The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-09-02 00:00:00

Sept. 2, 1846.

?Loral anb Vrobinrial

, On Saturday a cabdriver named M'Allister was fined
Os. for baying unmercifully beaten his horse.
M. officers of the Liverpool police are about to present
Vr• M'Donald, late superintendent, with a silver snuff-
Uox.
Only one publican and three beersellers were brought
before Mr. Rushton on Friday, and the publican was dis-
charged.
The collections, during the eight days' proceedings on
the opening of the Romish chapel in Edmund-street,
amounted to £920.
COUNTY REGISTRATION.—In this division of Lanca-
shire the Conservatives have made 800 objections, and
the Radicals 390.
ROBBERY.—On Wednesday, at the Police court, Fre-
derick Osborne, an apprentice with Mr. Cockbain,
Plumber, Lime-street, was committed for trial on a
barge of robbing his master.
The excise have commenced laying informations against
the occupiers of the taps attached to inns, hotels, taverns,
Ind other public-houses, for selling exciseable liquors
without license.
Two HORSES DROWNED.—On Wednesday, two bor.-
lee, belonging to Mr. Beaver, were drowned in the
Mersey, opposite the New North Docks, the man in
'charge of them having driven them in to wash their legs.
BOROUGH REGISTRATION.—The Radicals have ob-
jected to 1066 freemen, and 422 householders ; but we
believe all the notices to the freemen are invalid, in con-
lequence of
few the
objmi oectionsssion of the date. The Conservatives
have made .
MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.—Mr. Robert Brown, coal
Proprietor, Westhoughton, near Leigh, was discovered,
nn Monday, suspended by a rope to the roof of a pigeon-
re, near his residence. He was immediately cut down,
was quite dead.
STABBING.—On THesday
i a female named Alice
larke was fined £5 or to be mprisoned two months for
having stabbed William Roberts on the left side of the-
cheek with a clasp knife, making a deep gash close to the
mouth.
W.ll THE STOCK AND SHARE BROKING BUSINESS.—It
be perceived, by an advertisement in another column,
..at Mr. John Jones, the late master of the Exchange
liiewsrooms, has commenced business, solely on commis-
Inn, as a stock and share broker.
ILLEGAL PAWNING.—On Tuesday, Ann Meredith
Its,as fined 40s. and costs for illegally pawning several ar-
ieles belonging to John Westgarth, Clare-street, in
Rose house the defendant occupied furnished apartments.
The Pawnbroker suggested that all lodging-house keepers
Should mark their own name on their linen.
LIVERPOOL CUSTOMS.—We have to announce the
Promotion of Mr. Thompson, of the gauging, and of
Messrs. Gibbs, Marsh, and Bywater, of the landing de-
Partment, to that of searchers of the first, second, third,
and fourth classes respectively ; and we understand that
Several other meritorious officers are about to participate
n'similar promotions.
A NBw AMERICAN STEAMER.—The American papers
received by the Cambria announce that " the new, low-
Pressure steam-ship Marmora, 400 tons burthen, will
for Liverpool next week, where she will remain fifteen
days only, and then proceed to Constantinople, touching
at Gibraltar, Malta, and Smyrna, to land and receive
Passengers." Whether the Marmora will continue to ply
en the route indicated above does not appear.
It CONCERT IN AID OF MRS. SALMON. Owing tO
I:exceeding pressure of advertisements we are compelled
I. 'withdraw a lengthy notice of this concert, at which
c"lrs• H. Pardy made a most successful debut. Her exe-
catiori is excellent, and her voice, over which she appears
the
have great command, is powerful ; in fine, if we make
bile usual allowance for the visible timidity, the perfor-
psence was unexceptionable. A host of other talent ap-
peared.
HANDSOME COMPLIMENT.—Mr. Vandenhoff has pre-
rote(' to Mr. H. F. Aldridge a very pretty ivory turned
Ijfan, silver mounted, in acknowledgment of the talent
2ILo which he conducted the musical performances in
oiDatigone, at the Theatre Royal. A very pretty breast-
ss of fine gold, with a stone representing a snowdrop,
(p also been presented to Mr. Aldridge, sen., by Madlle
2.aglioni, as a token of her admiration of his leadership of
a orchestra in the Sylphide, during her recent visits to
Liverpool and Manchester.
AWN ARVON REGATTA.—At this festivity the yacht of
ir townsman, G. M. Corsellis, Esq., a member of the
i,°3',l Mersey Yacht Club, the Black Bess, 19 tons, won
ti:e Snowdon Cup, value 30 guineas, beating four conape-
thlts, and ran second for the Carnarvon Cup, vaule 40
rneas. The c thin boy of the Black Bess won the
fccluller's prize. Several Liverpool yachts were entered
the Menai Cup, value twenty guineas, but a north-
itester prevented the Liverpool gentlemen from ventur-
e to sea, although they boldly made repeated attempts
go out. There was a banquet and concert.
IV`lnaTcoaN.—The Bridgewat
andanew splendid Custom-house.--
;10 reverend gen'leman has yet been appointed to the
atulcatit vicarage, which is a living worth about £350 per
cihnnl, with an excellent house. and is in the gift of
,arist College, Oxford.—John Johnson, Esq., and Wm.
e'rtiOster, Esq., of Down House, Higher Runcorn, are, it is
61( shortly to be made magistrates for the county of
tet'ester.—A bill for the improvement and local manage-
ent of the town of Runcorn will be submitted to parlia-
ment• early next session.
tbLkUNCH OF AN IRON STEAM SCHOONER.—On Sa-
itarday week, a new steamer, called the " Tintern," and
ie,nded to ply between Liverpool and Newport (South
see'es), was launched from the yard of the Great Wes-
ser.!; Steam-ship Company, Bristol. She was designed
th° constructed by T. R. Guppy, Esq., the architect of
e Great Western and Great Britain. Her dimensions
d areas follow :—extreme length, 115 feet ; breadth, 18 feet;
tepth of hold, 11 feet 2 inches. She is stern-propelled,
to engines of fifty-horse power, and will carry about 200
C
goo s.
wa 'RARGE OF BIG AMY.—A person named John M,Garth
ohs on Friday placed at the bar of the Police-court, on a
onlyge of bigamy. Both wives appeared in court, but the
evidence of the first marriage, which took place in
bilreland, about ten years ago, was a certificate handed in
at the Wife, no one being in attendance who was present
se 'oat time, on which the prisoner was discharged. The
Ise°l•4l wife then stated to Mr. Rushton that she had been
thailt.iefl to the prisoner seven years. She had now four
asninten, two by a former husband and two by the pri-
aoher, but she wished to keep her family, and not to be
fe-"nled by the prisoner. Mr. Rushton.—Why ? The
it'Tale(—Why because his proper wife has appeared, and
if only right he should live with her. Mr. Rushton said
herb. Prisoner annoyed her she must apply to him, and
leftoula afford her proper protection. The parties then
btlle court.
has: Pc COMMITTEE, THURSDAY. —The surveyor ob.
test' Permission to let the Clarence Dock run dry, the
0104tsprings, or the springs following, as might be found
gat convenient, convenient, to clear the passage and repair the
tepo°•---The sub-committee of works were requested to
the rt as to the width of the entrances and passages to
Savi new north docks.—The sub-commitee of works,
bib g taken into consideration the memorial of the in-
Cants of Southport, requesting the committee to take
totiaet• their control the life-boat there, reported that they
Vudered the grant of £5O towards the maintenance of
tia,oat and payment of the crew, sufficient. The marine
110,,e,10r reported the services of the Point of Ayr and
the'ulahe life-boat in assisting the Ullswater, ashore on
eres,"7est Hoyle, on the 10th instant, and rescuing the
a.f) told master, and saving a large quantity of specie.
PasB4,lhe suggestion of the chairman, a resolution was
seep, authorising the sub-committee of works to pro-
tsbi.twith the landing stage on the plan submitted by Mr.
said ti‘, and approved by the Admiralty. The Chairman
kin le Admiralty strongly recommended that the corn-
Itasle should lay down as a rule. before the landing-stage
that two steamers should not be allowed to lie
Saehaalue of each other. The committee dissented from
eaalera rule, it being impossible to carry it out.—lt was
404 ed, that, in consequence of the ill-health of Mr.
Spree, an assistant should be appointed to the marine
?lale,Y?c, at a salary not exceeding £l5O per annum, in
41181
r facilitate the completion of the survey ordered
eat 4 07.---1 t was ordered, on the application of the offi-
sheds' her Majesty's Customs, that goods in the transit
LePt ,Which had passed the landing-waiters, should be
'atit• -eParate from other goods.—Mr. Horsfall called at-
-4,,e1i01t°4 to the disgraceful and filthy state of the Waterloo
,Iferi.--;A• memorial from the dealers in live-stock was
caatsoe° to the Harbour-masters' Sub-Committee.—A
4,.ttlafs,,ri'al from the timber-merchants, complaining of the
hse,i 2.1 loss of property, and obstruction to business,
1114 ° the want of regulation on the Brunswick Dock
fllO .and recommending that a definite space should be
.eitsetit! to each ship for the deposit of her cargo, was re-
cto '0 the Harbour-masters' Sub-Committee ; as was
ret.sele letter from the consignees of the Rio de Janeiro
getter
a separate berth for their ships.
ktlo, ROVIDENT CLERKS B ' MUTUALBENEFIT Asso-
o,„ - AND BENEVOLENT FUND.—It will be perceived
kr. j advertising columns that our esteemed townsman,
ist4ay pears,
who «inducted the Exchange Newsroom so
a:ecisti. has been appointed agent to this excellent
yearnn• On the first formation of this society, some
8, ago, when a deputation of the managers visited
1,1.e1y tont, we took occasion to point out the benefits
I,ga be derived from such an association by the clerks
ase.,cap—tf,d• Then our remarks were perspective; now
teia whicase a retrospective glance at what has been done,
11.4 life his now a matter of history. Under the benefit
sive e aasurance department many hundred of clerks
htais faolled themselves, and such has been the success
•tar,!le of branch that only one death has occurred ; and the
tse°o forlne premiums paid by the members, minus some
as 'Ober expenses and £lOO paid on the death of the
thealatieauuded to, have been invested in Government
d tra S' in the name of trustees—(and in 1848, when
seo t divi •
th„ pro,. ~vision of profits takes place, those who have
Nath (), 'dent enough to unite themselves will prove the
11ebleaf,oltie
.old adage, " Money makes money")—whose
sstPeetah'ilacith the society is at once a guarantee for the
lisvrObare it,Y and stability of the undertaking. Many
dttvt been wno were once in respectable situations, but
kilo bee overtaken by those Pia to which " flesh is heir,"
ateed; onral , assisted by gratuities from the benevolent
tittle sleet In May last two additional widows of clerks
titttOer ed annuitants, of £l5 per annum each. The
%Inlet! -I,l3'cnemorate the occasion of this election was
tio,lns of a large number of the first bankers and mer-
oh°ol of th2-40Ildnri ; and as an evidence how the opera.
Stkh., hate f
4.7_e society continue to be appreciated by those
best opportunity of judging, the handsome
9nsionsb, 000 was then subscribed, making, with that
htt7 We ,contributed, £ll,OOO for this department. We
tourO aoduaaye said enough to draw attention to this nwo 2!. We understand, a deputation will again visit
Chas! cannot do better in the meantime than refer
sos,' cais".B all who would be wise and provide against
Net nal ti •
thY has 0 es which may suddenly overtake us. The
ttitate Pro_ ur Warmest approbation, and it will be seen
str:e. opeetus that the Bank of England and a large
rindnt stock and private banks of the kingdom
support this institution.