The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-04-29 00:00:00

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s CONCERT

Hanway Beale's intention to give a concert about
the middle of next month. The valuable services of Miss
Birch have been secured for this occasion, her first ap-
, psarance here since her arrival from the Continent, where
3' she has been so warmly received. Several of our best

local performers have also been engaged. We rejoiced at
the arrival of Mrs. Beale amongst us a few months ago,
as a first class teacher of the piano and singing—her
finished style of performance tending materially 'o im-
I prove the growing taste for cli •

The lovers of

„,asslcal music in this town
, of a high class, may confidently an•

ticipate a rare treat

FORMATION OF A PROTESTANT UNION.—The Record
pf Thursday remarks—" There is no reason to anticipate
-eneral election at an earlier period than the autumn of
It becomes, theiefore, a main object to embody
and keep alive the existing feeling; because that feeling,
if preserved, is likely to produce a better House of Com-
mons than the present one. A general desire is springing
up for a new Protestant Union for this especial object.
We are glad to observe that Mr. M'Neile, at a recent Li-
verpool meeting, counselled some such course. He re-
marked that it was time to throw off the name of ' Con-
servative,' which originally wanted a more definite mean-
ing. and which was now becoming disgusting, and to as-
RIIITIP the:, °lain_ rlict;rtet intelHeible title nf Prntnc-

FIRE AT THE BIRKENHEAD ITOTEL.—On Sunday last,
tat this establishment. Mrs.
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aver the tap-room, which i.
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ding from under

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e the alarm

,arne up with great alacrity to give
hat assistance they could, and amongst the most
_ .cre Mr. Charles Dunbar, collector of the ferry
fares, and Mr. Oliphant, second officer of one of her Ma-
jesty's Dublin mail steamers. Serjeant O'Donnell, of the

Birfcenhead Police-force, was also promptly in attendance
and was equally active. Several buckets of water
-ere immediately applied, and the flames were for-
.atinguished in a short time, without any mate-
. This result was fortunate, inasmuch as
it was afterwards found that the fire had originated from
the flue of the tap-room chimney, the heat from which
'-sited the joists that supported the hearthstone in
and which, by a highly blameable device
in the building of the premises, had been in-
serted into the brickwork of the chimney. Had the fire

tunately

rial da-mage

had i_
the bedroom ,
for s

ed so ea

,
that the whole of the fine hotei itself would have fallen a
prey to th,- destructive element, as the wind was, at the
time, blowing strong from the south-west, which would
have driven the flames direct upon the main building.

AN IRISH BUSTLE DISCOVERED IN THE POLICE-
COURT, ON SATURDAY LAST.-Mr. Evans, of the parish-
office, preferred a complaint, on Saturday, before Mr.
Rushton, on behalf of a young woman, who appeared to
be in an advanced state of pregnancy, against a young
man, named George Eccles. It appeared that the young
woman had followed Eccles from Belfast, and on her ar-
rival iu Liverpool she was informed that Eccles was about
to depart for America, and in order to prevent his going
away she stated that about six months ago she bad been
married to Eccles by a priest, in Belfast; that she was in
an advanced state of pregnancy ; and, that the prisoner
had left her destitute. After she had made her state-
ment, the prisoner was called on to state his defence. The
prisoner's brother, a very respectable-looking man, stated
that the prisoner had been taken before a discarded priest
in a state of intoxication, and married to the complainant;
that the marriage was illegal; that the complainant had
made three charges of a similar nature against persons in
Belfast. and that she always had the appearance of being
pregnant, but she never yet was delivered of a child ; that
she was a common prostitute, well-known at Belfast ; and
that if Mr. Rushton would order her to be examined, he
had no doubt that his worship would be perfectly satis-
fied. On this Mr. Rushton ordered her to be examined
by the matron in bridewell, and, on being examined, it
was discovered that she had made herself a very large
bustle, and instead of placing it in the usual place behind
her, sbe had put it to the front, io order to deceive the
court. Mr. Rushton ordered the prisoner to be discharged
from custody, and rebuked the female for having at-
tempted to father the rags, of which the Irish bustle was
composed, on the prisoner.