The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-06 00:00:00

Tux LATE FIRE AT THEDUIOE'S WAREROUSE.-.—After ' PRESENTATION OF NEW COLOURS TO. THE
a full investigation into the circumstances of the origin of : CHESHIRE,YgOMANRY CAVALRY.
the late fire at the Duke's Warehouse, the magistrates are of
opinion that the premises were wilfully set on tire, and the The Cheshire Yeomanry Cavalry have been in this town
council have in consequence offered a reward of three bun- for some days, on their annual term of " permanent duty"—
dred pounds, and the insurance offices a further one of two Lieutenant Colonel Egerton, of Tatton Park, Commander.
hundred pounds, for the discovery of the perpetrator of the We have noticed them on former occasions, as a fine, orderly,
outrage. Her Majesty's free pardon is also offered to any • and, well-appointed corps, and in the present instance we can
accomplice, not being the person who actually set fire to the but add to the commendations we have hitherto bestowed,
premises, who will give such information as will lead to the inasmuch as they appear to us to have improved, if possible
conviction of the offender. - in the requisites of good soldiership,—giving large promise-of
TILE CHEAP TRIP TO LONDON.—We rejoice to say that utiiity should their services—which have recently been most
this speculation, by Messrs. Crisp and Healey, the contractors valuable—be required even more actively than heretofore.
with the railway company, has turned out, notwithstanding In consequence of their having been most useful, in putting
the late generally unfavourable state of the weather, most down the disturbances in some of the manufacturing districts
favourably for them, and most satisfactory to the parties who of this country last year, a number of the respectable inhab-
availed themselves of the occasion. The two first trains itants of Macclesfield, Stockport, and that neighboured,
started on Saturday morning at the appointed time, with resolved to embrace the earliest opportunity of their assem-
about 500 passengers, all on the qui vive to witness. the won- tiling on duty to present them with a new set of standards,

ders of the metropolis and its vicinity. The scene before
starting from Edge-hill was highly animated and interesting,
with, from the excellent arrangements, an absence of all con-
fusion. Parties of "kindred spirit" were accommodated in
respective carriages, all clovd, and most respectable in every
point. Yesterday morning the last trains appointed set off
with equal punctuality, and with equally good order. They
conveyed upwards of 600 persons, so that above 1,100 have
taken advantage of the " cheap trip." The management
of the whole affair has certainly been excellent, and reflects
great credit on the contractors, who have spared no exertion
to render their " guests"—for so they may be called—com-
fortable and happy. We have already learned that all the
parties got safe to London, and are much gratified by the
excursion. It is somewhat remarkable that though much
continuous rain has lately fallen, the weather, both on Sa-
turday and yesterday, was exceedingly propitious for the two
trips.

as a testimony of respect both to the officers and men for the
protection they had afforded in that part of the country ; and
yesterday was the day appointed for the presentation.
Shortly before ten o'clock the regiment, which, including
officers, is upwards of 600 strong, arrived at their usual ex-
ercising ground, on Bootle Sands, a short distance to the
north of the two columnar laud-marks. The day was line,
and a great concourse of persons. from the town and neigh-
bourhood soon congregated on the spot to witness the inter-
esting ceremony. Eventually, indeed, the scene presented
much of the appearance of a race-course, with the additional
attraction of the river and the outward channel, enlivened by
vessels moving to and fro, from the fishing-boat to the ship,
the former gliding under the impulse of light airs from the
S.W., and the latter, " homeward bound," coming up ra-
pidly without sail, by the aid of steam-tugs and the tidal
stream.

• ILLEGAL APPROPILIATION.-011 Saturday Wm. Coward,
shopman in the service of Mr. Roach, Whitechapel, was
placed at the bar of the Polic'.court. It appeared that, on
Thursday last, Mr. Horsfall, soon after leaving the Railway
Station, in Lime-street, missed his pocket-book, containing
two £5 notes. The pocket-hook was picked up in Lime-
street, by a boy, named Farrar. This boy requested a com-
panion, named Jones, to take one of the notes and see if it
were a good one. Jones, who was in the service of Mr.
Roach, showed it to the prisoner, who told him it was a had
one. Farrar, boy-like, exchanged the note with Jones for a
steel purse. The circumstances of this barter transaction
were afterwards mentioned by Jones 'to the prisoner, who
took the note into his own possession, and ordered Jones to
go to Farrar and get the other note from him, or demand
his purse back. Jones obtained possession of the other note,
and gave it to the prisoner. Farrar, on his arrival at home,
told his father what had occurred, and the latter ordered him
to go and get the notes back. He was referred by Jones to
the prisoner, who told him that the notes were burnt. The
prisoner had, subsequently, changed one of the notes at a
shop in Whitechapel. In his defence, the prisoner said he
did not know whether the notes were good or bad. He was
committed for trial.

Shortly after eleven o'clock a number of gentlemen form-
ing deputations from the several towns and places that had
contributed to the intended .present, came on the ground in
three open carriages, bearing the Standards, together with a
handsome trumpet. A number of other carriages, gigs, &e.,
private and hired, also came up, filled with company, and the
interest of the scene continued to inersoase. The populace
was kept a short distance back, by riders, both for their owa
safety and for the better maintenance of sileuce during the
ceremony. The deputations were from Macclesfield, Con-
gleton, Stockport, Sandbach, &c., including the mayor of
the first named town, and other tentlemen of respectability:
We also observed present, and in full uniform, Col. Faulk-
ner, and his adjutant. The yeomanry, all well mounted and
in handsome blue uniform, were drawn up in a circle, with
an opening on the east, at once to gratify the public by a
sight of the proceedings, and to admit of the ingress of the
parties who were to take a part in them. Shortly before 12
o'clock the several carriages containing the deputations, and
others, drove up nearly to. the centre of the circle, and took
their station to the west of a stream of salt water forming
its diameter, across which those not mounted, or in vehicles,
had to find their way as they best could. The carriages
ranged in line, with that in which was Mr. Proctor, the
Mayor of Macclesfield, in the middle, he being appointed to
present the flags. Colonel Egerton, and his principal brother
officers, including Captain Hill. (one of the heroes of Wa-
terloo,) under whose active superintendance, we learn, the
regiment has attained its superiority and discipline as a yeo-
manry corps, took their places a short distance to the west-
ward, facing the carriages, the Colonel in advance.

AN IMPUDENT ROGUE.-011 Saturday last, Wm. Medcalf
was placed at the bar of the Police-court, charged with hav-
ing defrauded Mr. Baugh, cigar-manufacturer, of 30, Ward-
street, of six boxes of cigars. It appeared that, about one
o'clock on Thursday last, the prisoner went to Mr. Baugh's
warehouse, and stated that he knew a gentleman who wanted
three boxes of cigars, and asked if some one might accom-
pany him to South John-street, to see whether the gentle-
man approved of them. On beitber told that one of the men
should go with him, he asked for three more boxes of a
better quality, saying the gentleman might probably take
them. Having obtained the cigars, he left the warehouse,
accompanied by William Eggars, one of the men, who was
told not to part with the goods without obtaining the money.
When they got outside. the prisoner took the boxes, saying
he would carry them, and that he (Eggars) might carry the
umbrella, as it was raining. They proceeded to the Claren-
don-rooms, South John-street, which they entered at the
south side. On the first landing, the prisoner, pointing to,
one of the offices, said, "This is the office." He then took
the cigars and went into the office, saying'it would look fool-
ish for them both to go in, so that Eggars had better remain
outside. In about a minute he returned for the invoice or
certificate, with which he went away. Eggers waited about
half an hour, and the prisoner not making his appearance,
he bean to suspect he was duped, and then found that there
were two different ways out. The prisoner, who had offered
the cigars for sale to a publican, was apprehended by police-
officer Mather (390), with one of the boxes in his possession.
The others he left with a publican in Scotland-road. The
cigars having been identified, the prisoner was committed to
take his trial at the assizes.

.. . .
The MAiolt of MACCLESFIELD then rose, and, address-
ing Colonel Egerton, expressed the diffidence he felt in
approaching the task that had devolved upon him. Sensible
as he was of the honour conferred upon him in selecting him
to perform it, he felt his inadequacy to give expression to
the feelings of the very respectable gentlemen who had de-
puted him ; and he I..mented that the Lord-Lieutenant was
not present to address them, which would have given him
infinite satisfaction had his health permitted. He (the
Mayor) had to present the colours around him, as a small
but genuine token of the sense of gratitude and respect
which the donors entertained for the protection they enjoyed
from the valuable services of the regiment. Riots and dis-
turbances had ravaged the manufacturing districts, to which
those he represented belonged, last year; and to the disci-
pline, and the energetic but forbearing condtret of the yeo-
manry, were they indicted for their suppression. He well
knew the colours he presented would be highly prized by
those to whom they were presented ; and that if occasion
called, each and all of them in-whose care they ivere'would
act like the gallant soldier at Cebu!, who wrapped the flag
of his country around him, and would sooner part with his
heart's blood. They, however, were a force instituted to
protect rather than to destroy; not to provoke hostility, but
by temperance and firmness to suppress it where it unhap-
pily arose; and he would best express the feelings of those
who conferred this present, by impres'sing this upon them.
He made some further appropriate remarks, in the course of
an eloquent and feeling address, (of which this is from the
place and circumstances, a very inadequate sketch,) and
concluded by presenting the five colours, all of them beauti-
fully embroidered oa crimson silk, and the trumpet, with an
embroidered royal standard attached—the whole of which
were received separately by the cornets.
COLONEL EGERTON drew up and returned thanks in a neat
and brief soldier-like address. As Lieut.-Colonel of the
regiment he begged to ieturn in their name and for himself
their most sincere thanks for so magnificent a mark of the
approbation of the donors. 'With respect to their services,
the addresses they had already received from the several
towns more than amply repaid them for all the services they
had performed, and this presentation was an additional source
of pride to them which called for their warmest gratitude.
For himself he felt proud in having a command in a corps
whose conduct was deemed worthy of so high a mark of their
approbation, and he felt assured that whenever the regiment
beheld their colours, they would ever be ready and animated
when occasion to come forward like men to conserve the
peace, and to afford due protection to life and property.
The whole regiment and those in and around the carriages
then gave three hearty cheers, while the brass band played
the national anthem. The cheering was renewed from the
ranks. Three cheers were then given for the Mayor of Mac-
clesfield, the other gentlemen of the deputation, and those
whom they represented.

TELEGRAPHIC CLOCK.—We have read with interest a
small pamphlet by Mr. H. Hughes, portrait painter of this
town, entitled, " Telegraphic Clock : a mode of showing
Time by attaching Lights or Reflectors to the Pinion and
the Hands of the Clock," in which he details, what we con-
ceive to be, a very admirable and simple invention of his
own, and for which he has taken out a patent: He com-
mences by noticing the importance of town clocks generally
to the public, as both useful and ornamental, and the imper-
fection of the plan hitherto adopted to illuminate them so as
to be distinctly seen at any considerable distance—arisingfrom the too complicated nature of the dial, and the mode of
lighting the whole circle. He states that on the best of the
present illuminated clocks the time cannot be told beyond
the distance of 200 yards; but by the plan suggested it can
be distinguished 2000 yards : or, in fact, as far as lights can
be distinguished, whatever their distance may be. The
principle (he proceeds) is this :—" The only visible signs
necessary canals! of three points to the exclusion of dial,
hands, figures, and marks of every description. At night
these points are lamp—gas burners. These will bear the same
relation to each other as the extremities of the hands hold
to each other, and to the centre, on the old system. The
point marked in the centre will be stationary, and those
pointing out the hour and minute, respectively, will revolve
round the former ; and the situation of these is to be ells-
, covered by the assistance of the perpendicular and the hori-
zontal lines, supposed to be distinctly marked in the mind of
every observer above the age of infancy. After noticing the
present somewhat confused system, by which the situation
of a given hour on the circle is nut discoverable by the figure
(in Roman numerals—some of them upside down, and some
sloping) but the figure by the situation—so that the hand
does not show the hour, but the hour the hand,—he remarks
that the new place requires no guide besides the centre. 'l'he
plan it will have been anticipated, consists of the application
of three lamps or light, one stationary in the centre, and the
other two so placed that they will revolve, describing respec-
tively the circles made in the ordinary mode by the points
of the hour and minute handle. The lamps, or gas lights,
may be either all white, or for the sake of greater distinctness,
the centre one may be white; that at the extremity of the
hour handle, red; and, that at the extremity of the minute
hand yellow ; or any other colours may be adopted that fancy
may suggest, provided they be sufficiently bright and distin-
guishable. Our author does not describe his idea minutely,
but it is clearly conveyed by diagrams. As the outer lights
revolve round the central stationary one (as planets round
the sun) and as the hour light is a little nearer to the centre,
than the mintle light, it appears evident that any one accus-
tomed to see a clock or watch can readily tell the hour
by the relative pbsitions of the three. Thus if they form
the points of a right angle, the base of which is horizontal
from left to right, the centre light at the point of the rect-
angle, and the other over (forming the perpendicular) it can-
not be mistaken, though no figures whatever are used, that
it is precisely three o'clock. If the base be from right to
left, it is of course nine o'clock ; if all three lights be per-
pendicular, and nearly equidistant, it is six; if perpendicular
with the two outer ones, close together, it is twelve; and the
intermediate hours all round may be observed betweeu each
quadrant with equal accuracy. The plan is applicable to the
present clocks, it being an improvement in addition rather
than an alteration. The light of St. George's illuminated
clock may be seen from many distant points, as for instance
from the top of Lime-street; but it only shows as an illu-
minated globe, or theatrical moon. The bands or figures
cannot be distinguished till we are half-way up Lord-street.
But by our author's plan it is quite clear to us that the hour
could be told from Lime-street, or a more distant point, par-
ticularly if the circle, or dial, were a little larger. The ex-
pense of fitting up a public clock in this way will, it is stated,
be comparatively very small. We have seen a model of the
simple apparatus for conveying the gas to the points of the
indicators and the central spindle, and it may be readily ap-
plied. "Neither fire, nor even a gas pipe, need be conveyed
through the edifice at all; and the quantity of gas consumed
will not be a tithe of what is required on the old (or present)
plan." The same principle is applicable to clocks or time-
pieces not illuminated by the use of small convex mirrors,
one in the centre of the dial, and one at the extremity of each
hand, which would reflect the sun or sky, and would be seen
from a distance much greater than that at which the hands
become distinctly visible. But we must refer for further de-
tails to the pamphlet itself, the price of which is trifling—
heartily recommending that a trial of Mr. Hughes's plan may
be made on some one of our public clocks.

The regiment afterwards went through various movements
and evolutions, with great precision, in presence of the gen-
tlemen and their friends and a large concourse of persons,
few of whom quitted the sands until the termination of the
" review." At about two o'clock they returned to the town,
a great number of them accompanying the gallant colonel and
officers to the Adelphi Hotel.
_

An excellent dinner was in the evening partaken of by th
officers and their friends at the hotel. Amongst the guests
were our own worthy mayor. The Colonel introduced two
fat bucks from Tattoo Dell, and a supply of excellent chum-
paigne—eonsiderately giving an order at the same time to
" mine host" for an equal quantity for the officers mess table.
Mr. Swinnerton, of Macclesfield, who has taken au active
interest in the procuring and presenting of the colours, and
a number of other gentlemen from Cheshire, &c. were also
present. We need scarcely say that the evening was passed
in that conniviality, good-feeling, and nationality, which
ought ever to characterize meetings in which the soldier and
the citizen are happily combined. There will, we learn be a
grand review of the yeomanry on the sands to-morrow.

MEETING OF THE BIRKENHEAD POLICE

COMMISSIONERS,

An adjourned meeting of the Police Commissioners of
Birkenhead was held in the Town-hall, last night, for the
purpose of completing the rate-beok previous to the election
of new members, which takes place this day. The following
gentlemen were present :—Messrs. William Jackson, Win.
Cole, Alexander Kerr, D. Appleton, Tho Mas Gilbertson, J.
R. Pim, Christopher Bentham, D. M`Nicoll, Win. Horner,
John Laird, and M. N. Rayner. Mr. WILLIAM JACKSON,
vice-chairman, presided.
Mr. MALLABY, law-clerk, produced the rate-book as
amended up to the present period, and said he believed a
great deal of pains had been taken that all the occupiers
should be included in it who were not is the original rate.
The hook shewed an immense number of additional tenants
and changes since the original rate was made.
Mr. J. S. JACKSON.—Have you any idea of the increase ?
The CHAIRMAN.—That book will not give a correct ac-
count of the increase.

Mr. MALLABY replied, that the amended rate showed an
increase of 47U occupants if the changes were included, and
0f.130 entirely new ratepayers. _

The CMAIRNIAN said •it must be very gratifying to the
commissioners to find that there was a continued increase in
the number of buildings. It appeared, from a statement be-
fore him, that there were now being erected in Birkenhead 131
new houses, which would produce an segregate nett rental of
£2,745 per annum, after deducting £74 per cent. from the
rack rent; so that it might be said there were buildtpgs now
erecting in Birkenhead which would produce £3,000 a year.

Mr. 13EN TH AM thought the statement which p'recedeil that
of the Chairman the more satisfactory, namely, that thera
were 130 new ratepayers, because it showed that the houses
were not only erected but tenanted.

The CIIATitMAN explained that he had spoken only of the
houses now in progress of erection.
The amended rate-book was then passed round the table,
and it was signed by all the committee present; after which,
The CuAxamAN said this in fact was all the business, in
order that all parties might have an opportunity of recording
their votes to-morrow—every person who lived in a house in
Birkenhead, provided he had paid his rates.
Mr. Put inquired whether the rates might be paid to-
morrow ?

The CHAIRMAN.—Yes.
Mr. Plan.—Then we shall get in a good sum from the ar-
rears not paid
The CHAIRMAN.—Yes; a contest will enliven the scene,
and be the means of inducing many to pay their rates who
might otherwise be tardy.
Mr. J. S. JACKSON.—I think a contest is very desirable
on every occasion, if it were only that we should get the
money paid.

The CIIAIRAIAN having expressed a hope that the new
commissioners would work together for the good of the
township, as amicably as that had which was now defunct,
the proceedings terminated.

The contest is expected to be a severe one. The poll com-
mences this day at ten o'clock, and will close at four. There
are eight vacancies to be filled up. one of which is caused by
the resignation of Mr. John Walker, and the other seven by
the retirement in rotation of Messrs. Pim, Cole, Pritchard,
Ravenscroft, Raines, Laycock, and Green, several of whom
will be again put in nomination. Two or three lists of can-
didates have been put forth, and much canvassing is going