The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-07-19 00:00:00

LOCAL

NE \VS

Dr. SCHOLFIELD, of Birkenhead, medical inspector of
emigrants in Liverpool, has resigned his appointment.
SALMON IN DOCK.—On Tuesday last, a fine salmon,
of Svc or eight pounds weight, was captured in one of the
Sandon graving-docks.

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SEVENTY-THREE PRISONERS have been tried at the
Kirkdale Sessions during the past week. Of these 32
could neither read nor write.

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A FEMALE, who gave evidence that she had received a
very superior education, was convicted, at the Kirkdale
Sessions last week, of stealing a pound of currants and
2 oz. of coffee.
MRS. T. F. MEAGHER sailed on Wednesday for the
United States, by the Arctic. She goes to join her
husband, the fiery "Meagher of the Sword."
SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—At noon on Saturday, Archibald
Ure, a Porter at the Victoria station of the London and
North-Western Railway Company, Manchester, was
crushed between the buffers of two wagons, by which
he sustained a fracture of the pelvis.
Mr. S. P. BIDDER, the late manager of the North
Staffordshire Railway, with his family and staff, sailed on
Saturday in the Asia, to take charge of the working of the
Grand Trunk Railway of Canada. 300 miles of which
(from Portland to Quebec and Montreal) will shortly be
opened.
1-10 NV THEY DO THINGS AT GARSTONt.—On Thursday
Morning, the Emerald screw steamer docked at Garston ;
vess
aelf, at hal-past six o'clock the men commenced to load the
and by nine o'clock she was trimmed and
had her hatches on, after being loaded with 264 tons of
coal in two hours and a half l
__THE EARL OF DERBY left London on Tuesday, for
tlowsley-park, Lancashire, where the noble earl enter-
ALive a select circle of friends during the race meeting at
anrl"°l. The Countess of Derby and Lady Emma
ey remained in town. The noble earl returned to
town on Saturday.
-14___Elv.C°T7NTILMaatSTRATES.--At the Kirkdale quer-
‘....tr sessions, on Tuesday, the
Mayor of Liverpool, Samuel
On Thursda.y,q Thomaasa'Boa maeistrate for the county.
sessions,
aosna oth, Eq-.
4 , of Toxteth-park,
T,'outl4ty magistrate. At the Kirkdal? petty
day, Robert Benn, Esq., of Kirkdale
House, West Derby, and Charles Chalorter,Esq., of Aig-
burth-hall, Garston, qualified as magistrates for the county.
/aTEae TEres'eorr.—Dr. Fisher.ng
having completed a totr
through Notth Wales, i
- to inspect some of the
most celebrated observatoriesgoing
nand telescopes. This talent-
ed gentleman has for some time past been in comm-uni-
cation with Airy (the astronomer-royal), Lassell, Dawes,
Ha
nifill), and Dick, respecting th. e construction of a
Powerful refracting telescope. He dt h e one of
the -. inten s ohave
most perfect instruments that can be made, and to
erect a suitable observatory in 'connection with is edu-
cational establishment.
ST •h•. 6 -•-•
elderly tall, ING CASE. the .Doliee.office, on Friday, a
man. named Chardon, a fireman on board the
:ern et7-steamer Melita, lvingin the Coburg Dock, charged
._ otaer fireman, named James Tomkinson, with stabbing
lain in
Together , the neck while they were in the engine-room
on complainant Thursday 'forenoon. It appeared that the
the gratin ,in attempting to strike Chardon, slipped on
vvi g. which was greasy, and fell on the prisoner.
ose knife entered his -neck accidentally. The prisoner
Was accordingly discharged.
'vessels Fxoncs To AtSTRALIA.—The total number of
le 26 now preparing for the various ports of Australia
_ ,n; thotal amount of registered teenage 16,300. The
Vtiu s from this port. from the 7th"to the 13th inan
have been one veesei for Moreton lay, 997 tons store
bourne.vessel for
SYdnq 1,650 tons; three vessels for Mel-
nnag, aefereeate ionage, 987 tons ; or an aggregate
vesse'se °
amount .634 tons. During the last half-year, -13
al
, have sailed from Liverponl for Australia: to of
I)
GoLn tonnage, 73,190.
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- ".ntrAY.—AN APPROVER FROM LIVERPOOL.
f?r wasseas
A the Winchester assizes, on'Wednesday, Aaron Cra-
nleh cOrretcted of having, inOctober, 1852, on the
, on b the Lady nora. stolen 570 ounces f fold dust. the poperty of Nic'heias Pentreath antniTatkion
Charles Kenrick. The principal witness against the
prisonl er was an aonrover, John Gore, second mate of the
veni , who was brought from the Liverpool borough
ra,
was where he was under remand for forgery. Cracour
sentenced to be imprisoned, with hard labour.
SOME
.AMusEMENT was rreated at the opening of the
Kirkdale' Sessions, on by a letter from Mr.
Critchley, of' Liverpool, alto had been summoned on the
grand Jury. He claimed exemption, one of the
ground being that he was one of the " old free ard-inde-
pendent burgesses," and-he voted for Canning when'
made his first appearance in Liverpool. It
Appeared the
hat ;
Mr. Ceitehley was disenallried by age, and on-that ground
he was excused from serving.
Tim 'LADY IN ELVCK.—On Thursday -afternoon. a little -girl, seven years of age, was sent an a' message..
On her return she was accosted by a female dressed in black, who, having elicited that she had a grandmother,
said 'she was to go to her and borrow two sovereiens.
The•woman told the child that she had seen'her mother,
who requested the loan to be obtained. The child imme-
diately proceeded to the grandmother, who sent the two
sovereigns. After having received the money, the little
girl was waylaid by the female, who took 'it from her,
under pretence thit she would return immediately, and
go home with her. The woman then absconded; leaving
the child in the street, where she waited for upwards of
two hours. The police are in search of the female.
EAsT LANCASTITP.E RAILWAY.—The directors' haree
entered into an arrangement with the 'Lancashire and
*Yorkshire Company, by which the East `Lancashire'be-
Comes, from the Ist instant, joint owners of the Man- '
Chester and Bolton-Railway, between Clifton and-Salford,
With the intermediate stations, ecc., and of the Manches-
ter and South port Railway, and stations betweenne '
B•utrlsl a
Cough and Southport, on the opening of t
Manchester and 'Southport Railway from 13 urascougli will
thus, in connection with the proposed extension of the
willSkelmersdale branch, form a continuous communication
from St. Helens viiithe East Lancashire'Railwayo South-
port. In consequence of these arrangements. tht e Clifton and Salford Extension bill has been withdrawn from Par-
liament, and the'Towers for constructing the Southport
branch have been ebandoned. The bill for extending the
Skelmersdale branch has passed the committee of the
House of Lords.--,2,fanchester Guardian.
KIRKDALE SESSIONS.—The venerable 'Archdeacon
Brooks presided at the Kirkdale Sessions, which
scos s
com-
menced on Tuetday. The rate for general
purposes
17-24ths of a penny, and the police-rate for the Kirkdale
division is 2iths of a penny in the pound. Captain
Woodford submitted his usual statistical returns. 'Within
the last quarter,'2A*24 persons had been -apprehended by
the county officers. The number of persons summoned
during the same.period, by the county police constablilary,
,7,58 2,217, of whom 2,031 were summarily convicted..
'fie number of persons summoned by the parish autaoe-
Pities, common itiformers, &c., had been '2,506. Som
discussion took place relative to the attendance of a bodyre
of the Liverpool police-force at the races, Capt. Gig
memandine for their services Ss. 61. for inspectors, and
64'41. fo; the men. The debate ended by Mr. Gorst,
Liverpool of the Peace, being instructed to write to the
the Pool Watch Committee, acknowledging the offer of
men Watch butstatingthat the magistrates could not ac-
eet rli
Kirkd ,ern on the terms. There were now confined in
of 418 le
Gaol
si°
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mates, and

THE AtsTrtAttaN.--,N.Anon.—One of t
I Bedgood,
eenzers, who came home in the Tay, was a A ro ,
in Mel-
he Condor's_ pas-
a borsetshire man. 'He has been nine Years
bourne and has been an li telkeeper and gold speculator.
Re offe'red XB,OOO in AlelbOurrie for the monster Ballarat
ht for
nugget, 00vr exhibiting in London, and he
the,Boo the 321 b. nugget , which was found close.°
thmiciiinster was dog tongwhere
801 h. n. together with -some smaller ones, in
,•
out. Mr. Bedgood has
in all
a raugh Australian •
weight of gold
with
a wide-wake h• Re aPpeared at Southampton,
Mr. Bedgood looked the picture or
head ..., .. at, a blaok bushy beard, a
. yr which was formedef small nosh breastpin
nugget.just
as it eatne from the di -- a sma unshaped nugget,.just
with a with jlg9, a heavy life Preserver on his
breastpin.the
rroaitihf
aacib4aecok
sl
tenant he Zr - but
wrist, Cpped
with z
c;igrngs, aavy
oldt bag fastened
rianPa•"rell-hi
or
bou ht 4
' he left Melbourne
tiych contained apparently
for ,Z, MO ounces of gold before
persomf £5 000 worth of gold.
as -"e° 'is• 3d, en ounce. The nuggets h.e had with him
the cargo
left t*P ' d a portion of
baggage; the rest forme . £2,000 by the
Cre oaf tLereambuco. He will.lose about £2,000
far" f ",e.'Condor in salvage mcney
home in the
and
eOl3 IP with his gold,
*erne 'Z. hie family. Owing to .
his
c9mul rged the latter,
and steam-packet'
he had _not
tiseqUeritl b obliged to pay Y e was
dale
at the
br,„, r,
m).l,ra —Mr, LanFs ,
presidedhimself.
3a ' tni. 4. -- `-'I7AR---- • Ti-e resignation salvage
of
mr.
nd Mr. George
Dine ' 49 Pelieting officer, was accepted ;
tern!' assistant master in the workhousea,
Kirkus moved
for
earnY tc discharge the dutie.s.,-Mr.
of the
ADPOiott,
ittee, to consist
was appointed
guardians 0,..,... ent of. a comm
for the
diatriets. EkTis'aering
Per Pose of 1' ,tv.erton, Kirkdale,.and 'West Derby,
before the
into,,:rm reporting to the next In.et, g
to
the propriety of re...tairoranging those
.2 k.fc, of a relieving officer. This was objected...it
ii:aeaeerrirb..7l4arro4haw, and others;
_bat,,on a division,
lieving et"? f"
aJority of 8 to 6.-1
hne To..lteth-park re-
winter
toy.tffiee, 11:.ero alteration in t .
t as 'being, in the
Place llhle. like rsfall described 1 a discussion as to
de 'ci d e fou.,_,
.reenland, and there
ci e , hovrec•'",„ in earbar or anywhere else- It was
to the effect
notice of inoii 4' at
t'h
- no Yalteration be effeeted.—A
was not such a
tPon the office in a not exceeding £3O be upended
made at a r •
hZ*llll,,'°- 4-t- upon the books by Mr. Miller,de
queetion.......,
Areference to
t,_ et, said the
brick wl p evious roeetin n
rd in rega
rd to a
arejait
ca I In front pork flew°f the Boa-
l Mr. Clayton,
complaints
fever hospita ,
Co RUCTION BY FIRE 0.1
the ePecifieation. was superior to that required by
biesT
AUSTRALIAN SilIP
Boottkehl•---The Brazili
which arrived at
THE
attileCipt," °n WedanileelLaY.l braorallebit news of the de-
f ives_ll 0Y fire Babe Condor, Captain Leighton, onea
trslia_ aa• Gibbs
et
A..e.ackets. The Condor left Melbourne on the. 11 k
ght, and Co.'s Eagle Line of Aut -
4401.1111! lute with aboUt sixty passengers, a quantit of
Of gold.
h®o sLeh as wool, &e„ and 22,000 ounces
the ,K. ghe left short.handed, still the crew workedi
fpol,age.lP
jwell, and there was every
ahoard nst as she was about to cross the line, the I
bus-
prospect of a rapid
of her e.aught fire, from spontaneous corn _
ser n
n' dAa t this Cale the Condor had not met a ship for
in the f YB. The fire broke out at about eleven o'clock
bore d orenoon, and at dusk on the day of the fire a ship
treiniei °lvo upon the Condor. which proved to be a French
bad leftAt midnight the whole of the passengers and ct
on
hard the Condor in the boats of the latter, and go
,lave
mast
lear.ed. The captain of the Condor was the last to
Is ship, and in a few minutes after he had left, her
int ~arid riggbag caught fire. The French captain put
...,0,,,,,, 0 r ernarnbuco, and claimed above £20,000 salvage
ne...
to t, Y• The cause of the wool catching fire was owing
'"e carelesaneqs in packing it in Melbourne. It was
Packed dam - •
p and not sufficiently pressed. One of the
IP 'enters ti board the Condor was a son of Mr. Court-
er Thomapson. He escaped with his clothes only.
Fifteen of the passengers came home in the Tay,
°0 Condor was a fine ship, of 900 tons burthen.
"d a favourite vessel with passengm. This is the first
n_aeri°ll9 mishap that bas happenad to any of the vessels of
"49 Eagle line.'