The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-08-04 00:00:00

PRINCE ALBERT'S VISIT.

On Friday evening about ninety of the members of the
Covenant Minerva and Strangers Refuge lodges of the In-
dependant Order of Odd Fellows, sat down to a good and
substantial dinner, provided on the occasion, by Host
Leedham, New York Hotel, Crown street.
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The brothers of the above lodges met at half-past seven
in the morning, and headed by the Beumaris band, walk-
ed to Williamson square to join the procession.—On their
return they mustered in their lodge room for the dinner.
P. G. Lloyd, was unanimously called to the chair, and was
very ably supported by P. G. Tarrent in the vice chair.
After the removal of the cloth, the Chairman in proposing
the first toast, adverted to the disappointment occasioned
by their misappresension that their tickets would admit
the members of the order within the barriers of the plat-
form of the Sailors' Home; notwithstanding the disap-
pointment however, they had showed their loyalty in join-
ing the procession, and their respect for the authorties in
not making any procession whatever untill called for by
the Town Council. But leaving all this, we would proceed
to propose that the health of her Gracious Majesty the
QUEEN.
The next toast was Prince Albert and the success to the
Sailors' Home. The worthy vice after a short but very
appropriate speech, gave the town and trade of Liverpool.
At Eight o'clock, the room was thrown open the mem-
bers wives and friends, and the chairman in giving the
last toast that he would give from that chair, thanked the
brothers for their quiet and very respectful behaviour that
evening, and proposed sweet hearts and wives. The
dancing then commenced and was kept up until twelve
o'clock, when the parties retired home well satisfied with
their entertainment.

PRINCE. ALBERT.—Our contemporary, the Journal, in
his account of the recent festivities, introduces the follow-
ing remarks on the consort of our gracious Queen, in which
we heartily concur, as will be found by a paragraph em-
bodied in our account, and written before we perused what
we now quote :—" And now a word about the Prince.
Having seen him, it is impossible not to like him. Nature
had her sleeves up when she made him, for she has been
lavish of personal adornments. He is indeed the mirror
in which others might dress themselves. Manly beauty
in him, however, serves only to invite attention to the
mental feature it exhibits. Kindness, benevolence, ten-
derness, ar►d humanity breathe from his face. There are
about it evidence of fine taste, of delicate appreciation,
but an utter absence of hauteur, pride, almost of dignity,
for the fine gentleness in his eye bespeaks a disposition to
enjoy the good and the beautiful, rather than an ambition
which dare do evil. Fine feeling constitutes the gentleman,
and Prince Albert is a perfect gentleman—almost too timid
for public occasions, and deficient in those showy graces
with which bad men delight the thoughtless multitude.
He bows easily, not ostentatiously, and never seemed to
think it necessary to play the Prince. There was about
him a winning grace, a perfect ease, a quiet bearing; and
these are the qualities which Englishmen delight to find in
the members of their royal family. Prince Albert will live
for ever in the remembrance of the people of Liverpool.
They have made him especially their own.
RETIREMENTS FROM THE Intr.—Lord George Ben-
tinck announced at the recent meeting at Goodwood his
purpose to retire altogether from the turf, we trust to
devote himself to those nobler pursuits to shine in which
he has recently shown himself so eminently qualified. We
understand that the noble lord disposed of his entire stud,
viz., Bay Middleton, about 70 brood mares, nearly bU
foals and yearlings, and 30 or 40 horses in training,
stallions, &c., in one lot, to Mr. Payne, for £lO,OOO,
allowing him the optioir of being off the bargain on Mon-
day, on payment of £3OO. The annual expense of this
monster stud, in which we include training, van-ing,
jockies, &c., but irrespective of stakes and forfeits, which
were enormous, amounted to about £11,000! (Rather
an expensive hobby, as the noble lord observed to a gen-
tleman, in answer to a question as to the truth of the re-
ported sale.) It is also reported that Mr. Gully retires
from the turf after the St. Leger.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—DEATH RESULTING FROM
SWALLOWING A SIXPEKCE, AFTER AN INTERVAL OF
EIGHT YEARS.—An Exeter paper announces the death in
that city of a Mr. C. H. Cole, and accompanies the no-
tice with the following narrative of the painful -circum-
stances which led to that event :—About eight years since,
being on a journey, with a friend sitting by his side in the
vehicle, in the county of Dorset, he arrived at a turnpike-
gate, and took a sixpence from his pocket in order to pay
the toll. While drawing his outer coat close, which had
been thrown open to get at the coin, he placed the six-
pence between his lips; at this instant his friend said
something irresistibly laughable, and giving way to it,
without thought as to his situation, the coin slipped into
the orifice of the throat. After the first alarm, however,
feeling apparently but little inconvenience from what had
occurred, he thought but little of it, and in talking of it,
being a man of extremely firm mind, he made light of the
matter. At length, however, there were produced effects
such as caused him to seek surgical aid, and Mr. Cole had
not only the advantage of the first surgicaladvice in Exeter,
but these gentlemen declining to perform an operation
with a view to the extraction of the coin, be repaired to
London, and became a patient in Guy's Hospital. His
sufferings were now become at times most acute, and it
was evident that a serious inroad was making on an other-
wise strong frame and firm constitution. tlis fortitude,
however, was unsubdued. and, after several consultations
of the medical gentlemen connected with the institution
he was in, finding they declined the performance of an
operation with a view to his relief, and that this arose
from an apprehension of the consequences, he offered to
give them a document which should be legally drawn up,
absolving them from all consequences. Still, however,
they declined, and he returned to Exeter. Here he again
referred to the faculty, by whom he was directed to be
careful, to abstain from all circumstances of excitement ;
to be cautious as to his dress, never omitting flannel next
his skin, and most especially to avoid exposing himself
to damp. There was, however, frequent cough, and symp-
toms that two surely showed the ravages disease was mak-
ing within. Still, being naturally cheerful, with intervala
of ease, passed quietly along. A few weeks since, how-
ever, during a very high state of the temperature, he
neglected the flannel part of his dress, and a circumstance
of a popular and exciting nature occurring, in which he
had taken considerable interest, he was led to expose him-
self on a most unfavourrble evening, and got wet. Even
this, however, was not at first heeded, and it is feared he

again ex posed himself to damp. The consequences were
fatal. He became seriously ill, and his sufferings were
most excruciating, without the highest art in the pro-
fession being enabled to afford him the slightest aid, and
at ten minutes past twelve on the morning of the
death released him from his sufferings. After death a
post mortem examination of the body took place, when
the coin was found lodged in the right bronchia, the lung
being in a state of complete gangrene. The coin was
much smouilace, the projecting parts of the figures and
letter, being gi ratly obliterated, and the piece bore the
appearance of a larhing which had long lain in some dirty
placa. It is understood that after being prepared for this
purpose, the census of the lung and coin will be lodged
in th- medical mrifenm. The other parts of the body
were heilttiv, and there were all the characteristics of a
strong man.—[lt will be remembered that some years
ago, Mr. Brunel, jun., the well-known engineer, nearly
lost his life by a similar accident, be having, while amusing
himself with some children, swallowed a half-sovereign,
which, after he had endured much, was with difficulty,
and by great exertion of surgical skill, extracted from his
throat.—Ed. L. S.]