The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-06 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN HOSPITAL.

ROBBERY IN SLATEB.'S-COURT.—Yesterday, a man named
Thomas Higgin was brought up at the Police-court, charged
with having feloniously entered the warehouse of Mr. Goore,
ornamental painter, in Slater's-court. It appeared that on
Saturday night the office was made secure by Mr. Goore
himself, and the outer door carefully fastened by the fore-
man. About half-past three on Sunday afternoon, Mr.
Deane was passing the premises, when hearing an unusual
noise inside, he communicated what he heard to policemen
Nos. 355 and 446. They went into the place, and after
searching for some time, found the prisoner concealed on
the top of the premises, he having been traced there from
the counting-house. On an examination of the premises, it
became evident that a robbery of an extensive character was
in process of execution. The door of a large iron safe had
been partially cut through near the hinges, a work which
must have taken the greater part of the day, and two files
were found on the floor underneath, with marks on them of
having been recently used. Mr. Goore's desk had been
broken open, and two screws, a piece of cord, and a key,
taken therefrom; a box of raisins belonging to Mr. Goore,
jun., had been emptied, and a parcel made up of their con-
tents, which was tied up by a piece of the cord taken from
the desk. In the lobby were found a jemmy, a centre-bit,
some skeleton keys, a box of lucifer matches, and a quantity
of lead rolled up ready to be carried away. Some articles
were found upon the prisoner's person, which Mr. Goore,
his son, and workmen, identified. The prisoner, who is a
French-polisher, made no defence, and he was committed
for trial at the sessions. Mr. Goore stated, that during the
last two or three years his premises had been robbed several
times, and property stolen to the amount of some hundreds
of pounds.
A RUN WITH THE CHESHIRE HOUNDS.—On Saturday
last the meet was at Oulton, the seat of the much respected
and worthy member for South Cheshire, Sir P. Egerton, and
as soon as the hounds were thrown into the first cover, a
plantation at Darlay Farm, close to Oulton, at half-past
eleven, a fox broke away, but the hounds did not get well
away with him ; slow hunting for some time, pointing for the
Park, when he turned, leaving Little Budworth to the left ;
here the pace improved, and he made his point for Darnhall,
through the covers there, without dwelling for a moment ;
crossing the river Weaver, and ran over a deal of country for
Minshull; from there at a racing pace up to Warmingham,
leaving the wood to the left; then straight to Elton, and
nearly up to Abbey Field, the residence of Charles Ford,
Esq., the late manager of the hounds ; up to this point it was
brilliant. He then set his head straight for Union Gorse,
which he missed, and crossed the railway, up to Bradwell
Hall, where they came to a long check; he then went for
Holmes Chapel, and was viewed making Hedge-row, the
hounds having hunted to him beautifully, and they ran him
in view for a few fields, when Maiden, (the hunstman,) who
was going like mad close up to his hounds had a most awful
fall, a regular burster, but he was soon up and at it again,
crossing the Holmes Chapel turnpike-road for Breton Mill ;
from there up to the Dane Viaduct, where he crossed the
river, and they ran him to ground in a rabbit hole at Twem-
low, at a quarter to five o'clock, it getting so dark for the
last half mile that the fences were invisible ; but he was drawn
by a hound in a minute, not being half a yard in, when there
was as a jolly " Who Whoop !" as ever fell to the lot of man
to hear. The field kept dropping off one by one, till very
few were left, beside Captain White and Maiden, to enjoy
the finish.
ACCOMMODATION IN CHURCHES.—Under this heading,
the Liverpool Mail of Tuesday last contains a letter, signed
" E. M.," and written, we are informed by a lady, detailing
what the writer terms a case of " great hardship." The
circumstances of the " hardship" in question, as detailed by
" E. M.," are as follow :—Being a stranger in Liverpool,
she attended for " two or three Sundays" at the church of
the Rev. Fielding Ould, on which occasions "every atten-
tion was paid to her by the verger, and instant accommoda-
tion furnished to her." On several succeeding Sundays,
however, she says that she was permitted to stand throughout
the whole of the service, until at length, seeing " a large
pew in the eastern part of the gallery unoccupied," the lady
in Question took possession of it, and sate " for two or three
Sundays unmolested." But "on Sunday morning last, as
the congregation was separating," she says that she was
" impudently tapped on the shoulder by the verger, and
asked if she had taken a seat in the pew"—(a very reasona-
ble question, surely, under the circumstances)—and " on
replying negatively, was told that she must not sit there
again." We should not have remarked upon this trumpery
affair, but have concluded that the complainant was one of
that party in the church who have adopted the outcry, now.
become fashionable, against the system of having pews in
churches, had we not been requested to say that the whole
statement is erroneous, and had not the journal in which it
first appeared refused or neglected to give the correct ver-
sion of the story. Such a circumstance did occur, or at
least something like it. Such a lady did attend the church
for some weeks. She was never, however, intentionally
allowed to stand in the aisle. Such a circumstance is never
allowed to occur in Christ Church, or any other church in
this town, when there is unoccupied pew room. The lady,
however, at length took possession of a sitting, occupied it
Sunday after Sunday, until, as described, she was reminded—
civilly, however, and not " impudently" that the pew in
question was not her own. This is the sum and substance of
the mighty " grievance" which the lady " has the moral
courage"—as our contemporary expresses it—" to make
public (!) through the assistance of" his columns ; and a more
ridiculous grievance the public has rarely heard of. We
shall be told some of these days that it is a grievance
that " a stranger" is not permitted to take possession of an
unoccupied house without being reminded that she is a
trespasser.

ACCIDENT AT GEORWS Pl"' HEATL—On Saturday
evening last, at dusk, a Mrs. Bowers, we are informed, who
was going to the Rock Ferry boat, which was outside, lost
her footing in passing along the plank between the Birken-
head and Woodside boats, and fell into the river. A man,
who is stated to be a supernumerary on board H.M.S. Etna,
and who was proceeding to that vessel, immediately jumped
intp the water, and, being a good swimmer, succeeded in
extricating her ; otherwise she would, in all probal,ility, have
been drowned. The lady was muca exhausted, and insensi-
ble ; but she was soon afterwards got on board the Rock
Ferry boat, and conveyed to her family. The plank from
which she fell was narrow, and was unprotected by any rail-
ing. We strongly suggest to the proper authorities—many
accidents having from time to time occurred in the same
manner—the propriety of framing a regulation requiring all
steam-vessels, receiving or landing passengers at the pier, to
provide planks or stages of adequate width, with hand-rails
fixed on both sides of them, to ensure safety, We would
also suggest, that after sundown every boat so plying should,
in addition to a sufficiently broad plank or stage, have a strong
globular lamp fixed near their gangways, and which would
throw a body of light across the vessels and along the planks.
These lights could be doused when the vessels cast off their
lines, and might be relighted for the avoidance of danger at
their respective piers at the other side, if required ; the cost
would be only a comparatively trifling sum. The Scotch
and other steamers at the Clarence Dock, the decks of which
are frequently at a considerable distance from the quay, are
provided with landing-stages for passengers, ribbed across to
prevent slipping, and railed or boarded up at each side. We
do not say that these could be so conveniently employed at
the pier-head, owing to the rise and fall of the water at the
slips and stairs ; but surely some approach to the same secu-
rity might be made, by providing a broad plank with light
railing. The landing of passengers is, we learn, much bet-
ter attended to on the Clyde ; and it is certainly a reproach
to this town, that, it would appear, a number of lives must
be lost or jeopardised, before our official authorities will
rouse themselves to effect an amendment in this important
department in the management of our port.
SINGING FOR THE MILLION.—Mr. Joseph Mainzer,
having concluded his lectures on vocal music for the million,
in the Mechanics Institution, announced his intention of
giving two other lectures in the Nelson Assembly Rooms;
the first last evening, and the other to-night. We regret to
say that the attendance last night was so thin as to cause
Mr. Mainzer to abandon his intention of giving the second
lecture. He entered into an exposition of the general prin-
ciples of his system, and accompanied his explanations with
many pleasing Illustrations, showing that the method is well
adapted for the instruction of large bodies in the art of
singing. As several individuals have applied to us to explain
the difference between the two systems of Wilhem and
Mainzer, we copy the following from an Edinburgh paper
for their advantage, merely premising that the writer is evi-
dently a strong partizan. Our opinion is, that for the object
which both profess to have, the improvement of congrega-
tional singing, the two systems have about equal merit :
" I. Wilhem has introduced a new Manual Alphabet of
Music, in which the lines of the stave aN represented by the
five fingers, while the notation is performed by very ingenious
manual signs. In this manner the pupils are taught to read
and speak music by means of certain gestures of the body.—
Mainzer used the ordinary notation. 2. Wilhem, who em-
ploys the hands of the professor with the manual exercises,
forbids the use of an instrument.—Mainzer recommends its
use in order to tune the voice, to educate the ear, and to
correct the natural and constant tendency of the voice to fall;
while it also relieves the lungs of the teacher from an unne-
cessary strain. 3. Wilhem's exercises are chiefly and pur-
posely mechanical and unmusical, for the sake of dexterity.—
Mainzer has given to all his exercises a charm which is quite
fascinating ; every little exercise has some musical idea, in
order to cultivate the taste, and to encourage the pupil.
—4. Wilhem teaches the grammar of music from the very.
beginning. Mainzer begins with only one letter of the al-
phabet; and does not teach the grammar until his pupils
have learned.-5. Wilhem introduces expedients which must
afterwards. be laid aside. Mainzer introduces nothing but
what will always be required.-6.Withem's elementary
course consists of sixty lessons. Mainzer's consists of only
sixteen.-7. Wilhem uses the old analytical plan of instruc-
tion ; classifying and arranging, coming downwards from the
great to the small, as we would define for an encyclopaedia.
Mainzer uses the synthetical plan; building and adding bit
by bit, going upwards from the small to the great, as we
would explain for a child."
SERIOUS CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER.—At the Police-
court, on Friday, John Bowman Randles, first mate of the
East Indianian Clydesdale, of this port, David Barnes, James
M'Donald, George Deane, and George Saul, seamen, and
John Roberts, an apprentice, were brought before Mr. Rush-
ton on a charge of having been concerned in killing the cook
of the ship, shortly before she arrived at this port. There
being no evidence against the apprentice he was immediately
discharged. The first witness examined was John Stephen,
a black, who said he was a seaman in the Clydesdale, now
lying in the Waterloo Dock, and which arrived the previous
night from Bombay. He knew the deceased, whose name
was Philip Keel, He was a black, and cook of the ship.
He died on board the day before the vessel arrived; he had
been sick before for some time. He was below in bed in the
forecastle. Witness was then in bed. The prisoner Randle,
the chief mate, came down to him on Wednesday morning,
and asked him to go and get breakfast ready. Deceased said
he was not able to do so ; the mate said he was, adding " You
b— you are skulking." Deceased said he was not skulk-
ing. The mate said, "If you don't go on deck, I'll send a
watch tackle and have you boused out." Deceased had then
been confined to bed three or four days, After this the pri-
soner Saul came down, and said to Barnes, " If you'll put a
rope round deceased's neck I'll house him up." Barnes put
a rope round his neck, but neither of them touched it after-
wards that he saw. Deceased was pulled out of bed, but
witness did not know by whom. The carpenter (a witness,)
cried out to them on deck, " Avast, or you'll choke the man."
George Deane said he would hoist the b— up if a rope was
put round his neck, but witness did not see him touch the
rope. After Deane got on deck the deceased was hauled up
from the bunch, a bed place where he was. The rope was
then round his neck. George Saul cleared the cook's head
from the scuttle as he was hauled up. Witness, who was in
bed, saw no more of it, They brought the cook down again
in better thou twenty minutes. George Saul and Deane
brought him ; he did not speak a word, and could not walk.
They put him on the bunck. He never spoke afterwards ;
his eyes were shut and his mouth open. The man was dead.
Other witnesses were then examined, and gave several other
particulars connected with the occurrence, but the chief fea-
tures of the case are presented in the evidence above. Two
surgeons stated that they had made a post mortem examina-
rion of the body and could detect no outward appearance of
violence, but they thought thatdeath was occasioned though
suffocation, and was not the result of natural causes: Mr.
Rushton then adjourned the case until Saturday, ' when 'all .
the prisoners were committed for trial, at the'Central Grim;-,
1 nal Court.

• The numerous calamitous accidents which have, within the
last few months, occurred in the northern extremity of the
town, call our attention to an institution which we have for
some time past been anxious to bring before the public; we
allude to the " Northern Hospital ;" and notwithstanding
the frequent occasions that the name of this excellent cha-
rity has appeared in our columns, we feel convinced that its
existence, as a distinct institution, is unknown to many of
our readers, and its importance appreciated by few. In sup-
port of the last we have now stated, we proceed to lay before
our readers a short history of the hospital, with some details
gathered from the annual reports of the committee. In 1834,
the necessity of an institution for the reception of the casu-
alties which occurred in the neighbourhood of the docks and
manufactories being strongly felt, a public meeting was
called, the result of which was, that a house was taken in
Leeds-street, and accommodation provided for 33 patients :
this, however, was soon found to be quite inadequate to the
purpose, and in 1836, by the addition of the adjoining house,
the committee were enabled to fit up 82 beds, thus more than
doubling the number originally capable of being received.
Within the last few years, the rapid extension of the town
and great increase of population have again proved its com-
plete insufficiency to meet the numerous and urgent calls
which are continually made upon it. Since the first opening
of the hospital, we find that no less than 8,700 cases have
been received, of which 3,650 were accidents of a serious
nature, the limited accommodation preventing any but those
of a severe description being admitted. Of the entire num-
ber, 3,400 were natives of the town ; 850, foreigners; the
rest belonged to different parts of the United, Kingdom. Of
the accidents, 1,435 occurred in the town, mostly in the im-
mediate vicinity of the hospital; 1,312 in the docks and
shipping ; 418 in the adjacent manufactories ; and the re-
mainder at the canal bank and warehouses. If we recollect,
too, that on several occasions accidents of the most fearful
nature have occurred within a short distance from the hos-
pital, we cannot but be impressed with an idea of its great
value and importance. We may particularly instance the
great fire and numerous shipwrecks which took place in the
beginning of 1839 ; also the falling of the chapel in Leeds-
street, when seven persons who had been buried in the
ruins were carried to the hospital, and received immediate
assistance. The present year has been characterised by an
unusual number of such calamities. From the late fire in
Galton-street nine men were received; from that in Great
Howard-street, twenty-five ; and from the late dreadful col-
lision, five—of which two are now lying in a most dangerous
state.

With such a body of facts before us, is it not surprising
that, with means so limited, so much good can have been
effected? As an explanation of this apparently anomalous
circumstance we must state, that severe accidents are never
refused admittance, medical cases, if at all fit to be removed,
being sent out to make room for them. During the last
week, we are informed that the number of the former has
been so great, that the beds usually appropriated to the lat-
ter have been occupied by accidents exclusively.
We trust that what we have now stated, and the details
which we have given, will be sufficient to arouse the atten-
tion of the public to a subject which we feel certain requires
merely to be mentioned in order to obtain that consideration
which its importance as one of our chief means of alleviating
suffering so imperiously claims for it; and having proved the
urgent necessity of increased and better accommodation, it
only remains for us to hope that, as assistance in severe ac-
cidents is valuable in proportion as it is administered early,
and as in many cases it is only immediate aid which can be
at all available, that the new building which must be ere long
provided, will be placed as near as possible to the present
site, so favourably situated in the immediate vicinity of the
sources whence most of the cases are derived. With these
remarks we conclude, in the full conviction that our towns-
men will not be remiss in coming forward to assist the com-
mittee in the furtherance of an object so laudable ; and
having it trust on its own merits, we are sure that the town
will soon have another institution worthy of the great cause
they are devoted to, that of alleviating the distress of the
lower portion of the community.

" Matrimony " may be anagrammatized into " 0 ! I try
man ! " and " Husband" into " Ah! snub'd!" Good jokes
for bachelors, but no fun to married men.

A court-martial is ordered to be held to try the Hon. Cap-
tain Charles G. J. B. Elliot, commanding her Majesty's ship
Spartan, in the West Indies, for having corporally punished
Mr. Gleig, a young gentleman of that ship, doing duty in her
as a midshipman.—Hampshire Telegraph.
CHINESE DOLLARS.—If the 21,000,000 dollars to be paid
by the Chinese on treaty of peace with Great Britain were to
be extended in a straight line in a horizontal position, edge
to edge, they would more than reach from Brighton to Ber-
wick-upon-Tweed, or the whole'extent of England ; comput-
ing the dollar to be 1 inch and 2-10ths in diameter, which
would be a line of 3971 British miles.

The inquiry into the causes of the fearful accident on the
Versailles railway, on the Bth of May last, commenced last
week before the Correctional police; the act of accusation
accuses six persons belonging to the Company of " homicide
by imprudence," and then proceeds to state the causes and
results of the accident, which is attributed to a faulty state of
the ironwork of the machines in some measure. It appears
that there were 768 persons in the train, besides nine ser-
vants of the company.
VINE Houtins.—His Grace the Duke of Wellington came
on 'Wednesday to Hurstborne-park, the seat of Lord Ports-
mouth, to meet the Vine hounds. Although the distaace
from Strathfieldsaye is about 20 miles, his Grace was, as
usual, punctual to the hour of 11. Mr. Fellows first drew
the osier-bed, a celebrated place, and found ; a very large
field of horse and foot turned the fox from his usual line, and
he went for Whewell-wood, a wood of some three and twenty
hundred acres, and his Grace had then above five and twenty
miles to return to Strathfieldsaye.—Berkshire Chronicle.
Ch ARGE 6F MURDER.—On Wednesday last, and by ad-
journment on Friday, a case was heard before the Manches-
ter coroner, as to the death of a man by poison. Suspicion
attaches to the wife, and it is supposed she was prompted to
the awful deed by the wish to obtain possession of about
£lOO, which the husband had secreted in a strong box.
Most of the money was found upon her. She entrusted the
secret of her intentions to a neighbouring female, who has
also been committed to gaol, as an accessory before the fact.
This other woman purchased the poison, and was, no doubt,
to go share in the spoils. The case was again adjourned to
Tuesday (this day).
FEET Or• THE CELESTIAL BEAUTIES.—During our stay
at this anchorage we made constant trips to the surrounding
islands ; in one of which—at Tea Island—we had a good op-
portunity of minutely examining the far-famed little female
feet. I had been purchasing a pretty little pair of satin shoes
for about half a dollor, , at one of the Chinese farmers houses,
where we were surrounded by several men, women, and chil-
dren. By signs we expressed a wish to see the pied mignon
of a really good-looking woman of the party. Our signs were
quickly understood, but probably, from her being a matron,
it was considered quite comme itfoul for her to comply with
our desires, as she would not consent to show us her foot,
but a very pretty interesting girl of about 16 was placed on a
stool for the purpose of gratifying our curiosity. At firstishe
was very bashful, and appeared not to like exposing her
Cinderella-like slipper ; but the shine of a new and very
bright loope ' soon overcame her delicacy, when she com-
menced unwinding the upper bandage which passes round the
leg, and over a tongue that comes up from the heel. The
shoe was then removed, and the second bandage taken off,
which did the duty for a stocking ; the turns round the toes
and ankles being very tight, and keeping all in place. On
the naked foot being exposed to view we were agreeably sur-
prised by finding it delicately white and clean, for we fully
expected to have found it otherwise from the known habits
of most of the Chinese, The leg from the knee downwards
was much wasted; the foot appeared as if broken up at the
instep, while the four small toes were bent flat and pressed
down under the foot, the great toe only being allowed to re-
tain its natural position. By the breaking of the instep a
high arch is formed between the heel and the toe, enabling
the individual to step with them on an even surface ; in this
respect materially differing from the Canton and Macao
ladies; for with them the instep is not interfered with, but a
very high heel is substituted, thus bring the point of the
great toe to the ground. When our Canton compradore was
shown a Chusan shoe, :the exclamation was ' He yawl how
can walkee so fashion ?' nor would he be convinced that such
was the case. The toes, doubled under the foot I have been
describing, could only be moved by the hand sufficiently to
show that they were not actually grown into the foot. I
have often been astonished at seeing bow well the women
contrive to walk on their tiny pedeslels. Their gait is not
unlike the little mincing walk of the French ladies; they
were constantly to be seen going about without the aid of any
stick, and I have often seen them at Macao contending
against a fresh breeze with a tolerably good-sized umbrella
spread. The little children, as they scrambled away before
us balanced themselves with their arms extended, and re-
minded one much of an old hen between walking and flying.
All the women I saw about Chusan had small feet. It is a
general characteristic of true Chinese descent; and there can-
not be a greater mistake than to suppose that it is confined
to the higher orders, though it may be true that they take
more pains to suppress the foot to the smallest possible di-
mensions than the lower:classes do. High and low, rich and
poor, all more or less follow the custom ; and when you see
a large or natural-sized foot, you may depend upon it the
possessor is not of true Chinese blood, but is either of Tartar
extraction, or belongs to the tribes that live and have their
being on the waters.—Bingham's Narrative of the Expedi-
'ion to China.

ANECDOTE OF TIM REV. EDWARD IRVING.—WhiIe the
star of the celebrated Edward Irving yet lingered near its
meridian, I happened to be amongst the auditory which
thronged his newly erected church in Regent-square, Lon-
don. "The princes, the governors and captains, the trea-
surers, the judges, the councillors, the sheriffs, and all the
rulers of the provinces," no longer, as in previous years,
disputed for seats, or even standing-room, wherefrom they
might listen/to that mighty master of language. But a nu-
merous company still attended him, devoted to his doctrines,
receiving with greedy ears his marvellous proclamations, or
(for he well deserved such tribute to his eloquence and
power) captivated by his unrivalled fluency of diction and
strength of reasoning. The church, on the Sabbath to
which I refer, was crowded in every part. With some diffi-
culty, and not until I had pressed my claims as a clergyman
upon a very courteous, though sadly beset verger, was a
place assigned me, where, partly through his exertions, and
still more by my own, I was driven down as awedge between
two females, whose apparent respectability failed to protect
them from such mechanical force. In due time the rev.
gentleman ascended the pulpit. Those who have seen him
need not be reminded of what must be ineffaceable from
their recollections, the inexpressible solemnity and awful
dignity of his aspect; and to such as have not, no descrip-
tion could convey an idea of it. After a prayer of the deep-
est fervour, he began his discourse, taking his text from
Exodus xx—" Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven
image," &c. His greatest excellence consisted in the denun-
ciation of idolatry; and never did he equal, before or since,
the surpassing vehemence of that Lord's Day. It seemed as
if his very soul was on tire—like a burning lake, on whose
agitated billows the enemies of the true Jehovah were cast.
The impressions which he made exceeded all pourtraying ;
the congregation waved to and fro, as if moved by the giant
arms which, from above them, gave vent to, rather than in-
dication of, the emotions of his inflamed spirit. Every word
he uttered struck down some " refuge of lies," and destroyed
an adversary of the Lord. This wonderful scene endured
for many years, increasing more and more in interest, the
preacher appearing to gather strength as he went along. But
his patience and address were about to sustain a singular
proof, which I proceed to tell, It was while he was rapidly
ascending to the summit of the most magnificent climax of
withering condemnation of image worship I have ever heard,
and while a breathless audience listened with motionless
attention to the deep sonorous tones of his unrivalled elocu-
tion, that from the outer door, at the further extremity of
the building, a voice, which seemed, by contrast, shrill as an
infant's, exclaimed in a key that pierced every ear—" That's
not true." It need not be said that every head turned to-
wards the spot from whom whence that strange interrupt,ipn
issued, and every eye was strained to discover the perpetrator
of it, who had either concealed himself in the 'crowd, or
escaped. The preacher, quite undist-,A41, paused for a
moment ; then, waving his right_ haud, spoke—" Give heed,
brethren, to the Word of Ppd." He, then, completed the
sentence, which I almss Lmaginato have been imp;o,vc4lad
the momentary decay aPd, as he closed it, looking towards
the diste4tdoor, staid, with mcocaparable
I'm glad
the devil spoke 'fil)ra the possessed fnar.l,l he Will now come
out of bira:".

Futg LA,S,T NIGHT.—A fire broke out in
last night, just as we were going to press..
the particulars, owing to the lateness of the

Botham-street,
We cannot give
hour.