The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-22 00:00:00

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The captain of a brig, in Prince's Dock, was robtied at
—ic-house in the neighbourhood of Williamson-
on Friday evening, of £169.
imong the students admitted this term to the Birken-
head Theological College is the Hon. C. Fielding, son of
the Earl of Denbigh.
A gentleman from Sheffield, who was drunk, was rob-
bed on Wednesday night, near the Old Haymarket, of
£6O in cash and a gold watch.
T. B. Horsfall, Esq., the Mayor, has kindly given a
donation of coals to every inmate of the Corporation
Almshouses for Seamen's Widows.
The Liverpool Lion has ceased to be published. Mr.
Brough, on whom fell all the literary and illustrative
departments of that publication, is to be entertained at
dinner prior to leaving the town.
The Committee of the Corn Exchange have granted to
the Floral and Horticultural Society, the use of that
building for the exhibition of flowers, on the Ist of June,
6th July, and 14th September next.
HOUSE ROBBERY.—On Saturday night week, the house
of Mr. Barnes, Field-street, was entered by means of
skeleton keys, and wearing apparel of the value of £lO
carried away.
On Wednesday, a labourer, named John Williams, was
killed at the new railway tunnel shaft, in Gasgoyne-street.
The deceased was engaged in excavating a quantity of
clay, when a large mass fell, and smothered him.
On Monday, Charles Charleston, one of the crew of
the packet-ship John Ravenal, fell into the hold of the
ship Isaac Newton, and received a compound fracture of
the skull. He died the following morning.
On Tuesday, a young man, named Stephen Burns,
while working at the ship Sailor Prince, lying in the
Brunswick Graving Dock, fell from a stage, and fractured
his skull. He died in about five minutes.
Mr. John Masheder, late head master of the Church of
England South School, Cornwallis-street, in this town,
was on Saturday elected a scholar of Magdalene College,
Cambridge, on the Milner Foundation. Value, £75 per
annum.

QUICK PASSAGE.—The ship America, Captain Dunn,
arrived in our river Jon Wednesday, after one of the most
rapid passages on record, being only twenty-six days from
New Orleans. We understand she is one of Messrs. C.
Grimshaw and Co.'s celebrated "Black Star" Packets.
A very handsome font, of Caen stone, has been erected
in St. James's Church. The carving is exquisite, and the
bowl is sufficiently large to admit of immersion. The cost
will not be less than £7O. The design is by Mr. Hay,
the architect.
On Thursday, Chas. Turner and Robert Benn, Escirs,
sat in the Sessions-house, to adjudicate upon applications
for the transfer and removal of licenses. There were
thirty-nine applications, and of these thirty-eight trans-
fers were allowed, and one removed.
On Thursday, a man named James Murray, mate of
the Greenock, lying in the Queen's Dock, whilst intoxi-
cated attempted to go below, but in passing the hatchway,
fell head-foremast into the hold, and was killed on the
spot. _ _ _

At the meeting of the Liverpool Loan Company, on
Thursday, the net profit for the half year was declared to
be £582. and a dividend of fifteen per cent was passed.
The dividend for the previous half-year was twenty per
cent. A sum of nearly £l6O was also added to the re-
serve fund.
FRENCH PLANTS.—A very splendid and healthy collec-
tion of French ornamental and bearing plants have arrived.
They are from the nurseries of Messrs.' Martin, and Co.,
of Lyons, and are advertised for sale in our paper to-day.
As there are amongst them many rare and new specimens,
they are well worthy the attention of connoiseurs.
COLLISION BETWEEN THE NIMROD AND THE MARGA-
RET.—Captain Cooke. to whom was referred the dispute
as to the collision between these vessels, after going fully
through the merits of the case, gave his award onWed-
nesday in favour of the sailing vessel, the Margaret. The
damage is estimated at upwards of £2OO.
On Wednesday, an old woman, named Elizabeth Hill,
a resident in one of the almshouses, was burnt to death.
The deceased was discovered lying in bed quite dead, her
feet being burnt almost to a cinder. The bedclothes were
much burnt, and a candlestick was on a table at the foot
of the bed, but no candle in it. It was not ascertained
how the fire originated. •
INSPECTOR OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.—Mr James
Fell, inspector of police at Manchester,
i has been ap-
pointed inspector of weights and measures n this borough,
in the place of Mr. Thomas Arstall, at a salary of £2OO
a-year. Mr. Thomas Kissack, keeper of Rose-hill bride-
well, and Mr. John Edwards, inspector of police, have
been appointed out door district inspectors of weights and
measures, at a salary of £l2O a-year each.
SHIP FEVER.—The British ship India, Captain Gray,
(late Thompson,) arrived at New York from Liverpool,
on the 22nd ult., after a passage of 57 days. Captain
Thompson died of. the ship fever on the 14th. end during
the voyage 39 of the passengers died of the same disease.
The first officer of the ship and a large number of the
passengers were still sick. When the India left Liverpool
she had 270 passengers.
DEATH FROM LOCKJAW.—On Wednesday week, Wm.
Pritchard, aged 31, was employed at the Albert Dock
Warehouses. He had rolled some empty casks from No.
5, and loaded them into-his float, when in endeavouring
to place another rather heavy cask on the top of the others
it slipped and jammed his left hand against the wall. He
was attended by Dr. Hannay ; hut lockjaw came on, and
he died on Friday.