The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-05-11 00:00:00

ROYAL MERSEY YACHT CLUB.—The opening cruise of
the season for the yachts to sail in company has been fixed
for the 14th of May, the Queen's birth-day, who is the
patroness of the club : the yachts to assemble off New
Brighton at ten a.m. The first club sailing match for
three classes of yachts to come off on the 9th of June,—
to be sailed the " Egerton Course." A prize o! Xso'
value has also been voted for the larger class of yachts
belonging to the club —a time race, above thirty-five tone,
and the time of sailing fixed for the 24th June,—to be
sailed the " Queen's Course,"—sailing regulations same
as the Challenge Cup. The Challenge Cup of 100 gui-
neas value, and Purse of 50 guineas added is fixed for the
24th of July. Won last year by the " Vision."
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BODY FOUND IN THE RlVER.—Anginquest was held on
Saturday, before the borough coroner, on view of the
body of James Henning, a Custom-Louse officer, aged 26.
On the morning of Friday last, a workman e nployed
at Messrs. Vernon and Co.'s building yard, near the
Dingle, saw the body floating in the river, and got a
police officer, who had it conveyed to Booth's public-
house, Wellington-road. The sum of £1 Bs. 10d was
found in his pocket. It was found that deceased lived in.
Sillitoe's Buildings, Chesterfield-street. On Thursday
night he went out in liquor, with another person, with
whom he parted—saying he was going on board a vessel
called the Eliza Morrison, lying in the Salthouse Dock.—
Verdict, " Found drowned."
MORE TRICKS OF IRISH PAUPERS.—Perhaps the most
cunning of the many tricks resorted to by those miserable
creatures from the other side of the Channel, who at pre-
sent infest our thoroughfares, was revealed on Friday at
the parish office. An Irishman applied at this office for
the requisite ticket to insure a free passage back to his
native country•.; his request was about to be complied
with, when a countryman, impelled doubtless by a friendly
feeling, informed Mr. Evans, that the applicant had con-
cealed five shillings and sixpence between the soles of his
shoe at the instep. The shoe was examined, but pre-
sented no appearance that could indicate such a conceal-
ment. Upon dividing the sole, however, the money was
found snugly deposited between the soles and the part re-
ferred to. The man's passage was paid out of his hoard,
and the balance restored to him. Four shillings were
found stitched beneath a button hole in the coat of a man
who made a similar application at the parish office last
week.

ACCIDENT AT THE NEW NORTH DOCKS,-011 Satur-
day, an inquest was held in the Coroner's Court, Lord-
street, on view of the body of James Robinson, aged 35
years. Deceased was employed at the North Graving
Docks, conveying stones to the masons. The stones were
removed by means of a four-wheeled carriage which ran
on two lines of balks, the length of the dock. The two
front wheels worked on a pivot, so as to allow the carriage
to turn in any direction. There was nothing attached,
either to the wheels of the carriage or the balks to pre-
vent the latter from falling off. The carriage is pushed
along by a man at each wheel. While thus removing a
stone, the two smaller wheels got off the balks, and the
deceased and another man fell down into the dock. De-
ceased was taken up insensible, and bleeding from the
nose and mouth. He was taken to the Northern Hospital,
where he died soon afterwards. Two of the witnesses
were of opinion that there ought to be something to keep
the wheels upon the balks ; for if the man at one side
pushed harder than he at the other, the wheels were liable
to be thrown off. A foreman of the works considered
that no such operations were without danger; but that if
the men were careful, few or no accidents would occur.
He did not see low the wheels could be kept on the balks
by pieces fixed at the sides, as these would trip up the
men as they walked along. Verdict. " accidental death."
SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENTS IN BLASTING WITH GUN
CorroN.—Some of the most successful experiments that
have yet been made, testing the comparative advantages of
gunpowder and gun cotton, have recently been made in
Wales, by Mr. Wheeler, engineer, of London, and other
gentlemen; Holyhead, Penrhyn, and Festiniog having
been chosen as the scenes of their operations. On Friday
the same gentlemen, accompanied by Messrs. Ingram,
and Clarke, of Liverpool, agents for the cotton, Mr.
Brown, resident engineer of the Birkenhead Docks, and a
number of scientific gentlemen, repeated the experiments
at Flay brick Hill quarry, whence almost all the stone used
in the construction of the Birkenhead Docks has been
taken. The greatest success attended their operations,
large blocks of stone being removed by the cotton, whereas
the gunpowder broke it into comparatively small piebes.
In one instance, a mass of stone, almost 14 tons weight,
was removed by 6oz. of gun cotton ; and in another in-
stance a large mass of stone was severed from the rock by
Boz. of cotton, a much smaller quantity being displaced
by a charge of 241 b. of gunpowder. Mr. Brown expressed
himself delighted with the experiments, and to Mr. Whee-
ler, Mr. Ingram, Dr. Nevins, of London, and the other
gentlemen they appeared to be quite satisfactory ; and de-
cided the superiority of gun cotton in removing large and
valuable masses of stone. In the afterpart of the day,
similar experiments, attended with equal success, were
made at the tunnel at Edge Hill, which is being con-
structed for the conveyance of cattle from the Liverpool
and Manchester Railway to the north docks.

EASTHAM FERRY.—The openinc, of the ferry to East-
ham, which may with propriety betermed the Richmond
of Liverpool, has taken place. In former years, our
readers will remember, that at low water considerable
difficulty existed in effecting a landing or embarkation,
owing to the rapidity with which the tide ebbs at that
part of the river ; but now a pier is in progress of forma-
tion, and a recurrence of the only drawback to the plea-
sures of a trip to Eastham will for the future be avoided.
Hitherto it has only been customary to run one steamer
to this ferry, but the reduction of the fares to threepence
(not one half-penny per mile) has rendered it necessary
that the spirited proprietor should procure another steamer
from Scotland, and during the summer months they are
intended to ply between St. George's Pier-head and East-
ham every hour. Not only have the pleasure grounds
been extended and improved, but a spacious new building
has been erected for the accommodation of pie nic and
other parties, at a scale of charges lower than those adopted
at the hotel, and the visitors have the privilege of frequent-
ing the woods at the back, belonging to Sir William Mas-
sey Stanley, Bart. The floral and horticultural exhibi-
tions will be held here on the 9th June and 26th August,
under very promising auspices ; and we can ensure our
readers a treat of no ordinary kind. We also perceive
that improvements of great magnitude are contemplated
by Sir William M. Stanley, who has directed Mr. Ramp-
ling, the architect, to lay down a plan of a large plot of
land for building purposes ; and we understand that the
sale has been fixed to come off in the course of a few days.
If the designs of Mr. Rampling be carried out, then East-
ham may vie with any other place in England for beauty
of scenery.. _

THE SHIPWRECKED FISHERMEN AND MARINERS'
BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.—We beg to call the attention of
our readers to the above named truly excellent charity, a
branch of which has been established in this town for
many years, but which, we feel confident, would have re-
ceived a larger measure of support from our benevolent
townsmen, had its objects been more generally known.
The object of its formation, in 1839, was to assist the
widows and orphans of los;fishermen and mariners, and
for boarding, lodging, clothing, and forwarding home
wrecked seamen and other poor persons. We are happy
to learn that there are upwards of 15,000 sailor members,
who subscribe their 2s. 6d. annually : but the society de-
pends mainly for its support on the larger subscriptions
and donations of those in more affluent station. Hun-
dreds of shipwrecked seamen, who have been brought
into Liverpool, or sent here by the society's agents on
other parts of the coast, have been duly relieved and
fdrwarded to their homes at its expense, whilst many
poor widow and orphan's heart has been made glad
through the instrumentality and benevolence of this in-
stitution. In the case of the emigrants, wrecked near
Wexford, a few weeks since, the Board of Management
sent their travelling secretary Lieut. W. H. Symons R.N.,
to Wexford, with authority to present £3O to the Relief
Committee, towards disbursing the expenses incurred by
them on that occasion, and relieve the extra pressure on
their funds. In the still more recently melancholy loss of
life in
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SUICIDE.—An Inquest was held on
the body of Catherine Pugh, aced 15, the servant of
Mr. Sutcliffe, publican, Richmond-street. Deceased was
respectably connected. On Thursday night she went to
bed apparently well, and was found dead in bed on the
following morning. She had had a conversation just be-
fore going to bed with a youth named Green, ;during
which she said " Henry, I don't think I shall be here
long." When he bid her good night she said, "if I don't
see Will again give my love to him," alluding to a young
man wholoccasionally went to the house with Green. Mr.
Lockwood, surgeon, made a post mortem examination,
and found that death was caused from arsenic. She did
not appear to be all* affected her mind, and was of a
rather cheerful disposition. The surgeon also found that
deceased was pregnant. A cup was found under the bed
in the room occupied by disceased, and it contained a
yellowish white substance which proved to be arsenic.
Margaret Pugh, mother oideceased, who resides with her
husband in Manchester, received a letter from deceased
on Thursday morning. It was dated May, but without
any day of the month. The name of the man alluded to
by her named Will is Wm. Burroughs, a youth employed
at the railway station in Wapping. Mrs. Sutcliffe ob-
served that deceased during the last month appeared at
times rather depressed, and when spoken to on the sub-
ject complained of her head. William Burroughs being
sent for, and being told that he need not say anything un-
less he pleased, said he had nothing to state. The coroner,
in summing up, said that if the medical evidence was
correct as to the deceased being pregnant she must have
been the victim of a heartless seducer. There was no
evidence in the letter (which was not publicly read) to
show that she was labouring under aberation of mind.
After some other remarks on the painful nature of the
case, he left the matter in the hands of the jury, who
returned a verdict of felo de se. The coroner, addressing
Mrs. Pugh, said he sincerely sympathised with her. Her
daughter had, no doubt, fallen a victim to the arts of a
rascally seducer; and, from the verdict, deceased must
be buried at midnight, and without burial service. Mrs.
Pugh said, that she was not aware that any person of the
name of William Burroughs was paying his addresses to
deceased,
CURIOSITIES IN NATURAL HISTORY : WALLASEY
POOL IN DANGER.—It is, wo believe, on record that,
about the year 1613, the low laud on each side of Walla-
sey Pool and, probably, part of the pool itself, were
covered with stately forest trees, including the noble oak,
as also that it was prolific in hazel nuts, &c. Certain it
is, that from a survey at low water, some three years ago,
between New Brighton and Hoylake, by a number of
scientific gentlemen, chiefly from this town, various re-
mains of forest trees, &c., were found epmbedded, in or
under the sand, manly clay, peat, gravel, and other strata.,
evidently indicating that, at one time, the land had ex-
tended much further to the north than the present sand--