The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-11-22 00:00:00

ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.

Last night Mr. Blakely took his benefit, playing in
" Money" and the "Cricket on the Hearth," the former
being decidedly the better adapted of the two for the
display of that particular line of character in which this
actor has acquired so much fame. The severity of the
weather had an unfavourable effect upon the attendance,
which otherwise, we feel satisfied, would have been
much greater than it was.
Mr. Henry Phillips, assistant box-keeper, invites the
patronage of his numerous friends for the performances
this evening, which are to be the highly interesting
representations of " Ambition," " No," and "Faint
Heart never Won Fair Lady." If the most patient and
unremitting attention to his duties, and a uniformly
obliging demeanour be recognised passports to public
support, few individuals have in those respects greater
claims than Mr. Phillips, and we shall rejoice to see
him realise a benefit commensurate with them.

FALSE ALARM.—Yesterday it was currently reported
that at an early hour in the morning, a fire had broken
out in Messrs. Milner's Safe-works, Windsor, but there
was no truth in the statement. There was a fire in the
locality, but it was of a most trifling character, the
damage not exceeding a few pence.
Imritovtn Tuesday, a trial of a new
patented pump, the invention of Messrs. Winstanley
and Kelly, took place on board the ship Queen of Com-
merce, lying in the Prince's Dock. The pump has
already been tried for land purposes, but this was the
first application of it to the requirements of shipping, at
least in Liverpool. The principle of the invention is to
keep up a constant flow of water, and thus prevent the
loss which necessarily accompanies the ordinary mode of
pumping. This is effected by havinc, the suction pipe
separate from the working portion of' the pump. The
water flows in through the suction pipe, and so long as the
pump is working a constant stream rises up and discharges
itself without the slightest intermission. The patent
pump requires no charging, as is the case with those of
ordinary constractioti. It tan also be sounded with-
out losing the charge of water or tithing rut the
buckets ; besides, any dirt or other material may be
removed at once from the top of the suction pipe,
and cannot obtain access to the pumping machinery.
In the, working of the pump a considerable improve-
ment has been effected. By an ingenious combina-
tion of the heart wheel working with the friction
roller, a large amount of labour is done away with,
much less power being required than with the ordi-
nary crank. The inventors estimate that the pump
will throw more than double the quantity of water
abtained by the ordinary pump with half the power.
Amongst those present to witness the trial were Lieut.
Prior, the Government emigration agent at this port,
Mr. H. Fernie, Captain Rudolph, Mr. R. Wright, Cap-
tain Baker, Captain Cranston, &c. The result of the
trial was highly satisfactory, and several of the gentle-
men present, including Lieutenant Prior, expressed
themselves in high terms of the merits of the invention.
The pump in question has been permanently fixed on
board the Queen of Commerce, and we understand it is
to be applied to the Green Jacket and the Great Aus-
tralian, both well-known passenger vessels. Further
experiments with the ptinip art shortly to be made.
POLICEMEN AND POACHERS.— There always has
existed a feeling of the greatest antipathy between these
two classes of the community; and what took place at
the County Magistrates' Court, yesterday, before G. H.
Horsfall, Esq., and W. Bonn, Esq., shows that the same
feeling still continues, the police hefty, of opinion that no
man has a right to steal game, while' the poacher says,
" If I can't get game, I will have chickens ;" and through
stealing thirteen chickens, two, perhaps, of the most
noted and daring poachers within the Walton district,
have, at least for a time, had a stop put to their career.
Yesterday Matthew Fairhurst, who has also passed him-
self off as Jim Robinson, Bob Ratcliffe, and all other ,
de'sctiptions of cognomens, was brought before the
above magistrates by Sergeant Hardesty, of the
Walton district, through whose intrepidity and courage
he was apprehended on Tuesday morning, while in com-
pany with some other poachers, corning from the direc-
tion of Knowsley-park, with a quantity of partridges in
their possession. The career of this noted individual
may, since the year 1850, be traced, as far 'he is known in
Kirkdale-croal, to be as follows, although it is well-
known tat he has been repeatedly incarcerated in the
"new model" for various offences committed in Liver-
pool:—On the 16th Nov., 1850, for poaching, six weeks,
and so on up to the present time. He has respectively
been imprisoned after that, for the same offence, 2
months, 3 months, 6 weeks, 3 months, 1 month, 12
weeks, 16 weeks, 3 months, and 9 months, which was
for burglary—making in all two years and seven
months' imprisonment in one gaol within that
short period. The charge for which he is now com-
mitted to take his trial, is for stealing thirteen fowls
from the premises of Mr. Joseph Walker, of Fazakerly,
on the 7th of July last. On that morning, police-con-
stable 532 met two men in Limekiln-lane, each of whom
had a bundle under his arm, and upon seeing the police-
man, they pushed the bundles into the hedge, and turned
upon the policeman, who asked them what they had
placed in the hedge, and they denied that they had been
near the hedge. He attempted to take them into cus-
tody, but they escaped, and upon going to look at the
bundles, he found them to contain thirteen fowls, quite
warm and skinned, which were afterwards identified by
Mr. Walker. A short time since, Sergeant Hardesty,
after a great struggle, captured Wright, or "Big
Wright," as he was called, and he was committed for
trial, and on Tuesday, the same officer captured Fair-
hurst, after another struggle, and he was also sent for
trial. Thus, for a time at least, the suburban comminnity
will be safe from the depred4tions of these u9togious
individuals.