The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-06-27 00:00:00

THE LITERPOOt ITANDARD.

REV. F. CLOSE.
THE NEW TRAINING COLLEGE AT
CHELTENHAM.

Before this comes into the hands of the greater part of
our readers, the subject will have been explained by the
Rev. Mr. Close himself to the friends assembled to meet
him, at the breakfast announced for this morning at the
Adelphi. But as many more of those interested in the
subject of national education, through the instrumentality
of our national church, may be expected to attend the
meeting at the Concert-hall this evening, than could
make it convenient to be present in the morning, we
deem that a word or two may not be out of place in the
meantime, were it only to account for the apparent
anomaly of asking Liverpool, already burdened with the
weight of numerous, and some of them insufficiently sup-
ported, educational establishments herself, to contribute
towards the erection of an additional one in Cheltenham.
First of all, though Cheltenham happens to be the site,
the operations are designed to be national, of the insti-
tution projected, at this moment, and for some time past,
actually in operation, but still requiring something to-
wards its final completion, by the Rev. Mr. Close.
The two great educational bodies in the country, are the
National Society, representing the Church, and the
"Lords Committee of Council on Education," represent-
ing the country at large. The importance of training
schools is felt and acknowledged ; and the Committee of
Council are willing to give every encouragement to the
establishment of such schools, and are most liberal in the
amount of grants ready to be bestowed, when the party
making application for them is able to satisfy the condi-
tions required by the Committee, in order to the perma-
nancy of the institution, and its efficiency towards pro-
moting the object for which it is designed. Besides the
training schools in London, in connexion with the Na-
tional Society, and thus aided by government, there are
but two other Diocesan Training Schools, we believe,
through the entire kingdom, established on a similar
footing. This is manifestly insufficient for the increasing
demands of the Church throughout the kingdom; especially
when it is borne in mind, that these schools must ere long.
from their superior excellence, enloy the monopoly of sup-
plying masters and mistresses for the whole church. No
master, after a while, will, or ought to, have a chance of
employment, but one trained in one of those accredited
institutions.

A series of circumstances, that will be detailed by Mr.
Close at the meeting, led to the formation of a school by
him in his own parish of Cheltenham, of a something
higher character, and on a somewhat larger scale, designed
to supply masters and mistresses to the Church schools in
the neighbourhood, or through the diocese. This led to
the present effort, when the ministers of the privy council
held out the hope of sanction and encouragement. A sum,
however, of £12,000 was required for the erection of suit-
able buildings, &c., &c., and an annual subscription list,
of a specified amount, in order to the school being taken
into connection by the committee of council. This latter
is nearly complete, and, by means of the subscriptions
already received, the schools are now partially in operation.
During the lastyearMr.Close, with untiring perseverance,
has succeeded in raising £6,000 ; the committee of council
have promised £4,000 ; leaving the work incomplete until
£2,000 additional be forthcoming. Birmingham, Brighton,
Bath, Bristol, Clifton,Worcester. &c., &c., have responded
generously, and now the appeal is to be made to Liver-
pool, which has hitherto taken a lead, and whose zeal has
provoked many. We have no doubt that the meeting will
be well attended; and we hope that, notwithstanding the
pressure of the times, and the other numerous demands,
a suitably generous response will be rendered to this appeal
on behalf of an object so important. The Rev. Dr.
M`Neile takes the chair, which is in itself a sanction suffi-
cient to the objects of the meeting.
We perceive that Mr. Close is also to preach in St.
Barnabas' Church, Parliament-street, on Wednesday
evening, when, doubtless, he will be greeted by a nu-
merous and attentive congregation. His efforts certainly
deserve the amplest measure of success.

THE STEAMER NIAGARA.
To ALEXANDER RYRIE, ESQ. , COMMANDER OF THE
BRITISH AND NORTH AMERICAN ROYAL MAIL
STEAM-PACKET COMPANY'S STEAM-SHIP " NIAGARA."
Sir,—We, the passengers on board the " Niagara," are
unwilling to separate from her and yourself on the termi-
nation of this, her first homeward voyage across the
Atlantic, without expressing our high admiration of this
magnificent ship, and our great satisfaction with the skill
and urbanity which have characterised your conduct.
Since the " Niagara" left America she has experienced
but a few houw' fair wind, yet she accomplished the
voyage within the shortest period on record, having been
but ten days and a half from Boston to Liverpool.
We earnestly hope that the vast enterprise in which
your company are embarked may prosper, and be a source
of national advantage to the two great powers more im-
mediately connected in its prosperity, and of profit and
lasting credit to its spirited proprietors.
And now, with our best wishes for your health and hap-
piness, we have the honour to be, sir, your obedient ser-
vants, (Signed)

Malden,
J. W. Tetley,
Richard Roy Elwes,
Thomas Cannon,
Bryan Robinson,
Wm. Dinneford,
Chas. N. Hubert,
John Stalker,
Henry Adderley,
Elijah Huehes,
Edward Cachard
M. Meyer,
J. M. Walker,
Joshua Follansbee,
Nathan Rambo,
Samuel Gunn,
R. S. Lee,
P. E. Praderes,
J. W. Fraser,
Stephen Cave,

William Denny, Lieut. Col.
J. R. Bulkley,
Chas. Edmonstone,
Ward Cheney,
J. W. Clarke,
E. J. Xanfi,
Frederico Badiali,
James T. Fisher,
Alexander Fielder,
Frederick Cunningham,
James R. Jennings,
A. G. Sloo,
E. N. Dickenson,
A. M'Alpine,
James M. Wray,
It. Earle,
David Mason,
T. Lockhart,
F. W. Fredenthal,

COURT OF CHANCERY, LINCOLN'S-INN, JUNE 24

HIGGINSON V. SHAND

' This was a renewed motion for an injunction to restrain
the Royal Bank of Liverpool from proceeding to make
the plaintiff a bankrupt. It appeared from the bill and
answer that the plaintiff had been a guarantee to the
bank in question to cover two bills of £30,000 each, ad-
vanced to the firm of Barton, Irlam, and Higp,inson, the
extensive merchants at Liverpool ; and also to protect
further advances. Messrs. Barton and Co. became bank-
rupts, and the bank then looked to the plaintiff as surety
for the firm, and proceeded under the act of parliament
sth and 6th Victoria, chap. 122, to mace him a bankrupt.
Higginson then filed this bill to restrain the defendants
from so doing, alleging that the bank had forfeited the
guarantee by not performing certain conditions they were
bound to do, and also by having omitted to realise the
value of several ships belonging to the firm. The motion
was argued before his lordship last term.
The Lord Chancellor this morning gave judgment, and
said that all the allegations set up in the bill were fully
met by counter allegations in the answer. His lordship
then went through the passages in the bill and answer,
and observed that the guarantee was given not only to
cover the two bills of £30,000 each, but also all further
advances to be made by the bank to the firm. Under
these circumstances the motion for an injunction must be
refused with costs.

WOODSIDE FERRY. We believe that it is the inten-
tion of the Woodside !ommissioners to issue halfpenny
ferry tickets, which will be purchasable by the public in any
quantities of not less than six. It is said that the contracts
will remain as a present. This further decrease in the
ferry charge will, no doubt, have the effect of increasing
the number of passengers ; but we doubt if the money re-
ceived will equal that obtained on the rates hitherto
charged.
DEATH OF A Boy WHILE BATHING.—On Friday
evening, Michael Bellinger, a boy aged 14, who resided
with his parents in Whittle-court, Shaw's-brow, and
some other boys went to a pit near the Zoological
Gardens, and stripped to bathe. One of them got into
the water before deceased, and shortly after heard a shout
that a boy was drowning. The other lad attempted to
get him out as quickly as possible, but before he could do
so deceased was drowned.
SUICIDE UNDER INSANITY.—On Wednesday, a man,
named Benjamin Huddard, was taken, in a precarious
state, to the Northern Hospital. He appeared to be in a
state of insanity, and remained delirious for some days.
On Friday night, at eleven o'clock, he was put to bed in
a ward where there were other patients, and he was not
observed by any of those present until between two and
three o'clock, when he was found suspended by a silk
handkerchief from the head of one of the posts of the bed.
POVERTY AND RUIN.—Our police court is the daily
scene of the truth of the axiom that poverty is the parent
of crime, and perhaps this connection is most evident in
the cases which occur about the docks and warehouses,
where thefts of the most petty description are committed
by women and children, apparently with the notion of
appeasing the impatient calls of hnnger. On Friday, an
Irish woman named Catherine Macdonald, was brought
before Mr. Rushton, charged with having stolen a small
quantity of cotton from a lorry, as it was being loaded.
The policeman who took her into custody stated that on
making his appearance no less than seventeen women ran
off. The magistrates dismissed her, with a caution.
Several Irish girls were brought up, on similar charges.
An alphabetical list of 451 ships, giving the old and
new tonnage, has been exhibited...in the Liverpool Under-
writers' Room. The result gives the amount of old ton-
nage as 192,951, against 226,360 tons new, showing an
increase of 33,409 tons, or more than 17 per cent. addi-
tional dock and light dues, that the British shipowners
have been subjected to since the alteration of the law in
1836. It has always been understood that the late Mr.
Cbillis Wood, of Greenock, and Mr. E. F. Young, were
threffief advocates for the introduction of this mischievous
measure, likely to become more onerous if ministers suc-
ceed in carrying the proposed Light Bill and Merchant-
Seamen's Fund Bill, which exact a levy of ls. per ton for
lights, and ls. per ton for the Seamen's Fund.
BIRKENHEAD DOCK COMPLETION BILLS.—The Select
Committee of the Commons met on Tuesday, for the
purpose, first of proceeding with the Transfer of Powers
Bill, and secondly with the bill taking powers to impose
additional rates.—Mr. Webster, for the promoters, said
the main question was upon the clauses, and not upon the
preamble ; and when the Committee arrived at that stage,
Mr. Pemberton, as representing the Crown, might state
his objections and the nature of the words he wished to
be inserted to protect the Crown. It was proposed to
strike out the power intended to be given to the Crown
to appoint a chairman, and the provision consequent
thereon, because the Crown was not now to find the
money to complete the works ; and, instead, management
clauses were introduced, by which there would be thir-
teen trustees under the bill, of whom the bondholders
would appoint seven, the Birkenhead Commissioners four,
and the Wallasey Commissioners two. The bill, in its
present shape, was promoted conjointly by the Commis-
sioners of Birkenhead and the bondholders. Among
other provisions, there was a clause introduced to em-
power the bondholders to raise a sum of £50,000, as pre-
ferential bonds, for the purpose of penning up the water
so as to make the pool available. In the proposals made
by the Board of Commissioners, the Board of Works
saw
no security for the construction of the outer works,
which it appeared might be abandoned ; and the latter
body, as at present advised, therefore refused to sanction
them.—Mr. Pemberton said the completion of the outer
works had all along been the first object of the Woods
and Forests and the Dock Commissioners; but the bill,
as now altered, was nothing less than a bill for the aban-
donment of those outer works. The money authorised
to be raised for .their completion was proposed, by a ma-
nuscript clause, to be made available for deepening the
pool, which was no part of the outer works. It was fur-
ther proposed that the interest of her Majesty, in right of
her Crown, should not be represented in the newly-con-
structed trust. The consent of the Crown, therefore,
would not be given to the bill as altered. Mr. Baron
Goldsmidt, on the part of the bondholders, did not object
to the Crown being represented. The discussion was
concluded by Mr. Laird consenting to an adjournment to
Monday.— The Committee then proceeded with the
Rating Bill, and after arguments pro and con., by Mr.
Webster for the promoters, and Mr. Lloyd for the Rail-
way Company, the Committee decided that they were of
opinion that " the preamble of the Rating Bill is not
proved."

THE ACCIDENT AT THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—The
inquest on the body of Richard Howard, the keeper who
was killed by the elephant, took place on Tuesday. Mr.
Liversedge said :—I reside about three miles from Stock-
port. On Saturday morning last, my wife and myself
were at the. Zoological Gardens. On going into the
house where the elephant was kept I saw the deceased in
the den with the elephant. He was cleaning it out with
a besom. When he had sweat one side of the den he
told the elephant to move. It walked away. When he
bad swept a little more of the den he called upon the ele-
phant to move a second time. He then struck it with the
tail of the broom and ran away. The elephant followed
him, and caught him, and jammed him against the side of
the den, and he fell down. I ran to the door and gave the
alarm. Several parties came, and I then left the house.
After the deceased fell down, the elephant appeared quite
tractable. He was perfectly quiet before he was struck.
The deceased only struck him once, but it was a very sharp
blow on the trunk. I did not see the elephant place his
foot on the deceased after the latter had fallen on the
floor of the den.—Another keeper stated that Howard
had beat the elephant the night before very severely, and
latterly had been in the habit of doing so.—The Coroner,
in summing up the case to the jury, said—Gentlemen,
there can be no doubt whatever that the deceased has
been killed by receiving a stroke from the tusks or the
foot of the elephant, thereby causing injuries, and, almost
immediately after, death. This cannot be called an acci-
dent, because it was evidently done on purpose—if I may
so express myself—by an animal who, though not having
reason, yet had instinct ; and instinct, we all know, is
nearly allied to reason. Therefore, you must find that
the keeper received certain injuries that produced his
death. Gentlemen, the more I think of this case the more
regret I feel—and regret that I cannot but express—that
so noble and so fine an animal should have been killed in
the way this elephant has been. lam quite sure that the
act was done with the best and kindest intentions upon
the part of Mr. John Atkins, who has just been examined,
and also on the part of his mother. I regret as much as
any man that the lives of two men have been sacrificed :
but when they themselves have provoked the elephant
to do this I think I will have a majority of the public of
Liverpool' with me when I repeat, that it was a great pity
the animal should have been destroyed if he could have
been preserved with safety to the public, and I think he
could.—The jury, after a brief deliberation, returned the
following verdict :—" We are of opinion that the deceased
came by his death in consequence of having beaten the
elephant unmercifully, thereby causing the animal, in his
fury, to kill him."

THE BEBINGTON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY,
AND FLOWER SHOW AT ROCK FERRY.

The exhibitions of this society continue annually to
excite increased interest, both from the variety and
beauty of the productions brought up, and the high
respectability of the parties who attend,—including most
of the distinguished families of the Wirral peninsula and
many from the side of the Mersey. On this occasion it
was difficult to decide whether the fair ladies in attend-
ance did not eclipse in'bloom and loveliness the treasures
of Flora that were displayed around them. The tent
(though considered large some years ago) was much too
circumscribed for the accommodation of the company,
and we shall look for enlargement for the next show.
The day was warm and splendid, and the steamboats con-
veying many of the parties to the spot were gaily decora-
ted with flags, as were others conveying myriads to the
Eastham Regatta—the whole giving our river a beautiful
and interesting appearance.
The principal features in the exhibition were the orchi-
daceons plants, of which there were some very fine speci-
mens ; a large collection of rare ConiferEe, from Mr.
Skirving ; the roses, the fuchsias, and the pelargoniums.
The stove and greenhouse plants were nothing remarkable
as collections, but some individual specimens were very
fine. The miscellaneous collections shown by the nur-
serymen were remarkably good, and were both larger and
more numerous than before at any of our exhibitions.

We have but room to give the names of the parties tc
whom first prizes were awarded in the several depart-
ments :

PLANTS AND FLOWERS

Fuchsias.—(Amateurs only).—(6), Harold Littledale,
Esq., Ist prize ; do. do., (4,) J. T. Raynes, Esq.
Pelargoniums.—lst and 2nd prizes, H. Wynch, Esq. ;
2nd, H. Littledale, Esq.,—all fine specimens.
Orchidacee.—lst, J. Johnson, Esq., of Runcorn ; 2nd,
H. Wynch, Esq.
Stove and Greenhouse Plants, (including Orchids.)-
Ist, H. Wynch ; 2nd, Rev. J. Mainwaring.
Calceolarias.—Rev. J. Mainwaring.
Verbenas.—Rev. J. Mainwaring.
Cinerarias.—J. T. Raynes, Esq.
Petunias.—W. Hall, Esq.
Cut Roses.—J. T. Raynes, Esq.
Roses in Pots.—lst, H. Littledale, Esq., (fine speci-
mens ;) 2nd,11. Wynch, Esq.
A device of great beauty was shown by J. T. Raynes,
Esq. FRUITS.

Pine Apples.—Rev. J. Mainwaring.
Peaches.—H. Wynch, Esq.
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Strawberries.—Rev. J. M'ainwaring.
Amongst the winners for vegetables were H. Little.
dale, Esq., Mr. Huntris, Rev. J. Mainwaring, and many
others.

Messrs. Davies and Co. were successful in prizes as
nurserymen, and showed fine specimens not for com-
petition. Mr. Skirving also contributed a large collection
of fine plants and flowers, including a many varieties of
coniferous plants. Messrs. Dickson and Mr. Kellock
also contributed much to the general collection. The
show was altogether fine, and augurs great future success
to the society. There was a band on the grounds, and
the day's amusement was without alloy, saving the
crowding in the marquee.