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

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The CRESUIRZ Fox HOUNDS will meet on Monday, the
31st instant, at Sandiwaybeaci ; Wednesday, Feb. 2, at Dud-
don Heath; Thursday, Feb. 3, Duddon Heath; Saturday,
Feb. 5, Buckley Hill—if the weather permits.
FlRE.—Yesterday evening, about a quarter before six
o'clock, an alarm of a fir e having broken out in Shaw's-alley
(leading out of Mersey-street), was passed along by the
police constables to the fire-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. Williams, 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. Ti►e distress is indescribable,
and calls loudly for the attention of the benevolent.

THEFT FROM A SHIP.—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, ch►irged
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 Cockermouti►
Castle. It appeared by the evidence, that a man named
James Farrell. had given away sonic of the shawls, which
had been pledged, and which were identified as part of the
property stolen. This Farrell is in gaol for felony. He,
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 he will con-
tinue that liberality or liberalisnrin 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 bard times, that his bull►on 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 whig party do support those by whom they are
supported. Ecce signum. We institute; however, no com-
parisons.

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
c,f 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
£3553 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
£7OO in 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.

THE 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. We 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, but two more
have died since we left. The purser of the ilberforce died
com
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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 coming 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 this 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
are going to leave the Soudan here. Mr. Strange has joined
the Albert here, and we have got an officer from the Pluto.
A clerk and 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 M arch."

RAINIIILL 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 sume valuable books as a mark of esteem
for his services, the Rev. Mr. Lamb, the curate, passed a
very high eulogium 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 shareholders, at the
general meeting on the Ist of February, the propriety of
authorizing the appropriation, out of the company's funds,
of a sum not exceeding £lOOO, 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. Margolianth, 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 puri!y of diction and elegance of writing,
rivals the Talmudical 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 Prince's 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
visiting 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 hall. To others they might become 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