The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-01 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

LOCAL AND PROVINCIAL NEWS.

We have received per Lieut. Parsons, R.N., friim Sir
Compton Domville, Bart., one pound for the sufferers by
the loss of the Parana.
DEPARTURE OF FANNY ELLSLER.—OR Saturday
morning, Mademoiselle Fanny Ellsler left the Adelphi
Hotel for London.
On Friday last, a man, named Daniel Roderick, was
committed for trial for having stolen eight pounds of cot-
ton from a bale belonging to Messrs. Brown, Shipley,
and Co.

PUBLIC WALKS.—Amongst the contributors to the
public walks, &c., at Manchester, occur the proprietors
of the Illustrated .News for £lO 10s. ; and the Phoenix
Fire-office Company for £2OO.

CAUTION TO PROFANERS.—On Wednesday, Thomas
and William Dugdale were severally fined, including costs,
9s. 6d., for using profane and indecent language, on Sun-
day week, on George's pierhead.

SUDDEN DEATH.—On Friday, between five and six
o'clock, a ship-keeper, named Christopher Medcalf, sud-
denly tell down on the footway in Robert•street North,
and expired without speaking a word.

INCREASE OF POPERY.—The Roman Catholics have
purchased All Saints' Church (known as Bannister's
Church) in this town, for £2700; and it is said that it
will be opened on the Ist of November, under the minis.
try of the Rev. J. J. Murphy.

" EVERY LITTLE MAKES A MICKLE."—A meeting of
the members of the Blackburn Philanthropic Burial
Society was held on Monday evening week, when the
report was read, from which we extract the following
particulars—that from a halfpenny per week collected
from each member the society possessed a surplus capital
of upwards of £2,264, the number of members being more
than 24,000.
PUBLICANS AND BEERSELLERS FINED ON FRIDAY.—
James Bolton, beerseller, Smithdown-lane, acquitted ;
William Jones, beerseller, Wolfe-street. Toxteth.p ,rk,
80s. and costs ; John B iiley, beerseller, Blair-street, 40s.
and costs Martin Buz,geln, publican, Ray-street, for
harbouring a police-officer on duty, 50s. and costs;
Thomas Fisher, public tn, Emma Ann-street, 50s. and
costs ; Thomas Jackson, beerseller, Clement-street,
acquitted, with a caution.
MURDEROUS ASSAULT BY A PAUPER.—OnWednes-
day morning last, as Thomas Leads, a pauper in the
Workhouse, was finishing his breakfast, in the day-room,
James NA inters, another pauper, came behind him, and,
with the handle of a maul, three quarters of a yard long,
and three inches in circumference, struck him severe
blows on the back and head, inflicted two contused wounds
on the right temporal bone, and caused much swelling of
the parts. Leads bled much, and in consequence became
considerably enfeebled. Vomiting ensued, and continued
for about ha'f an hoar, leaving the patient much in danger.
Winters was brought before Mr. Rushton the same morn-
ing, and in his defence said that Leads had kicked him
the day before. It appeared afterwards that [there had
been a fight on Tuesday, after dinner, and that Leads had
interfered to put an end to the disturbance. Mr. Rushton
said this was a serious case, and Mr. Robinson, who
attended on behalf of the parish authorities, said " If the
assault turns out more serious." Mr. Rushton : Yes, let
him be remanded to gaol to await the result, of the as-
sault.—The prisoner has been several times in custody for
assaults and worse offences.
OPENING OF THE ALBERT BRIDGE, SALFORD.—This
bridge was opened to the public on Thursday, a little after
one' o'clock. The company were regaled with biscuits,
wine, and lemonade. W. Gal nett, Esq. ; the Mayors,
and the late borough-reeves of Manchester and Salford,
and Joseph Brotherton, Esq., M.P., each addressed the
assembly. Mr. Garnett observed that he was glad the
Committee had had the services of so valuable an assistant
as the chairman of the Preston sessions. T. B. Addison,
Esq., who was loudly called for, said the opening of the
bridge reminded him that this was the birth day of a very
old inhabitant of Manchester—Mr. Fleming, who had
now attained his 76th year. Few improvements had taken
place in which Mr. Fleming had taken greater interest,
than in the construction of the Albert Bridge. Mr. Ad-
dison then alluded to a contract which was entered into
on the 7th June, 1783, to the following effect :—" that we
Charles Jones and Jesse Broad, of Manchester, masons,
Samuel Banner, of Moore, in the county of Chester, yeo-
man, and Henry Byrom, of the same place, maltster, are
held and firmly bound unto Thomas Butterworth Bayley.
Esq., of Elope, in the county of Lancaster, (formerly
chairman of Salford sessions) for the erection of the New
Bailey Bridge, in the sum of £1,500." The erection of
the Albert Bridge will cost upwards of £9,000.
COMMISSIONERS OF HIGHWAYS.—Tbe usual weekly
meeting of this body was held on Thursday, James Aspi-
nall, Esq., in the chair. The barricade in front of
Messrs. Jeffrey and Morrish's premises in Basnett-street,
was again brought before the meeting, and the secretary
was directed to write to them to take it down on or before
Monday, (yesterday.) A letter was read, and deferred,
complaining of a nuisance in Greenland-street, proceeding
from the turpentine works belonging to Messrs. Platt.
The Chairman stated that there was a great nuisance ex-
istieg in Dawson-street, Williamson-square, in conse-
quence of there not being any sewer th, re to drain the
premises. All the houses were flooded in a most dis-
graceful way, and the dirt and water were carriAl smack
in to the cellars belonging to Mr. Ward, and the other re-
sid eats in the square. Mr Gore, the landlord, was ready
to make drains, but there was no use in his doing so un-
til the sewer had been first erected. It was understood
that Mr. Weightman's attention woul d be immediately
called to the subject. The Licensed V ictuallers' Society
prayed that the lighting, paving, and sewerage rates on
their establishment in St. Anne-street, be remitted, as
the object of the Institution was one of a charitable na-
ture. The application was referred to the Commissio-
ners of the district, with the understanding that it would
be allowed ; and the board shortly after adjourned.
SUICIDE.—On Thursday, an inquest was held on the
body of Catharine Nary, a woman 64 years of age. The
deceased formerly resided with her sister and niece in a
cellar in Mersey-street. On Wednesday night the niece
slept from home, leaving the deceased and her sister in
the cellar. In the morning she was told by the sister of
the deceased that she (deceased) was dead in her room,
the door of which was found to be locked on the inside.
On breaking open the door the deceased was found sus-
pended by the neck by a cord, from a nail in the vval,
quite lifeless, but the dody still warm. The deceased was
a woman of intemperate habits, and bad been drinking for
several weeks previous. Immediately after the body was
found the sister of deceased left the cellar, and was found
some hours afterwards in Langan's public house, waiting
for the packet to proceed to Newry, and when brought
before the Coroner appeared to be labouring under the
influence of liquor. Her yr rsir nof the matter was, that
the sister had hanged herself during her temporary absence
from the cellar ; and that she (deceased) had proposed, on
the previous night, that they should both hang themselves,
and said whether or not she would terminate:her
put
tistt-o
tance. In giving her evidence, the witness so much
equivocated, and evaded answering the questions
her, that the Coroner threatened to commit her to Kirk-
dale. The verdict returned was, that the deceased had
been suffocated by hanging, but how suspended, there
was no evidence to show.

TESTIMONIAL TO MR. EDWARD FLOWER.—On Thurs-
day evening, a number of young men, connected with the
Association of Tradesmen's Assistants, assembled at Mr.
Ford's the King's Arms, St. John's-lane, to partake of
supper, and to present a testimonial of esteem to Mr.
Edward Flower, for his long and valuable services in the
cause of early shoe-closing. About fifty gentlemen were
present, Mr. W. B. Jones, chairman; Mr. Thomas My-
rams, vice. The supper was excellent, and well served.
After the usual loyal toasts, the chairman spoke of the
progress the cause had made, and called on Mr. Jackson
to present the testimonial. Mr. Jackson referred in
glowing terms to the services of Mr. Flower, to whom
they were mainly indebted for the success they had met
with, and to whom they would still look for advice and
support. He then handed to Mr. Flower a handsome
purse containing fifty-five guineas, as a small token of the
esteem entertained for him by the assistants. Mr. Flower
replied in feeling and adequate terms. The kindness
shown him vvas:beyond what he deserved, or ever expected.
He had laboured to a considerable extent, but others had
done much also. They had made such progress in the
cause, that he trusted their wishes would yet be more
fully realized. He concluded by saying that he never felt
more overpowered on any occasion. He accepted the
testimonial as a pledge of their friendship and confidence,
and .hoped they would long continue to act together as
they had done in their exertions for carrying out the ob-
ject they sought to accomplish. Mr. Flower then pro-
posed the health of the chairman,
whom lie complimented
in high terms for his zeal and assiduity in the cause they
had so much at heart. He (the chairman) had worked
day and night, and had also made great sacrifices ;—he
had, in fact, acted in a tanner which did him infinite
credit, and had been one of the first members of the
Association. The chairman briefly replied. After some
further speeches and sentiments had been given and re-
sponded to, the meeting separated, highly pleased with
the proceedings and enjoyments of the evening.

THE PoLKA.—" What is the Polka ?" We have heard
asked a thousand times within the last few months ; and
very few to whom it was addressed have been able to
answer it. All may now find an answer in Mr. C. Mitch-
ell's new edition of "The Guide to the Ball-room." To
that before popular work, the enterprising publisher has
added an " ILLUSTRATED POLKA LESSON-
BOOK," in which we find the best account of the dance
we have met with, and a complete code of instruction for
dancing it, the different positions being shown by well ex-
ecuted engravings. So necessary an accomplishment has
dancing the Polka become, that we may anticipate every
attendant of the Ball-room will find Mr. C. Mitchell's
" Guide " indispensable. The Polka was originally a
War-dance. " Polk" or " Pulk," we are told, in a well
written account of the origin of the Polka, prefixed to the
" Lesson-book," is the name of a regiment of Cossacks,
and is an old Scythian word, originally applied to a tribe.
It therefore, included both the male and the female mem-
bers of a nomadic horde. This derivation accounts there-
fore for those remarkable features of the Polka, which
distinguish it from every other dance. The spurs, the
tapping of the ground with the heel, flourishing a battle-
axe in the air, and other gestures of a warlike nature, are
all the accompaniments of the Polka, when danced by the
Seivians, among whom it was first observed: though,
subsequently, inquiries have found it equally practised in
Hungary and Bohemia. It is also danced in Russia, and
all parts of Germany ; and by its introduction in the
Ball-room, having been divested of. its ruder and more
boisterous characteristics, but retaining all its original
spit it, activity, variety, and grace, no wonder that it bas
become poptlar. It has every prospect of maintaining
that popularity, and we recommend " The Guide" to all
our readers who wish to learn it. The work forms a per-
fect compendium of the Etiquette of Dancing, with the
Figures of all the Quadrilles, Gallopades, Mszourkas,
Polonsises, Polkas, &c. &c.