The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-03-07 00:00:00

On Monday week, Robert George Swann, a little boy,
living with his parents in Comus-street, pulled a pan of
Limself, by which he was severely scalded.

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The-Juvenile Charibble Society has relieved during the
past two months no fewer than 601 families. In each
case the parties were visited by the self denying honorary

iety_ prior to the relief beirig afforded.

Irket has been commenced at Lytham. The
krchitect is Mr. Charles Reed of Liverpool. The build-
ing will be in the Roman style, to accord with Lytham
Hall, close at hand, the seat of T. Clifton, Esq.
THE KNOTT MONUMENT.—Mr. Edward Davies, sculp-
tor, of Fitzroy-square, London, son of the late Dr. D.
.iest 1 Davies, Phy:-ician to the Duchess of Kent, and a native

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of Carmarthen, is the successful competitor for the statue
of General Knott, to be erected in this town.

The first application of self-acting water closets to cot-
tages, under the sanatory act, was introduced by Mr. Jo-
seph Spencer. architect, of Clayton-square, in some
buildings lately erected for Mr. John Lane, brewer, of
this town, in Cockspur-street, near Pownall-square.
FEMALE DEPRAVITY.—An inquest was held before
Mr, Curry, on Thursday. ou the body of an infant, still
born, whose mother, Ann Lynch, is only fifteen years old ;
she resides with her parents ( poor people) in Coiling-
wood-street. The girl delivered herself during the tem-

The screw steamer " Levantine," bound for Malta and
Constantinople, which sailed hence on Saturday week,
was dtiven on shore upon rocks near Wexford, on Sunday

1 of water, but her cargo will be saved
" was a fine vessel of 210 tons burthen

She was fu

Levantine

and the property of Messrs. Mongredien of this town.
CURE OF INFLUENZA.—A clerical friend, who resides
in the Wirral' district of Cheshire. informs us that after
ufferin; much from a lingering attack of influenza, he
'ect

ter, per

cure (as he thinks) from taking the following prescrip-
tion :—A tea spoonful (when the disease is most afflicting)
of a mixture composed of equal parts of spirit of nitre,
paraeoric, and syrup of squills.
SUDDEN DEATH OF JOSEPH RIDGWAY, ESQ.—A pain-
ful feeling was excited on Thursday on 'Change by the
announcement of the death of Mr. Joseph Ridgway, cot-
ton broker, Rumford-street. The deceased was in his
own office a few minutes before one o'clock, apparently in
good health and spirits, and was attending to a person who
was looking over samples of cotton. He retired to the
water closet, and

was discovered there in a few minutes
afterwards quite dead. His death was the result of san-

guineous apoplexy.
A REFLECTION.—The Liverpool Mercury and the
London Times are very like each other—particularly the

Mercury. The leading journal is remarkable for its
oneness; produced by many, a unity of tone nevertheless
pervades it, and the general combination results in an
exact uniformity. It is precisely the same with our local
contemporary—but with a difference. The Times is
brilliant—the Afercury is for ever dull ; it never deviates
into sense or brightness, eternal darkness rests upon its
columns, and the machine sympathisirrr with the machines
who write in it, prints it off in that kind of acid milk
which is endued with a strong affinity for lampblack. The
acorn contains a miniature oak, and in the natural history
of the Mercury the paragraph encloses the germ of the

leading article
thing reflects