The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-09-14 00:00:00

Tit LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

A PILOT NEARLY DROWNED.—A few days ago, Mr,
John Williams, third master of No. 6 pilot-boat, had a
most miraculous escape from death, while attempting to
board a barque off Point Lynas, during a furious north-
wester, with a heavy sea running; which precluded the use
of a small boat. The large pilot-boat ran alongside the
barque, and as Williams attempted to jump into the mizen
rigging of the barque, he missed his hold, and fell between
the two vessels into the sea. As they pitched and rolled
heavily, every body on board thought he would be crushed
to death between them, when fortunately he rose to the
surface, and struggled hard to keep himself up. In an
instant a life-buoy was thrown to him from the pilot-boat,
which sustained him in the water until four of his brave
companions launched the punt and pulled to his assist-
ance, and rescued him from his perilous situation in a very
exhausted state, after having been in the water half-an-
ho ur.

LOCAL MEETINGS.

HANK OF LIVERPOOL.—Tbe sixteenth annual meeting
of the proprietors of this bank was held on Friday. There
was a pretty fair attendance of the shareholders. Mr.
Samuel Sandbach took the chair; and the report of the
directors was read, from which it appeared that the capital
of the bank was £625,000, and the reserved fund, which
on the 30th of June, 1846, amounted to £250,000,
amounted on the 30th of June last to £270,000, thus
showing an increase in that department of £20,000. A
dividend for the year of ten per cent. was declared, and
Messrs. R. H. Blundell, Hardman Earle, and W. R.
Sandbach, were appointed directors in the place of the
gentlemen who retire.
WEST DERBY GUARDIANS.—At the meeting, on Wed-
nesday, Mr. Sheppard took the chair. A letter was read
from the Poor-law Commissioners, wishing to have the
opinion of the guardians as to the grievance complained
of by Mr. Parker, in his letter to them, respecting the
manner in which Mr. Allen, the relieving officer for West
Derby. performs his duties, and the mode adopted by him
for giving relief in Bootle. It was agreed that the law-
clerk should draw up an answer to the Poor'-law Com-
missioners, which lie did. The letter stated that to the
best belief of the guardians, the officer had followed the
course of his predecessor, and being a young officer, and
his duties being also very heavy, he might have pursued
the course stated by Mr. Parker, but that he has now
adopted the mode of paying each pauper separately.
From the fever hospital report it appeared that there
were remaining in the house last wetk 112 ; dismissed
during the week 43 ; dismissed cured 27 ; died 7 ; re-
maining in the house 119. Mr. Appleby gave notice that
he would, on Wednesday, move that so much of the mo-
tion relating to the immediate payment of the parochial
rates be rescinded.
BIRKENHEAD CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.—On
Friday, a numerous and respectable meeting of the Bir-
kenhead Church Missionary Society was held at St. Mary's
Church, Birkenhead, the Rev. Andrew Knox in the chair.
Amongst the clergy present we observed the Rev. J. H.
Baylee, and several of the clergy of Liverpool, Birkenhead,
and the neighbourhood. After the 84th hymn had been
sung, the chairman offered up an appropriate prayer, and
proceeded to open the business of the meeting. He stated
that he had great pleasure in meeting the assembly at, the
anniversary of their Church Missionary Society. He felt
thankful, indeed, that the society had continued till that
day. It was now 18 years since he (Mr. Knox) had been
allowed to establish this society, and he thought that there
was now great cause for deep thankfulness to the Lord for
this blessing. In the year 1846, the sum collected was
£223 ls. Bd., and the disbursements only £3 Is. Bd., be-
sides which there were annual subscriptions, and the
amount collected at the Church of the Holy Trinity, and
other sources, which made the total income of • the society
£269. True it was that in one year they sent up as much
as £3OO to the parent society ; but this year there had been
a great want of money, and he (the chairman) was grateful
to the Almighly that they had been able to collect so much.
The meeting was then addressed by the Rev. William
Hill, of Leicester, the Rev. William Machin, minister of
Christ's Church, Derby, and the Rev. Henry Carpenter,
secretary of the Liverpool branch of the society, who
severally entered into details of the operations of the
society and its missionaries in India, China, Sierra Leone,
New Zealand, and other parts of the world. A collection
was made before the close of the meeting, which took place
at a quarter past nine o'clock .
HARRINGTON WATER WORKS.—A general meeting of
this company was held on Wednesday, at the Clarendon-
rooms, to receive the directors' report on the sale of the
works to the corporation. The Chairman (Harewood
Banner, Esq.,) detailed the steps which the directors had
taken in opposing the Corporation Water Bill, and said
that the corporation must now purchase the water com-
panies before obtaining water from Rivington Pike or
any other place. He then read an account of the various
interviews and conferences which had occurred, from
which it appeared that Mr. Lace was the only member of
the Council present at them, and that the deputation pro-
posed to recommend twenty-five years purchase, and to
accept of the bonds of the Corporation for payment by
convenient instalments; that if these terms were agreed
to, the dividend of last year might be taken ; if not, the
present income and prospective advantages of the com-
pany would form the basis of the company's claim. Mr.
Lace said a money price should be named, and he offered
a. certain sum, which Mr. Hawksley thought sufficiently
large, but which the directors declined to accept. The
chairman concluded by saying that the directors con-
sidered they stood in the same position as if no offer or
sum had been named—that the Corporation were in the
same position—that both were entering freely and fairly,
SMUGGLING.—WiIIiam Holford, master of a flat, was unprejudiced and unfettered into the arbitration agreed
on Friday fined £lOO, for having a large quantity of and that the directors would be in safe hands when in those
tobacco secreted in his vessel, but as he appeared to have of Mr. Stephenson, who would give a fair and full con-
sideration for the present and increasing value of their
been the victim of other parties, his case was recommended
to the merciful consideration of the Excise. On the same property. (Applause.) In reply to Mr. Sandbach, the
day, two seamen, belonging to the Frederick William, of chairman stated that the decision of the arbitrator must
Dantzic, were remanded, on a charge of having a quantity be given within six months, and that until the payment
of tobacco concealed under their beds. The cook of the of the purchase-money the proprietors would be entitled
same vessel submitted to a fine of 40s. and costs, for to all their receipts. Upon the motion of Mr. R. Mather,
smuggling four pounds of leaf tobacco. seconded by Mr. Sandbach, the report of the directors was
MARINE STORE DEALER'S CASE.—Ellen Nicholson, unanimously adopted ; and Mr. Stephenson was appointed
the keeper of a marine store in Harrington-street, Tox- sole arbitrator. Mr. Jevons said the sum offered by the
teth-park, was placed at the police-court on Friday, Council (£300,000) was a direct and deliberate insult to
on a charge of receiving stolen cotton. Storey, 253,
the company, and only equal to the sum offered two years
stated that on the preceding day he saw a girl enter
before, when the works were less valuable. The Chair-
Nicholson's store, and place a small quantity of cotton on
man said the directors had not the slightest intention of
the scales ; the prisoner was in the act of putting her offering the property for less than twenty-five years pur-
hand into her pocket to take out the money for payment, chase. The question would be, what was the income,
when the officer arrested her. It is not the first time that whether the past, the present, or an increasing income ;
Mrs. Nicholson has been before the bench on similar
but all would be claimed that in fairness and justice could
charges. The child who offered the cotton for sale, was, be demanded. The money must be paid before the 22nd
by the judicious consideration of Storey, brought up as of January, 1848, and the company were precluded from
evidence against the woman, though it was not taken. creating the new shares.
The prisoner was committed to prison for one month. THE LIVERPOOL RAGGED SCHOOL SOCIETY.—On
ILLEGAL PAWNING.—A prostitute, named Mary Ann Tuesday, the first annual meeting of the members of this
Wilson, was brought before Mr. Rushton, on Friday, society was held; Mr. Timothy Jevons in the chair. Mr.
charged by John Davis, a seaman, with stealing his jacket F. Hornblower, the secretary read the report. which stated
and five dollars. It appeared that the man accompanied that donations and subscriptions had been received in ac-
Wilson to a house in Thomas-street, on Thursday night, cordance with the resolutions and addresses issued at the
and that on the following morning he missed the money formation of the society. Two schools were opened in
and his jacket. The jacket had been pledged. The case July, 1846, as free evening schools for the poor, one for
resolved itself into one of illegally pledging. She was boys at 7, Newhall-street, and the other for girls at 35,
required to pay ss. or a fine of twenty, or to be imprisoned Greenland-street. They were immediately crowded and
seven days. Mr. Rushton ordered the pawnbroker to besieged by applicants for instruction, and much difficulty
deliver up the jacket, and remarked that when women of was experienced in getting them into anything like order,
the description of the prisoner came to pledge articles of especially in the boys' school, when, however, the exer-
men's clothing, it might be readily inferred that they had ertions of the able master were successful. Subsequently
been obtained in a dishonest manner. a second boys scnool was opened in the room belonging
CAUTION TO TRADESMEN.—On Friday, a woman to the soup kitchen, in New Bird-street, under the super-
named Eleanor Whitehouse, was brought before Mr. intendence of the same master, his place in Newhall-street
Rushton, charged by Mrs. Margaret Barton Redfern, being afterwards well filled by another efficient teacher,
with having obtained three pair of stays from her under each of the two principal masters having also an assistant.
false pretences. The prisoner had ordered the stays under A second girls' schools also was formed in the neighbour-
a fictitious name. A number of other shopkeepers, all hood of the first. The soup kitchen being occupied until
of whom had been victimized by Whitehouse, attended, a later hour than usual last winter, it became necessary to
and detailed the fraudulent practices of the woman. The remove the boys' school assembling there to Greenland-
magistrate informed them that the only course open for street, the girls' school being then removed into a spacious
redress was by an appeal to the County Court. The wo- room, at 7, Bedford-street, Toxteth-park. The average
man was of course dismissed. She had not left the court number of boys actually attending in the two schools was
many minutes before a man of respectable appearance 93; that of girls 92, The four schools were thus carried
came into court and begged protection. Ii appeared that on without interruption till the end of June, 1847, when
the man was the husband of the female swindler, and com- the prevalence of fever in the district made the committee
plained of one of her victims, who had followed the pair deem it right to close them for two months, securing the
from the court and annoyed them. The person thus renewed services of the teachers at the end of that term.
offending expressed his determination to follow the parties They regretted to state that Mr.Dewer, an earnest and valu-
for the purpose of proclaiming their practices, which he able master of the Newhall-street school, himself fell a vic-
described as a systematic, plan of swindling. The magis-
tim to the fever. Looking back at the past year, the commit-
trate informed the gentleman that the law would not tee thought that much good had been done, and the pos-
bear him out in that course, and advised him to comma- sibility of doing still greater demonstrated. The premises,
nicate with the secretary of the Guardian Society. however, hitherto occupied were not spacious enough for
SMOKE NUISANCE.—On Tuesday four informations the purpose. To complete the system, the committee were
were heard before the magistrates against the proprietors of opinion that industrial day schools should be esta-
of furnaces and mills for not consuming their own smoke. blished, in which neglected children that had no legiti-
The first information was against Mr. Thomas Raws- mate means of getting a livelihood might be fed as well as
thorn, proprietor of a furnace in a
Limekiln-lane, and a taught, and in which they might be instructed in the prac-
policeman deposed to seeing, on the 3d ult , black tice of some art, and thereby acquire habits of steady and
smoke issuing from the defendant's premises at. mid-day. regular industry. But the committee had not felt them-
Mr. John Grantham stated that he was an engineer, and selves in a position to attempt more than the establish-
that he was acquainted with the premises occupied by the ment of evening schools for poor children occupied during
t
defendant. He inspected the engine apparatus there on the day, which schools they thought might be advanta-
the 9th of August, and found that the boiler was of eyihi_ geously extended over the whole town. The report, in
drical shape. There was a fire underneath it ; and the conclusion, announced with regret that the funds were ex-
smoke-burning apparatus was applied, but the air being hausted; a school of 60 scholars, it was estimated, might be
admitted at the back, fell in various ways. The smoke- supported with an annual amount of £4O. The statement
burner seemed tolerably successful. The defendant said of accounts showed a balance in hand of only £5 10s. 81d.
the boiler had been there for thirteen years, and that since BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS.—The usual monthly
the apparatus had been applied, there had been some board was held on Tuesday. C. 13entham, Esq., in the
trifling repairs. He named four new rivets in the furnace. chair.—The minutes of the Lighting and atching Cora-
He (Mr. Grantham) was of opinion that the age of the mittee having been read, Mr. Greene observed that he
boiler was the cause of the failure, and not the apparatus. thought it rather churlish to refuse the assistance of the
He was also of opinion that it was quite practicable to police at the Eastham regatta, as Birkenhead had often
affix a smoke-consuming apparatus to the boiler. Mr. availed itself of the assistance of Liverpool officers. It
James M'Donald stated that he was the engineer to the was explained that the only reason why assistance had
Liverpool and Harrington Water-works Company, and not been afforded was, because the Birkenhead police
that he had several steam-engines under his charge. He could not legally act out of Birkenhead. The proceedings
had applied the smoke-consuming apparatus, and he had were then confirmed. The proceedings of the Market
succeeded in consuming smoke without any apparatus at Committee recommended the reduction of the rents of
all, at one of the company's stations. At the station in the green-grocers' stalls from £8 to £6, and of the fish
William-Henry-street he had consumed the smoke with- shops from £l5 to £l3. As a considerable amount of
out the apparatus, and at the several other stations of the rent was due from the tenants, it was recommended by
company he had the consuming apparatus applied ; and no the chairman that the rents should be collected weekly.
injury to the boiler had ever taken place, so far as he The minutes of the Finance Committee contained a reso-
knew. He had used the apparatus with his boilers for the lution, accepting the purchase of the park land by the
last five or six years. The defendant said that his smoke- Park Building Company. It appeared from the proceed-
burner consumed in a better manner than any at the ings, that Messrs. Rampling and Brittain had been ap-
north end of the town, but that it was a great detriment pointed valuers of the land by the magistrates, and that
to the boiler. He had ordered a new boiler, and paid the price fixed was ss. per square yard. In answer to Mr.
£l5O for it ; and if it were not for the smoke-burning Hicklin, Mr. Fox said the quantity was about 335,388
apparatus, that boiler would last him ten years. Mr. square yards. The valuation of Messrs. Rampling andßrit-
Rushton said it had been held to be essential to the tin having been read, and also a report from Mr.Waln, the
health of the town, that the apparatus for consuming town-clerk, on the subject, it was resolved, on the motion
smoke should be adopted, and the magistrates were de- of Mr. Greene, that the sale of the land was confirmed.—
termined to enforce the fine. The defendant must, there- The proceedings of the Ferry Committee were read. The
fore, be fined in the full penalty of £5 and costs. The receipts for the month of August, 1846, were reported to
next information heard was against William Gerard and be £2251 3s. sd, and for 1847 £1956 6s. sd. From the
Benedict Slater, for negligently using their furnaces. 23d of April to the 31st of August, in 1846, £9,913 4s. Id.,
A policeman deposed to seeing smoke issuing from the and in 1847 £8844 Its. 2d. The total expenditure was
defendant's premises in Fleet-street, on the 6th August, £6151 7s. sd. Mr. Hind moved that the contemplated
at forty minutes past one, but Mr. Rushton said after reduction of the wages of the parties who attended the
hearing the case :—" We are disposed not to convict, not gates of the Woodside and Monks' Ferries be nut carried
because we do not think the offence committed, but be- out, but that they remain as at present at 355. per week.
cause there appears to be some doubt whether a dense Mr. Fox seconded the motion ; but, on the motion of
smoke can be effectually prevented. It is a difficulty you Mr. Greene, it was agreed that the matter be referred to
have to contend with, and it does not appear that any the Finance Committee. There was some discussion on a
dense volume of smoke was observed, except when the portion of the report, which recommended that the boats
steam was raised after the dinner hour. We shall not should leave each side of the water six times every hour,
convict, but it is quite necessary at the same time the de- and no one would be detained at either side more than five
fendants should be informed that as it appears practical to minutes at any time. On the motion of Mr. Hind, se-
prevent dense masses of smoke from arising they must conded by Mr. Fox, it was carried, by the casting vote of
look to it in future. They must not do this a second the chairman, that the present system he continued.—The
time." Acquitted. Jonathan Banks and Co., and Mr. minutes of a committee appointed to consider the pro-
John Brocklebank, were then severally fined in £5 each priety of applying for a charter of incorporation was then
and costs for similar infringements of the sanatory act. read, but the only business which had been done was, that
—On Wednesday two informations were laid against the the cost of obtaining the charter should be ascertained.
owners of ferry boats. One was against Mr. Sothern, Confirmed. The motion which was brought forward on
owner of the Egremont steamer, Prince Albert, but the the last board day, for a detailed statement of the ex_
ownership of the boat was not Proved. The other was penses incurred in the endeavours to obtain the gas and
against the owner of the Queen of Beauty, but the case water bills, was then read, and moved by the Chairman,
was postponed. In both instances the steamers were st-conded by Mr. Greene. The board divided, when there
furnished with smoke consumers, which were inefficient, appeared,—For the motion, Messrs, Mallaby, Greere,
but the inefficiency was 9Mioned, it wii§Rlleged, ih.r9ugh Fox, Hicklin, Nicholls, and the Chairman.—Agaklot it,
negligenw, NOM, rikci ilind2 Thoipson, DAMurt

NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROWNING.—On Wednesday
morning an accident occurred at St. George's-pier, which,
but for the extraordinary presence of mind displayed by a
little boy, must have terminated fatally, as the tide was
running rapidly at the time. • On the arrival of the nine
o'clock boat from Woodside, Mr. Richard Rowdier, of
Kirkham, near Preston, with his son, a lad about seven
years of age, was in the act of stepping ashore, with the
boy under his arm, when he missed his footing, and both
fell into the river, between the packet and the pier-head
steps. Mr. Bawdier, being unable to swim, was clearly
in very great danger of drowning, when a rope was thrown
from the shore, which the little boy managed to lay hold
of, and held himself and his father until further assistance
could ,be rendered, which was done as speedily as possible,
and both were fortunately saved. The boy seemed as if
little aware of the danger he had just escaped, and rather
amused at " papa's sound ducking." The father, as may
be supposed, was much agitated. The latter remunerated
the boatmen in a munificent manner, and was conveyed
from the pier in a car.
BEBINGTON FLOWS SHOW.—The third or autumn
exhibition of the Bebington Floral and Horticultural
Society took place on Friday, in the pleasure-grounds of
the Rock Ferry llotel. The day unfortunately was wet,
and this prevented the throng of beauty and of fashion
which has almost invariably characterised previous exhi-
bitions. The show itself was excellent, and fully sus-
tained the high character of its predecessors. We never
remember to have seen dahlias of finer quality and greater
beauty, or in such excellent trim ; and the fuschias, some
of immense size, formed a splendid feature in the exhi-
bition. The stove plant, which obtained the first prize,
the Brugmansi Knightii, was a truly wondrous produc-
tion. An " everlasting rose," exhibited by Mr. C.
Woodward, attracted considerably the attention of the
curious. We must not omit to remark, that the excellent
band of the Local Companies. conducted by Mr. Drewse,
discoursed sweet music from a neighbouring arbour. The
crowded state of our columns precludes our giving a list
of the prizes awarded; but we may remark, that G. J.
Wainwright, Esq., was by far the most successful com-
petitor ; whilst, in regard to fruit, Sir W. M. Stanley,
Bart., stood pre-eminently alone.
DEATHS FROM FALLING.—On Saturday, an inquest
was held before the borough coroner, on view of the body
of William Murphy. Mathew Wm. Swarbrick, a printer,
in the employment of Messrs. Ross and Nightingale, of
the Chronicle Office, said that the printing machine used
by these gentlemen was on the premises of Messrs. il-
mer and Smith, in Church-street. Deceased, who was
35 ;Tars of age, was a stoker or fireman at the place, where
the printing is done by means of a steam-engine. On
Saturday morning about half-past two o'clock, deceased
left the printing room to go up stairs. He was intoxi-
cated at the time. In a few minutes, a sound as of a per-
son falling was heard. Witness got a light, and found de-
ceased lying on the landing of the second flight of stairs
from the printing room. He was insensible, and bleed-
ing from a cut at the back of his head. His feet were up.
He was laid upon his back ; the police were called in. He
for some time appeared to be asleep, and was left lying.
Soon after five o'clock he was found to be dead. A sur-
geon was called, but could render no assistance. He was
addicted to drinking.—About four weeks ago, a female,
aged 35, servant with Mr. Timmins, publican, 79, Scot-
land-road, became rather tipsy, and her master, as she
was in the habit of going away when in that state, locked
the outside doors to keep her at home. She went to her
room up stairs and got out by a window, and on tc a
crane, from which it appeared she fell to the ground and
hurt her shoulder and side. She went to her brother's
house in the neighbourhood, where she was attended by a
surgeon, but she died on Saturday from the injuries re-
ceived in the fall.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.