The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-04-11 00:00:00

GREIT CROSBY.—The anomalous position of this fine
rural locality, as respects Church accommodation on the
great festivals of the Church, have been represented to us
by several of the residents. The district forms part of
the parish of Sefton, and although recently a very hand-
some new church has been built and beautifully fitted up,
still, on Christmas-day, Easter• Sunday, and Whit-Sunday,
there are no Church-services in Great Crosby, these
taking place in the parish church at Sefton. This is felt
by the inhabitants to be both a hardship and a scandal,
and they express a strong desire to be relieved from the
anomaly.

MASKS AND FACES AT CLAYTON-HALL.—The popu-
larity of these clever entertainments by Mr. Coleman
have of late been well tested. Mr. Coleman, anxious to
obtain patronage by deserving it, has brought forward
various entertainments, and engaged different performers
of merit. These, although fairly attended, never reached
the amount of attractive power attained by the amuse-
ments he first presented, and he has returned to them
once more. On Saturday he had a full and warmly ap-
plauding audience.

CHARGE OF MURDER AGAINST A SEA CAPTAIN.—
Yesterday, at the Police-court, Captain John Wright
Chapman, late of the ship Cleopatra, of this port, to
Bonny River, was brought before Mr. Mansfield, by detec-
tive-inspector Carlisle, who stated that, in consequence of
information received from the solicitors to the Treasury,
he apprehended the prisoner on the charge of having
caused the death of a seaman, named James White, on
board the Cleopatra; on her outward voyage to Calcutta.
He met the captain that morning in Dale-street, and
told him the charge against him, and took him into cus-
tody. Carlisle reminded Mr. Mansfield that the prisoner
was before him for the Dame offence in July last, but was
dismissed, as the evidence was then incomplete. Since
then additional evidence had been obtained, and the case
was laid before the Secretary of State ; and at the last
August assizes the Grand Jury had brought in a true
bill against the Captain for the offence now charged.
The prisoner said : I have been. in the port sir weeks
on Friday last. I paid my crew off at the Sailors' Home,
and have gone publicly through the streets, in order that
I might be seen. I hate been attending at the assize
courts, having been• subpoenaed three weeks ago.—Carlisle
said he had seen the prisoner at the assizes, but not
having the writ, of course he could not apprehend him.—
Mr. Radcliffe, attorney, said most certainly the prisoner had
not been keeping out of the way, and under these circum-
stances the magistrates would perhaps admit him to baiL
Mr. Mansfield said that. could be done by habeas corpus.
The proper course was to make application to the Judge,
now in town, to bail him ; but, a bill having Leen found
by the grand jury, he had not the power, or, if he had the
power, he thought it would not be proper for him (Mr.
Mansfield) to bail him cut. The prisoner was, then re-
moved to Kirkdale, pending the application for bail, and
he is. to take his trial at the next assizes.
LOSS OF A LIVERPOOL VESSEL.—The ship Mary Scott,
of Yarmouth, which sailed: froth the Mersey for Beaton,
had her bow port knocked in by the ice, on the 15th of
February, in lat. 47 N., lon. 43 W. She sank in about 20
minutes afterwards. The crew took to the longboat, and,
after five days' tossing about the ocean, were picked. up
and landed at St: John's. Before they were rescued, one
man died. from exhaustion.

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MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 10.

LONDON.—After official hours• the market further
receded, and closed much depressed—Consols, 88i I. On
'Change, business almost at a stand: Sellers of P.Y.C.
Tallow at 675. on the spot, and 68s for June and July.
Hemp, £7O. Scotch Pig Iron, 80s. Saltpetre and other
articles dull and unaltered.