The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-07-19 00:00:00

STANDARD, TUESDAY

THE BRAMLEY-MOORE DOCK.

THE notice which was given by Mr. THOMAS BOLD, at
the meeting of the Dock Committee on Thursday, that
he intended to move a change of the name of the Bramley-
Moore Dock to that of the Sefton Dock, has excited much
animadversion. It is considered, and justly so, as an act
of petty revenge by no means worthy the sanction of any
Conservative, and an attempt to make the Dock Committee
mere political partisans to gratify personal pique. We do
not believe that Mr. BOLD has any serious intention of
submitting the motion. The notice was, no doubt, given
in the heat of party excitement immediately after the
election ; but should he be so ill-advised as to persevere,
in the teeth of a universal expression of public opinion
against such an act of pitiful revenge, we feel satisfied
that the Dock Committee will vindicate their high cha-
racter as gentlemen and men of business, and refuse to
entertain the motion. Had Mr. BOLD—which he has
not—the most cogent reasons possible for proposing the
change, the time at which it is brought forward would
render them valtteless, because the suspicion as to the
animus would be too strong to be resisted. We may take
pride in our Docks named after princes, heroes, and
statesmen, and not the less in one which bears the
patronymic of a merchant whom Liverpool has, more
than once, delighted to honour. We by no means wish
to imply the slightest justification of the recent conduct
of Mr. BRAMLEY-MOORE. It was a most unwise course,
and received, as it deserved, the censure of the Conserva-
tive party ; but such a mode of revenge as is now pro-
posed would be too pitifully mean to require any further
condemnation.

, JULY 19, 1853.

POLICE COURT.-YESTERDAY.

BURGLARY AND ROBBERY OF PLATE, &c.—A voting
man, named James Jackson, and two women named
Mary White and Caroline Pales, were placed at the bar
charged with being concerned in a robbery on the 13th
instant, at the house of Mr. Carson, solicitor, in Wind-
sor-terrace, Parliament-lane. It appeared from the evi-
dence that the house was entered through a grid, and the
burglars afterwards took away a chronometer, a quantity
of silver spoons, ladles, and tongs. The value of the
stolen property was upwards of £22. The property
having been pledged, the prisoners were traced and taken
into custody. After the case had been partially investi-
gated, all the prisoners were remanded for a week.
WATCH ROBBERY.—A woman named Bridget Keefe,
a notorious character, was committed for trial, charged
by a man named Stewart with robbing him of his watch
in the street, during the time he was in conversation
with her.

A PAINFUL CASE.—A respectable-looking and intel-
ligent young woman, who is employed as a waistcoat
maker, was yesterday placed before the magistrates
charged with pawning a quantity of wearing apparel that
had been entrusted to her to make. The prisoner in her
defence stated that she had been induced to commit the
offence by the importunities of her father, for whom she
had formerly raised money out of her own earnings.
Last week he waited upon her and stated that if he could
not obtain the sum of £2 he should have to go to gaol.
She raised him the money by pledging the articles, having
reasons to believe that she could repay the amount next
week—her uncle, who resides in Wales, having promised
to supply her husband and herself the means of emigrating
to Australia. She believed that her uncle would send the
money on Wednesday, and had told the complainant that
he was at liberty to write to her uncle and receive the
money. The prisoner was remanded in order to afford
an opportunity of enquiring into the truth of her state-
ment.

COMMITTAL.—A man, named John M'Dowall, was
committed for seven days for stealing a quantity of rope
from the Brunswick Dock.

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF A FEMALE IN
TOY rETH-PARK.

On Wednesday morning, a woman, named Caroline
Griffiths, was found lying insensible on the door steps of
a beer-house in Clive street, Toxteth-park. She was
te..eee to the Southern and Toxteth Hospital, where it was
discovered she
_had_ recelvelt -17.,..qed wound
stated that she had been knocked down Of ii policeman.
After lingering in great agony, she died on Friday
morning, and on Saturday an investigation into this sus-
picious case was held before the coroner. The principal
witness was a girl, named Mary Anne Lofthouse, who
stated that about half-past twelve on Wednesday
morning last she and the deceased (who was a married
woman, residing with her husband) came out of
Johnson's beer-house, where they had been drinking.
They crossed over some waste ground to Llewellyn-street.
where they sat down on some steps, the deceased being
afraid of going home ; and, after some conversation, they
agreed to take shelter in a cellar. While they were talk-
ing a police-officer came up to them, when the deceased
said to him, " Come, my dear, take a pinch of snuff."
She held a snuff-box open, and he took a pinch. He
then said, " Is it not time for you women to go home ?"
After a few more words the police-officer struck Loft-
house, and, on the deceased interfering, ho also struck
her several times on the head and face, and knocked her
down into the middle of the street. He afterwards
assisted Lofthouse to lift her up and place her against
some steps, and then he went away. At this time
she was bleeding profusely from the back of her
head. Lofthouse afterwards assisted her towards Clive-
street, where they sat down on the steps of a beer-
house until three o'clock in the morning, when a man
named Rogers came up to them and addressed Lofthouse,
who fell asleep on the steps till half past five. A police-
officer then came up to them, and took the deceased to the
Southern Hospital. In answer to the coroner, Lofthouse
said she could not identify the police-officer that struck
the deceased, and she did not think she should know him
again. The coroner then asked Inspector Blaskett, who
was present, if they had found the officer who was alleged
to have struck the deceased ? Inspector B!askett said no ;
the witness Lofthouse had been to the stations, but failed
to identify any of the men. The coroner said he thought
a stigma, at present, rested on the police force, and he
should adjourn the inquiry to give them a further oppor-
tunity of clearing up the suspicion against them.
Yesterday the inquest was resumed, when all the police
officers who were on duty in the neighbourhood of Clive-
street on Wednesday morning were present and gave
evidence. They all distinctly swore that they never saw
the deceased on the morning in question, and knew
nothing whatever of the circumstance. Mary Ann Loft-
house was re-called, and said she was quite certain that a
policeman knocked the deceased down twice. The officer
who struck the deceased was not tall but pretty stoutish.
She could not say whether he had whiskers or not, but
thought he had fair hair. She thought the officer present
(530) was the man, but could not swear to it. After the
examination of two other witnesses, whose evidence was
unimportant, the coroner said that he did not see that any
blame whatever attached to the police. The jury then
returned the following verdict :—" That the deceased died
from injuries received, but how or by what means no
evidence appears ; and the jury entirely exonerate the
police."

THE HON. ARTHUR EDWARD HOLLAND GREY EGER.
TON, commonly called Viscount Grey de Wilton, has been
appointed cornet in the Duke of Lancaster's own Regi-
ment of Yeomanry Cavalry, (Worsley troop.)
LIVERPOOL ART UNION.—We have been requested to
direct the attention of the subscribers to the neat frames,
prepared expressly for " The Gamekeeper's Daughter,"
by Mr. Worley, of the Roscoe Arcade.
LIFE-LIKE PORTRAITS.—Those who value a faithful
portrait should pay a visit to Mr. Edmonds' Daguerreotype
Gallery, in Bold-street. He has succeeded in maintaining
all the beauties of the art, with a considerable diminution
in the cost—two recommendations generally appreciated,
TESTIMONIAL.—At the school-rooms in Beau-street
on Friday. the Rev. Henry Marlen. incumbent of All
Saints' Church, Great Nelson-street North, was presented
by the members of his confirmation-class with fifteen
volumes of valuable books on theolo2y. Mr. Phillips,
clerk of the church, was at the same time presented with
a silver pencil-case.
SAVAGE ASSAULT.—On Friday a dispute arose on
board the American packet-ship Squantum. lying in the
Waterloo Dock, between the chief officer, Robert M'Crea,
and the boatswain, Richard Williams, when the latter
struck the former with a knife on the arm and in the side,
at the same time throwing him into the water, between
the ship and the quay. He was rescued with great diffi-
culty, and promptly conveyed to the Northern Hospital,
where he now lies in a dangerous condition. Williams
was brought up at the police-court on Saturday, and
remanded for a week.

SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.—The second session of
the free vocal school founded by this society is announced
i❑ our advertising columns ; as also the intended admis-
sion of forty boys. The recent admirable performances of
the Cologne singers in the metropolis has proved what can
be done by the regular and judicious training of a large
body of choralists, and we are glad to find the projectors
of the Sacred Harmonic Society are determined to spare
neither labour nor expense in forming en efficient chorus.
The members already number about 300, all of whom are
carefully trained from the earliest rudiments under the
direction of the society's conductor, a plan e: pecially cal-
culated to secure unanimity of action and a ready com-
mand of all the various gradations of force and expression.
The society has already received the patronage and sun-
port of the leading nobility, clergy, and gentry resident in
the town and neighbourhood.

THE DEATH or Ara. WINCH which is recorded in our
obituary of this day will be as obviously felt in commercial
circles as it is deeply deplored by all who have been ho-
mediately connected with himself. The name of Mr.
1-Tenry Winch, is known not only to those interested in
the affairs of Birkenhead, but to most mercantile men in
Liverpool, besides those interested in his own branch of
trade, as associated with the highest integrity of principle,
the most intelligent management of business, and the
most far-sighted apprehension of all the details and con-
tingencies of traffic. The kindliness of his personal inter-
course, and the impartial consideration habitually exer-
cised towards those whose views were antagonistic to his
own, have established for him a reputation which is
crowned and ennobled by his personal devotedness to the
furtherance of every pious and philanthropic enterprise.
New churches assisted in their erection ; orphan children
housed and taught ; and other testimonies of abiding use-
fulness., furnish the most eloquent epitaph for one who
has not lived in vain.—Albion.

ACCIDENT, YESTERDAY, AT THE CORN EXCHANGE.
—Yesterday forenoon, about eleven o'clock, one of the
cellar arches on the Brunswick-street front of the new
Corn Exchange gave way and fell in. Since the accident,
which took place about twelve months ago, we understand
that the committee had determined to take dow❑ all the
arches which had then been erected, as well as the
Brunswick-street front, as far as it had proceeded.
In connexion with the progress of the works, there is a
large quantity of scaffolding erected, with a tram road at
the top of it. A portion of the upright frame-work of
this scaffolding rested upon the arch which fell in yester-
day, and the consequence was that three-part of the
upright supports descended along with the falling arch,
thereby jeopardising the entire frame-work, as well
as altering the level of the tram road above, and con-
verting it into an inclined plane. Fortunately, none of
the frame-work fell, notwithstanding the unsafe position
in which it must have been placed by the accident. Soon
afterwards workmen were engaged in making the scaf-
folding fr m by additional staying, and had not completed
their labours last night when our reporter was present.

TERRIBLE CONFLAGRATION.--A. fire of very fearful
character, attended with a destruction of property valued
at several thousand pounds sterling, broke out shortly
after five o'clock, p.m. on Saturday, and although up-
wards of a dozen engines had been actively employed for
hours throwing water upon the flames, they were not
entirely extinguished on Sunday afternoon. The scene
of this terrible misfortune was Lower North-street,
Knightsbridge, a narrow thoroughfare running out of
Sloane-street, in the direction of the Brompton-road.
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wellrange of workshops, several stores tilled with timber,
veneers
whilst a vast number of stacks of deals in the open road
mounted high above the house-tops in the neighbour-
hood, clearly proving that unless the flames could be
subdued in their incipient stage a fearful sacrifice of pro-
perty must unquestionably follow. The extensive range
of premises belonging to Air. John Cuthbert, the tallow.
molfire originated, and as may be supposed, greatly added to
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knowing that in the event of these buildings taking fire,
the work of devastation, of necessity, must be carried far
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Paternoster-row,
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were wholly or partially destroyed
,before the flames were
got under.