The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-22 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL STANDAIM, TUESDAY,

Mr. ROBERT GRUNDY, of St& Helen's, has been ad-
mitted a member of the Royal College of Surgeons.
MR. JOSEPH REED WALKER has been appointed
deputy-lieutenant of Lancaster.
Two Paasoxs died last week in Liverpool from deli-
rium tremens, one from excessive spirit drinking, and one
from opium eating.
ONE OF THE PASSENGERS FROM SYDNEY, by the
Falcon (not Mr. Calvert), is said to have brought home
with him 300 ounces of gold.

GEORGE GRIFFITHS, aged 20 years, engineer on board
the screw-steamer Albatross, died suddenly on Tuesday
morning, after arriving at the Nelson Duck from Dublin.
THE CONGREGATION OF ST. THOMAS'S, Toxteth-park,
have presented a beautiful pocket communion service of
silver to the Rev. J. 0. Powell, the incumbent, and a
similar one to the Rev. J. W. Brown, the curate, as
tokens of their esteem.

THE COLLINS steamers appear to have adopted the
same style of rig as the Cunard steamer Arabia.—that of
a brig, rigged man-of-war fashion. They used to carry
three masts, but now they have only two, which will be
of great service when driving head to wind.
A MEETING of bankers, merchants, and manufacturers
of London will be held to-day, to consider what sugges-
tions that community ought to make to the government or
to parliament for the better development of the resources
of British India. This week a meeting with the same
object will be held in Manchester.
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Tx E Mercury published an erroneous statement the other
day of the attendance at the day schools in connexion
with St. Thomas's, Toxteth,park. We have authority to
say that, instead of 300 being the attendance, the average
for the last four years is from five to six hundred, exclu-
sive of the attendance at the Sunday school.
ON WEDNESDAY a package was delivered by one of the
porters connected with the London and North-western
Railway, at the office of a gentleman in this town, and on
being opened it was found to contain the body of a full-
grown child. It appears a young woman left it at the
Euston-station, London.
THE AUSTRALIAN.—The Post-offioe authorities gave
notice. on Wednesday, that the mail for the Cape of
Good Hope, which was on hoard the steamer Australian,
was transferred to the steamer Lady Jocelyn. The mail,
therefore, that will be detained by the return of the Aus-
tralian consists of all newspapers for Australia posted
between the 2nd of January and the 11Hr of March, and
all letters for Australia posted between the 4th and 10th
instant.

THE AMELIA, the first iron steam-ship ever constructed
at Chester. was launched on Saturday week from the ship-
yard of Mr. Cram, in the presence of the mayor, magis-
trates, and clergy. She is to be rigged at Chester, which
port she will leave during the next spring tides for Liver-
pool, where she will be fitted with her engines and made
ready for her first voyage. She is intended for the coast-
ing trade between Liverpool and Bristol.
GEORGE SMETHURST, beerhouse-keeper, Leigh _street,
whose house is said to be a favourite resort of thieves,
entered a claim at the County Court against William
Russell, a detective police-officer, for the sum of z(;15,
damages for false imprisonment. The Judge ruled that
Russell had no good ground for suspecting the plaintiff
wa3 guilty of felony. The verdict must be for the
plaintiff, but he would take time to consider what amount
of damages he should give ; and he intimated they would
be small, owing to the character which the plaintiff bore.
THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT NEAR MANCHESTER.—At
the inquest on Monday week, the jury found "that the
deceased Thos. Croston, Richard Simmons, and George
Barbour were killed on the 4th day of March instant, by
the engine, No. 13, running off the line and upsetting
near the Dixon Fold station, on the Manchester and
Bolton Railway, caused by the excessive speed at which
it was driven by the deceased Thomas Croston, against
whom we return a verdict of ' Manslaughter.' " They
further state that the economy of the line endangers the
safety of the public.
ROBERT CLARKE, Esq., formerly of the Liverpool
Theatre Royal, has already ollowed his departedwite to the
grave. In ex,ellent health at the time of Mrs. Clarke's
death, a change suddenly came over -him. He declared to
his friends that he would soon join his beloved wife in
another and a better world. lie had only one wish, before
he died, to see his old friends, Mr. Manifold, the surgeon,
of Rodney-street, and his family; and he arrived here
about ten days since. Every effort was made to rally
him, but without effect ; and at a quarter to four o'clock
on Friday afternoon he breathed his last, at the age of 76.

A PASSION FOR SACRILEGE.-The only case possessing
features of a peculiar character to be brought before the
approaching assizes is that of Charles Seddon, commit-
ted for sacrilege. On the 23d of. February, he broke into
the Independent Chapel, Farnworth, and stole some pen-
dants and other gas fittings ; on the Ist instant he broke
into St. Paul's Chapel, Little Hutton, and stole several
bronze candlesticks and other articles. This criminal
seems to have a peculiar liking for this sort of robbery,
having been five times previously committed, and once un-
dergoing twelve months' imprisonment for rohb ing a chapel.
THE AUSTRALIAN GOLD-HUNTERS, who are returning

to their native land with fortunes, advise persons ernigratl
ing to proceed to Sydney. There order prevails; the
necessaries of life are comparatively cheap ; and, being an
old town, there is proper accommodation for persons ar-
riving in the colony, and for a much larger number than
is likely to reach that place for some time to come. The
gold fields of Sydney are quite as valuable as those of
Melbourne ; but as the diggings at the latter place were
discovered at a later period, emigrants have unwisely
overlooked the riches of the Sidney diggings.
TRANSATLANTIC STEAM-SHIPS.—The Alps, the second
of the Cunard line from Liverpool to New York and Cha-
gres, arrived at this port on Thursday morning, from New
York, after a very rapid run, from port to port, of 12 days
and 12 hours mean steaming time. She brought :8'200,000
in specie on freight. The Liverpool and Philadelphia
Steam-ship Company's screw steamer City of Manches-
ter, Captain R. Leitch, arrived in the Mersey, on Friday
forenoon, from Philadelphia, with 143 passengers, (24 of
whom occupied cabin berths,) and :615,000 in specie. She
left Philadelphia on the .3rd instant, and on the night of
the 16th breasted Cape Clear, since which time she en-
countered strong easterly winds, with thick snowy wea-
ther, making the passage from port to port in 14 days 8
hours.

W.,EST DERBY UNION.—At Wednesday's meeting, Mr,
IL B. Farnall, poor-law,inspector, said he saw from the
returns that there had been in that union, in the year
ending last Lady-day, a decrease of paupers to the number
of 763, as compared with the previous year. This was a
much greater diminution than was shown in the general
averages of this district. The annual average cost of a
pauper was £3 9s. 5-id. ;so that there would be a saving,
in the decrease of 763, to the extent of £2,649 per annum.
To meet-the relief, he said that a levy of B.ld. in the pound
upon the rateable value of property was sufficient. The
average amount required in this union was just
which, when added to the cast of administering. &c.,
would only be about 110. The average of the district
was Is. 2d.
THE GREAT BRITAIN.—We learn from the Sydney
Morning Herald of Tuesday, December 21, that the
Great Britain sailed punctually at two p.m. Her depar-
ture was watched by crowds assembled on the shore.
" Every one connected with the vessel who arrived in
Sydney in her have gone away with her, Some of those
who, ran from her at Melbourne have written to the cap-
tain, expressing their contrition, and begging that they
may be allowed to rejoin the vessel. She has on board
35,000 ounces of gold ; the consignees are not stated.
The following is a list of the passengers for Liverpool :
First class : Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Griffiths, family, and
servant; Mrs. Mathews, Mr. Mathews, jun., Mr. and
Mrs. Haigh, Mr. and Mrs. P. Solomon, family, and ser-
vant, Messrs. M. Anderson, F. M`Nab, W. Grieve, J,
Inches. and Edwin Hickey. Second class; Mr. and Mrs.
Robley, Captain Spence, Messrs. Parrott and J. Rawson.
Third class : Messrs. L. Wilson, John Mabscn, and John
Tully. For Melbourne—First class : Mr. and Mrs.
Byrne and child, Mr. J. B. Darvall, M.L.C., Mrs. H. B.
Smith, Mrs. Bell, son, and daughter, Miss Hawkins,
Mrs. B. Bison, Mrs. Devlin, Mrs. Jones, Dr. Smith,
Rev. L. Ilogg, Messrs. H. Thorp, Swan. Mankerville,
Eyde Manning, E. Gildea, Morse, Brown, C. T. Mac-
' lachlan, Alfred Smith, L, Barber, J. Clark, A. C. Hood,
Isaac Levey, Pemberton, H. M. Smith, E. B. Davis, E.
P. Colquhoun, P. de Costella, L. Brodziak, R. Cherry,
and R. Bright. Second class : Messrs. Bradley, Feather-
stone, Griffin, Bardsley, and T. Towers."
AT THE DOCK COMMITTEE, on Thursday, Thomas
Littledale, Esq., presiding, the sub-committee reported
that the coopers' wages had been raised from 265. to 30s.
a week. When the trade became slack, the wages were
to be reduced back to 26s.—Mr. Langsdale : Very like a
hook !—Mr. Robinson informed the committee that on
Monday last they were in want of about 700 porters for
the docks, and only about half a score offered themselves,
who required an advance of sixpence a day, their former
wages having been three shillings; owing to the emer-
gency, they had been obliged to employ men at this
increased rate.—Mr. Robinson recommended that, if they
demurred to their present wages, they should be resisted.
—A report was read from the marine-surveyor, estimating
that the damage done to the Crosby lightship by a vessel
piloted by Thomas Jones, No. 11, amounted to £7B 10s.
—ln a conversation on the propriety of establishing a
superannuation fund for the police, the opinion seemed
to be in favour of the men providing for themselves by
joinieg benefit societies. The matter was ultimately
adjourned.—A letter was read from Mr. James Baines
and Co., applying for a permanent dock situation at the
Salthouse Dock, or in the Canning Dock.—A letter was
read from Mr. William Fisher, asking what would be the
rent of 5,000 or 6,000 square yards of land with a water
frontage for seven or fourteen years : a central situation
would be preferred.—Mr. Evans : What is it for ?—The
clerk : He does not state.—Mr. Evans : Well, that is a
strange application.—Referred to the Harbour-masters'
Committee.
HEALTH COMMITTEE.—OnThursday, Alderman Langs.
dale in the chair, a deputation was appointed to visit the
various towns where streets are crossed on the level by
dock railways ; Hull, Sunderland, Dundee, Gloucester,
&c.—By a re-arrangement of clerks, it was stated that a
saving of £4O per annum would be made.—An application
from the Select Vestry was read, asking that forty -two
able-bodied paupers now in the Workhouse might be
employed as scavengers. It was agreed that the borough
engineer should employ them
.as far as he had power,_
Mr. Gladstone observed that it would be much better to
have all the parish affairs under the Corporation. (A
laugh.) That would keep the clergy in. their proper
sphere, and we should have them in the bee( streets look-
ing after the sick and poor, instead of engaging themselves
in secular affairs. By having all matters under one
management there would be greater Fcorprny.—mr.
Newlands stated that the cost of scavenging in 1847 was
£17,400. Last year it was just half that amount, and this
was attributable solely to the substitution of square-set
paving for macadam.—Mr. Gladstone thought it proper
to say, in regard to an insinuation thrown out by Mr.
John Grantham, at the Polytechnic, that Mr. Newlands,
borough engineer, so far from favouring the interests of
the railway companies, had shown himself rather opposed
to the crossing on the low level.—Mr. Newlands observed
that Mr. Grantham had even gone the length of insinua-
ting that he was bribed by the railway compames to sup-
port their interests.—A memorial from Hygem-street,
praying for sewerage there, was referred to the general
purposes sub-committee. The cost, it appears, wawa
not be less thou 41,000,

AT THE MANCHESTER BOROUGH COURT, on Friday,
Harriet Barker was charged with stealing a £5O note
from her employer. She passed the note at the shop of
Mr. Stafford, Church-street, in this town. Remanded.
THE BRITISH AND NORTH AMERICAN MAIL STEAM-
SHIP NIAGARA, Lang, commander, sailed hence, on
Saturday, at 3, p.m., with 106 passengers and a full cargo,
besides the usual mails on board.
AT THE BANKRUPTCY COURT, On Wednesday, Jas.
Oliver, formerly a draper in Byrom-street, received a
second-class certificate, subject to a suspension for twelve
months, with protection during that time.
PHOTOGRAPHY.—A society for the formation of this
interesting art has been established in this town, and a
meeting will be held this evening to settle the constitu-
tion of the society.
THE REV. DAVID JAMES.—At the anniversary of the
" Yorkshire Welsh Society," its published report con-
cluded by paying a graceful and well-merited compliment
to the zealous and respected incumbent of St. Mary's,
Kirkdale, upon his recent election to another sphere of
labour, the headship of the Llandovery Institution.
HEALTH OF THE TOWN.—The registrar's return for
last week.shovvs a decrease in the mortality, consequent
upon the change from severe to genial weather. The
deaths registered were 226, against 272 in the week pre-
vious. The decrease was almost exclusively in diseases of
the lungs•
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ON SUNDAY, the Rev. Verner M. White preached an
eloquent discourse in Islington Presbyterian Church, on
" The Divine Institution of the Sabbath, and the Nature
and Necessity of its Due Observance." with special I
reference to the projected opening of the Crystal Palace on
the Lord's Day.
LIVERPOOL ENTERPRlSE.—Messrs.Vianna, Jones, and
Chapple, have established a line of steam. packet commu-
nication to Oporto. The first vessel despatched to the
new station was the screw-steamer Rattler, Benson, com-
mander, which took her departure hence on Saturday
evening, with a fair cargo on freight.
Messrs. IRONSIDES, the owners of the barque Irene,
which vessel was upset on Pluckington Bank, on the
20th ultimo, and eleven lives lost, have presented Capt.
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LIVERPOOL BOROUGH COURT BILL.—In the minutes
of the House of Lords, issued on Saturday, we find under
this head the following memorandum :—" Brought from
the Commons; read la; and referred to the Standing
Order Committee on the fourth sitting day after the recess
at Easter ; and a printed copy of the bill referred to two
English judges to consider and report."
A MERCILESS HOAX was committed near Lancaster,
the other day, by which a widower was not a little sur-
prised at finding his dwelling entered by a number of
friends from a great distance, attired in mourning, who,
in accordance with a letter received by them, had come to
bury him. The poor people had been put to the serious
expense of a long journey, to say nothing of the pain of
mind which they were made to endure.
ROYAL INSTITUTION ScnooL.—We have to announce
this week the election of two gentlemen of the above
school at the universities. Mr. G. Abram, son of the
late Ralph Abram, Esq., was elected, on Thursday last,
to the open sizsrsbip at Clare-hall, Cambridge ; and on
Saturday Mr. R. Duckworth, son of Robinson Duck-
worth, Esq., of this town, was elected to the first open
scholarship at University College,. Oxford. There were
twenty-one competitors from the universities and from
the leading public schools.
MERSEY v. OLYME.—THE " AUSTRALIAN" DISAS-
IERS.—Iron boat-building, at least as pursued on the
Clyde, has experienced a heavy blow and great discourage-
ment by the continuously accumulating disasters that
have befallen the vessels of the unfortunate Australian
Mail Company, whose mishaps have been before the public
and Parliament all the past week • and the rival builders
of this class of crafton the Birkenhead bank of the Mersey
are naturally elate at the total exemption of their ships
from all reproach on the score of being turned out in
such slop-shop fashion as was disclosed by the examination
at Plymouth of some of the crazy tubs constructed in the
northern -vaters.—Birenbayha7n paper.
THE STAR OF THE EAST fetched a higher price than
has ever been realised on a colonial-built ship ; a fact
which speaks well for the character of her builders,
Messrs. R. and W. Wright, of St. John's, New Bruns-
wick. Messrs. Wright have now on the stocks a ship of
similar class to the -Star of the East, but 30 feet longer
and 11 feet more beam. We hear that the Star of the
East has been chartered for £lO,OOO. It is intended that,
after landing her passengers at Melbourne, she shall pro-
ceed to China. This makes the third ship which Mr.
Beazeley has bought of Messrs. Wright, through the
agency of Messrs. Fernie Brothers and Co. ; namely, the
Constance, the Miles Barton, and the Star of the East.
TERMINATION at, RAILWAY HOSTILITIES. The
traffic agreement entered into by the Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire Railway directors, some years ago, with
the London and North-western and Midland Railways,
which has proved so baneful to the traffic of the former
company, as well as forcing them into hostility with their
only natural ally, the Great Northern, is now on the eve
of expiring ; and the Great Northern directors have passed
a resolution appointing their chairman and two of their
body to open a communication with the Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company, with power
to conclude arrangements, accompanied by an expression
of their opinion that it is most desirable amicable arrange-
ments should he entered into.
THE ALBATROSS.--INTERESTING PARTICULARS.—
Letters have been received from passengers by the Alba-
tross, for Melbourne, which vessel sailed from this port on
the 15th November last. On the 20th January the vessel
was three days past the line. They were all well. A
young gentleman from this neighbourhood fell overboard,
and was in imminent danger of being drowned, when his
brother jumped overboard to save him ; but both were
placed in a very perilous situation, when a sailor, seeing
their danger, boldly jumped into the sea after them, and
succeeded in getting a rope round the two brothers, and
towing them to the vessel's side, when the whole party
were hauled on board ; and at that instant a shark made a
grasp at them with open mouth, but fortunately missed
his aim. The monster was atterwards caught, and, of
course, killed. He measured nine feet long.
DR. FISHER'S ExturirrroN.—On Tuesday evening, the
large School-room, Cornwallis-street, was inconveniently
crowded by persons anxious to see the numerous and
beautiful views, sacred, classical, and astronomical, which
Dr. Fisher so kindly and generously represented for the
benefit of these schools and of St. Michael's district. We
are sure that Dr. Fisher, as well as his audience, must
have been highly gratified,—the latter by the instructive
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realised upwards of £2O ; and some parties who came with
money could not find room, and were obliged to return
home disappointed. Managers of schools and other
charitable objects in this town are largely indebted to Dr.
Fisher's exertion on their behalf.
IT was stated by the Rev. W. Pollock, in a lecture to
the members of
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institu-
tions in Liverpool " every year—he had almost said
every month." "They had got in Hope-street," lie con-
tinued, " the new Catholic Institute, a large house that
lately belonged to a member of his own congregation,
with extensive garden ground behind, and offices ; and,
from the moment that they had got possession of it, he
had seen people working night and day (for he often
pasted that way at night on sick or other calls), to get
those offices ready as a school. Afterwards he saw a
large placard stuck up that the Catholic Institute would
be re-opened, although the fact was it never had been
opened before. This was the deceit the Romish priests
practised. He dared say that by and by they would per-
suade their dupes that the institution was as old as the
Apostles." (Laughter.)

ADVANCE OF WAGES.—There has been a great advance
of wages in Liverpool during the past week. The extra
porters at the Albert Dock have been raised 6d. per day ;
and the seamen engaged on the various steam-boats plying
to and from this port have obtained an increase of 2s. Gd.
per week, with peculiar exemptions. The nightrnen are
on strike for an advance of 4s. per week; the plasterers
have given notice of a strike if their wages are not
increased to 265.-per week, from 245.; and the journey-
men bootmakers, watchmakers, and paper-hangers are
also demanding increased wages. On Friday the porters
at the Tithebarn-street Station struck for an advance ;
and yesterday the carters of the town were to strike unless
their wages are raised to the uniform rate of 245. a-week.
The journeymen bootmakers, not satisfied with an increase
of wages, now insist upon their employers discharging
the apprentices. The cabinet-makers have obtained an
advance of 2s. per week; the upholsterers have given
notice that they expect a similar increase, to commence
yesterday; and the corn porters have respectfully requested
their employers to advance their wages Gd. a-day.
INTERFERENCE WITH THE POLICE.—A meeting of
magistrates was held on Friday, to hear the report of the
committee of their body upon the complaint of Inspector
Kehoe relative to the alleged interference of different
members of the Council with him while in the perform-
ance of his duty, in connexion with the marine-stores of
this town. The Mayor presided, and Messrs. Bolton,
Chaloner, Evans, Romilly, Gladstone, Stewart, Hornby,
A. llodgson, E. Cropper, W. Rathbone, Barclay, Booth,
Mellor, J. H. Turner. Nicholl, W. Earle, Crosth-
waite, and H. Earle, were present. Mr. Garnett read the
report, which began by saying that inspector Kehoe was
of unblemished character. In 1843 he was appointed,
under the local act, to report upon marine-store dealers,
previous to their receiving a license, as licenses were to
be granted by the finance committee to such only as had
supported a tolerably good character for the three pre-
ceding years. In the discharge of this duty he stated he
had been interfered with by Mr. Alderman Parker, Mr.
R. Harbord, Mr. Toulmin, Mr. Thompson, and Mr.
Woodruff. The report concluded by saying that whether
they regard the interference of members of the Council
with the police, or the granting of marine-store licenses
to unworthy persons, or in improper localities, as disclosed
in the information before them, your committee are of
opinion that, from the joint operation of these causes, the
administration of justice, in this borough, is seriously
endangered. The appropriate remedy for this evil must
be sought in an alteration of the statutes, both of com-
paratively recent date, which give the power of dismissing
the police and of licensing marine-store dealers, to a po-
pularly elected and fluctuating body like the Town Coun-
cil. It seems only reasonable that the law, which secures
the independence of the higher, should be extended to
the inferior officers of justice. Nor, as it seems to your
committee, is it compatible with the pure administration
I of justice, to give the power of granting licenses to judges
I who owe their position to the votes of the applicants for
those licenses, lest the probable result follow that the
license is made the condition for the vote, and the vote
the consideration of the license.—After some discussion,
in the course of which Mr. Hugh Hornby, as chairman
of the finance committee, denied the insinuations which
he thought were cast against the members of that body,
and declared that none of the cases to which reference
was made had ever come under his notice, the report was
received, and a copy of it ordered to be sent to the finance
committee, with a request that they would co-operate
with the magistrates in adopting some measures which
would destroy the abuses of the present system of grant-
ing marine-store licenses.