The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-22 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS.

THE SOCIETA ARMONICA gave their thirteenth dress
concert on Wednesday, at the Mechanics' Institution.
THE EXHIBITION MEETINGS of the Liverpool Floral
and Horticultural Society have been fixed for May 19,
June 30, and September 1.
THE MODEL of Mr. John Grantham's " improved
Method of working the Liverpool docks " is now on view
at the Underwriters'-rooms.

A SOLDIER, belonging to the 23rd Welsh Fusileers,
Plunged into the river from the north side of the landing-
Stage, on Monday, and was drowned.
THE REV W. POLLOCK, the incumbent of St. Mark's,
delivered a lecture on Tuesday evening, at the Church of
England Institution, on " Rome, and her Paintings."
JAMES TAYLOR, of Sutton, near St. Helen's, has a
ben, which has laid an egg measuring 6i inches round the
middle, si inches round the length, and weighs 4 ounces.
THE engine of a luggage train for London went off the
London and North-Western Railway in Northampton-
Shire, on Thursday, by which the London six a.m. train
Was an hour and a half behind time in reaching Liverpool.
THE REV. DR. RAFFLES lectured at the Concert-hall
_on Tuesday night, on " Isaac Watts and Nonconformist
l'salmody;" Mr. D. James occupied the chair.

THE CA131:I PASSONGERS per tire ship Falcon, from
I'dney, have presented an address to Captain Taylor,
expressing their satisfaction at his care, and for his exer-
tions to make them comfortable.

Earsy M`CARTNEr, the nurse of the unfortunate
51r. Barbour, dies at the Manchester Infirmary late on
Tuesday night. This is the sixth death arising from the
late accident on the Bolton Railway.

MR. JOHN CAuvEar, a geologist and a passenger by
'the Falcon, who has been eleven years in Australia,
brings with him maps, drawings, and 730 nuggests of
gold, one weighing 25 lbs.
MR. CHARLES PrEID delivered an historical lecture
on Wednesday evening to the West Derby Institute.
Alan)* resident gentlemen have given, or are about to
give. lectures.

THE Sine or £3OO has been raised for Mr. Howard,
the Manchester jeweller, whose shop has been plundered
so often. It is proposed to present Miss Howard with a
testimonial.

HENRY Mr_TWELL was, on Thtrsday, committed for
trial at the Liverpool assizes, fir the late extensive
robbery nt 'Mr. 011ivant's shop in Manchester. Ills
sister, Lnc-y Stronach, was discharged.
AT A Piste, which broke unkat midnight on yesterday
week at Southivorth Hall, near Warrington, twenty-nine
Cows mere burned to death. Little additional damage
was done.

JAmrs 31AcKkY, tailor., 'lodging at 29, Mount-plet-
"Rt, was found suspended'hy his wife's drawers from the
ftotpost of his bed on Thtrsday morning : he bad been
dead 'five hours. Three -.empty laudanum bottles sere
found in his pocket, ands number of pawn-tickets.

•
tr. T. BOOTHMAN 'has received twenty small bags of
'cotton, grown upon the estates of the Pacha of Eg-ypt,
forwarded as samples of the improvement already effected
by Nlr. Edward Swinglehurst, the young man who was
tent out through the instrumentality of the chamber of
ttta na erce. —Maim-hest:l- Guardian.
W. CAMPBELL, the diver employed in operations for
'raising the hull of the steam-ship Victoria, in a- letter to
the papers, denies that he saw any persons in the cabin
'when down : he wee unable to do anything in the way of
inspection from the muddy state of the water, and
had a narrow escape of being carried down the -funnel.

ROBBERY ANe 'VIOLENCE.—On Sunday evening week,
'while the family were at service, a fdrir.-house was
robbed at Hurltton, near Nantwich, and Miss Lee, the
"19 person in 'charge, was so severely beaten that it is
ot expected she will recover. Thomas Wright and his son,
both neighbours, have been apprehended on suspicion.
LA.THOM House.—Yesterday week being the eighty-
tecond birthday of that much respected nobleman, the
Right Hon. Lord Sketmersdale, the servants and work-
l'eoPle on his lordship's estate were invitedto partake of
1 hospitable dinner at LAtharn.house, to _commemorate
,he 4
joyous occasion.

ST. PATRICK'S DAY IN Lwca.,Poorr..--This anniver-
' lrY was celebrated by a soiree at the Concert-hall, Lord
Nelson-street, on Thursday night. The party numbered
90p;
and,' after tea, addresses were delivered by Richard
Esq.;J the chairman, and the ,Rev. J. Nugent, Mr.
John
P. Aspinall, Mr. R. H. Sheil, Mr.", D. Powell, Mr.
"tin Yate3, Messrs. G. Smyth, H. Cullen, and J. Welsh.
THE MAGISTRATES who convicted Morgan, the light-
'eeper at oint Lynas, for having in his possession and
concealing goods, part of the wrack of -the ship Fairfield,
_,t!ve issued a lithographed statement, contradicting an
a tlegatioc contained in a communication read at a meeting
Of the-Liverpool dock committee, that cue of the magis-
trates (Yr. Sparrow) had '• expressed his regret that the
conviction had taken place."
Tit E.:Manchester Guardian relates-that a few days ago
a
railway passenger in that neighbourhood saw a rat,
sleek acd sly, venture out of his hole in an antique and
now disabled railway station, climb one of the wheels of
a carriage in the train, dexterously raise the spring lid of
the grease-box, look to see if he was observed, enjoy a
hearty meal, and then coolly betake himself to his old
quarters.

ANN Toomesoar, a Liverpool girl and an orphan, was ,
recently taken into the house of Mrs. Rowen, of Eccles,
near Manchester, and treated in a kind manner ; she had
not been many days in the house of her benefactor, how-
ever, tefore she returned the kindness with the basest
ingratitude, and ran away with a- cuantity of wearing
anpare.l, the property of her mistress. On Thursday, at
the Manchester New Bailey, she was sent to jail for 7 days.
THE AFRICAN MAIL STEAM-SHIP COMPANY have
announced their intention to commence a bi-monthly line
of steamers from Liverpool to Madeira, Teneriffe, and
the west coast of Africa, commencing on the 10th of I
October. The vessels to conduct the Liverpool trade,
namely, the Northern Light, the-Eauthern Cross, and
the Pleiades, are to be of 1,000 tons burthern, and 300-
horse-power ; so that the largest, the most powerful, and
the fastest sailing ships will be appropriated to Liverpool.
The vessels just named are building by Mr. Laird, and
Mr. Hamilton Laird will undertake the agency of them.L
THIRD REGIMENT OF THE DUKE OF LANCASTER'S
OWN MlLlTlA.—Captain Montague Joseph Fielden to be
major, vice Hindle, deceased ; Captain Thomas Townley
Parker to be major, vice Hornhy, resigned ; the Hon.
'Edward Henry Stanley, commonly called Lord Stanley,
to be captain, vice Fielden, promoted.; Lieutenant Wm.
Nicholson to ba captain, vice Parker, promoted ;
Frederick Townley Parker, gentleman, to he lieutenant,
vicelleads, retired ; Ensign Thomas Woodcock to be
lieutenant, vice German, promoted; Ensign Thomas
Ellames Withington to be lieutenant, vice Worthington,
resigned ; Thomas Hargreaves, gentleman, to be lieu-
tenant, vice Clarke, resigned.
.THE BOOMERANG SCREW-PROPELLER, invented by
keColonel Sir Thomas Mitchell, surveyor-general of
.Australia, is coming into extensive requisition.
Totes
~ the principle, the Genova, an iron steamer, has
been fitted up by Messrs. James Taylor and Co., Briton-
11.„_ia iron-works, Cathcart-street, Birkenhead. The Water
W itch, .another iron steamer, which has been lengthened
.3°,./tel.s feet by the same firm, and supulied with engines
of greater power, is also to be propelled on the same
Principle, but an important improvement is introduced.
The.shaft and fan extend beyond the rudder, so that, if
any accident should happen either to the screw or ma-
.Teck, iduerY, -the fan can be readily detached and hauled upon
n.anything like moderate weather, and the vessel
tat, Proceed on her voyage as under sail. The government
ordered the construction of an iron steamer upon
that Principle by Messrs. James Taylor and Co.
HORSFALL AND THE ELECTORE OF DERBY.—
, r. Horsfall has issued a parting address to the
electors of Derby, in which, after stating that he cheer-
theqoves to the decision of the Election Committee of
ouse of: I hoe ‘4B' of .Commons, he says :—" Nor is it necessary,
House io repeat to you what I have already stated in the
that Commons as well as before a committee of
house, that I was not cognizant of, nor did I sanction
1—„"Y way, the proceedings which led the committee to
that conclusion. To those who took an active part in
°PP3sing me at the election, or in any subsequent pro-
ceedings, I do not entertain a vestige of unkindly feeling.
Da •the contrary, I willingly concede to them, what I
claim for myself, a sense of duty, as my motive of action.
And it only remains for me to express my sincere and
earnest hope, that your present and any future repre-
sentatives may .serve you with more zeal and ability than
I can ,presume to claim, though I am sure they cannot do
so with •a greater desire to promote the best interests of
your town, or the general welfare of its inhabitants."
THE AMERICANS IN AUSTRALIA.—The _New York
Herald of the sth says :—By the British barque Larne from
Liverpool,-via Callao, some 17 passengers arrived in our port
yesterday frein Australia. These passengers came frem
Melbourne to Callao in company with about three hundred
Others, in the ship Miltiades, which sailed from the former
Port on the 27th November, and made a fifty days' passage
to Callao. The Miltiades is bound for Liverpool. The
majority of the passengers who came up in the Larne are
Aabmeourtiett yanesa'rwho emigrated from California to Australia
they have been ag°. .Since their landing in that country
bring home with them engaged in mining, and all
a goodly pile, and are perfectly
satisfied. Noneofathi omlesmletave less than two or three
thousand dollars,
aye upwards of twenty
pounds weight of the pure metl
highest terms of the country and Theyc
lim aatl el ,S theirin
on till
ye
objection being to some of the revenue laws,
,vs, which they
think rather stringent, and the want
rneprotection to
Property. The emigration into Meltso3 ;i from Great
Britain and the United States is said to average about one
thousand daily.
A RETURNED GOLD-DIGGER, who arrived in the
'Mersey on Tuesday last, says of Melbourne that
during last winter thousands of persons were encamped
on the outskirts of that place literally in a state of starva-
tion., and subject to great suffering from the inclemency
of the weather. Some working men were earning at the
rate of £5OO a wear, and yet, from the high price of pro-
visions and other necessaries, they were barely able to
20PPort themselves end families. The publicans, he says,
are most extravagant in their demands, and care not for
accommodating persons unless they have been at the
diggings, and have large sums of money of which they
Cian be plundered. Three or four hundred passengers
(lave been known to land at the Queen's wharf,
bourne, accommodation for
urne, and, there being no place of at Mel-
tfhein, they have been compelled to remain on the wharf
or the night, exposed to heavy rains; and under such
circumstances some of the females have given birth to
15ants. Should the emigrant be able to bear up against
Ins accumulating inconveniences and annoyances to which
lie is subjected, he has before him 70 miles of a toilsome
Jl"leY, along almost impassable roads, before he reaches
the gold field, where he finds society in a dreadful state,
and flour from £2O to £4O a sack. Sailors, who can best
ndergo the necessary fatigue and exposure to inclement
weather, arc generally at first most successful ; but on
I,,,turning to Melbourne laden with gold they soon become
pietims to the artifices of the abandoned women of the
laaee A marriage, real or imaginary, is got up ; Jack
and his companions forget themselves, arc easily robbed,
and they are then turned adrift, leaving the fancied wife
and her accomplices to practise a eimilar frau4 ge the
next Gowen from the gold fields."