The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-10-09 00:00:00

OCTOBER 9, 1855.]

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
,AT a meet'
.erty

-ieeting of the Photog-raphie Society on Tuerssda,y,
~ read a paper on the " Fancies of Photographer . • Mr,
solved OnowELL LEVER, of Westport, county.
tion between that
pert'et 0 etablishing steam communication
the station
and Liverpo I The steamer intended for
win _ , o
)4‘,. make its first trip on Saturdav to be continued weekly.
iitTra. Dawson and Co., Baltic-buildings,
Tiss
Dr. Scott
are agents for the
deli, XoRTREBN HOsPITAL.—On Wednesday,
this institu-
flea,elled, an introductory lecture to the pupils
of
in the pro-
secatio4up a bearing on their duties and condi was no' the Profession. At its conclusion a
unlade that the lecture should be published.
, eisseas , general request
wOrk-
s-reilswi„,. ..i. and H. BLEACKLEY, dyers and bleachers, of
People „", Who employ considerably more than 1
Pollee; "ere, on Saturday week, convicted at the New Bailey
0 hong
40' vi leaelirt, Salford, upon six informations laidagsaeion.s9t, them
111°413, „„„ of the act 1 and 2 Wm. IV., cap. 37,
payment in
cestsa`<led the of Act, which prohibits the
ettrelst trades
d a fine of
-- of wages in oods, or otherwise ptahyan in the
P les -111 of the realm. The magistrates inflicte
~,, • and costs in each case.
aogrE.,
this dis-
/elkn .11.114-11, RrnAn DISTLICT.—By an act of the last
beet h,oofepharliarnent, the highway commissinonerlsthfor
Public r, een eonstitutd a local Board of ea
d was
hehi ilt7ealth Act, and the first meeting of the Boar
raki,, ileYablic Office, Toxteth-park, on Tuesday last. The
under the
Pate Lrea % the board are Messrs. Matthew Gregson, John
Yates, Thos.
til'o, nl, 4-11'illiatia Rathbone, J. Lathbury, R. V.
nrid John
-.44l°olle,i'r°wll.,c, T. Tippin, W. Ibison, S. SiddeYleatellichard
thePllet' lilltagogers, Alpass, J. R.
oJteeffery, •!.
d chaffman for
SellscaillgilYear,rensrlklwrasJillitil s'vnlianucilCieerlc. to the board,
(cile.n._l'Y :utlhlc es-1:441/1.Thomas H. Cumnston died very suicil-.
3,,,.arie1. II is J., Last, on beard the brig‘ Eagle,
"`u7 last, '4e ..au been d the vessel, on tl!e 6t or
tritisi at \rem Cruz,
Pu on boa.r.
Consul as a distressed
or twi:abject. booting
by the British
voyage whilst hil e_
he was once
resite4tl?, well, the
.homeward
lierat ms berthwot seriously so.
dead on the following
and field Xtrap, ilar'etc 'C was found
r of the body,
liver whicOn Wednesday,. he
the geou, made an examintio .
sense
d5i,..).• h, he haev, c'L
doubtto be extensive di
of excessive
using and an irregule , was the result of the
resSi(l'enilPT Dtire.......oa_r course of life.
Johnson, who
as be'
„..tl Eatois.street .tiednesday'd
Johndied very suddenly
badge,_ was beitg taken
,alixhall-road, ,
tt. worter; i(i
whii,,_ ini.o the Workr.ou
• 4 --se. He was a
'itith e to take
S On dinag _
I and thence
,41.,, 9Ut reep,;,„;,_ u to the Southern Hospita , .
• se and he
e fell down in a
Ti`l'ir3s,lst all;1g any the
to the Workthno.aas ~
_ld
on
b atamtitY, wet7ats, being admitted. An i.nqus „ ne
hospii, eanss,,, hte Jury returned a verdict of
r eons cf the
slier_ .ki fel, lit strongly censured the g
sahe was taken
saved' as•they 5 treating the deceased wnen
have been
Died from
, if he ha111:e Of opinion the man's life might
re,ostsciisk,ll ‘3rucell promptly treated.
-,AL.„ Com-
b:slap.' Qzler Perry Corrr.— On Tnesday, before
ra...ryiug on
est -8 le ja Y, Williana Williams, a tailor,
on behalf
.of
tk e. tie
w. rnes-street, appeared on application fora certifi-
e7 af!Siftee:B oPposed by Mr. Edward Banner,
tilitttltatiei ' aPd supported by Mr. Evans. After
the Corn-
tone °1 the bankrupt by Mr. Banner.,
lass to be
alts ordered • u 1 second c .
aa :coded for • a certificate of tle
ness
brief
at,stews, sit rnonths.—John Strong, carrying
iklial. Ikt;:u ?!vner, appeared on his adj9uirileiceds,
opposed him,
'pt hie
on the part of the assignees,
the protection must be
1,, h. gave his judgment that
th •,,t,_4' bplast examin-
eh,,,._e• gleetill„--ttY GrA.RD/1-I,76.—The g4.l'a__ Wm. Badn
.I
Pi "'knoll, .°, °II VVednesday, were—The mv
. Brundri ,
irektln IL' 4lessrs Ed •rd Abrahams, Lunt,
WensleY,
-allis" '-'-arriso • • v•l''' s'
M dcalf, Whitby,, . „
k The
-ions present at
1ia1„,., lihsw, ,112 Pitts, Roberts, .
,e
ettnce ii t,_ poishaw, Mountfie
treasurer
ld and Fitz
was £1,49pa9-tnechlnunse-
-4evtee et rexhands of the .
ty inquiry
iuna-
,tielittag the ell Nevins or
• s, l3rarnhain not being present,f
addressed
ov Sfas post - arge nsade by Dr. i . A letter_
h,- r If., Pone(' Linn the next meet ag the 1 Cora
Hospital -
-44ttee, -`l4l to toe 1-
booed, was re .
ferred to
1, rd. It \sac
relols 8410 ar
upon it. -to the t of
certiing
, . he coffinsB,4", nerea ter
Workhouse. A dinner of roas-,,
inmates of the
w sad pi uPplied from the he
• d to the
was
i ' 1 ed
that
"'e
Y f required for theintermen
•sstelthou,%es'Puddiicg will be supplied 1-mtnetee, and Hospital, today, and
for the occasion.
aLtioo m Provide a flagstaff and
On Monday, last week,
and Mr. Gough.
"Alt eXIIIG C ACCIDENT.— --- A
C6116,.!11e o'd ~.°l•trmY
lb -.7 i °"•• a most deplorable
resulted in -the
,n All a Stanhill
,whichßlackburn
aged 31; James
40, of f,... , near accident occurred at, a
liley X',
emFu, viz., J9hn. rom"e'
Hindle, age ,
tio.
filas ;
.'t7
R7titiliarc‘if
ritanhiloln, d
P aged 38, of Oswaldtsris
nsley, d
3,
of
ea,,,e(,),lhery where the 11i
cilillenst took' place is called the mossn
4.0i,1:5 and belongs to Mr. Thomas Simpson. The four me
aioulto the tub for the p r e descending to the hottm
tub 15411'1111g tbtir work.o russet °as thelastm'an got into the
sliti:dl!tub olds of the rope, coiled round' the vertical,
jek, which snag teepeCillehtly descended with rather a sudden
men ere throw totitlherlepipe close to the fastening
were` killed almost nstantaneot.sk . ralc:Tne '
ottorn s 1 '
re all founcl tI, •
,a Cptn of 36 yards. ,
,_,
afterwards they we
o! Thompson was killed at -a ~8 when taken up shortly
° e quite dead.
-weeks
knee.
the same pit about five w
tYTRAORD'N kaster die The brother
ART
.PROCErbINos —Mr. John Lowther,
tie wh
t 4
._ ieh .
Grindal ,tr...e
ow Queen, w
brought before
tqcmelg-istrates It South Shields, onneFr'iday in cust4dY of a
chai.,„;l2au !o had arrested'hi ill Liverpool', upon a warrant
sca re:sl him with neglec to maintain his wife. The per-
cort 41.,,1,1er luleband • fo,- '_2B
tot 14,!9,eatiug herself togbe the wife of Mr. Lowther had
Nil fir' Lowther • -
replied that she
if be Oct tell Whether uas the person„ she
Years, and on being asked in
140,„5ra,, h___ er he WaS or not. She, however,estid ti‘hiart
.
eCteshaZi•rihet,Lbad he would have a. broken fii_ g -•
hi The . ornaren finger, and was
the
for ~,Parish authorities were also ordered to reimburse
immediate] /12,1.4.4
.cost of his iourney to Shields and back. Mr. Low-
)iilJ in 4--;:ir been anbjected to the indignity of being. locked
Li'L Parish ece,u_eell, the police-officer, seeing from the first thather
never be7ecet.'s were under some mistake. Mr.',l_owt lerile°l eaPtan,siti tile TYrie in his life, and is a respectable old
tr,-,rst,ti, ---..
aitttltra.,o,l_AZlll:ttß_S...—,A charge was made at the Police:
John.Brophy,
4114 ape to•
4'ivoi, mg a most bru.tal and determined
15011.1a,e,,,,11?ar, ka.bly I,7)ttnefemale. The prisoner,
Illtid tl;'eb'eL4 tbout
dent Clough
siZerful fellow ; his accuser,
Past el e°l4lainaut eell'rears of age. Super!nten
bout half-
Prisoneslal unlockchti on Lae tax unfortunate Pri. A the
a pleasant-
night she met _
aceot,l32l teighb-ePrevious Sunday e
street, and
Place u,,,,'4'ecl hita into onthrod of Great Howard
took
bY the r„lllilich thA 4b.litk-field. Here some (lisp _
..,ed her
'lair fa,-.-e44 and oa lrisoner knocked her dowp, Eft'
her by the
Water ih" a eethiti e ° her legs, and after dragging her
it the
and • 4 Which erahlwdistan'c threw her into a
- P
~,, In the at the s'd e' of six feet an depth,
Rua 6 • Celltre --1 es was upwards
bled out, but
1,14 :146 by aboutt twelve feet. She scrambled
the water ;
Lilelt dt4gaia werat• rhiter, and again thrown inn of
l'ea4l°.ti lIPOU th -uag out, when the Prisoner on the fore-
la tit,„.a,telapt;....
..e eilshar,k
merit and kicked her of
the
water,
lo.Lettfelc,, h',,Z ll that means to keep her underthe girl again
- t•ter, he -}s• If fell in, and
time
bkl tiii: gaining the j"e t, She was a third
and
44
Z4l trgke„Tatr4ol, abused in brutal
manner,resitting
,tkvitttv a into the water nSoame youths, who
swlaehhi the
reliti:ins.i*ellt tolitLighbourir wring brick-kiln hearing aP
with diSculty
aWas re,,,7 the ze Pit, rescued the poor girl, and
The prisoner
~,l,eatl. 414n_tderlsola; er from further violence. ,
ht he Pro-
.4len 11,va lAr) 41 order. ' another witness . g
mibrought up,
tali° -„, c,„ elk,_, _
___, again
had received
-ee ss:;‘nay the prisoner /‘ "
114418 /Jeri -Kth had - d the girl, be). Mr.
404 oos hi.
,e examined
unfit to descr.a
n %30,,_ said h2trles (of a characte Prisoner for trial.
:Nvn Th`Ktso
~.,` Would commit the
CASTLE.-STREE7',.—
eIN hsfectiossmitz ..,..,N SOUTH
a melancholy occur-
'94 PPelle,light 'about nine o'clock,
Joseph Bentley, gun-
WerA 1., South' Outhe prerniseg of Mr. Josep
companions,
the- tip Castle -street Some young men, •
Amongst
ttobt yqe(l,,,in the shop in•
.painting a small ship.
bit.
John
g Von orttlas Rigby Robinson, son of
Nuttall,
lo ars' - Will u r and a son of Mrs. i
tk_ en-street :sq ae,
standing together
~,,, 7 shop • While they were _
(1110, °Med Y.ttag Nuttall todk up a small pistol, whiele
ans was
4foarzeti With ball. The pistol by some me .
ifs
.eye ear Pans and the ball entered at the back of Robins)
ete,tsi'tied through his head, arid came out at his right
taililt, full tt eryefromulhia
ehead
a -i, pro•ctitrfilleale untrlansaltnesytaenutnlyg
i,„,,,a. Placed einit eae coach, and conveyed to the Northern
Pie 0; he died, however, almost RS soon al he got there.
tip
wsrl.7Ay.eagalinf mraardlidselzsrzvin§Tanititaaßprwerai:
},-,,With Pin I
041aa~stdy,' but at the Poliee-court he was admitted to
reties, himself in RlOO and two others in 4.:50 each.
4f-ev,lvheiarda„ y, an inquest was held on the body of Robinson,
;%,„_ eoroner, in summing up. concluded by observing that
walk tl:tft was a case which had arisen from misadventUre it
tat , hat
h-
. eops.,__, he could not allow the matter to pass oveer wpiisttol
"Zet,laeosliii;s7ttlyt his opinion that the person ,who left
That per-
Rta ,e-Vistkiev tlegally and criminally responsible.
n called a
II -All, buta4 riot b fore them. He bad bee
e eel4kle llcli conducte could not be too much reprobated.would put
fujta aeclha4 _
with the man who .
the
ugly guilty
4ath„,743,,Lt Powdep
purpose of causing
441 fa 1„.11e liadirLlitte a letter for the
it at the post-office.
• r"' an • "Malmust stamp
tNe e prison who
as not a tittle of
ktitadliee JO snuts„s°ller was concerned, there w
being purely one of
t.k... vetitnpe.-e,le him criminal, the case
dissented from the
1144011 of the
..,0-kbe foreman of the jury
led e of the party
ow g
tii, waeed the c !oner as to the guilty knowledge
concurred in
1/414E448
elAtol in the shop.—Another jurorersa
'on, the
M-4aci aft.,,,- ' the coroner.—After some cony
that the *rson
ai,a'aft til-'lektawked, "We cannot admit as there
olizi evia,: 14stol was cognisant of its being loaded,
lied that such
ktllrlt t,e7Tre to that effect."—The coroner replied
wa, not
t_s_ct,...;le 4:!pinion of the verdict U 3
hthe death of the de-
'ed, wia4teattry returned a that
citb'l4l, yeattsed b 7 Misadventure.
1 !—the second
ns„.lln es„,"labasarcst COISIPAWY.—Liverpool-
er
and 'cute-
si:' th„.mtl!lercial wealth, manufacturing pogwag,
o this truly
tei 7 I
st,lt 00, tue world eon ris . . Ten year,
re moderate
sus '"Dany w e It fire rates a
calerse
itst . as set on oot. 8
f ld r
o e e
rael', 8 Ife. premiums under those of th?t.
massq4,l, er Principles are good, and all the legi i
t life and fire
`weeac provident community, in regard 0
full. The actu-
-4,044415, /kilt
Do red for and
9.' thens"'eroftogreat busness know:
t3S4lthas studiedlalite and gentlemanfire insurance. operations—and
• more
tsi'l the Lot
too—no easy task to read arigh
irants
t Yout
.oLts eth hful zeal which fires the blood of eager asp ,
hi s for the year •
Qtri,oneye honours—senior wranglerships
Life Assurance
elld +HI, aiel7JroPounders and writers of fi declare startling
40,,,"eri.„'utnost expire with impatience to
who knows,
t10`",,, vsossir,g hobuses. Not so the wary
actuary
yat the opera-
4Z. ! Of 1;,,,,3; experience of men and things,
when contrasted,
it 714 1,,74ie companies during single
years,
d rstandable, or,
ti ‘43, -44tialles dtherefore hardlyun e
bides his
sae ratt r .an are
but the actuary
years
at ,4,41. ind, it , re.
results;
culled from
scheme be
basi'lvt!, zet4tieelyth, recounts grand
_.ngs.
If his
)4een'. hi court effective workings.
of business and working
ther art,
~,,ra•is:allielf anr directors. . men
not mere confer i
t'Qt,tattl,,lPeak orl'atral: Ppficsen s,
d u on
rs of 'vast goodre p
has
deLtrneetotkalzunitFes • gindelio, w a commercial comPauc3;..
I t the
~Wirs-ssi Sathertttic,
,ted vve;ping fan-lilies the money va..1,1..
M Dove
4°t cr I•cons- 4°Mir—now stilled and over ! So
should
Si,eehtrt bonded t his director, that the company
. o is.
expired,
lit "'t of 4,-rms until the first decennial period had
Aesa 4i„ i.
of the nature of a
"t UlBlllll4 ' L'aa• The meeting partook
tilow joatiet
4°lration. Let us see what was said and done.
NllB tao'n,„„"e income of the life department was but £1,509,
kinseas tieifLAl, and the income of the fire department )..n
*a I% The rub greater than the revenue in 1803 from this
Lcittleihre ti '-'„,,e Business is, however, the point upon which
,1114 Leeclikr„,,l34e.r some words to the reader. Well, then, the
Nr,",,ared`hl 4C2 per cent. uto be added to the
4 1 eiss,,,„„tv,e,r7 policy foreach entire year that it has
"""e• --The Reporter.

THE ADDRESS TO THE FAMILY OF THE LATE RECTOR,
from the clergy, lies for signat-are at the Savings' Bank.
MR. T. D. TOASE, professor of chemistry, at the Mechanics'
Institution, delivered the first of a course of lectures on Wed-

nesday, on the value of chemistry to commerce.
ADDRESSES TO YOUNG MEN.-011 Thursday, Professor
Griffiths delivered the first of a series of addresses to young
men on general subjects, in connection with the Young Men's
Christian Association, at the Bible Repository, Slater-street.
The lectures are free, and will be continued at stated periods,

to be publicly announced.
THE WELSH ScHooLs.—A prominent and interesting
feature in the funeral of the late lamented Archdeacon was
the appearance of the children of the Welsh School drawn up
in line on one of the terraces of the cemetery. More than 50
years ago the object of this solemn demonstration of respect
laid the foundation stone of the schools.

---
STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCE.—The ship Paramatta, Captain
Chaplin, which arrived in the Mersey on Wednesday morn-
ing, landed five sailors whom she picked up in an open boat
on the Equator, in lon. 2 deg. 7 min. E., on the 2nd of August.
The boat had a signal of distress flying, and, with her five
occupants, had drifted for 43 days. She was bound from
Prince's Island to St. Thomas, both on the African coast.
When they came alongside the Paramatta they requested to
be taken on board, as they could not find their port.
ABERCROMBY WARD.—Mr. Peter Vine, secretary, in'a
circular to the Tories of Abercromby ward, informs them that
at a meeting recently held, " The Abercromby Ward Conserva-
tive Association has been reorganised. Mr. James Holme is
appointed chairman, Mr. C. Whitley and Mr. R. Holmes vice-
chairmen, and Mr. William Nicholson, treasurer. The circu-
lar declares that the committee has been materially strength-
ened by the addition of new members, and they earnestly
invite co-operation " in forwarding the objects of the associa-
tion at the next municipal election."
SMOKE INFORMATIONS.—The following are the results of
informations laid by the corporation officials on Friday, in
connection with the smoke nuisance. The Lancashire and
Yorkshire Railway Company, as owners of the steam-tug
Mary Agnes, were fined Os. and costs; Birkenhead Com-
missioners, for steamer Wirral, 10s. and costs; Thomas Croft,
soapboiler, Comus-street, adjourned ; John Irven, soapboiler,
Henry-street, £5 and costs ; Lawford, Lace, and Co., oil mills,
sent-street, 10s.; London and North-western Railway Com-
pany, for the Edge-hill chimney, £5 and costs.

THE FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT SUMMERSEAT.—The
adjourned inquest on Stott, one of the guards of the East
Lancashire luggage train, killed on Thursday last, at Brooks-
bottom Siding, Lear Summerseat Station, by a passenger
train coming suddenly out of the tunnel while the luggage
train was at a stand, and running into it, was held on Wed-
nesday, at the Derby Hotel, Bury. After several additional
witnesses had been examined, the coroner expressed an opi-
nion that the accident had occurred through the signal not
working proTerly. The jury returned a verdict of "Acci-
dental death." Several of the passengers are still confined
from the injuries sustained, but it is believed that they are
all recovering.—Mancliester Guardian.
THE S.I:7YTEENTH OF OCTOBER.—On the sixteenth of this
month it will be exactly three hundred years since the Protest-
ant Bishops Ridley and Latimer were burnt at the stake in
Oxford, under the auspices of " Bloody Mary." Without any
desire to make a display of our Protestant zeal, we think it
only right to suggest that so important and interesting an
anniversary ought not to be passed over without some sign of
our consciousness of its having come round to us in the circle
of time. To the cruel martyrdom of those pious and loyal
men we in a great measure owe our present condition as R.
Protestant people blessed with religious freedom ; and it were
well to keep alive the memory of those great events, which
shed an unquenchable lustre Rpm those old times, in which
men were staunch and true to: he principles of that pure and
:apostolic faith, which, happily for the people of England, is
-still the established religion of the country.—Manchtgaer
Courier.

IMPUDENT FRAUD.—A memorial circumstantially drawzrup,
,and purporting to be signed,by several respectable gentlemen,
certifying to the truth of its,contents, was on Friday presented
to the Mayor. It recommended to the consideration of the
public the case of Mr. Thomas North, a fisherman, " whose
boat (the Mary) came in contact with the schooner Jupiter,
on the 20th September, whereby the bearer's father perished,
leaving a widow and large family to lament his loss." The
tale was sufficiently doleful to excite the charity of the bene-
volent. The loss was represented as exceeding £l2O, .end " a
mother and three sisters." were stated to be "entirely depend-
ent on his exertions for-support." Such facts, sustained by
such singnatnres as the -document presented, could not have
failed to operate on a heart less alive to charitable ,influence
than his worship's; but unfortunately for the memorialist,
Mr. Horsfall, M.P., whose name appeared among the certifi-
cants as a subscriber of,--c.",2, was with the Mayor at the time
of presentation, and helms ignorant of Mr. North's existence
—oblivious as to having attached a signature to the paper—
and unaware of having.exhibited the charity for which he re-
ceived credit. This ,discovery led to enquiry, and, in the
hands of the police, it was ascertained that nine oat of thirty-
six signatures were forgeries. The forgeries are cleverly exe-
cuted, and evidently by an experienced hand ; the inks are
different, and the st3ile of handwriting various ; and, but for
the accidental discovery referred to, a rich harvest might have
been reaped from the credulity of the public.

ARCHITECTURiL 7kND ARCHEOLOGICAL SOCIECT.—The
first meeting of the sighth session of this society wee held on
Wednesday, at the Royal Institution, Mr. Hay, the.president,
in the chair. Me secretary read a letter from Mr. .Salt, sec-
retary of the Polytechnic Society, inviting the members of the
Architectural Society to attend the meeting of the ,Polytech-
nic Society, on Monday next, the Bth instant, when an inte-
resting paper on gas+meters, it was expected, would be read.
Mr. Hay then read the opening address. He said, before
commencing, it was impossible not to allude to the greatest
event of modern times—the capture of Sebastopol. But the
mind of the nation had not been perceptibly diverted by the
war from the pursuits that elevate and ennoble the hum
in
an
and it would,he difficult to find a town or :village
the empire where the architect or engineer was not. engaged
in constructing great works. After alluding to tne recent
visit of the Councilito the works at Rivington, and -speaking
with approbation of-St. Aidan's College, Birkenhead, of a new
church at West Derby, and the new Palatine Club in Bold-
street, Mr. Hay alluded to the recent visit of the -society:to
Crewe-hall and Nantsvich, and concluded by describing the
prospects of the present session. Thanks were conveyed to
the president by Mr. Picton, Mr. Verelst, and Mr. Frank
Howard, who expressed themselves in terms of warm eulogy
of the address.—Mr.iPicton then read an interesting ".account
of Crewe and Nantwkh, with reference to the society's excur-
sion there in June last." A short but interesting discussion
on this subject followed, and the meeting then terminated.
ALARMING G.A. Ell?LOSIONS AT PRESTON.--4311 -Sunday
week, about half-past ten o'clock, three extraordinary ex-
plosions of gas occurred in Preston, by which a contiderable
amount of damage was done. The origin of the casualty
seems to have been •the sinking of the earth contiguous-to the
excavations for new sewerage works now in progress between
the ends of Water-street and Pole-street, in Church-street,
which it appears had occasioned the old sewers and the gas.
pipes to give way, and•the latter to leak at the joints. One of
these joints was directly over a fracture in a branch sewer.ex-
tending from the brewhouse of the York Hotel, kept .hy Mr.
Bibby, at the corner of ;herby -street, to the old sewerage.main
in Church-street. Thie'branch and a considerable portion .of
the old main had become.filled with gas, a strong smell of 'the
vapour having been observed for two or three days. At the time
above-mentioned, Mr.Bihhy's brewer took a lighted candle into
the brewhouse, for the purpose of examining the gas-pipes, as
the effluvium was very .strong there, and he was passing the
grating of the brands sewer, in the brewhouse, when an explo-
sion occurred, and he was thrown down with violence. Imme-
diately after this event, twotremendous reports were almost-si-
multaneously heard in Church-street, explosions having taken
place—one at the bottom cf .Derby-street, the other oppositethe
end of Pole-street—the .candle carried by the brewer having
set fire to the gas in the sewer, and thence to that in the main.
By the first of these explosions in the street nearly all the
windows were broken in the upper rooms of several houses on
each side of the street. The-front and back doors of one house
were burst open by the concussion of the air, and all the houses
in the immediate neighbourhoothwere shaken to their founda-
tions ; the effect of the explosion, as described by the occu-
pants, being similar to the ~violent shock of an earthquake.
By the last explosion, a square iron plate, covering the man-
hole of the old main sewer, and weighing about two cwts., was
blown three or four yards into the air; and it is fortunate that
110 life was lost by this occurrence, as the street was thronged
zt the time by Persons passing to their respective places of i
worship. As soon as nformation of the disaster reached the
gasworks the gas was turned aff, and .men were set to work to
discover and stop the leakage, which could only be done by
taking up the pavement. In this search, after labouring
nearly the whole of the remainder ,of:the day, they were suc-
cessful.
TAI: Loss or TILE LOCIIMASEN ,CASMLU.—An official in-
quiry,.ordeced by the Board of Trade, hasbeen going on before
Mr. Mansfield, the stipendiary magistrate, Captain Schom-
berg, R.N., the chief emigrant officer of the port, and the
collector al customs. It was to ascertain and report upon the
circumstances attending the loss of the new olaip Lochmaben
Castle, inco, Captain Turner, which struck on the Bird Rocks,
near Cape ,Ray, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, on the morning
of the 4th .of June last, in foggy weather, while on her way
from this port to Quebec, with 516 passengers and a valuable
cargo of salt, trce, railway plant, and other articles. No lives
were lost ; but the allegation is, that the captain Aid not exert
himself properly to recover the ship and cargo, both. of which
were almost totally lost, though she remained .on the rocks
until the end of August. On Friday, evidence was .given to
exculpate the captain from blame, and to show that it was
impossible, from the nature of the locality, to do more than was
done in removing theproperty. According to the evidence of Mr.
Jardine, one of the owners (all of whom belong to this town),
the ship cost £lO,OOO, but was only insured for £1,600.
—On Saturday the inquiry was again resumed, when Captain
Lawson and Captain Moran were examined as to the naviga-
tion of the St. Lawrence, and they stated that it was not cus-
tomary at present, by captains of passenger vessels, to use the
deep sea lead, and take sounds.—Mr. Johnston Berry, for-
merly a printer in Dublin, wffhad £6,000 worth of printing
type and machinery on board, also gave evidence touching the
conduct of Mr. Mousey, Lloyd's agent.—Mr. Aspinall ad-
dressed the court on behalf of the captain, and produced cer-
tificates of character from Mr. Canard and Captain Groshart,
concluding with an application to the court for Captain Tur-
ner's costs in the inquiry.—Mr. Mansfield said if the costs
were granted it must be by an order, but he should make a
pro forma adjournment until that day week, for the purpose
of considering the question.—Mr. Aspinall asked the bench to
decide whether the captain was entitled to his certificate, so
that he might go to sea.—Mr. Mansfield said he should require
a private interview with Captain Schomberg on the matter,
and the room was cleared for the purpose. After a consulta-
tion, Mr. Mansfield said, at the close of these proceedings the
question had been put by Mr. Aspinall whether the court,
after hearing the case, and before their report had been given
to the Board of Trade, would withhold or give to the captain
his certificate of qualification for the service. In the loss of
the vessel the conduct of the captain had been very satisfac-
tory, so far as the safety of the passengers was concerned.
With respect to the cargo they did not consider he was in any
way responsible, but that it devolved upon Mr. Monsey ' • and
that if any blame attached, it was to Mr. Monsey,Lloyd's agent ' •
the court, however, did not wish to place any blame upon him.
Having said this much on behalf of the captain, and receiving
testimonials as to his character from Mr. Cunard and Mr. Jer-
dein—which testimonials seemed fully to have been borne out
by his conduct on the voyage—at the same time they could
not shut their eyes to the fact that the loss of the ship was
owing to negligence on his part, in not taking soundings.
They could not, however, but express with reluctance their
resolution to withhold his certificate until they had a commu-
nication with the Board of Trade. The report would be sent
to the Board of Trade, and if Mr. Tindall would communicate
with the board as to whether the certificate ought to be re-
turned to the captain, he (Mr. Mansfield) would agree to give
it him,