The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-01-04 00:00:00

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THE SOUTHAMPTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE has ex-
pressed itself in favour of establishing tribunals of com-
merce, as projected by the Liverpool Chamber.

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CAPTAIN FORGES, of the Marco Polo, is about to be
presented with a handsome testimonial by a number of
gentlemen connected with the Australian trade.
A. BOY named Greenland was sent for trial, on Tuesday,
cbarged with obtaining medical instruments from drug-
gists, under false pretences, and then pawning them.
THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BRUNSWICK CLUB
was celebrated on Friday evening, on which occasion Mr.
Whiteman, the proprietor, provided the usual supper.
THE STEAMER EARL OF LONSDALE commenced plying
betwixt this port and the Bay of Luce on Saturday. It is
intended to call at Portwilliam, Stairhaven, and Drumore
periodically during the season.

EMIGRATION FROM LIVERPOOL.—The number of ves-
sels which took their departure hence for the Australian
ports, during the past month, was 28, and the number of
passengers 8,200.

THE UNITED STATES MAIL STEAM-PACKET BALTIC,
Capt. Comstock, sailed hence for New Y( rk on Wednesd ►v,
with the mails and a general cargo, and a full complement
of passengers.

R. W. NAYLOR, Esq., of this town, who has just pur-
chased the R.Y.S. yacht schooner Constance, from the
Marquis of Conyngham, is preparing for a cruise up the
Mediterranean with his new craft.

A NUGGET, 340 ounces weight, purchased by the go-
vernment of the colony of Victoria as a present for the
Queen, has been brought to Liverpool by the Marco Polo,
recently arrived from Melbourne.
THE T

,ORDS OF THE TREASURY, it is said, have agreed
to pay the whole of the expenses (within about £150)
of the recent inquiry at Preston into the conduct of the
late judge of the Liverpool County Court.

OILING THE ENGINE.—A large railway engine requires
from 90 to 100 gallons of oil yearly for lubrication. The
annual consumption of oil by the North-Western Railway
for this purpose alone is more than 40,000 -
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A MAN KILLED
Friday night, a luggage tr
goods station of the Lanes
Great Howard-street, and Ik

THE RAILWAY STATION.—O❑
An ran over a porter at the
;hire and Yorkshire Railway,
lied him on the spot.

SUPPER TO WORICMEN.—The men in the employ of
Mr. Sewill, watch and chronometer manufacturer, South
Castle-street, were entertained by him to a supper on
Christmas-eve, at the house of Mr. Ford, Belvidere Hotel.

INFORMATIONS AGAINST PUBLICANS.—On Friday last,
at the Police-court, no less than 51 summonses were pre-
ferred against publicans and beersellers, for selling liquor
on Christmas-day and Sunday during the hours of divine
service.

EMBARIZAT/ON 43F MORMONITES AT LIVERPOOL.—
A body of about 300 Mormons, including women and
children, are about to be conveyed from Hamburg to Hull,
and thence to this town, where they will embark :or New
Orleans.

THE thrgri.4: has been pleased to grant a certificate to
the Rev. D. Poggi, D.D., principal of Seaeornbe House
School, Seacombe, who was born in Italy, by which he
now enjoys the rights and capacities of a matural-born
British subject.

SINGt

R DISCOVERY OF EGGS.—A gentleman in
this county, on draining a pond, lately found 163 duck
eggs at the bottom of it. He had previously been troubled
to account for the sudden manner in which his ducks had
ceased to lay.

LIVERPOOL EXHIBITION OF PAlNTryGs.—Since the
opening of the exhibition to the working classes yesterdy
week, the rooms have been crowded daily, thus proving
that the academy acts wisely in reducing their prices at
this festive season.

HOSPITALITY.—On Thursday evening his wor-
ship the Mayor entertained a party of gentlemen to dinner
at the Town-hall. The guests numbered about 45, and
included some of the leading merchants and others con-
'meted with the town.

ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH.—On New Year's Eve there
was divine service at St. Andrew's-church. Renshaw_
street, and on Saturday morning, being New Year's Day,
there was an early sacrament at half-past eight o'clock,
and afterwards an address on the new year.

ARCHITECTURAL Al•ID ARCH/LOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—
The fortnightly meeting of the Architectural and Archaeo-
logical Society was held on Wednesday, when the paper of
the evening, entitled'" Notes on French Architecture,
chiefly ecclesiastical," was read by Mr. Picton.

A " WELSH WATCH NIGHT" SERVICE was held in
Bern's-garden Chapel, on New Year's eve. .A selection
of sacred music, from some of the best oratorios, was per-
formed. Several of the members of the Philharrnonic
Society volunteered their services for the evening.

LOCAL Cmanrrits.—Our advertising columns contain
a list of the various sums received at the simultaneous
collections made in the churches of Liverpool and neigh-
bourhood for the local charities ; and also a statement of
the way in which the whole sum, amounting to £757 .ss.
was divided.

SERIOUS BANK 'ROBBER .—A few days ago, a robbery
similar to that recently perpetrated at the Branch Bank
of England, in this town, took place in London. A clerk
of the London Joint Stock Bank, while engaged in his
collections at some other banking-house, was robbed of
the sum of £4530.

ACCIDENT TO THE 'BISHOP OF SODOR AND MAN.—A
letter received in Liverpool from Douglas, Isle of Man,
dated Wednesday, states that a rumour was prevalent
that, whilst taking equestrian exercise on that day, the
Bishop (Baron Auckland) had one of his legs broken by
the rearing of his horse.

COMPLIMENTARY PRESENTATION.—=On Wednesday
evening, at the American Hotel, Mr. John Euclid
Harston, who is leaving Liverpool for 'London, was pre-
sented by his friends in the timber trade with a parting
token of their respect. The presentation consisted of a
chased silver claret jug and pint tankard.

GENEROUS OFFER.—The proprietor of Hylton's cele-
brated menagerie, now exhibiting in Lime-street. has
generously offered, if a committee he formed, to give the
total gross receipt of a day's exhibition on behalf of the
survivors of the unfortunate seamen killed by the explo-
sion of the brig Lily, off the Manx coast.

A NOTORIOUS GRARACTER.--JOllll Lyon, who had
been twenty-seven times charged and twenty-three times
committed, was brought up at the Police-court on Friday,
on suspicion of stealing cotton at the Bramley-Moore
Dock, but the evidence not being quite ,sufficient to con-
vict him of the theft, he escaped this time.

SINGULAR ANTIQUARIAN DISCOVERY.--A few days
ago, as some men were excavating, for the purpose of
making an artificial lake at Mr. Broad's pleasure gardens,
at Macclesfield, they discovered an ancient court-yard and
stone pavement about fiat) feet from the surface. It is
-nt is of Roman origin.

t the paves

DARTNG AND BRUTAL ROBBERY.—On Friday even-
ing, about half-past five o'clock, a sailor named Robert
Adams, whilst passing along Waterloo road, in a state of
partial drunkenness, was seized upon by some ruffians,
knocked down, robbed of £1 10s. and •a coat, and so
severely kicked and maltreated as to endanger his life.

THE ArANCHESTER CORPORATION.-lii..
the Manchester Town •Couneil, on Wednesday, a very
important proposition was brought forward for reducing
the annual payments due from the Corporation to the old
'Waterworks Company. The Corporation, by this arrange-
ment, will save an annual payment to the amount of
4,562 Bs.

A 4 A meeting of

EMBEZZLEMENT BY A. COMMERCIAL CLICRE.—At the
Manchester Borough Court, on Wednesday, James Uns-
worth, townsman, and collecting clerk in Manchester for
Messrs. Thomas Hardcastle and Son, of Firwood. near
Bolton, bleachers, dyers, and finishers, was charged with
having embezzled the moneys of his employers to the
extent of between £4OO and £.500.

SINGULAR RECOVERY -OF STOLEN PROPERTY.-011
Friday night, a young man,-whilst passing along Spring-
place, noticed a light shining through the window of an
empty house. On going in, a S outh rushed out, andin
an upper room a quantity of.valuable articles, the produce
of a burglary on Christmas-night, in an adjoining louse,
occupied by Mr. Whitehead, was discovered.

LADIES' CHARITY BALL.---Upwards of nine hundred
persons were present at the Ladies' Charity Ball, which
was held at the Town-hall, on Tuesday evening' under the
Presidency g
of Harmood Banner,Es Mrs T Hornbybeing
thlady patroness. The company' began. to assemble
about nine o'clock. The clarity will derive considerable
benefit from the handsome sum realised by this ball.
TEE 'STEAM SUIP CLARENCE, built last year by Mr.
Laird, of
of Birkenhead, has been sold, at Sydney, to Mr.
A. Rose, Launceston, for £29;950, to trade between
Melbourne and
shetioceston. The directors of the com-
pany to whom
rnarmnerly belonged handsomely pre-
sented Captain 'Wise
the vessel out.
with a purse of 300 sovereigns
for his services in bringing
ST. PETER'S CiLI.TRcm. Ey_
TON.—The congregation
of St. Peter's Church, Evertzoatrint their friends, will
have a tea-party at the,Concert.
Nelson-street,
Clergy will address the
to-morrow evening. 'Several
meeting, and an efficient choir will Perforce a selection
from the works of Handel and other sacred
eornlt is anticipated that above a thousand persona W Isler.
be
present.
THE MANCHESTER POSTOFFICE.—There are employed
in this office a postmaster, above 40 clerks, five letter
atampers, and nearly 100 letter-carriers. Mails arrive ai
the office and are despatched about 60 times daily, Nearly
2,000 merchants and tradesmen pay for private boxes at
the Manchester Postoffice, by which they are enabled to
obtain their correspondence direct from the office, instead
of through the medium of a letter-carrier.

SINGULAR ESCAPE OF A PRISONER.—A man named
Michael Moran, against whom a charge was preferred at
the police-court, yesterday week, of passing base coin,
had been committed, and, as he receded from the dock.
an order had been given to discharge another, charged
with drunkenness. The result was a mistake, of which
the former availed himself, walking out of the dock, and
leaving the other in "durance vile" till the error was dis•
covered.

DARING ROBBERY._A man named John Davies was
comm!tted for trial on Tuesday last, on a charge of
knocking down Wm. Baynon, shipwright, on Christmas
night, at the corner of Wolfe-street, and robbing him of
his watch and three shillings in money. The attack upon
Baynon was dastardly in the extreme. He was struck a
violent blow from behind in the back part of the neck,
which caused 111132 tQ fan into a cellar in state of losen-

Dibility