The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-15 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

WALLASEY CHURCH. —The Rector and Church-
wardens of Wallasey have issued a circular to the
parishioners, announcing that they have received the sum
of £9OO, for the purpose of adding a new aisle to the
church, to contain four hundred and eighty sittings,
which are to be entirely free, and that they intend to
carry the donor's intention forthwith into effect. The
venerable old church requires rebuilding, and many of
the parisioners, we have no doubt, would "come down
handsomely," for the support of such a proposition.
Would not this be a capital time to moot the question ?
CASE OF STABBING.—On Saturday an elderly female
was brought before Mr. Rushton on a charge of having
stabbed another female, rather advanced in years, with a
knife. The complainant, who had her face bandaged,
and appeared to have been wounded very severely, said
that her antagonist, without any provocation whatever,
bad taken up the knife and "carved" her, nose. The
prisoner's defence was, that they had been drinking to-
gether, and quarrelled in argument. Mr. Rushton, after
remarking that many of the outrages which came, before
him bad their origin in intoxication, ordered the prisoner
to pay a fine of 50s. and costs, or to be imprisoned forty-
two days.

PUBLICANS AND BEERSEL LERS FlNED.—There were
only two informations against beersellers. and one against
a publican, heard at the Police-court on Friday, thus ex-
hibiting a remarkable diminution in point of numbers.
William Rimmer, beerseller, Mill-place, Shaw's-brow,
was fined 10s. and costs for having sold ale at half-past
eleven o'clock on the night of Saturday last; and Row-
land Williams, beerseller, of Bixteth-street, was fined
20s. and costs for permitting drunkenness in his house at
two o'clock on the morning of Saturday last. The pub-
lican was Mr. Henry Jordan, of London-road, who was
convicted in the penalty of 40s. and costs for permitting
drunkenness on the morning of Thursday, the 26th ult.

RATHER SUSPICIOUS.—On Wednesday, an elderly
man, named William Finch, was brought up, charged
with stealing £1 in gold and four half-crowns from the
house of Mr. Mossop, Vine-court, Circus-street. The
evidence against the prisoner was, that he lived opposite
to Mr. Mossop, and that early on Monday morning he
was seen, partially dressed with a striped nightcap on, to
come out of the house of Mossop, lock the door, and go
into his own house. The money was safe on Saturday,
and it appeared that the same key opened the houses of
both complainant and prisoner. In his possession was
also found £1 in gold and 17s. 6d. in half-crowns, but he
accounted for this by saying he was a treasurer to a Fo-
resters' Lodge. He admitted to the officer who took him
into custody, that he bad a nightcap such as was described
by the boy. Mr. Rushton did not think the case conclu-
sive, and ordered the prisoner to be discharged.

RE MICHAEL M4DIVITT, A BANKRUPT.—Wednesday
being the day appointed for the public sitting for the al-
lowance of the bankrupt's certificate by the commissioner,
Mr. Moss attended on behalf of the bankrupt, and Mr.
John Yates, jun., for the assignee. Mr. Sergeant Ludlow
having inquired if any creditor appeared to oppose, and
no one answering, Mr. Yates, on behalf of the assignee,
said that he was instructed not only not to offer any oppo-
sition, but to state that—after the fullest investigation of
the bankrupt's conduct—he thought he was fully and fairly
entitled to the certificate, having, in all respects, duly
conformed. The learned Sergeant afterwards addressing
the bankrupt, said—" Mr. M`Divitt, I am happy to re-
mark, that you have passed this court in a very creditable
manner; and it must be gratifying to your feelings to
know, that you obtain your certificate with the entire ap-
probation of the solicitor to the assignee."
THE DISTRICT BANKRUPTCY COURT.—Under Lord
Brougham's new act; a discharge of debtors, whose debts
did not amount to £2O, has taken place, and the conse-
quence has been several re-commitments to prison by the
bankruptcy commissioners. Two instances of this oc-
curred in our own district court last week. A man named
Simpson, who had thus been discharged, came before the
commissioner (Mr. Sergeant Ludlow) for a final order
and relief from all his debts, when he was opposed for a
man named Jones, on the ground that he was also in gaol
for an assault on Jones, the damages and costs amounting
to £3B; the damages, however, being less than £2O. By
a section of the act, insolvents convicted of certain of-
fences (including assaults) are ineligible to take the bene-
fit of the act. The commissioner held that he should be
sent back to Lancaster Castle. Another insolvent, named
Boyle, was also re-committed to prison under similar cir-
cumstances, and also on the opposition of the same Mr.
Jones.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—An accident of a distressing na-
ture occurred on Tuesday evening last, between six and
seven o'clock, to three persons who were intending to
cross the Lancaster Sands on their way to Flookburgh.—
John Moore, fisherman, of Flookburgh, was returning
from Lancaster on Tuesday evening, with two carts, each
drawn by one horse. Two other young men were also
with him, riding in the cart. On arriving at the Lancas-
ter Sands it unfortunately happened that the travellers
were considerably out of time, the tide then flowing rather
strongly. Moore, however, imagined he might proceed
on his journey, without incurring any serious risk, and
did so ; when melancholy to state, the water was soon
after found to have increased to so great a height, as to
baffle all their endeavours to get through it, and the pain-
ful result was that Moore and one of his passengers, and
both horses were drowned ; but the other man having
stuck with determined tenacity to the tail of one of the
horses, was afterwards rescued from his perilous situation
in a very exhausted state.

RABIES IN A HORSE.—On Wednesday afternoon last,
a horse, appearing to be labouring under great nervous
excitement, and belonging to Mr Garner, Kent-street,
was brought to Mr. Dawber's veterinary establishment, in
Houghton-street. On closer examination, it was observed
that the animal manifested some very curious symptoms,
which inclined to the belief that he was affected with ra-
bies. On further inquiry, it wus stated that the horse,
under natural circumstances, was remarkably quiet : but
during the day had become extremely vicious, with a de-
sire to attack any person that came near him. On making
an attempt to give him a little medicine, he threw himself
into the most violent convulsions, and fell to the ground,
apparently much exhausted. Every precaution was used
to secure the horse; and owing to some sedatives that had
been given, he, for a time, seemed more composed; but
early on the following morning the symptoms returned in
a most aggravated form. He was, from time to time,
strongly convulsed; he sweat profusely; his looks were
of the most savage description, frothing at the mouth ; he
attacked the rack, manger, halter, walls, and even his own
body. All these dreadful symptoms continued for a few
hours, till death put an end to his miseries.

PAVING AND SEWERAGE COMMISSIONERS.--At the
usual meeting of the board on Thursday, Mr. John
Holmes in the chair, an application was made for a new
" coating" for a portion of Oldhall•street. Mr. Cun-
ningham, surveyor of that district, stated that an estimate
given in for " coating" a given portion of the street, about
three weeks ago, was £5B, and owing to the great traffic
over it, another " coating" would be required before
Christmas. The cost incurred to keep this street in re-
pair, as at present, was better than 2s. per yard per an-
num. It cost yearly half what it would cost to lay it with
small sets, which would last for thirty years. It was un-
derstood that the commissioners decided upon having the
street laid with sets.—A. communication was read from
Mr. Hoyle, in referen:e to the commissioners having re-
jected the whole of the flags which he had supplied accord-
ing to the contract.—A communication was read from
Mr. R. P. Carter, Green-lane. complaining that in con-
sequence of a well which had been sunk in his immediate
neighbourhood, his supply of water had been drawn off.
After a conversation it was concluded that the commis-
sioners were not liabie to make compensation for water
so taken, and, moreover, that much doubt existed whether
the water had been so exhausted.

A LADY ROBBED OF HER WATCII IN THE STREET.—
Yesterday week, at the Police Court, a boy, named George
Miller, was charged with having robbed a lady, in open
day, of her watch and its appendages, together with other
minor articles. Miss Christina Marshall, the complain-
ant, said that she lived in Myrtle-street South. On
Saturday last, about 12 o'clock, she was on her way
homeward from St. James' Market, and bad reached
Canning-street, when some one came up to her, and she
felt a hand about her person, and immediately missed
her gold watch, gold seal, a gold locket and a key. She
immediately screamed out, and told a person who came
up, of her loss, but the boy rati!,off, and she could not
notice him so distinctly as to identify him. A boy who
happened to be near said he saw the prisoner snatch
away the watch, with which he ran off. He afterwards
observed him showing something to another boy, and he
then ran towards Parliament-street. Mary Eleanor
Treavenor, a servant, said that she was going into Back
Canning-street, when she heard a lady scream. The
prisoner was pursued by some boys, and by witness, and
he took up a stone and threw it at the boys to keep them
back, and finally escaped. From information afterwards
received, Police officer, Samuel Tuck, with a description
of the prisoner's dress and appearance, he went in search
of him, and saw him in Fontenoy street. On seeing the
officer lie ran off, but was pursued and found in an entry
seated on a heap of coals, and one shilling in his pocket.
The prisoner, who had been nine times committed, was
sent for trial at the Sessions.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—On Saturday last at noon, the
neighbourhood of Paradise-street was thrown into a state
of considerable commotion by the rumour that an explo-
sion had taken place in the house of Mr. Jones, chemist,
No. 5, in that street, and the appearance of a female, en-
veloped in flames, rushing out of the shop door. The
passers by seized the female, who was Mr. Jones's servant,
and, by forcibly throwing her on the ground and rolling
her in a flannel garment, succeeded in quenching the fire,
which had, however, burned her hands and face and the
upper part of her dress. On entering the premises it was
found that Mr. Jones himself had his right hand much
burned and blistered, and that his brother William, and
more particularly his sister,
Miss Jones, a fine young
woman, were dreadfully (burned in various parts of their
bodies. Mr. W. Jones was singed in the face, hands,
arms, and thighs, and the legs of his pantaloons were com-
pletely burned away. Almost all the clothes worn by
Miss Jones were also destroyed. The servant and Mr.
W. Jones were soon after taken to the Infirmary, and
though Miss Jones could not be removed on account of
her sufferings, she was sufficiently recovered to be re.
moved there in a covered car on Sunday, and they are all
doing well. Mr. Jones states that his sister's clothes
caught fire in the kitchen. a small apartment ovee the rear
of the shop, and that his brother, the servant, and himself,
having rushed in to save her, were injured in the manner
described. He further stated, that there was a jar in:the
oven containing a chemical preparation of turpentine and
wax, and that overheating must have accidentally caused
the boiling over of the ingredients and the bursting forth
of the flame. The door of the apartment was, it appears
shut, at the time, and the confinement of the flame would
no doubt, have caused its ravages upon the injured parties
to be the more intense. He denied that there was any
explosion, but a female living in an adjoining house stated
that she heard a very loud report. Little damage was
done to the premises.

FATAL ACCIDENT.-011 Thursday, as J. Cunningham,
a carpenter, was walking along the edge of the staircase at
one of the new buildings, Hamilton square, Woodside,
the brickwork suddenly gave way, and precipitated the
unfortunate manfroma height of forty feet, and when taken
up, he was found to be literally crushed to pieces. He
was immediately conveyed to the dispensary, but he only
lingered for a few hours.
THE OUT-PENSIONERS.—On Thursday last, the out-
pensioners of this district assembled at the Barracks, in
Duke-street, where they underwent an examination by
Captain Greigg, the staff-officer. They were reviewed,
on Saturday. in the large fields to the rear of the Colle-
giate Institution, before Major-General Sir Wm. Wan-,
the commanding officer stationed at Chester. Sir William
arrived at George's pier about twelve o'clock, and was
there met by his relative, Mr. William Rathbore. in
whose carriage he proceeded to the review. The hardy
veterans went through their various evolutions with a
precision which plainly showed that, although they had
been discharged from active service, they had not forgot-
ten the military discipline to which they were subjected
in their earlier days. Sir William expressed himsel
highly pleased with the regularity of their movements and
general appearance. A full band was in attendance, and
played several military airs. On Thursday next the out-
pensioners will be finally inspected by Captain Greigg.

HASTY HONESTY AND DEPLORABLE ROGUERY.-A

correspondent says, "On Monday week, a mercantile
clerk lost a bank note for £5OO, on his way from Change-
alley to the south end of Castle-street, at half-past two in
the afternoon ; the loss was immediately discovered, and
in an hour afterwards the owners of the note offered a re-
ward of £25 for its restoration. About six o'clock the
note was handed to the printer of the handbill, the £25
paid, and a receipt given. The owners, of course, were
well satisfied, and naturally supposed that the finder
would be equally content with his reward ; but, to their
surprise, they received, on the following morning, a mes-
sage from the gentleman, to the effect that he wished to
see a partner in the house, and when his summons was
obeyed, he expressed great dissatisfaction at the £25 re-
ward ; he thought he deserved more ; indeed he said he
could at any bank have got 500 sovereigns for his prize;
or, at most, if he had gone to London, it could never
have been traced; and a friend of his had called him a
fool for not going ! after many fruitless attempts to ex-
tract a further sum, he descended from his high ground,
begged for a suit of clothes in addition, assured in his own
mind, that this would not be refused him. The gentle-
man holds what is called a confidential situation in an of-
fice, and dresses in the height of fashion. Of course be
had to content himself with the paltry £25."

MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—An inquest was held at
the Qneen's Arms, Liscard, on Tuesday last, before
Henry Churton, Esq., on the body of Richard Chapman,
aged 30, a clerk in the house of Messrs. Clegg and Co.,
of Liverpool. It appeared that the deceased, who had
been for some time in a declining state of health, was
crossing the river about three weeks ago by one of the
Seacombe Ferry steamers, and, owing to the weather
being wet, bad taken shelter in the cabin, but, finding the
heat oppressive, had removed to the stairs and stood on
the uppermost step. A person in the cabin was heard to
order him either to go up or come down, but, being un-
fortunately deaf, he did not hear him. Immediately the
person took bold of his coat-laps, and dragged him down
in a very forcible manner, the shock of which acting on
his mind, as well as his body, had the effect of bringing
on a crisis, as he gradually got worse until his death.
Dr. Donlevy, of Liscard, gave evidence that the deceased
had tubercles on the lungs, but that he was not in a state
previous to the:accident to warrant that his death would
occur suddenly, and his opinion was that the shock he
received had materially accelerated his death. Verdict—
natural death ; but in the opinion of the jury very much
accelerated by having been forcibly pulled down the
cabin steps of one of the Seacombe Ferry steamers by
some person unknown.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday evening a lament-
able catastrophe took place in the timber yard of Mesers.
J. and W. Bellhouse, Oxford-road, Manchester. About
six o'clock, two sawyers, Benjamin Clayton and Simeon
Lord, were engaged in sawing a log of timber, which, a
short time previously, had been placed between two piles
of timber for that purpose, when (in consequence it is
supposed of the ground in one part giving a ay) four large
logs fell from one of the piles into the space where the
men were at work; killed Clayton on the spot, and injured
Lord so severely that he died in a few hours afterwards.
The inquest was held before Mr. Chapman on Friday.
It appeared that the logs had been piled in the usual neat
sad apparently secure manner, but there was a strong
wind at the time, which, together with the settling of the
ground and the sinking of a sleeping, caused some of them
to fall. The jury returned a verdict of "accidental
death." Clayton, who was dreadfully crushed, was 46
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of age, and has left a widow and one child.
THE LATE GALE.—The barque Ocean Queen, which
sailed on Tuesday for Savannah, has put back, having
been in contact with the schooner Nymph, for Lynn, on
Wednesday night, off Holyhead. The Nymph, with her
captain and two hands, went down : two others of the
crew were saved by the Ocean Queen. The following
vessels have also put back :—The Crown, for M )bile,
leaky; the Ben Nevis; the Lady Courtenay, for Corfu,
with loss of bowsprit; the Remittance, for New York,
with loss of maintopmast, &c. ; and the Inconstant, for
Halifax, with foremast sprung.—A violent gale raged on
the Irish coast on Wednesday night, wind S.E.—The
Liffey rose several feet beyond the ordinary level of
spring tides, and flowed over the quays of Dublin. The
shipping suffered considerable damage.—ln Halpin's
Pool a schooner, laden with oats, became a wreck. The
fine steamer Shannon was dragged from her moorings at
the same place and thrown nearly dry upon one of the
slips; one of the wheels and a paddle-box destroyed. At
the Island of Clontarf a man named Cromwell and his
son lost their lives. Cromwell, who rented the island,
and kept boats, lived in a small but strong wooden house,
and while they were asleep (as is supposed) the building,
inmates, &c. were swept away by the sea, which had co-
vered the whole surface of the island. Several pleasure-
boats were wrecked in Clontarf Bay. A great deal of
large timber growing aloog the north coast was blown
down. The Marchioness of Stafford, coal laden, was
driven on the Wicklow beach, and became a total wreck :
crew saved. The Susannah, of Chester, bound to Bris-
tol, was driven ashore at Five Mile Point, Wicklow. The
brig Amity, of Ayr, bound for Dublin with coals, was
wrecked off the Skerries, but the crew were saved. A
vessel belonging to Halifax, but whose name we cannot
find recorded, was lost off Port Rush. She was laden
with palm oil; and the captain, his wife, and one of the
crew, were drowned.

FATAL ACCIDENTS ON THE RIVER.—On Wednesday,
the Hesperus, bound for Africa, was lying in the river,
off the Magazines, preparatory to going to sea, when,
about eight o'clock in the evening, the wife of the chief
mate, wishing to see her husband, engaged a boat, manned
by two hands, to proceed to the vessel. They had not
gone far, when she was, at her own request, put ashore
again, the sea being very rough at the time. The men
then put off, and reached the ship, for the purpose of
bringing the mate ashore. Accordingly, he, together with
the steward, boatswain, and one of the coopers, embarked,
andthe boat left the vessel, with theview of returning,when,
it is supposed, she must have been upset by a squall of
wind, as it was at the time (and, indeed, all day) blowing
hard, from the south-east. It being quite dark, the ac-
cident was not witnessed by any one, and, it is conjec-
tured, that all hands, six in number, must have perished
immediately. One of the boatmen, William Richie, has
left a wife (who, for the last three years, has been in a
delicate state of health) and five children, the eldest not
ten years of age, totally unprovided for. The name of
the other boatman is Hugh Jones, also married, but no
family. On the same evening, and about the same time
as the above accident occurred, a boat, having on board
seven seamen, left the ship Glasgow, a North American
vessel, then anchored off Seacombe, and they have not
since been heard of, though the boat herself has been
picked up near the Magazines. [lt appears that on the
evening in question the Iron Duke steamer, on her way
down the river to Dublin, came in contact with a boar,
which must have been one of the two mentioned above,
and the passengers in the steamer have published the
following account of the collision :—Having come down
slowly by the docks, and just having passed the iron ship
building yard, the captain being on the stage keeping a
look-out, and one man at each paddle-box, with certainly
more than two men looking-out on the forecastle, several
passengers being at the time about the stage in front of
the chimney, the night dark and blowing hard, a cry was
passed from the forecastle, " A boat right a-head."
Immediately the words " Stop her, back her," were
given by the captain, which were at once responded to ;
but the boat having been so close under the ship before
she was seen, from the darkness of the night, had not
time to clear her, and, while the engines were in the act
of being stopped, was run on by the steamer and swamped,
having been struck by the larboard paddle of the steamer.
The ship was at once stopped, blue lights were burned,
life-buoys were thrown over, and the boat lowered with
a crew to look for and render assistance to the un-
fortunate people who had been in the boat; but after
searching about for a long time—fully three quarters
of an hour—were obliged to return without being able
to discover any trace either of the men or the boat.
The passengers unanimously acquit from all blame the
captain and crew of the Iron Duke. It appears also that
about the same time these accidents occurred, the hands
on board her Majesty's steamer Redwing, at her moorings
off Monk's Ferry, saw a man in the river either clinging
to the bottom of a boat or to some spars. The unfortu-
nate being was calling for assistance, and a boat was im-
mediately lowered from the Redwing and every exertion
used to save him ; but be disappeared in a moment. The
boat which was swamped by the Iron Duke was found in
the Rock Gut. The unfortunate being who hailed the
Redwing was, therefore, in all probability, one of the crew
of the Glasgow's boat, because any remnant of the boat
of the Hesperus could not have reached the anchorage
ground of the Redwing, off the Monk's Ferry, in the then
state of the wind and tide. The bow of the boat which
was in collision with the Iron Duke is broken, and, to-
wards the stern, the bulwarks on either side, together with
the seats and the upper stern-board are swept away. The
most probable exposition of the manner of the occurrence
is, that the gig ran bow on to the larboard bow of the
Iron Duke, accounting for the shattering of her bow;
and that, brought round parallel to the side of the steamer
by the collision, she was carried stern foremost under the
paddle-floats, accounting for the extensive damage near
the stern. The remnants of the boat may be seen at the
south end of the Prince's Dock, outside the walls. By
these accidents thirteen lives have been sacrificed.

A HINT TO BOOK-BORROWERS.—Of persons who bor-
rowed books, but did not return them, Lord Eldon said,
"that though backward in accounting, they seemed to be
practised in book-keeping."