The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-13 00:00:00

STRANGE FISIT

Ling in t

uncouth monsters of the deep known amongst stu
a " devil-fish," which strove hard to appease its

hunger by a tit-bit from the lad's bare legs. The young- chance to her well-known sailing qualities.
ster, however, was nimble of foot ; and, some boatmen LIVERPOOL CRICKETERS AT DERBY.—Some of our
coming to the rescue, the fish was speedily taken captive. local cricketers have been trying their skill in the favourite

1 game at Derby

[even of t

dverpool

Roscoe Club

Olinda, Captain Haram, one of the vessels recently built played a match with eleven of the Derby Town Club, at
for the South American and General Steam Navigation the latter place, on Wednesday and Thursday. The game
Company, arrived in the Mersey, on Friday, from the was well contested, but the result was in favour of Derby,
Clyde. The Olinda was built by Messrs, John Reid and with three wickets to go down. The following is the re-
Co., of Port Glasgow; and as she is of the same dimen- suit of the game :----Roscoe, first innings, 107 ; second
d
sions and power as the Braziliera, built by Mr. Laird, of ditto, 99 : total, 206. Derby, first innings, 111 ; second
Birkenhead, it will be interesting to see who can turn out ditto, 96 : total, 207.
the best vessel. The Olinda will go into the Birkenhead NICIIOLAS HENRICHSON, passenger-broker, of Waterloo-
Dock to receive cargo for the Brazils and River Plate, for road, was summoned on Tuesday for the recovery, with ,
which places she will take her departure on Saturday week. compensation, of £l3 10s., paid to him by four intending
THE ANNUAL COUNTY SESSIONS were held at Preston, emigrants, whoin he had failed to provide with a passage.
on Thursday, the Yen. Archdeacon Brooks in the chair. They had booked with him for a passage in the Western
''''he first business was the election of chairman for the Empire, but were put ashore just previous to the vessel's

sailing. The defendant had then offered to get the year, to which office the Archdeacon was voted amid
pas-
enthusiastic plaudits. The Clerk of the Peace announced sage in another ship if they would pay 7s. 6d. each addi-
that he had received a notification that there was a vacancy tional. Mr. Henrichson, who complained of having been
in the office of surgeon of Lancaster Castle. The amount deceived as to the room there was in the vessel, was or-
of salary was fixed at £BO. The public accounts were dered to refund the passage money, and pay to the disap-
allowed after some itirther conversation respecting the ninted passengers .ia each, as compensation, with 4s.

I &I. as costs of the summons, making a total of £l7 4s. 6d.
cost of " the Ramshgy feed," which it was finally decided
is to be paid out of The rate. After a protest by Colonel lAN ABSCONDING APPRENTICE.—On Thursday, John
Austen against investing the superannuation fun,d in any, Bowen, a shipwright's apprentice, was charged under the
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, , ,
....48 uu . 1,..G Pl. ATLI, ituxtta, 111 G 1.1.1.1.5 A....,0vattv.....y. .. c4a
passed :—" That at the request of the magistrates of the stated that about twelve months ago he gave the prisoner
Kirkdale division the sum of £7OO be advanced out of The money and goods to the value of £lO, and sent him from
County Constalhulary Superannuation Fund, on security Cardiff for Liverpool, with orders to ship in the Regent, a
of the rates ,of the Kirk-dale police division, at 4,1 per vessel bound for California. Since that time he had seen
centum per annum, for the purpose of erecting a police- nothing of him, but had ascertained that he did not pro-
station at Garston, for the use of the said division." The ceed in the ship. Being in Liverpool on business, he met
proposed increase in the pay of the constabulary was the prisoner the previous day, in the neighbourhood of
agreed tp, .A. sum not exceeding £9OO was granted to the docks, and gave him into custody. The prisoner said
i
carry on the 'alterations in Lancaster Castle. Mr. Saun-
that when he arrived at Bristol he could find no con-
ders presented a memorial from the Caton Incorporation veyance to Liverpool, and he was detained there until the
(the Gilbert Union), in which the memorialists expressed Regent had sailed. As the case was one which could only
their sunrise and dissatisfaction at the proceedings of the be decided by the maiistrays at Cardiff, the prisoner was

cc,.---t5-"--- last, .. 0
r m une m reference to the 'resolution passed ordered to be removed thither in custody.
for the vayment of the amount of A 3 N. 6d. for sand- LIEILTII OF TAB TowN.—The medical officer of health
wiches &c., at the Ramshay inquiry. The matter then reports that the ,deaths from all causes registered in the
dropped, and the court adjourned. borough of Liverpool during the week ending September
lIVA,LTH COMMITTEE.—The weekly meeting of the 3 were 181. The past week gives three casesless of deaths
Health Committee was held on Thursday, Mr. Alderman from diarrhoea than the previous, and 7 lees than in the
Dover in the chair. A long 'conversation took place re- corresponding week of any year since 1848; of those who
gner.iine. the „,epeeiiire,,;•,, 4.1,‘, 0,,„,,,t1 +1,,,,,,,,,,hne. dfiv_ I died daring ,the past week 35 were infants And children.

•=1,,,,,,.....5 ...., yII,GG.AIIISM AIL lIIC •k-eVULLU/1 VIIG tu C.,•,....”1, ~..,0 •
Tv,ohus fever caused three deaths scarlatina-2 measles 2
The chairman proposed the following resolution :—That
this-committee take thit op ortunity'sf expressing their disease of' ' "
t3l, he lungs smallpox 1. One death from
p
deep sympathy with Mr. Alderman Lang,sdale in his pre- cholera was registered last week. This 'was the case
sent domestic afflictions, and of deClaring their respect for alluded teby Dr. Duncan in his last report. Since then
his private character, and. their undiminished confidence , three fatal -cases had occurred ; two in the same house as
in him as their chairman."—After a good deal of further 1 the .firstementioned, the third in the Emigrants Home,
.
Tonversation, good sense prevailed, and the subject was Moorfields In all those cases the sufferers were German
emigrants, recently arrived from the continent,. and no
illowed to drop, the 'chairman -Withdrawing his motion,
dcrabtthey were suffering from the disease in some of its
and the committee proceeded to"trausact the routine busi-
!ness.—Mr Fresh directed attention to the way in which sta.gesivior to their arrival in Liverpool.
SHREWSBURY AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—III COM-
the gas company wits tearing up .streets which had been
plianee with a circular issued by Mn Joseph Scott, of
recently re-laid. &,. Mr. Glailltone hoped the borough
engineer would stain favour them with a report of the cost 1 Stourbridge, a meeting of the shareholders in the above
which they were put 'to 'by the gas company.
linemss held in the George Hotel, Dale-street, on Thurs-
£2s3,ooo spoken.of in the Council on the previous day, After
aS
cfoetwt pre-
wasr,o' liminary observations from the chairman, r.
, day, Mr. Elias Arnaud in the chair. AP--
applied for tthepurchase;or part purchase of the gas-
works, and they- could get them .under their control, with
the assistance if 'the borough-engineer, he had no doubt dispute between the directorsi - of the
,ceeded to detail at length the whole -circumstancest ofptne
they would be enabled to; supply the town with gas at a 'wstern or athe Great
very small cost.—A communication was read from the 1-shartholders, on thenques
oon
.of *'amgarlegaa amalgamation with
which has
Bev. George Dover,' calling attention to the state of "irk- i,, ee..cirite4herernthleineLsondßoreifearridngNte
the
date
dispute,
dale, where a large population had been brought by the
resulted in the company's books laving been
new docks, sedpraying th th
at 'it might be surveyed with a _the custody of the nohce,—Mr..Scott said the directors
, handed over
view to being severed. ' -.vv.ere---. to blame for not- known,* ..g that such fraudulent
THE MAIL -,T30 BOMBAY.—The following declaration Of transactions were. going on in :_their office. He charged
mercantile firms •of London, Liverpool, :the directors with acting in such manner that the share-
Glasgow, connected With Bombay, has been transmitted to .
Manchester, and
. holders were fraudulently prevented. from recording their
He chelieved the company had
the President of the Board of Control by Mr.
M.P., Chairman Of the :London •and China ': , East India,
euattiraellyatesaemrifieeeetind gin.
consequence of its mismanage-
Association and he charged the directors with ruining their.
Association :
The directors had- surreptitiously put a clause
interested in the • security -and
- - " We, the undersigned, connected with Bombay , and deeply ,ProPertY•
ence with the presidencyijdotereby express our earnest desire ',.-bc a director, unless he gave !notice a certain time pre-
tooreppeonrttoopfuthbelicspteecnidael rcainanmd punctuality of the'corresoond-. ihl their act of parliament that mo person was eligible to,
see the mail service between Suez -d
Bombay thrown 1 • to the election at their office. He thought that, if
and
presidedrat
Postmaster-General (Bth asaronevceormhyoileienrdet Ida
iheysttyl:es '-they passed that clause, theywatdd have it all their own
Ththee•ln'7lmaseoaryr.e; i y He believed if this elapse had not been discovered
resentimWivetrpo :hoe,
are—
Commissioners df '
it was the intention of the directors to call a meeting on
1 the earliest day possible in August, that they might take
Arbuthnot, wart and re—
Thomson, Finlay, and C0.;C0.: ; Nicol, Duckworth, and -Co.-; ,I
, .Finlay, Campbell, and Co.; Ren- i hostile to their (the shareholders') interests. meeting
itsir Brothers and Co.; Edward '1
nie, Cloves, and 3 . ' -them by surprise, and elect•svkom they chose—directors
rectors
Lawrerce and Co.; Co.og; ili;
and Co.;Browne, Hunter, and and
Co..anders, and Co.; Thompson,
,:once; but, instead of doing
nested to Calla meeting mt•
Anderson. and Co. ; GlaektoneDirom, Davidsons, '
had been held at Wolverhampton, and the directors re-
According to a statement' .rece.
man of Ale East India Association.
received
Co.;l
aClohnarles.Turner, chair. ,__,they were _
of thist • in going to the Great
They were making use
ti''-io putting it eff Ailltuntehendof Septeral.
g with the topy di Western Company, to try and.make an arrangement with
the present memorial, the net charge of the stalcorn- :them • but he (Mr. Scott) warned the shareholders that,
muiiication between Bombay and Suez and Bombay and 'lf the line passed into the hands of that company, they
Aden, which it was time considered by Lord Canning?s. would never get a return for their capital. He mild
committee could be defrayed for £40,000, appears for the 'upon any gentleman who was favourable to an alliance -
year .1818-9 (the latest ,period to which the accounts I -with the Great Western to :,point out whether it was
from -Bombay, had been .received), notwithstanding the likely that any agreement with that company would be
nnsatisfactory performance of the service, to have been ..carried out properly by a board of directors like the pre-.
£171,013, exclusive of £V,770, the year's incidental ex-
.--sent. He did not think well of a competition between the.
penses in Egypt and at Malta, towards which charge two great companies. No line :.could be worked indepez
-parliament comtributes I:0,000 per annum. . ,dently better than theirs. People might talk about the
DOCK COMMITTEE.—The weakly meeting was held on I amount of through traffic to ;Liverpool and Birkenhead.
Thursday, Mr. Turner irmhe chair. A letter was read,'...that would be brought if theyilad an arrangement with
:from Sir Thomas Feeemainfe, acknowledging the compli- 1. either of the companies.; but ;:their home traffic, if pro-
mentary resolution recently passed by the committee, in ' perly managed, was a much better traffic, in consequence
which his name was inellided. He was glad to hear that .of the excellent districts with,,which their line was con-
the-committee approved generally of the alterations and ,':_nected. He concluded 45, moving the following resole-
:amendments made in the 'fiscal laws; and added that he ',: tion :—" That this meeting is of-opinion that the question
should always receive With t- pleasure and attention any re- :of amalgamation, or a traffic arrangement with either the
.commendation which the a)oclt Trust might submit.— ~Great Western or the London-and North-western Railwaiy
Al list of amounts voted aa'oompensation to parties whose cCompany, should not be entertained until after the general
interests have been interfered with by the alteration,ol ~half-yearly meeting, when mew directors will have to be
thelevels at Wapping was read. The total awards were elected; and this meeting further resolves to support at
£B2 les. to 25 persons.—A sum of £5O was allowed to that meeting the election of such directors only as will
-Mr. -Cowan, of the Albert warehouses, for the expenses of ' ;pledge themselves not to enter into any agreement with
-removal to the new house provided for him on the Albert ,either company except on the terms of a guaranteed did-
. pier.—The Marine Department Committee recommended .dend ,of four per cent. per annum." The motion was
-that the offer of James M`Terran, the owner of the schooner -seconded by Dr. Bickersteth, and, after some discussion
Spark, which ran down the screw pile beacon on the 23rd was, carried unanimously. everal proxies were handed
lit., to give the Trust £75 infr.ll of all claims, be accepted. :in to that gentleman to be used atthe half-yearly meeting
Confirmed.—An application was read from the dock gate- .at-hisliscretion • and, after thanks to the chairman, the
peen, soliciting an advance of wages. After some conyer- , meeting separated
--cation the chairman proposed to refer the application to
the Ilarbour-masters Committee, and let the report come
-before the general committee in-the usual way.—A letter
from Mr. J. A. Clarke, of Hamilton-square, calling atten-
tion to the number of buovs=esi the Cheshire shore, be-

'GENERAL

INTELLIG_ENCE

ON'Y FIRM IN BRISTOL alone sends twenty ships to
Africa.

tween Woodside and Tranmeie:, Wsl,:ieh rendered the course
dangerous, was referred to the narine Committee.—A re-

Woon of an extensive tract .df
.iPrussian forest has
been purchased for the English navy.
A BAJANCE-SHEET OF THE .A.MAVAION FUND is adver-
tised, by which it appears that the subscriptions were
£13,283, sad that there is now a halanceln hand of £9,811.
THE TQTAL NUMBER or EXHIBITORS .si the New York
ExhibitiO,n,iboth foreign and American,: is 4,383. This is

solution adopted by the committee, in reference to the
crossing from the south end of George's Dock to the baths,

was-read; it was to the effect that,iiaere was no intent

on the part of the Corporation to ;dedicate the crossing to
.the Holme complained of the manner in

which:the Albert Dock accounts were given in the annual
.statement lately put forth. After some conversation it was
agreed that a profit and loss account Efor the last twelve
months- be furnished.
WEST 'DERBY GUARDIANS.—OE '.Wednesday, at the
'weekly meeting, Mr. Harrison occupied the chair.—Mr.
Farnall, the poor-law inspector, was present, having at-
tended to explain a matter which had been the subject of
a lengthy ,correspondence between the Poor-law Board
and the guardians, namely the desirability •of having Mr.
Lister, one of the medical officers, to reside at the fever
hospital. Farnall stated that the Poor,law Board had
no authority te remove an officer under the circumstances;
otherwise they would have met the views ofthe guardians.
geeing that was the case, the next question,was whether
the
_platter .could not be managed in a .way satisfactory
_ _

,
alaout,orietourth the number COlitributics to the London
Exhibition.

I`,/lE 1144.NIT3TAPLE COMMISSION( COAtiTrie4 its inquiries
and they seem likely to lead to disclosures which will rival
those of St. Albans and the other peocanta:cmoughs.
ARRANaggENTS are making ;for the .performance of
Italian operas in Edinburgh
.in December :and January
next, and afterwards in Glasgow several ~nights a week
during the month of February.

THE JO,UIaTB:MEN CABINET-MASERS of •rmingham
have resolved to demand an increase of temper cent. on
their wages. They have requested an answer from the
employers by the :12th inst.
Tnx NUNNU.Y.Ar PRINCETHORPE, near Nuneaton, has
been broken into, and four chalices, with paters, one of
the former being richly set with amethysts, two ,eiboria,
four silver candlesticks, and the cross of a monstrance,
with other church and domestic plate, were stolen.
Two Boivs belonging to the new steamer Bengal, which
left Southampton, on ,the 26th ult., for the Cape and India,
have been washed ashore at Weymouth. As a portion of
the davits are attached to the boats, it is evident thattthey
had been washed away by.a sea.
A DESTRUCTIVE VIRE occurred on Saturday morning
at the extensive factories and buildings of Messrs. Russell
and Co., iron shipbuilders•and engineers, Mill-wall Poplar,
as also the establishment of Messrs. Napier, engineers, of
the same place.

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to all parties. After speaking of Mr. Lister fts a valuable
°Meer, he added that, before the new hospital could be
made efficient,-it would require a better staff of officers
than they had .at• present. He would suggest -.whether,
supposing they could arrange with Mr. Lister to.obtain a
qualified assistant, who should act as surgeon, and be
master of the house, say at a salary of £3oper.annum with
rations, that would meet the object the board had in view.
After some discussion, Mr. Lister was called in, and said
it was probable he could get such a man for £4O or 440
per annum with rations ; and he added that, if he relieved
him, he had no objection to allow him something out ,of
his own salary. A committee was then appointed to re-
port upon the subject to the next meeting.—Mr. Brawn,
the government inspector of schools, attended the board,
and stated the result of an examination of the three schools
attached to the Workhouse. The infant school was in a
very satisfactory state, and ,ereditable to the teachers; but
the boys and girls' schools were not equally so. There
was one point to which he wished to call attention, and
which he regretted to have to remark upon, and that was
the large number of children who absconded, amongst
them some of the pupil teachers: He suggested that West
Derby should erect a similar establishment to the Kirkdale
Industrial Schools, but the proposition was not enter-
tained.—The office recently held 'by Mr. Stanfield Deane,
as medical officer, having become vacant, it was agreed
that the necessary steps be taken to appoint a successor.
—The contracts for provisions, &c.„ for the workhouse and
hospital, being about to expire, the clerk was instructed to
issue the usual advertisements for fresh tenders.
EXTRAORDINARY CASE.— On Friday, at the Police
Court, Agnes Morris, a respectably dressed woman, was
charged with picking a lady's pocket, in Bold-street, on
Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Theresa Rebecca Smith, from
Stoke, Staffordshire, who is staying at Seaeombe, stated
that, in company with two other ladies, she was looking
in at a shop window, in Bold-street, when she felt some
one pull her shawl. She turned round and saw the
prisoner standing beside her, and immediately missed her
purse, which contained £1 12s. Bd. She felt so satisfied
the prisoner was the person who had robbed her, that,
along with her friends, she followed her through the
Arcade into Renshaw-street, where the latter went into a
shop. On her coming out again, Mrs. Smith taxed Morris
with having her purse, which the latter, who was much
excited, admitted, and gave it up. Mrs. Smith, at the
earnest appeal of the prisoner, was inclined to let her go,
but her friends called a policeman and she was given into
custody. Mrs. Smith, in reply to the magistrates, said
the money appeared to have been disturbed, as a sovereign
was taken out of one end and put among the silver. The
prisoner acknowledged the crime, but said it was her first
offence, and begged hard for mercy. She stated that she
followed the business of an embroides,at St. Alban's,
and had only come to town the (lay before,mving been
induced to accompany a gentleman, who n, had since de-
serted her. Not having any resources to get backl again,
she had been tempted to commit the crime.
magis-
trate said he saw no reason to doubt her story, but r
disgraceful position had arisen through her having
trans-
gressed in the first instance, and she must go tofor two months. The prisoner was removed, sobbingpon
bitterly. She was evidently a novice, from the clumsy
manner in which she had performed the theft.

IKON tIGHTIIOUSE.-A new cast-iron lighthouse, in-
tended for the Falkland Islands, has just been completed
by Messrs. H. and M. 3). .Grisfell, of London. These
gentlemen have recently executed a similar lighthouse for
)3ermuda. The total height of the tower is 67 feet, and
its weight, including_that of the ,lantern, nearly 50 tons.

.CoLirsion.—On Monday evening Hli. steamer Rha-
damanthus came into collision, off Plymouth, with a large
passenger vessel, supposed to be an American liner. The
Ithada3nanthus struck the merchantman obliquely about
the mizen chains, her bowsprit graziug the whole length
of her side. The vessel, however, appeared to have sus-
tained little damage, for she continued her course, al-
though ;the steamer followed her for an hour and a half,
firing guns and signal lights.
POOR NEDLEWOMEN.—A large number of sempstresses
employed at the most inferior description of under cloth-
ing have at length refused to work for the miserable pit-
tance doled out to them ; female waistcoat makers, and
those employed in slop clothing, have also turned out for
an advance of wages ; and the tailors, cap makers, and
others employed in the large exporting houses, have made
a demand for an increase of pay, alleging that the advance
that has taken place in the prices of bread, meat, coals,
and other necessaries requires that a proportionate ad-
vance should be made in their pay.
CHOLERA. AT NEWCASTLE.—Between twenty and thirty
cases of Asiatic cholera have occurred in Newcastle and
the immediate neighbourhood within the last few days,
all terminating fatally. It appears to have broken out at
a place called Bill Quay, on the smith bank of the Tyne,
towards Shields, the first case reported being that of a
woman residing there, who was seized on Thursday week,
and died the day following, shortly after she had been
brought to Newcastle. Since then five more cases have
occurred at Bill Quay. Diarrhoea is very prevalent in the
district.
POSTAGE STAMPS.—There is a provision in the new
Stamp Act (16th and 17th Viet., cap. 59) which will take
effect from the 10th of next month,
envelo
to fatate the pur-
chase of postage stamps or stampedenvelopes without a
license. It is provided by the 15th section that the Post-
master-General, in writing, may authorise and appoint any
person in the service of the Post-office to sell postage
stamps at any particular house or place to be specified for
that purpose ; and also any messenger or other person
employed in the delivery of letters sent ty post to carry
about for sale and to sell at any place postage stamps ; and
all such persons shall during the period that such authority
and appointment shall remain unrevoked, without any
license, be at liberty to sell at any house or place specified,
or, if authorised, to carry about postage stamps, and shall
not be liable to any penalty or forfeiture.