The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-04-18 00:00:00

WABLIKE.—A large quantity of guns and shot Is being
manufactured at Messrs. Fawcett's foundry, intended for.
transports and other vessels. The guns are chiefly nine,
twelve, and eighteen pounders. They are proved on the
shore at Waterloo.

Mu. Dismous, of Bold-street, has designed and manu-
factured a new communion-service, which the congregation
of St. Matthew's Church, Toxteth-park, are about to pre-
sent to their minister.

A COLOSSAL MARBLE STATUE of George Stephenson,
once the "harrier" of a coal-pit, has been erected in the
great hall of the Euston-square railway station, and was
uncovered on Monday last week, in presence of the com-
mittee appointed to conduct the getting up of the memo-
rial, with a quiet ceremonial. The statue was sugge3ted
by the Society of Mechanical Engineers, of which George
Stephenson was the founder ; and the subscriptions
included an average of 2s. each from 3,150 working men.
It was executed by Mr. Bailey, after the painting by Lucas
of Stephenson standing on Chatmoss.

THE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.—The third subscrip-
tion concert will take place this evening. The principal
vocalists are to be Madame Clara Novello and Mr. Sims
Reeves. The programme includes 31endelssohn's finale
to " Lorely," and Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony.

THE LIVERPOOL LITERARY AND DRAMATIC SOCIETY.
—This society announces its intention of giving a per-
formance on Monday, in aid of the fund for the wives and
families of soldiers on foreign service. The gentlemen
who undertake this pleasing labour will, on this occasion,
have the assistance of Miss Fanny Baker, from the Lyceum
Theatre, whose appearance will, of itself, be a great at-
traction. The performance is patronised by Lady Derby,
his worship the Mayor, the high-sheriff; Lord Stanley,
M.P., and other distinguished perslotts. The high-sheriff
has endorsed his approval of the object by a donation of
£lO, an example which will, doubtless, be followed.

LAUNCHES IN LIVERPOOL.—On Saturday, two vessels
were launched from the yards of Mr. Steele and Mr.
Clarke, which adjoin each other at the Queen's Dock. One
was the Deva, a frigate built ship, of the following dimen-
sions :—Length over all, 200 feet ; breadth of beam, 34 feet
10 inches ; depth of hold, 22 feet 6 inches ; new measure-
ment, 1,038 tons ; carrying capacity, 1,600 tons. She is
classed A 1 for fourteen years ; and is ornamented with
an admirably carved figure head of the Queen. The Jo-
seph Steele, so styled . after her owner and builder, was
successfully launched a few minutes after the Deva. She
is 172 feet between the perpendiculars, 32 beam, and 22
feet deep ; her measurement being 900 tons. An excellent
carved portrait of Mr. Steele forms the figure-head.

A LOST CHILD FOUND IN LIVERPOOL—In the month
of August last, Neil Wilkieson, an imbecile boy of nine
years of age, suddenly went amissing from the coast town
of Campbelton, Argyleshire. He was a favourite child of
his father, who is a working shoemaker there. Many a
search was made for poor Neil, but all to no purpose. At
length the criminal authorities took up the subject, and,
having reported to head quarters, the Lord Advocate
ordered a most minute investigation, but with no greater
success. Many were the surmises afloat about the poor
innocent. In the antumu of last year a wandered child
was picked up on the streets of Liverpool. Although nine
years of age, he could tell nothing that could unravel his
history. He was conveyed to the industrial school there,
.and taken care of, under the kind attention of Mr. Coats,
the inspector. He was found to be of very weak intellect,
and it was only after the expiry of several months Mr.
Coats succeeded in interpreting some of his inarticulate
attempts to express himself in words. He could tell his
own name and that of his father pretty well, but as to
where he belonged, all he could mutter in answer to in-
quiries, was something like Carr-street, or Kerr-street,
or Chrystie, Scotland. The unaccountable way in which
the boy had been found awakened an interest in his
behalf, and Scotland being distinctly named by him, a cor-
respondence was opened up with various officials in Scot-
land, in the hope of hearing something '.of the child's
history. Among them Captain Smart, the superintendent
of the police at Glasgow, was written to, and he caused
inquiries to be instituted at all the streets throughout the
city, the names of which resembled that imperfectly
spoken by the boy. At length, about a week ago, a com-
munication was received in Glasgow from the master of
police at Campbelton, that tended to throw some light on
the subject, and from this has flowed the discovery of the
long lost Campbelton child in the Liverpool foundling,
who arrived in Glasgow on Sunday night, by the Liverpool
steamer. He his healthy and well clad, and he is to be
restored to his grateful parents, for whom he seems to
possess an ardent attachment. It appears that Neil had,
in his wanderings in Campbelton, got on board the steamer
Briton, when about to sail for Liverpool ; and, on his
arrival at the latter port, he had wandered ashore, and
been found in the manner already described.—North
British Daily Mail.

SHIPBUILDING ON INLAND RIVERS.—The introduction
of iron as a material for shipbuilding has given an import-
ant stimulant to our provincial trade. The shipbuilding
of the Mersey lips extended to Warrington ; and already
the favoured localities of the Dee are being developed at
Chester and its vicinity. Five vessels have recently been
launched from the premises of. Mr. Cram, of the Rhodee
ship yards ; and, at Sandicroft, a vessel of thirteen hun-
dred tons is now constructing for Mr. Charles Moore, of
this town. Two of those built at the Rhodee works are
now in our docks—the Mino and the Rosario. The Rosa-
rio is a handsome craft, very fine fore and aft, while her
length of flooring is shown by the fact that she will carry
nearly 500 tons at a draught of 11 feet. Her tonnage is
298 old and 277 tons new measurement ; length, 128 feet ;
beam, 22 feet ; depth, 122 feet. She is fitted regardless
of expense, and with every modern improvement. She has
the American, patent steering wheel, four eccentric pumps,
Wood's (Trotman's patent) anchors, capstans, and winches.
She is also fitted with Cunningham's self-reefing topsails,
by which sail may be shortened at will. Her cabins are
neatly fitted,with open berths in the steamboat fashion,
and are peculiarly adapted for the trade for which she is
intended. She is now loading for Buenos Ayres, and will
shortly sail under the command of Captain Fitzgerald.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY or INDIAN Conic —John Conelly,
Richard Burroughs, William Shaw, Thomas Taylor, and
John M`Quinn, were charged, at the Police-court, on Wed-
nesday, the three former with stealing, and the two latter
with receiving, a large quantity of Indian corn, from the
warehouse of Mr. Lyon, Back Goree. On Monday evening
a warehouseman found that No. 6 warehouse, occupied by
Mr. Lyon, had been broken open, and about twelve sacks
of Indian corn stolen. Between one and two o'clock on
Monday the first and third prisoners were seen drunk,
lowering ten bags of corn from a warehouse in the Goree
into a cart, which conveyed it to Bradshaw's mill, Upper
Hill-street, where they sold it, as they said, on behalf of
the prisoner Taylor, for £6 105., but did not receive the
money. Whilst they were in the mill, Burroughs came
in, and asked if Taylor had come yet to settle for the flour
in store. On being told that he had not, the three pri-
soners watched until six o'clock in the evening, when
Taylor came, who ultimately sold the corn to Mr.
Bradshaw for 13s. 6d. a pack. On the previous Saturday
Burroughs had hired a cart, and took from the same
warehouse, in the Goree, six sacks of Indian corn, to No. 2,
Lydia Ann-street, near to which M`Quinn carries on busi-
ness. That prisoner, when apprehended, gave every possible
information on the subject to the police, and stated
voluntarily that he had purchased corn from Conelly and
Burroughs, as sweepings, for £3 Bs. Taylor's defence was,
that Conelly had shown him a sample of corn as sweepings,
and he gave him the full market value of it, 28s. a quarter.
The magistrates committed the three men charged with
stealing the corn, and discharged the two accused of
receiving it, admitting them as evidence in the case.
THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION IN LIVERPOOL.—On Tues-
day, John Buck Lloyd, Esq., the Mayor, presided at a
meeting held in the Sessions'-house, convened, in com-
pliance with a respectably and numerously signed requisi-
tion, " in order to adopt such resolutions as will secure
the active co-operation of the inhabitants in the arrange-
ments for the meeting of the British Association for the
Advancement of Science, which is appointed to be held in
this town in September next." Professor Phillips, assis-
tant general secretary of the association, it was announced,
would attend the meeting, in order to explain the objects
of the association and its mode of practical working in
detail. The Mayor, after alluding to the invitations sent
by the Town Council to the association, and stating that
the Earl of Harrowby would preside over the meeting of
the association, introduced Professor Phillips, who deli-
vered an eloquent address, in which he alluded to the first
meeting of the British Association in Liverpool, twenty-
three years ago, when they were assisted by Dr. Trail and
Mr. Scoresby. He then made some remarks relative to
their second visit, in 1837, when they received a most
enthusiastic reception, and held a most successful meeting.
The history and objects of the association were next dwelt
upon by Professor Phillips. The association was, he said,
founded to advance science, by removing the impediments,
especially of a public nature, in its path ; and to bring
face to face, in the great centres of commercial manufac-
turing industry, the practical man and the philosophical
theorist. The progress of Liverpool was then described in
graphic terms, and the various benefits resulting from the
meetings and researches of the association noticed in
detail. In conclusion, he said, in coming to Liverpool the
members of the association were perfectly aware they were
coming to a place where, if a favourable opinion was pro-
nounced on their proceedings, it would give them influence
with the government, and therefore they had the strongest
interest to present themselves before the people of Liver-
pool under the most favourable circumstances. He then
proceeded to mention the different classes of members,
and the privileges to which they were entitled, remarking
that some of the greatest men of the day would detail the
latest improvements and inventions in science in a plain
and agreeable manner, especially soliciting the attendance
of ladies. He next sketched a day's proceedings of the
association, and concluded by expressing his belief that the
next meeting of the British Association would be one of
the most important and brilliant on record. After a few
words from Mr. J. B. Yates, Mr. Dickenson said the local
expenses, it had been calculated, would amount to about
£16,000., Upwards of £B,OOO had been already collected,
and with a little further assistance he had no doubt they
would realise the full amount required, and show that
Liverpool was not insensible to the high honour conferred
upon it by the British Association meeting here. Pro-
fessor Phillips proposed the thanks of the meeting to the
Mayor and Corporation of Liverpool, for the liberal manner
in which they have granted the use of St. George's-hall
and the rest of the building for the use of the meeting of
the association. The Rev. J. S. Howson, in seconding the
motion, said it was a subject of much congratulation to his
worship that he had the prospect of seeing the British
Association meet in Liverpool during his mayoralty, and
it must be a high gratification to the corporation and the
committee of St. George's-hall, over the erection and deco-
ration of which the present Mayor had so long and so ably
presided, that this magnificent building had been made
ready for the approaching festival of science. Mr. Howson
then, gave a sketch of the progress of the town since 1823,
and concluded by alluding to the necessity of a connexion
between science and religion. The Mayor acknowledged
the compliment paid to himself and the corporation, and
expressed his belief that in expending the surplus funds of
the corporation in the erection of St. George's-hall, they
had done more to attract strangers to Liverpool than
otherwise could have
been done. It would be the endea-
vour of the corporation to further in every way it could
whatever would give the greatest eclat to the interests of
the British Association in Liverpool ;and if the local com-
mittee would do him the favour to point out in what way
his services would be most beneficial, he would feel thank-
ful, and try to advance' their views asfar as it lay in his
pow' er. The proceedings terminated with the usual com-
pliments to the chairman.