The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-02-10 00:00:00

oral anb probittrial getus.

The steam-ship Hibernia, which would leave Boston on
the Ist, may be expected on or before Saturday morning.
A beautifully executed and remarkably correct full
length likeness of J. D. Case, Esq. has just been placed
in the Commissioners' Rooms, Birkenhead.

BIRKENHEAD DOCKS.—On Monday Mr. Tomkincon
retired from the contract, and Mr. M'Cormack has taken

A- party of gentlemen dined on Wednesday at Fleet..
wood, with the view of celebrating the arrival at that port
of the first cargo of cotton.
The Finance Committee have lately granted a lease of
land in Water-street, for 75 years, at the rate of ten
pounds per square yard.
Last Friday a boy named Hadley, living in King's
court, Brook-street, was burnt to death, through his
clothes catching fire. He was left alone.
SHOP ROBBERY.—On Saturday Mary Ann Dwyer was
committed for trial, at the Police-court, on a charge of '
having stolen three pieces of edging, of the value of 235.,
the property of Mr. Rigby, laceman, of Dale-street.
A man named Howarth, a turn-out collier, at Roch-
dale, has been committed to Kirkdale Gaol, on a charge of
attempting to murder John Dugdale, one of the new hands
at Meadow Croft Colliery.
The Rev. James North, of St. Catherine's, has lately
given half a tun of coal to each of the inmates of the 48
almshouses for seamen's widows; and be also, at Christ-
mas, divided amongst several of the most needy and in-
firri! a quantity of mutton.

HOUSE ROBBERY.—On Saturday a young female,
named Mary Connolly, was committed for trial on a
charge of having stolen a boa and shawl, value four
pounds, the property of a lady in Grenville-street, to
whom she had gone to look for service.
At the meeting of the Mersey Yacht Club on Tuesday,
an American gentleman exhibited a novel method of pro-
pelling steamers by small paddle-wheels wholly immersed
in the water. Tne club ha• now standing to its credit
£274.

The Rev. H. Hampton delivered, on Tuesday, a very
eloquent lecture on the improvement of health by habits
of cleanliness and attention to ventilation, and snowed the
connexion of these subjects with their moral and religious
advancement, and their comfort in every way.
Owing to the reckless driving of the coachman, the
Manchester Mid-day Mail Coach near Burnley was upset.
The passengers were scattered about. One had his thigh
broken and shoulder dislocated—another received a con-
cussion of the brain—another was contused in head and
body. The coachman was injured in his head.
RAILWAY TRAIN UPSET.—On Monday morning, a
luggage train, proceeding from Manchester to Crewe, in
consequence of one of the wheels breaking, overturned,
and fell down an embankment, between Chelmsford and
Holmes Chapel ; the engineer, fireman, and breaksman
eseaped without injury.
ALETHORAMA.—The children of St. Jude's, St. Silas',
and St. Mark's Schools, had a high treat on Friday last,
in witne• sing the above celebrated exhibition. Their ad-
miration was almost unbounded, as the varied and beau-
tiful scenery was presented, interspersed with liliputian
real life.

The Roman Catholics of Manchester have lately sold
what is known as the Rook-street chapel, the oldest in
the town. The proceeds, which are large, will enable that
body to erect a splendid cathedral, which is intended. The
site will be Red Bank, Salford Bridge, on the old road to
Cheet ham Hill.

CAUTION.—Two boys were brought before Mr. Rush-
ton on Saturday, charged with having stolen .£47 out of a
arawer in the housa of Mr. Banks, Avison-street ; but it
appearing that some promise had been held out that if
the prisoners would confess the rubbery they should be
forgiven, the prosecution failed, and the prisoners were
discharged.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday evening,
a gentleman, supposed to be insane, got out of the win-
th'w of a first-class carriage on the Chester Railway, and
fell headforemost on the rails. The train was stopped,
and he was taken to Chester Infirmary, but he died on
Friday from the injuries. He had £5l in his pocket, and
had taken a tcket from Whitmore.
GREAT STRENGTH OF IRON VESSELS.—A short time
ago, the John Garrow, of .!.= port, arrived from North
America, with a cargo of timber, the load 351 feet to the
ton register, being more, by 104 feet, than the largest
cargo ever brought in wooden ships. The exceedingly
sound state of the vessel, which has been afloat since
1839, is most astonishing.

RETURNED TRANSPORT.—John Hughes was, on Fri-
day, brought before the police-court on a charge of hav-
ing returned from transportation. It appeared that the
prisoner was tried at the Salford Sessions in 1831, and
sentenced to be transported for fourteen years. On
Thursday he was seen in Liverpool, and apprehended.
Mr. Rushton ordered him to be committed to the Assizes.
VESSEL HUN DOWN BY A STEAMER.—The galliot
Mary Ann, of Workington, Bowes. master, 83 tans, four
men from Stangford bound to Workington, in ballast, was
run down about half-past twelve o'clock on Saturday
night last, by the Princess Alice, steamer, of Fleetwood,
between the Mull of Galloway and the point of Ayre.

The master, mate, and one of the seamen got on board the
steamer, and arrived at Fleetwood on Sunday rurrning.
The other seaman, named Preston, was unfortunately

drowned

The weather was extremely thick

LOCAL BILLS.—On Friday the petition for the following
bills was referred to the select committee on private bills.
Birkenhead Small Debts Bill, Birkenhead Improvement
Commissioners, the Herculaneum Docks, the Liver-
pool and Harrington Waterworks ; Birkenhead ( Com-
missioners') Dock ; the Warrington Waterworks ; the
Liverpool Sanatory Regulations • the Liverpool Paving,
Sewering, and Watering, and the Liverpool Improve-
ment ; the Tranmere Improvement the Manchester
Markets ' • theTranmere Docks; and the Liverpool Water
petitions for bills.
THE Jxsurrs.—We believe, as it is alleged, that the
Jesuits are making themselves busy enough in this land ;
but if their success in general is no better than that which
they have attuned in the populous township of Over
Darwen, it will not go very far towards the prayed-for
conversion of heretical England. We are informed that
some years ago a mass-house was erected in the township.
aid, of course, a form of worship duly established, but
so slowly has gone on the work of " conversion," that
the attempt has been abandoned—the building itself
being alone converted—into a beer-shop ? Does not this
bear out what we say about the spread of Popery? It
proves that the Protestantism of the country is sound,
and that if Romanists numerically increase in particular
localities, it is owing entirely to the influx of strangers.—
Lancaster Gazette.

LIVERPOOL DISPENSARIES.—On Thursday, at the
annual meeting of these excellent institutions, the report
announced a considerable improvement in the state of the
funds. At the clog,. of 1843 the debt of the institution
amounted to £l,BOO, at the close of 1844, to £671,
whereas the balance-sheet of 4845 presents a surplus of
revenue over expenditure of £307, a state of things which
has not occurred since 1836. TiAs, however, the report
says, arose from extraordinary exertions, and a hope was
expressed that the public would support the institutions
by permanent subscriptions, and not let them depend on
unwearied importunity. The expenditure of the past
year amounted to £3,242, whilst the income from sub-
scriptions is only £2,000, leaving £1,300 to be provided
for by casual and extraordinary contributions; and surely
this sum, in so large and wealthy a community, might ea-
sily be raised by means of annual subscriptions alone, and
that at an individual sacrifice which would be so small as
scarcely to deserve the name of charity. It was to this
point the committee would especially Craw the attention
of the public. The institution being now out of debt,
they would earnestly suggest how easily it may be main-

taiued in that position. With this view a partial begin-
ning has been made in the past year, the committee hav-
ing obtained new subscriptions to the amount of £lB7,
and increased subscriptions to the amount of £33 125.,

which, together, make the sum of £220 12s. ; but they
have, at the_same time, lost by deaths, removals, &c.,

the sum of £95 15s. 6d., thus reducing it to £l2l 16s. 6d.
The Rev. Jonathan Brooks consented to remain chair-
man for another year, and promised at all times his best

exertions

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