The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-09 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS.

We understand that the Rev. W. Moriarty, of Carlisle,
has been appointed minister of West Derby Chapel ; hnd
from all that we have heard of the rev. gentleman, we can
with pleasure congratulate the congregation upon so excellent
an appointment.

We are happy to announce that our worthy representative,
Sir Howard Douglas, has become a patron of the Liverpool
Protestant Benevolent Society. We can recommend this
society to our operative brethren, who wish to provide against
sickness, and for the interment of its members after death.
A copy of the last annual report may be seen in our office
window.

PRESTON GUILD.—Those gentlemen and ladies who in-
tend being present at the bal costume, to-night, at Preston,
if they leave by the half-past two train, may return, at the
close of the proceedings, by the morning train. So conve-
nient will this mode of conveyance be found, that parties
may leave here en costume.
On Tuesday last, the select vestry appointed Mr. Lither-
land (of the late firm of Heyes, Litherland, and Co., in this
town), their secretary, in the room of Mr. James Eckersley.
There were three other candidates, and Mr. Litherland was
appointed by a majority of 17 out of 26 members present.
Rocx FERRY CHURCH.—This neat and rather elegant
structure was opened for public worship, for the first time,
yesterday, by Chancellor Raikes. We described the church
minutely at the time of laying the foundation-stone, in April.
1841, and do not, therefore, consider it necessary to repeat
it now. The cost of the building, exclusive of the land, is
about £3,000. Messrs. J. and W. Walker were the con-
tractors, and Messrs. Hurst and Moffatt, of Leeds, the ar-
chitects.

SCOTCH CHURCH, OLDHAM-STREET.—We have much
pleasure in following up the paragraph which appeared in our
last, respecting this long-disputed settlement, by stating that
the Rev. J. R. Welsh, of Largs, was yesterday unanimously
elected the minister of Oldham-street Church, and it is ex-
pected will be inducted to the charge as early as the forms
of the church will permit. This settlement, it is universally
allowed, gives the highest satisfaction to all concerned, and
in the circumstances of the case must be particularly gratify-
ing to the minister elect.

REV. DR. COOKE, OF BELFAST.-It will be seen by
advertisement that this distinguished clergyman of the Irish
Presbyterian Church, is to officiate on Tuesday evening next,
in Oldham-street Church, and to plead in behalf of Resley
Chapel, lately restored to its original uses in connexion with
the Presbytery of Lancashire. We have no doubt our
readers will avail themselves of the opportunity of hearing
the above eminent divine, and will, at the same time, be
ready to contribute to the support of the Gospel in a locality
which has long been destitute of a faithful exposition of the
truth.

" THE THIRTY-NINE ARTICLES."—The Westminster
Review, after pointing out the difficulties experienced by
conscientious clergymen in subscribing to these Articles of
contended they
the Church of England, in the several senses in which it is
grammatical,' should be understood, viz. the " literal and
" the scriptural," and the sense in which
" the imposer reasonably interpreted" intended, and show.
ing the contradictions arising out of these several suggestions,
puts forth the following remedy :—" that subscription itself
need not be quite abolished : the only change required would
be to enact that subscription should be subsequent to ordi-
nal:on, instead of prior to it, and optional instead of com-
pulsory.

SUNDAY SCHOOL SOCIETY FOR IRELAND.-.The Hon.
and Rev. Henry Ward, A.M., Rector of Killinchy in Ire-
land, advocated the cause of this excellent Institution at St.
Anne's Church (Aigburth) in the morning, and at St.
Mark's Church (Liverpool) in the evening of Sunday last,
the 4th inst. The collection at the former amounted to
£l9 125., and at the latter to £ll 10s. A meeting of the
friends of scriptural education was held in Christ Church
School-room, on Monday evening, when the Hon. and Rev.
H. Ward, the Rev. Yielding Ould, and the Rev. Richard
Hill, furnished some interesting details of Sunday-school
operations in Ireland, from which it appeared that there are
241,046 scholars and 22,746 gratuitous teachers in the 3,002
schools connected with the society. The cause speaks for
itself, and we only feel it to be necessary to call the atten-
tion of our townsmen to these important results.
SUICIDE IN BRIDEWELL.—We regret to state that an act
of suicide was committed in one of the cells of the main
Bridewell, on Tuesday afternoon, by an Irish girl, named
Ellen Mc Manus, who had just attained her sixteenth year.
She had been put into the cell by herself at about two o'clock
on the day in question, on a charge of having stripped a child
of the name of Elizabeth Foden, in the street, of her neck-
lace, and on one of the turnkeys (Dawson) going up about
five o'clock the same evening, he found her suspended from
an iron bar in the wall by the ribbon of her bonnet, one end
of which she had tied to the bar, and the other end made
into a noose and placed it round her neck. She was quite
dead at the time. An inquest was held on the body before
the Borough Coroner on Wednesday, when a verdict was
returned to the effect that she had committed the fatal act
while labouring under a fit of temporary insanity.

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CHEESE FROM THE ANTIPODES.—WC have had sub-
mitted to us a convincing proof of the goodnes of the pastures
in South Australia, as well as the excellent dairy manage-
ment of some of the inhabitants, in a portion of a cheese for-
warded to Mr. 'Wm. Hughes, master of the Liverpool, pilot-
boat No. 1, by Mr. T. N. Mitchell, of Port Adelaide. The
cheese of which this is a sample gained the prize at the show
of the Adelaide Agricultural and Horticultural Society, in
February last, where Mr. Mitchell appears to have also gained
the prize for the best seed oats. We can safely say, that the
cheese is fully equal in richness to any English cheese that
we have ever tasted, not excepting the far-famed Stilton.
We understand that a second specimen has been sent to
Netherby, as a present to Sir James Graham.

GRATIFYING TESTIMONIAL.—The inhabitants of Walton
are about to present to Thomas Birkett, Esq. a very hand-
some silver waiter, for his persevering labours in behalf of
the rebuilding the parish church. The waiter is very mas-
sive, richly chased, and has a convolvulus border, chased
bottom, and shell feet. It may be seen in the window of
Mr. Dolce, in Lord-street. The following is the incription :
" Presented to Thos. Birkett, Esq.
by the Parishioners of Walton-on-the-Hill, as a sincere
though inadequate expression of their gratitude for the great
exertion used, and the superior taste displayed by him,
while Churchwarden fur three successive years, in rebuilding
and beautifying their Parish Church, and thereby rendering
it a more fitting temple for the worship of Almighty God.—
August, A.D. 1812!
TROTTING MATCH AT AINTREE.—A trotting match at
Aintree is to come off on Saturday next, for £2OO a-side.
Jersey Jerry, a brown horse, against Mr. Robinson's chesnut
mare ' • five miles distance ; betting on Jersey Jerry. After
which, a match against time will take place for £3O. The
undertaker of the match has to find a horse to go 20 miles
in the hour, and to ride himself, p.p. ; no betting. These
matches are exciting great interest in the sporting circles.
Mr. Burke, of trotting notoriety, will ride Jersey Jerry,
carrying two stone, dead weight, extra. Mr. Robinson rides
his own mare, carrying 13 stone.
The Lintin, Captain Gillman, which arrived on Saturday
night from Bombay, brought four fine young tigers, which,
we understand, have been purchased by Mr. Atkins, of the
Zoological Gardens. It will be seen from an advertisement,
that the fetes on Monday and Friday evenings will be con-

tinned every week as usual; and as the Roman Festa may
be seen on these occasions for the same price as is charged
to the Gardens, no doubt numbers will be glad to avail
themselves of the opportunity of seeing both.
THE FUNDS—WEDNESDAY EVENING.—The funds,
without any great amount of business, have kept steady all
day, the dealings being principally for small investment.
Consols for money closed at 931 ; -ditto, account, 93k to 4;
Exchequer-bills, 2d. issue, 49e. to 51s. pm. ; ditto, 2i-d.
issue, 51s. to 535. pm. ;.and India Stock, 249 to 251. Spe-
cnlative transactions are what chiefly call for notice in the
foreign market, but these have not been to any great extent,
though prices of Spanish and Portuguese are quoted firmer
and higher. Spanish Actives closed ex. coupons, 16i to k ;
ditto, Three per Cents., 21i to ; Portuguese Five per
Cents., 351 to 36 ; ditto, Three per Cents., 21 to I; Mex-
ican, 35k to 1 ; ditto, eferred, 9 to 10 ; Colombian, 201
to ; Brazilian, 66 to. 67 ; Dutch Two and a Half per
Cents., 52; to a ; and Belgian, 102 to 103..

RAPID GROWTH OF LIVERPOOL.—In St. Martin's Dis-
trict alone (which is a strip of land lying between New Scot-
land-road and the canal, bounded on the south by Burling-
ton-street, and on the north by Boundary-street), there have
been three hundred houses built within the last fifteen
months, containing, upon the most moderate computation,
2,100 souls; arid it is calculated that three hundred houses
more will be built in the course of another year. The total
population of the district at present is 10,000. In five
or six years this will probably be doubled, and when the
whole space is covered with buildings there will be not less
than 40,000 inhabitants, all of the working classes. At pre-
sent there is no school within tho limits of the district to sup-
ply sound religious instruction to the children of this rapidly
increasing population. The nearest school, that in Bond-
street, being not only at an inconvenient distance from the
greater part of St. Martin's district, but barly sufficient fur
the increasing wants of the district in which it is situated.

INTERESTING OPERATION FOR THE REMOVAL OF CA-
TARACT.—We had an opportunity, on Tuesday, of witnes-
ing this interesting operation performed at our Opthalmic
Infirmary, Mount-pleasant, by its talented surgeon Mr.
Neill. The patient was a young girl, of Irish extraction,
about 18 years of age, who had been afflicted with Cataract
and consequent blindness from the age of three years. By
her answers to various questions, put to her previous to the
operation being performed, she appeared to possess consi-
derable intelligence, and was evidently full of hope of the '
prospect of restored sight and usefulness resulting from the
trial to which she was about to submit herself. Before being
operated upon, it was evident that she possessed some glim-
mering of sight, the Cataract not entirely covering the pupil
of the eye. She explained that by holding an object close to
her face, she could tell whether it was a bright or a dark
colour. A full glare of light too she could distinguish; but
for every useful and pleasurable object, she might be said to
be entirely without vision. The operation consisted in the
introduction of a sharp steel needle into the white part of
the eye ball, which being passed through it, the operater
directed towards the opaque skin which covered the pupil,
and endeavoured to detach this, which composes the Cata-
ract. The adhesion of the sides of this substance appeared
very strong, and the substance itself the operator explained
to be much tougher than he had anticipated. He was suc-
cessful however in removing it, so far as it is generally re-
moved by human agency, nature invariably acting, by ab-
serption, in the removal of such portions as are not at
first separated by the needle. When the operation,
which occupied only a few moments, was concluded,
the patient's first exclamation was—" Oh it is no
thing"—alluding to the pain which she had felt ; and
from her appearance throughout we should certainly
not think that her sufferings were at all accute. It
is not customary, in such cases, to test the vision of the
patient who has been operated upon until the lapse of a week
or two. A few experiments, however, were made by Mr.
Neill, which satisfied us that the sight of this girl is at least
increased ; and time, we have little doubt, will prove that it
is permanently restored. At present, and until the inflam-
mation consequent upon such an operation is subdued, the
eyes must remain closely bandaged. When this is removed
—and we are politely promised an opportunity of being pre-
sent at its removal—we anticipate the pleasing sight of :a
human being introduced from darkness into the enjoyment
of the full light and blessings of creation. We cannot con-
clude this brief notice without awarding our humble meed
of praise to Mr. Neill for the skill, added to kindness, dis-
played towards his unfortunate—may we not now rather say
fortunate I—patient during the entire operation. In his
hands, we should say that the removal of cataract involves
less bodily suffering than we readily endure for the removal
of a wart or a corn ; and we ourselves should, if afflicted
with a deprivation so calamitous, submit to it without a
moment's tremour. We had the pleasure of seeing two in-
fants, patients of Mr. Neill, who had been operated upon a
week previously, whose sight was evidently almost perfect.

NEW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF ST. PETER,

SCOTLAND-ROAD.

We understand the Rev. John Ferries is to be ordained
minister of the above church, now in course of erection, in
Scotland-road, on Wednesday next, at two o'clock. The
ordination is to take place in St. Andrew's'Church, Rodney-
street, in consequence of the new church not being yet
ready to receive the congregation for some time past attend-
ing the ministrations of Mr. Ferries. This will, doubtless,
be an object of interest to many ; and as few, we imagine, iu
Liverpool, have had an opportunity of witnessing this very
imposing and impressive ceremony in the sister Church of
Scotland, we doubt not many will take advantage of the pre-
sent occasion. The Church of St. Peter itself, the founda-
tion-stone of which was laid in March last, by George
Armstrong, Esq., promises to be one of the finest ornaments
of the town, being a very perfect specimen of the Saxon style
of architecture, and, through the liberality of our town
council, is to have a clock of four sides, one side illuminated,
on its very handsome spire, which will prove a mighty boon
to that extensive and rapidly-increasing neighbourhood.