The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-15 00:00:00

FOREIGN MISCELLANI

DELIVERY or GOODS AT MELBOURNE.—There seems
to be a very loose mode of doing business prevailing
amongst lightermen and coasters, which causes much
complaint and delay. A lighter brings a cargo of goods
alongside the jetty, without any note of them, which
goods are delivered to a carter, who delivers them to the
agent or consignee, who, of course, takes them in, relying
in blind confidence that everything is correct, but unable
to ascertain if there be anything wrong. Forty cases
may be expected ' • the agent receives thirty. The carter
has delivered all that he has received ; the lighterman all
the cargo he brought from the ship. A simple arrange-
ment would rectify this.—Australian and New Zealand
Gazette.

THE BATTLE OP THE BEARD.—It is known that there
are in France certain railway directors who have vowed a
war to the knife against beards and moustaches, and have
forbidden the use of them amongst the men employed on
their lines. In some of these companies the unfortunate
employes have been compelled, by superior orders, to
sacrifice the luxury of their moustaches ; and, since the
suppression of the queue in the old guard, there has not
been seen a hecatomb so sad and so difficult to be made.
But this antipathy for the beard, which is altogether

British in its origin, is now attacked in its stronghold, the
British soil. The guards, engineers, firemen, and other
employes of the Grand Central of Scotland have tried
beards for the last year, and have found that the use of
this natural ornament has caused amongst them a notable
diminution of colds, soar throats, and toothaches. They
have, in consequence, addressed a circular to the employes
on other lines to communicate to them the happy result of
their experience, and to engage them to imitate them.
Alas ! what are we coming to ? Who knows if the con-
tagion will not pass the strait, and if we shall not see a
turn-out of the employes on the railways until their beard*
have been mitered ?--journal des DeLats,

•. rrom Laouan
and Borneo Proper to the 24th of August state, that the
coal vein on the main land belonging to the Eastern
Archipelago company, which was before reported as being
30 feet thick, is now found to he a remarkable mass up-
wards of 60 feet thick, and altogether so extensive above
water level that steam power for the purpose of working
it will not be required for ten years to come.

RusslA AND THE NEW SAINT.—On the morning of the
30th ult., the cannon of St. Angelo announced to the
Roman world the accession of a new saint to the calendar,
in the person of Father Andrew Babola, a Pole, of the
company of Jesus, whose promotion to the honours of
martyrdom and beatification has been actually effected, in
spite of the remonstrances and opposition of the court of
Russia. All Romanist subjects of the Czar now residing
in Rome are stated to have received private admonition
from the Russian embassy that they would do well to

abstain from attending the ceremony, which was sumpti:
ously performed by the chapter of St. Peter's, the Pope
himself only undertaking the still higher ceremony of
sanctification. The portrait and biography of the blessed
father were abundantly distributed at the gates of the
church, and the expressions used in the latter were by no
means calculated to soften down any irritation already
existing in the mind of the Emperor Nicholas, alluding
forcibly to the ignorance and barbarity of the schismatics
of the Greek Church, and detailing the atrocious torments
with which the Cossack officers, Zieleniecki and Popenko,
put the saint to death at Gianovia, in 1657, on account of
his zeal and success in converting schismatic ecclesiastics,
with their flocks, to the pale of Rome. His Holiness and
the sacred college paid their adorations to the martyr in
St. Peter's in the afternoon."

AMERICAN CRIMINAL COI:MTS.-At the Supreme
Court, in Alfred, Maine, on the 14th inst. (October), Wm.
E. Haskell, who was convicted on two indictments for
store-breaking, being asked by Judge Howard if he had
anything to say, made some hypocritical remarks, calcu-
lated to propitiate the judge, and received sentences of
two years in the State prison on each indictment. County-
attorney Drew observed that the prisoner was a dange-
rous man, and should have had a more severe sen-
tence ; and Haskell replied in some personal remarks,
which brought down the audience in a perfect uproar, so
that some time elapsed before order was restored. The
sheriff then informed Haskell that Deputy Lord would
take him back to gaol; but the prisoner objected, and
expressed a willingness to go along with Deputy Moulton.
This arrangement was not approved by the sheriff; and
when an attempt was made to take Haskell out of the
dock, a tremendous fight occurred,—sheriffs, police, and
lawyers, assisting to bind and carry off the prisoner, who
fought like a madman. For this freak the judge re-con-
sidered one of his sentences, and sent him to Thomaston
for 17 years, instead of four. He had prepared a heavy
bludgeon with which to knock down Sheriff Moulton,
which was the reason of his anxiety for the pleasure of
the company of the latter to gaol.—New York Herald.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRES AT NEW YOI?K.

Anoux six o'clock, on Sunday morning, the 30th ult., a
fire was discovered in the upper part of one of the build-
ings in the block at the corner of Fulton and Nassau-
streets, known as Fowler's-buildings. It is probable that
the flames had been smouldering for some time in thk in-
teHor of the building, as the fire had attained great
strength when it was discovered, and although the alarm,
raised by the police and the insurance watch, was promptly
responded to, the flames were raging in three buildings,
No. 121 and No. 123, Fulton-street, and 96, Nassau-street,
before the firemen could commence effective operations.
While some of the men were engaged in saving the
goods, they were subject to the greatest peril. The beams
of the third floor having been burned through, two heavy
iron safes fell with a tremendous crash on the floor below,
and the whole mass sank into the cellar, bearing with it
several of the men who were labouring to secure the goods.
John Carman and Michael O'Brien were descending
the stairs, when they were caught by the falling mass,
and buried beneath the ruins. It is also thought that a
young man, named John Van Alen, shared the same fate.
About two o'clock the next morning, the body of John
Carman was recovered and taken to the station-house. It
was so badly crushed and burned that it could only be
identified by his gold watch and chain. Meanwhile the
conflagration !continued, and the three buildings men-
tioned were entirely consumed. The building No. 98,
Fulton-street, was also burned out. The flames caught
the roofs of the adjoining buildings, and of the Herald
newspaper building on the opposite side of Nassau-street.
These structures, however, were saved, though not with-
out great damage to the contents by water.
The buildings consumed were owned by Mr. Jonathan
0. Fowler, grocer, of Greepwich-street, whose loss is esti-
mated at 40,000 dols ; insurance 28,000 dols. The ground
is leased to him by the Reformed Dutch Church, to whom
it belongs. The block consisted of six stores, one of which
was not harmed. They cost 80,000 dols., and were in-
sured for 50,000 dols.

The stores No. 123, Fulton, and No. 96, Nassau-street,
were chiefly occupied by P. S. Rogers, clothier, whose loss
is estimated at $165,000, on which there was insurance to
the amount of $50,000.. The total loss by this fire is pro-
bably not less than $350,000, about ohe-third of which is
covered by iusurance.
About eleven o'clock a.m., while the above described
conflagration was raging in. New York, a fire occurred in
Brooklyn, in the storehouses of Messrs. T. Shortland and
Sons, on the North Pier of the Atlantic Dock, recently
occupied by Messrs. Verplank and Chambers. The fire
broke out in the engine room. of No. 33, and extended to
the adjoining stores on either side. The buildings and
machinery were greatly damaged, and the contents,
amounting to nearly 70,000 bushels of wheat anti corn,
were partly consumed and partly spoiled. The total loss,
probably, exceeds $BO,OOO.

LIVERPOOL TOWN COUNCIL

TITE first meeting of the new Council was held on Wed-
nesday, the Mayor, Mr. S. Holme, presiding over a full
attendance of members.

TICE ELECTION OF MAYOR

Mr. C. TURNER said he would not, in the Mayor's pre-
sence, expatiate in the manner he could wish, but he must
be permitted to say that, whether in dispensing hospi-
talities, presiding over their meetings, or administering
justice from the magisterial bench, he had increased the
very high opinion previously entertained of him by his
fellow-townsmen; and in leaving that chair he would
carry with him the respect and esteem of this great com-
munity. In proposmg his successor, he was enabled to
name a gentleman who was eminently qualified for the
office, and who, he would venture to anticipate, would be
acceptable to the Council and the town. Mr. Lloyd was
well known, and so universally esteemed, that he felt he
need say nothing to recommend him to gentlemen with
whom he had long acted in. the service of the public. He
thought it was especially fit that, on the present occasion,
they should raise Mr. Lloyd to the honour, inasmuch as it
seemed probable that next year would witness the com-
pletion of St. George's-hall, a building of which Liverpool
had reason to be justly proud, and over the committee of
which Mr. Lloyd had presided with so much ability. Be-
lieving that he deserved this distinction at their hands,
and that he was eminently qualified to maintain the
dignity of the office, and to discharge its duties with
efficiency, he had great pleasure in nominating Mr. Lloyd
as Mayor for the ensuing year.
Mr. HUGS HORNIIY seconded the proposition, for he
was quite sure that the Council could not elect a gentle-
man better qualified to become the worthy successor of
the retiring Chief Magistrate, or one who would be more
likely to make them less sensibly to feel the loss they were
about to experience in being deprived of Mr. Holme's
services as their chairman. He .believed that a unani-
mous feeling existed in the Council on this sublect ; and
aware, as he was, that every member of the Council was
well persuaded of Mr. Lloyd's merits, he should be tres-
passing unjustifiably on their time did he more than ex-
press his entire approval of the motion made by Mr.
Turner, and his hearty concurrence with all he had said
in support of it.

There being no other name proposed, the Mayor de-
clared Mr. Lloyd to be -unanimously elected. (Cheers.)
The new MAYOR, having made the usual declarations,
returned thanks to the Council, and said :—Before pro-
ceeding to the business of the meeting, it is my pleasing
duty to remind you of a good old custom. On Sunday
next I shall proceed to St. Peter's Church, and I shall feel
it a compliment to myself, if as many of you, as can find
it convenient, will honour me with your attendance.

ELECTION OF ALDERMEN.
The next business was the election of eight Aldermen,
to supply the places of the undermentioned, who retire :
Messrs. Thomas Bold, James Parker, Joseph Cooper, John
Nelson Wood, James Procter, John Bramley-Moore, Ed-
mund Molyneux, and Thomas Chilton. The names of the
gentlemen voted for, and the number of votes each ob-
tained, were as follows :—Messrs. S. Holme, 49 : E. Moly-
neux, 47 ; J. Parker, 44 ; J. Cooper, 44 ; J. Bromley-
Moore, 44 : Thomas Bold, 34; Thomas Toulmin, 33 ; R.
C. Gardner, 30; Thomas Chilton, 23 ; James Procter, 10 ;
George Holt, 7 ; Robertson Gladstone, 5 ; J. Stewart, 5 ;
Hugh Hornby, 3 ; J. A. Tobin, 2 • J. B. Lloyd, 2; James
Holme, 1; and J. C. Fernihough;l. The first eight were
declared elected.

The usual allowance of £2,000 to the Mayor was voted,
on the proposition of Mr. S. Holme, seconded by Mr.
Hugh Hornby.

THE DOCK COMMITTEE

The next business was the appointment of six members
of the Council to be members of the committee for the
affairs of the estate of the trustees of the Liverpool docks,
upon vacanies occasioned by the retirement from the
Council, under the provisions of the Municipal Corpora-
tions Act, of Messrs. Charles. Turner, James Holme, Ed-
mund Molyneux, Oliver Holden, Matthew Gregson, and
James A. Tobin. They were re-elected without opposition.
On the recommendation of the Health Committee, the
salary of Mr. W. L. Crosby, clerk in the Treasurer's office,
Cornwallis-street, was increased from £lOO to £l2O per
annum; and a bylaw to prevent obstructions in the street
by persons exposing articles for sale therein was approved,
and a copy ordered to be sent to the Secretary of State.

APPOINTMENT Or COMMITTEES.

The following committees were next constituted :
FINANCE COMMITTEE.—Sir John Bent, and Messrs.
Hornby, S. Holme, James Molyneux, J. Bramley-Moore,
Parker, J. H. Turner, Cooper, Tyrer, J. Stewart, Toulmin,
Preston, Fernihough, Dover, and Mellor.
On the suggestion of Mr. Hornby, it was resolved that
any sum in future voted to the Museum or Free Library
should be vested in the Finance Committee, who should
be responsible for the payment, and report to the Council.
WATCH COMMITTEE.—Messrs. Tobin, Gregson, Ander-
son, Godfrey, Avison, Johnson, Halheal, W. J. Horsfall,
Brancker, Nicholson, Holden, Wm. Nicholson, Aked,
Houghton, John Gladstone, jun., Thomas Bold, Jeffrey's,
and Clint.

IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE. —Sir John Bent, and
Messrs. Bennett, Robinson, Langsdale, James Thomson,
S. M. Mellor, James Johnson, John Stewart, J. A. Picton,
S. Holme, and W. P. Jeffreys.
COURTS OF LAW COMMITTEE.--Messrs. J. H. Turner,
S. Holme, J. Bramley-Moore, Picton, Parker, Molyneux
W. J. Horsfall, Avison, and John Stewart.
MARKETS' COMMITTEE.—Messrs. C,"
Thomas Wagstaffe, James Johnson.

_ .
per, J. Lawrence
,nner, Woodruffe

Jeffreys, Afauffie, and John Gladstone, jun.
EDINATION COMMITTEE.—Messrs. Molyneux, Gardner
Wagstaffe, Neill, Brancker, Beckwith, Gregson, Tobin
James Holme, John Glad4one, jun., Bawler, Jeffreys.
Audelvons Shand, and W. NiCholson, •

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 185
,

GAOL AND HOUSE OF CORRECTION COMMlTricrpe
Mayor, Sir John Bent, and Messrs. Hornby, J. . 000
Holt, Robertson Gladstone, John Stewart, g. veer
Anderson, John Nicholson, Holden, Parker, u
and Banner. TheMiPtl
TOWN • HALL ESTABLISHMEN T COMMITTEE.-- .c.ifol
'Sir John Bent, and Messrs. Lawrence, J. 13ratotcoe
Preston, Hornby, Mellor, Aked, Littledale, S• n
~,,
J. H. urner.
HEALTH COMMITTEE.-Messrs. .bangs,----,Boop•-,
..- A.ile .1 ~,ioeffre'
Godfrey, Moss, Bigham, M`Nicol, Fleming, Bead
Gladstone, Johnson, John Nicholson, Hodson, '': c ~
Henderson, Stewart
,Halhead, and James 1101131.coodtur,
GARDENS' COMMITTEE.-Messrs. Preston, , sir Job,
John Nicholson, Neill, Fleming, shand, an
a
Bent. -- }lessr6.
CHURCH EXPENDITURE COMMITTEE.Sid.
Molyneux, Jeffreys, Houghton, nner, and .., IPI:'.
OBSERVATORY COMMITTEE.-Ba
Messrs. Pi c,.„Da 60“
Tyrer, Wagstaffe, Henderson, W. J. Horsfali, "
stone, jun., Banner, and M`Guffie. T,,noS(l3le'tP;
WATER COAIMITTEE.-MesstS. Halt, ..,-- ~ ,e, 1,
ner, Brancker, Hornby, Wagstaffe, James Ilan"
00,
ruffe, Hodson, John Stewart, and Gregson•ii Is. ficliz,
LIBRARY AND MUSEUM COMMITTEE.-..,,e5: fle•i°
M`Nicol, Bennett, Holt, Beckwith, Wood J•
Bigham, Stewart, Robertson Gladstone, and Sirr Igo
HACKNEY CARRIAGE COMMITTEtd6eI J
ruffe, Bennett, Jeffreys, Holden, GodfreY, In 13
Gladstone, jun. Beckwith, and Wags
not iatel 1
The Shipbuilding Committee was not OP° Jell'
duties being at an end. fie, Par...ak!f'o3o,
BATHS' COMMITTEE.-Messrs. Wags- e' FelP-
freys, Fleming, J. Gladstone, jun., Mellor,
M`Guffie, and Gardner. ' 5,1,01 z• 4to v
CHARGE AGAINST A COITNC
OP"- COl3l.
The name of Mr. Edward Bradley wasp Water 31.
added to the Church Expenditure and the
~notec.,,
mittee, but before it was put to the Council fOrar 7Cfpoil.!
, Mr. HoDsoN said he had imposed liP°lllllringl,lll
ceedingly unpleasant duty • but, before enLe,,Atee 00
he wished to state that he' was in no wa.Y.Tacisl3,etblo
personal feelings, having only heard of n' oath itb
about to detail-and which could be proved onfinctioe''.t3
morning, when they were told to hiru in ecad-rove'Al'cl
another gentleman. If the statements wereythe ec;i;
which he had no doubt, he was of OPiiii°%s not'Ait
would agree with him, that Mr. Bradley__',ittee 0f_,,,,r,,
person to hold any office, or sit on any coineatick'ty
Council. Before the proceedings
of the of 1$110...(0 on;
menced, he gave a note in to Mr. Brajlertht to.,tN
following is a copy :-" Sir, I think ,list, dlePfr'
you that I have received information „A rterc‘cter
election in Vauxhall Ward, you, as the s jilP-E't; 311',1111$
Powell, one of the candidates, represent;; rresilif,eo
forth, a voter for that ward, wssi;-,3a()„,,ir's".°T`Cii
water-rent, that if he would vote for 'Tor'''. 0'
you would use your influence with the NI 3 WI. "..1101e
to prevent the issue of a warrant agaiitst 03t0.0
prove that case by the evidence of the ineli,o' rasse,eoole
was delivered by noon that day. If, in 3cl-401°,000
the views of the Council, he (Mr. liods°lll aire le' ro`e
for a special comniittee of the Council to nig red ,,,,,r,
facts, before whom he should be fuliY PreP3o. 0.,;311
the statement on oath • for, though the rfltt,-,,,preci,/;;tor
he was an honest man. On the FridaY evee7alledavi;"/I'
to the Municipal Election, three or four Me Yr- ,-,P' D
forth's house, and canvassed him to vote forbad wool
Stopforth told the men that Mr. 1101(10 in fslyff
particular friend of his, and that, as be w 4,19103311.0114,,
Mr. Nicholson, he should vote for thatgenw*-1A r• r" too'
however, induced him to go to Rocline'Ais'," ifb°loet,'
committee-room, where haleousgawwitMhra- )313::7;:1;crtoolpfoof:,
toa friend of ohisf Svtootpefofrotrhi;
him • • '
sir. PAolwr'elßl
swer in the negative, Mr. Bradley said, " A,,,,nt licat7ol;
arrears with your water-rate ?" The Joan "- Yr'bere"
was, but that he should soon be able to pay' 0,3 t t,)ll'
ley then distinctly said, " Are you not aios,reote J°lllo
a warrant out against you ? But if you 'TILL' .. it 61°10'
yoi nu execution,
us t
take
thkuet
eyoonus e oa rd; yen Dot Dif
Powell, I will take care no harm is done to PI; It: falti;iC
putbedonl, ,• as , 11„,t,
,raandlcieT Prt.' filig •Ity
ing night, Mr. Bradley called twice at that fort!' el
and made the same proposition, but Stop e gi!:,e tile
" I am a poor man, but honest, and as I I°leilVir
pledge you may do your worst." Defore ye' i''
qshuaenlicebse. f°,rgio:att'lle,ter'f4l'4l'
house, Mr. Bradley said, " You must l‘eePovele:iertitilit
counsel." This the man was prepared i°,l'fite vi,fort;
was this all. Jones was offered Ll a day nl,. L;al c't'''ltt
was over, on the condition that his fne- th3l.';gr
voted for Mr. Powell. There were two °,r cosi) ef. '
circumstances, not only connected with ths: fOliilt
with another public appointment held by l‘ir:ta ''':. t",,,
which he had used his influence to carrcriol,P,ye; '
Having disowned any personal motives jam, IR' if
matter forward, Mr. Hodson called upon "-r. poi'.
corroborate his statement. io (0
fc f o
Mr. HOLDEN said he ,couldconfirm eVe"' 0:000,1
CO
Hodson had stated. Stopforth was an Old
~
and a more honest man he
neverhad. with 415
Mr. Moss, after charging Mr. Hodson „'',/ae,,,,0.4
feeling, Re evinced by the tone of his hars7tecn te
will tell you something of Mr. Hodsons aq itv
that ward. Mr. Hodson has debauched that ?t'
than any man living. (Loud cries of " Order. essi.ol)o
tatelS,ty „‘
Mr. BRADLEY, in reply to Mr. Hodson 's 5,,,,, a rotter•
It was a gross falsehood, emanating from col);e, 4
ought to be the last to appeal to characteribe rine,
that he was a mere gambler and blackleg in,rne fii,y,,,
The MAYOR rose to order, but it was p-reede,,, Cl'
before he could obtain hearing. Having sil- re""
ato y
curing silence„ he called upon Mr. Bradley if t
JO ite
offensive expressions. with cgs( 4
Mr. BRADLEY expressed his readiness to ot of /,
expressions which had escaped him in a ni°ll thug' tie
ment ; but he thoughtthe source from which Alt ,e,
source
upon his privattuanated on, eau VI
__ ~, . , e characer had e
sumetent answer to itstuner tilUllCSS.lol4'4l,
bout Stlhev,,,q,
ceeded to state that
all he kneW IMO ." "p. 4
Jones was, that a short time before the elec.' for ce
ked VO
at the committee-room, and Stopforth a 5 - tile° P
himself, and the appointment of his friend 100 for 4
one of the polling-clerks, as an inducera,ll. Iltietjd‘
(Stopforth) to• record his vote for lgr• P°w- ati).4o(l
mittee stated that they could not countenance- . nit3lc
the kind; and he had not seen the men sille,el4,o,
his word of honour as a gentleman, that the.. do
a geroS4 1,40
meat made by Mr. Hodson was 11°` t• 4
falsehood. 311• Cit''''?
At a subsequent part of the proceedings‘roorS, i,5
with Messrs. Hornby, S. Holme, BranfleY.,„4.ol4i"jor;'
Holt, J. H. Turner, C. Stewart,and Mr. -0-1. tke e
,ti.,
appointed a Select Committee, to inquire -t° l'e?'
ocosijg
against Mr. Bradley. , o,i a Jo. fe
The MAYeR'S communications conaPPs'-`,.. to-'73let,
dation from the annual report of the justic.-, o,d- 'tie
tto establish a reformato hulk on the Aiers6,' le4llo the
o $ sty' . ,
from Mr. Booth, in answer to Mr. CockereLferet•
at a recent meeting of the Council, in "'revile:oS 'tiro
south entrance of St. Ge ' hall• The tee, gl3- ° 43'1 orge s- • ~4,,e, fro r,
ferred to the House of Correction Cornun'' letter '4e 0' ir
ter to the Courts of Law Committee. A w 0.01,00
Licensed Victuallers Association, asking f_t i.,,, totil
.401'
Town-hall, for their annual ball, was role'''. 'oo'''
hall Committee. ~„, ils4)
ve
This completed the business, and the uy-
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