The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-11-09 00:00:00

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on Saturday nights and on Sundays.—

In answer to a question, Mr. Bold stated that the use of
fires and lights in the Prince's Dock was to be confined to
the steamers there; and Mr. Brocklebank said he could
not see the reason of the restriction.—Mr. Molyneux said,

when the north dock works were first suggested with such
zeal, it was held out that the Clarence Dock would be
given up to the general purposes of the port, and that the
steamerswould be put further north.—Mr. Bold said there
were then no continental screw-steamers ; this was a new
trade.—Messrs. M'Clune and Tamplin submitted a letter

they had received from Mr

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British and Irish Steam-packet Company, asking them to
ascertain what would have to be paid for the constant use
of one of the graving docks of Liverpool for a year, to be
occupied by a vessel of 1,400 tons.—lt was intimated that,
in consulting the commercial interests of the port, no
graving dock could be given up for the purpose.—A letter
was read from the council of the Chamber of Commerce,
complaining of the dirty state of the dock quays, and the
want of snitable arrangements for the protection of export
goods. A long conversation ensued, in the course of
which it appeared that the harbour masters' sub-commit-
tee had under their consideration the appropriation of dif-
ferent sides of the docks for export and import, and that
they would probably report next week.

GENERAL NEWS.

THE PRESS.—There were no less than forty reporters
present at the Free-trade banquet, in Manchester, on
Tuesday night.
TELEGRAPH BETWEEN LONDON AND PARIS.—On
Tuesday, the Submarine Electric Telegraph Company
completed its line between Paris and London.
FOUL AIR.—Two men were killed in London, yesterday
week, by the foul smell from a drain in which they were
working, and into which cesspool matter had found its way.
THE LATE GALES.—At the lowest estimate not less
than 100 seamen have perished by the dreadful gale which
prevailed last week, and the destruction of property is
also necessarily very great.
Miss VANDENHOFF, daughter of Mr. Vandenhoff, the
tragedian, is suffering, it is said, from an internal tumour,
which medicine has failed to reach, and which there is too
much reason to fear will prove fatal.

JAMES LISTER, a farm-labourer, at North Ockendon
is in custody, on suspicion of having poisoned his first
wife, some two years and a half ago. The body bas been
exhumed, and the intestines are undergoing analysis.
A PoonWinow, seventy years of age, deaf and partially
blind, was crossing the Reading and Basingstoke branch
of the Great Western Railway, on Friday, when she was
knocked down, and cut to pieces by an advancing train.
MARY COTTERILL, a female who lives at Billesdon,
has been committed on a charge of manslaughter. In a
fight with Mary Ann Bird, one of her neighbours, she so
injured the latter that death was the consequence.
A GIRL only eleven months old, named Eliza Liddell,
was recently found dead in bed in London, and a post
mortem examination showed that notwithstanding her
infancy she had died of ossification of the valves of the
heart.

A SERVANT GIRL at Bath has bfgnesthed to the Ship-
wrecked Fishermen and Mariners Benevolent Society a
legacy of. £5O, out of her hard-earned savings, in remem-
brance of her engagement to a young sailor at Sunder-
land, who was drowned at sea.

RAILWAY CALLS.—The amount of railway calls already
advertised, falling due in the month of November, amount
to £614,632. Of this no less than £466,615 is called by
foreign companies, but the amount of stock held by
English proprietors is not known.
A PASTRYCOOK, named Hollot, died in London a few
days since, from inflammation of the knee-joint resulting
from a compound fracture of the knee-cap, which had
been caused by a sudden exertion of the muscles of the
leg while he was throwing a skittle ball, six months since.