The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-03-28 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL. ADVERTISER.

prices. Sugar dull, and prices slightly in favour of
buyers. In Rice, a further decline. Tea very dull.
For Palm Oil, an improved demand at £2 per ton
advance. Tallow dearer, Petersburg Y.C. having
advanced from 655. to 675. 6d. American, 655. per
cwt. To-DAY, the Sugar market continued dull, the
sales comprising 1500 bags Bengal, at 31s. 6d. for
dry brown, 355. 6d. for middling Dates, and 395.
for white Benares, also 50 hhds. 50 brls. Porto
Rico at 365. 9d. to 395., and 200 brls. Venezuela
at 365. 6d. per cwt. There is nothing to report in
Molasses, Rum, or Coffee. We have to notice the
sale (which took place on Saturday) of 1500 chests
of common Congou Tea at lljd. per lb. ; to-day
there has been very little doing, and prices are
nominal for most kinds. The Carolina Rice offered
to-day was not sold, nor has anything transpired in
East India. A small lot of Saltpetre is reported at
365. 6d. per cwt., 2+ per cent. refraction, and 16
.ehests Lac Dye at 9d. to 10d. per lb. 3000 bales
Jute, to arrive, have been sold, but the exact price
has not transpired, also 100 bales Sunn Hemp, of
indifferent quality, at £24, and 55 bales Aloe Fibre
at £2O per ton.

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.--On Saturday afternoon last,
an occurrence of this painful nature took place at the
house of Henry Price, police-constable, 18, Tarlton-street,
Everton. Elizabeth Price, aged 26, daughter of the above,
had been much depressed in spirits for the last three
months; and on Saturday last Mrs. Price, who went to
the market at ten o'clock, leaving her daughter at home,
returned about half-past one, when she was surprised to
find the doors fast. She contrived to gain admittance by
the parlour window, and immediately proceeded up stairs,
when she found her unfortunate daughter suspended by a
silk handkerchief, fastened at the top of the front bedroom
door. What renders the event still more lamentable is
the fact that deceased was under a matrimonial engage-
ment, which was fixed for Easter Sunday. She had been
a teacher in a Sunday-school, and was much respected.
ST. MICHAEL'S BURYING GROUND.—An adjourned
meeting of the grave-owners and other parishioners was
held last night, at the school-room, in Cornwallis-street,
the Rev. H. Carpenter, in the chair. The Chairman
stated that no answer had yet been received from Lord
Palmerston, but it was a fortnight before the Rev. W. F.
Taylor received a reply from him to a similar application
respecting St. John's Churchyard, and that being a
favourable one, they had no right to anticipate a refusal to
their application. By the act, all cemeteries established
under an act of parliament, were exempt from its operation,
and they had thh ground of exemption. He (the Chair-
man,) would, however, write again to Lord Palmerston,
pressing for a reply, and should it be favourable, the
parishioners would have notice by placard, but if it should ,
be such as to require further consideration, they should be
called together again. He might state that as there ex-
isted no legal impediment, burials would take place as
hitherto. The meeting concurred in the propriety of this
arrangement, and adjourned sine die.
ROBBERY OF WEARING APPAREL.—Two sisters, named
Ann and Elizabeth Reece, were charged on Thursday, at
the Birkenhead Police-court, with stealing a large quantity
of wearing apparel the property of Miss Eliza Jones, of
Bridge-street. Ann was a servant of the prosecutrix, and
was frequently visited by her sister. Several articles of
wearing apparel were missed from the house, but no
suspicion fell upon the servant until after she had left her
situation. The lodgings of the prisoners, in Back St. Ann-
street, were then searched, when the whole of the stolen
property was found concealed in two boxes. Ann excul-
pated her sister, who was, in consequence, discharged,
and she was committed to trial.

DARING ROBBERY AT EVERTON.—On Sunday evening
a young lady residing in Earle-street, Everton, was
startled by finding a man in the bed-room. He dis-
appeared by the window, and a search showed that
a burglarious entry had been effected by means of a
ladder reared outside. All the upper rooms had been
ransacked, and a sum of upwards of £lOO in money is
missing.
DINNER AND PRESENTATION.—Last night, Mr. Alex.
Speirs, manager of the Vauxhall Foundry, wasentertained
to dinner in Feeny's New Merchants' Dining Rooms,when
he was presented with a handsome service of 'fiver plate,
consisting of a massive silver teapot, a coffee-pot, a sugar-
basin, and a cream ewer, in testimony of the estimation in
which he is held as manager of the above-named foundry.
Upwards of 150 of the various employe& in that establish-
ment, and a few of their friends, assembled on the occasion.
The chair was occupied by Mr. George Somers, foreman
of the fitters and turners, who was supported on the right
by Mr. Speirs, the guest of the evening, on the left by Mr.
Duncan, of the Corporation Waterworks. The grace was
sung by Messrs. Lawrence, Graham, G. Wheeler, and W.
Lloyd ; and, on the cloth being removed, the same gentle-
men sung " Non nobis domini." The chairman then gave
in succession, as toasts, " The Queen," drunk with all the
honours, after which, the National Anthtm was sung.
" Prince Albert and the rest of the Royal Family,' was
drunk with much applause; "The Emperor of the French;"
Glee—" The Bright Sword of Liberty." The next toast
was " Success to the Naval and Military Forces of Eng-
land and France." The Chairman then, in a neat address,
in which he alluded to the good feeling which had always
subsisted between the workmen of the Vauxhall Foundry
and their late manager, with which that gentleman had
been connected for the last 26 years, presented him with
the very handsome testimonial of esteem which they wished
his acceptance of. The salver bore the following inscription :
" Presented by the workmen of Messrs. George Forrester
and Co., Vauxhall Foundry, Liverpool, to Alexander Sp Ars,
Esquire, Mai aver, as a testimonial of respect on his leaving
the above place, March, 1854." In acknowledging the com-
pliment Mr. Speirs alluded to the reminiscences which crowd
upon the mind of one who had been so long connected with
so important an establishment as that he was quitting. The
duty and the responsibility of a foreman, he remarked,
caused his position to be one of great delicacy and diffi-
culty, as he was open, on the one hand, to suspicion of
overleniency to the men, and, on the other, of too rigid an
exaction of duty from them to the employer. He had
endeavoured to steer his way as evenly between these
difficulties as he could, and the reception he had met with
that night showed he had not been altogether mistaken in
his efforts. The anxiety he had experienced for the last
few years was very great indeed ; and he was glad
to think that the new appointment he was about to
enter on would not be so environed by difficulties.
The evening was spent with a great flow of genial good
humour and much social harmony, which was enhanced
by the singing of numerous glees, duets, and solos, by the
musical gentlemen already named. The viands, wines,
and liquors were supplied by Mr. Feeney, in his usual
style of tasteful abundance. The plate, which was above
£6O in value, was manufactured by our townsman, Mr.
Joseph Mayer, and was characterised by the good taste
for which his establishment is proverbial.

WILLIAM THOMPSON, aged twenty-one, has been con-
demned to death at the Norfolk Assizes by the Chief
Baron, for the murder of Lorenz Beha, on the 18th of
November, atTittleshall.

The LORD MAYOR gave a grand banquet on Saturday
to her Majesty's ministers, the Foreign ministers, and a
distinguished party. Lord John Russell, Lord Palmer-
ston, and Sir James Graham were not present, the former
on account of illness, and the latter two from fear of it.
THE ST. FERGUS MURDER.—The new trial of Dr.
Smith for the murder of M`Donald is fixed for Wednesday,
the 12th April.
A Lim? or STEAMERS has been advertised to run from
Hull to the Prussian port of Pillau, in the Baltic, taking
goods for Memel, &c., with the view of carrying on the
trade between England and Russia. It is to consist of a
screw propeller of about 700 tons.
FAnuass.—The suspension of Messrs. P. Monteaux
and Co., foreign exchange dealers, with establishments in
Paris and London, has been announced. The total liabi-
lities of the joint houses are stated at £lOO,OOO, of which
£40,000 will fall in London. The failure of Messrs. Ben-
jamin Elkin and Sons, a very old and respectable mercan-
tile firm, chiefly engaged in the West Indies and Australia
trade, has been announced. Their liabilities amount to
£140,000.
CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.—The election of a president of this
hospital, in the room of the late Alderman Thompson,
took place on Thursday, and was regarded with unusual
interest, in consequence of the Lord Mayor and Corpora-
tion having claimed the office as belonging of right to the
Lord Mayor of the time being. In opposition to this claim,
which is said to have no legal foundation, though sanc-
tioned by custom, an influential body of donation governors
put the Duke of Cambridge in nomination. At the close
of the ballot the numbers were—for his Royal Highness,
216; for the Lord Mayor (Sidney), 87; majority for the
Duke of Cambridge, 129. His Royal Highness subse-
quently attended the court, and was formally installed in
the office of president.
AT THE NORFOLK ASSIZES, on Friday, Mr. Peter Ash-
croft, superintendent of the permanent way, or resident
engineer, of the Eastern Counties Railway, and John
Latham, one of his inspectors, were charged with the man-
slaughter of Thomas Ellison, who, with the Rev. Joseph
Bell, and four others, was killed by a collision on the above
line during the heavy fall of snow in January. A verdict
of not guilty was returned.
SUICIDE OP A LAW STUDENT.—On Saturday an inquest
was held at the Prince George, Regent's-park, London, on
Mr. George Crump, aged twenty-one. The deceased, who
was keeping his terms, was regular in his habits, and
passed several hours a day in study. He returned home
in his usual good spirits, and, while in the course of ge-
neral conversation with his cousin, he suddenly took a
phial from his pocket, exclaiming, " I've something so
nice here !" and immediately drank off the contents, which
proved to be laudanum. A medical man was sent for, but
the deceased survived only a short period. Verdict, in-
sanity.
CHARACTERISTIC OP THE SCOTCH.—Two active Aber-
donians, who arrived at Oban for the emigrant ship Themis
finding that the ship would take six weeks to repair, heard
of a granite quarry in operation at MiNiven's Isle. They
started, and found employment at 30s. per week. They
will clear £6 a-piece while the vessel is repairing.
LETTERS TO AusraLuA.—The terms of the new agree-
ment entered into between the directors of the General
Screw Steam Shipping Company and the Post-office autho-
rities are on the basis of an equal distribution of the charge
upon all letters despatched by the government. One
moiety of the postage will be paid to the company, who
are bound to deliver the outward mails at Melbourne in
sixty-five days, and the homeward mails in sixty-seven
days. The first steamer to be despatched will be the
Queen of the South, which will leave Southampton on the
4th of April, and the service will be continued every al-
ternate month.
LAl:mos.—On Wednesday, a barque, named the Oribe,
220 tons N.M., and 270 0.M., was launched from the
building-yard of Messrs. Hall, at Footdee, Aberdeen.
The Oribe is owned at Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope,
and is built expressly for the trade of that colony.
COAL ON THE PACIPIC.—Mr. Benham, of San Francisco,
who has been in Washington Territory examining the
coal mines, reports that in Bellingham Bay, there is a mine
of sixteen feet in depth with a dip of forty-five degrees.
The vein is of solid coal, with the exception of two small
strata of clay. The bed of the coal is forty feet above
high water mark. One hundred tons of this coal, placed
in the San Francisco market, commanded within one
dollar of the highest market price. The mine is sitapted
within, a quarter of a mile of deep water, and one and a
half day's sail of the outward mouth of the Straits.