The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-01-28 00:00:00

A space in the department of the fine arts of the great
exhibition has been allotted for the display of a most in-
genious and tasteful work of art, constructed by Mr.
Oscar Byrn. The subject is a sylvan landscape, with
figures engaged in the sports of the period of Charles /1.,
and is formed entirely of cork, cut out with an ordinary
penknife. Its form is circular, and is caloaiated for the

frame of a drawing, painting, &c. On either side, meeting
at the top, is a magnificent tree. Above, in the centre,
a hawk may be seen about to strike a heron, and in the
lower ground, on the right, stands a falconer, with a
hawk on his right thumb, and his left arm resting on a
gate. In the central foreground may be observed two
dead boars (as though recently killed), and which are
watched by one of the dogs used in boar hunting. On
the left lies a stag, which appears to have met with the
fate of the boars, and near reclines a peasant youth. The
whole is in has relief.

JUVENILE THIEVES.-At the Mansion-house, London,
on Monday, three boys, two of them under 9, and one
under 11 years of age, were charged with having attempted
to pick pockets. The three wretched children had been
followed by a lad, who, to his surorise, saw one of them
introduce a piece of stick into the pocket of a gentleman,
open the pocket, and upon looking in and ascertaining
that it contained nothing, put the stick into the pocket of
another customer, while the two others followed closely,
in readiness to receive whatever luck should turn up.
The smallest of the boys said, Dont you believe a word
he says, my lord. It's all nothing but out and out lies.—
The Lord Mayor : What did you carry that stick for ?
Boy : What for ? Wby to keep away any boys that
might want to whack me, to be sure.—The otherprisoners
said their accuser was a regular liar, and no mistake, and
that he would nap it some day for what he said against
innocent people. The police said the children were so
diminutive that nobody but an experienced person could
suppose they were thieves. The Borough, however,
where the children lived, was crowded with little creatures
who were regularly brought up to the business of alter-
nately begging and robbing. The eldest of the boys said
he had neither father nor mother, that he lived with a
woman in Mint-street, to whom he paid a penny a-night
for his bed, and that he grubbed about for his victuals in
the day. The Lord Mayor I shall cause inquiries to be
made about you, and send you to the House of Occupa-
tion. Boy : Don't do that. If you let me go you shan't
have me any more, I'll promise you'. The Lord Mayor :
No ; you shall have some protection. As for the other
two, they shall be whipped in the presence of their
parents, who are here, and discharged.

STRIKE AMONGST THE SEAMEN OF THE NORTH.—A
body of at least 2,000 seamen from Sunderland, who are
on strike, visited Shields on Wednesday. They demand
a•standing wage of £4 10s. a London coal trade voyage
during the winter months, £3 10s.. during the summer,
and £3 a month and small stores foreign. At two o'clock
in the afternoon they met the Shields men in the market-
place, South Shields, forming a formidable body of above
3,000 men. After stating their grievances, the speakers
proposed, and the meeting adopted, resolutions condem-
natory of the Mercantile Marine Act, which the seamen
say " tickets them off like a parcel of Mexican slaves."
After the meeting the Sunderland men were escorted out
of the town by the Shields seamen without any distur-
bance. At night a large meeting, composed solely of
Shields men, was held in the market-place, South
Shields, when it was resolved to join the Sunderland
men in-standing out for £4 10s. a voyage. They marched
over to Sunderland next day to a large meeting that was
held on the Town Moor. The great body of the men
have been on strike i❑ the Wear since the Saturday pre-
vious. Two large meetings have been held in Sunder-
land during the week, and, though the men have been
patrolling the streets, and bands of them are watching the
ships to see that none go on board at lower wages, there
have been no acts of violence or breaches of the peace.
Communications-have been sent off to Hartlepool, Sea-
ham, Stockton, • and the other ports on the coast, calling
upon the men to stand out for the advance of wages.
Some owners on the Wear have paid the wages demanded
by the seamen,-and'have sent their vessels to sea ; others,
who have hadtheir crews engaged, have sent them to sea
in spite of the men on strike. There are a great number
of vessels, engaged in the coal and foreign trade, in the
ports just now, and when the spring vessels fit out there
will be great difficulty with the seamen, as they express
their determined hostility to the new arrangement of the
shipping officers and masters under the Mercantile
Act ; and the crimps and no inconsiderable number of
ship-masters are keeping them up in their opposition.
Letters have been received in Shields, stating that the
seamen of Lynn are on strike.

ELOPEMENT E_T.TRAORDINARY.—SOIrie particulars of
of an elopement with a somewhat ludicrous denouement
have reached us. it appears that a gay Lothario, much
enamoured of straw-coloured kid and eau-de-Cologne,
met with a very fascinating travelling companion the other
day in a railway carriage. All possible politeness was
shown to the lady by our gallant young gentleman, and
at length a genial confidence arose between them. He
gave the lady his address, and no doubt pictured his pros-
pects coleur de rose. The lady was very communicative.
She was none other than the " Hon. Miss Lumley,
daughter of Lord Scarborough," and " had 10,0001. in
her own right." The gentleman's feelings became ex-
cited with the details ; Cupid shot an arrow into his heart,
and the " Hon. Miss Lumley" betraying every disposition
to reciprocate his fading, the flame of love burned bright-
ly. We have not heard what passed between them from
that time up to last Saturday morning, but certain it is an
elopement was planned. " Miss Lumly" evidently ex-
hibited great eagerness, for she appeared before her lover
in the town where he resides, in a riding habit, stating
that her brother was "after her," and that the knot
must be tied as quickly as possible, otherwise all would be
undone—she would be snatched ruthlessly away from her
lover, and probably be for ever afterwards placed within
the precincts of a grim wall under lock and key. A spe-
cial license was obtained ; the marriage serlice was per-
formed at one of the churches, after some objections on the
part of the clergyman had been removed by the clever and
skilful " Miss Lumley," and " the happy couple" pro-
ceeded to spend the honeymoon in a neighbouring county,
They were seated in a beautifully fitted up drawing-room
in a stylish hotel, sipping champagne and "telling tales
of love," when.they were surprised by the arrival of Loth-
ario's mama and papa. Great was the consternation at
first, but the tact of " the Hon. Miss Lumley" was
speedily in requisition. She succeeded in convincing the
too credulous parents that she really was " the Hon.
Miss Lumley," and that she had 10,0001. in her own
right. With the consolation that matters were not so bad
after all, the parents returned home, where they shortly
" learned beyond doubt that the Hon. Miss Lumley"
was anything but what we like to repeat. Shocked at the
intelligence, they again went in pursuit of the fugitive son,
whom they found in company with his loving bride at a
far-famed and delightfully clean roadside inn. The
duped san heard the character of his " blushing bride"
with astonishment, and he accompanied his parents home,
leaving " the Hon. Miss Lumley" to her own reflections
and resources.—Derby Reporter.

LOCAL MEETINGS.

WEST DERBY GUARDIANS.—On Wednesday, at the
weekly meeting, Mr. Roskell presided. It was agreed to
raise the salary of Mr. Greetham, the collector and over-
seer for the townships of Litherland and Great Crosby,
from £B5 to 100 guineas.—A letter was read from Mr. H.
M. Latham, relieving-officer for Toxtei h-park, asking for
a full inquiry by the board into the circumstances relative
to the death of a pauper named Isabella Kenny, on whose
body an inquest had been held the previous week, at
which the evidence of Mr. Alfred Stephens, one of the
medical officers of the union, hsd reflected upon his con-
duct in the matter. Mr. Stephens was strongly blamed
by several of the guardians; and it was unanimously
agreed to appoint a committee of the whole board, who
are to investigate the matter at their next meeting.
DOCK COMMITTEE.—The tender of Messrs. J. and R.
Duckworth, for building a boundary wall around the land
at the west and south side of the canal locks, within
fourteen weeks was accepted.—A shed, in accordance with
a plan prepared by the surveyor, was ordered to be erected
on the south side of the Sandon Dock.—The Warehouse
Management Committee recommended the payment of
£lO to the widow of Francis Stewart, late Wharfinger in
the Albert Dock, and a sum of £2O to the widow of John
Yates, who was accidentally killed at the dock works.—
On the recommendation of the Harbour Masters' Com-
mittee, a superannuation allowance of £l5 was granted
to Thomas Carron, who had been thirty-three years
in the service.—The receipt of a sum of £4,000 was
acknowledged from the Board of Ordnance, being the
difference between red sand and lime-stone in the sea-
wall in front of the batteries.—A tender, on the part of
the Gas Company, to supply the dock lamps with gas, at
the rate of £4 ss. per light, per annum, was accepted.
ARCHITECTURAL AND ARCHIEOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—
The usual fortnightly meeting of the society was held on
Wednesday evening. Mr. T. D. Barry was called upon
to take the chair, and opened the general business by di-
recting attention to a subject which had been brought
before the profession and public of London, during the
last few weeks. He alluded to the Board of Health sur-
veys, which he complained, were monopolised by the
stipendiary hangers-on of the Board of Ordnance. The
surveyors of London, many of whom were architects,
were memorialising against the monopoly ; and the co-
operation of the profession in the country was solicited.
Mr. Joseph Boult, who had given notice of a motion for
taking into consideration the proposed amendment of the
Building Act, postponed his resolution until the next mee-
ting. A. memorial to the Finance Committee on the sub-
ject will be found embodied in a separate paragraph. Mr.
Huggins read an able and interesting paper on " Expres-
sion in Architecture," which embraced the general points
which the subject includes, and his remarks gave rise to
an animated discussion in which Mr. H. P. Horner, Mr.
Raffles Brown, Mr. Walker, of Manchester, and Mr. Jo-
seph Boult took part.
LYING-IN HOSPITAL.—The ninth annual meeting of
the subscribers to this charity was held on Tuesday, in
the theatre of the Medical Institution. The Mayor, J.
Bent, Esq., presided. The report referred with thank..
fulness to the success of the bazaar, and said the institu-
tion was now in a fair way to be as efficient for its pur-
pose as the most ardent of its friends could desire. The
treasurership had at length been filled up by Mr. J. K.
Rounthwaite accepting the office, and the vacancy caused
by Dr. Roche's resignation had been filled up by the ap-
pointment of Mr. Desmond. One hundred and eighteen
patients had been admitted into the house during the
year ; of these only one had died, making the total mor-
tality nine since the commencement of the institution.
The report urged the importance of increasing the per-
manent subscription list, and then referred in detail to
the various features of the institution. The registry of
nurses had proved of the utmost service to many, and the
nurses recommended had given general satisfaction. The
School for Midwives, lately re-opened, was on thein-
crease in the number of pupils, and it was calculated that
an extension of this feature of the hospital arrangements
would take place. The dispensary, which had to be
closed, owing to the slender state of the fipalweei, at the