The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-21 00:00:00

THE ROYAL MERSEY YACHT CLUB.

On Saturday, the sailing match for the Grand Chal-
lenge Cup, value £lOO, and the Ladies' purse of 50
guineas added, took place in the outward channals of our
river. The purse, an elegant piece of needle-work, and
its contents, are taken by the winning boat of the day ;
the cup must be won two years consecutively by the same
boat before it can be bona fide claimed by the owner of
the winning boat, at the second time of her successful

sailing

The Prince, City of Dublin Co.'s steam-ship, com-
manded by captain Bezley, was engaged for the members
and their faiends to follow and witness the race, and
started about ten o'clock in the forenoon from the Pince's
Pier, with a goodly company of ladies and gentlemen,
the former numbering about fifty. A capital quadrille
and brass hand was on board.

The course was from New Brighton to the Bell Buoy ;
thence to the Northwest Lightship, a double run round
the last two points, and thence back to the place of
starting. This is what in the Club parlance is termed
" The Queen's Course," and the distance to be sailed in
all might be about forty miles, all in the open sea, and
well defined by buoys. The yachts had previously been
placed in proper starting position by the Captain of the
Club, on whom devolved, in addition to his own duties,
those of the worthy Commodore, who was unavoidably
absent. _ _ _

Nine fine yachts entered for the race, but owing to un-
foreseen circumstances, only the following came up :

The Jilt, R. T. Y. C. 19 tons,—owner J.-S. Mamie, Esq
The Vision, R. M. Y. C. 41 tons,—T. Birchall, Esq.
The Petrel, R. M. Y. C. 15 tons,—W. W. Shand, Esq,
'1 he Victoria, R. C. Y. C. 59 tons,—D. Connor, Esq.

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Tar Leander, R. M. Y. C. 31 tons,—Jon. tirindrod, Esq.
We regret that Mr. Ewart's fine yacht, the Edith, and
Mr. Naylor's Sultana were not entered, as. from the
general strength of the breeze, these la rge and powerful
vessels would have had a good chance of obtaining the
noble prize. That singular vessel, the Enchantress, from
Cork, which arrived the night previous, had carried away
her main boom in crossing the channel, during the heavy
gale of the preceding day, and was prevented from starting,
although she was entered. The contest, consequently,
seemed to remain with the Victoria (the winner of last
year) and the fine new clipper yacht, the Vision, of which
great expectations were entertained, and it was reserved
for the spirited and worthy owner of this last vessel that
she should have the honour of rescuing this splendid prize
from being lost to the club, which it most assuredly would
have been if the Victoria had been the victor.

The morning opened, squally and unfavourable, with
rain, the wind at first blowing fresh from the S. E. and
afterwards blowing to the amount of a gale from the S.W.
with frequent squalls and showers of rain.
On the signal being given by the:Captain, the yatchts
started off in good style, steering down the channel. The
Victoria did not get away till a short time after the Vision.
From the S.W. the wind eventually veered to the W. by
S., and so kept all day, blowing fresh. The time of start-
ing was—the Vision, llh. 49m. ; the Victoria, llh. 51;m. ;
the Jilt, Leander, and Peterel, following soon after.
They reached the Bell Buoy first time—Vision at 12b.
15m. ; Victoria, 12h. 18m. ; Jilt, 12h. 26m. ; Leander,
12h. 271 m. The Vision reached the N.W. Light-ship
first time at 111.31 m., and the Victoria at lb. 38m. There
was a pretty race between the Jilt and the Leander, the
former weathering the latter at the Light-ship. Here,
however, these two vessels got out of the race, seeing
their chance of winning lost from the severity of the
weather, and the other smaller vessels also gave up the
contest. In the double run between the Light-ship and
the Bell Buoy, the Vision and the Victoria kept pretty
close together, the former leading.
The Victoria, in tacking the last time round the Light-
ship, fell upon that vessel, split her mainsail on the
bowsprit, and was consequently thrown hors de combat.
This accident was to be regretted, as the Vision was uto
short distance in advance, and the race between the two
was extremely close and beautiful.
The Vision, which, after this, became evidently the
winning boat, reached the flag-boat, at New Brighton,
at fifty-one minutes past four o'clock—accomplishing the
whole course in four hours and forty-one minutes.
The Jilt on one occasion made a dolphin-like jump in
the heavy sea-way, and lifted her fore-keel out of the wa-
ter three or four feet. The Victoria, after her misfortune,
took the Rock channel, under her foresail and jib, fol-
lowed by the steamer. .

The Challenge Cup was, it may be said, gallantly won
by theVis'on; the day being stormy, the sea running high,
and the vessels put to the severest test of seaworthiness
and tackle. The steamer came to anchor off the Maga-
zines, but more on the Lancashire shore, and the noble
prize, with the rich purse and contents, was awarded to
Mr. Birchall, owner of the Vision. The Capt. of the Club,
in prest.nting the prize to the winner, complimented him
on the sailing qualities of his yacht, and the able manner
in which she was managed, which was modestly and feel-
ingly replied to by the successful candidate. The health
of Mr. Connor was also drank with cheers, and a hope
expressed that he would try his luck again another day.
Capt. Bezley, of the steamer was most attentive and kind
to all on board.

Although several of the ladies in the steamer suffered
occasionally from sea-sickness, they kept up the dance at
intervals with surprising grace and spirit. Lieutenant
Lord, in the absence of the commodore, afforded, with his
accustomed politeness and obliging manners, all the nau-
tical information and advice in his power, and had a life-
boat brought out, in case of any accident, the day being
o or _
Inc acliapany wero—an s-arely tanuen
pier, delighted with their rough but pleasing excursion.
The next club sailing match comes off on the 17th of

August,

On Friday Mr. James Nuttall, of this town, was ad-
mitted a member of the Royal College of Surgeons.
STREET ROBBERY.—A woman named Williams, was
yesterday committed for trial, on a charge of stealing in
the street the handkerchief and stock of a man named
Chalmers.

We are requested to say that the Freemasons will not
receive any sum from the Council, in order to meet the
expenses to be incurred in their extensive preparations to
celebrate the visit of Prince Albert. All the charges will
be defrayed by the society.
CARELESS DRIVING.—At the Police-court yesterday,
a youth named Luke Ryley, was charged with having
carelessly driven his father's cart over a child in Renshaw-
street, on the 13th inst. The child has happily recovered.
The prisoner was fined 40s and costs.
LIVERPOOL RACES.—The following summary of the
races last week may be interesting :—Total number of
races, 19 ; won by favourites, 7 ; dead heats, 1 ; horses
entered, 219. Won by non-favourites, 6 ; walks over, 5 ;
horses started, 92; total amount of stakes, £5782; sub-
scriptions, £4812 ; public money given, £970.
THEFT FROM A SHOP.—Yesterday at the Police-court,
a man named M'Avoy, was charged with stealing a spade
on Saturday, from the door of the shop of Mr. liazle-
burst, ironmonger, Marybone. He was observed by a
neighbour, and being pursued, dropped the spade from
under his coat, in Cockspur-street, and a policeman
apprehended him. He was committed for trial.
POST-OFFICE REFORM--The Guardian Society de-
serve credit for having moved on this subject. It is a
question interesting to every inhabitant, and we are glad
to see that a pubiic meeting is called for to-morrow, at
which William Brown, Esq., will preside. We hope such
a memorial will issue from the meeting as will compel the
Government to remedy the present injurious postal ar:-
rangements in this and other parts of the country. The
meeting ought to be crowded.

DUKE OF YORK LOYAL ORANGE BENEVOLENT SO-
CIETY, LODGE, No. 22.--The members of the above
lodge have just made the following presentations : to the
worshipful master. Robert Kerr, a handsome silver
medal ; to their secretary, William Roberts, and their
treasurer, William Gregson, a splendid silver snuff-box
each, as small tokens of respect and esteem for their va-
luable services in their different offices. The whole were
got up by Mr. Chadwick, Lord-street, and cost altogether
twelve guineas.
MEDALLION IN CELEBRATION OF TETE VISIT OF
PRINCE ALBERT.—We have just seen a beautiful Medal-
lion, struck in honour of this auspicious occasion, by Mr.
Isaacs, of Castle-street. On the one side is a fine side
head of his Royal Highness, Prince Albert, finely exe-
cuted, and which strikes us as:being a very good likeness.
The reverse contains an excellent view of the Sailors'
Home, with the date of the laying of the Foundation
Stone. The Medallion is got up in a high style of art,
and will no doubt be extensively purchased on the
occasion.

THE CALAMITOUS FIRE AT ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUND-
LAND.—We yesterday received a copy of the St. John's
Times of the 24th ultimo. This paper states that the
late awful calamity has for the present so completely ab-
sorbed all other considerations that it will be a considera-
ble time before the industrious citizens will be able again
to apply themselves to their ordinary avocations. It also
contains an address from the Legislative Assembly, in
reply to the speech of his excellency the Governor, thank-
ing him for the measures he had taken for the relief, in
the meantime, of those who had lost their houses and
property. A meeting of members of the Church of Eng-
land had been held, the Lord Bishop in the chair, and
resolutions were passed in furtherance of the rebuilding
of the parish church. Intelligence had been received
from England of the birth of the last royal offspring of
our gracious Queen. News had also been received of the
amicable settlement of the Oregon question. This paper
contains numerous advertisements relative to the late fire
—goods missing though saved from the flames, removals,
schools reopened in new localities, &c. The Governor
had gone down to the House of Assembly and given his
assent to a bill, authorising the raisin,' of a loan of
£250,000, in England, or elsewhere, to beb applied to the
rebuilding of the town.
jsguESTS HELD BEFORE THE BOROUGH CORONER
YESTERDAY AND SATURDAY.—On the body of John
Roach, aged 39. Deceased had for some time complained
of palpitation of the heart. Early on Friday morning he
had an attack and died in four hours. Verdict natural
death.—On Michael Redington, a labourer, aged 25. On
the 17th of last month the deceased, who was working on
the Liverpool and Bury Railway, at Fazakerley, and ob-
serving the soil at a cutting giving way, gave the alarm to
his companions who escaped, but he was himself buried
before he could get away. He was got out immediately,
but with a hurt of the right knee. He was sent to the
hospital and every attention paid to him, but inflamma-
tion set in and he died on the 15th instant. Verdict ac-
cordingly.—On the body of John Jones, aged 30. De-
ceased, while rolling a bale of cotton from a vessel in
the Prince's Dock on a stage, missed his footing, fell into
the dock, and was drowned before he could be rescued.
Verdict " accidental."—On the body of Thomas Gibson,
aged 17,. On Thursday deceased and another were run-
ning along Kirkdale road to obtain shelter from a shower
of rain, when the former became suddenly ill and vomited
blood. He was carried to a druggist's shop and died in
a few minutes. A post mortem examination showed that
death had been caused by the rupture of a blood-vessel in
the stomach.

July 21, 1846.

LIVERPOOL JULY SESSIONS

The Court resumed its periodical sittings yesterday, be-
fore Gilbert Henderson, Esq., the Recorder. The calen-
dar was numerically heavy, there being the names of 128
prisoners charged with felony, and 18 persons with mis-
demeanour. Out of the whole number, 60 can read and
write imperfectly ; 36 can read imperfectly ; 7 can read
and write well, and 43 can neither read nor write. The
offences, as will be observed by the:Recorder's chargepre-
sented, with a few exceptions, no peculiar feature of inte-
re,t or aggravation.
The following gentlemen were sworn as

THE GRAND JURY.
Charles Inman, Insurance Agent, Bedford-street South,
Foreman ;

Henry Booth, Gentleman, Bedford-street South ;
Swinton Boult, Merchant, Water-street;
George Bolton, Stock and Sharebroker, Exchange-street

Michael Bousfie7(l, Cotton-broker, Rumford-street ;
John Campbell, Cotton-broker, Exchange-street North ;
James Gibson Clarke, Distiller, Dale-street;

Henry Cleaver Chaptiaan, Merchant, Shaw-street

William Edward Thomas Duncan, Ditto, Exchange-alley;
William Charles Fosberry, Ditto, Tithebarn-street ;
John Finch, jun., Iron Merchant, Sir Thomas's-buildings;
Henry Glynn, Broker, Exchange-street East ;
Thomas Arthur Hope, Gentleman, Everton-terrace ;
James Lister, Banker, Great Mersey-street ;
Thomas Marshall Myers, Broker, Exchani
Joseph Parton, Broker, Exchange-buildings;
Samuel Stitt, Iron Merchant, Drury-lane;
Samuel Aepinall Syers, Cotton broker, Chapel-street ;
Henry Steele, Timber Merchant, Waterloo-road ;
Owen Tudor, Sharebreker, Dale-street ;
Henry Whitaker, Cotton-broker, Rumford-street.
The proclamation against vice and immorality having
been read,
The RECORDER, addressing the Grand Jury, said that
the list of offenders on this occasion was a long one.
Within the last ten weeks, as it appeared from his calen-
dar, about 150 individuals had been sent for trial; of
these 128 were charged with felony, and 21 with misde-
meanour. He was sorry to say that amongst the offenders
for felony there were no fewer than 52 females ; and
amongst those charged with stealing pocket-books, purses,
money from the pocket, watches, &c., out of 18, 14 were
said to be females. There were three cases of children
being stripped of their clothes ; and it would be necessary
to check this disgraceful offence by making some severe
examples. There was one case of a woman who had
uttered a number of base pennies, and after her appre-
hension she gave up ten counterfeit pennies made of lead.
There was one case of a person who intended to emigrate,
and being taken into a public-house, was induced to bet
on turning up of cards. Cases of ring-dropping had
prevailed half a century ago ; but these tricks at cards
appeared to have taken the place of that practice. For
this offence two men had been transported last year,
and if others were convicted he should consider it
his duty to rid the town of such characters. There was
a case of a man stealing the lease of a house of which
he was owner from his tenant. He considered this
of such a nature that it would probably not be laid
before them, but be sent for adjudication to another
court. There were no cases of embezzlement, or
breaking into warehouses by gangs of men ; and he was
glad to say that, though the number of prisoners was
large, the offences were not of a very aggravated nature.
He had the satisfaction to state that considerable good
had been effected by the improved prison discipline, and
especially by separate imprisonment in the gaol. The
new plan adopted had received the approbation of the Pri-
son Inspector of the district. It might be proper to state
that one of the main causes of crime in the town, as else-
where, was intoxication. This was shows' by the nu-
merous cases brought before the magistrates at the police-
court, and all the evidence that was produced elsewhere led
to the same result. It appeared, indeed, that they had only
to know the number of public-houses and beer-houses, in
order to form an estimate of the' proportionate amount
of offences. In Glasgow and other places the same ap-
peared from statistical accounts to hold good, and it was
every where found that the greater the number of such
houses the more was the character of the people, especially
of the humbler classes, deteriorated or debased. He was
sorry to say that the proportion of public houses in Liver-
pool was so numerous •, and he should be glad to see that
proportion considerably diminished. He expressed his
gratification that so respectable an assemblage of gentle-
men of experience bad appeared on the grand jury. It
was, therefore, unnecessary for him to offer them any
advice as to the nature of the duties they had to perform;
and he should therefore dismiss them to consider the
several cases that would be laid before them.
A petty jury was then sworn in, and the trials soon
afterwards proceeded. None of them during the day were
of an interesting character. :The following were the
results at the closing of the court last night :
Elizabeth Watts, for stealing wearing apparel, &c., in
West Des by Workhouse—four calendar months and hard
labour.

Ann Sullivan, stealing a teapot—eig
and hard labour.

~e-alley West ;

endar months

James Hutchinson, stealing a chest full of clothes—
six calendar months and hard labour.

John Gummitt, stealing three bills of exchange, value
£Boo—ten years' transportation.
Martha Shaw, stealing a watch—eight calendar months
and hard labour, ten days solitary.

George Hughes, steahng:, a barrel of pork—one calendar
month and bard labour.

-win-tams, -ateuritig a butry=oue-calendar month
and hard labour, ten days solitary.
Elizabeth Lennon, stealing boots—one calendar month
and hard labour, ten days solitary.
Ann Robinson—no bill.

William Burgess—acquitted.
Henry Martin, stealing a dozen of mats—seven years'
transportation.

'William M'Key, stealing articles of plate, &c.—six
calendar months and hard labour, and twice whipped.

Captain Houston Steward has succeeded Lord John
Hay in the superintendence of Woolwich Dockyard.
Sir Charles Adam has been appointed to the Admiralty,
Sir William Parker having declined the offer of a seat at
that board.

On Saturday the Lords' Committee decided that the
preamble of the Bury branch of the Blackburn, Bolton,
and Darwen Railway had not been proved.
Active measures are Icing taken to restore tranquility
at ti e Cape of Good Hope. Two regiments have been
ordered thither, and further reinforcements are contem-
plated,

On Sunday morning a fire broke out in the Commercial
Coffee-house, Newgate-street, London, which did consi-
derable damage. A young man named Cookson jumped
from one of the windows, and was so much injured that
he expired soon titer.
A gentleman named Charlesford, in attempting on Sa-
turday to get on a train which had just started from
Blackwall station, missed his step and fell between two
carriages, whereby be was so frightfully crushed that he
died in a few minutes.
A strong protest, signed by the Venerable Clarkson,
Stephen Lushington, Sir E. N. Buxton, S. Gurney, and
other tried friends of the anti-slavery cause, against the
proposed introduction of slave grown sugars into the
British markets, has been presented to Lord John
Russell.

A public meeting will be held in London to-day, in
Lambeth, B. B. Cabbell, Esq., in the chair, for the pur-
pose of co-operating with the " Poor Man's Guardian
Society," in aiding the poor in their application for paro-
chial relief, and securing to them the legal and humane
eispensation of the laws.
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An experiment was made last week by the Er stern Coun-
ties Railway Board, in connexion with the Norwich and
Blandon, to determine the probability of making tb,se
two lines, with Yarmouth as a port, the 4hortest route to
Rotterdam and the North of Europe. A large number
of passengers was assembled; but the attempt proved
nothing but the badness of the arrangements made, the
steamer engaged making a port fifteen miles from her. in-
tended destination, where the passengers were detained
all night, getting into Rotterdam next morning. A host
of other mishaps occurred, rendering the trip anything
but a pleasant one ; the passage back to Yarmouth being
very stormy and difficult.

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INDUCEMENTS TO PURCHASI

BALZARINES, MUSLINS,

CACHITERES, DE LAINES, SHAWLS, FANCY SILKS,

PARASOLS, PRINTS,

AND OTHER VARIETIE

SUMMER MATERIALS,

Will, on account of the advanced period of the Season,

be offered for Sale,

ON THIS AND FOLLOWING DAYS,

THE WONDER OF THE AGE !

MR. CARTER'S MAMMOTH HORSE
WILL BE EXHIBITED

VERY REDUCED PRICES,

A T_No

FOR SIX DAYS ONLY!!
51, NORTH JOHN-STREET,
TWO DOORS FROM LORD-STREET.

JOHN BRISCOE'S

60 and 62, OLDHALL-STREET

UNDER THE PATRONAOE 0

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT,

DUCHESS OF KENT,
DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE,
LORD ADOLPHUS FITZCLARENCE,
And many of the principal Nobility.

CARPET AND GENERAL FURNISHING

WAREHOUSE

During the Exhibition at the Egyptian-hall, Piccadilly, London,
this surprising Animal was seen by upwards. of
• FIFTY- THOUSAND PERSONS,
Of whom Thirty Thmisand were Ladies.

THE LARGEST HORSE IN THE WORLD I

Height, 20 hands ; girth, 8 feet 6 inches; length from chest
to hind-quarters, 6 feet 5 in ; dividing the body into three
parts, from point of shoulder in an horizontal line behind the
scapula, 2 feet ; the body from the said line to a perpendicular
line with the hip, 2 feet 5 inches ; the hind quarter, from the
horizontal' line with the hip to the extremity of the buttock,
2 feet ; depth of shoulder, from the top of the withers, ob-
liquely, to the point of the shoulder, 3 feet; width of chest, 2
feet 4 inches ; length of arm, from the elbow joint to the ex-
tremity of the knee joint, 2 feet; length of cannon, from the
knee joint to the fetlock joint, 11 inches ; perpendicular length
of the pastern, from the fetlock to the ground, 8 inches ; ob-
lique length, 10 inches ; hoof in front, 5 inches; hoof to fet-
lock, 5 inches ; width round the elbow, 14 inches ; round the
arm, one-third below the elbow, 2 feet ; round the knee? 17
inches ; round the cannon, 11 inches ; width across the loins,
from hip joint to hip joint, 2 feet 4 inches; length from hip
joint to hock, 4 feet 4 inches ; length from hock to fetlock joint,
13 inches ; length of pastern, obliquely measured from toe to
joint, 10 inches; round the muscular part of the thighs, by the
stifles, 4 feet 3 inches ; round the gasken, 2 feet; round the
hock, 2lf inches ; round the head, from occiput to occiput, 2
feet 4 inches ; accross the front's to ditto, inches; round
the noseband, 2 feet 2 inches ; round the head, froth the ears,
measured across the orpit and under the posterior jaw, 3 feet
8i inches ; depth of collar, 2 feet 8 inches.

OPEN FROM TEN IN THE MORNING TILL DUSK.

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and following days,
SEVERAL very important Lots of SUMMER
GOODS, having been purchased within the last ten days
in the

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TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1846.

40 BOLD STREET
WILLIAM MINTON
Is now selling

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Baratheas, Ottomans, tkc

18d. per yard

Rich Coloured Silks and Satin

Fancy Striped and Checked Silks .
Netted, Wove, and Printed Shawls
A large Lot of Printed Muslins, at

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