The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-04 00:00:00

Jan. 4,1848.

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The Rev. W. Pollock will preach on Sunday at Preston
for the Pastoral Aid Society.
The arrivals of Irish paupers at this port are falling off.
During the past week there were only about 400.
The pupils of Mr. J. Sorley, of Birkenhead, have pre-
sented that gentleman with an elegant and massive silver
snuff-box, as a mark of their affection and regard.
SPECIE.—The Britannia steam-ship brought £52,000;
the Ashburton £21,000;: and the ship Beraza, from Val:
paraiso, 210,000 dollars.
The Rev. Robert A. Vaughan has been appointed
minister to Newington chapel, Renshaw-street. The
.Rev. Robert Vaughan, D.D., President of the Lancashire
Independent College, is father of the young minister.
The suspension of Messrs. Cotesworth, Powell, and
Prior, of London, the senior partner in which is brother
to Mr. C. Cotesworth, of this town, does not affect in
any way the highly-respectable house of Cotesworth,
Wynne, and Lyne, of this town.
It will be seen by an advertisement in our paper to-day,
-that Mr. Walker, of the Lamb and Flag, Great Howard-
street, has, owing to the increase of shipping and dock
extension, greatly enlarged his premises ; and, to accom-
modate his nautical and other friends, has added to them
a well-supplied news-room.
The old-established firm of Ewart, Myers, and Co. has
been dissolved, in consequence of Mr. William Myers' re-
tirement from business, and the acceptance by Mr. John
Myers of the office of paid director of the Royal Bank.
The business of the firm will in future be carried on by the
remaining partner, Mr. Jacques Myers, under the firm of
Jacques Myers and Co.
LOSS OF A BARQUE AND CARGO IN DUBLIN BAY.—
The Molly Bawn, Robinson, 384 tons, the property of
Messrs. J. Poole and Co., of this port, sailed hence on
the 28th ult., with a full cargo of dry goods, for Valpa-
raiso. During the foggy weather of the following day,
she struck on the Kish Bank, near. Dublin Bay, and
afterwards put into Kingstown, where she sank in 24 feet
water. The crew were saved.
ANNIVERSARY DINNER.—A most sumptuous and ex-
cellent dinner was given last night at Mr. G. Latham's,
by Mr. Evans, of Post-office-place, on occasion of the
coming of age of his eldest son. The dinner was such as
did credit to the liberality of the donor and the skill of the
caterer. About 25 individuals partook of it, and when the
cloth was drawn, the usual toasts were given, and the
greatest conviviality prevailed throughout the evening.
FALL OF DOUSES.—About eight o'clock on Sunday
morning, two front houses, Nos. 67 and 69, New Bird-
street, (a street stretching from St. James's to Newhall-
street,) fell down, to the terror of the inhabitants. The
houses were untenanted, and fortunately no person sus-
tained the slightest injury. A Mrs. Booth and Mrs.
Crowe are the owners. On Wednesday Mr. Johnston, the
surveyor, gave notice that the houses were in a dangerous
state, and must be taken down within two days.
The Birkenhead Glee Club held their first anniversary
meeting on the evening of Wednesday last, the 29th of
December, on which occasion the members and their
friends, 34 in number partook of an excellent supper,
provided by Mr. Charles Smith, at the Park Hotel. Dr.
Gouthwaite occupied the chair; and Mr. Hughes, sur-
geon, the vice chair. The glees were admirably sung by
Messrs. Molineux, Robson, Graham, J. Stott, Howard,
Hornblower, and Alfred Graham. Several appropriate
toasts were given, and the evening passed off much to the
satisfaction of all present. We wish this musical society
all the encouragement and prosperity it so richly merits.
FISHER'S PUPILS.—Mr. Platt, treasurer to the Southern
Hospital, has just received from Mr. W. M. Fisher, the
worthy principal of Great George-street Academy, the
handsome sum of £lO 165., being the annual subscription
of the young gentlemen ducated in his establishment.
Our excellent friend, Mr. Fisher, is not only distinguished
for his scholarship and success in tuition, but for his
activity, energy, and zeal in the diffusion of true religion
and Christian philanthropy. The above subscription was
originated by the eloquent appeal of the Rev. Thomas
Nolan, in behalf of the hospital. That rev. gentleman
intends to address Mr. Fisher's pupils, when the academy,
re-opens, to thank them for their liberality, and to en-
sourage them in the praiseworthy undertaking.
VEGETABLE TALLOW.--A parcel of an article called
vegetable tallow has recently been imported into this
port by a vessel arrived from Shanghae, China, which
was declared for the duty by the importers as tallow, but
the officers of the revenue, considering the article to be
spermaceti, detained it as being chargeable with the ad
valorem duty of 25 per cent. levied by the tariff upon that
substance. It appears that this is the first importation
of the article into this port from the Chinese empire, al-
though it is well known in London, into which port it
has frequently been brought from China, as vegetable
tallow. There is a very considerable difference of duty
between the two articles, tallow and spermaceti • but we
believe it has been customary to permit the delivery of
such parcels as have been imported into the port of Lon-
don under the tallow duty.
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, PRINCE'S PARK.-The masonry
work of this beautiful church is now completed, with the
exception of the spire, which is to be one hundred and
eighty-five feet high from the base. The interior of the
church is being fitted up in a manner to combine both
comfort and elegance. We were struck with the beauty
and magnificence of the open-timbered roof, stained in
imitation of English dark oak, as well as with the large
and richly panelled and moulded arch, spanning the whole
breadth of the communion, and which has a very splendid
effect from the west end of the church. The communion
will be raised four steps from the ground floor, and will
accommodate forty communicants at a time. The en-
caustic tiles for the aisles will attract, we are satisfied,
universal admiration. It is confidently expected that the whole of the interior of the church will be completed by
the middle of January, and we are glad to find that for
some time past the church has been heated both by night
and by day, by an apparatus on a new principle so effec-
tually as to do away with the slightest risk of its not
being thoroughly dry. No doubt whatever is entertained
that the church will be ready for consecration by the end
of January; but we understand that it is proposed not to
open it for divine service until about the middle of
February.

CHRISTMAS BILLS.—Our contemporaries, in various
parts of the country, are endeavouring to impress upon
the public the importance of as prompt a discharge as
possible of the bills due at this season of the year to
tradesmen. We think it our duty to call attention to the
subject in our own locality. Even in years of commercial
prosperity it is of great consequence to tradesmen in
general that their Christmas bills should be paid with
punctuality, but at a time like the present, when the
trading community is suffering from the effects of one of
the most severe depressions that have ever been known,
a prompt settlement of accounts becomes of the most
serious consequence to those who are engaged in trade
—involving, in fact, in the cases of many, the question
whether they will be able to go on, or be obliged to bring
their concerns to a stand-still. Such being the state of
affairs, we beg to invite to the subject the kind and ear-
nest attention of those to whom it is no object whether
they discharge their accounts at once, or three months
hence, reminding them that it is an object—peculiarly so
at the present moment—to the trading classes. Let us
and that it is not merely a local good which is effected by
a ready payment of tradesmen's bills. The tradesman
wants his money to pay those—living in various parts of
the country—who supply him with goods, and thus not
only is the local shopkeeper relieved, by being able to
meet the demands upon him, but the money goes into ge-
neral circulation, producing general prosperity which is
felt in the most remote part of the body politic. We en-
tertain no doubt that these considerations have only to be
laid before the " well-to-do classes" in order to produce the
desired and really important result.
MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.—An inquest was held on
Wednesday, before the borough coroner, upon the body
of John Crawford. aged 22, the son of the Rev. Prince
Crawford, of this town, who put an end to his existence
on Tuesday night, by swallowing poison. By the evi-
dence of Mrs. Clara Seymour, a widow, who keeps a beer-
house in Vine-street, it appeared that the deceased had
been a pretty constant visitor at the house for the past
three weeks. He was there the whole of Sunday and
Monday, and slept there both nights, and on Tuesday
afternoon he went out for about a quarter of an hour.
Ile afterwards sat and enjoyed himself with the rest of
the company in the house, and at eleven o'clock was
again apparently going to bed, but requested witness not
to let a person named Freeman stop in the house all
night, should he happen to come and inquire for him.
Deceased gave no reason, but afterwards said that he had
overdrawn his account at the office, and that he had no
money, and his friends had refused to assist him ; he
•therefore could not pay witness what he owed her. De-
ceased then drew something from his pocket and put it to
his mouth, and afterwards threw a bottle on the floor, and
said he had taken poison. He then laid hold of witness
to prevent her going for a surgeon, but she got away in
about five minutes and fetched Mr. Thomas Slater.
'When that gentleman saw the deceased, about half-past
twelve o'clock, he was lying on his back, quite insensible,
and died at one. She did not know where deceased lived.
Mr. Slater stated he was satisfied deceased came by his
death by swallowing laudanum. The mother and sister
of deceased stated that he had been rather low-spirited
and a good deal absent from home the last few weeks. At
times he was very much excited, and had even on one
occasion threatened to take the life of his sister, to whom
he had always previously behaved very affectionately.
MELTON MOWBRAY PIES.—It will be seen by an ad-
vertisement in our columns to-day, that Mr. Wilkinson,
of Clayton- square, is now receiving a daily supply of the
celebrated pork pies made by Adcock of Melton Mow-
bray. They are quite unlike the usual greasy representa-
tions generally made in this vicinity.
Bradshaw's Railway Almanac is a most useful publi-
cation. It is embellished with an accurate map of Great
Britain, with all the lines of railway, and contains lists of
the directors, together with the engineers, secretaries,
and principal officers of all the railways in the kingdom.
There is also a mass of other statistical information
which we think indispensable to parties about to invest in
railways.
MRS. THOMPSON'S SYSTEM OF TEACHING WRITING.
—Mrs. Thompson's system of imparting a graceful and
flowing hand has now stood the test for nearly twenty
years, and a glance at the books of any of his pupils will show how rapid is the improvement he effects.—Mr. T.
as well as Mrs. T's academies are fitted for the reception
of private pupils, who, in a few hours tuition, may avert
those feelings which generally accompany bad writing.
SCROFULOUS SORES OF TEN YEARS' STANDING CURED
EY HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS.—Mr. C. Brook,
residing at Standishall, Suffolk, had the whole of his
breast in one frightful mass of scrofulous sores and ulcers,
besides similar large ulcers on the hip. He had been thus
afflicted for ten years, and under the treatment of the
greatest surgeons in the country, and was for a consider-
able time at the Worcester Infirmary without receiving
the least benefit. He, however, is another of the many
who have been cured after every other means had failed.
These celebrated medicines are equally efficacious in all
eases of gout and rheumatism, or contracted or stiff joints