The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-07-09 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS.

The body of an infant was found dead, in St. Thomas's
Church-yaid, by the watchman, at six o'clock on Sunday
morning.
LIVERPOOL AINTREE RACES.—The Stewards elected for the
next meeting are Sir R. W. Bulkeley, Bart., and T. W. Gif-
faid, Esq., of Chillington. A valuable stakes, to be called the
Knowsley Stakes, of £lOO each, for three year-olds, has been
concluded upon during the last week. Ten gentlemen have
already become subscribers to them.
Boat races, for several silver cups, will, we understand, take
blace on the river Mersey, on or about the 21st instant. The
oats will start from the Egremont Hotel.

SLDDEN DEATH.-Mr. Barker, a Manchester gentleman,
was on the Liverpool 'Change on Friday last, and died, the
same night, at his own house.

• The Liverpool select committee consists of the following
members:—Mr. M. Philips, Mr. Bannerman, Mr. Langdale,
Mr. Brodie, Mr. B. Oswald, Mr. Ryle, Mr. Birt, Mr. Barnard,
Mr. J. O'Connell, Mr. Wedgwood, Mr. E. Curtcis, Mr. L.
Fenton, Mr. B. Handley, Mr. J. Marshall, and Mr. Nichol'.
TH UNDERSTORM.--011 Sunday a tremenlous thunderstorm broke
over this town. About noon, the storm was most terrific. The
lightning was intensely vivid; the peals of thunder were awfully
loud ; and the rain, falling in torrents, rolled down from the higher
to the lower parts of the town, inundating several districts.
The electric fluid struck the windmill in Limekiln-lane, belong-
ing to Mr. Rawsthorn. It damaged the sails, and, entering the
top, took the hoisting chain fm a Franklin, or conductor,
and passed by it to the bottom floor, the flags of which it tore
up. •It then ascended by the same means to the top room,
and'forced out the wall, the bricks of whiCh were projected up-
wards of one hundred yards. It being the time of Divine ser•
vice the mid was not working, and, consequently, the workmen
escaped injury. The storm spent its violence in this outbreak ;
but it did not wholly pass away till three o'clock. The rain
continued to fall during the afternoon.

ROBBERIES.—On Saturday night several attempts were made
to enter the offices and warehouses in Tarleton-buildings, Cha-
pel-street, and in two instances the thieves were successful.—
fhe property abstracted from them was not of any great value.
FIRE.--Yesterday morning, about half-past two o'clock, a
fire was discovered by the watchman of the district to have
broken out in the cellar of a warehouse in Vernon-street, occu-
pied by Mr. Dicker. The Mayor was early in his attendance,
and was assisted by Mr. Parlour and a body of the police, and
Mr. Whitty, the superintendant of the nightly watch, in pre-
serving the necessary order, and in protecting the property re-
moved- front the apprehended danger. The Gas Company's
fire-engine was the first that arrived, and was immediately
worked with great effect until the other engines arrived. '1 he
warehouse was nearly full of damaged cotton. How the fire
originated we have not heard. The loss is estimated at £l2OO,
which we are happy to say is insured.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENTS CONNECTED WITH THE RACES.—
We lament to state, that several persons have lost their lives,
and others been manned, by the crowded state of the roads-and
'streets with vehicles returning from the Aintree Race-course.
Oa Wednesday evening, as two carts with passengers were
coining through Kirkdale, and driving very fast, a person on the
road saw a boy falling over the side of one of them, and hu-
manely rushed forward to save him. In doing so he unfortu-
nately fell, and the wheel of one of the carts passed over his
arm, 'fracturing it so dreadfully that it was obliged to be ampu-
iated. It is said that the driver of the cart, who is a black man,
residing in Naylor-street, was drunk, and was racing with the
other cart at the time of the accident.—On Thursday night, as
Mr. Jonathan Birtles, plasterer, was returning from the races
in a gig, he observed a boy in the act of falling from a cart. In
leaping out of the gig fur the purpose of saving him, he fell and
broke his arm, and also his leg. He was brought home, and
although medical assistance was immediately obtained, we re-
gret to state that he died on Friday mornin(7.—On Friday even-
ing, about seven o'clock, a fine little boy, about three years old,
son of Mr. Spears, watchmaker, Tenterden-street, Scotland-
road, strayed trom its father's door and was knocked over by a
shandry. Before it could he picked up by the bystanders, the
*heel of a cart loaded with people returning from the races
passed Over its neck, and killed it on the spot. On the same
evening, about half-past eight o'clock, as three gentlemen were
returning iu a gig from the races, it came in contact, at Wal-
ton, with a cart, which, being before it, suddenly stopped. One
of the,gentlemen, Mr. Samuel Griffiths, the clerk of the Mag-
hull Race-course, an individual well known on the turf, was
thrown out by the concussion, and, the wheel passing over him,
he expired on Saturday morning, at two o'clock.

COA L- PIT ACCIDENT.—On Thursday, as the engineer and an
underlooker were going to repair the pump-rods of the three-
quarters' mine, situated near Hutton-lane-end, in Over Hutton,
the engine not being in geer, the coaltub and the men who were
in it fed to the bottom of the pit, by which the engineer, named
Henry Bowdon, was killed on the spot, and the underlooker
had liis leg broken. It is not known whether he has yet reco-
vered or not, but he has had the best surgical assistance, by tb,e
direction of W. Hutton, Esq. of Hulton Park. .' --r
Atirtidnp.- -Often, and over and over and over again, have
we been reluctantly compelled to quote the memorable line—
`• A was an Althorp, as dull as a hog?'
Now, more in sorrow than in anger, we allude to it. In sober
sadness, it is pitiful to see a kind-hearted old cock, as we believe
Maori) to be, quizzed by the Tories, flouted by the Hadica!s,
and scorned by his colleagues. Yet, among all this, we have
ore consolation—that he Wilt be the means of breaking up the
Cabinet —Age.

There has been a numerous and splendid meeting during the
last week, at Cambridge, of the "British Association for the
advancement of Science," at which were congregated all the
Itained and scientific men of the age. In the Literary Gazette
of yesterday there is a copious detail of all the proceedings of
this highly gifted congregation. During the sittings of the
illustrious body, the degree of Doctor of Civil Law was con-
ferred by the University on Admiral Duudas. For what
particular service this honour was administered we know
not ; nor have we room to
.put upon record all the great
things that were achieved in The course of the week.—
There was a magnificent dinner given to upwards of five
hundred persons, ur Trinity Hatt. The wines were of the first
quality, and the vocal- department extremely well arranged.—
Malibran was in high voice 'at the concerts, which were ad-
miritbly selected. There was a ball, which was crowded to ex-
cess: the newest gallepades, and the mazurka, were introduced
with great effect; and, a display of fireworks, with which this
most interesting assembly broke up, was pronounced to be
splendid in the extreme.—John Bull.
Hetherington, the printer -and publisher. of the Poor Man's
Guardian, was discharged from the New _Prison on Saturday,
the list of June, after an imprisonment of six months, the max-
imum of punishment authorised•by the stamp act, under which
he-was convicted. His sentence was indeed for twelve months,
but as both convictions took place on the .same day, and the
commutations were dated accordingly, they fell due on the same
day, and the authorities could not detain him longer. It ap-
pears, however, that no sooner were government acquainted
with his unexpected release -than they instructed the authori-
ties of BOw-street .to prefer an iudi. talent against him, on a
charge of sedition, in having recommended to the working
classes to attend no public meetings for the future without being
well provided with knives, in order that they might resist. any
effort of the police to crush them. A bill was 'accordingly pre-
sented before the Grand Jury of Middlesex on Tuesday after,
noon.—Me do not mean to say that Mr. H. does not deserve
all he has got,'and may get, in the way of punishMent at the
hands of the government; but-of this we arc certain, that trea-
son, sedition, and blaspheniy are daily published in the minor
prints which transcend in infamy any of the things for which
he has suffered, and which (being, we presume, sanctioned by
the Polidcal Unions) are permitted without the slightest notice
from our excellent Secretary for the Home Department, or
from our liberal Attorney-Geiteral.l---John Bull.