The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-08-23 00:00:00

SINGULAR OCCURRENCE : A BIRTH IN THE STREET !"--

On Tuesday last, about noon, a woman, who had that
come from Wales, was suddenly seized, in Hardman'
street, about fifty yards above Rodney-street, with the pains
of labour. As soon as her condition was discovered by the
passers-by, persons ran into Rodney-street for a surgeon to
attend the delivery. Before one arrived, however, the WO'
man was actually delivered, on the flags of the footwalk, of a
fine child. Some horse-cloths were brought from an adjoin;
ing stable and placed under and around the mother and
child. A clothes-rail was also brought, and, some carpet.
being thrown over it, a kind of screen was made to keep nn
the crowd who had assembled, and who were exceedinglY
intrusive in their demeanour. The surgeon, as soon as he
arrived, performed the necessary part of his duty. A gentle-
man then sent for a coach, and the poor woman and her
infant were conveyed to the Workhouse. They have since,
we understand, done as well as though the delivery had take!!
place in a chamber, with " all appliances and means to boot.'
CHARGE OF THEFT FROM "THE HINDOSTAN."—Yef°
terday, an old man, named Robert Disney, and his son John
Disney, a youth, were placed at the bar of the police-court,
on a charge of theft from this vessel. Police-officer No-
-253 said, that on Saturday afternoon, he saw the prisoners--
one drawing, and the other pushing a hand-cart from the
shed at the Clarence Dock basin, opposite the steam-sbiP
Hindostan, and, suspecting something wrong, he stopped
them. He found in the cart a quantity of shavings and chips'
on two planks, and below several pieces of new bar and
other iron, weighing about two cwt., four pieces of mahogan),;'
and a pair of rope-slings. The elder prisoner, it appeare"'
was allowed to take the shavings and chips, but not the iron,
or wood. The iron had been taken from about the ship, and
the pieces of wood from a workman's bench, opposite to her!
where he had loft it on giving over work. The elder prisoner
said that he had on former occasions returned any such arti-
cles or tools which he had found amongst the rubbish, and
that he would have returned those produced from his lions'
after he found them, as he had not himself loaded the cart:
The younger prisoner said the iron, &c. was amongst the
rubbish, and lie did not know of them. They were both
committed for trial at the sessions.

PROPOSED DISSOLUTION OF THE GREAT WEST
STEAM-SHIP COMPANY.—It has for some time been prettY
extensively known that this company has been working at
heavy loss, and were becoming involied in serious difficulties:
On Tuesday last a special meeting of proprietors was held at
the offices of the company, in Bristol, " for the purpose 0'
taking into consideration the best means of selling, or other-
wise disposing of, or applying, the yard, workshops, and tool 3
of the company, and making such order or resolution, 311,
adopting such proceedings in reference thereto, as maY,'",,
deemed expedient," at which, after a long discussion ant.' .
full exposition of the affairs of the company, a resolution
was passed to the effect, " that a committee of ten proPriii
etors be appointed to confer with the directors, and to afibr3
them advice and assistance in any arrangement which 0
might be thought desirable to adopt." It appeared that to
complete the building of the " Great Britain," now 1.1P2 ,t
the stocks, the original estimate for which was £75,000, ,u"d
which will cost £76,116, about £lO,OOO would be requigo
to be raised by the shareholders in addition to £l5, 0
already owing to the company's bankers. To meet theii,
amounts, a sum, nearly equivalent, is in arrear cad•
alreadym ades,ubut,pme doubt exists of their being recoverei;
and two calls estimated to produce £13,000 remain to be
made. The feeling of the meeting appeared to be, that 41,
" Great Western," and the ship now building, with the" 110,
tire works of the company, should be disposed of to the "de
vernment, or to the best customer which could be produce

RENEWAL OF LlCENSES.—Yesterday was the day ap-
pointed for the renewal of publicans' licenses, at the Ses-
sions-house. The court was crowded throughout the day,
but nothing particular occurred. The money received for
"renewals" (7s. 6d. each) appeared to amount to a very
large sum.

Tina EATHER.nce our ,we have been viited
With rather heavy and—Si refreshinglast showers. On Fridays and
Sunday nights the rain fell in great abundance, and will, no
doubt, be of considerable benefit to the country, which be-
fore was rather parched and dry, but this has not deteriorated
in the least the splendid harvest weather with which a boun-
tiful Providence has blessed us. The greatest part of the
corn in this neighbourhood has been cut, and housed in ex-
cellent order. The second crops of clover are very fine.
DEATH OF A YOUTH WHILE BATHlNG.—Richard, the
son of James Stanley, a labourer. residing in Chapel-lane,
Bedford-street, Toxteth-park, went on Saturday last to the
Old Pottery Dock to bathe. After he had got into the water
considerably beyond his depth, one of his companions ob-
serving him as if struggling, cried out, "You are tired,"
When the deceased instantly sunk, and never rose to the sur-
face. Information was conveyed to his father, who found
the body when the tide retired from the spot. The inquest
will be held this day.
SUMMARY JUSTlCE.—Yesterday, just before the rising of
the Police-court, a young fellow, named John Robinson.
Was brought up a prisoner by one of the police. It appeared
that about a 'quarter of an hour before he had been seen in
the provision cellar of Messrs. Kirkpatrick, in Temple-
street, by Mr. Lenning, their clerk, in the act of helping
himself to a keg of butter, which he had removed from the
tier down to a pile of bacon, when he was detected before he
could complete his project. The prisoner affected in court
to he quite drunk, fixing his eyes wildly and waving nis body
about, but it appeared he was quite sober when detected and
after being given into custody. He was committed to hard
labour for three months.'
THE SOUTHPORT POLICE.—At the Police-court yester-
day, an elderly man named Thomas Howard was placed at
the bar. Mr. Dowling said he was taken into custody in
this town in consequence of a letter he had received describ-
ing him as having been connected with a housebreaking and
robbery in that place. Police-officer Lloyd stated, that when
he captured the prisoner, he (the latter) said that be knew
nothing at all about the robbery, but that a man who lodged
with him had brought the property to his house. No witness
appeared against the prisoner. Mr. Rushton said, this was
one of those cases in which police-officers of other towns, in
order to save themselves trouble, thought fit to write to the
Police here to arrest individuals without any legal authority;
and he should not encourage the introduction of such a sys-
tem here. He ordered the man to be discharged.
ASTHMA.—The Dispensary for the Treatment of Disease
of the Lungs and Heart, has been established upwards'of a
twelvemonth, and has progressed silently but usefully on.
It has received little, indeed no encouragement hum the
public, having been a self-sustaining institution, assisted
materially by Mr. Cronin, who first originated it. The
number of patients who have been cured and relieved dur-
ing the last year amount to some thousands, as will be seen
shortly in a report Mr. Cronin is about to publish. These
Persons have consisted of all classes of the community—the
Poorest of the poor—while the wealthy have not scrupled
to avail themselves of the new system introduced by the
originator. As the lecture some months ago given at the
Portico, the plan of operation pursued by Mr. Cronin, was
exemplified by him, and throughout the time the Dispensary
has been established, it has been adhered to with varied, but
to a certain extent, satisfactory success. This Dispensary
is about to be removed to Warren-street, corner of Russel-
street.

CHIMNEY SWEEPING.—The idea of a man sweeping his
own chimneys we conceive to be quite new, and some years
ago would have been laughed at as by no means a soot-able
occupation for a domestic servant; but by means of Mr.
Hawes patent machine, the most intricate flue can be tho-
roughly cleaned in a very short time. A model of the ma-
chine may be seen at Mr. Holgate's, in Dale-street ; it con-
sists of a simple fixture in each flue of pulleys and an incom-
bustible wire rope, (Smith's patent,) to which a whalebone
of wire brush is attached when required. This brush being
Passed up and down by means of a portable winch or wind-
lass screwed on the fire-grate, soon cleans the foulest chim-
ney or tlue. It is applicable to flues of every description,
whether wide or narrow, perpendicular, horizontal, or run-
ning at right angles, and can be made perfectly effective
without any alteration in their present construction or the
use of soot-bags. It is worthy of attention.
DRAYTON MANOR.-011 Friday, considerable commotion
was occasioned in this town, by a rumour, that Sir Robert
Peel's mansion at Drayton had been destroyed by fire. The
report was brought by the guard of the Grand Junction
train, which arrived here on Friday morning, and, who heard
the statement at Birmingham. Nothing more clearly fixes
the distemper of the working classes on the League, than the
frightful and extravagant rancour with which they uniformly
speak of Sir Robert Peel. Certainly, no minister ever less
deserve to attract personal odium—no minister's conduct
and demeanour were ever less calculated to have such an
effect,—and the lamentable fact to which we refer, can there-
fore have no other origin than the worse than diabolical ma-
lignity with which Sir Robert has been habitually spoken of
by the hired spouters of the League.
EDINBURGH, LEITH, AND NEWHAVEN.—This railway
will open the lower part of the line on the 29th instant, pre-
vious to the arrival of her Majesto the Queen in Scotland,
it being arranged that the landing will take place at the
Granton Pier. The secretary has been ordered to write to
the Lords of the Privy Council (Railway Department) for
permission so to do, may act, to the contrary notwithstand-
ing. The drift under the New Town is advertised to be con-
tracted for, and thus the operations of this highly useful and
important line of railway is in a fair way of being completely
finished. The completion of this railway ought to call forth
an demonstration on the part of the shareholders of
the Edinburgh and Glasgow railway, to form their line of
eommunication through the Prince's-street Gardens, and
thus carry out the original plan of this useful and profitable
undertaking.
THR INCOME TAX.—In consequence of the time required
by the parish authorities for making out the list of voters,
the income tax papers for this town have not yet been de-
livered, but we understand they will be in the hands of the
inhabitants in the course of the present week. In other
places, as far as we can learn, the working of the act, so far
as this first proceeding tests it, is not half so objectionable as
people's fancies presumed it to be. The greatest outcry
Xsised against it was, not that it took the money from the
pocket, but that it was so cruelly inquisitorial. Now, if the
provisions be complied with in an honest feeling on the one
hand, and in a right spirit by those to whom the returns will
be submitted, the most sensitive will scarcely have occasion
to complain of the inquisition ; for by a very excellent ar.
tangement the entire property of which one man is possessed
may have to be returned by three, four, or more individuals,
in separate portions, and in separate districts, so that no
sine.le Assessor will know the amount of another man's
income. Thus, a gentleman derives so much from his pro-
fession at Liverpool—the return made by himself, after making
the deductions which the Act allows : he has money in the
funds—the Bank of England deducts the tax for his dividend :
he is a shareholder in a public company—the company pays
the tax for him :he has land or houses—the tenant pays it :
be has money out at mortgage—the mortgagee pays it; and
,so on; effectually baffling the inquisitorial, should any such
person be found desirous of prying into his neighbours affairs.
As to the hardship of paying it at all, the necessity has been
too generally admitted to require argument just now, and as
we have heard several express a„wish that they came within
the operation of the Act we can only suggest to those who
feel dissatisfied that they should exchange situations with
them. and thus effectually avoid the Tax.
THE INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODDFELLOWS.—On
Monday, the 15th instant, the officers and brothers of the
Loyal Duchess of Sutherland Lodge, No. 2592, assembled at
the house of Hostess Whiteside, corner of Edgar-street,
Scotland-road, when they partook of a most excellent dinner,
served up in the usual good style. as a farewell visit previous
to her leaving town, and opening a new public establishment
on the Bangor road, leading from Menai Bridge to Corner-
v°ll, North Wales. After the cloth was drawn and the usual
toasts given, N.G. Cottam, who occupied the chair, in an
appropriate speech presented to P.G. Cross a most handsome
silver snuff box, which bore the following inscription :
Presented to P.G. Richard Cross, of the Independent Order
of Oddfellows, L.D., by the officers and brothers of
the Loyal Duchess of Sutherland Lodge, No. 2592, as a
token of respect for his past services, when P.G. Cross
returned his most sincere thanks for the honour con-
ferred upon him, hopinc, it would still continue in his
power to support the lodge,b which should ever be his
Constant study so long as he continued a member; after
'which, the welcome guests and a large number of the fair
snenjed themselves with a tip on the elastic toe, and at
earlyhour in the morning each retired, much gratified
wonh tthe harmony and conviviality which existed on the occa-
si

THR FUNDS, SATURDAY EVENING.—The following no-
no-
ticewas posted to-day at the Stock-Exchange :—" Foreign
committee-room, Friday, August 12.—At a numerous meet-
ing of the Committee for General Purposes held this day it
resolved,—That by the report of the Exchequer-bill
Srorgery Commissioners, as well as by the Committee of the
ock:Exchange, Edward Lloyd Morgan appears not only
have acted solely as agent to his father, who is a
nefaulter, and thereby rendered himself ineligible as a
nlember of the Stock-Exchange, but also to have been
Fftensively concerned in the circulation of the forged
bills- That this committee does not consider him entitled
re-election, and his application is rejected accordingly.
That after mature consideration of the minutes of the evi-
-I,,,,exnee taken before the committee, of those taken by the
z; chequer Forgery Commission, and the report of the latter,
and after hearing whatever explanation Mr. De Berckem
1 to offer, this committee is of opinion that the conduct of
.▪ raueis Townley De Berckem has been such as to render
'flell7: altogether unfit to be a member of the Stock Ex-
aecanpg,c., and that his application for re-election be rejected
ha-a,4lllglY. Carried unanimously." The Consol-market
sale `4li supported its evious condition, and some few
8 have
serious to depreciate values, but not to any
tended
extent. Consols for money and the account
c osed n
• Bank Stock, 169 to 170 ; India Stock, 250
to 251
and ; Exchequer-bills, 2d. issue, 495. to 525. premium ;
11; uttn, 2.1 d. issue, 51s. to 535. premium ; 3 per Cents.
duced, 921 ; 31 per Cents. Reduced, 1001; Long Annui-
ties, 121 to 9-16 ; •and India Bonds, 345. premium. In fo-
eign stocks and railway shares no essential alteration has
occurred,
_ though appearances are against sellers. Spanish
Actives closed 20i to 21; ditto, New, 201 to fl ; Mexican,
cl-E to 5 ; Colombian, 204- to ; Danish, 82& to 83i; M-
ilian, 101 i to 1024 ; Brazilian, 65 to 66 ; Portuguese 5 per
Cents., 331 to 1; and ditto 3 per Cents., 191 to
I 20.
ON FEMALE LABOUR, By A
" LIBERAL" JOURNALIST
We have mentioned, that .
women were concerned in the
late disturbances. They were, particularly in Yorkshire and
Lancashire, among the most active of the rioters. In the
affray at Halifax they were in front of the mob, and, seizing
the bridles of the horses, endeavoured to induce the cavalry
not to sabre or shoot their fellow countrymen. Under other
circumstances. such conduct would have
.been deemed that
of heroines ; under existing circumstancesueh itwas pure frenzy,
in
the result, in many cases, there is tooretason to fear,
of suffering and starvation. But the constant
'women with men in the ordinary business of aegiening of
mines, and factories, and works,—in short, in the labo—uirns
appropriate to the male, but quite inappropriateetot the
female, under the most favourable circumstances.d
the peculiar qualities of the feminine character, and
ms arkess
the woman differ from the man in little more than in the arti
'Le of dress. Masculine occupations beget masculine habits-.
workworne'n are, if not " unsexed," at least a kind of men-
u'ornen with more than man's ferocity, when irritated and
exciteci, and with all his bad and vicious habits. In a proper
state of society, the female ought to be exempt from the
every-day labour and drudgery for which nature has adapted
tole male alone. If she is a mother, she ought to be at liberty
devote her care and attention to her family duties and her
children ; if a daughter, to domestic servitude, either at house
or in the household of another. The remuneration of labour
tight?. to be sufficient to prevent wives and mothers, at least,
rteworkinc, in the close and overheated factory, or slaving
in the
dark and n 'o Female delicacy must wither
and decay in theoltsainulteedmatmosphere of such places. Yet,
so wretched is the state of society in too many parts of this
country, especially in the manufacturing and mining districts,
the labour of every member of a family capable of work,
females as well as males, children as well as adults, is, except
in some rare cases, required to enable the poor creatures,
not to live, but only to vegetate."—Liverpool Albion.—[The
above are strange
1 ague to utter."
opinions for an organ of the Anti-corn-
" Better late than never" is, how-
ever, a good old saying
Oastler and the otherre; real friends
it must be
who have all
along denounced the • of the people, • ,
gratifying to Mr.
with women and '
11 '
infamy of the practice of filling our m
girls, to hear such a sentiment coming from
such a quarter.—E. L, s.]

TrizATnE-Royar..—On Friday Mrs. Seymour took her
benefit. She played Desdemona to Mr. Butler's Othello,
and Clari in the Maid of Milan." Mrs. Seymour gave an
exquisite delineate of the fair daughter of the south. Her
Clan was very beautiful. She sang" Home, sweet Home"
with a pathos and feeling that touched the hearts of all hear-
ers. Last night La eerito appeared in several dances. We
will not venture to say that her dancing is improved since
she was last here, but she introduces many new and extra-
ordinary movements—now flying round the stage as if on
wings—now rising like a swift-winged bird, and alighting
like a snow flake. Her dancing drew forth immense ap-
plause. Taglioni must look to her laurels. For to-night's
attractions we need only refer to the bills of the day. The
box-office yesterday, we believe, was literally beseiged for
places, so that a fashionable and brilliant audience may be
expected.

ANTI-Coax-LAW PLACARDS.--Under the present some-
what equivocal position occupied by the Anti-Corn-Law
League, it would have been at least decent, if not at the
same time prudent, in the leaders of that party to have ab-
stained from their ordinary seditious exhibitions. And, yet
during the whole of yesterday, an inflammatory placard,
signed, "on behalf of the League, George. Wilson, secre-
tary," attributing all the evils, under which the country la-
bours to the Corn-law, and soliciting subscriptions to carry
on the agitation against it, was paraded throughout our
streets. For what purpose, men may well ask is this bad-
gering of the public for money, at a crisis of danger like this,
carried on by these conspirators? Is it to feed the insurrec-
tion in the manufacturing districts ? Is it to supply the
'munition of war to the traitor incendiaries of Manchester
and its surrounding towns—to provide with the expenses of
placards, and other necessary implements of excitement, the
ruffianly Chartists and Leaguers of those places? At a mo-
ment when the magistracy of Liverpool were in earnest meet-
ing to provide measures for the public peace ; when peaceful
men ought to have been affording every aid to such praise-
worthy efforts of the authorities ; when not an hour was pass-
ing over our beads that was not pregnant with matter to
alarm every well-disposed subject ;—was such a time for the
seditious appeals of the Liverpool Chartist League to be
sowing the seeds of disaffection to the law, and parading their
sympathy with the originators of an outbreak which has
strewed the land with devastation and bloodshed—has bared
the sword of the executive against the breasts of the
starving dupes and slaves? Surely not. And we can only
attribute it to the occupation of our magistracy in efforts to
prepare for the visitation of our own town with the distur-
bances which have overrun the neighbouring districts, that
this wicked effort of the hypocritical crew, who compose
" the league" of Liverpool, was not at once put down, and
its authors—(not their wretched employes)—visited with
the punishment due to their incendiary practices. The
league party of Liverpool would, doubtless, be glad, at this
moment, of an opportunity to hold one of their " de-
monstrations"—at which their Rathbones might shout
and their minor fry splutter and gesticulate. We are
happy, however, in being able to ensure the well-disposed
amongst the community that well-concerted efforts are
making to put down any movement of this despicable set.
This day we understand a strong force of mounted gentlemen
of our town, and special constables, will be placed by autho-
rity of the Watch Committee, under the orders of our able
Head Constable, Mr. Whitty ; and the seditious, if any such
venture to invade the peace of the Loyal Borough of Liver-
pool, may depend upon receiving a far different reception
from that by which the riotous turn-outs from the factories
around Manchester were met by the league magistracy of
that town.