The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-29 00:00:00

LOCAL AND PROVINCIAL NEWS.

The shipments of potatoes from the Isle of Man have
commenced, and large cargoes are leaving that island for
Liverpool.
Thomas Sidney, Esq., Sheri of London, tea•deiler, is
brother to Mr. George Sidney, boot and shoe warehouse,
Paradis e- et reet.

On Friday we!lc, a dinner was given to Alexander Kay,
Esq., Mayor of Manchester, as a mark of their respect
for him, by Aldermen Potter, Neild, and Kershaw, the
first, second, and third mayors of Manchester.
The Rev. Mr. Murphy, formerly of St. Patrick's
Chapel,•in Liverpool, has been appointed Rornish Bis')op
of Australia. He had been previously Vicar-General of
New South Wales.

On Saturday week the clerks and subordinate officers
of the Manchester Corporation were entertained at an
excellent dinner provided for them by the three past
Mayors of that town.
On Saturday week the flat Express arriver: at Manches-
ter, with forty tons of wines and Writs, for Mr. Gila), of
that town. This is the first. arrival in the " Port" of
Manchester of a cargo of gocds for bond..

We beg leave to call the attention of our reitle.rs, par-
ticularly of thy maritime elt.'s, to the advertisement of the
Mariners' and General Life Insurance Company in our
columns of this day, which appears to offer advantages to
seafaring persons seldom to he met with.
GUANO.—Owing to the easterly winds, the arrivals of
the past week from Ichaboe do not exceed 300 'tons.
Sales have been made to the extent of 100 or 120 tont, at
4:5. 17s. 6d. to £6. An entire cargo, on the spot, is re-
ported to be sold at the latter price. For forward delivery
there is no business doing.

onCATUhTiilrOsciNcyTOlasSt,l7,NaDsAclhaTngßeAdVbEeLft.orreNom—r..Ntitru.
shßtoown,etatt,
the Police Court, with driving in his gig past St. Georg:-!'s
Church, on Sunday last, during the hour of divine ser-
dice, contrary to a bye-law passed on the 15th of Sep-
tember, 1812, and fined five shillings.
LORD TEYNHAM.—A letter in the Morning Chronicle
from a son of this nobleman states that though his father
did preach in a Baptist Chapel in this town he "does not
belong to that or any other dissenting denomination."
His lordship preached in the Scotch Church, Dublin, on.
Sunday week, and at two other places of worship the same
day.
TRACY PERRAOF..—James Tracy, Esq., the claimmt
to the Tracy peerage, is at present in this city, and that
he has overcome ail the difficult part of his ease—namely,
that of identifying William Tracy, his treat-grandfather,
who married Mary, (laughter of James O'Brien, a vv0011,13
merchant in Francis-street, as the son of the lion. Mr.
Justice Tracy, of England.—Dublin paper.—{ the son of
Mr. Tracy was recently in the Liverpool police.]

RODN Y-STREET \VARn.—A large and influential
meeting cf the electors of this ward took place on Tues-
day. for the purpose of introducing John Pemberton, Esq.
to the electors, The meeting was u!!animous in their de-
tern ination to support Mr, Pemberton ; and from the fa-
vourable state of the registry in this ward, and the great
influence of the gentlemtn who attended the meeting,
there is no doubt of Mr. Pemberton's triumphant return.
FREICMASONRY.—The Annual Provincial Grand Lodge
of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons for this province,
was held at the Adelphi Iletel, on Thursday morning, at
eleven o'clock. The Croft Lodge was opened in the
Three Degrees by Brother He,s, V.W.P.G. junior war-
den, assisted by the represencatives of Loges No. 130,
173, 245, 263. 267. and 291. The gramd officers baring
taken their several chairs, the lodge was opened in due
form, when the reports from the several lodges in the
province, on the prognss of Alasonry, were received.
They were most gratifying; end the charitable contri-
butions exceeded in amount these of any previous year.
At four o'clock the brethren sat down to a most sumptuous
banquet, served up in brother Radley's:best style.
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While servir, him Mr. Bird put his purse into his coat
pocket. As his cu.itomer was going out an alarm was
given that a man had dropped down dead. On being
brought in, (of course many persons wi.h him,)and placed
on the floor, Mr. Bird took the usual means, as he ap.
peared to be in a fit, and in a few urinates he was able to
speak and depart. On resuming his employment (the cir-
cumstance selreely taking three minutes,) end putting his
hand into his pocket for his purse, Mr. 137 rd Lund that it
was gone. It instantly struck him that the whole scene
was a trick, the man in fits and his party having watched
his doings, and the opportunity taken advantage of, and
that successfully. The money extracted amounted to X2O.
MR. R. USIITON AND MR. SHUTTLEWORTII.—OD dis-
missing the grand jury after their labours at the sessions
last week, the learned Recorder paid a deserved compli-
ment to our stipendiary macistrateond prosecuting soli-
citor, Mt. Shuttleworth. The learned gentleman said,
" It is a most gratifying circumstance to know, that in
every case, after the careful scrutiny you have instituted,
yen have affirmed the propriety of the prosecution. It is
a rare occurrence, and most clearly indicates the care
and diseriminatien which arc exere'sed in those pre-
liminary proceedings which take place before the cases
appear in this court." This opinion of the learned Re-
corder received a most expressive confirmation from the
feet, that fully one-halt of the prisioners, arraigned
during the last sessions, pleaded guilty, arid thud, by
fhtir own ecrifesiens, acknowledged the justness of the
proceedings which had Leen taken against themselves.

MURDEROUS ArrweK.—On Friday afternoon as Capt.
Wo:;dhouse was leaving the Queen of the West, New
York Packet-ship, of w hich veAs.l he is commander,
in the Prince's Dock, when passing through the gate he
• was assailed by a tal powerful man, in sailor's dress, who,
without a word, s!ruck him a tremendous blow, with an
iron ball or ston,, clung in a pocket-hanilke,chief. The
blow took effect on the fore part of the tenip!e, near to the
eve, and laid him bt (;nC: 81:11Se!th'S on the I:avtinent. He
was picked up and carried to the Norhera
11 suit el,
where it was asecraine.l that the injary, cith ugh of a
serious nature, did not extend t 1 frieture of the skull.
The assailant, on suing Captaio NV.' fail , took to his itee!,
and, in the confu,ion,
ore of cr
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sere: :brt"ceti;:bl:'3:4,:ei,b,zl::::):g,citelill :Nft
their•t Yi Ihe vc, It.
threat ha been had fAtf. thr t they also would be attacked.

Oct. 29, 1841•

the Police-court, on a charge of having sold a couple tt!
. SUSPENSION, OF A MARKET-CONSTABLE.-00
hares in St. John's market without a license. The casts
day a Mrs. Roberts was brought-before Mr. RualltSellt,pari
against her was proved by a market-constable, of the „rs,
of Woodfall ; but, upon cross-examination by 51e.
that he had received 2s. from a person named Shaw and
handed the mone to a butcher? with request thato,ll
dle, Woodfalt, evidently with much reluctance, statae°4
would go aird purchaCh the hares. Mr. Wardle conte. clecod
.
that the coastable, Under those circumstances, d
baok the
trapped the unfortunate woman. Mr. Bushton to
same view of the case; reprimanded the fellow for. his,
misconduct, and ordered his suspension and the die.
s!!
of the charge against Mrs. Roberts.—[How can :(lari.
Rushton reconcile his condemnation of this man s
duct with the fact that he, some little time since, allunce
rised police-constables to go in plain clothes and 'nue.?
publicans to sell ale orspirits after the prescribed holt:10
If the market-constable were •so -far wrong in the
recorded above, as to justif the dismiss'al of the c'"'"??
then ought none of the cases against the publicans to faro
been proceeded with on the unsupported testiratali
spying policemen.]
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TOWN Pito6thniNG§.—A. apecialareet
this beldY Was held on. Wednesday last, at the usual boor,
to determine upon laying of the annual fire aolice
8:e. Mr. Alderman Lawrence stated that the fire P.°1,8
that uta
rate last year, produced £2,135 19s. lido and
expenditure was £1,725 2s. 4.1., leaving a balance:::
4410 17s. 7d,, out'Of which the sum of £209 had alreil
~
been expended for water-carts. He thought that, be
the balance, a rate of a halfpenny in the pour.d woulttrt,
quite sufficient, end moved a resolution to that tne `O/
which was adopted. A resolution as to the closit
tee
markets and shops, with a report of the market conics
red
on the same subject, Was' then read, but it was res3t.o.
that the council could not entertairethe comentinle,3 id to
The Mayor produced the reply which ho had reeelvfata•
a memorial to the Treasury, on the subject of Mr•
kissoll's statue. After some conversation, in the no
of which it was repeatedly stated !ha' Mrs. Huskisscri at,
very decided objections to placing the statue ins°ta
George's Hall, the following resolution, proposed by otos
0).
Alderman Turner, and seconded by Mr. Agpinall
then agreed to :—" esolv C
1? eeiThat as the Lards gthe
missioners of tie Treasury have declined to sanction es
placing of the statute of Mr. Iluskisson on the site sec red
mended by Mr. Gibson, the artist, the Mayor be reclu!tos
to express to Mrs. Iluskiason, the deep regret omit
Council
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RailwaylhaveurLeprbenign,
Companies
toaoet
enirmtpdi spoeae:nni.
rrom of the Custom-house, as originally intended. .d
the course of the discussion, Mr. G. H. Lawrence °Ai •
might be satisfectory to the Council to know thatti'sar.
l and
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Giinebntsset
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been directed to wait on her Majesty to receive a cooly%
ty
to twelve.
,
MEETING OF TIIE COUNCIL. —A special. raeeanaff
been called for to-morrow, to wind up the affairs oft"
municipal year. The proceedings of the Finance CT,
mittee, will comprise a recommendation for the-sale °l,,
piece of land, containing about 2,200 yards, in Charc,,
street, Birkenhead. The proceedings of the Watch Clt
mittee will contain a report of a sub-committee of that
body respecting the efficiency of the borough constabulsy,
li rs force, the accepted resignation of Mr. Miller, the r
constable, the appointmentpro-fern, of Mr. Commissiabee
Dowling to the latter office. The proceedings of tto
Gardens. Committee will comprise a recommendation
erect an iron-fence railing on the east side of St. Jan'es„o
walk. The Mayor's communications will comprisea,
application, on behalf of the Birkenhead Dock. CornPar.)';
to purchase the reversion of the Corporation in a porn
of the Wallasey estate. A similar application it ill ,
remembered, has been already made by individual 135:„; -
chasers of the Wallasey estste and declined by the Fin Committee. The present one is made by the Dock Co-'ts,,—
pany on the other side, and, should it be refused, o'r,o`—to
deratand it is the intention of that company to aPP.' of
Parliament for compulsory powers to obtain poseesslonoe
the fee simple of the estate, upon the ground, that aito
having erected immense docks and warehouses upon l'r,
property, it would be an injustice. to compel them to
Iru
render, them to the Liverpool Corporation at the exP a
tion of a lease for seventy-five years.
waS
DOCK COMMITTEE.—On Thursday an application,-
made by Messrs. Forester and Co. to have leased to D'e f
for the term of twenty-one years, 8360 square yards I°o
land, in the neighbourhood of the north docks, at tli-
annual rate of one shilling per square yard. The
cation was allowed. Two letters were read having'
sea
rence to the use of galvanised iron, which bad ut
offered to be supplied to the committee for budding l'foa,
poses. One of the letters was from a firm in Lon" to
and stated the iron so offered was prepared according,
a system for which they held a patent, and it ccntaine°B9
caution to the committee against using the iron,
•
actions at law were pending against persons for infringeol
mcnt of their right of patent. The other letter was ff°id
a party who had made tt.e offer to supply the iron, elle
ceutaiued an assurance from the writer to indenitrilY t.
committee in the result of legal proceedings being lih's.ltao
toted, as the patent alluded to could not opplY t° -so
kind of iron he had offered. The letters were referred o
the committee's solicitor. The tender of Messrs. Ogcled,
pfoerrtmbies
si
iroonn
wsaasshge;s::
Iftet
Brunswick pier for the Buncorn steamers. Mr. Ift4tr
dhetAolbeerretcwt aarenh,ooursectisbwleashaeutc,e}pntretbile
Evans was unanimously elected to be saperintendent °,
Anglesey Lighthouse. Some suspicion had been exciteu
as terMr. Evans' habits of temp. niece, butt he completely
cleared his character. A boy, named Johnson, was or
pointed a,.istant to the telegraph at Vorydd. at a weekly
salary of Bs. An application having, been made by the
committee. to Mr. Thomas Carte to inspect the vccabulatir
a letter was read from that gentleman, stating that he had
made the required examination, and his opinion was that
it had been complete=d with much labour, and that it was
of great simplicity. Ile thought that the only addition'
that could tie made to it was that the shipowrieras if it
were practicable, should send in the names of their elaiPe
and their private signals for insertion. We understood
it to be the opinion of the committee that this wasitty"
practicable. Messr& Paton and Co. made an application
for a return of rent for the use .of the shed at Waterloo
Dock, which rent they were of opinion was at too high a
rate. A letter was read from the Trinity Board sanction-
ing the removal of the Bell Buoy further outto sea, which
removal the committee ordered to be made.
PUBLIC BATHS.--At the meeting in London for the
promotion of these useful establishments the Bishop ((fe..
London thus spoke of the baths in this town. His 1°
rte
ship said, he lately, while in the north of England,
an opportunity of visiting the town of Liverpool. for tes•
purpose of irisnecting the public baths and wash-11000
that had there been established for two years. lie wooof
state a few details, and he begged to say lie now spoke 0.
the advantages of bathing. He found that as wialltha
220 labourers had bathed on a Saturdsy afternoon in
public baths at Liverpocl, where, he should just 05'74
the baths were rather on a contracted scale, there be.o,
83 separate baths only. In conversing with the suPerilia'a
tendent of those baths, that person-told him that he „-
overheard this remark from one of the labouring men :an
Addressing a companion by his Christian name, the
said, -" I feel as if I could do another week's work n"w),
have been ire the'Wth." (Hear, hear, and loud cheer ,g o
Suppose this to take place on a Saturday, the mecttth
wooll be pleaSed to remember Curet the effects of the bioa.
would not be confined to the sensation of physical coartb,
city but be more lit for the due cbservance of the SahnBoad
(Hear, hear.) The baths were separate, and be,f°,7fitd
this highly estimated at Liverpool—having as meth
or Warm clatvr as he (the poor man) Wisliel to turn
fur there was no limit in this respect at the hathsaoo
Liverpool. The baths at that town were freqtrentar,
id
el.gnetseen:Ofp:a.rh'sioretnheacels
only by working men, but by some of a supericr eir'tbiS
life, who paid a small sum fur private baths, which 1° eal
.sepauerrrds person
al°}Fgoircr,
case became a cheap luxury to them. He used the scrAit
wtv%)
hich, vewhsietensnosoue
ntoc,febaeun,,t
joianydetd,
disiamee with. (Hear.) He had himself asked the Pj.,e,
people at Liverpool if they did n rt think it an advantl;e
d
a great advantage,
to
hove public wash-houses, and t,be
said they felt them to be so; aed he bad inquired of log
superintendent if any evils had arisen from the
nitsof families rand he said he had never vcrerrveo or neklas
of any. If the people so employed did talk over that,
grievances, then he (the right rev. prelate) knew no tied,
harm in that. (Cheers.) The resolutions were P";'ste
the society formed? god the Bishop of Loudon appoe
p sidnr,
r
CHAttOI OF SETTING FIRE TO A SHIP.—The 'l-
- e
Hermes, belonging to Messrs. Tayleur and Co. °11e•
chants, of this town, sailed on Friday week with a talu es:
cargo of manufactured and other goods for Buenos M'o
m e
ot
and on Tuesday she arrived in the river again, hasi"l_s-
back in censequ
ee of an attempt to set fire to the s
sel on Sunday morning, off Holyhead. One of the ine'd
Swede, named Henry Brown, was placed in custody' atb
the circumstances were investigated at very great letilap
before Mr. Rushton et the police-court on Ttles"e-
Air apprentice, named John Parry, stated that, heti° aaf
sot and seven o'clock on Sunday morning, he was 'Ytbe
in his hammock in the forecastle, ill, when he 53vinatt
prisoner go to the chest of a seaman, n umed
rrom which he took a box of matches ; thea he went ',`'aca
l'artn 's) chest, took therefrom a leaf out of a book, ' "and
it up, then he took off the scuttle, lighted a matehp be
went down into the forepeak. After he came back' id
stood over the scuttle in a kneeling posture. and teen
'By —, I will either sink her or burn her;" "n" be'
he put on the scuttle carefully, with the bar over it g",, be.
fore. Shortly afterwards, the ship was discovered tvversi
col fire; about two gallons of tar in a barrel, and '.!were
pounds of oakum, being cons=umed ; but the flame'Coe
'ortunately extinguished before they attained airytbese
siderah wle rower. It appeared that no one haf see,' e bod
proceedings of tae prisoner but Parry ; and that ti_he'creal•
been no dispute between the captain and any of %%PP
The case was eventuaily adjourned. On W",e-as
Brown wars again. placed at the bar. Lamont "- ichr,
arnertitl, and deserib:d the position ef the boxes din° So
in his chest, but nothing material, ccuOl b • cdOed' dsl it
addressing the caotain of the Hermes, s' re'
,was a difficult case to get at. the bottom of. II e then d cc-
n•
capitulated the priucipal points of the evidence, a d the
ended by &airing hi.; cauvictioo of the innocettee,
};;.ged'
prisoner -Brown, tallow' he ordered to -be (11'3 INfr
From the auspicious character of the boy parots obe
Res hton ordered him r,o be taken iota custodaa nn ~,etilYr
be, tiabt up again en the following day. On In?otariel
Parry was brought before the magistrates—in 111'1 mice
a very minute inquiry having been instituted hsrillt
f)fficer Greaves. Mr. Rushton said, to his min", asee.
clear, from the result of the examination which 10. i-to,
.ease, that Parry Ind been the person who had atle'" 0.40,
t
the diat;olieal act, which lie hod endeavoured ' lace e
P slis •
the charge of an innocent man ; end '• ,et
there was no direct evidence felt Nay an if
ee 1, a, 0
sending hint for that. c to jos° aat°'
ae CAS
.s aeCt
discharged. ' prisoner

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