The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-30 00:00:00

THE CITY OF MANCHESTER.—Our good neighbours of
Manchester bother us sadly with the pertinacity with
which they poke their new acquisition of " city In our
faces. The worthy Mr. Jeames's fellow servants could
scarcely see their quondam comrade in plush dignified
amongst noble and right honourable provisional commit-
tee-man, as " Jeames, Esq.," with a feeling more strange
than is created by the perusal in the Manchester papers
of the constantly recurring expression " our city," &c.
They might spare our envious feelings for awhile, until
we get used to our humble position.
ESPARTERO IN LlVERPOOL.—Espartero, Duke of Vic-
tory, the celebrated general of the Spanish force against
Don Carlos, in the civil war which determined the succes-
sion of Donna Isabella to the throne of Spain and who
has for some time been an exile in this kingdom, is at
present the guest of Sir Arthur Ashton, of Ashton Hall,
Cheshire. On Tuesday morning he arrived with his suite,
by rail from Preston Brook, at the railway-station in
Lime-street, and immediately proceeded to the Adelphi
Hotel, where he took lunch. He afterwards visited St.
George's Hall, the Docks, St. James's Cemetery, and
other objects of interest in the town, and appeared very
much pleased fat all he witnessed. He returned to the
Adelphi Hotel in the afternoon, and left town again by
railway, at five o'clock.
ENGLAND'S RULING POSITION GRATIFIED.—We de-
light in monstrosities. The exhibition of a murderer
would attract a concourse of g'izers, whilst the sight of
" a good man suffering under adversity " would fail to
draw. A showman in the neighbourhood of Queen's-
square, gifted with a thorough appreciation, has in his
window, as one of the notable things to be seen inside, an
announcement of " the identical panther which attacked a
gentleman in his gig near Huddersfield." What a hit
Wombwell would make, if some day, the lion, which per-
mits a female keeper to put her head into his mouth, and
draw it out again, was to take a fancy to snap off the same
delicate morsel, by way of lunch ! Who could resist an
invitation to see the hidentical lion, which bit off the
young 'oman's head as was his keeper "?
IRtsx POOR.-The number of passengers by the Irish
steamers to this port, during the week, are as follows :
Men. Women. Children. Total.
Cabin passengers 162 .. 71 .. 22 .. 256
Emigrants to the United •
States and Canada 714 .. 590 .. 319 .. 1523
Paupers
Jobbers...
In the absence of any suitable asylum for emigrants, they
are to a great extent mixed with the paupers, in the very
worst parts of the town ; and there can be little doubt that,
during their temporary sojourn, the seeds of disease are
amply deposited for the subsequent melancholy harvest of
ship-fever, pestilence, and death, which these unfortunate
people carry pith them to their future home, too frequently
their grave. No means have yet been devised for dealing
with the mendicant class.

At a time of monetary pressure, like the present, loud
complaints are made by the shipowners of the state of the
law respecting payments of freight on cargoes hypothecated
to the East India Company. Freights to the amount of
£24,000 are said to be owing by the honourable company
on cargoes claimed by them in Liverpool alone, not one
sixpence of which can the shipowner obtain either in
money, meal, or malt. A shipowner should be put on the
same footing as a railway carrier, and payment made in
cash on delivery of goods. Now is the time for shipowners
to press for an amendment of the law, as it is clear mer-
chants are too ready to put whatever construction they
think proper on both law and custom to suit their own
convenience. The custom of Liverpool was to pay India
freights two months after arrival; the East India Asso-
ciations altered it lately, by resolution, to two months
after delivery, or an allowance of two months' interest for
cash.

STRANGE AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday morn-
ing, a labouring man, named George Cooke, was found
dead at the bottom of Railway Tunnel shaft, in Pem-
broke-street. Both his thighs and one arm were broken.
The depth of the shaft is about 65 feet. It appeared that
the deceased came from Ayrcastle, in Staffordshire, in
search of work ; and, on Monday morning he and another
man went to the shaft, but did not get employed. About
noon they proceeded to a public house, in London-road,
and remained the whole of the day. quarrel took place
between the deceased and a man named Henshaw, during
which some blows were struck, but they afterwards be-
came reconciled. They all left the house together, and
walked the streets till two o'clock in the morning, when
they proceeded to the shaft in Pembroke-street. The
deceased then strayed away, and nothing more was beard
of him until he was found dead at the bottom of the shaft.
He had climbed over the palings which surround the shaft,
and it is supposed must have fallen in accidentally.
LIVERPOOL WINTER ASSIZES.—The winter assizes for
the southern division of this county are to open, at Liver-
pool. on Saturday, the 11th of December, before Mr.
Baron Alderson and Mr—Justice Coltman. There are
already upwards of eighty prisoners for trial. Of the
prisoners for trial, four are charged with murder, four
with infanticide, twenty-one with burglary, and no less
than ten with stabbing. There are eight charged with
manslaughter, one with intent to murder, five with
bigamy, and twelve with robbery 'from the person : five
charged with forgery, one with horse-stealing, one with
calf-stealing, one with night-poaching, one with receiving
stolen property, one with making a false declaration, and
two with perjury. There are also six mint cases. Of the
four cases of murder. one is' that of James Dwerryhouse,
the maniac who killed the young woman at Knowsley,
who is still in the Lunatic Asylum, and we believe will not
be brought before the court. A second case is that of
Robert Pilkington, charged with the murder of his wife,
at a village near Bolton; a third, that of Ann Mather,
for poisoning her husband at Warrington, and the fourth,
the case of Joseph Speed, remanded from last assizes,
charged with killing two or three of his children at Man-
chester, and attempting to murder his wife.
n eTaltir TN' Egv4:9lWg. BIRKENHEAD.—II..
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Theological College a visit, and was received' by the
Principal, the Rev. Joseph Baylee. The students assem-
bled in the chapel at twelve o'clock. and all being in
readiness, the Rev. Dr. M`Neile, with the Rev. Joseph
Baylee, and other visitors, entered the chapel. Prayer
and an excellent discourse on the 2nd chapter of Hebrews
were delivered by the Rev. Dr. M`Neile, which lasted an
hour. At one o'clock, dinner was announced, the party
consisting of the Rev. Dr. M`Neile ; the principal, the
Rev. Joseph Baylee ; the secretary of the college, Captain
Groves ; the Revs. Hirsch, J. A. Page, Dr. Poggi,
and resident students of the college. After the repast,
the Rev. Dr. WlsTeile visited the new chapel, the libra-
ries, the reading-room and bed-rooms, and expressed
himself pleased with the arrangements and domestic com-
forts of the establishment. Dr. M`Neile, in his address
to the students, explained to them the very great advan-
tage they had over the students of other universities ; for
they, the students at Birkenhead, were putting into prac-
tice, by their district visiting, the theoretical knowledge
they obtained at their divinity lectures. The students
seemed highly delighted, and felt fully the very just re-
marks of the rev. doctor, that, at the time of ordination,
the students would understand the management of a
parish, and thus be of very great utility to their incumbents,
and at the same time a blessing to the church of Christ.
IMPORTANT TO SURVEYORS AND ENGINEERS.—At the
Birkenhead County Court, a case was brought up for
final decision on Tuesday last, which had previously ex-
cited considerable interest amongst this class of gentle-
men. It appeared from the evidence that Mr. West,
surveyor to the Wallasey commissioners, finding that the
published map or plan of the parish was incorrect in
many points, employed a surveyor named Davis (who
had previously made application to him for employment)
to survey certain lines and places, with the view of ascer-
taining whether the defects could not be remedied without
the cost and trouble of a new survey of the parish. Mr.
Davis, having made the necessary examination on the
subject, reported to Mr. West the extent of the error,
and stated at the same time that he could much easier
make a new survey than correct the old plan. Mr. West,
it appeared, then engaged him to make a new survey ;
but before he had completed the whole of the parish, he
(Mr. West) countermanded the order, and desired Davis
to complete the plans as far as he had surveyed. Mr.
West subsequently gave to a Mr. Unwin a promissory
note on account of Mr. Davis, conditionally that the plans
were completed to his satisfaction. For this amount Mr.
Unwin sued, but was nonsuited. He then proceeded on
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amount was refused, and an action commenced for £2O,
the amount charged being £23 3s. 6d. ; but, on a further
examination of the survey, it was found so incorrect, that
Mr. West resisted the whole amount, and the case was
brought before the court on the 23d ult. On hearing the
case, his Honour decided that it should be left to the
arbitration of Lient. Lord, by whose award in the matter
he would abide, and on Tuesday his award was handed
into court. Lieut. Lord (who heard the evidence of Mr.
Gage and others, who had inspected the plan and tested
it) was of opinion that the plan was totally incorrect, and
therefore the claim was dismissed.
BUILDERS' ASSOCIATION.—Great dissatisfaction has
long been felt by many persons engaged in building oper-
ations with the enactments of the Sanatory Bill, and with
the recommendations and requirements of the Health Cora-
mittee of the Town Council. They have in conseqnence,
we understand, formed themselves into an association for
the protection of their interests, and for the purpose of
obtaining the amelioration of such of the regulations as
are in their opinion needlessly arbitrary and costly.
Everybody is now agreed that it is of vast impor-
tance to the well-being of Liverpool that its sanatory
condition should be improved, and no one more so than
the proprietors of houses in the town, and those who make
their living in its different branches ; as, of course, the
more inhabitants who settle here, the more dwellings, &c.,
will be required. The builders feel, however that the au-
thorities have been ill-advised, and require the observance
of certain modes of construction which, without being es-
sential to the attainment of their object, add needlessly to
the cost, and, consequently, to the rent of houses. Our
excellent stipendiary, in his desire to enforce the law, and
to dispatch business, is thought not to give to the repre-
sentations of parties who have been summoned before him
for infractions of the Sanatory Act that attention which is
due to them ; and it is thought that if some of his decisi-
ons were appealed against they would be reversed, and
that eventually, Mr. Rushton would be disposed to modify
his hasty judgments. Appeals, however, involve costs,
and it is justly thought that an outlay, which tends to the
benefit of builders generally, should be borne by the body
at large, and not by individials. An adjourned meeting
of the association was held at the Brunswick Hotel, on
Friday evening, when the rules which had been proposed
by the committee were adopted, together with several re-
solutions, which appear in our advertising columns. In
the course of the evening several illustrations were given
of the arbitrary character of the Sanatory Bill, and of the
recommendations of the Health Committee. The meet-
ing, which was numerous and highly respectable, separated
well pleased with the prospect of security which the for-
mation of this association promises to afford them.—From
a correspondent.