The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-03-12 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS.

The packet-ship Rochester, advertised to leave New
York on the 21st ultimo, is now due. The Boston steamer,
of the Ist instant, may also be expected to arrive here
about Thursday or Friday next.
STEAMERS FOR BOSTON AND HALIFAX.—The Cale-
donia, Captain Lott, sailed, on Tuesday last, with fifty-
six passengers and a heavy mail. The next mail will be
despatched on the 4rh of April, after which time the pac-
kets will be despatched twice a month, un the 4th and
19tb, from each port.
SHOP ROBBERY.—On Sunday evening last, between
six and seven o'clock. during the temporary absence of
the family, the shop of Mr. James Irvine, grocer, Horn-
by-street, was entered by means of skeleton keys, and
the sum of £2 15s. in copper was abstracted. Dur-
ing the same evening, Mr. M • Gill, one of the most active
inspectors in the police force, apprehended Bernard
M`Mahon , a well-known thief, who was disguised at the
time, and on his person 6s. 7d. in copper were found. No
evidence, however, could be found to bring the charge
home to him, and he was discharged.
INQUESTS.—On Saturday two inquests were held be-
fore the Borough Coroner. The first was on the body of
a newborn female child, the daughter of Eliza Osborne, a
single woman. A posl morlem examination was held by
Mr. G. J, Everest, surgeon, who was of opinion that it had
been stillborn.—The second was on the body of William
Hamilton, a young man, who received a severe injury in
the thigh from one of the spikes at the Corporation Baths,
on the 28th ult., and died of the effects, in the Northern
Hospital, on Friday last. Verdicts in accordance with
the evidence were returned in both cases.

QUARRELS AMONGST ATTORNEYS.—An attorney,
named Grace, nts summoned before Mr. Rushton, on
on Friday, on the charge of having assaulted Mr. E. G.
Deane, solicitor. The case having been proved, Grace
was ordered to pay a fine of £5, and to give sureties
to keep the peace : and before the order was pronounced,
a very sharp lecture was given to him by the magistrate
for his improper conduct. • He was taken into custody
until the required sureties were brought forward ; but it
was not till he had given some signifiicant hints that he
surrendered himself into the charge of the officers.
THE HUBARD GALLERY.—Mr. Norman, having com-
pleted and disposed of the " Exchange picture," has closed
his establishment, leaving to Liverpool a lasting token
of his talents. During his sojourn here he has executed
upwards of 3,000 likenesses, the receipts for which he
estimates at nearly £l,OOO, and this in the short space of
six months. Mr. N. is now about to visit Preston, and
we can only say that if he be there as eminently success-
ful in catching the peculiarities of every visage, as he has
been here, he is deserving of that patronage we feel confi-
dent a town already eminent for its encouragement of
arts will award him.

REFUSAL TO MAINTAIN A WIFE.—On Wednesday
last, Mr. Gray, the overseer, appeared to substantiate a
charge against Henry Robinson, under the following cir-
cumstances I—He stated that, about Christmas last, Ro-
binson was held to bail for an assault on his wife, and an
agreement was entered into by which he was to allow her
the sum of 10s. per week, which had been regularly paid
until now, the ground of refusal being that she had been
guilty of adultery ; he had, however, notwithstanding this,
offered to take her home, but she objected, urging that he
would ill use her, and she could not live with him ; she
had, consequently, been relieved by the parish. Mr.
Snowball, on behalf of Robinson, said the latter was wil-
ling to provide for her at his own home. Mr. Rushton
observed that it was a difficult case to deal with, and
wished her to consent to his proposal, adding that he (Mr.
R.) would take care, if he did not treat her kindly, that
the law should speak to him in a manner which he would
be made to understand. The complainant said she would
rather take a situation than live with him. Air. Rushton
said he was unable to deal with the case, and the parties
then left the court.
THE MAGAZINE LIFE-BOATMEN.—We have to notice
another act of adventurous exertion on the part of several
of the crew of the Magazine life-boat which redounds to
to their additional honour. On Saturday last, the wind
blowing a gale from the N.W., the flat Ellen, from Run-
corn, drove from her anchor against the pier at New
Brighton, when the sea broke furiously over her. The
two men on board of her clung to the pier, and the ves-
sel immediately sunk. The captain was washed off the
stage, but fortunately got hold again. Both waved to a
Liverpool boat at a short distance to assist them. The
crew of the boat made a praiseworthy effort to get to
them, but the sea was running so high that they could
not. Four of the Magazine life-boat men, William
Whittle, William Bell, Thomas Whittle, and John
Hughes, beit"r on the shore. put off immediately in one
of theii own boats, and at great risk of their own lives
rescued them, and brought them to the house of Wm.
Roberts, at the Magazines, where they were humanely
attended to, and supplied with everything necessary to
their recovery from their almost fatal state of exhaustion.
HOUSEBREAKING.—Between three and four o'clock on
Sunday morning, the house of a gentleman residing in
West Derby-street was broken open by a gang of bur-
glars. They first attempted to effect an entrance through
the panel of one of the doors, by means of a centre-bit,
but finding it too thick for their purpose, they next tried
the kitchen window, and soon succeeded in getting access
to the premises by cutting away part of the shutter.
Having done this, they began to search for plunder, but
fortunately, with very little success, all the plate having
been removed up stairs. Whilst rumaging the diniug-
room they made a slight noise, which disturbed the lady
of the house, who after going down a few steps of the
stairs, saw a man standing in the passage. She immedi-
ately gave the alarm, on which the thieves fled through
the open kitchen window, closely followed by the master
of the house. Two of the three sprung over the garden
wall, and got clear off, and the third concealed himself in
an outhouse, where he remained nearly an hour, when he
was seen by one of the neighbours to jump over the wall
and escape. The theives carried off a few articles of no
great value, and left behind them a hat, and several house-
breaking implements. This is the second robbery. of a
similar kind, that has been effected in the same street
during the last fortnight.

NORTH WALES AND DUBLIN RAILWAY AND HAW.
noun COMPANY.—We have received a printed statement,
dated 26th ultimo, addressed by this company to the
Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, setting forth the
comparative merits—as affording a more spegdy and fre-
quent mail communication between Londownd Dublin
than now exists—of the Chester and Holyffead and the
Chester and Ormahead line of railway, and their pro-
posed respective harbours. From this it appears that
both lines leave Chester at nearly the same point, but
that the Holyhead line passes, at the north end of the city,
by a tunnel; and cutting, and crossing the Ellesmere canal
and the Dee by a viaduct over the navigable part of the
river ; and the Ormshead line passes with a tunnel under
Eastgate-street, thence crossing the river on an archway,
above the old bridge, at the south entrance of the city,
avoids interfering with the navigation. About a mile be-
low the new bridge, it unites with the Holyhead line, and
both lines become identical to the 41st mile, on nearly a
water level the whole way. At their point of separation
the Ormshead line still keeps the seabound, until it reaches
the terminus at the western side of the bay, formed by.
the Great and Little Ormshead, the whole length of rail-
way being 46 miles. The Holyhead line, after diverging
from the Ormshead line, passes along a level couniry to
the extuary of the Conway, which it is proposed to cross
by an embankment, and the navigable part of a bridge,
near the suspension bridge. From Conway it takes the
precipitous, rocky, and uneven line of coast to Bangor
and the Menai Bridge, the distance from which to Con-
way is upwards of 36 miles, with much rock cutting and
steep gradients. At the bridge it is proposed to draw the
train across by horses, which, it is stated, would obstruct
or retard for the time the passage of private carriages,
&c. From the bridge to Holyhead the line is circuitous
and will be expensive. It will terminate half a mile
from the mouth of the present harbour—(which has but
14 feet at low water, and into which a large class steamer
cannot enter)—and it is assumed that passengers will
have to walk that distance. The length of the Holyhead
line is 84 miles 71 chains ; the Ormshead line is 46 miles
5 chains. Allowing an equal speed on both lines, it is
stated that from a parallel line drawn from the 46th mile
of the Holyhead line to the Ormshead, the distance to
Holyhead is 38t miles, and that taking the curves and
that taking the curves and stoppages into account, it can-

not be accomplished in less tii.an- two hours. From the
Ormshead to a parallel line northward of Holyhead is
distance by sea 30 miles, which a first class steamer will

accomplish i❑ three hours, and would reach Dublin only
by one hour behind the packet starting from Holyhead.
The difference in the greater size and power of the
steamers that might be employed from the Orrnsheact

would also considerably redUce- this difference of time,
by half an hour, or less. The distance, it is assumed,
from Ormshead, to Kingstown-91 miles—would be ac-
complished in 8* hours. There is a plan of St. George's
Harbour prefixed to the 4tatement, from which it ap-
pears it is proposed to enclose the bay beiween the two
Ormsbeads so as to form an extended harbour of refuge
of 800 acres by a sea wall running (with the exception of
the entrances) almost direct from one promontory or bead
to the other—the steam harbour to be at the western ex-
tremity, and a quarantine station for Liverpool at the
other—both sheltered by an elbow of the wall. The
space, however, as yet proposed to be enclosed is 90
acres only of the bay, with a depth of from 17 to 33 feet.
Some objections as to the probability of the bay being
sanded up are met by opposite opinions—and it is stated
that Holyhead Bay, which is not so easy of ingress and
egress, would be more liable to such obstruction. The
capital required for the Holyhead Railway and Harbour
is stated to be £2,500,000; while that required by the
Ormshead Company is but £700,000. To complete the
Holyhead line would require three years; to complete
Ormshead line one year. After stating several other
advantages of the latter as regards the return mails front
Dublin, &c., the directors state that the distance from
London to Ormshead by rail is 234 miles, and if a speed
of 31 miles per hour were adopted, the whole distance to
Dublin would be accomplished in 15 hours. They state
that they would be willing to contract for the conveyance
of the mail at that speed on their railway, and its convey-
ance twice a day, by approved packets, from Ormshead
to Kingstown, within the time specified. They conclude
by stating that should the standing orders of the House
of Commons be suspended in their behalf, the rail-
way will be completed within twelve months—" and
and should it be found, on the termination of the contract,
that the communication with Ireland was still incomplete,
the railway may be continued to Holyhead without loss
to the public, as 41 miles of the line will have been com-
pleted." We should add that the Holyhead company re-
quire, in addition to their capital stated, the sanction of
the legislature to a rate of £400,000 for the construction
of a harbour at Holyhead, and that there would be a
saving to the public on the respective capitals required of
£90,000 per annum, by preferring the Ormshead line.
We, of course, give all those statements as we find them,
without expressing any opinion of our own.