The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-16 00:00:00

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Notwithstanding all the warnings that have been given,
two more children were burnt to death, last week, in this
town, during the absence of their parents.
The government surveying officers have reported against
the bill of the Birkenhead Commissioners, for the pur-
chase of the Birkenhead and Claughton Water Works.
On Sunday week, £360 were collected at the Unitarian
Chapel, Renshaw-street, after a sermon by the Rev. J.
Thom, for the distressed Irish and Scotch.
Several outrageous street robberies took place in this
town last week. Parties, whether male or female, cannot
be too cautious while in the:outskirts of the town after dark.
The Rev. James Lister has resigned the office of pastor
'of the Baptist Chapel, in Myrtle-street, on account of a
decline of bodily health. He has ministered to the con-
gregation for-forty-four year.
Sir Wm. Stanley has given directions for having a plan
of his lands at Eastham drawn up by Mr. Rampling, in
order to their appropriation for the erection of villas. A
new slip is also to be erected at the ferry.
Mail TIDES.—On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
next, our noble river will present an interesting appearance
each day, at noon, from the very full state of the tides,
that of Thursday being the highest of the year.
On Wednesday, a vessel in the Queen's Graving Dock
was discovered to be on fire, but the flames were speedily
subdued by .a jet of water, which was directed on the
burning ship from the Harrington Company's mains.
THE LIVERPOOL CORPORATION WATERWORKS. —The
petition of the inhabitants of Wigan, setting forth the
serious injury the scheme is likely to inflict on the town
-and trade of Wigan and the neighbourhood, has been
numerously signed.
The South Eastern Company's steamer Princess Cle-
mentine recently arrived at Ostend, in little more than
lour hours from Ramsgate. She was built by Messrs.
Laird, of Birkenhead, and her engines were supplied from
the Vauxhall Foundery.
On Wednesday morning, the body of a male child was
found in Brook's-street, wrapped up in a bundle, and on
the same morning the body of another child was discovered
in a privy in Bridgewater-street. On a post mortem ex-
amination it appeared that they were still born.
We perceive that the annual sermons in aid of St.
Mark's schools will be preached on Sunday next. The
recent changes in the church have, we are informed, kept
the schools in a state of depression during the last year.
We therefore trust that Christian liberality will not suffer
the present appeal to be in vain.—See adv.
An important appointment was- made on Friday, by the
Dock Committee, namely, that of Mr. George Worthing-
ton, as permanent, instead of occasional, solicitor to the
dock estate, at a salary of £l4OO per annum, with offices
on the premises. This, we understand, will be an advan-
tageous arrangement for the trust.
GLASGOW STEAMERS.—We understand that the freight
of all bale and box goods by these fine steamers to and from
Glasgow, hitherto charged 41-d. per foot, with Clyde dues
in addition, is reduced to 4d. per foot, including these
dues. This is a great boon to the public, and we believe
could be still further extended, were the abominable im-
post of light dues abolished, as it ought to be.
The Rev. W. Carus Wilson has taken into his schools
at Casterton seventeen Irish girls free, where they will be
boarded, lodged, clothed, and educated without a farthing
cost to their friends. Seven of them are daughters of
-clergymen. It is right to say that the Dublin Steam
Packet Company and the Liverpool Railway conveyed
them free to Casterton, in the county of Westmorland.
ANOTHER MONEYED BEGGAR.—A wretched looking
Irishwoman was brought up on Wednesday, charged with
applying to the relieving-officer for relief, she at the time
having seven soup tickets and 6s. in her pocket. It was
also proved that she received 2s. 6d. a week from the
parish. Mr. Rushton ordered her to be imprisoned a
month, and the money found upon her to be appropriated
-to her maintenance in gaol.
PLATE ROBBERIES.—WhiIst the family were at church
on Sunday evening last, the house of Mr. Johnson,
Church-street, Park, was entered by thieves, and ran-
sacked of a considerable quantity of plate and other
valuables.—On Monday, about noon, some thieves got
Elizabeth-street,
the midden at the back of Mrs. Gregson's house,
.ealizabeth-street, and stole from the dining-room, by en-
tering in at the window, £2O worth of plate.—On Thurs-
day week last, about noon, the house of Mr. Peter
Warren, Bedford-street South, was entered in the same
manner, and £25 worth of plate stolen.
In the year 1846, forty-six thousand, nine hundred and
twenty-six poor persons were supplied with medicines
and received medical aid at the North and South Dispen-
saries, a fact which proves the vast importance of these
institutions as a means of arresting the misery and dis-
ease which prevail in the town of Liverpool. Last year
the income from all sources was less than the expenditure
by £723 ; a great increase of subscriptions is therefore
absolutely necessary to carry on the operations of the
charity. Not another word need be said to induce the
public liberally to respond to the appeal of the Committee
for additional assistance.
OXTON.—We understand that the Rev. Rector King,
of Woodchurch, entertained a select party of the elite of
this neighbourhood at dinner, on Saturday last, when he
took the opportunity of thanking them for their valuable
assistance in procuring a site from the Earl of Shrewsbury
for the erection of a church. Amongst the visiters were
Messrs. Ashlin, Fairclough, Godwin, and Ellis, who had
rendered every assistance to the worthy rector for carrying
out this praiseworthy object. We hope the inhabitants
• generally will co-operate with the above-named gentle-
men ; and as they will shortly be called upon by them for
donations, they will cheerfully respond, and, according to
- their means, give freely. The church is much required,
and the sooner it is completed the better.
EXTENSIVE BOBBERY AT THE UNION BANK.—About
one o'clock on Saturday, a gentleman went into the
Union Bank, Brunswick-street, for the purpose of de-
positing notes to the amount of £750. 11e had the
bundle of notes in his hand when he entered the bank,
and, while he took up a pen to write a note upon the
counter, lie placed them in the outside pocket of his top
coat. When, in a minute or two after, he put down his
hand to feel for them, they were gone, and no trace of
them has since been discovered. It is believed that the
thief was one of the London swell mob. The numbers of
the notes stolen at the bank are known, and bills have
been printed, offering a reward of £5O for the apprehen-
sion of the thief and recovery of the property. The notes
consisted of six £lOO and three £5O notes, all of the Bank
of England.
ACCIDENT TO MR. SAMUEL HOLME.—We regret to
state that an accident, attended with rather serious conse-
quences, occurred to our highly respected townsman on
Saturday last. It appears that Mr. Samuel Holme hav-
ing had a brace of double-barrelled pistols for protection
during the winter months, and being desirous of discharg-
blg them, took them to the end of the terrace surrounding
his residence, to fire them off across the fields; Instead
of having the charge drawn, as the pistols had been loaded
between three and four months, he inadvertently. fired,
Placing his left hand on the barrels of the pistol, which
' was a long one, to steady it. There was considerable rust
inside the barrels, and both of them instantly burst with
a tremendous shock, lacerating the fleshy part of his left
hand and fingers in a serious manner. Medical aid was
procured, and we are glad to state that none of the bones
have received material injury. Mr. Holme, though suf-
fering great pain, is progressing favourably, and no dan-
ger at present is apprehended beyond a few weeks' con-
finement.
gliTmipiese of wintryWeArnen.—Since our last we have had another
weather. On Wednesday the wind
was exceedingly keen, from the north-east, and during
the night there was a slight fall of snow. On Thursday,
about one o'clock tbere was another slight fall, but it
soon disappeared ;
fell. In I3irmingliam tfinsillwn
and again in the evening a little more
fell during the greater
doi6nthyrc was a rather
part of Wednesday, and
ida
somewhat the wind
heavy fall of snow on that day.
changed to the N.W., the weather became
cold, and a thaw succeeded the previous slight
Sunday was a lovely spring day, but yesterday was cold
and stormy. The cold to the eastward appears to have
been more severe than in this neighbourhood. The Don-
caster Gazette states, that on Wednesday night the
thermometer stood at 191 degrees, being the lowest tem-
perature since the 27th of December, when it was 10
degrees. From the Stamford Mercury we learn, that on
Thursday morning the temperature in that town was
three degrees lower than it had been during the winter,
the thermometer marking 14 degrees below the freezing
point.
THE SARAH SANDS.—The Sarah Sands left Liverpool
' on the afternoon of the 20th ult., on her trial trip across
the Atlantic. The wind was blowing strong from the
southeast, with a violent snow storm. At night a favour-
able wind induced Captain Thompson to take the northern
passage. At 8 30, p.m., on the 21st, the Innistrahal light
bore S.W. by S. 1 S. from which the captain took his
departure. During nearly the whole voyage she encoun-
tered head winds, squally weather, or heavy gales. Yet,
taking into consideration these serious obstacles, the ves-
sel proved herself a superior craft. The machinery was
new, and during one entire slay it was useless, owing to
an accident. She completed her voyage, however, in less
than twenty-one days. She has proved that the screw is
an invaluable aid in propelling ships across the Atlantic.
There would be a much more favourable result if she were
to make a trip during the spring months, but -she has
already done enough to prove the great value of the screw.
With the screw alone, all sails being furled, she steamed
during twenty-four hours, in a heavy head sea, 132 miles,
and without the screw she went, with all sail set, during
twenty-four hours, 261 miles ; with all sail set, and with
the screw, she went 270 miles in twenty-four hours.—
,-1:-frew York Journal. The passengers, on the completion
abltetvsrage' presented Captain Thompson with a vain-
gratifying testimonial. The Sarah Sands may be
expected here on her return daily. She was built from the
designs of Mr. John Grantham, and is furnished with that
gentleman's patent engine.
ROMANTIC ADVENTURE, OF A LIVERPOOL CHILD.—
John Duncan, the son of a respectable working man in
Liverpool, having been in Scotland for a few weeks last
summer, with his mother and the rest of the family, con-
tracted a strong. attachment for the locality and the
friends with whom he resided. Upon his return home he
frequently requested his parents to consent to his return ,
and latterly became so importunate that he had to he
chastised in order to drive the notion from his mind of
going to Scotland. Within the last few weeks, unknown
to his family, he had accumulated a small stock of bread
and money ; and on Monday last, he might have been
seen with two companions, directing their course towards
the Clarence Dock, inquiring in the langyage of our hero
for the " Stot-land boat." Upon their arrival at the
Place of embarkation all the glowing pictures of the land
of cakes failed to induce his less courageous companions
to go on board, but undaunted, went alone, without com-
Panion or guardian, a child seven years of age, with the
Commodore, bound for Glasgow and Greenock. From
the last-mentioned port he had a further sea voyage to
perform of twenty miles. In a lonely and mountainous
district in the Island of Bute, upwards of two hundred
and fifty miles from the gas-lighted streets of his native
Liverpool, our little voyager in the grey of evening ap-

proached the object of all his longings, a small farm-house,
the inmates of which were gathering round the cheerful
fire-side, when a knock was heard at the door. When
opened, they found to their astonishment their little
Saxon favourite of the previous summer, cold, wearied,
and hungry ; he received a truly Highland welcome, and
soon forgot the toils and dangers of his perilous journey.
He breakfasted on the banks of the Mersey on Monday
morning, and on Tuesday night he slumbered in the land
of the Celt. Such is the romance of steam.

DREADFUL MURDER.—An inquest was held on Wed-
nesday on the body of Thomas Cearnes, aged 44 years,
who was the proprietor of a house of ill-fame in West-
moreland-street. From the evidence it appeared that
deceased was stabbed the day before by a sailor named
John Thomas Williams, alias Jack Hynes, a lad about
18 years of age, (who was in custody in the court.) He
went to the house of the deceased with an improper
female, remained up stairs some time, came down, and
was asked by deceased, would he stop all night ? To this
Williams replied, "No." The deceased then said, "Will
you go away, then ?" " No." After this he asked de-
ceased to open the door, which he did, and the prisoner
Williams left. He returned in about five or ten minutes
after and kicked at the door. Deceased opened the door,
on which the prisoner, who was standing upon the top
step, struck at the deceased's throat—one of the witnesses
swore three times and then ran away. Another sailor,
who was in the house, ran down stairs, and supporting the
wounded man in his arms, brought him up to bed, and
assistance was sent for. Doctor Mathew Lynch, of the
Nolthern Hospital, examined the wound ; it appeared a
superficial cut at the base of the throat over the sternum ;
there was scarcely any external hemorrage ; the deceased
was perfectly pulseless. On further examination, he
found a piece of a knife, (which was here produced—it
was about two inches long) ; it had penetrated into the
pericardium, and it and the chest were filled with blood ;
the superior vena cava was slightly cut through. Death
was the result of the wound inflicted. Verdict, •` Wilful
Murder."
LOAN SOCIETIES.—On Wednesday, Richard Tisdale, a
respectable-looking young man, was brought up, charged
by the officers of the loan society, held at 56, Brownlow-
hill, with forging the name of a person named Nelson, to
a bond upon which £5 had been advanced. The defence
was, that the prisoner was innocently brought into the
transaction, and that he had signed the name of Nelson,
at the request of Mrs. Nelson. In the course of investi-
gating the case, it appeared that the other surety to the
same bond had signed O'Brien' whereas her name was
Kelly, and that she did so with the consent and by the
advice of one of the officers of the society, named Smith.
It also appeared that after the money was obtained, Smith
went with the borrower and his friends to a public-house,
and drank till two-oclock in the morning. Mr. Rushton
said the case was a mass of fraud altogether. There were
at least two forgeries in it. It was a practical illustration
of the abuse of these societies, and the evil tendencies of
them when carried beyond a certain extent. At a later
period of the same day, during the hearing of a number of
summonses against the borrowers from the Imperial
Loan Office, and their sureties, it appeared that a girl, in
order to get a loan of £5 for her mother, had been in-
duced to say that she was twenty-one years of age, al-
though she was only in her nineteenth year. Upon this,
Mr. Rushton remarked that he did not believe there was
in all the world any greater cause of demoralization than
these societies. On Thursday, Richaid Tisdale was
again brought up, when it was stated that Mrs. Nelson
had shut up her house and could not be found. Mr.
Rushton said he could not disguise from himself that this
was a very bad case on the part of the prisoner at the bar ;
but however bad against him, it was as bad against Smith,
the officer of the society, and showed how cautious people
ought to be of having any thing to do with the officers of
loan societies, poor people particularly. It was a mass of
fraud and roguery altogether.