The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-05-23 00:00:00

LETTER,

"24, Regent-road, Liverpool, 24th April, 1854.
" Reverend Sir,—We have been requested by the lay
members of St. Aidan's District Committee, at a meeting
held on the evening of the 21st instant, to offer you their
most grateful thanks for the kind feeling you have ex-
hibited towards their spiritual wants, and also for your
exertions in endeavouring to get a church built in this
rapidly-increasing neighbourhood.
We do sincerely trust that ere long your labours will
be crowned with success, and that you may very shortly
be enabled to commence with the proposed new church,
as the room at present used as a temporary place of wor-
ship and Sunday school, is nothing like adequate to the
wants of the district and our numerous congregation.

" We are also desired to express the pleasure we have in
bearing testimony to the ministerial exertions of the Rev.
R. Dandy, since his appointment in this quarter ; also,
to his untiring zeal and devotion to his duties, attention
to the wants of sick and poor, the advancement of our
religious and moral welfare, and the propagation of the
Christian truth.—We are, Rev. Sir, yours most re-
spectfully,
CHARLES FORBES, Secretary.
"W. H. MAITLAYD, Treasurer.
" To the Rev. Rector Cambell."

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APPEAL AGAINST, AND REVERSAL OF A MAGISTRATE'S
DECISION. —On Friday, after the criminal business of the
borough sessions had been disposed of, Mr. John Ellis,
licensed victualler, of Hornby-street, Limekiln-lane, ap-
pealed against a conviction against him before R. E.
Harvey, Esq., on the 28th of April, for selling spirits on
aSunday forenoon during the hours of divine service.—
From the statement of the case, as made against the appel-
lant when the investigation took place before the borough
magistrates, it appeared that, on the Sunday morning when
the alleged offence was committed, a woman was seen by
two of the police force coming out of the appellant s
house, and on searching her they found in her pocket a
ginger-beer bottle containing whiskey. When before the
magistrates, the appellant desired to have the case ad-
journed, in order to give him an opportunity of bringing
forward additional evidence, but the magistrate being of
opinion at the time that no additional evidence to alter
the facts could be produced, refused to adjourn the case,
and imposed a fine of forty shillings. The evidence of the
woman on whom the whiskey was found having been
tendered, his honour decided on receiving it, and she de-
posed that she purchased the whiskey at another esta-
blishment, and not from the appellant at all. The
Recorder, in giving judgment, said that the magistrate
bad decided correctly on the evidence then before him,
but from the additional evidence now produced, he felt
bound to reverse the decision. The conviction was
therefore quashed.
11.EALTII COMMITTEE.—On Thursday, Mr. Langsdale
presided at the meeting of the Health Committee. Messrs.
Beckwith, Moss, Gladstone, Tomlinson, Robinson, God-
frey, and Hendersou were present. In answer to ques-
tions, Mr. Moss was informed that the basis upon which
the rates were collected was, according to law, the assess-
ment of the preceding year. The medical officer reported
that in the week ending the preceding Saturday the deaths
registered in Liverpool were 236, being 12, more than in
the previous week, and 21 more than the average of the
same week of the preceding six. ears, corrected for increase
of population. Nearly one-third of the mortality was
caused by diseases of the zymotic class, from which there
were 77 deaths, including from measles 33, diarrhoea 14,
(10 children and 4 old people), typhus 11, hooping-cough
6, cholera 3, scarlatina and small-pox 1. The deaths from
diarrhtea were double the average of the corresponding
week of former years. The mortality from diseases of the
lungs and consumption continues rather higher than the
average, having been last week 72. The temperature was
below the average, excepting on Saturday. The mean of
the week was 52 degrees, while the average of the same
week of the preceding eight years was 53 1-10th. The
atmosphere was unusually damp, the difference between
the dew-point temperature and air temperature having
been less than 0 degrees. in place of an average of more
than 12.1 degrees. Rain fell on Sunday, Monday, and
Thursday, to the extent in all of 13-lOoths of an inch.
Mr. Moss called attention to the condition of Vauxhall-
road, and was informed that it was being remedied as
speedily as possible. It was announced that the parish
had refused to unite with the health committee and the
West Derby hoard of guardians in regard to the approach
of cholera. Mr. Magowan, the clerk, read a letter from
the town-clerk, in which Mr. Shuttleworth called attention
to two bills, now in parliament—one to enable boards of
guardians to appoint inspectors of nuisances ; the other,
the nuisance removal and disease prevention bill, as
amended in committee of the lords. Mr. Shuttleworth
pointed out several clauses which affected the health com-
mittee, and upon which he should be glad to receive some
opinion from them.
ACCIDENT TO TITE MAIL STEAMER ARCTIC.—The
United States Mail Steam ship Arctic, Captain Luce Com-
mander, which sailed from Liverpool on 'Wednesday after-
noon on her voyge for New York, met with an accident
the same evening in steaming down the Irish Channel
While going at full speed, and, as was believed, in her
ordinary course, she struck upon a sunken rock, marked
in the charts as the Black Rock, midway between the
Tuskar and the Saltees Islands. The captain was losing
sight of Tuskar when the accident happened, which in-
duced him to believe that all danger was passed; but it is
conjectured that the Channel currents acting on the ves-
sel to a greater degree than was calculated upon by those
on board, had induced a deviation., It was first deter-
mined to proceed, but finding that she was making
water, she was put back. As soon as time accident
was made known, by means of the telegraph, at
Liverpool, the steam-tug Dreadnought was dis-
patched to render every necessary assistance. The vessels
met of Point Lynes, and kept company until near the
bar, where the Arctic remained for want of water to enable
her to cross. About twenty of her passengers came on
with the tug-boat; and were landed at time stage about one
o'clock. The rest remained on board the Arctic, having
every confidence in the vessel, and reached the river about
two hours afterwards. The Arctic went into dock on
Saturday, but, owing to the low tides, could not be laid on
the graving-blocks, and the extent of the injury ascertained.
It is hoped that the damage is only slight, and that the
detention will not extend beyond a week or ten days ; but
practical men fear, from the nature of the accident, that
the vessel will require a new keel, or at any rate, a new
forefoot. The mails were taken out by the steamer Asia,
which started for New York on SatnrdaT. Messrs. Brown,
Shipley, and Co., the agents for the Collms' line, promptly
returned the passage-money of those who desired to go out
in the Asia; but most of the passengers resolved to stay
until the Arctic is ready to take them. Her machinery is
uninjured, and she is expected to be got into the Fraying.
dock this cla/ (Tuesday.