The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-03-07 00:00:00

PREPARATIONS FOR WAR.

' Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Napier has been appointed.
Commander-in-Chief of the squadron destined for the Bal-
tic and the Northern Seas.

Commodore M. Seymour has been appointed Captain of
the Baltic fleet. The post of Captain of the fleet is a most
arduous and responsible office. His pay is the same as
that of a Rear-Admiral, £1,095 per annum.
The following additional vessels have been ordered for
survey as troop-ships : Mary Ann, at Bristol ; Cornwall,
Lady Valiant, Coigram, Joseph Shepherd, the Courier,
Bolton, Queen, Thuandron, Mary Ann, and Marina, all
at Liverpool.
About forty volunteers from the 27th Regiment
of Foot arrived in Liverpool on Sunday, from Dun-
dalk, en route for London, to join the 19th Regiment,
which has been ordered for service in the East. They left
Liverpool for London yesterday morning.
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We (United Service Gazette) understand that a requi,
sition has been made by the Admiralty for three rotimenti*
to accompany a division of the Baltic fleet, as soon as thi
navigation is open, with the view to obtain possession of
the islands of Aland, in the name of the rightful owner,
Sweden.

The infantry regiments ordered for embarkation in the
second portion of the expedition to Turkey, will include
the Ist Battalion Royals, 7th. 23rd, 42nd 79th, 95th, 97th,
and a brigade of four regiments now stationed in Akita,
Gibraltar, and Corfu, and perhaps another battalion of the
Grenadier Guards. The cavalry is not yet selected, nor is
it yet decided whether the cavalry force will consist of
certain regiments. or only drafts from several of the Light
Cavalry corps. The chaplains appointed to the staff of the
expedition up tf, '‘.!s time are the Rev. Mr. Halpin, chap-
lain to the garri ..i at Dublin ; the Rev. Mr.
„Wright, chap.
lain at Corfu ; and the . Rev. Mr. Hamilton, chaplain at
Gibraltar.

On Thursday afternoon, the Royal Sappers and Miners,
from Brompton Barracks, under the command of Captain
Ord, Royal Engineers, assembled at St. Mary's Creek, in
the River Medway, for the purpose of placing on board a
vessel which had just arrived a number of pontoons for
I the use of the expeditionary army to Turkey. There were
leight boxes, containing India-rubber pontoons ; also five
large pontoons (Major Blanchard's,) and six infantry pon-
toons, with carriages, and every thing complete.
Recruiting for the Navy is going on rapidly in Liverpool,
and men acA offering themselves daily. An order has been
received from the Admiralty to the effect that several ves-
sels, of from 650 to 850 tons burthen, are required imme-
diately as transports. Tenders from owners of vessels of
this class have been sent in, and it is understood that
several have been already accepted. . The 77th Regiment
arrived at Preston, from Glasgow, on Wednesday. It was
originally intended that the regiment should sail from the
Clyde, in the new steamer Atrato, but, as she was not
ready in time, the screw-steamer Kangaroo was engaged
for the purpose. The Kangaroo arrived in the Mersey,
from the Clyde, on Friday night; and on Saturday she
went into the Wellington-dock. As soon as her fittings
are completed the 77th will be embarked on board for
Malta.

The British and North American royal mail steam-ship
America, Capt. Lang, had not arrived when we went to

ISLINGTON PRESBYTERIAN CITURCII.—A tea-party will
be held in the school-room under Islington Presbyterian
Church, on Monday next, and the anniversary sermons
will be preached on the day previous, by the Rey- . Mr.
Hamilton and the Rev. V. M. White.
LOYAL ORANGE TEA PARTY.—On Tuesday, a tea
meeting, attended by the members of three lodges of the
north circuit of the town, was held in the school-room
attached to All Saints' Church, Great Nelson-street North.
There was a numerous attendance, and the meeting was
1 presided over by the Rev. li. Marlen, incumbent. The
derful change in the behaviour of the plaintiff, who. abused
desirable, they had no power' in thematter, but they would
advise them to make some arrangement with Mr. Evans.
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ROBBERY AND BURGLARY.—On Saturday, .Thomas
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Worrall, Mr. C. P. McCarthy, Mr. John Parsonage, and
Mr. A. Eaton, afterwards addressed the meeting.
MATRIMONIALFELICITY.—Thomas Aspinall,a working-
man, appeared at the Police-court, on Wednesday, to an-
swer an assault summons, which had been issued at the
instance of his wife. On being asked what she had to
say, the complainant very mildly and quietly remarked
that she had had no dispute with her husband, who, how-
ever, wished to separate from her, though she herself
wished to live with him. She certainly thought that be
did not keep good company, particularly of the female
kind, yet she had only procured the summons on his
threatening to kick her out of the house if she did not do
so. The husband told a somewhat different story. He
said that he had been married to his wife for ten years;
and, during the whole of that time, he had constantly
found her guilty of drinking, lying, and thieving; and,
finding that he could not live with her and educate his
children respectably, he was willing to allow her separate
maintenance. He had frequently intended to have brought
her up before the magistrates, but feared the necessary
her husband in good round terms; and accused him of 's
variety of social crimes and follies. The magistrates dis-
missed the case, observing, that though they thought a
separation between so ill-assorted a couple would be very
Ball, alias Thompson, Thomas Cole, and John Harris were
charged, at the Liverpool Police-court, with byeaking open
a safe in the office of the goods-station of the London and
Northwestern Railway, Waterloo-road. Mr. Blenkinsopp
appeared for the company, and called Thomas Jones, collec-
tor, who stated that, on Thursday night, the 23rd of Feb.,
he placed £284. in a cash-box, which he gave to a clerk
(Cole) to lock up in the safe. Cole did so, placing with it,
in another cash-box, the sum of £64.. Thomas Andrews,
night watchman at the Waterloo-station, deposed that, on
the night of the 23rd February, he was on duty on the
premises. He had occasion to go into the office where
the safe was kept ; and, on proceeding there, he found that
the safe had been opened, by means of a duplicate key,
and that the cash-box had been stolen. After examining
the upper portion of the premises, he went down stairs
and gave an alarm, and a man named Pollard and a police-
man were placed outside to guard the door, while Andrews
remained inside. About twenty minutes to two o'clock
he again went up stairs, and, on going into the office
where the safe stood, a man sprung from behind the door,
rushed past him, and ran down stairs. Witness had a
lamp in his hand, which he threw after the liurghir, but
i missed his aim. The man continued his flight,
shots
1 the watchers outside, who pursued him for a shoj.:tiimace.
tance, but he eluded them in Formby-street- "shed
officer 293 identified Thomas Ball as the man whoiTispee..
past him and Pollard while they were
vrateln at he and
' tor Bates, of the detective department, statedengaged night
Murphy, another detective officer, hadbeer'
and day on the look out forTikept by a man
in apprehending in a well-known Theprisoners by
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were discharged, and Ball was
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They took
All three were immediately taken
remanded for a week.
erther. informati.on was expected on the
charge of being implicated in a burglary
into custody on a .
Yesterday (3 . ,
tmtes inthe Police-court, Clayton
thecounty magis.,._ ;_ -suare,
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charged I. .
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appeared that, on . u g house of Mrs.
Douglas, residing in Ed,, e-lane, was broken into,
when a
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quantity of jewellery was stolen, part of which was found
on the prisoners, when apprehended on the proceeding
charge. The case was not gone into further, and all three
were remanded for a week, .
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