The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-12-03 00:00:00

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OBTAINING MONEY UNDER FALSE PRETENCES.—
Anthony Caulfield, a young' man of respectable exterior,
was remanded on the above charge. It appears he had
been engaged by a publisher named Querci to procure
subscriptions for a new work on Shakespeare. Amongst
other names he returned those of Mr. Mender and Mr.
Henry, of Castle-street, and obtained the usual commis-
in, though the parties had not authorised him to take
Mr. Querci having been an invalid for some

heir names

time has been victimised by several other fello

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TO THE EDITOR OF
LETTER

UNDERS'S NEWS-

SIR,—A letter appeared in the advertising columns of
the Freeman's Journal of yesterday, from the commander

of the screw steamer Albatross, representing that his
vessel had arrived nine hours before the paddle steamer
Queen Victoria, belonging to the City of Dublin Com-
pany, on Tuesday, 19th instant.
As this statement is calculated to misle
beg to say that the company's vessel Victoria rem
Kingstown Harbour at ten minutes after three o'clocl
when she landed her passengers, and went up next t

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public, I

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Lyall's statement as to his arrival a littirafter one o'clock,
he was in the Dublin river two befirs before the Victoria
at Kingstown. It is to be oleerved, however, that the

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" We observe with indignation that at a meeting of the rate
payers, legally convened, under your auspices to consider the on her pa
late Papal aggressions, an attack has been made upon the po- draught of wate_.
lice by a body of milsed and misguided Romanists ; and we So far for the lative performance of paddle wheel
most earnestly desire that a most searching investigation be and screw on t - Monday of last week. I now, however,
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entered into, so that the concealed originators of a design which
we believe will be found to have been preconceived and con-
cealed, may be visited with a just and righteous punishment. Saturday. About
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ge clurine gale, owing to her increased

dress placarded through the town this morning, purpor
emanate from certain Romanist inhabitants of the district,
containing, among other allegations, very heavy charges against

_vere ; the Duchess of Kent made the passage in less
han 141 hours. having docked in Liverpool at 10 minutes

the magistrates and we iequest. thai you will likewise becattle in excellent order,
pleased to take in hand a strict examination into the truth or after 122, her
falsehood of the st.iteme nts contained in that paper. without any loss or injury of the smallest kind. Not so
" Finally, we have respectfully to ask that you will, as early the screw Albatross. This vessel was not in Liverpool
as convenient, appoint a time and place for the adjourned for more than two hours after the Duchess of Kent, after
meeting." a most disastrous passage. The accounts I have received
The Rev. Mr. REDHEAD, incumbent of Rock Ferry, state that there were several unfortunate deck passengers
said he had also been entrusted with a document similar washed overboard and lost,—that a number of cattle.
in substance to the lest, and although it was not nume- pigs, sheep, and other deck cargo, were also washed over-
rously signed, yet it contained the sentiments of every board, besides m .
any which were killed by the violent
person in his parish. It in substance asked the bench to motion of the ship ; short, about 159 head of cattle
preserve to Englishmen the principle of free discussion, were lost, and the remainder were landed in such had
and to maintain the majesty and supremacy of the law, order as materially to affect their sale in the market.
which they considered had been outraged in their persons. Hitherto anonymous attempts to depreciate the per-
It was then intimated to the bench that the deputation formance of the company's vessels have not been noticed.
had succeeded in obtaining a larger building for the meet- The present facts are, however, called forth by the very
ing than had been previously fixed on. ill-judged and unfair attempt by the captain of the Alba-
Thetotal number of signatures to the several documents, tross to raise the character of his vessel in public estima-
independent of those who signed the two requisitions tem
byinstituting a comparison with one of this company's
from Birkenhead, amount altogether to about 1000. vessels.
After some consultation with his brother magistrates, I beg to add that the other vessels of the company,
Sir E. CusT said, it is extremely gratifying to the ma- Queen Victoria and Ballinasloe, which left this port also
gistrates to find themselves supported by so numerous on the Saturday I refer to, made good passages, docking
and so highly respectable a body as the gentlemen who in Liverpool next tide, and docking all their live stock
have attached their names to these documents. It shows without the smallest damage.—Your obedient servant,
to us the strong feeling—the natural feeling entertained P. HOWELL, Secretary.
in Birkenhead at the position in which we are placed by , 15, Eden-quay, 28th Norimber, 1850.