The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-08 00:00:00

Lora! prizs.

A seizure of a few fire arms has been made at Birken-
head.

The Great Britain steam-ship is advertised for sale, by
auction, in this town, in September.
On Monday the Oxton-hill Club beat at cricket the
Ashfield Club, with five wickets to go down.
The Hon. E. J. Stanley was amongst the passengers
for America on Saturday by the Cambria. He purposes
making a tour through Canada and the States.
The camp at Everton has been visited daily by thousands
of our townspeople, who have been much gratified by the
novel and interesting sight.
The Rev. Thomas Nolan preached a sermon at St.
Mary's Church, Youghal, on Sunday last, on behalf of
the Youghal Protestant Relief Society.
Jenny Lind will sing at the Collegiate Institution on
the 7th September. She will afterwards go to Hull,
Newcastle, and other provincial towns.
Mr. Topham, clerk of the Chester races, succeeds the
late Mr. Etty in the lesseeship of the Liverpool race-
course.

At the Bankruptcy Court, on Tuesday, John Shall-
cross, provision dealer, had his certificate suspended for
four months, and his protection refused.
Mr. H. Stuart Hawthorne, son of Dr. Hawthorne, of
this town, is on his way to St. Petersburg, to devote him-
self to the treatment of cholera on the system devised and
so successfully adopted by his father.
CoLLTsiox.—The Emma Watts, for New York, was
run foul of on Thursday night by the Dundalk steamer
in the river, and lost her bowsprit head and head-stock.
The steamer lost bulwarks and stanchions.

On Sunday morning, the body of John Brady, a la-
bourer, in Birkenhead, was found in the river close to the
pier disfigured as by a fall. It is not known how he got
into the water.

The greatest distance which the iron barque Panic ran
in twenty-four hours during the recent race roune. Ireland
was 220 miles, the greatest speed twelve-and-a-half knots,
and close-hauled nine knots per hour. She is a remarka-
bly fine dry vessel.

The Isle of Man Steam-packet Cempany, it appears,
have testified their respect for the Rev. Dr. Carpenter
(now of St. Jude's, Liverpool,) and his family, by proffer-
ing them a free passage in any of their boats, whenever
they may be inclined to visit the island.

PICKING POCKETS.—The light fingered gentry have
found a field wherein to ply the mysteries of their craft at
the encampment at Everton. The novelty of the specta-
cle has during the week attracted large numbers of persons
to the spot, and consequently much business has been.
done in the line referred to.

The Stockport Advertiser gives an account of the ap-
prehension and committal, in that town, of an impostor-
named John Delany, of Liverpool, who had been imposing-
on the innkeepers and others, by representing himself as•
a lieutenant in the army. He was committed as a
deserter.

NORWICH UNION LIFE OFFlCE.—Persons whose lives
are insured with this office may act as special constables,
and if in that capacity they lose their lives, the validity of
any policy neither would or could be questioned. It is
not even necessary to notify the act of enrolment on the
office books.

MORE ARMS SEIZED.—On Friday, the police seized in
a cellar under a public-house in Atherton-street 500 of
the cane-cutters, which Dr. Reynolds dignified with the
name of " swords." They belong to a person named
Butler, a dealer in old articles of all kinds, and it is but
right to say that there is no proof of his connection with
any of the secret clubs.
FERRY AT THE SOUTH Bken.—We are glad to find that
our friends at the south end• of the town are likely to have
their efforts, to obtain a landing place accessible at all
states of the tide, crowned with success ; the surveyor
having received instructione to report as to the most suit-
able place, and to furnish plans and estimates of cost of
masonry, landing-stage, &c., &c.
TRIUMPHS or STEAM.—The celerity of the Royal mail
steamers which run between Liverpool and the United
States is further evidenced.. The Niagara left Boston on
the 14th June, and arrived back in less than eleven days.
on the 12th ultimo, having twice crossed the Atlantic-
within the space of twenty-aix days, besides unloading
and landing at the close of each run.
WILFUL MURDER.—On Wednesday, a new-born fe-
male child was found in Union-court, Erle-street. It
was wrapped up in a check shirt, which was smeared with.
blood. The surgeon was of opinion that the child had,
been born alive, and that death had been cased by expo-
sure to cold. The jury returned a verdict of wilful mur-
der against some person or persons unknown.
A MAN DROWNED IN GEORGE'S DOCK GUT.—A
little after ten o'clock, on Sunday evening. the police-
officer on duty at the south end of George's Dock heard
an alarm that a man had fallen into the water. He ran
with a grappling directly, but could see no one in. fie
searched the gut, and in a few minutes found the body of
Edward Williams, a labourer, aged 39. No one saw him
fall in, and the splash in the water was alone heard.
DOCK COMMITTEE PROCEEDINGS.—At the- weekly
meeting on Thusday, the chairman, Mr. Moore, said, the
alleged inattention at the telegraph station was under
inquiry. Several dock gatemen and pier masters were
appointed to the new north docks. Captain John Ashton
was appointed to the situation of dock master, at a salary
of £250, subject to a certificate as to age. A letter from
Messrs. IGreenstreet and Paton, calling the attention of
the Trust to a new machine for removing sand-banks,
and requesting to have an order for putting one in opera-
tion, was referred to the committee of works.
DUBLIN MAIL.—On Tuesday, the morning mail com-
menced to be dispatched via Holyhead, and the evening
mail alone will in future arrive at, and be dispatched from
Liverpool. From the immense trade between this port
and Ireland, the change is most distasteful, and will
prove a serious disadvantage to the mercantile community
here. Letters which leave Dublin one morning are only
procurable in Liverpool the next, and half a day is so
lost in all trading transactions. The post-office authori-
ties must see to the evil ; if the bags were brought on at
once from Chester instead of proceeding to Crewe, there
to await the London down train, the mischief would be
remedied.
SYMPATHISERS WITH IRELAND.—SOMB of the Irish
papers having stated that a brigade of sympathisers with
the rebels in Ireland was about to leave New York, in the
John R. Skiddy packet-ship for this port, bringing with
them subscriptions and arms for the purpose of aiding the
Confederates in what they have been pleased to miscall
their " struggle for liberty," the attention of the Mayor
was directed to this announcement. On Tuesday after-
noon the packet-ship was telegraphed off the port. The
Mayor immediately put himself into communication with
Mr. Sands, the consignee for the ship, and he at once
consented to afford every facility in the apprehension of
the parties from America, should it appear there were any
on board the vessel with the object stated in the papers
alluded to. The steam-tug Liver was engaged and three
of the detective force proceeded down the channel and
boarded the John R. Skiddy off Crosby Lightship. Thay
were informed, however, by Captain Luce, that none of
the sypathising rebels had come with him. It was gene-
rally reported in New York that they had taken berths in
his vessel, but such was not the case. The rumour, how-
ever, had been the means of preventing other passengers
from going in the packct-ship, much to the loss of the
owners. Had the brigade been on board, they would have
been rather astonished at their reception outside of Liver-
pool.
DEFICIENT WEIGHTS AND MEASURES, &C.—On Fri-
day, a session was held in the Crown Court, for the pur-
pose of hearing and investigating charges preferred against
parties for having used fraudulent scale-beams, scales,
weights, measures, &c. His worship the mayor presided
over the court, and was assisted from time to time through-
out the inquiry by Mr. Rushton, Mr. Bonn, Mr. Aikin,
and Mr. Parker. The evidence being conclusive against
120 parties, they were severally mulcted in penalties from
2s. 6d. to 405., costs of 4s. 6d. being incurred in each
case. In all the above cases the weights were forfeited,
and they were nearly all unstamped, in addition to being
deficient. The total money thus brought in to the borough
coffers, by the fines and costs, amounts to £129 lls. In
reference to one of the cases Mr. Rushton said, the defend-
ant did not possess the courage of a pick-pocket, despic-
able as that was. The Mayor expressed his determination
in all cases of second conviction to inflict the full penalty
of £5. The accelerating beam, which, doubtless, has been
the instrument used for a length of time, for purposes of
fraud in Liverpool, and for the exposure of which the pub-
lic are indebted to Mr. Fell, the active chief inspector of
weights and measures, is produced by the centre of gravity
being below the points of suspension, and displays consi-
derable ingenuity in its construction. Another
description of beam, known as the retarding beam, prin-
cipally used by fraudulent persons to buy with, is occa-
sioned by the centre of gravity being above the points of
suspension. By either of these fraudulent beams persons
may be defrauded to a very considerable extent, and still
the weights used be perfectly correct. The manufacturers
of such instruments, knowing well the purposes for which
they are used, are even more culpable than the persons
who vend them, but these fraudulent individuals are
shielded by an anomaly of the law which has not rendered
the makers subject to penalty. It is a well known fact
that a brisk trade is now being done in the manufacture of
' false beams, weights, and measures, and yet the parties
escape with impunity. Powers, however, are now being
sought by act of parliament, to render persons so acting
amenable to the law.—Journal.