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

THE

THERE are 11,000 husbands in Australia whose wives
have been left behind.

SPURIOUS NUGGETS, ingeniously plated, are manufac-
tured in England and sent out to Australia.
A SEAMAY-fell from the mizentopmast of the Western
World, on Wednesday, and was killed.
HYDRO.CARBON GASES have answered so admirably at
Southport, that we are told they are being adopted in other
places.

JOHN :NITRIDE, a sailer on board the Western
World, lying in the river, fell from the mizen-topmast,
on Wednesday, and was immediately killed.
MR. CARDY, master of the Berenice, his wife, and all
the officers, have been murdered by his crew in the Straits
of Gaspar, and the vessel burnt.
THE SCREW STEAM-SHIP SARAH SANDS arrived at
Melbourne, all well, in 84 days, including ten days' de-
tention at the Cape of Good Hope.
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ON Thursday a spirited ploughing match took place in
the immediate vicinity of Fazakerley, in one of the fields
of Rosebank farm, occupied by Mr. Charnock.

A: PETITION against the solicitors' annual certificate
duty was presented on Monday, by Mr. Mackenzie, from
this town.

HONOBIO GIBBONS, a young Irishwoman at Stockport, is
now in custody, charged with poisoning her female child,
aged nine mouths. The mother was a member of a burial
society.
MR. Ch ARLES LAMONT was on Saturday presented by
his fellow-clerks, at the Albert Dock warehouses, with a
gold pencil case, aczompanied with an address, as a mark
of esteem.
ONE of the West Derby paupers, Elizabeth Currie, is
now 109 years old. At the age of 105 she walked from
Toxteth park to Aigburth, and returned with a stone of
apples on her back.
JAMES BREMNER, owner of the pm:dle steamer
Washington, has been fined 40s. and costs for conveying
passengers on the 15th ult., without having the requisite
certificate on board.

A 'ert'ANO MANUFACTCRER, at Penistone, named
Hodgson, has recovered £lOO at the York Assizes, from
the Manchester and Sheffield Railway Company, for da-
mages sustained by him on that line.
LtcERPOOL WORKHOUSE.—At this time theresre not,
out of upwards of 2,000, more than twenty young men
end about ten young women pronounced by the medical
officer to be capable of working the mills.
'CAPTAIN BROCCN, of the steamship Roscommon, who
was instrumental in saving fifty'-three lives from the un-
'fhrtunate Queen Victoria. has been presented by the pas-
sengers with a handsome gold chain.
TWELVE SEAMEN have been sentenced to one month's
imprisonment each for violating their agreement to serve
in the British ship Jenny Lind, on a voyage from Liver-
pool to San Francisco.
THE Preston Chronicle states that arch and extensive
vein of copper ore has lately been discovered in the Earl
of Lonsdale's royalty, near Gilierthwaine, and not far
from the head of Ennerdale Lake.

• Two Max in custotiv, M`Mahon and Robinson, have
been identified 13,7 witnesses es the parties who perpe-
trated the brutal *assault and robbery at Mr. Howard's
shop in Manchester.
THE WHITEHAVEN SrEAM 'NAVIGATION COMPANY
have disposed of their steamer the'Earl of Lonsdale, which
is henceforth intended to ply between ports in the Medi-
terranean.

IN a case at the Police-court, the other day, the magis-
trate recommended the ejection of that large class of
vulgar and immodest women who are employed at some
of the stalls in St. John's and -St. James's market.
Ma. .10111,T ATKINSON, the collector of government
taxes for the municipal district of West Derby, is now in
Lancaster Castle, and it appears that he has failed to pay
up certain sums received by him on account of taxes for
the municipal district of West Derby.
Mn. master of her Majesty's steam ship En-
counter, lately stationed here, has been dismissed from the
service for drunkenness. The Encounter has left Ports-
mouth for-a cruise in the Irish Channel, and will perhaps
pay another visit to the Mersey.
TLEOI4I,-.S DERBYSHIRE, cheesemonger, Toxteth-park,
was committed for trial en Friday, charged with forging
a figure in a bill presented to him by Mr. Mansell, smith,
Simpson-street, whereby'-S7 paid on account by the per-
son was changed into £l7.
SE'rERAL JEWS, it is said, have realized £200,000 by
exporting goods from London and Liverpool to Australia.
A member of parliament has cleared £90,000 by some old
Australian Agricultural Company's shares, which he be-
lieved to be nearly worthless.
ON'the 7th and Sth instant, 5,263 horses and vehicles
passed Wapping, opposite the railway. In Regent-road,
Great Howard-street, Walter-street, Blackstone-street,
and Boundary-street, there were counted 10,543 carts and
2,05 coaches.
SUICIDE or AN' EMIGRANT.—On Friday morning,
Alexander Wood, who had arrived in Liverpool that day,
intending to sail in the Constitution, committed suicide
with a razor in the house of Richard Plunkett, 4,,1,
Stewart-street.

J'AZEZ DAVENPORT, in whose possession 300 oz. of
melted gold and silver were found, has been allowed to
go at large by the INianchester authorities : he has• not
ventured, however, to ask for the metal or the crucibles,
which are, of course, in the hands of the police.
TEE CLIPPER SHIP TALCON, Captain Taylor, arrived

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in the Mersey, on Tuesday, from Sydney, whence she
sailed on the 17th of November. She has brought 11,655
ounces of gold dust and 13,000 hides on freight, and ten

cabin passengers.
CONSCIENCE MoNrv. Mr. Robert Arrowsmith,
banker, of Preston, on Monday last received through the
Post-office a sum of money " for a small debt owing to
the late Dr. Parkinson, of Lancaster." Who sent the
money is a mystery. It was all in gold.
TiF. BODY OF JOHN SHORILOCK, a celebrated fortune.
teller was interred, on Thursday, at Padiham Church.
His house in Preston was crowded with foolish people
during his lifetime, who came to test his skill. He was
59 years old when he died.
A 'GALVANISED PIVE, according to the Blackburn

Standard, has been led from the stoves in Holy Trinity
Church,- Over Darwen, to the top of the steeple; hence
the _architectural beauty of the structure is sadly dis-
figured.

GRCRS SUPERSTITION was manifested lately at Rick-
mane.v7orth. A child had fallen into the river ; some of
the inhabitants endeavoured to discover the holy by
putting quicksilver into some bread, and floating the loaf
down the river.
EDWARD MILLER, an out-door pauper of the West
Derby Union, died on Saturday week, at Garston, at the
advanced age of 165. He was able, until the last few
years, to follow his business as a fisherman. He has left
a wife aged 96.
LIVERPOOL COOPERS.—There are upwards of 500 ope-
rative. coopers in Liverpool (about 500 in the trade so-
ciety, and only about 50 out of it) ; and we have in Seel-
street one of the largest cooperages in the kingdom. As
to the men, the hours of work are from six to six, and
the fixed wages have been about 265. a week, but are now
30s.

AT THE`-WARRINGTON PETTY SESSIONS. on Monday.
275. Cd. each had to be paid by Hugh Williams and
Edward Jones, of Toxteth- park, Liverpool, for being
drunk and, misconducting themselves in a carriage of the
London and North-Western Railway Company, on the
previous Saturday.
TEIE SCREW-STEAMER PERSIAN, which left the Coburg
Dock on Monday, the 28th ult., arrived in the harbour of
Valetta, Malta, on the morning of the 9th inst., at nine,
having performed the entire distance, 2,400 miles, in
eight days fifteen hours. This is the shortest voyage to
Malta on record.

AMERICAN GRANTS TO STEAM LINES.—New York
to Liverpool, 5858,000 ; ditto to Chaeres or Aspinwall,
5.290,000; Panama to California, =5348,000; Charleston
to Havana, ,850,000; across the Isthmus of Panama,
X 120,000; Bremen and Havre lines, 4.1'350,000 ; New
Orleans and Vera -Cruz, '665,000.
A PRIZE of £5 has been offered by the Insthutional
Association of Lancashire and Cheshire, for the best
essay, showing—`, What would be the most successful
means of securing a better and more useful disposal of the
leisure hours of the working classes, in regard to their
studies and amusements?"
THE STAR or THE EAST clipper has been purchased
by Mr. James Beazley, the owner of the clipper ship Miles
Barton, the Constance, and several other vessels engaged
in the Australian passenger trade. The Star of the East,
also, will form one of Messrs. Millers and Thompson's
" Golden Line of Packets."
AMERICAN CONSUL TO LIVERPOOL.—We learn from
a United States paper, the Greenville (S. C.) Southern
Patriot, that " General Bonham has been on a visit to
President Pierce, and has received the appointment of
the Consulship at Liverpool. This is one of the very
best offices within the gift of the Administration, and is
worth fifteen or twenty thousand dollars per annum."
nig BOROUGH SESSIONS were opened on Tuesday
last, by Mr. Blair, barrister,—Gilbert Henderson, E 5.4.,
•t.he Recorder, being indisposed. The calendar contained
the 'names of forty. six prisoners, forty-one of whom were
charged with felony, and five with misdemeanour. The
'business closed on Thursday afternoon. The recorder had
so far recovered his health as to be able to resume his
duties.

THE LANCASHIRE SPRING ASSIZES.—The commission
will be opened this day (Tuesday) before Mr. Justice
Creswell and Mr. Baron Martin. The calendar contains
106 cases, which are rather above the average number ; but
there are no cases of importance. The offences are
classed as follows :—Murder, 1 ; manslaughter, 1 ; assault
with intent to murder, 1 ; stabbing and wounding, 6 ;
rape, 5 ; robbery, 35 ; bigamy, 7 ; forgery, 9 ; burglary,
21; sacrilege, 1 ; housebreaking, 2; stealing in a dwel-
ling-house, 1 : mint cases, 2; stealing bills of exchange,
2; conspiracies to defraud, 5 ; total, 106.
THE MERCHANTS' DINING-ROOMS.—There was a
very full attendance of visitors on Tuesday last, to par-
take of the fine baron of beef dressed on that day. The
important operation of cooking this royal dish occupied
thirteen hours, having commenced at midnight; and it
was generally admitted that the beef did ample credit to
Messrs. Littledale and Torr, of whom the animal was
purchased, and also to the capabilities of the cuisine.
attractions
beennsat en
trlieicsestablishmentfitted ,
is a capa-
cious One ofd theivan, which has where the
lovers of the fragrant
weed
may indulge, and also enjoy
the cup which cheers, but not inebriates, or the more
potent compound.
POLICE SUPERANNUATION FUND.—A special meeting
of the Council was held at the Chamber, on Wednesday,
to consider a motion which Mr. Tobin made at the
unanimous request of the Watch Committee, to the effect
that so much of the proposed sanitary bill as relates to
the establishment of a Police Superannuation Fund, and
to amendments of the Police Act, now in force, be pro-
ceeded with during the present session of parliament ; and
that it be referred to the Watch Committee to promote
eiates to these objects
the bill, so far as r —M F • objects. —Mr. erni-
hough moved an adjournment which was ultimately car-
ried by the Ceslifl Y4to;(9c,,tho Neyer,-16voting for,
and 16 against.