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

THE BAZAAR AT SEACOMBE

We have much pleasure in directing attention to an
announcement in our advertising columns, of the bazaar
to be held to-morrow and on the two days following, in
aid of the fund for completing the Church of St. Paul,
Seacombe. Most of our readers are familiar with the
attractions of the grounds of the hotel ; and a more agree-
able locality could not have been selected, within a conve-
nient distance from Liverpool, by the promoters of this
praiseworthy object. We are enabled to state that the
contributions of articles of taste comprise an assemblage
of unusual elegance, as well as of considerable extent.
In addition to other attractions.the influence of the patron-
esses has secured the assistance of the highly celebrated
band of the 81st, as well as that of the well known 46th
regiments; and, yet further to enlarge the circle of enjoy-
ment for the gratification:of every refined sense, a camera
obscura of superior construction will be placed in the
grounds, affording a panoramic view of Liverpool, with
the docks and shipping of the surrounding country. It is
seldom, indeed, that any occasion occurs in which so many
sources of pure and varied enjoyment all combine, to
assist in the accomplishment of a work of Christian
beneficence.

FEARFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Saturday night
the express train from this town for London, when near
to Bescott station, ran off the line, dragging the tender
and van against an embankment, and forcing the carriages
against some telegraph and other posts. Several of the
passengers crept out of the carriages ; but before they
could all do so, a pilot engine, sent of to ascertain the
cause of the delay, ran into the train and smashed several
of the carriages to pieces. Mr. H. Stuart, an architect,
had his left leg broken, and was otherwise seriously in-
jured. The stoker and driver were also hurt.
PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.—As one of the omnibuses
from the Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railway, which
brought passengers from Waterloo, who had left South-
port by the half-past seven train yesterday morning was
turning the corner of Oldhall-street into Tithebarn-street,
one of the hind wheels suddenly gave way, falling to pieces,
and the omnibus being suddenly thrown down on the
corner from whence the wheel had disappeared, several of
the passengers were unceremoniously ejected from the
roof, but we are happy to state suffered no great amount
of personal injury.
SHOCKING CAR ACCIDENT.—About five o'clock yester-
day afternoon, a respectably dressed man was knocked
down by a car opposite St. Peter's Church. The wheels
passed over the unfortunate man's head, who was carried
into Mr. Rawle's, chemist, where it was ascertained that
his injuries were serious, probably concussion of the brain.
The driver, as soon as the accident occurred, instead of
stopping to render assistance, drove towards Lord-street
at full speed, evidently with the intention ot getting off;
he was, however, pursued by several persons who wit-
nessed the accident, and overtaken near Mr. Gillham's
shop. A policeman mounted the box, and compelled the
driver to return to the scene of the casualty. The poor
man was brought out, apparently expiring, and placed in-
side the car, supported by one or two persons, and in this
way taken to the Northern Hospital.
DEATH BY BURNING.—On Friday Elizabeth Chadwick
aged 18 months, and who lived with her parents, No. 50,
Wolff-street, Toxteth-park, happened to put a coffee-pan
on the fire, which was not observed by the mother who
was in the room. In a short time, by some accident, it
fell upon her, and she was so much scalded, that she died
on Saturday.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—In May last, while two men
amongst others, were working in the railway tunnel, under
Bispham-street, a quantity of clay fell upon them from the
top. One of them was killed upon the spot. Another,
named Hugh Hulmes, had both his legs broken, and was
conveyed to the infirmary, where he died from the injuries
on Saturday.
BADGE PORTERS ON THE RAILWAY. Yesterday a
boy was brought before Mr. Rushton by a police-officer,
charged with having been found about the railway station.
The boy, against whom there was nothing known, said he
had before earned an honest few pence by carrying pas-
sengers trunks, &c., and did not think he was doing
wrong. An Inspector said there was an order on the
books requiring the officers to apprehend all parties there
seeking work who had not a badge. Mr. Rushton ap-
peared to be astonished to know who had issued, or had
authority to issue such an order. He ordered the circum-
stance to be enquired into, and said the officers had better
be careful how they apprehended parties on such a plea,
and discharged the ASSUMED delinquent.
COMMITMENTS YESTERDAY, BEFORE MR. RUSHTON.
—Thomas Jones, (trial at the Sessions,) on a charge of
entering the house of Mr. Wm. Rawcliffe, Clarence
Grove, at 7 o'clock on Sunday evening, and stealing
therefrom a silver salt-spoon and other articles. When
pursued, he dropped a skeleton key in Richmond-row,
with wards at each end, and another was found in his pos-
session. The double key opened the front door of the
house, by being applied at one end, and the back door by
the other. A man named Stamper Greenall, who was
found on board of a vessel in one of the docks, was com-
mitted for a month to the House of Correction. Two
youths, for picking pockets of handkerchiefs in the camp
field, Everton, on Sunday, were committed for two months.
THEFT FROM A SHOP,—Yesterday, at the police-court,
Mary Jones, and Eliza Barry (each with an infant in her
arms), were charged with a robbery in the shop of Messrs.
Adamson and Tapley, drapers, &c., Oldhall-street. It
appeared from the evidence of Mr. rades, an assistant,
and others, that they had, on Saturday night, both gone
into the shop together, and asked to see some ribbon,
blond quilting, &c., none of which suited them. Mr.
Blades observed Jones endeavour to conceal a piece of
ribbon, 18 yards long, and worth five shillings, in her
breast, and stopped her. The other (Barry) went away,
but was pursued by Mr. Brades, and some of the blond
quilting was found upon her. They were both committed
for trial.

THE NEW ORLEANS SERENADERS.—Mr. 11. T. Collins,
who is well known to a Liverpool public, takes his benefit
to-morrow evening. The whole corps leave for the new
world on Saturday next, where, if the return is hailed with
the sincerity that their absence from England will be
lamented, we may prognosticate for them the climax of
eclat.

ROBERT HOUDIN THE CONJUROR.—This extraordinary
man who is at pr?sent exhibiting at Manchester, will, we
understand, shortly pay a visit to this town. His perfor-
mances have created the greatest astonishment in that
city. The Examiner in noticing him says, " They can
promise that those who are not over timid, who visit M.
Houdin, will not only come away unscathed, but infinitely
delighted, and loaded with bonbons, bouquets, fans, and
other proofs of his kindness. But no one can be aston-
ished at his kindness,—no one can be astonished at his
generosity, when they see that he manufactures all the
articles out of nothing—give him an empty handkerchief;
he has but to breathe upon it, and lo ! it is filled with
sweetmeats that would tempt the most delicate palate ;
another and it conceals an entire nursery, from which
innumerable nosegays are showered upon the audience ;
another, and with the skill of an experienced fisherman
he pulls from its folds a capital basin full of gold and
silver fish. Give him a hat, and, with a single touch of
his magic wand, the crown will yield a prolific crop of
fans •, and in fact give him nothing, and he will make
anything out of it. We should be exceedingly glad if
we could tell our readers how it is that he destroys the
specific gravity of his son's body by an infusion of ether,
and in direct violence of the old Newtonian theory, actu-
ally floats him in atmospheric air ; or account for the
übiquity of Emile Houdin, who, by the snap of a pistol,
is sent from one side of the stage to another in "no
time ;" or state how , upon opening a ponderous diction-
ary at the word " canary," he can produce from its leaves
a beautifully feathered lively bird ; or describe his magic
bottle and inexhaustible portfolio." The Guardian says
that the " aerial suspension sets at defiance all pre-
accepted theories of gravitation, the centre of gravity being
here far outside the base of the sustaining rod. Our own
theory is, that the " concentrated ether," which the child
manifestly takes and becomes affected by, is a nostrum
whereby specific gravity is abstracted, so that the little
fellow acquires levity equal to that of the air in which he
is suspended ;—that he might be held by a hair—balanced
on a straw, or puffed from one end of the stage to the
other by a mere breath ;—he becomes a mere soap bubble."