The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-01-03 00:00:00

BAPrisms.—At the parish church of St. Peter, on Christ- I THE DERBY RENT DAY.—Thursday last being the
mas-day, there were no fewer than eighty-eight christen- rent day of the Earl of Derby, his lordship's tenants, to
ings, and on the following day, sixty-six. The average is the number of three hundred, were entertained to dinner
'about one hundred and fifty weekly, or 7,000 in the year. in the coach-house at Knowsley, in a style of true old Eng-
- ACCIDENT AT THE LANDING•STAGE.—On Wednesday lish hospitality. Lord Stanley presided on the occasion.
'evening, as a woman, named Taylor, was- attempting to go = EVERTON Curacu MISSIONARY SOCIETY.—A bazaar,
on board one of the Woodside steamers, whilst it was just in aid. of the Everton branch of the Liverpool Church
putting off from the landing-stage, she-fell into the river, Missionary Society, was held on Wednesday and Thursday,
but was in a few minutes rescued from herperilous position. in the school-room, Mill-lane, Everton. The articles for
THE REV.. V. M. WHITE'S LECTI?ItE: ON " THE SIGNS sale were useful and ornamental, and were chiefly supplied
OF THE TIMES.' —lt will be seen by advertisement in by the ladies of Everton. Amongst other things was a
another column that the Rev. Verner-M. White's lecture beautifill carpet of needlework, which was exhibited in the
on the Signs of the Times will be delivered on Friday Dublin Exhibition, and forwarded through the Rev. W.
evening next. It would be needless, to remark upon a Ewbank. The sale realised upwards of £l2O.
subject of so deep interest and importance in the,present BOAT ACCIDENT.—About seven o'clock on Saturday
day as the signs of the times, and in Mr. Whites hands evening two mete, belonging to the steam-tug Powerful,
it will, we have no doubt, be ably handled. The sudden were leaving the great landing-stage in a boat, when the
and dangerous illness of his mother must be regarded as boat capsized, and they were immersed in the river.
a sufficient apology for any inconvenience and disappoint- They were rescued, after considerable exertion, by Captain
merit which may have been experienced on the 22d ult. Brewster and William Brown, of the steam-tender Jackall.
OUTRAGE.—On Tuesday, as Thomas-Meadows, labourer This makes the seventh person whom Captain Rrewster
in•tle employ of the Liverpool Dock Trustees, was return- has saved from drowning within the last two years.
ing to his lodgings, he was assailed by the barking of a CASE OF URGENT DISTRESS.—The Rev. Edward Hull,
surly dog, to which he said, "Come, that will not
.do, incumbent of the Blind Church, has issued an appeal to
Micky." Two or three men, who overheard the expression, his congregation and the public generally on behalf of
said, "Whom do you call Micky ?" and, without waiting three orphan daughters of a gentleman, who for many
for any explanation, struck him, inflicting a wound in the years faithfully discharged the duties of a public office of
left breast, just over the heart, with a clasp knife. The trust in the town of Liverpool, and who, owing to unfor-
cut, though dangerous, is not deep, and hope is therefore tunate circumstances, are reduced to a state of pecuniary
entertained of his recovery. The offenders were pursued, distress. Their friends are anxious to raise a fund for the
but made their escape, and have not yet been apprehended. purpose of placing them in a position to endeavour to
Frans.—On Tuesday night there were three fires in maintain themselves.
different parts of the town. About eight o'clock the CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES.—On Monday week upwards
hosiery shop of Mr. MTarlin, Scotland-road, was dis- of seventy persons met at tea in Mr. W. Charlton's school,
covered to be in flames, and, notwithstanding the exer- Mill-brow, Runcorn, and spent a happy and harmonious
tions of the town brigade and the West of England engine, evening. All the men and youths in Mr. Elder's large
the place was gutted in less than an hour.—About the baking establishment were treated by their employer to
same time, one of the furnaces at the cement works, an excellent dinner on Christmas-day.—On Monday, Mr.
Pumpfields, Vauxhall-road, ignited a timber-shed built J. Hollis, hairdresser, Toxteth-park, entertained a select
over it, part of the roof of which was destroyed, and a party of young ladies and gentlemen, at the same time
considerable quantity of the manufactured article. The opening his door and larder to all the most aged and in-
town engines quickly subdued the flames. There was firm within his district. There was a good supply of
also a fire in Faulkner-street, but of no extent. Christmas cheer, and a pleasant evening was spent.
THE AUSTRALIAN MAILS.—The next contract mails PnaisEwonTur CONDUCT OF THE CAPTAIN OF VIE
for the Australian colonies will be despatched from EuEorA.—On Saturday, as file American ship Wyoming,
Southampton on the 4th of January by the overland Captain Dunlevy, was coming up the Channel, one of the
route. Arrangements have been made for the despatch crew fell overboard. The mail-steamer Europa, which
of the outward mails of the 4th of February, which are to was passing at the time on her voyage to New York,
be embarked on board the screw-steamer Bosphorus, and hailed the Wyoming ; and, on learning of the accident
conveyed to Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney, the ship the captain promptti rdered the boats to be lowered, and
touching only at St. Vincent. This contract with the by the exertions o: the Europa's crew, the man was
government will not in any way interfere with the steam- rescued. On his arrival here, Captain Dunlevy stated
ship Crcesus from Southampton for Port Philip and Sydney these facts in a letter, which was publicly exhibited in
on the 10th of January. This vessel has no postal en- • the Exchange News-room. He also spoke most highly
gagements to fulfil, and will, therefore, merely take out of the generous and humane conduct of all on board of
ship letter-bags. the Europa.
EscircDonA.3lA. OF AMERICA AND MISSISSIPPI.—When CARRIAGE OF RAILWAY PARCELS.—III the County-
we first called attention to the merits of this gigantic court, last week, au action was tried, Lancashire and
painting, and the practical experience brought to bear Yorkshire Railway r. Cannon, for the recovery of £2 for
upon its illustration by its spirited proprietor, we felt con- the carriage of eight barrels of fish, belonging to the de-
fideut it would not long escape the discernment of all fendant, on the 17th of August. Mrs. Cannon said that
classes, and we are happy to find our predictions satisfac- the fish was to be forwarded to her on Thursday, but on
torily fulfilled : the audience attesting by their applause the Saturday evening it had not arrived, and she made
the high gratification they receive. As it is probable we some inquiries from a young . man in the employ of the
may not again be favoured with a panorama whose subject company, and he said that the barrels had been there
will illustrate the beautiful scenery of the " Great Father since the previous day. A verdict was given for the
of Waters"—to the valleys of which, at least, ten thousand plaintiff; his Honour remarking that if the defendant had
persons emigrate, monthly, from this port alone—we would sustained damage she should bring an action against the
strongly urge upon parents the propriety of indulging company ; but in the present instance she was clearly
themselves and their children, without delay, by an excur- bound to pay the company for the carriage.
lion from the " Falls of St. Anthony to the Galph of
Mexico."
SLEEPING IN CHAPEL.—A considerable sensation was
created on *Christmas evening, occasioned by strange
sounds, which were heard issuing from the chapel of the
Rev. J. Kelly, corner of Field-street, Everton. Conjec-
tures of unearthly agency were rife among the pedestrian
throng, who; listening to the unexpected and inexplicable
noises, gave expression to their opinions and passed on.
Entrance being at last effected into the chapel, the sounds
were discovered to proceed from a little girl, who, having
fallen -asleep during the service, was unobserved by any of
the congregation, and being also accidentally overlooked
by the chapel-keeper, was locked in. The unintended
prisoner, on being released, flew, rather than ran home,
none the worse for her imprisonment, though dreadfully
frightened. The strange noises which first attracted
notice in the street were caused by the child wandering
about the chapel in search of a place of exit, in the course
of which she several times stumbled against the pew doors

G XERAL INTELLIGEXCE.

Ix CIIRISTMAS WEEK, the Great Western Railway took
to London four.tons of misletoe.

Sln JAMES RIVERS, Bart., has been bound over to keep
the peace at Bath, he having been guilty of riotous and
disorderly conduct.
Mr. WARILEN, Q.C., has, it is said, recently declined an
offer, from an eminent publisher, of 2,500 guineas for a
new novel.

ELIZABETII HOLLY, respectably connected, who, with
her married sister, was committed for trial at Colchester,
for shoplifting, has been sentenced to four months' impri-
sonment. The sister was acquitted.
A YOUNG WOMAN was recently:so much alarmed at the
noise caused by a riot in the streets of Newton Stewart,
Wigtonshire, as to lose her reason, and having utterly
rcfuse4 all sustenance, she has since died.

Br urars of the eclipses of Jupiter's satellites, astrono-
mers have proved that light travels the whole diameter
of the earth's orbit in sixteen minutes ; and, consequently,
that it has a velocity of 200,000 miles in a second.
Tun NUMBER OP. CIGARS of home manufacture sold in
Austria before 1841 was only twenty-eight millions per
annum. It is now eight hundred millions per annum, be-
sides one hundred and fifty millions imported from abroad.
AFTER an interval of three hundred years, a Roman
Catholic priest has been established at Haddington. He
officiates in a granary loft : the use of the Assembly-room
was flatly refused. [Haddington was the birth-place of
John Knox, the famous Scottish Reformer.]
TILE BODIES of no less than five infant children have
been discovered "built up" in the fire-place of a cottage
at Ditchling, Sussex. A former female occupant of the
cottage has been apprehended on the charge of wholesale
infanticide.

LAW OP THE ROAD.OII Wednesday, Mr. R. Fowles,
car proprietor, in Chesnut-street, brought an action in
the County-court to recover £1 10s., from Mr. W. Her-
ring, confectioner, Quadrant-buildings, Lime-street, for
damage done by a cart belonging to the latter to a car
belonging to the former. From the evidence it appeared
that on the 26th of October last, the two vehicles came
into collision in Lord-street, by which one of the car
wheels was knocked off, and the car upset, to the danger
as Nell as to the annoyance of the party who was in it, at
the time. The question turned upon whether the car was
on the proper side of the road at the time the accident
occurred. His Honour adjourned his decision till the 13th
of January, expressing a desire that somelvitnesses might
be produced, who were neither car-drivers nor carters, as
'that sort of persons seemed to make a practice of swearing
I diametrically opposite to each other in such cases.
RAVISHED BEAUTY.—On Wednesday last, a diminutive
slovenly-looking man, named John Hodson, brought a
charge before the Police Magistrates against Michael
Devine, a publican in Scotland-road, for having assaulted
him by cutting off his hair and whiskers, on the 2nd of
last month. It appeared that the complainant had been
a consenting party to the denudation of which lie now
complained, and had received threepence as a fee for his
submission. It was also averred that be had, for the sake
of drink, on different occasions submitted to degrada-
tions, such as being tarred, or drenched with water. In
the present instance he said he had been .discharged from
his employment in consequence of his looking as if he had
just made his escape from gaol. Mr. Wybergh, 'the ma-
gistrates' clerk, said it was not a case of assault—the
complainant could only bring a civil action fur loss of
beauty and loss of work. The case was dismissed.
A FOG.—DIFFICULTY AND CONFUSION.—On Wednes-
day last, a case was brought before the County Court, in
which Mr. W. Evans, of Knotty Ash, sought to recover
the sum of 10s., from Mr. Mark Noble, omnibus pro-
prietor, Old Swan, being the value of a basket and its
contents, alleged to have been lost under the following
circumstances. On the evening of the 21st Nov., Mrs.
Evans, a Welsh woman, with but an imperfect knowledge
of English, had made some purchases, and got on Mr.
Noble's 'bus near St. John's Market. Her purchases were
in a basket,' which she gave to some person that she
believed to be the omnibus' conductor, to bold while she
got up on the outside. The night was very " foggy," and
Mrs. Evans rather "confused." After passing Kensing-
ton, the omnibus ran against a post, and some of the
passengers and luggage were thrown off', Mrs. Evans
amongst the rest. On the 'bus being set to rights, Mrs.
Evans was placed inside for the rest of the journey, the
defendant's son, who was conductor, promising to take
care of her basket. On arriving at Knotty Ash her
basket was not to be found, and she therefore brought the
present claim for the value of its contents. For the de-
fence a witness was called who proved that the plaintiff
had admitted that she thought she had left her basket
with a boy at the market. His Honour, having elicited
from the plaintiff that she had not seen her basket at all
after getting on the omnibus, decided that she must be
non-suited, but she was not amerced in costs.
WEST DERBY BOATED of GUARDIANS.— The weekly
meeting was held on Wednesday, at the West Derby
Union Workhouse, Mr. Joseph Harrison in the chair, and
the j other members present were Messrs. Heyes,
G. Harrison, Craig, Mountfield, Abrahams, Roskell,
M'Gee, Smith, Brown, Roberts, Horsfall, Lunt, Kirkus,
Medcalf, Jeffreys, and Carter. The governor's report
showed the number of paupers in the workhouse during
the past week to be 669, being 63 fewer than the corres-
ponding week of last year ; there were 13 paupers admit-
ted, 22 discharged, and 1 death, during the week.—On
the motion of Mr. Abrahams, it was -resolved; that the
new board room should be insured in the Royal Insurance
Company for £soo.—Mr. Clayton, architect, reported that
the contractors for completing the new hospital would
proceed as speedily as possible with the work upon the
discontinuance of the frost.—Mr. Horsfall begged Mr.
Clayton to get as many men as he could upon the build-
ing, for he was confident that the washhouses would be
wanted before they were ready.—Communications were
read by Mr. Cleaver from the poor-law unions of Anglesey,
Chester, and Doncaster, notifying to the West Derby
Board that they had determined upon'discontinuing in
future relief to non-resident, and non-settled paupers.
Mr. Cleaver was instructed to write to the three boards,
requesting them to accept the paupers that would be
affected by the change.—The board then adjourned.
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH NATIONAL SCHOOLS.—On Tues-
day evening a tea-party, in aid of the building fund of
the proposed new schools in St. Paul's district, was held
in the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson-street, which was deco-
rated for the occasion with banners and evergreens.• The
attendance was numerous ; and on the platform were
the Rev. W. Maynard, the Rev. George Read, the Rev. J.
B. Lowe, the Rev. Dr. Hume, the Rev. John Jones, and
the Rev. S. B. Sutton. After tea, the Rev. George Read,
in the absence of Mr. Alderman Bold, was called to the
chair, and, after engaging in prayer, proceeded to explain
the object of the meeting. He regretted Mr. Bold's
absence, both because he was the alderman for their
ward, and a true Conservative Protestant. He had re-
ceived a letter of apology from that gentleman, accom-
panied by a request that his name should be put down
for a donation of £5 in aid of the building fund. (Cheers.)
Some of them would know that there had been a Sunday
school in connexion with St. Paul's Church for many
years, mainly supported by an old friend, Mr. William
Worrall, but as he was no longer a resident in the town,
it had been found necessary to convene a meeting to
answer a two-fold purpose—first, to afford an opportunity
of advocating the support of the Sunday schools, and, at
the same time, to endeavour to excite an interest in some
strangers to the district, on behalf of the schools which
they proposed to build in that district. It was a poor
district, inhabited chiefly by the labouring classes, and
contained about 8,000 souls. Nearly 4,000 of these were
Roman Catholics, and more than 4,000 were Protestants ;
but in that district there had never been a Protestant
school for the children of the poor. They were now
making an effort to remedy this state of things ; and he
was happy to say that, although some merchants had not
attended to their duty, there were mtlny who bad kindly
come forward and given subscriptions for the object. The
Earl of Derby's name was at the head of the list for a
subscription of £25; and amongst the names of other
gentlemen who had given liberally was that of Mr. Edmund
Molyneux, who had given them £lOO. (Cheers.) The
chairman then read a letter which he had received from a
professed high Churchman, or Pusdite, expressing his
antipathy to tea parties for such objects, describing the
tea-party system as contemptible, mean, and selfish, sar-
castically adding, " that no doubt Tally clergymen would
be present, with the usual stock-in-trade of no-Popery
humbug, Protestant nonsense, and Orange clap-trap."
The chairman concluded his remarks by calling upon the
meeting to exert themselves in aid of the object for which
they were met together.—The Rev. J. B. Lowe then
delivered an address on " The Duty of Sunday-school
Teachers ;" after which the Rev. Dr. Hume made some
very true remarks . on " The Right Use of Money."—The
Rev. S. B. Sutton also spoke on " The Advantage of
Protestantism to the Working Classes•;" the Rev. W. F.
Taylor on "The Blighting, Withering Influences of
Popery ;" and the Rev. W. Maynard on " The Blessed.
ness of Christian Union." . During the evening several
anthems were sung by the choir of St. Paul's Church, and
collection made for the benefit of the. schools.

PRINCE ALBERT, Chancellor of Cambridge University,
being pleased to give annually a gold medal for the en-
couragement of English poetry, the Vice-Chancellor gives
notice that the prize will be given this year for the best
poem on "The Chinese Empire, in reference to its past
history and impending changes."
THE TOWN CoUNcIL of Edinburgh have unanimously
agreed to address a memorial to the Lord Advocate, urg-
ing the Government to bring in a bill, during the ap-
proaching session of Parliament, for the establishment of
an efficient system of registration of births, marriages,
and deaths in Scotland.

AN intelligent young Esquimaux, who officiated as
pilot to one of the searching expeditions, and who has been
educated in this country at the expense of the Admiralty,
was recently baptised in St Martin's Church, Canterbury.
One of his sponsors was Mrs. Cell, daughter of Sir John
Franklin. His name is now Erasmus Augustine Kal-
lihirua.

A MAN DROWNED IN A VAT OP ALE.—Last week a
man, named William Lapish, brewer to Mr. Denby, of
Selby, was found drowned in a vat of ale of about KO gal-
lons. The deceased, it is supposed, had fallen in whilst
attending, to his duties, about three quarters of an hour
before he was found. An inquest was held on the body,
but nothing beyond the fact of the man being found
drowned was elicited.—Yorkshiremn.

TEA AND COFFEE.—A few evenings since, (says the
Lancet,) at the London Medical Society, the president re-
ferred to a case in which tea drunk in the morning, and
coffee in the evening, always produced ill effects—the re-
verse none. The cause is probably this, that the stomach,
needing a nourishing beverage in the morning, finds it
in coffee only. Needing none after dinner, it obtains a
mere stimulant in tea.

TRAVELLERS from St. Petersbnrgh state (in the Ham.
burgh News) that in the shops of that city are sold maps
of Constantinople, in which the Turkish capital is divided
into Russian police districts. A copy of this map, which
was brought to Vienna, produced a great sensation, as it
is well known that at St. Petersburgh no person can sell
maps or engravings without the authorisation of the
Government.
THE MANCHESTER AND SALFORD EDUCATION BILL.
—Sir John Pakington, it is said, has declined the request
of the Manchester and Salford Education Committee to
take charge of their bill in the approaching session of
Parliament, on the ground that, although concurring in
the general principles of that measure, he is unable to
adopt the plan proposed by the committee for the religious
instruction to be given in those schools not connected with
any particular denomination of Christians.

NEW WARLIKE MISSILES.—A trial was made last
week, at the Isle of Wight, of a certain description of
shell, the secret of which is said to be entirely confined to
the British Government. The Gorgon steamer was em-
ployed for the purpose, and the practice is described as
terrific. The steamer lay about 900 yards from the rocks,
and such was the fearful character of the fire, that the
bursting of every shell brought down whole tons of ada-
ment. It is calculated that no ship of the line could have
kept afloat ten minutes under so terrific an explosion.
SIXTY HEAVY GUNS are to be mounted at the battery
now erecting at Sconce Point, on the Isle of Wight, to
guard the entrance of the Solent sea. Thirty guns are
mounted at Hurst Castle battery, opposite the Isle of
Wight, on the Hampshire coast. There is also to be
another battery erected about a mile and a half distant
from Sconce Point, at a place called Cliff-end. This bat-
tery will be directly opposite that of Hurst Castle. These
fortifications, when completed, will render the passage of
the Solent by a hostile fleet impossible.
TIrE RUSSIAN FLEET.—We have the best authority
for stating that the Russian High-Admiral, having re-
cently inspected the Czar's Baltic fleet, one-half of the
ships were at once condemned as worthless, and it was
determined to build, on contract, a number of screw
line-of-battle ships—one account says no less than thirty !

We may possibly find some of these contracts taken in the

Clyde, Or. the 'Thames, and may safely calculate upon a
portion of these vessels being built by the Americans.
But it will take at least two years to get so large a fleet
fit for sea, even if the cash is forthcoming.—Daily News.
THE AIICHaOLOGY OF THE Fd4RO ISLES.—At the

quarterly meeting of the society of Northern Antiquaries,
held at Copenhagen, Mr. Hammerhaimb, who last summer
undertook a voyage to the Ftero Isles, to collect materials
for a popular archwology of those islands, exhibited speci-
mens of a detailed special map, on which he had collected
a"number of names of places handed down from the ear-

lest times in the Fxrodialect, which is an offshoot of the

Icelandic or old Norse. These charts will be added to the
collection contained in the society's archives. Professor
Rafn communicated some observations on Runic stones in
various provinces of Sweden and Norway, in which Eng-
land or the Western countries are mentioned. Among
these was one in memory of a Swede, who was buried at
Bath, and another of one who died at Leith.

BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY.—The damage caused
to the Exeter and Crediton Railway, of which the Bristol
and Exeter Company have the management, by the extra-
ordinary floods on the 19th ultimo, has been found to be
of so extensive a nature as to render it necessary for that
company to issue notices to the public, stating that the
traffic will be suspended till further notice. In many
places the rails are altogether washed away ; and at one
spot.the whole of the sleepers and ballast were swept off
some distance into an 44joining field. During the period
of the closing of the line the travelling from Exeter to
Crediton will be performed by four-horse coaches, which
proceed thence to Barnstaple. The North Devon Rail-
way, which is being constructed to join the Exeter and
Crediton line at the latter place, also suffered from the
same floods.
MARRIAGE PROOFS.—A commission was applied for
in the Vice-Chancellor's Court, ou Wednesday week, to exa-
mine witnesses in India, France, and Scotland, concerning
the marriage of Dr. Peter Cochrane with Abeem Bebee, an
Indian lady of rank, alleged to have been performed by a
native priest in India. Since this alleged marriage, Dr.
Peter Cochrane had married again, and, having had
children by both marriages, a question of legitimacy
arose. The person reeking to obtain the commission was
Mrs. Moorhouse, daughter of Dr. Cochrane and the Indian
lady ; Mrs. Moorhouse claimed under her father's will, as
the legitimate child. Sir R. T. Kindersley refused the
commission to India on the ground.that, as the Bebee had
expressed it, "all the parties were dead, and the docti(-
meats eaten by the white ants ;" the commission t)
France and Scotland was granted..