The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-02-15 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS.

THE NEW ROAD from the Cnstom-house to the
Queen's Dock is now laid out and partially opened.
THE REV. S. MINTON delivered his first lecture on
the book of Joshua on Tuesday evening.
Ma. GREENALL, M.P., was entertained at dinner at
Warrington on Thursday last.
THE EXPORT OF RAGS from this port to America has
declined immensely of late.
A GRATIFYING INCREASE is exhibited in the number
of daily visitors to the Free Public Library.
A MEETING was held at Bury on Friday week, to ad-
vocate a ten-hours' bill, with restrictions on the moving
Power.

LAST WEEK a public inquiry was instituted into the
i
state of the Bury burial ground. It s proposed to have
a cemetery at some distance from the town.
THE Bt ACRUDRN STANDARD denies the statement in
some of the London papers that Mr. Eccles, one of the
members, was about to resign his seat.
PRINCIPAL SCOTT has been lecturing during the past
week at the Manchester Free Library, on " Tire great
poetical authors and eras."
Ei.irs BARNS, a child two and a half years old, was
burned to death the other day in Blackburn, In the ab-
sence of its parents.
TWO IRISHMEN, Thomas Riley and John Mahon, have
been committed for 'trial at the Liverpool Assizes, for a
desperate garotte robbery at Wigan. Their victim was
Thomas Myers, naih.maker, Downall Green, Ashton.
A WRITER in the Manchester Gistardian protests
against the proposal to place the monument to Dr. Dal-
ton in a private cemetery, and suggests that his public
worth demands " a centrical and conspicuous situation."
ON TuEsnMr, at the Police Court, Catherine Hackey,
a " searchers' at the Workhouse, was sent to gaol for two
months, for robbing Harriet Jones, a servant girl, of a
variety of articles of wearing apparel.
JAMES CHISNALL, Blackburn, who seems to have hal
a mania for robbing his mother, has been committed to
the sessions for trial. The sliver spoons were the last
articles stolen.

THE 'PROGENY OF A COW belonging to S. E. BoWon"
Esq., of Red Bank, near Lancaster. has been sold for
one thousand guineas. For a calf at eight months old
Ifr. 8. has refused one hundred guineas.
A CONSCIENCE-STRICVEN THIEF, who twenty-seven
yeas ago stole a trifling article from Mrs. Catlow., toy_
dealer, Blackburn, has sent half-a-crown to Mrs. C.
"restitution."

AT THE EIGHTH OrDINAILY MEETING of the Literary
Ind Philosophical Society yesterday evening week, the
Itev. Arthur Ramsay, M.A., read a very learned paper,
on the practical application of comparative philology."
JAMES MYERSCOVGH was committed for trini at the
'Liverpool assizes, on Friday last, at Rochdale, ditarged
with the manslaughter of Isaac Lowe, herb ,deiier, his
father-in-law-
MILE has advanced to is. 4d. per gallon in'the neigh-
bourhood of some of the woollen cloth mills in Lancashire,
in consequence of a recent discovery that milk mixed with
oil answers the purpose of the more expensive-Olive oil.
ANN O'NErtL was sentenced to eighteen months' im-
prisonment, at the Quarter Sessions, on Tuesday, for
stealing £lO5 from James Arbuthnot, a 'baker, of 76.
Arley-street, whilst labouring under the 'influence of
gingerette, owthe 17th December last.
A YERSONNNAMED JAMES, a coal-trimrtror, belonging
to the Pacific, fell into the Huskisson Look, on Saturday
tight, while-loading coals on board said ship, and received
Suchinries that ho ,died on Tuesday morning, at the
Northern Hospital.
nirN,Orriaarco, of Bacup, labourer, aged GO years, was
floororr ,n 7 morning last found burnedrto death on the
tr .rsdwelling. He had fallen on the bars of the
beil.grate, in the absence of his wife, while getting out of

THE Sot •
TER
papers assert that 30v years ago a vessel
" Highland Clad Lad" was fitted up by Messrs.
, Girswood and Co., of Glasgow, with a caloric the
engine, the invention of the Rev. Mr.enaw Dr., Stirling,
of Galston, in Ayrshire.
„.I,ll.trcr 'RomaNsorr, a fine young girl, aged 16, 3 Court
wke-street, went to assist an old wcman in attending
on her husband on Monday night; her dress accidentally
caughthre, and she was conveyed to the Royal Infirmary,
Where she presents a frightful spectse.e, her neck, chest,
arms, hands, &c., being quite divested of flesh.
Ar FRE COUNTY COURT, the other day, it was con-
ten dedthat a ring, sold by Messrs."Cbitan, the pawnbro-
kers, orSouth Castle-street, was a'" gold" ring, though
'Fiey could not swear that a hundredth part of it was
...composed of the precious metal. Mr. Clime, solicitor for
alessra:Cohan, said that in 999 cases out of a thousand
that .was what was sold for a " goldmring.
SERGEANT HEAP, of the county ,police, Blackburn, in
COmplying with the request of a letter recently received
through the post, has ascertained 'that twenty-five years
ago one of a gang of robbers had confessed to a woman
with whom he cohabited, that he robbed, and then mur-
dered.o travelling Scotchman named David Hevon, who
travelled in Todmorden, Bacup, and Burnley. The body
of the deceased was found in the atochdale canal, near
Ganehohne' at the time, when the coroner's jury gave a
verdictof "Found drowned."

A.' iitteQ,IIALIFICATION FOR CURATES.—The Rev. H.
Stowell, in the course of a lecture on- " Habit," which he
gave to the members of the Manchester Young Men's
Christian Association on Tuesday night, denounced the
practice of tobacco-smoking in unmeasured terms. He
said., -"Never myself will I hire a curate who indulges in
it. 11 sever now make inquiries for a- curate but I invari-
ably ask, is he a smoker of tobacco'?. if he is, I instantly
rejecthis application."
ON 'TUESDAY there was launched from the ship-
building-yard of Messrs. Thomas 'Vernon and Son, a
pretty little iron screw-steamer of about24o tons burthen
and SO-horse power, the first of a series of three vessels
for the. company, known as the Austrian Lloyds. The
yessel-is. called the San Giusto. She will go to the Me-
diterranean, and will be placed upon the station between
Alexandria and Trieste. Messrs. James Watt and Co.,
Of Soho Foundry, Birmingham, are making the engines.
THE "'BANK ROBBERY, LIVERPOOL.—At the Court of
Quarter -Sessions on Tuesday, Frederick Clarke, aged 32,
Was charged with stealing the sum of £3,000 from Robert
Spencer 'Humphreys, a clerk in the offices of Messrs.
Brown, 'Shipley, and Co., in the Branch Bank of England
on Saturday, the 13th of November, last. Mr. Aspinall
conducted the prosecution, and Mr. J.ll. Parry the de-
fence. The jury found a verdict of Not Guilty, and the
prisoner was discharged.
A.T 'DBE ECENT DINNER of the BlueaCoat Brotherly
society, Samuel Holene, Esq., the Mayor of Liverpool,
remarked 'that that institution was one of the genuine
fruits of the true spirit of Christianity ; and in travelling
as he had recently done, over classic ground, he had re-
Marked. that while magnificent ruins studded the coun-
try, which had been the temples of their godsoakile baths,
and fountains, and amphitheatres, • lit be found, the eye
was never gratified, nor the heart mdelighted,
by the sight
of a b
_ e erected for purposes of charity.
uilding known to b
EDUCTTONtiN LIVERPOOL.—In the Court of Passage,
on Wednesday last, a trial took
place, in which Mrs.
Hallorn, of Clarence-street, Everton, was plaintiff, the
defendant being',Edward Dowling, a clerk in the employ-
ment of Messrs. Moore, soapboilers. The plaintiff sought
to recover damages for the alleged seduction of her
_ daughter. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff,
damages £7O. The details of this case are quite unfit for
_Publication. The evidence of George Morris, formerly a
laeeman, lately a jeweller in partnership with Mr.:Clarke,
was
w of the most disgraceful character. This person, in
lahose employment •the plaintiff had been while he.
as a
s:dealer
, was called by the defendant. On Thursday,
was
.Atkinson applied ,for a rule nisi for a new trial, Snd
'beendirected to make his application after the jury had
_ discharged. Messrs. Clarke and Morris have dis-
olved partnership sincrathe trial.
~,,, LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN AND GREAT
`W ESTERN RAILWAY COUPANIES. —On hursday a numerous meeting of proprietors was held at T
the Cotton
15E1es-room, Exchange-buildings. to receive a report of
the committee of shareholders in both companies, ap-
Dointed at a public meeting held in this town, in October
last. Mr. Wm. Rathbone was called to the chair.—The
committee, in their report, state " That some progress
hadheen made in the attainment of your object when the
appointment of a select committee of the House of
Commons to consider the whole question of railway
legislation induced the Great Western Company to break
off the negotiation, and await the result of that im-
portant measure. Your committee, then, as their last
resource, deemed it their duty to apply to the board of
trade, and urge upon the government the importance of
the object for which your committee was formed, pointing
out at the same time the advantagesto be derived from
aearly,repert of the select committee above referred to,
rch‘ might mitigate or suspend a ruinous and perhaps
eattraiye parliamentary struggle. It is with much satis-
g 4411 that your committee are enabled to report that the
ject.
but ai.4:ent not only sympathise with the shareholders,
and impressed with the magnitude of the sub-
c"naliat..PrePared, through the medium of the select
IT ggestiot'l. ta. institute proper inquiry and receive every
interestse
elusion, atiZnich is likely to lead them to a correct con-
truetoll, eY , freely stated that they considered the
identical andco-aidthe Public and the shareholders were
the committee
sa not be
they should recei separated."—The Chairman said
vgegested that, if possible, before Easter,
the all parties, of the"me interpretation, to be agreed to
" Present ex,— . Plage aet, and, if possible, prevent
'4llB admitted trlll6lve
°Poke of exprilstve committees going on ; and when he
committees, he might state that it
"nun' in Parl' e two bodies were spending £70,000 per already
expeedleamentary proceedings, besides what was
mr.
Rau
.sea euu.
Pens" of th Gd. He believed the parliamentary ex-
suln of
.t4„,,,,reat Western amounted to the enormous
the auditorsco7 He moved the adoption of the report.
seconded the motion.—Mr. H. Crossfield, one of
the
that not leas than two companie a°
London and North-Western, believed
that the
of 1.00,000 had been spent between the
insist uPon s'
. Re thought the shareholders should
__
..nowing what the directors were spending ;
tevenue 'ism
aernentary expenses should be shown in the
constaenotr
and thus En
creenses to thke
ueY were allowed pany, and not added to the capital,
Y accumulating. (Hear, hear.) If
to go on without interruption, adding
*warn
Mr. Hall capital, it would never have an end.—
c the
whether in the London and North-
carried to thePanY the parliamentary expenses were
revenue account, or to capital ?—Mr.
armed to
cpita, state that not a single farthing had been
a propriet
was agreed to
Parry this half ; in the London and North-western Corn-
At the suggestion of the chairman, it
being aPPoint Edward Cardwell, Esq., (he not
Mr. Hall °l') to act on the select committee.
moved
sent committee ba resolution to the effect that the pre-
and add a number hereested to continue their labours,
iOintly interested in both'r elsewhere of those gentlemen
to effect the object of the°mPanies as might be calculated
said he had no objection to
assist shareholders.—The Chairman
assist others in the format7ornemain on the committee and
(Vet: that he must discontinue°
ifiina strong committee, but
br his age and other occupations services, on the ground
Air• Hall was t;econded b
itdopted unanimously .—Tbe resolution moved
Y Mr. Elio Arnaud, and
.