The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-01-25 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS

THE POOR OF KlRKDALE.—lmmediately on the frost and
severe weather setting in, the Rev. D. James, incumbent of
St. Mary's Church, Kirkdale, commenced investigating the
state of the poor in his own district, and to administer relief
without waiting for a public subscription. In the course of
a few days GO blankets, 147 yards of excellent flannel, and
provisions to a large amount were distributed among 130 fa-
milies, giving to each family its choice of what it most needed.
On Sunday morning last, the rev. gentleman made an appeal
to his congregation in aid of this object, and the sum of
£4l Bs. was collected, being the largest collection ever made
in that church since it was opened.
THE ELECTlON.—Parliament will meet on Thursday week,
the 3rd of February. The motion for the issuing of a new
writ for Liverpool, consequent on the elevation of Mr, Cress-
well to the Judicial Bench, will, in all likelihood, be made
on that day or the next. The writ will, in that case, reach
Preston by the end of the week, and Liverpool in a few hours
afterwards. The election will, threrefore take place towards
the end of the week following, probably on the 11th of Feb-
ruary.

A PUBLIC PARK IN TOXTETH -PARK —The Town Council
having declined to purchase land for the purpose of forming
a park or parks for the use and recreation of the public, Mr.
Richard Vaughan Yates has purchased from the. Earl of
tSef:on the large quantity of forty-three acres, two-thirds of
which arc to be laid out for a park for the use of the public,
and the marling third is to be appropriated to sites for villas.
The noble lord receives £llOO per acre ; so that the pi urc eha
money for the whole will exceed £47,000. The laud abuts,
.on the south, to Ullet-lane, which runs from the Park chapel
past the end of Aigburth-road, and, on the east, to Lodge-
lane, which joins Ullet-lane. It is beautifully situate, com-
manding fine views in every direction.
THE PIANO
.—We have been much gratified by a recent
inspection of Mr. Dreaper's new and varied assortment of
instruments. There are in his collection at present some su-
perb grand-squares, and cabinets, by Collard and Collard,
Broadwood, Tomkisson, and others of the first London ma-
nufacturers, which have' pleased us alike by the richness and
nrilliancy of their tone, and the splendour and beauty of
theirpiceaa
appearance. We have been surprised at the moderate
which Mr. 1). can afford to sell such superior in-
struments, and would strongly recommend any lady or gen-
tleman in want of this indispensable article, to pay an early
visit to his show rooms d
Lewis,(Se eadvertisement.)
BURGLARY.—Joseph
place—a
respectable-looking man,
was, on Saturday,
dwelling-house
before Mr. Rushton, chargrd with
having broken into tlAtedii, of James Farritnund,
of Johnson's-court, gataortreet. It appeared from the
evidence, that Mr. FarrimlFrida locked up his house at eleven
o'clock on the night of Friday and that on Saturday
morning at five it was found some thief or thieves had
obtained access through a wintlot and had stolen a clock
and two chairs. About a quartwe'ropast five o'clock that
morning, constable 542, who The
of
flattop-garden
in Dale-street,
rarisaane; ttton-garden with the
stopped the prisoner at the cornwpe
clock in his possessi°n•
by
aold a long story of
the clock having been given to him
him to carry it to Cumberland-street. H _le man who directed
was committed
for trial.
BLUE COAT BROTHERLY SOCIETY.—Under the foregoing
Liverpool
nßlue
ie
title a society was formed about fouryears ago, consisting
exclusively of individuals educated in
the
Coat Hospital, whose principal object is to
visit
apprenticed from that institution, and to afford then boy
such
Advice and assistance as their circumstances may from
to time requite. Of the utility oft such a society thercure
be but one opinion ; and we have geat pleasure in noticinaen
iroin the rrt for the pastyear, which has just been pui,;_'
the society for the past year
dished, that" the proceedings ot'
4' have been attended with the same favourable and gratifying
.., success which accompanied their exerrteiosenisit duunrdienrg
their
" former years. The number of boys at
p
" superintendence is 127, being an increase of 46 over the
" number of last year, who have been visited, and the reports
" of the visits laid before the society, and the trustees of the
" school, the general result of which has beets highly satis-
" factory." It affords great pleasure to the society that they
have been able to relieve with clothing all the boys who ave
stood in need of their assistance, and tha such assistance
has beved with becoming gratitude.t The remainder
of theen received
funds has been, throughout the year, constantly in
circulation in the shape of loans to different members, several
of whom have profited by this Means of accommodation, and
have thereby been materially assisted in their business.

The Cutsntne Pox Bounds will meet en Monday, the
31st instant, at Sandiwayhead ; Wednesday. Feb. 2, at Had-
don Heath; Thursday, Feb, 3, Duddon Heath; Saturday,
Feb. 5, Buckley Hill—if the weather permits.
FlLE.—Yesterday evening, about a quarter before six
o'clock, an alarm of a tire having broken out in Shaw's-alley
(leading out of Mersey-street), %iv passed along by the
police constables to the tire-station in Temple-court. An
engine, with a sufficient force, was immediately passed along,
(and others were in readiness to follow it, if required), but
it was counter-ordered before it reached the spot, it having
been found that only the chimney of a small dwelling-house
(on the west side of the street), had become ignited, and was
put out without any damage worthy of notice.
RELIEF OF THE POOR.—A meeting was held last evening
at the Fleece Inn, Oldhall-street, to take steps to relieve
the many suffering poor in St. Paul's Ward ; Alderman
Griffiths in the chair. We noticed present John Deakin,
Esq., J. Jump, Esq., 0. Wiliiams, Esq., George Wright,
Esq., and John Hickson, Esq. The resolutions will be found
in our advertising columns. The subscriptions in the room
amounted to £57. Amongst the items we perceived the
names of Alderman Griffiths and the Councillors Blundell
and Edwards for £lO each. The distress is indescribable,
and calls loudly for the attention of the benevolent.

THEFT FROM A Snip.—Some time in December last, six
cases of shawls, marked A.D., and numbered 27 to 34, were
sent to this town, from Mr. Templeton, of Kilmarnock,
through Mr. James Robinson, merchant, and shipped in the
Cockermouth Castle, for Rio Janeiro. The hatch of the
vessel was broken up during the night of the 17th December,
one of the cases was broken open, and six dozen of the shawls
were stolen. On Saturday Lawrence Pierson, James Taylor,
and Mary Taylor were placed before the magistrates, charged
with having been concerned in the robbery. The possession
of several of the shawls was clearly traced to the prisoners
Pierson and Mary Taylor. James Taylor was one of the
men employed by the stevedore to stow the Cockermouth
Castle. It appeared by the evidence, that a man named
James Farrell, had given away some of the shawls, which
had been pledged, and which were identified as part of the
property stoic'. This Farrell is in gaol for felony.
also, was employed by the stevedore. The prisoners were
remanded.

THE ALBION BANK-PAPER.—We understand that our
townsman, Mr. Bean, the proprietor of the Liverpool Albion,
has purchased the premises in Castle-street now occupied as
the Albion Bank ; and that his paper will in future be issued
there instead of the paper of the establishment in question.
We sincerely congratulate our contemporary upon the state
of affairs which this change evidences, and trust lie will con-
tinue that liberality or liberalism in his mode of doing busi-
ness which has thus enabled him to acquire for his issues the
consideration of bank paper, and that those who discount at
his new establishment will not have reason to complain, in
these hard times, that his bullion is dispensed with a nig-
gardly hand. Lucky dogs are they of the liberal press. We
wish we could see the day when the favours of conservatism
shall be showered in such abundance upon those who labour
in its behalf as to enable them to step out in so magnificent a
style. The whip party do support those by whom they are
supported. Ecce signora. We institute, however, no com-
parisons.
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SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND.—The annual meeting of the
subscribers and friends to this excellent institution was held
at the committee-room, London-road, on Friday last, for
the general business of the year. Samuel Turner, Esq. pre-
sided on the occasion. Mr. Houghton, the secretary, read
the heads of the several accounts. The income of the year
had amounted to £3588 ss. 5d., and the expenditure to
£3163 13s. 7d., leaving a balance of ..£424 Ils. 10d. in favour
of the society. There were, however, several outstanding
debts unpaid. Several of the bills which had been already
sent in amounted to £1229 14s. 9d., and there were many
others not yet received. The sales in 1841 had amounted to
£1553 13s. 7d: There were 105 pupils at present in the
school :-22 pupils had been admitted in 1841, and 24 had
quitted the institution. The secretary said that the annual
income was not equal to the expenditure, and that if all the
outstanding bills were paid, the institution would be £6OO or
£lOO i❑ debt. It was only about £4OO in debt at the close
of last year. Sir T. B. Birch, Bart. was elected president
for the ensuing year.

TIIE NIGER EXPEDITION.—The following letter from
one of the officers engaged in this expedition, dated Fernando
Po, October 24,1841, has not yet appeared in our columns :
" We got about three hundred and eighty miles up the river,
where we formed a settlement. I then left the Albert and
joined the Soudan, to bring the invalids down. Vie lost six
hands in the Albert before I left, and brought in the Soudan
thirty sick. The doctor, purser, and carpenter died coming
down, and two more at Fernando Po. Captain Allen left
the Soudan. and went on board the Albert, and Mr. Fish-
bourne brought her here. as there was not one officer well
belonging to her. The Wilberforce came down shortly after-
wards with more sick, and the Albert went up, hut two wore
have died since we left. The purser of the Wilberforce died
coming down, and the master of the Albert came down in
her and died here. A doctor's mate and Mr. Fishbourne
were taken sick here, and went to Ascension in the Wilber-
force, and Lieutenant Strange came here. We left the
Albert on the 19th of September, and arrived here on the
27th ; we left again on the Bth of October, and went up the
river to look for the Albert, but met her coining over the
bar in charge of Captain Beacroft—all hands sick but four.
Captain Trotter is very ill indeed, but is getting better.
Captain B. Allen died tr.is morning. The Albert lost three
coming down and two here. She has a great many sick on
shore, and two in a very bad state. We are going to Ascen-
sion as soon as the state of our sick will permit, where we
will stop till the sick on board the other vessels recover suffi-
ciently to allow of the whole being sent to England. We
arc going to leave the Soudan here. Mr. Strange has joined
the Albert here, and we hare got an officer from the Pluto.
A clerk aid an engineer, in the height of the fever, jumped
overboard from the Albert ; the engineer was lost, but two
men succeeded in saving the clerk. It is a fine country in
the interior ; there is plenty of palm oil, gold dust, ivory, and
indigo, which may be purchased very cheap. I expect we
shall be home in March."

RAINUILL SUNDAY SCHOOL.—The congregation of St.
Ann's Church, Rainhill, assembled in the school room on
Sunday evening last, and presented Mr. George Ashton, of
Prescot, with a very handsome piece of plate, for his inde-
fatigable exertions as founder of the Sunday School connected
with the said church, when, in the absence of the Rev. J.
Brierly, the incumbent, who was unavoidably prevented from
attending, and who had a short time since kindly presented
Mr. Ashton with some valuable' hooks as'alriark of esteem
for his services, the Rev. Mr. Lamb, the curate, passed a
very high eulogiurn on Mr. Ashton's unceasing attention as
conductor of that school. Mr. Ashton replied in a very
affectionate and sympathising manner. The meeting was
afterwards addressed by Mr. W. Longton and Mr. J. Mel-
ling, who also bore testimony to his services in the education
of the poorer classes in the neighbourhood. The meeting
concluded by singing a hymn, and all retired highly gratified
with the proceedings of the evening. The following is the
inscription on the plate :—" Presented to Mr. G. Ashton, by
the clergy and congregation of St. Ann's Church, Rainhill,
as a small token of respect for his unwearied exertions in be-
half of the Sunday School. January, 1842."

THE GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.—The fol-
lowing appears as a P.S. to the circular convening the general
meeting of the proprietors :—" As the company's establish-
ments for engine and coach-building and repairing are about
to be removed to the new works at Crewe, and several hun-
dred men with their families will thereupon be taken away
(for the compan's advantage) from their present residences.
and means of spiritual and temporal instruction, and com-
pelled to reside in a district almost wholly unprovided in
both these respects, it is the intention of the directors (and
they take this opportunity of distinctly stating it beforehand)
to submit for the consideration of the sharel,olders, at the
general meeting on the Ist of February, the propriety of
authorizing the appropriation, out of the company's funds,
of a snm not exceeding 11000, towards the establishment of
a church and school, in the neighbourhood of, and in con-
nection with, the new works.

We have just been favoured with the sight of a splendid
Hebrew Poem, composed by Mr. M, Margoliantb, Under-
graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, late an inmate of the
Liverpool Institution for Enquiring and Converted Jews, in
this town, superbly bound in crimson velvet, and lined with
amber satin. Altogether it is the most unique production we
ever beheld, and for purity of diction and elegance of writing,
rivals the Talrnudical writings of the learned Hebrews of any
age. It has been transmitted for presentation to his Royal
Highness Prince Albert at the royal christening; and con-
tains a description of the national and literary character of
the English nation and its august queen, the coronation of
her most gracious majesty, the auspicious marriage of the
queen, the happy birth of a prince and princess, and the
baptism of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. We can
add nothing more than that we wish it may meet with the
favourable reception its great merit so richly deserves. We
understand that it was bound and ornamented by Mr. Batey,
of London-road.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER.—On Sunday
forenoon a boat in which were several men, was caught in a
squall, off the Clarence Dock, and upset. Boats from diffe-
rent points made towards the spot, in the hope of picking up
the men : a buoy was thrown overboard from the packet-ship
Siddons as they floated by ;and the Egremont Steamer went
to their assistance. All the efforts so save the unfortunate
fellows were in vain, the whole, supposed to have been four
in number, having perished. We, yesterday, made enquiries
along the line of Princes Pier, and Clarence Dock, and
northward to the extremity of the sea walls, with a view to
supply some further particulars of the melancholy event, but
without being enabled to obtain the names of the unfortunate
deceased, All we could learn was that the boat was a gig,
from the south end of the town—nrobably the King's Dock
Basin,—and the parties were not, it would appear, boat,
men, but individuals who had gone on an excursion of
pleasure, and apparently not accustomed to the management
of so small and delicate a vessel in the tide-ways of our
river. The wind was blowing from the northward at the
time, and as the tide was running in the opposite direction,
there was a sea-way on, dangerous for small boats incautiously
worked. She had not much sail set, having only the foresail
with the sprit out—forming a small shoulder-of-mutton sail,
and the jigger ; and the accident consequently occurred from
the sea breaking into or over her and swamping her. None
of the bodies, so far as we could learn, up to last night, have
yet been found.

ANDERSON'S STATUARY—IMPORTANT TO THE NOBI-
LITY, GENTRY, AND OTHERS.—It will be observed by an
advertisement in another column, that Mr. Anderson, on ac-
count of ill health, has decided upon submitting his cele-
brated groups to a subscription sale, to consist of 500 mem-
bers at £1 each. The figures include Tam o'Shanter on his
mare Meg, the witch Cutty Sark, large as life, and cut from
one stone ; the comic group of the Deil and the Exciseman,
and Watty and Meg—forming, we understand, three prizes.
It is to be regretted that Mr. Anderson's state of health
should have made this arrangement necessary previous to his
•isiting other parts of the country, for, as specimens of the
artist's ability as a sculptor, public inspection is only re-
quired to gain for him "a never dying fame," and ensure
complete success in his present speculation. Eulogiums of
the highest character have been bestowed upon the exhibition
by the journals in the various towns Mr. Anderson has vi-
sited, and the winner of either of these groups will gain a
prize indeed. Noblemen and gentlemen wishing to obtain
first-rate specimens of sculpture, will find them worthy their
attention, as they would form very excellent ornaments for
the ball. To others they might beeome an independent
living by travelling with them for the purpose of exhibition.
Another class, who may have neither of the above objecte in
view, ought not to allow this opdortunity to escape without
giving their support to native genius wnen thus appealed to.
Tickets, we believe, will be for sale in a few of the large ma-
nufacturing towns, and, it is to be hoped, the requisite num-
ber of subscribers will come forward, in order that an early
day may be fixed upon for the sale.

FRAUD ON A BOOKSELLER.—A fine little boy, who gave
his name as David Macnaniara, was placed before Mr. Rush-
ton, on Saturday, charged with having, by false representa-
tions, obtained possession of a set of books, entitled "Tales
of Peerage and Peasantry," the property of Mr. Webster,
cigar manufacturer, bookseller, and keeper of a circulating
library, Slater-street. The prisoner went to Mr. Webster's
shop and said he wanted the books for a Mr. Evans, hair-
dresser, of Buld-street. As he could not procure what he
asked for, he had to go frequently and return. At length
he obtained the books above mentioned and went off with
them. Mr. Webster observed him, and saw that lie did not
go to Mr. Evans's. lie then followed him and took him
into custody. The prisoner, who had been in custody before,
but never was committed, said a boy, whom he named, stated
that he was in the
told lof M • Evans, hair-dresser, and
emp to l.
him to go and do what lie did. The prisoner was, at
first, ordered to be committed, but Mr. Rushton, on hearing
his statement, directed that lie should stand remanded, and
that the boy should be inquired after.

TlNtor4 CIALLEILY.—We re rot to
of tine paintings is about to close,
today, cannot have a greater treat than inspecting t
of art displayed within its walls. The inspection of tt
of statuary by Michael Angelo is alone worth the price t

VENTRILOQUISM.—We refer our readers to Messrs. Va
lentinis' announcement, elsewhere. We have heard these
gentlemen highly spoken of.

MISS CLARA NOVELLO.-At Genoa Miss Clara Novell()
is performing with the utmost success in Lucrezia lo►gia in
the part of the heroine. She is supported by lvanoff, Genaro,
Signora Smoda, &e. La Leila Inglese is a great favourite
with the Genoese. The reception of the opera wss brilliant.
—Sunday Times.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RlVER.—Yesterday mcrnil
about eight o'clock, while one of the crew of the pack
ship Cambridge, recently arrived from New York, and at
anchor in the river, off 'he Clarence Dock, was in the
going aloft to assist in unbending the sails, his toot s
on his stepping on the main top, in consequence, it is
of some ice having there accumulated, and he lost his ha-

lance and tell on the deck. The height is great, and he was
so much injured that he expired almost immediately. The
coroner's jury viewed the body yesterday, and the inquest
will be held this day.

EXTRAORDINARY MORTALITY.—An unusual mortality
has recently taken place amongst the aged people at Prescot,
Lancashire, as will be seen from the following extract from
their registry : Interred.

ElizatiethVelsby, from Huyton, aged 83, Jan. 10, 1842