The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-01-16 00:00:00

LOCAL IVEII S.

The Liverpool barque Cambridge was totally destroyed
by fire at Pivmouth, on Sunday evening week, while on
the Patent Shp belonging to Mr. Gent, 'feats-hill, at that
place. It is supposed to have orieinated in the careless-
ness of one of the boys on board.

PRESENTATION.—The passengers by the packet-ship
Liverpool, on the third voyage from New York, pre-
sented to Captain Eldbridge, at a splendid dinner given
to him, at the Waterloo Hotel, on Friday last, a piece of
plate and a gratifying letter.
ACCIDENT AT BIRKENHEAD•—On Tuesday evening,
Mr. Francis, att,rney, Rhile in the act of stepping out of
the packet, at Birkenhead slip, for the purpose of pro-
ceeding home, accidentally fell into the river, but was
providentially rescued from his perilous situation before
many seconds had elapsed.
CHESTER ASSIZES.—We are informed that Mr. Lowe,
the attorney for the prosecution of the Mormonites at
these assizes, to whom the J uoge in the first instance re-
fused costs on account of his absence when the case came
on, has since shown to his lordship that that absence was
purely accidental, and not blameable, and the costs have
been allowed.

ASSAULT UPON A POLICE-CONSTABLE.—A young man,
of very gentlemanly exterior, named William Higgins,
who had been bAed out of bridewell, was charged before
intoxi-
cated, committed a very serious assault upon Police-
sbmMhraairpnn.sc:Rhomuolsafrh::trijoaaindi., on Saturday, with having, whilst
constable 98, by which the arm of the unfortunate man
was supposed to have been dislocated. Mr. Rushton
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remained unsold Ist Jan. 1842, 98; and on Ist Jan. 1843,
95. The number sold in 1843 was 107, viz., British 51,
Quebec 10, New Brunswick 46; and there remained un-
sold on the Ist Jan. this year, 58, viz., British 29, Quebec
6, New Brunswick 23. The depreciation on British ships
is 20 per cent., and on New Brunswick ships 25 per cent.
THE Oa
nnFriday tocl, Exchanges
week,
a meeting
ofmembersocx E
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was held in one of the large rooms in the Royal Bank-
buildings, for the purpose of forming one united body.
Mr. John Hall occupied the chair, and Mr. Sarni. Woods,
jun., acted as secretary pro tem. A new code of laws
theSTOCK
and regulations, drawn up by a deputation from both the
associations, was adopted as the rules and regulations of
the united bodies. Mr. Owen Tudor was appointed se-
cretary to the association, Mr. John Hall chairman, and
Mr. John Middleton vice-chairman.
THE GUARDIAN GAS COMPANY.—We refer our
readers to the further prospectus of the Guardian Gas
Company, which appears in cur columns of to-day. By
this spirited undertaking the public will have conferred
upon them some of the highest advantages of a whole-
some csametition, which advantages they have hitherto
been deprived of. It also appears very certain, that the
company will realise a very handsome profit, and that the
shares of the concern will become capital stock. The
Sheffield Company, at this moment, charges only 4s. 2d.
per thousand feet for gas, while the price, in this town,
notwithstanding the great reductions that have been en-
forced, is 7s. per thousand feet,
REPRIEVE OF ANN M'CosaMlcK.—The sentence of
death passed on this unhappy woman, who was convicted
at the late special commission before Mr. Justice Wight-
man, of the murder of Rosannah M'Cormick, her infant
child, by administering arsenic to her, has been commuted
to transportation for lite. The reprieve was received at
Kirkdale on Wednesday, but before its arrival the cul-
prit had made a confession of her guilt to the chaplain.
She acknowedged that she had given the child the poison,
adding that she took as much arsenic herself as she be-
lieved would have destroyed her own life. The fact men-
tioned in the latter part of her statement will, no doubt,
account for her present enfeebled and sickly condition.
LIVERPOOL CUSTOMS.—The customs return for Liver-
pool shows that in 1542 the customs revenue of the port
was 3,904,3791. ; in 1843 it was 4,121,6471.; showing an
increase, on that year alone, of 217,2671. ; and this, it
will be remembered, was during a season when so great
stagnation prevailed in the imports, owing to the doubts
and uncertainty as to the then new tariff. It is still more
satisfactory to find that 1843 shows almost an equality of
aggregate revenue with 1841, in which year the receipt
here was 4,14.0,616/. I Is. 7d. ; whilst, considering that
the half per cent. export duty has been since then altoge-
ther abolished, there is, in reality, an increase of import
duties over those of 1841. The fact of any increase at
all indicates a far larger increase of trade, obviously, be-
cause it is a comparison of periods of different duties;
and it is gratifying to find that although the tariff of 1841
is no longer in force, and although there are now reduced
rates on timber and various articles of extensive consump-
tion, yet such has been the increase of imports already,
as to yield an aggregate increase of revenue, notwith-
standing these reductions in the new tariff. It is not
publicly known on what articles the increase occurs, for
the officials are systematically cautious of communicating
any particulars affecting the exchequer.
OPENING OF THE NEW BAPTIST CHAPEL, MYRTLE-
STREET.—On Wednesday, the New Baptist Chapel,
erected at the corner of Hope and Myrtle-streets, was
opened for public worship. The chapel has been built, as
most of the public are aware, for the congregation wor-
shipping for the last forty years in the building at the
corner of Lime-street and Elliot-street, which building is
now about to be removed by the Corporation, in order to
widen the approaches from Ranelagh-place to the New
Assize Courts. The chapel is built in the Gothic style of
architecture, and is surmounted by a number of orna-
mental turrets, the combination of which, at the south end,
produces a striking and beautiful effect. The interior
possesses an air of neatness in strict conformity with the
character of the exterior. At each end is a gallery sup-
ported by projecting trusses, richly ornamented. A
powerful organ, built by Bewsher and Fleetwood, of this
thef the o organ gallery
extreme
and
l choir,eng t h the
pulpit
of
town, occupies the centre of the northern gallery.
Im-
mediatelycet
ependant
has been erected. The chapel is lighted with the
in front
in
o
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Bude light, by means of a large chandelier suspended from
the
the building is eighty feet ; and it is calculated to accom-
modate between 800 and 1000 persons. Underneath the
chapel is a spacious school-room, capable of containing
about 600 children; also, an excellent and convenient
lecture-room, 47 feet by 29, which would hold 400 people,
besides committee and retiring rooms. The total cost of
the work will be about £B5OO.

THE LATE FIRE IN HARRINGTON-STREET.—For
the last fortnight, a number of men, under Messrs. S.
and J. Holme, have been actively employed in pulling
down the stupendous elevated walls and minor ruins of
Messrs. Braucker's extensive sugar-refining works in
Harrington-street. The operations have been attended
with no little danger, -many of the walls having been
left, almost naked of support, to a height of eight or
nine stories, and the mortar in these so much calcined
by the action of intense heat around them during the
comparatively short duration of the fire, that it retained
little of its cohesive qualities, having become reduced
almost to a powder. The men employed in the tops
of these walls, without any extraneous support, appeared
to be on many occasions in imminent peril of losing their
lives, either by falling from their balance, or by the half
crumbling and lofty thin walls on which they stood or sat,
giving way from under them. They, however, were " used
to it ;" were under the able direction of Messrs. Holmes'
foreman (Mr. Rushton), and no accident whatever oc-
curred. The ruins have every day presented (as they va-
ried in shape by removal from the top) picturesque and
striking appearances. The materials r9roved in carts
have been immense both in bulk and weight, including a
great quantity of iron-work, in beams, pillars, plates (over
the doors and windows), pipes, machinery, some thou-
sands of sugar-loaf moulds, &c., &c. Some of the upper
and tottering parts of the buildings were pulled down by
ropes. Yesterday a wall, of eight stories high, perforated
with door and window holes, and surmounted by one Of
the furnace chimneys 80 or 90 feet high, stood in a fear-
fully dilapidated state, though (with the chimney) nearly
perpendicular. A rope had previously been fastened
round the chimney at about eight stories from the ground,
and several efforts were made by a great number of men
in Harrington-street to pull it down, but without success,
though the shaft and the wall under it waved to and fro as
if they had been formed of jelly. Some further reduc-
tion in the strength of the binding parts of the brick-
! work was however made at considerable hazard, and before
dark the rope being again pulled in long jerks, the chimney
reluctantly yielded, and with great part of the walls came
down with what may be called graceful sublimity, making
a thundering crush on the ruins below. The body of the
poor man, Wood, has not yet been found. It is possible
he may in his despair have rushed from where he was last
seen into the stove room nearer to Harrington-street,
which is yet piled with ruins, perhaps thirty feet in height
from the ground ; and such was the intensity of the fire
in that quarter that it is questionable whether any remains
of the unfortunate sufferer will be found.
OPENING OF THE NEW ORGAN IN CHESTER CA-
TIIEDRAL.—The opening of the new organ which has just
been erected in the venerable structure of Chester Cathe-
dral took place, during divine service, on Saturday week,
being the Feast of the Epiphany. The church was crowded
by a congregation which included many of the principal
families of the city and neighbourhood, among whom were
observed the Marchioness of Westminster, the Countess
Grosvenor. Lord and Lady Robert. Grosvenor, the Marquis
and Marchioness of Cholmondely, Lord Prudhoe, Lady
Lyttleton, Sir Stephen Glynne, Bart., Hon. Mrs. Glynne,
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Gladstone, Lady Charlotte Eger-
ton, the Rev. Chancellor Raikes, &c. The service com-
menced with morning prayer by the Dean, the first lesson
by the Venerable Archdeacon Clarke, and the second by
the Rev. Canon Eaton. The Communion service was
also read by the Dean, with the exeption of the Epistle,
which was read by the Rev. Chancellor Barlow. The
Lord Bishop then preached an excellent and impressive
sermon from the 2d Corinthians, ix. 7, " God loveth a
cheerful giver"; after which, during the reading of the
offertory sentences, the alms of the congregation were
collected by the Revs. W. Paull, R. W. Gleadowe, and
W. Harrison, (Minor Canons of the Cathedral,) and some
of the laity appointed for the purpose. The prayer, or
" the whole state of Christ's Church militant here on
earth," and one of the closing collects of the Communion
Service were then read, and the Bishop concluded the
service by pronouncing the apostolic benediction. The
amount of the collection was £ll5 3s. Hy., which is to
be distributed among the local charities of Chester. Mr.
Gunton the acccornplished organist of Chester Cathedral,
brought out the new organ's wondefully expressive tones
of harmony with most admirable effect, and the chants,
and, indeed, the whole of the musical portion of the ser-
vice, was highly beautiful and impressive. On Sunday
week the cathedral was again thronged by crowded con-
gregations.