The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-06-28 00:00:00

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y night, the servants at a
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clothes and masked, standing near the
BODY RECOVERED.—On Thursday evening, e body of
a man, name unknown, was found floating inth the river
near Garston. The face was almost eaten away, and the
body generally decomposed.
A PRISONER IN THE BOROUGH GAOL, named
Rebecca Hill, who was under sentence of ten years'
transportation, died on Tuesday in the hospital of pul-
monary consumption.
Tait COTTON SPINNERS' ASSOCIATION at Blackburn
have resolved to resist the claim now made by the opera-
tives for an advance of ten per cent., and to carry this act
by a general stoppage of the mills.
TAE BELGIAN SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH was opened
on Monday week. Birmingham has lust been joined with
the metropolis by the same company, .and they contem-
plateproceeding rapidly with the continuation to Liverpool.
OPPORTUNITY FOR CAPITALISTS.—In to.clay's Stan-
dard will be found advertised an important sale of free-
hold and leasehold property is Liverpool. the lots being
so arranged as to suit both large and small capitalists.
THE OPERATIVE TAILORS OF LIVERPOOL, at a meeting
on Tuesday evening, Mr. John Allan in the chair, resolved
to support the Tailors' Institute, and to use every exer-
tion to place the trade in the position it ought to occupy.
It was announced that several grievances had, on a repre-
sentation to the employers, been remedied.
GEORGE THOMAS, late a keeper at the Rainhill Lunatic
Asylum, (from which situation he has been discharged),
was fined £5, at the Prescot police court on Tuesday, for
assaulting one of the inmates Peter Mulligan, and break-
ing one of his ribs, because Ale poor fellow refused to eat
his food.

SUDDEN DEATH AT CIitIRCH..--.At divine service at
St. Barnabas's Church, Pimlico, on Sunday morning
week, 11r. Thomas Bailey, of Aig'burth, near this town,
uts attacked by apoplexy for the third time. He was
attended by Dr. Aldis, sod, although the usual remedial
means were immediately resorted to, he expired in a few
hours afterwards.
HAY

KING began, near:
.._

...,y a fortnight ago at Wootton
and in some other parts of the neighbourhood of Liver-
pool, and considerable breadths of hay-grass are now cut.
Clover and rye grass crops are heavy. The wheat. which
is shooting into ear, promises to be a good crop:; so do
oats and
latter are o barley, as well as potatoes and turnips ; the
ut of the reach of the fly.
Tat MoatAtirr in the parish of Liverpool in the
" weeeek,
ending Saturday was the same as in the previous
namely, 116, and in the out-townships the deaths
137,
57, again-st 56 in the former week. Tlsel otal was being 41 less than the average of the corresponding week
Ofver the preceding five years. The mortality from typhus
le and from other diseases of the t yinctic class, with
the exception of hooping cough, is unusually 10w.
THE SAILINGS OF THE AUSTRAL/AN FLEET from
this Part from the 15th to the 22nd instant have been
eight vessels for Melbourne, 4,055 tons ; one vessel for
Port Adelade, 676 tons ; two vessels for Sydney, 1,446
tonssi and one for Geelong and Melbourne, 188 tons; or
an aggregate tonnage of 6;365 tons. The total number
of vessels preparing on the 22nd for the various ports of
Australia was 26 ; registered tonnage, 18,266.
CORPORATION NORTH SomoOrs.—At the midsummer
-examination, on Tuetdav, the Mayor presented three
prizes, which his Worship had offered in December last,
Tor the best essays—the competition being open to boys
and girls. The examination, both in the infant and girls'
-pscuhrosoles, satisfied all Present that the system of education
an to
d u d s taep;Tthem
ri
by honest industry put system a
Positionto to main elevate
tapinor childroen,
tirenrselves.
BRITISH
CLIPPEIts ' A- TatumpFt.—The &Arm ship.
Australia, built at 'St. Jahr's by Mr. OrLsaghlin, 'for
Messr. Charles Moore and Co.. of Liverpool, and des-
patched from this port by Mr. Walthew, in YlaYllBs2'
for 'll:el.bourae, returned to the Mersey on Monday week,
having visited since her'departure South Australia, China,
Trinidad, and N'elv- Orleans. She passed the celebrated
American clippers Flying Cloud, White 'Scull, 'and
Atalanta. This is an unexampled quick run.
AUSTRALIA. A ColiCN LAND.—From the Australian
news of a New York contemporary we glean the following
passage :_:•` If labourers flock into Australia in sufficient
9ne of
/lumbers. we may hare bulk of Australian cotton 'yet.
the oldest cotton brokers in Liverpool, since
dead man who hid grown cotton himself in the United
ptates in:his early days—declared, in 184-9, after exarain-
Hag divers sp-ecimens of Australian cotton, that preduct
wdeopuelnddenmackye a great country hereafter of- that -distant
of oars." country
" A LIVERPOOL •hPPRENTICE," in .the columns of a
contemporary, cora-plains that it is the custom of many
merchants to make their clerks take letters on a-franday
Morning. 11e eives an instance in which three partners
of a Liverpool-frit live respectively at Rock' Perry,Wood-
side
his home
at Bit the morning, gets the letters at the post-office,
visits the three reside:tees of the firm in succession, and
does not get home till half-past eleven ! - Tie cannot,
therefore, go to church till 12 o'clock. This is a sub-
stantial grievance.
Ad
ToeN
NIA LE ~Scrx
Lord

at Mr. Shrttleworth's hotel, in
Mar^ -

Doherty, has been
possession a bill of erchanze for
rth American Bank, drawn in -far Our of
`'l.D• A gentleman of that name stayed
ewcrth's from the Sth to the'lOth instant,
'A """"9 on the 11th. At the police-office
gave a confused account of how it
sion ; the case was dismissed, Mr.
-1 until further information can be

named

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