The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-11-07 00:00:00

SCOTLAND WARD

In this ward there were eight votes in dispute, four for
reformers, who had omitted to sign their voting paper,
though their names appeared at the commencement;
three who did not attach the name of the street in which
they lived, and one which it was alleged was given by a
person of imbecile mind. All the parties making the
omissions were respectable, so that there was no suspicion
of foul play. The inquiry commenced at ten o'clock on
Thursday, and lasted till five. It was resumed on Fri-
day at 12, and terminated at two, when the Town-clerk
decided that, with regard to the five cases of James Ken-
nedy, William Santley, George Lightburne, and John
Shaw, who voted for Mr. Thornhill and Edward Tyson,
who voted for Mr. Vernon, ha felt the weight of certain
cases quoted by Mr. Snowball, as to the decisions on the
old statutes respecting wills ; and he had accordingly ad-
vised the aldermen and assessors that in those five cases
the papers ought to be received, inasmuch as those con-
tained the qualifications of the voter as well as the name
of the candidate for whom he voted. With regard to the
second class of cases—those of James Irving, William
Thornhill, and James Pellwood—inasmuch as the muni-
cipal act required that the voting paper should set forth
the street in which the property was situated, and for
which the voter was rated, he felt bound to declare that
those papers were defective, and that the defect was of so
essential a nature that it could not be got over. This de-
cision gave a majority of one to Mr. Thornhill. The
court then rose, and in a few minutes after the general
return for all the wards was signed by the mayor, and
placed in front of the Town-hall.

RAILWAYS.----The Grand Junction, Liverpool and
Manchester, and Manchester and Birmingham lines, in-
tend to amalgamate.—Railway Journal.

EMBEZZLEMENT. -•• A youngfellow,named Geo.M'Cabe,
was on Friday brought before the sitting magistrates, at
the Police-court, charged with having embezzled a Bank
of England note for £2O, which had been forwarded by
parties in Manchester to a Mr. Stockdale, of this town.
It appeared from the evidence, that the prisoner was Mr.
Stockdale's office-boy ; and that when he read the letter
at the post-office, in October last, he took out the note
and got it changed at the shop of a Mr. Jones. Jones
subsequently paid it into the Branch Bank of England, in
Hanover-street, where it remained ever since. Part of
the change, amounting to ten sovereigns, was found in the
prisoner's box. He was ordered to be remanded until
Monday.

COLLISION AT SEA AND Loss OF LIFE.-A letter.
dated Menai Bridge, 30th October, from the agent of the
City of Dublin Company, says :—" About half-past ten
o'clock p.m., on Saturday, the Hibernia, Captain Dani,
was abreast of the Middle Mouse, and well to the north-
ward, to avoid the great number of vessels in the usual
track. Captain Dani was alarmed, when walking the
poop, by a sudden cry of ' Hard a-port ; for God's sake
hard a-port ;' the helm was instantly ported, and by the
time Dani could rush along the gangway-plank to the plat-
form between the paddle-boxes the Hibernia had run right
over a small sloop and sent her down, with the captain
and one man. She was lying in the trough of a tremen-
dous sea, without a stitch of canvass set or a light to show
her position. It was blowing a hurricane, and the at-
mosphere almost impervious to vision." Shortly after
the collision it was found that the water was running into
the forehold of the Hibernia in great force, and the cap-
tain made up his mind to run round Point Lynas into
Malfra Roads, and he beached her in a little cove where
there was no swell, and let the ship quietly settle on the
strand. At low water the cattle were landed in safety,
and it is not thought the Hibernia has sustained much
damage. The passengers evince great gratitude to the
captain, and say that they all owe their lives to his firm-
ness and skill.

RUNCORN GRAVING Docns.—Several spirited indi-
viduals connected with the thriving little port of Run-
corn have it in contemplation to build one or more spa-
cious dry docks for the building and repairing of vessels.
A large plot of land on the shores of the river Mersey
(situate between Weston Point and the Duke of Bridge-
water's dock,) belonging to the Trustees of the late Duke,
holds out all the advantages required for such docks,
commanding, as it does, a draught of from 15 to 18 feet
of water,—and within gun shot of the same are stone
quarries of the most superior quality for building, now
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"Psyche," the property of—Jones, Esq., banker, of
Liverpool, is undergoing a thorough repair.