The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-04-30 00:00:00

LOCAL NE WS•

The bill of the Liverpool New Gas and CAS jompany
has passed both houses.of Parl'ament.
Arrangements have been completed fOr securing so re-
gotta in Douglas Bay, Isle of Man, in the mouth of July
next.

FAREWELL SERMON.—On Sunday the Rev. Mr Bates.
who is about to he located at Dover. preached his farewell
sermon to a numerous and respectable congregttinrr at
Chrkt Church, Waterloo, where he has been incumbent
for the last three or four years. He was formerly con-
nected with St. Bride's Church, Liverpcol.
EARLY CLOSING OF SHOPS.—The booksellers and
ironmongers, we are glad to perceive, are the first in the
field to carry out the resolutions whilh were come to at
the great Music-hall Meeting. We hope to see their e±-
cellent example speedily followed by the other trades in
the town.

UNWHOLESOME MEAT.—On Friday, at the Police-
coin t, a man, named Charles Cumiky, was fined 40s. and
costs, making altogether £2 4s. 6d., for having exposed
unwholesome meat for sale upon one of the stalls in St.
John's Market. The offence was proved by Inspector
Thompson, of the police force.
PUBLICANS AND BEER-SELLERS.—Seventeen cases
against puhlicans and beer-sellers were heard, at the Po-
lice-court, on Frid,y, for offences against the improve..
ment act. Of the whole number fifteen were convic'ed ;
four of them in the highest penalty of £.5 each, and two
were acquitted.
DORAN'S CLAIM FOR INSURANCE.—The application
for a new trial in the case Doran v. Ritcher was made
last week in the Court of Exchequer, before the new
Lord Chief-Baron Sir F. Pollock, and Barons, Parke,
Alderson, and Rolfe, by Mr. Knowles, but the court
refused to grant the application on the ground that it
would be invading the province of the jury to interfere.
MONTGOMERY'S NEW WORK.—The Rev. Robert
Montgomery, the popular author of " Luther," " The
Messiah," Ste. is aewn in the field of publication. His
new work. " The. Gospel before the Age, is intended, we
understand, to bring the deep and divine philosophy of
the Gospel to bear with powerful and impressive effect on
the leading signs of the age, and the social developments
of the present era.

TESTIMONIAL TO MR. WHITTY.—Tbe late bead con-
stable, Mr. Wnitty, has received a letter from Mr. Ed-
ward Rushton and Mr. Francis Haywood, enclosing a
check for £4lO, being the amount of a subscription
entered into by several gentl.inen who were desirous of
presenting him with s Mme substantial mark of their ap-
probation of his conduct whilst he held the situation of
chief constable of the borough. The subscription was
limited to £5 each.
' EXCISE INFORMATIONS.—We last week noticed that
two panics had b-eo fined in heavy ~urns each for mixing
ee,tain quantities of sacchatine with tobacco. We may
now a , that on 1 u?sday last, one of the individuals
(Mr. Brown) who was not, as reported by a contempo-
rary, put into custody, appeared in court, and handed up
some papers to Mr. Rushton, who said the magistrates
had already recommended the board to reduce the p nal-
ties to £125. He added that if the gentleman who had
addressed a letter to hi.n (Mr. Rushton) would write a
letter to Mr. Wood, and state the circumstances as de-
toiled to him, tho doubt the board would take them into
fs4ourable consideraton.

FATAL ACCIDENT IN VICTORIA DOCK.—Last Tuesday,
Nicholas Bailey, a seaman, one of the crew of the Ameri-
can ship Berwick, lying in Victoria dock, was engaged
with several others, in taking up the canvas for the fore-
topsail yard, when he and another man, leaning over too
far, lost their bahtnce, and were precipitated upon the deck.
They were immediately taken up and conveyed to the
Northern Hospital, where Bailey expired soon after,
in consequence of the injuries he sustained in the fall.
The other man is still alive, but his recovery is almost
hop-less. An inqu-st was held unon the body of Bailey
on Friday, at which a verdict of accidental death was
returned.

SPLENDID BALL.—On Wednesday evening last, Mrs'
Elliston gave ajavenile bail at the R3yal Assembly-rooms,
when about sixty of her pupils went through a variety of
beautiful dances, which, from their chaste execution and
the elegance and grace with which they were danced,
elicited the unanimous praise and admiration of a very
large party of the elite of Liverpool and its vicinity, who
were present on this very interesting occasion. As the
bull was not a public one, being only open to the friends
and relatives of tile pupils, we are unable to afford parti-
culars as to the names of the figures and dances; but we
understand that the band was a most efficient one and the
music excellent, a great part having been prepared and
a.lapted for the dances. The company separated shortly
after twelve, after an evening's amusement that will be
long remembered by the parties present.
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A STOLEN CHILD RECOVERED IN LIVERPOOL.—The
Scottish Guardian states :—" In our paper of Tuesday !
last, we noticed that a female child had hem stolen from
Camlachie, and that there was strong reason to believe
that the girl had been recovered by the Liverpool police.
On Tuesday last an officer was despatched from the She-
riff's establishment here, and returned on the following
Friday with the girl, and the woman, named Greenwood
or Wade, who is accused of having stolen her. The latter
was lodged in pri-on, and will, no doubt, soon be com-
mitted for trial. The mother of the lost child awaited
her arrival at the boat, and the meeting was of the most
tender kind. The Liverpool authorities (to their credit
be it said) had attired the child in new and comfortable
clothing, not'forgettiug a little mantle, and all that could
add to her comfort on the voyage."

Tus HAIR.—Of the numerous compounds professing
to promote or reproduce the hair, few have survived even
in name, whilst ROWLAND'S MACASSAR OIL, with a re-
putation already utiparallelled, is still on the increase in
public estimation ; which fact, together with innumerable
testimonials in the possession of the proprietors, is suffi-
cient to satisfy the most incredulous as to its sovereign
virtues so repeatedly shown in restoring, preserving, and
beautifying the human hair. In dressing the hair, no-
thing can equal the effects of ROWLAND'S MACASSAR
OIL, on either natural or artificial hair, rendering it so
admir.bly soft that it will lie in any direction : it produces
beautiful flowing curls, and, by the transcendant lit- tre it
imparts, renders the head dress truly enchanting ! It
preserves the coiffure in the heated atmosphere of the boll
room, and neutralizes the effects of a damp atmosphere, or I
violent exercise.—See advt.

TAXES ON COTTAGES.—On Friday evening, a very 1
numerous meeting was held in the Toxteth.hall, Mill- \
street, for the purpose of considering the propriety of peti-
tioning the legislature against the clauses affecting cottage
owners, proposed by Mr. Colville, M.P. for South Derby.
shire, to be introduced_ into Sir James Graham's Poor
Law Amendment Bill. These clauses are to the effect
that owners of house and cottage property, of the annual
rent of £2O and under, shall be rated to all the parochial
rates instead of the tenants, and that tenants may be dis-
trained upon for those rates to the amount of the rent
actually due, and may deduct the amount from the
rent. Mr. Ephraim KnappPr was called to the chair, and
in a forcible address he pointed out the absolute and con-
tinent evils of the proposed clauses, not only upon cot-
tage landlords but cottage tenants. Several gentlemen
afterwards addressed the meeting in support of the resolu-
tions, and the meeting terminated at ten o'clock.
RuNconw.—On Thursday last, a number of gentlemen,
friends of Thomas Hazlehurst. Esq., and upwards of one,
hundred of the workmen employed in the Camden soap-
ery, met at Hills Hotel, Runcorn, to celebrate the mar-
riage of that gentleman, which took place on the morning
of the same day, with the amiable and accomplished
daughter of John Howard, Esq., Park-place, Leeds.
From an early hour on Thursday, the Old Church bells
announced to the inhabitants by their best sounds, that
something more thin usual was about to take place; the
British ensign was seen floating from its venerable tower,
and from the Trinity Church, whilst from many other
places in the town flags were fluttering in the breeze; and
from the great respect in which every member of the
Hazlehurst family is held by the inhabitants of Runcorn,
there was more than the usual interest felt on such occa- ,
sions. Perhaps there is no establishment in England in
which a greater number of hands are employed, where a
better feeling or a more kind and generous sympathy ex-
ist, than between the employers and the employed at the
extensive soapery of the Messrs. Hazlehurst.

CHESTER RACES.—This important annual meeting will
commence on Tuesday next, and from uresent prospects,
both as regards the attendance of company, and first-rare
snort, will surpass in splendour and interest all former
gatherings, (brilliant as they lave been,) of the patrons of
the turf of our verdant and most beautifully situated lioo-
dee. The course is in admirable order; and the alterati-
ons which have lately been effected by the Committee,
who have been engaged in directing the works necessary
to adapt it for the exercise of the Cheshire Cavilry, as
well as the attention paid to the matter, by the racing au-
thorities here, have greatly improved its appearance.
The city has already begun to put on its holiday face, and
seems to be eagerly anticipating the forthcoming week ;
when rank and beauty are to throng old Chester's walls
and streets, hospitality is to spread its most liberal repasts,
and the banks of the Dee are to present an animated pa-
norama of the national sports of British horse racing.
The ' crack' event of the meeting, the great 'Cup Race,'
is to take place on Wednesday next ; 30 horses it is ru-
moured, will start, and intense interest, as to the result is
excited. The programme for Tuesday, Thursday, and
Friday, also holds out a promise of abundant sport. We
understand that 100 horses are expected to compete for
the various stakes.—Chester Courant.
FEMALE PENITENTIARY.—On Tuesday the annual
meeting, of the friends and subscribers of the Liverpool
Female Penitentiary, was held at the Charitable Institu-
tion-house, Slater-street, and was respectably, though not
numerously, attended. In the absence of the Mayor,
who had kindly promised to preside, the chair was occu-
pied by Edward Cropper, Esq. Mr. Michael Ashton,
the secretary, read ;he report, from which it appeared that
the design of the Committee was to afford an asylum to
female-, who, having deviated from the paths of virtue,
were desirous of being restored by religious instruction,
and formation of moral and industrious habits, to a re-
past year alone
opuuttaobfl e94s taaptpi ol
cainntssfoocrieatdy D
En.
ssiuorni,n4gB
twheere received into
the probationary ward, 31 had been admitted to the full
privileges of the house, and 13 others had been restored
to their sorrowing friends, or placed out to resptetahle
pleasingorntionia. The total number
and satisfactory evidence
service, ytihceei,r after
indisputable
g fre
since the commencement of the institution was as follows
—Admitted since the first establishment, 1250; expelled,
161 ; eloped, 51; left at their own suggestion, or dislike
of rules, 486 ; restored to their friends, or placed in ser-
vice, 390; removed to other institutions, 50; died, 19;
remaining in the house, 55. Upon the motion of Mr.
John Howard, the report was adopted, after which a
number of excellent speeches were delivered, and urgent
appeals made in favour of the institutions.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE ALBERT DOCl{. Ye4er-
day. an inquest was held before the b•tr u; t coroner on
view of the body of John Griffis h, a la' ourer, ag ad 35.
On Saturday last, while deceased was engsg 'd at a lime
tub close under the wall of one of the warenooses now in
Icourse of erection at the Albert nick, a piece of timber,
weighing from 20 to 25 lb., by some means—proba ay the
hie% wind at the time—felt down, stud struck him so vio-
lently on the head as to fracture his skult beyo la hope of
his recovei-v. He was carried to the Northern Hospital,
and expired a Few' minutes after being received there.—
Verdict, " Accidontallq killed."
CLOSING SHOPS AT' SEVEN O'CLOCK.—The respecta-
ble shopkeepers of Livei;ootal are gradually adopting the
rule of closing at seven o'clock. The trades individually
are taking the matter up, and :able/vial parties who have
agreed to close at the above-named hour will, no doubt,
be a stimulus to others. A meeting of the assistants to
booksellers and stationers was held, in the Clarendon-
rooms, on Thursday evening, when the thanks of the
meeting were unanimously voted to those employers who
so kindly responded to the memorial soliciting an earlier
hour of closing, and the necessity of adhering to an ar-
rangement that will prove equally beneficial to the em-
ployer and the employed was respectfully urged.
ASSAULT ON POLICE-OFFICERS.—At the Folice-court,
yesterday, a well-dressed young man, named Thomas
Rowlands, and a working man, John McDermott, were
charged with a violent assault on several police-officers, in
Adlington-street, Marybone, on Saturday evening. Ca-
therine McDermott, wife of the latter, was also charged
with assault and attempt to rescue her husband. The
two male prisoners had, it appeared, been very active in
a gratuitous attack upon the officers with stones and
bricks, by which the face of one of them was much
bruised and mutilated. Rowlands was formerly appren-
tice to a pilot-boat, had often been brought up for dis-
orderly conduct on board and on shore, and had [left his
employ. He was fined £5, or one month, and also• re-
quired to find bal himself in £3O and two sureties tat £2O
each. The other man was fined in a less amount, ttor to
be imprisoned ; and the female, whose case was but
slight, was discharged.
THE " IRON DUKE." —This steamer made her second,
experimental trip on Thursday, and the result was highly
satisfactory to those connected with her, and also to se-
veral scientific individuals on board. As regards her
speed, that is unrivalled. As a proof, she ran from the
Clarence Pier to the anchorage in Douglas harbaur in
sh. 27m., and the return trip occupied but sh. 31m. To
go more into detal to show what was done in a remarka-
bly short period, she went from Liverpool to Douglas,
remained forty minutes in the harbour, and returned to
Liverpool, the entire time occupied being only eleven
hours and thirty-eight minutes. To show that she de-
rived but little extraneous aid from wind or tide, it is
only necessary too-..serve that the firmer was on the bow
going to llouglas, and fell to a calm on the return; and
the tide was almost the lowest in the year, being but lift.
9in. The most extraordinary property connected with
this steamer is the fact that her speed through the water
`approaches closer to the velocity of her wheels than that
of any oth-r vessel afloat, whether propelled by paddle-
wheels, the screw, or any other principle. Thursday's
trial proved indisputably, both by the log and. by the dis-
tance actuolly passed over, that there was a slip of only
1-14th—that is to say, the velocity of the vessel through
the water was as great as the velocity of the centre of the
paddle-boards within one-fourteenth part. No doubt
this fact will cause a sensation in the scientific world. as
it will undoubtedly procure Mr. Thomas Wilson, addi-
tional fame. The engines and boilers are everything that
their constructors can desire, and as the machinery inva-
riably continues to work more and more efficiently for
months after its first operations, it may be asked, what
steamer will be able to compete successfully with the
" Iron Duke," when her engines (built by Messrs. Few-.
cett and Co.) have arrived at the maximum of their effi-
ciency ?
ADULTERATION OF TOBACCO.—It appears that our own
town is not the only one in which manufacturers of to-
bacco have, during the past week, been convicted forde-
frauding the revenue by adulterating the article with mo-
lasses, sugar, and other saccharine matter, Chinese flow-
ers, sand, Etc., and also selling such tabacco to retail deal-
ers. At Bolton three parties were brought before the
special session. In the first `rase a dealer was convicted
in a penalty of £2OO for adulterating tobacco,and the to-
bacco (amounting to 1,083/1b) was condemned. It was
also stated that, in little more than six months, this dealer
had gained by this species of fraud nor less than £3,000;
the adulteration at 20 per cent (and it was stated that it
really amounted to 23 per cent.) on the quantity of to-
bacco on which he had paid duty within that period,
amounting to £3.254. On-this ground the bench refused
to grant any mitigation of the penalty.—ln the second
case, against the successor of the defendant, 3131 h. of to-
bacco was seized on the defendants premises, and 20Th. at
the shop of a retail dealer, which was stated to have come
from the defendant ; and the latter was convicted in a
mitigated penalty of £so.—On Friday there were two
cases heard at the Mane:ester police-court, in the first of
which the defendant, a tobacco manufacturer, virtually
admitted having committed the offence, by his solicitor
stating that the solicitor for the excise and himself had
agreed to a conviction on the second count of the infor-
mation. The case was heard, however, and the defen-
dant was convicted, on that count, in the penalty of £l5O
for having adulterated tobacco on his premises, and the
tobacco seized (891 b.) was condemned.—Another case was
gone into, in which it appeared that the defendant, a re-
tail dealer, was convicted of a similar offence in the miti-
gated penalty of £5O, as it appeared that he had purchased
the tobacco from one of the parties convicted on Wednes-
day at Bolton; and the tobacco seized (3621 b.) was con-
demned. It thus appears that within five
.days, in three
large towns within a space of forty miles, no fewer than
eight convictions, amounting in the aggregate to £1,550,
have been made, and more than 2,4001 b. .of tobacco seized
and condemned by the excise.

HER MAJESTY'S BIRTEI-DAY.—Thursday last being
appointed for the celebration of her Majesty's birth-day,
all the public offices were closed.' Tine royal stanlard, a
new one, admirab!y painted by Mr. Parr, of Berry-street,
was hoisted at the Town.hag; and at several places, as
welt as on the, ships along tile line of the docks, flags
floated freely, imparting a lively and pleasing appearance
to the town. At, noon the bells, of St. Peter's rung a
merry peal. It wis further enlivened and gratified by the
enrolled pensioners who assembled at the ha/lacks, in
Duke-street, from whence they were marched by Captairt
Gteig_ to the police-station in Seel-street, where they
underwent the necessary formalities. From Seel-street
they marched in Sections, down 80ld-street, along
Church-street, up Lord-street, and through Castle-street,
forming on the Exchange flags. They wore a very be-
coming uniform : and although several show: d, not only
by their personal appearance, but their pendaqt medals,
honours of Waterloo and the Peninsula, that they had
" fought in famou., battles," still they were a fine body of
men, quite capable of rendering, if necessary, a great
local service. They were preceded by a band of music,
all pensioners. and the fine old fellows had warmed in
them again the martial feeling of other days. On the
Exchange area along with the inspecting field-officer,
Colonel Falconer, his adjutant, Lieut. Covell, and a com-
pany of the Gth Regiment, several other officers were also
in attendance,—amongst others, Lieut. Sautey, of the
engineers, who is at present here on a survey, and Major
Axford, of the East India company artillery. His wor-
ship the Mayor was present on the occasion, together
with Edward Rushton, Esq., Sir Thomas Brancker,
Francis Heywood, Esq., and other gentlemen. At one
o'clock a feu de joie was fired in honour of her Majesty's
birth-day, the band immediately strking up " God save
the Queen," which was responded to by three hearty
cheers from the troops and gentlemen assembled. The
whole of the pensioners then retired in military order to
the barracks, where their arms were lodged. It is worthy
of remark that in this district every pensioner voluntarily
came forward to be enrolled. Each man received £1
bounty, and one day's pay. None above the age of fifty-
five were required to attend. In the evening his worship
the Mayor entertained, at the Town-hall, the heads of
the various public departments, all the consols, and se-
veral gentlemen of the town. The pensioner's band at-
tended, and played several airs during the dinner, and
Mr. Holden's glee singers delighted the company the re-
mainder of the evening.

TRANMERE FERRY 'AND THE BIRKENHEAD RAIL-
WAY.—In the Vice-Chancellor's Court, on Wednesday,
an application was made on behalf of Mr. Chamberlain to
prohibit the Birkenhead Railway Company from giving a
preference to the Monk's Ferry, as a terminus (by means
of a tunnel), to Birkenhead and Tranmere. It was urged
that it was stipulated in the act th. t no railway or tram-
road should he made from the terminus at Grange-lane to
the ferry at 'Woodside, until a similar railway or tramroad
had been made to the ferries at Birkenhead and Tranmere,
and that no locomotive or stationary engines should be
used by the company for propelling carriages from the
railway to Woodside, until roads on which the like engines
could be used were made for the same purpose betweenthe
railway and the two other ferries. In 1840 the railway com-
pany purchased for £25,000 a piece of land, and the claim
to a ferry at a spot called Monk's Ferry, many hundred yards
from the place at which the boats at the Woodside station
were accustomed to arrive and depart, but still within the ,
district called Woodside. The Commissioners of Birken-
head, a short time ago, became the purchasers of the
Woodside Ferry, and had agreed with the Railway Com-
pany to make a tunnel to Monk's Ferry, and there to have
a boat always ready to convey passengers to Liverpool.
This the proprietor of Tranmere Ferry considered an in-
fringement of the clause of the act which put Tranmere
and Birkenhead Ferries on an equality as to communica-
tion with the railway. It was stated, for the Railway
Company, that this was not a case of parliamentary con-
tract ; they did not intend to make three railways, as they
had no power to take land for that purpose, and having
procured land to Monk's Ferry which enabled them, by
means of a tunnel, to extend the advantages of the rail-
way in a manner not prohibited by the act, the court
could not interfere.—The case was adjourned to Thurs-
day, when it was further contended for the defendants
that they had not infringed any law, they had merely
adapted their arrangements to the state of the law, and
proceeded to open such a communication with Liverpool
as the law allowed. Tranmere Ferry was, in fact, a ferry
not offering sufficient convenience to induce those who
crossed the Mersey to use it; it had not been worked for
nine years. Mr. Temple replied, and insisted that Monk's
Ferry was, in fact, the Woodside Ferry under another name,
and was a merely colourable evasion of the provision of
the act which had been introduced for the protection of
the other ferries. Monk's Ferry was not a legal ferry
when the railway act passed. His Honour said, that if it:
were then a legal terry, there would have been no ground
for the present application. Without expressing any
opinion on the construction of the clause, he would say
it was certainly not so clearly that which the plain-
tiffs contended as to entitle them to the injuncti°hether
would read the evidence for thapurpose of seeing w
he ought to 'require the Railway Company t° .enter into
quiescence of
any terms for a trial at law, or whether tll
the assistattoec
the plaintiffs ought to deprive them Qi e
court in that respect.