The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-01-27 00:00:00

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ExtroitAerte PROM tIRKENHEAD.—The Mangerton,
with the government emigrants, of whom we last week
Cele. - I gave an account, for South Australia, left the Morpeth
ItpAc.. TERY AT SOUTHPORT.—It is proposed to lay out i Dock on Tuesday last with about 350 persons on board,
T lic burial-ground on the outskirts of Southport. exclusive of the crew. The emigrants are chiefly small
stitallit CONSUMPTION OF GAS IN SOUTHPORT has in.. farmers, respectable labourers, and a few mechanics. We
...lied very lately from 6.000 feet per night to 20,000, understand that the Dock Company have intimated to
.sqbE the retorts are now found too small. Messrs. De Wolf and Co. their willingness to give the use
felFaeseeteenore of DERBY.—Mr, T. B. Horsfall, of the warehouse gratuitously for a second complement of
,: eminent merchant of Liverpool, has consented to emigrants, and, in consequence, it is intended to despatch
And for Derby at the next election.—Morning Herald. the Runneymede from Birkenhead in the second week in
trZtnBRT BENEFICIAL SOCIETY.—A silver snuff-box February. As a further proof of the general disposition
fee. Presented, on Thursday evening, by the members, to of the residents on the other side of the Mersey to attract
'-r• Jamesr;_ Ayres, their treasurer. emigrant trade, it may be mentioned that the gas and
jee,ottasiore.—On Thursday evening, a schooner came water company have gone to considerable expense in i,',‘.olay-
collision with the steamer Birkenhead, in the Sloyne. ing mains and pipes for the supply of a sufficient quantity
e"..? blast of the steamer was forcibly broken by the shock, of water required for the use of so many people.
"4,° Portion of her bulwarks knocked in. KIERDALE EPIPHANY SESSIONS.—The business of
eceLlilit HEAD- CONSTABLESHIP.—Mr.DowIing, the head- these sessions commenced on Tuesday last, in the Court-
bortable, is in such a delicate state of health that he is house of Kirkdale. The Venerable Archdeacon Brooks
44t.lkelY to continue long the performance of his active officiated as chairman. The Usual routine busin ss of the
les.
county was conducted in the magistrates' private room.
k ir:R
into the management of the establishment of open the lunatic asylum at Haydock-lodge, for the .re-
Zss, held their first meeting on Saturtlay week, at the ception of private patients, was granted for twelve months.
,in Pauli street. Mr. Hornby was appointed chair- Mr. Owen's license for his establishment. at. Tue-brook
Ito n• They met again on Wednesday, the proceedings, was renewed. An application to transfer the license of an
LANCASTER' eve being private. asylum at Walton from Dr Litchfield to Dr. Tierney and
co AND LIVERPOOL STEAM NAVIGATION Mr. Nicholson, was granted. The Mayor of Liverpool,
a pki.ePek,NY.—The directors of this company have reported Thomas Littledale, Esq., qualified as a magistrate for the
diy• 1" on the half-year's working of £283 Its. ltd. A county. On Wednesday the criminal business was pro-
elene
reser of 10.. per share has been declared, leaving a ceeded with. The calendar contains the names of 60
esti ve of £573 10s. 6d. The boilers require lining, the prisoners, 55 being charged with felony, and the remainder
enated cost of which is £3OO. with misdemeanour and assault. Of these, 19 read
.„u 11°13LE BENEFICENCE.—We hear it reported, and upon and write perfectly, 13 can read, four have had ac
sanperior
for authority, that Thos. Ripley, Esq., of Liverpool, education, and 24 can neither read nor write.
to illerl3l a merchant in this town, influenced by a desire ANEW LIFE- BOAT.—A new life-boat. called "Richard-
to te-reote the welfare of the place
.of his birth, is about son's Patent Tabular Life. boat," has just, been received
of eeu'i(t a school, and endow it with the munificent sum at the Magazine's station. Two large circular metal tubes,
e. 10,000 —Lancaster Gazette. gradually curving upwards and decreasing in diameter to-
e° •
ten AL-PIT ACCIDENT INCE--Between nine and wards each end, in outline not unlike two Indian prahus.
.te., o'clock on Thursday morning, while a youth named are firmly connected by an iron band at, their extremities,
arlihattuough, a drawer, 16 years of age, was working in a which incline to each other at an acute angle, so that the
&IL in the shuttle pit of the Ince Colliery, belonging to space between the tubes is g.radually enlarged as their di-
ae .1'• Haliburtom E•q., a quantity of roof fell upon him ameter increases. Each of these tubes is lined by, or rather
,T, killed him on the spot. —Wigan Times. incloses a stout Macintosh air bag. To give additional
f FATAL
ACCIDENT. —Richard Griffiths, 68 years of age, buoyancy, and probably to act as a "fender," a stout can-
kaperlb"lY a shipmaster, but latterly engaged in ship- vas piping, about the thickness of one's wrist, apparently
erhteg, whilst going on board tile Windsor Castle, in the also inflated, is carried along the outer side of each tube.
Le'ng 8 Dock, on Thursday, to see the captain, with whom Along the tops of these tubes is fastened a strong wooden
A$ Was acquainted, fell from the stage to the quay, and grating, crossed by seats for 16 oarsmen, the rowlocks be-
AN so much injured that he immediately expired. ing of wrought iron, and forming a sort of light railing baib_tlieseee CUSTODIAN.—Roger Charnley, one of the round the grating. Its good qualities appear to be ex.
the ns of the County Court, was found the other day, by treme buoyancy, a form well adapted to make way through
meeteston police-officers, in the condition adept " drunk
Olsorderly." the water, and from its breadth of base, almost impossible
prius Hp was passing through Preston with a to overturn.
to °err, bound for Lancaster, and lied stayed rather too CHURCH OF ENGLAND INSTITUTION.—The Rev. .
ofilpgaat the Mitre Inn. He was fined 55., and in default S. Gilly, D.D., author of " Waldensian Researches,"
0 Yment would he committed to gaol. " Excursion to the Mountains of Piedmont," " Our Pro.
PresAtellsTeee A PETTY SESSIONAL DIVISION.—At the testant Forefathers," &c., will deliver a lecture for this
cooe'"e quarter sessions, a document was read to the institution, on the subject of the Waldenses, or Vaudois, on
ten•tti, s.iened by six magistrates, calling their attention to Monday evening next. The Vaudois, i.e. " tile inhabitants
ing
testrableness of creating Garstang and the surround- of the valleys" of Piedmont, are perhaps the only instance
Pett "nships, embracing a population of 14.145, into a of a people who, fro:n Apostolic times, have preserved, in
peel sessional division. Atter a brief conversation, the spite of the most unparalleled and appalling persecutions
eeleinarY steps were ordered to be taken in the matter. on the part of the Church of Rome, the uncorrupted
stan(l)e I'MENT TO THE LATE DR. LINGARD.—We under- purity of the Primitive Christian faith, and which, by
of t,ethat a few Protestant gentlemen, to mark their sense their steadfastness, they enjoy to the present hour. From
enetelligh literary attainments of the deceased historian, their faithful witness to the truth, they were deprived of
his 411 his private worth, intend to erect a monument to all civil, and even of the free exercise of reli.
caste:b.l°l'Y, in the parish church of Hornby, near Lan- gious, privileges up to the year 1848 ; since which time
eeten"n Which village the doctor resided about half a they are improving rapidly in every respect. Dr. Gilly has
lit usirY• His remains, it will be remembered, are interred visited these interesting people four times, first in 1822,
law. in the county of Durham.—Preston Chronicle. lastly in 1851. His lecture will embrace, therefore, the
but.,DEPLORABLE CASUALTY.—Captain James Killey, for most recent information, and will contain an account of
tife`J Years the highly-respected commander of the barque what he saw and heard on his last visit to the pastors
thePteerus, belonging to Messrs. Gladstone and Co., of and people of the Waldenses. with rite and the gentleman who, in December, 1834, OUTRAGE AND ROBBERY •
AT KNOTTY ASH. On
regie.' crew of three men, navigated a sloop of only 13 tons Saturday evening week, about six o'clock, a dastardly
last
.:er i..
eence to Jamaiea, determined at the close of his attack was made upon Mr. Robert Bailey, who is agent to
United
to emigrate, with his wife and family, to the his worship the mayor, Thomas Littledale, Esq. Mr.
delpC States. They sailed a short time back to Phila. Bailey is about eighty years of age. On the evening
fell 0 .a, where, in his absence, his wife, who was enciente, named he had been to Highfield, the residence of the
Rorerboard from a packet-boat, and was drowned. mayor, at. Knotty Ash, for the purpose of paying the
katII3I3ERY AT BOOTLE.—On Wednesday, William workmen their wages. After having finished his business,
son, 28 Middleton, Ann Taylor, and Elizabeth ThomP- he left for the purpose of returning home, but had not got
Msteternere tried at the Kirkdale sessions, on a charge of more than 200 yards when he was thr own down by some
r. Some wearing apparel, &c., from the house of person who attacked him from behind. His assailant held
and tee ' , Bootle. The female prisoners were servants, him forcibly by the head, and, in consequence of the
'Without male prisoner was in the habit of visiting them, advanced age of Mr. Bailey, he could not make any suc-
detected their
master's knowledge. The prisoners were cessful resistance. The villain robbed him of a gold watch
Live_ through the exertions of Patrick, one of the and about 203. in silver, and then decamped. On Mon-
foe Irol detective police. Middleton was sent to gaol day, a rough, suspicious-looking youth, named Owen
Prison "nths, Thompson for four months, and the other King, offered the cases of the watch for pledge at Mr.
reedexuer for two months. Duff's, pawnbroker, Tithebarn-street. and was secured
alsBll.l°N MEDAL.—The first erf the Exhibition after a desperate resistance. He was brought before the
on Tburreeceived in Liverpool reached Mr. T. C. Archer, county magistrates at Kirkdale on Wednesday, and com-
cosine,: suaY evening. The medal was awarded to him in mitted for trial.
tor tee'ott with the collection of imports arranged by him THE AUSTRALIAN DIGGINGS.—Capt. Harrison Brown,
bighurelxhibition. it is beautifully cast in bronze, in very . the master of the ship Zetland, of Liverpool, in a letter to
her eseef, bearing on the obverse medallion portraits of Gibbs, Bright, and Co., of this town, says :—" I am
sign . Jest)? and Prince Albert, and on. the reverse tread '
illustrative T.
ive of IN isciom placing a chaplet on the i happy to inform you that we arrived here (Melbourne) on
Of Indu;rsthr
globe. Ye. in the presence of the four quarters of the
name of the the 14th ult. We have commenced discharging, but T
I fear it will be slow work, for I expect all our sailors will
recipient, with his class in the
extition, are engraved on the edge of the medal. desert, for there is great excitement here—everybody going
OF YASSENGERS PER ....AFRICA.—Mr. Benjamin
. to the gold diggings in the neighbourhood of Geelong. I
140, d ladye Mr. Diesel,
ttgarer of dispatches, Mr. C. E. have seen a great deal found, and, from all accounts, it is
...Levey, bearer of dispa es, Major:-General Fane, Capt, found in large quantities. You will please stop the half-
,rlampson, Messrs. Urquhart,dispatches,
Smith, Doyle, Has! k pay of [mentioning the names of several of his crew] who
WFenton, Steward, Foulds, Clark, Carter F,, -kg " ' , have deserted, and I expect all of them will go, as there is
ragg, Steven, Foley, L Mesurier, Benson,;rr ,M7lancranees; not a man to be had for love or money. The ship Sea
C• D. Roy, Le Tetu,Cumming Hoffrueyer, Denh.olm, has been here six weeks, and cannot get away for want of
Pattison. Muller, Kelly, May, '
Greenshields, Storm, hands. The ship Troubadour, by which I send this letter,
bleeTZ, Watson, Toole, Taplie g,Perrin,
.ei , Whiteford,
N •Id ,Sty-
can only way by getting men from the gaol, sentenced
re Donald Davis, Lowthian, Pape, Lovett, Reid, to three months' imprisonment, being caught in deserting
Valets, Heath, Smith, and Toser. from other ships ; therefore, how we shall get away I
),....00ses_ of THE AMAZON.—A subscription has been tom- cannot tell, for the gold fever rages quite as bad as ever it
did in California. Since writing the above. the excitement
''7!is el in this town, at the instance of Mr. T. Bold, for about gold gets worse every day ; nearly all our sailors are
16 Smith, the governess, whose heroism during the gone, and I expect to be left in the ship with myself and
Progress of the flames on board the Amazon, and subse-
renentl while tossed upon the Atlantic in an open boat, wife, and, perhaps, a boy or two. The lightermen have
elleeeree ter corageous exhortations animated the despond- all struck work ;no lighters to be had, as all the labouring
‘ amen to renewed exertions, which probably saved men have gone to the diggings. It will be utterly impos-
tylineviinveli!,:se has been the theme of general enlogium. The Bible to get away at all if the present excitement continues.
Legg lad it will be remembered lost the whole of her I shall write you again the first opportunity, and hope
!!ceireivrhich was worth about £l3O. The amount that I shall give you a better account of our prospects in
ved
getting away from this. uinee her ready by Mr. Bold is about £lOO. Miss Smith, LECTURE ON " HILDEBRAND."—The third lecture of
•ieeerews return to England, has been the guest of Mr. the series given by the Sunday School Institution was
ine . , the Mayor of Southampton,
delivered at the Concert-hall on Wednesday evening last,
the SUDDEN DEATH.—On Friday an inquest was held on by the Rev. W. H. Stowell, D.D. of Cheshunt College;
Who
of a respectable married woman, named Archer, the subject being " Hildebrand." The lecturer described
lrowit resided in Walnut-street. On Thursday morning, a that famous Pope as the Colossus of the eleventh century,
ZQ..... , her of the deceased forced an entrance into the house, and traced the gradual undermining by him of the inde-
he found his sister lying on the bed in an insensible pendence of the several national churches, and of many
AareDrs. Collins and Anderson, of Oxford-street, of the sovereigns and states of Europe. The period at
••
timmediately called in. They found the poor woman I which he first came upon the stage of public affairs was
?comatose
! mouth. Stimulants were administered, which for a ness, when concubinage and simony openly prevailed
eie increased the pulse ; but the patient never spoke among the clergy, and the best spirits of the age were
7°113 the time she was first seen until her death, which
sow_ . glad to retreat from the corruptions around them to the
soak piece in the evening of the same day. Appal mortem solitudes of the cloister. He then aye a glowing narra-
4nination was made, and the result led the jury to the tive of the life and acts of Hildebrand, as Pope Gregory
pooTt,elusion that apoplexy was the cause of death. VII., who enforced celibacy on the clergy, forbade the
LIVERPOOL ACADEMY.—The season of the Liver- ' sale of benefices, and extorted feudal homage from the
exe_eAcderny exhibition, just closed, has exceeded the Kings of France, Arragon, Denmark, and Hungary. He
for ta.ions formed in the early part of it. The sales are even humbled the haughty Henry IV., King of Germany,
erilY.:Pothe pictures, value £1,194, exclusive of sales made
te.`ir. t the opening of the rooms by Liverpool artists, of for a time; but was eventually driven by him from Rome,
and compelled to hide himself in the solitudes of Salerno.
HZ:, Weres in the exhibition. Thirteen pictures, in addi- Robert, King of Sicily, refused to become his vassal ;
4.24, _ taken by prize holders in the Art-Union, value and William the Conqueror; of England, could never be
I,44'ilakii,lg a total of sixty-two pictures, amounting to induced to recognise his supremacy except in spiritual
bloderate he attendance during the season has been a affairs. Hildebrand, however, must be regarded as one
hebine average number—the season subscribers not far
threemjne best years of the academy. On the twenty- of the greatest of the great men who had restrained the
barbarism of feudal chiefs &one trampling down all yes-
10,01.,'"ghts the rooms were open to the working classes, tiger of civilisation, and had been a powerful instrument
lA. " Persons visited the exhibition ; 4,500 catalogues, at in bringing back learning'
and science to Italy, and thus
'Teirtattchviere sold to these visitors. collecting treasures for the Reformers of after ages.
tidewaitin LIVERPOOL TIDEWAITERS.—The whole of the Judging of him by the standard of the Christian religion,
Fula e_
vegssystein is to be remodelled, and, as a general it was clear that he mistook the traditions of men for the
else' He sels are to have boarded tidewaiters, here or
--where.
gospel, and sought to establish universal empire in the
Patrols _„, A perfectly-organised cordon of customs' papacy as the inheritance of the Roman See. The lec-
teen ~rewl.toi perambulate the quays night and day, and the tore was listened to with great attention, and was greeted
Patroi,7 itel.)e formed into a new force, numbering 258 with enthusiastic applause at its close.
amspeetorsert these 18 of the best seniors are selected to be SPORTING AND PERJURY.—At the sittings at Nisi
alaried end, in place of mere day-pay men, become Prius, in Guildhall, London, on yesterday week, an action
Ito a tideo.sffi_c_ers, the first-class at a salary of £loo' (equal was tried before Mr. Baron Platt, in which Mr. Robert
r9O • .7:e3l°rship at small ports), the rest at a salary Hemmingway, of this town, carrying on business as an
e_nviredetue..ordinary officers at salaries increasing by African merchant, in the palm oil trade, was plaintiff, and
p__ day
sett''eu.utte men are divided into watches, one week Mr. William Maurice Wynne, manager of the Birken-
*o have
earedp to himself 16 out of every 24 hours.
Ga ""R G defendant. The proceelings were taken to recover £195,
vazei d ~ AVAZZI.—On Tuesda evenin last Father as the balance of £4OO alleged to be due from the defen-
and it delivered tlofthree orations ' dant for the purchase of a race horse called Elcho. The
le first , . on popery, . _
hall, I,Brecent a
Was manchesteggression on England, in the Free-trade- evidence of re
lie received br. Phillips, of B hb in July, 1849, for
He wore the dress of his order, and the horse of Mr. . .us y,
Id
tka 3' a numerous auditory with loud applause. three hundred guineas, it being then but two years o .
Rrout,ed -een God for the bull of Pio Nono, because it had Subsequently he was desirous of raising money on the
00Pere e''' gland from her long slumber, during which animal, and paw Mr. John Tobin Aspinal, who introduced
1, , gad
ti:uld. into the
in stealthily and cautiously, as a thief him to the defendant, and the latter promised to let him
leribe4 ~_ dwelling of the unsuspicious. He then have £l4O to pay a claim which
.a. man named Deacon
?leEngland the Proceedings of Pius IX. with respect to had on the horse, and £6O in addition to back Elcho for
e, a 4, Fran
ee, Spain. Lombardy, Tuscany, and Na. the Liverpool Cup. Eventually, however, Wynne agreed
"arer n"
,„ , conclud db - • . - •t b th h fth paid down £l4O in
se, -re eon
racer.
e y urging his Roman Catholic o ecome e pure aser o e .
o, rate ow the example of the Duke of Norfolk, June, and took a receipt in the name of Pearce. The
turned .nner than bet
Ps "otest ray the interests of his country, had price at first stipulated for was £4OO, which was ulti-
Pal do . ant, as the only way to save England from mately reduced to £395. In addition, however, to the
to
Co.r.roinsination.
first payment of £l4O nothing more was ever handed over
rded f PR" THE WesTINDIEq.—Dr. Invray has for• except the £6O to back the horse at the Liverpool races,
.5. tile :,;..orn the island of Dominica, in the West Indies, though there was a bill given, by way of security, to
sr the
d,lanh Commercial' Association,samples of Aspinal. The plaintiff admitted that he had been a
the? 'Herr nt
and
le, viz.
,°• 4d. pe I
small Sea Island cotton valued at Is 3d.to of his creditors in November last, by paying ten shillings
‘o Is, 4 ,1. b; stained ditto 5d t 51d. 1 • ►— in the pound. These occurrences he ascribed to very
Ap u ; ma„__., . , • 0 ~. ; arge ditto, Is. 3d, _
bleep sea, ed ..`",'?, oiol. to 6d.; black sea, sd. to 5-id. ; heavy o . l saes in business, amounting to £25,000. For the
h ditto eto old. • rock or 9d 10d • defendant it was contended that, instead of £l4O, the
acres -o, •id• to 10d kidney, *to .' and
of £340 was paid at the interview in June, and £6O
of under , . , . Dr. Invray has upwards of sixty sum
Of feo ':Mgress made ' 'the
theenie... 'phis
of the transaction, given by Mr. Wynne, was, in
i"„R et eil..oinformation is of importance, as show- fact, totally differentfrom
..: the tas;r,trlicl?a are being made in the West as well as particular; and shewed that instead
:eanean, . t
.hes, for the cultivation of an article, an delivered in Liverpool, according to agreement,for defendant
.
"1 the "'NAY of which is
and paid £44 its
eA maw . so necessary to the prosperity had to fetch it from Cheltenham, . _
ester ,-, aeturing interests of this county.--Mati. keep. Aspinal, whose name had been mixed up with the
bite rettardeen.
40 i EAmED SE , matter, was a customer at the Birkenhead Bank, and
de 4'Pertairt SEAMEN.—The Board of Trade have issued Wynne hail transacted business with him.on his private
k ceased _ notice, relative to the wages and effects of account, but never on account of Demmingway. John
p.'°utid to take chargeof
4 seam_ the. money and effects of a de- dent as to the payment of £340 in June ; and asserted
~e? voya,e .an or apprentice dying on board or during that the bill transaction between Wynne and himself for
byte or ~i,e.,and, as soon as convenient, cause any perish. £2OO, had nothing to do with the horse, nor had the
ileti,,""le effectsl, which he has on hoard, to be soldplaintiff any concern in it. He (witness) bad often lent
an t} ee• Entry is required to b'of
Stte 'e Prieei of all .. e.. made such sales, money to. Hemmingway, and had been intimately
. con-
tbe siee by
the
matea aorrecolnees
ofin the official log book to be . netted with him osnaith
ie. wasBaron
oPnleatt,ulenstlieoarrng the
a
Ws tinsOW or , .the Such money, I case to the jury, there but q yd
he Os ,j •d
toecjs of the deceased, and any balance of ! the horse been paid for ? A verdict was at once given
toiattet'll, to di:.delivered to the shipping znas'er when 1 for the defendant—the jury being of opinion that the
(first t ship :harge his crew, in case of a foreign- plaintiff had committed perjury. His lordship then
~,b , and in rase of a home-trade , Pint , B"lflent d .1' , orne-trade ship, upon his ordered that Heromingway should be taken into
. custody,
is°,
e•laast,.. . e ire ry of half-yearly returns to a ship. to answer an indictment for perjury, but admitted turn to
„,...% ieeeee_ In. default, i
tee master is liable to a penal' y bail ; himself in £lOO, and two suretieseach ; to
-4cterlie g twice the amount 14 ktee unaccounted for, or pot ) take Hs trial at the sessions of the centre! criminal eoure
cetemencieg on Monday next.