The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-04-01 00:00:00

April 1, 181

At Carmarthen assizes, a boy named Lloyd, age'
years, was indicted for killing another boy by thro
stone at him. He confessed to the policeman that
done it; but as the policeman had first told him
would be better for him to confess, the evidence vy
admitted, and the prisoner was acquitted.
DR. BEIMINGTON AGAIN.—It appears that Dr.
rington has induced some tradesmen of this town t(
ply him with large quantities of plate, hardwart
other goods ; hut the tradesmen having heard of th
tor's " doings " in other places, became alarmed
procured the assistance of the police, who went dn.
the stately domicile of the rev. doctor. "Is Dr'
rington at home?" was the first question. A repi
given by a female attendant in the affirmative ; but
counter-signal from the interior of the house induce
domestic to contradict her first answer ; a confused
was heard, as of some one trying to effect an escape
the hack part of the house ; the police immediate)
tered, and reached the back just in time to see Dr.
rington scampering along :the garden, minus his Fl
hat, which he left behind in the' house. The P°lic g
lowed in hot pursuit to Wymondley, where the fu
outstripped them. In the meantime the various tt
men made an attack upon the house, each taking,
the commodities he had himself provided, or at leas
portion which remained. On Tuesday, the rev. ,'
and a boy who officiated as his page, were found at
with a quantity of plate and hardware in their pose
belonging to tradesmen in llertford. The rev. Se
man voluntarily appeared before the chief constabl
whose custody he left these articles. He was tat
tained, as it was judged that the case, though evideo
fraud, could not be dealt with, as there was reason tt
lieve the doctor had not assumed a false name.
however fortunate that the intended fraud was disc°
in time ; for had the month when payment was Pr°l
passed by, the doctor would, no doubt, have disaPPe
from Graveley with the property, as he had done
other towns.—Hertford Reformer.

THE ROI AL MERSEY YACHT CLUB'

We are gratified to announce that the members of
society have taken premises, which comprise a verY sP
did club-room, and offices for the committees and 'el
tary, and which, as the yachting season is fast apPr°,B
ing, will, we have HO doubt, be found highly advan,
ous for the general interests of the club. The larger roi
for the general meetings, is one of the finest in Liveri/
and is now in progress of being suitably fitted up•
suite of rooms rented is known as " The Union Gager,
—over the Union News-room,--5 handsome stone bq,
ing, in Duke-street. Many donations of
pictures, Pr,,;l,
books, charts, maps, and a number of very beautifin
valuable models of yachts and other vessels, marine e;
osities, &c. are, we learn, already offered by various me
hers to be deposited in the room, and will form the
clews of a nautical museum. The situation is at once
spectable, central, and quiet, being apart from the eh
mercial bustle of the town, and at the same thee oil
few minutes' walk from the Custom-house, and re.,,
a
accessible to all desirable to obtain information relative
yachting, and the general progress and improverne"`,
building, sailing, and even steaming. The club-room
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be open every day for the accommodation of the °jibe
hers; a Yacht Soiree will be occasionally held for
_a
amusement and edification ; and ultimately, (as the el
of Commons admits of yacht clubs,) the establish 11
may become beneficial in a national point of
present " Experimental Squadron" (of the Royal 9ve
is the result of yacht clubs. Yachts have beaten esi
men-of-war ; and now, therefore, yacht-builders Brej,t,
lowed by government to contend against the
rnowili r
the surveyor of the navy,—and the event will, in all P
bability, by eliciting new improvements in the consdt
tion and management of vessels, give a wider cottns„oo
the world of mind over the world of matter, and render
entire shipping, mere intile and naval, more powerft)
more safe, thus conducing to our national wealth 119 dti
curity. From what we have learned, and are enaltet
oi
observe, no body of men are so scientific, when P"teta
their metal, as a society of yachtmen. The an',9 bet
" blue-jackets" muster strong. They, in fact, nu,""roo•
thousands ; and those thousands are headed and Pt
ised by her Majesty and the first officers of her gallop!
fleet. The club-room is cheerfully lighted by a sPAcilke
central dome, and also by three large windows in -ge,l
street. Various pictures, models, &c. will be arraead
round the walls ; a library (chiefly nautical) will be ftifrodo
chiefly of donations of books ; and portfolios and 6‘15
will be provided for prints, &a. The committee-I'o,re'
to be neatly fitted up, and communications for the se A
tary will henceforth be received at his office there. is
gilded " Royal Arms" will be placed over the entrall A
Slater-street, inscribed " Royal Mersey Yacht Club:ogs
"news-book" will be kept, in which arrivals and sash
of yachts, with their tonnage, the winners, yachts sP°kea,
1
&c. will be daily logged. An " Aquatic Album"
riao
be in the room, for the purpose of recording, by Sc
oe'
from newspapers, individual information, &c., every Ofi
currence relating to yachting, or novelties in nactg
affording agreeable readi9g to the members. Severn
newspapers, nautical periodicals, &c. will also be preps
ded, so that the rooms may become a place of resort hip.
attraction to all interested in the noble sciences Of
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building and ship-sailing, with all their irriportin),"reei,
juncts. We have but to add that The Royal yids pt
Yacht Club purpose to receive all visiting inetnheor
other yacht clubs throughout the kingdom with tnat
dial welcome and hospitality which Sir W. Scott so 10,_e.oy
tifully expresses as indicative of the friendship of the Pot be
landers to those who may sojourn amongst them, cubes
states, that with those sons of the mountain-
---" Stranger is a holy name."