The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-01-18 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS.

THE BELFAST STEAM-SHIP COMPANY have decided on
building a second new steam-ship for the Belfast and
Liverpool trade.
THE ARCTIC, United States mail steam-ship, sailed on
Wednesday, for New York, with forty-eight passengers
and a large cargo.

ANOTHER PAHDLE STEAMER, to be called the Lynx, is
building at Glasgow for the Liverpool and Glasgow trade.
She is to ply in conjunction with the Elk and the Stag.
THE MAYOR, we understand, has signified his intention
of dining with the members of the Blue Coat Brotherly
Society, at the Adelphi Hotel, on Wednesday, the 2nd of
February.

ANN ANDERTON has been committed at Manchester,
for trial at the assizes, on a charge of bigamy. In her de-
fence she said that Anderton, her first husband, behaved
ill to her, and only lived with her six weeks.
NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. -- We understand the
directors of the London and North-Western Railway are
taking measures to apply to their trains the best practical
communication between the guard and driver.
TESTIMONIAL.—The pupils of St. Andrew's confirma-
tion class have presented the Rev. John W. Lester with a
handsome timepiece, and Mrs. Lester with a beautiful
volume, as a token of their esteem and gratitude.
SIR MICHAEL SHAW STEWART, Bart., to whom Lady
Octavia Grosvenor has just been married, has endowed
the church at Greenock with £3OO per annum, and £lOO
for a curate, on condition that daily service shall never
cease.

RAM PASSAGE.—The fine packet-ship Queen of the
West, Captain Hallet, arrived on Wednesday from New York, having made the passage in seventeen days ; a Ca-
pital run, considering the boisterous weather which she
encountered.

Sr. HELEN'S RAILWAY.--The Parliamentary declara-
tion of this company for constructing their new works and
branches states that the cost of them will be £95,666, and
that it is proposed to defray them out of an unexpended
share capital of £120,000.

THE SAILMAKERS are about to petition the Council
against a clause in the Fire Prevention Act, by which
sailmakers are prevented from carrying on their business
in warehouses where other general merchandise is depo.
sited, unless the building is fireproof.
THE CORPORATION SCHOOLS.—From a statement read
at the Council, on Wednesday, it appears that, for the
month ending 17th December, the numbers on the books
at the North School were 1,350 ; attendance, 1,001 ;
South School, numbers, 1,219 ; attendance, 950.
A HANDSOME SILVER CCP has been presented by
Messrs. Sandbach. Tinne, and Co., merchants, of this
town, to Captain Donald Thomson, of the barque Leonora,
which arrived at Liverpool on the Ist January last, after
completing the voyage to Demerara and back in eighty-
two days.

JERSEY.—On Thursday, Mr. Clarke launched from his
yard, at St. Heliers, a splendid clipper-built s, of 1,00
tons register, called the Ann Holzherg, to behip 0 classed A 1
for thirteen years. She is intended for the Calcutta trade
from this port, and is the property of Messrs. J. J. Mel-
huish and Co.
THE RIGHT HON. E. STRUTT, M.P. Chancellor of the
Duchy of Lancaster, has appointed his' brother-in-law,
Mr. W. M. James, of the Chancery bar, Vice-Cancellor
of the Duchy. The learned gentleman was previously the
Attorney-Generals counsel in charity matters and in-
formations.

FRAUDS BY OMNIBUS CONDUCTORS.-011 Thursday,
Thomas Butler and William Corks', conductors of omni-
buses belonging to Messrs. William and Daniel Busby,
were committed for trial on a charge of embezzling various
sums of money received in their capacity of conductors of
theomnibuses plying between Dale-street and Bootle-lane.
NEW SCREW STEAMER.—The Liverpool and Philadel-
phia Steam-ship Company have completed a contract with
Messrs. Tod and Macgregor, of Glasgow, the builders of
the steam. ships City of Glasgow and City of Manchester,
for a new screw steam-ship of 2,189 tons, to run on the
Philadelphia station, in addition to their present steamers.
THE AFRICA. Royal Mail steam-ship, Harrison, com-
mander, sailed from the Mersey at noon, on Sunday, for
New York, having been detained a day by an Admiralty
order. The Africa took out a very heavy mail, upwards
of seventy passengers, and the largest cargo of manufac-
tured goods and merchandise ever taken out by a steam-
ship at one time.

THE ROBBERY AT EASTEE'S.—On Thursday, Elizabeth
Brooks, the stepmother of the young man who was com-
mitted for trial at Wolverhampton, on a charge of being
concerned in the robbery committed by his father upon
Mr. Eastee, in St. George's-crescent, was sent for trial,
it having been proved that she had pledged a large quan-
tity of the property stolen.
MAGISTRATES AT ROCHDALE.-Mr. Christopher, while
in office, among a bench of magistrates nominated two not
in the list submitted to him ; and the town's commis_
sioners are so far offended that they threaten parliamen-
tary inquiry; but as these commissioners refuse to me.
morialise for the incorporation of Rochdale, the opinion
in Rochdale is that they are " served right."
MELANCHOLY DEATH. —On Friday, about eleven
o'clock, a man named M'Gregan was found drowned in
the ash-pit attached to the house, 22, Charter-street,
where he lodged. He was intoxicated the night before,
and was heard to go down stairs about half-past four
o'clock in the morning. He is supposed to have fallen
from the yard wall into the place where he was found.
THE LANCASHIRE MILITIA.—A meeting of the deputy
lieutenants of the sub-division of Kirkdale was held on
Wednesday. It was resolved that the enrolment of volun-
teers for the militia should be proceeded with immedi-
ately. The deputy-lieutenants will meet this day (Tues-
day), Thursday, and Saturday next, and on the same chys
every week until further notice, at the Sessions-house, in
Chapel-street, at one o'clock.
AectnsNrs.—On Wednesday, a black man, named
Robert Johnson, cook on board of the ship Western Star,
fell into the hold of the vessel, and received concussion of
the brain.—On Thursday, Joh❑ M`Donald fell from the
fore yard of a vessel called the Scotland, lying in the
Union Dock, and fractured one of his ribs ; and Michael
Murray fell into the hold of the Birmingham steam-ship,
and received concussion of the brain.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Friday mornine, Mr. John
Davies, master plasterer, of Hockenhall-alley, who had
some men employed in repairing the roof of the brewery
in Cheapside, went throueh a trap-door upon the slates,
in order to reach them. Immediately afterwards he was
found on the ground in an insensible state, having, it is
supposed, missed his footing, and fell from the roof. Ile
was conveyed to the Northern Hospital, but he died before
reaching there.

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THE LANCASHIRE MILITIA.—A meting o f the dey-
lieutenants of the sub-division of Kirekdale was held ut
on
Wednesday, at which it was resolved that the enrolment
of volunteers for the militia should be proceeded with
immediately. We understand that for the purpose of en-
rolling and swearing in men the deputy-lieutenants will
meet every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, until fur-
ther notice, at the Sessions-house, Chapel-street, at one
o'clock each day.
THE " OLD HORSE TRICE" has, according to the
Preston Chronicle, been repeated this year for, rbabl,
the thirtieth time, at the great horse fair
held in in thayt
town. A young fellow from " o'er Wyre" had sold a
nag for £22, when he fell in with a sharper, who offered
him a " splendid" horse in exchange for the sovereigns,
with 10s. to himself, for his trouble. The bait caught,
and in place of his money the couetryman found himself
with a horse worth about £4.
THE CENTENARY OF MR. BOSCOE.—On of
March one hundred years will have passed sincethe theBt bih rth
of William Roscoe. The Literary and Philosophical So.
ciety, over which he so long resided, have determined to
celebrate the occasion, and have invited the co-operation
of the other local learned societies. The Architectural
and Archreological Society, at their meeting on Wednes-
of
day, appointed a committee to confer with the members
the Literary and Philosophical.
BUILDING IN LIVERPOOL.—.The following is a state-
ment of the number of The
erected in 1852 in
the parliamentary borough :—Under £l2 per annum,
223 ; £l2 to £25, 727 ; £25 to £35, 76; upwards of £35,
110: total, 1,136. The number erected in each year since
838 was as follows :-1838, 1,052; 1839, 997; 1840,
1,576 ; 1841, 1,761 ; 1842, 2,027; 1843,1,393; 1844, 2,450;
1845, 3,728 ; 1846. 3.460 ; 1847, 1.220 ; 1848, 656 • 1849,
446 ; 1850, 420 ; 1851, 837; 1852, 1,136: total, 23,156.'
THE NORTHERN HOSPITAL. .
--The annual meeting of
the trustees was held on Tuesday, W. Brown, Esq., M.P.,
in the chair. The
2,620 patients had been
of cases showed that no less than
1,636 had been the result
occurred in the neighbourhoaoccidentB' most
rotted during the year, of which
having been voted to the severalf officers
d f the docks. Thanks
with president, and theformer committee re-elected,
with the addition of Mr. was ,tahoef:fahyi:hrawhnkads
Inman, who was unopposed, elected an honorary
physician.
THE GLADSTONE At the Oxford University election
Sir Thomas Gladstosne:Bart., the right hon. candidate's
ot_rn.br_other, actually went down to Oxford to vote against
',illy
siotTtrge that in this family there should be such a
stone, the fatherre:grd to political opinions. Sir John Glad-
was a Tory and a Protectionist. Sir T.
Gladstone, Bart
vizes, inherit th. 4 a"
Ceptain Gladstone, M.P. for De-
uaciples of their parent, whilst Mr.
Robertson GladstoPnrie
,3
cornitaereizreproeliethe warm supporters of
tain liberal principles, Tid Mr. William Gladstone enter-
Sir Robert Peel
LONDON POULTRY Snow.---Tn:*fi
. roo'st exhibition of the
ks for an annul show of
society established in the Met
poultry, pigeons, and rabbits
Tuesday at
the Baker-street Bazaar, The Coivraawaee on Tuesday
into
about fifty classes, and among the prizes awre
, wereir the
, clays 2 j
following :—Copt. Hornby, of Knowsley Colltrage
Spanish fowls, first prize, class 1 ; third prize
first prize class, 3 : Dorking fowls, third prize clas.sa4
first prize class 8 • Game-fowl, first prize. ler
M. It. Wor.
rall, Knotty Asiuse, Liverpool, Golden.pencilled
y several
Hamburgh, first prize.
CONGREGATIONAL TEA PARTY.—On Monde
members of the congregation of St. Silas's Church, pen,.
broke-place, assembled in the school-room adjoining,
for the purpose of reviewing the accounts of the past year
in support of missionary labours both at home and abroad.
The chair was taken by the Rev. Samuel Minton, incum-
bent, who congratulated them on theirsatisfactory results,
and stated there was an increase of £2OO within the last
twelve months. The meeting was afterwards addressed
by the Rev. Dr.
the Rev
S Hue, LL.D , the Rev. W. H. Duck,
rn
ten o'clock.
. B. Sutton, &c., and separated shortly after
STEAM
TT der the provisions of
NAVIGATION ACT.—_n .
..
this statute, a
and R. P complaint was preferred against Messrs. J.
parry, the owners of a vessel called the Thomas
Wilson, which plied between Seaconabe and. Liverpool. on
the 14th Decembe 1
14th and 15th Vier est, and neglected, in violation of the
, c. 9S' 11, to take out the necessary
certificate. Tnei stated, i def nce, that their affairs
were in the hands of their creditoers, and the magistrates,
accordingly, inflicted a mitigated penalty of ss. A similar
charge was preferred against them in the case of the Bri-
tannia, and the result was the same. The masters of the
Thoxas Wilson and the Britannia were also proceeded
against, hut ie ,each instance the decision was the same.