go there. He declared it to be a breeches-pocket
question, and that the Ist of November must decide it.
Mr. JOHN SMITH, in moving the second resolution, ex-
pressed the opinion that the commerce of the port would
neither be increased nor decreased by a diffusion of the
pressure of the local rates. At present the pressure fell
on fewer shoulders than ought to bear it ; and it could
not be supposed that any disadvantage of a charge on dock
rates would not be compensated by the diminished charge
upon those who supplied ships and sailors with different
articles ; for, if those parties paid less rates, they could
work more cheaply. ( Hear, hear.) He advocated the
proposed charge on the ground that it would induce
economy, and diminish the expenditure in which our pub-
lic men indulged, because it afforded them the opportu-
nity of bestowing patronage and fortune, on favoured in-
dividuals, at the public cost. (Cheers.)
Mr. RICHARD JOHNSON seconded the motion.

Mr. WILLIAM MANN said, as a member of the Dock
Committee, he would not listen to an observation in the
report impugning the honesty of the deputation from the
Dock Corn nittee who were in parliament at the time Mr.
Ferguson with the parties with him came up. He ap-
pealed to that gentleman whether, when he came up, he
did not find the Chairman of the Dock Committee and the
deputation honestly endeav3uring to pass the clause giving
them power to pay the local taxes on the warehouses.
He (Mr. Mann) was always in favour of the warehouses
being taxed, and, as one of the deputation, he was
pressing honestly, and with all integrity, the passing of
that clause, and every endeavour was made to have that
clause passed by getting the standing orders suspended.
With regard to what had fallen from Mr. Dover as to the
filling of the committee room with secretaries and other
officers connected with the Do A( estate, the Dock Com-
mittee were not in parliament for the purpose of spending
the public Money. The Dock Committee were in parlia-
ment to protect the rights of the Dock Estate from those
on the other side, who tried to take away the rates, and
also to obtain additional dock space for the accommoda-
tion of a trade which was threatened to be taken away
from the town, if sufficient space had not been afforded to

it.
Mr. FERGUSON said that at the Easter Vestry an
attempt hal been made to foist on them a proviso. If
they had acceded in public Vestry, that proviso would
have been alopted ; but, finding the Vestry decidedly
opposed to the proviso then, he had no hesitation in saying
that the deputation to London from the Dock Com-
mittee proceeded vigorously to obtain the suspension of
the standing orders. If the Vestry had acquiesced in the
,
Proviso, they might depend VIVA it no oxtetions would