The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-12-09 00:00:00

SUDDEN DEATH AT KNOWSLEY.—OD Sunday, at noon,
two men were noticed chasing a squirrel on the grounds
leading to Knowaley-hall. One of them succeeded in
overtaking the squirrel, and killed it. The same moment
he was himself seen to stagger and fall, and almost im-
mediately he was a corpse. The deceased was a young
man of respectability. It is conjectured that disease of
the heart was the cause of death.
CORPORATION SCHOOLS.—The annual examination of
the children in the Corporation Schools will take place,
for the North (Bevington-bush), on Monday the 22nd,—
and for the South (Park-lane), on Tuesday the 23rd inst.,
at ten o'clock each morning. There are upwards of 2,000
children in these schools, receiving the benefit of a sound

scriptural and secular education. - The public would do
well to judge of their efficiency by attending on these
occasions.
WEST DERBY HOSPITAL.—Miss Jane Carter, the
much respected matron of this hospital, died, after a short
illness, on Wednesday last. For the space of two years,
during which she held the office of matron, Miss Carter
gave the greatest satisfaction, and possessed the confi-
dence of the board. She was most devoted to her work,
and was unwearied in her attentions to the sick under her
care. She was peculiarly fitted for her situation, as besides
the other requisites, a becoming spirit of religion appeared
to influence her whole conduct.
TRIBUTE TO CAPTAIN CONISTOCK.—The New York
Tribune states that the passengers by the Baltic on her
homeward passage in August—the quickest ever made
from Liverpool to Ish.w York—united in presenting to
Captain Comstock a silver urn as a testimonial to his
energy and seamanship. The urn bears the following in-
scription :—" Presented to Captain Joseph J. Comstock,
of U.S.M.S. Baltic, by his passengers from Liverpool,
August 6th, 1851, at 4 p.m., to New York, August 16th,
at 6 a.m., 9 days 19 hours : the shortest passage ever
made across the Atlantic."
THE MINERS' TURN-OUT AT BOLTON.—The " strike"
is not yet terminated. A great number of hands have
gone to work under a promise of an advance, but the
agitators who were sent here to induce the men to leave

their work, are industriously endeavouring to prevail upon
them not to remain without a return to the prices of 1845.
The colliers at work are beset every morning by men
whom they do not know, who entreat them to remain out
until they obtain the full prices demanded ; and their
importunities have been such as to cause alarm among
the men, and render it necessary for the employers to
seek the protection of the police.
CAUTION TO TRADESMEN.—HIIIITY Cbarlesworth, alias
William Henry Smith, and a person of the name of Scott
Morrison, are in the hands of the police at South Shields,
charged with conspiring to defraud a number of merchants
in London, Liverpool, Manchester, and other large towns,
of various descriptions of goods. They were examined
before the magistrates on Friday last, and remanded for a
week, Charlesworth addressed his orders from " Low
Lights Shore, North Shields." Parties in Liverpool who
have been victimized will do well to communicate with the
secretary of the Liverpool Guardian Society, as a large
quantity of the goods sent to Charlesworth have been in-
tercepted.
ARREST OF A MANCHESTER THIEF IN HUNGARY.—
A man, named Jacob Alter, has been apprehended in
Hungary, on suspicion of having stolen banknotes to
the amount of £1,620, from the house of Mr. Seeling,
South Parade, Manchester, last October. It was ascer-
tained that Alter had changed a £lOO Bank of England
note in Venice, on the 4th of Nov., in the name of Adam
Weiss ; and that he had changed in the same name, in
the same city, two £lOO and one £2O Bank of England
notes about the middle of October ; and at Peeth, in
Hungary, two £lOO Bank of England notes on the 6th of
November, also in the name of Adam Weiss. The
plunderer was arrested at Great Kamsa, in Hungary,
where he passed in the name of Cohen. Unfortunately,
there is yet no intelligence as to the recovery of any of
the property.
IN RE NEILL.—LONDON COURT OF BANKRUPTCY,
TUESDAY.—The bankrupt, W. Mayne Neill, was a mer.
chant in Liverpool. He had been made a bankrupt, and
the proceedings had been transferred to London upon the
petition of Messrs. Glyn and Co., bankers, the petitioning
creditors in the case of Spencer Ashlin, corn factor, of
Eastcheap, setting forth that Spencer Ashlin had, about
the Ist of July last, become a dormant partner in the
house of Neill at Liverpool, and bad so continued down
to his stoppage in September last. An order was now
made, jointly by Mr. Commissioner Holroyd and Mr.
Commissioner Goulburn, transferring the proceedings from
the court of the former to that of the latter, where the pro-
ceedings against Ashlin are pending. It is stated that the
separate debts of Neill amount to £21,9'4, and those of
the partnership of Neill and Ashlin to £28,882 ; the assets
in the separate estate are about £2,000; in thejointabout
£l,OOO.

CHURCH Music.—The Rev. J. Jones, Rural Dean of
South Liverpool, urees the general adoption of Church
music in the Record :—" That the promotion of good,
solid, feeling Church music is lawful,' your references
to the practice of our Lord and his Apostles, and to that
of the primitive disciples, abundantly prove ; and that it
is ' expedient' at all times, and more especially under the
circumstances in which we are now placed, with reference
to the proselyting efforts of Romanists and Romanizers,
experience satisfactorily proves. But, by Church music,'
I mean not merely the singing of metrical psalms and
hymns, but also the chanting of the Venite, the Te Deum,
and the other appointed Canticles, if not the Psalms for
the day. Perhaps there is no town in England where
there is a stronger Protestant feeling--where there is, less
of Tractarianism—or where the Church better stands its
ground (or rather gains ground every day), than that
with which lam officially connected. Among the sixty
churches of Liverpool and its suburbs, there is not one, I
believe, in which the Canticles are not chanted with more
or less of musical skill."

DISTRICT COURT OF BANRRUPTCY.—In re John Lilly.
—The bankrupt in this case, a merchant in the African
trade, came before the court on Wednesday, on the ap-
plication for his certificate. Mr. Commissioner Stevenson
delivered an exceedingly lengthy judgment, the result of
which was that he had come to the conclusion of suspending
the certificate for eight months ; and as the bankruptcy
could not be considered to have arisen from unavoidable
losses, he would award the certificate as of the second
class.—On Friday, before Mr. Commissioner Stevenson,
three bankrupts came up on their adjourned last examina;
tions. In the case of Samuel Major, ship-chandler, Liver-
pool, no balance-sheet was filed, and the examination was
adjourned until January B.—ln re .1. R. and W. Irving,
shipwrights, in this town. On account of the continued
severe illness of one of the bankrupts, who had kept the
books connected with the estate, and without whose as-
sistance no balance-sheet could be made out, his honour
adjourned the case until the same day as the preceding
one, January B.—ln the matter of S. and G. Pyre, carry-
ing on business as merchants in this town, Mr. Silvanus
Pym underwent a lengthened examination by the solicitor
to the assignees, after which both bankrupts passed their
last examination.—Before Mr. Commissioner Perry, Mr.
Michael Macdonald's last examination was adjourned, in
order that an amended account might be filed by his
brother, James Macdonald, and other particulars and
vouchers supplied to the court.

SUICIDE OF A LIVERPOOL MERCHANT.—In our second
edition, last week, we stated that one of our most respec-
table merchants on 'Change had put an end to his
existence by committing suicide. The gentleman to
whom we alluded was Mr. John Taylor Crook, long
and extensively engaged in the American passenger
trade, and was consignee to a large fleet of ships
known as the " Black Star" line of New York packets.
In the spring of the past year he visited New York for
the purpose of extending his business arrangements, but
returned some few months after, experiencing during his
sojourn in the United States several severe attacks of
illness. Since his return his health was but little im-
proved, and during the last month he was evidently
labouring under the influences of severe and trying in-
disposition, aided perhaps by the unsatisfactory state of
his private affairs, occasioned by extensive speculation in
America. At nine o'clock on Tuesday morning, at his
lodgings, in Mount-pleasant, he was discovered hanging,
and life extinct. The inquest was held on Wednesday,
by the deputy-coroner, Mr. Statham, at the house of the
unfortunate gentleman. No new material facts were eli-
cited, and the circumstances attending the finding of the
body were detailed in full by one or two witnesses. Dr.
Archer, the medical gentleman who had examined the
remains, stated that, in his opinion, from the combined
causes above alluded to, the brain of Mr. Crook had
become affected, and he had, no doubt, committed the
fatal deed in a temporary state of insanity. The jury
returned a verdict accordingly. The deceased gentleman
was about forty years of age. The mother of the deceased
was for years an inmate of Squire's private lunatic asylum,
at Walton Breck, where she died about fourteen years ago.

PUBLIC MEETINGS,

HEALTH COMMITTEE.—The usual weekly meeting was
held on Thursday. The report of the medical officer
stated that the deaths registered during the last week were
245, against 265 in the week previous, and an averrage of
186 in the corresponding week of the preceding three
years. Although, as compared with the previous week,
there was a decrease of the general mortality, there was,
as might have been expected, an increase in the mortality
from diseases of the lungs, the deaths from which had
progressively increased during the last six weeks, the
number in each week respectively being 46, 51, 52, 64,
76, and (last week) 87, the latter number being greater
than in any previous week since the end of March. The
mean temperature of the week was 38 2-10 degrees,
nearly a degree lower than the previous week, and about
7; degrees lower than the average of the same week of
the six preceding years. Rain fell en four days of the
week ; the amount collected was 6-10ths of an inch.
REFORM CONFERENCE AT MANCHESTER.—On Wed-
nesday morning a very numerous conference of the leading
reformers, chiefly from Lancashire and Yorkshire, was
held in Manchester, to consider what steps should be
taken by the reform party in consequence of the intimation
of Lord John Russell that it is his intention to introduce
a measure of reform during the ensuing session of Parlia-
ment. Resolutions were adopted in favour of an exten-
sion of the franchise, a redistribution of the electoral
power, the vote by ballot, triennial Parliaments, and the
abolition of a property qualification for members of Par-
liament. A deputation was appointed to wait on Lord
John Russell for the purpose of pressing upon him the
importance of granting a large and comprehensive measure
of reform. The conference broke up at half-past four
o'clock.—Seven thousand people were present in the
evening at the Free Trade Hall meeting; Mr. Wilson in
the chair. Mr. Bright, M.P., Mr. Milner Gibson, M.P.,
Sir Joshua Walmsley, M.P., and Mr. Cobden, M.P., ad•
dressed the assemblage. The resolutions agreed to at the
morning conference were Submitted, and carried. •