The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-04-09 00:00:00

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

Attinticr..—Gn Saturday, Ann Jane rairclough,
aged three years, residing at 66, Bend-street, was run
over by a cart in $ ond-street, and sustained a .severe
• compound fracture of the leg, which was amputated as
soon as possible at the Northern Hospital: • • -
" I3AZAAR..--We remind oar 'readers . that 4--...„TairoAa
and the two following days-a bazaar ivill held in the
Exhibition-roomi, *Old roit-acb Place, kir the' purpose
Of liquidating a debt in'ciirred by the addition of a new
room for infants in- St. Saviour's Schools, Upper Can-
ning-street, The number of children in attendance at
these schools is over 1,060 ; and we haVe reason to
believe that the display of work
.at the bazaar will be
extremely brilliant, and *ill Comprise articles for use as
well as for ornament.
zuigna.-k hVENING SERVICES FOR NON-CHURCH-
-4011t.5.-7--For some tune past a 'series of sermons have
been delivered at Hengler'S Circus, *hich
have been specially addressed to thoSe *ho do not attend
any place of :WcirShip ' five diicourses have already
been giVen'hir PSpillar ministers,. of various denomina-
tions ,-.4tict if. the amount of_ good . which attends them
.is tb be estimated_by the attendance, they have been
lilessed'sVith a large measure of .Esiccess. Last evening
.the' sixth of a series on ",The Great SalYation" was
delivered in Hengler's Circus, by thole's-. S. H. Booth,
minister of the Baptist Chapel, -.Grange-lane, Birken-
hdad. 'The attendance -was numerous, and the class was
obviously-the one for which these' religious services are
intended. • •

BrciLrre' SEntisrADEns:—This company of Ethiopian
melodists appeared for the third time at Clayton-hall on
Saturday night.. There. was. a very large audience—the
boxes and pit 'being well filled, and the gallery densely
crowded. The performances commenced at eight p'clock,
and were continued with great spirit -until about a
"qqat ter past:nine, when:the burlesque opera " Inicretia
Borgia" was to have commenced, as announced by the
programme. At this time the Company retired from the
platforin—as the audience supposed, for an interval of
ten minute& After the ten minutes bad expired,. the
usual shouting and stamping attendant upon any delay
in the rising of the curtain began; but the curtain did
not rises and "after waiting a short time longer the
people in the gallery began to cry oat "Vberealucretia
Borgia ?" Where's Miss -Gould, the prima donna !"
-Mr. :Teuton; of tirelVatOnic-hall, subsequently-informed
the audience that Misa. Gould, was and could not
appear. . .

• DIRILEN EA D PoT ICE- CO URI, t 1in.115"....it the
13irkenhead Police-court, on 82,turclity, a. great :number
of perdons werie Tifought u 1 for being .drunk, and those
who wertirkriliWri.:to Word Offenders were, fined, whilst
others whose Aaraeter§ had not yet figured on the police
books Were discharged with a caution. Several gamblers
Who had been plying their vocation,at tigtham on Good
rriday, were brouglai,up by the county police. Amongst
them was Michael Mc.Donakl, a tVell-known Liverpool
gambler and thief) wlld *ás convicted and sent to
prisdn.rok Toirteetillays, John Sharkey, &respectably-
dressed. and said to be a serVant receiving a high
rate of wages in Mr. • Laird's employ, was brought up
by Police-ocer Egerton, who stated that 'the prisoner
had-lta his possession a regular gambling machine, by.
NO:kb he was making extraordinary sums of money, the
Machine being so ingeniously arranged as to ensure the
owner of it being invariably the winner. He was sent
to prison for fourteen days. --

INctuEsrs.on Saturday the following inquests were
held before the Borough Coroner :—On the body of Sa...
rah, wife.of Will-Wynn, shipwright, 31' years of age.
The dee4sed, it appears, laboured under insanity, and
hacl on several occasions, attempted toslestfroy her own
life and the lives of her children. On Saturday morn-
Ant- she Was found hanging by a'hannerehief froin the
bedpost. Verdict, hung herself whilst labouring under.
.insanity.--.--On the body bf a new-born 'child,- found in
the' yard, of Trinity Church on Friday morning.' Ver-
dict, died from dehility.—On the body of John Van-
treen (31 years), who resided at 6, Christian-street, and
who was, injured on board the City of Manchester,
on Wednesday week, and died at the Northern Hospi-
tal on Thursday. Verdict, accidental death.—On the
body of Frances Layton (66 years old), residing 'at 9,
Duckworth-street. She had been in a very desponding
state for some- time. On Friday morning, about half-
past five ,o'clock, she was fciund on her -face in the
'kitchen with her, throat
,cut With a razor, which lay
beside her. Verdict, committed suicide whilst laboUring
under temporary insanity.—On the body of George
Sleon, ship carpenter (40 years old), residing at 1, 1365-'
tock-street, who died at the. Northern Hospital, on
Wednesday, from injuries received the same morning
aboard the ship Shaftesbury.—Verdict, accidental death.

DEPLORABLE AND FATAL ACCIDENT.

AT EASTHAM FERRY.

As, was anticipated in our. colutuns, several thousands
thronged to Eastham on Good 'Friday,. no less than
five boats, at each trip heavily freighted, being kept
constantly running throughout the day. Eastharn
was a scene 'of boisterons rejoicing and merry-making;
hut in the evening a melancholy accident occurred which
threw a gloom over all. It appears that about eight
o'clotk in the evening it was ascertained that the boat
then'on turn for Liverpool at Easthara-slip had veered
off from the pier,, the. rope by 'which the vessel was
moored having been maliciously cut or most unaccount-
ably broken. There was a vast number of people
on the slip-Lmen, women, and children, of all ages------
waiting to be conveyed to Lii-erpool. There wae, of
course, the usual excitement and crowding at the
entrance to the slip, and several persons, in their impa-
tience at the crowd that beseiged the pay-gates, -scaled
the wall on the road-side,.rushed_iloWn towards the slip,
and, as a natural consequence, the stream of people con-
tinuing over the wall, there was a great crush. _ Every
moment the numbers congregated on the slip were
augmented. The police and the servants at the East-
ham Hotel, who united in their efforts, were unable to
control the crowd. There was a rush made by those
behind ; and the people in front, probably to the num-
ber of 100, were precipitated all at once from the
pier into the mud and water below. Fortunately the
neap tide was just on the turn at the time, or the loss
of life from drowning must have been fearful. As it
was; the circumstances of the niecident are sufficiently
deplorable. Ann Fitzgerald, twenty-five years of age,
a cbok in. the service of Mons. ,Poutz, of Tranmere-
lodge, Higher Tranmere, was crushed to death by the
excited crowd on slip, and her lifeless body
was at once removed to the tap adjoining the
hotel. Eight or nine of the Cheshire county
police and four sailors, with the greatest intrepidity
and the most commendable bravery, jumped from
the pier at the moment of the accident, and succeeded
in rescuing a great number of people who were immersed
in the mud, many of them nearly up to their necks and
others up to the middle. One poor
.woman, it appeared,
had been' precipitated headlong into the mud, and she
was with the greatest difficulty extricated from her perilous
position. She was promptly taken to the hotel, and,
was found to be in an almost lifeless condition, her nose,
mouth, and ears being filled wahine silt, which had to
be literally scooped out. Several persons had their arms
broken and shoulders dislocated; and one youth named
Tomlinson, son of a gentleman residing in Tranmere, had
his leg broken. The sufferers,. as they were rescued,
were taken to the Eastham Ferry Hotel; and it is but a
- proper-act of justice to Mr. t Hilliar, the proprietor, to
state that both he and his servants paid every possible
attention to the -unfortunate people thin- placed under
their-charge.-- Al many of them as could be removed
--were brought over in a boat hutnediately after the acci-
dent,- and---thow who were_more seriously_ injured_ were
removed with 'all convenient despatch to the Southern
Hospital. -•