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

THE STEAM-SHIP PACIFIC, Captain Nye, sailed on Satur-
day afternoon from the Mersey, for New York, with the usual
mails, 181 passengers, and a large cargo.
GOVERNMENT have determined upon holding a winter
assize, for gaol delivery, throughout the more important of the
counties generally throughout England.
LIVERPOOL INFIRMARY FOR CHlLDREN.—Patients ad-
mitted during the month, 100 ; patients who have received
treatment during the month, 189 ; patients remaining under
treatment, November Ist, 73.
THE EARL AND COUNTESS OF DERBY Will leave Knowsley
early this week, on a tour of visits. Lord Stanley arrived at
Knowsley, from London, on Thursday morning. His lordship
returned to town on Friday.

'Ma. W. STEVENSON, custom-house clerk of general business
of the fifth class, has been appointed clerk of the fourth class
at Liverpool • Mr. G. H. Parry, clerk of general business of
the sixth class, has been appointed clerk of the fifth class at
this port.
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Loss OF THE. FREDERICK.—The ship Shand, Christie,
from Calcutta, has arrived in the West India Docks, London,
with the crew of the ship Frederick, W. S. Mordent of and
for Liverpool from Bombay, which wr.s abandoned near the
Western Islands.

THE LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY COMPANY
have adopted the system of granting free tickets to the
builders of houses ou the Southport line, within certain pre-
scribed distances of any of the stations between Crosby and
Kirkdale.

POTATO DISEASE AT ORMSKIRIL—The Irish labourers
who have been gathering potatoes this autumn think that the
disease is wearing away. Only one or two per load have been
found diseased this season. In some places the disease is not
found at all. The crop, though smaller than last year, is au
average one. _ _ .

Nsw QunEN's COUNSEL.—(fin Friday, at the opening of
the court of chancery, Mr. Whitmore, of the Oxford Circuit ;
Mr. Overend, Mr. Pickering, and Mr. Wilde, of the)Torthern
Circuit; and Mr. Bovill, of the Home Circuit, we respec-
tively called to take their places within the bar as of her
Majesty's counsel.
THE " BLACK BALL" MAIL•PACKET Ocean Chief, Captain
Tobin, will sail hence for Melbourne this morning. Letters
will be received at the Liverpool Post-office until six, a.m.,
with late fees until seven, and on the Landing-stage until
eight. Upwards of 1,000 tons of cargo is being taken by the
vessel.

',Au/gni:E.—Oa Saturday week was launched from the yard
of Messrs. Smith •and Rodger, at Govan, a magnificent screw
steamship named the Spartan, owned by Messrs. H. Dixon and
Co., of Liverpedl, and intended for their lineof steamers in the
Mediterranean trade. She is to be commanded by Captain
John Milburn, of long experience in the trade.
Aw Ext-wiesivE WAsnING ESTABIZSIIMEZM has been
erected in Bootle village. All the operations of cleansing,
mangling, &c., will be performed by aid-of new and improved
machinery, and linen, of whatever kind, turned out ready for
immediaie use. The works belong to Messrs. Hough and
Holland, who are under a contract to wash all the bed and
table linen, &c., required in connection with the extensive
fleet of -Steamers owned by the Cunard Company.
RA1'11) PASSAGE.—The ship Pwilier, "built at this port for
the South American trade, has accomplished her first voyage
out in the unprecedented short period of seventy days. The
following is an extract of a letter dated Valparaiso, September
14, 1855, from the consignees to Messrs. Cotesworth, Wynne,
and Lyne, the owners : Had'we such vessels as the Fusilier
in this trade, there would be no room for grumbling on the
part of either shippers or underwriters about damage to goods,
.her cargo having come out in quite as good order as when
Shipped." •
SIIOP ROBBERY BY A LA,Dvz.—Margaret West, a middle-
"aged lady, was charged, at the Po/ice-court, on Saturday, with
stealing a boa, valued at £6 .18s., and other articles, from a
draper's shop in Church-street. On Thursday the prisoner
entered the shop and ordered-übout £9 worth of fur goods 'to
be sent to her lodgings, 6, Mersey-view Birkenhead. After
R. she left the shop about ,10 worth of boas, cuffs, &c. mere
missed, and information having been given to the police, the
prisoner was arrested in Pale-street. In the shop, after aTery
careful search, the stolen -articles were discovered on the pri-
soner, in a flannel petticoat, folded round her body so zas to
form a huge pocket. She vas committed for trial.

ST. SILAS' WORIEINI3-41EN'S ASSOCIATION.—A teaTparty,
attended by nearly 800 persons, of the friends of the above
institution, which is in coinection with St. Silas' Church,
took place at the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson•street, on Tues-
day. The Rev. S. Minton occupied the chair, and amongst
others on,the platform•were the Rev. Dr. M'Neile, the'Rev. J.
C. Miller, of St. Martin's, Birmingham, Rev. Herbert Jones,
Rev. C. Cowan, Rev. it Wolsely, &c. The chairman drew
attention to the beneath and privileges connected with the
association. The Bev. Dr. M`Neile appealed to the working
classes to practise strict temperance, in order to meet with
the encouragement and support of their wealthy neighbours.
The Rev. J. C. Miller-spoke of the success which hail attended
a similar institution connected with his own church at
Birmingham.

CROWN PROPEILM" IN LANCASHIRE AD
CIIESSIRE.—The
Revenues have
Commissioners of Woods, Forests,and Land
recently made their twenty-third report upon what
done in the management of the hereditary possessions has
been
Crown during the year ended the 31st March, 1855, from of
fhich
we learn that a lease was granted to Mr. John Rrogden and
others, in November last, of the mineral property ( ironstone)
of a portion of the Crown manor of Muchland, comprising
about two hundred-acres, for twenty-one years, from sth July,
1853, determinable by the lessee at the end of :the first two
years. The value cf the property is, of course, at present un-
certain, but the rent is fixed at £lOO, and a royalty of ls. 6d.
per ton on all the ironstone and iron ore raised beyond 1,333
customary tons. Parcels of the fore-shore of the Mersey,
an turaeiaw.va, cnld to the possessors of the ad-
joining lands.
BANKRUPTCY 'Coura.—Hugh Henry Ross,-of Liverpool,
linen-draper, came up on Saturday, before Mr. Commissioner
Perry, for judgment on the question of certificate, which had
been opposed on previous hearings on behalf of:the assignees,
on various groundc, including those of recklessly contracting
debts, and that his 'trade expenses were fictitious _and marked
with extravagance. His Honour, in giving judgment, having
referred to a previous bankruptcy no later than 3.853, which
terminated in a suspension of the certificate for twelve months,
said, after a careful consideration _of the evidence and of the
bankrupt's explanations, he could not place faith in the bank-
rupt's statements cs to his estate and effeets, andtherefore the
allowance of the certificate must be altogether refused. During
the hearing of the case, Mr. Bryce Smith, of Manchester, who
appeared under a-subpcena, obtained by the bankrupt, applied
to the court for his expenses, but his Honour declined to ac-
cede to the request,, on the ground that being the -bankrupt's
witness he should be paid by the bankrupt. It then trans-
pired that, at the :request of Mr. Smith's son, the bank-
rupt had given that person his I. 0. U. for the amount of the
expenses in attending the court.—John Strong, formerly
owner of a steam-tug, at Liverpool, also came up forjudgmeut
on the question of certificate. His Honour granted a third-
class certificate, subject to suspension for six months from the
present time, protection to be granted at the expiration of
one month.

THE REGISTRAR...GENERAL'S RETURN.—The lad quar-
terly return of the Registrar-general is, on the whole,. a very
favourable one. In the quarter ending June 30, there were
38,454 marriages registered, being 1,935 fewer than iin the
corresponding quarter of the previous year, when the number
was considerably above the average. In the quarter ...ending
September 40, 154,834:births were registered, being 90 .more
than in the summer quarter of 1854, and the number of deaths
was 87034, a rate of mortality which is, comparatively., :very
-kw: The natural increase of population in England .and
Wales in the three months was therefore 66,900, and in the
nine months it has been X 67,147. The number of emigrants
in the summer quarter was 44,698, nearly the same as in 1.847,
but riot one-half what it was in 1852. Of English emigrants
the number was 15,530, so-that the net increase of population
in the quarter was 51,370. The health of the towns exhibits
some improvement, but Ms far from being what it ought to
be, and would be, if due attention were paid to sanitary matters.
Liverpool and Manchester eXhibit signs of increased salubrity..
The Registrar remarks, that "if all the deaths of British
soldiers in the Crimea during the last three months were
added to the deaths in Englaud, the sum would be less by
-some 20,000 than the deaths registered in England during the
three summer months of 1854. More lives may be saved by
sanitary arrangements at home 'every year than have ever
perished abroad in the years of our greatest losses lb war."
DOCK COMMITTEE.—The weeLly meeting was held on
Thursday, Mr. Charles Turner in the chair. The tender of
Messes. G. H. and A. Hickman, of :the Bilston Brook Iron-
works, was accepted for about 500 tons.of railway bars.—The
Stanley Dock warehouse sub-committee recommended that
the one bay of the north stack of the Stanley Dock ware-
houses be enclosed with sliding doom, at .a cost of £350, ac-
cording to a plan produced. The recommendation was con-
.firmed.—The sub-committee reported that it had become
neceasary to nppnint a warehouse keeper, a warehouse clerk,
and a ledger clerk, for the south stack of warehouses at the
Stanley Dock, and they recommended thattbese appointments
should be made. Mr. Robinson said he thought the com-
mittee would be able to appoint persons out of their present
staff. The recommendation was confirmed.—A letter was
read from the surveyor, from which it appeared that the south
stack of the Stanley Dock warehouses would be ,qoaite com-
plete within four weeks from the present time.—The Chairman
read a letter from the Rev. T. Leicester, incumbent of St.
Mary's, Kirkdale, asking the Dock Committee to eontinue
the annual grant' of £5O for maintaining the 'services at the
chapel at the north shore, established for the religious in-
struction of labouring men employed in the north docks.
After some conversation the grant was directed to be
made. A letter from Messrs. Jacot, Taylor, and Tipper,
requesting a permanent berth for loading their ships
in the American trade, was referred to the Harbour-master's
Committee. The subjoined letter from Mr. John Laird was
read :—" Dear Sir,—ln Mr. Hartley's report on the proposed
amended plans for the completion of the Birkenhead Docks,
he alludes to my having attended with Mr. C. river and Mr.
Hamilton, at the request of the Dock Committee, to afford
information as to the requirements of large class steamers, &c.
When I attended the meeting I distinctly stated that any ex-
pression of opinion of mine in reference to the plans then
produced must only be considered a general one, and as having
reference to the following points :-Ist, that I approved the
principle adopted by Mr. Hartley of treating the great float as
a dock, with, as nearly as can be maintained, a permanent level;
the access to the great float being by means of a low-water
basin next the river, and of a half-tide basin between the low-
water basin and the float. 2nd, that if the Dock Com-
mittee decided that they would not provide a lock large
enough for the great steam-ship building by Messrs Scott
Russell, viz., about 750 feet long by 125 feet wide, I thought
they should have one lock 500 feet long, and 100 feet wide ;
one lock 400 feet long, and 55 feet wide; one for river craft
and coasters, 28 to 30 feet; and that the sills of all these locks
should be laid at a level of at least 12 feet below the old dock
sill. At the same meeting, on a discussion arising as to the
deepening of the great float, I expressed a strong opinion that
the present entrance through Morpeth Dock might be greatly
improved, so as to secure a good revenue to the corporation
pending the execution of the other works, and that (in order
to prevent the stoppage of trade at Birkenhead) the lower
portion of the great float should on no account be laid dry,
but that the increased depth required should be obtained by
dredging, and not by excavation ; also that the whole of these
works might be proceeded with at once, as they do not require
a new act of Parliament. As, from the discussion that took
place at the Dock COmmittee last Thursday, on the reading of
Mr. Hartley's report, I am represented (unintentionally, no
doubt) to have expressed my approbation of the altered plans
then submitted, although I have not yet seen them, you will
oblige me by laying this letter of explanation before the com-
mittee, at their next meeting.—The general business of the
committee then concluded.