The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-12-02 00:00:00

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—IN Riz BENN..-011 Friday
the hearing on the granting of the bankrupt's certificate
was again resumed, and several witnesses were heard as
to the profligate expenditure of the bankrupt, who, while
his income was under £4OO a-year, lived at the rate of
£lOOO ; it was also alleged that he had contracted debts
to a large amount without any possible means of payment.
The hearing was adjourned until the 10th of December.
EMBEZZLEMENT.—In our last we stated that Thomas
Leacy was committed on a charge of embezzlement. It
appears that after the magistrate had signified his inten-
tion to commit he ordered the prisoner to be remanded
until the following day, when he was again brought up.
Mr. Rushton then stated that be had considered the case,
and was of opinion that the charge of embezzlement
could not be sustained, there not having been any con-
cealment; the prisoner had merely deducted a sum of
money which he alleged to be for salary and expenses. In
support of his view, he read an opinion of Mr. Justice
Cresswell given in a similar case. The prisoner was ac-

cordingly discharged.
DREADFUL STREET ACCIDENT.—On Fr‘iday evening,
as a float was passing along Whitechapel at a slow rate,
and the driver at the head of the shaft horse, a man,
name unknown, made a spring to get upon the off shaft
to ride, and in doing so fell down between the two shafts,
and the float passed over him, but not either of the
wheels. The axletree was about eight or nine inches
from the ground, and the after part of the float was lower
than the front. Deceased was immediately picked up,
when it was found that the upper part of his skull was
taken off, but he was still alive. He was taken to a drug-
gists shop, and thence in a car to the Northern Hospital.
where he expired on arriving. No blame was attributed

to the driver.
PILOTAGE.—On Wednesday, the following fifteen
gentlemen were elected commissioners of pilotage to supply
vacancies. William Robertson Sandbach, John Archer,
Robert Bibby. James Garnock, John Davis, Richard Tap-
ley, William Mann, Robert Rankin, Thos. Bold, Joseph
Williamson, Kenneth Macauley, Thos. Morris, Joseph
Cornish, John Crawford, and Samuel Martin, Es qs.
The thirteen following commissioners were elected at the
same time as the pilots' Committee, pursuant to the
same act :—Jobn Nelson Wood, Robert Benn. Eyre
Evans, William Tapley. George Kendal, Richard Hough-
ton, Alexander Smith, James Aikin, R. W. Houghton,
George Atkinson, Francis Shand, Joseph Pinder, and
Benjamin Simpson, Esqrs.
CHESTER NOVEMBER FAlR.—This fair is not remark-
able for a large display of stock, nor for the attendance of
dealers and tarmers. On Thursday the show and atten-
dance was about an average. There were some few calv-
ing cows offered ; hot the prices were high. Barrens
were few in number, chiefly animals that had recovered
from murrain ; good prices however were asked ; buyers
few. Fat cattle were in demand; but prices were high;
nothing good less than 6d. per lb. There were no sheep.
Fat pigs were in abundance ; and were worth sd. per lb.
The horse fair was thinly attended ; and the show was de-
cidedly inferior. The day was fine, and attracted a good
attendance of farmers for the time of the year ; but busi-
ness was slack.
SUDDEN DEATHS.—On Wednesday night last, John
Banks, who resided in Hope-court, Cartwright-place,
went to bed with his two sons in his usual health; during
the night he was taken ill, and died the following morn-
ing. The cause of death was serious apoplexy.—On
Thursday, Jas. Danks, an illegitimate child one month
old, died, as appeared from the evidence of the surgeon,
from the effects of a foul disease communicated by its
mother. On Sunday morning last, Robert Whitty, who
resided in Peter-street, died suddenly, from what was
ascertained, on a post mortem examination, to be disease
of the heart. He had complained for about a month of
pain in the chest. On the same day, a child, ten months
old, named Sat ah Thomasson, was found dead in bed. It
was ascertained, on a post mortem examination, that
death had arisen from convulsions.
HIGHWAY BOARD.—THURSDAY.—The newly-elected
members who were present took the required oath.
Messrs. Aspinall, Holmes, Birkett, Brancker, and Proc-
tor, were appointed a committee to carry the proposed
bills through Parliament, and to watch all bills affecting
the Trust ; and for the purposes of a conference commit-
tee with the Health and Watch Committees, there were
added Messrs. Walthew, Morris, Cooper, Ackers, and
Copeland. A letter was read from Mr. C. Chadwick,
acknowledging the receipt of a copy of the evidence taken
by the Highway Board on the supply of water. Mr.
Chadwick says. " he regrets that the Board has come to
the erroneous conclusion that the locality of Liverpool
s ill not admit of a continuous supply of water."
Notice was given by Mr. Cooper, that on Thursday week
he would move that the resolution of the 10th October,
appropriating the sum of £lO,OOO from the paving fund
the sewerage account be rescinded.
THE LOAN SOCIETIES.—CAUTION f 0 SURETIES.—
On Thursday, a number of parties were summoned as de-
faulters to various loan societies. The defaulters con-
sisted principally of sureties, who were ordered to pay the
amounts owing. Several of them stated their willingness
to pay the shares for which they conceived they were lia-
ble. Mr. Rushton said, he wished them distinctly to un-
derstand that, in attaching their signatures to the docu-
ments as sureties, they were, jointly and severally, liable
to pay the whole; the law required that each individual
should be answerable for the full amount. He consi-
dered that parties, such as many of the defendants ap-
peared to be, who were only working people, should not
give bail at all, as in cave of non-payment they ran a risk
of having their goods seized, and thus involved theteselve,s
in misery. Besides. the borrowers only obtained a little
temporary aid, which they had afterwards to squeeze out
of their week's earnings, and the consequence was the
production of more evil than good.
SOUTHERN HosvITAL.—We feel great pleasure in di-
recting the atte,tiork of vut icadrib 1.11 till advertisement
in our paper to-day, announcing the preaching of the an-
nual sermon in aid of that noble institution, the Southern
and Toxteth Hospital, at St. Barnabas Church, Parlia-
ment-street, on Sunday morning next. We feel it is not
necessary to make any lengthened remark as to the claims
this institution i as upon the public generally ; they are
too well known, and have hitherto been laudably appre-
ciated ; at the same time we cannot but allude to the ex-
ertions of those to whom the management is confided—it
is beyond all praise, and we are sure the public will on this
occasion come forward to the support of an institution the
growing demands upon which renders it necessary an ef-
fort should be made to maintain it in undiminished effi-
ciency. A number of gentlemen, we understand, have
already promised to attend : and as the respected and in-
defatigable chaplain makes the appeal, we predict, if elo-
quence and earnestness combined have any weight, there
will be an overflowing congregation and a collection wor-
thy of so good a cause.
FAT CATTLE.—We have been politely favoured, by
Mr. E. Speed, Woolfall-Eall, Huyton, with an inspec-
tion of the cattle intended to be exhibited on the 9th of
next month, a sight which has afforded us the greatest
gratification. The size, symmetry. and condition of the
animals, are really admirable. We had no conception
that the breeding and feeding of cattle had obtained so
high a state of perfection. When the whole of the stock
is so truly worthy of attention, it may appear almost in-
vidious to single out particular instances ; but we were
much struck with the appearance of one of the heifers
and three of the oxen fed by the Duke of Buccleuch.
The two oxen fed by Stair H. Stuart, Esq., are surprising
instances of size, symmetry, and feeling. But no words
of ours can convey an idea of the stupendous, almost ele-
phantine, bulk of one of the six year old oxen fed by
Colonel 'Douall ;it is, without exception, the largest
we ever beheld. The pleasure we have experienced will,
we have no doubt, be participated by the dealers in, and
the breeders and feeders of, cattle; and indeed by all to
whom the contemplation of animals in a high state of
perfection is a matter of interest.
Doers COMMITTEE.—A letter having been received
from the ('u-tom-house authorities, relative to come ad-
ditional officers at the Albeit Dock Warehouses, instruc-
tions were given that such officers should be provided.
Tee receipts at the port of Runcorn fur the month ending
the 25th of October. were-188 vessels. 10,260 tons, £53
15a 9d ; corresponding month of 1844-185 vessels,
111,453 toes, £52 14s 6d, being an incr ase in the receipts
of 1.3 Is 3d. Mr. Rankin was appointed to fill up the
vacancies in the fitnince and warehouse management
committees, occasioned by the resignation of Mr. Evans.
The Chairman (Mr. Nicol) stated, in allusion to the
motion of which he had given notice, es to doing away
with the sub-committees, that he wished the matter to
be deferred for a week until the Chairman of the Trust
should be present. He read over his motion, the effect
of which, it appeared, would be to do away with the
existing sub-committees, and, in their place, substitute a
committee, consisting of the chairman, or deputy-chair-
man and two members of the Trust, in rotation, who are to
meet daily, and to transact all the business of the exist-
ing committees—their proceedings to be submitted to the
general weekly meeting ; they would a'so be required to
visit the dock writ ehouses and report as to their condition,
at the weekly meeting.
SELECT VESTRY.—At the usual fortnightly meeting on
Tuesday there were present : Messrs. Ryding, Houghton,
Ferguson, Groom, Urquhart, Thornely. Wheelhouse,
Avison, Swainson, Molitieux, Bremner. Bright, Bennett,
Stitt, Hand, and Mayer. 'the Workhouse Committee
reported that a female, 99 years of age, had died in the
house, and that, although it was said she had not been
proserlv attended to during three days of her illness, yet,
upon investigation, it turned out that there was no blame
attachable to any of the male or female officers of the
institution. The poor-law commissioners consented by
letter to the payment of Messrs. Hugnenin's bill, fur
fitting up a gymnasium at the Industrial Schools, and
offered queries to be replied to by the master and
mistress of the Infant School, Kirkdale.—Mr. Richard
Earle, agent to the Earl of Derby, was requested to give
his opinion as to the land offered to be sold to the board,
in proximity to the Industrial Schools.—The discussion
of Mr. Bremner's motion, regarding the manlier of ad-
ministering out-door relief, was resumed. After some
conversation, an amendment that the present system be
adhered tit, was carried by a majority of eleven to two.
Mr. Urquhart gave notice of motion for the next day,
that the superintendent be instructed to put in force the
system approved of by the poor-law commissioners and
the Select Vestry.

THE WALTON OMNIBUSES

To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SIR,-1 was very glad to see the remarks of " a villager"
in your last respo.Ling the Sunday omnibuses—they cer-
tainly are a great nuisance. Still the additional omnibus
is an advantage in some respects—we have long wanted the
old one weeding, and it has had this effect—we have now
an omnibus for the aristocrats and one for the plebeians—
the Sunday travelling is one of the evils of the division;
but the mob will encourage the omnibus all the week if it
only indulge them in their fivourite Sunday ride. The
love of this is the origin of all Sunday omnibuses. There
is no fear of the g'ntry supporting them.
I am Sir,
Yours respectfully,
A REGULAR PASSENGER.