The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-02-22 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS.

THREE CHILDREN, of tender years, have been over-
lain by their mothers during the past week in Liverpool.
THE TOTAL POPULATION of the township of Aigburth
is said to be 2,756.

THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY have declared
a dividend of 6-1 per cent., free of income tax.
THE NEXT MEETING of the Manchester and Liverpool
Agricultural Society is to be held at Warrington on the
ith September next.
IN THE stomach of a heron, recently killed in the
neighbourhood of Southport, a large water rat was found
whole.

A Cow, the property of Mr. Owen, grocer, Pwllheli,
calved on Tuesday week three beautiful cow-calves,
which are all likely to thrive.

THE WESLEYAN METHODIST Association Chapel in
Whiston, near Prescot, has been conveyed to new trustees
for the continued use of the association.
COMMISSION signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the
county palatine of Lancaster :—John William Whittle,
gentleman, to be ensign in the Ist regiment of the Duke
of Lancaster's Own Militia.

THE COLLECTORSHIP OF THE TOWN DUES.-Mr.
James Boardman is a candidate for the office which is
Vacant by the death of Sir Thomas Brancker.
141 R. COURT. C.E., has been presented by the residents
of Garston with a service of silver, accompanied by a
beautifully written address.
ON the evening of Tuesday week the Ettrick Debating
Society, Greenock, entertained Mr. Duncan M`l,Vatty,
of the Greenock Herald, to supper, on the eve of his de-
parture for Liverpool.
THE Two ENGRAVINGS to be presented 63 the sub-
scribers of the London Art-Union are at present on view
at the rooms of Mr. J. R. Isaac, Castle-street, the hon.
Secretary for Liverpool.
A PEitTioN to the Commons, from Preston, praying
that ratepayers might he allowed a control over the ex-
penditure of county rates, was presented on Tuesday, by
Mr. W. Brown.

AT the request of the Mayor, the men of Manchester
have held a meeting, at which they adopted a
petitioncraving the entire and immediate repeal of the excise duty
upon soap.

A BOY, on Tuesday last, fell through the ice at the
Prince's-park. A companion jumped in to his assistance,
and but for the timely arrival of a man with ropes, both
youths would have been drowned.
ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.—The performances of the
equestrian company closed on Saturday night. Young
Hernandez, the flying Yankey, was the attraction of the
closing evening.

THE RESFIEN COMMITTEE, Isle of Man, have issued a
Circular, stating that sufficent funds have been already col.
lected for the relief of the widows and orphans caused by
the explosion of the Lily.

A. PIECE OF PLATE, consisting of a handsome lily centre
Piece, is to be presented by the students of St. Aidan's
College, Birkenhead, to Philip Wright, Esq., formerly
tutor and bursar of that institution.

JOHN JONES errand boy to Mr. Hand, Castle-street,
has been committed for trial on a charge of stealing jewel-
lerY, wearing apparel, &c., the property of his employer.
The lad was apprehended at Birmingham. His parents
are honest and industrious people.
PE.DIA.LE VAGRANTS have recently adopted the dodge,
at ALiburt h, of fainting when benevolent ladies were seen
_ton, approach. The malady has invariably been cured by
offering an extensive draught of a mixture of salt and

tIN A QUARREL at'St. Helen's, on Thursday week, be-
dalevrenJames Cookson, pork-butcher, and John Martin-
Lead
that aged years, the latter was cut so severely on the
he died on the following Sunday. A verdict of
" manslaughter " has been returned by the coroner's jury.
TN" Sows of Mr. Richard Rimmer, farmer, Altcar,
9.n Tuesda
aged respectively 16 and 14, were accidentally drowned
Y, by the breaking of the ice on a pit near to
the house. It is conjectured that the eldest went to assist
his brother.

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IN LIVERPOOL A VICINITY there have been of
ND ITS
numerous house robberies during the absence of the
inmates at church on Sunday evenings. On Sunday night
week the house of Mr. J. Grundy, of No. 7, Moira-street,
Was robbed of plate and jewellery worth £l5.
PDBLIC SUBSCRIPTION has been set on foot for
WilA liam Strettle and William Price, two Liverpool police-
teen, who on Sunday week, at the peril of their lives,
rescued a little boy from drowning in the pool opposite
the Bootle landmarks.

CIfDRCH OF ENGLAND INSTITTJTION.—On Tuesday
evening an able lecture was delivered in the reading-room
of the above institution by the Rev. David James. upon
The Introduction of Christianity into Britain." The
text lecture will be upon "The Liturgy," by the Rev.
G. W. Warr, M.A.

AN ELOQUENT LECTURE was delivered on Monday
evening, at the Concert-hall, by the Rev. Hugh Stowell
Brown, on " the state of religious freedom on the conti-
nent, with especial reference to the case of the Madiai."
The proceeds are to he applied to the relief of the sufferers
by the recent Lily explosion.

DISGRACEFUL —On Wednesday, about 4 o'clock,
persons in the neighbourhood of the north entrance to St.
James's-cemetery were shocked to observe two men lead-
ing from the gate a female dressed in deep black, and so
helplessly drunk that she could only walk when supported
on each side by the men. She had been to " pay the last
tribute of respect" to a departed friend.

CUSTOMS DUTIES.—It appearing that in some instances
of the detention of goods for being undervalued unneces-
sary delay has taken place in bringing the circumstances
under the cognisance of the hoard of customs, directions
have been issued for the particulars of all such detentions
to be reported to the board at the expiration of 24 hours
from the detention.

SOME years ago a vessel, in a fog, struck upon the
point on which the Queen Victoria has been lost.
Daniel O'Connell was one of the passengers, and he re-
quested the Ballast Board of Dublin to place a fog-bell
at the lighthouse; but, as the vessel had got into port
without any loss of life, the recommendation was not
attended to.

ONT Tuesday the Courier, of Newcastle, an iron vessel,
of '657 tons, capsized in the Salthouse Dock. She was
entirely without ballast at the time, with the exception of
twenty tons of iron bars. The masts caught in the rig-
ging of a vessel lying outside, and thus prevented her
turning "bottom up." No lives were lost, nor did the
hull of the vessel sustain any injury.
RIINGORN.—On Thursday last, a public vestry meeting
was held at the parish church, Runcorn, the Rev. J. Bar-
clay, vicar, in the chair. The chapelry of Daresbury,
bound by agreement to pay one-third of the legal expenses
the parish church, refused to pay their quota of the
charges for ringing the eight bells, alleging that they were
only bound pay their proportion for one bell. Legal
priceedings are to be adopted against Daresbury.
aminTRAINING COLLEGE, BATTERSEA.—At the recent ex-
ation for Government Certificates of Merit to
Scoolmaser forty-five were successful at this
College, and only four out of this number had been re-
sident more than twelve months. Mr. Hewitt is placed
in the first division (first class Wales is the only national
schoolmaster in England and who has attained to
that position. Mr. V. Hall, of Moorfields School, in this
tolumes own, also stands very high. This state of things speaks
v in favour of the principal, and the ether masters.
ST. DAVID'S DAY,—It will be seen by advertisement
in another column, that the morning service at St. David's
Church will be in English, on Sunday next, in order to
give the inhabitants of the locality an opportunity to hear
a lecture, to be delivered by the Rev. Mr. Bardsley,
who is so well versed in all the subjects of the Romish
controversy. The Rev. Mr. Jeffreys, a very eminent
cie
Da
rgYman, from Wales, will preach there, in Welsh, on
St. David's y.
THE PADPERS who attend at the West Derby work-
house on Wednesdays, are obliged to wait without any pro-
tection from the inclement weather. At the Wednesday
rneeting of the guardians, Mr. Cleaver said he knew of
Bonze who had been waiting for six hours, and he also knew
obeenf some who came there in a healthy state, and had not
able to leave their homes for months afterwards.
Which was
Roskeagrell ped tosed that a proper shed be erected,

CHURL II ACCOMMODATION IN LIVERPOOL.—There are
In and about Liverpool, 43 churches, capable of accommo-
dating 57,548 persons; in the surrounding country 16,
With accommodation for 12,393 persons ; and 21 chapels,
&c., including all denominations, with seat-room for
18,010. Including all chapels. there are a Total of 150
places of worship, with accommodation for 164,951 per-
sons. The population of the town and country is 376,080.
Deducting 164,000 from 376,000, we have 212,000 as the
number for whom there is no church accommodation,
supposing the various buildings to be full.

LIVERPOOL UNITED GASLIGHT COMPANY.—The
Lloyd,li, C.alf.
l'°arlY ordinary meeting was held at noon
on T usees, d
W. Reade, Esq., presided. Mr. J. B.
raeytary,
stated that the directors recommended theprprietors to
}:ldeclare a dividend at the rate of £5 per cent. for the last
ar-r-eveoartreon the consolidated stock of the company paid
tip, but not
." 10
a call of
c Yet converted into stock; and 2s. 6d. per
a b of the £25 A shares, on which.
.d
'-'- s• per share had been made ; and which divi ends
yvaesre recorar,
—ended to be paid on the 24th inst. There
b been a progressive increase in the business of the
Company during the last ha
i
Tl chairman inti-
In ated that there Was a prospect of the gas being reduced
an price.
of THE
nbu r LATEg li JUSTLY-LAMENTED Ma. JOHN RIACFIE,
,strinri:de several munificent bequests to reli.
gious charities
will be intere the total sum amounting to £5,800. It
Liverpool to knolf tt huat Mr. Aacfio wasmanyoffeurScottish
the
third
son of
readers
Mr. Robert
Greenock
iMacfie of Langhouse, a merchant in
who, In the close of last century, became in-
terested n
Mr. John M the then incipient trade of sugar refining.
then incipient
to Leith, and carrie.d on an
extensiveexen trade in that town, and likewise in Edinburgh,
gar refining. This great trade he afterwards. ex-.
tended to Liverpool. When Geer e IV. visited Scotland
in 1822, Mr. Macfie was Provost ofg Leith. The Estab-
lished Church of Scotland, by his death, has lost perhaps
its most munificent benefactor.
GM_eMR. RAWLINSON, superintending inspector of the
neral Board of Health, held a preliminary sanatory i
quiry at Aigburth, on Thursday. There was a respectable
attendance. Mr. Grundy, chairman of highways, pre-
Jthe the surveyor's report—a voluminous, antiquarian._
iPeattraPical, and sanitary document. The sewerage 94
the v Iva was
?aid to be most defective. Many people in
Mossa e have
teen obliged to sink cesspools. Mr. John
,of Otterspool, ported that there was a want of
burial grounds in theretownshi The burial ground at
Childwall
(the Parish ch rch)pis greatly overcrowded.
The Rev. John Gibson and Mr. Parker also tendered
evidence confirmatory of Mr. Moss's statement. There
are ninety.five lt was agreed thcaommon lodging-houses in the district.
that mm qualification for the members of
fO, or the absolute
the local board should
be annual rating to the amount of
possession of property worth £lOOO,
itawli
nd that the number of members should be twelve. Mr.
nson afterwards made an inspection of the district.