The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-10-31 00:00:00

GREAT GEORGE WARD.
At a numerous MEETING of the ELECTORS of GREAT
GEORGE WARD, held at the Great George Tavern, Upper
Pitt-street, on MONDAY, the 23rd of October, 1854, WILLIAM
ASHLEY CLAYTON, Esq., in the Chair, the following resolu-
tions were unanimously agreed to and carried by accla-
mation :

Moved by JoEN LAWRENCE, Esq., seconded by JAmxs
BLAND, Esq.,
I.—That the best thanks of this Meeting are due, and are
hereby passed, to J. M`Nicoll, Esq., for the valuable services
be has rendered to the Ward during the two years he has
been ita representative; and regret that so trifling a cause
should have deprived the Burgesses of a Member so much
appreciated.
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Proposed by THOMAS Totmxix, Esq., seconded by C
STUBBS, EN:,

2.—That Ibis Meeting do consider .I.AMEi MARKS WOOD,
Esq., Merchant, a fit and proper person to represent Great
George Ward in the Town Council.
Moved by D. M`KINL.yr, Esq., seconded by WILLIAM
TuoMaoN, Esq.,
3.--That this Meeting pledge themselves to use every exer-
tion to secure the triumphant return of JAS. MARKIi WOOD,
Esq., and do constitute a Committee for conducting that
Gentleman's Election.

W. ASHLEY CLAYTON, Chairman

THE LOCAL CORPS OF PENSIONERS were out for four
days' drill last week, under the command of Colonel
Swan. On Wednesday they appeared on 'Change.
PRINCE VINCENT, Count de Milazzo, son of tho King
of Naples, died at Caserta on the 14th, of apoplexy. His
Royal Highnsss was born on the 21st of April, 1851.
LIMERICK ELECTION.—Ou Saturday Mr. Sergeant
O'Brien was returned, at Limerick, for the seat vacant by
the death of Mr. Potter.

DREADFUL SCENE IN A CITA.PEL.—The Cork papers
contain accounts of a scene which occurred at the South
Parish Chapel on Wednesday evening, and which has
created "intense anxiety and terror through the entire
city." The version supplied by the Constitution is as
follows :—" A body of Romanist priests, entitled the Re-
demptorist Fathers' have again, after a short absence,
paid this city a visit, and last night, at 7 o'clock, a lecture
was given by one of them, which was attended by an im-
mense audience ; it was given in the South Chapel, which
building was crowded to suffocation. The galleries, the
body of the chapel, and every available inch of space, were
filled. The heat and oppression in the atmosphere, caused
by the collection of so large a number of persons in a
small space, were intense. At about 8 p.m., however, a
sudden crash was heard, occasioned by the breaking of a
long stool, on which a number of persons were standing.
The noise thus caused was heard by all present, but as,
from the crowd, few persons could perceive the nature of
the accident, it was conceived that one of the galleries
had given way. A cry was immediately raised, The gal-
leries are coming down followed by a sudden rush to
the doors. The shock caused by the pressure of this im-
mense body of persons, all striving to escape through the
narrow doorways, threw down several persons, who, being
unable to recover their legs, were trampled upon, and
their cries added to the general alarm which prevailed.
The terror augmented every instant, and soon many per-
sons received serious injuries—being suffocated, or tram-
pled under foot by those behind them. The anxiety to
get out of the building still increased. Many to the right
and left, lay on the ground, crushed, bleeding, and insensi-
ble, and, to all appearance, dead. Women and children
were jammed in the doorways, and the confusion, the
screams of the wounded, and the groans of the apparently-
dying were plainly heard by the inhabitants of the streets
in the vicinity. Numbers of persons accordingly collected,
and, after a great deal of exertion, the chapel was cleared
to some extent. Attention was then drawn to the per-
sons who lay apparently dead and dying. Men, women,
and children were removed, all mangled and senseless as
they were, to the yard and the adjacent stables, and to
the neighbouring houses in Margaret-street. Some per-
sons, whose injuries were not of a dangerous character,
were removed to their homes ; while five men and five
women were borne on men's shoulders to the South Infir-
mary, apparently dead. Others have not given any signs
of life, and it is feared their cases will prove fatal. At
12 o'clock last night the persons who still remained under
treatment at the Infirmary were five men and five women.
Some were in a very precarious state, but others were in
a fair way of recovery. The principal cause of danger was
asphyxia, with which all the patients seemed to have been
reore or less affected."