The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-08 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS.

THE IMPROVEMENTS AT THE WAPPING DocKft are
How proceeding most vigorously. A spacious street is in
course of formation.
THE PRESTON MAGISTRATES tested the other day
whether a prisoner was really intoxicated or not by his
ability to read a newspaper paragraph.
THE OPENING SUPPER of the Duke of Wellington
Lodge of Oddfello s was held on Tuesday last, at the
New inn, Green-bank, St. Helens.
THE EMIGRATION FROM LIVERPOOL during February
amounted to 12,990 souls ; number of Australian emigrant
vessels, 22 ; registered tonnage of the vessels, 10,490.
THE CHALLENGE to plough for £lOO of Ephraim
Pickthall, of Urswick, Lancashire, has been accepted by
George Cummings, of Farleton.
THE REV. J. AspINALL, rector of klthorpe, Lincoln-
shire, lectured in the town hall, East Retford, Notts,, on
Thursday last, on " The educational progress of the age."
MR. R. FAIRBAIRN, of London, has made a proposal
for deodorising and purifying the sewerage water of Liver-
pool, and making the sediment very valuable for agricul-
tural purposes.

THE PRESTON TOWN COUNCIL have it under con-
sideration to pension Samuel Banister, the superintend-
ent of the borough constabulary, at a salary of £lO4 per
annum.

THE NEW RAMSEY (Isle of Man) steamer is pro-
gressing satisfactorily, at Mr. Laird's yard, Birkenhead.
It is expected to be ready for the station early in the
Summer.
THE HOUSE OF MR. r-PToN, 5, St. Jude's place, was
entered on Tuesday evening by means of skeleton keys,
and jewellery and other property to the amount of more
than £4O stolen.
BRIDGET O'Bortr, a woman living in Simpson-street,
was severely burned on Thursday evening while endeavour-
ing to extinguish some oakum which had taken fire in the
house whilst she was at tea.

GEORGE BROVVN, who was brought up on a charge of
bigamy, supported by his second wife, a Liverpool dress-
maker, was discharged on Tuesday last, with an adrnoni.
Lion.

A SHIP of no tons, to be propelled 137 screws of 60-
horse power, intended to ply between this port and
Bristol, will be launched from the ship-building yard at
Chester on Friday next. She will be called the Amelia.
MRS. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE, having accepted
Ithe handsome offer of a free passage frorn 'the proprietors,
it is said will sail from Philadelphia on the 26th of March,
in the steamship City of Glasgow.
A WOR`FM AN AT PENRHYN QUARRY was overwhelmed
last week by many tons of falling rock ; but, in con-
sequence of the disposition of one of the pieces, he was
dug out unhurt.
ShRP:I MMONALD. a servant girl, recently discharged
from a situation at Wavertree, attempted to commit
suicide in her lodgings, Roscoe-lane, on Monday, by
taking laudanum. The stomach pump, applied at the
Southern Hospital, saved her.
DITRBY ELECTION COPZIIITTE7..—The following mem-
bers have been appointed on this committee :—Mr.
Robert Ingham ( chairman:), Mr. William Stirling, Mr.
AV. M. E. Milner, Mr. J. Banks Stanhope, and lion.
Arthur F. Kinnaird.

THE STEAM-Sills' O:Ty or GLAS,GOW left the Mersey
for Philadelphia on Wednesday, with eighty cabin passen-
qets and a full cargo, having, since docking on Saturday
discharged and loaded upwards of 1,900 tons,
besides undergoing repairs.
RAILWAY AcciDENT.--:Th Friday week, the express
train, which arrived at Manchester about three o'clock,
:when near Atherstone, on the Trent Valley line, came
into collision with a cart that was crossing the railway ;
the cart was knocked to pieces, but neither the horse nor
train was injured.
13,arTAL Assmir-;.—Charles 'Williams was brought up
tne Police office or, Tuesday last; charged with stabbing
eorge .•
seit, in a public-house in Dennison-street,
•Ilonday. As the prosacutor lay in the Northwas
ern
lospital, and was unable to appear, the prisoner
remanded for a week.
A POOR LITTLE BOY, named .John Davis, apparently
not ten years' old; was charged at the police-office, an
Friday, with stealing cotton. The trembling culprit
stated that his aunt, with whom he lived, sent him out to
Pick up a living as best he might, The worthy magistrate
Very properly sent him to the'llagged School.
A DEPUTATION', to present a-memorial from the mer-
chants of Liverpool, London, .Greenock, Poole, and
Bristol, engaged ;n the trade and fisheries of Newfound-
had an interview with the Earl of Clarendon, en
ednesday, at the Foreign-office. The deputation con-
sisted of Mr. T. H. Brooking, Mr. T. N. Hunt, Mr.
T. B. Job, Mr. T. H. Newman, and Mr. Schenk.

DERBY ELEOTION.—The Dery Mercury, of Wed-
nesday last, says :—Agents of both parties have been
busily employed, during the last few days, in serving
speaker's warrants ; and if only a tithe of those who have
had notice to 'hold themselves ,in readiness, are sut-
sequently required to attend, the committee have a long
spell before them.
MAYOR'S 'IIAN-QUET.—The Ma-'or gave a large dinner
party, on Thursday evening, at the Town-hall, to someof
the railway celebrities of this kingdom. The party con-
sisted of the principal members of the boards of the
'London and `North-western, the !Lancaster and Carlisle,
the Chester and Uolyhead, and the Lancashire and York-
-shire railways.

THE 'LATE GI.IE—LAND ACCIDENTS.—On Sqtlltdar;
week, Ellen "Williams, of No. 1 Court. Kew-street, had
her area fractured by the gate of a stable-yard, which
+was blown dawn upon her in Kirkdale-road.—A slate fell
'upon •Eliza,Brown, at the door of-her own residence in
Leeds-street, and caused' a compound fracture of the
-She.wis.conveyed to the Northern Hospital.
A 'FALSE ALLaM. —On the morning of Friday last
hundreds of people rushed down to the pier-head, under
the idea thatthe,Great Britain steamer had arrived in the
river. It was found. 'r-owever, that it was H.M. steam-
ship Encounter, Captain G. W. IF'- O'Callaghan, at
present lying in the Slone, which had fired several
times, and not the leviathan, whose return from Australia
is daily expected.

ROBBERY AND ARSON.—On Monda-7 night some thief
got access to the bedroom of Mr. tucker, publican,
klygeia-street, and locked the door from within. On the
door being thrust open, it was found th,6l several lrawers
had been ransacked, and a watch, a 'pencil cas!, and
other articles stolen. Some clothes had 'een ignite/ by a
lucifer match having been thrown amonazt them, but for-
tunately their dampness prevented the fire spreading.
LANCA•SHIF.E d 253 CARLISLE RAILIAV:I".—The self-
yearly meeting of the proprietors was held on Friday,Mr.
Hassell, cifttirman ef the directors, presiding. The report
read to the meeting gave a very satisfactory statement of
the affairG of the company, and was (with the exceptior of
one clause which was teld over) unanimously adopted•
A dividend of X 2 per whole, and 10s. 6d. per third shale,
was declared, out of the nett profits of the undertaking Lp
to the 31st of January last.

DEFENCE or LI,VER-700L.—In 1839, it qi7a3 proposfq
to spend £Z,OOO in the erection of a new battery, north.
west end of the Huskisson Dock, but its commence-
ment has been delayed; £6,000 was voted -tir it in
1846-7, and 44,000 for the present year. The only ex-
penditure that has taken place is a payment of -.4,-,000 to
the corporation of Lice pool, for using granite in the
river wall. The wall is now completed, and it is pro-
posed to proceed with the .battery.

DANGERS OF A CGOAK.—A poor woman, an intending
.emigrant, named Margaret .Cosgrove, has been presented
from proceeding in the ship in whicli her passage was taken,
by an accident which occurred to her on Saturday week.
As she was walking along Regent-road, enveloped in a
-long cloak, the wind got under it, and twisting her .com-
,pletel
g.-
y round, threw her with e
-at violence upon the pave-
ment, causing severe concussion of the brain.
.FALSE CHARACTER% There are many people in
Liverpool who would well to be warned by the fact,
that in the Worship-sti?eet court, London, last
week, Mrs. Somers, a marrierwiloceman, residing in Tem-
ple-street, Hackney-road was fined £lO for iv' a false
character to a servant. In consequence of thge dienfegndant's
representations, the girl had been engaged by another
person, whom she robbed to a large amount,
A POb;CE-INSPECTOR AT TILE EAR.—A beerhouse-
keeper, named William Oliver, preferred a complaint, at
the police.court, on Thursday, againat Inspector Wilson,
for assaulting him on the 23rd ultimo. Wilson, it ap-
peared, had tone to the complainant's Louse to take him
into custody for a fine of £1 is. Gd., which be refused to
Pay. Mr. Mansfield, in dismissing the ease. said if the
Complainant had received any violence, be had brought it
entirely upon himself, and certainly deserved it.

A COUPLE FR,„;M BOSTON, in Lir _,
in Liverpool, the other day, under somewhat
eurnstances. The female was the daughter of a IrNicutauic
farmer, who had thought proper to elope with her father's
Man-servant, and her father's horse. The lover sold the
horse at Lincoln, and with the proceeds the truants came
The
to th is '
torn their intention being to emigrate to Australia.
Liverpool. father brought the Lincoln constable with him to
Proceeded
i
a° e found, to his dismay, that matters bad
nceordin
itly
tiler that marriage was the best policy • and
neal crisiS with all gentleman hurried matters to a I;yrne-
the paternal re
proetasible despatch. The couple received
in one breath, andethe and the paternal blessing almost
sailed for New York. Sum of £7O. They have since
A NOVEL MODE OF Ron„.
,--.7ILY--A singular attempt
to steal from a shop window
jeweller, Great
ins, at the shop of Mr.
observed two
Caaade on Monday even-
mYsterious manner
Howard-street. The attendant in tlietz;hop move in a very
gold dollar pieces
toWards the window; and on a more
the cause of attraction was found t be (Ite.exanaination
through a circular hole in the window t
panse.ickTineserted
prietor of the establishment ran out. and foundh pro.
and youth standing on then outside. lie seized thee Tan
brought him within, and left him in charge of wl)f.ye,
He then gave chase to the man, but did not succeed i . capturing him. On his return, he found that the bo
bad broken away from his wife. The holes d
been
neatly drilled through the plate glass, and the stick of
attraction was tipped with bird-lime.

re, -were unite

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LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY.—The half.
Yearly meeting of proprietors was held on Wednesday, at
the Palatine Hotel, Manchester, Mr. Barnes, M.P., pre.
sided. The chairman was happy to say that this company
Was on the most peaceable and friendly terms with other
companies. He hoped that some arrangement would be
come to with the East Lancashire Company, to avoid the
necessity of that company making a duplicate line from
Clifton to Manchester. The chairman moved a dividend
of £1 10s. per share on the £lOO stock ; and, in the
same proportion, on such of the Manchester and Leeds
100, £5O, £25, and £l2 shares; on the Wakefield,
Pontefract, and Goole £5O and £25 shares ; and on the
Liverpool and Bury and Huddersfield and Sheffield £5O
shares, which have not yet been converted into stock ;
of 4s. 31d. on the £l9 10s. shares; and 2s. 84-d. on the
_1.6 P. extension shares ; and of
3s. 4,1 d. on the West
1 It'di ng £l4 shares. Mr. Riley s
it was adopted. The econded the motion, and
retiring dire B,
6,111, “. Wilson, W. Moron,
and Jctors (Messrs. .
Radcliffe) were re-
elected NI
r, HUM' wen again appointed auditor.