The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-04-18 00:00:00

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A DANGEROUS KIND OF PIKE.—The Mercury says
that pike-making is going on very actively in Liverpool.
The only pike, however, from the effects of which the
Liverpool people expect they will have to. bleed, is the

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The members of the Roscoe Club intended to present
Mr Bonit, the secretary, with a testimonial for his exer-
tions in promoting the success of the club, but Mr. Boult
has declined the honour, as he does not consider the club
to be yet permanently established.
JESUITS FROM ITALY.—In the early part of the present
week four Catholic priests, from America, members of the
Society of Jesus, who were in Rome at the time of their
rrived at Liverpool, and immedi-
he United States

expulsion from Italy,
ately afterwards left for L-
Chronicle.
ROYAL INSTITUTION SCHOOL, CotatrixT-
Mr. Thomas Barber from this school, was on
last elected to the open_Sizarship at Clare Hall, (

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Wednesday

The examination consisted of 0r.,,
tion and translations from Livy, Plato, and other authors
There were 6 candidates from different Grammar Schools
The lath- teachers in St. Barnabas's Sunday
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mediate charge of Mrs. Carpenter, unitedly presented
that lady with a very beautiful work-table, on Monday
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ter services.
On Tuesday, a meeting of the Jews' Society was held
in the Rotunda, Dublin, the Dean of St. Patrick's in the
chair. The Rev. Thomas Nolan was one of the principal
speakers, and delivered a most effective address on the
practical lesson derivable to ourselves from the past history
of Israel, and on the obligations of present duty which we

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ionary point of

THE WATER IN4UIRY

he health committee have
ppointed two competent gentlemen—Mr. Macgregor, of
Vauxhall Foundry, and Mr. Kennedy, of the Clarence
Foundry—to decide between Mr. Hawksley and Mr.
M`Donald, respecting the quantity of
_water which the

:ton works are capable of

heard that the quantity. exceeds th.at stated :by Mr
M`Donald.—Journal.

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OPPOSITION TO BANKRUPTS.—In the Court of Bank-
ruptcy, on Monday, John Perry Platt and Henry White
Lake, on applying for their certificates, were opposed on
the ground of their having obtained advances of money
upon incorrect representation of the arrival of goods and
general merchandise on their account, upon their having
traded almost without capital, and become mixed up in
bill transactions to the extent of £60,000. Mr Commis-
sioner Perry suspended Lake's certificate for 18 months,
and Platt's for two years.

SHIPWRECK, AND Loss OF LlFE.—lntelligence has
reached the underwriters that the Agnes, Smallnian, mas-
ter, bound from Dublin to New York, with emigrants,
had, on the night of the sth instant when off the Tuskar
Rock, come into collision with the brig Watkins, Varty,
master, bound from Matanzas to Liverpool, with mo-
lasses ; the latter vessel sinking with the captain, crew,
and passengers, excepting two seamen, who contrived to
get on board the Agnes, eight persons being thus instantly
hurried into eternity. The Agnes has put back to Mil-
ford Haven.

At Chester Assizes, Joseph Clayton and Ralph Webster,
were convicted of wilfully setting fire to the dwelling-
house of the former, an hotel called the Egerton Arms,
at Birkenhead, for the purpose of defrauding the Sun and
West of England Fire Offices. Three times the same
t discovered to be on fire—on the last occa-

v through a window Webster set fire to'some
shavings and put them under the staircase. He ran into
the house and seized hold of him, but the prisoner escaped
the interference of Clayton. It was proved,

also, that the latter had removed alibis furniture, which
he had insured for 1,0001., to a house in Liverpool. Both
prisoners were found guilty, and sentenced to be trans-
ported for fifteen years.
IMPORTANT CLAIM.—The corporation of Liverpool
have given formal notice to the commissioners of woods
and forests, of their intention to take such steps as they
may be advised, in order to claim the foreshore in Bir-
kenhead against the crown, as to such portions of the
purchases of the corporation there from Mr. Price and
his assigns, in which all the rights of Mr. Price are con-
veyed to them ; also that they will claim the foreshow
and creeks on the north side of Wallasey Pool, under a
different title. A most important trial will, therefore,
take place as soon as the parties are prepared ; anti the
intricacy of the case will be in no wise diminished by the

first, second, and seventh clause in the minutes of arrange-
ment between the Birkenhead Dock commissioners and
the crown, which were agreed to in November last.
THE PROPOSED HEALTH OF TOWNS BILL.--A peti-
tion to Parliament against the Health of Towns bill being
permitted to extend to Liverpool is now in course Of
sig-
nature in the Exchange News-room and other places in
that town. Amongst other things, the petition alleges
that they view with alarm those provisions of the act
which subject the municipal and local authorities to the
control of Government inspectors and central commis-
sioners ; that they are not encouraged by the poor-law to
desire any further extension of the system of centraliza,
tion ; that they regard the present manner of influencing
the proceedings of town councillors by an appeal to their
elective constituency, the burgesses of the town, as a
better, safer, and more constitutional ckeck than any ap-
peal to the irresponsible commissioners in London. We
strongly urge on our readers to sign this petition, as the
sanitory arrangements of the town cannot be in better
hands than in those of our Health Committee.
DEATH FROM ALLEGED VIOLENCE.—On Monday after-
noon, a man named William Hesketh, . who resided in
Lodge-lane, went, with several other fiersons, to a Sliot--
ing match at Windsor, and called, when it was over, at
the Tunnel Hotel tap, and other places, where they got
some liquor. Late in the evening, the deceased, who was
a little in drink, was being assisted home by two persons
named. Webster, when, it is alleged, he fell in Lodge-lane,
and received a blow on the back of the head, which ren-
dered him insensible. .At the inquest, facts transpired
which led to the supposition that the deceased bad met
with violence in a quarrel, and the inquiry was adjourned
until Saturday. On resuming the ir.quest, it appeared
that the beadle bad made every inquiry to ascertain if any
one saw the deceased either struck or ill-used in any way,
but could not find any information on the ,subject. The
jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased died
from fracture of the skull, but how received there was no

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