The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-05-31 00:00:00

UPWARDS of eighty of the witnesses summoned to
London on the Liverpool election inquiry, breakfasted on
Thursday at the Commercial Hotel, Lord Nelson-street.

ROYAL INSTITUTION SCHOOL.—On Thursday, the 26th,
Mr. W. Glen, son of Mr. G. Glen, of this town, and late
pupil of the above school, was elected to an open scholar-
ship at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Mr. Glen,
besides the scholarship, was honoured by the examiners
with an additional prize in testimony of their approval.
SELF-PUNISHMENT.—On Tuesday, a youth, named
Thomas Swift, belonging to a flat called the Mary, in an
affray which took place at the Leeds canal basin, armed
himself with a boathook ; and when a police-officer
attempted to take it from him he pulled it towards him,
and the point entered his abdomen. He was taken to
the Northern Hospital, and is now doing well.
FRAUD.—Charles Eyre, a compositor, was apprehended
by detective-officer Murphy, at Mr. Brakell's printing-
office, North John-street, Liverpool, on Monday, on a
charge of having obtained a piano by false representation,
in March, 1852, at Manchester. The prisoner was con-
veyed to Manchester, and was committed for trial on the
charge.
THE ORIENT.—A very complimentary letter was pre-
sented to the surgeon of the packet-ship Orient, of the
" Black Star Line," by the passengers lately arrived in
that vessel. The letter speaks in the warmest terms of
the services of the medical officer. We understand that
on her passage out the Orient had 900 emigrants on board,
and that only one death, that of an infant, occurred.
A COTTON-PORTER KILLED.—ThornaS Oxton. a cotton-
porter, in the employ of Mr. Bates, was, on the 7th inst.,
stowing cotton in a shed, Cheapside, when Kirby, the man
who had charge of the work, observed that he was intoxi-
cated, and that. on going to the jigger loft, he climbed up
the bales instead of using a ladder placed for that purpose.
In doing so he fell. fractured his skull, and from these in-
juries died, in the Northern Hospital, on Tuesday. When
expostulated with by his wife as to his reason for climbing
up the bales instead of mounting the ladder, be said he
chose the former as the nearest way.

A GRAVEDIGGER DISTURBED.—On Sunday night, the
gravedigger attached to Christ Church, in this town, was
busily engaged in his professional avocation by moonlight,
when a number of boys who were passing that way, and
whose attention was attracted by the somewhat unusual
spectacle, concluded that the individual so engaged could
not be other than one of the" body-snatching" fraternity.
They assailed him, therefore, en masse, and, having pro-
cured the aid of the police, brought the surprised and
frightened digger to the house of the sexton, who explained
to the captors their prisoner's position, and obtained his
release.
THE BILLETING SYSTEM.—On an application being
made by the Licensed Victuallers' Association to Adju-
tant Edwards, of the military department, Islington, re-
questing that he would appoint a time to investigate
a case of gross misconduct of Sergeant Boyd and a soldier
named Hale, of the 83rd regiment, while on billet, that
gentleman fixed Wednesday last, when the charge was
promptly gone into. Mr. Henry Luff. of the Liverpool
Arms, Rose-hill, was the complainant ; and the charge
was that the soldier had refused a good bed provided for
him, at a cost of 2s. the week, at a house opposite, but
persisted in being accommodated at Mr. Luff's. Sergeant
Boyd had abetted him in this determination ; and the
man had eventually been bought off for 3s. Sergeant
Boyd, in defence, said he understood the landlord wanted
to send the man to Ben Jonson- street, and that was a
quarter of a mile off. Adjutant Edwards then addressed
himself to both men on the case generally, pointing out to
them, and to victuallers also, that the Mutiny Act did not
contemplate or recognise money payment in any way
whatever in the discharge of a billet, but positively de-
fined that the party on whom a billet shall be issued must
provide for the soldier either in his own house or con-
veniently thereto. The act certainly did not state what
was to be considered a convenient distance, but he
should say 100 yards or thereabouts ; therefore any pay-
ment in money could not be a private arrangement
between the soldier and the landlord. In this case there
had been a compliance with the act by the landlord, and
gross misconduct on the part of the men, whom he ordered
there and then to refund the 35., with a strict admonition
that if found at anything like the same again he would
report them to their regiment, and have them called into
barracks, with perhaps other punishments.
TURN-OUT OF FLATMEN.—On Wednesday last. at the
Police-court, three flatmen, named George Rainford,
Robert Haughty, and William Rimmer, were charged
with disorderly conduct, and intimidating workmen. A
strike has, within the last few days, taken place among the
flatmen employed on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, the
" turn-outs" demanding an additional penny per ton for
the conveyance of coal from Wigan and other places. On
Tuesday morning, two of the men in the employ of
Messrs. Tayleur, Delamere, and Co., after discharging
their cargo, intimated that they would not return for
more coal until they bad received the amount demanded
by the other flatmen. Subsequently they agreed to leave
the basin, but expressed a fear that the men belonging to
Messrs. Brancker, Barton, and Windus, and other firms,
who were standing out, would prevent them. In answer
to this, Mr. Delamere asked the two men if they would
proceed to the canal, providing an opening was made for
them through the other flats, and was answered in the
affirmative. The number of the " turn-outs" amounted
to about 150 or 200; and Mr. Delamere applied to Capt.
Greig for the assistance of some police-officers. Accord-
ingly an inspector and six officers were soon on the spot ;
but the violence of the flatmen was so great that a super-
' intendent, with another inspector, and about 50 police-
officers, had to be despatched to the scene of the uproar.
Upon seeing the police force, the two flatmen in the
employ of Messrs. Tayleur, Delamere, and Co., refused to
go on board their boats. Mr. Delamere then got the
assistance of the carters and porters in the employ of the
company, who endeavoured to effect an entrance into the
canal. 'ln the attempt, however, they were violently
assailed by the " turn-outs," who: prevented the carters
and porters from unfastening the chains of the flats which
blocked up•the passage. The police used every exertion
to repel the violence of the flatmen; but the disturbance,
notwithstanding, lasted from three o'clock in the after-
noon until seven in the evening, during which time no
fewer than'l,soo to 2,000 persons had assembled. Ulti-
mately the riot was subdued, and an entrance into the
canal effected for the flats of the prosecutors. The pri-
soners, who were the ringleaders, were taken into custody.
Mr. Mansfield said it was a kind of outrage that demanded
the utmost promptitude, and the prisoners must go to gaol
for three months' hard labour.
LITIGATION.--In the Vice-Chancellor's Court,on Wed-
' nesday, three separate injunctions were applied for by or
against the Liverpool Corporation, for matters arising out
of the progress of the Rivington works. The first two
xeere applications against Mr. Miller and Mr. Scott, con-
tractors. They were to have the privilege of cutting and
using timber from the ground to be formed into reser-
voirs, but it was alleged that they had exceeded the pre-
scribed boundaries. An injunction was in each case granted.
In the third case, an action by a Mr. M'Naughten, against
" the mayor, a ldermen, and burgesses of °Liverpool," Sir
Fitzroy Kelly appeared in support of a motion for an in-
junction to restrain the defendants from allowing a dam,
constructed by them near the River Yarrow for the pur-
pose of making a reservoir and embankment, to he opened
so as to allow, and from allowing, any foul or impure
water to come or be pumped from their works into the
river Yarrow at any point or points above certain calico
print-works, called Birk-acre Works, belonging to the
plaintiff. The plaintiff complained that the works neces-
sary in the construction of the reservoir had the effect of
loosening large quantities of shale, mineral, and earthy
matters, which were allowed to flow into the river Yarrow ;
and they iesisted that the defendants should form a
conduit to carry off the impurities. The Solicitor-General,
for the defendants, contended that the case was met suffi-
ciently by counter affidavits, and that the works had been
,conducted under sufficient scientific superintendence. He
said, if the plaintiff had sustained any injury, it must be
1: be subject of compensation, and not of injunction.—The
case was not concluded when the court rose.—On Thurs-
day, the case was resumed. The Vice-Chancellor granted
the injunction in the words in which the interim iyjy.ne.-
tian had been framed, restraining the defendants from
opening•the dam which separates the new girt from the
'Yarrow, but giving them liberty to apply in case of neces-
sity. 'The plaintiff must put their legal right in the
course of immediate trial by bringing an action forthwith,
not for compensation, but in respect of the damage and
injury alleged to have arisen by the mode in which the
works were executed, and they must proceed to trial at the
next assises.
THE DRAIN, AND DUILVB INSTITUTF.. —The annual
examination of the children belonging to the school for
the Deaf and Dumb took place on Thursday, in the

lecture-room .of the Royal Institution, Colquiit-street.
There were about a hundred ladies and gentlemen present,
amongst whom were his worship the Mayor, Au'ev. Rector
Campbell, Richard Yates, Esq. (president of the insti-
tute) ; Harmood Banner, Esq., and Edward Banner.
Esq. (honorary secretary of the institute). The pupils,
who numbered about 50, equally ,divided between boys
and girls, sat on each side of the platform, and com-
menced their exercises under the direction of Mr. Buxton,
the master. Several boys and girls who had been only
adimtted into the school a few weeks ago, went very
satisfactorily through the alphabet, and were succeeded
by other new pupils who, pantomimically, described the
peculiar action of different animals, and represented by
signs, number of verbs. Another class of boys and girls
then wrote on a board answers to several questions relating
to different things. After these exercises had been gone
through, the mayor wrote several questions on the board,
which the children answered. Bible lessons were next
gone through, and resumed after a few arithmetical
exercises. in the meanwhile, several drawing-books
belonging to the pupils were handed round amongst the
company, and elicited general compliments. The examina-
tion was finally wound up by some vocal exercises by
three little girls, who endeavoured, and in some instances
with success, to utter vocal sounds resembling different
letters. Mr. Buxton, the master, then intimated that
the examination which had been witnessed was merely a
hurried outline of what was taught in the school, and he
would be very happy to receive visitors there any Tuesday
between the hours of ten And twelve o'clock in the morn-
ing, and two and half-past four o'clock in the afternoon.
The Rev. Rector Campbell expressed a hope that all
present would spread the name of the school far and wide
amongst their friends, so that its usefulness would be
generally appreciated, and its interests in that way for-
warded. Speaking for himself, he had been very much
pleased with the examination, which bad been very
satisfactory, and reflected great credit on the master. So
thought all present; for they exhibited in their faces the
pleasure which they had experienced at seeing how much
science had been made to contribute to the happiness of
those who had been deprived by nature of the distinguish-
ing characteristic of man—speech.---It appears that the
number of deaf and dumb at present on the books of the
institution is 57. Of these 43 belong to Liverpool ; and
with two exceptions all belong to the town and district.
Twenty-five of this number are boarders; upwards of
thirty (a larger number than the building ever before
contained) are day scholars. The institution is open to
all comers; there is not another in the kingdom to which
admission is so easy, and in which the advantages which
the school is provided to dispense are so freely afforded.
Nearly 20 of the children have been deprived either of
one parent or of both. In seven cases deafness is not
limited to a single member of the family. Four house-
holds, from which pupils come, contain two deaf and
dumb children; and in three other cases the number of
deaf children is three each.