The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-10-07 00:00:00

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in Wallasea-pool alone have the exper,l)•
the full product of the citizens' twenty gei►
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hall, and other buildings."
PRES ENTATIONS.—The Licensed Victuallers of D•
verpool, have presented Mr. Bryden, one of their ttes,
tees, with his portrait, which that gentleman has caused
to be placed in the committee-roam of the Ingtitution,
in St. Anne-street.—On Saturday week the officers and
workmen employed by the Liverpool and Manchester
Railway Company presented Mr. Richard Eaton the
managing foreman of the locomotive department, with a
token of respect consisting of the follovting articles,—a
superior set of mathematical instruments, Tredgold's
Treatise on the Steam Engine, and an improved ivory
slide rule. A suitable inscription was on the articles, and
they were presented at a supper at which 170 persons sat
down.

PUBLICAN'S AND BEERSELLERS' CASES.—On Friday
one publican and five beersellers appeared before Mr.
Rushton. Publican : James Hitchmough, Greenland-
street, was charged with selling ale at a quarter before
two o'clock on Sunday morning week, and fined £2 4s. 6d.
Beersellers : Edward Howarth, Naylor-street, was
charged with selling ale at a quarter-past twelve on Sun-
day morning week, and fined £3 4s. 6d , being his second
offence ; Joseph Tamplin, Addison-street, was charged
with selling ale at ten minutes before one on Sunday
morning week, and fined £1 4s. 6d.; Isabella-Yates,
Limekiln-lane, was charged with having two men in her
house, with beer before them, at fire minutes before 11 on
Sunday morning week, and fined £2 4s. 6d. ; George
Richardson, Leeds-street, was charged with having nine
men in his house at twenty-five minutes before eleven
o'clock on Sunday morning week, with ale before them,
and fined 14s. 6d. ; James Howard, Park-road, was
charged with permitting drunken persons to be in his
house at twenty minutes before eight o'clock, on Sunday
evening week, and fined £1 4s. 6d.
THE MASSACHUSETTS STEAMER.—ThiS screw-auxili-
ary vessel arrived on Friday at this port from New York,
which city she left on the 15th ult, and, from wharf to
wharf, her passage may be put down at 17 days 11 hours.
She had, the whole way, head winds and calms. She
brought ten passengers. She is the first of a screw-
auxiliary line between this port and New York, and is
800 tons burthen, American measurement. 155 feet on
deck, 178 feet from billet-head to taffrail, 33 feet beam,
has engines of 280 horse-power, and is ship-rigged, with
a few exceptions, the most striking being, that her top-
masts are fitted abaft the mast. The lower-masts are
also unusually tall, and the funnel of unusual lowness,
even in screw-steamers. 11er cabins are capacious, well
fitted up, and ventilated in a new, most ingenious, and
strikingly effective manner ; and she can accommodate
forty passengers. Her screw is of a novel construction:
it can be drawn completely out of the water at pleasure,
by a most simple process, and placed in a perpendicular
position against the stern ; and, in such circumstances
the Massachusetts is, to all intents and purposes, a sail-
vessel. The screw works most powerfully, and ensures
a speed, with sail, of twelve knots an hour. The sails
and rigging abound in the most curious contrivances
to ease the labour of reefing, shortening sail, &c.—per-
haps the first instance in which modern machinery has
been carried aloft. All sail has been repeatedly set in
twenty• five minutes. She has four life-boats ; and, what
will be found the most extraordinary proof of American
ingenuity yet known in ships, every seat, stool, &c., is a
life-boat, made of iron with air-tight compartments, and
adapted to swim, even with the weight of a man. Be-
tween quarter-deck and forecastle, both of which are
rased to an unusual height, there are, frigate-fashion,
between the deck itself and the top of the bulwarks, a
kind of stages.
SELECT VESTRY.—The Select Vestry met on Tuesday.
A letter from Mr. Parker, the house-surgeon, was read,
giving a gratifying account of the health of the children
in the industrial school. A new dietary scale was recom-
mended by the Workhouse Committee, but its considera-
tion was postponed. Mr. Hart then read a correspond-
ence between himself and the honorary medical officers of
the workhouse, relative to the dissection of dead bodies,
and also the report of a committee who inquired into the
matter. The report says :—" That in no case has a post
mortem examination been made without the express con-
sent of the friends, or (since the Dudley case occurred)
the governor. is cases where the friends could not be
found. Your committee deem it right to add, as showing
the cate of the medical officers on this point, that it has
been their invariable point to abstain from a request for an
examination when the slightest repugnance was manifested
by the friends of the deceased. That since the 20th May
last, there have been 120 deaths in the house, and only 35
examinations ; that, in the large majority of cases, no
examination was wished for; that, in numerous instances
such examination was objected to by the friends, or re-
fused by the governor, and, therefore, not made ; while,
in every case of examination, there was some peculiarity,
such as to render it necessary i❑ the judgment of the me-
dical board. That, in all cases, the post mortem exami-
nation have been made i❑ a proper manner, with most
careful regard to the feelings of the inmates of the house,
and of the friends of the deceased. That, in the deliber-
ate judgment of your committee, the course adopted by
the governor, in complaining to the Workhouse Commit-
tee on this subject, and in his general procedure towards
the honorary medical board, bas been marked by great in-
discretion and by a strange want of that respect to which
the medical officers are so well entitled. After a full in-
vestigation of all the facts bearing on this matter, your
committee Lave now to recommend that the governor be
directed to grant the needful permission whenever it may
be asked for, and that further, he he instructed cordially
to co-operate with the Honorary Medical Board." The
reading of these documents was followed by a long dis-
cussion, at the close of which the report of the sub-com-
mittee was adopted.