The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-06-15 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 185'2.

GRATIFYING TESTIMONIAL.-Mr. Mc'urfield, late -bf
Bald-street, having determined to proceed to Aus-
tralia, a few of his more intimate friends and ac-
quaintances embraced the opportunity of manifesting
their respect for his character, and their esteem for
his many amiable qualities, by presenting to him a neat

silver goblet, with the • following inscription thereon :
—" Presented, on his leaving England, to Mr. W. D.
Scurfield, by his friends and acquaintances, as a slight
token of their respect and esteem. Liverpool, 12th June,
1852." The presentation took place at the George Hotel,
Everton, on Saturday evening last. Mr. Scurfield, who
was taken completely by surprise, responded to the kind-
ness of his friends in an exceedingly feeling manner ; and,
after spending a very pleasant evening, the company sepa-
rated with an expression of their fervent desire for the
welfare and prosperity of Mr. Scurfield and his family in
" the land they're going to."
LIFE INSURANCE.—We understand that Mr. William
Byrom, of Liverpool, has undertaken to give lectures on
Life Insurance in the town and neighbourhood of Wigan,
and throughout the whole of our surrounding district.

The rector of Downall-green and the vicar of Ashton have
kindly granted the use of their respective school-rooms
for the occasion ; and we are informed that the Rev. B.
Powell, with his usual liberality and readiness to promote
everything calculated to advance the interests of all classes
of the community, has granted the Commercial-hall for
the lecturer's use. From the known character of Mr.
, and his talent as seen in his interesting book,
dies from Life," we doubt not he will be able to
t a pathos and weight to the subject. which will
e many to give that attention to the insurance of
Ai the interests of their families, and their
not only while in health. but in sickness,

Byrom

their lives, %,11ic

ppiness

requires.—Wigan Times

MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.—The public examination of
the pupils of the high schol connected with the Mechanic?
Institution took place on Friday. The subjects in which
the pupils were examined and showed very considerable
•

,iency were Greek, Latin, German, French, mathe-
.cics, chemistry, natural philosophy, geography, &c.
fter the examination several of the pupils recited Eng-

lish, German, and French pieces ; and the head-master
then distributed testimonials of merit to the following
pupils of the first class :—William Medley, Henry Ley-

and Thomas Ryley

The following pupils were

honourably mentioned :—Second Class—B.Dielcins, W.
Turner. Third Class—J. Anderson, L. Boult, J. Evans,
J. M'Andrevr, J. Myers, S. Robinson, Ch. Smith, J.
Fourth Class—G. Barnes, Ed. Clib-

lor, J. Thom

J. Edmondson, G. Medley, E. Medley. Fifth Class
—H. Du Terreau, J. Dodson, Hr. Howdon, J. Lloyd, J.
Rodgerson. Preparatory Class—R. Johnson, R. Nicol,
F. Venn.

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INDUSTRIAL RAGGED SCHOOLS, SOllO-STREET.—A.
sermon in behalf of these schools was preached on Sun-
day morning last, in S. George's Church, Everton, by the
Rev. James Lawrence, A.M. The text chosen by the
reverend gentleman was a most appropriate one—St.
Luke, 14 c. 23 v.—" Go out into the highways and hedges,
and compel them to come in, that my house may be

No more suitable passages could have been se-
ecrea on the occasion of an appeal from the pulpit in be-
half of a charity, whose recipients are indeed the lowest
of the low." Mr. Lawrence described very graphically
the destitute condition of the children admitted to the
'-qols—the benefits, spiritual and temporal, that may
"rn the training they receive there,—and very
4 the claims of the institution to support, as

arise fr,

ranking among those home charities, the good effects of
which can be seen and appreciated by the contributors to
their funds. We sincerely hope that the good example
,thing in aid of these schools may be followed at
lturches throughout the town. The collection
ed to £2l 12s. 4d.

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ROYAL' MERSEY YACHT CLUB.-GRAND

SAILING MATCH.

-~•--

This distinguished 0103 held theii first match for the
season on Saturday last. At a little after 11 a.m. the
fine steamer Eblana, Captain Williams, took on board
Commodore Littledale, and other officers, with a large
party of the members and friends, and steamed across the
river to Birkenhead, where the yachts were already moored
at their respective stations, by the able Rear-Commodore,
Jonathan Grindrod, Esq. The steamer presented a very
handsome appearance, having the large and beautiful blue
ensign of the club at the mizen, and the Commodore's
pennant at her main. The wind was from the north-west,
and was blowing fresh ; and although the sky was over-
cast in the early morning, vet, as the day advanced, it
became clear, and was as fine a one for a sailing match
as7could be desired. Mr. Gribbin's band was in attendance.
The race was for two elegant pieces of valuable Piate,
for yachts above 35 tons and under 35 tons. Time was to
be allowed for difference of tonnage. The start took
place a little before eleven o'clock ; and, on the signal-
gun being fired from the steamer, a fine display of nautical
skill was effected by the very active manner in which the
sails were hoisted, and the yachts rounded head to the
wind. The Bacchante, Aquila, and Vision were under
sail and tacked to the Liverpool side of the river, and were
closely followed by the Seabird, Surprise, Fidget, and
Constance, of the second class yachts. The vessels all
stood tacking to windward, and it was very soon evi-
dent that the noble yacht Bacchante would be the
winner, if some accident to her tackle did not occur ;
and it may be here remarked, that this vessel had
been disabled during the last two years from winning by
nothing but her spars and tackle giving way. But she
had this time full justice done to her powers by being pro-
perly handled, and all her spars and tackle holding firm
to the breeze. She continued to take the lead. The
Aquila also sailed uncommonly well, and took her posi-
sition next to the Bacchante in the race. The celebrated
Vision was doomed, on this day, to have her well-earned
laurels taken from her ; and although she carried away
her bobstay, which had much impeded her sailing, yet it
was a generally expressed opinion by all parties, that she
has been thrown out of trim, and that she will yet, on
some future day,.redeem her laurels.
Of the second-class yachts there was a very pleasing
contest with the Surprise, Fidget, and Constance, being
all of the same tonnage. The Seabird was thrown out of
the race by the springing of her boom early in the day,
and was obliged to give up the contest at the Formby
Light-ship. The Surprise is one of the modern-built
English cutter-rigged yachts, with a great raking stern-
post, and a very large vessel of her tonnage. The Fidget,
although also an English-built yacht in her bull, has been
a little American-ised in her rig by having a short
standing bowsprit and a large fore-staysail in the place. of
a jib and a foresail. The Constance is a new yacht, with
a' great deal of the American model in her hull—a long
bow, rounded stern, with a good beam, and not very
deep. She is, nevertheless, rigged in the English style of
A Gravesend hatch-boat—jib, mainsail, and small lug-
jigger. She sailed uncommonly well ; and it was the
opinion of many that if she had had the large cutter main-
sail with boom and gaff, instead of her jigger, that she
would have had an excellent chance for the second-class
prize

The whole fleet. after sailing round the
Light-ship, started. for New Brighton with a heavy
press of canvass. On the steamer arriving at New Brighton,
the officers found that the Seabird having been rendered
hors de combat, was moored by the Honorary Secretary
off the slip for the flag-yacht or winninz point of the race.
She was gaily decorated out with bunting, with the flags
of the club displayed at her mast-head, bowsprit, and
taffrail. The Eblana steamer came to anchor for the
commodore and officers to time the coming-in yachts.
The second-class yachts, having about eight miles less to
go in distance than the larger yachts, came in in the fol-
lowing order of time :

11. M. S. H. M. S.
Surprise...... 335 25 Bacchante .... 341 0
Constance ... 3 40 33 Aquila 3 57 25
Fidget
The Bacchante became the winner by some minutes,
besides her time, and was welcomed by a hearty cheer
from the steamer. The handsome massive silver tea-
kettle was presented in an appropriate speech from Com-
modore Littledale to Mr. B. Heywood Jones, who fills
the office of vice-commodore to the club, and who returned
thanks to the company assembled on the quarter-deck of
the steamer. The second-class prize was a massive silver
salver, and was presented to Mr. Leader, the owner of the
Surprise, the winning yacht of her class. A liberal supply
of champagne and claret was given by the winners to the
company ; and after her Majesty's health being drunk,
and three hearty cheers given for the worthy Commodore,
the steamer departed for Liverpool, and landed her corn,
pany, some at Birkenhead, and the remainder at Prince's'
Pier. This was really a day of enjoyment, and every body
expressed themselves much delighted with the aquatic
sports they had witnessed, and best wishes awarded to the
Royal Mersey Yacht Club, under its able management of
officers.
IipNIMMIII~IIIII6 AM"

EXCURSION TO HOGHTON TOWER.—We beg to call
the attention of our readers to the opportunity now offered
of visiting the above celebrated locality, with its noble
monuments of ancient times, reminding us of the good
old days of Queen Bess. It was here that the first
Baronet of Hoghton entertained King James in such
princely style, that his Majesty knighted the joint of roast
beef, which has ever since gone by the name of " sir loin."
The place is rich in historical lore, and will well re-pay
the visit of the antiquary and the lover of the picturesque ;
many fine views are obtained from the lawn, including
the much-talked-of Rivington Pike, which is within a
short distance.

GREAT WESTERN, SHREWSBURY AND BIRMINGHAM,
AND SHREWSBURY AND CHESTER AMALGAMATION
BILL.—The committee on standing orders assembled on
Thursday, and came to the following resolution :—" That
the standing order, No. 185, had not been complied with,
and that it had not been proved to the committee that
anything had taken place at the meeting held under the

said order (the Whariicliffo order), to justify the commit-
tee in recommending the House that the said order should

pensed with."

king traffi

It was also determined that " the
arranzerwmts between the Great

s and Glou-

Western, Shrewsbury and Birmingham, Shrewsbury and
Chester, Shrewsbury and Hereford, and Ross
aster Companies, should be allowed to proceed, strikint
out everything relating to the Shrewsbury and Binning.
ham, and Shrewsbury and Chester Companies." The
result of this decision is a check to the progress of the
Great Western Company towards Chester, and will ope-
rate as a triumph to the London and North Western
Comoanv in the long-protracted and expensive contest

he latter has waged against the former in r
considered a stepping-out of their own ter

CHESHIRE AND WALES.

Cusailing CAvALay.--James Holdforth. Gent. has
received his commission as lieutenant, vice Brocklehinst,
resigned.

LICENSES hare been granted for the solemnisation of
marriages to the Methodists' New Connexion Chapel,
Chester, and the Presbyterian Meeting House, Hale,
Cheshire.

BIRKENHEAD HISTORIC SOCIETY.—The performance
given by the members of this society, at the Craven-
rooms, in aid of the public charities, has realized about
£7O.

NORTH WALES SUMMER ASSIZES.—The judge who
will go the ensuing circuit is Mr. Justice Talfourd, who
will join Mr. Justice Crompton at Chester, after he has
been the South Wales circuit.

CONVERTS FROM POPERY.—Two very respectable and
intelligent men were received into communion with the
Church of England, on Sunday evening last, at St. James's
Church, Latchford, by the Rev. James Wright, the
incumbent.

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD rtAlLWAY.—Traffic for the
week ending June 6, 1852.—Chester and Holyhead Main
Line : Passengers, £l,BOl 7s. 6d. ; parcels, H. C. and
D., £B2 Os. Od. ; goods, cattle, &e., £593 Os. 9d. ;
mails, £575. Mold : Passengers, £49 3s. 6d. ; parcels.
H. C. and D., £1 18s. Od. ; goods, cattle. &c., £143
19s. Od. Steam-boats : Passengers, £433 ss. Bd. ; parcels,
H. C. and D., £22 Bs. 2d. Total, £3,702 2s. 7d.
ACCIDENT AT CHESTER CASTLE.—On Sunday laSt, a
female named Mary M'Connell. having taken a fancy to
one of the soldiers in Chester garrison, was found con-
cealed in the castle-yard about midnight. She was
observed by the sergeant of the guard, who immediately
went to call out for a policeman to take her into custody.
She however got over the wall and railing adjoining the
officers' barracks, and sprang into the ditch below, a
height of several yards. In her fall she broke some of the
bones of her feet, and is now in the infirmary. The ser-
geant followed the example of his prisoner, jumped after
her, and also cut himself severely.
CLAUGHTON PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION IN CONNEC-
TION WITH CHRIST CHURCH.—On Monday evening, a
meeting of this association was held in the school-room
of Claughton church, for the purpose of considering the
duties of Protestant electors at the present crisis. The
chair was taken by the Rev. R. P. Blakeney, incumbent
of the church, at half-past seven, supported on his right
by Mr. P. F. Curry, and on his left by Mr. J. P. Palmer,
churchwardeas. The attendance was numerous and highly
respectable. The meeting was addressed, by the chair-
man, Messrs. Palmer, Worthington, E. Hobson, P. F.
Curry, Hubbard, Cooper, Derbyshire, and Nash ; and
the claims of Messrs. Mackenzie and Turner, as the Pro-
testant candidates for the representation of Liverpool,
were forcibly urged.
ACCIDENTS AT TRANMERE AND ROCK PERRY.—On
Saturday afternoon a carriage was accidentally driven into
the front of a shop kept by a widow named Buckley, at
Lower Tranmere, breaking in the window-frame and door
posts. A child of the widow was much bruised about the
face, and Anne Barlow, aged five years, had her left temple
lacerated, skull fractured, and left collar-bone broken.
An invalid gentleman and two ladies, who were in the
vehicle, were shaken and frightened, but not much injured.
The driver was thrown from his box, and sustained con-
cussion of the spine. The little girl is under the care of
Mr. Macdougall. surgeon, Birkenhead. She is in a pre-
carious state.--A similar accident is reported to have
occurred at Rock Ferry, the same afternoon, which caused
the death of three children.

BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS.—The first meeting of
this body, after the annual election, took place in the
board-room, Hamilton-square, on Tuesday evening. Mr.
Greene was elected chairman, and the following commit-
tees were then appointed :—Lighting and Watching
Committee: Messrs. Milnes, Graham, Henderson, Fur-
niss, Tyler, Holme. Lightbound, Barbour, Storey, Bailiff,
Pritchard, and Cook.—Market Committee: Messrs.
Henderson. Lightqound, Barbour, Storey, Tyler, Curry,
Thomson, Furniss, Gough, Ravenscroft,-Fry, and Rae.—
Road and Improvement Committee : Messrs. Rae, Hen-
derson, Bailiff, Ravenscroft, Curry, Laird, Watson,
Pritchard, Fry, Holme, Graham, Milnes, and Gough.—
Finance Committee: Messrs. Rae, Watson, Bailiff, Ra-
venscroft, Laird, Cook. Pritchard, Milnes, Barbour, and
Gough.—Ferry Committee: Messrs. Rae, Cook, Furniss,
Laird, Gough, Tyler, Curry, Milnes, Ravenscroft, Light
hound, Storey, Holme, and Watson.—Health Commit-
tee: Messrs. Cook, Henderson, Lightbound, Barbour,
Storey, Tyler, Curry, Thomson, Furniss, Ravenscroft,
Fry, and Rae.—On the motion of the chairman, it was
agreed that the board should adjourn until this day,
(Tuesday), for the purpose of laying the township rates.
—Mr. Rae wished to know whether it was true that Mr.
Potts had authorised the erection of the buildings now
in progress at Woodside Ferry. He was told he bad not,
and that it was probable that a great portion of, if not all
the building would have to come down.—The Town-clerk
said the surveyor had asked Mr. Potts the question, and
he could not say what passed between them.—The board
then adjourned.

MEETING OF THE WEST INDIA INTEREST
IN LIVERPOOL.

On Friday last a meeting of the proprietors of estates
in the West Indies was held at the office of Messrs.
Shackleton, Wright, and Hunter, solicitors, Brunswick-
street, for the purpose of considering the steps to be
taken to remedy the deplorable condition of the popula-
tion and property in those colonies. Mr. FRANCIS
SHAND was in the chair ; and amongst those present were
several gentlemen who bad recently arrived from the
West Indies.

The CHAIRMAN, after stating briefly his conviction
that unless some prompt assistance was offered to the
•
present competition with slave-growing countries, their
ruin was certain, proceeded to shew what in his opinion
ought to be the nature of that remedy, viz. a large and
constant supply of free labour, and a staying of the diffe-
rential duties. Let (he said) the duty on foreign slave-
grown sugar remain fixed as it now is, and let the duty cn
British colonial sugar be reduced four or five shillings.
This would make little or no difference in price to the
British consumer, while it would exercise a most benefi-
cial influence in alleviating the distress of the colonial
producers. It was an undoubted fact that the slave trade,
for the suppression of which they had made such great
sacrifices, was increasing, both in Cuba and the Brazils ;
and if the West Indies were destroyed it would result in
the export duty in the latter country being increased, and
prices raised against the British consumer. All that the
West India proprietors wanted was justice. Let them be
fairly treated, have plenty of labour, and they would grow
sugar in sufficient quantities to supply this country at
the same rate at which it was now sold.

Dr. MASON (from Jamaica) said, that he had Loped
some of the delegates from Jamaica would have been pre-
sent; but an engagement at the Colonial-office had kept
them in London. He then entered at length into the
present melancholy condition of Jamaica, where fine es-
tates are going to waste, and where the population is being
decimated by cholera and the small-pox. He (Dr. Ma-
son) was not connected with any political party in Eng-
land, but he felt certain that unless something was done
speedily. Jamaica would be left to relapse into barbarism,
and the benefit of all the money paid for the manumission
of the slave population entirely done away with.
Mr. BERNARD HALL thought that, while the govern-
ment spent large sums of money on the Cape of Good
Hope and other British colonies, it was their duty to
prevent a fine island like Jamaica from being utterly ruined.
Even now the greater portion of the negro population
refused to work, while many bad retired far from the seats
of civilization in the island, and had formed native vil-
lages, where they were fast relapsing into African barbar-
ism, and substituting the worship of Obeah for that of
the Creator. _ _ _

Several other gentlemen addressed the meeting in a
similar strain, all dwelling forcibly upon the necessity of
a great and immediate supply of labour—alluding more
particularly to the advisability of prompt steps being
taken to bring labourers from China, in imitation of the
Cubans, who had sent for 8000. Ultimately a set of re-
solutions were agreed to embodying the feelings of the
meeting, and the Chairman, Mr. Hall, and Mr. Boyd,
were appointed a deputation to wait upon and lay them
before the candidates for Liverpool.

MR. CARDWELL AND THE LIVERPOOL

MERCHANTS.

The determined stand which the merchants and ship-
owners have taken in marking their sense of Mr. Card-
well's political tergiversation will not be lost on the other
constituencies of the kingdom. In order fully to under-
stand the reason of this extraordinary outburst, it is ne-
cessary to state that amongst the merchants and brokers
on 'Change all the great transactions are conducted on
the word of honour of the contracting parties, and in no
instance has a cotton broker ever swerved from his word,
or a merchant repudiated a contract so entered into on
his behalf; hence the hostility to Mr. Cardwell, who,
having been convicted by his former supporters of prac-
tising gross deception upon them, and violating his pri-
vate pledges, " that he would oppose the repeal of the
navigation laws," now turns round on them, and, like a
low pettifogging attorney, goes to trial, not on the merits
of the case, but to catch a verdict on one count in order
to carry costs. His plea of justification is this :—Sup-
pose I did pledge myself privately, what must the electors
think of those gentlemen who supported me, and heard
me say in public I would not pledge myself ? Were they
not the parties who deceived themselves and duped the
shipowners, and not 1 ? This special pleading will not,
however, avail Mr. Cardwell ; the reception he has met
with must convince him, and even Mr. Labouchere, who
(in the face of the petition from Liverpool, adopted at a
public town meeting, presided over by the mayor, and
signed by upwards of 30,000) pompously exclaimed in the
House of Commons, " that Liverpool spoke through her
representatives," how basely Mr. Cardwell acted, and
how grossly Mr. Labouchere allowed himself to be de-
ceived. While Liverpool is up and acting, the merchants
of the city of London remain apathetic, and appear to
have resolved to look on and be contented with the yoke
of the Jew and the renegade Whig ex-Premier, content to
make money and obtain place, honestly if they can, but,
under any circumstances, to make money and obtain
place. Well may the Liverpool merchants and electors be
proud of the high position to which they have attained,
and of the unrivalled port to which they belong. As
compared with their rivals, they are indeed worthy of
being styled merchant princes. Their honour is in their
eeping, and it they will maintain.—London Stand.

THE ELECTRI
Pnvsil 'MAU

GHT.—On Saturday night, soon after
al-Ehip Africa had entered the river,
y the permission of the Dock Committee, ex-
s electric light from the tower north of Prince's

The experiment was declared quite successful

THE RECE

—We re

COLLISION ON THE SHROPSHIRE UNION
?gret to say that the injuries sustained
_iaughton, who was one of the sufferers
which occurred at the Donnington Sta.
on the Shropshire Union Railway, terminated fatally
Mr. Haughton had sustained a fracture

r. Thoma

the ch es

s death is attributed to a severe con-
which produced extensive interne'

Ls a waning agent or steward of the

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS,-TUESDAr, JUNE 8
_ LONDON NECROPOLIS BILL.

This bill was read a second time, and ordered to be
committed, the Earl of SHAFTESBURY and the Bishop of
LONDON opposing it as offensive to the feelings of the
poor and working classes, and likely to create an odious
traffic in the bodies of the dead.—The Earl of CARLISLE
and the Earl of CHICHESTER supported it, the former in
the hope of seeing it amended in committee.
SURRENDER OF CRIMINALS (FRANCE) BILL.

The Earl of MALMESBURY moved the second reading
of the Surrender of Criminals (France) Bill, and explained
the object of the measure, which was to afford the French
Government increased facilities for arresting fugitive cri-
minals in this country.—The Earl of ABERDEEN called
the attention of the house to the great difficulty of the
subject, and objected to the retrospective operation of the
bill, which was made to apply to all offences committed
since 1843. He would not, however, oppose the second
reading.—After considerable discussion, in which Lords
BROUGHAM and CAMPBELL, the LORD CHANCELLOR,
and the Duke of ARGYLL took part, who all admitted that
some such measure should be passed, while they acknow-
ledged the difficulty of treating the subject, the bill was
read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Fri-
day.—Their lordships then adjourned.

THURSDAY, JUNE 10.
LAW OF EVIDENCE (SCOTLAND) DILL
On the motion of Lord MINTO this bil

,s read a third

time and passed