The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-08-01 00:00:00

quent erection of the Northern Hospital, it was proposed
to sell rit for £4,000, and 'convert it into a church and
schools. From'the difficulty of procuring a suitable site
for the dispensary, instead•of it, the proposition was never
brought formally before the governors, and after some
months of delay again, a plot of ground of about 2,300
yards in extent was purchased from the Corporation. .1
When the whole arrangements are carried out, the
ecclesiastical machinery will be one of the most complete
things of the.kind in the town. Within the same wall
and railings there will be a church, male, female, and
infant schools, a residence for the master and mistress,
aed a set of industrial schools both for boys and girls.
The plan of the church is in a great degree identical
with that of Grassendale, Aigburth, which has given great
satisfaction to the public. It will be cruciform, free from
unsightly pillars in the nave or any other part, thoroughly
ventilated, and well lighted. At the extreme ends of the
nave and transepts, there will he, small galleries, not
interfering with the general appearance of theinterior.
These, with the ground floor, will afford seat-roam for
1,000 persons • 'and in lieu of an endowment ;about 650
,of these will be free. The remaining 350 wilrbe ,rented.
The style is earlydecorated, with a spire !wing to the
height of 106Teet. The base of the spire will form an
•entrance to the 'church, and in the upper part there will
be facilities for the erection of a peal of hells:, The
:arrangements for. leating will be by a hot-air -apparatus,
placed in the basement story.
The roof will 'be open, with curved ribs undei the
principals, forming a pointed arch. On the outside the
facing will be of rough-hewn stone, with ashlar jambs
and mluldings.

•The boys' school and girls' school will each accormnOdate
250 pupils, the one on the ground floor and the other
.above it. rhey have been designed according to the latest
arrangements of the Education Committee of the Privy
Council, and to each will be attached a spacious play-
ground. The style of building throughout will harmonise
with that of the church, And the materials and face work
Will be of the same description. The houses for the
master and mistress will be attached to them. The
infant school will be placed a little in the rear, and will
late so arranged as ,to be lighted and ventilated from the
roof. This will afford a large wall space for the exhibition
of diagrams and illustrations, which are important •in
teaching through the eye.
The space beneath the .church being already excavated,
A-Crypt containing an area of nearly 500 square yards and
eight feet high remained to be appropriated. The Privy
Council do not recognise •sehools in such situations, nor
Are they desirable in themselves, but so large a space
.could not be thrown away, especially in a district where
so much is actually required. This large apartment,
therefore, will be divided into a series of work-rooms, so
that the young of both sexes may be in some degree
:familiarised with industrial rsid remunerative occupations,
before they are fairly launched upon the world. It is
hoped that such simple precautionary arrangements
may be effectual in preventing crime, which experience
shows it is sometimes impossible to cure.
There can be no doubt that the erection of this church
and schools will be of the greatest advantage to the
neighbourhood, and will tend to hasten the improvements
which are contemplated or in progress in that part of the
town.

DISTRESSING SUICIDE AT BOOTLE.
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YBSTESLDAY, an inquest was held before Mr. Driffield.
one of the County Coroners, at the Rimrose Hotel, Bootle,
on the body of Agnes Dean, nurse in the family of Mr.
Jabez Vickess, sugar-refiner, residing at Linacre-marsh,
who, on Saturday night, committed suicide by hanging
herself. The deceased, who was a fine, handsome girl,
about 17 or 1.8 years of age, was the daughter of a Mr.
Dean, a leather-currier, in comfortable circumstances, at
Brigstock, in Northamptonshire, and this, we believe, was
her first place of service. All her connexions are respect-
able, and she has, we believe, an aunt resident in Liverpool.
She was missed from the house about eight- o'clOck,on-
Saturday evening,, and her continued absence creating
uneasiness, Mr. Vickess went to search for her in the out-
building formerly used a. 4 a school4MuSe,, thinking that
she might haVe gone there, and fallen -asleep. He found
the door -fastened, but effected an entrance through a
window, when lie lighted a gas jet, and was proceeding
across the room to light a second, when, to his horror, he
discovered that she was suspended from one of the beams.
He obtained assistance, and the body was cut down, when
it was found that life was quite extinct. The suicide
appears to have been one of the most determined charac-
ter. The means of destruction was a child's swinging-
rope, which hung in the school-room. To reach and cut
this she had got upon a table, on which she placed a chair,
and, having fastened a rope, had then kicked the chair
from beneath her feet. The body of the unfortunate girl
was at once conveyed to the Rimrose Hotel. It appears
that there is power, by an act passed in last session, to
remove the remains in such cases to the nearest inn. No
possible motive can be assigned for the rash and melan-
choly deed ; but a supposition being raised that she was
pregnant, Dr. Reid made a post mortem examination,
which Showed that the idea was utterly unfounded. The
jury returned a verdict of " Suicide under temporary in-
sanity."