The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-07-05 00:00:00

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On Thuisday igbt last M

John Long, of Augustine-sttfeet,Eta
to bell v►ith her infant daughter, aged six months. The child
was plated between her' and her husband, In the morning,
at six o'clock, she found it close to her person dead, It
appeared, on examination, that it had been suffocated.

The " GUADALUPE," iron steam frigate, sailed for the
southward yesterday morning, at an early hour. She fired
her large.guns several times in going down the river, and the
reports startled not a few of those in the vicinity on either
shore. She will proceed, we believe, to India; but whether
she will call at any port in the south of England before she
takes her final departure, we are not informed.

THE GREAT WOOD SALE.—We have received a copy'oj
the catalogue of the great wood sale which will take place
to-morrow, at the south end of the town. The catalogue
contains 104 pages of closely printed demy octavo. This
may really be termed an event in the annals of the wood
trade of this port. We may safely say so large an auction
has never yet come off.

HELPS TO v --nucArroN.-Parents, governesses, and
others, interested in improved methods of teaching, and who
have not yet the advantage of using the Smith-and-Dolier
Helps to Education, will be glad of the opportunity of having
them explained by Mr. John Smith himself, during the whole
of the present month, free of charge.—See advertisement.
BIRKENHEAD FAlR.—This fair took place on Friday, and
the attendance of company and show of cattle, &c., far ex-
ceeded that of this time last year. The price of mulch cows
averaged from £l3 to £l5 ; cows in calf from £l4 to £l7,
wom e sa
£ w one se
:15 ll a
The s high as £2O ; barrens went off briskly at
one
se
1. show of horses was good as to num-
ber, but there were not many of first-rate quality; some ex-
cellent cart horses were sold as high as £35 ; those of an in-
ferior quality and prime ponies went off at very reduced
prices. Pigs did not average more than 4d. per lb. Sheep
sold well—several wethers were disposed of at 225. each.
We were glad to see that the Cheshire farmers took the hint
we gaVe them last fair. Several parcels of prime cheese were
pitched, and all was sold at higher prices than those obtained
at Cltester, or Shrewsbury.

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TUE. LIVERPOOL AND GLASGOW, STLAM-SIIIP ADMIRAL.
—Th'ii:faVOurite vessel is, we perceive, in Clarence Dock,
having Arrived here on Friday, after a remarkably short pas-
sage, from Greenock. It is with pleasure we observe her
resume her plate between Liverpool and Glasgow, for, with-
out disparagement to' others, the Admiral is, to our taste, as
fine t
a fir.c4,.?7, slearper as is to be met wih tis coury.
She is ofthe.sain6 bliss and description as thein Ach nt
hilles, and,
front what we can learn, is of greater length of keel than'the
famed Boston.and Halifax steam-ships. And though te
speed, eli,gance, and comfort of the Admiral are
so wehll
known to travellers, we recommend every person who can
appreciate a fine steam-ship, to go view the Admiral.
MEAT IMPROPERLY DRESSED FOR SALE.—On Saturday
last one of the assistants of Mary Sampson, butcher, of
Pownall-square Market, appeared before the magistrates,
:Messrs. Booth and Brown, to answer a charge preferred
against her by Mr. Grose, Superintendent of St. Martin's
Market... Mr. Grose stated, that, on Friday last, Mrs.
Sampson had exposed for sale, on her stall, four hind quar-
ters of lartib artificially dressed, contrary to the bylaw. Mr.
Belden, Inspector of Meat, produced the lamb, which was
made tai present a very fine appearance, from having been
dressed; as he stated, " with the fat of some other animal."
Holden also pulled out, from interstices in the loin, certain
pieces of suet, or some other description of fat, which had
been forced in so as to form a compact mass, for the purpose
of giving the meat a plump appearance. The defendant was
fined five shillings and costs, and the meat was declared
forfeited.;

discus-

PHRENOLOGICAL DISCUSSION.—The five nights
sion,bctween•Mr. Rumball and Mr. Brindley, on the science
of phrenology, commenced last evening, in the Portico Room,
Newington. Mr. Rumbali undertook to demonstrate the
truth of phrenology ; Mr. Brindley, on the other hand, that
it is unfounded in fact, and pernicious in consequences. The
attendance was but limited, owing probably to a very heavy
shower of rain having' commenced shortly before seven
o'clock, the hour appointed for the commencement of pro-
ceedings. Shortly after that time the two discussionists
made their appearance; Mr. Grindley being attended by Dr.
Sutherland and Mr. Taylor, surgeon • Mr. Rumball by Dr.
Thorburne. Oh the motion of Dr. ihorburne, seconded by
Dr. Sutherland, Mr. Joseph Crisp was called upon to take
the chair. The discussion terminated at a quarter past ten
till to-morrow. Amongst the medical gentlemen present we
observed,—Dr. Sutherland, Dr. Watson, S. M'Culloch,
Esq., Dr. Thorburne, Taylor, Esq., Eden, Esq.,
Kelly, Esq.
TEE LIVERPOOL CABMEN.--It will be seen, in an address
of Mr. Towers, of the Angel, that these ruffians have been at
their old tricks again. Greatly as we may blame them, we
think that still greater obloquy rests with those who encou-
rage them in their rascality. Mr. Radley, of the Adelphi,
stated a case to our reporter, a few days ago, in which one
of these fellows on being told to drive a party from the
railway to his house, took the gentleman who employed
him across the Haymarket, along Dale-street, Castle-street,
by the New Custom-house, Paradise-stree, and Church-
street, and attempted to- obtain 3s. as his fare. He, how-
ever, was not paid at all, as the passenger refused to
give anything whatever, and left it to the cabman to
summon him if he thought proper. Mr. Lynn, of the
Waterloo Hotel has made many complaints similar to Mr.
Towers ; and we trust these gentlemen will not spare any
instance of extortion and rascality that falls under their no-
tice, and, at the same time, give publicity to the names of
those who employ them.
RUMOURED " AFFAIR OF HONOUR."—The on dit of Sa-
turday night last, amongst the lovers of gossip in our town,
was, that an " affair of honour" had, in the course of the af-
ternoon, come off in some secluded spot near the sandhills
beyond Bootle. The story, such as it is, rims as follows :
About three o'clock on Saturday afternoon a respectably-
dresse4 individual summoned the driver of Mr. Morris's car
No. 16 from the stand, and ordered him to drive to the
house'Of' Mr. Bate, the Boar's Head, Drury-lane. The car
was Advert to the place ordered, and the driver was requested
to accompany the gentleman to the :Amp of Messrs. Powell
and Williams, gun and pistol makers. The gentleman there
desired to be furnished with a pair of duellingpistols, •powder,
ball, and pveussion caps. He left on these a deposit of three
sovereigneftiving his name and address, and saying he would
try the pistil, and, if he did not like them, return them on
Monday. He returned, accompanied by the driver, to the
Boar's Head, where, with two ether persons, he got into a
car, which was, by order of the parties, driven to the sand-
hills beyond Bootle. The three then got out and adjourned
to some distance, when, presently, the carman heard two
pistol shots. He ran to the spot, where he saw that one of
the gentlemen had been wounded in the arm. He was or-
dered to return to his car, where, in a few minutes, he was
joined by the party, the members of which got in and ordered
him to drive back to Liverpool. One of the individuals re-
marked to the other, as they took their seats, " I could have
shot you, if I had thought proper." Such are the incidents
which we have gathered relative to this piece of gossip, and
we have no doubt of their truth. Whether the two princi-
pals and the one second who went to the ground so lovingly
in the car intended merely to send forth a rumour' through
the mouth of the carman, or whether they were really silly
enough to fight a real duel, we cannot say.—Albion.
TRIBUTE OF RESPECT TO SAMUEL LINYINGTON, ESQ.—
A few of the personal friends of Mr. Linnington met early
in the year, on the eve of his quitting his native town for
Liverpool, and resolved to give expression to the sentiments
of esteem and respect which they entertained towards him by
presenting him with a piece of plate. This object was cor-
dially espoused and actively prosecuted by Stephen Bencraft,
Esq., one of Mr. L.'s oldest and most intimate acquaint-
ance ; and many of the tradesmen of the town and the resi-
dent and neighbouring gentry, concurring in their estimation
Of the man and regret At his removal, wished to unite in the
intended testimonial. A considerable sum was raised by
small sums from a great number of persons of all ranks and
shades of opinion, with which an elegant silver snuff-box
and an ornamental time-piece were purchased—the former
designed for Mr. Linnington, and the latter for presentation
to Mrs. Linnington. Availing themselves of Mr. Linning-
ton's visit here, a number of the subscribers requested him
to meet them on Saturday evening last, at the Fortescue
Arms, when the mayor, who presided, called on Mr. Ben-
craft to make the presentation, which he prefaced by an ap-
propriate speech. It is no trifling reward to a man who has
moved so much in public life and has sustained'the most
important parochial and civil offices, to find, on quitting the
scene of forty years' residence, as Mr. Linnington does, that
he has produced and leaves an universal impression honoura-
ble to his public and private integrity and good nature; and
that,•while all are disposed to meet him with the hand of
'ell°wshiP, he is best beloved by those who knew him best.
We trust his settlement in the mart of commerce, which is
now the sphere of his enterprise, will be fertile of personal
and domestic happiness and prosperity to him and his.—
oNorth Devon Tournal.—[Mr. Linnington joined the firm of
wßoutcher, Mortimer, and Co.. Brunswick-street, in this
town, about six months since.—Ed. L. 5.1

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PIINERAL OF A MEMBER OF THE ODDFELLOWS' So-
etrey.—ln our obituary will be found a notice of the death
°f Mr. J. L. Shadwell, corresponding secretary to the Inde-
Pendent Order of Oddfellows, belonging to the Liverpool
District of the Manchester Unity. The deceased was highly
esteemed in private life, as well as in his official capacity, and
!natty of his brethren of the order resolved to pay a last sad
tribute of respect to his memory, by following him in public
Procession to the grave. They accordingly assembled on
l'ridaY Morning, at the Philanthropic Lodge, Sir Thomas's
Buildings, and proceeded thence to the house of their de-
Parted friend, in Whitechapel. The body was placed in a
handsome hearse, behind which were three mourning coaches
filled with the relatives and more immediate friends of the
deceased, and no fewer than 250 members of the society, two
and two, all respectably attired in black, and wearing hat
bands and scarfs. A great concourse of persons was at-
the to the spot, in the principal streets near Whitechapel.
" after ten o'clock, the procession moved onwards, taking
the route of Church-street, Parker-street, Clayton-square,
Elliot-street Brunswick-Lime-street, London-road, Moss-street, and
street, to the Necropolis. The streets through-
out were crowded by persons of all classes, who took a me-
lancholy interest in the scene ; and it was a general remark
that a more respectable body of men never before walked on
a similar or any other occasion.' The funeral service was
impressively read in the chapel attached to the burying
ground, at and around which the crowd was immense. After
the body was in clue and solemn form consigned to the earth,
the brethren returned in the same order to the lodge whence
they
started, and immediately afterwards dispersed.
PRIESTLY INTERFERENC '
Lodge, has - for some ti Brindle
E.—Mr. Eastwood, of
rapacity of Popish priestsnnien been exposing the grasping
the Lancaster Gazette; and'
in the last number of that paperrie he gives the following
instance of the scandalous inteemreenntcse of a
town in 'the pecuniary arraug priest in this
We suppress the name of the priest fnf a family here.
or obvious reasons.
A person, engaged as a shopnian in a adle shop at Pres-
ton, received an account of his mother's
ae was told that the
pool. Thither he proceeded with due speed. a(pn at Liver-
hi, arrival
at the house of mourning, I
him immediately.
Icoufessor, the Rev.
confessor
to his deceased mother wished to see
To
his pleas at e
foristhaleide.
"----, at home. After expressing
ing him, mr. informed his visi,t,orrutmhartitt mother made her will, and that if he would
would find it. On his return the rummage was b
egtle but
was soon ended by the appearance of the will in a drawert in
the room where lay the corpse. On glancing over the docu-
ment, the son there beheld, to his horror, that his name did
, and the
not appear in it : no, be was a.' distant relative ' confessor was a ' necessary one ,' for the name of the Rev.
---, together with that of the Right Rev. Dr. ,
stood forth in prominent characters for no less a sum than ,
three hundred pounds ! Judge, sir, what the feelings of this
man, this son, must have been. Had he done. anything to
offend this silly old woman ? No. nothing.: True, she was
not his own mother she was, however, his father's widow,
and he had always conducted himself towards her as a dutiful
son. All the property of which she died possessed she had
inherited from his father, and he, the son, was an only child.
As be related the story
to me, he said (tears starting into his
eyes), ' I do assure vo,,
most sir, even a portion of the 4300
.!
would have been
osein :
e table to me.' What think you,
sir, of. confessors, what :if %icars apostolic, who take money
under such circumstances ?
Behold a son, toiling from morn night to gain a scanty
maintentince, robbed of his just in-
heritance! Who swallow up his father's hard earnings? The
pastors of his church'; those who ought to show themselves
patterns of disinterestedness—models of every virtue ! Con-
ceive, sir, if you can, the immense sums of money that are
daily falling into the hands of confessors, extracted by them
from ' silly women !' Where and when-is this to end ? The
.apathy shown by my catholic lay brethr
'but the day will conic when they will
e gen astonishes me ;
e
tthat they have
amt opposed these abuses in titne—abusresrwhichdisgrace and
'disfigure our holy religion, and which brin us deseriedlY
iuto Contempt with our fellow citizens." g

THE nor; itEAM Viti4
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et is fiat perhaps generally Itnntn, that fronias beet
employed in Constructing the hulls of vesstls in tlx cone •
try -partially in the first instance—for neatly half a century ;
and though the progress of 'iron ship-building has, until of
late years, been comparatively slow, the recent improvements
in the art, and the peculiar adaptation of iron vessels (parti-
cularly as steamers) for certain services, render it probable
that the •material for our general marine will, in the scarcity
of suitable oak for our requirements be, ere long, clerked in
greater amount from the mine than from the forest. The
general opinion is still, we believe, in favour of wood ; but
the great success of our fine iron steamers—the strength,
speed, and durability of which is daily becoming more appa-
rent—is hastening a change in the public- mind ; and even
many experienced nautical men, who naturally cherished a
strong partiality for oak, and long regarded the introduction of
metal as a theoretical and foolish innovation which practice
would soon show to be futile and chimerical, now, staggered
in their belief, evince a disposition to await the result of a
fair and impartial trial of iron on a scale sufficiently compre-
hensive to set all remaining doubts at rest. As regards steam
navigation, it is due to the East India Company to state, that
they were the first who came forward. with that spirit of
liberality and enterprise by which they have long been dis-
tinguished in other departments, to test the practicability of
prosecuting long voyages by steam ; and that under their
auspices, the Enterprize, to Calcutta, and the Atalanta,
Berenice, Semiramis, and Zenobia, to Bombay, accom-
plished their voyages successfully from England to In-
dia: That Company have had iron vessels at work for ten
or twelve years ; and, with a view to carry out the principle,
finally determined to adopt that material in ships of war.
This they did by building the Nemesis, Phlegethon, and
several other vessels of a similar class ; and we doubt
not, that the good reports received of them from time
to time have had considerable weight in inducing the

owners of the vessel now under review to construct her of

iron. From the experience of the past, and the great
imp-wernents daily developed in the workings of iron, we
may venture to predict that the result of this new specula-
tion will be favourable to the more general adoption of that
material, as well calculated to promote our national and com-
mercial interests. We do not, of course, assume to be our-
selves competent to pronounce a decisive opinion on the
respective merits of the two materials. In common, indeed,

with the mass of our patriotic countrymen, our reminiscences
of the naval glories of our native land rather incline our
" voices" to be " still for wood ;" but we cannot repudiate
the evidence of facts ; and, if the allegation be well founded,
not an adequate supply of " heart of oak," we
least the satisfaction to reflect, in resorting to the
—should it finally be found to be equally ap-
plicable—that we have that material in abundance within our
own immediate territory. Of one thing we are also satisfied,
and that is, that the quality of our navy will never be suf-
fered, under any administration, to fall into deterioration,
whatever be the cost of the substances of which it is con-
structed. And we have no apprehension but the substitution
of the " iron and wooden walls," for simply the "wooden walls
Old England" will convey as salutary a lesson of discretion
to a presumptuous and threatening foe, as the mere mention
of the latter has never failed hitherto to impress.
We ere led to these remarks by a gratifying visit to the
iron steam-frigate " GUADALUPE ;" and as we have from
time to time taken considerable pride in furnishing descrip-
tions of the larger new ships built at, or sailing from, our
port, on their first floating on the Mersey, we shall not, we
trust, become amenable to a charge of partiality in endea-
vouring to do equal justice to that truly splendid vessel, pre-
mising that we were received with the most courteous atten-
tion by the officers on board, who furnished us with the
statistical information of which we have availed ourselves.
" The Guadalupe" was built by our townsman Mr. John
Laird, who, we understand, launched his first iron vessel in
1829, and has, since that time, completed between forty and
fifty, many of them of very large size. The Guadalupe" is
the largest vessel yet built of iron, and the first that has been
regularly equipped as a steam-frigate. She is, in every point,
one of the most compact and handsome craft—even consider-
ed as belonging to the high class of " men-of-war"—we have
ever seen, which is saying much; and, as she is provided
with powerful engines, is calculated also to carry an extra-
ordinary breadth of canvass for a steamer—and is, moreover,
armed with two very large guns, a discharge from one of
which will, probably, be more astonishing and destructive to
an enemy than a whole broadside from a vessel of equal ton-
nage with a greater aggregate weight of metal in guns of
smaller calibre,—she may be pronounced, both as regards
appearance and effect, to be " full of mischief"—a truly
beautiful vessel in the eyes of her countrymen—" an ugly
customer" in those of their enemies.
We furnished her general dim ensions at the time she was
launched from North Birkenhead—(in April last)—and for
the information of our nautical ruiders, who may be desirous
to preserve the record for reference in marking her future
career, we now give the whole more accurately and fully :
litlL L.

that sve I
have a

harder material

Length of keel for tonnage..
From figure-head to taffrail 2Ol "
Beam
Depth from upper deck....
Draft of water, with ten day:i coal and
water, and provisions for 120 men 9 "
Tonnage per measurement.. 7BB tons.