The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-07-30 00:00:00

MEETING OF THE DOCK COMMITTEE

The Dock Committee held their weekly meeting yesterday.
The following members were present :—Messrs. Benn,
(chairman,) Horsfall, Barclay, T. Holt, Holmes, Middleton,
Mellor, Bulley, Evans, Martin, Aikin, Tobin, and G. Holt.
On the recommendation of the Sub-committee of Works,
the tender of Mr. Robert Morris, for the erection of the
dock masters' houses, was accepted; the tender of Mr.
Berry, to supply a steam engine of thirty horses' power, to
be placed at No. *I pierhead, and to be used in the new
works, was also accepted.
The Sub-committee reported that the bedding of the Rock
Lighthouse, which had been in use seven years, required re-
placing; and that wire rigging, and a variety of otherarticles,
were required for the use of the Comet, light-ship, previous
to its receiving a new lantern.—Ordered.
The salary of the keeper of the Queen, light-ship, was in-
creased, on his application, from 17s. 6d. to 20s. per week.
The Sub-committee for the Department of the Telegraphs
presented a report of their periodical examination of all the
stations. This document was of considerable length. It
gave a complete description of the present condition of each
station, of their wants, and added a variety of suggestions for
the improvement and efficiency of the whole. It was fol-
lowed by a report from Mr. Brown, the surveyor's foreman,
of the extent of the alterations and additions which had been
made in pursuance of the orders of the committee. The
total expense, the report stated, of the works amounted to
£3992 3s. 7d. After a short discussion, the report was re-
ceived and ordered to be entered on the proceedings.
A letter from Hughes, the man recently dismissed from
the Rock Lighthouse for misconduct, making some repre-
sentations as to the other parties employed therein, was re-
ferred to the Sub-committee of the Marine Surveyor for
enquiry.

The committee then proceeded to the consideration of
some financial matters, and shortly afterwards adjourned.

ITALIAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.—Those who are
disposed to study the language and literature of Italy, " the
sweet bastard Latin," will find an able and judiciousin-
structor in Signor Zandotti, whose advertisement appears in
another column.

Mr. Green made his twentieth ascent from Vauxhall Gar-
dens on Monday evening, at twenty minutes before seven
o'clock, in the Great Nassau Balloon. He was accompanied
by the Hon. Dudley Ward, the Hon. Mortimer West, of the
Grenadier Guards, Captain Currie, Mr. Leche, of Carden,
Cheshire, Mr. Soper, Mr. G. Green, and Mr. Adams.

We understand that the Rev. T. D. Gregg will address a
large and, we have no doubt, an influential assemblage of
the protestants of Liverpool, at the Amphitheatre, on the
evening of Tuesday next, upon which occasion he will enter
at large upon the recent scene which took place between him-
self and a Roman catholic magistrate in Dublin, and show,
by reference to the laws and statutes of England, that he is
warranted in applying the term " idolatry" to popery upon
any and every occasion. The address is likely to be unusu-
all interesting, and will no doubt be equally instructive.
DEATH FROM FURIOUS DRIVING.--On Wednesday an
inquest was held before the borough coroner, on view of the
body of an old man named James Limna, who came by his
death in consequence of having been run over by an omnibus
belonging to Mr. Towers, of the Angel Hotel, Dale-street,
on the evening of Monday last. From the evidence it ap-
peared that between the hours of eight and nine o'clock on
the evening in question, the omnibus, which was drawn by
two horses, was being driven along at the rate of ten miles
an hour from Richmond-street in the direction of White-
chapel. The horses were in full gallop at the time, and
though several persons in the street called out to the driver
to slacken his pace he continued, heedless of all entreaty, and
drove the horses at the top of their speed. The deceased
happened at the moment to be in the crossing at Sir Thomas's-
buildings, and, before he had time to get out of the way,
either the step of the vehicle, or that part of the machine to
which the traces are fastened, caught against his thigh, and,
dragging him along the street about four or five yards, he
was thrown with his head on the parapet and his feet inclined
to the centre of the street, when both the off or right hand
wheels passed over his body. The driver stopped the omni-
bus after it had gone a few yards farther, but, before it was
stopped, the wheels which had passed over the old man's
body struck with tremendous force against the curb stone of
the parapet, so furiously was it being driven at the time.
There was a guard at the back of the omnibus, who then
alighted and called out that it belonged to Mr. Towers, of
the Angel Hotel, in Dale-street, and the vehicle was then
driven off again. The deceased breathed his last in great
agony in about a quarter of an hour after he had received the
injuries. The medical gentleman who was examined on the
inquest, and who had made a post mortem examination of the
body, deposed that six of the lower ribs on the left side were
fractured, that the spleen was ruptured, that the liver had
been entirely split asunder, and that those injuries had been
the cause of death. An attempt was made by the driver to
show that he was not going at a faster pace at the time than
about five miles an hour, and that he called out to the de-
ceased to get out of the way. The jury, however, returned
a verdict of " Manslaughter" against him, and he was fully
committed to Kirkdale Gaol to take his trial at the approach-
ing assizes.

" M. Germain P--," says the Droit, " a widower with
an only son two years old, being deeply in debt, retired to
an obscure quarter of Paris, to avoid arrest, and there lived
in the utmost penury. Two days ago he was met on the
Quai de Billy by one of his creditors, who reproached him
in harsh terms, threatening to send an officer immediately
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after him. M. P. pleaded his utter destitution, and his being
burdened with the maintenance of his child, then in his
arms. The creditor replied, that the state took charge of all
orphans. Cut to the heart, M. P. placed the infant in the
arms of his reproacher, saying, Then do you take him to
the hospice !' and rushing to the water's edge, plunged into
the river. Though irritated, the creditor was not obdurate ;
he immediately called for assistance, and his unhappy debtor
was saved from death. Affected by his distress, the creditor
at once relinquished all his claims, promised to induce the
rest of the poor man's creditors to do the same, and declared
he would afford him means to re-establish his fallen for-
tunes."