The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-06-14 00:00:00

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JUNE 14, 1853.

THE TURN-Our AT STOCKPORT.

The strike of the factory workers of Stockport has at
length become a " great fact." The men made these
propositions to their employers:—To adopt the ten mile cir-
cuit from Manchester as the basis of the average of the
wages to be paid ; or to pay the advance of ten per cent.
at once ; or to refer the question to arbitration. To none
of these propositions have the employers paid any atten-
tion, and on Friday week the working classes met in the
open air, to the number of between ten and twelve thou-

en determined to quit work unless the ten per
led before the expiration of their week's

sand, and ti
cent was conce

notice

On Monday, the members of the Master Manufacturers'
Association held a numerous meeting at the Warren Bul-
keley Arms Inn. The returns of prices paid in the various
places were carefully examined, and on Wednesday
another and more numerous meeting of the employers
was held at the same place, when it was unanimously re-
solved to give an advance of five per cent. upon the self-
actors and mule spinners, and eight per cent. to the throe-
tie spinners. The weavers' averages were revised, when,
the Stockport list being above the average, it was deter-
mined to make no change in that department. The
average was taken in respect to the old district extending
thirty miles from Manchester. It was discovered that the
Stockport masters had been paying from one to three per
cent. below the average to hand mule and self actor spin-
ners: tive per cent below to throstle spinners; but above
the average for power. loom weaving. Rumours, however,
got afloat amongst the weavers that their application would
not be conceded, and another public meeting was therefore
held that night in the Cattle Market, and was attended by
about 13.0 N persons, all engaged in the factories. The
decision was, without an exception, in favour of " The ten
per cent., and no surrender." On Thursday morning
the hands quitted the mills, their demand being ten per
cent. The workpeople of eight mills, five of them being
of the more extensive establishments in the borough,
ceased work by the close of the day. The strike then
fairly commenced.

On Friday, thousands of the operatives, male and fe-
male, paraded the streets, and called at the different mills
which were to become vacant, as the notices expired in
rotation, various branches falling due at various hours.
Their conduct was most peaceable • their • advice to the
thousands as they turned out of the mills being, " Pre-
serve peace and respect property." The procession thus
became gradually more formidable, and, as it moved from
place to place, the operatives composing it, sung to the
air of " Oh, Susannah," a ballad on the ten per cent.
In the course of the day it transpired that several of the
employers, not connected with the Manufacturers' Asso-
ciation, had acceded to the application for the ten per
cent. throughout the different branches, and the work-
pople resumed labour amidst much cheering. Those who
had agreed to give the advance were—Mr. Cooper, Port-
wood ; Messrs. Micholl, Lucas, and Co., Chestergate ;
Mr. Hulluro, Hillgate; Mr. Hulme, Hillgate; Mr. Wheil-
don, Portwood ; Mr. Williamson, Hope Hill ; Mr. West,
Carrs; and Messrs. Newton and Scattergood. Others
are spoken of as likely to " come in" at the commence-
ment of the week. But those who object comprise the
largest concerns in the borough. The numbers likely
to be on " strike," speaking in round numbers, may be
30,000.

Symptoms are already presenting themselves of the loss
which this unfortunate turn-out will occasion, even to the
employers themselves, large numbers of the best workmen
having quitted the town, in search of better waves or
better employment in the manufacturing towns of Lan-
cashire. On Friday there was an agent in the town, from
some extensive cotton mill recently erected in the neigh-
bourhood of Ashton; prepared to engage 300 hands at
improved wages and constant employment ; 60 of the most
experienced spinners were speedily engaged, and he was
negotiating for 250 weavers,

The authorities have taken every precaution by calling
in supernumerary constables, &c., for the preservation of
order, but at present there is no probability that the
workpeople will commit any disturbances.—Manchester
Courier.

THE GARSTON DOCKS will be opened on the 21st
instant.

AT THE COUNTY COURT, on Friday, in a case in which
a married woman was summoned on account of a debt
contracted by another woman, for whom she had given
her word, the judge decided that a husband could not be
made responsible for debts contracted by a wife upon
another person's behalf, unless it could be shown that
the husband authorized her.

TRANSATLANTIC STEAMERS.—The Liverpool and Phi-
ladelphia screw steam-ship City of Glasgow, Capt. Wylie,
sailed on Wednesday afternoon, with 107 passengers and
a fair cargo, for Philadelphia. On Tuesday afternoon the
United States Mail Steam-ship Baltic, Capt. Comstock,
arrived off the Bell Buoy, but, owing to the state of the ,
tide, was unable to cross the bar, but landed her mails at
7, p.m., by the steam tug Tiger. She left New York' on
the 28th ult. She brought 241 passengers and $600,000
in specie. The British and North American Royal Mail
steam-ship Niagara, Leitch, commander, took her depar-
ture from the Mersey about noon on Saturday, for Halifax
and Boston, with the usual weekly mails and a fair com-
plement of passengers.

SINGULAR AFFECTION OF THE LUNGS.—An inquest
was held yesterday, before the borough coroner, on the
body of a man unknown, who died on Friday evening,
under the following circumstances :—Mary Manning, the
wife of Richard Manning, residing in Addison-street,
said, that about seven o'clock on Friday evening the
deceased came to their house, and asked for lodgings. She
objected to him at first, and told him he looked very ill.
Deceased said, " for God's sake don't turn me out." He
said he had come out of the hospital, and was to return.
Witness told her daughter to put him in bed. About
eleven o'clock he asked for a drink of water, which was
supplied to him. Nothing more was heard of him until
Saturday morning, when he was found dead in bed. Mr.
George Kemp, surgeon, said that he had made a post
nzortem examination of the body, and found the cause' of
death to have been disease of the lungs, from natural
causes ; the right lung was completely hepatiztd, and
weighed the enormous weight of fiAe pounds.
STEAM TO AFRICA.—The first annual meeting of the
Afrcan Steam-ship Company was held on Saturday—Sir
John Campbell presidine.—when a dividend was declared

at the rate of 5 per cent. for the six months ending the
15th of April last. The report stated that, although the
first voyages in a line of such novelty, and including so
many calling-places, could only be regarded as experi-
mental, all the vessels of the company had kept satisfac-
All. the company's steamers at present
tning--narnely, the Forerunner, Faith, and Hope-
-vered the expectations entertained, and the

tory time

Mare

Charity is now being fitted with her engines, While the
Northern Light will be launched in July. With regard
to the traffic, both direct and intercolonial, its develop-
ment has confirmed the calculations of the di•'ctors, and
additional advantages are looked for from the a,
the soap duty, which will greatly stimulate the 1,
trade. Arrangements have therefore been made to pro.
mote a semi-monthly line from Liverpool, and particular
of which are to be submitted hereafter. in relation to ti‘
dangers of the trade, the results of the introduction

,olition of

steam are shown in the fact that the compan
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GENERAL NE WS.

Mn. WILLIAM CLAPHAM, of Hatfield, near Hornsea,
has a shearling sheep which was clipped last week, and
yielded no less than 171bs. of cool.
MR. HORSMAN, late M.P. for Cockermouth. has
started as a cadidate for the representation of Stroud,
vacant by the elevation of Lord Moreton to the House of
Lards.

THE ANNUAL SPEECHES were delivered in the Upper
School at Eton College, on Wednesday, before a large and
distinguished audience. Prince Albert and the Prince of
Wales were present on the occasion.

•
A YOUNG CUMBERLAND POET, of the name of Bigz,
is about to be introduced to public notice by George Gil-
fillan, of Dundee, to whom the young Like-poet has
submitted a mass of unpublished MSS., the greater part
of which are said to be of great merit.
TROOPS FROM THE CArE.—Lieutenant General the
Hon. Sir George Cathcart, commanding the forces at the
Cape of Good Hope, has communicated to the authorities
at home that be can now spare the 12th Lancers and
three regimenst of infantry.
MR. J. E. FULLER, an attorney at Birmingham, who
gave permission to a barber to use his name as an at-
torney for 15s. a-week, was on Monday sentenced by
Mr. Justice Erie to three months' imprisonment ; but on
an application from the defendant, the sentence was
altered to striking his name off the rolls.
BRIBERY.—Before the Cambridge bribery commission,
some of the witnesses acknowledged that they had re-
ceived £lO, and others £5, to vote. After the election
one of the agents passed the house of a voter, accom-
panied by a veiled female, who gave him an envelope
containing two £5 notes.
A GRATIFYING EXCHANGE.—TWO hampers—one of
cod liver oil, the other of claret—recently entrusted to the
Eastern Counties Railway, suffered a change of address on
the road, and were cross-delivered. The doctor's patients,
who got the claret, are said to have been more gratified
than the gentleman's friends who got the oil.
THE ELECTRIC CLocx.—Mr. Futvoye, of Regent-
street, London, having at length succeeded in obtaining
the sanctian of the Commissioners of the Woods and
Forests for the erection of this clock, has spiritedly placed
it at the corner of Beak-street, where it is not only an
object of general attraction, but of great public utility.
It was to the perfecting of this clock that Mr. Baia devoted

his genius and labour for so many years.
THE POEMS OF ALSXANDER SMITH, we are happy
to perceive. have been republished in Boston and New
York ; and the leading journals of the New World are
loud in the poet's praise. The Rev. George Gilfillan, of
Dundee, in a paper in the current part of Hogg's In-
structor, states that the "Life-Drama" was first put
into his hands in a rude state in the April of 1851.

DEATH OF MR. JOSEPH Correa.—On Tuesday even-
ing Mr. Joseph Cottle expired at his residence, Firfield-
house, Knowle, near Bristol, in his 84th year. Many, no
doubt, are familiar with his name as the early friend of
Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Southey. He was exten-
sively known by his own literary labours, and throughout
his long life was greatly honoured and loved for his distin-
guished personal worth by all who had the privilege of

is acquaint

COFFEE AND CHlCORY.—ltappears, from a return late

printed of the number of prosecutions instituted for the
adulteration of coffee and the illegal use of chicory,
under the respective treasury orders of August 3, 1852,
and Feb. 25, 1853, that the
_results are as follows :

Under the
prosecution
I,SS4 inspe

,er thcre were 1,063 inspections, 50 seizures
other proceedings 6 ; under the latter

ons, no

ner proceedings

ores, 94-proSecutions, and 1

OATLANDS GRANGE.—The vi3itors to the camp at
Chobham, in changing trains at \Vey bridge, will perceive
a beautiful ravine of overhanging plantations close to the
station. Over this ravine is the well-known aitlanas
Grange, forming formerly a portion of the domain of the
Duke of York. The Grange has just been bought for the
Conservative Land Society for distribution amongst the
members. Tire estate commands a magnificent view of St.
Ann's-hill, the residence of Charles James Fox, Chertsey,
Windsor Castle, &c. The late King of the French is
buried at Wey-bridge, which is within three quarters of an
hour's distance from town by the South-Western Railway.

MODERN ORTHODOX .—A tea-meeting was held at
Derby a few days ago, as an ovation to a Mr. Corbin, an
Independent teacher, on his leaving that town, at which
the Rev. W. F. Wilkinson, Vicar of St. Werburgh's,
Derby, was present. In his speech, laudatory of Mr.
Corbin, the Vicar is made by the Derby Reporter to say :
—" And it is pretty well understood that I most freely
and fully recognise his Churchmanship and Church-
membership, and that I esteem him not only as a member
of the Church of Christ, but as a minister o: that Church
by an ordination as valid as my own."

DISASTERS IN THE PACIFIC.—The San Francisco
Herald sums up the marine losses in the Pacific waters,
during
burntgthel in Valparaiso,astthreeyears, ,easf2oullo7ooo ; the:—Tlae No
Cityrof
mtte-
s-
bg
th PA
rica, wrecked on the Mexicali coast, ,8'200,000 ; the In-
dependence, wrecked on Isla de Margarita, .8'100,020 •
the Tennessee, wrecked in Indian Cove, A 5200,000 ; the
G,neral Warren, wrecked on the Oregon coast, '&50,000;
the Pioneer, wrecked in San Simeon Bay, 4315,0 W ; the
Eudora, wrecked on the Oregon ceast, 5.50,000 ; the
Com. Prehle, wrecked on the Oregon coast, $50,000.
This estimate shows at least a loss of /8'925,00, to ear
nothing of the loss of life which has been sustained.

La, Mr

STRANGE FRAL7D.-.

At Clerkenwell police
James Palmer, of the London Gas Company, was charged
with assaulting Mr. Firmin William Potts, of the Im-
perial Gas Company, competing bodies. The quarrel
originated in the attempt of the plaintiff to gauge the
quantity of gas fraudulently obtained by the Lon
Company, through secretly tapping the pipes of
company, the Imperial. By an ingeniously contrived
and delicate apparatus, the amount of gas thus obtained
had been estimated as worth at least £l,OOO. The in-
strument was broken in the assault. The Imperial
charged the other company at the Queen's Bench

don Gas
the rlval

EXPENSES OF ♦SUIT INCHANCEE.Y.—On Saturday week
the case relating to the will of Mr. Day, the blacking ma-
nufacturer, came on before the Lords Justices, upon a
question of payment of costs. It appeared that under Mr.
Day's will there were twenty-three persons who were en-
titled to small annuities, and many others entitled to share
in the residuary estate, and nearly all these claimants
upon the property had throughout the suit, which was in-
stituted to administer the will, appeared by different
counsel and different solicitors. An objection was raised
to the payment of separate costs, when it appeared that
the expenses of the suit, before it even came on for hear-
ing, amounted to £70,000. The court left it to ►'
different parties to consider whether they could all
amongst themselvcs to be represented by one solik
In case no such arrangement could he come to, the
question would be dispo.ied of on following Friday.

A SIMPLE REMEDY.—To persons having the care of
steam-engines, the following from_ the Lawrencebura

us that he h

Register may be available :—" Mr. Ira Hill has
as accidentally made a valuable disc
osition of lime upon steam boile

which the de

nforrnec

obviated

. Two or three shovels of sawdust are thrown
into the boiler, after which process he states he never had
any difficulty from lime, although using water strongly
impregnated with it. He has always found the inside of
his t oilers as smooth as if just oiled. Whether the lime
attaches itself to the floating particles of sawdust, instead
of the boiler, or whether the tanie acid in the oak sawdust
forms a salt with the lime which will not attach itself to
iron, remains to be explained. The sawdust was placed
in the boiler for the purpose of stopping a leak. Tue
experiment is cheap and easily tried. "—Netv.l7orkTrib/zne.
THE QUEEN'S TEXT.—THE CAMP AT CHOBIIAM.—
The Queen's pavilion was taken out of store at 'Woolwich
on Tuesday. and has been set up on Greenhill,
within the boundaries of the garrison. The pavilion has
not been used, it is said, since the visit of Queen
Charlotte, but it is now to be pat in good condition here,
previous to its being taken to Chobham-common, and
erected there, as it is intended that her Majesty, Prince
Albert, the commander-in-chief, and the master-general
of the ordnance will be present on several occasions to
witness the encampment and evolutions, reviews, and
sham fights which will take place to instruct the troops
in the chiles that would be expected of them in actual
warfare, and a large supply of blank cartridge will be
issued for that purpose. The Queen's pavilion is 60 feet
long by about 15 broad, with two entrances covered over,
one at the east and one at the west end, each about 20
feet in length, making a total length of about 100 feet.
The roof in front and back is supported on eight arches,
the two centre arches being large, and the three arches
on each side of the two centre arches being of smaller
dimensions. The canvas can be thrown open from any
or the whole of the arches to afford an uninterrupted
view in front and in the rear, and the flooring is composed
of timber frames, formed of deal, about 5 feet long by 4
feet broad, for the convenience of being carried on wag-
gons. The marquee for the master-general was also bet
up on Greenhill, but it has been taen down and for-
warded to the place of encampment on Chobham-common

SHOCKING CASE OF POISONING.-011 Thursday great
consternation was created in Belper by a rumour that a
family named Flewitt, living in the Cluster-buildings,
were poisoned. It appears that the moment the father
had finished his last course at dinner, which was rice
pudding, he complained of sickness, and was obliged to
remove hastily from the table. Scarcely had he got out
of the house_before three of his children and a young man
_ _

named Sheldon were also seized with sickness and vomit

ing. They became very alarmed, and the mother ran
into a neighbour's house and informed them that she be-
lieved the whole family were poisoned. She immediately
ran for medical assistance, and, on her return, was found
to be suffering
from
tliesamehey all
could give any account of what kind of poison the,
t denied
cause.
None
h av oi
nf -
had taken, except a girl about twelve years of age, wh6
said she saw something like flour in the sugar her math,
used in making the pudding. From this it was thr
to be arsenic, although

e family

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evening, when she expired.
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union of Sheldon. It appears I

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Sheldon asked the master dyer at Messrs. War
per, at which place he worked, if he could sur

wirti some 13

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vrarreerythue sugarnulial
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THE "FOX" LINE OF PACKETS.

'ABLISHED A QUARTER OF A CENTURY

Passengers by this vessel, and their luggage, will be landed at
the town of Melbourne, at the Ship's cost, which will be a
great saving of expense to them.

To sail from Liverpool on the 25th instant.
For MELBOURNE, PORT PHILIP,
444
. The magnificent new clipper-built British Ship
,
GOLDFINDER,
he t,s,vl WILLIAM J. FITZSIMONS, Commander;
iCit
A 1 at Lloyd's 1,380 tons register.
This ship, which from her model is expected to sail very fast,
has all her passenger arrangements on a novel and peculiar
plan, affording an amount of light and ventilation such as no
other passenger ship ever possessed. Large State-rooms will
be fitted up for Family Parties, or a number of Friends going
out together. She will carry an experienced Surgeon; and is
fitted and provisioned under the inspection of her Majesty's
Government Emigration Officer. Owing to the low rate of
Passage-money, Sixteen Guineas to Melbourne, Emigrants for
Sydney will do well to go by the GOLDFINDER, as they will
have an opportunity of seeing that Colony, nd proceeding on
at a very moderate cost.

As the Berths are filling up, it will be necessary to send an
early Deposit to secure Passages.
For full particulars apply to
HENRY FOX, 2, King-street, Liverpool.

WHITE STAR" LINE OF AUSTRALIAN PACKETS,

Now ready for inspection in the Canning Dock, and will be
despatched about the end of JUNE.
For MELBOURNE, PORT PHILIP,
The magnificent new Frigate-built Ship
TASMANIA,

1,204 tons register,
LEWIS RODOLPH, Commander,
who is well acquainted with the Eastern Seas.
s splendid Single-decked Ship has been built expressly
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Her 'Tween-decks are nine feet in height, and the general
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experience has suggested to be desirable.
The TASMANIA carries an experienced Surgeon, and will be
despatched under the superintendence of her Majesty's Emi-
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Apply to PILKINGTON and WILSON,
Commercial-buildings, Water-street.
NOTE.—Passengers and their Luggage, by this Vessel, will
be landed at Melbourne Wharf free of any charge.