The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-08-20 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS,

SALE OF LAND AT ROCK FERRY.—A sale of land
situate in this neighbourhood took place on Wednesday
last, at the Rock Ferry Hotel, by Messrs. Winstanley
and Sons, of Liverpool. The whole, we understand, went
off well, all the lots being sold but three, those being the
estates of Poulton, and realised twenty-two per cent.
above the valuation of Mr. C. Rampling.
BIRKENHEAD DOCKS.—The works at these docks are
about to be commenced. The time fixed for laying the
foundation stone is unavoidably postponed from the 11th
to the 25th of September next. Mr. Tomkinson, of Li-
verpool, is declared the contractor. It is said that the
residence of J. D. Case, Esq., has been taken to be occu-
pied by the clerks of the works, engineer, &c.

- To STRANGERS VISITING LIVERPOOL.—Our enter-
prising townsman, Mr, Lacey, has just published a new
Pictorial Handbook of Liverpool, designed for the use of
strangers visiting our town, and forming a guide to all its
public buildings, and other places worthy of being seen,
with the various excursions which may be made from it,
the various steamers, omnibuses, &c. It contains a vast
fund of valuable information of all descriptions, an ex-
ceedingly interesting history of Liverpool, and is beauti-
fully illustrated. We shall notice it more at length when
the state of our columns permits.
NOVEL TRICK.—On Monday evening last, two females,
named Bradley and Brayshaw, went into the shop of Mr.
Chapman, jeweller, Castle-street, and asked to look at
some wedding rings. After inspecting a number, Mr.
Chapman's attention was attracted by what appeared to
him to be a brass ring, which must have been substituted
for a gold one. He charged the women with the attempt
at fraud ; and Bradley having gone to the door, he fol-
lowed her, and as he was bringing ber back, he heard the
ring fall on the floor from the hand of Brayshaw. The
parties were then given into custody, but neither of them
had any money in their possession. They were both
committed for trial.

TRADESMEN'S ASSISTANTS.7A meeting of this body
was held on Wednesday, to consider matters affecting the
presidency of the association, Mr. Flower having within
the last few days become an employer, and consequently
ineligible to be a member, or to hold office in the society.
An address to Mr. Flower was prepared and adopted, to
the effect that his separation from the society would be
fraught with evil to their cause, as their success must be
attributed to his exertions and judicious management ;
that the committee deemed it prudent to deviate in the
case before them from their general principles, and agree
to an exception, and solicit Mr. Flower's continuance in
office. It appeared from a statement made by one of the
speakers, that out of fifteen thousand assistants belonging
to the town, only about five hundred subscribe to the
association,—a circumstance much to be regretted, when
the great importance of the object is considered.

CAUTION TO DEALERS IN GAME.—Three informa-
tions were laid on Wednesday, before the magistrates, at
the instance of Mr. Coltman, against Jane Shone, keeper
of a shop in St. John's Market, for having in her poses-
sion a pheasant, eight brace of partridge, and five of
grouse, contrary to the Ist and 2nd, William IV., which
prohibits the sale of such game from the Ist of February
to the Ist of September, under a penalty of 20s. on every
head of game. The case was fully borne out by Mr.
Coltman, who was cross-examined by Mr. Wardle for
Mrs. Shone; but Mr. Rushton, instead of levying the
full penalty, which would have amounted to £2B, in-
flicted, in consideration of its being a first offence, a fine
of £5 125., being only 4s. a head on the game. Mr.
Rushton said that the magistrates were determined to
deal most severely with all such case, as conduct such as
the defendant's offered a direct premium to poaching, and
all the consequences that resulted from that offence. The
effect of this, and all similar decisions, is, that in addition
to the payment of the penalty, the parties so convicted
forfeit their licences as dealers in game.

POST-OFFICE ALTERATIONS.—Since the recent alter-
ations in the mails, an arrangement has been made by the
Postmaster General for a later despatch to Manchester
and the York line of road. The letter-box will in future
be closed at a quarter past six o'clock in the evening, for
letters to the following places :—Manchester, Rochdale,
Halifax, Huddersfield, Bradford, Wakefield, Leeds, York,
Hull, Nottingham, Leicester, and Derbyshire. The pre-
vious notice as to the despatch to the north road and
Scotland continues in force. The letter-box will be
closed at half-past three in the afternoon, for letters for
Manchester, Bolton, Wigan, Preston, Lancaster, the
north road, and all Scotland. The late tee will be one
penny from half-past three till a quarter to four; and six-
pence from a quarter to four till four. The letter-box
will in future, be closed at midnight, for the second des-
patch to Wigan, Bolton, Manchester, Preston, Blackburn,
Lancaster, the North of England, and all Scotland. This
mail leaves the office at half-past one, a.rn. The above
regulations came into operation on Friday last.
COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.—Jas. Montgomery, Esq.,
has commenced a course of six lectures on the British
poets, which, we are glad to find, are exceedingly well
themselves
mostselve
s talented
ofthis sonscr great
tof treat;th e Muses,
for
we willfeel
attended, and we have no doubt they will continue to be
dcan look upon and hear then mind so, as well from the attractive nature of the subject, as
from the distinguished position which the lecturer holds
as a man of great poetic genius; indeed, we cannot sup-
pose that any one,. who has the inclination to hear n
account of the writings and characters of our own native
b
one, however imbecile i
or degraded
in e
poetic language
of eargr
im-
pressed with the sentiments which he becoming favourably codlahes disposition,
toph anttvei no
lecturer, without
yto o a
poetic
utters, in his stric-
tures on the influence of poetry. No one can be insen-
sible to its peculiar charms, or indifferent
interest. If, then, such are it to its absorbing
s
only in its cultivated, but even inclaims on the mind, not
who will be so neglectful to l himself
its most savage state,
opportunity of passing, withoutilmself to allow this rare
hearing one of the greatest and
going and seeing and
most exalted sons of
ge-
nius—one of the most highly-favoured
M i ruses. We trust our f children of the
ends will take our advice, and
go and judge for the
will regret not embracingmelvtels ; for we feel confident they
the present offer of hearing an
account of the characters of the celebrated poets of Great
Britain. This evening 1 •
he will review the poetry of the
16th and 17th centuries, including Donne, Skelton,
Shakspere. &c.