The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-02-07 00:00:00

OPENING OF ST. GEORGE'S-HALL.

The Mayor's communications comprised a letter from
Mr. Joseph Langton and Mr. B. H. Jones, secretaries of
the late musical festival, requesting permission to open
St. George's-hall in the beginninver the autumn, for the
benefit of the public charities.
After a somewhat irrelevant debate, in which Mr. Al-
derman BENNETT, Mr. Picxo.x, Mr. EARLE:And others
took part,
Mr. TITOMSON moved "that the request to open the
hall in the ensuing autumn, with a festival for the benefit
of the public charities, be acceded to."

Mr. HORNBY seconded Mr. Thomson's motion.

Mr. Alderman BRAMLET-MOORE moved, as an amend-
ment, that the matter be referred to St. George's-hall
Committee.
Mr. PicTox seconded the amendment.

Ultimately, Mr. Bramley-Moore's amendment (to refer
the question to the committee) was adopted by a majority
of 31 to 13.

The consideration of the application of Mr. Rishton and

his assistants for an increase of salaries, and of the recom-
mendation to increase the salaries of the head clerks in

the office of the clerks to the magistrates, was adjourned
till the next meeting.

DIGII-LEVEL RAILWAY FOR THE DOCKS.

The next portion of the Mayor's communication com-
prised a letter from Mr. Christopher Bushell, enclosing
the resolutions adopted at the recent public meeting called
to consider the necessity of placing a high-level railway
along the dock quays - and requesting the Council to give
the subject its consideration. Mr. HODSON moved that
the matter be referred to the Dock Committee.

The TOWN-CLERK said they had no power to do this.
Mr. ROBERTSON GLADSTONE, as a member of the Dock
Committee, observed that a similar communication had
been sent to the Dock Committee, who had referred it to
a sub-comniittee. It was probable, therefore, that the
matter would come before the Council in an official form.

After some further conversation, it was resolved that
the Town-clerk should write to Mr. Bushell, stating that,
as the matter was under the consideration of the Dock
Committee, the Council would defer the consideration of
the subject.
The concluding business before the Council was the
considefation of the following motion, of which notice had
been given by Mr. Mann :—" The appointment of a special
committee to inquire and report as to the authority and
duties of the water-bailiff; and the necessity of providing
rules for regulating the anchorage of vessels in the river
Mersey ; also, as to the necessity for bylaws for the regu-
lation of boats and boatmen carrying passengah to and
from vessels in the river, and the adoption of a scale of
rates for such employment."
Mr. Moss seconded the proposition.
Mr. HonsoN moved an amendment, that it be an in-
struction to the Finance Committee to report on the
subject.
Mr, HENDERSON seconded the amendment.
For the amendment : Councillors Mellor, Thomson,
Banner, Hodson, Henderson, Stewart, Alderman Preston,
and the Mayor, 8. Against it : Councillors Anderson,
Woodruff, Moss, Godfrey, Mann, Jeffreys Fleming, Ro-
bertson Gladstone, Johnson, Houghton, Beckwith, Clint,
Robertson, Aldermen Bennett and Bold, 15.
The MAYOR was about to put the original motion,when
the Council was counted out. •
Mr. MINN- gave notice that he should renew his motion
at the next monthly meeting.
The Council broke up at four o'clock, having sat five
hours.

REFORMATORY ScnooLs.—A deputation, headed by
Sir J. Pakington, Lord Lyttelton, Mr. Spooner, M.P., the
Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, M.P., Lord Robert Grosvenor,
M.P., the Earl of Harrowby, the Marquis of Blandford,
the Earl of Shaftesbury, Lord Calthorpe, &c., &c., &c.,
waited on Lord Palmerston, at the Home-office, on Wed-
nesday, with reference to Reformatory Schools. Sir John
Pakington opened the proceedings by stating that they
were in attendance to submit a Memorial, calling the at-
tention of the Government to the subject of Preventive
and Reformatory Schools, and requesting the Government
to adopt such measures as would have the effect of prevent-
ing destitute children from becoming criminals, and that
such children as were guilty of crime should be sent to
reformatory establishments, and afterwards be provided
with employment. The deputation represented very
nearly all classes of the community, and they hoped his
lordship would take the subject into his serious considera-
tion with a view to legislature. Lord Robert Grosvenor,
the Hon. Mr. Liddell (who presented a petition from
Liverpool), and other members of thedeputation expressed
themselves in favour of the movement. Lord Palmerston
said, that the subject would receive his best attention, and
the deputation then withdrew.
EXTENSIVE PLUNDERING OF A PROVISION SHOP.--
Jas. Delahunty and Margaret Wilson (both young people)
were charged, on Tuesday, with plundering the shop of
Mr. J. Arnold, provision-dealer, No. 1, Roscoe-arcade.
Mr. Arnold, it appears, is at present in Australia. Mrs.
Arnold lives in Egerton-street ; and Matthew Brown, the
assistant, and the male prisoner, who acted in the capa-
city of porter, slept on the premises in the Arcade. The
female prisoner was formerly servant to Mrs. Arnold, but
had left her employment about a fortnight ago, since
which she occupied a cellar in Sydney-street East, where
she sold small articles of provisions. Information having
been received that a system of plunder was being carried
on at Mr. Arnold's shop, detective-officers Grisenthwaite
and Eaton watched the premises, and observed-the female
prisoner enter the shop, where she remained about ten
minutes, and on coming out she had a basket in her hand,
and a parcel under her shawl. She was taken into cus-
tody, and in her possession was found a quantity of bacon,
butter, and eggs, all of which she declared she had pur-
chased from a person named Kelly, in St. John's Market.
Subsequently the woman's cellar was searched, and it
was found to contain various articles which had been
abstracted from Mr. Arnold's shop ; among them a cheese
weighing 60 lbs. The officers next apprehended the male
prisoner at the shop in the Arcade. The system adopted
by the plunderers appeared to be for Delahunty to supply
his accomplice with articles from the shop, which she after-
wards retailed. Both prisoners were committed for trial.
MUTINY ON BOARD AN AMERICAN VESSEL.—Henry
Shall, William Watson, Ephraim M. Collins, Jonathan
Paramoor (seamen), and Thomas Haleymin (second mate),
were brought before Mr. Mansfield, on Tuesday, charged
with mutiny on board the American ship John and Albert,
having been apprehended under a warrant from the
Secretary of State. William Jones, a pilot, belonging to
No. 6 pilot-boat, stated that on Wednesday, the 25th ult.,
he boarded the John and. Albert, from New Orleans, off
Ormshead, at nine o'clock in the morning. At twelve
o'clock it was blowing very strong, and the crew were
executing orders up aloft, when he saw the chief mate
going up the starboard rigging, as he thought, to assist
the men on the yard. Looking up, he saw him abusing
the second mate, kicking him, and jumping upon him
whilst he lay.on his stomach across the yard-arm, unable
to offer any resistance. He (the witness) called to him
to come down, and advised the captain to put him in
irons, as he was afraid the men would get enraged and
knock off work. The chief officer came down on deck,
and also the second mate, who was crying, and wished to
know why he was so abused. Whilst they were talking,
one of the prisoners came up and struck the chief mate
with a belaying pin, and knocked him down. The others
then attacked him in a similar manner, and one of them
(Paramoor) stabbed him several times with his knife.
Witness called out, "Do not murder him ; we will put
him in irons." They-made a reply to the effect that they
would make him quiet enough. The man at the wheel
and the steward then came aft, and carried the mate, who
was bleeding profusely, into the cabin. When witness
remonstrated with them, the prisoners told him not to
interfere ; that the mate had abused them so that they
were determined to quiet him. They then returned to
their duty, and brought the vessel safely to Liverpool-
Me first mate wasimmediately conveyed to the hospital,
where, it was stated, he was going on favourably' Tl4O
prisoners were remanded for seven days.

AFFECTING INTERVIEW BETWEEN
THE EARL OF ABERDEEN AND
BARON BRUNOW.

(FROM THE PRESS.)

SCENE.—The Embassy, Chesham•place. The Russian
Ambassador's boxes are ready packed, and he is
smoking a cigar and waiting until it is time to drive
down to the train. A knock is heard. Enter hastily,
the Premier of England.
The PREMIER: Ah! Fortunately, or I shall say provi-
dentially, I am in time.

The BARON : For once, mon cher, yes. Shall 11.. put out
my cigar ? I know you don't like tobacco.
The PREMIER : By no means. I don't like it in the
Foreign-office, but here it seems natural and proper. BA_
sides, it is not in the hour of parting that one could ask a
friend to deny himself a comfort. •
The BARON : As your Byron says—you have heard of
Byron, eh, my travelled Thane ?
" They tell me 'tis decided. We must part.
Well, be it so, and I must not repine—
I have no further claim on your young heart."
Ha! ha! ha!

The Painuzu (faintly) : Ha! ha! lam glad that you.
keep your spirits up, my dear Brunow. For myself, I
confess that this is a painful moment for me. I not only
lose the pleasure of your society, and the advantage of the
kind hints you give me as to the feelings of our Imperial
friend, but I see in this movement the completion of the-
overthrow of all my hopes and plans.
The BARON : Receive, my dear Aberdeen, the assurance
of my profound respect, ha! ha ! But, setting aside my
natural sorrow and agony at losing the pleasure of your
society, I see anything but the overthrow of my hopes and
plans, and so you must excuse my shameful levity upon
this trying occasion. However, a friend should be ready
to make sacrifices of his feelings, and so we will look as
melancholy as you please.

The PRIIMIER : I shall trust to your setting my conduct
in a true light where you are going, Baron.
The Ihnorr : It seems to me, my good friend, that your
conduct is in a fair way of being set in a true light
wherever anybody is going. Bat you know you may rely
on me. But halt ! Ha! Well thought about. What
was that you said in the House of Lords on Tuesday about
your having written—l forget—your having written
against Russia in the—the most—lachrymose style?
The PREMIER : Not lachrymose—acrimonious, I said.

The BARON : What is the word ? I don't know it.

The PREMIER (aside) : I am glad of it. Why, it means
searching, accurate ; strictly, inquiring—and all that a little
—a very little, sharpened, you see.
The BAEog : In short, spiteful ?

The PREMIER : Well, common minds put that interpre-
tation upon it ; but there is a non-natural sense in which
you may also regard it—anyhow, you comprehend, it can
mean nothing hostile in the present case.

The BAnos : My good friend, my master justly says

that we think of what a man writes, and not of what he
means. So, you, in your place in the Lords, plead guilty
to having written spitefully against Russia. Well, I shall
do my best for you, but it is not an easy task.
The PREMIER: Yes, if you consider one thing.

The BARON : That you are heartily ashamed of what you
have done. Of course I shall say that ; but then you have
had to be ashamed so often.

The PREMIER : But I do not mean that. Consider
how much more unkind to Russia it would hare been if I
had endeavoured to write in her favour.

The BARON : Ha! ha! You are quite spiritual, my
dear Aberdeen, and what you say is true enough. I think
I can promise you pardon on that score.

The PREMIER : You make me happy; as happy as I
can be under the circumstances. But (agitated) to think

that it should come to this—that I, and my Ministry,
should have to turn you out of house and home—it is too
much. (Overcome.)

The BARON :—Cahn yourself, my dear man; all is for
the best.

The PREMIER : Yes, that's your blinded fatalism. You
continentals have no religion. But it is the comfort of a
more enlightened believer like me to know that all is not
for the best, and to be as miserable as possible.

The BA Box: Let me administer all earthly comfort,
then, my distressed man. Be you assured that lam not
going away one moment sooner than is agreeable to my
master and myself. We have done our work, and gained
our time, and probably, by this, Kalafat has fallen. Does
not this console you, my Aberdeen ?
The PREMISE : But why could we not have kept the
peace ?

The BARON : All your own fault that we did not.

The PREMIER (greatly perturbed): Oh, don't say that
—please don't I who have made every sacrifice to prevent
war, even to the getting the honour of the country into a
mess, out of which nothing will extricate it, except—.—
The BARON : Out with it—we are friends. Except--...
The PREMIER : Except a battle, in which—don't let us
talk of such things.

The BAMON : Why not ? In which the English ships
shall send a dozen of ours to Locker David—what is it
your tars say ? With all my heart. We can afford :to
mourn for a fleet, but not for honour. But why did you
play fast and loose with us ? Why did you make me think
that we might do as we pleased, and then leave us to dis-
cover that it would not do ?

The PREMIER : If it had depended on me! But, if you
will have the truth, I did not understand the feelings of
the country on the subject. That's the fact.

The BARON : With that, my friend, comes another fact,
as it seems to me, namely, that the country might with
advantage change her Premier for one who does under-
stand her feelings.
The PREMIER : I have heard the remark before. But
now let us lay aside our grievances, and not part in any
state of ill-will.

The BARON : My dear old man, there is nothing of the
kind. If you like I shall write you a certificate, or testi-
monial, saying that you have served us well, and to the
best of your limited abilities, and that we are quite satisfied
with you.

The PREMIER: Ah ! Don't make jokes—it augurs a
melancholy state of mind.
The BARON.: Yours do, my friend, I admit. That joke
about the Game of Brag was what may be called stunning
—was it received with shouts of laughter ? The papers
do not say so, but you have taught us not to rely on the
papers. (Looks at watch.) Eh ! (calls) Is the carriage
at the door ?
A SERVINT : Ready, your excellency.
The BeRON : Well, my dear friend, it is a case of adieu
and good bye. I shall, I assure you, look in the journals
with sincere interest, to watch your progress, and particu-
larly to see by what sort of blunders in oratory you will
try to efface, the memory of your blunders in diplomacy.
I am anxious to get home, for I have some capital stories
to tell the Emperor. lam charged, of course, with your
best homage. So now farewell, my old Acrimonious—ha!
ha ! (Exit)

The PREMIER (melancholy): Such is life ! how vain
are our hopes ! Happiness is fleeting ! Judge nothing until
the end ! Everything earthly is mutable ! All is not gold
that glitters ! A bright morning often ends in a rainy
evening ! Nothing in this world is certain ! (The noble
earl utters several hundred other commonplaces until

he is disturbed by the charwoman, who wishes he would
go, as she wants to begin cleaning down the house. The
two old ladies look angrily at each other, and then the
Premier goes out)

A NEW READING.
When hoary GORDON stoops to folly.
And finds too late that Czars betray,
What charm can soothe his melancholy,
Or chase the fumes pf pique away ?

The only course his shame to cover,
To terminate his testy whine,—
The course by which he least would suffer,—
The best of three is,—to resign.

BEARDS POE TOE CLERGY.—A clergyman, in a letter
to the Daily News, urges upon his brethren the propriety
of their wearing their beards like the early Reformers.
RAILWAY BILLS.—The following railway bills have
passed the standing orders :—South Devon and Tavistneir
Railway ; South Devon (alteration of Sutton Harbour
Branch) ; Blyth Harbour improvement, Docks, and Bail;
way ; Lancashire and Yorkshire (Liverpool Dock Bra:.c_hes'i
Among the bills declared "not", to have compfie.El4
and
on the
Great Western (Berks and Hants line), and .13eui°
West of Ireland Railway.
e tune since Mr.
died leaving
""'A WAY TO FIND ONE'S COUSINS.—Some
the legacies
Russell, a respected inhabitant of Bri.stVae,
business of a wine merchant in Barrlnang
bythem within the
a considerable amount of proPerTveral sums of £lOO,
mentioned in the will wereesch
of , his cousins?, No
it was open to the
bequeathed by the deceased
s ow immediate or remote,
whole of Mr. Russell
names were specified,
's
c"•stantiate their claims. We
to come in and seek on of
ciaimanthe executors
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their children. It of the first cousins and • ..., was
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understand thabtotu.htesixdwteoecoris.rse
restricted
expected that a
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and coiontlsequ,e,ntly
of whom only two have failed in-making out . , ~.e. ;le; ~...
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these cousins have started up in all directi,
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Zealand, Australia, Sie. The poet says, " ()tie_ touch of . '-:''''- : • ~. .7'll
native makes the whole world kin," but it Nrould appear -- : '-. 4,.ti
that, after all, the most touching test of reigionsiiiP Is 4 . * '7-1 orq
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Will have despatch.
For GEELONG WHARF,
P.:5.14%,4\ The remarkably line British-built clipper Barque
PORTIA,
- Captain J. CAMPBELL ;
1136 tons register ; A 1 at Lloyd's, being only one year old ;
maul in every respect a most eligible conveyance : loading in
-Ate Prime's Dock.—Avply to
COTESWORTH, WYNNE, and LYNE.
1111 fright payable in Liverpool, except by special agreement.

Will have despatch,
For HOBART TOWN,
*,,, The beautiful British built Clipper Ship
TENIPLEMAN,
WILLIAM ELLIS, Commander;
114:7 tons; A 1 at Lloyd's 12 years; copper fastened and cop-
pered ; is a well known, very fast sailing, and superior
conveyance : loading in the Salthouse Dock.—Apply to
COTESWORTH, WYNNE, and LYNE.

;'EAGLE" LINE OF PACKETS FOR AUSTRALIA.
7o the consignment Of BRIGHT BROTHERS, and Co., Mel-
..boarne, who provide Steamers and Lighters for Landing
—their Passengers, Luggage, and Cargo, immediately on the
"Weasel's arrival in Hobson's Bay.
For MELBOURNE, SYDNEY, and ADELAIDE,
To be despatched in March,
The well-known splendid Clipper-ship
ALBATROSS,
fr
I,7ootons,
GEEVES. Commander.
This vessel has unequalled accommodation and very lofty
'tween decks.—Apply to the Owners,
GIBBS, BRIGHT. and Co., Liverpool.

STEAM TO AUSTRALIA.
. - The GREAT BRITAIN,
1. B. R. MATHEWS, Commander,
- ilk„ Having just accomplished the voyage out
in 65 days, with unfavourable winds, will be
--again despatched from Liverpool
For MELBOURNE, PORT PHILIP, and SYDNEY,