The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-04-05 00:00:00

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"It's false. He should be tried for culpable neglect of
duty.") It were unprofitable to pursue the proceedings
further. A proposal to present a testimonial to the mate
was scouted. Joseph and James Grace (one of them a
sailor) inveighed against the captain and the crew. Various
persons of moderate opinions and decorous conduct pro-
posed deputations, but all the proposals were scouted, as
Mr. De Wolf could buy deputations up, it was said, and
thekefore they should go in a body. This was the voice of
the meeting, and nothing could overcome it. When we
left, at 3 o'clock, a large party were wrangling in the room,
and groups of excited passengers were scattered over the
Old Churchyard. The second class passengers held a meet-
ing, at which they passed moderate resolutions, in some
cases complimentary to part of the crew of the Ebba Bridle
as well as to that fine vessel herself. We believe that
150 of the peaceably disposed are contentedly residing et
the Government Emigration Depot, Birkenhead, where
accommodation has been provided for all the passengers
until the Ebbs Brahe is again ready for sea. Bedding and
excellent food is provided for them at Birkenhead. Of
course, we need hardly state that such a provision is more
than even the strict letter of the law confers upon the
passengers, in their unhappy position—a position unfortu-
nate for all parties concerned.

THE HOUSE OF MRS. WILLICOTT, Roscommon-street,
was entered on Friday evening during the absence of the
family, and a variety of valuable articles were stolen.
AN INQUEST was held on Saturday, upon the body of
Stephen Lancaster, residing in Kent-street, who died on
Thursday from the effects of a kick on the leg, received in
the beginning of February.
THE AGAMEMNON, 91, screw line-of-battle ship, lying
at Portsmouth, has 300 of her crew down with the fever.
The disease is said to be on the increase, and no effec-
tive means have been taken by the Admiralty to check it.
A CABMAN KILLED.—John Schoffield, cab driver, 16
court, Rchmond-row, fell from the box of a patent cab,
about twelve o'clock on Thursday night, at the corner of
St.,Ann-street. The wheel passed over his stomach, and
he died shortly afterwards.
ACCIDENT ON BOARD THE SHIP EBBA BRAIIE.—On
the'niglit of Slturdav last, one of the labourers on board
the!Ehba Brahe lost his life by falling over the side of the
vessel. A lite-boat was manned at once, but the tide
floated him out of the boat's reach. His name was John
Magee. His body is not yet found.
THE WATCH COMMITTEE, we understand, have agreed
to raise the pay of the police-force, the inspectors at the
rate of 33., and the men 2s. a-week, subject to the sanc-
tion of the Council, which, no doubt, under existing
circumstances, will be given.
Mr. F. LINE, the chairman of the Metropolitan Com-
mittee, for the purpose of establishing tribunals of com-
merce, will, we understand, visit this town tomorrow,
remaining over Friday. He is one of a London deputation,
who come hither to meet other deputations at the Cham-
ber 'of COmmeree„ with a view to the further discussion of
the advantages of such an association.
DOCKS, FOR THE AUSTRALIAN VESSELS.—A memorial,
signed by the principal shipowners and agents in Liver-
pool, praying that one of the docks south of the George's
Dock may be appropriated to the vessels engaged in the
trade to Australia, has been presented to the Dock Com-
mittee. Ample room may be found either in the Salt- -
house Dock, now used as a tributary to the Albert Dock,
or in the Canning Dock, either of which, it is said,
would be acceptable to the memorialists.
PRIVATE Segue—James Climie, and Daniel Townsend;
excise officers, charged Ann Mulligan, at the police court,
yesterday, with working a private still in Porter-street.
The offence was proved by the officer, and by Mr. In-:
Spector Williams, whom they called in to their assistance.
The female manufacturer of ardent spirits was ordered to
pay a fine of £3O, or in default of payment, to go to gaolfor
three months. About six gallons of spirits were found
on the prisoner's premises.
FIRE AT KENSINGTON.—HORSE BURNT.—About half-
DRst.nine o'clock, on Saturday night, a fire broke oat
in Mr. Howell's stable, at the rear of his house, Ken-
sington. The alarm was quickly passed to the West of
England Fire station, and the engine belonging to that
company immediately proceeded to the spot, and, with
the aid of a good supple of water, extinguished the fire
without further assistance. One horse was burnt. Mr.
Howell estimates his loss at about £5O, but was. not ir-
sured.
BEN NEVIS, AUSTRALIAN PACKET-SHlP.—This fine
vessel, one of the " White Star" Line, dispatched by.
Messrs. Pilkington and Wilson, arrived at Port Philip on
the 3rd January, after a passage of 97 days, landing all the
passengers in-ltiod health. She had baffling winds in the
early part of the voyage, and after crossing the line ; but
made the run from the Cape to Hobson's Bay in 25 days,
the fastest, we believe, on record, not executing the
steamers; thus confirming the opinion entertained, that
this fine ship would prove herself one of the fastest of
the Australian fleet from this port.
ONE OF THE LONDON SWELL MOB, William Ingram,
was apprehended picking pockets in Church-street, on -
Tuesday. A colleague named Watson, has been appre..
hended a few days before at Manchester. A document
was found in Watson's possession to this effect :—" Re-
ceived from London to Liverpool, £l5 17s. 4d. ; expen-
diture, £4 123. 101 Expenditure while in Liverpool,
i X 6 16s. 2,1. ; ditto in Carlisle, £1 2s. 91." On the back.
was written that one of them must be off to Dublin on
Sunday. Watson was committed to trial by the magis-
trates at Manchester, and the Liverpool magistrates sent
Ingram thither as an accomplice.
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THE servants of most of the railway companies in Man-
chester have threatened to strike for an increase of wages.
The combination is said to have spread among the porters
in the goods department of the Lancashire and Yorkshire,
the Manchester and Sheffield, and the East Lancashire
Railways. The London and North-Western Company,
however, have pursued a wiser policy, and it is said that
Captain Huish, their chief-manager in London, is dis-
posed to listen to the just and moderate demands of any
of their servants, at the same time that there is a most
rigid determination to resist anything like extortion or
tyranny.
THE SCREW STEAMER SARAH SANDS.—At a general
meeting, held in the state-saloon of the above ship, on
the 14th inst., it was unanimously agreed that an ad-
dress should he drawn up expressive of the high esteem
entertained by all on board for Capt. W. C. Thompson,
for his great ability as a commander, so eminently dis-
played on the passage between England and Australia,
and for his great kindness and gentlemanly bearing to all ;
and that a subscription-list should be opened for the pur-
chase of a piece of plate to be presented to him, with a
suitable inscription, and the fund for that purpose be
handed over to the chairman, Captai❑ J. H. L. Gordon.
—(llfellournc Argun, Dec. 25.) By advices received by
the Great Britain, the above was fully carried out ; and,
in addition, the chief officer, Mr. 'risky, and the chief
engineer, were each presented with a valuable diamond
ring.

THE Btsrror or EXETER, it is said, is suffering from in.
disposition.
GEORGE SPARKES, for the murder of Clayhidon, was
hanged at Exeter on Friday.
THE REV. DR. MARKHAM, a Canon of Windsor, died
suddenly on Friday.
THE ENGLISH FLEET ►n the Mediterranean was still at
Malta, by the last advices.
A NEW PEER.—The title of Sir Thomas T. Burke,
Bart., M.P., when raised to the Peerage, is, it is said,
to be Lord Killoran.
WRECK.—The Aberdeen and London iron-steamer
Duke of Sutherland was wrecked at the entrance of
Aberdeen harbour, on Friday evening, and fifteen, if
not twenty, persons have perished.

THE MAYOR OF LIVERPOOL, it is said, intends to in-
vite the committee of the Great Industrial Exhibition of
Dublin to a grand banquet in the Town-hall, to be given
about the end of the present month.
TIIE SULTAN OF BORNEO has paid the debt of nature,
and is succeeded by Pangeran Moumien, who had long
acted as Prime Minister. The legitimate heir is thus put
aside.

Snip ON FIRE.---The British barque Lady Rowena,
Macdonald, master, from Alexandria for Liverpool, with
cotton and dried beans, was destroyed by fire on the 15th
ult., about 50 miles to the westward of Cape St. Vincent.
Crew saved by two French vessels.
A FACTORY IN CARRICK-ON-SUIR.—Mr. William
Hunt, of Newtown-anner, proprietor, with another, of
flour mill in Carrick-on-Suir, is about to convert his
mills into a woollen factory, and to expend £B,OOO on tho
enterprise.

EFFECTS OF READING " UNCLE Tom's CABIN."—A
correspondent of the Elgin Courier states, that a respect-
able married woman in one of the Scotch districts, was
delivered the other day of a negro child. The father and
mother are white; and a black man has not been seen in
the district for two years. The occurrence is accounted
for by the fact of the woman's having heard much of the
performances of Mr. Lewis, the mesmerist ; and, as she
states, having had her imagination so much impressed
that, to use her own words, " she could not get him out
of her head." The child, whose very hair was woolly;
did not survive.—{May not the " Uncle Toro" mania be
the real cause of the mysterious event ?3
HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS, FOR THE CURE
OF SCROFULA, CANCERCUS WOUNDS, AND OLD SORES.
—Asa Avory, a youth, the so of Mr. James Avory, of
Ramsey. Cambridgeshire, was severely afflicted with
scrofulous wounds for three or foul. years, and during
that period many remedies were tried, but without the
least benefit whatever being derived from them. In this
deplorable state 1111>dOs. Sergeant, chemist, of Ramsey,
recommended hit to use Holloway's Ointment and Pills ;
and these initTuable medicines have been the means of
effectuaafcuring the boy of his shocking complaint in a
very Kier space of time. They are an efficacious remedy
for bad legs, old sores, gout, and rheumatism.
FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH.—" For upwards of
nine years, (writes Mr. Thomas Province, of Winchmore
Hill, Middlesex,) I have experienced the efficacy of this
greatton's Pills,relie ;
and dur-
ing I now in-
formf
excellent Medicine. I had long previously been afflicted
with headache and indigestion ; but a friend having in-
duced m
youe tthoa t m
a a
ogfavFerammeP
that long period of time, I have taken them in pre-
ference to any other medicine ; and I have the happiness
make
few a dosestrial
of saying that I never had 'a better state of health, which I
attribute to Framkton's Pills. I beg further to add, that
this medicine, as in general use by my family, and we
know of nothing to equal it." In any case where a a
aperient.-Medicine is required, they need only be tried to
be universally adopted. Sold by all medicine vendors.
Price Is. I.,(1. per box. See the name of " Thomas Prout,
29, Strand, London," on the government stamp.
To LADIES.—The skin is one of the most vital portions-
of the human frame: its intimate relation with some of
the most important functions of life is shown-by its being
the seat of numerous complaints anti--diseases ; and it
obviously demands the most constant care and attention
to preserve its minute vessels in healthy action, and thus
to ensure its elasticity and well-being. For such a pur-
pose Rowlands' Kalyda is a specific of the highest value
and importance. _Composed of exotics of balsamic nature,
free from any admixture of mineral substance, grateful
in its use aod unfailing in its effects, it will be found the
most valuable toilet requisite yet offered to the public ;
and its virtues in preventing all cutaneous disfigurement
or eruption, or in removing them if they
will prove its best eulogy, and establisi
strongly in public favour.—See Advt.

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