The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-02-01 00:00:00

SIMPSON,

Z.—That the Thanks of this Meeting be given to the
Officers and Committee,. for their services during the past
year; and that the following gentlemen be the Officers and
Committee for the year ensuing :
Mr. Richard Rathbone, Chairman.
Mr. Richard Crosbie Dawson, Treasurer.
Rev. R. L. Townsend, Secretary.
Mr. William Houghton,
Mr. W. P. Hutchinson,} Auditors.
Rev. J. Brooks, Mr. John Crosfield,
Rev. Thomas Bold, Mr. William Banning,
Rev. J. North, Mr. James Heyworth,
Rev. F. Barker, Mr. William Lassell,
Mr. James Aspinall, I Mr. H. 11. Sandbach,
Mr. J. T. Alston, Mr. Thos. Simpson,
Mr. Thomas Brown, Mr. W. Beckwith, jun.
John Edwards, M.D., Surgeons.
Mr. Hugh Neill,
Mr. James Rhind, Teacher.
Mr. Cecil Wray Townshend, Collector.

Moved by the Rev. R. L.:TOWNSEND; seconded by Mr. \\'

LASSELL

3.—That the Thanks of this Meeting be presented to those
Ladies who have kindly acted as Monthly Visitors and that
they be requested to continue their valuable services for the
present year.
Mrs. Campbell, Mrs. Barker,
Mrs. Bold, Miss Yates,
Mrs. I. 0. Bold, Miss Wakefield,
Mrs. J. Langton, Miss J. Rogers.
Miss Marriott, Secretary.

Moved by Mr. JAMES ASPINALL, seconded by Mr. \VM
HOUGHTON,

4.—That the Thanks of this Meeting be presented to those
Clergymen who have kindly advocated the cause of the In-
stitution, during the past year.
RICHARD RATHBONE, Chairman.
Moved by Mr. JOHN CROSFIELD, seconded by Mr. R. C.

DAWSON,
s.—That the Thanks of this Meeting are due to
Richard Rathbone, for his able conduct in the Chair.

MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT MAREIELD.—OR the 24th in
stant a coroner's inquest was held to inquire into the circum-
stances attending the deaths of Elizabeth Holmes, the elder,
Elizabeth Holmes, the younger, and Elizabeth Holmes, an

infant. From the evidence produced, it appeared teat the
younger woman was the cause of her own death and that of
the others, although the motive cannot be conjectured. It
seems that on Tuesday morning the old woman was employed
in rolling up some paste to make a pudding. Her daughter
handed her a jar of preserved currants, which the old woman
used for a pudding. The mother and daughter dined toge-
ther on mutton broth and the pudding. Two hours after
dinner the old woman was taken ill, and died at four o'clock.
The daughter was also taken ill, but lingered till six o'clock
the next morning, when she expired. Early on that day she
told one of her sisters who was attending her there was some
preserved dumpling in the closet, and that she could take it
and give it to her children, which she did. After partaking
of it all her five children were taken ill, and one, a baby, died..
On a post mortem examination of the bodies, the presence
of arsenic was detected by the usual tests, and the cause of
death attributed to that poison. The jury returned a verdict
thac the three deceased died from the effects of arsenic, but
by whom it wqs placed in the dumplings no evidence appears.
—.Abridged from the Leicester Journal.

A WATER-WHEEL PROPELLED DT THE WlND.—Such
was the violence of the gale on Wednesday that a water-wheel,
of 60 feet diameter, at the Civin Sebon Mines, near Aberyst-
with, which revolves six times a minute towards the west,
was, by the force of the wind, forced to revolve 20 times a
minutes to the eastward ; so that the mine had the water in
the shaft pumped by wind instead of water, and it was impos-
sible to stop the accelerated action of the water (but for that
time wind) wheel.

EXTRAORDINARY WORK.—David Squire, smith, of Barn-
staple, undertook a short time since, m order to decide a
small wager, to make four dozen horse-shoes,b in a workman-
like manner, in the short space of three
came off on Monday, and he accomplisheudlisi's
unprecedented period of two hours and twenty-five task
•iluittes,
The war
including seven minutes lost time occasiond 1;3 minutes'
ainslight
accident. We are informed that he made twenty-twoy shoes
within the last hour. A competent judge
examine the work, and he pronounced it 'was
executed.
properly
—Western Luminary.
A DISCIPLE OF CAREME.—An old man, covered with "V'
but very clean rags, possessing a neatly-trimmed beard, and
called in to
a few grey hairs carefully combed over his temples, was
brought before the Correctional Tribunal, on
begging. His figure and entire person preserved a certain
distingue'appearance, and he expressed himself in choice nut
prisoner):
charge of
somewhat high-flown language. President (to the
Chervier, have you no employment or ti•ade ? Prisoner : Sir,
I have followed }a
fine and noble profession. INwaa,s a chef de
~ there are
cuisine as long as there remained any
master.
Iwbo follow
nothing but cooks. Careme was my roister* (On uttering
to wrk? prisoner : Yes ; and
rofound__ bow.) President:
any;
oo fw thhoousie
this name the prisoner made a P
You are still strong enough
as ilf3uotnenocolel
I think that I could do bettevre
would not
the trade now—a parcel ofga a blanc-m
art; and as if •
even trust the concoction of
too 7r. e'
will have me ; they .tsbaBunces,
say tbat ' oi ,
age were not a
guarantee of science and skill. President : You have asked
ever be too old for the eaolorY
for alms. Accused: I confess it. In spite of my glorious
in spite ofMY kis a legitimate pride I 1 I
ancestors,
eto lie down and die of 1 ' 'a' not
sufficient couras flinger. To-day I
first time. I was -*
begged for the .«h
d}ing of litnwer in every
sense
sense of the tertn• \V hen one has prepared
victuals
for all
world, it is hard not to be able to
the get anything to eat one's
self. President : Have you no one to take
Pri-
soner : Not a soul, sir. Al iif care of you? a • my
illustrious Cardme, were alive, I h worthy master, the
s
He would not have allowed one should not have been here.
chef of ambassadors and of his pupils, formerly the
He told, a short time before ministers, to be in want of bread!
been rewarded by the his death, that I ought to have
truNs a la broche,
for it
for my invention of saumons
exquisite dish. Carc., it was I myself who invented that
'e
promised me immortality, yet there
is not even a scullion who knows that lam alive! lam
nearly dead with shame and humiliation. President : As vnu
have no one to ass'
asylum. prisonelist you, you will be better off in a mendieit v
Do as you like ! 1 have abandoned all
feelings of pride long
ago,
and
I too well know the value of
glory of the world. The poor ex-chef—
condemned to t„,• - , imprisonment; h was
euty-tour hours'
court ordered, that, at the expiratioh of his punishment,
CllerVi:r should be • taken to a mendicity asylum.