The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-04-12 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY,

THE EARL OF SEFTON Will lay the foundation atone
of the new parish church, at West Derby, to-morrow.
THE EARL OF DERBY is about to erect a church on his
estate at Treals, in the Fylde.

A Boox OF TRAVEL in the United States, by Miss
Finch, a Liverpool lady, has just made its, appearance.
THE MAYOR (Samuel Holme, Esq.) gave a dinner on
Wednesday evening last, at the town-hall, to about 50
gentlemen.

ON Thursday, the Mayor sat in the Nisi Prius Court,
at the Sessions-house, to hear informations against per-
sons for using illegal weights and measures.

AN INFLUENTIAL PORTION OF TFIE CORN TRADE of
this port have resolved to nominate Mr. Wm. Healing as a
candidate to succeed the late lamented Mr. Claxton at
the dock committee board.

TriE following advertisement appeared in The Times,
of Friday :—F. G.: Mind not A., but remember B. Do
not forget the silkworm's tree. Think of China's tem-
ples and of tea, of Hesperia's sky and its blue sea.

THE TRUSTEES OF THE BIRKENHEAD DOCKS have
been indicted at the Chester assizes, in consequence of
their having removed the iron bridge over the Morpeth
dock, the sole means of access of the railway companies
to the south reserve.

MR. E. H. BRAMAN, clerk to the trustees of the
Birkenhead docks, states that the trustees have not made,
nor do they intend to make, any proposal for the transfer
of the Birkenhead docks to the trustees of the Liverpool
docks.

MAN KILLED ON BOARD THE GREAT BRITAIN.—
William Reid, formerly employed on board the Great
Britain, went on Monday to see some of his old associates.
Whilst ascending the steps leading from the engine-room
be fell backwards and received a scalp wound and concus-
sion of the brain, of which he died on Tuesday last.

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A DEP. _se subject of the Pilotage Bill had
an intervie% with the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, on Mon-
day, at the Board of Trade. The deputation consisted of
Mr. Turner, M.P., Mr. W. Brown, M. P., Mr. Henry
Bremner, Mr. Shepherd, Mr. Hudson, and Mr. Newell
(parliamentary agent).

THE LATE SHOOTING CASE.—At the Police-court, on
Wednesday last, a young man, named Vivian O'Keefe,
was brought up on a remand from the previous week,
charged with shooting a girl in Murray-st-^ ' It was
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she is unable yet to attend. The pri-
soner was admitted to bail in two sureties of £lOO each.
MR. WILLIAM CALLOW, late resident engineer and
superintendent at the Athol-street station of the Liver-
pool United Gas Light Company, was entertained at
dinner by the workmen on Tuesday last, at the Grapes
Inn, Athol.street, and presented with a valuable gold
watch, on the occasion of his removal to the Birkenhead
Gas and Water Works, of which he has been appointed

MORTALITY OF LIVERPOOL.—in the week ending
the 2nd instant the registered deaths amounted to 244,
twenty less than in the previous week, and eighteen more
than in the average of the corresponding week of the pre-
ceding five years. The decrease was almost exclusively
in diseases of the lungs, which caused 109 deaths. No
death from small-pox was recorded ; and, during the last
23d 1 fortnight, no death has been registered from measles.

MR. RICIIXRD RAILSFORD, of Rainford, from extensive
observations, for the space of five years, gives some ad-
vice to potato-planters. Ile says :—" I feel convinced
that if beans were either dibbled in between the sets or
planted in alternate rows, that the potatoes would be pre-
served, and that without trouble or expense." The time
for planting is again at hand, and this new hint should
-not be 'neglected.

THE London Guardian says :—Manchester has taken
out, not too soon, her patent of nobility, and assumes
under the Great Seal the style and title of a " city" of
the-empire. Her Majesty has created a thing which she
would probably be puzzled to define. Jurists have been
as much perplexed, ere now, by the question, "What is
a city," as financiers by Sir R. Peel's famous poser,
"What is a pound ?"

THE MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL MERSEY YACHT CLUB
on Tuesday last commenced the season at the marine
-station, Birkenhead Hotel, and partook of a good dinner.
Mr. James Poole, Mr. John Alanson, and Mr. W. Fran-
cis, jun., merchants. were elected members. Vice-com-
modore Bartlett, of the Royal London Yacht. Club War
Hawk cutter, was also elected a member. The public
ball was postponed for consideration till next September,
to take place at the end of the season in October.
HEALTH CommtrrEE.—At the meetine, on Thursday,
Mr. Alderman Langsdale presiding, Mr. "Newlands stated
that he had not got the plans completed for the drainage
of Hygeia-street, and the neighbourhood. The chairman
and Mr. Gladstone were appointed a deputation to obtain
a meeting with the Finance'Committee, with the view of
effecting arrangements for widening West Derby road.
An application was read from the labourers, requesting
an advance of wages.—Mr. Newlands said he had con-
sulted the leading paviors in the town : they had all been
prepared for this demand, and they wished that the
Health Committee should act in concert with them.
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Liz MARCO PoLo.—Messrs. Baines and Co. state that
there is no truth in the report that the Marco Polo had
been dismasted.

THE REV. DR. RAFFLES presided, On Thursday last,
in Manchester, over a public meeting of the Lancashire
Congregational Union.
THE PHILOSOPHY or SENSATION.—Dr. Inman's se-
cond lecture on the above subject was delivered on Friday
evening, to a numerous and highly-respectable auditory,
at the Collegiate Institution.
LABOURERS FOR CANADA.—It iS stated that Mr.
William Jackson, M.P., is about to proceed to Canada
with 15,000 labourers, to carry on foe railway undertak-
ings in progress and projected there.
A MEETING OF GENTLEMEN interested in the coasting
trade of Liverpool was held in Mr. Wilson's office, Water.
street, on Wednesday, Mr. Charles Maciver in the chair,
in support of the proposed Pilotage Bill.

IN consequence of the death of Lord Skelmersdale, the
meeting of Conservative members of Parliament, which
was to have taken place at Lord Derby's yesterday, was
postponed until Saturday next.
MR. J. REYNOLDS gave his closing ball, the other
evening, at the Royal Assembly-rooms. Mr. Emidy's
band was in attendance, and Mr. Oakes was the caterer.
Upwards of 160 persons, including pupils and friends,
were present.

MESSRS. LUCAS AND Co.'s twenty-second annual sale
of carriages, &c., which took place at their Repository, on
Wednesday, for variety and value was much superior to
any they had previously had. The sales made were
extensive, and at high prices.
THE LIVERPOOL BAKERS.—At a meeting of the
journeymen bakers of the town, on Monday, it was re-
solved to make an appeal to the masters for au increase
of wages, the rates at present paid being from 20s. to 245.
a week, and the time of work varying from sixteen to
twenty hours a day.

EDWARD BOY ER, ESQ., of Brooklands, Ormskirk, died
on Friday morning at the age of 59 years. He was one of
her Majesty's justices of the peace, and had been chair-
man of the Ormskirk petty sessions since the death of the
Rev. Miles M. Formby. He was also one of the deputy-
lieutenants of Lancaster.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERIES IN LIVERPOOL.-011 Monday
night, in Colquitt-street, a gentleman was robbed of
notes, &c., to the amount of £3l. During Saturday
night week the North Shore mills factory was entered
through the roof, the safe blown open by gunpowder, and
nearly £lOO, principally in gold, stolen.

MR. THOMAS'S CONCERT.—We shall be excused for
reiterating our recommendation to the public of Liverpool
to attend the grand concert at the Philharmonic-hall this
(Tuesday) evening, for the benefit of Mr. Thomas, whose
exertions to get up a series of cheap concerts of first-class
music resulted in a pecuniary loss to himself, but an
immense advantage to the lovers of this divine art.

FREDERICK TYE, a somewhat questionable-looking
person, was committed for trial at the Police-court, on
Thursday, on a charge of having burglariously broken
into and entered the house of Harriet Randles, No. 3,
Knovvsley-view, Walton- lane, Kirkdale, early on the morn-
ing of Sunday last. He stole four silver spoons, a silver
thimble, two silver pencil cases, and a pair of scissors

43IARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—A matrimonial alliance
is on the Lapis between Charles Frederick Clifton, Esq.,
third son of the late Thomas Clifton, Esq., of Lytham
Hall, in this county, and brother of the High Sheriff of
the County, and the Lady Edith Maud Rawdon Hastings,
eldest daughter of the late George Augustus Francis
Marquis of Hastings. The marriage will, we believe,
take place in the course of the present month.
PROPOSED EMIGRATION OF FEMALE PAUPERS.-At
the adjourned vestry, on Tuesday, the Equitable Rating
Committee's report contained the following :—" Emigra-
tion should be encouraged in the case of young females
of the same class as those already sent off; of which class
there are from thirty to forty remaining in the workhouse,
who have been several years resident therein, and who
are orphans, with good characters."
PERFORMANCE AT ST. PATRICK'S ROMANIST CHAPEL.
—On Sunday service was performed at St. Patrick's Cha-
pel, Park-road, by the Rev. Dr. Paul Cullen, the Pope's
Archbishop in Dublin, in aid of the schools connected
with the chapel- The price of admission to the reserved
seats was 2s. fiel., and to the non-reserved seats Is. The
advertisement announcing the service stated that in the
evening silver, as usual, would be received at the door.
MR. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, who has received the
appointment of American consul at the port of Liverpool,
is well known in the literary world as the author of
" Mosses from an Old Manse," "The Blithedale Ro-
mance," " The House with the Seven Gables," &c. His
latest literary production was a life of, General Franklin
Pierce, the President of the United Stales. He probably
stands -first on the list of great prose writers who have
arisen on the other side of the Atlantic.

DEPUTY-LIEUTENANTS.—At the sessions, last week,
the following gentlemen qualified as deputy-lieutenants
for the county :—Edward Pedder, Esq., of Clifton Hall,
Preston ; Peter Catterall, Esq., of Preston; Thomas
Dugdale, Esq., of Blackburn ; Hardy Wrigley, Esq., of
dward Parker, Esq., of Alkincoates; Rich-
'Jury ; John Rowlandson
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