The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-02-22 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS

THE GREAT WESTERN STEAM-SHlP.—Bristol, AS well
as London has been compelled to admit, that Liverpool is the
port of transitlfor passengers as well as goods to the United
States. After running their splendid steam-ship for several
seasons to and from New York, her owners have resolved
to run her alternately from Bristol and Liverpool to New
York, and thence alternately to Liverpool and Bristol. By
the new arrangement, the Great Western will, during the
season, sail twice from and thrice to this port ; thus com-
peting directly with the British and North American royal
mail steamers.
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It will be seen by our advertising columns, that the inde-
fatigable champion of Christian truth as opposed to the foul
and demoralising system of Socialism, Mr. John Brindley,
is to deliver a lecture or address, at the Music-hall, to-mor-
row (Wednesday) evening; and that he is to be presented,
on this occasion, with a small testimonial of regard for his
unpaid exertions in this holy cause. We can only wish that
the testimonial were not a small one, for never was a cham-
pion better deserving of public support than Mr. Brindley.
who has sacrificed emolument, comfort, and ease, to carry
on the warfare against this foul system. The surplus pro-
ceeds of the meeting to-morrow is to be handed to the Pro-
testant Operative Association, and it could not be better
bestowed.

THE REv. HUGH 111'NEILE.—His personal appearance
is singularly striking and prepossessing ; in stature, he is
considerably above the middle size, and his features are regu-
lar and remarkably expressive of benignity and intelligence.
His mode of address is particularly pleasing, and attractive,
and there is an ease and dignity in his manner, denoting the
perfect gentleman. His attitudes in the pulpit appear at
first sight, too studied, but this impression after a while
wears off ; they certainly, however present points for criti-
cism as well as for admiration. His style of oratory is bold
and vigorous, and, in an extraordinary degree, perspicuous.
The great secret of his eloquence, though, consists in his
commanding voice, and distinct articulation. He seizes upon
a word, and holds it in his utterance between his teeth, as it
were, till it yields up the very soul and essence of its mean-
ing. No part is suffered to escape, each syllable is made to
speak out, and is converted almost into a separate expression.
For this reason a great disparity is apparent in Mr. M'Neile's
sermons as published, compared with the same when
preached : the former seem tame and meaningless in corn-
parison.—Ecclesiastica ; or, The Church, Her Schools, and
Her. Clergy, by E. H. Roose.
DAMAGE TO A VESSEL IN THE RIVER.—At the Police-
court, on Thursday. a complaint was made by information
against a pilot, on a charge of negligently causing damage to
a schooner called the Racer. It appeared that the pilot was
on board of the ship Georgiana on the 26th January, during
the gale then blowing ; and the mate stated that the anchor
was started while she lay off the Prince's Pier, the wind then
blowing fresh from the N. W. She sheered across the river,
and while doing so the pilot shouted to the master of the
schooner to put his helm a-starboard, which he neglected to
do, and the ship from that neglect fell foul of her. A wit-
ness on the other side (a nautical man) said that the wind
was from nearly the opposite direction, and that the putting
of the helm to starboard would not have saved her, as she
had two anchors out, and it was blowing hard, so that she
could not have got out of the way. Besides: the, ship, which
had let go an anchor and dragged it, had another ancho r
her bow, which, had it been dropped as it ought to have been,
would have brought her up clear of the schooner. It ap-
peared, however, that under the circumstances of the tide
and wind, the pilot seeing a ship near the schooner, had only
preferred the lesser of two evils, as, in avoiding the schooner,
he would have run into the ship. The court, therefore, de-
cided that its jurisdiction in such a case did not reach the
pilot, and the complaint was dismissed.
DEATH FROM ImmEaszos.—Yesterday an inquest was
held before Mr. Curry, on view of the body of Robert
Mooney, a labourer, aged 37. On the Bth instant the de-
ceased was taken out of the slip at the Clarence Dock, into
which he had fallen, by what means was not known. He
was taken to the receiving house (Tindall's,) but not recover-
ing, he was thence carried to the Northern Hospital. He
remained there for a week under medical care, when he left
the establishment of his own accord, being then affected
in his head. lie was afterwards attended at his own home
in Frederick-court, Steward-street, by Mr. Arnott, Dispen-
sary surgeon, who found him labouring under cough and
slight delirium. He died on Saturday night. On a post
mortem examination he found the right lung much inflamed.
The other organs were all healthy. The inflammation was
the cause of death, and might have been caused by the im-
mersion in the water. The jury returned a verdict to the
effect, that the deceased died from the inflammation, caused
by the immersion.
DEATH BY A FALL ON BOARD SHlP.—Yesterday an in-
quest was held before Mr. Curry, coroner for this borough,
on view of the body of Edward Ellis, a youth of fifteen years
of age. The deceased was ship's cooper of the ship Success,
lying on the east side of the King's dock. Yesterday week,
between two and three o'clock, the men had knocked off
work, and while some of them were in the hold, engaged in
clearing for bricks, the deceased fell into the hold upon two
pieces of cant idge iron. He fell with his left side upon the
iron, and his legs under him, and must have fallen from the
deck, from the fore-hatch, a height of about twenty feet.
When lifted up he complained or his right foot. He was
soon after carried to the Southern Hospital,, Greenland-
street. Mr. Okell, surgeon of the Southern and Toxteth
Hospital, said that the deceased when brought there was in-
jured about the right foot, and had ruptured several small
vessels in the ankle joint. He was put to bed, and every
attention paid to him. For the first three days he went on
improving, but became delirious on the third night. He
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principal at noon.
sank rapidly from that time, and
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On a post mortem examination,
injury of the bladder. There was also inflammation of the
stomach and right lung. The injuries might arise from a
fall into a ship's hold, and were the cause of his death. The
deceased stated to witness that he had slipped into the hold
from a rope he had hold of. The jury returned a verdict to
the effect that the deceased died from the effects of the fall,
but from what cause he fell there was no evidence to show.