The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-09-14 00:00:00

.ulty existed on board in
" broached," as the ship ran

hearing a fizzing noise in-
contained bottled porter.

Custorn-house; but

owner having given living proof that the reptiles were not
included in any prohibitory tariff, they were allowed to

pass free of duf

A. WARNING TO
leer William Douglas

POLTCEMEN.—On Tuesda

No. 747, was fined 50s

imprisonment

for absent

imself from duty

without leave, since the previous S

day evening,

ordered to return to

t. viord that he weal(

leave the force. Mr. Superintendent R
to prefer the complaint against the prisoner, stated that
the head-constable had felt it to be his dut
the maintenance of the discipline of the force, to bring
the present case before the magistrates, as a number of
the men had recently left the force abruptly and irregu-
larly. The head-constable was always ready to allow the

e, who appear

men to leave the force

they had

ortnnity of im-

1 by other employment; but it was,

Of course, essential that

he rules be observed

Loss o:

—On Wednesday afternoty

THE LIVERPOOL FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY Will be

opened on October 18, but without any public demonstra.

tion. The Museum Will not be opened for some months.
From 9,000 to 10,000 volumes have already been received

into the library and shelved, and the librarian and his
assistants are busy in preparing the catalogue. The
workmen are busily engaged in fitting up the glass cases
for the reception of Lord Derby's museum, all the speci-
mens of which have already been removed from Knoll
ley. The large cases

re to be arranged round the room,
and the smaller ones down the centre. in one of the
rooms the model of Liverpool is to be placed. The Derby
museum contains 6GI specimens of mammalia, mounted ;
607 in skin ; 11,131 birds mounted, and 7.700 in skin :

:making a total of 20,049 specimens, exclusive of a large
collection of eggs, a considerable number of reptiles,

fish, &

CIVIC HOSPITALITIES.—His Worship the Mayor, ot
Town-hall

nesday morning, gave a d6jefiner at the

Amon
4

onour 0:

of Ni;/ York.
(resent were the Lord Bishop of Chester ono

ham, the Lord Bishop of New York and Mrs. De Lancy
the Venerable Archdeacon Brooks, Mrs. Rector Campbel
and the Rev. Edward Campbell, Rev. J. H. Jones, Rev
Mr, and Mrs. Hovgat, Rev. W. and Mrs. Pollock, Rev.G
' Mrs. Warr, Rev. F. Walker, Rev. R. R. Lingard

W. an('

Charles Turner, Esq., M.P., and Mrs. Turner, Captain
Franklin, Mr. Cropper and the Hon. Mrs. Cropper, Rev.
Dr. Jackson, Mr. John and Mrs. Tobin, Mr. F. Heywood
and Miss Heywood. Mr. and Mrs. Biddulph, Mr. Torr,
Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Molynenx, Mr. and Mrs.'
(of Otterspooll, Mr. Thomas Edward Moss (of Robs
Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Tobin, Mt
and Mrs. Adam Hodgson, Miss Ellis, Mr. E. W. E. anc
the Misses Royds, Mr. and Mrs. Gregson, Mr. and Mrs.
Avison, Mr., Mrs., and Miss J. H. Turner, the Misses
Statham, Mr. and Mrs. S. Mellor, Mrs. Shuttleworth,
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Littledale, &c., &c.
RULING THE PLANETS.-011 Friday, at the Borough
Court, Manchester, a man, who gave his name as Augus-
tus Lammons Jackson, was charged with obtaining
money under the pretence of fortune-telling. He had
issued bills stating that he was " the renowned and only
onomantic planet-ruler in the universe ;" and that " he
had been patronized for several years by the nobility, the
gentry, and the public at large in England,

land, and America.'

His rooms Were muc