The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-06-18 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS.

QUICK DISPATCH.—On Wednesday, the sth instant,
the ship Lydia was berthed in the Waterloo Dock, and
within 37 hours discharged a cargo of above 400 hogsheads
of sugar ; then went into the Graving Dock for repairs;
`and by •Wednesday, the 12th inst.. had taken a full cargo
for export on board, and sailed next day.

SMUGGLING.—On Tuesday, George Gottfried, and
and Frederick Meras, Prussians, were charged with
smuggling from on board the Frederick, in the Brunswick
Dbk 611bs, and 30lbs respectively of leaf tobacco.
They were each convicted in a penalty of £100; but Mr.
Rushton stated that as they were foreigners, and this was
perliaps their first offence he would recommend their case
to the lenial consideration of the Board in London.
FRES CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.--ti crowded assem-
blage,met in the Music-hall on Friday evening, to hear a
statenient from Dr. Cunningham and Mr. Begg, of Edin-
burgh, regarding the position and prospects of the Free
Church. Considerable disappointment was felt when it
was announced from the chair that these gentlemen had
not yet arrived. The auditory were, however, unwilling
to adjdurn, and listened to addresses from the chairman,
(Rev. D. Fergusson), Dr. Raffles, Mr. Gardner, Dr.
Blackbitrn, and Mr. Welsh.

EDUCATION OF NEGRO CHILDREN.—A very respect-
able meeting of a branch of the Society for the Advance-
ment of Education among the Negro Children of the West
India Islands was held, on Friday evening last, at the
Music-ball. Adam Hodgson' Esq., was in the chair, and
the meeting was addressed by the Rev. Mr. Lawrence,
the Rev. Mr. Ewbank, the Rev. Mr. Reynolds, and the
Rev. Hugh M'Neile. From the report of the secretary,
it appearythat the society bad received, last year. £lOB in
Liverpool, a larger sum than had been collected by any
other branch.

FALSE PRETFNCES.—John Wright, beerhouse-keeper
and shipping master, was on. Wednesday charged, before
Mr. Rushton, with obtaining money from several seamen
on pretence of finding them ships. The prisoner had a
placard in his window to the effect that seamen were wan-
ted for the schooner Margaret, about to sail for the coast
of Africa. The prisoner charged them ss. and los. each
for shipping notes, and said the vessel belonged to Mr. I.
0. Bold, but on inquiry no such vessel could be found.
A vessel 91 that name had been chartered by Messrs. Bold,
but bad sailed tea days before. The prisoner was re-
manded.
ROBBERY FROM A WAREHOUSE.-011 Wednesday, a
the Police-court, James Cosgrove was charged with steal-
ing 981 b. of currants, from a warehouse, in Kitchen.
street, the property of Mr. A. Mongredien. Some men
in the adjoining yard had, on the previous Monday, ob-
served a hole in the wall of the warehouse, and some cur-
rants strewed about it. On the following evenink, the pri-
soner sv,s seen coming out of the yard with a bag on his
back, and was detained. The bag contained the quantity
of currants stated. The prisoner said he was carrying it
for a man who had given him a shilling far his trouble.—
He was committed for trial.
DRIVING VEHICLES THROUGH THE STREETS ON
SUNDAYS.—On Tuesday last, William Welsh was sum-
moned before Mr. Rushton, for driving his whitechapel
through Great Crosshall.street, opposite the Welsh inde-
pendent chapel, on Sunday afternoon last, during the
hours of Divine service. It appeared that the pace of
worship alluded to was amongst the chapels and churches
res,.ecting which the Mayor caused notice to be given a
short time ago that if parties should drive along the streets
in which they were situated during the hours of Divine
worship on Sundays, they would be liable to a penalty.
Mr. Rushton said the full fine was 405., but the defendant
must pay 20s. and costs.
It behoves us always to be on our guard, when alone we
should watch our thoughts, when in society our tongues,
and when in our families our tempers. Indeed, upon our
properly guarding the last depends much of our social
happiness and domestic comfort, taking care to counteract
that continued irritability of mind which is the precursor
of ebullitions of passion. But our mental disposition is
so intimately connected with our physical condition, that
what is frequently considered ill-temper, or peevishness,
is in reality but the result of a derangement of the diges-
tive or other organs of the body, and requires medicinal
not mental remedies. To such we recommend with con-
fidence " FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH," as being cer-
tain in its effects, and gentle in its operation.
THE NOTE ROBBERY.—Francis Trapps, the person
concerned in the robbery of XlOO notes, was again brought
up, and the following evidence produced as to another
of the £lOO notes stolen from the District Bank. Mr.
Blease, cashier at the Custom-house, said he recollected
prisoner coming to him on the 28th of May, and asking
him for change of a £lOO note. He said it was for Littler-
land, Davies, and Co., and that it was to pay dues.
The prisoner at his request, marked the note, and signed
James Croskell on the back of it. He (Mr. Blease) ob-
tained the change, and handed it over to the prisoner.
The witness identified the prisoner when shown to him
amongst others, at the Bridewell. Mr. Mather, recorder
at the Custom-house, gave the number of the note re-
ceived from the prisoner ; it was No. 16,694, and was
identified as being one of those stolen from the bank on
the 28th ult. The prisoner was fully committed for trial
at the borough sessions in July next.
UNJUSTIFIABLE ACCUSATION.—On Thursday 8 gen-
teel-looking man, named Charles Hunt, a clerk, was
brought before Mr. Rushton, on a charge of assaulting
and annoying Mrs. Alice Thomas, who keeps a respecta-
ble house in Russell-street, where the prisoner, a married
• man, had lodged for twelve months. It appeared that on
Wednesday night last, while in a state of intoxication, he
had broken into her room, and behaved in so violent and

outrageous a manner that she was obliged to give him into
custody. Mr. Owen, for the defendant, proceeded to put
questions to the complainant with a view to insinuate or
prove that defendant had not for a long time slept in his
own bed; but Mr. Rushton stopped this unmanly course,
for if a man were guilty of what was insinuated, nothing
could add so enormously to his crime as to come into
court and declare it. lie believed it was a foul libel on
the female, and ordered the prisoner to find bail, himself
in £5O, and two sureties in £25 each.
IMPORTANT CORN CASE.—In the case of Barrow
Arnaud, Lord Denman delivered judgment on Tuesday.
The defendant is the collector of customs at this port, and
the plaintiff a corn-merchant in the same place. Upon
the Thursday next, after the Friday on which the Sliding
Scale Act received the royal assent, Mr. Barrow applied
,to Mr. Arnaud to sign a bill of entry, for the admission
of a certain quantity of wheat. The day of the applica-
tion was that upon which the first weekly average was to
be made by the controller of the corn returns, and it was
made by him upon that day, but not transmitted to Mr.
Arnntkuntil the following day. Mr. Arnaud not having
any certificate of the average under the new act, demanded
the duty which would be payable on the repealed statute ;
and as Barrow contended that the latter statute (the 9th
George IV. c. 60) having been repealed, no duty would
be payable under it, he refused the demand of the duty,
upon which the defendant refused to sign the bill of entry,
for which refusal the plaintiff brought the present action
to recover damages for the injury which he had sustained
in losing a market for his wheat. The case having come
on for trial at Liverpool, the jury found a special verdict,
which embodied the facts of the case as we have men-
tioned them above. The only question for decision was,
whether the legislature had not in the Sliding Scale Act
omitted to make any provision for levying the duty upon
the importation of corn during the six days which inter-
vened between the day upon which that act obtained the
royal assent and the day upon which the first weekly ave-
rage was to be made under its provision?. The judgment
upon the verdict was given for the defendant.

CHILD FOUND.—Early on Saturday morning last, a
new-born child, cold and apparently dead, was found by
some workmen, lying on some shavings in en unfinished
house in Thomas-street, Birkenhedd: It was removed to
a dwelling-house in the neiohbotirknocl, by Mr. Vale,
surgeon, who was providentially attending a patient, and
by persevering means animation was restored. The
mother has not yet been discovered.

LISCARD h4FANT Scnoots.—The examination of the
pupils at this school took place on Wednesday last. The
attendance from the neighbourhood, including the Rev.
J. Tobin and lady, was exceedingly numerous, and they
all appeared to be highly pleased with the progress the
children had made, and the general and scriptural intelli-
gence they displayed. The school is under the manage-
ment of Miss Wells, to whom the greatest credit is due',
and now contains upwards of 100' pupils, all of whom,
though few of them exceed six years of ace, showed so
clear a knowledge of scripture, and repeated their lessons
with such credit as to astonish every party present. On
Friday they were regaled with a plentiful supply of tea,
bunloaf, and coffee.

LIVERPOOL SYMPATHISERS.—The first attempt on
Monday evening having failed, a second meeting of per-
sons who choose to call themselves " the friends of civil
and religious liberty," was held on Tuesday evening, in
the Amphitheatre, " to take into consideration the subject
of an address to the queen, for the discharge from prison
of Mr. O'Connell and the other traversers, until the writ
of error be decided by the House of Lords ; and also to
sympathisewith those gentlemen under their late extremely
severe sentence." There was a pretty numerous attend-
ance, including some females, but except that the as-
sistance of Wm. Blundell, Esq., of Crosby; Thos. Weld
Blundell, Esq.. of Ince ; Nicholas Blundell, Esq., of
Crosby • and Edward Chaloner, Esq., had been obtained,.
the leaders were the usual Clayton-square worthies, ex-
cept Colonel Williams, an Irish physician, yclept Sir Ar-
nold Knight, some Romish Catholic priests and laymen,
and a sprinkling of the members of the Anti-corn-law
League. As a demonstration the exhibition was con-
temptible. The proceedings closed about nine o'clock.
l'AviNG AND SEWERAGE.—At a meeting of this board
on Thursday, of applications for the breaking up of the
flags, alterations of the pavement, &c., were read and
disposed of. Permission was granted to drain the stag-
nant water, which was described as a great nuisance, on
the east side of crown-street, into the sewers, on condi-
tion that the sewer was paid for whenever the land was
built upon. An application from parties connected with
Salem Chapel, Brownlow-hill, requesting that the street,
opposite the chapel, might be macadamised, was read,
and the work ordered to be executed. In consequence of
its broken condition, the asphalte on the footwalk oppo-
site Renshaw-street Chapel was ordered to be taken up
and re-placed with flags. Mr. Jones, the proprietor of
113 houses in Saltner-street, applied to the commissioners
to adopt that street. Mr. Cunningham, the surveyor,
having reported that the street was not properly levelled,
and that the water could not be drained off unless a sewer
were made, it was resolved that the commissioners would
not adopt the street until it could be drained to their sa-
tisfaction. Several complaints were made that various
parts of the town were not properly watered, when it was
resolved to summon the watering c; mmittee to rake the
subject into consideration. On the motion of Mr. Glad-
stone, a letter was directed to be sent to the Commis-
sioners of West Derby, pointing out to them the dis-
graceful state of Prescot-street, from Moira-street to
Moss street, and requesting that it might be macada-
mised, so as to make a continuous macadamised line to
the Monument. On the motion of Mr. Cooper, a similar
letter was directed to be sent to the Toxteth-park Com-
missioners, respecting the footwalk from the Catholic
chapel to the Parish-office.
EASTHAM AND ITS ATTRACTIONS.—There are few
sweeter or more delightfully situated places in this locality
than Eastliam, which is within half an hour's sail of
George's Pier-head. It has long been a favourite place
of resort for the denizens of this crowded hive, where they
inhale the pure breeze, and participate in the picturesque
scenery of a finely wooded country. The view of both
shores of the river, with Liverpool in the distance, is
commanding. In addition to its attractions as a watering
place, the ancient village of Eastham, a mile from the
ferry, is an object of interest. Within two or three miles
of this lovely spot stands the family residence of the
Stanleys, one of the oldest and most highly respectable
aristocratic families in the kingdom. The present young
baronet, Sir William Massey Stanley, is one of the most
popular and respected landlords in the country, idolised
by his tenantry, and a finished specimen of an English
gentleman. Coming recently into possession of the family
estate, he seems anxious to study the comforts of all
around him, and one of the improvements which cannot
fail to be appreciated by the public, is the erection of a
noble, stately pile, as an hotel—an excellent substitute
for the old unsightly building on the margin of the ferry.
The new building, which is now open for the reception of
visitors, is not exceeded in the comforts of an hotel by any
similar establishment on the river. Previously, the attrac-
tions of Eastham were somewhat impaired by the want of
accommodation at the old house—a defect which for the
future will be effectually remedied. The sitting, dining,
and bed-rooms are noble and capacious, and there appears
every disposition on the part of those now in possession
to furnish the public with the best cheer at the most mo-
derate rates. During the summer months a band will play
on the lawn, and the fine gardens attached to the house
will be thrown open to the public. Some improvements,
we understand, ate contemplated in the management of
the ferry ; a better class of steamers are about being placed
on the station, and the regularity of their running may be
depended on. Upon the whole, under the new manage-
ment, this once favourite place of resort—the Richmond

of Cheshire—Seems likely to rival the glories of its former
popularity, and the public owe deep obligation to Sir Wm.
Massey Stanley for the public spirit which he has evinced
in the erection of the new hotel.

THEATRE-ROYAL.—Monday last being the closing
night of the Theatre-Royal, Mr. Webster addressed the
audience between the pieces. He said—" Ladies and
Gentlemen—On the close of this our first season in Li-
verpool, both Madame Celeste and myself feel deeply
grateful for the more than ordinary success with which
our endeavours to please you have been crowned. a
greater number of persons having paid to enter this theatre
since Christmas last than was ever known during the pal-
miest days of the drama here within the same number of
consecutive nights. Our only motive for entering upon
the lesseeship was, that so noble an edifice, devoted to the
drama, should not be crushed, as we were insolently told,
never to rise again ; and, as we can prove it may be kept
open profitably, we conceive we have achieved our point.
The suddenness with which the whole affair was arranged
threw us into considerable difficulty in the formation of
an efficient company, for we found nearly all the provin-
cial performers of any repute in settled engagements. In
this dilemma we were fortunate enough to secure a por-
tion of a talent sent adrift by the wreck of theatrical spe-
culat'ons in London, and the chief pert of those ladies and
gentlemen presented to you have passed what is deemed
the highest ordeal and come off scatheless. With regard
stars,' the position I hold in the metropolis enabled
me to promise largely, and there is not one pledge we
made at the outset that we have not more than redeemed.
The present state of the theatre, compared with its pre-
vious appearance, and the manner in which we have
placed the various pieces on the stage, will, I think I may
presume to say, prove bow regardless we have been of
outlay. I assure you, Ladies and Gentlemen, profit was
less our consideration than the raising the fallen fortunes
of this dramatic temple ; and however my metropolitan
station as manager may be, I feel it is not more honoura-
ble than being associated with Madame Celeste ir. the di-
rection of the first theatre, in one of the first mercantile
towns in the world." Mr. Webster then expressed his
gratitude to the press, (with one exception,) and con-
cluded as follows :—" Everything that can be done shall
be done to secure a continuance of your approbation.
And again thanking you, in the name of Madame Celeste
and every member of this establishment, for your distin-
guilied patronage, until the 15th of July next, I most re-
pectfully bid you farewell."
MEETING OF THE BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS.—
, A special meeting was held at the Town-hall on Tuesday
evening—present, Messrs. Case, Hide. Horner, Bentham,
Adamson, Cole, Green, Sudlow, W. Jackson, J. S. Jack-
son, Appleton, Watson, and Brownrigg. The newly
elected members subscribed the usual declaration on
taking their seats. Mr. Bentham, in moving that J.
Deane Case, Esq., should be re-elected chairman of the
Board, eulogised the conduct of that gentleman. Mr.
W. Jackson seconded the motion, which was unanimously
carried. Mr. Case feelingly returned thanks for the
honour done him, and the kind manner in which it had
been conveyed. After alluding to the rapid advancement
of their rising town, he expressed his conviction that no-
thing could now arrest its progress, and that, although it
was as yet but a branch of the mother town opposite, it
bid fair to rival it in due time. So long as he remained
amongst them he would have great pleasure in giving any
services in his power for the advantage of the community.
He then took the chair, when Mr. Cole moved, and Mr.
Pim seconded a motion, that Mr. W. Jackson be re-
elected vice-president. Mr. Jackson thanked them for
the honour, and hoped his next year's services would be
as beneficial to the township as those he had been enabled
\to render it in the past year. With reference to Liver-
pool, which they had never found an unworthy parent, all
they wanted was to take their fair share of those com-
mercial advantages to which, from their locality, they
were entitled. He complained at some length of the op-
position they had met with from parties on the other side,
and also in Birkenhead, to their Improvement Bill, which,
however, had now received the royal assent, the whole of
the clauses of their opponents having been thrown out.
He had to report that the Birkenhead Dock Bill had
passed the third reading of the House of Commons ; that
it had been read a first time in theiLords, and he expected
that it was that very day on the standing orders for going
into committee. He was compelled to leave that evening
for London in order to forward the measure—a mea-
sure that be entertained no doubt, before his return,
would receive the royal assent. (Cheers.) Much money
had been thrown away by the Dock Trustees of Liver-
pool in opposing it, and they had put the townships of
Birkenhead to great expense •, but the funds of the town-
ship were not exhausted; they had sufficient funds still,
and were determined to carry the bill through, cost what
it would, and let the time be lengthened out as much as
it could. (Hear, hear.) In conclusion, he trusted that
they would set an example to the nation of what a young
township could do, by guarding against the errors of other
towns, and deriving all the benefits of the experience of
the past. (Cheers.) The several committees for the
year were then appointed. Mr. Jackson said he should
submit at the next meeting what portions of land they
ought to offer for sale—so that the township might partici-
pate in the sales and improvements going on. The Ferry
Committee submitted a recommendation that a reduction
should take place from the Ist July to the following scale :
—For one year, £1 ss. each, and 10s. for every additional
person ; for six months, I7s. 6d. each, and 78. 6d. for
every additional person ; for three months. 12s. 6d. each,
and 5s for every additional person. After some unimpor-
tant conversation the board adjourned.