The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-04-30 00:00:00

FATAL ACCIDENT AT TILE ALBERT Does.— fester-
klay, at inquest was held Mar. the bsr u;-i coroner on
view of the body-of Jo!in Griffi h, a ItPourer, ag-d 35.
On Sa'urday last, while decerved was eng! gal at a
new
tub close under the- wall of one of the warehouses new is
cw(eiiarhseinogf
ferroernci2ioon-t-oat
!2tkelA.,lbbeyrts,,Dme)cnk:eaanpspi_ete o r
ofba tt.llll/I)high wind at the time—fell down, and struck him so vio-
lently on the head as to fracture his skull beyoaa hope of
his recovery. He was carried to the Northern Hospital,
and expired a few-minutes atter being received there.—
Verdict, "Accidentally killed."
CLOSING SHOPS. AT SEVEN O'CLOCK.—The respecta-
ble shopkeepers of Liverpool are gradually. adopting the
rule of el-sing at seven o'clock. The trades individually
are taking the initter un, and influential parties who have
agreed to close at the above-named hour will, no doubt,
be a stimulus to others. A meeting of the assistants to
booksellers and, stationers was held, in the Clarendon-
rooms, on Thursday evening, when the thanks of the
meeting were umnimously voted to those employers who
so kindly responded to the memorial soliti!ing an earlier
hour of closing, and the necessity of anh,ring to an ar-
rang-ment that will prove equally beneficial ta the em-
ployer and the employed was respectfully urged.
ASSAULT ON POLICE-OFFICERS.—At the Police-court,
vest,rday, a- well-dressed young man, named Thomas
R)wlands. and a working man, John, McDermott, were
charged With a violent assault on several police-officers, in
Adlington-street, Marybone, on Saturday-evening. Ca.
therine McDermott, wife of the latter, was -also charged
with assault and attempt to rescue her husband.. The
two male prisoners had, it appetteed, been very active in
a gratuitous attack upon the officers with stones and
bricks, by which the face of one of them was much
bruised and mutilated. Rowlands was formerly appren-
tice to a pilot-boat. had often been brought up for dis-
orderly conduct on bOard and- on shore, and had left his
employ. He was fined £5, or one month, and also re-
quired to find bal himself in £3O and two sureties in £2O
eacb. The other man was: fin, din a less amount, or to
be imprisoned ; and the female, whose case was but
slight, was discharged.

THE " IRON DIIKE."—This steamer made her second
experimental trip on Thursday, and the result was highly
satisfactory to those connected with her, and also to se-
veral scientific individuals on board. As regards her
sped, that i 3 unrivalled. As a proof, she ran firma the
Clar-nce Pier to the• anchorage in Douglas harbour in
sh. 27ra., end the return trio occupied but sh. 31m. To
go more int i detal to show what was done in a remarka-
bty.short period, she- went from Liverpool to Douglas,
remained forty minutes in the harbour, and returned to
Liverpool, the entire time occupied being only eleven
hours and thirty-eight minutes. To show th it she de-
rived but little extraneous aid from wind or tide, it is
only necessary to o serve that the farmer was on the bow
going to lietigl as, and felt to-a calm on the return; and
ihe tide was almost the lowest in the year, being bat lift.
9in. The most extraordinary property connected with
this steamer is the fact that her speed through the water
approaches closer to the velocity of her wheels than that
i of any other vessel afloat, whether propelled lay paddle-
wheels, the screw, or any other principle. Thursday's
trial proved indisputably, both by the log and by,the dis-
tance actually passed over, that there was a slip of only
1-14111 e-that is to say, the velocity of the vessel through,
the-water was as great as the velocity of the eeetre-of -the
paddle-boar-Is within one-fourteenth part. No doubt
this fact will cause a sensation in the scientific world, as
it will undoubtedly procure Mr..Th imas Wilson addi-
tional fame. The engines and boilers are everything that
their constructors can desire, and as the machinery inva- ,
riably continues to . work more and more efficiently for
inonths after its first operations, it may be asked, what
steamer will be able -to compete successfully with the
" Iron Duke," when her engines (bnilt by Messrs. Flaw-
' eett and Co.) have arrived at the maximum of their-effi-
ciency ? - - -
ADULTERATION OF TOBACCO.—It appears that OUT Own
' town is not the only one in which manufacturers of to-
bacco have, during the past week, been convicted for de-
frauding the revenue by adelterating the article with mo-
lasses, sugar, and other saccharine matter, Chinese flow-
ers, sand, &c., and also selling such tabaeco to retail deal-
ers. At Bolton three parties were brought before the
'special session. In the first case a dealer was convicted
in a penalty of £2OO for adulterating tobacco, and the to-
bacco (amounting to 1,08311 b) was condemned. It was
, also stated that, in little more than six months, this dealer
had gained by this species of fraud not less than £3,000;
the adulteration at 20 per cent (and it was stated that'-it
really-amounted to 23 per cent.) on the quantity of tot.
bacco on which he had paid duty within that period.,
amounting to £3.254. On this ground the bench refused
to grant any mitigation of the penalty.—ln the second
case, against the successor of the defendant, 3131 h. of to=
bacco was seized on the defendants premises, and 201 b. at
the shop of a retail dealer, which was stated to have come
from the defendant; and the latter was convicted in a
mitizated penalty of £so.—On Friday there were two
cases heard at the Matte-ester police-court, in the first of
which the defendant, a tobacco Manufacturer, virtually
admitted having committed the offence, by his -itilicitbr
stating that the solicitor for the excise and himself had
agreed to a conviction on the second count of the infor-
mation. The case was heard, however, and the defeti:
dant Was convicted, on that count, in the-penalty of £l5O
for having adniterated tobacco- on his premises, and the
tobacco seized (891 b.) was condemned.—Another case was
gone into, in which it appeared thatt-the defendant, a re-
tail dealer, was convicted of a similar offence in the miti-
gated penalty Of £5O, as it appeared that he bad purchased
the tobacco from one of the parties convicted on Wednes-
day at Bolton ; and the tobacco seized (3621 b.) was con-
demned. It thus appears that within five days, in three
large'towns within a space of forty, miles, no fewer than
e;ght convictions, amounting in the aggregate to £1,550,
have been made, and more than 2,4001 b. of tobacco seized
and condemned by the excise.
HER MAJESTY'S BIRTEI DAY.—Thursday last being
appointed for the celebration of her Majesty's birth-day,
all the public offices were closed. The royal sten lard, a
new one, ahnirably painted by Mr. Parr, of Berry-street,
was hoisted at the Town. hall ; and at several places, as
well as on the ships along the line of the docks, flags
floated freely, imparting a lively and pleasing appearance
to the town. At noon the bells of St. Pcter's rung a
merry peal. It was further enlivened and gratified by the
enrolled pen:ione-rs whO a-sem bled at the barracks, in
Duke-street, from whence they were marched by Captain
Gteiz to the police-station in Seel-street, where they
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underwent the necesary formalities. From S.-el-street
they Marched in S .ctions, down Bold-street, along
Church-street, up ford-street, and threugt, Cestle-street,
forming on the Exchange flags. They. vinre a very' be-
, coming uniform : and althcingh several slicw .d, not only
i by their personal appearance, but their pendant medals,
1 honours of Waterloo and the Peninsula, that they had
" fought in famous battles," still they wre a fine body of
men, quite capable Of 'rendering, if necessary, a great
• local service. They. were, preceded by a baud of music,
all pensioners. and the fine old fellows had warmed in
them again the martial feeling of other days. On the
I Exchange area along with the inspecting field-officer,
Colonel Falconer, his adjutant, Lieut. Cowell, and a com-
pany of the 6th 'Regiment. several other officers were also
in attendance,—amongst others, Lieut. Sautey, of the
1 engineers, who is at present here on a survey, and Major
! Axford, of the East India company artillery. His wor-
ship the Mayor was present on the occasion, together
with Edward Rushton, Esq., Sir Thomas Braucker,
Francis Heywood, Esq., and other gentlemen. At one
o'clock a feu de joie was fired in honour of her Maj....sty's
birth-day, the band immedia!ely strking up " God save
the Queen," which was responded to by three hearty
cheers from the troops and gentlemen assembled. The
whole of the pensioners then retired in military order to
the barracks, where their aims were lodged. It is worthy
of remark that in this district every pensioner voluntarily
came forward to be enrolled. Each man received 431
bounty, and one day's pay. None above the age of fifty-
five were required to attend. In the evening hit worship
the Mayor entertained, at the Town-hall, the heads of
the various public departments, all the consols, and se-
veral gentlemen of the town. - The pensioner's band at-
tended, and played several airs during the dinner, and
Mr. Holden's glee singers delighted the company the re-
mainder of the evening.
TRAN MERE FERRY AND THE BIRKENHEAD BAIL-
WAY.—In the Vice-Chancellor's Court. on Wednesday,
an application was made on behalf of Mr. Chamberlain to
prohibit the Birkenhead Railway Company from giving a
preference to the Monk's Ferry, as a terminus (by mean./
of a tunnel), to Birkenhead and Tranmere. It was urged
that it was stipulated in the act tie t no railway or train-
road should he made from the terminus at Grange-lane to
the ferry at Woodside, until a similar railway or tramroad
had been made to the ferries at Birkenhead and Tranmere,
and that no locomotive or stationary engines should be
used by the company for propelling carriages from the
railway to Woodside, until roads on which the like engines
could be used were made for the same purpose between the
railway and the two other ferries. In 1840 the railway com-
pany purchased for £25,000 a piece of land, and the claim
to a ferny at a spot called Monk's Ferry, manv hundred yards
from the place at which the boats at the Woodside station
were accustomed to arrive and depart, but still within the
district called Woodside. The Commissioners of Birken-
head, a short time ago, became the purchasers of the
Woodside Ferry, and had agreed with the Railway Com-
pany to make a tunnel to Monk's Ferry, and there to have
a boat always ready to convey passengers to Liverpool.
This the proprietor of 'Tranmere Ferry considered an in-
fringement of the clause of the act which put Tranmere
and Birkenhead Ferries on an equality as to communica-
tion with the railway. It was stated, for the Railway
Company, that this was not a case of parliamentary con-
tract ; they did not intend to make three railways, as they
had no power to take land for that purpose, and having
procured land to Monk's Ferry which enabled them, by
means of a tunnel, to extend the advantages of the rail-
way in a manner not prohibited by the act, the court
could not interfere.—The case was adjourned to Thurs-
day, when it was further contended for the defendants
that they had not infringed any law, they had merely
adapted their arrangements to the state of the law, and
proceeded to open such a communication with Liverpool
as the law allowed. 't Tranmere Ferry was, in fact, a ferry
not offering sufficient convenience to induce those who
crossed the Mersey to use it; it bad not been worked for
nine years. Mr. Temple replied, and insisted that Monk's
Ferry was, in fact, the Woodside Ferry under another name,
and was a merely colourable evasion of the provision of
the act which bad been introduced for the protection of
the other ferries. Monk's Ferry was not a leg . ,_
when the railway act passed. His Honour fasidy atif _ :fej ` I. r
were then a legal terry, there would have been ito.itroirt-W- , -
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for the present application. Without eiosiverog a .„. e ee at
opinion on the construction of the clauseehe sintild. : Yr•le;;,;-- _O." ft
that it was certainly not so clearly that whiehgleitx - 0 'l' 4IC ie.,
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tiffs contended as to entitle them to the ingOic ion,' 'Hg 1-, . .
would read the evidence for the purpose of seemj•• I, - • ... IC
he ought to require the Railway Contpaity t.o.
any terms fora trial at law, or whaher the it i•-• :- ' .!-4. •
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the plaintiffs ought to deprive them of th 4e, ,;A_2eekars
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e court in that respect.
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