The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-05 00:00:00

LOCAL AND PROVINCIAL NEWS.

Mr. W. B. Hodson, Secretary to the Mzehanie's In-
stitution, has been appointed principal of that establish-
ment.

There was not a single arrival on Sunday, a very un-
usual circumstance at the port of Liverpool, and but one
from a foreign port on Saturday.
William Christian, Esq., landing waiter at Limerick,
is promoted to Liverpool, and is to be succeeded by Mr.
Richard Davis, from Liverpool.

A young man, of the name of James Murdoch, late a
teacher of a school at Manchester, has been committed
for trial at the ensuing- assizes in this town, for forging
the name of a gentleman to a bill of exchange, for £4OO.
Mr. Macready, the actor, arrived here in the steam-
ship Caledonia, from Boston, on \Vedneeday morning,
having made a highly-succesJul professional tour in the
United States.

THE FIFTH OF NOVFMBER.—It should be remembered
that.the Act 3 Geo. IV. c. 126, nmkca it illegal to light a
hmfire or discharge fireworks within a distance of 80 feet
from the centre of a turnpike road.
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F.RY COURT OF LANCASHIRE.—Joseph Briggs
Dickson. Esq. of Preston, solicitor, has been appointed
to the office of clerk in court, vacant by the death of the
late Charles Buck, Esq. The other four clerks in court
are R. Palmer, Esq., C. B. Walker, Esq., W. Hopkins,
Esq., and John Wilson, Esq.
FIRES.—Two fires took place on Wednesday night—
one at a shippon, kept by Mr. W. Dixon, at the corner
of Brownlow-hill: and the second in the lodging-house
of Mrs. Bridget Eustace, in Lauutcelot's•hey. The roof
of the shippon and some hay and straw were destroyed ;
and a flock bed at the lodging-house w as burned.
WILL OF Da. DALTON.—The statement given in the.
Britannia was erroneous. Dr. Dalian may be said to
have died possessed of upwards of £B,OOO personal pro-
perty, besides the realty, &c., in the six houses bequeathed
to Mr. Alderman Neild and Mr. Leter Clare, two of his
oldest friends.

HEAVY IMPORT OF TIMBER.—So many vessels were
discharging timber I-ist week that the quays became in.
conveniently crowded. Though all the teams were in
operation, a sufficient number could not be obtained to
effect the removal and yarding. This caused an accumu-
lation at the docks which led to many of the importers
being heavily fined.
WOOL TO ENGLAND.—On board the ship Patrick
Henry, which sailed on the 6th instant, for Liverpool,
were one hundred bales of fine American wool, which
were s-lected in this country from our finest Saxony
fleeces by a Scotch manufacturer. For some of it he paid
as high as sixty cents per lb. The quantity was about
20,00016 s.—gear, Fork paper.
A MODEST REQUEST.—On Tresday, a woman was
brought up, c °igen with being drunk and disorderly.
She excused he self by saying her husband was at that
moment lying drunk ai home in the shop. Upon being
ordered to gaol for a few days, she bowed to the bench,
and, in the coolest manner possible, said, `• Will some of
von gentlemen there go and mind the shop ; for really
my husband is so drunk he can't attend to it."

GUANO.—Ti e demand, both on the spot and for de-
livery, is limited. There have been no arrivals since our
last, owing to the easterly gales. On Wednesday two
eargo,s were offereTd, by auction, for the first lot of
which £5 1.35. was bid: it was taken in at £6. There are
now sellers at the former pike for quantity. By the last
accounts there are upwards of 250 vessels at Ichabue : the
arrivals in this country are, on an average, a ship per
day. The outports are getting well stocked.

CHILD MunoEn.—A verdict of wilful murder has
been returned against an unmet ried woman, named Mary
B ixter, of Sidney-place, Edge-hill. whose newly-born
child was found on Tuesday last in a privy, with a cord
round its neck, by which strangulation had been pro-
duced, for there is no doubt that the child had been born
alive, though the girl (levied strenuously that she had
been. delivered at all. She is still in much too weak a
condition to be brought. oefore the authorities previous
to her committal at the assizes.
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT—TWENTY-ONE PERSONS
KILLED.—On Thursday afternoon last, the new fire-
proof wt r .tiou.ze of Messrs. Radcliffe Brothers, Oldham,
fell in w th a tremendous crash, at a time when there were
thirty-two persons in it, of whom there is reason to fear
that twenty-or e have been killed, as the bodies of fourteen
had been found and taken from the ruins up to noon yes-
terday, and seven others were missing. Or the remaining
eleven, fit a were wore or less hurt, of whom one is not
expected to recover: and six escaped with little or no in-
jury.—Manchester Guardian.—[Subsequent accounts
confirm the worst apprehensions. Twenty-one persons
hale unfortunately ceased to be.]

FIRE AT GREAT CROSEY.—About one o'clock on the
morning of :".aturday last the house of Thomas Gilbertson,
a small farmer, at the village of Great Crosby, was ob-
served to bc, on fire. An old mare. in Gilbertson's stable
was burned to death. Several stacks of hay and corn,
which were to windward, escaped. A cottage adjoining to
Gilbettson's, occupied by a poor widow, named Alice
Roberts, with her little property, was totally consumed,
and she had but time to escape, half-dressed, and without
shoes or stockings. The cottages were insured in the
Inipetial Fire for abt ut £lOO.
INQUESTS.—On Tuesday last, a female infant was
found lying dead by the side of its mother, who lives in
Gertrd-street. Death had been caused by suff,cation,
and a verdict was returned accordingly.—On the 7th ult.,
a child, named John Brennen, was severely burnt by his
cloches taking fire, and though attended by a surgeon,
died on Tuesday last. Verdict—" Accident-d."—On
Tuesday last, John Biimley, who resided in Sir Thomas'.
buildings, went to bed in good health, but was in the
morning found dead on the floor. It was ascertained that
disease of the lunes was the cause of death, and a verdict
was returned accordingly.
IMPROVEMENTS AT WEST DERBY.—We understand

that that pact of the estate of the Molyneux fam ly which
lies ab,:ut the Round House, between West Derby and
Knotty Arl, is about to be laid out as a park, and sold in
building lot. for handsome villas. No house costing less
than £l5OO is to be built upon it, and the land will be so
laid out that each villa, bes des having its own pleasure
grounds attached to it, will have ace-ss to the walks and
drives of the park. It is calculated that about thirty
villas may be erected on the land, which affords beautiful
viows if the woody heights of Kuowsley, Prescot, and
Iluyton, and from which Ormskirk and the hills beyond
Wigan are also visible.
ADULTERATION OF GUANO.—Four vessels recently
sailed hence for guano stations ballasted with gypsum, or
plaster of Paris. This substance, we are informed, is in-
tended for admixtu.c with guano, and will enable the
parties to deliver from the vessel a nice-looking, light-
colour( d article. Parties purchasing guano are very de-
sirous of having it delivered from the vessel, as they be-
lieve they obtain it pure. The favourite material for the
adulteration of guano, at the present moment, is umber,
which is brought from Anglesea in large quantities. The
rate of admixture, we are informed, is about 15 cwt. of
umber to about 5 ewt. of Perurran guano, from which an
excellent-looking article, called African guano, is manu-
factured.

PUBLICAN APPEALS.—Two appeals of rather a novel
character were tiied, at Kit kilale Sessions, on Friday last,
against the decision of the justices acting for the division
cf Ormskirk in refusing licenses to John Parkinson, of
the Original Hotel, the first house, it was stated, which
was built for public accommodaton at Southport, and
John Watkins.)n, of the Blue Bell, at Burton, in the
township of Downholland. In the first case the court
decided that the respondents were bound to support their
decision, upon which Mr. Monk, for the appellants,
adduced some slight evidence, to show, that, at the time
the license was refused, the Original Hotel was very much
out of repair, and not in a proper state to be licensed as
an inn. Mr. Pollock, for the appellants, proved that the
house is at present in a good state of repair; but, as the
witnesses did not all swear that it was so when the license
was refused, and as it was proved that extensive repairs
had been made since that time, the magistrates felt that
they wire justified in supporting the decision of their
brelliren, and dismissed the appeLl. In Watk nson's case,
Mr. Monk, for the respondents, stated, that, the reasons
of the magistrates for refusing the license in this case
were threefold. First, thatthe house was not sufficiently
commodious; second, that it was not wanted ; and, third,
that the applicant was a disorderly chat acter and had fre-
quent brawls and lights on his premises. One witness
only, and that witness .a policeman, was called to prove
these assertions, but it was elicited from him, in cross-
examination, that the Blue Bell was by far the oldest
victualling-house in the neighbourhood ; that he knew of
but one information laid against Watkinson ; that that
information was laid by himself ; that it came on for
hearing at the very sessions at which the license was
refused; and that the information was dismissed. Mr.
Harden, for the appellant, contended that the magis-
trates had totally tailed to justify the decision they had
come to ; and that nothing like a reason bad been proved
to warrant them refusing the applicants license. The
Chairman interrupted the learned counsel, and said it was
the unanimous opinion of the bench thatthe license ought
to be granted.