The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-04-19 00:00:00

FEMALE CONVICTS IN LIVERPOOL—Sarah and Ann
Rinomer, mother and aunt of the girl who preferred a
charge against them of attempting to
.poison her, have
received a free pardon. They were first condemned to
death, but this sentence was afterwards modified to trans-
Portation for life. The Rimrners are living in a cellar in
Ellison-street. Netherfield-road.
THE PLASTERERS AT MANCHESTER have been seeking
erl advance of wages, by which their average earnings
would be raised from 265. per week to 28s. The wages of
131450:13 are ss. to ss. 6d. per day, and they contemplate
asking 6s. and upwards per day. The Leeds Intelligencer
states that the operative shoemakers of Leeds have de-
manded an advance of wages of at least 15 percent.
Witanant GEORGE, bead-master of the day schools
and superintendent of the Sunday schools in connexion
With Hope-street Chapel, has been presented by the
teachers with a testimonial consisting of Bohn's Web-
evter's Dictionary and the Penny Cyclopredia. in *fifteen
volumes. On Monday Neander's History of Christianity
mas Presented to Mr. George, on the occasion of his re-
Mug his office as principal of the day schools.
Cow South
TO THE BRAZILS AND THE RIVER. PLATE.—
..61o' South American and General Steam Navigation
eallPPilaY have fixed the 24th June as the time for the
-14,.reg of their screw steamer, the Olinda, Captain G. H.
irorern. from the Birkenhead Docks, to Rio Janeiro and
The eo, calling at Lisbon, Pernambuco, and Bahia.
the Arg-ei;ir; Lusitania, and Bahiana are to follow; while
the b 2ris, of 400 tons and 200 horse power is po take
negior, with Monte Video and Buenos Ayres, in con-
A. 7,7 Lt the larger vessels.
Pot:JcuNZteCESSFUL ATTEMPT was made at the Liver-
of the (runt). Court the other
aimed James• Duffy, master
akasecack. Ontario, who c from Charles Burke,
rof the steamer Wallasey, the sum of £4 14s. for
Stea ge sustained by the Ontario in a collision with the
lip
tl;_rer• The defence was that the steamer was coming
the ue
river, and observing the smack lying in the way,
eaPtain stopped the engines, and would have cleared
thrown
vessel if she bad not given a sheer to westward, and
herself into the way of the steamer.
pAS,II/P AGROUND ON THE PLIICKINTON BANK.—On
hrriY•afternoon, between two and three o'clock, about
.14 water, the ship Cathcart. for Coquitnbo, e
on
ow of a steamer, having just left the dock, grounded
boats proceeded
Bank, and, although three other tug
barque Irene
civ,arls proceeded to her assistance, she stuck fast in pre-
)-,e,Y the same spot where the unfortunate
."13, stranded and went over. The Cathcart is a Glas-
gow vessel, and is loaded principally wrth. coals. She got
Off on Saturday morning. This bank is getting such a
dangerousngerous impediment to the navigation of the upper part
of the river that it ought, if possible, to be remedied.
THE TRADE WITH THE EAST.—The East India and
China Association have published their usual comparative
statement of the number of ships, British and foreign,
with their aggregate tonnage, which have entered inwards
and cleared outwards with cargo from and to places within
the'limits of the East India Company's charter, from the
Ist of January to the 31st of March, in the years 1852
ancl;lBs3. In the case of the port of London there has
been an increase of 34 vessels ; Liverpool presents an in-
crease of 14 vessels ; Bristol and 'Hull 11 vessels. The
return for the Clyde exhibits little alteration, the figures
for the respective periods being 17 vessels. The net in-
...crease exhibited is 58 vessels. The port of London
figures for an increase of 109 vessels. Liverpool exhibits
an Increase of 45 vessels. In the case of the Clyde, the
Increase is 27 vessels. The net increase exhibited is 181
vessels.
DOCK COMMITTEE.—Mr. Shand presided at the meeting
of the Dock Committee on Thursday. Several tenders
were accepted, including one by Mr. Armstrong, of New-
castle, for apparatus for working, by hydraulic power,
!Jae cranes at the warehouses on the north side of the
Stanley Dock. The Chairman stated that £13.760 was the
adue,unt of the contract.--Authority was given to the
°ex surveyor to let the Coburg Dick run dry on the 21st
!natant.! The Warehouse Management Sub-committee
reported the resignation of Charles Edward Lawton, land-
ing clerk in the Albert Dock Warehouses, and the resig-
btatiee of Abraham Curran, foreman of the hold. Mr.
obawton's letter of resignation complained that, for six
"jars, his salary of £BO had never been raised, while those
Junior clerks had been advanced.—Mr. Langsdale
attributed favouritism to the committee in their promo-
irs• This was strenuously denied by Mr. Robinson,
Brocklebank, and others ; and, after a warm alter-
-I,7aulas I°ll, the resignations were accepted, as was also that of
" Evans.
thep°Dl
LLEBANCE AT A ROMANIFir
we tee, -affice, on Monday, Jas. Billion and Robt. Daniels
that over to keep the peace, it having been proved
Rho "ley committed an assault upon Whitaker Edmunds
Margaret White, and raised a disturbance at the
ev 111„en Catholic chapel of St. Francis Xavier, on the
laaedging of Saturday last. The prisoners stated that they
too 4 little drop of drink ; one acknowledging that he was
rip drunk to know anything about it, and that there was
to I,Be telling lies, and the other, that the man (pointing
etnunds) struck him, and.he struck again, and then
jigaP the eteps, and the church doors were closed. Mr.
b,„`,lfield observed, that whatever differences might exist
d4w;en persons of different religions, of course it was
40 rem everybody, not merely as Christians, but as
"4 7-countrymen, to respect his neighbour's religion,
that a protect and respect every person in the exercise of
(wh religion. People were not in a country like this
om ere, indeed, Roman Catholics may hold the highest
I.,riee in the state), to make that religion a source of re-
e,i4e against the persons professing it, er to entertain
131,;I. d. unjust, or ungenerous feelings towards persons
esslng one religion or another. Their conduct was
IT outrageous, but he was inclined to attribute it to the
vernicious influence of intoxication.
ir THE MEDITERRANEAN LINERS. The Glasgow
I.."'erald says that, in the course of the next month,essrs. Burns and M'lver will extend their operations in
:lie Mediterranean by opening a line to E2.ypt, and for
Luis two fine steamers will be set apart. These will he
he Teneriffe and the Karnsc. The former has been
already launched by Denny Brothers, and is receiving her
blaehinery from Tulloch and Denny. Messrs. W. Denny
trothers are building for the Cunard lino an iron paddle
ship, which, when completed, will be the largest steamer
iu the world. She is named the Persia, will be nearly
1,000 tons burthen, and of 1,000-horse power, and her
illincs will be supplied by Mr. Robert Napier, of Glas-
-13001 and will be the first iron steamer upon the Liver-
construrt-s.iNew York line. There are also in course of
the Cunea:r two splendid steamers for the extension of
Pacific. namely, line from New York, vid Chagres, into the
tonstlra burthen'°
a —TOY, the Etna by Caird of Greenock, and the
j: la1114(1In
Will reinforce the of Glasgow.'
Each will be fully 2,000
more. than 400-horse power, and they
cent.ly built ex Andes
es
and Alps, which have been re-
cen3' for this service. The Elk, Stag,
13Throetthwerst the
4uti Lynx, iron d
also Leis , Pa die-steamers, each of 600 tons, are
g omit for the Messrs. Burns by W. Denny
engines by Messrs. Thomson, of Glasgow.
404 former are for the Glasgow and Liverpool trade,
corobin Tort for the Belfast mail service. Finally, to
erel3 combine elegant with the useful, Messrs. Thomson
40 tollildreg a handsome screw-steam pleasure yacht of
%eller?, for Mr. Allver of Liverpool, a partner in all
trlightY mercantile schemes.
"t TAry
--RUS...-LAUNCR OF A NEW CITA:ARO LINER.
eottm,oatarday week the Taurus, screw steam-ship, just
kr.ieted for Messrs. Burns and Co., of Glasgow, and
Whe„Al'lver, of Liverpool, left the Clyde for Liverpool,
an h"eceglihe will sail far Constantinople on the 20th inst.,
Stec er
first trip, as one of the regular liners on the new
1- eoutebetween Liverpool and the Levant. Herdimen-
4411084tahre as ;follow :—Le-ngth over all, 210 feet 5 inches ;
Itrthe of beam, 29 feet 5 inches ; depth of hold, 24 feet ;
diatt_a, 1,126 tons ; power of engines, 180-horse power;
viitile,ter of screw, 12 feet. She has direct acting engines,
tO inoTholar boilers and brass tubes, and two cylinders of
eani lies diameter each. She is built in six water.-tight
, Partrne
"'reit Ws. The main cabin of the Taurus will ac-
meat "1-e 40 passengers, and each of the berths is of the
teasto •
btlilt byri airy, and commodious character. Tile Taurus
and her Messrs. W. Denny Brothers, of Dumbarton,
ealb,, !Nines were; supplied by Messrs. Tulloch and
%root:B..oj the same place. A standard for regulating
Of thi,t'ul fixed at the top of the wizen mast, at a height
boy ir_Y feet from the deck, and entirely isolated from
tuke_ rnaterial. In this way the compass is quite be-
ou,'? Influence of local attraction. This new steam
;14 th' the Levant was opened lately by the British Queen
.us thee. The Taurus will now take her place on
aielk
Jation, and she will be speedily joined by the
47_ 0. fully larger dimensions than this one, and
sew
eteayer's ls being supplied with her machinery by Clark
of Greenock. Thus WC will pay() four fine
en the Turkish line.