The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-11-27 00:00:00

M. Dem has been promoted from the comptrollership of
Leith to the office of comptroller of the Liverpool customs.

LIE rumour of the loss of the Pacific has been contradicted.
She was at Constantinople on the 20th instant.
SAMUEL DEAN, a man who lived in Gloucester-place, Low-
hill, fell off the roof of a house in Towerland-street, on Tues-
day, and was instantly killed.
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THE WHITE STAR SHIP MERMAID, Captain Edward
Devey, left this port on Wednesday, with the Australian
mails, having also about 360 passengers, and a very valuable
cargo.
THE Mayor will give his first official dinner on Thursday
next. The first dinner is facetiously called " the goose feast,
all the members of the council being invited.
ON SUNDAY, the annual simultaneous collections were made
at the various churches in this town and neighbourhood, in aid
of the local charities.
THE CUSTOMS.—Mr. Richard Hankin has been appointed
a clerk in the long room at Liverpool. Mr. J. C. Downey has
been promoted from the sixth to the fifth class of clerks in the
long room at Liverpool.
On Saturday morning, an old man, named William Nelson,
was found dead in bed at his residence, 27, Windsor-street,
Toxteth-park. The deceased was a superannuated custom-
house officer.

JOHN FORD, a well-known thief, was, on Saturday, com-
mitted for trial, charged with stealing a quantity of clothing
from the house of Mr. Groom, of Clarence-street, Everton.
THE British and North American mail steamer America,
Captain Harrison, sailed on Saturday for Boston, with 160
passengers, and a full cargo.
MR. LAMONT, writing to a contemporary, suggests that
illuminated clocks should be placed in a watch-tower, to be
erected on the George's pier, in such positions that they could
be seen by persons coming from any direction.
COMMERCIAL WAGOEILL—The following was announced
on 'Change on Friday, as an extract from one of the trade
circulars of the day :—" There are spoons in sugar, coffee has
risen without grounds, and tea has gone to pot:'

JOHN EDLESTON, plumber and glazier, was, on Saturday,
convicted in the penalty of £5, or in default, to be committed
for two months, for violently assaulting his aged father and
mother, while in a state of intoxication, because they would
not furnish him with the means of gratifying his depraved
appetite.

ON Saturday, a runaway cow, from the Salford fair, being
closely pursued upon the Victoria-bridge, Manchester, turned
suddenly on the centre of the bridge and leaped over the
parapet into the -Irwell. It instantly made its way to the
Salford bank, and was with some difficulty driven into the
street again through the timber yard on that side of the river.
THE Liverpool Riggers' and Mariners' Equitable and Acci-
dent Burial Society held their second anniversary, on Tuesday,
by a tea-party and ball, at the Temperance-hotel, Upper Par-
liament-street. Mr. B. P. Evans occupied the chair. Up-
wards of one hundred sat down to tea ; and, after singing and
reciting, dancing commenced, and was kept up to a late hour.
THE screw-steamer Euphrates, of 2,400 tons, built by
Messrs. Stephen and Son, Kelvinhaugh, Glasgow, and engined
by Messrs. John Bonnie and Co., which was under charter to
the French Government, was offered for sale by auction in
Marseilles on Friday week. She was bought in for 780,000 f.
(£32,500) by the:owner, who afterwards sold her by private
bargain to the eminent house of Tonache and Co.— Greenock
Advertiser. •

Anscorrnsa.—A young man, named W. Waterworth, a
native of St. Helen's, employed by Messrs. Wilson and Jes-
per, Preston, has absconded with goods and money of the
value of about £lOO. His brother-in-law, John Joys, who
was a baker in the service of Mr. Moore, of Northgate, Black-
burn, is also missing. Waterworth, who is about 25 years of
age, has left behind him a wife and one child, and Joys a
wife and two children.

A SALT PANlC.—baring the week some excitement has
been caused at the south end of the town by the rumour that
the government was about to impose a duty upon salt. On
Monday and Tuesday the shops were literally besieged, and
the Rtticle became -so scarce that people were running in all
directions for a supply. Large dealers and bakers are now
supplying themsdlves extensively, and there is not likely to be
much scarcity.

BOEBEHir of £240.—0n Friday, Police-officer 764, charged
Mary Thompson, Anne Burns, and Henry Green with rob-
bing Mr—Eothergill, a clerk in the employ of Messrs. Cox, of
£240 in batik notes. The prisoners were taken into custody
at the request of Fothergill, and on the person of Burns was
found £26 10s. in bank notes. Thompson was discharged,
and the ether prisoners were remanded, as Fothergill, the
principal prosecutor, did not appear.
BEZIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY.—There was a special meeting
of the Religious Tract Society, at the Collegiate Institution,
on Priday,lhe Rev. F. Parry presiding. The first resolution
was moved by the Rev. Mr. Jaffray, the deputation from the
Permit Society, and seconded by the Rev. Hugh Stowell, of
Manchester. The Rev. Dr. Archer proposed the second rese-
t lution, and it was seconded by the Rev. J. Kelly. The society
was stated to be urgently in need of increased support.
BOREERY.—At the Police'cotirt, on Friday, Sohn and Mary
Evans, man and wife, were charged with stealing from the
shop of'Mr. Johns, in Oldhill-street The male prisoner was
an assistant in the shop, and by the aid of his wife he carried
off bundles of clothes, hosiery, &c., to their house in 42,
Bridgewater-street, where it was found by the police. They
were 'remanded for a week. Mr. Johns said that he had
missed upwards of MOO worth of goods.
Tare: ursirres RaMOVAL ACT.—On Tuesday an adjourned
,'vestry
meeting of the ratepayers of Bootle was held for the
purpose of appointing a committee, to be called " The Nuisance
Removal Committee; under the act passed last session. The
I meeting, 'which numbered forty or fifty gentlemen, was pre-
-1 sided over by Mr. Alderman Robinson. A committee consist-
.. ing of twelve .gentlemen was appointed, and it was resolved
that its first meeting should take place this evening.
YOUNFERING OF A VESSEL.—The schooner Peter Towkes,
1 from Liverpool for the West Indies, was fallen in with on
I Monday, last week, beating towards Cork Harbour. The
schooner, reported that she had been in collision, it is sup-
' posed the day before, with another vessel, and that, a short
time after- they struck, the latter went down, with all hands
i,on board. The schooner had her bows beaten in, and suffered
other hrjr.ries, but her arrival is expected in the course of a
I day or two. The name of the vessel that was lost has not
been ascertained.— Cork Examiner.
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IJAUNCH OF AN EAST INRIAMAN.—On Thursday a fine
ship, massed the Fort George, was launched from the ship-
' building yard of Messrs. Simons, at Whit%inch. She is in-
' tended for the East India trade, is of ;700 tom; register, and is
1 the property of Messrs. Clint and Co., of Liverpool. She is
I' classed. teolk 1 at Lloyds, and is also fully rigged with galvan-
I ized wine, iheing the sixteenth vessel in which her builders
have. adopted that material, since the ship William Connal
was built by them, which was the first fully-rigged ship in
this country.— Glasgow Mail.
THE Nam- BOROUGH GAOL.—The costly bnikUng at Walton,
' with its palatial exterior, but containing within its walls such
refined sued 'effective modes of punishment, is becoming a
veritable terror to evil-doers. The colonies of 'pickpockets,
magsmen, dill housebreakers, who have 'hitherto infested the
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purlieus of tlik town, and to whom a three months' servitude
ad in the old g was the means of obtaining eepleasant rendez-
'roue rather Alan of receiving salutary 'punishment, are
14migrating* in shoals to districts where the nature of the
: ;prison accommodation renders the dreaded selitary.eonfinernent
impracticable.
The DIME .PF LANCASTER'S OWN Rtvens.—TheGeneral
',commanding in Stotland (Lord Melville) recently inspected
,the Duke of Lancaster's Own Rifles, stationed at Glasgow, and
was so much pleasedwith their martial appearance and.effieiency
that he took, for,,e. considerable time, the command of the
regiment. After ;having manoeuvred them, lie declared to-the
lieut-colonel, Sir Thomas Hesketh, Bart., and the officers,
that he was proud. to say the regiment was unequalled'in
I,Soctland ; which, lam an old veteran, both officers and men
i.emay 'consider a great compliment. The men are principally
4 recruited from here.,tend it is clear that Capt. Aspinall, ,COll2.
I slander of the duet :and superintendent of the.departmeut,
i has:sent to head-platters the right stuff Theregimentis now
i quite full, but still, as-they are daily expecting permission to
velunter into the linepand most of them are ready to serve, as
large numbers have previously done, Capt. Aspinalwill now
enrol men standing victim than 6 feet 8 inches.
LO43A.T. Wall 'TRW: A number of naval ,volunteers,
' amounting to about 40, were sent up to London on Thursday
fns this town. .They nrs considered the finest batch of men
hilhertorreceived • in•this district. After being ,placed on
board thegovernment•texider Crocodile, they wAltie drafted
to various ships as circumstances require. On Saturday
morning,lthe Cunard stemeship Arabia, which has been for
some timeemployed as a gowrnment transport, arrived at this
port from leingstown.-She hiel on board the Litr3eriek.county
militia, consisting of 10 officers and 819 men ; there were also
several women and children, and a number of horses. :Some
of the men 'were landed at Birkenhead and others at Liverpool.;
but with regard to their Interne movements no orders ',base
yet been received. After dewing out, the Arabia o.ill
resume her station, and make •regular trips between this port
and America, tarrying the mails, l&c. The steamship Niagara
is shortly expected here from ,Kingstown, with more men
belonging to Irish militia regiments.
PARENTAL DAPPJAITY.—A .fereeious and squalid-looking
'man was brought before the police magistrate, on Thursday,
.urged with having. attempted to suffocate his three children,
'by setting fire to the !house in which they were in bed. it
appeared that, late on Wednesday, .the police constable in
Gilbert-street, when pasifing along, Willis attention arrested
by volumes of dense snaekeiissuing frometin door of the house.
On,entering, the policeman found the apcnitnent enveloped in
-flamee, and three children 'beteg• on thwbed, which was on fire,
and they were nearly suffocated. The .constable succeeded in
rescuing the children, after which he got assistance, and had
the fireextinguished. The eldest of the children stated that .
his father, the prisoner, whose name is James Rooney, came
home drneir, and said' he woUld set the house on fire; on
which he took a piece of paper out of his poekst, lighted it,
and set fire to a straw bed. The ;child further stated that
neither he nor his brother and
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wretched r had tasted food for two
days previously to the fire. delinquent was
remanded for seven days.
Tu STRIKE At: MesclissrEn.—The strike continues. It
is reported that Messrs. Fothergill and Harvey's work-people
have compromised the question with their employers, and
have resumed work at Id. per thousand hanks reduction,
instead of 2d. as first offered. The number of operatives out
of work is gradually increasing, and, according to a near .esti-
mate, it •would appear that the utmost number of hands out of
employ does met exceed 3460, of whom at least 1700 are not on
strike, but have been compelled to stop in consequence of
being dependent for work on the spinners and pieces, who
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thrown out of work in consequence of the 150 spinners and
piecers having struck. The strike (generally) is one of coarse
spinners, or the makers of low counts of yarn. The case of
the employers and operatives is put in something like the
following shape by either party :—The employers say they are
paying an average of nearly 25 per cent. more than the country
employer is paying for the same work, and propose to take off
10 or 12 per cent. The operatives do not deny the fact of
extra prices, but allege that the cost of living is greater in a
large town like Manchester. The masters, while admitting
the extra cost of living, reply that the question is not one of
goodwill towards their workpeople in a time of bad trade and
minimum profits, but a question of sheer existence for both
masters and men. They can only compete with other manu-
facturers in the market by paying something like the same
wages ; and to show that this is no idle talk, they point to the
gradual decay of coarse spinning in Manchester for some years
past. The operatives are peaceable as yet: There has been a
proposition to go about with begging boxes, but it has not
been adopted, Messrs. Poolley's men gave notice on Thurs-
day, '