The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-12 00:00:00

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The Mayor of Liverpool dined with the Mayor of Man-
chester on Wednesday to meet the Bishop of Manchester
and the Dean and Canons.

Sir Thomas Birch, Bart., M.P., has transmitted to the
treasurer of the Liverpool Financial Reform Association
the sum of £5.

On Wednesday a child fell into the hold of.an emigrant
ship lying in the river, and received such injuries as caused
its death on the following day.
Mr. Edward Cropper has been appointed by the Lord
Chancellor a borough magistrate, for the accommodation
of the residents of Toxteth Park.

Captain Miller, superintendent of the Glasgow police,
who for a short time held the office of head constable at
Liverpool, has resigned. 111-health is assigned as the
cause.

On Tuesday evening Mr. Bainbrigge delivered the con-
cluding lecture of his course on the constitution of man.
In point, of matter, as well as style of delivery, it was de-
cidedly the best of the series.

ST. kARY'S CHURCH, BIRKENHEAD.-011 Sunday last,
after excellent sermons, by the Rev. A. Knox and the
Rev. 11. Parr, the sum of £4B was collected in aid of the
Church Missionary Society.

DEATH BY DROWNING.—On Friday, the body of James
'White, a seaman who belonged to a ship now in this port,
was found in the Prince's Dock Basin ; it had not been

long in the water

Dr. Muspratt has examined the liquorice, a portion of
which it was said had such injurious effects on the child-
ren at `Vast Derby, but he has been unablo to discover

any poisonous substance in it

DEATH FROM BURNING.—On Thursday, a little girl
named Reddington, who lived with her mother, a widow,
in No. 7 court, Crosshall.street, was so severely burnt
through her clothes catching fire in the absence of her
mother, that she died on the following day.

The Montreal correspondent of the Quebec Mercury
says that the first attempt at steam navigation between
that port and Liverpool will be made next spring. The
vessel will be a propeller of 830 tons burthen, and 300
horse-power. _ _

NEW BRIDEWELL AND POLICE COURT.—The Corpo-
ration are about to erect a new bridewell on the land be-
longing to them on the north of Shaw's-brow, together
with suitable courts for conducting the daily business be-
fore the justices.
A splendid gold watch, and a beautiful purse, containing
thirty-five sovereigns, were presented, on Wednesday last,
to Mr. Thomas Rawlinson, Henry-street, traveller to
J. M. Threlfall, Esq., St James's-street, as an acknow-
ledgment of his character as a tradesman and good con-
duct in a private capacity.
An Irishman has been arrested at Cork for attempting
to pass a forged engraved bill on Messrs. Harnden and
Co., the eminent ship-brokers of this town. The bill had
been originally drawn for £B, and an " 0" had been placed
after the 8, and in the body of the bill the letter " y" was
annexed to "eight," making it eighty.
Mr. Cobden, who has been staying in Liverpool a few
days last week, has been the guest of Mr. James Mellor.
He had a lengthened interview with the Financial Reform
Association. It is understood that Mr. Cobden will make
a public communication to the chairman of that body in a
few days.

—We are sorry to find that this
excellent institution is in much need of assistance, and we
hope that at the annual meeting which will be held on
Thursday next, and at which the Mayor will preside,
some effectual step will be taken to raise the funds neces-
sary to carry on with efficiency so admirable a charity.

LYING-IN HOSPITAL

EXAMINATION OF MASTERS AND MATES.-At a meet-
ing of the Beard of Examiners, held on the sth instant,
Captain James Carlyle, late master of the " Harvest
Home," of Liverpool, and Mr. Samuel Kelly, late mate
of the " Earl of Liverpool," of this port, were examined,
and found duly qualified to receive first-class certificates as
masters.

BIRKENHEAD BAZAAR.—The annual sale of clothing
and fancy work, by the Ladies' Clothing Society, in con-
nexion with the Rev. John Gardner's Presbyterian
Chapel, Conway-street, was held last week, at which
upwards of 100 guineas was realised. The object of this
society, which has been in existence for nine years, is to
employ, clothe, and relieve the industrious and deserving
poor

On Friday morning, the smack Rose, of Dumfries,
Capt. W. Cosherty, was run down on her passag.a to
Liverpool, by the brig New Draper, Capt. Brag. The
Rose, which was laden with potatoes, went down about
17 miles from Saint Bees heads, and the crew safely got
on board the New Draper, when Capt. Bragg put back to
Whitehaven, where they were landed.

THE RATING QUESTION.—The Finance Committee
have offered to compromise the matter with the Equitable
Rating Committee of the parish on the following terms :
.--The parochial assessment on the estate of the Corpora-
tion amounts to £10,227. The Corporation have a claim
on the parish for watch and museum rates of £9419 ; and
it is proposed that the claim on both sides be abandoned.
WALLASEY.—At the meeting of the Commissioners on
Thursday, the surveyor was ordered to furnish an esti-
mate for the construction of a slip north of Egremont
slip, to be built of stone or brick, and to report as to the
best means of sewering Liscard. The north side of the
Birkenhead Dock wall at Seacombe, was ordered to be re-
paired. Three additional policemen were ordered to be

isppointed for the winter months.
The 28th of February is appointed for the Liverpool
Spring meeting, and besides the Great National Steeple
Chase, are the following stakes :—The Trial Stakes with
50 added by Lord Sefton ; the Liverpool Spring Cup
(Handicap), with 100 added; the Knowsley States for
two and three-year olds, with 30 added ; the Sefton Wel-
ter Cup with 30 added by Lord Sefton, for gentlemen
riders ; and a Selling Stake, with 30 added.
On Friday last all the children belonging to the Insti-
tution for the Deaf and Dumb were admitted freeto the
Exhibition of the " Works of Modern Artists," by the
kindness of the Directors. The pupils were highly de-
lighted with the beautiful paintings, as their signs and
gestures unequivocally demonstrated. It is an indulgence
with which they are annually favoured, and which they
periodically anticipate with intense interest.
'S SCOTCH CHURCH.—At a meeting of the
ndrew's Scotch Church, Rodney-
last, it was stated that Messrs.

ST. ANDREW

shareholders of St

Arlie, Rankin,
.Duncan Web, and Uummin, had taken
IQ the mortgage, and that the church was now in the
same position as before the negotiations for sale ; that any
shareholder who desired it could receive the amount to
which he would have been entitled had the church sold for
£4 59.
DEATH FROM COLD.—OH

iesday William Joyce, an
infant nine weeks' old, was brought over from Dublin,
with its father and mother, in the Royal William, stea-
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mother having the deceased in her arms,--ind were
nearly famished with cold. On their arrival in Liverpool
the deceased was unwell, and died about an hour after-
wards. The deceased died from exposure to cold, and a
verdict was returned to that effect. _

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ACCIDENTAL DEATH.—On Friday, Isaac Holden, ap-
pientice to a bricksetter, was at work with another appren-
tice at a warehouse in Temple-court, which is in course
of being built. Deceased was upon a wall at the fourth
story of the building. The other apprentice who was near
by upon a scaffold, heard a crash, and on looking down
saw deceased lying on the ground. He was taken to the
hospital in a state of insensibility. He had fallen on his
head, and had sustained a fracture at the base of the
skull, of which he died in the evening.

DEATH BY THE FALLING OF A SACK OF INDIAN CORN.
---On Wednesday, some men were engaged in taking in
some bags of Indian corn into the fourth story of a ware-
house in Pownall-street, by means of a rope with a thim-
ble at the end of it, and a loop made through it. Three
bags were slung at once to the rope, and as John Griffiths,
aged 23, was standing on the parapet close to the lower
door of the warehouse, two of the bags of corn, which
were then hoisted to a considerable height, fell down, and
one of them struck the deceased on the head and knocked
hi n down. He was taken home, and died on Friday.
INCREASE OF DOCK TONNAGE.—The increase in ton-
nage at Liverpool, within the short period from the 25th
June last to this date, as compared with the corresponding
period of last year, is no less than between 95,000 and
100,000 tons, while the increase in our Dock Revenue is
in some measure commensurate—not that all the compet-
ing Tonnage which crowds our docks either bring or take
full freight. Still Liverpool is the magnetic attraction.
Even prior to the late harvest arrivals, we learn that the
Customs Receipt here crept up wondrously often
£12,000, X 13,000, X 14,000, and occasionally £15,000 a day.
On Saturday week an ninquest was held at Birkenhead
on view of the body of a child, named Mary Ann Camp-
bell, whose parents resided in St. Anne,street. The
inquest was held in consequence of a report that the child
had died from starvation. The child had been for some
time labouring under scrofula and measles. The parish
bad granted both food and medical relief. From the evi-
dence of the mother it appeared, that deceased had for
some time been unable to take solid food, liquids bad
been administered without avail, and the child gradually
sank under the disease, and died on Thursday morning.
The jury returned a verdict of died from measles and
scrofula. _ _

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CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIRTY.—On Sunday week a
sermon was preached on behalf of this society, in the
parochial chapel of Rainford, near Prescot, by the Rev.
John Groom, incumbent, after which the sum of £5 was
collected. The claims of the society were also brought
forward on the following evening, at a meeting in the
National School-room. Great interest was manifested
on the part of the people, the school-room being filled by
a most attentive audience. The meeting was addressed
by the incumbent, and also by the Rev. Thomas Green,
of Bardsley, and the Rev. Henry Powell, missionary from
Ceylon, in whose address the deepest interest was taken
by all present. A further sum of £2 was collected after
it emeeting, making in all £7, a proof and earnest that
11 tChurch Missionary Society will meet with support
and favour in the little village of Rainford. We may add
that this is the first time its cause has ever been advo-
cated in Rainford.
SATURDAY EVENING CONCERTS.—On Saturday even-
ing, Mr. Bramley Moore, our newly-elected Mayor, and
a numerous party from Aigburth, attended the Saturday
Evening Concert, when Mr. Henry Russell introduced a
selection from his choicest songs. There were not less
thrn 2700 persons in the hall. Mr. Rathbone proposed a
vote of thanks to his worship for his early attendance
there. The Mayor in reply observed, that some persons
apprehended that if a taste for music prevailed we should
become effeminate and Italianized. He had no apprehen-
sions on that score. Music had won us many a battle.
Trafalgar, and many other of our naval victories, owed
their achievements in a great measure to inspiring songs
and sentiments. It was his belief that we owed as much
to such a man as Dibdin as to the bravery and gallantry
of a Nelson. Mr. W. Brown then addressed a few words
to the [audience. Mr. George Holt proposed a vote of
thanks to Mr. Caine, the chairman of the Concerts Com-
mittee, who duly acknowledged the compliment. At the
close, " God save the Queen" was called for and given
with hearty effect.