The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-03-28 00:00:00

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Mr. Denton has been elected surgeon to the Ladies'
Charity, in the place of the late Mr. H. S. Taylor.
On Saturday the body of a new-born female child,
which had been still-born, was found on the beach, op-
posite the North Docks. It was wrapped up in a piece
of blue cloth.

On Friday, as three men were beating about in a boat
on the river, a young married man, named James
Hackney, one of the three, fell overboard, and did not

rise azain.
On Wednesday night, or early on Thursday morning,
the house of Mr. Ruttimer, situate at Oston, was forcibly
entered, and a quantity of silver plate and other articles

stolen.

COMMITTAL OF A BANKRUPT.—At the Bankruptcy
Court, on Friday, a bankrupt, named Roberts, was com-
mitted to Lancaster Castle for having grossly prevaricated
in his evidence, and given a false account of the disposi-
tion of his property.
SUDDEN DEATHS.—On Tuesday morning, Alfred Hunt,
who resides with his parents in Brownlow-street, was
found dead in bed.—On Wednesday morning. Ann Mit-
ton, aged 54, who resides in a house in Charter-street,
was found dead in bed. The deceased on the previous
night complained of a pan. in her side. Both died of
congestion of the lungs.
SALT WATER BATHING.—Our readers will learn from
an advertisement in anoner column that Mrs. Penn's
baths, at George's Pier, are now in readiness for the re-
ception of visitors. This is the season when cold salt
water bathing is most conducive to health, bracing to the
nerves and invigorating to the general constitution. The
swimming bath will be found in a delightful state of

purity.
SUDDEN DEATH.—Robert Ferguson, one of the crew
of the schooner Onyx, a Glasgow trader, consigned to
Messrs. M'Arthur and Co., died suddenly on board the
vessel, (then lying in the Canning Dock,) at three o'clock
on Saturday morning. He was twenty-one years of age,
and was in apparent good health at nine o'clock on the
previous evening. Mr. Norris, surgeon, who examined
the body, found that death had been caused by disease of
the heart.

THE CELLAR OCCUPATIONS IN LIVERPOOL
August last 4634 notices have been served on the owners
of houses of which the cellars were separately let off; 400
have been served on the tenants ; and 220 have been
served on the occupants of cellars in courts ; making a
total of 5254 on which legal processes have been served.
From a report lately issued by Mr. Harbord, it appears
that at the expiration of these notices 2521 cellars were
found empty, 546 were occupied, but did not contain beds,
and 205 continued to be occupied in defiance of the law.
About 3000 cellars have thus been cleared, and the process
of getting out the refractory holders is still going on.
THE PATENT JOURNAL AND INVENTOR'S MAGAZINE.
—We have received the February and March numbers of
this cheap and ably conducted monthly periodical, which
we have perused with pleasure and attention. The work
is one of the best got up we have seen of our scientific
serials, and is replete with valuable information on all new
patents, describing all the novelties and improvements
recently introduced, illustrated with wood cuts, lists of
patents granted, &c., &c. To inventors and mechanical
men genera!ly it cannot fail to be interesting and useful,
while the price of each number, containing a large quan-
tity of matter, is only equal to that of a single newspaper

—Since

a few years ago.
BIRKENHEAD.—This township, if we may rely on what
has lately been reported, is about to assume a more pros-
perous career. We understand a deputation, consisting
of Baron Goldsmidt, J. Tollemache, Esq., M.P., and
William Jackson, Esq., M.P., have had an interview with
the Commis,ioners of Woods, &c., the result of which is
favourable ; and it is expected the bills respecting the
docks will soon pass both houses of parliament, so as to
enable the new trust speedily to commence the dock
works. In addition to this intelligence the Dock Ware-
house Company have begun to pay off their liabilities,and
have made arrangements for paying by fortnightly instal-
ments of 20 per cent. each until all is paid.
DINNER AND TESTIMONIAL.—The friends of Mr.
Brough, late editor of the Liverpool Lion, who is about
to leave Liverpool to undertake a literary appointment in
the metropolis, met on Tuesday night at Mr. Whiteman's,
the Brunswick Hotel, for the purpose of giving him a
dinner, and presenting to him a gold watch as the parting
testimony of the esteem in which his eminent talents and
social virtues are held in this town. Upwards of sixty
gentlemen sat down to a sumptuous repast, got up in a
style worthy of the host of the Brunswick. Mr. Brough
was also agreeably surprised with the present' of a hand-
some ring subscribed for by some ladies. The evening
was spent very pleasantly under the chairmanship of Mr.
Dignan.

T ARVIN HALL ScgooL.—We were highly gratified
last week by a personal inspection of this extensive educa-
cational establishment. The arrangements made for the
reception and accommodation of the scholars, and for their
tuition in every branch, as well as for the development of
their physical energies, are all that can be desired. There
are at present one hundred and twenty pupils, progressing
rapidly in their studies, and in the enjoyment of excellent
health and spirits. We observe that, at the llilary Term
examination, at Dublin University, just concluded, Mr.
Charles Jones, assistant to Mr. Brindley, the active and
persevering principal of the school, took a high stand in
the "second grade." The masters employed in the
several departments—classical, mathematical, &c.,. &c.,
are (as will be observed by an announcement in another
column) gentlemen who have earned distinguished uni-
versity and other honours.
REMOVAL OF THE REV. DR. CARPENTER.—The insular
community, but more particularly the inhabitants of
Douglas, will learn with regret the removal of the above-
named rev. gentleman to a sphere of ministerial labour
far more extensive than that which he has so ably filled
during the last 13 or 14 years. The doctor, in the early
part of last week, received an official communication from
the Trustees of the Church of St. Jude's, in Liverpool,
earnestly inviting him to go and assume the ministerial
charge of the numerous and influential congregation as-
sembling in that place of worship. The call was responded
to by Dr. Carpenter, who left Douglas for Liverpool on
Wednesday last, and preached his first sermon to his new
flock on Sunday. By the congregation of St. Barnabas,
in this town, the removal of Dr. Carpenter will be felt
with peculiar regret, while the charities of the town have
lost in him a firm and constant friend. His charitable
disposition and active benevolence have long endeared
him to the poorer portion of the community, to whom he
was was ever ready to render all the aid in his power.—
Manx Sun.
We have to-day to record the marriage, on Wednesday
last, of Dr. James Sheridan Muspratt, of Seaforth-hall,
to Mrs. Susan Cushman Meriman, of Boston, and sister
to the great American actress. Her impersonation, how-
ever, of Juliet, stamped her fame and procured for her
the most unequivocal marks of public favour wherever
she appeared. Such of our readers as have witnessed the
powerful impression made by the combined acting of the
two sisters (Miss Cushman as Romeo) in this immortal
drama, will agree with the greatest of living dramatists,
that no more exciting effect was ever produced on the
British stage. The marriage ceremony was performed at
Sefton Church, by the Rev. Mr. Clarke, in the presence
of their more immediate relatives and friends, the bride
being given away by her brother, Mr. Charles Cushman,
of London. On returning to Seaforth-hall, the bridal
party were received by a distinguished circle, composed
of the principal families of the neighbourhood, and after
partaking of a magnificent dejeune, at which the health of
the bride and bridegroom was proposed, in very feeling
terms, by Mr. Sheridan Knowles, they proceeded to
Liverpool, en route for Cheltenham, amidst the hearty
congratulations and cordial wishes of all.—Journal.
DR. SUMNER'S REPLY TO THE ADDRESS OF THE LI-
VERPOOL CLERGY.—The following answer of the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury to the address of the Liverpool
clergy has been received, and is left for the inspection of
the clergy, at the Depository of the Society for Promoting
Christian Knowledge, 93, Bold-street :
TO THE CLERGY OF THE TOWN AND 'NEIGHBOURHOOD OF