The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-18 00:00:00

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'here is every prospect of a good

average

crop, and that

prices will rule comparatively low—good
news for this and other manufacturing counties—never-
theless, plenty of cotton and cheap money will do us no

guou in zne aosence or conndence and moderate credit,
without which business will soon come to a " stand still.".

On Sunday niCorning,lhe body of a newborn male child
is found in an entry at the back of the house No. 4
igh-street, Everton, wrapped in a bundl(

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IRKENHEAD

week, sermons, in aid of the schools connected with this
church, were preached by the Revds. Mr. Knox and Mr.
Fielding Ould, when the sum of sum of £2B. 2s. was

Dr. Whateley, Archbishop of Dublin, one of the acutest•
reasoners of the day, says in his " thoughts," that " it is

very doubtful, to say the least, whether the University of
Oxford can be said to have ever passed any legal, that is,
any real, censure on Dr. Hampden."
DISTRICT PROVIDENT SOCIETY.—We are happy to
observe, from the advertisement elsewhere, that this
valuable society, notwithstanding the pressure of the
times, continues to receive a large share of public sup-
port. Its usefulness during the recent immigration of
Irish into the town cannot and ought not to be forgotten.
THE WEATHER has, since our last, been very variable.
The frost disappeared in the early part of the last week,
and a milder, and sometimes almost vernal, temperature
prevailed. Saturday was fine and sunny, until the evening,
when there was a heavy and prolonged shower. Sunday
was peculiarly fine, and drew many parties abroad who
would otherwise have remained within doors. Early,
yesterday morning, heavy rain fell, and continued until
after daylight, when it became mingled with sleet and
snow, which continued at intervals up to last night. The
wet from above and the mud on the roads and streets
rendered the day one of the most uncomfortable we have
had this winter.

ACCIDENT AT THE NEW DOCKS.—Yesterday, an in-
quest was held before Mr. Curry, on view of the body of
James Mc. Quade. The deceased, _who was thirty-six
years of age, was a labourer, and employed at the new
North Docks. On Thursday afternoon, deceased was en-
gaged in wheeling a barrow, containing a stone of about
five hundred weight, along a balk, down into a hollow,
about nine to ten feet, when he lost his hold, and fell
from the balk down into the hollow., the stone falling
upon him. A. man went down immediately to his assist-
ance, and found his right leg nearly cut off by the stone.
He was taken to the Northern Hospital, when every at-
tention was paid to him ; but the fracture was a compound
one, of which he died yesterday morning.
ASSAULT AND ROBBERY.—Yesterday, at the police-
court, a fehiale, named Catharine Nolan, and four men,
Hart, Brannon, Dunlevie, and Murray, were charged by
a man, named John Roughton, with having, in a house
of ill-fame, in a court out of North-street, maltreated,
violently assaulted, and robbed him of 4s. 9d. in money,
and the greater part of his clothes, leaving him with
scarcely the means of appearing in the street to give an
alarm. Some police-officers were at length informed,
and the prisoners were apprehended. After a long hear-
ing of the case, the girl was sentenced to three months'
imprisonment, Murray to the same, and Dunlevie (on
whose person some of the clothes were found) to two
months, under the new act, which gives the magistrate a
discretionary power of summary punishment in some cases
of felony. •
THE MOUNTED POLICE IN THE SUBURBS.—We learn
from a correspondent that it is to the exertions of Mr.
Robert Neilson, of Halewood, that we are mainly in-
debted for the augmentation of the county force, by
which that arrangement was rendered still more com-
plete, and also for the additional and valuable protection
of this mounted patrol. As one of the county magis-
trates, Mr. Neilson moved a resolution, at the petty
sessions at Prescot, on Tuesday, for a temporary augmen-
tation of the county constabulary force—part of which
were to be mounted, and the whole placed under the
control of our efficient chief of police, Captain Wood-
ford. On Wednesday, Mr. Neilson carried that resolu-
tion to the general sessions at Preston, where, by his
judicious remarks and explanation, he succeeded in re-
moving the opposition that had been raised to a somewhat
similar resolution proposed by Mr. J. B. Yates. He then
arranged with Captain Woodford for a supply of men,
who had served in the Cavalry or Horse Artillery, bought
the horses and accoutrements, and the following morning
the men were mounted on duty, patrolling the whole
districts from Garston to Bootle, within six or seven miles
of Liverpool. The promptness with which this measure
has been executed will add much to the effect which may
be expected from the augmentation of such a force.
BATHS AND WASHHOUSES.—The inhabitants of Li-
verpool, and especially the lower classes, will regard with
pleasure the important concession which the indefatigable
member for St. Anne's Ward, Mr. Parker, has succeeded
in winning from the Health Committee. We refer to the
resolution of that Committee recommending the Council
to adopt the public Act for establishing baths and wash-
houses, and to raise a sum not exceeding £25,000, for the
purposes of the act, the Council paying the interest
annually, or such portion of it as is not covered by the
receipts of the baths and washhouses to be erected.
There has been no step taken hitherto by the authorities
so beneficial to the industrious working-classes, and so
conducive to the improvement of the health of the town, as
the erection of the existing baths ; and their perfect suc-
cess fully warrants the Council in erecting not one or two
additional in the town but, if possible, one in each Ward.
To the zealous exertions of Mr. Parker, we repeat, who
has taken from their opening a lively interest in the
management of these establishments, and has constantly
urged upon the Council an extension of their number,
the community are greatly indebted for the advantage
which they are about to reap, in the spread of personal
cleanliness and the improvement of the general health of
the locality, which will result from increasing bathing
facilities,