The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-08 00:00:00

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suicide in her lodgings, Roscoe-lane, on
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taking laudanum. The stomach pump, applied at the
Southern Hospital, saved her.

DERBY ELECTION COMMITTEE..--The following BleTtl-
bers have been appointed on -this committee :—Mr.,
Robert Ingham ( chairman!), Mr. William Stirling, Mr.
RT M, E. -Milner, Mr. J. Banks Stanhope, and Hcn.
Arthur F. Kinnaird.

TAE STEAM;SIIIP CITY OE CLASGOW left the Mersey
for Philadelphia on Wednesday, with eighty cabin passen-
gers and a full cargo, haying,- since docking on Saturday
,13ight, discharged and' loaded upwards of 1,900 tons,
besides undergoing repairs.
RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Friday week, the e,press
train, which arrived at Manchester about three o'clock,
ret.Tu near Atherstone, on the Trent Valley line, came
I.,_lllts collision with a cart that was crossing the railway ;
t, ulle. cart was knocked to pieces, but neither the home nor
was injured.
AssAuLT.—Chtrles Williams was brought up
• police office on Tuesday last, charged with stabbing
...urge
-Auckell, in a public-house in Dennison-street,
• -nonday. As the prosecutor lay in the 'Northern
osPital, and was unable to appear, the prisoner was
'remanded for a week.
pot ten years,
A:Poo-a LITTLE BOY, named John Davis, apparently
old, was charged at the police-office, on
Friday, with stealing cotton. The trembling culprit
stated that his aunt, with whom he lived, sentinna out to
Pick up a living as best he might. The worthy magistrate
"very properly sent him to the Ragged School.
A DrPnTATios, to present a memorial from the mer-
chants of Liverpool, -London, Greenock, Poole, and
Bristol, engaged in the trade and fisheries of Newfound-
land, had an interview with the Earl of -Clarendon, on
Wednesday, at the. Foreign-office. The deputation con-
sisted of Mr. T. H. Brooking, Mr. T. N. Hunt, Mr.
T. B. Job, Mr. T. H: Newman, and Mr. Schenk.

DERBY ELECTION. —The Derby Mercury, of Wed-
riesdaY last, says :=Agents of both parties' have been
busily employed, during the last few days, in serving
Speaker's warrants; and if only a tithe of those who have
bad notice to hold themselves in readiness; are sub-
sequently required to attend, the committee huve a long
spell before them.

MAYOR'S BANauvr.—The Mayor gave a large dinner
party, on Thursday evening, at the Town hall, to some of
the railway celebrities of this kingdom. The party con.
sisted of the principal 'members of the boards of the
London and North-western, the Lancasterend Carlisle,
the Chester and Holyhead, and the Lancashire and York-
shire railways.

THE LATE GALE--,LAWD ACCIDENTS.—On Saturday
wait, —Ellen Williams, of No. 1 Court. Kew-street, had
her Lrm fractured by the gate of a stable-yard, which
was bltwn down upon her in Kirkdale-roach---A slate fell
upon Etna Brown, at the door of her own -residence in
Leeds.strtet, and -caused a compound fracture of the
skull. 'She was conveyed to the Northern Hospital.
A FALSE A,,Anm.---On the morning of 'Friday last
hundreds of peo2le rushed down to the pier-heed, under
the idea that the treat Britain steamer had arrived in the
river. It was found :'however that it was Hai. steam-
ship Encounter, Cal:4%in G. W. D. O'Callaghan, at
present lying in the 11,e-ine, which had fired several
times, and not the leviathaa, whose return froarAustralia
is daily expected.

ROBBERY AND Artstrx.—On Monday night -some thief
got access to the bedroom of Lir. Tucker, publican,
Hygeia-street, and locked the door from within. On the
door being thrust open, it was found that severaldrawers
had been ransacked, and a watch, a pencil cae, and
other articles stolen. Some clothes had been ignited by a
lucifer match having been thrown amongst them, hit for-
tunately their dampness prevented the fire spreadini.
LANCASIE:RE AND CARLImE RAILWAY.—The half-
yearly meeting of the proprietors was held on Friday,Mr.
Hassell, chairman of the directors, presiding. The roort
read to the meeting gave a very satisfactory statemort of
the affairs of the company, and was (with the exceptiot of
one clause which was held aver) unanimously adopt,d•
A dividend of per whole, and 10s. 6d. per third-shae,
was declared, out of the nett profits of the undertaking tp
to the 31st of „Tannery last.

DEFENCE 0? LIVERPOOL..—III 1839, it was proposer
to spend £27,009 in the erection of a new battery, north-
west end of the Huskisson Dock, but its commence-
ment has been delayed ; £6,000 was voted for it in
1846-7, and £4.000 for the present year. The zmly ex-
penditure that has taken place is a payment of £4,000 to
the corporation of Liverpool, for using granite in-the
river wall. The wall is now completed, and it is pro-
posed to proceed with the battery.
'DANGERS or A CLOAK.—A. poor roman, an in
emigrant, named Margaret Cosgrove, has been pr
from proceeding in the ship in whVi her passage wa
by an accident which occurred to her on Saturda
As she was walking along Regent-road, enveloped in a
long cloak, the wind got under it, and twisting her coin-
maent-pletelpround, threw her with great violence upon the pave-
, causing severe concussion of the brain.
FALSE •CHARACTE
v Ra.—There are many people in
rPool who would do
well to be warned by the fact,
that in the Worship-street police court, London, last
-road.'was aaman'
emsk, Mrs. Somers, a married residing in Tem-
ple-street, Hackney
fined £lO for giving a false
character to a servant. In consequence of the defendant's
representations, the girl had been engaged •bynother
person, whom she robbed tora large amount, a
A PG.LICE-INEPECTOR AT THE BAR.—A beerhouse-
keeper, named William Oliver, preferred a complaint, at
the police-court, on Thursday, against InspectorlNilson,
for assauhing him on the 23rd ultimo. Wilson., it ap-
peared, had gone to the complainant's house to take him
into custody for a fine of Xl-7s. 6d., which he refused to
pay. Mr. Mansfield, in dismissing the case, said if the
coeaplainant had received any violence, he had brought it
entirely upon himself, and certainly deserved it

Mending

A. COUPLE PaOM BOETON, in Lincolnshire, were united
in Liverpool, the other day, under somewhat singular cit-
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cumstan.ces. The female was the dauater of a respectable
farmer, who had thought proper to elope with her father's
naan-servant, and her father's horse. The lover sold the
horse at Lincoln, and with the proceeds the truants came
to this town, their intention being to emigrate to Australia.
The father brought the Lincoln constable with him to
14prtovceerreeld He found, to his dismay, that matters had
neat crisis with.
Char that marriage was the best policy ; and
accordingly old gentleman hurried matters to a hyme-
york.the sum of
1.11 Possible despatch. The couple received
the paternal r-,P:nadches and the paternal blessing almost
in one breath
sailed for New CO. They have since
A NOVEL Mona or R
to steal from a shop windorn'EßY.—A singular attempt
Egtz, jeweller, Great
ing, at the shop of mr.Tsbmade on Monday eves-
Howard-street. The attendantlnh
observed two
eitii;yhsoteprious manner
te examination
gold dollar pieces move in a very
towards the attraction and on a more
the cause of was found
iins:!ckTinserted
through a circular hole in the window
prietor of the establishment ran out, and
zed pro-
and youth standing on the outside. He seized tI e iTan brought him within, and left him in charge of his w'97'
He then gave chase to the man, hut did not succeed in capturing him. On his return, he found that the bov
bad broken away from his wife. The hole had bee
neatly drilled through the plate glass, and the stick of
attraction was tipped with bird-lime.

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LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY.—The half-
Yearly meeting of proprietors was held on Wednesday, at
the Palatine Hotel, Manchester, Mr. Barnes, M.P., pre-
sided. The chairman was happy to say that this company
was on the most peaceable and friendly terms with other
companies. He hoped that some arrangement would be
come to with the East Lancashire Company, to avoid the
necessity of that company making a duplicate line from
Clifton to 'Manchester. The chairman moved a dividend
of £1 10s. per share on the £lOO stock ; and, in the
same proportion, on such of the Manchester and Leeds
£lOO, £5O, £25, and £l2 shares; on the Wakefield,
Pontefract, and Goole £5O and £25 shares ; and on the
4verpool and Bury and Huddersfield and Sheffield £5O
a
hares, which have not yet been converted into stock ;
of 4s. 3d. on the £lO 10s. shares and 2s. Std. on the
£l6 F. extension shares ; and of 3s. 4. d. on the West
Riding £l4 shares. Mr. Riley seconded the motion, and
ityas adopted. The retiring directors (Messrs. Barnes,
Gill, G. Wilson. W. Moxon, and J. Radcliffe) were re-
elected,
Mr, Harper was again appointed Auditor.