The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-03 00:00:00

LOCAL AND PROVINCIAL NEWS•

NEW MAGISTRATE.—At the Preston Sessions, on
Friday, Edward Bowyer, Esq.. of Ormskirk, took the
oaths and qualified as a magistrate of the county.
Lord Stanley has left the residence of Sir James Gra-
ham, at Netherby, near Carlisle, for Lathom House,
Lancashire, the seat of Lord Skelmersdale. His lordship
was to leave for London yesterday.
Yesterday week the driver of one of Mr. Muspratt's
carts, was accidentally kicked by a horse, from the effect
of which he died on Friday.
CHIMNEYS oN FIRE.—During the past four months
the police have laid informations against 376 parties for
allowing their chimneys to be on fire.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—A seamen, named John Mur-
ray, whilst at work in the maintop of the Ship Adelaide,
lying in the river, opposite Rock Ferry, fell to the deck,
and was killed on the spot.
At the rising of the court, on Saturday evening last,
Mr. Justice Cresswell paid a second visit to Sir Thomas
Bernard Birch, Bart., of the Hazles, where he remained
until yesterday morning.
We beg leave to call the attention of our readers, par-
ticularly of the maritime class, to the advertisement of
the Mariners and General Life Insurance Company in
our columns of this day, which appears to offer advan-
tages to seafaring persons seldom to be met with

On Thursday a boy named Wilson, residing in New
Milk-street, fell from the deck into the hold of the ship
Soldan, in Prince's dock. He was immediately conveyed
to the Northern Hospital, but died directly after his ar-
rival there.

DEAD BODY FOUND.— On Sunday morning week,
about eight o'clock, the body of an elderly female was
picked up on the shore near Leasowe Castle, in an ad-
vanced state of decomposition. What little hair remained
was quite gray.

PUBLICANS, &c.—At the Police. court, on Friday, the
folowing cases were disposed of :—Publicans fined 50s.
60s. and 405.. and two acquitted • beer-sellers, three fined
405., and some acquitted ; table-beer-sellers, two fined
50s. each.
APPROPRIATE TESTIMONIAL OP RESPECT.-- On
Tuesday last the members of " The Britannia Sons of
Mersey" benefit society, held at Mr. William Geldard's,
Ranelagh-street, presented their secretary, Mr. William
Lewis, with a very handsome bible, as a testimonial for
his faithful services during a period of 21 years.
C tUTION TO PAWN DROKERS.—Mr. Spier, pawnbroker,
on Friday, appeared before the Police•court, on a charge
of damaging a fender, which bad been pledged with him.
He was ordered to pay six shillings, the value of it, and
costs. The defendant said he should plead against the
decision.
SCOTCH CHURCH, BIRKENHEAD.—At their meeting,
on the 7th instant, the Presbytery of Glasgow having
found, by his own confession, that Mr. Gardner had
joined the body that have seceded from the Church of
Scotland, deprived him of his license and status as a
minister. Mr. Gardner is thus disqualified from bping
minister of the church at Birkenhead, it being :strictly
bound to be in communion and connection with the
Church of Scotland.
COMPLIMENTARY ENTERTAINMENT.—Upwards of
thirty gentlemen, teachers in the Mechanics' Institution,
and other friends of Mr. J. J. Roddick, met on Wednes-
day evening, in the Imperial Hotel, to entertain that gen-
tleman at supper, previous to his departure for Newfound-
land, where be has received an appointment in the gram-
mar school ; W. B. Hodgson, Esq. in the chair. Mr.
Mac Ilveen, principal of the Lower School, in the vice-
, chair.

APPREHENSION OF AN ALLEGED FORGER.—On Sun-
day morning a handsome and very respectable-looking
young man, named John Buckley, formerly of Cork, but
more recently carrying on the business of a grocer, at
Bristol, on an extensive scale, was apprehended on board
a vessel bound for America just as she was clearing the
gates of the Prince's Dock. The prisoner is charged with
having committed a number of forgeries in Bristol, and
has been sent on to that city in custody.
BLUE-COAT SCHOOL.—On Tuesday last, a public ex-
amination of the boys of this school took place at the In-
stitution, to test their proficiency in musical science and
in military evolutions. In the large yard in the front of
the handsome building, the boys paraded, marched and
counter-marched, with all the precision of veteran milita-
ries, the band played at the same time with that skill and
excellent taste for which these young musicians have be-
come celebrated. A large number of the spectators were
on the ground, to whom the performance gave the highest
satisfaction.