The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-08-17 00:00:00

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DOCK COMMITTEE.—The weekly n
Thursday, Mr. Shand in the chair. The sub-committee
of works recommended the acceptance of the following
tenders for erecting warehouses on the north quay of the
Stanley dock :—Christopher Dogherty, excavating • Wil-
liam Tomkinson and Sons, mEsonry.&c.; Thomas Pearson
and Co., ironwork. The total amount of the tenders was
£43,511. The Chairman said the work was to be comple-
ted in fifteen months. Some rooms at the north station
of the Prince's dock, which will shortly be at liberty,
were granted for the use of persons connected with emi-
gration. A letter was read from Messrs. Cole and Holt,
of Birkenhead, calling attention to a plan, of which they
were the patentees, for clearing the dock basins of mud
and silt without the aid of manual labour as at present;
the basins could be kept clear more effectually than by the
present system, and the expense woald be considerably
less. The invention could also be applied to the removal
of sand from the river in such a locality as Pluckington-
bank. A letter was read from Mr. Wm. Laird, manager
of the Ince Hall 'Coal Company, stating that the company
were willing to become tenants of the land at the north
docks on the terms and conditions named. The financial
business was then proceeded with.

ting was held on

LIVERPOOL CHURCH SCHOOLMASTERS' ASSOCIATION.
—The annual meeting of this society was held on Satur-
day last, at the Institution House, Slater-street, Mr. Jno.
Bowes, of the Church of England School Society, in the
chair. After prayers the chairman called upon Mr.
Williams, who read a paper on " The Normans." A dis-
cussion followed the reading. The secretary, Mr. Snape,
was then called upon, who read the annual report, which
was adopted and ordered to be printed. The report was
of a most encouraging character. Classes have been
formed for the study of mathematics and classics. The
latter is conducted by the Rev. J. England. Papers have
been read on different subjects. The committee hope
that future papers will be entirely professional. The
library is steadily increasing, and there is a prospect of a
great accession of new members. The committee con-
template the purchase of a superior magic lantern for the
use of Church schools. A cricket club is formed, and
through the kind permission of the Roscoe Club, they
play on their grqund. The election of officers for the
ensuing year theft took place. Mr. A. Boardman, of St.
Paul's School, Prince's-park, was unanimously elected
of S4l
Martin's-in-the-Fields, and librarian, Mr. W. Baker, of
St. Luke's School, were re-elected. Votes of thanks were
accorded to the committee and officers retiring. The
members intend having their annual dinner at the Eastham
Hotel on an early day. We anticipate much good to
result to Liverpool and the neighbourhood by this asso-
ciation. Few things can tend more to advance the ele-
mentary education than such associations.

HEALTH Column-reg.—The weekly meeting was held
on Thursday. Mr. Langsdale in the chair. The neces-
sary proceedings were ordered to be taken in reference to
the hospital being erected by the West Derby Board of,
Guardins, in West Derby-road. The medical officer re-
ported that during the last fortnight the mortality of the
borough has been considerably raised by the prevalence
of the bowel complaint ; the mortality from which is
usually proportioned to the heat of the season. Thirty
per cent. of the entire mortality was caused by bowel
complaints, the deaths from which were 86, a larger num-
ber than in any previous week (excluding the cholera
period) since the summer of 1846, which was also un-
usually hot. During the last five weeks the deaths from
bowel complaints have been respectively 13, 39, 49, 69,
86. The mortality from this cause usually reaches its
maximum in the second week of August. From other
diseases of the zymotic class the deaths were 58, of which
there were from fever, 15 ; measles. 14 ; scarlatina, 14 ;
small pox (unvaccinated) 1 ; erysipelas, 2. Diseases of
the lungs, including consumption. caused 48 deaths. A
brewer's drayman, aged 28, died from delirium tremens.
Of the total deaths, 213 were children, and 73 adults. Of
the 86 who died of bowel complaints, only 6 were adults.
The engineer was instructed to obtain tenders for the
construction of a sewer in the continuation of Regent-
road. A report was read from the Town-clerk, stating
that the long-pending dispute between the Health and
Dock Committee, as to the levels of the proposed new
docks at Wapping, had been settled in favour of the Health
Committee. The case had been brought before Vice-
chancellor Parker, at Leicester, and an injunction ob-
tained restraining the dock trustees from constructing the
new streets on any other level than that submitted by the
borough engineer, approved by the committee, and sanc-
tioned by the Council. The Committee then adjourned.
IMPORTANT EMIGRATION CASE.—On Tuesday, a very
important case, which had been twice previously before
the magistrates, was decided. An emigrant named
M'Turk, who had shipped for Australia, applied fora re-
turn of his passage money, and compensation, under the
following circumstances :—lt appeared that the ship City.
of Lincoln was bought by Mr. Johnson from a person
named Stock, for the purpose of conveyinz emigrants
from this port to Australia ; that Johnson paid over the
greater portion of the purchase-money, leaving a balance
of about £1,600. The charterer immediately took steps
for the purpose of obtaining passengers, issuing bills, and
advertising the City of Lincoln as a noble ship, of first-
rate sailing qualities. By the end of June a good number
of berths were taken, and placards were issued stating the
time when she would sail. The balance of the purchase-
money had not, however, yet been paid, and Mr. Stock
declined to give up the register. The vessel, in conse-
quence of this, was unable to.clear out, and the emigrants
were kept in the river day after day, until fifteen days had
elapsed since the time of her being advertised to take her
departure. There still appearing no likelihood of her sail-
ing (indeed she was not fitted with sails), the case had
been brought to an issue by a summons being taken out
against the charterer, for the purpose of endeavouring to
compell him to return the passage-money, and to make
suitable compensation. After a lengthy hearing of the
case, judgment was given for the plaintiff—that he recover
his passage money (£l5) and £3 for compensation. The
money was ordered to be paid immediately,--a month's
imprisonment in default. The case of M'Turk, it was
understood, ruled that of all the other passengers, 260 in
number, both penalty and default being accumulative.
The ship was brought to the hammer on Friday by Mr.
Curry, of the firm of Tonge, Curry, and Co., brokers, at
their sale-room, Derby-buildings. Fenwick-street. After
explaining that the vessel was being sold in order that the
contract with the unfortunate emigrants might be carried
out, and that the purchaser would have the responsibility
of fulfilling the contract, it was submitted for compe-
tition, and £l,OOO was at once offered. After a little
languid competition she was knocked down for £1,555,
being £5 over the reserved bid, to Mr. Bates, who stated
that he had " purchased the ship for the sake of the emi-
grants." At the conclusion of the proceedings Mr.
Curry assured the passengers that they were most fortu-
nate in falling into such hands ; it was a guarantee for the
engagement with them being carried out to their utmost
satisfaction.

FOUR MEN KILLED BY LIGHTNING IN MANCHESTER.
—A terrific storm of thunder and lightning, accompanied
with heavy showers of rain and hail, occurred between ten
and eleven o'clock on Tuesday morning in the neighbour-
hood of Manchester, and we have to record the death of
four persons and the injury of three others resulting from
it. The scene of this fatality was a row of houses, the
building of which is not yet completed, called Albert-
terrace, situate in Ridgway-street, near Bradford-road,
Manchester. The storm commenced about twenty
minutes after ten, and about• five minutes afterwards the
lightning struck the chimney at one of the gable ends,
whence it appears to have passed along the front of the
roof by a leaden gutter, streams of the electric fluid pass-
ing into several of the houses as it progressed. There are
eight houses in the row, and at the first house, the chimney
of which was struck first, two of the pots were displaced,
but not broken. The lightning tligai went through the
ceiling of the first bedroom, along Masi went
it passed, tearing
off the plaster, ilito the back bedroom. The windows of
none of the houses were glazed. The framework of the
back bedroom window in the first house was next caught
by the lightning, and was much torn and displaced. The