The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-04-19 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1853.

IT will give pleasure to many of his friends to learn that
Mr. Hugh Neill, surgeon, has returned to town in restored
health, and has resumed his public and private duties.
THE VARIOUS REGIMENTS of the Lancashire Militia
will be called up for inspection and drill on or about the
Ist of May.

THE FINANCIAL REFORM ASSOCIATION of Liverpool
are petitioning against Mr. Gladstone's scheme in refe-
rence to the national debt.
THE LATE RAILWAY STRIKE IN LIVERPOOL.—The
directors of the London and North-Western Company
have decided that there shall be an increase of wages to
the goods' porters, but the details have been left to the
local boards.

ELI KNIGHT, a clerk in the service of Messrs. Moses,
Levi, and Co., of this town, was apprehended the other
day by detective-officer Patrick, and was on Wednesday
remanded by the magistrates, on a charge of embezzling
a large amount of property from his late employer.
A PUBLIC MEETING of the Liverpool Auxiliary to the
London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the
Jews, was held on Tuesday. The revenue of the society
was last year £853, and a Liverpool mission had been re-
established, the Rev. J. D. Hirsch being chosen as agent.
THE LOVERS OF CRICKET IN LIVERPOOL Will be glad
to learn that a repetition of the match with the Eleven of
All England will take place on the 30th and 31st of May,
and Ist of June next. The only difference will consist in
its being a match between the Olympug and the Eleven,
whereas last year it was a general torn game.

MRS. CHISHOLM arrived here on Thursday last. She
has gone to Glasgow, but is expected to return to Liver-
pool this week, to hold group meetings in this town. On
Saturday next, the 23rd inst., she will attend the Saturday
Evening Concerts, and address the audience. The Mayor
has consented to take the chair.

LANCASTER ELECTION.—The nomination of candi-
dates took place at Lancaster on Monday ; the candidates
were Mr. Green, a Peelite Conservative, and formerly
member for Lancaster, and Mr. Armstrong, the brother
of the ejected member. The polling took place on Tues-
day, and at four o'clock Mr. Green was elected by a ma-
jority of 132, viz., Green, 686; Armstrong, 554.

LAUNCH Al' ABERDEEN.—On Saturday last, was
raunched from the building yard of Messrs. Alexander
Hall and Co., a ship of 629 tons register, classed A 1 for
thirteen years at Lloyd's, the property of Messrs. Barnes
Brothers, merchants, Liverpool, and destined for the
Australian trade. It was named the " Leichardt.” The
Leichardt was designed by the Messrs. Hall, with a
view to combine fast sailing qualities with as much stow-
age capacity as to the best of their judgment could well
be united, for beauty of form and equipment.—Aberdeen
Journal.—[This vessel is expected here in a few weeks.]

THE RO;fANISTS AND " UNCLE TOM'S CABIN."—On
Wednesday last, at the presentation of the Liverpool
testimonial to Mrs. Stowe, the Rev. C. M. Birrell said
he had been told a few days ago that an edition of
" Uncle Tom," circulated in Belgium, had created an
earnest desire on the part of the people to read the Bible,
so frequently quoted in that beautiful work, and that in
consequence of it a great run had been made upon the
Bible Society's depositories in that kingdom. The priests
of the Church of Rome, true to their instinct, had pub-
lished another edition, from which they had entirely ex-
cluded all reference to the Word of God.

HEALTH COMMITTEE.—At the weekly meeting on
Thursday, Mr. Langsdale presiding, a report was read re-
lative to the proposed alteration in West Derby-road,
with a view to make it more commodious for the public
use. During a conversation which followed, it was stated
that 12s. 6d. per yard was demanded for the land, but it
had since been reduced to 10s. Mr. Moss asked what had
been done in reference to advancing the wages of the
workmen employed under the committee. The engineer
replied that he had written to different masters on the
subject, but he had not yet received replies from all of
them. He thought it better to deal with the subject in a
comprehensive form. Mr. Moss said that if the men were
entitled to it, the sooner they had it the better. •
CAREER OP A. LIVERPOOL CLERK.—SWINDLING Ex.
TRAORDINARY.—John Steeple Kitchen, aged 19 years,
a respectably connected young man, is in custody in
Sheffield, on a charge of having obtained £3OO from
Messrs. Eyre, Ward, and Co., of that town, merchants,
by means of a forged letter. The prisoner is an adept at
fraud. Some time ago he was a clerk in the respectable
house of W. R. Duncan and Kitchen, of Liverpool, ship-
ping and general merchants, and is a relative of the-junior
partner of that firm, whose name he bears. Having left
theit employ, he commenced a bold career of fraud upon
their mercantile connections, in which he has been only
too successful. Some months ago he drew £6lO at the
Bank of Liverpool, in the name of his late employers, by
means of a forged checque, we understand, and afterwards
succeeded in eluding a most vigilant and close pursuit. The
prisoner has resided in the interval chiefly at Romford,
io Essex, under the assumed name of Henderson.
Mae. BEECHER. STOWE quitted Liverpool by the 1.15
train, on Wednesday, for Glasgow. On Monday, the
children attending a charity school in Miles-street were
introduced to the distinguished authoress. On Wed-
nesday, she was presented with a purse containing £l3O,
collected in this town in small contributions, principally
pence, by a committee of ladies. Mr. A. Hodgson presided.
We learn from the British .211 ail of Thursday, that Mrs.
Stowe arrived at Glasgow at half-past ten o'clock on
Wednesday evening, and was greeted at the railway sta-
tion by an enthusiastic crowd. On Friday evening she
appeared at a soiree in the City Hall. It is. understood
that Mrs. Stowe, after leavieg Glasgow, will proceed to
Edinburgh, remaining in Scotland until about the end of
the month. In the beginning of May she may be ex-
pected in London. The authoress of Uncle Torn will not
quit England to return to America before August, having
engaged to visit Cork and other towns in Ireland.
WEST DERBY GUARDIANS.—At the weekly meeting
of the board on Wednesday, Mr. Alpass presiding, a long
communication was read from the Poor Law Board,
exculpating Mr. M`Govern from any breach of his con-
tract in supplying out-door paupers with bread, but finding
the contract defective, and recommending that the
guardians should take into their immediate consideration
the subject of administering relief in kind, so as to
secure to the poor a due supply of proper provisions under
adequate responsibilities. The sum of £5 was granted for
the purpose of purchasing books for the use of con-
valescent patients in the hospital.—Mr. Roskell, as that
was the last day the old board would sit, moved a vote of
thanks to their chairman, the Rev. Mr. Badnall, which
was cordially carried.—Mr. Shaw : I hope he will be
unanimously elected next year.—Mr. Miller : That is
going too far ; I do not think he will be unanimously
elected.—Votes of thanks were carried to the vice-chair-
man and deputy vice-chairman, and also to Mr. Cleaver.

THEFT.—On Saturday William Watson was committed
for trial, charged with stealing a galley and two founts of
printer's types, the property of his employer, Mr. Heath,
of the Colosseum Concert-room, Paradise-street.
FINE ARTS.—A rare opportunity is afforded to the
lovers of pictures by the collection of paintings and water
colour drawings which has been consigned to Mr. J. R.
Isaac, the agent of the Art Union, and announced for
sale by Messrs. Winstanley and Sons.

THE RESTORATION OF THE CHIMES OF ST. PETER'S
CHURCH was a subject brought before the Select Vestry,
on Tuesday last, by Mr. Moss. The churchwardens,
overseers, and also the board, have approved of the res-
toration. Mr. Carne said, when he was sworn, in as
churchwarden, he should be very happy to take the matter
into consideration. The subject-dropped, on the chairman
intimating that it was a matter with which they had no-
thing to do as guardians of the poor.

SAVINGS BANKS.—It is believed that measures are
contemplated for effecting some new arrangement with
regard to the vast amount of stock held on account of
savings-banks. By a return just issued, it appears that
the total is £33,263,273, and as large losses occur to the
nation from the fact that depositors usually claim repay-
ment when prices are low and bring in money when they
are high, thus putting the government in the predicament
of having to buy or sell always at a disadvantage, it is
considered that the present moment is opportune for a
reduction of the rate of interest allowed, or for adopting
such other remedy as may appear desirable.
FORTUNE-TELLING IN LIVERPOOL IN 1853.—At the
Police-office, on Thursday, Ann Green, a woman with a
child in her arms, and a servant girl named Catherine
Cantwell, were charged with obtaining 7s. 61, by false
pretences, from a girl of the name of Higgins. The girl
Higgins, having lost a portrait of her sister in America,
was lamenting her loss in the street, when she was met by
Cantwell, who said that her mistress (Green) was a
fortune-teller, and could find the portrait, as she had
found some silver spoons for another person. " The
charm would not work" without money, and first of all
she induced Higgins to give her a shilling, and subse-
quently obtained from her other sums, amounting in all
to 4s. 7d. Green was sent to prison for a month, and
Cantwell was discharged. Police-officer (272) was sus-
pended, upon the evidence of three witnesses as to his
having received a pint of ale from the fortune-tellers.
EMIGRATION FROM LIVERPOOL.—The total number of
vessels now preparing for the various ports of Australia is
55, and the total amount of registered tons is 28,506. The
sailings from this port to the Australian colonies during
the past week have been 9 vessels, of an aggregate tonnageof
5,192 tons, as follows :—For Port Philip, one vessel, of 403
tons ; Melbourne, five vessels, 1,645 tons; Melbourne and
Geelong, one vessel. 1,000 tons ; and Sydney, two vessels,
2.144 tons. From the official returns at the Government
Emigration-office, made up to Friday afternoon, we per-
ceive that during the past fortnight the departures of
emigrant vessels have been, to the United States, twenty-
fire vessels, with 11,482 passengers ; Canada, two vessels,
615 passengers ; Australia, one vessel, 380 passengers :
total, twenty-eight vessels, 12,477 passengers. This list
of course only includes vessels that come under the Go-
vernment Emigration Act for ships carrying steerage
passengers.

GENERAL NEWS.

THE BISHOP-ELECT OF LINCOLN, Dr. Jackson, is ex-
pected to be consecrated at Lambeth on the sth of May.

DONCASTER CHURCH.—The cost of an entire restora-
tion is estimated at about £30,000.
A NEW WEEKLY PAPER is about to be started in
London, called the Protestant Standard.
THE SHOEMAKERS AND BUILDERS in the West of
Scotland have received an advance of wages.

THE MASONS at Dumbarton, on the Clyde, after pro-
curing an increase of ls. a weak in their wages, are now
working at the old rates.
STEAM-BOAT PUNCTUALITY.—A memorial has been
addressed to tho Admiralty, by the merchants of Bristol,
on the inconveniences sustained from the repeated failures
of the Royal West India Mail Company to fulfil the en-
gagements of their time table.

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STOPPING THE SUPPLIES.—The managers of St. Paul's
(Episcopal) Chapel, Aberdeen, recently resolved to "stop
the supplies," until the rival clergymen, Sir W. Dunbar,
and Mr. S. A. Walker, should cease their quarrel and
regularly perform duty.
A NAKED MAN IN THE WOODS !—The Duke of Beau-
fort's hounds, on Wednesday, were in full cry after a fox,
through the woods of Spye Park, when they turned out a
man entirely naked (with the exception of half-boots).
He was a lunatic, who had escaped from a private asylum.
DR. R. PHILLIMORE, M.P., has given notice that on
Wednesday, the 20th inst., he will introduce a bill to
alter and amend the law relating to Church Rates. On
the same day Sir William Clay will propose their total
abolition.

A. SUITABLE STATUE will shortly be erected to the
memory of the celebrated Henry Bell. The situation
fixed upon for its erection is Row church-yard. The
entire expense of the statue is borne by a celebrated ship-
builder and engineer on the Clyde.—Dumbarton Herald.
LAW REFORM.—The Commissioners for the Consoli-
dation of the Statutes are Mr. Bellenden Ker, Mr. Chis-
holm Anstey, Mr. Brickdale, Mr. George Coode, and Mr.
Rogers. It is stated that Mr. Bellenden Ker is to receive
£l,OOO per annum, and the rest of the commissioners
£6BO per annum each.

GIITTA PERCRA.—At the weekly meeting of 'the insti-
tution of civil engineers, it was shown that although gutta
percha tubes, whilst under water, were very durable, yet
that on exposure to the air for a few years unpainted, the
substance laminated, and could be rubbed to pieces. The
gutta percha covering of the wires of the submarine tele-
graph was very durable under the sea, but on the face of
the Dover cliff it had been soon destroyed ; it was then
buried under ground, and had proved perfectly successful.
A CURE FOR YELLOW FEVER has been discovered at
C. Bolivar by Mariquita Orfila, by means of which several
persons have been completely cured aftera consultation of
doctors had declared that the cases were quite hopeless.
The remedy is the juice of the pounded leaves of the
" Verbena" given in small doses three times a day, and
injections of the same every two hours, until the bowels
are emptied. The " Verbena" is a wild shrub, to be
found growing almost everywhere, and particularly in low,
moist ground.

VULCANISED INDIA RUBBER.-At the last weekly
meeting of the institution of civil engineers, it was stated
that the vulcanised india rubber would bear, perfectly,
almost any amount of compression, for an indefinite
period, but that on being subjected to repeated extension
for a lengthened period, its elasticity became impaired;
this, it was suggested, might arise partly from a portion
of the sulphur, which was only held in mechanical com-
bination, being thrown off, and also from the substance
absorbing heat in contraction and giving it out on disten-
sion, and thus producing "eremacausis," which eventually
caused its disintegration.

LAUNCH ox THE CLYDE.—The Greenock Advertiser
of Friday states that there was launched, on Wednesday,
from the building yard of Messrs. William Simons and
Co., Whiteinch, Partick, a small screw steamer called the
Theresa, owned by Mr. H. L. Seligmann, of Glasgow,
and some friends connected with the iron trade. She is
intended chiefly to carry pig iron from Clyde to Runcorn,
Fleetwood, and the Welsh ports, along with her consort
now building at Renfrew. She was originally built for
Messrs. D. and G. Brymner, of Greenock, and intended
to be employed in the coasting trade.
DR. CAHILL'S PROFANE SPEECH AT GLASGOW.—At
the celebration of St. Patrick's day in Glasgow, Dr. Ca-
hill was so clamorously received, that he almost imagined
himself surrounded with a batch of rale "Tipperary
boys," shouting " Erin-go-bragh." Among the other
thoughts and expressions of this clerical braggart, he
thought that he could never forgive Lord John Russell
and Lord Palmerston till that night, but he did forgive
them, and if he died before them he would do a good
thing for them—he would let them into heaven, or if he
had not the power to do that, perhaps if he had the keys
of the other place, he would do a better thing for them—
he would let them out.—(Roars of laughter.)
CURIOUS ADVERTISEMENTS.—The following appear in
that popular corner of the Times devoted to strange
announcements :—M. N.—You are right in your conjec-
tures, there is a difficulty. It may be necessary to lessen
the time by a month. Write exactly what you feel on the
subject; and arrange, if you can, for me to communicate
direct. The name of your Mercury will be sufficient.—
S. T.—W.B.B.—How absurd it is of your parents to
anger me, and to threaten me with law, when one word
from you would answer every purpose. You cannot have
received my letter of Saturday. How shameful to mis-
trust, you who have ever been so dutiful a child, and who
now sacrifice your feelings to satisfy them.—W. B. B.