The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-27 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS,

LIVER THEATRE.—Mrs. Honey is engaged at this theatre
or a short period.
THEATRE-ROYAL.—The pantomime at the theatre is one
of the most splendid and amusing productions ever pro-
duced on the provincial or other boards. Mr. and Mrs.
Kean were warmly received. Knowles last new play will be
performed to-night—a treat may be expected.
The Cheshire Foxhounds meet to-morrow (Wednesday),
at Sabesford Hall ; on Thursday, at Kinderton's Guidepost ;
and on Saturday, at Twamble Hall.
GREAT FAILURE AT WAKEFIELD.—We regret to state
that Mr. Dunn. the great corn-dealer, at Wakefield, has
failed. The liabilitiessare said to be about £300,000. This
will be severely felt by thousands.

THE LATE ALBION BANK.—This bank, it will be remem-
bered, discontinued business in the month of May last.
After paying half-yearly dividends at the rate of first eight
and then six per cent. per annum up to the end of last year,
the shareholders received back their whole capital £25 per
share. Since the return of the capital, they have received
two bonuses, amounting to £3los. There will, it is expected,
be a third bonus, amounting, probably, to £1 10s. ; and
making, with the capital, a total payment of £3O per share.
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SINGULAR AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Friday last a
little boy, aged two years and a half old, son of Mr. James
Clarke, keeper of the Frederick-treet wash-houses and baths,
accidentally slipped into one of the cisterns and was drowned.
The whole of the water in the upper cistern had, it appears,
been exhausted by the great quantity used at the late fire.
The covering of the whole which communicated with a cistern,
beneath the floor was, therefore, taken up. The child, not
being aware of the orifice, fell through it into the water. An
inquest was held on Saturday to inquire into the circum-
stances. Verdict, "Accidental death."

TIM FUNDS—SATURDAY EVENING.—The public Secu-
rities were not active to-day. This is, in fact, the season of
the year when there is, to a certain extent, a suspension of
business. On the *hole, however, the market appears to
present a more favourable appearance, and quotations are
rather on the advance. Consols for the account were quoted
at the close of the day, 93a to i; Bank Stock, 171 to 172;
Three per Cents. Reduced, 948 ; Exchequer Bills, 50s. to
525. pm. ; Three-and-a-half per Cents. Reduced, 101 to k ;
Long Annuities, 12 9-16 to b ; and India Bonds, 455. to 465.
pm. Canada Debentures were quoted 11 pm. n the foreign
market, Spanish Actives closed 18i to 4; and the New Three
per Cents., 244 to I, the dealers appearing more inclined to
do business than hitherto. Portuguese Five per Cents. left
off 38 to 4 ; Ditto Three per Cents., 234 to ; Dutch Two-
and-a-half per Cents., 524 to 8 ; Ditto Five per Cenis.,
1004 to 4 ; Danish, 84 to 85 ; Brazilian, 70 to 71; Belgian,
1014 to 1024; Mexican, 318 to ; and Colombian, 218 to I.

THE LATE DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—We believe the follow-
ing statement will be found a correct list of the sums insured
on the property in the different Fire Offices :

vcrst Of England
Liverpool
Sun

£12,500
10,000
5,800
3,600
3,000
3,000
4,000
2,500
2,000
1,200
1,000
1,000
100
180
500

Manchester
Phoenix .
Globe
Imperial and York and London
Norwich Union
Atlas
Alliance
Royal Exchange
London Union
North British
Norwich Equitable
London Assurance

X 50,380

EXPLOSION AND SUBSEQUENT FIRE IN HILL-STREET.—
On Saturday morning last, about half-past six o'clock, a
violent explosion took place at Mr. Holgrave's resin-works,
Hill-street, Toxteth-park. The shock was so violent as to
break every pane of glass on the premises, while most of the
windows in the neighbourhood were more or less damaged,
several of them having their frames broken. Nought was
heard for some seconds but the jingling of broken glass.
Happily, no lives were lost by the explosion, the workmen
having left that part of the premises some minutes before it
took place. It was quickly found, however, that the flash
had set the premises on fire. The building was quickly
closed in so as to prevent, as much as possible, the access of
air. Messengers were despatched to the fire-police station,
and an engine was procured from Gregson's saw-mills and
immediately got into play. By these energetic and judicious
measures, the fire was extinguished before the arrival of the
fire-police. It is said that the accident occurred in conse-
quence of the bursting of one of the pipes connected with a
boiler containing turpentine. Another belief expressed is,
that an escape of gas had taken place in the celler, which,
on the bursting of the pipe above-mentioned, was ignited,
and exploded.
AN INCORRIGIBLE.—EIizabeth Holden, a pretty girl. aged
about seventeen, was placed before Mr. Rushton on Friday
last charged with having assaulted several of the turnkeys in
the Borough Gaol. As a sort of excuse for her violent con-
duct, the prisoner accused Mr. Highton, the governor, of
having improperly confined her in the solitary cell. Mr.
Rushton remanded her till Saturday, when the case was re-
heard. The girl has been an inmate of the Workhouse,
where her conduct was so violent that she kept all in that
establishment in awe. At length, her frequent fits of fury
became insupportable, and she was taken before Mr. Rush-
ton, who visited her with small measures of punishment.
She was afterwards committed to the Borough Gaol for three
months, in default of fine and bail. On the 12th instant she
was ordered into solitary confinement for forty-eight hours,
for insubordination. At the expiration of that period, Mr.
Highton ordered the matron to restore her to her class, but
she proved so refractory that the latter threatened to call a
male officer to her. This threat was treated with derision,
and the male officer was called. He was entering the cell,
when the girl, who had prepared herself for his reception,
threw the urinal all over him, and then dashed the vessel it-
self at his head. Finding that it would be dangerous to ad-
mit her to her class, she was placed in a room which was only
half lighted, in the hope that she would promise better
behaviour. She had since thrown down one of the female
turnkeys, and abused her; assaulted another, and beaten
one of the male officers. Mr. Rushton, after setting before
her her previous conduct, fined her £5, and, in default, com-
mitted her to gaol for two months. She was further ordered
to find bail that she would keep the peace, or be imprisoned
three months more. She cast a look of ineffable contempt
at Mr. Rushton, and quitted the dock, exclaiming, "Keep
your heart up ! five months more ; never mind."
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SUPPOSED CASE OF POISONING.—An inquest was held,
on Friday. before P. C. Currie, Esq., on the body of Eliza-
beth Taylor, regarding whose death there existed some sus-
picion of foul play on the part of her husband, Joseph
Taylor, who appeared before the coroner in eustody.' Evi-
dence was adduced of considerable length, from which the
following facts were elicited :—The husband is a joiner, and
married the deceased only seven weeks ago. They occupied
a room in a house in Bispham-street, and were continually
quarrelling with each other to the annoyance of the neigh-
bours. On Wednesday evening last the prisoner and his
wife returned home together—the deceased being apparently
sober, and had nothing unusual in her appearance. The pri-
soner, however, had had some liquor, and went to sleep on
the floor of the room, having previously removed their goods.
On that evening, however, about seven o'clock, she went out
for the avowed object of purchasing a candle, and returned
in about a quarter of an hour. About half-past the female
in whose house they were was called up by the prisoner, who
stated that his wife was dying. She went up, and found the
deceased on the floor, supported by her husband. She was
frothing at the mouth, and the prisoner was wiping it away.
The prisoner went for a surgeon, and returned with Mr.
Ward, who found the deceased in a state of insensibility.
He examined her, and thinking she was labouring under the
effects of liquor, told the prisoner if he would go with him
he would give him some medicine. The prisoner, however,
did not procure it ; having no money to pay for it, he was
directed to go to the dispensary. The deceased remained in
the same state until about half-past nine the following morn-
ing, when she died. Several witnesses, relatives and friends
of the deceased, deposed to the bad terms on which they had
lived since their marriage—that he bad frequently beaten her,
had disposed of her property, and had threatened that he
" would do for her." A post mortem examination was made
of the body by Dr. Arnott, who stated that the appearance of
the stomach indicated that the deceased had died from the
effects of opium, saying it was for another female, but she
was not served. The inquest was, therefore, adjourned until
to-day, in order that the contents of the stomach might be
analysed.

THE BRINDLE WILL CAUSE.-Our readers will recollect
that a short time ago we gave extracts from a petition signed
by 194 members of the Roman Catholic congregation of
Brindle, addressed to their bishop, requesting him to prevent
confessors from making the wills of their penitents in their
own favour, and to oblige the Rev. Thomas Sherburne to
restore the Brindle property to the natural and legal heirs.
This petition having met with no attention from the bishop,
a copy of it, we hear, has been sent to the Pope, and the
petitioners are determined to be heard. From what we
learn, on good authority, a person high in office may be ex-
pected in these parts from the Court of Rome, to investigate
the accusations which have been so perseveringly brought
against certain members of the Roman Catholic clergy, and
which have created so great a noise in this part of the country.
—Preston Chronicle.

TIM CONDITION-OF-IRELAND QUESTION.—Aggravated
as the evils of Ireland have been by centuries of mismanage-
ment, to attribute them to the neutral policy of the govern-
ment is even more flagrantly foolish than it was to accuse
Lord Normanby's leniency. They lie in the social state of
Ireland itself, and are beyond the influence of mere changes
of ministry here, or transitions from political principles to
others so slightly different as those of Peel and Russell prac-
tically are. The agrarian outrage itself is but a symptom of
the morbid state : so is the ejectment. The Dublin Evening
Mail even roundly asserts, that " the supposed drivings'
and forcible ejectments of tenants have no existence" ;
another among the many indications of .the degree to which
politicians in Ireland are at issue, and at sea, as to the most
glaring operations of the evils which surround them. A
sensible view of Ireland's actual condition would regard
chiefly the country itself, apart from English politics. The seat
of the disease lies there, though the remedy may be sought
without. Ireland is a smaller island lying near to a larger one,
of overwhelming predominance, and necessarily the site of the
common government : it was for centuries neglected by its
powerful neighbour as to all purposes of good, tormented for
corrupt purposes : oppression has ceased, and there is a dis-
position quietly to extend to Ireland benefits enjoyed by Eng-
land, as fast as their reception can be prepared. Such a dispo-
sition we believe to animate all influential parties in this coun-
try. It now matters little, therefore, to Ireland—far less than
to England—which party shall be in power, so long as it can
but summon determination to be tranquil, and to be the
passive recipient of services which it cannot compel. True
patriots in Ireland will seek to devise means of using for
their province, in every possible mode, and to the fullest ex-
tent, the whole power and riches of England. " They have to
bethink them. not of sweeping charges against parties and
persons in this part of the country—charges which are only
not thought insane because we have been accustomed to
them ever since they had a show of reason—but of what Ire-
land's internal condition demands. This disclaimer of party
asperities is a good beginning; and so anxious are we for
the process to be at work of making England do all it can
for Ireland, that we are fain to recognise, even in this little
negative improvement, the first glimmering dawn of a better
day, when local politicians will co-operate with practical
English statesmen for the benefit of their own country, and
no longer furnish a Swiss contingent on either side in the
battles of English politics, paid with the license to fight on
their own internal fueds—as our traders pay savage allies
with fire-arms to destroy each other.—Spectator.

Epigram on the Duke of Wellington's life having been saved
by the use of the " Probang t"—
The manner in which the Duke's life was preserved
Is matter deserving of note,
Since his Grace is the very last man in the world
To have any thing " thrust down his throat."
Er ter. •IitTOCIENARIUS.