The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-06 00:00:00

DECIMAL COINAGE.

A MEETING of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce
was held yesterday, Mr. Boucrt in the chair, when the
following petition was agreed to, and a sub-committee
appointed to aid in carrying out the views expressed in it :
" To the Honourable the Commons. of Great Britain

now in Parliament assembled.

" We, the undersigned inhabitants of Liverpool, most
respectfully state that, setting a high value upon any
measure that will simplify accounts, render mistakes less
frequent, abridge the time necessary for education, and
save labour to both master and scholar, learned with great
satisfaction that a committee of your honourable house was
appointed last session to take evidence as to the advantages
that would arise from having a decimal system of coinage,
and that the committee so appointed, after examining
many intelligent witnesses, unanimously and most urgently
recommended its immediate adoption. And your memo-
rialists, considering it would confer a great boon not only
on the country, but upon all classes, universally and with-
out exception, most respectfully urgeits being carried into
effect, as to the wisdom of government may seem best,
with the least possible delay. And your memorialists will

ever pray

THE OLD OAK CEEST.—An American paper says, "An
affecting death occurred in this city on the 10th inst. A
Spanish mother missed her child only a year old. She
supposed that it lost itself in the street, and advertised fe
it, but could learn nothing. On the 13th she had occasion
to open her camphor-wood trunk, and there lay her child,
dead. It had fallen into the trunk, and, in trying: to get
out pulled down the lid, which closed with a spring and
fitted so closely that the child was smothered to death."

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,

TATTERSALL'S.-THIIESDAY

CHESTER CUP. 1854

Friday was in considerable force. After 1,000 to 15 had
been taken about him several times, he advanced to 1.000 to
20 (taken); but towards the close a party connected with the
stable dropped in and offered to het any part of 10,000 to 150
against him, or any other of William Hay's lot. 3,000 to 45
was laid, in the aggregate, against Little Harry; 1,000 to 15
each against Heapy, Newminster, and Defiance, and 1,000 to
10 against King Pepin.

GREAT NORTHERN HANDICAP
30 tot offered on the field.
THE DERBY, 1854.

6 to 1 repeatedly offered against Autocrat ; 25 to I taken to
£5O about Ruby ; 1,000 to 30 Boiardo ; 40 to 1 to £75 about
Hesse Cassel, and the same odds wanted about Meteors.

THE OAKS, 1854.
450 to 100 agst Mr. J. Scott's Meteora—taken.
The room was very thinly attended

BETTING AT MANCHESTER.

TRIDIY

There was a very meagre attendance to-day, and speculation
was extremely dull; the only transactions we noticed were
as follows :

WOLVERHAMPTON SLEEPLE CHASE.
3to I agst Mr. S. Darling's Bourton—taken to .425
CHESTER CUP, 185 k.
500 to 8 agst Mr. A. Nichol's Newminster—taken.
500 to 5 Mr. H. Hill's Dr. O'Toole—taken.
2000 to 20 Virago—taken, _

THE DERBY, 1854.
7to 1 agst 111 r. R. E. Cooper's Autocrat—taken.
25 to 1 Mr. J. Adkin's Ruby—taken.
25 to 1 Lord Derby's Acrobat—taken.
30 to 1 Mr. J. Scott's Meteora—taken.
40 to 1 Mr. J. Bull's Corin—taken.
50 to 1 Mr. Disney's Knight of St. George—taken
1000 to 20 Old Noll—taken.

The price given for The Reiver was 1.600.
The brown gelding by the Ugly Buck out of Helena, 3 yrs.,
has been named Ulster.

Victress was declared not to start for the Wolverhampton
Steeple Chase on Friday afternoon last.
Mr. John Osborne's brown colt by Melbourne out of Miss
Castling, 2 yrs., has been named Seducer.
The British Queen, by Touchstone? out of the Queen of
Beauty, 2 yrs., has been put out of training.
Nabob has been purchased by Mr.. Howard, and will, for
the future, be trained by John Day, sen., at Findon.
The new Betting Houses' Bill having come into operation
on Thursday last, most of the London "pest houses" were
closed on that day. _ _ _ . _

Mr. John Osborne has sold Brown Brandy and Bridesmaid,
for a stiff price. They have left Middleham, and joined
Woolcott's string at Woodford, near Salisbury.
Mr. T. Parr has given names to the followitv, yearlings :
Bay colt by Old England out of Destiny, Fatalist; chesnut
colt by Nutwith out of Macremma, Challow Boy; and brown
colt by Ithuriel, out of Blue Light, Rocket.
Mr. Morton's chesnut filly by Malcolm out of a Valparaiso
mare, and Mr. Morton's bay filly by Pyrrhus the First out of
Themis, have arrived at J. Dawson's stables, Illsley, to be
trained for their engagements. •
Lord Eglinton has given the following names to his foals :
Colt by Gameboy out of Gala, Omer Pasha; filly, by The
Flying Dutchman out of Bellona, Oltenitza ; and filly by The
Flying Dutchman out of Blue Biumet, Mary Cobb.
The Derby colt, Neville, having appeared of late in the
names of various owners, we beg to state that lie was sold by
Mr. Charles Wintringham, his trainer, at the Newcastle-upon-
Tyne Meeting for 1,500 guineas, with contingencies, to a
gentleman, who has adopted the name of " Clarkson."
The following horses, having changed owners, have gone
into E. Jones's stables, Marlborough :—Mr. Sykes (h.b.), 3
yrs.; brother to Little Swift, 2 yrs.; colt by Slane out
Southdown, 2 yrs. ; colt by Faugh a Ballagh, out of Caurouch's
dam, yearling; colt by Sir Tatton Sykes, out of Southdown,
yearling: filly by Sweetmeat out of Glenhawk's dam, yearling.

GRAND MATCH BETWEEN CAPTAIN ASTLEY, OF TII
SCOTS FUSILIER GUARDS, AND LIEUTENANT SAYERS, OF
THE 23RD WELCH FUSILIERS.—This match arose out of a
challenge given by Lieutenant Sayers, at the time the regi-
ments were encamped on Chobham Common, to run any
officer in the British army 150 yards for £l5O. Capt. Astley
accepted the challenge upon condition that two races should
be run—one a flat race, and the other a hurdle race, which
was ultimately agreed to. The flat race came off at Salt Hill,
on Tuesday last, and was cleverly won by Lieutenant Sayers,
who beat his opponent by three feet. The hurdle race, which
came off yesterday afternoon in the Home Park, excited un-
usual interest, from the well-known reputation of the gallant
captain as a hurdle jumper, and, by three o'clock, the time
appointed for the start, some hundreds of persons had congre-
gated, including the officers of the Scots Fusilier Guards and
Ist Life Guards, as well as many of the sporting gentry of the
neighbourhood. When the distance, 150 yards, had been
carefully marked out by the umpires, and seven hurdles
pitched at equal distances across the ground, the combatants,
after dressing at old Snooks', the keeper's, house, made their
appearance--one in pink and the other in blue silk drawers—
and both men exhibited a fine frame and plenty of muscle.
Captain Astley for choice. The start was admirable, and both
leapt the four first hurdles together, when Lieutenant Sayers
slipped up, and before lie could recover his footing, the captain
had cleared the fifth hurdle, and, consequently, won easily.
notwithstanding Lieutenant Sayers made a desperate effort to
regain his lost ground.

THE CHASE.
THE CHESHIRE HOUNDS MEET
To-morrow, (Wednesday,) 7th, at

Poole Hall

Thursday, Sib
Saturday, ioth
Monday, 12th

Warmingham
Broomlands, at 11
Withington

Wedneiday, 14th Tabley
Thursday, 15th Arley
Saturday, 17th Dunham Massey
Monday, 19th Darnhall
Wednesday, 21st Wrenbury
Thursday, 22nd Cholmondely
Saturday, 24th Ravenamoor Windmill
Each day at half-past ten o'cloLk.
SIR W. W. WYNN'S HOUNDS MEET
To-morrow (Wednesday), 7th, at
Friday, 9th

Shocklach

Llancefn

Chorlton Lodge
Each day at half-past ten o'clock.
THE NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE HOUNDS MEET
To-morrow (Wednesday), 7th, at Three Crowns, Stoke
Friday, 9th _ Hinstock
_

Saturifay, 10th

Each day at half-past ten o'clock

THE CHARITIES.—(WeekIy Reports.)

INDUSTRIAL RAGGED SCHOOLS, Souo.ST.—Nov.3o.
On the books, boys 69, girls 47; average attendance, boys 64,
girls 38 ; sick list, boys 1, girls 1 ; obtained situations, boys 0,
girls 0.

ROYAL INFIRMARY, Dec. 3.—ADMITTED: In-patients,
47; out-patients, 5; casuals, 10.—DiscHAROED: In-patients
cured, 19 ; relieved, &c., 5 ; made out-patients, 9; irregular,
2; dead, 1.—Remaining in the house, 169.

NORTHERN HOSPITAL, DEC. 3.—ADMITTED: Acci-
dents, 40 ; Medical and Surgical Cases, 13 ; Total, 53.
MISCHA ROED: Cured, 18 ; relieved, &c., 4; out-patients, 24;
irregular, 2 ; died, 3.—Remaining in the Hospital, 92.

LIVERPOOL DISPENSARIES, DEC. s.—New cases re-
ceived advice and medicine at the institution—North, 298;
_ _

South, 249; total, 517. New cases visited at their house's, and
supplied with medicine—North, 133; South, 62; total. 245.

EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY, No. 90, top of Motisr•
PLEASANT.—(MonthIy Report.)—EYE DEPARTMENT: New

Scribed for, and who have received Surgical assistance during
the month of Nov., 1203.---EAR DEPARTMENT: Patients
prescribed for, and who have received Surgical assistance
during the month of Nov., 334.

THE LONDON GAZETTE

TUESDAY,

NOVEMBER 29, 1853

BANKRUPTS.—Robert Walker, Stalybridge, grocer, Dec.
10, Jan. 5, at 12 o'clock, at the Manchester District Court of
Bankruptcy • solicitors, Messrs. Hampson and Sons, Man-
chester; official assignee, Mr. Lee, Manchester.—Thomas
Rolph, Lee's-mews, Upper Brook-street, Grosvenor-square,
builder.—Charles Geal, East-row, Kensal Newtown' grocer.—
John and John Foster Hodges, New Bond-street, hosiers.—
Douglas Bradbury, Derby, builder.—Henry Reading, fir •
mingham, draper.—Michael Robinson, Halifax, Yorkshire,

draper.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.—Sharp and Rudman Man-
chester, warehouseman.—C. Whitley and H. Frost, Man-
chester, practical machinists.—Hargreaves and, Hardman,
Rochdale, cotton-spinners. —J. and R. Wareing, and E.
Fielding, Snipe Leach, Lancashire, coal prawietors.,
DIVIDEND.—Dec. 21, T. Lawson, Bury,.l,ancashire,. draper.
PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS. —D. INuglas Manchester,
draper—final div. of is 3d, on Tuesday, Dec. 6, cm any sub-
sequent Tuesday, at Mr. Lee's, MaAtehester.—T. W. Johnson,
Stockport, pubhcark—fir4t div,.ok .6d,, on . Ztlesdny, Dec.