The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-11-02 00:00:00

At a meeting of offic

PROPOSED INSTITUTION FOR TRAINING SERVANTS.
—A lady, who has been greatly pestered by inefficient
servants, suggests the following plan for training girls for
service :—Let some philanthropic lady make out a sub-
scription paper, and put down her own name for 10s. per
annum, one hundred such subscribers to the same amount
would come to £5O per annum. With this, let a house
be rented, with a large kitchen and a room, and a bed-
room above for the matron, who has been accustomed to
all work done in the best manner. Then let ten or twelve
girls be sought out, and make them go to the house, after
breakfast, arid remain till evening. Every afternoon,
when the work is over, the matron should instruct them
in sewing. Ladies, also, should call frequently and give
good advice to the girls, and, when they have been in-
structed six or twelve months, give them a printed certi-
ficate. Another set could then be taken in. Thus, in a
few years, a vespectable class of servants would arise, who
might be encouraged to remain in their situations by some
reward for the number of years they remain in the same
service.

riaitere'..room, on Monday evening, a con
appointed to draw up a memorial to the Earl 0
Praying for a repeal or modification of the Superannuation
Act. it appeared, from the statements made, that the
officers of this port paid annually, out of their salaries,
between £2,000 and £3,000, whilst thera was only £3O
Per annum paid in superannuntinn .11nwance. The amount

THE CASE OF ELIZA RIMMER.—At the last assizes in
this town, the mother and aunt of a girl, named Elizabeth
Rimmer, were sentenced to death, by Lord Campbell, for
attempting to poison her. Much commiseration was ex-
cited for this girl at the time, which it is doubtful if she
ever deserved, for, on Thursday, she was committed for
trial by the magistrates at the Police-court, for the follow-
ing heartless robbery :—On Saturday she went to a lodg-
ing-house in a court in Finch-street, kept by a poor woman
named Margaret Bryce, whom she asked for lodgings, re-
presenting herself as having just arrived from Ormskirk.
She remained in the house till Monday, when she left. say-
ing that she would soon be back, as she only intended to
go as far as Kirkdale. She did not return, however, and
the suspicions of Mrs. Bryce being excited, the house was
searched, when it was discovered that a pencil-case, a
shawl, and several stockings were missing. In the mean-
time. instead of visiting Kirkdale, the prisoner went to
Dr. Kelly, in St. James's-street, whom she informed that
she had been again poisoned by another of her relatives.
Dr. Kelly, on this, gave her an emetic, which produced
nothingbut coffee, containing no traces whatever of poison.
He sent her, however, to the Southern and Toxteth Hos-
pital, where she was arrested by the police on Tuesday,
and brought before the authorities.

ee was
Derby,

contributed over the whole kingdom was £17,000 annu-
411Y ; whilst the payments amounted to only £5OO a-year,
leaving, from the passing of the act to the present time,
lating fund of £200,000, which, as far as the
were concerned, was valueless.

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THE DERBY ELECTION. A correspondent of the
I)erly Mercury says :—" In despite of the Reporter's
vaunting and blustering, let him and his colleagues pro-
ceed with thP'.

ainst Mr. Horsfall,

threatened petition a
and sift the bribery question to the bottom ; and, if any
such abominable conduct it voill

sandy whis

and of gentlem

pearance and address, who ha, _
persons in Liverpool, Manchester, &e., by representing
himself as connected with the firm of Peter Lawson and
Son, of Edinburgh. His usual method of proceeding is
to introduce himself to gentlemen whom he has previously
ascertained are known to, or have dealings with, the firm,
as a clerk or otherwise in its employment, and that having
lost his purse, he has no means of returning to Edinburgh,
and concluding with the request for the loan of sufficient
means to enable him to do so. His gentlemanly addrev,
together with the ease and confidence assumed, have
generally averted all idea of imposture ; and he has suc-
ceeded in obtaining various sums of money, amounting in
the whole to a considerable sum. The first instance in
which he succeeded was with a firm in Liverpool ; the
next on a private individual in the same town ; then upon
a military officer quartered in Manchester ; and the last
instance known, was upon another officer at Winchester,
both being highly connected in Scotland. Hitherto this
imposter has eluded the vigilance of the police.

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THE " BLACK BALL LINE" AUSTRALIAN EMIGRANT
SHIP MARIA.—The passengers to Australia in this
splendid ship, despatched by Messrs. James Baines and
Co., in June last, contrived to make the voyage pleasant.
" We have," says the captain, in a letter to the owners,
" two weekly newspapers, namely, the Maria Times and
the Maria Weekly Chronicle, published No. 6, Inter-
mediate-street, and No. 8, Second-cabin-street, one on
Tuesday and the other on Saturday ; besides which, we
have divine service twice every Sunday." The day after
passing the line, the cabin passengers addressed the,
captain as follows :—" We, the undersigned cabin pas-
sengers, in acknowledging, as we do, at this early mo-
ment, the uniform courtesy of Captain Gardyne, beg more
especially to express to him our sense of his kindness in
permitting the crew under his command the gratification
usually expected by such persons on crossing the line ;
and also to coneratnlste him on the fact that, whilst
every one rationally enjoyed themselves, no excesses of any
kind were committed ; and we feel that that day is one
long to be remembered, not alone on the occasion of our
crossing the line, but also from our great enjoyment of
the amusement on board."—A five vessel, called the
South Sea, belonging to the same line of emigrant ships,
sailed on Wednesday, for Australia, with 400 passengers,
and is to be followed by the splendid ship Edmond, to
sail on Friday next.

LEEDS NORTHERN RAILWAY.—On Thursday a meet-
ing of the shareholders in Liverpool interested in the
Leeds Northern Railway, was held at the Clarendon-
rooms, to oppose the proposed scheme for amalgamating
that company with the York, Newcastle, and Berwick,
and the North Midland Railways. Mr. Charles Holland
was called to the chair, and stated that he could not con-
cur with the disconsolate conclusions of the directors as
to the prospects of a line which had such great natural ad-
vantages, and then introduced to the meeting Mr. Ed-
win Ward Jackson, of Norton, Stockton-on Tees, who
would be able to supply some information respecting the
true value of their property. Mr. Jackson addressed the
meeting at great length. He showed that, a:though
opened in June last, the receipts were already of an en-
couraging amount ; and proved by a variety of interesting
statistics, the extent to which traffic might yet be de-
veloped. He anticipated great results from the opening
of the new docks at West Hartlepool, and showed that a
large iron trade was springing up in the district, which
must use this railway for the conveyance of its materials.
The old companies with which it was proposed to amalga-
mate were much encumbered ; but this was a young giant,
and he contended that their true interests were to main-
tain it as an independent line. After a few words from
Mr. Charles Holland, the following resolution sr.s agreed
Ito on the motion of Mr. Greases, and the meeting broke
up :—" That the shareholders of the Leeds Northern
Railway, assembled this day in Liverpool, desire to ex-
press their cordal thanks to Edwin Ward Jackson, Esq.,
of Norton. Stockton-on-Tees, for his kindness in attend-
•.• , • .

meeting.

;;;;Ff;;tute prospects of that railway; and that he be re-
quested to defend their interests at the ensuing general
meeting, to be held at Leeds on the 2nd November."

GENERAL NEWS.

MR. HUGH BOURNE died in Staffordshire, last week,
at the advanced age of 81. He was founder of the " Pri-
mitive Methodists."

A SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH is to be conveyed under
Southampton Water to the marine residence of Her Ma-
jesty at Osborne, Tsle of Wight.

Dom CommiTTEE.—The weekly meeting was held on
Thursday, Mr. Turner in the chair.—The Sub-committee
of Works recommended that the tender of Messrs. Jones

and Co. to construct the sewers in the streets at me new
docks, Wapping. for a sum of £BB9, be accepted, the
borough engineer to superintend the execution of the
work.—The superintendent of the Albert warehouses
reported that several kegs of gunpowder had been found
nn hoard the ship Abeona, from Africa, lying in the Albert

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THE HEIGHTS commanding St. Catherine's Bay, and
Gallow's Hill commanding the Bay of St. Helier, in the
Island of Jersey, are, it is said, about to be fortified.
TEN LINE•oF-BATTLE Slurs, we understand, are
being built, or ordered to be built, in the royal dockyards,
to be fitted with screw machinery.--Morning Herald.
THE WILL of the late Mr. J. C. Neild, of Chelsea, has
been proved by Colonel Phipps, the keeper of Her Ma-
jesty's Privy purse,and the property sworn underX2so,ooo.

FOREIGN POTATOES.—The arrivals of potatoes from
abroad ❑ave within these few days been more numerous
and extensive than at any time during the last or previous

Arnold,

seamen's NI
will be re

Dock. The quantity was tz,
of the firm interested in the vessel, Messrs.
Leete, and Co., was called to the matter, and the gun-
-.wrier wag destroyed by throwing it into the dock. The

%DMIRALTY have just issued an order relating to
es, whereby in future only one month's pay
ed in hand for casualties. instead of six

iths, as heretofore,

WILLIAM MITCHELL, for fifteen years a messenger at
e House of Commons, was committed, last week, on the
targe of stealing Parliamentary papers and stationery,

the property of her Majesty.

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MORE LAWYERS.—As many as 183 persons have given
notice of their intention to apply to be admitted attorneys
of the Court of Queen's Bench in the ensuing Michaelmas
Term, commencing this day (Tuesday).

MIDDLESEX REGISTRATION.—The recent registration
for Middlesex has so reduced the Radical and increased
the Conservative voters, that Lord Blandford would now
have a majority over Mr. Bernal Osborne.

it is exp
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STEAMER, via Southampton
tched, according to the new

Df the month, the arrange-

h of January

SUICIDE.—On Thursday night a gentleman who, it is
pposed from letters found o►n him, held an appointment

Om of an hotel in th

Secretary said there was a penalty for bring
dock at all, but it was a question for the police
Solicitor observed that the penalty was £lOO on the owner
' ian suggested that if
•o the circumstances

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BRUTAL MURDRR:—James Phillips has been committed
for trial on a charge of wilfully murdering hiQ aunt, Ann
Matthews, alias Brown, at Shepherd-street, Oxford-street,
London, by a long course of brutal ill-treatment.
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Two HOUSES nearly finished in Sutherland:plare,
Bayswater, at the bottom of Westbourne-grove, which
had been " run up by contract," fell on Sunday morn-
ing. to the great dismay of the inhabitants of the neigh-
bourhood.

AN EXAMPLE.—The Hon. Robert Henry Clive, M.P.,
has directed his agents to pay all his workmen, on his
Glamorganshire estates, who may volunteer to serve in the
militia, one half their usual wages during the time they
may be on duty.

been con

RIGGING STEAMERS.-It is proposed to Effect a great
alteration in the shape of a reduction of the " rig" of
British ocean steamers, by shortening the masts and light-
ening the yards. A commencement has been made in the
case of the Orinoco.

MISS SARAH H ARDWICKE, the daughter of a citizen of
London, recently died at the age of 73, and has bequeathed
property to the value of £20,000, to be distributed among
the charities of the City of London, as the Mayor and
Chamberlain think fit.

AWFUL DEATH.—On Sunday night, as a number of
persons were drinking in a public-house, in Evergreen,
one of the party, named Lavallan, suddenly fell on the
floor, and on being lifted up by his companions he was
found to be quite dead.

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EXPENSE OF PROSECIITIONS.—In the annual accounts
of the treasurer of the county of Oxford, just published, it
appears that the conviction and execution of Kalabergo,
for the murder of his uncle, near Banbury, cost the county
no less a sum than £359 3s. Bd.

then be ascertained by whom

ing it into the

necessary an inquiry could be

of the glinpowder being on board the shit
he a ouestion wheth,--

STOCKTON DOCKS.—The funds for the proposed docks
at Stockton-on-Tees are to be raised by levying a rate,
not exceeding Is. in the peund, this mode being preferred
to the share system, as affording the inhabitants a right
of direction. The required sum is £70,000.

NATIONAL WALIIALLA.—A correspondent of the
Morning Herald suggests that instead of converting our
Cathedrals into statuary galleries, there should be a Na-
tional Wallinlla like that at Munich, wherein memorials
of great warriors, statesmen, and poets should be duly
preserved.
COLONIAL CURRENCY.—A proclamation has been issued
for publication in the colonies of Australia. New Zealand,
Ceylon, Mauritius, and Hong-Kong, to limit the tender
of British silver coins to 405., and thus to place their cur-
rency regulations in harmony with those of the United
Kingdom.

SUPPLY OF GUANO.—Accounts from the coast of
Patagonia mention that some large deposits of guano, on
two islands lately discovered, have proved to be worthless,
owing to their inferior quality. The old deposits in that
region have all been cleared, and the trade seems likely to
be abandoned,

LORD'S DAT OBSERVANCE..—If is probable, we be-
lieve, that early in November a public meeting will be
held, in one of our principal halls, for the purpose of mak-
ing a public protest against the alleged intention of open-
ing the new Exhibition at Sydenham on the Sunday after-

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n, London,

the son of a bailiff, with one of

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tied to the foot of his bedfellow. He avoided a similar
unpleasantness the following night by the payment of a
certain debt and costs.

AT A CORONER'S INQUEST, at Wa!worth; a person
who was summoned as a juror objected that he was not
liable to serve—he was neither a householder .nor rate._

payer in the district-. Ice carom
was liable, and that even a mere y

ser-by could be com-

BIRMINGHAM ECONOMY.—At a meeting of the Town
pima of Birmingham, held on Tuesday, it was resolved

monies of the illustrious aeceaseu LUKe, ULU. Mal, LUC Jou.-
bitants be desirous to close their shops on the day of
interment. This was urged on the ground of economy.

THE COlNAGE.—Besides a much larger amount of gold
coin, more than three million pieces of silver coin, to the
value of upwards of £160,000, have been issued from the
Mint to the public, through the Bank, since the com-
mencement of July, and the most energetic measures
are being adopted at the Mint to increase the supply.

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proceedings s

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. —By the carelessness of a points-
ds train ran into a mail train just
Monday morning. Both
severely

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THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1852.

l'alace were

,pon a purse

EMIGRATION.—A long letter from ffrederic
Johnson, of the general agency office, Sy uney, New South
Writes, urges in strong terms emigration to that colony
He writes :—" I need scarcely tell you that so b9,l'
we off for labour that an emigration of 30,000
ing this year would scarcely be sufficient fr
Building is nearly at an end, and every
pursuit is considerably embarrassed. On
permitted to remain undeveloped ; our f
(to the deterioration of our wool) but par
and, for want of mouths to consume t'
sands of sheep will h. .• •

Mr. J

,r our wan

fat alone, in order tha'

exportatio

6t it may he rendered

11 OF A WEALTHY DRUNKARD.-.

onists of

CONVERSION.—A few days since a German Romanist ' AFFAIR OF HONOUR.—A few days ago a married
was publicly received into the Church of St. Mary's, lady, from London, on a visit to her friends in this neigh-
Glasgow, when the Rev. R. S. Oldham read the following bourhood, having occasion to go to the east end of Hol-
notice :—" I certify that —, having been brought up derness, and as no communication as yet exists to that
and confirmed in the Romish Church, and having now re- part of the country by railway, was induced to entrust
nonnced thz distinctive errors of Romanism, has, after herself to be escorted by one who had known her and her
due examination made, satisfied me as to her soundness family in earlier life. He. however, it appears betrayed
in the faith and her fitness to communicate ' • and I give his trust, and behaved on the journey home in the most
notice that she will accordingly be admitted to the holy extraordinary manner ;so much so that the lady, on her
communion this day, as a member of the Scottish branch arrival in this town, immediately took the train to Lon-
of the Catholic Church of Christ." don, where she communicated to her husband the wrong
GOLDEN STATISTIOS.—From 1850 to June, 1851, the she had received ; and he, with present haste, started by
Bank of England issued 9.500,000 sovereigns ; and yet, so the next train for Yorkshire, to take vengeance for his
great is the demand for British coin, to supply exchange, wounded honour. On his arrival he made immediate
&c., that, notwithstanding the Royal Mint, since Nov. inquiries fcr the culprit, and a message was given to him,
1851, to Ist of August, 1852, has coined 3,500,000 soya- requesting his attendance at the inn ; he, having no sus-
reigns and half sovereigns, the production cannot keep aicion of the fate that awaited him, and no doubt dream-
pace with the demand. This, at least, will tend to main- ing of a comfortable bottle of wine with some old crony,
tain the standard of value. Sovereigns at Adelaide, South instantly complied with the request. On his arrival,
Australia, bear a premium of 7d each. The total coinage however, at the hostelry,
for thirty-two years ending in 1847, was, gold, £90,029,383; agreeably dispelled by the apparit
silver, £13,590,000 ; copper, £248,210.--Mining Journal a formidable horsewhip on thr
Trig CRYSTAL PALACE.—We understand that the r hearing the charge prefer
fers of large sums for a monopoly of the " pickings'
be found beneath the boards of the Crystal PO- Ilene( a the
refused by Messrs. Fox and Henderson, who gave per-
mission to the labourers employed upon the spot to ap-
propriate to themselves any " treasure trove" in remov-
ing the flooring, and in turning up the soil below. Coins
of copper, silver, and gold, crochet purses, studs, rings,
lockets, &c., have turned up daily, to
and silver headed canes, and other rr
and one day last week a poor man
containing between £7 and £8

his visions were most dis-
m of the husband with

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