The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-10 00:00:00

THE POOR-LAW COMMISSIONERS AND ME,. FES°
RAND, M.P.—On Monday, Sir F. Thesiger applied to
the Court of Queen's Bench, on behalf of Mr. George
Cornewall Lewis, one of the poor-law commissioners, fot
liberty to file a criminal information against Mr. Ferrand,
the member for Knaresborougb, for having published
two letters reflecting upon the character of Mr. Lewis, la
the Times of the Sth and 10th of Angust last. In the
first of these letters, which related to the evidence of Mr-
Lewis before the committee appointed by the House of
Commons to inquire into the administration of the poor-
law in the Andover Union, Mr. Ferrand declared that
" the Graham-Lewis-Mott infamous report " was •
" foul and infamous conspiracy on the part of Sir James
Graham and Mr. Lewis to crush the writer in the Hour
of Commons." The second letter charged Mr. Lewis
with " the most deliberate falsehood, fur the purpose of
deceiving the House of Commons," and accused him of
prevarication, which, if he had been guilty of it at o
police-office, would have caused him " to be packed off is
the prison van, and indicted for perjury." A rule to shoal
cause was granted by the court.
IRON SHIP BUILDING.—On Monday last, the second
half, viz., from midsbips to bows, of another iron schooner,
of 300 tons burthen, and to be called the Liverpool, was
drawn upon two trucks, by about 19 horses, tour abreast
with three for the leaders, through the streets of the western
part of the town, intervening between the ironworks of
Messrs. Pim, in English-street, and the nearest spot at
which they can launch their vessels. The ease with which
the corners were turned, and the rapidity of the progress
surprised the spectators. We believe this is not less than
the sixth or seventh vessel of the kind which Messrs. Pim
will have launched at this port. The Margaret, the Sens'
tor, the Tribune, the Citizen, the Dublin, and the Liver'
pool, are amongst the names which they have given to
their ships, which are all fitted with the screw, and worked
each with two engines of the united power of 28 horsell•
The Dublin, (intended to ply from that port in co.ijunn-
tion with the Liverpool,) having received her engineer
&c., left this port on Sunday week, at 9 a.m., and reacbed
her destination half an hour after the midnight of
Thursday, or rather on Friday morning, effecting bet
voyages in four days and fifteen hours, acknowledged 5
very fine run. The Liverpool is to be launched, W 45
understand, in three weeks.—Hull Advertiser.
DESTRUCTION ON THE GARRICK THEATRE BY PIES.
—On Wednesday morning, between the hours of four
and five, a police-constable discovered smoke and sparkS
issuing from the Garrick Theatre, in Leman-street,
Goodman's-fields. Without a moment's loss of time, an
alarm was spread in the usual way. The Brigade engines
were the first that arrived, and without delay were set to
work. By that period, however, the whole tier of boxes,
together with the gallery, were wrapped in fire, and as
the burning flakes fell below they communicated with the
pit and mazarine floors, so that, by the hour of five or
little after, the theatre was on fire from the basement to
the top of the roof. By nine o'clock the firemen sac'
ceeded in getting the flames nearly extinguished; by that
time the theatre was entirely consumed, and the valuable
wardrobe destroyed ; the whole of the scenery and stage
appointments are likewise burned—by which calamiti
about fifty performers will be thrown out of employment'
As to the origin of the fire nothing that could be depended
upon could be ascertained, but it is the prevailing opinion
that it arose from some of the gun wadding lodging in the,
" flats" during the firing of cannon at the performance 01
the Battle of Waterloo on the previous evening.