The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-11-25 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS.

A pilot-boat was run into, on Friday night, by a
'Steamer, an.] considerably damaged.
Some of the bakers in Liverpool have resolved to bake a
toarse quality of bread at one penny per lb.
Mr. Copeland has in preparation, at the Theatre Royal,
a splendid new comic pantomime, which will be produced
at Christmas.
On Friday evening, a gentleman had his pocket picked,
when posting a letter at the General Post-office, of a silver
Watch.
The screw steam-ship Astrologer, bound to Liverpool
from Smyrna, put into Plymouth on Wednesday for a
supply of coal.
Yesterday week some malicious person cut the wires of
the electric-telegraph, at Edge-hill. A reward of £lOO
has been offered for the apprehension of the offender.
On Tuesday night. C. Cowden Clarke, Esq., of Lon-
don, delivered the second of four lectures at the Collegiate
Institution, on the contrasted characters of Shakspeare.
The new Mayor. Thomas Littledale, E-q., gave his first
official dinner on Thursday night, at the Town-hall. The
Enernbet s of the Council and Dock Commit tee were invited.
MR. HENRY RUSSELL.—This highly popular vocalist
Will give his new entertainment every evening this week,
at the Theatre Royal. _ _

The iii4lshandjNOrth American Royal Mail steam-ship
America, Shannon, commander, departed from the Mersey
at 11 a.m., on Saturday, for New York direct, with the
usual mails and a full complement of passengers.
His worship the Mayor, Thomas Littledale, E,q., has
become a patron of the Saturday Evening Concerts, and
be has expressed his intention of being present at the con-
cert on Saturday, the 6th of next month.
In the list, just published, of the gentlemen elected to
scholarships in St. John's College, Cambridge. we observe
the name of Mr. C. T. Hudson, late of the Royal Insti-
tution School.
LIVERPOOL SAVINGS' BANK.—At the annual opening
of accounts on Saturday week, the total sum deposited
Was £3.264, being £BOO more than at the corresponding
Period of last year. Seventy-four new accounts wereopened.
Father Gavazzi is to visit Liverpool or. the 28th instant,
and is announced to lecture on the Papal Aggression in
England; Popish Apostleship; Disorder and Immorality
in Society resulting from Popery ; and Italy.
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ACCIDENT.—On Friday evening, about eight o'clock, a
woman named Lloyd was knocked down and run over by
a pony in North John-street, and severely injured. Sha
was taken to the hospital.
EFFECTS OF DRUNKENNESS.—An inquest was held on
Wednesday. on the body of Charles Brown, a child, who
Was accidentally overlain by its drunken mother, on
Tuesday night, in Bonastre-street.
On Tuesday last, before the committee for the regula-
tion of cars, &c. Thomas Hall had his license revoked,
for taking luggage to his house entrusted to him to deliver,
on the complaint of Sergeant Carnes, detective officer.
THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO ALANCFIESTER.— A very
beautiful tinted lithographic print, of large size, giving a
fine view of the Royal Procession turning down Mosley-
street, Manchester, has just been published by Messrs.
Maclure, Macdonald, and Macgregor.
The furniture of the retiring rooms fitted up in the
Town-hall for the Queen and Prince Albert, was put up
to auction on Monday, by Messrs. Winstanley and Sons,
for Messrs. Holden and Parker, the furnishers. High
Prices were expeeted, but the several articles scarcely
realised their intrinsic value.
BALL AT THE PHILHARMONIC-HALL.—The ball, On
Thursday evening, was numerously and fashionably at-
tended. The patroness, the Countess of Sefton, was ac-
tompanied by a distinguished piny, as were Sir John
Bent and his worship the Mayor. There were present
about 500 of the elite of the town and vicinity..

An artilleryman, belonging to the corps stationed at the
Rock Battery, was found, at an early hour on Sunday
morning, lying dead on the sands near the battery. It is
Supposed that he had endeavoured to reach the battery,
which is entirely surrounded by water when the tide flows,
Whilst in a state of intoxication.

On Friday night, about six o'clock, a male infant, aged
about fourteen days, was left in a garden attached to No.
71, Hampson-terrace, Mill-road, Everton. It was found
shortly afterwards, wrapped up in an old shawl, but the
Person and clothes were remarkably clean. The child was
taken to the Union Workhouse, in Mill-road.
SYR° -LEBANON COMPANY.—A company of twelve
individuals, natives of the neighbourhood of Mount Leba-
non, in Syria, give an entertainment at the Philharmonic-
ball, this week, illustrative of the manners, customs, and
social life of their country. Tb, y have appeared in London
and Dublin, where they excited much interest.
AN AGED FEMALE BURNT TO DEATH.—An inquest
Was held on Friday on Mary Barker, an infirm female,
Upwards of eighty years of age, who resided in Jenkinson-
street. On Thursday, at mid•day, her clothes ignited as
she sat by the fire, and before assistance came she was so
seriously injured that death was the result.
LIVERPOOL WINTER ASSI ES.—The commission will
be opened at Liverpool on Saturday, the fith of December,
before Baron Parke and Justice Erle. The committee of
the Council have resolved that the assizes shall be held in
the new courts, St. George's Hall, which are to be pre-
pared forthwith for occupation.
BODIES OF CHILDREN FOUND. —On Wednesday an in-
quest was held on the body of a still-born child which was
found in a raisin-box, in the yard of St. Patrick's Chapel,
in the Park-road. Also, on the body of a new-born fe-
male child, which was found on a piece of waste land be-
tween Banastre- street and Garden-lane.

DR. FISHER'S ESTABLISHMENT.— The Rev. W. G.
Warr, Incumbent of St. Saviour's, delivered an excellent
address, yesterday morning, to Dr. Fisher's pupils. The
subject selected was respect and confidence due to their
instructors, a high sense of honour in all their words and
actions, and a constant fear of the Lord in their hearts,
as the beginning of true wisdom and understanding.
TasTtstoNtAL.—We understand that Mr. T. De Under-
wood, the master of St. Matthias's School, in this town,
has lately been presented with a valuable gold ring, as a
testimonial of respect, from Messrs. Stewart and Hill,
surgeons, and other inhabitants of that district, for his
unremitting attention to the sick for: the last five years,
especially in the time of the cholera and fever.

SHORT PASSAGE.—By letter. received from G;braltar,
we learn that the screw-steamer Arno, Captain Haram,
which left here for Italy, on the morning of the 6th
instant, arrived at that port on the 11th, having made the
run out in the unprecedentedly short time of five days
and four hours, thus maintaining her high character for
swiftness and regularity.
WEST DERBY WARD.—On Friday evening, a dinner
to czlebrate the return of Mr. Beckwith for this ward
took place at Coombes' Hotel, Edge-hill. The company
consisted of upwards of sixty, amongst whom were
Alderman Dover, Councillors Henderson, Thomson,
Fernihough, Bighorn, Godfrey, Bradley, &c. Mr. What-
ham occupied the chair. _

FLOUR• DEALERS AND BAKERS' ASSOCIATION.—The
committee of this association, finding that there is a desire
on the part of some of the trade to bake a coarse quality
of bread, at one penny per pound, have passed the
following resolution :—" That members be requested to
use their own discretion as to the desirability or non-
desirability of commencing the same."
Mr. Henry Russell, the celebrated vocalist, has pre-
sented a donation of £lO to the charities :—.x3 to the
Stranger's Friend Society, £1 to the Northern Hospital,
41 to the Dispensaries, £1 to the Infirmary, £1 to the
Southern Hospital, £1 to the Eye and Ear Infirmary, £1
to the Asylum for Orphan Boys, and £1 to the Sabbath
Services for the Working Classes.

STREET ROBBERY AND VIOLENCE.—OR Sunday even-
ing, Mr. James Church, who is far advanced in years,
Was on his way home in Dutton-street. :when one of a
Rang of three ruffians attempted to trip his heels. This
railing, he was seized by the throat, thrown on the ground,
rendered insensible by a violent blow on the top of the
head with some heavy weapon, his trowsers quickly cut
open, and his pockets rifled, the scoundrels making clear
off with a valuable silver watch.

HALE ELECTION AND SPORTS took place on Wednes
day. There were several visitors and a band of music
from Liverpool. Amongst other sports there was a
Bloomer foot race, for 55., for whicii ten villagers con-
tested, all fantastically attired in the new dress. Before
starting, the Bloomers, preceded by a band, marched in
Procession through the village, amid the cheering of the
assembled multitude. There were two candidates for the
mayoralty ; and, after much fun, Mr. Gill, a sturdy
sawyer, was elected.

A. PILOT DROWNED.—On Friday morning, a fatal
accident occurred between Point Lynes and the Or mshead.
It appears that Pilot-boat No. 9 was bearing down to No.
6, for the purpose of transferring two hands, when the
raainboom of No. 9 gibed and struck one of the pilots,
named John Jones, with such force as to knock him over-
board. Lifebnoys were immediately thrown out and every
effort made to save him ; but, notwithstanding which, the
unfortunate man sank to rise no more. The deceased
Was only twenty-four years of age. A. reward has been
offered for the recovery of the body.
LUMP 'EM.—A young Wesleyan student recently
occupied, on Sunday morning, the pulpit of one of their
chapels in Manchester,and in his prayer he prayed for the
queen, Prince Albert, and each of the Royal babes by
name, then proceeded to the Duchess of Kent, and got as
far as the King of Hanover, when a blunt, honest country-
roan, who happened to be a worshipper, tired of this long
catalogue, cried out aloud " Lump 'em ! lump 'em !" A
hearty " Amen !" from the congregation testified how
feelingly they entered into the countryman's request, to
the surprise and confusion of the .4 man in black.,,_
boncaster Chronicle.
On Sunday last, two very impressive sermons were
Oreached in St. Peter's Church, Aintree, and collections
trade in behalf of the choir ; that in the morning by the
R. J. Crump, A. 8., Incumbent of St. Mary's, Bootle ;
lead in the afternoon by the Rev. John Stewart, M.A.,
rector of West Derby. The reverend gentlemen were
attentively listened to by attentive cengregations, and
the sum of £lB lls. 6d. was collected ; the prayers were
,tsled by the minister, the Rev. W. H. Vernon, and the
;Inging of the choir was very creditable ; it was indeed
Pleasing to see so large a number of Sunday School
children.

THE RAMSHAY INQUIRY FUND,`—YeSterday, a depu-
tron, consisting of Messrs. Gladstone, S. Holum, Jeffery,
,0.42,g, and Bennett, waited upon his worship the Mayor,
h': "le Town-hall, to request that his worship would use
_it influence with the Council to induce them to vote the
nount of money still necessary to defray the expenses
V2he late inquiry at Preston, (the deficiency being some-
-41 over £300), out of the corporate funds. The depu-
hi rn was received most courteously ; but we understand
inn to briworship
ng intimated his pinion that it would be less
the matter before the Council, afters the
Opinion given by the the Town-clerk.

ACCIDENT TO THE PACKET-SHIP GREAT WESTERN.—
A serious accident happened, on Saturday, to the fine
New York packet-ship Great Western, Captain Shearman,
in consequence of having taken the ground in the Waterloo
Basin whilst attempting to dock. When the tide receded,
the weight of her cargo severely strained her, and caused
her to leak. She was got into dock on Saturday night.
THE UNITED STATES SCREW STEAM SHIP PIONEER.—
The United States new screw steam-ship Pioneer, Asa
Eldridge, commander, sailed from the Mersey at 11 a.m.,
on Saturday, for New York, with 15 first cabin, 25 second
cabin, and a full complement of steerage passengers, and
a large and valuable cargo. We have been informed that
upwards of one hundred more than the complement ap-
plied for steerage passages.
PORTRAIT OF Jos. B. YATES, ESQ.—This portrait,
which is admitted to be one of the most successful efforts
of our distinguished townsman Mr. Westcott, was painted
about a year ago. for the members of the Literary and
Philosophical Society. We understand that the arrange-
ments are nearly complete for its presentation; and the
members are oat rally desirous that this should take place
in a public and formal manner.
Lord Campbell, in the Queen's Bench, has given judg-
ment on an appeal by the overseers against the exemption
of the Manchester Atbenmum from being rated to the
poor-rate, declaring there is not a pretence for the ex-
emption claimed, the institution not being exclusively
founded for the advancement of literature, science, or the
fine arts, but partly for that purpose, and partly to put
money into the pockets of the founders.

THE MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.—Upwards of 200 miles
of insulated wire have already been laid down by the
Magnetic Tel.-graph Company upon a portion of the Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire Railway; and the new line of tele-
graph between Manchester and Liverpool, belonging to
this company, will be opened in a week or two. The
mesmeric teleeraph appears to have fulfilled all the favour-
able anticipations that have been formed respecting it,
wherever it has been employed.
THE CITY OF DUBLIN STEAM COMPANY.—This Com-
pany, at their meeting in Dublin, last week, declared a
dividend of three per cent. for the half-year. The profit
of the half-year is £21.690, out of which £7.500 has been
invested in government securities. Messrs. Hartley,
Ewart, and Robertson were elected directors. The
directors have decided on not publishing their accounts, a
practice generally followed by the other steam companies
in the United Kingdom.
LIVERPOOL COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—Re Thomas
Hailstone.—On Thursday, this bankrupt, who had carried
on the business of a grocer at Wheelock and Sandbach. in
Cheshire. and had also been engaged, in partnership with
a Mr. William Green, as a silk-throwster, underwent
examination. Mr. John Yates, jun., the bankrupt's
solicitor, applied for his certificate. The affairs of the
estate had been wound up, and produced a dividend of
ss. Eld. in the pound.—First-class certificate granted.
ORMSKTRK IN DARKNESS.—Owing to a dispute be-
tween the gas inspectors and the gas company, at Orms.
kirk, the streets of that town have Peen in total darkness
since the 4th instant. The gas company require 7s. 6d.
per thousand, and the inspectors offered to pay 6s. per
thousand. The hoard of health and the public generally
have taken part with the inspectors. The board of health
asserts its intention of using its powers over the public
streets, and the retepayers have met and passed resolu-
tions approving of the conduct of the inspectors.

CONSEQUENCES OF CAT WORRYING.—It appears
that a number of brutes are in the habit of stealing
eats in this town and worrying them with dogs. In
July last some of these miscreants turned a cat
loose in a room in the neighbourhood of Nursery-street,
Kirkdale. The cat, after having been dreadfully muti-
lated, contrived to escape, when, in its agony, it bit a goat
and several children. The goat shortly afterwards exhi-
bited signs of hydrophobia, and was destroyed. Last
week one of the children was seized with similar symp-
toms, and died in excruciating agony.
FATHER MATIIEW.—The Rev. Theobald Mathew, the
" Apostle of Temperance," arrived at this port on Wed-
nesday, in the United States mail steamer Pacific, Captain
Nye. Father Mathew has been absent from this country
about two years and a half. During his stay in America
he visited twenty.five states of the union, administered
the pledge in about three hundred of the principal towns
or cities, travelled 37,000 miles, exclusive of the two voy-
ages across the Atlantic, and added to the ranks of tem-
perance in America over 600.000 disciples. He is at pre-
sent residing at Green Bank, the mansion of Mr. Wm.
Rathbone, and will leave Liverpool in a day or two.
LICENSED VICTUALLERS' DINNER.—The annual din-
ner of the members of the past and present year's com-
mittee of the Licensed Victuallers' Association, took place
at Danson's llotel, on Wednesday evening last. The
chair was occupied by Mr. Richard Lumb, and the vice-
chair by Mr. J. Allinson. Mr. Councillor Thomson
responded to the toast of " The Town and Trade of Liver-
pool," and handed over a donation of £2O to the chair-
man. Mr. Thomson intimated his intention of giving
to the different charities the money saved by his election
being uncontested. Other toasts interspersed with songs
followed, and the party continued to enjoy themselves
until twelve o'clock.
THE LATE BOILER EXPLOSION AT GARSTON.—AR
inquest was held on Friday, before the deputy coroner,
touching the death of a workman, named John Lloyd,
who died on Thursday, from the effects of injuries he re-
ceived at Garston, on the 28th ult., through the bursting
of a steam boiler at the Garston dock works. The engine,
it appeared, was new, and calculated to bear 250111 to
the square inch, though at the time of the explosion the
weight was only 351bs. Several practical engineers and
boiler-makers, who were examined, said that the only
way in which they could account for the accident was,
that some particle of solid matter got into the safety-
valve, and stopped it. The jury ultimately returned a
verdict of "accidental death."

TESTIMONIAL.—The Rev. C. A. Graham, for the last
six years and-a-half the active and beloved curate of St.
James', Toxteth-park, having been promoted to the
benefice of Bidston, has been presented with a handsome
pocket Communion Service, containing the following in-
scription:—" Presented by the congregation of St. James'
Church, Toxteth-park. Liverpool, (with a purse contain.
ing fifty pounds,) tone Rev. C. A. Graham, 8.A., on his
promotion to the living of Bidston, as a testimonial of
their esteem, and the value they set on his services during
his curacy at St. James'." He has also received from the
girls and infants of St. James' Schools a handsomely-
mounted " Old Oak" Inkstand, with a suitable inscrip-
tion. These tributes of gratitude to the diligently per-
formed duties of a really hard-working clergyman to
equal homour to the donors as to the receiver.

PUBLIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM.—Subscriptions and
books have been already obtained in sufficient quantity to
warrant a formal opening of the library early in the en-
suing year. In conjunction with the library, the Derby
museum will be laid out in the building recently purchased
by the Corporation, formerly the Union newsroom, at the
corner of Duke-street and Slater-street. The model of
the Liverpool docks has been brought back from London,
and the workmen are now engaged in fitting it up in the
upper room of the building. This, and the valuable col-
lection of mercantile products, will form centres for two
distinct museums, of different characters, and with differ-
ent uses. The Derby museum consists of a third class,
namely, natural history. It has been stated that the
Library and Museum Committee have agreed to give
accommodation at these rooms for the collection of the
Historic Society.
VISIT OF THE EARL OF SHAFTESBURY TO TFIE MANU-
FACTURING DISTRICTS.—This nobleman is now on a
visit to the manufacturing districts, for the purpose of
impressing upon the operative classes the necessity and
importance of carrying out such sanitary measures as will
tend to the amelioration of their social condition. His
lordship is accompanied by Mr. Edwin Chadwick, a
gentleman whose labours, in connection with the General
Board of Health, are so well known ; and during his stay
in Manchester has been the guest of Mr. Wm, Fairbairn,
C.E. His lordship arrived in Manchester on Wednesday
evening, and, on Thursday morning, proceeded to view
the Corporation Water Works at Woodhead. In the
evening of the same day, an address was presented to his
lordship, at the Cotton Tree Inn, Great Ancoats-street.
On Friday, his lordship visited Bolton, and addressed a
numerous meeting of the operatives of that town in the
evening.—Manchester Courier.

ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.—We generally look upon pre-
cocious children, like other prodigies, with an eye of sus-
picion, and it was with this feeling that we attended
the Amphitheatre last week, to witness the performances
of the Bateman family. In this instance we were agreeably
disappointed, for we found,—not as we expected, the
mere repetition by rote, of a number of sentences,
like a schoolby going through his lesson, or like a parrot
that has been " taught to talk"—but really legitimate
acting, true preception of comic humour, and a correct
impersonation of character, truly astonishing in such
mere infants. In the " Young Couple," a piece trans-
lated from tho French, and particularly adapted to their
peculiar talents, they ape with considerable cleverness the
airs of married people, ludicrously intermixed with the
childish disputes natural to the age they represent. Ellen
Bateman took her benefit on Friday evening, when we
had an opportunity of seeing them in both tragedy and
comedy. With regard to the former, we think it a very
great mistake, which is generally made with children who
have evinced a talent for dramatic pursuits, in putting
them forward at all in tragic parts. To see pigmies play-
ing to giantsis quite out of place, and to see and hear a
child strutting before and addressing full-grown men in
the language of a hero, in such a piece as Richard the
Third, is so palpably absurd that it travesties the great
conceptions of our immortal poet. The deeper feelings
of humanity require something more tangible and sub-
stantial to stir them into action, and though Kate and
Ellen Bateman in their acting of their respective parts,—
the Duke of Richmond and King Richard—displayed
consummate tact and ability, and great correctness through-
out, still, their physical incapacity to sustain the characters
was, to us at least, extremely painful, and we have no
desire to see them placed in such positions again. The
one act of " Paul Pry," which followed, was much better,
and Ellen as Mr. Paul Pry, with her enormous boots,
comical-shaped hat, the eye-glasses that were everlast-
ingly getting rubbed to keep them bright, and last, though
most assuredly not least, her umbrella of extraordinary
colours, looked a very inquisitive little personage, and
kept the audience in continued laughter by her amusing
whimsicalities ; while Kate's arch humour and power of
mimicy produced roars of merriment. Mr. Bateman, the
father, also played in this piece with complete success.
In addition to these clever little people, we have had Mr.
Baker during the week, whose theatrical experience and
ability enable him to sustain every part he undertakes
with the strictest propriety, and his daughter, Miss
Fanny Baker, whose lady-like demeanour and amiability
of character no less than her talents as a finished actress,
secure for her the respect and esteem of all who have the
pleasure of her acquaintance.