The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-10-15 00:00:00

Mr. Tomlin

Same day, a
Mr. G. WRENCH. r

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Same day and r
FEENEY.

Yesterday, at St. ..Ton's Church, 1
M.A., THOMAS BEEBY, Esq. to
daughter of the late William James

BIRTHS

On the 3rd July, in Happy Valley, California,
BRETON, of a son.

On the 21st ult., the wife of Mr. ELLIS ROBERTS, harp
to the Prinec of Wales, of a son.
On the 36th ult., at Springfipld
he wife of J
insta

on, Cheshire, NESSIE

the lady of SAMUEL BECKETT
On the Bth instant, at Hull, th
WELLESLEY. 10th Regiment, of
On the 10th instant, at Elm-tali
JAMIN F. WAVER, Esq., of a

ieutentirit-Colonet

the wife of BEN

Lately, at sea, on I

of Queen-i

TI, the proprietor of ti

On the 17th August, at Rio de Janeiro, of yellow fever, aged
3 years and 10 months, ROSA, daughter of Mr. ELKIN
HIME, and granddaughter of Mr. E. }lime, of this town.
On the 11th ultimo, at sea, aged 13, Mr. J. H. GAITSKILL,
second mate of the ship Lanercost, Captain Ponsonby, and
only son of Mr. Joseph Gaitskill, of this town, late of White-
haven. Deceased fell overboard from the maintopsail yard,
and was drowned.
On the 18th ultimo, at New Orleans, of yellow fever, aged
24, Mr. FREDERICK BEZLEY, late of this town.
Same day, at Albany, United States, in his 16th year, AN-
DREW BRAND, the Kentucky fat boy. Deceased was pro-
bably the largest human being in existence, weighing no less
than 537 pounds. He had gone to Al
attending the State Fair, but immedil
attacked with the illness which terminated 1
On the 19th ultimo, at Southsea.
Mrs. ELIZA JANE HAYDON. w

for the purpose of
on his arrival was

late Mi. Mont

solicitor, of this town

but formerly of K€

dal, Westmoreland.
On the 27th ultimo, Mr. ROBE
Side, near Haslingden.
On the Ist instant, at Chevet-park, near Wakefield,
Sir WM TtINI:"" The deceased baronet was

RT WATSON, of Crebth

.LUA, Bart.
second son of the sixth baronet, and is
sive estates by his eldest son Thomas.
Same day, at Ellesmere Port, near Chester, of paralysis
aged 65, Mr. WM. FLETCHER.
On the 2d instant, MARY ANN GREEN, widow, formerll
of Chester.

Same day, at her residence, in Duke-street, after a protracted
illness, which she bore with much patient Christian fortitude,
Miss RIFFIN. in her fAth year. A ninn, th c. nnrnarm,c n wen-

ters which meet us in our daily walks, perhaps few, if any, are
found foil )wing the somewhat diffioilt profession of a minia-
ture portrait painter, who labour under physical disadvantages
such as were endured by the subject of this brief memoir • and
yet, strange as it may appear, withoul the aid of either handsor
arms, the productions of her pencil have rarely been surpassed
especially as a copyist, as numerous specimens left behind her
sufficiently attest. In her early career as an artist, and for

many subiequent years, Miss Bitten appears to have enjoyed a
somewhat enviable notoriety, and was not a little encouraged
in her arduous profession by many of the nobility, (not except.
ing royalty itself) and gentry of the metropolis or elsewhere.

But when her cir-cumsiancei and al
she seems to have been destined t,
and trials, to which, as natural, fro
she was altogether unequal. It is
praise of a gentleman whose name

Ivancing: ages

require

her physical disabilities,
towever, to the enduring
nd benevolence are well

known to our town

on her behalf
in an endeavour to raise the requisite funds for a life annuity,
which might provide for the exigences of her declining years,
and which, tliough not to the extent contemplated by him, bad
fortunately proved successful With this provision, though by

no means ample, the last two years of her fong and Inonotiinot
life had been rendered comparatively easy and comfortabl,
while these might have been greatly enhanced had but publ.
sympathy been called into more active exercise. It is but du
to her medical attendants, Drs. Bickersteth and Gartside. tha

notn were prompt in their generous a
especially the latter gentleman, who fo
been almost a daily visitant at the I
deceased lady contemplate pu
tory, manuscripts of which 1

relatives of the
Ling a sketch of her past his-
been long prepared by herself,
cable incident cannot fail to

and a life so replete wit
prove highly interesting,

rvivor of the.crew-of the Royal Georg(

Spithead on the 19th Au

It the time the vessel

laving a