The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-04-01 00:00:00

The steam-ship Africa, which sailed for New York on
uaturday, took out above a hundred passengers.
On Saturday the dead body of a male child was found
floating in the Clarence Dock.
'o fir. Driffield, the deputy town-clerk, has resigned his
On Sunday afternoon the body of a man unknown was
`found lying on the beach of the Duke's Pier.
On Friday night, a boat attached to the Lady Faulk-
iirVaPsized as the vessel was coming up the river, and
c) boys were drowned.
boon Sunday morning, the body of a child, supposed to
been still born, was found lying on the flags near to
the Potteries, Wellington-road, Park.
The United States mail steam-ship Atlantic, now under
t~eair in this port, is expected to resume her station on
line during the ensuing month.
The Literary and Philosophical Society of this town
l,,!8 Presented to the Manchester Free Public Library, a
•wil of their printed proceedings.
~On Thursdy the sum of £66 ws collected at St. Pe-
Church, a
in aid oft)e Orphan Boys Asylum, after a
'sermon by the Bishop of Chester.
t Amongst the gentlemen admitted members of the Royal
iinillege of Surgeons last week, was Mr. Edward Robert
ckersteth, of this town.
An additional steamer, of lar tonnage and power, to
" called the Adriatic, is aboutge to be placed on the line
of the United States Mail Steamship Company.
On Tuesday a meeting of gentlemen interested in the
erection of a new church at Aigburth was held in the
e'larendon - room s.
The proceedings of the Birkenhead Charity Ball,
keounting to between £5O and £6O, have been handed
to the charities by Dr. Scolfield, the chairman of the
e'n!ernittee.
un Tuesday evening. a seaman, named Evan Mann, on
ooard the Sarah and Louisa, of Boston, owing t,-) a stage
Arawnedgiying way, was precipitated into the Prince's Dock, and
m.
The tradespeople, artisans, and others engaged on the
model of Liverpool, have presented a handsome silver
snuff-box to Mr. A. J. Beloe, the gentleman engaged in
ellterintending the completion of the model.
A .....he packet-ship Parliament (Train and Co's line), Capt.
IL Brown, arrived from Boston on Monday last, after
a fine passage of seventeen days. She brings as a portion
of her cargo 500 tons Wenham Lake ice.
°o Monday last the pupils of the Rev. S. P. Bout-
rier. Seaforth, presented Mr. A. Arnstein, Professor of
holdgurages, with a handsome gold pencil-case and pen-
to mark their their esteem and regard for him.
U Tuesday a woman of violent temper and weak mind,
na
riled Salmon, lately a servant with Mr. Edwards, Tox-
teth-lodge, drank a quantity of laudanum. She was re-
Moved to the Infirmary, but died next day.
we understand that Messrs. Willoughby contemplate
erecting a bridge across the Tranmere Pool, from the
101 of Birkenhead slip to Tranmere slip, with the view of
affording increased accommodation to their passengers.
°n Saturday week, John Clarke was seen, whilst drunk,
to fall on his head off the steps of Jackson's spirit vaults,
alter-street. When taken up he was brought into the
Vaults and rallied, but he died on Wednesday.
Alr• Alfred King, manager of the United Gas Com-
r'lnYs works, has recently made experiments on a cannel
of which
discovered at Boghead, near Falkirk, the gas
tn,y_rhich is found to be very valuable.
si During the week ending March 7th, 45 cases rhubarb,
Llcrth.rales sponge, &c., were exported from New York to
e.,•-I.7°n ; and six cases silk, 69 unmanufactured ditto, and
-6'ty tierces flaxseed to Liverpool.
x,tiliEttlCAN TCF.—Me ars. Ropes, Noyer, and Co., of
Foril John-street, have within the last few days imported
r tons of ice from Wenham Lakes, by the ship Par-
lintaent.
,
Friday a woman, named Susan Macmanus, who had
te`oasho Liverpool from Ireland with the view of pro-
ho to America to join her husband, was run over by
rse and cart in Volcan-street, near Waterloo Dock,
and died at the Northern Hospital shortly after.
itoune of the curiosities landed from the St. Lawrence on
eofrtil,,day is a packet containing an air-exhausted metal
age ""t1 which a human body could be preserved for
without decay. It contained a bouquet of flowers
is as fresh as when it was first placed thera.
rehs'ke miniature model of the seven-hilled city of Rome
Wins still for a short time longer on view in the Exhi-
th,_l)l-rooms, Church-street. All who have not yet seen
the
beautiful model should avail themselves at once of
vi,elMortunity afforded of visiting it.
I.6,4,ll.Thursday, as two girls were gathering materials for
Of rn In a quarry near the Potteries, at the extreme end
theaoxteth-park, a stone above gave way and fell upon
%porn' One of them, named Sarah M'Henry, was killed
.4.11.' the s
f.L poto and the other had her leg broken.
was the Stafford Assizes, on Kmday, Frederick Orchard
in antenced to three months' imprisonment for having,
this t 49, married Mary Daley, at St. Peter's Church, in
aziarr2wn• his first wife (Catherine Tobin), whom he had
Air led at St. Nicholas's Church, in 1836, being still alive.
clerks Thomas White, for some time one of the principal
Cerri,,,,n"ltbe treasurer's department of the Public,offices,
koval aTs-street has been promoted (subject to the ap-
lPillten°e' the Council) to the situation vacant by the ap-
%ne.hisniti.of Mr. Tweedie to the treasurer's office at the
mere, filiPhitants of the Limekiln-lane division of Tran-
upthe fing the county police almost powerless in quell-
ee th regeent tumults in that neighbourhood, have,
appointed Provisions of an act of parliament, met, and
Of Pres, ,a° inspector and three officers for the purpose
Captain Peace and protecting property.
Knight, haA's mold Moore Knight, son of Sir Arnold
the Caue
take.__ a. y
Mouexchane'd from the 7th Dragoon Guards to
Mounted Riflemen, which corps will no doubt
active pa rt
very
the
Guardsar. Captain Knight
'en." In the 7th Drag in the last war, and
was one of the aides-decampoon of Sir Harry Smith.
4,0 n Tuesday a very clever entertainment was got up at
the Concert-hall, by the Caledonian Tent of Rechabites,
belhalf ot the Polish ref

sed in
I by a

as £lB, after

Ulla amountnUalent.c,
received for the refugees ',—
lug all expenses.
IV MELANCHOLY DEATH.—On Tueselay night, James
elann Clarke, a young 'man in the employ of Mr. ft. B.
oore, solicitor, of Carlisle who was in Liverpool pro-
ssionally in connexion with' the assizes, burst a blood-
_essel as he was passing down Manchester-street. He
into a bird fancier's shop and asked for a surgeon
'0 be sent for, but in a few moments expired.
zia?n Tuesday a seaman, named Mann, on board the
the and Louisa, lying in the Prince's Dock, was rearing
.fitt ioreeta
a 3', and was carrying the end of it along a stage
ameleoatside the vessel, when one of the planks broke,
sbej Precipitated into the dock. He was got out
ra an-roL;en minutes, but though the usual restoratives
,;.",geel, life was extinct.
rY, "A4ltday week, a drunkard seized hold of a ch.ild
iOson-street, and was in the act of dashing it
ivlnspta'fic Pavement, when the mother: '—
Lime
t•mer,,,
rushed out of the house, and interpo..
herself save the life of her offspring; but she received
terrific blow on the face, which cut her cheek
rbenAtO the bone.
a bet zcING EXTRAORDINARY..—On Wednesday evening,
Vir:,was decided at the rooms of Mr. J. L. Reynolds,
Of tttstre et, Liverpool, to dance for the greatest length
and bout intermission. The schottishe was selected,
half .
competitors being placed, dancing commenced at
tni,;;-ast eight, and was kept up with great spirit, not
declared att single step until ten o'clock, when fatigue
winner.
SAlLtea.. •ORS' HOME BAZAAR,
onficent event are rapid.
t
A„_n that it will be on
12e5 t ever held in the town.
r.a volunteered to take stalls.
4°Untain shall be placed in the centre
and that the entrance-ball be decorated with exotics and
evergreens.
v.
Pei AND EAR INFIRMARY.—The Manchester Shaks-
uhtan Society will pla at our Theate Ryal, on the 25th
T1;(,414, for the benefit of our Eye ando Ear Infirmary

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Preeeireedebwilr: i;ologue,
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expyressly for the oceaa
ofcl't a Poet of c0n..,:
uook entitled " Rhyme, Roman
ho • RRPOOL HORSE
botht fair Was held on Wednesday.
dao 11,Yers and sellers far exceeds

3 of twenty ladies
s intended that a
of the large hall,

nd " The Revic

an, by J. B. Rogerson,
able talent, known as the author

nd Reveri,

second Liverpool

attendance of

'll'¢ She number of horses brought to the fair was 235,
Roocit Increase of 82 over the last fair day.
.There was
that vvegernand for horses f a better deseriptlon ; those
good she exhibited sold readily and well. There was a
ru.."ew of cart bnrapa and roadsters.

Scrtiw STEADIER ARNO.—T,
on Cern, which left here on the evenit
Gihr:,,second voyage to the Mediterranean, arr,
after in the short space of five days fifteen hot.
sea, encountering strong head-winds and a hea cross
o.`n te4Gft_er a detention there of seven hours, she proceeded.
*late, Genoa, which she reached on the. 21st, in nine days
heii 4 hours from Liverpool, including stoppages. We
pervNe this is the shortest trip on record.
ALE.--In centuries past ale was the sdopted. be.-
hee,„? of our forefathers. and the rapidity. with which it
stid ;:e abandoned by our yeomen as an auxiliary to health
nphe6r9nßth, can only be attributed to some difficulty in
0t a 'Ong the system of its manufacture. Good water is
lent "e" important ingredient in the brewing than excel-
tewriTalt and hops, and thence it is that in sea board.
taro Where the water is hard or brackish,
. good ale is
ale j attained. The best ales consumed in Liverpool
rien,oo,e from inland breweries, amongt the most prom-
ef .!.• of which in public favour is that of Matthew Brown,
tistti-reston, whose ale possesses all the desired charact.e-
Lai)," et. Purity—flavour, strength, and unequalled bril-
1,
tePiZed'lEß-:IEAD BATHS.—.The Sub-Committee have
treu„. 0t e Dock Committee that the whole of the
e :'" ou the west side of the George's Dock would be
"Ired
keetil
for dock purposes. At the Dock Committee
tese, 1F ou Thursday Mr. Sandbach explained thst this
te,l4u"on had been cOme to in consequence of the Finance
aidinittee requiring an immediate answer, otherwise an
diat_r: would have been given to repair the baths imme-
f:t'Y ; but no expenses would b incurred until the hd
the t 4 Mr. Langsdale said theye bad a long discussioy sn in
arena Health Committee on the subject, and they did not
ag r
there eeable to give this land up. Mr. Holme said
tiere appeared to be two clashing interests in the town.where was a place in the centre of Liverpool unoccupied,
they could form, according to a plan now prepar-
WiTheentral docks, and he regretted that, from a little
the bath feeling, there should be an endeavour to keep
tp ~:!aths there. It was proposed to put an engine down.
atic gernt, P water, and the baths would be as well placed in
ladies Part of the town ; for it was well known that
if th' never would go to those baths. Mr. Turner thought
CoureA) Dock Committee said they waisted this land, the
theof uathiswould not confirm the proposition for the repair

e Arno, Captain G.
g of the 11th inst.,
ed at