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

Ormskirk. And as to the accommodation, there were I
not less than thirteen or fourteen rooms.

Rev. Mr. KERSHAW : Including the cells, of course ?
Mr. LEES : Yes, of course. If gentlemen chose by
their votes to withdraw their previous arrangements, he
thought-they would do very wrong.
Captain WOODFORD then made a statement of his pro-
ceedings in regard to the building at Southport; which
was to the effect that now, after various suggestions
of his had been carried into effect, he felt satisfied with the
accommodation except in the matter of the washingplace.
Mr. CULSHAW asked Captain Woodford when was he
at Southport ? to which that gentleman replied that he
had not been there personally, Mr. Shepherd having gone
thither in his place, and made him perfectly acquainted
with the position of the place.
Mr. CULSHAW asked if the Commissioners had the
power of entering into a lease ?
The Rev. J. JACKSON said, if the magistrates asked
them to erect a building, surely the must have the power.
The CHAIRMAN recommended Mr. Culshaw to with-
draw his motion.

Mr. CULSHAW said he could not do so, and it accord-
ingly went to the vote, when there appeared—For the
motion : Mr. Unsworth, Mr. Kershaw, Mr. Culshaw,
and Mr. Brandreth. For the amendment: Mr. Lees,
Mr. Jackson, Mr. Hulme, Mr. Wrigley.—The numbers
being equal, the Chairman gave his casting vote in favour
of the amendment, which was consequently carried.
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Mr. ClasnAw afterwards said that £BO was a most ex-
travagant sum to pay for the accommodation; and that
with an additional waiting-room, no more than £5O
should be given : but of course the adoption of Mr. Jack-
son's amendment prevented any new motion being sub-
mitted containing such a provision.

WOMAN POISONED AT THE WORKHOTJSE.—AII Old
woman named Mary Wainwright, aged 79 years, died
suddenly in the medical ward of the Liverpool Workhouse,
on Sunday. There is reason to believe that by mistake
she had a dose of poisoning medicine administered to her,
which is supposed to have been the cause of death.

A BACCHANALIAN CATTLE-DEALER.—A jolly, happy,
well-to-do Wight named Nicholson, who follows the
occupation of a cattle-dealer, was robbed on Thursday
night last, of forty-five sovereigns, while in a state of
glorious oblivion. It seems to be Mr. Nicholson's wont
to cross the border-land of propriety ; for, within a limited
space of time, he has three times appeared before his
honour, at the Police-court, charged with the crime of
drunkenness. On Friday morning, Mr. Nicholson's
familiar face appeared at the bar of the Police-court. Mr.
Mansfield, on recognising him, smiled, and, in adjudicat-
ing, said, " You may depend upon it, Mr. Nicholson,
some of these days you'll lose a large sum. You must
tIAV a fine of five shillings."

THE BOMERANG SCREW PROPELLER.—The Times of
yesterday, in the city article, states :—" The interesting
problem as to the efficiency of the new Bomerang screw
propeller, invented by Sir Thomas Mitchell, the late
surveyor-general of New South Wales, will, it is stated,
be solved by private enterprise in the course of a fort-
night. Messrs. M`Kean, M`Larty, and Co., of Liverpool,
are about to try the instrument on some of their ships,
and especially on one of considerable size called the
Genova. It is understood that the invention is also
shortly to be tested by the government on a ship-of-war."
SUSPECTED POISONING.—On Thursday evening, a
seaman named William Dunlop, residing at No. 4,
Mason's-row, Gloucester-street, had been drinking in
company with other men, and went home inebriated. He
shortly afterwards died. Mr. Lee, surgeon, of Seymour-
street, was sent for, and gave it as his opinion that the
man had died from the effects of poison. On Friday, a
coroner's jury viewed the body, and adjourned their in-
quiry until the following day, in order that a poet mortem
examination of the body might be made. The contents
of the stomach having been analysed. and no trace of
poison discovered, the jury, on Saturday, returned a
verdict in accordance with the circumstances.