The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-03-26 00:00:00

it might, we think, be thrown back without incurring any
very heavy cost. The houses in the crescent would cer-
tainly command better rents than if built in the straight
line of the present comparatively narrow street ; and the
only difficulty in adopting this or some similar improve-
ment is the want of sufficient funds in the hands of the
trustees of the Institution. A few hundreds of pounds
only are, we are informed, required ; and we indulge a
hope that this humble attempt to bring the subject before
the public will induce our enlightened and wealthier
townsmen to come forward with a liberal hand, and re-
deem from comparative obscurity, while the opportunity
offers, one of the noblest modern structures in the town.

MR. WHITTY.—The Mercury states that the magis-
trates of the borough intend presenting this gentleman
with a substantial mark of their approbation of his con-
duct during the period he has been in the service of the
town.
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THE HEAD CoNSTABLE.—It is expected that Mr.
Miller, the newly-appointed superintendent of the police
force in this town, will enter upon the duties of his office
about the beginning of April, certainly not later than the
10th of that month.
MR. RUSHTON.—We understand that a gratifying
compliment is about to be paid to this gentleman by his
brother magistrates, who have entered into a subscription
for the purpose of having his full-length portrait taken,
and placed in the magistrates' room, at the Sessions
House.

Il? ISII PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, LIVERPOOL.—This
congregation at present assembling in the Commercial
Hall, Gloucester-street, have presented Mr. W. Spence
with a splendid copy of the Rev. Mathew Henry's Com-
mentaries on the Holy Bible in 6 volumes in testimony
of their approbation of his services as precentor, since
their commencement in December last.

Tun FIRE IN 01L-STREET.—The following, is a state-
ment of the loss sustained by the various insurance offices
by this fire :—The Liverpool £6OOO, Manchester £2OOO,
Alliance £l3OO, London Union £lOOO, Globe £l2OO,
Phoenix £6OO, County £5OO. Sun £lOO, Imperial £2OO,
Royal Exchange £l5O, West of England £lOO. Another
part of the property was uninsured.
THE WOODSIDE FERRY.—We understand that a pro-
position will he made at the next meeting of the Birken-
head Commissioners to reduce the fares for crossing the
river by the Woodside boats, from twopence to a penny
per head, on and after the Ist of July next, from which
date it is also intended to run the boats all night, and,
should the bill for the purchase of the Monk's Ferry be
passed, to have boats crossing every quarter of an hour.

SOUTHERN AND TOXTETII HOSPITAL.—The second
Annual Report of this institution has just been delivered
to the subscribers. From it we learn that, during the
year, relief has been afforded to 1225 out-door, and 431
in-door patients. Of the in-door patients, 376 were dis-
charged cured or relieved, 29 died, and the remainder
were in the hospital when the report was drawn up. No
other proof is required to show the necessity of a hospi-
tal in this locality.
FORTUNE TELLING.—On Wednesday, Grace Evans,
I an old and well-known gipsy, was brought up before Mr.
Rushton, charged with obtaining money from a poor
woman under pretence of telling her fortune. It appeared
that the prisoner first obtained 4d. from her dupe, and
afterwards perceiving that she had more money, induced
her to give Is. 6d.' under pretence of " ruling her planet."
The husband of the woman having learned the fraud, had
the fortune-teller apprehended. The prisoner, when
asked what she had to say, acknowledged the charge,
when Mr. Rushton said " I will rule your planet for you ;
you must go to gaol for three months."
DOCK COMMITTEE, TIIIIRSDAY.—Mr. Molyneux took
the chair, in the absence of the chairman and the deputy-
chairman. Plans of a double-road bridge for the north
end of George's dock were produced, and the estimated
cost of erection was stated to be £2300. The sui)-com-
mittee recommended the adoption of the plan. Mr. Bold
thought the passengers by the Egremont and Seacombe
boats would not be satisfied unless similiar alterations
were made at the south end of Prince's dock. Mr.
Aikin thought they would be spending a deal of money
which would be of no advantage to the Dock Estate, and
the matter was allowed to stand over. A day's wages
was ordered to be paid to the captain and crew of the
Magazine life-boat, who, on the Ist of this month, went
to the assistance of a vessel sunk on the North Bank.
Ten shillings each were also ordered to be paid to four of
the crew of the same boat, who rescued the hands belong-
ing to the flat Ellen, which sunk at New Brighton on the
9ch instant.
EXCISE INFORMATIONS.—There were four excise In
formations heard on Tuesday. In the first. Owen
M'Manus, of Dover-street, was convicted in the penalty
of £lOO, for having two bottles of private distilled spirits
in his possession; in the second, Patrick Kehoe, of
Smithfield-street, was fined £5O, for having sold spirits
without a license ; in the third, Francis Townley pleaded
guilty to having sent out two gallons of brandy without
a permit, and was ordered to pay a penalty of £5O ; and
in the fourth, John Nolan of Sir Thomas's-buildings,
was convicted in the penalty of £2O, for having sold ale
without license. In all probability, those heavy penalties
will be considerably mitigated in three, at least, out of
the four cases, as memorials by the parties themselves,
as well as by the justices, if they should think fit, will be
forwarded to the Board of Customs. Three informations
were heard at the same time against pawnbrokers, for
having charged twopence each, instead of a penny, for
pawn-tickets : but the parties were acquitted.

CHARGE OF CONCEALING THE BIRTH OF A CHILD.
—On Wednesday, Catharine Connolly was brought up at
the Police-court, charged with concealing the birth of her
child. The prisoner had, it appeared. denied being in
the family way to the persons with whom she lodged,
when the parties thought it advisable to have her removed
to the Workhouse, to which she consented. On their way
thither she ran up a court in Stanley-street, and remained
away about twenty minutes, and in consequence of what
took place afterwards it was suspecteu that she had given
birth to a child. The prisoner was taken to the Lying-
in-Hospital, and information having been given, she was
apprehended. The body of the child was found, and a
coroner's inquest held at the time of the occurrence.
Mr. Rushton said she had been guilty of a grave offence,
but in consequence of the wording of the law, which re-
quired that the party must have endeavoured to conceal
the birth by doing something with the body of the child,
he could not send her to prison. She was ordered back
to the Workhouse.

BURGLARY.—An Irishman named Richard Johnson,
was brought before Mr. Rushton, at the police-court on
Tuesday, on a charge of having committed a burglary in
the house of Mr. Lewis Heyman, pawnbroker, of White-
chapel, last night. It appeared that the prosecutor went
to bed about twelve o'clock ; and that, in a short time
after, he heard the rattling of a door in a room overhead,
in which the pledges are kept, and the voices of two per-
sons. He immediately opened his bedroom window,
sprang a rattle, obtained the assistance of a policemen,
and proceeded to the room in question where the prisoner
was found covered over with a bed and two pillows.
There was a quantity of property on his person with
which he would, but for the discovery, have decamped.
He had effected an entrance by making a hole in the
roof sufficiently large to admitt of his passing through.
He had a razor in his pocket. After the examination of
the prosecutor and the policeman, the fellow was fully
committed for trial to the assizes on the charge of bur-
glary.
LIVERPOOL PE ACE SOCIETY.—On Tuesday evening
the annual meeting of the Peace Society was held at the
Charitable Institution-house, Slater-street, Richard Rath-
bone, Esq., in the chair. The meeting was numerously
and respectably attended. Mr. J. P. Cooke, the secre-
tary, read the annual report, from which it appeared, that
the society had been formed into an independent body
recently, and that sixteen new subscribers had been added,
to its numbers, and that its income had been to some ex-
tent increased during the past year. Its exertions were
becoming vigorous ; many thousands of tracts had been
distributed; large anti-war placards had been posted on
the walls of the town at intervals ; a lecture had been
delivered at the Portico in January ; and a deputation,
with a remittance of £lO, had been sent to the Peace
Convention in London. It appeared, from the state-
ment of accounts, that there was a balance in favour of
the society of £7 17s. Upon the motion of Wylie, se-
conded by Mr. L. Heyworth, the report was adopted.
Mr. William Rathbone moved the second resolution, to
the effect, that it was desirable the combined efforts of all
Christians should be exerted to sitread a more earnest
feeling in favour of universal peace, and of the abolition
of war between nations. Mr. J. B. Cooke seconded the
motion, which was unanimously carried.

THE CONGREGATIONAL CHANT Boox.--Our columns
of this week contain an advertisement of a work enti-
tled " Congregational Chant Book, by Mr. R. Andrews,
of Manchester, and will be published in about three
weeks. It will appear as a companion to " The Congre-
gational Psalmist," arranged by the same author and
published last year, and is intended to form, as in days of
yore, a sort of. Musical Hand-Book for the Church. Of
the qualifications of Mr. Andrews for such an under-
taking, it is unnecessary, to speak : his adaptation of
Mozart's Cantata, Davidde Penitente," being of itself
an all-sufficient recommendation of his merits, whilst his
Sacrednst r
u mSongs,e
n tal
11Psalmody, &c., harmonized for vocal and
alone point him out as a musician
i
of considerable celebrity. The musical public of Man-
chester have recently had an interesting Concert given
them by Master Andrews, a talented youth, 12 years of
age, under the superintendence of his father, Mr. R.
Andrews, on which occasion he performed on the concer-
tina, harp, and piano-forte in admirable style, executing
moreover, on the latter instrument, an elaborate and
difficult piece, entirely his own composition. His sisters
also sang two or three duetts in a pleasing manner, and
were most rapturously encored. The result of the Con-
cert-proceeds have been most handsomely presented to
the funds of the various charitable institutions in his
native town of Manchester.