The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-01-23 00:00:00

DIED.

On the 12th ultimo, Mr. JICO. BAILEY, aged 39 years, Belle-
street, much respected.

On the 16th ultimo, at his brother's residence, School-bank,
Llanrwst, Mr. G. H. DAVIES, of Burlington-street, in this
town, aged 55, second son of the Rev. T. Davies, late Rector,
Llandderfel, Mer;onethshire.
On the 7th instant, at Whixall, the Rev. JOHN MURRAY,
incumbent of that chapelry, and one of the acting magistrates
for Salop.
On the 11th instant. at Hulme, Manchester, greatly respected
by a large circle of friends, aged 66 years. Mr. RICHARD
JOHNSTON. In early life he was a sergeant.major in the
Royal Carbineers, and for the last eighteen years collector of
parish rates and assessed taxes of the above named parish.
On the I .th instant, aged 51 years, Mr. WILLIAM HARVEY,
during nearly forty years of which he was in the employ of the
proprietors of the -Bristol Journal, whom he served with ex-
emplary fidelity and attachment.
On the 14th instant, aged 39 years, Mr. DAVID FEARN,
music teacher, I, Juvenal-place, Cazneau-street.
Same day, Mr. THOMAS PENKETII, iron founder, War-
rington.
Same day, after a lingering illness, aged 64 years, ANNE,
wife
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engineer.
Same day, ANN, only dnughter of WILLIAM SUDLOW,
Ganges-street, Woodside.

On the 15th instant, aged four and a half months, LOUISA,
the only child of Captain JAMES KILLEY, Crown-street.
Same day, aged 10 months, M \RY DEBORAH, only daughter
of Captain JORDAN, of the brigantine Argyle.
Same nay, at his father's residence, Upper Pitt-street, Capt.
JAMES MURRAY, of this town, late of the brig Rapid, much
regretted.

On the 15th instant, in Alfred-street, in the gth year of his
age, EDWIN, son of JOHN JACKSON, of the firm of William
Jackson and Son, carriers.

Same day, aged s years, ELIZABETH lInWIE, youngest
daugnter of Mr. WILLIAM LYON. coach-painter.
Same day, aged 6 years, JAMES KNAPPER, son of JAMES
WENSLEY, Gloncester-place, Low-hill.
On the 16th instant, at Woodbine-housc, Haverstock MB.
aged 68, years, RICHARD BUDD, Esq., of the Stock Exchange,
London.

Same day, aged 77, MARIA, the beloved wife of Mr. JONA-
THAN FOX, Mount Vernon, deeply regretted by her family
friends.

Onthe 17th instant, in Priory-street, Everton, In her 74th
year, MARY, relict of WILLIAM PERRY, Esq.
Same day, at her residence, New Ferry, Cheshire, Miss ANN
PEARSON, aged 60 years.
Same day, aged 60 years, Mr. JOHN LYNCH.
Same day, at his residence, Hornby-street North, aged 32,
Mr. CHARLES GEORGESON, deeply regretted.
Same day, after a long and painful illness, aged 50 years,
ELIZABETH, wife of Mr. GEORGE JONES, Duckinfield-
street, deeply regretted by her family and friends.
On the 18th instant, at Wavertrec. aged 48 years, ELIZA-
BETH, daughter of the late Mr. D. CLAIRE, of this town.
Same day, aged 12 months, JAMES YATES, youngest aon
of Mr. JOHN CHESWORTH.
Same day, of consumption, aged 27, WILLIAM SMITH,
puplican.

On the 19th instant, aged 55 years, Mr. HENRY BATTERSBY,
of Hindley, near Wigan.

Same day, aged 35 years, HANNAH, wife of JOHN STUB.
LEY, watch and clock maker, Tithebarn street. She wns an
affectionate wife and sincere friend, and is deeply lamented by
her relations and friends.

On the 20th instant, MARY, wife of Mr. T. KIRK, of Kirk-
dale, and daughter of Mr. D. Smith, Scotland-road.
Same day, at h,s residence. Aigburth, after a short illness,
GERARD POTTER, Esq., M.D., in his 31st year.
On the 21st instant, at 18, Clarence-street, Everton, Mrs.
GRACE HAMILTON, relict of ARCHIBALD BROWN, Esq.,
Glargow.

Same day, at his residence, Hill-house. West Kirby, Cheshire,
in his 29th year, Mr. ROBERT BANISTER, only son of the
late Rev. Robert Banister, minister of All Saint's Church, in
this town:

THE COMMERCIAL GREATNESS OF ENGLAND..—III
consequence of the extension of our possessions in the
East Indies, and the opening of the various ports in the
Chinese Seas, a very large supply of shipping, for the
export of various commodities has been advertised to be
ready to start for their respective foreign ports in the course
of the ensuing month. The number of ships announced
to leave the various docks adjoining the river Thames and
Gravesend, for Madras, Calcutta, Bombay, Australia,
China, Hong-Kong, and other parts of the east, amounts
to above 60, whose tonnage varies, each vessel from 300 to
1000 and upwards. Of these, oue firm, whose establish-
ment is at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, furnishes nine vessels
(five of them being above 1,000 tons each, and which col-
lectively amount to 7,150 tons). Another firm in Loudon
sends out five ships (of these three carry above 1,000 tons,
and the five collectively 4,850 tons).
THE BIRTH OF THE PRINCESS VICTORIA.—That was
a bright day to the illustrious parents of our young and
beloved monarch when her birth was announced to a wait-
ing and anxious nation. The duke wept for joy, and the
fact that the infant was a daughter, and not a son, did not
appear in the least to diminish from the general rejoicing.
The country appeared to be relieved by the event from a
considerable pressure of anxiety, for Prince George of
Cumberland was not born till three days afterwards, and
Prince George of Cambridge was the then only issue of the
royal marriages of 1818. The convalescence of the Duchess
of Kent was rapid, the beauty and symmetry of the infant
princess were spoken of with great admiration by all who
surrounded her person, and the duke her father attended
the drawing-room of the Prince Regent in July, dined with
his royal brother on the next day, and received the most
sincere congratulations. On that occasion the Prince Re-
gent threw off all reserve, spoke with much feeling and
brotherly affection of the prospects of the Duke of Sussex,
and, with that sort of instinctive knowledge he seemed to
possess on some subjects, predicted that his niece Victoria
would one day ascend the throne of her ancestors.—Fra-
ser's Mayazine.

THE ADVANTAGES OF LIVING IN LONDON.—lmagine
a populous nation—say a million and a half cf human
beings ; suppose them scattered over a territory as large
as Scotland ; let the conveniences, and wants, physical
and intellectual, be confined mainly to the cities and towns,
to the rural seats of the nobility and gentry ; let it be
necessary that you should be continually sending to Edin-
burgh or Glasgow for whatever you require beyond the
mere sustenance of animal life, and that you should
repair thither at great fatigue, expense, and loss of time
for medical aid, education, recreation, intellectual con-
verse, and refined enjoyment. On the other hand, sup-
pose this diffused population concentrated in a space of
thirty miles square, upon the banks of a fine river.
Imagine all the cities, towns, villages, and hamlets hud-
dled together into one mighty mass ; its wealth, fashion,
and splendour, figuring away at the outskirts, and its
squalidity, hunger, misery and rags, skulking in lanes
and alleys in the middle. Picture to yourself all the
conveniences, and acquirements, and refinements of a
rational creature, and everything in addition that makes
the paradise of fools, contained within a magic circle,
whose diameter is represented by a sixpenny drive in an
omnibus ; imagine everything you can possibly want, or
money can purchase, to be had next door but two. or over
the way, or first shop round the corner; imagine every
necessary and luxury of life adapted to every pocket, ao
that the ambassador and artizan, the labourer and the
lord, may partake at different rates of the same enjoy-
ment, and you have some idea of the advantages of living
in London. You enjoy in London security to a high
degree ; you are protected not merely by the proximity
of multitudes on all sides, but you are secured still fur-
ther by the systematic surveillance of the authorities,
and the ready submission accorded to the officers of the
law. This, it is true, you enjoy in all great cities, more
or less ; but, perhaps, nowhere is the submission to law
more complete than here; nowhere are offenders against
' person or property more easily secured and punished.
For you, are miles of street brilliantly lighted, so that
, you can pursue in safety the midnight way ; for you,
thousands of vehicles fly from one corner of the far ex-
tending town, emulous to convey you from one end of
London to another for sixpence ; for you, the shops dis-
play profusely their most costly and expensive wares; for
your amusement and instruction, talent of every kind is
imported from every clime ; for you, Savoyards grind
music in the streets, and Italians at the Opera; for yon
Englishmen, Irishmen, and Scotehmen, conduct maga-
zines and reviews, and pen articles in the newspapers ;
you get the fruits of the labours of hundreds, at your own
home, or if yon are borneles, seated in your coffoe-house,
over a three-halfpenny cup of tea, and a pennyworth 0
bread and butter.—Bentley's illintilway.