The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-04-05 00:00:00

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LOCAL NEWS.

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THE PENINSULAR and ORIENTAL COMPANY, it 18
laid, seriously contemplate giving up their mail contracts.

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THE FRIENDS connected with the Wesleyan Sunday
School, Pitt-street, held a tea meeting in the school-
room, Grenville-street South, on Tuesday evening.
JAMES WARD, a landscape gardener, has been com-
luitted to the assizes. on a charge of uttering a forged
request for the delivery of six seal skins of leather.

DURING 1852 the St. Ann's Dispensary and Eve and
Ear Institution relieved 9,283 persons, at a cost of £350.
The cost of each case was only 7d.

A YOUNG MAN was drowned on Tuesday night, whilst
Proceeding in a boat towards an emigrant vessel lying in
the Mersey.
MR. JOSEPH KITCHEN, honorary secretary and trea-
surer of the St. Ann's Dispensary end Eye and Ear Institu-
tion, was presented, on Wednesday, by the subscribers
and friends, with a service of plate.
IT was decided at the County Court, on Friday, in the
case of " Richard Thomas, tailor, v. James Sutor, cap-
tain," that a shipmaster is responsible for the orders
given by his apprentices.

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A LADY on board the Isle of Man steamer Tynwald,
while on her voyage from Douglas to Liverpool, on Wed-
IlesdaY evening, was delivered of a fine healthy female
child.

A SEAMAN, named John Smith, died at the Northern
Hospital on Wednesday morning, in consequence of burns
received by him two weeks ago, while in a state of intoxi-
cation at a lodging-house in Union-street.
THE WAVERLEY DRAMATIC SOCIETY will shortly
give their third annual performance of the series, the
Proceeds to be presented to the fund now raising for the
relief of the sufferers by the wreck of the Queen Victoria.
A'SPECIAL SESSION was held in the Session-house,
Chapel-street, on Thursday, for the removal and transfer
of licenses, before Mr. J. H. Turner and Mr. Geore Holt.
There were but two applicants for transfers refused.
TETE NEXT ANNUAL SHOW of the Royal North Lan-
cashire Agricultural Society is to be held at Blackburn,
in August. Lord de Tahley is president for the current
'rear. The sum of £286 is to be offered in premiums.
A FAREWELL SERVICE was held in the Seamen's
'Church, Rathbone-street, on Tuesday evening, to bid
farewell to several Primitive Methodist missionaries pre-
vious to their departure for Canada West and Illinois.
DR. INDIAN, of this torn, delivered, at the Collegiate
Institution, on Friday evening. the first of a series of two
interesting lectures on the " Philosophy of Sensation."
He will be succeeded by Mr. Scharf, on " Nineveh and
its Ruins."
HOUSEKEEPERS are cautioned against a set of persons,
of respectable appearance, who are in the habit of calling
under pretence of having business with some one of the
family, and, during the temporary absence of the servant,
decamp with whatever article they can lay their hands upon.
A SPECIAL SESSION •of the justices of the peace for
the Kirkdale division, was held on Thursday,'for the pur-
Pose of appointing overseers, receiving thenames of the
Special constables for the ensuing year, and receiving a
statement of the accounts of the surveyors df highways.
A TEL'EGRATII from New Orleans mentions that the
America, as well as the Belmont, was burred on the 7th
instant. The cargoes of both were 6,009 bales. There
may be some mistake in this, as the owners of the
Aneerica'here have received no information of it. It is
eamjedtured that it may refer to the American ship Maine.
_AT -rue POLICE COURT on Friday, n charge was pre-
ferred against Robert Pope, an attorney, for having been
The !'unk while pleading a case in court or. the to March.
,defendant having been summed in wrong
thristlan name, a resummons was issued, to be disposed
f on-Friday next.
A:LADY PICKPOCKET, named Mary Ward, wearing a
vell'and dressed in sober sable, was' committed for three
taouths, at the Police-office, on 'Friday, for picking the
Zaket of an American lady, making the tour of Europe,
1/I,l_Lewis Thompson, while the fair Yankee and her
"!Id were looking in the window of Compton-house.
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'for • i.OSE S TENDERS with the Health Committee
rn eraPtying the middens, under specification No. 3,
the as follows :—" To remove the refuse (and deodorize
7, Caine) to depots within the borough, £9,000 yearly.
To remove the refuse by cartage 400 yards beyond the
boundary of the borough, £19,0{/0 yearly."
_ IN THE WRONG PLACE.—On Wednesday night, a
notorious thief stealthily walked up the stairs at the (le-
ll,re
!ctive police-station, and endeavoured to enter Captain
ie's room. When captured, his excuse was, that he
was in quest of a midwife. He was taken before the
magistrates, and sent to gaol for a month.
TIM CORN-PORTERS, at a public meeting on Wed-
riesdaY evening, resolved that in future they should have
one uniform rate of wages 6d. per day, and that a
deputation communicate their wish to the employers. A
meeting was held last night to select a deputation. it
was likewise resolved that they do not work longer on
Saturday than five o'clock, and that they be paid imme-
diately after that hour.
THE Shipping Gazette insinuates that the City of
Dublin Company care for nothing but quick passages ;
and that on the melancholy occasion of the loss of the
Queen Victoria, " Captain Elrurch knew that the Iron
Duke, belonging to a rival company, was making the
same passage that night, and was a little way astern of
him," and that a desire not to be passed was the cause of
the imprudence which led tc the melancholy catastrophe.
The Dublin Evening Post takes the Gazette roundly to
task, both vessels belonging to the same companay.

TRANSATLANTIC STEAM-SHIPS.—The Liverpool and
Philadelphia Steam-ship Company's steam-ship City of
Manchester, Captain R. Leitch, left the Mersey for Phi-
ladelphia, at a quarter to two on Wednesday afternoon,
with 147 cabin passengers, and a small cargo.—The Cu-
nard company's screw steamer Alps, Capt. Wickman,
sailed on Wednesday afternoon. on her second voyage to
New York, with a very full cargo.—The Pacific, Capt.
Nyc, takes her departure about nine o'clock on Wed-
nesday (to-morrow) morning, .for New York. The British
and North American mail-steam-ship America, Leitch.,
Commander, took her departure hence, on Saturday, for
Boston, with 140 passengers and a large cargo, besides
the usual mails, on board.
LAUNCH OF A Swtsvi-,S7rAmEtt.—On Wednesday
last there was launched ,fsam the building yard of
Alessr s . Thomas Vernon . and Son, Brunswick dook,
another of those beautiful iron screw-steam(rs, building
13,,,37 that firm for the Austrian Lloyd's. She is called the
San Carlo ; is of 250 tons, and sixty-horse power, and is
similar to the two former vessels, the San Guisto and
San Marco, lately launched for the same company. The
ceremony of christening was performed by Miss Mary
Morgan, the niece of Mr. Wm. Morgan, of Clifton, who
Is the consulting engineer for the Austrian Lloyd's
Company.
,AT THE MEETING OF THE 'HEALTH COMMITTEE, on
IthhtirsdaY, Mr. John Nicholson presiding, it appeared that
e increased severity of the weather, by generating
bronchitis and other diseases of the lungs, had raised the
aggregate deaths in the borough•from 213 in the previous
week to 263 in the week ending last Saturday. As com-
pared with the corresponeing week of the preceding five
gears the increase is 45. Mr. Ashlin stated that the
_ork done in Canning-street and Flemin g-street, about
"e expense of which complaints had been made, was not
Paid for by the public, but by private funds.
the have been busy at work in Liverpool during
ce Past week. At midnight, on• Wednesday, the shop
?' Mr, Israel Samuels, outfitter, Great Howard-street,
dac broken into, and property to the
'value of £5 stolen.
oll'ing Thursday night, a panel was out out of the hack
Theattenawnbrokr, 6, Hl-street Park.
slates had e
ra'been sed from the roofil of the kitchen,
,slit the thieves could not get further, as the inside was
ates with iron. During the night of Thursday, the
o attache to the shoe nsanufactory of Mr. Cartmel,
vitt-stree td was entered by thieves, who took out a pane
ef gla f •40
, .rom a wndow. one not oods, wuld seem
4ave,ueen thei object of thee the dey,predatgors, for,o although
u veral 'drawers were ransacked, no property was taken.
Livouroot, CLOCKS.—The disagreement between the
'various public clocks in Liverpool has ceased to excite
coMplaint only from the apparent hopelessness of a re-
znedy.
~1 hint, however, may be supplied. from what the
People of Birmingham are doing. From twenty designs
sent in for, competition, a committee have selected one,
designed by Mr. Francis Whishaw, who, having in view
the 'further ornamentation of the town, considered that
S statue would best fulfil the purpose, and chose the sub-
ject .of Hercules relieving Atlas of his burden. The
figure of Hercules is eight feet high, bearing on his shoul-
ders a celestial globe (a four-faced clock to be illuminated
at night), five feet in diameter,—the whole standing on a
massive-looking pedestal, five feet in height. The clock
works (Shepherd's electric, as used at Greenwich_Obter-

vatory; &c.) ate to be placed within the pedestal, which
a to be kept at all times at a uniform temperature by jets
tas within, in connection with the pipe supplying gas
tt7fhthe globe; the shaft from the works to be carried up
th -e ens for the purpose of communicating motion to
inn Mandede the figure, which is intended to be cast
metal,
1337 th , and bronzed externally, as also the pedestal..
e auoPtion of the electric clock, Greenwich time may
be accurately transmitted to Birmingham ; and, moreover, all
b °iler clocks belonging to the corporation of the
orough, _
ay
; be replaced simply by clock-faces ; thus
be located
attention only to the parent clock, which may
,e,located in such case in a house in the centre of the
d of horological operations.
1,4, 'N" ADJOURNED ANNUAL COUNTY SESSION i 5 to be
in the Court House, Preston, to-morrow. Amongst
the stbjects for consideration are the report of the com-
,ilittee appointed sth January las, as to the division of
• "le county into coroners' districtst; the ease and opinion
,13( counsel as to the expenses of the funeral of drowned
°lls unknown ; the representation by the lord lieu-
-.nant of the county and the colonel of the 3rd regiment
Zt.the Duke of Lancaster's own militia, of the insecurity,
gt'"4 of the place for keeping the arms, clothing, and
tt3-es of the regiment, with an application for an order
build some proper place for the purpose. Numerous
jesolutions relative to the county constabulary (ad-
b°,lll:,ned from the sth January last), are also to be moved
zbyne chairman of the finance committee. The chair-
st,"„rl of the county constabulary committee is to move
fro "urY retiring allowances and gratuities, to be granted
hol.the superannuation fund, to disabled police officers ;
heft also move recommendation for holding a special
to ttY session of the magistrates of each police division
he e°llot37, to examine and audit the contingent tossesex-
bof the police of that division, such audited accounts
acnc sent for allowance to the constabulary committee,
e,ss: Other resolutions relate to an increase of the county
AVstabulary in the Higher Blackburn. Ormskirk, and
tirehester divisions, the providing a lock-up at New-
eh building a police-station's lock-up at Blackpool,
4,7ner at Heywood, near Bury, and a third at Stretford.
ee'r„.rtddison has a motion relative to the order of pro-
atlrng, in the presentation of any memorial or petition
zo,_ in the consideration thereof. The committee on pri-
togeoac°tnroodation and discipline are to be empowered
etinue their sittings till the annual session in June ;
1,071 Morial to the secretary of state and petitions to both
thturse,,6 of Parliament, against the county rate and expen-
13ill. are to be submitted for adoption, and the con-
Ilticii(lera-tiOn of the resolution relating to the constitution of
° eNtabulary commaitte9 is t 9 be further postponed.

THE FOUNDATION STONE of a Roman Catholic Educa-
tional Institution was laid in Hope-street, on Tuesday.
MR. JOHN BOWES and Mr. John Easton have been
elected overseers of Wavertree for the ensuing year.
DURING the past year, £5OO of the money borrowed
for rebuilding Runcorn Church has been liquidated.
THE ANNUAL VESTRY MEETING at Runcorn, held
on Monday, voted a rate of 3d. in the pound for the
ensuing year.

CAPTAIN CoLus, of the steamer Times, was fined
at the police-court, on Tuesday, for assaulting police-
officer 487, on Saturday night, at the Clarence Dock.

MR. CARATTI, the Greek merchant who was injured
by the recent accident, it is stated, claims pecuniary com-
pensation from the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway to
the amount of £20,000.
AN IMPORTANT MOVEMENT has been set on foot in
Liverpool, chiefly by several captains of American mer-
chant vessels, in favour of the abolition, on both sides of
the Atlantic, of the present practice of giving advance
notes to seamen.

THE BOARD OF TRADE deem it desirable that the fines
on seamen for not taking due care of their register
tickets, or not giving satisfactory account of their loss,
should in future be enforced by the officers who issue the
renewed tickets, without the intervention of a magistrate.
TFIE CUNARD STEAM-SHIP ARABIA has been thoroughly
overhauled previous to her summer cruize. The spon-
sons surrounding the paddle wheels have been made more
than a foot higher than they were, so that the water may
be more freely liberated from her wheels in a rolling sea.
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NEW MATERIALS.—The Manchester Guardian de.
scribes two new materials for textile manufacture, one
from the south-west coast of Africa, a new species of
silk, dyed red, sent by a missionary at Abbeokata; the
other a description of wool of fine quality and a pale buff
colour.

FAIITER NEWMAN, of the Oratory, Birmingham, was
to have attended the Romish soiree, at the Concert-hall,
on Tuesday last, but he did not, on account of indisposi-
tion. In his epistle apologetics!, he says:—" I trust I
will have St. Philip's forgiveness if at this time I remain
at home instead of coming to you."
'CommisstoNs signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the
County Palatine of Lancaster Ist Regiment of the Duke
of Lancaster's Own Militia—Lieutenant Ciarence Horatio
Cary to be Captain. Lancashire Hussars—Adolphus
Monbert, gent., to be Cornet, vice 'Hawarden Gillibrand
Fazackerley, deceased.
THE BLACKBURN ELECTION has been disgraced by
serious riots, which appear to 'have been shared in alike
by both parties. The ScottiSh (" liberal ") inhabitants
of Brown-street and John-street were assailed on Saturday
evening week. Two lives were lost, and .£lOO worth of
property damaged.
JOHN PRICE, Hampton-court, Peter-street, the cap-
tain of a coasting smack, was committed to the sessions,
on Wednesday, for a ruffianly assault upon his'wife, to
which he was instigated by jealousy. It was proved that
the surly-looking wretch had kicked and struck the poor
woman savagely—even lifting up her clothes to make his
kicks more severe.

ELIZABETH C-ntur-c, a native of Cromarty, in Scot-
land, and who resides in Mary's-place, •fluckinfield-
street, has completed the 169th year of her age. The
parish of Liverpool allows her 9s. 01. a week, and this is
eked out to the sum requisite to keep her in life by
friends connected 'with the Scotch Church, Oldham-
street, of which-she is a member.

A Mn.. ALtias, in his speech at the'Romanist soiree,
in the Concert-hall on Tuesday night, said :—" 'When he
said religion V7RS the only safeguard for the faith and
morals ofm‘people, he addressed them having the strongest
conviction that relieion, in the mind Cif a Protestant, was
not yet that thing which enabled a mar. either to live well
or die well."
ET...EC/ICI,: OF CONIMISSIONERS WAVERTREE.—
The election for this township, under the public health
act, took place on Monday last. The numbers stood as
follows :—Mr. J. A. Picton, 243 rotes ; Mr. J. Kenyon,
160; Mr. P. Hill, 122; Mr. J. -rowers, 158; Mr. H.
Davies, 'l2O ; Mr. J. Wignall, 64.; Mr. J. Fine,land, 84;
Mr. J. '.Bradburn, 40; Mr. W. Coward, 37; Mr. T.
Urquhart, 97 ; Mr. H. Halhead, 72 ; Mr. J. Bourne,
83 ; Mr. W. C. Casey, 67; Mr. Win. Hope, 50. The
first Ere were elected.

AT ELOQUENT CORN-PORTER. At the meeting of
Liverpool corn-porters, on Wednesday, one of the
speakers said :—" It was said that the French were going
to invade us, and that Napoleon was going to land an
army on our shores. He did not beliave it; but suppose
Napoleon were to land with 30,000 troops on the shores
of old England, was it the merchants who would have to
repel the enemy ? Certainly not. It would be the
brawny, sinewy, working men of the country who would
have to meet them in deadly conflict, and chase them
from our shores. (Tremendous applause.) Then, was
it an army of skeletons they were going to have to chase,
the 'French ? Certainly not. (Cheers.) They must be
well fed and clothed, and their children instructed and
morally brought up."
TAE GREAT BRITAIN LANDING HER SPECIE.—At the
meeting of the Dock Committee, on Thursday, a letter
was read from Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co., in which
they stated that they would esteem it a favour if the
committee would allow the Great Britain to land her
specie on the north side of the Sandon Dock, next the
graving-dock, and give instructions to their officers not
-to allow any person to pass that way immediately before
or during the time of landing.—Mr. Evans : They should
get a detachment here.—Mr. Rankin : I think we should
give every encouragement to the landing o'f specie.—
Mr. Gregson thought the communication had better be
referred to the chairman of the Watch Committee. who
would see that Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co., were
provided with a sufficient number of the police.—The
letter was referred to the harbour-masters' sub-committee.

A Pe,r.soN, calling. himself " the Very Rev. Canon
Goss," one of the Liverpool Popish Brigade, in a recent
speech at the Concert-hall, said " there was a variety of
clerical mountebanks, who went through the-country, no
matter whether it was the debauched Achilli or the bad
Gavazzi, and no where were they more certain of an en-
thusiastic audience than in the bigoted tows of Liver-
pool. (Applause.) He (Mr. Goss) had the misfortune
to listen to Gavazzi, who wore the habit of his order-
once his honour, but now his shame-and he must confess
that, were it not for the cross which he wore on his gar-
ments, from seeing the manner in which he shook his
hair and contorted his countenance, he should have
thought he was one of the old furies conjured- up for the
occasion. In the course ,of a short time, he had no
doubt, this town would be blessed with two other apos-
tles, for he believed Lord Shaftesbury had sent for the
blessed Rosa, who was about -to exchange her patens for
pumps, and would shortly appear on the English boards."
(Laughter.)
DUCHY OF :LANCASTER.-The annual statement of the
revenues and expenditure of the duchy of Lancaster for
the year ending Michaelmas, 1051, has been laid before
Parliament. Income : Rents due at Michaelmas, 1851,
including £B.lBB 18s. Old. arrears due for 1850, ...C35,074
9s. 71-d. ; out-standing arrears due at Michaelmas, 1851,
£8;935 Bs. 51d. The following are the receipts during
the year ending Michaelmas, 1851 :-Rents and arrears,
£26,139 Is. lid; sales, grants, Ac., £425 lls. 4d..; di-
vidends on stock, £253 124. 10d. ; casual revenue, £2,777
2s. lOid. ; balance over 1850, £6,402 14s. 71d. ; total in-
come, £35,998 2s. The expenditure was as follows :
-Salaries of principal officers, £6,500 Bs. 4d. ; of the law
officers, £845 7s. IPd. ; of receivers and agents, £1,77
19s. -5d...; of stewards and bailiffs, ,&c., £466 6s. •4d.
annuities and retired allowances, £951 10s. ; donations
and charities, including stipends, &c., £1,363- Bs. Id. ;
law charges, £233 169. sd. ; surveys, &c., and repaint,
£2.688 10s. Gd. ; wages, payments to the Commissioners
of Woods and Fo::ests, expenses of manorial courts, land
tax, rents and audit expenses, &c., £4,603 13s. 1:11;
purchase of stock, £832 14s. Bd. ; payments to Privy
Purse, £1.2,01 J; balance at Michaelmas, 1851, £5,287
3s. SY. ; arrears discharged, £46 15s. 7 d. ; total ex-
penditure, £35088 2s. 91d.
GIRL SHOT Ilsr A SHOOTING GALLERY.-,-At midnight
on Tuesday, Vivian O'Keefe, a respectably dressed young
man, about 18 years of age, accompanied by another
young man, paid a visit to Maelaren's " Glasgow Shoot-
ing-gallery," under Mercer's snuff-shop, 7, Murray-
street, Williamson-square. They were both in liquor at
the time, and were followed by a girl. On entering the
prisoner took up a rifle, which bad been loaded with
powder and ball, and, ,putting it to his shoulder, ..said to
the girt, Jane Riley by name, " By,G-, I'll shoot you!"
to which the girl replied,, in a laughing tone, " 0, don't."
The prisoner on this fired the gun, sod lodged the bullet
in her shoulder! the wife of the proprietor of the gallery.
who was close behind her, narrowly escaping being shot
in the head. The prisoner immediately turned very pale.
and ran off; but his companion was seized and kept is
the gallery until the police arrived. The girl was imme.
diately conveyed to the Royal Infirmary, when the wound
was found not to be dangerous. The pike arrested
O'Keefe at his lodgings in Islington about two o'clock.
At the police-office on Wednesday morning, the
prisoner stated that he had been at the Amphitheatre and
the St. George's Vaults, where he got very drunk. He
had no recollection either of going into a shooting .gallery,
or of shooting any one. The person who accompanied
the prisoner to the shooting-gallery had since gone to
Manchester. He was remanded for seven days. The
father of the prisoner offered bail, stating his son was
quite a stranger in Liverpool, and had fallen into bad
company. The application was dismissed.
AT THE WEEKLY MEETING OF THE DOCK COMMITTEE,
on Thursday-Mr. Turner, M.P., presiding-a report
was produced, and read from the Dock Surveyors, dis-
approving of Mr. Grantham's proposed high-level rail-
way. The report advocated a system of constructing
warehouses on the dock quays, with communication
between those warehouses on the low-level-only between
warehouses on the dock estate. Mr. Holden, Mr. Robin-
son and others thought Mr. Grantham's plan could riever
be carried out satisfactorily. In reference to the plan of
the Lancashire and Yorkshire and East Lancashire Rail-
way Companies for approaching the north docks, and how
far that plan would interfere with any other which might
be adopted in future, a long discussion of a desultory
character ensued. Two plans were laid before the com-
mittee, one of a high level railway to two docks to
accommodate the coal traffic ; and the other of a low level
railway, to the Stanley dock. Ultimately a resolution
was passed, by a majority of 16 to 2, to the effect, " that
the plan of approach from the railway to the Stanley
dock, upon the low level, be approved, the high level
having been previously approved." It was decided that
Mr. Hartley's report should be printed.-A plan of pro-
posed alterations in the dock offices was approved.-The
Warehouse Management sub-committee produced an ap-
plication from the delivery foremen, for an increase of
wages. The sub-committee thought these men ade-
quately paid by 245. a week. The warehouse-keepers
also craved an advance in their salaries, with which the
committee did not think it would be proper to comply. A
recommendation to increase the salaries of the warehouse
clerks from £9O to £lOO was confirmed. The sub-com-
mittee recommended that the ledger clerks be classed in
three classes, and that the first class should have their
salaries increased from £llO to £l3O per annum, the
second class from £llO to £l2O per annum ; and that the
salaries of the third class should be continued as they had
been. The recommendation was confirmed. The salary
of Mr, ,Austin, principal of the general office at the Albert
dock warehouses, was, on the recommendation of the
sub-committee, advanced from 450 to £4OO per annnra,