The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-12-21 00:00:00

lIIE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1.852.

DR. NOLAN'S INSOLVENCY.—On Friday, Dr
again appeared before the judge of the Lancaster county
court, when Mr. Wormald, the detaining creditor, proved
the validity of his debt, and other circumstances. At the
close of the examination the judge said, " Dr. Nolan, I
hall adjourn this case for a fortnight, to afford you an
rtunity of giving up the pawn tickets of the clock and
II then be discharged."

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CONDUCT OF THE POLICE FORCE.—A strict investiga-
tion is reported to have taken place on Wednesday last,
before Mr. Tobin, chairman of the watch committee,
and other members of that body, relative to the state-
ment made by Mr. Mansfield, stipendiary magistrate, on
the previo

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Monday, as
that certain officers of the police f
Coventry " Police-constable Harvey, because he

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NEW LIGHTHOUSE.—A memorial to the Ballast board,
Dublin, for the erection of a lighthouse on Biackwater
Bank, has been laid in the Underwriters'-rooms for the
signatures of the subscribers and members of the Liver-
pool Underwriters' Association. A memorial to the same
effect is also about to be forwarded to the board from the
Liverpool Shipowners' Association.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—John Smith, a watch-finisher,
‘g in was on Wednesday last taken to
ill 1 d booked as " drunk and disor-
" ha 1, been quarrelling with a female.
, and made use of exceedingly coarse
pLaced in a cell with three other pri-
eard at half-past twelve o'clock making a

residing in Ltaa. _
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noise at the door. Mr. Blake, the bridcwell keeper, went
to ascertain the cause, and discovered Smith hanging by
hia neckerchief from the bars of his cell. He was instantly
cut down and re.noved—in irons•—to tha main bridewed
where a medical man saw him and pronounced
^•affirin; from affzetion of the brain. He was

brought up at the police-court on TI

and discharge

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NEW RAILWAY TRAFFIC ARRANGE4ENT.—We are
informed that the East Lancashire, Lancashire and York-
shire, and London and North-western Railway Companies
have come to an arrangement not to compete with each
other for either goods or passengers. The receipts for
passengers are to be divided, and the company over
line the parties actually travel will tee
mileage. At Liverpool the servants of the East
are removed, and the whole of the passenger and goods
traffic is despatched from the Lancashire and York-
shire offices, though it all passes over the East Lanca-
shire line. The passenger fares, it is added, will be con-
siderably increased.

whose

ive also a certain

THE FLOODS IN LANCASHIRE.—It is impossible to
travel by any of the lines of railway which intersect North
Lancashire, without noticing the immense tracts of land
which are now, and have been for months past. under
water. Going by the East Lancashire line to Preston,
many thousands of acres, on either side, present an expanse
of water covering the hedees completely. From Rufford
coastwards by Sephton to Formby, there is a vas

ACCU MU-

lation of wafer, and in the direction of Lathom-houso a
perfect sea is all that meets the eye, bridges, row"
being completely submerged. Indeed, we and

that Mr. Sc'arisb.rick, the -owner of this tract of country,
has ten thousand acres of meadow and pasture, which

Have-eeriin;indated for the p;st two_months, aitho'

every effort has been made tc3, get rid of the wafer by

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pumping, banks and floodgates, &c. The arable hula
throughout the district is in a very wet state, and work-
ing it, with a view to sowing, is rendered entirely imprac-
ticable.

BEER-HOUSES AND CONCERT-ROOMS. —OR Tuesday
last, an influential meeting was held in the board room of
the Borough Bank, to form an association for the better
regulation of houses of public entertainment. John
Cropper, Esq., presided ; and among the gentlemen pre-
sent were—the Rev. Dr. Raffles, Rev. H. Hampton, Rev.
R. Appleton, Rev. T. Carter, Rev. C. M. Birrell , and Messrs.
E. Cropper, W. Rathbone, J. A. Tobin, R. V. Yates and
George Pennell. The meeting unanimously agreed to
petition parliament to " grant to magistrates, or other
local authorities, an effective check over the issue of
licenses for the sale of beer, and, at the same time, to
take out of the hands of licensed victuallers and beerhouse
keepers the providing of public amusements for the people,
at present undertaken with a view to the promotion of
tippling, by extending to the whole kingdom certain pro-
visions of the 25th Geo. 2nd, by which a license is required
for the opening of any place of public amusement within
the cities of London and Westminster, and by rendering
unlawful the sale or consumplon of any kind of intoxi-
cating liquor in any place so licensed for public amuse-
ment." The meeting also adopted an address to the
inhabitants of the borough, explaining both the prayer
and the necessity of the petition, chiefly by ref,

'erence to

the report presented by the Liverpool Watch Committee,
in May last, showing that in this boronzh ten or twelve
public-houses and beershops are kept 7“,
and as many by women of ill-fame;
tions from the valuable reports published
~us,.`
Clay, Chaplain of the Preston IL—
fire to beerhouses and cheap singing rooms.

SHOW OF POULTRY TN Tat
An excellent show of cattle

"d also by quota-
y the Rev. Mr.
se of Correction, rela-

MIDLAND COUNTIES.—
paultly took place on

y last, at Bingiey-ball, near limn
was attended by upwards of 8,000 persP-
exhibited was unprecedented for qu
Fowls of the Cochin-China breed were b
numerous; and the show of Malays,

am, which

"Tile poultry

antity and qua;

Spaliish, Dorking,
e 1,223 pens for

and game-fowl was excellent. There w
the accommodation of 4,000 birds. Some of the Co
China collections werevalued at.£l,ooo each. S

,verel of the
aiding in this

highest prizes were awarded to

county. Captain and Mrs. Windham Hornby, of Knows-
ley-cottage, Prescot, obtained no less than seven between
them, viz. : the first (£2 25.) and second (41 Is.), for the
best Spanish cock and three hens, of any age, class I. ;
the third (53.), for the best four of same breed, class 11.,
chickens of 1852; the second (£1 ls.), for the best four
Dorkings, single combed, class IV., of any age ; the first
(XI Is.), for the best four, same breed, class V., chickens
of 1852; the first (£1 ls.), for the best four Dorkings,
double, or rose combed, class VII., chickens of 1852 ;
and the first (155.), for the best pair same breed and a
class VIII. Mr. Thomas Roscoe, of Knowsle:
Prescot, obtained three prizes: the second (10s.),
best four Cochin-China fowls, cinnamon and buff, chicken
of 1852, class XII.; the third (55.), for the best four game
fowls, black-breasted and other reds, chickens of 1852 ;
and the first (155.), for the best three "silver-laced"
bantams. He was also greatly commended for three
game fowls, class XXII. Mr. John Henry Pec,r, of
Wigan, obtained two prizes : the third (155.), for the best
four Spanish fowls, class 1.; and the first (155.), for the
best two Spanish, class 111. He was also highly com-
mended for four Spanish fowls, class 1., and for four,
class 11. Thomas Townley Parker, Esq., of Sutton-
grange, St. Helen's, obtained the first prize (.£2 25.), for
the best four Dorkings, of any age, single combed, class
IV. ; and the third (55.), for the best geese. Mr. Edward
Lister, of Cassia-lodge, near Over, Cheshire, obtained
the third prize (55.), for the best four Dorkings, single
combed, class IV. , and was highly commended for a pair
of Dorking fowls, class VIII. W. Cust Gwynne, Esq.,
M.D., of Sandbach, Cheshire, obtained the first prize
(155.), for a pair of Cochin-China fowls, chickens of 1852,
class XV. ; and was highly commended in class XII. for
four Cochin-China fowls of the same age. At the show of
cattle the only gentleman resident in this county to whom
a prize was awarded, was Charles Towneley, Esq., M.P.,
of Towneley-park. Burnley, who obtained the first prize
(£10), and gold medal, with extra prize of £l5, for the
best short-horn cow, aged 5 years and 4 months, fed on
hay, turnips, oil cake, and bean meal.

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THE SARAH SANDS, CLEOPATRA, AND GREAT
BRITAIN.—The steam-ship Queen of the South, which
arrived at Plymouth yesterday week, brought tidings of
the Sarah Sands, screw steamer, which sailed from this
port with emigrants for Australia on the 1971, September.
and left Queenstown on the 22nd, anchored at ten o'clock
on the night of the 6th November in Table Bay, after a
passage of forty-three days—the quickest ever yet made
by a steamer to the Cape. Private advices state that the
Sarah Sands experienced exceedingly unfavourable weather
during her passage—bead winds prevailing the whole way.
Considering that she has but two enginesof 80-horsepower
each, the voyage is considered an excellent one. The
utmost harmony prevailed among the 200 passengers and
the crew during the voyage out, and all speak in high
terms of Captain Thompson and his ship. The vessel
and engines were in capital order. The ship was to leave
the Cape on the 10th ult. The steam-ship Cleopatra
reached the Cape on the 25th October, and, as we have
previously stated, the Great Britain arrived there on the
10th October. Speaking of the last-named ship, a Cape
paper says :—" Table Bay never presented a more busy
scene in times of peace than on Wednesday last, from
swarms of visitors going to and from the Great Britain.
A French war steamer was also in the bay of a large class,
but the Great Britain reminded one of St. Petal's and the
minor churches in London, from the contrast her tower-
ing dimensions afforded to the other vessels in the bay.
The French war steamer, the Archimede, at a distance
appeared as if alongside it, but was quite swallowed up in
its shadow, leaving nothing but the paddle boxes to be
seen, as if attached to the Great Britain. The scene on
board this huge novelty beggars all description. The day
was excessively warm, and the breeze from the north-
west favourable to boating, but no one ever expected, till
on board, to have seen such a crowd, so dense that all
possibility of coaling for some hours was out of the
question. The most remarkable feature in this affair was
the immense number of Cape Dutch families, most of
whom had never been on the sea before, but could not
withstand this temptation to visit this wonder of wonders.
A great many people came also from the country, and,
notwithstanding the crowd, the heat, the crushing, the
coals and the water, all seemed highly delighted. Indeed
it required no small degree of forbearance and patience at
such a busy time to he thus obstructed and overpowered
by numbers. From the kindness and attention of Capt.
Matthews and his officers, however, every opportunity
and assistance was given, that they might inspect the
whole economy of this floating city. More than ono fair
face brought home evidence of having been among the
coals. The town and neighbourhood have never been so
lively in our recollection for such a continuance, and the
arrival of more passenger ships is likely to keep up this
healthful excitement. It is truly refreshing to see so
many honest, good-looking English faces among us."

CAPTAIN NYE OF THE PACIFIC.—It has been already
mentioned in our columns that the Pacific, on her last
passage to Liverpool, fell in, six days before her arrival
here, with the Jessie Stephens, of Irvine, from Quebec
to Glasgow, wateriogeed and in a sinking state ; when,
after many hours of patient exertion, Capt. Nye succeeded
in rescuing all on beard. and that his passengers collected
500 dollars for distribution among the crew of the life-
boat. The Times of Tuesday last, in noticing the praise-
worthy conduct of the commander of the Pacific, says:—
" An act of great humanity and courage en the part of
an American commander and his seamen was reported in
our advises from Liverpool, published yesterday. As may
be readily supposed, from the rivalry existing between the
companies which are contending for supremacy in the
Atlantic, it was no light matter for Captain Nye to turn
aside from his course. Captain Nye—to his honour be it
spoken—did not hesitate for a moment as to the course he
should pursue. He, had a lifeboat lowered down, and the
brave fellows who manned her strained every nerve to
approach the wreck. The sea was running too high for
them, and the fury of the storm must have been great
indeed when such men as these were obliged to return,
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. _
and confess themselves fairly beaten by the power of the
elements. Still Captain Nye would not be turned from
his benovolent purpose—he refused to leave the crew of
the sinking ship to a fate inevitable if he deserted them,
but waited for hours and hours until the weather should
moderate, or some favourable chance should turn up
which would give him the opportunity of taking the crew
off the wreck. Again, after a long delay, the lifeboat
was manned, and again her crew pulled for the waterlogged
ship. This time their efforts were crowned with success,
and they had the happiness of transferring the ship's
company of the James Stephens from their own sinking
vessel to the deck of the Pacific. We are told that the
passengers by the steamer who witnessed the exertions of
the men—and who were, therefore, in the best situation,
to appreciate their merits—instantly entered into a sub-
scription to reward the crew of the lifeboat, and 500
dollars were collected on the spot. This is as it should
be, as far as the men are concerned ; but it would not be
amiss that Captain Nye should receive some mark of the
opinion entertained in this country of his humanity and
singular energy under such trying circumstances. It is
by his resolution that so many of our countrymen have

been rescued from a watery grave. A pecuniary reward
to such a man, and for such an act, would of course be

simply offensive ; but it is possible in mr.ny ways to evince
our gratitude to this gallant seaman for the service he has

performed." Or Sattirday last the noble conduct of Capt.

isTve was brought under the notice of the committee of the
Liverpool Shipwreck ani Humane Society by means of a
letter from Messrs. Brown, Shipley, and Co., when evi-

Bence was given by Mr. Daniel James and Mr. Bowman,
two of the passengers of the Pacific at the time, as to the
gallant efforts of the commander and his men in rescuing
the crew of the Jessie Stephens at the risk of their own
lives. The committee unanimously awarded the society's
gold medal to Captain Nye, with a suitable inscription ; a
silver medal of the first class to Mr. Tomkins, the third
officer; and bright silver medals to the other three men
who manned the Pacific's life-boat, also with suitable in-
scriptions. The gold and silver medals will be exhibited
in the Underwriters' and Exchange Rooms in the course
a the week.

GENERAL NEWS.

THE SUBMAR
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of the Queen