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

CHESHIRE AND WALES.

H. L. THOMAS, ESQ., has been appointed deputy-
tic utenant for the county of Flint.
EXTENSIVE ALTERATIONS are being made in the gene-
ral railway-station at Custer.
A STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATE IS to be appointed at
Cardiff at £6OO per annum.

ON SUNDAY week, the Lord Bishop of the Diocese
delivered a sermon to the Royal Cheshire Militia, in St.
Peter's Church, Chester.

HOWELL MORRIS, ft fine young man, a native of
AngleEea, was accidentally drowned a few days ago at
Holyhead Breakwater, where he was employed " staging."

A BRANCH OF THE LIVERPOOL TEMPERANCE
LEAGUE held a meeting at the school-room, Limekiln-
lane, Tranmere, on Monday evening week.
WORRALL, a plate-layer on the Chester and Mold
Railway, while attempting to skip from one wagon to
another in a moving train, on Monday last, fell on to the
line and was killed on the spot.

THE LARGE LA➢IP AT WOODSIDE FERRY, the prolific
source of bickering among the Birkenhead Commis-
sioners, has been removed, in consequence of Mr. Gaugh
having refused to reinstate it in the same condition in
which it was previous to the mutilation.
THE GALE OF SATURDAY WEEK has led to a percep-
tion of the necessity there exists for an efficient life-boat,
at the rising harbour of Mostyn. The coast is dangerous,
and wrecks frequent. The Vicar of Whitford, the Rev.
Richard Briscoe, makes an appeal, in favour of this object,
in the Chester Courant.

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for
the week ended 27th Feb. 1853 :—Railway : Passengers,
parc2ls, £1,802 3s. 2d. ; goods : £1,044 13s. Bd.
Steamboats : Passengers, parcels, &c., £lB9 17s. 9d. ;
total, £3,036 14s. 7d. Increase as compared with the cor-
responding week last year, £486 13s. sd.
ANTI-ROmAstsm.—On Tuesday a lecture was deli-
vered in the Music-hall, Leeds, by the Rev. Dr. Blakeney,
of Christ's Church, Claughton, on " The novelty and
erroneousness of Popery," before an auditory as large as
the room would accommodate. The lecturer was received
with loud and long-continued cheers, and the proceedings
terminated with a vote of thanks to the Rev. Dr. Blake-
ney, for his forcible yet temperate lecture.

A SHOCKING CASE OF MENTAL ABERRATION has re-
cently developed itself in Mr. Mann, cashier at the works
of the British Iron Company, Acrefair. On Friday morn-
ing week he attempted to commit suicide, by waiting on
the line of railway for a train to run over him. The same
day he attempted to kill both himself and Mr. Wood, the
manager, by applying a fusee to two canisters of gun-
powder. The unfortunate man was the only person injured.

MR. ALFRED PARRY, of Bryn Caesar, was the means
of saving the lives of three seamen in the storm of Satur-
day week at Whitford. None of the seafaring people
would go with him in the ordinary boats, from lack of
courage. Thereupon, alone, and on horseback, he made
his way over the quicksands and into the boisterous waves
where the forlorn and fatigued sailors were clinging to the
top of their mast.

BIRICENHgAD COMMISSMNERS.—At the monthly
meeting, on Tuesday, Mr. J. H. Greene in the chair, the
minutes of the ferry committee stated that an anonymous
letter, bearing the Manchester post-mark, had been
received with 2d. enclosed, on account of the writer hav-
ing passed through the ferry fifteen years ago without
paying.—Ferry receipts for the month ending February,
1852, £1.294 9s. 10d. ; 1853, £1,254 4s. 2d. Receipts
from the 24th April to the end of February, 1852,
£18,086 7s. 2d. ; 1853, £18,39125. 103. Total expendi-
ture from the 24th April, 1852, to the present time,
including rent, &c., £16,938 9s. 3d.

TILE REPORT or TILE BIRKENHEAD DOCK COMPANY,
passed unanimously at a large meeting in London last
week, shows the decision of the shareholders to make
their land yield a revenue by letting it off for the purposes
of trade ; and several applications for land have been
already received. It is rumoured that Mr. John Laird is
about to build a graving dock on the 31,500 square yards
of land leased by him from the Dock Company. The
South American and Gencral Steam Navigation Com-
pany intend to run their new line of steam-vessels from
Birkenhead, and the directors also state that negotiations
are pending with another steam-ship company no less
eligible than the former.

REVERSE or FORTUNE.—The well-known Thomas
Hamlet, who died last week, in the 87th year of his age,
in Park-street, Pall-mall, London, and whose death is
briefly noted in the London papers, was a Chester man,
and born in Boughton. He left Chester a poor boy, and
subsequently kept the celebrated jeweller's shop in Coven-
try-street, Piccadilly, when he was reputed to be worth
upwards of a million sterling, and his only daughter is said
to have refused several coronets. Hamlet entertained, at
his splendid mansion in Portman-square, the prince-re-
gent and other members of the royal family and the most
illustrious of our nobility. A reverse of fortune overtook
him, consequent on the nature of his money transactions,
and he finally became a bankrupt and was reduced to the
utmost necessity.

THE GOVERNOR OF CHESTER GAOL.—lnfOrMatioll has
been received at the various metropolitan and city police-
stations from the magistrates acting for the city of Chester,
offering a reward for the apprehension of Mr. Horatio
Nelson Tivy, late goveraor of Chester city gaol, who had
absconded in the course of last week with several sums of
money he had embezzled, the property of the town council.
He is described as 48 years of age, rather slender in per-
son, and of dark complexion. He is supposed to be a
native of Cork, having formerly been an officer at Tran-
mere. He is also accused of having purloined a quantity
of property belonging to the prisoners in the goal, which
had been deposited in his hands for security. He is sus-
pected of being concealed in the metropolis, preparing for
a trip to Australia. It is stated that an examination of
his accounts disclosed serious frauds, What renders his
case more painful is, that he has left his children at Chester
unprovided for.
FEARFUL CASE OF HYDROPHOBIA IN BIRKENHEAD.
—On Monday, an inquest was held befor Mr. Churton,
on the body of a girl, about seven years of age, named
Mary Anne Turner, the daughter of a book-keeper residing
in Jackson-street. The deceased war on
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illness was most serioue. The coroner said the case was a
most extraordinary one. He had had an opportunity of
seeing two cases during his lifetime, but in both •
instances
there was a dread of water • , even the act of pouring water
out of one vessel into another
would
produce constriction
of the throat. In this case, however, the child took
brandy and water. Certainly, it was an extraordinary case
of hydrophobia, and must be looked upon as an exception
to the rule.

SCOTLAND WARD.—We understand that Mr. Samuel
Taylor, who ran Mr. Bigham so close at the last election,
will be the Conservative on the next occasion.

A Fr.w DAYS SINCE, a gentleman residing at Kim.
bolton entered his stable, when his horse, which he had
not purchased long, bit his ear off.
AN Imrt*DENT THIEF.—At the Police-court, yesterday,
a man, named Michael Welsh, was committed for trial at
the sessions, charged with stealing eight pairs of stockings
from the shop of Mr. James Hanker, a hosier. in Tithe-
barn-street, and also with stealing two flannel shirts from
the shop of Miss Mary Roberts, milliner, in Tithebarn-
street. It appeared from the evidence offered against the
prisoner, that, on Tuesday last, he went to Mr. Hanker's
shop, and asked for a pair of long stockings. A party in
the shop handed him a lot down, when he snatched the
parcel out of his hand, and ran away with it. On Satur-
day last, he went to Miss Roberts's shop, and asked for
some flannel shirts. The flannel shirts were shown to
him, and he then asked to look at some flannel drawers.
Whilst the parties in the shop were getting out the
drawers the minuer wade Qff with the fennel shirt:,