The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-17 00:00:00

March 17, 1846.

Loral anb proinntial f/rlll5.

The Great Liverpool steamer was insured for £30,000.
Workmen are erecting at the Zoological Gardens a co-
vered saloon, which will contain 4000 persons.
CELLARS.—On Wednesday nearly thirty parties were
fined by Mr. Rushton for letting off cellars for habitation
Which were not in accordance with the act of parliament.
Captain Clarke, son of the venerable Archdeacon Clarke,
of Eastham, fell in the late battle in India, bravely fight-
ing for the honour of his country,
On Wednesday, a man named Williams, in the employ
'of Mr. Parratt, of the rice mill, Seel-street, met his death
from
the breaking of one of the grinding stones.
A very splendid silver candelabrum has been presented
to Mr. James Wheeler, solicitor, Manchester, for profes-
sional services in many arduous public undertakings.
William Brown, Esq., of this town, has purchased from
the Marqberland,uis of Wateforr£3oo,ford tOOO he extensive estate of Ford, in
Northum.
MacLoughlin, aged 16 months, residing with
"is parents in Albert-street, Toxteth-paik, pulled a pan
of boiling water off the fire, and was so dreadfully scalded
as to die almost immediately.
On Tuesday, John Bennett, of Boundary-place, was
fined 40s. by Mr. Rushton for refusing a billet. The de-
fendant said the soldiers left his house in a hurry before
receiving a proper answer.
lii h vessels continue arriving at Liverpool and in the
river, laden with heavy freights of provisions ! This
°Peaks well for Irish landlords, who can thus drain a land
Which is on the eve of famine.
O Thursday,g several parties were fined 10s. and costs,
forsnel
fish unfit for human food in St. John's Market.
Also several dealers in pork were fined 20s. and costs, for
selling unwholesome pork.
On Wednesday week, a whale, weighing twelve tons,
and measuring 44 feet in length, was cast on shore at Pen-
b'aco, Wales. It has since been towed into Liverpool,
and is lying on the shore at Tranmere.
Mr. Ingram, of Birmingham, has been selected by the
committee to execute the enamelled paintings and decora-
,"ons for the grand staircase of the Town-hall at Liver-
Pool- The estimated cost of these decorations is nearly
£l,OOO.
Mr. Robert Angus has been appointed manager of
'the Liverpool Commercial Bank, in the room of Mr.
141.9regor, who has been elected a director. The nett
t,'Profitsh of the year 1815 were £46,752, and after paying
balancae of lfyexalr2mlyd2i9v.idend of five per cent., there was a
I,I3IRRENHEAD HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY.—On
Irriday the annual meeting of the above institution was
bneld. During the past year upwards of 280 patients had
been attended to at a cost of 6s. each. The total expen-
diture for the year was £657, and there was a balance of
A:4l due to the treasurer.
LOCAL BILLS.—The Herculaneum Docks Bill passed
'•
,ding orders on Tuesday. The object is to sell the
illccics to Birkenhead parties. The following bills have
been read a first time :—The Birkenhead Improvement
▪ the Birkenhead Small Debts Bill, and the Warring-
ton Waterworks Bill.
f "'he Birkenhead, iron steam-frigate, recently launched
rom M r. Laird's building-yard, at Birkenhead, has been
nrdeereetdive to
lSheerness to be fitted for sea. She is the lar-
Rest iron steamer in the British navy •, her engines being
eon
of 560-horse-power, and her tonnage, car-
Penter's measurement, 1,400 tons.
teS rrhe ne which left New York the day before
Patrick Henry, and was supposed to have been de-
atehed by Mr. Pakenharn with the Oregon correspon-
dence, arrived at Cork on Friday week. She had encoun-
t
!red very bad weather, and had been obliged to lie to for
eleven
days. The Patrick Henry arrived at Liverpool on
AndaY fortnight.
o ds of 11,000 tons were offered for sale
&hursday, consisting of Ichaboe, Saldanha Bay. Chi-
/V' B'c. About 600 tons sold£6 for
Chi-
tic aboe. The remainder was taken in chiefly at £7 17s.
,Ind 8 for fine Ichuboe, £4
Peru Saldanha Bay and Pos-
jee'Vori Island, and £9 15s. vian. The sale was but
'll.fferently attended.
LeVECHANICS' INSTITUTION.—The annual meeting was
itg gez" Wednesday. The girls' school is not only paying
generPenses, but has contributed a handsome sum to the
elle al funds. The institution will have been in exist-
eifoe,tFenty-one years on the Bth June next, and a strong
still 15 to be made to pay off by that time the debt which r
wilt mains against the institution, by the time that it
clectedave attained its majority. 11r. \V. Brown was
SRA,„Fresident for the ensuing year.
COrnitiol., CRUELTY.—On Wednesday Mr. Rushton
ed two men to gaol for fourteen days, for having
tineY tortured a cat. They applied spirits of turpen-
adriftt° the animal's tail, set it on fire, and turned it
v., It ran into the street in extreme agony, and was
Bents"Enaty killed by some persons passing. The defen_
were employed at the Coalbrookdale Ironworks,
tea brow; but the manager, on being apprised of their
el conduct, had dismissed them.
THE STRIKE
AT BIRKENHEAD.—The joiners, who
turned out last week for an advance of 3s. per week, still
remain idle, the masters refusing positively to give the
addition. Yesterday week, the ranks of the idlers were
Joined by the masons, who refuse to work under 28s. per
Week, their former wages being 265. Nearly all the
;vorks in Birkenhead are consequently stopped, The
cricklayers and plasterers have declared their intention
14 striking to-day.
COMMERCE OF LIVERPOOL.—The town dues for the
half-year ending 28th February, as compared with the
corresponding period of last year, is in excess by upwar la
of £4,5i0 and it is more than probable, the gross
in
"me from this source, for the whole year, will produce
IlPvyards of £BO.OOO : this amount, when contrasted with
the
3,Altreceipts for the years 1824.5 (a little over X-1,1,000).
Tr at once, evidence the rapidity with which the corn-
' Tr of the port has increased in the last twenty years.
Pleteeßibuildine; business in Manchester is all but at a com-
ogula2:e,;r:4enrutis'ingMasons, bricklayers, joiners, plumbers and
cases S
Painters, are all out; the masters in fact, in many
to employ even the few that object to turn
ehecill° doubt influenced by the opinion that no effectual
'With ca° be put to the unreasonable demands of the men
eorn:ut turning the entire adrift, and by this means, in
from
_degree, prevent the few who might be employed
"ntributing to the funds of the various trades' Cla`lona.
At a
meeting of the select vestry on Saturday, it was
,ermined that a deputation, consisting of Mr. Scholfield,
patekloughton, and the Vestry Clerk, should be dis-
the I'ed to London that evening, with full powers to adopt
boest means of having a clause inserted in the new
04c.1,11/4,13in, which would have the effect of making the Wap-
lioal. "ock Warehouses liable to the payment of church and
that :;?•tes, like the Albert Dock Warehouses. It appeared
leet, `Lue Dock Committee had been written to on the sub-
view but that they declined to insert the clause. An inter-
Willj be obtained also with the Mayor.
.%Itk"usY.—At Salisbury assizes, on Tuesday, Daniel
t'se ,_ther, a private in the Ist Dragoon Guards, was tried
illuoting at his wife. He had been absent a fortnight,
Wife7tve, and on his return heard some reports against his
itfterB character which, however, were unfounded, and
logs explained. Writhing under the pangs of jea-
tredihe went out and got intoxicated, and on his return
Hislls carbine at his wife, but without wounding her.
extre character had always been good, and he had been
Iteciaitt4cly kind to her. She pleaded for him and he was
pool. ted._
his
friends
and his wife belonged to Liver-
siu hite, 9e was then a ver wel-behaved young man. He
ieti tos friends in Liverpool) during the furlough that
1,40 this unfortunate occurrence.]
Ins) 411 SOCIETIES.—On Thursday, upwards of twenty
gstllll"ses against defaulters to various lean societies,
traces orromers and sureties, were heard before the magis-
etali The defendants were generally of the humbler
Pt1,,,0.f. society, many of them apparently in distressed
rst—''ances. Some of the sureties stated that they un-
cne od their liability only extended to the payment of
thersualf. or one-third the amount borrowed, according as
bre, nalght be two or three sureties. Mr. Rushton ex-
-11„,, sed his belief that loan fund societies were a bounty
trull th
tkdi e Prodigality of the poor, for whom they worked
o Y.
I.-r af e directed that an account be kept of the num-
leve., eases brought into court by each society, as he be-
°f the there was some defect in the management of many
St 4.41. There were some societies who never came there
1 \‘'
:tte,..r DERBY UNION.—At the meeting on Tuesday a
4rtbijas read from the Poor law Commissioners, con-
uqficerg the election of Mr. John Rowland, as relieving-
t or Toxteth-park district of the union ; but decli-
?,ther sanction the appointment of Mr. Tristram for the
tlae ,two districts • and urging the board to proceed to
Zr,ctttwecht4i°in of a separate . for each ;to
'r. -ien, at the next sitting, a notice was entered by
the-.eatherbarrow. The next subject was the proposal
4tlns commissioners to assign to each of the more popu-
ta,, tow,.
,Anlps,—Toxteth-park, West Derby, and Ever-
!top, an additional number of guardians. The additions
Vont)" were, seven for the Park, making the whole
.‘°Wt4ehri twelve ; two for West Derby, making five for that
treade P and one for Everton, in addition to the two
tps,if sent from thence. The expenditure of those town-
°' the three years ending on the 25th of the pre-
,. estsl;mth, was as follows :—Toxteth-park, £6,412 ;
itts,e.-uerby
tk_ £3,33s;Everton, £1,078. Mr. Lloyd Te-
co„ls, motion of last week on this subject, assuring
„ue pr,s-'ll3lssioners that the Board cordially acquiesces in
ittErtreet'teP‘ tied to
arrangement; and that they be 'respectfully
Ise et Ni,` ,to issue their instructions to have it carried into
",tr. b qflout delay. A long discussion took place, when
't4t_ll(l4ted"tkell Proposed an amendment, that it be recorn-
thvesten
.%) the commissioners to give to West Derby and
e nanljne additional guardians proposed, and to reduce
ent %,.."'er for the Park from seven to four. The amend-
li,AitusTearried by a majority of l 2 to 5.
. pe, a CONDUCT.—About six or seven months
e,pool ; of Lockwood, near H ucl de sfield, being at
fell In with a young girl, a Miss B. 8., and
•thr, whit In obtaining permission to pay his addresses to
le! hoy: itl fact, he had a wife and four children. Since
ho.tialls
,neriod he has been most unremitting in his at-
frequ' Ills visit being rarely less than once a fortnight.
Whi'viisheedly twice and thrice a week. A short time since
ja he jeer to prepare everything for. the marriage,
% Inrroed her should most certainly take place
letttelrll last
Week,
month. In this.
.way the affair passed
froo, , when the lady receiving a very ambiguous
then she ,er deceiver, determined to pay him a visit,
and "Id on Sunday last, in company with her bro-
tst4d to up at the Swan Hotel. The brother pro-
heat'lled to"-Vek,004, to find his sister's lover, and. both
th... ties,
vy the inn, where they took tea, after which the
to7.raeatit, retch escorted his dupe round the town. In
lipect oa, east,
the neglected wife having heard what was
tstecteded `,l Company with her mother, and other friends,
hmru, lo the hotel Her husband however, on
inns . • __
tti‘th he bade further than the front door of th,
blisslng 'le his still ignorant victim good night. On
tfe.ged viliroom, and being informed of his accom-
tit short 4.7, she was completely horror-struck ; but
tte,_ Cre time she rallied, and her indignation and dis-
cttil,.rinaa.,.:wounded. The wife returned home in a state
qled bed than •described. The brother and sister
"" Liverpool the next day.-Ikfanehr. Guardian.