The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-13 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL

Mr. JAMES DOUGLAS KELLY, of Liverpool, and MT
John Holmes Jephson, of Birkenhead, pass
minations on the science and pi'

heir exa

to Mr. Clark(

examination of pupils belonging . academy
took place on Tuesday, in the presence of a number of the
parents and friends of the pupils, and we understand the
display was most gratifying as indicative of the successful
modes of tuition adopted by the teacher. The pupils ex-
hibited much readiness in answering questions in history
and chronology; and evinced a satifactory acquaintance
with religious subjects, while they also showed familiarity
with the leading events recorded in the Bible.

THE SOVEREIGN OF THE SEAS.—On Wednesday this
celebrated clipper took her departure from the Mersey,
for Australia. Her cargo is the largest and most valuable
ever shipped in one bottom, consisting of upwards of
2,700 tons measurement of fine goods, giving her a
freight list of nearly £15,000. She goes out commanded
by Captain H. Warner, who has been in her ever since
she was launched. While lying in the river, she appeared
to be loaded very deep—too deep, indeed, to give a fair
chance to her well-known sailing qualities.

LIVERPOOL CRICKETERS AT bERITYT--SOllle of OUT
local cricketers have been trying their skill in the favourite
game at Derby. Eleven of the Liverpool Roscoe Club
played a match with eleven of the Derby Town Club, at
the latter place, on Wednesday and Thursday. The game
was well contested, but the result was in favour of Derby,
with three wickets to go down. The following is the re-
sult of the game :—Roscoe, first innings, 107 ; second
ditto, 99 : total, 206. Derby, first innings, 111 ; second
ditto, 96 : total, 207.

NICHOLAS HENRICHSON, passenger-broker, of Waterloo-
road, was summoned on Tuesday for the recovery, with
compensation, of £l3 10s., paid to him by four intending
emigrants, whom he had faded to provide with a passage.
They had booked with him for a passage in the Western
Empire, but were put ashore just previous to the vessel's
sailing. The defendant had then offered to get the pas-
sage in another ship if they would pay 7s. 61 each addi-
tional. Mr.- Henrichson, who complained of having been
deceived as to the room there was in the vessel, was or-
dered to refund the passage money, and pay to the disap-
pointed passengers £1 each, as compensation, with 4s.
6d. as costs of the summons, making a total of £l7 4s. 6d.
AN ABSCONDING APPRENTICE.--011 'Thursday, John
Bowen, a shipwright's apprentice, was charged under the
following circumstances : Mr. Batchelor, his master,
stated that About twelve months ago he gave the prisoner
money •and goods to the value of £l4, and sent him from
Cardiff for Liverpool, with_orders to ship in the Regent, a
vessel bound for California: Since that time he had seen
nothing of him, but had ascertained that he did not pro-
ceed-in the ship. Being in Liverpool on business; he met
the prisoner the previous day, :in the neighbourhood of
the docks, and gave him into tmstody. The prisoner said
that when he arrived at Bristol he could find no con-
veyance to Liverpool, and he 4as detained there until the
Regent had sailed. As the case was one which could only
,be decided by the magistrates at Cardiff, the prisoner was
.ordered to be removed thither in custody.

HEALTH OF THE TOVV:N.—The medical officer of health
reports that the deaths ,from all causes registered in the
borough of Liverpool during the week ending September
3 were 181. The past week gives three cases less of deaths
from diarrhoea than the previous, and 7 less than in the
corresponding week or any year since 1848 ; of those who
died during the past week 35 were infants and•childrea.
Typhus fever caused:three deaths, scarlatina 2, measles 2,
disease of the lungs 31, smallpox 1. One 'death Thom
cholera was registered last week. This was the .case

alluded to by Di. "Duncan in his last report. Since 'then
three fatal cases had occurred ; two in the same haxse as
the first-mentioned, the third in the Emigrants' Home,
Moorfields. In all those cases the sufferers were German
emigrants, recently arrived from the continent, and no
doubt they were suffering from the disease inssoue of its
stages prior to their arrival in Liverpool.

gIiRiWZDORY AND BIBMINGRA.M RAIL'WWF.—ID com-
pliance with a circular issued by Mr. Joseph Scott, of
Stourbridge. a meeting of the shareholders in. the above
line was held in the George Hotel, Dale Street, on Thurs-
day, Mr. Elias Arnaud in the chair. After a few pre-
liminary.Aservations from the chairman, 11:r. Scott pro-
ceeded to detail at length the whole -circumstances of the
dispute :between the directors and a great part of the
shareholders, on the question of amalgamation with
either the London and North-western, or the Great
Western lines. Referring to the ,late -dispute, which has
resulted in the company's books having been handed over
to the:custody of the police,-31r. Seott,said the directors
were to blame for not knowing that such fraudulent
transactions were going on in their office. He charged
thoalirectors with acting in such a manner that the share-
' holders were fraudulently prevented frau recording their
votes at a late meeting. He believed the company had
been entirely sacrificed in consequence of its mismanage-
ment, and he charged the directors with ruining their
property. The directors had surreptitiously put a clause
in their act of parliament that no...person was eligible to
be a director, unless he gave wnotice a certain time pre-
vious to the election at their office. He thought that, if
they passed that clause, they would': have it all their own
sway. He believed if this clause had not been discovered
fit was the intention of the directors to call a meeting on
the earliest day possible in-August, that they might take
"them by surprise, and elect whoir they chose—directors
hostile to their (the shareholders') interests. A meeting
had been held at Wolverhampton, and the directors re-
. .

quested to call a meeting •at once; but, instead of doing
so, they were putting it off till ithe end of September.
They were making use of this time in going to the Great
Western Company, to try .and make an arrangement with
them ; but he (Mr. Scott) warned the shareholders that,
if the line passed into the hands of that company, they
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would never get a return fortheir capital. He called
upon any gentleman who was. favourable to an alliance
with the Great Western to .point out whether it was
likely that any agreement with that company would he,
carried out properly by a .board . directors like •the pre.
sent. • He did not tldnk welt °fa competition between the
two great companies. No line -.could be worked indenen-

dentiy better than theirs. People might talk aboutil;
amount of through !traffic to .Liverpool and Birkenhead
that would be brought if they had an arrangement with
either of the. companies ; hut -Aheir home traffic, if pro-
perly managed, was a much •better traffic, in consequence
of the excellent districts with ,which their line was con-
nected. He concluded hy.movitw, the following resolu-,
tion :—" That this txteeting is:of epinion that the question
of amalgamation, .or a .traffic :arrangement with either the
Great Western or the Londerrand North-western Railway
Company, should not be entertained until after the general
half-yearly meeting, when_ mew directors will have to he
elected; and this meeting :farther resolves to support at
that meeting the election of-4meh directors only as will
pledge themselves mot to enter into any agreement with
either company except on thet terms of a guaranteed divi-
dend of four per cent. per,annum." The motion Ives
seconded by Dr. Bickersteth,..and after. some discussion
was carried unanimously. Several proxies were handed
in to that gentleman to beamed-at the half-yearly meeting
at his discretion; and, after thanks to the chairman, the
meeting separated.

GENERAL

A. PENSION PROM THE QUEEN of one hundred pounds

in has b

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ranted to Mrs. D. M.Moir,
Delta" of Blackwood's Ma_q

oir (the

the late session, that in future no polls sh-all be taken at
inns, hotels, public-houses, &c., or in any booth or place
communicating with such, unless by the consent of all the
candidates expressed in writing.

;y an act lately passed, elec-

ISOROITGII ELECTIONS.—_
tions in future for boroughs, cities, &c., are to tak,
within six days after the receipt of the writ or pr
giving three clear days' notice at least of the day of elec
tion, exclusive of the day of proclamation and the day of
election.

RAISING TILE WlND.—Numerous boys are constantly
engaged in picking up the immense quantities of copper
caps on Chobham-common, which have been used by the
regiments recently encamped there. The boys sell them
to the ironmongers for old copper, and realise 2s. or 2s. 6d.
a-day by their industry.

Romisrc SUPERSTITION.—We read in the Journal de
Bruxelles :—" Pope Pius IX. has just sent to the Duke of
Brabant a fragment of the wood of the manger which
formed the cradle of our Saviour. In the private audience,
which Mgr. Gonella obtained, in order to present this
precious relic, his Royal Highness was much affected at
the present made to him by the Pope."
DREADFUL ACCIDENT.-A blacksmith, named Wind-
mill, was employed, a few days since, at the ironworks of
Mr. William Haden, near Dudley, in assisting to raise a
large vessel called a ladle, containing four tons of molten
iron. The ladle was overturned, and the liquid iron
flowed over him, and so burned him that he died shortly
afterwards.

THE HON. Mats. NonroN.—The Times of Thursday
contains a letter from Mr. Norton, in reply to that by his
wife. Friday's paper contains a final rejoinder by Mrs.
Norton, in which she thus concludes the correspondence :
—"And now I will answer Mr. Norton no more. There
is no story so false, no scandul so foul, that it shall wring
from me any further reply. I have too strong a faith in
English justice to deem further reply necessary."
SIIICIDE.—Two men, Thompson and Jackson, were
arrested for a burglary in Pall-mall, London. Thompson
was remanded by the .Marlborough-street magistrate ; but
Jackson had committed suicide at the station-house he
wrenched an irou tip from the heel of his boot, and with
this had divided the arteries of his arm, so that he had
bled to death ha the cell.

EITINCTION Or BARTHOLOMEW FAIR.-011 PRESday,
the saint's 'bell of St. Bartholomew the Great sounded the
expiring knell of Bartholomew fair, which is now actually
abolished, after having existed for 750 years, the charter
having been granted in the year 1133. The proclamation
must be continued as ordered by the charter, and, the
Court of "Pie Poudre" opened, but not the least vestige
of any amusement or sale will be left to attract a crowd.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—Mr. John. Hales, railway
contractor for the line extending from Coalville to Burton-
upon-Trent, was killed a few days ago 'by falling from a
scaffold erected against his house, called Pelcotes-hall, near
Tunbridge Wells. He had recently parchased the estate
upon which the mansion stands, and was superintending
.the outside repairs when this melantholy accident took
place.

A MOST EXTRAORDINARY Prs'n was caught in the
salmon net of Mr. Hazlett Hal/Alton, of Bundoran, in the
Donegal Bay, last week. It is aheautiful creature—the
head, shoulders, and waist resemble a woman ; the lower
part that of a salmon. When w saw it, it was alive in a
vessel of salt water, and Mr. Hamilton hoped to preserve
it alive in that way. The eyes were beautiful—its arms
when touched became stiff, and the whole body appeared
sensitive to the touch. Many persons considered it a young
mermaid.—Bakyskannon -Perald.
THE DETECTIVES.—A 'remarkable instance of sagacity-
occurred last week. A London clerk, named Revin, ab-
sconded wits £3OO. A detedive examined his lodgings,
and found in them ,a 'PertaAaw, Examining it closely,
he noted that attlie poidtinarking the departure of the;
11.30 tram from London-to Paris, the page was turned
down, and'thenote of thearrival of the boat at Lille wts
similarly narked. Gilded by these indications, he went
to Lille, andlhere found` his man.
CAPTAIN Sin WIBETAIII CRISP HOOD BURNABY, whose
death took place last week, was the only son of the late
Sir. William Chaloner Burnaby, Bart., by Elizibtib,
second daughter of•-eiisp Molyneux, Esq., of Garbelde-
sham :county Norfotk,:and grandson of Admiral Sir Wan.
Burnkoy, Bart., who successively held the chief-command
on the Leeward Islands and Jamaica stations, and died in
1777. He succeeded:this father, as third baronetin-1794.
ME SPANISH DgreCER, Pepita di Oliva, is treating a
furore'in Viennasalmost equal to that which was ri6ed by
Ellfrer, when it was !the custom to take out the horse of
her carriage and, drag her home triumphantly from the
theatre. It does not appear that this favourite so greatly
exrels in her art; but she is represented to be a most beau-
tiful woman, perfect in figure and face, and is sc 'lavish of
fascinating action and abandonne in the Span dances,
that she fairly takes the sensitive hearts of the Vienna
Tublie by storm.
THE ROILOUGIUGAOL INQUIRY AT BrElttfraltA.3l has
been proceeding daily. The commissioners, it is said, intend
.Itoi investigate the general discipline of the establishment,
the nature of the work, the punishments enforced, and the
,=effect of theAvhole system on persons subjected to its in-
4inence. It is,expected that on these questions several of
-the visiting justices will give evidence, andthe officers and
books of the. prison undergo a rigid scratuty. At the
econclusion of the inquiry the commissioners will proceed
;to Leicester, to undertake a similar investigation in refer-
,once to the gaol of that county.
AN ODD LADY, the widow of a gunsmith, who was
nearly beComing Queen of Sweden, died lately at Bergeus,
near Lille, France. A short time before.the revolution
Bernadotte, whawas then a sergeant in the army, paid

his addresses to .a Mad'lle Hiola, who -v
and endeavoured by all the means of

then soung

power to induce her to marry him, it the fair one
was then ambitions, and would not marry-any one below
the rank of an officer. Events soon after proceeded at a
giant's pace, rte-rmulotte rose from rack tc rank to that of
a general; and, fse-getful of his first love _married
Clary, daughter,of a merchant at -Marseilles, and sister-in-
law of Joseph Boveparte.
SERIOUS ROBSZERY.-At the Clevedon station of the
Bristol and Exeter Railway, on Friday, a man of fashion-
able appearance asked for a ticket:amd tendered a
sovereign. The rtilway clerk had no..chazige, so a lady
who was standing by, anxious to oblige; .offered change
for the sovereign {lnt of a little box, she:lad in her hand
containing L2OO. ,of coin and if...A1.., The oentleman

tutu. jeweuery.
.took the box, and..wieanwhile, the train coming up, the
lady ran off to secure kplace ; nor dial, shc remember her
box till the train *as moving. She ,called out for the
train to stop, but 'Without success, andst,the next station
telegraphed back far the box. The answer returned was
that there was no such box there. The thief had made off
. with it.

FILL or AN Asp—An accident occurred at Linton-
park, on Tuesday.. A reservoir, 20 feet .by 30 feet, and
8 feet-deep, is in theciurse of construction, to receive the
,water brought from a spring at Loddiugton. The men
.bad completed two arches of 10 feet film= over the top,
„supported in the middle by a centre arched wail. Several
fz.f them had gone belor for the purpose •of 'cementing the
,sides, when the foreman discovered a sinking, and gave
:instant alarm, when eery one :from below hastened
.through the trapdoor,: by which they ,deseended. The
last man had just got .through when the arch gave way
with a tremendous crash. and no, less thaw ,8,000 bricks,
.besides 100 tons of earth, fell in.---Maidstome Journal.
SISTGULAR ACCIDENT.—On Sunday the.wife of Mr.
.South, farmer, of Messing, was returning from church
with ber family, when, :ear the parsonage farm, their
horse was suddenly attacked by a swarm wfsps, which
so irritated the anima/ that he ran away. Theparty were
soon,-.upset, and the tormentors transferred to them their
venompus attack, stinging (nem all most virulently.
_Mrs.

South:WAS most hurt,rula :as soon as assistance

could IN
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LDVERTISER.

LIVERPOOL TOWN COUNCIL

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