The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-02 00:00:00

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

The monthly meeting of the Council was held yesterday,
Charles Robertson, Esq., in the absence of the President
and Vice-president, in the chair.
The minutes of the last meeting having been read and
approved, the proceedings of the following committees
were adopted ; viz., Communications, and Customs ; those
of the latter referred principally to the Customs' Bill now
before the House of Commons, in which several amend-
ments were proposed. It was reported that Mr. Bunch,
the Vice-president, and Chairman of that Committee, had
had an interview, accompanied by our borough members
and Mr. William Brown, M.P., with the Secretary to the
Treasury, the Chairman of the Board of Commissioners
of Customs, and other government officers, on the subject
of this bill, and that he was now in London following up
the matter.

The report on the East India Company's charter was
read and adopted ; also that on our relations with Siam,
Sooloo. &c.: as respects the latter, it was ordered that a
memorial be forwarded to the Foreign Office, praying that
diplomatic relations be opened between Great Britain and
those countries. The report on the guano question was
also brought up and adopted.
Among the communications were letters from the
Foreign Office, on the subject of the Sound dues; from the
Admiralty, on postal communication with Australia ;
from the London and North Western Railway Company,
on the acceleration of the mail train leaving Manchester
at 2 15 p.m. ; from Newry, on the removal of Carlineford
bar; from the mayor, with a copy of a letter from Lieut.
Maury, U.S.N., on wind and current charts. After the
meeting broke up, the Chairman waited upon his worship
to convey to him the opinion of the Chamber as to the
reception of Mr. Maury, when the mayor kindly offered
to receive him in the Council Chamber, to hear an ex-
position of his plans, and he also kindly offered to invite
the members of the various mercantile associations on the
occasion. . . .
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ent. Maury is expected to arrive here to-day or
to-morrow. Monday, the 29th instant, was fixed for the
half-yearly general meeting.

BOLD STREET.—Connoisseurs in decoration, and those
who take an interest in the embellishment of Liverpool,
should visit the new Music Hall, the lower part of which
has been fitted up by Messrs. Bradley in a style which
seems to challenge rivarly.
A DISHONEST SERVANT.—A girl named Ann Brown
was brought up at the police office yesterday morning,
charged with stealing two books, a salt dish, and other
articles, from the house of Mr. A. Dunsford, stationer, of
South Castle-street, where she has been employed for some
time as wet nurse. The articles were found in the pos-
session of her father, Richard Sanderson, who was
likewise placed atthe bar charged with receiving the goods.
As Mr. Dunsford did not appear, the prisoners were
discharged.

AN ANCIENT THIEF.—Mary Hough, an old woman
apparently over sixty years of age, was convicted yester-
day at the police court of stealing a piece of meat from
the stall of Thomas Darlington, St. Martin's market, on
Saturday evening, and was sent to jail for twenty-one
days. The antique appropriator simulated the greatest
innocence, and invoked the pardon of Heaven in behalf
of the prosecutor. It appeared, however, that she had been
previously convicted ; and that in 1852 her thievish pro-
pensities had been rewarded by her committal to prison.
A SAILOR DONE BY DUFFERS.—At the polio-Office
yesterday a couple of " Duffers," named Patrick Sweeny
and John Naylas, were charged with stealing a Guernsey
frock, a pair of trousers, and a half soverreign from a ver-
dant youth on Wednesday last. Meeting the youth, who
is a sailor, in the street, they offered some cigars and to-
bacco for sale, and afterwards some trinkets, which they
pretended were gold, but which were in reality counterfeit.
As the youth had no money, they prevailed upon him to
take off a portion of his wearing apparel, with which they
immediately decamped, leaving the worthless articles
behind. Naylas was sent to prison for a month ; while
his companion Sweeny, against whom the evidence was
not so strong, was dismissed.
MURDER AND SUICIDE ON THE HIGH SEAS.—The
following tragical occurrence took place on board the
British ship Countess of Winton, Cringle, master, while
on a voyage from Liverpool to Shangai :—She left the
latter place on the 27th of April, and on the 17th of May
the captain gave some order to the mate. He disobeyed
rthe order, and high words ensuing, the mate armed him-
<elf with a cutluss, and rushed at the captain, whom he
murdered with the weapon. The crew then endeavoured
0 seize the mate, but, seeing the movement of the men,
he immediately jumped overboard, and disappeared. He
was not seen afterwards. The second mate then took
command, and the body of the murdered master having
been consigned to the deep, the ship continued her course
to 'England.

WILLIAM llAcKgrr, a dock labourer, was yesterday
committed to the sessions for trial on a charge of brutally
assaulting James Agnew, provision dealer, 30, Saltney-
street, on the 21st of July. It appeared, from the
evidence of the parties concerned, that Hackett and his
wife occzpy a room in the house of Mr. Agnew, and that
on the day of the assault (as was frequently the case),
Agnew and his wife had had a slight disagreement, the
former being in a state of intoxication. Mrs. Hackett
went into tie room to settle differences between the in-
harmonious couple, when she was hustled out, and
in the process her arm was cut. She straightway pro-
ceeded to the docks for her husband, who came up
and assaulted the poor old man with great brutality;
and, from the evidence of Dr. Stewart, the medical
attendant of Agi!ew, it appeared that the irjuries were
of such a serious character that he had not yet got the
better of them, nor was likely soon to recover.
CONVICTION FOR CHEATING AT CARDS.—Yesterday, 8
smart-looking young man, named Isaac Horrocks, was
tried before the Recordex, at the Borough Sessions, on a
charge of having defrauded John Patterson at cards, on
the 17th of June last. The facts of the case were, that on
the day in question, the prosecutor, who is a farmer, re-
sidingije at Kirkcudbright, in Bcotland, and who was on his
way to Dublin, was walking in the neighbourhood of the
Sailors' Home. when he was accosted by a person in the
company of the prisoner, and ultimately induced to
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the other parties who were in collusion, the prisoner was
taken into custody. The prosecutor detailed the circum-
stances under which the play took place, and Mr, Tindal
Atkinson having addressed the jury on behalf of the pri-
soner, he was found guilty. The Recorder, after dwelling
upon the serious nature of the offence, said that he
scarcely thought that he should be doing his duty if he did
not transport the prisoner, As it was, he must certainly
impose severe punishment. The prisoner was sentenced
to two years' imprisonment, with hard labour.