The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-18 00:00:00

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The Dock Committee, on Thursday, obtained loans of
'money to the amount of £19,980, at 5 per cent. interest.
On Tuesday, Owen Jones, who had just come from
Wales for medical advice, and was lodging in Spring-
Place, fell down and died of apoplexy.
The fine steam-ship Sarah Sands, having lately under-
gone extensive improvements, will sail for New York on
Saturday.
The royal mail steam-ship Acadia, under the charge of
her new commander, Captain J. Stone, sailed for Halifax
and Boston on Saturday, with the usual mails, and about
fifti passengers.

On Thursday, during the temporary absence of its in-
mates, a house in Canning-street, Everton, was entered,
and £l6, (a £lO note and six sovereigns,) with a quantity
of valuable clothing, carried away.
About a month ago, a young woman, named Martha
Thompson, who, with her mother, keeps a school in
Kirkdale, fell down stairs, and was so much injured that
she died on Tuesday last.
On Monday, a person named John Bowie went to bed
in good health, on board the sloop Industry, and was
found dead next morning. The deceased was remarkably
abstemious in his habits, and died of apoplexy.
On Wednesday afternoon, a lady was attacked in Ox-
ford-street, by a young man who thrust his hand between
her muff and breast, and snatched a gold chain, but on
finding that there was no watch at the end of it, made
off without using further violence.
The dispensaries are now in great want of assistance.
During the past year thirty-seven thousand persons re-
ceived medical relief from these institutions, and we know
of no object to which the funds of the benevolent can be
more usefully appropriated.
The Corporation obtained in the Bail Court, on Satur-
day, a rule nisi to show cause why the judgment of the
Recorder in the recent claims made by Mr. Snowball and
others against the Health Committee, for compensation
for loss o office, should not be quashed.
A public meeting was held in the Concert Hall, Lord
Nelson-street, on Friday, for the purpose of passing reso-
lutions in favour of the abolition of capital punishment.
Mr. W. Rathbone took the chair, and the speakers were
Mr. John Smith, Mr. C. Gilpin, Mr. L. Heyworth, and
Mr. Vincent.
SUDDEN DEATH.—On Saturday morning, as a female,
aged 72, named Ellen Jones, residing in Midghall-street,
was assisting her daughter to carry water from the cellar,
she suddenly fell down and expired. She had previously
been in a declining state of health. At the inquest, before
Mr. Curry, held on the same day, the verdict returned
was " death from apoplexy."
FATAL ACCIDENT.—About one o'clock on Wednesday
morning, as a woman was passing along Grafton-street,
she observed fire issuing out of a cellar occupied by a
woman named Margaret Ball. Alarm was given and the
cellar door was forced open, when the whole room was
found in a blaze, and Mrs. Ball, thT only inmate, was
burnt to death.
On Tuesday Lord Stanley, Lord Anson, the Hon.
Colonel Stanley, and Captain Hornby met at Rainford to
shoot over Lord Derby's preserves. The total head of
killed by tl• le

game . _le party was 416, which was sent off to
the Liverpool market. On Wednesday Sir John Gerard
and three friends shot, at Moss Bank, near St. Helen's,
124 head of game.
COMPLIMENTARY DlNNER.—Messrs.WilMer and Smith
gave last night to persons in their employ a most excellent
dinner at the Brunswick Hotel, Hanover-street. The
chair was occupied by Mr. Wintle, and after the usual
toasts and songs, and a high compliment to the worthy
host, the company, nearly 30 in number, separated, all
expressing the great enjoyment they experienced.
SPECIE IMPORTS.—Since our last the following vessels,
with specie, have arrived in the Mersey ; namely, the
packet-ship Liverpool, from New York, £lO,OOO, and the
Texan, from Mazatlan, 30,000 dollars, arrived on Tuesday;
the Abbots Reading, from Islay, with dollars and bars of
silver amounting in value to 100,000 dollars, arrived on
Wednesday ; and the steam-ship Hibernia, from "
York, £90,000, arrived on Sunday.
On Wednesday, Mary Matthews, a prisoner in the Bo-
rough Gaol, died from bronchitis. She was tried at the
sessions in