The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-05-11 00:00:00

gunpowder and gun cotton, have recently been made in
Wales, by Mr. Wheeler, engineer, of London, and other
gentlemen ; Holyhead, Penrhyn, and Festiniog having

been chosen as the scenes of their operations. On
the same gentlemen, accompanied by Messrs. Ingram
Ind Clarke, of Liverpool,_ agents for the cotton, Mr

number of scientific- gentlemen, repeated the experiments
at Flay brick Hill quarry, whence almost all the stone used
in the construction of the Birkenhead Docks has been
taken. The greatest success attended their operations,
large blocks of stone being removed by the cotton, whereas
the gunpowder broke it into comparatively small pieces.
In one instance, a mass of stone, almost 14 tons weight,
was removed by 66z. of gun cotton; and in another in-
stance a large mass of stone was severed from the rock by
Soz. of cotton, a much smaller quantity being displaced
by a charge of 211 b. of gunpowder. Mr. Brown expressed
himself delighted with the experiments, and to Mr. Whee-
ler, Mr. Ingram, Dr. Nevins, of London, and the other
gentlemen they appeared to be quite satisfactory ; and de-
cided the superiority of gun cotton in removing large and

similar experiments, attended with equ'al success, were

)eing con-

and Manchester Raihhy to the north docks

EASTHAM FERRY.—The opening of the ferry to East-
ham, which may with propriety be termed the Richmond
of iverpool, has taken place. In former years, our
readers will remember, that at low water considerable
difficulty existed in effecting a landing or embarkation,
owing to the rapidity with which the tide ebbs at that
part of the river ; but now a pier is in progress of forma-

o run one

to this ferry, hut the reduction of the fares to threepence
(not one half-penny per mile) has rendered it necessary
that the spirited proprietor should procure another steamer

from Scotland, and during the summer months, they are
intended to ply between St. George's Pier-head and East-
ham every hour. Not only have the pleasure grounds
been extended and unproved, but a spacious new building
has been erected for the accommodation of pie nic and
other parties, at a scale of charges lower than those adopted
1.-•.-1 • • _

at, mue note!, anti tne visitors have the privilege of frequent-
ing the woods at the back, belonging to Sir William Mas-
sey Stanley, Bart. The floral and horticultural exhibi-
tions will be held here on the 9th June and 26th August,

under very promising auspices ; and we can ensure our
readers a treat of no ordinary kind. We also perceive
that improvements of great magnitude are contemplated
by Sir William M. Stanley, who has directed Mr. amp-
ling, the architect, to lay down a plan of a large plot of
land for building purposes ; and we understand that the
sale has been fixed to come off in the course of a few days.
If the designs of Mr. Rampling be carried out, then East-
ham may vie with any other place in England for beauty
of scenery.

THE SHIPWRECKED FISHERMEN AND MARINERS'
BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.—We beg to call the attention of

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branch of which has been established in this town tor
many years, but which, we feel confident, would have re-
ceived a larger measure of sunnort from our hpnovnlAnt.

townsmen, had its objects been more generally known.
The object of its formation, in 1839, was to assist the
widows and orphans of lost fishermen and mariners, and
for boarding, lodging, clothing, and forwarding home
wrecked seamen and other poor persons. We are happy

to learn that there are upwards of 15,000 sailor members,
who subscribe their 2s. 6d. annually : but the society de-
pends mainly for its support on the larger subscriptions
and donations of those in more affluent station. Hun-
dreds of shipwrecked seamen, who have been brought
into Liverpool, or sent here by the society's agents on
other parts of the coast, have been duly relieved and
forwarded to their homes at its expense, whilst many a

poor widow and orphan's heart has been made glad
through the instrumentality and benevolence of this in-
stitution. In the case of the emigrants, wrecked near
Wexford, a few weeks since, the Board of Management
sent their travelling secretary Lieut. W. H. Symons R.N.,
tponWexford, with authority to present £3O to the Relief

Lne eenses ny
them on that occasion, and
relieve the
xp
extra pressure incurred
on
their funds. In the still more recently melancholy loss of
life in the emigrant ship Exmouth, the survivors were land-
ed at Glasgow, and immediately taken care of

of the institution, ,erv.ooeinee the formation
) ae
persons have been
relieved. Subscriptions and donatiojmA). A sttilitia,pk-
fully received by the honorary agents, Mr.
Sailors' Home, Liverpool, and Messrs. HCo.dson and C(eY'

of the body of Catherine Pugh, aged 15, the servant of
Mr. Sutcliffe, publican, Richmond-street. Deceased was
respectably connected. On Thursday night she went to

morning. She had had a conversation just be-
g to bed with a youth named Grcen,:during
I don't think I shall be here
d night she said, " if I don't

which she said " Henr
long." When he bid her g
see Will again give my love to him,'

alludiu

o a young

) the house with-Greeri. Mt

and found that death was caused from arsenic. She did
not appear to be all affected .in her mind, and was of a
rather c'

The surgeon also found t

in the room occupied by deceased, and it contained a
yellowish white substance, which proved to be arsenic.
Margaret Pugh, mother of deceased, who resides with her
husband in Manchester, received_ a letter from'deceased

on Thursday morning

It. was dated May

but without

any day of the month. The name of the alluded to
by her named Will is Wm. Burroughs, a youth employed
at the railway station in Wapping. Mrs. Sutcliffe ob-
served that deceased during the last month appeared at
times rather depresSed, and' when spoken to on the sub-

ject complained of her head. William Burroughs being
sent for, and being told that he need not say anything un-
less he pleased, said he had nothing to state. The coroner,
in summing up, said that if the medical evidence was
correct as to the deceased being pregnant she must have
been the victim of a heartless seducer. There was no
evidence in the letter (which was not publicly read) to
show that she was labouring under aberation of mind.
After some other remarks on the painful nature of the
case, he left the matter in the hands of the jury, who
returned a verdict offelo de se. The coroner, addressing
Mrs. Pugh, said he sincerely sympathised with her. Her
daughter had, no doubt, fallen a victim to the arts of a
rascally seducer; and, from the verdict, deceased must
be buried at midnight, and without burial service. Mrs.
Pugh said. that she was not aware that any person of the
name of William Burroughs was paying his addresses to
deceased.

CURIOSITIES IN NATURAL HISTORY : WALLASEY
POOL IN• DANGER.—It 15, we believe, on record that,
about the year 1613, the low land on each side of Walla-
sey Pool and, probably, part of the pool itself, were
covered with stately forest trees, including the noble oak,
as also that it was prolific in hazel nuts, &c. Certain it
is, that from a survey at low water, some three years ago,
between New Brighton and Hoylake, by a. number of
scientific gentlemen, chiefly from this town, various re-
mains of forest trees, &c., were found. efubeckled,. in or
under the sand, manly clay, peat, gravel, and other strata,
evidently indicating that,. at one time, the land had ex-
tended much further to the. north than. the. present sand.