The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-17 00:00:00

Saturday

The Queen hag approved of the appointment of M.
Gaillard de Ferey, as consul at Liverpool for the French
Republic. _

SEACOMBE FERDX.—There is no truth in the report
circulated by several of our contemporaries that the fare
by this ferry has been reduced to one penny.

tin Saturday week, a laDourer, namen vv aterson, em-
ployed on the Bury railway, near Aintree, was so severely
crushed between some waggons that he died soon after.
On Wednesday the body of a female was picked up
near the Lightship by the captain and crew of the Mona
steam-tug. She was dressed in a brown silk gown, new
stays, white woollen stockings, and black cloth boots.
On Saturday evening, between six and seven o'clock,
the house Richmond the

No. 4, _ -row was entered, during ti
absence of the inmates, and £25 stolen. The money was
partly in gold and partly in notes.
On Thursday the Mayor again sat at the Nisi P

ius, for
for

the purpose of hearing informath.
using illy -ights and measures

us against persot
About forty fines

were inflicted with costs.
CAUTION TO SEAMEN.—Yesterday. at the Police-court,
three foreign sailors, Alman Block, Bernard Schreeher,
and Frederick Pahlow, charged wiih smuggling amongst
them about 9 lbs. of cigars from a vessel in the Union
Dock, were each fined 20s.
The Liverpool Pawnbrokers' Association have pre-
sented to Mr. Joseph Leicester, chief clerk in the detec-
tive department of the police-office, a handsome silver
teapot, of elegant design and workmanship, as a mark of

respect

....ear Post says that a gentleman, stated to be a
merchant from Liverpool, with a considerable

and about

five years of age, died

money abot

very suddenly at E
in a boat to Shaeros

louth, on 3

Monday, whilst crossing

the Liverpool District Court of Bankruptcy, on Friday, a
first dividend of two shillings and threepence in the pound
was declared on the joint estate of Messrs. Iligginson and
Deane. The amount of debts proved is £617,131 is. 6d.
ENORMOUS PLATE GLASS WINDOWS.—The plates of
glass in the shop windows of Messrs. Cuffley and Co..
Hanover-street, are respectively 10 feet 6 inches by 8 feet 3
inches ' • they are, we understand, the largest in the king-
dom. Another plate in the adjoining window is 8 feet 1
inch each way. _ _ _ _ _ __ _

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TRIBUTE OF RESPECT.—Messrs. Frederick and Edmund
Hinde, the youngest sons of Mr. William Hinde, late of
North John-street, in this town, solicitor, deceased, have
handsomely presented to their tutor and guardian, the
Rev. Thos. Stanley Bowstead, M.A., vicar of Tarvin and
prebendary of Lichfield, a silver octagonal font.
LANCASHIRE AGAINST CHESHIRE.—OR Sunday week,
a great number of boys from Liverpool availed themselves
of the penny fare to cross the water, for the purpose of
having a fight with the boys of Tranmere. About two
hundred assembled in a field behind the Queen's Arms,
in battle-array. A constable apprehended four, but was
pelted with stones and obliged to let them go.
SMOKE CONSUMPTION.—On the hearing of several
smoke informations, on Wednesday, Mr. Hardman Earle
applied to the magistrates to place his works in Oil-street,
for one week, under the management of a competent per-
son, to be fixed upon by Mr. Grantham, in order to try
the question from actual experience, whether smoke can
be effectually consumed or not, without causing such a
diminution of steam power as to injure the efficiency of
the works. The proposal, we believe, was agreed to, and
the result of the experiment will, no doubt, materially
affect the future proceedings.
DocK OMNIBUSES.—Those who have occasion, in bu-
siness or for recreation, to visit the extensive docks,
or the piers of our noble port, must have felt the inconveni-
ence of walking from place to place along a line of
docks extending, north and south, a distance of at least
four miles ; and that, moreover, obstructed by carts, car-
riages, intercepting basins, &c., as well as by pavement
necessarily rough. It is gratifying to state that several
omnibuses have at length been started to obviate this
fatigue and loss of valuable time, and that so far es we
can observe these conveyances are managed wiih a regu-
larity and attention to passengers which entitles the sp-
rited proprietors to the liberal encouragement of the
public.