The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-09-04 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS.

The Royal William has resumed her station on the Liver-
pool and Dublin line, until she leaves for her second vovage
to New York, on the 20th instant. Twenty berths for New
York are already engaged.
It is calculated that the Great Western steam-ship netted,
by her last voyage, which occupied 39 days, the sum, after
deducting the expense of their keep, of £6,000 for passengers
alone.

STEAM TO HAVRE.-It will be seer., by an advertisement
in another column, that the next steamer for France will
sail on Tuesday, the 18th instant. Passengers may be now
booked through from Liverpool to Paris. The terms are
exceedingly reasonable.
SUICIDE.-At eleven o'clock, on Sunday forenoon, Mr.
John Bedlington, captain of the ship Albion, who was lodg-
ing at the house of Mr. Nichol, Stanhope-street, terminated
his existence, by hanging himself to the bedstead. The
deceased is supposed to have been in a state of insanity ;
he had previously been heard to threaten that he would
hang himself.

STRAM TO AMERICA.-lt has been hinted to us that a
junction of interests is about to be formed between " The
Original Liverpool and New York Steam Packet Company,"
and an influential establishment now in the course of forma-

two in New York, and that arrangements have been so
nearly completed as to have just reason to expect that opera-
tions will be be commenced immediately.

COMMITTED TO KIRKDAI.E.—On Saturday last, Thomas
Cronan, a married man, 22
years of age, was brought before
Messrs. Holland and Chadwick, at Rochdale, charged with
committing a rape on a girl, eleven years of age, named
Smith. He was committed for trial to the assizes.

A VALUABLE BARGAIN.—On Wednesday last, a foreign
order, or badge, was sold at Mr. Hodgson's sale-rooms,
Church-street, for the sum of ten guineas. It was purchased
by Mr. Hart, jeweller, of Whitechapel, who, on taking it
to pieces, found it to be composed of diamonds, rubies, and
emeralds, worth three hundred guineas!
ACCIDENT.—A lad, named Rudyard, son of an inmate in
Warrington almshouse, in the employ of Mr. Warburton, a
farmer, of Dallam, was killed at Bold, on Friday week, by
the wheel of a cart, which he was driving to Liverpool, laden
with hay, passing over his body.—Verdict of the coroner's
inquest, "Accidental death."

HEALTH OF LIVERPOOL-It will, doubtless, be gratifying
to the public to be informed that our workhouse and fever
hospital have not for the last fifteen years exhibited so high a
standard of health as at the present time, the number of
cases in the hospital being comparatively trifling at this
season of the year, and the sick list in the infirmary being
equally light. We make this communication on the autho-
rity of the house surgeon.—Cuurier.

A MONSTER Must' noom.—There has been, it appears, a
great scarcity of mushrooms this season, but, from the variety
of mighty specimens noticed in the provincial papers, it would
almost seem that the genus has determined to make up in
the size of individual specimens what is wanting in number.
On Tuesday last one was brought to our office of the follow-
ing dimensions and weight :—Circumference, 3 feet 9 inches ;
diameter, 14 inches; girth round the stein, 10 inches; and
weight 31bs It seemed perfectly sound, and was gathered
in a field belonging to Mr. Jones, of the Viaduct,Foundry.

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near Newton.—Mercurv.
Flue.—Yesterday morning, about three o'clock, an alarm
of fire was given from a dwelling house in Spring-street,
Toxteth-park. In a very few minutes Mr. Hewitt, superin-
tendent of the fire police, with a couple of engines and water-
carts were on the spot; but fortunately their services were
not required. It is said to have been occasioned by a person
falling to sleep, leaving a candle burning, which set fire to
the bed curtains.

ENORMOUS PIECE OF COAL.—There is now to he seen, in
the area behind the baths on St. George's Pier, a .piece of
coal from the Earl of Balcarres's mines, Haigh, near Wigan,
measurir4,--faut,fiet six inches in height, and fourteen feet in
circumference, and weighing two tons three cwt. This
splendid black diamond' was brought up from a mine 160
yards deep, and was placed in its present situation by Mr. J.
F. Cannell, agent to the Earl of Balcarres.
CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY.—We are glad to
perceive that this undertaking, which excites great interest
on both sides of the Mersey, is progressing rapidly. The
contracts for the whole of the line have been taken ou terms
considerably under prime cost, and upwards of 700 men are
now at work. Near the turnpike road, between Brombro' and
Rock Ferry, the progress of the road is already visible; and
the completion of the whole line may be expecterllong be-
fore the period originally fixed.
THE NEWCASTLE STEAMER.—Owing to the low state of
the tide, the Newcastle steamer bound from Annan Water
Foot to Liverpool, got aground at Newby Flats, about half-
past seven o'clock on Wednesday evening. With the ex-
ception of the inconvenience resulting from their detention,
the passengers, of whom there was a large number on board,
sustained no injury, as the vessel was towed back to Annan
Water Foot in the next tide. We understand that the ma-
chinery of the Newcastle has sustained some slight damage,
but she will be ready to perform her usual voyage in a day
or two.—Carlisle Patriot.

NEW STEAM Docx.—Preparations are begun for convert-
ing the Brunswick Basin, at the south end of the port, into a
wet dock, by placing gates at its entrance. When the atera-
lion is completed, the large ocean steam-ships will be accom-
modated in this dock, none of the entrances to the existing
docks being wide enough to receive them when their paddles
are fixed. Meanwhile, to make boom for the increased and
increasing number of steamers of the ordinary size, the Dock
Trustees have conferred on the Trafalgar the same privi-
leges, as to the getting up of steam, &c., which the Clarence
Dock has so long and so advantageously enjoyed.

MR. CLARKE'S BENEFIT.—AS was to be expected, the
very able and respected manager of the Theatre Royal, Mr.
Clarke, who took his benefit last evening, had an overflowing
house. We were, much to our disappointment, prevented
by other engagements from attending, tAt we have been told
that Harley's comicalities, and Keeley's dry humour, added
to the able acting of Mrs. Clarke, Mrs. Keeley, Mr. Vining,
Mr and Miss Vandenhoff, and Mr. Baker, kept the audience
throughout in most excellent temper. The clever farce of
" High Life Below Stairs" was admirably played, and was
"rich" beyond measure. Numbers, we understand, could
not gain admittance, and we are authorised to state, that the
receipts were considerably above £3OO. Such a testimony
of respect and approval by the public, must be highly grati-
fying to Mr. Clarke.
THE ROYAL FORESTERS —Yesterday being the anniver-
sary of the meeting of the clubs of the society of Royal
Foresters, the members of the different branches of the
society paraded the the town, headed by bands of music and
carrying banners, the members being dressed, some of them
very splendidly and uniquely, in ancient costume of forest.
green, and carrying numerous insignia of their order. The
procession was also accompanied by various little Adams.
and Eves, in miniature gardens, on carts; some seated be-
tween lambs, And some of the, Masters Adams and Misses
Eves had grown so fashionably modernized, as to be riding
astride of ponies, harnessed with the uuantediluvian luxury
of saddle's. The members finished the day together in
social harmony, with the good old fashion of eating and
drinking, and we doubt not enjoyed themselves as much in
the different public-houses patronized by them as our rustic
ancestors under the merry greenwood tree.
DEATHS FROM DROWNING. —An inquest was held on
Tuesday, before P. F. Curry, Esq., on the body of a boy
named Emerson, aged 22 years, who was drowned the pre-
ceding day in the new dock, near the Herculaneum Pottei les.
A person named Roberts, who works at the potteries, when
he heard of the accident, plunged into the dock, and succeeded
in bringing up the dead body of the boy. The usual means
to restore animation were tried without effect. The jury ex-
pressed a flattering opinion of the spirited and humane con-
duct of Mr. Roberts. Verdict, accidental death.—Another
case of drowning occurred in the King's Dock on Saturday
last. The deceased, whose name was Lloyd, was chief mate
of the Barque Hector. When taken out of the water, the
customary appliances of warmth and !friction succeeded in
restoring animation; but the deceased died in a few hours
after the accident.

RESCUE FROM DROWNING. On Wednesday evening,
about seven o'clock, the boatmen belonging to the Floating
Bath observed a man standing in a peculiar and suspicious
attitude on the taffrail of one of the steam-boats which was
moored at the Prince's Pier. Suspecting the man's inten-
tions, the boatmen instantly put off towards him, but as they
approached he suddenly plunged into the river, apparently
bent upon self-destruction. However, they succeeded in drag-
ging him into the boat, and delivered him to one of the police.
The man appeared to be somewhat intoxicated, but the boat-
men said he was very dogged and sulky, not thanking them
for their interference. If there were, as there ought to be in
Liverpool, any fund for rewarding men for saving the lives of
their fellow-creatures, the two boatmen of the Floating Bath
would, no doubt, be deemed proper objects of its bounty, as
the man would certainly have been dVbwned, but for their
vigilance and prompt interference.
ZOOLOGICAL GA finENS.—Blart-1 EXTRAORDINARY.—A.
few days ago the female hyena at the Zoological Gardens pre-
sented her lord with four fine cubs, this being, we believe, the
first instance on record in which these animals have bred in
this country. Several additions have also been made to the
menagerie in other ways, both by gift and purchase. Amongst
the purchases may be mentioned a fine male lion, (about
two-thirds grown.) from Captain Rabot, of the brig N. Dey
Dama, from Senegal, and also a beautiful gazelle. The
lion, we understand, was so tame, as to follow his master,
like a dog, through the streets of Senegal. It Will be seen,
from the advertisement, that another grand gala will take
place at the Zoological Gardens, this evening, weather per-
mitting. Those who have not yet seen the grand spectacle
of Vesuvius will do well not to miss this opportunity, as both
mountain, city, and lake, will shortly disappear. Those who
have seen it will need no pressing to repeat their visit. There
will also be an illumination, and a grand exhibition of fire-
works, both of which will now be seen to much greater ad-
vantage than during the long days and light evenings of
summer.

A THIEF TAKEN.—On Saturday three men went into a
public-house, in Blake-street. They asked for two glasses
of ale, saying, that one of theta was going away imme-
diately. When the girl had drawn the ale and returned to
the parlour with it, she found only two of the men. She sus-
pected something, and ran up stairs, where she found one of
them in an upper room, endeavouring to open a trunk. She
gave an alarm, and the fellow ran down stairs, the two hav-
ing already taken the hint and escaped. On hearing the
calls of the girl, Crow, a policeman, gave chace to the third,
and pursued him all the way to the top of Marybone, where
he succeeded in capturing him. He turned out to be a no-
torious character, named Leyland. The officer was on the
way with him to Duncan-street Bridewell, where he supposed
one of the other two had been taken, when he was set upon
by a multitude of thieves and pickpockets, who endeavoured
to rescue the prisoner. Crow managed to push the latter
into the house of Mr. Andrews, Scotland-place, when, other
officers coining up, the crowd was driven off. While in Mr.
Andrews's house, the prisoner was placed upon a chair in the
parlour, under which, when he was removed, two skeleton
keys were found.