The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-04-17 00:00:00

THE B}tUNSWICK DOCK.

This is stated to be the largest dock, in area of water, in
the town, being, with its (former) passage, now a steam dock,
upwards of twelve acres. The stone-work, particularly at
the gates and the outward quays, presents a fine specimen of
mural architecture. A greater portion of the quays slope to
nearly the level of the water, particularly on the west side, for
the accommodation of vessels discharging timber from their
bow ports,—most of them being from the British American
colonies. Many of these ships are upwards of a thousand
tons burthen, and are handsome and well found. Amongst
those I have lately noticed, may be instanced the United
Kingdom (recently described in your paper), the Scotland,
the England, and the Glengarry, all first-rate vessels of
their class. There is a fine view from the west, or river
side of this dock, embracing the wide expanse of the river
from Runcorn downwards. The Coburg, a smaller dock, is
between the Brunswick and .
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THE QtiEDN'S DOCK.

This dock comprises an area of upwards of ten acres, and
the shipping which it receives is much more diversified in
character than that in the Brunswick. At the north end ves-
sels from or bound to any port of the world are promiscuously
accommodated, including some of the larger coasters.
Towards the south end timber ships and other vessels from
the Baltic are congregated ; and amongst them may be ob-
served, as the Yankees would say, a pretty considerable
sprinkling of Belgian, Dutch, and Prussian galliots, which
bring grain, oak bark, madder, &c., and generally take back
salt. The galliot is a peculiarly old-fashioned sort of craft,
for which, (being a sort of nautical amateur,) I entertain that
sort of respect which is analagous to that which I ever cheer-
fully pay on beholding a well-polished piece of old English
oak furniture, the pride of the industrious housewife, at an
antiquated farm-house. The galliot is a picturesque, if not,
in the eyes of the moderns, a beautiful vessel ; and it forms
a prominent and interesting object in many of the first
paintings of the Dutch and Flemish masters. I do not
assume that they are what is termed " clippers" in sail
ing, (except before tie wind,) but that they are safe and
admirable sea-boats, and even sail well, is beyond dis-
pute. The deck, forming an inverted segment of a cir-
cle, rises boldly at stem and stern, forming a fore-castle
and a poop at the extremities of the curve. Scorning
the sneaking, insinuating wedge-shaped bow of our modern
craft, which, dagger-like, takes the waves by surprise,
cutting through them as if nothing was coming—they
present a bold and uncompromising front to the warring bil-
lows, not unlike the gable of a house, or the end of a hay-
stack, with the corners slightly rounded off. Old Ocean has
fair play with the galliots, and, grateful for the concession,
permits them to ride upon his bosom, even in the storm, as
dry and as easy as ducks in a mill pond. There is one pecu-
liar feature of these vessels which I shall never cease to ad-
mire—their bright varnished sides and spars, their general
cleanliness, and, above all, the combination of rural with
nautical taste displayed in their plump and full-bottomed
sterns. The rudder and the massy tiller that moves it are
unique ; the latter generally carved at the extremity in some
fantastic form. The stern is, however, the masterpiece.
It has, for the most part, two small windows perforated
through the massy plank, one on each side the rudder. These
resemble in every respect the neat little windows of a country
cottage, with a green railing or piece of lattice work, like a
balcony outside. When the season permits, flowers in pots
are frequently seen blooming within the little rail, and a
touch of green paint, in foliated ornaments, gives the whole
an appearance of a rustic domicile afloat.
While I was gazing (but yesterday) at one of these vessels,
on board of which I observed a venerable but active old man,

Wilt) WAS evidently the niutee, and who eeemed to be part I
and parcel of the materials of which she is composed, en es-
teemed friend, connected with the Baltic trade of the port,
who had observed me, came up, and finding I was " sketch-
ing," handed me the following lines, relative to the ship and
her aged and worthy commander, which he had just copied
from a recent Hamburgh paper, premising that the same
vessel had, short time ago, discharged a cargo from Wol-
gast, at Leith, after making a passage from the Sound in six
days. My friend is well acquainted with the veteran com-
mander of this galliot :
" It is a fact worthy of being recorded, that there is at pre-
sent a ship in our harbour which is thirty-five years old,
and which, during the whole of that period, has only had one
and the same master and owner. The ship is the ' Konigen
Von Schweden,' Captain Christian Grap, and ti-,e owner is
William Houseyer, Esq., of Wolgast, who had the vessel
built there in 1804. Captain Grap, who, although in his 61st
year, still retains his mental and physical powers in unabated
vigour. has traversed the seas for forty-eight years ; and,
notwithstanding many storms -and dangers, has, under the
blessing of Providence, nniformly completed his voyages
successfully. Although he has been repeatedly offered the
command of newer vessels, even on terms more advantageous
to himself, -yet • his long attachment to his welt-preserved
Queen' would not suffer him to part from her, and he,
therefore, continues to devote his services to the owner, for
whom he has already sailed thirty-five years. We hope the
future voyages of Captain Grap may still be attended with
his wonted good fortune, and that while he receives that re-
spect which he has so well merited, his example may serve
to stimulate and encourage others."
I had purposed, Mr. Editor,- to conclude this first
rapid sketch by a notice of George's and the Prince's Piers
at high water, but apprehensive that I may have already spun
too long a yarn for one day, I must for the present bid you
farewell.

WESLEYAN MISSIONARY MEETING.

The twenty-third anniversary of the Wesleyan Methodist
Auxiliary Missionary Society was held on Tuesday night, at
Brunswick Chapel. The meeting was announced to com-
mence at six o'clock,, but before half-past five the chapel be-
gan rapidly to fill. At six the friends of the missionary cause
began to assemble in 'great numbers, and shortly after that
time the chapel was excessively crowded. The platform was
occupied by several eminent ministers of the 'Wesleyan and
other persuasions, and by several influential gentlemen con-
nected with the Methodist. Society, and favourable to the
objects of the meeting. Amongst the former was the Rev.
rector of Wallasey.
On the motion of Mr. rlamos, Thomas Crook, Esq.,
was called to the chair.
The CHAIRMAN said, it was unnecessary for him to occupy
much of their time in dwelling on the operations of the so-
ciety, seeing that they were operations with which• they had,
during twenty years, been familiar. They were called upon
to re-unite and bring together all the inhabitants of the world
in one common bond of Christian faith; and lie hoped, on
this important subject,. that every individual felt the great
responsibility resting on hll. 'Thia was 'a day .when know-
ledge was considered the great object ; but how immeasur-
ably all knowledge sank before that which was to teach men
to avoid perdition, and to find their way to heaven. He had
good ground for taking, that all who heard him possessed
this saving knowledge in a greater or less degree, and if they
did so, they ought: to impart it in the proportion in which it
was given. This was the great object for which they were
met together. After a few affecting observations on their
recent bereavement,' the chairman called upon the secretary
to read the report.
The report set forth, that the society had twenty-two mis-
sionaries in Ireland, actively employed amongst the most
destitute districts of the country ; and though Popery was
rampant, yet their success had been encouttging, and they
continued to co-operate with other societies in endeavouring
to destroy the superstitious of the people. The report alluded
to the successful labours of the missionaries on the continent
of Europe, in endeavouring to arouse the slumbering Pro-
testant churches. In Ceylon and continental India they were
doing their utmost ; but in the vast territories of India their
utmost did but create here and there an oasis in the midst
of the desert : there was verdure on those spots, but all
around was barren.

The report alluded to the great responsibility of England,
and expressed tear that an awful amount of guilt had been
incurred by our connivance at the idolatries of the Hindoos.
In New South Wales and Van Dieman's Land the mission-
aries had been successful in reclaiming many expatriated of
our own country, as well as in turninc- to religion many of
the aborigines, the most degraded of the human race, who
hare not retained a vestige of religion. In New Zealand and
the Fegee Islands, the missionaries have extended the arts of
civilisation with religion ; and:many of the kings and queens
of the savage tribes have become "nursing fathers and mo-
thers of the church." _

The report spoke favourably of the cause in Africa, and in
warm terms of its continued career of success in the West
Indies. The following summary was added :—The society
occupy 241 stations ; its missionaries are 360 ; salaried cate-
chists and schoolmasters 300 ; gratuitous teachers and assist-
ants, upwards of 4000; printing establishments supported in
foreign stations, 7 ; number of the society, or communicants
under the spiritual care of the missionaries, 72,727 ; total
number attending their ministry, upwards of 200,000 ; in the
schools there are 56,512 adults and children.
Upwards of .twenty different languages are used by the
missionaries, and into several of them translations of the
scriptures and of other works are in progress. The income
of the society for the Liverpool district during the past year
was £2370. 7s. -Id., which the committee regretted to state,
is a defalcation as compared with. the proceeds of the pre-
ceding year.
The Rev. JOHN RATTENDURY, from Leeds, proposed the
first resolution for the adoption, printing, and publication of
the report. The reverend gentleman, in a short, but elo-
quent and energetic speech, advocated the missionary cause,
but intimated that, as he had received a hint to be brief, he
would reserve what further he had to say for the meeting at
Pitt-street Chapel,,to-morrow evening.
The CI-taut:A s.N- said, it gave him extreme pleasure to call
upon the Rev. Dr. Byrth, rector of Wallasey.
The Rev. Dr. BYRTIS said, he felt it a great privilege to
address the meeting. He could not hear the report read
without feeling that if lie had been present, arid not kindly
invited, as he had been, it would have been a high gratifica-
tion to him to have stood up and seconded the resolution that
recorded the adoption of that report by that meeting. When
he heard of the conversion of souls, and of the triumphs of
Christianity, he felt that the points on which they differed
were nothing—that the points on which they did not differ
were everything, and the only, things .which they ought to
remember. He was not there, any more than the last
speaker, to make a speech, he was there to bear witness to a
principle. lie had stated that .he -felt it a privilege to be
there, and that statement might require explanation. They
might naturally ask him why he felt it a privilege to be
among an assemblage of Christian people met for the con-
version of souls to God. The chairman had anticipated his
reason. There were persons who would wonder at it. He
felt it a great privilege to have it in his power to say to a
congregation with whom he was not formally unitcd, that he
was one with them in spirit. The principle to which he had
come to bear witness was this—that till the chnrch'catholic
forget their petty differences, and merge them into one great
cause, they would ever be broken up and disunited. The
Christian church would never be one till every member of it
were ready to say, that they agreed, and to boast that agree-
ment was everything. It was to this agreement, cost what it
might, that he stood there to bear witness. (Loud and
reiterated cheers.) They were not under any obligation to
him for that avowal, it was he who was under an obligation
to them. He had come amongst them willingly, and he
should be willing to come amongst 'them again another time
—(great applause)—if he should be asked. The rev. gen-
man turned to the subject of missionaries, and exhorted them
to pursue the work in the energy of Wesley ; to let the spirit
of Wesley be stamped upon the missions, as they were im-
pressed with his name, and they would have a success worthy
of that name.
The Rev. It. WINTER HAMILTON, an independent minis-
ter, of Leeds, supported the resolution.
The Rev. JOSEPH ROBERTS, of Sheffield, formerly a mis-
sionary in Eastern India, proposed the next resolution, which
was to the effect that the meeting rejoiced to hear of the suc-
cess of the society's operations, and particularly that mission-
aries were about to be sent' amongst the Ashantees, &c., &c.
Mr. Roberts said he had laboured fourteen years in the East
Indies, and should never have returned, for he was happy in
those labours, but his health failed. He laboured principally
amongst the Malabars, the race which was principally go-
verned by Hyder Ally and Tippoo Saib. The reverend gen-
tleman proceeded to give many interesting anecdotes and de-
tails of events that had occurred during his ministry in India,
of which we regret that our limits will not at this time permit
us to give even a brief outline.
The Rev. SAMUEL WADDY seconded the resolution. He
impressed upon the assembly the importance of the work in
an address of much energy and depth of reasoning. He did
not, he said, look forany overwhelming success ; it was enough
for them if they performed the work which God had given
them to do. That God had pointed it out to them, and they
were called upon to perform it with energy and with their
might, and in his good time he would perfect it by calling all
the nations of the world to view the light of truth. The rev.
gentleman pointed out to the assembly the number of open-
ings which there were for their contentions against ignorance
and idolatry, if they had but the money. He concluded by
an earnest exhortation to the assembly to contribute liber-
ally in aid of this vast and important work.
The resolutions, which were put in proper order by the
chairman, were carried unanimously.
The chairman announced the receipt of £3O anonymously.
The same sum he had received from the same quarter for se-
veral years past, in aid of the Wesleyan missions. The se-
cretary mentioned the various sums received from schools, in
missionary boxes, &c.
The meeting adjourned at ten o'clock to six o'clock on the
following evening, in Pitt-street Chapel.
The collection at this meeting amounted to £125 ; which,
added to the suns collected on Sunday last at the chapels in
the northern district of the town, make an amount of
£2lO 15s.—Courier.

REPRESENTATION OF MORAYSHIRE.—Major Cumming
Bruce is at present canvassing the electors of the county of
Moray, or Elgin, as it is understood the Hon. Colonel Grant,
of Grant, will immediately retire from parliament. No can-
didate on the liberal interest is mentioned as likely to come
forward.—lnverness Courier.

THE DuctiEss.—Far be it from us to molest a pretty
woman, or to perplex the honeymoon of a bridegroom, what-
ever might be his weight of flesh, infirmities, or years. But,
if it did not put his Highness of Sussex to peculiar incon-
venience, he would do a great many inquirers a kindness in
letting them know when, where, and how he was married to
the Duchess of Inverness. Royal nuptials are always matter
of public interest, and his Royal Highness has been so long
before the world as a public luminary, that we cannot bear
the idea of seeing his light put under a bushel in any trans-
action of an existence so distinguished by illustrious piiblic.
services. The Duke has always been curious in affairs of
this kind. His marriage with Lady Augusta Murray was a
public topic for some years, and its result was as much a
topic as its celebration. But why are his son and daughter
limited to the comparative obscurity, the one of a knight-
hood, the other of a French name ? Simple Sir Augustus,
and Mademoiselle, stand in rather an anomalous position,
with a Royal Highness for a father, and a Duchess of yes-
terday, led by the hand up to the presence of the sovereign.
Why, we ask again, is the lady Duchess of Inverness ? The
Prince, in all the plenitude of his glories, is but the Earl of
Inverness after all. Or why is the widow of Sir Solomon
Buggins to be Duchess of anything ? We have no objection
to a little laughing among the maids of honour, or an epigram
or two from the lords in waiting; but the topic is tanta-
lising, and his Royal Highness, who has done so much for
the cause of liberty everywhere under the moon, ought to
feel for the universal anxiety of the empire.—Britannia.

MT. Fox MAULE AND THE ELECTORS OF PERTH.—It
appears from sundry indications in the local radical papers
of the Fair City, as well as from the movements of the par-
ties themselves, that Mr. Greig, the member for Perth, is
about to resign his seat in favour of Mr. Fox Maule, that is
to say, should the electors concur in such an arrangement.
We would have imagined, after the recent discomfiture
which the government sustained in this county, that none of
their emissaries would have dared to show face again in the
'district. But it appears that Mr. Fox Maule feels uneasy
and awkward in his present seat, and, as Mr. Greig
wishes to look after his shop, he is preparing to come for-
ward whenever the threatened vacancy takes place. We
have good reason to believe that the conservatives are not
indifferent to what is going on. We earnestly urge upon
them the necessity of combined and unceasing exertion—for
surely Mr. Fox Maule, identified as he is most intimately
with the whig ministry, is now too tough a morsel for any
independent constituency to attempt to swallow.--Edinburgh
Evening Post.

POLICE INTELLIOENCE.-Tv ES DA Y,

THEFT Hy A SERVANT GIRL.

Ellen Graham and Ann Wilson were charged with having
robbed Ellen Graham's master, Mr. William Smith. Ellen
Graham was further charged with having stolen several arti-
cles, the property of •Mrs. Mitchison, her former mistress.
The prisoners are sisters.
Mr. Wiliam Smith, grocer, of Pitt-street, stated, that the
prisoner Ellen Graham entered his service about six weeks
ago. About eight o'clock on &Imlay morning last, he heard
the bars which secured his shop door taken down. Ile heard
a money-drawer fall down, which effectually roused him, and
he ran down stairs, when he found his shop door open. He
looked out, and saw the prisoner, Ann Wilson, with a basket
in her hand, about fifty yards from the shop. He had met the
prisoner Graham leaving the shop, and going into the kitchen.
He ran'after Wilson, overtook her, and conveyed her back,
to the shop. lie examined the basket, and found in it a
quantity of candies, sugar, currants, raisins, rice, barley, and
flour. He sent for a constable, and before lie arrived, the
prisoner Graham came out of the kitchen into the shop, and
said, " Mr. Smith, you have your things back ; I will leave
a month's wages, if you will let us off, and I will go away
now. They are the first things I have ever taken." Mr.
Smith would not accede to this. The prisoners were taken
to Bridewell by constable Farlam. The latter corroborated
a portion of Mr. Smith's testimony. He said, that on Sun-
day morning he went and searched the prisoner Graham's
bok, in her bed-room, at Mr. Smith's house. He found a
pawn-ticket, which indicated that a silk handkerchief, had
been pledged at the shop of Mr. Higginson, in Park-lane.
This, with two other silk handkerchiefs, and some other ar-
ticles of apparel, turned out to belong to Mrs. Mitchison.
The latter stated, that the prisoner Graham had been her
servant, and, during the time she was with her, several arti-
cles were missed.

The prisoners were committed for trial.
VIOLENT ASSAULT.
_ _ _

An aged female, named O'Donnell, appeared to complain
against Bridget Bowman €►nd her husband, whom she charged
with having assaulted her. It was very evident that Mrs.
O'Donnell had been very severely handled, as her face bore
marks of violent contusions, and her head was bound with
napkins which were stained with blood. Mr. Davenport ap-
peared for the defendants. One of his clients, Bridget Bow-
man, sat next to him, and showed the excessive .violence of
her tamper by frequently interrupting the case, noN ith-
standing the exertions of her solicitor and her friends to keep
her silent. •

Mrs. O'Donnell stated, that she went into her house on
the night in question in consequence of hearing herself called.
She found all her windows and her door broken. Mr. Bow-
man was there, and he immediately attacked her with some
weapon which he held in his hand.

Mrs. Bowman (producing a poker)—No, no ; here's your
own poker, Mrs. O'Donnell ; look at it, ma'am.

A young- girl, who lived with Mrs. O'Donnell. stated that
the latter was at a neighbour's house, when she saw Mr.
Bowman advancing with a knife in his hand. He said,
" Come along, I've a grudge here," pointing to Mrs. O'Don-
nell's house. " We'll have blood for supper," exclaimed he.
Witness called loudly for -Mrs. O'Donnell, and thrust the
poker through the bolt-staple to fasten the door. The de-
fenlant came up to the door, and made several violent at-
tempts to break the door open, but he was not able. He,
however, smashed a panel in. Not being able to etfcet an
entrance through this, he smashed all the panes in-a lower
window,_ broke all the frames, and got in through the win-
dow. He took the poker out of the bolt-staple, and threw
open the door. Mrs. O'Donnell at that moment entered the
house, and the defendant immediately attacked her with the
knife, cutting her head, and inflicting several violent blows
besides on her face. Witness had crept in beneath the stairs,
being terrified at Bowman's violence.
On cross-examination by Mr. Davenport, it appeared that
the Bowmans and some other parties had been before the ma •
gistrates last week, and that the case on that occasion was
dismissed. Mr. Davenport laboured to make it appear that
there had been some rejoicing on the subject, which was ex-
asperating to the feelings of the defendants. In this, howt ver,
*he did not succeed. The witness admitted that she had been
in a coach that day, but it did not appear that her ride had
any connexion with the case in question.

Sarah Liddel stated that she saw Bowman, who is a shop-
keeper, with a large kinte in his hand. He was advancing in
the direction of Mrs. O'Donnell's house. He said, " Conic
along, lads ; I have a grudge here ; we will have blood for
supper." Witness said, I had been at the court in the uh;rn-
ing, and I saw the law-suit, and there was some rejOioiog
about it, but I had no hand in it.

Mr. Davenport called witnesses for the defence. The first
of these was

Mrs. Smalle, a small lady, with a very small voice, but a
most untiring tongue. The magistrates, their clerks, the at-
torney, and the officers of the court, bad more than they could
do to keep her to the point. She was ever diverging and run-
ning off at an immense rate, respecting that which had no-
thing to do with the question. The effect of her testimony
was, that she saw Mr. Bowman go out without anything in
his hand, and return again with a poker.
Yes—exclaimed Mrs. Bowman, exhibiting her poker—and
it's Mrs. M`Donnell's poker, too ; and here it is. He took
it out of her hands when she was striking him with it.
Mrs. O'Donnell, in her turn, exhibited a much longer po-
ker than that in the possession of- Mrs. Bowman, and ex-
claimed, " If pokers prove anything, here is your's, which
Mr. Bowman used to break my windows with. He left it
behind him, and took my poker, which he had taken out of
the door, in mistake.,"

Mrs. Bowman looked furious, and was about to reply, but
she was with difficulty prevented, or rather stopped.
Mr. Rushton (to Mr. Davenport.)—You have offered no
defence to this charge. I dismissed the case that was brought
before me on the former occasion.

Mrs. Bowman.—Oh ! they are a hor►id blackguard set--
they are.

Mr. Rushton.—And now we hear of this man, Bowman,
going with murderous weapons, and using violent lang,uage.
Mrs. Bowman.—He never did so. He knows better—be.s
too respectable—he's got a character. Show your character,
my dear, and that 'll stop 'em.
Mr. Rushton (to Bowman.)—You must pay a fine of £5,
or, in default of payment, be imprisoned two months. you,
must further find bait that you will keep the peace—yourself
in £5O, and two sureties in £25 each ; the usual notice to be
given of the bail.
Mrs. Bowman here became so violent, and talked so loucth:
of her excellent character, and of the merchants who could
be called to testify to it, that Mr. Rushton was compelled tl
threaten that he would have her also taken into custody, ar
would compet her to find bail, if she did not be peaceable:
She quitted the court with her Hends, but her voice could
be heard uttering her denunciations long after she had takes
her departure. .