The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-06-25 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS,

DOUGLAS REGATTA (ISLE OF MAN).—This regatta,
fixed for the 26th and 27th, is attracting great aitention.
The Isle of Man Steam-packet Company very handsomely
take all row-boats free of freight.
NEW FERRY BOAT. —On Sunday week, a beautiful
new steamer, called ' The Prince," commenced to ply on
the Woodside Ferry. She is constructed on the improved
principle of having a rudder at each end.

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BAZAAR.—It is stated that the receipts at the bazaar
for the Roman Catholic Magdalene Asylum at Wootton
considerably exceed £l,OOO. The bazaar was held, last
week, at Lucas's rooms.
IMPORTATION OF AMERICAN ICE.—A large vessel ar-
rived in the Mersey, on Sunday, with a cargo of ice from
Boston, intended, we understand, for Lynn's Waterloo
Hotel. An ice-bonse, built on the American plan, has
been constructed for its reception.

DESPATCH.—The packet-ship Ohio, Captain Lyons,
from New York, with a cargo of cotton, docked on Tues-
day last. The lumpers commenced discharging the cargo
on Wednesday, and finished their task on Thursday, hav-
ing discharged 2555 and 20 tons of ballast in the short
space of 23 hours.
ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER.—On Tuesday morning,
about half-past twelve o'clock, as three men were warp-
ing a vessel, called the Yorkshire, into Coburg Dock, the
vessel came in contact with the boat, and smashed it into
pieces against the pierhead. The men were thrown into
the river, but providentially saved by some men who
were on the pier at the time the accident occurred.
FOREIGN FRUlT.—During the last few days there has
been a very large importation of cherries from France,
which has been the cause of much plenty in the London
markets. They are of quality quite equal to the English,
and realize 4d. to 6d. per lb. The present season is most
redundant of gooseberries, and there was, on Wednesday,
a large supply from the east and from the Isle of Ely,
which sold at 2s. per bushel, out of which is. was paid for
carriage, besides commission, &c.
THE OTHER £lOO NOTE ROBBERY.—Edward Atkin-
son, of whose previous remands we spoke in our last, on
suspicion of stealing a £lOO note from Mrs. Heywood, of
this town, and which he alleges to have received from a
gentleman at Doncaster, was brought up again, on Tues-
day, and remanded to Thursday. On the latter day he
was discharged, and immediately after apprehended on a
warrant at Manchester, charging him with a conspiracy.
He was taken to that town on the charge in question, and
set at liberty, we believe, on bail.
SEVEN-IN-HAND.—On Sunday afternoon the Waver-
, tree omnibus was driven through Castle-street, Lord-
street, &c., on its way to Wavertree, with seven horses in
hand. The turn-out had a gay and somewhat singular ap-
pearance, in consequence of the reins being of broad scar-
let binding. This material, being very light and easily
affected by the wind, frequently got tangled, and the
driver bad some difficulty in keeping the heads of his
horses in the right direction. The machine consequently
proceeded slowly.
On Wednesday last, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Mr.
Sergeant Ludlow threatened to commit William Page
Ward, grocer, of Byrom-street, unless he produced cer-
tain deficient leaves in his account-books. The case was
adjourned until the following day, to allow the bankrupt
to do so; but, instead of complying, he sent a letter to
the Commissioner, stating that he did not attend to ap-
pear. The Commissioner had no alternative but to issue
a warrant for his apprehension. The bankrupt has ren-
dered himself liable to transportation.
HEROIC CONDUCT OF A. BOY.—About four o'clock on
Wednesday afternoon, as a boy, named Herman Theo-
•dore Hintz, about thirteen years of age, was fishing from
the steps at the Brunswick pierhead, he accidentally over-
balanced himself, and fell into the river. A young sailor
boy jumped into the river, and made a rope fast round
Hintes body, by which be was hauled on board a boat,
He was then taken to the South Dock Station, and with
the assistance of Drs. Cameron and Harbord, he soon
recovered.
DEATH FROM TAKING LAUDANUM.—On Saturday
last, an inquest was held by H. Churton, Esq., at Bebing-
ton, on the body of a child fourteen weeks old, named
Charles Turner, and who had died from the effects of an
over dose of laudanum. It appeared that a day or two
previous the child had been taken ill, when the mother
sent to a neighbour, who is in the habit of taking lauda-
num, for a dose. The neighbour, not knowing it was for
an infant, sent a dose sufficient for a grown person. This
was administered to the child, and it fell asleep imme-
diately afterwards, from which it never awoke. Verdict
accordingly.
BURGLARY IN CLIFTON-PARK.---On Friday morning,
at an early hour, it was discovered that the house of Mr.
J. M`Murdo, timber merchant, of Liverpool, who resides
at a villa in Clifton-park, had been robbed of a gold
watch with its appendages, a time-piece, a gold brooch, a
purse containing five sovereigns, and a set of gold shirt
studs. It appears that the party had entered the house
in the early part of the evening, during the absence of the
family, and concealed himself until after they had retired.
The gold watch was taken from a pocket over Mr.
M'Murdo's head, and the other articles from the bed-
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SAVAGE ASSAULT.—On Thursday, Ellen Pentony,
whose face bore evident marks of violent ill usage, ap-
peared at the Police-court to prefer a charge against
Louisa Shephard and Richard Lilley for a violent assault
committed on her person on Wednesday last. Complain-
ant stated that she went to the house of the female prisoner
to ask for some money she owed to her, when some alter-
cation took place, and she (Pentony) was struck both by
Shephard and Lilley in a most brutal manner, having
received five or six cuts on the head, and two on the cheek.
They were each fined £5, and in default of payment to be
committed for two months.
BIRKENHEAD JUVENILE BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.—
This society was formed three years ago, for the purpose
of affording temporary relief to the deserving poor, by
supplying them with food and clothing. Small sums of
money, amounting to £4O, were collected, and placed in
the hands of the treasurer, £36 of this had been dis-
tributed in relieving the poor, and defraying the necessary
expenses of the society, leaving a balance of £4 in the hands
of the treasurer. Since April, 1843, the sum of £l3. 10s.
7d. has been received, and, during the same period, 248
applicants have been relieved, at a cost to the society of
£l3. 6s. 6d.

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On Sunday n,
on duty at George's Dock Basin heard some heavy sA-
stance fall into the water, and on looking to ascertaio
what it was, found a poor flatman, named Wakefield,
struzgline, for his life. He immediately threw f
in one o
the life-buoys kept at the bridge fur the purpose, which
the poor fellow seized and held fast till lifted out by the
rest of the crew on board. It appears he was keeping
the tide watch, had fallen asleep, and in that state rolled
from the dock into the water.
THE ATLANTIC STEAMERS.—The royal mail steam-
ship Britannia, Captain J. Hewitt, sailed for Halifax and
Boston on Wednesday, with the mails and her full com-
plement of passengers. She had then been in port but
five days. Ttie Hibernia is undergoing repairs. She
sails on the 4th of July, and has already a large propor-
tion of her berths engaged. The Great Western, Captain
Matthews. sailed, on Saturday, for New York. and took
out thirty-five passengers, and a large quantity of fine
goods. The smallness of the number is to be attributed
to the uncertainty which prevailed until a few days pre-
vious to her departure whether she would sail at all for that
city. The steam-ship Caledonia, Captain Lott, which would
leave Boston and Halifax on the 16th and 18th ult., may
be ex;,ected to arrive here early on Saturday morning.
IRON STEAM-SHIP BUILDING.—The progress of build-
ing steam-ships of iron is making way in the most influen-
tial quarters. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Com-
pany have resolved in laying down a series of iron steam-
ers of the first class for their Mediterranean service. We
trust Liverpool will have her share of this expenditure.
Hitherto that company have confined themselves to tim-
ber-builtships, and it is highly creditable to our old tows
that their best vessels are of Liverpool build, viz., the
Oriental, tire Hindostan, the Great Liverpool, and the
Bentinek. The town and its trade. owe much in this re-
spect to the father of steam navigation on the high seas
Mr. C. W. Withams, the managing director of the Dub-
lin Company, and to Mr. Carleton, formerly a director of
that company, and now one of the directors of the Penin-
sular Company.

PUBLICANS AND BEERSELLERS FlNED.—Huntington,
publican, Standish-street, 605., Phillips, Key-street,
publican, 605., Quayle, Mersey-street, publican, 80s.,
Wright. New Quay, publican, 605., Sumner, Crown-
street, publican, 605., Watson, Gilbert-street, publican,
£5„ Dickinson, Jackson-street, publican, 50s. Barton,
Crump-street, publican, £5, Mitchell, Circus-street,
beerseller. 80s. Scott, Limekiln-lane, beerseller, £5.,
Owens, Dale-street, Windsor, beerseller, 405., Fazakerly,
Carruthers-street. beerseller, 405.. Connor. Downe-street,
beerseller, £5.. Chadwick, Carpenters-row, beerseller,
505., Skane. Waterloo-road, publican, 405., Aspinall,
Lower Harrington. publican, 405., Segar, Scotland-road,
publican, acquitted; Jvmes Thompson, Denison-street,
publican, acquitted. The fines imposed amounted in the
whole to £53, exclusive of the costs, which are 4s 6d in
each case.

GREAT WESTERN STEAM-SHIP.—On the application
of the Great Western Steam Co. the injunction which had
been obtained at the instance of the Peninsular and
Oriental Steam Co. against the sailing of the ship, the
" Great Western," for New York, has been dissolved.
The Vice-Chancellor observed, that he did not see how
he could continue the injunction, as, on looking into the
terms of the contract for the sale of the ship, he found
great uncertainty and contradiction. He did not, there-
fore, see how he could frame a decree which could recon-
cile such discrepancies. He could not, therefore, avoid
dissolving the injunction. On the question of costs, the
Vice-Chancellor observed, that as the suggestions ap-
peared merely to be made by the ingenuity of counsel,
and seeing that there was so much pinching and scraping,
he must refuse to allow them. The Great Western sailed
from this port on Saturday.
CAUTION TO OMNIBUS-DRIVERS.—On Saturday, the
driver of Lawrence's omnibus to Aigburth appeared be-
fore Mr. Rushton, to answer two complaints lodged
against him by officer 234, for having, on the 13th and
16th instant, in going to and returning from Liverpool,
been on the wrong side of the road. The defence was,
that the driver had no recollection of having infringed the
rules on the first day mentioned, and that he was obliged
to cross to the wrong side on the second occasion, in order
to let down Mr. Kearsley, a passenger. Mr. Rushton
said that complaints against omnibus drivers were of every
day occurrence, and that, with their lumbering machines
and reckless driing, they were constantly upsetting gigs
and other light vehicles in the streets. He thought a bye-
law would have to be passed with the view of meeting
such an intolerable nuisance. He then ordered the de-
fendant to pay a fine of 10s. and costs for each offence;
and said that, if complaints continued to be made, the
fine would be increased to 40s.
CASE OF STABBING.—On Thursday, Friday, and
again on Saturday, a foreign sailor, of the name of Ed-
mund Tell, was brought up on a charge of having severely
assaulted and stabbed one of his companions, named
Thornton. It appeared, that a number of men, amongst
whom were the prosecutor and prisoner, were drinking at
the Queen's Head, near Brunswick Dock, and that, a
scuffle having arisen among the carousers, the prisoner
followed Thornton out and stabbed him with a knife,
which, upon being shown in court, was asserted, by the
surgeon, to be incapable of giving the severe wounds his
patient had received. A host of witnesses were examined
in corroboration of the charge; and eventually the pri-
soner was remanded until Monday.—Yesterday, in con-
sequence of the absence, from indisposition, of Mr.
Rushton, who had previously heard the evidence, the
reading of the depositions was postponed until this day
or to-morrow, when it is hoped that magistrate may be
enabled to resume his official duties.

ATTEMPT TO POISON.—On Thursday last John Mur-
phy, an old man, was committed by one of the magis-
trates of Salford, to take his trial at the next assizes in
this town, on a charge of having attempted to poison his
daughter-in-law. It appeared, from the evidence, that
the prisoner's son had recently brought home a young
wife, at which the old man was much displeased, as, being
dependant on his son, he feared he should be turned out.
He quarrelled with the young woman, and more than once
threatened her with vengeance. The son, a short time
since, placed some oxalic acid, which he uses in his busi-
ness, in a cupboard. On Thursday morning the young
woman, after a temporary absence, discovered an extra-
ordinary appearance in the teapot, from which she was
about to take her breakfast. The contents of the pot were
examined, when the discovery was made that a large quan-
tity of oxalic acid had been mixed with the tea. As no
person had entered the house save.the prisoner from the
time when the tea was put in till the discovery that ano-
ther ingredient had been mingled therewith, the circum-
stances were deemed sufficiently strong to warrant his
committal.

Loss OF THE MANCHESTER, STEAM VESSEL—A
communication from Hamburgh, via Hull, dated Tuesday,
the 18th instant, reached Liverpool on Saturday afternoon,
which left little doubt that the Manchester, steam-vessel,
with all hands and passengers on board had been lost at
the mouth of the Elbe. She was a regular trader between
Hull and Hamburgh, and left Hull on Friday week. She
had six or seven passengers on board. On Saturday and
Sunday there was an awful storm : a vessel from Cadiz
perished near the month of the Elbe, and it was believed
in Hamburgh that the Manchester shared the same fate
at the same time. Nothing had been heard of her except
that property said to have belonged to her had been washed
ashore. This, however, might have been from off the
deck ; but the letter from Hambrugh gives no hopes of
her safety. It was generally believed that she had gone
down. The Manchester had been in Liverpool, a short
time since, getting in her engines, manufactured by
Messrs. Fawcett and Co. The following is stated to be
a correct list of the passengers :—Mr. Phillips, of Bir-
mingham • Mr. Richmond, of Paisley • Mr. Rothery, of
Leeds; Airs. Smith, her daughter, dim Emily Smith.
21 years of age, and Mr. St. George Smith, her son, 27
years of age. This family came from Drogheda, in Ire-
land, and were going to Graaffenburg, in Silesia, for the
benefit of their health.

WARRINGTON BOARD OF GUARDIANS.—The usual
weekly meeting of the board took place on Wednesday
last, in the Boardroom at the Workhouse. There were
five guardians present, and Mr. West was called upon to
preside. From the returns it appears that the total num-
ber of cases relieved throughout the union during the
previous week was 921, and the total expense incurred
£B7 15s. 4d. The number of cases relieved by Mr.
Cruikshank in the house was 453, and the amount ex-
pended £4l 17s. 7d, ; of this sum £25 10s. ids. was in
money, and £l6 7s. in kind. In the corresponding week
last year, the number of cases relieved was four hundred
and fifty-eight, and the amount expended, £49 Bs. 2d.
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The number of inmates in the workhouse at Warrington \
was 78, and in the one at Newton, SA ; total in both NI
Balance in the treasurer's hands, due to the union, ,
£219 4s. 10d. The clerk called the attention of the meet-
ing to the subject of the appointment of a superintendent
of pauper labour, in conformity with the orders of the
poor-law commissioners, but no steps were taken ; two or
three cases which came before the board for relief, it was
agreed, should be forwarded to the commissioners for
their instructions, there being many of a similar nature in
this district. No other business of importance was
transacted.
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INCENDIARY FIRES AT BIRKENHEAD.—Tsvo fires
broke out at Birkenhead on Monday night week, both of
which are supposed to be the work of an incendiary.
About eleven o'clock the first alarm was given, and it was
soon ascertained that flames were issuing from the win-
dows of some new houses, which are being erected by Mr.
Michael Raynes, near the finger-post, in Grange-lane.
Owing to the prompt exertions of two of the neighbours,
Mr. Boydell and Mr. Walker, the burning materials were
thrown out of the premises and the buildings saved. The
damage, which was trifling in amount, was principally
confined to some loose timber. There was a strong smell
of turpentine about the place : and, from the inquiries
since made, it is supposed that a joiner's bench and some
of the wood-work must have been previously covered with
turpentine, the better to accomplish the wicked designs
of the incendiary. In about an hour after the fire was
subdued, the inhabitants were again roused from their
slumbers by the renewed ringing of the fire-bell. Flames
were then found to issue from the sheds and saw-pits be-
longing to Mr. James Taylor, timber merchant, which
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intended wood-work for the new range of houses, con-
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mises, the two concerns being not more than ten minutes'
walk from each other, and on the same line of road. A
man of suspicious character, who was found lurking near
the second fire, was taken into custody.