The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-01 00:00:00

with great doubt to flying pieces of
and at the same time of

_uarantee that so powerful
ie as the electric telegraph shall not be made the

ps to secure a g

originated, or from whom, whether as a very mischievous
hoax, or from other and interested views, is not well ascer-
tained ; but it is clear that the authoritative sanction,
which is supposed to attach to information by telegraph,

ought not to be alto
until they have fully:
And perhaps, in any c
at stake, and so much excitement of public feeling exist-
ing, the prudence may be doubted of conveying such intel-
ligence at all, except to the cuthorities, civil or military,
who have confided to them the preservation of the peace
We much question, ind

ed by thp
tisfied themselves of its correctness
tse. where such serious interests are

Company to be given

,uch an engine of
communication ought to be acc,, .e at all to parties
capable of using it for their own selfish purposes. Of
course we are very far from attributing to the Company
themselves, or their servants, any practices of this descrip-
+in', • I.llf filmy nra inn+ nnlilzalcr to I.n nroacinntlillt

whether
ibl

into committing t

emselves

;he pul

be wi.

fern from any evil consequences which may occur
otices the singularly suspicious fact that in Man-
chester their offices are in the same building as the Stock
! Some of the " Bears," no doubt, made a

Exchang

good thing of it on Thuriday.
We had written thus far when in glancing over the
Times, of Saturday, we found the following paragraph
rnrrnhnrativp of nnr rAmtu-ksi t--" A snerial mpcttinfr of the

committee of the Stock Exchange was summoned this very large body of the proprietary present. John Pen-
afternoon, with the view of discovering if any of the mem- nington, Esq., the chairman of the hoard of directors,
hers were implicated in the fabrication of the telegraphic Presided. Mr. William Cross, the manager, read the re-
- rnent of yesterday. Several persons were exa- Port. It commenced by stating, that after a year disas-
--ons from the Eleetric Telegraph trous beyond all parallel or precedent in the commercial
; but the statements history of the country, it could hardly be expected that
~- fi,oi- +hp hank. in common with other e5t-
..,....
,io one connected the report to be presented would be of a satisfactory
....

Company were also in at

awe can fulls, on a meets, should not have suffered heavy losses. The direc-
evening that a strong feel- tors were glad to be able to make, notwithstanding, a small
)ermitting a dividend out of the profits of the past year. Personally,

remark in the Standard of

Propriety of

pO;ver like that of the el€

- .
telegraph to remain in the
nsihle body. A similar view

they would have preferred to have placed the amount to
the reserved fund, but they had thought it due to those

iresed during th

in October last, when the

. _
name of one of the mosteminent and prudent firms in
London was transmitted to the provinces in a list of fail-

who looked upon their shares as a part of their income,
that this dividend should be made. The profits of the
past year, after the payment of all expenses, were
£48,168 15s, Bd. ; to which was added a balance to the
credit of premium account of £575 55., making together
£48,744 Os. Bd. From this there was to be deducted the
losses and bad debts during the past year, estimated at
£38,099 12s. 7d., leaving a balance of £10,644 Bs. ld.,
out of which the directors proposed to pay a dividend of
two per cent. upon the paid-up capital of £498,120,
amounting to £9962 Ss., leaving to be placed to the bad
aoht 'A r,s.l 9s la_ The renort was

THE LIVERPOOL HOAX

England and Ireland have been reciprocating the com-
pliment of monstrously lying about each other. Thurs-
day morning startled the good city of Liverpool out of its

fighting in Clonmel and other places was terrine ; that the SELECT VESTRY.—On Tuesday, the usual fortnightly
troops had been outmatched, and, which was worse, that
meeting was held. Mr. Churchwarden Ferguson pre-
they were exhibiting symptoms of disaffection ! Con- sided. Mr. Urquhart moved, pursuant to notice, that the
sternation might well seize the inhabitants ; and for a recommendations of the Building Committee, for aban-
time business was paralysed. Soon, however, those who doping the Workhouse in Brownlow-hill, except such
we re most capable of thinking i_. xi this
e houranseocorhftiasaitnloaerrdym;o,
fbtihetes- portions of it as might be required for Parish-offices, and
erecting a new suburban Workhouse, be adopted. Mr.
Poole seconded the motion. Mr. Wylie opposed it, and
Jublin papers of the preceding evening had no word about moved as an amendment that the Building Committee be
the alleged outbreak ; the latest arrived travellers knew instructed to proceed with the plans of the workhouse and

gan to inquire how this news had come

h coast cot

nothing of it. lint it transpired that there muse oe some- offices at Bro;mlow-hill with all convenient speed. Mr.
thing about a Queen's Messenger in theibusiness ; where- Earle seconded the amendment. Mr. Avison moved an-
upon the Mayor of Liverpool communicated by electric other amendment, to the effect that it was desirable that a
telegraph with Sir G. Grey, and received for answer that fuller statement of facts and reasons for recommending the
no such messenger had arrived. Hence it was proved new workhouse, than that already submitted, be embo-
that, at any rate, the report did not come on the authority died in a report, to be printed and submitted to each mem-
it professed ,• and, in short, though its rapid course from Li- ber of the vestry. Mr. Woodruff seconded Mr. Avison's
verpool to London and to other parts of Great Britain amendment. The board then divided on Mr. Avison's
were discernible enough by the excitement and alarm it amendment, when there appeared—for it, 18, against it, 4.
created as it flew, the track of its anterior course was not The amendment was consequently carried. Mr. Abraham
to be found; of the attempt to trace it back to its source, moved the adoption of the report presented at the last
it might be said, with the learned Dr. O'Toole, " vestigia meeting, relative to the proposed new medical and surgi-
nulla retrorsum :" in fact, there was no finding an end of cal arrangements at the Workhouse. Mr. Watson se-
putconded the motion. The report was adopted, subject to
the beginning; like that of the Irishman's rope, it was
off. The arrival of the mail steamer in the evening the approval of the Poor-law Commissioners, and the spe-
put an end to the already pretty well discredited rumour,
cial consideration of Mr. Taylor's case. Government
which appears to have been fabricated in Liverpool, but made a claim of £7OO for the wages of the crews of the
whether for stock-jobbing or political purposes, or as a lazarettoes during the fever crisis. The claim is under the
"jolly good hoax," remains unknown. The magistrates consideration of the Finance Committee. Mr. E. G. Nel-
are taking steps to discover, if possible, the mischievous son having on two recent occ'
and heartless authors of the lie. ney belonging to the ,
On Thursday", the subject was alluded to in both tI

sons received sums of mo-
sh. amounting to £5, for which

le he did noCacCount, and he having admitted the offenct
and that he was before convicted of a similar charge, was
suspended, and ordered to be dismissed forthwith. Upon

Houses of Parliament.
But, although the rumour turns out to be a wicked
fabrication, we cannot help agreeing with the Times ;hat

pates onl

by one little step
that " the leader

- .
nd populace are running a race, each
er, and goaded in return," and that

with a legal adviser, and ascertain whether the Vestry had
not power to punish Nelson. The Committee of the In-
dustrial Schools reported that the duties of porter and
bookkeeper at the schools were inefficiently discharged,

goading

it seems quite a matter of chance whether Messrs. S.
O'Brien and Meazher will be pushed into an overt act of

and that the religious education of the children was not
properly attended to. They recommended several dis-
missals of officials, and that in future the duties of porter,

plunge the people into civil

var and

,r be a.

As we have hinted, rumour in Ireland was no less busy

individual. It was then agreed to give a bookkeeper and

had been about Ireland
to the Liverpool report, the railway station was on fire
and the rails torn up for miles, the only event of any ex-
citing kind was a report that an outbreak had taken place
in Liverpool, and that 500 of the police had been killed !
Similar absurd rumours were hatched and flew about in
other parts of Ireland.

Les, where, according

storekeeper £7O per annum for discharging the duties o
these two offices, and to allow £lO to his wife for attend
ing as porteress at the gate.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

Yesterday at the Police•
and Jane Wlntyre

STEALING FROM A SHOP
UTt. John Urev, Thomas Jones

were charged with stealing a quantity of
the shop of Mr. Mathews, 85, Scotland.

stockings from
road, on Satur-

At the Town Council, to morrow, an Alderman will be
appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of
Mr. J. S. Leigh.

day night. The articles were hanginz on tha frame of
the window inside the door, when one of the prisoners,

It was exp;eted that the bridges for the landing-stage
would have been fixed yesterday. but the operation has

who were all in company, snatched them away, and they
all made off, but being observed were soon apprehended.

,f stockings wereif

Council meeting to-morrow, for the return of all the
money expended or to be expended in the Rivington
Pike Scheme.

Messrs. B. Slater and Son, the proprietors of the Saw
Mills, have publicly denied the statement that " pikes
have been ground at their establishment, and they say
that they have no grinding apparatus on their premises.
.

enevolent societies

Hotel. T. B. Horsfall, Esq., the
to preside, and a happy and
cipated
The
day for Halifax and Boston, with the usual North Anieri-

Mayor, has consented

teresting meeting is anti-

-ship Aca,

ptain Stone, sailed on Satur-

with the homeward

)e expected to arrive in the river on
Id leave New York on the