The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-09-07 00:00:00

week ending Aug
£3828

cels,

£5B 45. 7d.--Total; £4,861 la. 91, being an increase
on the corresponding week last year of £343 19s. 11d.

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Wallasey. is about Marquis o
Westminster, lord-lieutenant of the county of Chester
recommending the appointment of James Sh 4----
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AT LLANDRILLO, near Corwen, on Saturday week, as

a labouring man was cleaning a

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the piece discharged, and instantam
man. The man who discharged the gun was greatly dis-
tressed, and for some time it was impossible to appease
his self-reproach, which so affected him that he tore off
the hair of his head in handfuls.

GENTEEL SINIUGGLING.-Mr. Hughes, Inland Revenue
Officer at Bangor, took a gentleman by surprise on Sun-
day last, at the railway station. It appeared that the
party had in his possession, unaccompanied by a permit,
no less than eighteen gallons of highly rectified spirits,
doubtless intended to be diluted into whiskey for sale.
He was, of course, taken into custody, and on Monday

morning the case was heard before the magistrates
he was fined in the penalty of fifteen po
spirits forfeited to the crown.
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPEL AT PANTASA.—We un-
derstand that the delay which has occurred beyond the

Is, and the

original time fixed for the consecration of this place of
worship, has been caused by legal difficulties which have
been unexpectedly interposed. It is said that the Earl of
Cardigan, one of Lady Feilding's trustees, objects to the
proposed appropriation of his ward's property, and intends
to apply for an injunction should Lord Feilding persist in
his intention of makinz it over for the objects of ti
Roman Catholic faith.—Chester Chronicle
CHESTER CHEESE AND CA

AIRS.-At the cheese
y brisk sale, at prices

fair, on Wednesday, there was a ye
varying from 40s. and 455. to 525. About eig

tv or nin

tons were brought to market. In the cattle fair, on Thurs-
day, there was but a small number for sale. Probably the
fear of the disease, which is at present very prevalent
among horned cattle, restrained farmers, graziers, and
others, from bringing a large number to the market. The
prices averaged for beef sd, mutton 51(1. The horse fair
was hut thinly attended, and comparatively few horses
were offered for sale.
DROWNING.—An inquest was held on Tuesday, at the
Birkenhead Hotel, on the body of a man unknown. The
deceased, it appeared, left the Rock Ferry on Monday
evening, about half-past nine o'clock, in a state of in-
toxication. He sat on the staunchions of the steamer,
near the paddle-box, and, when off Birkenhead slip, is
supposed to have fallen overboard. He was recovered
very shortly after, and taken to Birkenhead, but died
within half an hour. The deceased was decently dressed,
and in his pocket was found a pawn ticket, with the name
of Terry Flannagan on it. The ticket was for a silver
watch. The jury found a verdict of accidentally drowned.

WALLASEY COMMISSIONERS.-011 Thursday last, at
the monthly meeting of this body, Mr. Holland presided.
The improvement committee reported that they had under
consideration the question of keeping in repair the foot-
ways and causeways in the parish, and had adopted the
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'pinion of the law-clerk, namely, that such a cour,
not within their jurisdiction, as specified in the act of p,
liament. It was agreed to take counsel's opinion on the
matter.—A report was read of a special committee which
had been appointed to consider the provisional order for
the application of the Public Health Act of 1848 to the
district of Wallasey. The report included various sug-
gestions, one of which was, that the rates of all property
under the annual value of £lO shall be paid by the owner
and not by the occupier.—A memorial, signed by Harold
Littledale, Esq., and others, was read, setting forth the
necessity of lowering the road leading from Church-street
to Egremont Ferry. The memorial was referred to the
improvement committee.—The board then adjourned.
SUPPOSED GOLD DIGGINGS IN THE QUEEN'S PARK,
CHESTER.—Within the last day or two a good deal of ex-
citement has been caused throughout the City by a rumour
that a vein of the " precious metal" had been discovered in
the Queen's Park, and " golden" anticipations were in-
dulged in by the owners of property in that vicinity. We
understand that some of the workmen employed on the
estate. in the course of their " diggings," came upon a
vein of quartz running through the red sand-stone in which
gold is frequently found, and in which, in this case, were
embedded an abundance of bright particles of a shining
metallic appearance. Elated with a discovery that seemed
to promise them equal advantages with California or
Australia, without the risk and trouble of emigration,
they set to work, aided by others whom the news speedily
brought to the " diggings, to secure as much as possible
of the sparkling treasure, and quantities were conveyed
away to places of supposed safety. But alas for the du-
ration of these castles in the air, these mines of imaginary
wealth ! A portion of the particles having been entrusted
to the scrutiny of Mr. Green, of the assay-office. on being
submitted to the crucible it failed to stand the golden
tests, and the glittering dust was pronounced to contain
titanium and iron, but not a trace of gold. We have
heard that one gentleman connected professionally with
the park, and who had secured for himself a large lump of
the supposed treasure, on witnessing the result of the
analysis had well nigh been carried out of the assay-office
in a fainting fit.—Chester Courant.
ROBBERY BY Two SERVANTS AT SEACOMBE.—On
Wednesday last, a case was heard before Henry Winch,
Esq., in which two Welsh girls, living as servants in West
Seacombe-terrace, were charged with robbing the house
of Mrs. Gratrix, in which one of them lived. The fol-
lowing are the circumstances, as detailed in the evidence
given. The prisoner Mary Evans was the only servant of
Mrs. Gratrix, and had previously lived with a next-door
neighbour, Mrs. Cope. Mary Griffiths,' the other pri-
soner, wa;Mrs. Cope's servant. On Saturday evening, the
28th of August, Mrs. Cope had occasion to go to Liver-
pool ; and, in the presence of the girl Evans, took some
money out of a box in her bedroom, which contained a
quantity of jewellery, a five-pound note, and £l6 10s. in
gold and silver. On retiring to bed, she missed the box,
and at once questioned her servant about it. Evans de-
nied all knowledge of it, and Mr. Newton, the constable
and bridewell-keeper of Wallasey, was at once sent for,
who, in company with Gardener, an officer employed by
the Wallasey Commissioners, after making a few inqui-
ries took the girl to bridewell. On Sunday morning they
searched the back premises of the house, and the ashpit,
and found none of the missing property. After the search
they went away to make further inquiries ; and on their
return, in about two hours, they found that a portion of
the property had been found in the ashpit by the son of
Mrs. Gratrix. Suspicion then fell upon Mary Griffiths,
the servant at the next door; and on going there, other
portions of the stolen property were found. She was ac-
cordingly taken into custody, and brought to the bride-
well. The prisoners were remanded until Saturday morn-
ing, when they were committed for trial. Griffiths was
overheard in the cell at bridewell telling her fellow-pri-

antler to deny all knowledge of the matter, and to say
that she, Griffiths, was never in the room where the
box was.