The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-08 00:00:00

GREAT ROBBERY IN MANCHESTER.

Yesterday afternoon, one of the most daring robberies
which has ever taken place in Manchester was committed
at the shop of Mr. Howard, jeweller, Market-street.
While Mr. Howard was absent at dinner, his daughter,
Miss Fanny Howard, being left in charge, a man of
fashionable exterior entered, came behind the counter,
and seized her by the throat—a second man walking into
the shop, and stripping the window of all its contents.
The property stolen amounts in value to about £3OO.
The police are on the track of the thieves.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT, YESTERDAY,

AT THE SEACOMBE FERRY.

A little before ten o'clock yesterday morning, whilst a
number of gentlemen were waiting for the steam-boat to
cross to Liverpool from the Seacombe Ferry, some of
them leaned against the chains which act as a guard on
the sides of the wooden pier, and a few moments before
the arrival of the boat, for which they were waiting, one
of the stancheons of the chain snapped, and six gentle-
men suddenly fell into the water. Unfortunately none of
them could swim, and their perilous position was an
object of much concern to the passengers in the boat
from Liverpool, which was nearing the pier at the time.
Four of the men succeeded in getting hold of the edge of
the pier, and thus saved themselves, but the other two
were unable to do so.

We regret to have to state that a man named Edward
Hughes, a green-grocer at Seacombe, and a highly re-
spectable inhabitant of the township, was drowned ; and
had it not been for the exertions of a young man, who
jumped into the water, another of the party would also
have been lost. The gentleman was saved, after having
seen in the water about ten minutes ; and when brought
out of the water was quite exhausted.

THE BRITISH AND NORTH AMERICAN Royal Mail
steam-ship Niagara, Captain Lang, with advices from
New York to the 23rd alt., had not arrived at the time of
our going to press. If she should arrive in time, we shall
publish the news by her in a Second Edition. A telegra-
phic despatch from Holyhead, states that a large steamer
was seen off there at six o'clock last evening, but the fog
was too thick to enable the men on the look-out to dis-
cover what she was.
GRATIFYING MASONIC TESTIMONIAL.—On Thursday,
at the meeting of Masonic Lodge, No. 310, held at the
Quadrant Hotel, Lime-street, a most gratifying testimo-
nial of respect was paid to two of the members, the pur-
port of which is inadequately conveyed in the resolution.
It ran about as follows:—" That Brother M. Marks, P.M.,
and Brother S. L. Caffe, P.J.W., who are about to de-
part for Australia, be presented with complimentary let-
ters, engrossed in vellum, bearing the seal of the order,
the signature of the W.M., the officers and brothers of
the Lodge."—After the presentation of the letters, (which
conveyed in expressive terms the high opinion in which
the parties were held by the Society,) the Chairman,
Brother Woolf, P.M., proposed the healths of Brothers
Marks, and Can', in an address replete with illustrations
of the tenderest feelings. In the absence of the former,
the reply devolved solely on Brother Caffe, who acknow-
ledged the high compliment they had received. More
particularly to exhibit the regard of the members, a
banquet was provided on the occasion, and the greatest
hilarity prevailed throughout,