The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-29 00:00:00

years he has laboured among them. The rev. gentleman
responded to the address by a suitable reply.

EXCRANGE WARD SCRIPTURE READERS' SOCIETY.—
with the above society was in-

tended to be held in the Cotton.:

alesroom

buildings, on Thursday. In consequence of the unfavour-
able nature of the weather, the attendance was very small,
for which reason Mr. Charles Turner, who was announced
to take the chair, stated that the friends of the society
had come to the resolution of adjourning the meeting
until some future day, of which due notice will be given.
THE DEATH OP A PRIZE-FIGUTER.—The following
letter was received on Thursday by the deputy-coroner :--
TO MR. STATHAM. THE DEPUTY-CORONER OF LIVERPOOL.
Liverpool, November. 1853.
SIR,—At an inquest held by you on the remains of the late

"Rory Gill," a verdict of maiisiaughter was returned against
me as the principal in the late fight. I beg to say that I shall

surrender to take my trial on the day appo-inted at the forth-
coming assizes.—l am, sir,_ your obedient servant,
FRANK DONNELLY, his mark.

POOR-LAW RELIEF WHILE ON THE STRIKE.-With
reference to relief by local guardians of the men now

pie law :—" Where the applicant has the pecuniary
means of subsistence for himself and his family, from
whatsoever funds those means may be derived, or where
he may, if he pleases, immediately obtain work, and so
earn the means of subsistence, the Board are of opinion
that he ought not to be considered as actually destitute.
If, on the other hand, he has neither money nor work,
and Is wally without the present means of obtaining either,
so that aid from the poor-rates is .absolutely necessary for
the subsistence of himself and his family, the guardians
I ought to relieve him."

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MEETIN G OP 131LIC KLA.TERS.—On Friday a meeting of
bricklayers was held at the Assembly-rooms, Circus-street.
The object of the meeting appeared to be that of endca-
•vourin— to obtain .a uniform rate of wages throughout the
town ; 'for it transpired that Mere were four masters pay-
ing ss. per day, twenty-one paying 4s. Bd., and four

T,aying only 4s: 4d. pe
society did not contemp

day to their bricklayers. The
ate iraving a strike ; but proposed

asking them to accede to'the rate generally paid in thi.
town. A resolution was carried to the effect that they
viewed with utter contempt the conduct of those boyswho,
after being with masters -a few years, deserted them, sdt
up themselves as journeymen, and worked at a reduced
rate of wages. The men, believing that this conduct acts
prejudicially to the masters as well as to themselves, desire

that all boys shall be and fo
ACCIDENT ON TEE MANCHESTER. AND Ltviinr
RAILWAY.—On Friday last an accident occurred on the
above-named railwayi-edween Patricroft and Barton Moss,
whereby two individnalq 1,1,414. gnriAnclv if Tint aft•nr,r,aiclv

m of sere

with others, being disappointed in obtaining a•speeidltrain
from the Victoria Station for the Newton Racectook their
places in a-guard's‘vtai attached to a coal train. On ar-
riving at the place referred to, one of the wagonvbelong-
ing to the train lorOlte down, and threw the van ,off the
rails. By this occurrence Mr. Bartholomew Olney, to-
bacconist, in 01(11mm-street, and Mr. George Sheifard, of
Booth-street, both of Manchester, were thrown 'eat ; the
former being severely cut upon the head, the latter having
one of his thighs'broken in two places. The other parties
in the van received no injury. Soon after the accident
the two woundea:gentlemen were conveyed to Manchester,
and taken to their own homes.
THE LATE ME. JAMES HOLMES'S AFFAlES.—Consi-
derable inconvenience has been felt during the past week
by some of the depositors in this bank, as many required
their money for immediate use, but were unable to pro-
cure it, the 'hank laving been closed since ter. James
Holmes's death, and the trustees not having ye'

returned

and there is every -confidence in them, flier(
ent security deposited in the rolls office,

inf; suffic

V ailotes rumours

have been riR circtlation during the week, but from all we
can learn, from•the best informed authorities in Liverpool
as well as on theist:lnd, there is every reaeoß to believe
there will be a rarplus after paying every 'liability. We
are informed that the executor is busily en*,

;eil in ex

mining into the• whole estate, and, therefore, vie may ex-
pect that, in the course of another week at farthest, a state-

learn further that, notwithstanding the•objections offered
by Mr. Isaac Haines, the surviving brother, to the esta-
blishment of the will, administration will be applied for,
pendente lite, aso far as the property in theigl-and is con-
cerned.--.2lf,snies Herald.

STABBIWG TN s.itvEnrooL.—The use .of <Vibe knife in
this town continues on the increase_ From a return
moved for by the watch committee it appears that during
the last three years, there have been no ,fewer than 233
cases of stabbingnnd attempting to stab, the number of

to stab 59. Dating the last- twelve months, up to the
18th instant, the-number of actual cases of .stabbing was
71, and of attempting to stab 28; in all 99. Of the 71
tabbing cases, eight were sent for-trial to the
d eiatio the sessions ; three were summarily

mend, and tarty:three were discharged. The 28 cas
attempting to stab were disposed of at the discretion of
the presiding coati Crates, From this return it will be
seen that a divifion of the number of eases au the two
first years of the pctiod equally gives to each C 7; so that
the last year has .52 in excess of each of its two prede-
cessors. There cm ":bo, little doubt but that the returns

REMAINS o:

IR. DOWLING were interred, on
at St. Bartholomew's Church,

Wednesda
Roby. The funeral was pm
THE ARCTIC UNITED MAIL STEAM-SHIP, Luc
wander, will sail from this port to-morrow, for New York
with the mails, &c.
THE CORPORATION OF MANCHESTER are now in pos-
session of both gas and water-works. The
cost nearly £400,000 and the latter about £1

former fiave
200,000.

THE NIAGARA, British and North American Royal
Mail steam-ship, Leitch, commander, sailed from the
Mersey at 3.30, p.m., on Saturday, for Halifax and Bos-
ton, with the usual mails and 106 passengers.
A SOIREE was held, on Wednesday, at Bury, in Lanca-
m-- " a the -

Aire, to celebrate the opening of the new Athenaeum at
that place. Lord Stanley, M.P. for Lynn, presided on
the occasion.

31r. SEPH CLAE KE, late writing-master of the Norwich
Grammar School, delivered a lecture on his system of
analytic writing, on Tuesday, at the Charitable Institution-
house, Slater-street.

Mr. JOHN GRANTHAM'S scheme for a high-level dock
railway, was noticed in the Minini Journal, of the 19th
instant. The editor warmly approves of the proposal,
and states that a similar system would prove highly
advantageous along the London Docks.
A NEW MUSICAL BODY, called "The Liverpool Eccle-
siastical Musical Society," will hold their first public
meeting, in the Philharmonic-hall, to-night. The Rev.
Rector Campbell will read a paper, and a selection of
English church music will be performed
EVERTOR PoOR-BATE.—A

poor-rate of Is."6d. in the
sound was obtained on the 14th instant for this township.
It has been objected to by several ratepayers on the ground
that a rate of so large an amount is uncalled for. It will,
however, be called for by the collectors.
ST. MATTHEW'S CHURCH', SCOTLAND-ROAD.--On Sun-
day last the silence which has reigned in the above church
- by the

.or seceral months' past 'was broken ..tov. W.
Blaikley, chaplain to Lord Hill, who performed divine
service, and preached two eloquent sermons. It is under-
stood that the same rev. gentleman will officiate in St.
Matthew's for the nest three Sundays.'
CHILD DEsErrioN.—Shortly before six o'clock on
Wednesday evening, a police-officer found a male child,
comfortably clad, and apparently seven weeks old, on the
steps of a house in Daulby-street, occupied by Mr. Melville.
A printed declaration was attached to the child's clothes,
purporting to have been made before the Lord Mayor of
Dublin, by a female named Catherine Sly, stating '

the said Catherine Sly had, on the 25th December last,
'been seduced in Dublin, by John Melville, who was the
father of the child. The infant vas conveyed to the
workhouse on Brownlow-hill.
SERIOUS AND FATAL AccIDENV AT EVERTON.—About
4wo o'clock on the afternoon of Friday, the 4th instant, a
-spirited horse, which was in.charge of a boy, while coming
down Rupert-lane, in Everton,-took fright, and ran off.
Before anything could be done to stop its course, it dashed
into the butcher's shop situated -at the head of Browside,
and opposite the foot of Rtpert-lane, where it fell, knock-
ing down two ladies (Mrs. Palmer, Church-street, Evertor,
and a relative who resided with her), both of whom hap-
pened to be in the shop at the time. Both ladies were
severely injured by the concussion, and were also kicked
about the legs by the affrighted animal. They were

promptly supplied
to add, that, in ti

with mk

;.1 attendance ; but we regret
se cif Mrs. Palmer's friend, a lady

from Ireland, between sixty and seventy years of age,
mortification sapervenedorad she died on the evening of

FRAUD A

D FORGI'

T.—lt is stated that Mr. Wm

M'Curtin, commission merchant; has left the town, having-
committed a forgery on the Borough Bank to a consider-
able amount- He -has lbeen extensively engaged in corn
transactions, and on the 18th of October last, -a till for
£1,840, drawn by himself, and purporting to be accepted
by Sir David Roche,, of Limerick, was presented by - Mr.
M'Curtin at the Boronch.Bank, and the amount was:at
On the presentation of 7theilaill,
and denied having any
L.7"*.tv by whom it was drawn:

once ad

Sir David It

d to hut
The repadiatec

knowledge of 'the

accordinily returnee ,protested, and a forgery lavit4•bren
p-Attser was placed in the hands of
It%waslound that Mr. 3iTurtin had :left the
Mr. INT`Curtin, who is a Romanist, renderethiiim-
a :political partizan ; and he :is .the same

committed, the ni
police, when 34
town. _
self conspit

gentleman who but ihe other day sign alined himself by
forcing his wayitrlto the Town-hall, on the occasion of the
late Mayor's soiree. A reward of £lOO has beau offered

for his ar

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would be set Tigl.