The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-11-06 00:00:00

CHESHIRE AND WALES.

THERE has just been landed, at the Birkenhead Docks, a
log of mahogany weighing 6 tons 18 cwt. This large log was
brought in the ship Agenoria, Capt. Jackson, and is now to be
seen in the Honduras Sheds, Birkenhead. •'
THE treasurer of the Tranmere Free Evening School has
received 10s. from William Waring Perrey, Esq., awarded to
him by the Revising Barrister, for attending at Birkenhead,
to oppose a frivolous and vexatious objection to his vote for
Smith Cheshire.
On Sunday evening, James Farrell, six years of age, who
lived with his mother in Oak-street, Birkenhead, was left in a
room for a short time by himself, and whilst amusing himself
by playing with some lighted paper his clothes caught fire,
and he was burnt so severely that he died next morning.
MR. J. B. SWEENEY, assistant-overseer of Birkenhead, has
been appointed by the Poor-law Guardians of Birmingham to
the situation of assistant-overseer of that town, at a salary of
£125 per annum. Mr. Sweeney was the successful candidate
out of a large number of applicants.
ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday, as the train of the Birkenhead,
Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway Company, which
leaves the Landing-stage at six p,m., emerged from the Bir-
kenhead tunnel, and was just quickening speed, the guard van
behind, together with a second-class carriage, were thrown
violently off the line, at the place of the " points." The train
was stopped with promptness, or the consequences might have
been serious, as there was a steep embankment close by.
CAUTION TO SEAMEN.—At the Birkenhead Police-court, on
Thursday, two Dutch seamen, named Caspar Johanus Baring
and Henrick Fanodaker, were charged with deserting from the
ship Sarah Neumann, lying in the Birkenhead docks. The
prisoners shipped about three weeks ago on board the above
vessel, which was bound for Calcutta. After being at sea a
short time, she had to return to port, owing to an injury to
her steering apparatus. On Tuesday they deserted from the
vessel, and shipped on the same day on board the ship Kings-
ton, from which vessel, after receiving advance notes, they ab-
sconded. They were sent to gaol for three months, with hard
labour.
COAL ROBBERIES.—At the Birkenhead Police-court, on
Thursday, several Irish boys and girls were charged with
stealing coals from the waggons on the dock quays. One wit-
ness stated that not less than three or four tons of coal were
stolen by the prowlers who frequent the docks ; whilst another
witness gave it as his opinion that the quantity could not be
less than thirty tons a day. The principal part of the coals
were said to belong to Messes. W. and H. Laird. Sir Edward
Cust said it would pay the coal proprietors well if they kept
men to protect their property. The Rev. R. M. Fielden re-
marked that if coals to the extent of thirty tons a day were
stolen, half the people of Birkenhead must be enga,gad in
plundering. The prisoners were summarily disposed of.
ILLEGAL WEIGHTS AND MEAstrnEs.--;-The following per-
sons were summoned at the instance of Mr. Joseph Griffith,
inspector, for having in their possession illegal weights and
measures :—Joseph Carlisle, Claughton, for using a piece of
brick instead of a weight, and two deficient weights, was
fined 3s. 6d. and costs ; James Baxter, baker and provision
dealer, Tranmere, for having two short weights, fined 7s. 6d.
and costs ; Abraham Mallinson, grocer, Neston, was sum-
moned for keeping a public weighing machine 561bs. against
the purchaser, and fined ss. and costs ; Samuel Morris, grocer
and provision dealer, Tranmere, was fined 4s. 6d. and costs
for having two deficient weights ; Peter Lloyd, grocer, Mar-
ket-cross, Birkenhead, for having two pair of fraudulent scales,
was fined 30s. and costs.
BIRKENHEAD CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.—On Thee-
day, the annual meeting of this society was held in the Ar-
gyle-rooms, the Rev. A. Knox, of St. Mary's, in the chair.
The chairman stated that their auxiliary had existed for
twenty-eight years, and that last year their subscriptions
amounted to £244 ls. 9d. He then introduced the Rev.
Mr. Taylor, who had been seventeen years a missionary in
New Zealand, and who gave a short history of missionary
proceedings in that country, since its discovery by Captain
Cooke. Mr. Taylor was accompanied by John Williams, a
converted New Zealand chief, who also addressed the meeting,
Mr. Taylor translating his words. The reverend chairman
solicited donations towards the restoration of Mr. Taylor's
church, which had been thrown down by the recent earth-
quake. £l5O was required for that purpose. The Rev. Henry
Carpenter subsequently addressed the meeting.
CURIOUS WELSH CUSTOM.—The registrar of the Br to
District Court of Bankruptcy (Mr. Charles Orme) has this
week been sitting at New Quay, Cardiganshire, taking the
examination of several witnesses in the matter of the bank-
ruptcy of Thomas Davies, shipbuilder, of that port. Most of
the witnesses were Welsh people, and the subject of the
inquiry being the extent of the bankrupt's interest in a cer-
tein vessel, some surprise was created by the witnesses speak-
ing of their shares in the vessel as a matter of weight. The
mystery was solved by the interpreter in this way : —A vessel
being about to be built is divided into 64 shares, the total
being taken by the owners to represent a pound avoirdupois.
Thus, the owner of four firths is said to have an ounce ; two
64ths, half an ounce ; one 64th, a quarter of an ounce ; and so
in proportion.
entrno.ll RODBERY.—A clippie, named Thomas Chambers,
was charged at the Birkenhead Police-court, on Thursday,
with breaking into the.old abbey chapel attached to St. Mary's
Church, and stealing an inkstand and several books. On
Wednesday morning, at four o'clock, the prisoner was stopped
by police-officer 12, in Maryland-street, and four books, one
having the name of the Rev. A. Knox written on it, was found
in his possession. Subsequently, detective officer Thompson
went to the house of a woman in Bevington-bush, where he
found an inkstand which had been purchased from the pri-
soner. The keeper of the old abbey chapel of Birkenhead
stated that the building had been entered on Monday night,
an entrance having been efiheted by a window which had been
broken. The prisoner was remanded for a week.
• THE RocK FERRY Sur.—John Twaite, collector at the
Rock Ferry slip, was sommoneil at the instance of James
Hanson, a boatman, for wilfully and maliciously damaging his
boat. The complainant was summoned on the previous
Thursday, by Messrs. Hetherington, for trespassing on the
slip, but was then acquitted. On Monday, two gentlemen
wanted to go on board the American steamer Pacific. The
complainant's boat was lying at a short distance from the
pier, and the gentlemen hailed it for the purpose of being put
on board the steamer. Hanson accordingly went close to the
slip, but did not touch it with his boat. the defendant then
go r a boat-hook and ran it into the sides and sails of the com-
plmant's boat, doing damage to the amount of 255. Mr.
Gill, for the defence, urged that the slip was prix te property.
n
ad that the complainant had receive notice not to come near
it with his boat. He then called evidence to show that no
more violence was used than was necessary to prevent the
complainant taking on board his boat the gentlemen who
wanted to go to the Pacific. The bench said they could not
decide as to the private right of the lessees of the ferry, and
therefore they could not say whether the damage was or was
not wilfully committed. The summons was dismissed.
WALLASEY BOARD or HEALTH.—At the meeting of this
board, on Thursday, Mr. Newlands, borough engineer of Li-
verpool, reported that it was necessary that the work com-
prised in contract No. 1, extending from Victoria-road, Sea-
combe, to No. 9, Beaufort-terrace, should be completed
according to the sections and as described in the specification.
It was recommended that Mr. Bugbird s tender for the con-
struction of such work for £797 103. be accepted, subject to
a deduction of £9O for old materials, and to give security in
£5OO for the performance of the work. It was ordered that
the names of the various streets in the township be painted
on a conspicuous part of each street, as recognised on the plan
of the district. Mr. Mann, after a few remarks, proposed the
following resolution :—" It appearing to the board highly de-
sirable and advantageous that the IVallasey Free School
shinild be removed to another site, the board agrees to the
application of the trustees of the school for permission to
erect a new school, according to a design and plans now sub-
mitted and approved, on land, part of Wallasey-breck, under
the jurisdiction of the board, consisting of 740 yards or there-
abouts. in exchange for the laud constituting the site of the
present school and appurtenant thereto, which is henceforth
to become and be the property of the board for the same pur-
poses as the land now agreed to be granted was previously
applicable." The resolution was agreed to. The salary of
Mr. Kerr, collector of the rates, was increased £2O per annum.

IRELAND

ANOTHER IRISH COMMISSION.—It is said that Lord Monck,
M.P. for Portsmouth, one of the Lords of the Treasury, and
Mr. W. H. Stephenson, also of the Treasury, and formerly
Deputy Paymaster-General, together with Mr. Seaton, as
secretary. have been appointed a commission to inquire into all
matters connected with the state of public education in Ireland.
ANOTHER MURDER.—WhiIst Mr. Ramsbottom and M.
Beacham were taking possession of land in the King's• Count;,
three miles from Ballinasloe, Mr. Beacham was shot through
the neck with a bullet, and several slugs lodged in his face
and breast. It was doubtful whether he would live through
Friday night. Mr. Ramsbottom is an agent, and Mr, Beacham
is an assistant. The shot was intended for the former, but the
latter was next to the two men who fired.
A ROCKITE NOTICE was posted last week in Carlow, respect-
ing a highly respectable firm in that town, who had purchased
potatoes on commission for a Liverpool house in the usual way
of mercantile business. The notice commences—" Men of
Carlow, blood must be shed ;" and concludes—" It would be
justice in the sight of God and man to shoot a rascal that
would trade in the blood of the poor."
A COMMISSION OF INQUIRY has been sitting for some
days at Navan to try whether the late John Wilson, of Rusk,
in the county of Meath, has left any legitimate heirs ; the ques-
tion involving the escheating to the Crown in default of heirs,
of a considerable portion of a property amounting to £lOO,OOO
in the funds and other securities, and about £6,000 a year in
landed estates. The inquiry has not yet been concluded.
All the leading Irish counsel are engaged in the case.
IN A. PROSECUTION for assaulting Mr. Wallace, a Wesleyan
minister, while preaching in the open air at Kingstown, the
following definition of the law was given by both the learned
judges presiding, Chief Justice Monaghan, a Romanist, and
Baron Richards, namely, that a minister of any persuasion had
a clear right to preach in the public street as long as he did
not violate the public peace, just as a peison would have a
right to deliver a lecture upon any ordinary subject in a •
public place, and no one would be justified in disturbing or
molesting him.
CAPTURE OF A RUSSIAN PRIZE.—The Cork Examilier has !I
the following statement :—" Considerable interest was excited
in Queenstown on Saturday by the intelligence that a Russian
vessel had been made a prize of by the revenue cutter Eliza,
of Kinsale, Mr. O'Malley commander. The vessel, which bears
the name Maria, of Antwerp, is a schooner of 122 tons register,
and has on board a cargo of hides and horns from Rio Grande.
She arrived off the lighthouse at six o'clock on Saturday morn-
ing, and not being able to get in owing to a strong north-east
wind, she dropped her anchor, when she was boarded by the
captain of the cutter, who required the ship's papers, declared
the vessel a prize, hauled down the Belgian flag which was
flying at the peak, and substituted the English, and placed
four armed men of the revenue service in charge. It appears
that intelligence was received by the Admiralty about a fort-
night since from the British Admiral, Rio Grande, of such a
character as to induce them to give orders for the seizing of
this vessel, and the Eliza had been cruising in search of her for
six or eight days before the capture was made. Some doubts,
however, appear to be now entertained as to whether the vessel
can be considered a lawful prize. There is, we believe, no
doubt that she is a Russian-built vessel, but it is stated that
eighteen months ago she was transferred to a Belgian house,
and since she certainly has been sailing under a Belgian cap-
tain, and manned by a crew the majority of whom are also
from that nation. It was stated, too, that she was seized on a
former occasion in one of the northern ports of England, and left
free again. One fact which seems to have some significance is
that the British flag, which was flying at her peak on Satur-
day, was replaced yesterday by the Belgian—that under which
she was captured. On Saturday evening the captain of the
schooner, who had been made a prisoner of war, was to be seen
walking about Queenstown. attended closely by two men of
the revenue service."

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, and DEATITS.

BIRTHS.

On the 7th July, at Melbourne, the wife of Mr. Thomas
Middleton late of this town, of a daughter.
On the 21st ult., at Birkenhead, the wife of Captain Thomas
James Tobin, of the Ocean Chief, of a daughter.
On the 23rd ult., at Carrigmore, county-Cork, the Countess
of Nor bury, of a daughter.
On the 27th ult., at Aigburth, Mrs. Joshua M. Heap, of a
daughter.
On the 27th ult., Mrs. Walter Scott, Clifton-park, Birken-
head, of a daughter.
On the 27th ult. in Wavertree-vale, the wife of Mr. Edmund
Pearson, of a daughter. •
Oa the 28th ult., Mrs. James Wensley, of Gloucester-place,
Low-hill, of a son.
On the 28th ult., at Richmond-terrace, Breck-road, Mrs.
John Leigh Clare, of a son.
On the 28th ult., at Norwood-villa, Clifton-park, Birken-
head, Mrs. William Carr, of a son.
On the 28th ult., in. Chatsworth-street, the wife of Mr.
Henry Hobart, of a daughter, still-born.
On the 31st ult., at Poulton Manor, Mrs. R. Powell, of a son-
On the Ist inst., at Halewood, the wife of Robert Neilson,
Esq., of a son.
On the Ist inst., at Alma-bank, Higher Tranmere, Mrs. H
H. Brittain, of a daughter.
On the Ist inst., the wife of Mr. Thomas Rider, of Higher
Bebingtou, of a daughter.
On the 2nd inst., at Rock Ferry, the wife of Mr. Robert
Paterson, of a son.
On the 4th inst., at Bootle-lane, Kirkdale, the wife of Mr.
William Woolliscroft, of a son.