The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-01-17 00:00:00

ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, TOXTETH-PARS.—After a ser-
mon, on Sunday week, by the Rev. James Hassall, the
sum of £35 13s. was collected towards a supply of bread
to the poor of this church and district.
Tint MEDICAL SCHOOL attached to the Royal Infirmary
is henceforth to be styled the Royal Infirmary School of
Medicine, and the Anatomical Museum is to be under the
curatorship of the junior house-surgeon of the Infirmary.

COILS WANTED.—There are at present not fewer than
nine tug steamers lying idle in the Mersey,inconsequence
of their inability to obtain the necessary supply supply of
coals to enable them to pursue their ordinary trade. Many
vessels are consequently unable to proceed to sea, and are
detained at great loss to owners and shippers.
Dr. SUTHERLAND, one of the medical superintending
inspectors Afgraveyards, attached to the Home-office, has
been seriously indisposed from the effects of inhaling the
gases arising from decayed corpses in a vault visited by
him in the discharge of his official duties. He is now in a
fair way of recovery. Dr. Waller Lewis has also suffered
from a similar cause. .

RAILWAY SCWABBLES.—In the Exchequer Chamber,
on Thursday, the case of the East Lancashire Railway
Company v. the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Com-
pany was brought before the full court. This was a writ
of error from the Court of Exchequer. Two points were
raised ; one passed for the plaintiffs, upon which no
question now arose, and this Court concurred in that
judgment; upon the other point, the judgment passed
for the now defendants, which judgment was now ques-
tioned. The whole matter rested upon the construction
of an agreem3nt, and this Court considered that the
judgment of the Court below ought to be reversed.

CAPTAIN GREIG AND THE LATE SNOWBALLING.-At
a meeting of the Mvistrates, held on Thursday—J. B.
Lloyd, Esq., in the chair—the following resolution was
proposed and carried, in reference to the late snowballing
on the Exchange : " That this meeting regrets that Capt.
Greig should have recently been exposed to affront and
indignity, upon the Exchange-flags and in the Exchange-
room, whilst carrying out the instructions he had re-
ceived from the Mayor, upon the requisition of the Chair-
man of the Committee of the Exchange-rooms, and that
this meeting desires to express their sense of the zeal and
ability with which Captain Greig has upon this, as upon
all other occasions, discharged his difficult and responsible
duties."

A NBW DUCHESS OP LLIITAIITER.--Martha England,
an eccentric old lady, who has for many years followed the
judges round the assize circuit, appeared before Mr.
Mansfield, on Thursday, as the Duchess of Lancaster, and
requested the magistrate to make an allowance of £3O to
her out of the £lB,OOO that she was wrongfully deprived
of, the judge having promised to see justice done to her
at the late York Assizes, but, as she said, they were a
long time in bringing the trial on, and settling the matter,
and it was high time justice was done to her. She produced
a nightcap and a pair of garters, which she said the judge
usually gave her half-a-crown for; but the magistrate might
give what he pleased—she would leave it to his honour.
The magistrate having . given her four shillings for the
articles, she hoped they would put their heads together
and get her case settled. This Mr. Mansfield said they
would be better able to do now, as they had got a night-
cap ; this declaration appearing satisfactory, her grace
retired..

SKATING ON TILE STILZET : SUSPENSION OF A POLICE-
OPPICER.—A young. man, named Roger Itlilladeir, ap-
peared on Tuesday at the police-court, to answer a sum-
mons, at the instance of police-officer 463, for skating on
the Everton-road, onthe 23th of last month. In answer
to a '4tioation from Mr. Mansfield, the officer said that the
young man skated remarkably well. Mr. Mansfield. said
the information had been laid under a misapprehension.
The clause was to prevent parties sliding upon ice or
snow, or throwing orange peel upon the footpaths, so
that it was clear the object of the clause was to prevent
the footpath being made slippery and dangerous. Skat-
ing would not make the roads slippery; and as the young
man, as the officer had stated, was an excellent skater, he
would have perfect command of his movements, and would
not be likely to cause injury to any one. The charge must
therefore be dismissed. The young man then complained
of the conduct of the officer, who had taken him to Rose-
hill bridewell, although he gave him his address, and
wished him to accompany him to his residence, which was
not many yards from the spot where the officer came up
to him. Mr. Mansfield said that it was a great insult to
the defendant to take him to bridewell like a felon. In
the first place, the officer was not right in interfering
with him, but that might be pardoned, as it arose from a
misapprehension; but, even if the defendant had been
doing what was wrong, the officer would not be justified
in taking him to bridewell when he had every opportunity
of ascertaining his name and address. He had acted very
culpably, and must be suspended.
DiscovEirK OF A STILL IN A ClTURClL—Considerable
sensation has been created in this neighbourhood by the
discovery of a still in Euxton Church, near Chorley. A
.few weeks ago some workmen were employed in making
some repairs in the church, when they discovered, con-
cealed underneath the pulpit, a perfect still. The minister
of the church, whose parsonage is adjoining, was apprised
of the circumstance, and the still was removed from the
pulpit into the vestry. Notwithstanding the above extra-
ordinary fact became known to a few individuals, so well
has the secret been kept that it was only on Saturday
night last the Excise became acquainted with it. Early
on Monday morning, therefore, Mr. Peacock and Mr.
Bentley, Excise-officers of inland revenue, obtained a
search-warrant from Captain Anderton, of Euxton-hall,
and, proceeding to the parsonage first, found a part of the
still in the pantry ; another portion was found in the
coach-house, and, on searching the church, the remainder
was found under a heap of other things in a cupboard in
the vestry. The still being thus completed, was brought
away by the officers, to Chorley, and the particulars of the
, seizure communicated to the Board of Excise in Loudon.—
Preston Chronicle.