The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-01 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS.

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FREDERICK CRABB, charged at the police-court, on
Saturday week, with forgery, was again brought up on
Wednesday, and discharged.
A DEPUTATION from Manchester and Bradford, on the
subject of the soap duties, had an interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer on Tuesday last.
d4THE3' STORM was so violent at Warrington on Wednes-
, that the circus of Madame Pabelle was torn from top
to bottom Itcrowded at the time ; but no one was
, was

Farrington
MEMBERS OF THE MECHANICS' INSTITUTE at
vt,arrington have presented Mr. Joseph Edmondson
with a handsome silver watch, as a testimony of their
eSteem on his leaving town.
THOMAS GREGORY, Warrington, has been committed
Ktrkdale gaol for three months, in default of pay
d in
istg a
Bac of £3O, incurred by his prosecution of illicit il-
lation.

_, A SUBSCRIPTION has been opened for the widows and
ewnildren of those belonging to the steamer Queen Victoria,
110 lost their lives when that unfortunate vessel was
wrecked.

PLUNDERING.—Tt has been estimated that in Maccles-
to
eld the large silk manufacturers
are annually plundered
the amount of £15,000, and those of Manchester to the
"tent of £20,000, by persons in their employ.
A. AcroN, a clerk, in the employ of Sir B. Hey-
fored and Co., bankers, of Manchester, was brought be-
ing the magistrates, on Thursday, charged with obtain-
tag frotn that firm £3OO by means of a forged order. One
450 had been recovered. The accused was remanded.
ITAILS FOR AUSTRALIA.—There are now on the Post-
Place shipping list the names of 15 vessels for Sidney, 13
tor Port Philip, 10 for Adelaide, 9 for Van Dieman'ilAnd,
8 for Melbourne, and 4 for Geelong, by all of which mails
are to be forwarded.
ON FRIDAY, a large meeting of operative coopers was
held at the Vine Tavern in Pitt-street—Mr. Davis, the
society's President, in the chair. The wages of Coopers
tow are 2Gs. per week, and the object of the meeting was
to secure 30s. or some other amount according with the
demand for labour.

ACCIDENT AT THE ADELPHI THEATRE.—Durinz the
Performance of the pantomime at this theatre, on Wed-
tesday evening, the clever little daughter of Mr. Appleby,
clown at the Theatre-Royal, was severely burned, her
muslin dress having become ignited while she stood by
one of the " wings." She now lies in a precarious state.
AMONGST THE PARLIAMENTARY BILLS read a second
time and ordered to be committed, on Monday, were the
Liverpaol Borough Court; Liverpool, Crosby, and South-
Port Railway ; London and Northwestern Railway,
(Shrewsbury to Newton ;) St. Helens Canal and Rail-
Way ; and Shrewsbury and Chester Railway.
BRICKLAYERS are hold a meeting to-night.
•t Is stilted that no strike is Icontemplated, but an appeal
Cabo be made for further support to a benefit society es-
tablished amongst the operatives of the trade, and which
is, at the same time, a trades'-union. There are on an
2erage, about 700 bricklayers in Liverpool, but scarcely
o of these are yet in connexion with the society.
None, THE SCULPTOR, has now added another
1:1°1413h to his list, in a bust statue of the Duke of Wel-
Ineton, just completed—invaluable, if from no other
env on,
from its presenting him in his latest " aspect as ho
2.9." As an earnest of what the artist may accomplish,
rtstically, in his bust of Sir Robert Peel, intended for
George's-ball, our local interests may rest satisfied.
a3ll.rt• HENRY JONES, the young man who was last week
several
to bail ou the charge of having embezzled
of tirial sums of money which he had received on account
azze proprietors of the United Gas Company, in whose
ice he held the situation of a collector, had been dis-
appretd' iThe gas company did not think prop(r to
investigationaga.ll!t after instituting the most viailant
in his el* + •
A. CURATE„
recommends, from personal experience,
the following
" I •receipt for the cure of broken chilblains :
, pint of sweet oil, 3 oz. of Venice turpentine, Db. of
%s lard, 3 oz. of bees' wax. Put into a pipkin, and on
os,l_ew. fire. Stir with a wooden spoon till the wax is dis-
iatttv fined the ingr,dients simmer. It will be fit for use
PsreAad
edi but the longer it is kept the better it is.
very thin on a linen rag."
the 1.11( RUFFIT'S LETTER.—A letter passed through
the P,°,s,t-offi. ce at Over Darwen, the other day, bearing
„ Mowing elaborate address :the Paid.
This is for
ta","as as tha kone Sally Ruffit what use 2 liv E Hallifas
ena lies he Darren we Gabus Gepsun he Bridge-streete.
_Ke bore, spede." The stamp was placed upside down on
flse lap
„of the envelope, where the impression of the seal
usually made.—Blackburn Standard.
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1
c°nsequence of the very long passages which vessels
i.
ve had this season in crossing the Atlantic, great
RockilytY
ITO both ships nnd men were experienced in New
on •-,ewarultimo, mands of 200 y
of them from vessels are saiLondon ad to haveanbeenLi ere
thei3th-
t"l- At New Orleans, also, a great scarcity of seamen
~,-,reported, and it was impossible to obtain a crew for
Liverpool at any rate.
ONt OF THE SMALLEST STEAMERS ever built arrived
titreboat,
on Monday last, called the Alpha. She is a screw
°oat, and was built by Mr. Martin, in a
_joiner and cabinet
maker's shop, at Bideford, on the south-west coast ; from
..,Whom she has been purchased by the Liverpool Steam-tug
Company, to ply as a tender to their large steamers. The
dimensions of t his little craft are :--48 feet in length, by
7 feet 8 inches beam, and her size is eatimated at about
20 tons. Her stylish apaearance—on a small scale—has
attracted considerable attention.
Tee LATE Mr. THOMAS Mu NCASTEII.—The Lancaster
Guardian, in noticing the death of our late townsman,
181975---" Deceased was a native of IliVerston, and served
tits apprentiship to the printing and bookbinding business
With the late Mr. Soulby. Having subsequently removed
to Liverpool, Mr. Muncaster succeeded, in the course of
fa few years, as a bookseller, in realising a very handsome
ortune, upon which he retired some seven or eight and
in enty years ago. The deceased has several near relatives
thverston, and his property, estimated at £lO,OOO, has
been left chiefly amongst them."
MIL RUSSELL'S CONCERTS, during the week, have
O.een well attended by parties anxious to secure the prize
tteket for a free passage to Australia. The prize on Mon-
-13,a7 night was won by Mr. William 'Hastings, hoot and
floemaker ; on Tuesday night, by Mr. William Johnson,
iOn., foreman at the Albert Dock Warehouses ; on Wed-
teasitaY, by Mr. William T. Lacey, tailor •, on Thursday,
asVir- P. Lunt, journeyman baker; and on Friday, by
-"ss Ann Jane Glover aged seven years. Mr. Russell,
!'revious to the drawing, announcedahat he purposes to
7tarn
ore to Liverpool, when he will again give five tickets
ra for Passages to Australia.
A ME
ETING OF THE ARCHITECTURAL AND ARCH.EO-
- was held on Wednesday evening, Mr.
therVst in the chair.—A communication was read from
t Polytechnic Society, inviting their attendance at cer-
-4°ll Ineetings.—Mr. Boult communicated the decision of
council in relation to the students' designs.—Mr. F.
1310:kard exhibited and explained several designs prepared
for a stained-glass window.—The two papers of
re! evening were then read,—one being from Mr. R. D.
discovered n
" Description of an ancient pillar
inisrvered in taking down the old parish church at Leeds,
eutiB3,B2l The other was " Notes upon Cologne and its
leural2a

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l-.IVERPOOL IN THE SCOTTISH ACADEMY.—In an
~ecount of the Royal Scottish Academy, the Dumfries
rald says-,:—" Darnley and the Conspirators," deter-
kininz the murder of Rizzi°. by W. L. Windus, of
Liverpool, is a kindred wori, highly studied, generally
Pure in dr,iwing, and an excellent colour; admirable is
the Countenance of Rutliven, whose fierce passions are
Been through the gathering shadow of death, and also that
of the ruffian who directs the signature of Darnley. The
Murderers are seated around a table ; the King-consort is
about to affix his name to the deed, for which the rest are
anxiously expectant ; and a black hound lies in front,
suggestive of their sleeping ferocity.
, POSTAL REPOR3l.—arrangements, which have long
been in progress, are now completed for effecting an
important acceleration of the day mail to Manchester
Liverpool, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen, and the
Liverpool,
towns. :On the Ist of March and thence-
forward, this mail will reach Manchester about two hours
earlier than at present, and Aberdeen about three hours
earlier. The chief delay in making this very acceptable
improvement has been caused by the necessity for erect-
tilg at many of the stations an apparatus for receiving the
olgs without the train stopping, so as to admit of the use
1,, the express trains. A similar improvement on the
'4idland line will, it is understood, follow shortly.
°UT-DOOR RELIEF V.,l* LIVERPOOL.—In the
,w,eek
'"riding the 12th of February last, there were L,..,45
eki of out-door relief to the unsettled poor in Liverpool,
112111 rnen, 2,27t1 women, and 2.442 children, or a total
:ber of 5,144 persons. .0f Irish poor, sick or irre-
AcNille in consequence of the Five Years Residence
i ik .
tenor
_,iere were in the same week 1,130 cases met by
Of q-„' Q 0 men, 986 women, and 1,917 children, or a total
Sick,_,o,Zo2. Of other non-settled poor, irremoveable and
there were 612 cases, 126 men, 557 women, and 825
• • ren'roji4 total of I,soBpersons.Casuals 685, con-
sisting 0. ..... men 52n
persons. Th. 1$ gives .'women, 812 children ; total, 1,656
thousand five hundredrand total of nearly eleven
anda ten persons relieved in the
week ; and to these £446w,
bestowed of the value of
3, labourersAl3,.,lid in money, and bread
ince then the frost,
Which deprives so man
of work, set in, and
Las caused a frightful increase in the number of applicants.

s THE NEW CHURCH OF ST. CU architects e=.—This
beaUtifßl specimen of ecclesiastical architecture, which
stands in the fields between Breck-road and the West
berby Workhouse, is rapidly approaching completion,
lasnd is expected to be ready for opening about the lat of
laid-y- The foundation stone, may be remembered was
eby the lord bishop of the it
diocese on the 4th of 'May
st,year, so that when finished it will have occupied about
ilreive months in erection. St. Chrysostom's, which is
n every respect a truly noble structure, is of the Gothic
decorated period, is
arch known as the early English or
orthodoxly- cruciform, and consists of anave (clerestory),
bvcit.l.l..aisles, transept,
.chancel, and chancel aisles. The
build aisles,
is of the bluish-gray Upholland stone. so much
used in all the churches recently erected. in this neigh_
&e,) ofd, with facings (the doorways,
'e.) of Bath atone. windows, quoins,
THE MORMON DELUSION.—On Wednesday, the ship
;3!ltlternational sailed from the Stanley Dock with upwardson
four hundred believers in the book of Mormon
oard, proceeding to the City of the Salt Lake, via New
Oil
.eans.
faith
Ittlll°4 , as, with one or two exceptions, were those of
~,,a second class cabin also. Many of the men were me-
)7'l°l6, but still more were evidently from the agricultu-
al districts, as they wore their smock-frocks—some being
Yet soiled with the labours of the field. All were orderly
gpea quiet in their demeanour. The second-cabin passen-
ers are principally respectable artisans ; they are all, for
'ale bloat part, from England and Scotland, some from
~,,,s, and only three or four from Liverpool. As soon
"''' tat, ship had sailed, the Mormon disciples were to pro-
eeacl to the election of a president, under whose control
til
wetter' not taken cognigance of by the ship's authori-
LT! would be placed, He will be implicitly obeyed ; and
In, in his turn, a.ppoint optidns Of fifty and captains of
wil la Nerve under him'

JOHN REDFERN, a joiner, working on board the ship
Bloomer, in the Brainley-Moore Dock, fell into the hold
on Wednesday, and was mortally injured.
THE Waterford Chronicle states that on Friday nearly
400 emigrants lett that city for Liverpool, to take shipping
for America.

THE ANNUAL EXAMINATION of the children educated
at the old-established Welsh charity schools in Russell-
street will take place to-day.
THE MAYOR will give a grand banquet at the Town-
hall on Thursday. The directors of the London and
North-Western and other railway companies have been
invited

THE FOLLOWING NOTICE, which had much the appear-
ance of a hoax, might have been seen on Friday on the
shutters of certain premises in the Roscoe-arcade :—This
shop will be opened after the frost."
WARNING.—On Tuesday morning a boy about fifteen
years old was crushed between a gig and a cart at the
corner of North John-street. He is now recovering at
the Northern Hospital.
RAW GIN.—W. Buchanan, a porter in the employ of
of Rankin, Gilmour, and Co.. died on Wednesday morn-
ing last from drinking a large quantity of raw gin the pre-
vious day.

A RUNAWAY APPRENTICE, John Young, who bad
decamped from his master, Mr. S. L. Samuel, watch
manufacturer, on several occasions, has been brought
back from Dublin and sent to jail for a month.

A DuELIN " Boy," named Patrick Segrifre, notorious
for his attachment to shirt-stealing, has been sent to gaol
for a month, for stealing a shirt from the shop door of
Mr. John Dyke, draper, Tithebarn-street.
THE FLOURISHING TOWN OF ST. HELEN'S, which was
formerly in the parish of Prescot, has been constituted a
parish, independent of Present. All opiscopalian mar-
riages within the parish boundary must be solemnised at
St. Mary's Church.

MONA'S QUEEN, a splendid new steamer, built for the
Isle of Man line, anchored off Ramsey at seven o'clock
on Tuesday morning last, having passed the Clough
lighthouse, six miles from Greenock, at five minutes past
ten the previous evening.
WHO BUY VALENTINES ?-It is estimated by a certain
stationer, that out of every twenty-one valentines sold,
twenty are bought by the " fair sex ;" the other, usually
by some " fast gent," is in most cases a caricature, in-
tended for another " gent" equally " fast."

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A NARROW ESCAPE.—On Saturday evening week, as
Mr. Oil ivant, silversmith, of Ex change•street, Manchester,
was counting the money in his cash-box, a man entered
the shop and ran away with a fistfull of notes worth
£1,500 ! His foot slipped, and he dropped £1,300 of the
money, but got clean off with £2OO.

KNOCK-DOWN ROBBERY.—At nine o'clock. on Monday
morning, two men entered the shop of Mr. Samuel,
Waterloo-road, knocked down the servant girl with a
life-preserver, and ran off with the cash-box, which
fortunately did not contain anything of value. The girl
was taken to the Northern Hospital.

TETE FINE ARTS.—We understand that John Pember-
ton Heywood, Esq., has purchased the elegant statue of
the " Industrious Girl," by Signor Fontana. She wears
a wreath of flowers of the cotton plant, and is engaged in
winding a bobbin. This elegant statue attracted great at-
tention at the late exhibition of the Liverpool Academy.

JEWISH LADIES' BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.—The
fourth annual meeting was held on Sunday week, at the
Synagogue chambers, Hardman-street; Mrs. Hart, lady
president, in the chair. The receipts for the year were
£66. There had been expended, in relief to twelve cases
of confinement, £l5.

THE FRIENDS OF TOWN MISSIONS will be gratified to
learn that the gratuitous services of several gentlemen,
chiefly from Liverpool, have been engaged in aid of the
Prescot Scripture-reader Fund. A course of lectures, to
be delivered in the school-room of Plumb's-house, were to
commence last night with one by the Rev. J. England,
M.A., on " Terrestrial Phenomena."

DETENTION OF LETTERS BY A POST-OFFCE CARRIER.
—Jeremiah Browne, a letter-carrier, was brought up
yesterday week, and again on the day following, at the
Police-office, for the above offence. The prisoner, who
stated that the non-delivery arose from fatigue and illness,
was remanded fora week.

ON Thursday week, a very young child, belonging to
Thomas Owen. of Haydock, gamekeeper of Thomas B.
Leah, Esq., of Golborne-park, got near the kennel of a
savage yard dog. The animal sprang on the child, bit its
ear off, and made several severe wounds on different parts
of its body. The ,dog was immediately shot.
A MURDERER APPREUENDED IN LIVERPOOL.-011
Wednesday Henry M'Erlam was apprehended in this
town, on a charge of shooting Patrick M'Carron, on the
13th of July, 1847, at Toom, county Antrim. After the
commission of the offence, the prisoner escaped to
America. He returned to Treland, to see his friends, and
was about returning to the United States, on board the
steam-ship City of Glasgow, when he was apprehended.

IS A Kiss AN ASSAULT?—On Thursday Wm. Hamil-
ton, a porter at the Lime-street Railway Station, was
brought up at the Police office, charged with having
walked into the house of a Mrs. Griffiths, in Sandon-
street, ascended the stairs to that lady's bedroom, where
he found her asleep, and, having kissed her gently on the
cheek, decamped. lite defendant pleaded that he had
gone to the house to search for a man named Griffiths,
who was employed on the line. Mr. Wybergh said the
charge was for an assault, but he hardly thought that a
kiss, such as described, came within the term " assault."
It was more a case of trespass, and as such the prisoner
was liable to an action.—Discharged.
THE YACHT SWAN, Harper, master, (which excited so
much attention while fitting out in the Georee's Dock,)
belonging to our townsmen, Messrs. Moss, Butler, and
Co., sailed on Saturday week, for Melbourne. She is
only 36 tons and will carry about 60 tons over and
above all her water and other stores. She takes out a
crew of five men only. She was built for the Right Hon.
the Earl of Mountcashel, by White, of Waterford, and
was one of the fleet of the Royal Western Yacht Club,
where she distinguished herself by winning several cups.
Since she left, a good deal of interest has been caused by
the sailing of another yacht, the Corsair, Captain Kreft,
from Southampton, on Monday week, for the same port;
but she is a vessel double the size of the Swan.

DOCK COMMITTEE.-At the weekly meeting, on Thurs-
day, Mr. Shand in the chair, the subcommittee of works
submitted a plan for the extension on the east quay of the
Iluqkisson Dock of shed accommodation for the American
mail steamers. Referred to the committee to carry out.—
An application from Brown, Shipley, and Co., for fires in
certain dock nuts, was granted so far as regarded the
steamer docks.—Some appointments to subordinate situa-
tions at the Albert Dock were confirmed ; also the fol-
lowing scale of wages to be paid to apprentices :—First
year, (weekly,) Bs. ; second, 10s. ; third, 13s. ; fourth,
16s. ; fifth. 19s.—An application from the gatekeepers of
the Queen's and Sandon Graving Docks, for an advance of
wages, was refused.

DR. WI€EMAN IN LIVERPOOL.—A report got abroad
that " his eminence" would preach on Thursday morning
at Copperas-hill Chapel, and from an early hour the streets
in the vicinity were crowded. The chapel was speedily
filled ; but the "cardinal" neither officiated! nor preached.
At the conclusion of mass, it was announced from the
altar that the laity were to retire. With the exception of
scarlet coif and stockings "his eminence" did not wear
any of the cardinal insignia, being merely attired in his
archi-epimpal costume. It is stated that the Right Rev.
Dr. Brown, the Roman Catholic Bishop in this district, is
in a bad state of health ; and this, together with his ad-
vanced years, has prevented an active discharge of the
duties of his office. To remedy this, the appointment of
a coadjutor bishop to assist Dr. Brown has been resolved
upon, and Dr. 'Wiseman attended to preside over the
chapter (said to he the first since the reformation). It is
reported that the Rev. Dr. Roskell is to be the new prelate;
but the result cannot be known until the proceedings have
been confirmed by the pope.

WEST DERBY GUARDIANS.—At the weekly meeting on
Wednesday, the number of paupers in the workhouse was
stated to be 744.—A letter was read from the poor-law
board sanctioning the salaries which the guardians pro-
posed to pay the medical officers of the union. A com-
munication was read from the poor-law board respecting a
letter which that body had received from Henry Johnson,
one of the medical officers of the union, and requesting
the guardians to furnish them with some observations on
the matter. Mr. Johnson complained that the guardians
had not paid him a sum of £2 for a midwifery case, in which
extra services were alleged to have been rendered.—Mr.
Roskell contended that Mr. Johnson was fully entitled to
the £2, and made a proposition that that sum be paid,
which was seconded, put to the vote and lost. The clerk
was instructed to inform the poor-law board that the guar-
dians deemed the sum of 10s., the usual fee, quite sufficient.
Mr. Shaw moved that the following gentlemen form the
labour-test committee :—Messrs. Sutton,: Thomas Birch,
Bolshaw, Abrahams, Jeffreys, and Molyneux.—Mr. Heyes,
as an amendment, proposed that Messrs. Miller, Harrison,
Shaw, Kirkus, James Birch, and Heyes, form the commit-
tee. The motion of Mr. Shaw was carried. 'Mr. Harrison

moved that Mr. Downes, the taskmaster, make a weekly
return to the labour-test committee of the labour, &c.,
performed by the paupers. Mr. Kirkus gave notice that
he would move that the salary of Mr. John Whitehead,
assistant overseer of West Derby, be increased to £l5O
per annum.

GCIZTLEMEN.—There is no article of dress a gentleman
is so particular in regarding as his shirt, which, if imper-
fectly dressed, is more annoying than any other part of his
apparel. in order to obviate this, every gentleman should
see that his Laundress uses only the GLENFIELD PATENT
STARCH, " used in the Royal Laundry," which far sur-
passes any other for giving a fine CLEAR ELASTIC FINISH.
The Glenfield Patent Starch has long been the principal
Starch used in this country, and it has never been equalled
by any other for its fine ELASTICITY, CLEARNESS, and
beautiful Gloss. The benefits of using this Starch are
the uniformity of its stiffness, and at the same time pos-
sessing an elasticity which yields with the motion of the
_wearer, thereby preventing the shirt front from going out
°Carslet s
itv6riablY position and the collar from lying over, which is the
when other kinds of Starch are used. The
Glenfield Starcl has also the important quality of being
the uninfluenced b I
3, dampness of climate or lapse of time.
This STARCH
Washing Mayoress SOLELY used in the Royal Laundry; the
Laundries 0
e most of the Nobility ; the LaundryW of
ltianysortess.of London ; and by most of the Public
all outpns in London and the provincial
towns ; from
whore we have seen very flattering tes-
timonials in favour of
the Glenfield Patent Starch. On
the recommendation
confilence in urging of these authozities, we have every
satisfaction, to Bing you, for your own comfort and
Tcyour Laundress to use no other,
at least, in so far as
your information, any her dressing is concerned. For
Patent Starch may be obtained to state that the Glenfield
Shopkeepers in town and ;rill of
all,
or nearly all, the
vicinity, who will also give a list
of part of the Testimonials are
I)ooarveehaebe
eoev eto alludedesh
for the
t hI
et
will be necessary in making
Glenfield Patent Starch, and
se.e that the Manufac-
turer's name, R. Wotherspoon, is printed or? each packet ;
This without which, none is genuine.
catlitioonffisenn inferiorecessery
as certain parties are endeavouring to
article with a colourable imitation of the
labeloft
genuine. However, some of these parties have already
e
been stopped, by the order of the Lord Chancellor, but it
may yet be as well to see that the maker,. name,' R.
Wotberopocur, is printed on each label.

MR. WILLIAM Ilirwuri, of Liverpool, has been ad-
mitted a member of the Rcyal College of Surgeons.
The Preston Chronicle complains of the defective postal
arrangements between thattown and Liverpool and Man-
chester.
MORMONISM.—The avertge atteadance on Sundays at
the Mormonite meeting horse in Liverpool, we regret to
state, is estimated at 500.
MANY of our readers will be glad to perceive by our
advertising celumns, that fir. Featly, the Soper of our
northern metropolis, is abort to introduce the continental
system into his new restaurant.
IVAN SEVEN ANDREA MILFORD. Gent., has received
the commission as Ensign is the Ist legiment of the Duke
of Lancaster's Own Militia, signed by the Lord-Lieute-
nant of the County Palatine of Lancaster.
THE Dumfries Courier states. that the fine estate of
Fairgirth, in the Stewartrs of Kirkcudbright, has been
purchased by private bargain, by 'William llilton, Esq.,
Manchester, for the sum of £22,000,
THE REV. HUGH STOWELL BROWN has handed over
to Mr. Thomas Orford the sum of a 16s. 6d., the pro-
fits of his lecture on the state of relgious freedom on the
continent, delivered in aid of the eidows and orphans of
the sufferers by the explosion of the brig Lily.
THE KNIFE.—Oa Monday morning, about three
o'clock, a man named Murphy war attacked by two men
and two women in Waterloo-road. They demanded
drink from him. stabbed him witl a knife in the back
and on the head, and afterwards rolbed him of is. sd.

CHURCH Mrsstoss.—The Rev. !kb-. Ryle whose tracts
have had such extensive circulation. and Rev. F. Close of
Cheltenham, with Revds. Messrs. Cooper and Fox vvPll
be the Deputations for the Church Missionary Society in
Liverpool at the ensuing anniversary on the last Sunday
in April next.

A LITHOGRAPHED FAC-SIMILE of the coffin-plate on
Nelson's coffin has been presented to the free library by
Mr. G. S. Russell. of North John-street. By the style
of the engraving, &c., it affords a singular testimony to
the wonderful progress made in the decorative arts in the
space of less than fifty years,

A SUBSCRIPTION has b&n opened on behalf of the
family of the late Captain t. Church, commander of the
Queen Victoria. The deceased had been in the employ
of the City of Dublin Stean-packet Company for upwards
of 28 years. The compary have headed the list with the
donation of £lOO. The subscription list lies at the Ex-
change News-room.
LIVERPOOL CAMBRIA, SOCIETY.—The members and
friends intend celebratirg their 46th anniversary on St.
David's Day (to-day). Itis the intention of the members
to present their surgeon,; Nicholas Marsh, Esq., Mount-
pleasant, with a bandsorie service of plate.
DOMINO ANTONIO, a Spanish sailor, was charged on
Friday, at the Police-coact, with having broken into the
chest of a fellow-seamar, and stolen a quantity of apparel
and some money therefrom. The offence was committed
while the vessel was lyim at Bristol, whither the prisoner
was accordingly sent tobe dealt with by the authorities
there.

A CANNIBAL AT HOME !—John Isherwood was
charged, at the St. H:len's sessions, on Tuesday, with
biting off part of the lose of Joseph Wood, at Sutton,
and also with biting the finger of Sarah Wood, and
assaulting James Wo)d. Joseph Wood was unable to
attend, and his casewas adjourned. The prisoner was
fined in each of the otter cases, or in default four months'
imprisonment.

COMPLIMENTARY DINNER.--On the evening of Friday
a party of gentlemendined at the Brunswick Hotel, (Mr.
Whiteman's,) on theoccasion of six young officers enter-
ing the Excise. Mr. Mitchell, supervisor of the first
district, occupied tie chair; and Mr. Chadwick, import
surveyor, officiated as vice-chairman. The viands and
wines were of the most recherche description, and the
proceedings were characterised by much good feeling and
harmony.

THE THIRD ORDINARY MEETING of the Warrington
and Altringham Jtnction Railway Company was held at
the Clarendon-roons on Tuesday last, C. Holland, Esq.,
in the chair. The directors confidently rely on the line
being c'impleted aid ready for traffic before the next half-
yearly meeting. "he directors intend to make a further
call, payable in A7ril next, after which the company will
be in a position :o take up money on loan. The report
was adopted.

SINGULAR CASE.—An emigrant ship from Liverpool
lately put into Bommaris under these circumstances:—
After it had saied, the ship was boarded by a steam-
vessel, and forty-two additional passengers put in. The
captain remonstrated with the parties concerned, on the
ground of want cf accommodation for such a number, but
with no effect. Lie therefore made for Beaumaris, and
the broker who had shipped the surplus number was
served with two summonses to appear before the magis-
trates, when he vas fined in two penalties of £5O and £3O.

" HEAVY Mitra.L."—At the Police-office, on Friday,
James ArCarth, marine-store dealer, in Harrison-street,
was charged witri being in possession of a quantity of sheet
lead and a brass preserving pan, knowing them to have
been stolen ;and Margeret Raney, an elderly woman, with
being concerned in the robbery. The magistrate com-
mitted M'Carthy for one month, and ordered his license
to be revoked. The woman, who was discharged, is
known among ler confreres by the appropriate title of
" Scrap Nelly," and it would appear that the thief was
one " Patty Joyce," who was not forthcoming.
STEAM -BOAT CASES.—Messrs. Colborn and Pritchard,
owners of the New Brighton steamers, were charged, at
the Police-office, on Thursday, with allowing the steamer
James Atherton to carry passengers, not having the li-
cense on board at the time. Fined Is., and is. costs.—
James and Alec. Bremner, owners of the steam-tug
Modern Athens, were charged with allowing her to carry
passengers, she not being licensed for the same. Fined
405., and 4s. 6d. costs ; and John Hughes, master of the
vessel at the time, ls., and Is. costs.

CONVERTS FROM POPERY.—Three persons publicly
abjured the errors of Popery on Sunday evening last, at
the church of St. James', Latchford, 'Warrington, and
were received into communion with the Church of Eng-
land, by the Rev. J. W. Wright, incumbent. An excel-
lent sermon was preached on the occasion by the Rev.
J. W. Harden, vicar of Condover, Salop, when £9 wes
collected for the Society for Irish Church Missions.

TRANSATLANTIC STEAMERS.—On Wednesday after-
ternoon, the United States mail steam-ship Baltic, Capt.
Comstock, sailed from the Mersey with the usual United
States and Canadian mails, 36 passengers, and a large and
valuably cargo on hoard. Amongst the passengers was the
Padre Gavazzi. At an early hour on Wednesday morn-
ing, the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-
ship Africa, Captain Harrison, arrived in the Merser,
with advices from New York to the 9th instant, and mails
and passengers. The British and North American Com-
pany's screw-steamer Andes, Captain Hutchings, arrived
here a little before ten o'cicek on Tuesday night, on her
first return voyage from New York. The Cambria, hence
for Boston, was passed on Monday morning. The Andes
brought no passengers, but a large miscellaneous cargo.
ASYLUM FOR ORPHAN Bovs.—The annual meeting
of the supporters was held on Wednesday, in the Claren-
don-rooms. the Mayor, Samuel Holme, Esq., in the
chair. Mr. J. M. Banner read the report. Forty-two
boys have to this time been admitted ; about £4,400 has
been received, and when the Asylum is ready for occupa-
tion it is hoped that the whole of the £6,000 required for
its completion will be in the treasurer's hands.—Mr.
Bibby. the treasurer, read the statement of accounts.
After an expenditure of £474 Ns. 11d., a balance re-
mained of £5B 7s. 7d. The Rev. Rector Campbell, Mr.
H. Banner, and other gentlemen, addressed the meeting.
It was announced that the Mayor had given the unsoli-
cited donation of £5O.
Loss OF THREE EMIGRANT SHlPS.—During the last
week, Lloyd's have been apprised of the total loss of
three emigrant ships, while on the outward-bound passage
to Australia, with nearly 1000 passengers on board, the
whole of whom escaped, with the exception of two or
three persons. The names of the vessels are, the Sir
Powell Buxton, from London, bound to Port Philip ; the
Eglinton, also from the Thames ; and another vessel,
reported to be the Australian Express, from Liverpool.
The loss of the Eglinton took place on the night of the
Bth of September, about 30 miles northward of Free-
mantle (on the coast of Australia). Two passengers and
the boatswain met with a watery grave. The other vessel,
the Australian Express, was wrecked also on the Austra-
lian coast, 200 miles southward of the Heads, near Syd-
ney; all were saved.
THE LAW or SHIPPING NOTES.—On Wedneaday Mr.
Owen appeared at the Police-office, on behalf of Joseph
Spradlow, to claim from Messrs. Hatton and Cookson,
the owners of the brig Lily, payment for an advance note
which he had discounted for a seaman who sailed in that
vessel. Mr. Aspinall, for the defendant, admitted that
the seama❑ had sailed, but he said the vessel was wrecked
before the ten days after which the note was made payable
Lad expired, and he contended that the note was not pay-
able unless the seaman was earning wages at the time of
the presentation of the note by the discounter. Mr.
Mansfield said he had had a discussion with the judge of
the County Court respecting the interpretation of the act,
and they had agreed it would be better to refer the matter
to the Board of Trade, and get the opinion of the law
officers of the Crown on the subject. He had communi-
cated with Mr. Cardwell, and he would postpone his de-
cision on this cese until he received an answer.
GUARDIAN SOCIETY.—The anniversary of this society
was celebrated on Thursday evening, by a dinner at the
Royal Hotel, Dale-street, and was honoured by the pre-
sence of Samuel Holme, Esq., mayor. Mr. J. H. Smith
presided, and the vice-chairmen were Mr. Hugh H. Gib-
son and Mr. M'Millan. Amongst the gentlemen at the
principal table were Mr. Alderman Parker, Mr. Alked,
Mr. Councillor Thomson, Mr. Councillor Woodruff, Mr.
Evans, solicitor to the society, and Mr. E. Roberts.
There were also present, Messrs. Richard Bissington,
vice-president of the Leeds and West Riding Society for
the Protection of Trade, and Mr. Johnson, secretary of
that society. The report stated that during the past
year the sub-committee have issued 40,523 circulars,
containing the names of upwards of 1,000 persons against
whose fraudulent practices it was necessary to caution the
members.

IMPROVED ANCHORS.—The report of the Anchor Com-
mittee has at length been issued, and as it embraces many
matters of importance connected with the Royal navy and
commercial marine, we give the list of those inventors
who supplied anchors to be tested, in compliance with the
circular of the Admiralty, in the order of merit as they
stand in the report :—Trotnlan' first; Rodgers, second ;
Mitcheson, third ; Lenox, fourth ; Honiball, fifth ; Aylen,
sixth; Admiralty, seventh ; 'macs, Stb. It was eug.
gested to the committee during the trials, that, from their
superior holding properties, anchors on Porter's principle
were fully equal, for all general purposes, to much larger
anchors on common plans • and as this appeared to the
committee to be a question of vast importance to the
shipping interests, they felt justified in so far deviating
from their original design, as to subject Trotman's anchor
(which proved to have greater bolding powers than Honi-
ball's or Porter's) to trials with anchors on the Admiralty
plan, of the respective weights of 30, 35, and 40 cwt.,
(stock included,) on the parade ground, and of 31 cwt. on
the beach. The results, as shown in the appendices of
the reports, left no doubt in the mind of the committee,
that, in regard to holding power, with a steady equable
strain, Trotman's anchors are fully equal to Admiralty
whorls 'Vat least 24 per emit. greater weight.- •• -