The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-04-25 00:00:00

THE SPECIAL FAST DAY.—Fish Table d'Hotes will be
kept up continuous from one to seven o'clock, at Feeny's
Merchants' Dining Rooms, Slater-court, Castle-street.
Charge, ls. 6d. each.
A " LITTLE STRANGER," six weeks old, name and
parents unknown, was, on Monday, found in Gloucester-
street, and taken to the workhouse.
AT THE POLICE-COURT, on Tuesday, Adolph Beer, a
destitute German emigrant, was sent to prison for two
months, for stealing money from a German hotel in Mary-
bone.

THOMAS BERRY HORSFALL, Esq., M.P., has been ap-
pointed deputy-lieutenant for the county of Lancaster.
Alexander O'Farrell, gentleman, has been appointed lieu-
tenant in the 3rd regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's
Own Militia.
THE NEW RESERVOIR at Kensington, which covers an
area of three acres, and is computed to hold eighteen mil-
lions of gallons, was opened on Wednesday, the water
being turned in from the Green-lane works. It is entirely
covered in, the roof being supported by iron pillars, and
is one of the finest things of the kind in the kingdom. It
adjoins the old reservoir, which is also to be covered in.
WARRINGTON.—A public meeting, for the establish-
ment of a public museum and library on a proper footing,
was held at Warrington on Thursday. The mayor, Peter
Rylands, Esq., presided • and amongst the speakers were,
J. W. Patten, Esq., M.P., the Hon. and Rev. H. Powys,
the Rev. Richard Greenall, Lord Stanley, the Rev. R. A.
Mould, and several members of the Town Council. The
resolutions were passed unanimously.
CLOSING or CHURCHYARDS.—The order for closing
the churchyards of Liverpool, recently made by the Privy
Council, has been carried into effect in those cemeteries to
which the order refers against interments generally, but
where there are family vaults and private graves, not
over-crowded, such' can still be used.
LECTURE ON WAR.—The Rev. C. C. Lowndes, son of
Mr. M. D. Lowndes of Liverpool, last week delivered a
lecture upon " War," before the members of the Church
of England Religious and Literary Institution, in the
Athenaeum, Carlisle. The rev, gentleman throughout was
listened to with deep attention, and the audience showed
their appreciation of his admirable lecture by frequent
and loud applause.
A TEA PARTY, in connexion with the Herculaneum
Sabbath-schools, attended by upwards of three hundred
persons, was held in the school-rooms under the chapel,
Mersey-view-street, Potteries, on Tuesday evening. The
enjoyment of the festivity was much heightened by the
exertions of several ladies and gentlemen connected with
the various musical societies in town, who volunteered to
perform a series of choruses from the oratorios of the
" Messiah," " Samson," and the " Creation."

GALLANT REscu.E.—One of the Woodside boats had
nearly reached the landing-stage, on Monday, last week,
when a youth, in endeavouring to leap ashore, fell into
the water. Thomas Doyle, one of the landing-stage
porters, at once leaped after the boy, and succeeded in
getting hold of him ere he sunk. A life-buoy was thrown
out, and with this assistance Doyle was enabled to sup-
port his charge until both were drawn out of the water.
Doyle, who is a middle-aged man, has frequently rescued
parties from drowning.
LIVERPOOL REFORM ASSOCIATION.—The first annual
meetinc, of this association was held at the Royal Hotel,
Dale-street,e' on Tuesday. The report, which was read to
the meeting, commenced by declaring the necessity felt by
the association for not disclosing all which could be
revealed, and inferentially proving the propriety of dis-
playing what could not be disclosed—viz., a good case for
the association. It concluded by inculcating union and
energy among the members of the association.

AIICIIITECTURAL AND ARCH/EOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—
The fortnightly meeting of this society was held on Wed-
nesday. Mt. Bowden, of Bristol, exhibited specimens of
brilliantly cut glass, prepared according to his process.
Mr. Edmundson, St. Helen's, exhibited many specimens
of plain and ornamental window glass, as manufactured
by Messrs. Pilkington. These he presented to the society,
together with a volume of ornamental designs. Mr. Hig-
gins read a paper on the " Entity of the lonic order." A
petition to the House of Commons was adopted in favour
of the application of the decimal system to currency,
weights, and measures. The petitioners, in speaking of
the present system, say they "have frequent experience
of the great inconvenience which is thereby occasioned in
land surveying, in the measurement and value of artificers'
work, &c., and in the application of science to practical
architecture and construction."

GAS IN RIO JANEIRO.—The new gasworks in Rio are
now in operation, and part of the city was lighted for the
first time on the 15th ult. The erection of the works, and
the general conduct of the undertaking, have been under
the management of Mr. W. Bragge, a gentleman well
known in this town, who formerly filled the office of
engineer to the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire
Railway, and who is now engineer-in-chief of the Rio and
Petropolis Railway. The gas is made on the hydro-carbon
principle, and at the works there are four holders (telescope
form) 75 feet in diameter by 42 feet high. Already thirty
miles of mains have been laid, leaving only ten to be still
accomplished. It is proposed to adapt the gas to culinary
purposes, on an extensive scale—an arrangement which,
in a climate like that of Rio, will be highly appreciated.

A RUFFIANLY SON.—On Tuesday, James Murphy, a
middle-aged man, was committed for trial, for perpetrat-
ing a murderous assault on his mother, a blind widow, 64
years of age. The son had insured her life subsequent to
the father's death, which took place about six weeks ago.
On Friday fortnight the prisoner left home in company
with a young man, and returned at eleven o'clock at
night brutally intoxicated. He began to be violent, and
on his mother requesting him to be quiet, he struck her
over the face, and knocked her down, and, whilst on the
floor, he pulled her about by the hair of her head, a large
quantity of which came off. Two neighbours came in to
her assistance ; and she was taken to the hospital on the
Monday following. The prisoner expressed his sorrow
for the assault he had committed, and stated that he
would, if liberated, support his mother ; but the magis-
trate said that, in justice to the public, he must be sent
for trial, as such acts of brutality could not be tolerated.
AN EXPENSIVE HOUSE.—Most of our readers probably
are acquainted with St. George's-hall in Liverpool, one of
the most magnificent buildings in the world. Its vast
proportions, its architectural beauty, and the multiplied
accommodations afforded by its internal arrangements
have naturally excited the admiration of all who have
inspected that splended monument of Mr. Elmes's genius.
Of course such a gorgeous structure must have costa very
large sum of money ; but profuse as has been the expendi-
ture on this civic temple, we are astounded when we find
it stated that an equal sum has been wasted on the so-
called ventilation of the Houses of Parliament ! Yes, the
sum of £250,000,—a sum that would have built 10 edifices
equal to our noble parish church—a sum that would have
constructed 250 schools, or stored 250 free libraries—has
actually been squandered on the ventilation of West-
minster Palace. This almost incredible fact rests upon the
authority of Mr. Peto, one of the contractors for the erec-
tion of the palace.—Blackburn Standard.
INFLUX OF GERMAN EMIGEANTS.—In our streets, and
more especially in the neighbourhood of the docks, hun-
dreds of persons, of both sexes, adults and children, and
of almost of every country, and clad in quaint costumes,
may be seen perambulating, either, in search of voyage
equipments and necessaries, or with the view of killing
time until the ships which are to convey them to their
destination are ready for sailing. )Between Friday and
Tuesday last upwards of twelve hundred persons arrived
here, via Hull, en route for the United States of America,
the majority of them being bound for New York. Out of
this number seven hundred have been lodged in the well-
known establishment of Messrs. Sabel and Cortis, in
Moorfields. The great bulk of these will be shipped in
vessels owned or chartered by the above-named firm. Such
are the facilities given to emigrants at this port, that the
whole of this great number of persons will set sail before
the close of the week. From an inspection of the estab-
lishment of Messrs. Sabel and Co., we are enabled to state
that ample provision is made for the health and comfort
of emigrants, cleanliness and ventilation being especially
attended to.—Liverpool Times.

APPREHENSION OF A. RonnEß.—The circumstances
connected with the extraordinary and daring robbery
committed about thirteen months ago, at the shop of Mr.
Howard, jeweller, Corporation-street and Market-street,
Manchester, cannot have been forgotten. A man, it will
be remembered, entered the shop in the middle of the day,
when no one was on the premises but Miss Howard, and
whilst drawing her attention to an address card which he
had brought with him, he suddenly put his arm round her
neck and garrotted her, leaving the young lady senseless
on the floor behind the counter. After this, he and accom-
plices plundered the counter, window, and drawers of the
shop of valuablejewellery and plate, with which they coolly
walked into one of the most crowded thoroughfares of
Manchester, and effected their escape. Mr. Beswick, the
chief superintendent of the detective police, made every
exertion to trace the offenders, and several men were appre-
hended, against whom there was evidence of complicity in
the affair, and one of whom was ultimately transported,
but the man who was the chief agent in the robbery, and
who used Miss Howard so brutally, succeeded in eluding
pursuit up to the present time. Mr. Beswick had reliable
authority for believing this man to be John Goldsmith,
who was at that time living in Birmingham, but all efforts
to apprehend him proved unavailing until a few days ago,
when he fell into the hands of Mr. Stephens, superinten-
dent of the Birmingham police. He was brought to Man-
chester on Wednesday, where Miss Howard picked him
out from several other prisoners at the Town-hall,although
he endeavoured to contort his features, but she was not
then sufficiently confident to be able to swear to him. Mr.
Maude commented upon Miss Howard's apparent uncer-
tainty as to the prisoner, and said he thought he had bet-
ter be remanded for a week.
CHARGE OF 21fIIRDERING A SISTER.---OR Wednesday
last, an inquest was held on the body of Mary Ann Eaton,
a girl 16 years of age, the circumstances of whose death,
which involved a charge of murder against her brother,
Wallace Eaton, were given in the Standard last week.
When before the coroner, the mother retracted nearly all
that she had said before the magistrates on the previous
Thursday. She stated that, on the day on which the
quarrel took place the prisoner merely tapped the deceased
on the shoulder, and her foot caught in her dress, which
threw her down , and the table fell upon her. "He did
not mean to hurt her, he was too fond of his sister for that."
She denied that she had said that she saw the prisoner
kick the deceased, and said that she did not remember hav-
ing said she saw him jump upon her. The deceased had
been complaining ever since she was 13 years of age. The
witness gave her evidence with obvious reluctance. The
coroner, in remarking upon that point, said that she pro-
bably wished to deceive both him and the jury, but it
might turn out that she had deceived herself. A girl,
about 16 years of age, named Mary Kelly, stated that she
saw the quarrel, but had not seen the prisoner kick the
deceased. She saw her fall, and the old woman and the
table fall on the top of her. Mr. P. W. Leather, surgeon,
said the deceased had been long in a jaundiced state, but
the immediate cause of death was rupture of the spleen,
which might have been caused by a kick or a heavy body,
such as the table or her mother falling upon her. If she
had not received the injury she would ultimately have died
of disease of the liver ; and if the rupture of the spleen had
not been perceptible, he should have inferred that disease
of the liver had produced her death. The coroner, after
reading over the girl's dying deposition to the jury, said
he was only surprised that the other brother, William, had
not been committed for the assault as well as Wallace, for
he had gone up to her when she was confined to her bed
by the injuries which Wallace had inflicted, and he had de-
liberately struck her in the face. After a short consulta-
tion, the jury returned a verdict of " Manslaughter against
Wallace Baton."