The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-17 00:00:00

March 171 1846.

Korai anti Vrobinrial DAM

The Great Liverpool steamer was insured for £30,000.
Workmen are erecting at the Zoological Gardens a co-
vered saloon, which will contain 4000 persons.
CELLARS.—On Wednesday nearly thirty parties were
fined by Mr. Rushton for letting off cellars for habitation
Which were not in accordance with the act of parliament.
Captain Clarke, SOD of the venerable Archdeacon Clarke,
of Eastham, fell in the late battle in India, bravely fight-
ing for the honour of his country,
On Wednesday, a man named Williams, in the employ
•of Mr. Parrett, of the rice mill, Seel-street, met his death
from the breaking of one of the grinding stones.
A very splendid silver candelabrum has been presented
'to Mr. James Wheeler, solicitor, Manchester, for profee-
alone! services in many arduous public undertakings.
William Brown, Esq., of this town, has purchased from
'1,1;le Marquis of Waterford the extensive estate of Ford, in
orthumberland, for £300,000.
William MacLoughlin, aged 16 months, residing with
his parents in Albert-street, Tosteth.park, pulled a pan
of boiling water off the fire, and was so dreadfully scalded
as to die almost immediately.
°n Tuesdae, John Bennett, of Boundary-place, was
fined 40s. by Mr. Rushton for refusing a billet. The de-
fendant said the soldiers left his house in a hurry before
receiving a proper answer.
Ire
h vessels continue arriving at Liverpool and in the
river, laden with heavy freights of provisions ! This
Peaks well for Irish landlords, who can thus drain a land
• which is on the eve of famine.
On Thursday, several parties were fined 10s. and costs,
for selling fish unfit for human food in St. John's Market.
Also several dealers in pork were fined 20s. and costs, for
• selling unwholesome pork.
On Wednesday week, a whale, weighing twelve tons,
and measuring 44 feet in length, was cast on shore at Pen-
Inaen, Wales. It has since been towed into Liverpool,
and is lying on the shore at Tranmere.
Mr. Ingram, of Birmingham, Iles been selected by the
committee to execute the enamelled paintings and decora-
tions for the grand staircase of the Town-hall at Liver-
Pool. The estimated cost of these decorations is nearly
41,000.
Mr. Robert Angus has been appointed manager of
the Liverpool Commercial -Bank, in the room of Mr.
*Gregor, who has been elected a director. The nett
Profits of the year 1815 were £46,752. and after paying
the half yearly dividend of five per cen't., there was a
balance of £12,829.
BIRKENH.:AD HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY.•—On
Friday the annual meeting of the above institution was
h_eld. During the past year upwards of 280 patients had
been attended to at a cost of 6s. each. The total expen-
diture for the year was £657, and there was a balance of
due to the treasurer.
LOCAL BILLS.—The Herculaneum Docks Bill passed
standing orders on Tuesday. The object is to sell the
docks to Birkenhead parties. The following bills have
been read a first time :—The Birkenhead Improvement
Bill, the Birkenhead Small Debts Bill, and the Warring-
inn Waterworks Bill.
The Birkenhead, iron steam-frigate, recently launched
from Mr. Laird's building-yard, at Birkenhead, has been
ordered to Sheerness to be fitted for sea. She is the lar-
gest iron steamer in the British navy ; her engines being
collectively of 560-horse-power, and her tonnage, car-
penter's measurement, 1.400 tons.
The pilot-schooner which left New York the slay before
the Patrick Henry, and was supposed to have been de-
.dstepiraetdched by Mr. Pakenham with the Oregon correspon-
dence arrived at Cork on Friday.week. She bad encoun-
tered bad weather, and had been obliged to lie to for
e'en days. The Patrick Henry arrived at Liverpool on
Monday fortnight.
GuANo.—UPvcards of 11,000 tons were offered for sale
I'.!xhursday, consisting of Ichaboe, Saldanha Bay. Chi-
r°, B,e- About 600 tons sold at £7 12s. 6d. to £6 for
an haboe. The remainder was taken in chiefly at £7 17a.
d £8 for fine Ichabne, £4 10s. Saldanha Bay and Pos-
session Island, and £9 15s. Peruvian. The sale was but
inqiffi-rently attended.
ANICS' INSTITUTION.—The annual meeting was
held on Wednesday. The girls' school is not only paying
Its
expenses, but has contributed a handsome sum to the
eeneral fund's. The institution will have been in exist-
epeee,r twenty-one years on the Bth June next, and a strong
_•Or t is to be made to pay off by that time the debt which
Zll remains against the institution. by the time that it
electe have attained its majority. Mr. W. Brown was
Su president for the ensuing year.
cora,: msPnCRUELTY.—On Wednesday Mr. Rushton
borribiitted omen to gaol for fourteen days, for having
tine
•t°Y t?tttwured a eat. They applied spirits of turpen-
adri. i
the animal's tail, set it on fire, and turned it
ulti t ran into the street in ex reme agony, and was
daot“‘ele killed by some persons passing. The defen-
Sea-b were employed at the Coalbrookdale Ironworks,
eme, row ; but the manager, on being apprised of their
THE conduct, had dismissed them.
a_STRIKE AT BIRKENIIEAD.—The joiners, who
turned out last week for an advance of 3s. per week, still
remain idle, the masters refusing positively to give the
- jaddition. Yesterday week, the ranks of the idlers were
oined by the masons, who refuse to work under 28, per
Week, their former wages being 265. Nearly all the
works in Birkenhead are consequently stopped. The
• bricklayers and plasterers have declared their intention
of striking to-day.
COMMERCE OF LIVERPOCL.—The town dues for the
half-year ending 28th February, as compared with the
correspoodina period of last Year, is in excess by upwrris
of £4,5C03 hnd it is more than rrobt.ble, the gross
income from this source, for the whole year, will produce
upwards of £80.000: this amount, when contrasted with
• the receipts for the years 1824.5 (a little over £44,000).
Will, at once, evidence the rapidity with which the com-
merce of the port has increased in the last twenty years.
The building business in Manchester is all but at a com-
plete stand. Masons, bricklayers, joiners, plumbers and
i!tatazaiers, painters, tire all out; the masters in fact, in many
. ontat refusing to employ even the few that object to turn
ghee
,t_'o doubt influenced by the opinion that no effectual
with°
c" Can be put to the unreasonable demands of the men
so_ e tit turning the entire adrift, and by this means, in
fre°2 degree, prevent the few who might be employed
• in Contributing to the funds of the various trades' asso-
eiattoos.
At a .
deter .meeting of the select vestry on Saturday, it was
ermined that a deputation, consisting of Mr. Scholfield,
paielioughton, and the Vestry Clerk, sluutd be dis-
the rd to London that evening, with full powers to adopt
'llo,r e,gt means of having a clause inserted in the new
pin"' nil', which would have the effect of making the Wrap: Dock Warehouses liable to the payment of church and
tlot:*ratt 5, like the Albert Dock Warehouses. It appeared
le ~he ock Committee had been written to on the sub-
ve_lw butte at they declined to insert the clause. An inter-
lejt will be obtained also with the Mayor.
Ganaitetc"sir•—At Salis'iury assizes, on Tuesday, Daniel
for si,e'ere a private in the Ist Dragoon Guards, was tried
tan ie u°tlng at his wife. He had been absent a fortnight,
wife's e, and on his return heard some reports against his
after character, which, however, were unfounded, and
louse*ltda explained. Writhing under the pangs of' jea-
.fired'ene went out and got intoxicated, and on his return
Ili$:1:8 carbine at his wife, but without wounding her.
eatreolayacter had always been good, and he had been
acrioittelY kind to her. She pleaded for him and he was
• pool• eici•—[Gallagher and his wife belonged to Liver-
11siee rte wends
then a very well-behaved young man. He
led tom,his friends in Liverpool during the furlough that
I,o4`uts unfortunate occurrence.!
!Iltitn:l Socteetes.—On Thursday, upwards of twenty
°QUI Cn'es against defaulters to various lean societies,
trates urru term and sureties, were heard before the magis-
eless ' The defendants were generally of the humbler
tite o (1f society, many of them apparently in distressed
der,istaneeS. St.me of the sureties stated that they un-
on,,,°°,l their liability only extended to the payment of
th "If or ohe-third the amount borrowed, according as
"e
Dre,se, gYt be two or three sureties. Mr. Rushton ex-
his belief that loan fund societies were a bounty
dadl the Prodigality of the poor, for whom they worked
. be, 0Y; He directed that an account be kept of the num-
hew!, eases brought into court by each society, as he be-
Or tbne there was some defect in the management of many
at 411.°1. There were some societies who never came there
felt EST DERBY UNION.—At the meeting on Tuesday a
firioz_watt read from the Poor law Commissioners, con-
oshee'nrg the election of Mr. John Roe land, as relieving-
. Me, t of Toxteth-park district of the union ; hut de.clt-
oth;, ° sanction the appointment of Mr. Tristram for the
the e• it2lo districts; and urging the beard to proceed to
effect s'"!•on of a separate relieving-officer for each ; to
kr. „Which, at the next sitting, a notice was entered by
at tae seeanrntherbarrow. The next subj-ct was the proposal
Ines .watissioners to assign to each of the more nowt-
nships.—Tuxteth-park, West Derby, and Ever-
Prew„an a'lrhtionel number of guardians. The additions
1104,Ced were, seven for the Park, making the whole
tewrisiit twelve ; two for West Derby, making five for that
alre,tdi 'P ; and one for Everton, in addition to the two
ships Y. sent from thence. The expenditure of those town-
. e_sNl ' I°r the three years ending on the 25th of the pre-
Nt's,stnonth, was as follows •—•Toxteth-park
_ • • £6,412;
IPWed 4.3,a35 ; Everton, £1,078. Mr. Lloyd re-
the s motion of last week on this subject, assuring
the pie," missioners that the Board cordially acquiesces in
"ttre4.l)?steod. arrangement; and that they be respectfully
,Teet w`,°, issue their instructions to have it carried into
1i.,:20nt delay. A long discussion took place, when
eetle,, 'fell the Proposed an amendment, that it be rehcom-
ve
'too to c9rnuriseioners to give to West Derby and
e additional guat diens proposed, and to reduce
raents',7-ler for the Park from seven to four. The amend-
enas carried by a majority of 12 to 5.
ik:since me 0. nucr.—About six or seven months
:11‘,,k01;;-E;st-1..C.ofNLockw Lockwood, near 11. udd.e- sfield, being at
eueceeoe_;etell in with a young girl, a Miss B. 8., and
' 'er, In obtaining permission to pay his addresses to th_ T4alle
• e tsho.. fact, he bad a wife and four children. Since
17,1? ti 0 tis r io. d. he has been most unremitting in his at-
e`_ ,t fr,,,,„2_°e; visit being rarely Lss than once a fortnight.
.wi,ireTT,lY twice and thrice a week. A short time since
tblnlelt ilellif!er to prepare everything for the marriage,
oriai.eg the °ruled her should most certainly take place
tee Pre•ent month. In most
way the affair passed
"tee r 'at Week, when the lady receiving a very acibiguous
.
whiehlr°4l her decciver determined to pay him a visit,
thee she did e Sunday last, in company with her bro-
eeee.(l'eclunido Pil,to:l,nti at the Swan Hotel. The brother pro-
heagrne to tl Lockwood, to find his sister's lover, and both
thertless
_r ,e Inn, where they tookafter which the
..4.4o.teen,svnleetch escorted his dupe round the town. In
Arog on: •, the neglected wife having heard what was
ret.eceded tit._c9.llnPany with her mother, and other friends,
tmuerrei,ent
ntolle_ hotel. Her husband, however, on his
te! he
hifsursttilleir. titan the
.frent door of the inn,
plain,g the room ignorent victim good night. On
41.te'`q ',Man and being informed of his accotn-
ost
t.. short time
sae was completely horror-struck ; but
',este -ere oob e she rallied, and her indignation and dis-
set r itna ounded. The wife returned home in a state
aesied
tat
Li d t
han! desc
ribe
The brother and sister
verpool