The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-07-30 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS.

The Rev. S. Cragg has resigned the chaplaincy of the
Workhouse, in consequence of an appointment elsewhere.
CHESHIRE ASSIZES.—The judges will come into Ches-
ter on Saturday next. There are at present between
thirty and forty prisoners for trial.
Doos.—A notification has been issued from the Town-
clerk's office, that all dogs are to be confined during a
period of three weeks.
TESTIMONIAL TO A CLERGYMAN.—The Rev. Joseph
Baylee, 8.A., minister of the Holy Trinity Church, Bir-
kenhead, was on Tuesday presented, by the members of
his congregation, with a suit of robes and a purse of fifty-
five guineas, " as a small token of their regard, and in
acknowledgment of the zeal with which he fulfils the du-
ties of his sacred office."
On Tuesday last, Mr. Churton held an inquest, at New
Brighton, on the body of Mr. Robert Smith, a tradesman
residing at Liscard. The deceased was bathing near the
Magazines, and in attempting to save a friend, who was
also bathing and had got out of his depth, he unfortu-
nately was drowned. Verdict accordingly. The deceased
was highly respected.
CAUT_ON TO REFRACTORY APPRENTICES.—On Wed-
nesday, several apprentices were brought before Mr.
Rushton, for absenting themselves from their employers'
service without leave of absence. In one case a lad was
sent to gaol for a month, and in several others severe
reprimands were given, with an assurance that if there
should be any further complaint a long term of punishment
would be the result.
ALLOWING DOGS TO GO AT LARGE.—OR the 11th
instant a notice was issued by the authority of his worship
the Mayor, to the effect that all owners of dogs, who al-
lowed them to go at large, rendered themselves liable to a
penalty of 40s. On Wednesday no fewer than forty per-
sons appeared to answer summonses before Mr. Rushton
for a violation of the Mayor's notice, and were all fined
ss. each, with one exception, in which the penalty was
9s. 6d.

RAPID TRAVELLING.—On the evening of Wednesday
last, at half-past six o'clock, a gentleman left Dublin in
the Iron Duke, which made the passage to Liverpool in
nine hours and a half. He started by the six o'clock
train for Birminghom, whence he departed at forty-five
minutes past eleven to Gloucester. At the latter place he
booked himself for Bristol, where he arrived at fifteen
minutes past four o'clock, thus performing the whole
journey in twenty-one hours and three quarters.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday last, Wm. Williams,
a labourer, was killed by the falling of a wall, at Mr.
Hall's stables, in Falkuer-street. The deceased, along
with another man, was engaged taking down a wall, and
had it propped up with the view of undermining it, and
allowing it to come down by the mass, instead of remov-
ing it brick by brick. Having removed the props, he was
in the act of getting away, when the whole of the brick-
work fell down and covered him.
BURNING OF THE STEAMER ROBERT NAPIER AT SEA.
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ment. It appeared they had received the usual notice
from the surveyors, but had neglected to comply with it.
The defendants said they had not the means of doing so.
Mr. Rushton said he should order them to pay a penalty
of £5 each, but, if the flagging were done within ten days,
the fine would not be levied.
LIVERPOOL AND THE FINE ARTS.—In the govern-
ment exhibition, now open at Westuainster.hall, contain-
ing one hundred and eighty-three works of sculpture,
frescoes, &c., there are six contributions from Liverpool;
namely, two groups from Mr. William Spence, one group
by his son, Mr. Benjamin E. Spence, one by Mr. J.
M'Bride, one by Mr. C. B. Robinson, and one cartoon
by Mr. Henry Melling. Edinburgh has sent five works,
Newcastle-on-Tyne two, Cheltenham four, Bath one,
Oxford one, and the remainder are from London and its
vicinity.

INQUEST.—On Saturday an inquest was held before
the Borough Coroner, on the view of a lad, fourteen years
of age, named William Henry Turner. It appeared from
the evidence, that, on the previous evening, the deceased
was bathing in one of the ponds south of the Zoological
Gardens, and that, having got a little beyond his depth,
he climbed upon another lad's back with the view of ex-
tricating himself from his perilous situation. The other
lad, believing that he was in danger of sinking, threw him
off, and he was drowned. A verdict of " Accidentally
drowned " was returned.
PUBLICANS AND BEERSELLERS FINED ON FRIDAY.—
Grace Cain, publican, Sir Thomas's-buildings, fined 505.;
James Wynn, publican. Kent-street, 40s. ; Wm. Clegg,
publican, Earl. street, 40s. ; Richard Evans, beerseller,
Hill-street, Copperas-hill, 50s. ; Alice Humphrey, beer-
seller, Strickland-street, 20s. ; Maria Johnson, beer-
seller, Blair-street, Toxteth-park, 40s. ; William Woan,
beerseller, North-street, 20s. ; Thomas Gregson, beer-
seller, Craven-street, 40s. ; and Win. Dickenson, beer-
seller, Wood-street, Low-hill, 20s. Peter Cochrane,
beerseller, Comus-street, and Ann Lidgett, beerseller,
Northampton-street, were acquitted.
CHEAP TRIP.—On Wednesday last, a party of 53 Irish
labourers, anxious to secure a cheap trip by the railway
to Birmingham, engaged one of the waggons which are
used for the conveyance of cattle. The charge for one of
these waggons for oxen is £2 10s., and for pigs £2 15s.
The clerks, however, charged the bipeds 2s. a head,
which yielded the very fair profit of £5 6s. On Thursday
another batch of Irishmen wished to avail themselves of
the same mode of conveyance, but the Railway gentry,
having had a meeting in the interim, refused to take them
for less than 4s. a head. So the poor fellows were disap-
pointed.
FIRES.—About ten o'clock on Saturday night an alarm
reached the station that a fire bad broken out in the house
of a basket-maker, in Frazer-street, London-road. Mr.
Hewitt, with two engines and water-carts, immediately
turned out ; but when they had reached Williamson-
square' they were informed by a policeman that the
flames had been extinguished before any material damage
was done.—About twelve o'clock the same night, a wo-
man ran in breathless haste to the station, and informed
Mr. Hewitt that there was a strong smell of fire at the
warehouse of Messrs. Farrer and Duckworth, coffee-
merchants, 31, Harrington-street. Upon proceeding to
the spot, however, it turned out that the alarm was
groundless.
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RESCUE PROM DROWNING.-911 Friday evening last,
shortly after eight oiclock, a child, about two years-old'
whose father, Mr. Richard Brown, resides at Poulton'
fell into Wallasey Pool, near the new bridge. There were
many children on the bank at the moment of the accident,
but they were all too young to render assistance. Their'
cries attracted the attention of a number of workmen.
who immediately rushed to the spot. Amongst them was
a young brickmaker, named James Winstanley, who in-
stantly plunged into the water an succeeded in seizing the
child just as it was sinking with its head downwards and
its feet alone visible near the surface of the water. This
is the third child that Winstanley has been fortunate
enough to rescue from drowning in this neighbourhood.
In consideration of this praiseworthy conduct a subscrip-
tion has been set afoot for him, and his intrepedity has
been represented to the Humane Society.