The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-06-06 00:00:00

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE•

ItOOLTON FLOWER SHOW, with its accompanying
1 po-
,L., rY exhibition, is announced to take place on Thurs-
-44,y next.
411, HousraLL, M.P., Mr. Liddell, M.P., and a deputa-
tion,_ had an interview with the Right Hon. E. Cardwell
and Lord Stanley, of Alderley, on Monday, at the Board
of Trade.
EARLY Hay HARVEST.—On Tuesday, Mr. John Pritt,
of the King's Arms Inn, Lancaster, commenced cutting a
held of grass on his farm at Beaumont. It was remarkably
thick for this early season.
LORD STANLEY has sent in his adhesion to the move-
ment for the repeal of the stamp-duty on newspapers, in.
letter to the Secretary to the Association for the Repeal
or Taxes on Knowledge.
u SmooLs. OF ART.—Two of the pupils of the Warring-
School of Art have again carried off prizes at the ex-
, s ex-
hibition of the "advanced works" of the students of the
various schools in the kingdom, now open at Gore-house,
'ensington.
•raEna.L.—The directors of the Lancashire and York-
shire
Railway have given permission, it is said, to all
their servants, with their wives and families, to travel on
Y part of their line, at any time, for half the usual
gres.
EXPLOSION.—On Wednesday afternoon, an oval-shaped
boiler exploded in the mill of Mr. Cunliffe, at Accrington,
V carried away with it a part of the boiler house,
.(3 Person was injured. The fireman had left the boiler
house a few minutes before the disaster occurred.
A BRUTAL ASSAULT, was committed on a drunken
female in Park-lane, on Tuesday. Some ruffian dealt her a
violent blow on the head, which felled her, and the
Wheel of a car, which was passing at the time, went over
her body. The woman, when taken up, was severely
qured.
TEsyraroarrara—The adult members of the bible class
connected with St. Michael's church, have presented Mrs.
`..l'arPenter with an elegant edition of the Rev. E. Bicker-
neth's Memoirs. A suitable address accompanied the
Present.
,_A DEPUTATION, consisting of Mr. Horsfall, M.P., Mr.
Mann, (chairman of the Liverpool Shipowners Association)
,1.1(1 Mr. Carson, had an interview with the Right Hon. E.
Cardwell and Lord Stanley, of Alderley, on Tuesday, at
the Board of Trade.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday, an emigrant, named
John Dawless, was drowned in the Mersey : he was a
Passenger by the emigrant ship Break-of-day. Whilst
assisting some females to get a trunk on board an enmi-
grant ship in the river, he slipped overboard, and was
drowned before assistance could be rendered to him.
, EMBEZZLEMENT. —Robert Wheeler, a respectable look-
ing man, was on Wednesday charged with embezzlement,
at the Police-court, by his late employer, Mr. Richard
Linford, wheelwright. The prisoner had for several years
acted as clerk and collector to Mr. Linford ; but it had
• been found that, on the 24th of April, and subsequently,
he had received three sums—£l. Bs., 12s. 6d., and 8s.—
which he had not accounted for. He was committed for
trial at the sessions ; but was admitted to bail.
.DEPARTURE OF TROOPS TO THE EAST.—The transport
8141) Conrad, belonging to Mr. Edward Oliver, r, tookh her
departure on Thursday from this port for Maving
0n board the 4th and last detachment of the Ist Royal
Dragoons, from the Hulme barracks. The detachment
consisted of only 15 men and horses ; and there being
therefore plenty of unoccupied space in the vessel, 50 tons
of hay were placed on board. On her arrival at Malta she
will, like all other transports, be subject to the orders of
the naval commander-in-chief.
A MAN KILLED AT THE CLARENCE DOCIE.—On
Thursday morning, Richard Haworth, a plumber, in the
-!raploy of the dock trustees, was on the top of a shed at
the north end of the Clarence dock, with another work-
pan. A boy beckoned to the two men to come towards a
adder, when the deceased advanced nine or ten yards
along the guttering of the shed, and then fell into the
dock. He was quickly removed to the receiving house,
where it was ascertained that he was dead.
AN UNDUTIFUL DAUGHTER.—On Thursday, a re-
spectably attired young woman, named Ann Booth, was
charged at the Police-court with defrauding her mother
of 3s. 6d. The poor woman stated that on the afternoon
of the preceding day, having been out washing for the
• support of her family, she left the sum named in the care
of her daughter with instructions to pay it to the rent
collector, whose weekly visit was due that day. The girl,
instead of paying the money as directed, appropriated it
Y)
. her own use, and made 'an entry in her mothers rent-
hook as having paid it. The girl. was discharged by the
Magistrate, accompanying her liberation from custody with
a severe reprimand as to the undutiful heartlessness of the
s• conduct she had been guilty of.
A NIGHT FLOWER.—The Botanic Gardens, Edge
-lane,
contained, last week, a rare and beautiful object—a Cereus
grandiflora (niglat-flowering cereus) in bloom. Although,
. according to rule, the hothouses are closed at six o'clock
. 1,11 the evening, an exception was made by the curator, on
,xnesday, in favour of a few visiters who happened to be
in the gardens as late as eight o'clock, in order that they
might see this fleeting flower, which blooms only during
the night. There were no fewer than five large white
melon-shaped flowers, each gracefully set off by a long
fringe of deep orange colour encircling it, and the rich
Perfume they emitted was almost overpowering, as if to
compensate by beauty and intensity of odour for their
brief existence, which terminates with the approach of day.
. PUBLIC _BATHS AND WASII-HOUSES.—At the meeting
of the baths and wash-houses committee, heldke on Mondner,ay,
Present, 'Messrs. Wagstaff (chairman), Parr, Gard
Gladstone, jun., and Fleming, the returns for the quarter
ending 24th May were presented by the officers of the
different establishments, and it appears that they are all
in the most flourishing condition. At Cornwallis-street,
the bathers for the quarter were 36,419 ; for the corres-
ponding quarter last year they were 23,054, showing an
increase this quarter of 13,365. At the Pierhead, the
bathers for the quarter were 8,427. At the Paul-street,
the bathers for the quarter were 13,955 ; for the corres-
Ponding quarter last year they were 10,300, showing an
Increase for last quarter of 3,655. The number of persons
allowed baths gratis, during the quarter, was 2,807. The
increased receipts amounted to upwards of £2OO beyond
the receipts for the same period of 1853. The wash-houses
department is equally thriving, and the Frederick-street
establishment seems to be attracting a large number of
customers, owing to the comforts afforded by the classifi-
cation of the washers, and the immense saving of labour
which the various appliances effect.
DEATh OF CARDINAL WISEMA.N'S BROTHER.—Mr.
James Wiseman, brother of Cardinal Wiseman, died at
his residence, in Grove-street, on Tuesday morning week.
Mr. Wiseman resided for many years in this town, and
was at onetime connected with a mercantile firm of high
standing here. Latterly, however, he acted as an inter-
preter of foreign languages, and was the person who was
engaged to interpret the evidence given against Captain
Horner, who was committed some weeks ago for the
wilful murder of two of his crew on the high seas. Whilst
attending the court in* connexion with this case, Mr.
Wiseman took a severe cold from the effects of which he
never recovered. He was about five years older than the
Cardinal, with whom he studied at Ushaw College, and
subsequently in Spain, and whose superior in talent he
was considered by many. Mr. Wiseman spoke all the
modern languages of Europe with fluency and accuracy.
In private life he was much respected. His remains were
interred on Sunday, at St. Oswald's burial-ground, near
the Old Swan, the funeral being conducted under the
direction of M. Serle, the Cardinal's chaplain and secre-
tary. The deceased has left a wife and two childr en.
ARRIVAL OP ROMAN BULLS.—The steam-ship Genova,
from Civita Vecchia, brought twelve of the wild cattle
which abound in the campagna of Rome, and are known
for their untameable ferocity and savage beauty. They
left the Papal states on the 9th ult., and, as they are
rather dangerous passengers, it was deemed prudent to
land them at the docks in the cages in which they were
placed on board the steamer. All were safely landed
but one bull, who broke through the bottom of his cage,
and ran round the dock quays in a style which created no
little dismay amongst the " Jumpers " and others who con-
gregate in those localities. One gentleman was chased
round the Nelson Dock gates, and might have been se-
riously injured, had the distinguished foreigner" not
tripped over a chain, and tumbled into the water. A
wf ith
ter
a vigorous aquatic chase, half-drowned, and blinded
rage and terror, the animal was towed to the dock steps,
and secured safely in another cage. These cattle, two
bulls and ten heifers, which are of a dun colour, and fine
specimens of their species, have been imported for Mr.
• Naylor, who will place them in the ornamental park
attached to Hooton-hall, where they will doubtless astonish
and horrify the "natives" as ,much as other Roman bulls
lately astounded our Protestant countrymen.
MYSTERIOUS DEATH.—On Tuesday and Thursday an
inquest was held on the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Graham,
eighty years of age, who lived at No. 1, Green-street,
Crown-street, Edgehill, and met her death under the fol n
-
lowing singular circumstances :—The old lady hadnibee
confined to the house for the
lasi' "o
lfleeer y'elamrsatferobesitdiese
ects of rheumatism, and the on y n
herself was an elderly female, named Ann Ath ert on, who
acted as housekeeper. Atherton deposed that, on Sunday
evening, she went to bed about ten o'clock, her mistress
having gone to bed about two hours before. On Monday
morning, about seven o'clock, she went to call her. up as
usual, and was alarmed to find that she was not in her
room. After searching the house through, she went
down into the cellar, and there, head foremost in a water-
barrel, she saw her mistress. She immediately procured
the assistance of one of the old lady's relative and two
Policeaefficers, who extricated the body from the barrel,
,and found life to be quite extinct. The top of the barrel
=stood about four feet and a half above the floor, and there
was a sink-stone on one side and- a step- ladder on the
'other, from which it is supposed the old lady must hav
fallen or precipitated herself. into the barrel, which con-
lained at the time about eighteen inches depths of wade ter.
Mr. Richard Kay, surgeon, stated that he believed ath
to have resulted, not from drowning, but from serous
apoplexy, the effects of natural causes. He felt certain,
• however, that the old lady must have been alive when she
fell into the water. The jury returned a verdict in ac-
.. cordance with this evidence.
WEST DERBY GIIARD.IANS.—The weekly meeting was
on Wednesday. Present, the
held at the Workhouse,
W. Badnall iu the chair, Mr. Edwards, deputy vice-
Rev.ns dcalf Norris, M`Gee, Abra-
chairman,
hams, Weniselessyrs, AMppeleby,
JMamoeusntßfiierledh, Whitby,
Reyes, Horsfall, Siddely, Carter,
Ledger, and Alpass. The balance_
smidth. e
Ahannedws ovfaltuhae.
treasurer was reported to be £443 19 •
tion of property, in Great Crosby, was ordered to tzolboe. mTandee.
; by Mr. John Skearson, at a cost notation
Clerk was requested to make
vested in the guardians
Board that a discretion might be to the Poor-law
as to what inmates of the Workhouse shAoulndes itte
have daily,
or other intercourse with each other. g
pupil teacher, was allowed £6 to
b
change of air, in consequence of a
d to be insured
grdereodtohtehaleth. countryne new
forn a
buildings at the Workhouse were o
from loss by fire in £l,OOO. The overseersna wereof nEevteartuoln
complained that the rates of their towns
directedT
collected. An assistant collector was to be a-
. ap-
pointed, his salary to be paid out of the Pres
went
maser
commission. Mr. Richard Bulraan was.a,pp.r,per annum
t collecto's
of the Union Hospital, with a salary 011 -.°"
d adjoinpering the
and rations, &c. A portion of the
hospital was directed to be. appropriateldn
e, at the next
Mr. Whitby gave notice that he would
inov
t committees
meeting, that the appointments of all present for a stone-yard.
d
be rescinded. The number in the workhouse vcs_reeppr.t.:
_e
to be 582, against 648 for the corresponding week t

THE PACIFIC, PACIFIC, United States mail steamship, Captain ARRIVALS OUT AT AUSTRALIA.—SeveraI vessels are
Nye, took her departure hence for New York on Wed- reported to have arrived at the antipodes, amongst which
usual
mails 167 passengers and a large cargo, besides the is the Salem, 910 tons register, Captain Cunningham,
usual mails on board. belonging to the "Fox" line, which was despatched hence.
A SCREW YACHT.—A very handsome little screw yacht, for Melbourne on the 7th December, by Mr. H. Fox, and
built on the Clyde, occasionally plies to and from the Cu. has made the run to Port- Philip Heads in seventy-three
nerd steamers lying in the river, for the use of Mr. days. The passengers were all well.
Charles M`lver, the enterprising manager of the line. The LAUNCH OF THE BERWICK WAILS.—The Berwick
vessel is prettily decorated in the cabin, and bears the Walls, a fine ship of 678 tons register, was launched as t
appropriate name of the Neptune. week from the building-yard of Messrs. M`Gowan Berwick.
AN UNLICENSED PILOT.—At the Police-court, on the ceremony of naming being performed b Mrs' . Joseph
Tuesday, Joseph Price, who had been dismissed from the Hubback, of this town. The vessel has been built for
pilot service since 1849, was fined £2O, or ordered to be Mr. Thomas Hubback, of Berwick, and Mr. Beasley, of
imprisoned for three Hanths, for obtaining £7, in two this toWn. A hands erne dijeuner was served, and a
sums, from Captain ding, of the Sea Nymph, and variety of toasts and sentiments appropriate to the event
Messrs. Casavetti Brothers, to whom he had falsely repre- of the day were proposed. The guests numbered fully
sented himself as a pilot, and by whom he had been paid 200, and comprised many of the most influential, as well
for services rendered in his assumed capacity. as the fairest, of the inhabitants of the neighbourhood.
SANKEY NAVIGATION. During the recent dry ALL SAINTS' SCHOOLS, GREAT NELSON-STREET.
weather upwards of forty coal and other flats have been The adjourned meeting of the committee, friends, and
retained in this canal, in consequence of the great scarcity subscribers to these schools was held on Tuesday evening
of water, and much to the annoyance and loss of the ex- last, in the girl's school-room, the Rev. Henry Marlen in
tensive coal and other proprietors of St. Helens. Several the chair, when it was resolved, after various suggestions,
flats have had to be lightened, so as to create a passage. to open the boy's school at Midsummer, thus completing
FATAL ACCIDENT IN. THE PRINCE'S- PARK. —On the three branches of girls', infants', and boys' schools.
Wednesday, Joseph Potter, a plasterer, living at 93, It is hoped that the inhabitants of the neighbourhood in
South Chester-street, was at work on a scaffolding in .Particular, and the public generally who acknowledge that
Devonshire-place, Prince's-park, when he fell to the education is the best .security against crime and im-
ground, and fractured his skull. Shortly afterwards morality, will aid the committee in providing the funds
life was extinct. necessary for carrying on this extensive establishment, as
UreeveronEsoaen MEAT.—On Wednesday, at the Police- the committee, at present, are under a heavy pecuniary
court, the following persons were each fined £2 and costs, responsibility. Every man is a steward, and has a duty
for exposing for sale unwholesome meat :—John Whitley, to perform to his neighbour.
London-road, John Owen, Peter - street, Mary Anne I MA.GISTERIAL CIVILITY AT WIGAN. ew days ago
Hewitt, Manley Moulson, Scotland-road, and Robert 1 one of the magistrates of Wigan was g near his
Whittaker, St. Martin's-market. place of business, when he was accos by another
Tuomas ATHERTON, who from papers found upon his 1 borough magistrate, who resides some distance from
person, appears to be a cabinet-maker, residing at Birken- Wigan, in the following manner :—" Well, sir, you were
head, was seized on Friday, with an epileptic fit in a I very particular when giving evidence the other day in
shop in Whitechapel. He was removed to the Northern I describing my property." "Certainly," answered the
Hospital, where he still remains in a very dangerous ' first, " I had to give evidence upon oath and wished to be
state. correct." " You were up the yard and strode it down r
NORTHWESTERN AND NORTH STAFFORD/MIRE RAIL- " Yes." " I wish I had seen you there." "So do I," was
the rejoinder. "If I had been there you would have
WAYS.—An arrangement has been entered into between
these companies, by which the former secures to the lat. come down much quicker than you went up." The answer
ter3f per cent, for to this was, "Yon could not have made me do that."
one year, from the 30th June next, and 1
' You would have seen." " Well; come and try your hand
4 per cent, afterwards, with the option on the part 1.
of the North Staffordshire to amalgamate at par., ,
at it now; lam quite ready." Upon hearing this, the
magistrate who had held out the threat turned round and
with the Loudon and North western, at any time
before 1860. went, away. Thus ended the meeting of two of Her Ma-
ST. HELEN'S.—APFOINTMENT OF A SURVEYOR.—At a jesty's justices of the peace for the borough of Wigan.—
special meeting of the Improvement. Commissioners, held Manchester Examiner.
on Wednesday last, Mr. John M`Manus, of Ormskirk, was STABBING CASES.—On Wednesday, three separate cases
appointed the successor of Mr. Daniel Burrow, as town of assault by stabbing were brought under notice of the
surveyor, at a salary of £l2O per annum ; he was also ap- police magistrate. The first was that of Jane Ann Big
pointed to the office of inspector of nuisances, at a salary gings, au elderly woman of forbidding aspect, who was
of £3O per annum. Mr. Anfanus has for several years charhged with stabbing Bridget Meßown, a married woman,
filled the office of town surveyor at Ormskirk. lived in the same court with the prisoner, in Chisen-
A STRANGE CASE came before the Police-court, on hale-street, and about noon onTuesday the prisoner rushed
Tuesday. On the previous day a girl, whose name was out of her house, brandishing two knives, which she
stated to be Green, was committed to prison for begging. sharpened before the prosecutrix, and told her she " would
have her life," and at the same time stabbed her several
She was dressed as a mendicant, and her mother, who ap-
times in the face. Complainant tried to get under the
peared in court, said she was the wife of a labourer. On
Prisoner's arms, to avoid the blows, when the latter threw
Tuesday, Sir George Stephen applied to ask for the child's
The complainant was taken to the. dispensary, where her
Mr. Leyland, away the knives and beat her severely all over her body.
release, saying that she was the daughter of
an artist, who appeared in court to support Sir George's
ody. The complainant presented a shocking appear-
application. The magistrates remarked that as the pa_
custwounds were dressed; and the prisoner was taken into
rentage of the child appeared exceedingly doubtful, they
ante in court, from the number of stabs she had received,
must refuse to release her.
less than four in different parts of her face, and two on
FEES FOR MEDICAL ATTENDANCE. Mr. Gilmour,
rer wrists, and she was so weak as to be hardly
surgeon, Park-road, sued William Ellerv, a police con- abler to
give her evidence. The prisoner did not deny thc
stable, in the County Court, on Wednesday, for 155., being but stated that the complainant had been calling her bad
the amount claimed for medical attendance upon the names for the last two or three years. It transpired that .
defendant's wife on the 24th of March, 1853, and six sub- the prisoner had lived with the complainant's husband for
sequent visits. The defendant alleged, that as his wife two years, but that he had lately gone back to live wit
had been ill of milk-fever she required great attention, his wife. Higgings was committed for trial at the assizes.
which was not, he said, afforded by the plaintiff, and that The next case was of a still more serious character. A
he had been consequently compelled to call in another
dissipated-looking fellow, named John Gillap, a journey-
medical attendant, and been also subjected to great pecu- man tailor, was charged with deliberately cutting the
niary loss. Mr. Gilmour said he had given the case all Johnson of Ann Barlow, an unfortunate, who lived in
the necessary attention, and only desisted when he found -street, on Tuesday afternoon. The victim of his
atrocity was in such a dangerous state at the Northern
that Mr. Higginson, surgeon, had been in attendance.
Hospital that she could not appear, and the case had to be
The defendant being unable to prove the allegation he had
adjourned. It appears that the prisoner deliberately
made as to any neglect on the part of the plaintiff, judg-
knocked the woman down, and taking from his pocket,
ment was given against him, and he was ordered to pay
the claim in two monthly instalments. knife, drew it across her throat, and was within a hair's
AWFUL RESULTS OP DRITNRENNEss.—On Tuesday breath of severing the jugular vein. At the moment of
evening, an inquest was held at the Ship Inn, Vicar's the occurrence the thoroughfare was crowded with people;
Moss, Rochdale, by Mr. Dearden, on the body of Alice but the ruffian had executed his demoniac purpose with
Pickup, who keeps the Moss Tavern bee
Aerate. Mrs. such promptitude and coolness, that no individual, though
Pickup had for a long time been of intemperate habits, many witnessed it, could prevent the murderous assault.
The officer duty instantly pursued the fellow, and after
and on the day previous drank spirits so greedily that by
ten o'clock in the forenoon she was quite intoxicated. Her a struggle suaveeded in arresting him. The prisoner and
husband, on going into the house, and finding her drunk, the wounded female had been cohabiting together for some
desired her to go to bed, but she refused- He then asked time, and a quarrel originated between them in the house,
her to go into the parlour from amongst the company, but when the female rushed out, and the revolting assault
she refused to do that, and when he carried her in ehe was above related ensued. In the other case the parties were
soon out again. As he could not manage her any other sailors. Robert Bloom, a tall, athletic seaman, charged
way he put her out of the house; she managed to get in another seaman named George Brown with stabbing him.
again, and he then pushed her back with both hands and They were.both in span cing-room, in Sparling-street, on
she fell heavily on her head upon the flags. The result Saturday night, Bloom dancing in company with a female.
was concussion on the brain, and death next morning Brown tried to trip him up several times, and a quarrel en-
about seven o'clock; Pickup immediately went "and in- sued. The female induced Bloom to leave the house, but
formed the police, and gave himself up. The jury brought while he was walking up the street, Brown ran after him;
in a verdict of " chance medley," and he was discharged and with a pocket-knife stabbed him under the left ear.
from custody. Bloom knocked the prisoner down, but soon became very
THE ASSAULT ON CAPTAIN GREIG.—In the Standard weak from loss, of blood, and was taken to the Southern
of last week we gave an outline of a riot which on the Hospital. The female wrested the knife from Brown, and,
preceding Sunday evening bad led to a violent assault on gave it to the complainant. The house-surgeon of the
Captain Greig, the head constable ; and stated that three Southern Hospital said that the complainant had received
men, named James Lofthouse, Patrick Coleman, and Hugh an incised wound four inches long, extending from the ear
Roan, had been brought before Mr. Mansfield charged to the lower jaw, and there were symptoms of erysipelas,
with the assault, and remanded till the following day. On which if it ensued, might terminate the case fatally. The
risoner was committed for trial.
Tuesday they were again arraigned on the charge, and the 13
following evidence was given. A man named Smith T.
...IVERPOOL IND .MANCHESTER AGRICULTURAL So-
stated that the prisoners were making a disturbance in CIETY.—The journal of this society has just been issued,
the street during the whole of Sunday afternoon. Whilst and contains a variety of information highly interesting
two of them were fighting the police came up, and, one of to members. With respect to the general prospects of
the men ran away down the street. Captain Greig after- the society, we extract the following paragraphs from the
wards came up, and the witness saw the prisoner Coleman report : The finances of the society, although. not in a
seize hold of him, but he could not say whether he struck flourishing, are at least in a satisfactory state, inasmuch
him or takeoMr. Superintendent Quick asked if he saw as the income—notwithstanding the additional premiums
the police t any Fran into custody. The witness said which have been given the last two years for poultry, and
Lofthouse was the man the officers were taking into cus- the other expenses attendant upon that department-ave
tody. The prisoners ran away whilst the officers were as- been just sufficient to meet the expenditure. It is, bow-
sisting Captain Greig. Before the row, the men threw ever, desirable that the treasurer, instead of being, as at
down their caps in the street, and challenged any person present, £lB Os. out of pocket, should have considerably
to fight. A man went and touched the cap, and they then more than that amount always in hand, RS a contingent
began to fight.—One of the officers heard Lofthouse say, fund. As a further call upon the' members for their ex-
" She
me the man that will fight me."—Mr. Mansfield ertions and support, it may here be stated that additional
said there was no doubt there had been a most disgrace- prizes are offered this year, and for the first time, for a
ful riot, -which might have been very serious in its result. draining match. These prizes, and the cost of printing
By the improper conduct of the prisoners the police were and advertising for the same, will occasion an extra ex-
assaulted, and the chief constable was attacked. With penditure of £3O or £4O. The number of members for
regard to Lofthouse and Roan, it was clear they were 1853, after striking off thirty-nine on account of deaths
fighting in the streets and behaving in a riotous and dis- and other causes, but including thirty-seven new mem-
graceful manner ; and with regard to Coleman, it had hers, is 459. The committee have determined upon con-
- tinning the prizes foroultry another year, after which,
as poultry shows haven w been established in Manchester
sbteaehnl
wanlaidt fin
ho
fho
ra the ouns
stahuei
tc,h ioerf ctowno
month's imprisonment in default of payment ; the other and Liverpool, and at more suitable seasons than the time
two, who did not appear to have committed any assault on usually fixed and considered best for the society's shows,
the police, but were fighting in the streets, were each it is probable they will be discontinued. In lieu of hold-
fined 305., or in default of payment one month's imprison- ing the next annual show in the City of Manchester, the
ment. comniittee, believing that the town of Altrincham will be
MATR/MONI/L RESPONSIBILITY.—On Wednesday last almost equally convenient to the members, and that the
a claim was brought in the County Court, by Mr. G. inhabitants of that town and neighbourhood are likely to
Crosby, butcher, Castle-street, Kirkdale, against Mr. take a lively .interest in the success of the show, have de-
George Howarth, to recover the sum of £6 9s. 11d. for termined that it shall be held there, on Friday, the Bth
butcher's meat, supplied to the wife of the defendant before September. They have much. pleasure in stating the
her marriage. The defence was that the meat had been Earl of Stamford and Warrington, who resides lint the
supplied, not to the wife of Mr. Howarth, but to her sister, neighbourhood, has pted the office of president fo the
Mrs. Captain Janes, Mrs. Howarth acting, as it was year, and. that pecuniary and other support has been pro-
a g , Ile ed merely as the agent of Mrs. Jones. From the raised by many of heyhab
evidence it appeared that previously to her marriage Mrs. Tim LIVERPOOL POST-OFFICE.—A parliamentary Holies
Howarth and her two sisters, Mrs.-Jones and Mrs. Wade, has just been published, containing estimates of the sums
lived in the same house, and that the meat was supplied required to defray the expenses of the collection and
for the use of all of them. As evidence that the furnishing management of the public revenue for the year ending
was at the instance of Mrs. Jones,. it was stated by the the 31st of March next- From this return we learn that
the salary of the Liverpool postmaster is £l,OOO a Year ;
defendant, and admitted by the plaintiff, that four instal-
the poundage allowed to postmasters and sub-postmasters
ments of 10s. each had been made by Mrs. Jones, and also
on the sale of postage stamps is £386. There are em-
that in March, 1853, the plaintiff, when informed by the
defendant that Captain Jones was in Liverpool, said he ployed at the post-office here 65 clerks, whose aggregate
salaries amount to £5,535 • 76 letter-carriers, whose wages
egehtolishies
in which
all three tthhreeoetrehesridledianlelva.istkwepast
amount to £4,122 ; 4 ru;al letter-carriers whose united
wouldshow
n gt he ant ntdh
ut to her. His Honour said,
in the name of the defendant's wife, and that the bills of
furnishings had been made o wages reach E 197 ; and 27 messengere, stampers, and
porters, with salaries coming in the whole to £1,732. The
that while believing all that the defendant had stated to char under the head " rents, rates, taxes, fuel, and
be true, he yet came to the conclusion that the wife of the light," amounts to £355. 56 sub-postmasters and
sub-
defendantre-
had kept the house and ordered the meat. It carvers divide amongst them £495 as salaries and £129
was not pretended that Mrs. Jones had ordered the meat, is the sum as
or paid one penny, until after she had got into difficulties. masters and receivers." 2 letter-carriers for the "allowances on money orders to sub-t-
A verdict was then given for. plaintiff. His Honour
informed the defendant that he might subpcena Mrs. postoffices have £7B between them. The total estimated
cost of the Liverpool postoffice is put down at £14,029,
against have the follow-
R 13,787 last year. As a note, we
to
steps were taken, he would hear her evidence before any in„
Jones, and compel her to attend at court, and, if such •
further particulars respecting the Liverpool pos pee,
further proceedings were taken. The defendant, however, There is one chief clerk at £l7O a year ; one clerk t£l>;
0 •
Jones, as she had been the instig,ator of the present suit,
seemed to think that it would be useless to subpeena Mrs.
one at £lOO ; three at £9O • seven at £BO ; of the remain-
one at Zl4O ; one at £l3O ; two at £l2O ; one at,
and payment was accordingly ordered to be made in three ing 46 clerks, those under 'three years' service hare £6O
monthly instalments. each, and those above three years' serviee have £7O, with
sation for loss of perquisites.
STRIKE.—We understand that, on Monday last, the the exception of one, who has only £55 a year. Two
engine vers upon the southern division of the London clerks have X as corr!pen
and Northwestern Railway were on the point of striking, Amongst the letter-carriers there is one inspector at £l2O
and leaving the traffic between London and Rugby, and a year ; 69 have 20s. a week, and six 18s. a week. Seven-
London and Birmingham, to take care of itself. The teen of the stampers get 110 aye ar each, two £6O, three
grievance is said to have been a desire on the part of the 28s. a week ; two porters £2ls. a week, and one at 16s.
locomotive superintendent of that division of the line to A man in charge of the gas-meter and heating apparatus
introduce the system of working the engines by contract. gets 21s. a week ; and an office servant has 220. Certain
HEALTH COMMITTEE.—The weekly meeting was held of the clerks, letter-carriers, and stampers receive addi-
on Thursday—Mr. Langsdale in the chair. A deputation tional pay for extra duty. The Manchester postmaster
from St. Ann-street and the neighbourhood waited upon has a salary of £260, with £360 as compensation for loss
the committee to complain of a house which had been let of fees. At Manchester 811etter-c,arriers, 20 rural carriers,
as a lodging-house for German emigrants. There were 11 stammers, 107 sub-masters and receivers, and 22 letter-
about 100 persons in it, and the nuisance was such as to carriers at sub-postoffices are employed. The total cost of
be detrimental to the health of the inhabitants. Mr. J. the establishment is estimated at £12,765, against £12,408
H. Pyer, one of the deputation, stated that he had a last year.
report from an inspector who visited the house. The SURGEON'S FEES IN POLICE CASES.—At the County
inspector found 119 persons there, and they were not Court, on Wednesday last, Mr. Steele, surgeon, Russell-
spread through the house, but confined to three apart- street, claimed the sum of five shillings' from Michael
Hanlon, spectacle maker, St. George's Bazaar, as his fee
meats. In ,two of the rooms there were thirty in each,
for attendance on Hanlon's wife. It appeared by the
lying indiscriminately together on litters of straw, and
evidence for the defence, that, Mrs. Hanlon having been
throwing themselves dome in their clothes just as they
pteoc t
getors aoiudtt hoef stenchouwsaes. injured by an assault, on the case coming before the
glaindspolice court, Mr. Mansfield directed her to be examined
tthheatstrheeetue.as
The chairman assured the deputation that they might by a surgeon, and the plaintiff was requested to do so.
asoppoeffnernedsivine
satisfied the nuisance would be abated.—A converse-
rest . Before making the examination, he requested Mrs. Ran-
t the co-operation between the cone- lon to say who would be responsible for his fee, and the
tion ensued relative o.
the medical committee of the vestry, for the police officers assured him that Mr. Mansfield would see
mittee and
attention, if required, to the cholera him paid. Mr. Steele said the woman was brought to his
purpose of directing
of
epidemic. After a good deal
.cony
ers upon the in fpolice officer and 1
surgery company o a
it being understood that a and the latter requested him to attend and treat her. .lle
subject, the matter dropped, Nes ry. The
thselect • t --I.'dasked to t abet th '
was afterwar s at enre e agistrates
representation would be made to e to somethe followingday in referce to the assault. H
Town-clerk read a tof proceedings relative .
which
. Godfrey, Preston-street,
did so, for which lie was paid, a• ie was a so
tt~
houses belonging
were not in accords with the provisions of the Sanitary attendance at the sessions. The plaintiff also stated that
Act. It was agreed that Mr. Godfrey should be allowed the woman's husband requested him to attend at the
the usual time for removing the buildings, and at the ex- police court, saying, that if the magistrates did not pay
piration of that time, if the orders of the committee were ii
im, he (the husband)
notingwoul do so.—e judge remarked
not complied with, proceedings would be taken.—The that Mr. Mansfield had te powe dancey the money ;
engineer called attention to what he considered was one of the defendant must pay for e atten in the first in-
the first fruits of the new act, a contrivance for cleaning stance, and he might bring an action for the recovery of
windows, by enabling persons to remove the window the amount from the person who had injured Mrs. Hanlon.
frame, and clean it on the outside, without any risk such DESERTING A Snip.— In the Whitehaven county court,
as that to which eervants and others were at present ex- on the 23rd ult., an action was tried in which Captain
posed in performing that operation.—Mr. Godfrey called Davison, master of the bark Eilerslie, belonging to Mr.
attention, on behalf of some residents in Marybone, to a Joseph Yourighusband, and Messrs. jones, Palmer, and
lodging-house for emigrants in that street, which was aCo , Liverpool, sued Mrs. Ann Todhunter, time landlady of
great nuisance. No fewer than 500 persons slept there at the' Albion Inn, Whitehaven, for £5O, damages due on
night. -The Town-clerk explained that a clause struck the breach of a bond entered into by her as the surety of
out of the local sanitary act, for empowering the medical her son, John Todhunter, lie having deserted the Ellerslie,
officer to go into a hou.se inhabited by more than one of which he was mate, in August, 1853, at Adelaide, be-
fainily, had been introduced into a general act recently fore the termination of the voyage. The substantial
ssed.—The inspector, of nuisances said that complaints defence was, that Todhunter left the vessel because she
bada been made respecting•an emigrants' lodging-house in mess unseaworthy, shorthanded, aiid ill-provisioned. The
Lime-street, corner of Skelhorn-street. The medical
-- jury gave a verdict for the ,defendant, and the foreman
officer repliedthat the house was about to be given up ag explained that their conclusion was founded on the unsea-
-1 dging-house, and it would be opened as an hotel. Adelaide.
8 o worthiness of the vessel previously to leavillg.