The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-05-20 00:00:00

THE " SHOOTING STAR."

Baltimore has long been held in notoriety as a port for
clipper craft, and hence the world are apt to associate with
every vessal hailing from thatcity high sailing qualifications
During the past week, one of th,ir model ships, a small
schooner, after a tolerably smart transatlantic trip,arrived
here, and, while nestled in the corner of one of our docks,
has been attracting the attention of hundreds. It cannot
be her dimensions that have gained public attention. It
is a contradiction in terms to use the words length and
breadth, she is "so short and so narrow ;" and her capa-
city is such that. if she is not built solely for a pleasure
craft, would give ground to the suspicion that her carrying
capacities will never yield startling profits to her owners.
The Shooting Star was placed on Prince's Dock gridiron
on Thursday, where she was visited by many admiring
connoisseurs, and a few who declared they " did not know
what to make of her." She is a pilot-boat built schooner
of about 74 feet keel her beam is moderate; her floorings
are broad, and she is clipped in fore and aft fine as a knife.
But while she is evidently intended for surface sailing,
she has an enormous keel to aid her in shooting wind-
ward. She has a depth of hold of 9 feet only, but she is
made up with a deep bulwark, and over that a monkey
rail, so that, viewed exteriorly, she loomslike aship. What-
ever may be her properties, it is evident that rapidity of
sailing has alone been the object of her construction. For
her capacity she is enormously masted, her fore-and-aft
sails having an unusal hoist. The captain (and we believe
owner) cracks largely of his craft. Head to wind, close
hauled, or one point free, he estimates taking the breeze
out of everything afloat. The Shooting Star proceeds
hence to the Brazils ; and, if not sold, will leave there for
California. For those who take a pride in nautical matters
she forms an object of unusual attraction.

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During the last twelve months upwards of six hundred
dvvelling.houses have been erected in Preston.

The common at Runcorn, which has long been lying
waste, is about to be enclosed and converted into a public
park. .

The receipts of the Church Missionary Society at Preston
this year were £419, a small increase over the preceding
year.

Another inquest was held at Newton on Wednesday on
the body of Mr. Wilson, killed by the recent catastrophe
at Frodsham, and, after the examination of two or three
witnesses, a verdict of accidental death was returned.

The coroner's inquest at Mottram, Cheshire, on the
two children supposed to have died from poison, has ter-
minated in a verdict of " Wilful murder' against the fa-
ther, Jonathan Barcroft.

Mr. Horatio Nelson Tivy has been unanimously elected
governor of Chester City Gaol, in the room of the late
Mr. Thomas Haswell. Mr. Tivy has been for several
years the inspector of the Chester police.
On Sunday week, Lady Hogliton, of Astley Hall, at-
tained her 89th year. The bells of the parish church,
Chorley, rang several peals to commemorate the event.
Her ladyship is in excellent health and spirits.
The body of a labouring man, named Green, has been
found in a pit near Leigh, Warrington, sadly hacked and
mutilated. There is no doubt that the poor man has been
murdered, and he had only a few shillings in his pocket
when he was killed.

A fellow was apprehended by the Manchester police at
Knot Mill fair, while plying his avocation as a pickpocket.
He tried the pockets of two detectives in plain clothes,
and actually succeeded in stealing a card-case and its con-
tents from the pockets of a third, an officer from Dublin.
Mrs. Porter, of Ardwick, dreamed that she found her
son, aged four years, drowned in a pond opposite to her
house. On the Saturday following he was missed, upon
which the mother went directly to the pond, and there
found him dead, lying on his back, near the edge of the
pond.

A carter, named Hunt, has been found dead on the Ash-
ton road, near Manchester. It was at first supposed that
he had died from apoplexy, but subsequent inquiry has
raised suspicion that he died from injuries received from
another carter, with whom the deceased had been heard
quarrelling. A verdict of manslaughter hue boon returned
against the man.
The subject of the reward to he paid for the apprehen-
sion of Patrick Lyons, the murderer, has engaged a con-
siderable share of the attention of ie Warrington watch
committee, three parties having come forward to claim it.
The committee have passed a resolution, that the reward
is justly owing to some person, as yet unknown, who gave
information to the Warrington police of Lyons having
enlisted at Dublin.
ARTESIAN WELLS AT CROSTON.—Several farmers at
Croston, near Chorley, have lately bored for water, and
they find it in abundance at the depth of about sixty-three
feet. About nine feet below the upper surface is clay or
marl ; and, after the boring is complete, an iron tube of
about three or four feet in diameter is inserted as far as
the clay, when the water rises through the tube, and
gives the copious supply of ninety gallons per hour of pure
spring water. The tubing is of little cost, and the whole
work does not take more than two days.—Preston
Chronicle.
THE PARISH OF MANCHESTER.—The retiring church-
wardens have felt it their duty to record their entire
approval of the protest of their predecessors against the
retention, by the Rev. R. Parkinson, of the presidency
and incumbency of St. Bee's, with the emoluments arising
from his preferment as one of the canons of Manchester;
and their deep regret, that the loud and general expression
of pnblic opinion, on the part of the clergy and laity, in
favour of the sentiments enunciated in that protest, have
had no effect upon the apparent determination of the rev.
gentleman to retain both these preferments. The church-
wardens cannot but regard with still deeper regret the
announcement that the example of the Rev. R. Parkinson,
although thus condemned, is about to be followed by two
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lof the remaining three clergymen having canonries in the
cathedral of this parish. The Rev. C. D. Wray has
accepted a valuable rectory in the eounty of Norfolk ; and
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i intentionn the
county
of Oxford (the duticsof which have hithertobeen dischargedo
by a curate) ; so that this parish, with its vast and rapidly
increasing population, and its spiritual destitution, is
now almost entirely deprived of the personal services of
clergymen holding high preferments in the church, and
deriving large emoluments from the revenues of the
parish ; whose nosition necessarily invests them with
commanding influence for good or evil.