The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-02-18 00:00:00

that parties began to recover themselves and examine its
effects. An advance was asked upon duty paid stocks,
on account of the uncertainty existing as to the precise
time of the reduction taking effect. A few sales only
were made; and yesterday, the same uncertainty con.
tinning, the market was very irregular, and is likely to
continue so until the question is finally settled. The
feeling in favour of the abolition of this duty is not so
hearty here as in the manufacturing districts.
The abolition of the duty on glass, auctions, coopers'
staves, &c.—especially the latter—has given great satis-
faction here, as also has the sweeping course adopted with
respect to the numerous small import duties repealed
and the export duty on coal. The more engrossing inte-
rest attached to the reduction of the sugar and cotton
duties has, however, prevented these from receiving more
than a merely passing attention.

The subject of the lecture to be delivered at St. Andrew's
Church this evening is " The Christian as a member of
the Church of England."
ST. THOMAS'S CHURCH, TOXTETH PARK.—To-mor-
row evening, the Rev. W. Butler, the respected incum-
bent of this church, will deliver the third of a series of
discourses on the distinctive doctrines of the Churches of
England and Rome. Subject, "The Word of God."
ST. BARNABAS CHURCH SCHOOLS.—It will be seen,
from an advertisement, that on Sunday week two sermons
will be preached in St. Barnabas Church by our respected
senior rector and the Rev. Hugh M‘Neile, in aid of the
funds for discharging the bannce still owing for the erec-
tion of the cf mmodious Sunday, daily, and infant schools
in connexion with the church. We sincerely hope that
these appeals will be liberally responded to, and that the
estimable incumbent of St. Barnabas will soon have the
happiness of seeing the erections completed and entirely
free from debt.

CLEANING THE FOOT-PATHS.-At the Police-court
yesterday, some of the parties having the management of,
or owning St. Anthony's Roman Catholic Chapel, were
brought before Mr. Rushton, on an information under
the local act, 'or not cleansing the foot-path, which is in
a very dirty state opposite the building. Mr. Rushton,
on looking into the act, said that the parties charged were
not at all liable, but that the footwalks opposite all places
or worship sere lequi.,o to oe Kept in passable condition
by the Town Council—the expense to be defrayed from
the borough fund. The information was accordingly
dismissed.

THEFTS FROM SHOPS.—A rather smartly dressed
young man, named William M`Cartin, was yesterday
brought before Mr. Rushton, charged with stealing a
coat from the shop door of Mr. Tuton, outfitter, Lord-
street. Mr. Dempster, an assistant at the shop, said
that on Saturday he heard a kind of noise at the shop
window, and going out saw the prisoner about fifty yards
off walking away. Some other men wt re near him.
Witness followed him, and found the coat under his arm.
He could not swear to the article, but distinctly to the
label upon it. The prisoner said that another man had
taken the coat, and had dropped it. He was committed
for trial, Mr. Rushton remarking that the case was the
more aggravated inasmuch as the prisoner was not induced
to the act from want or necessity.—Richard Low, a boy,
was charged wtih stealing a leather apron, value ls. 6(1.,
from the shop of Mr. Kent, Great Cross Flail-street, on
Saturday night. He was stopped while walking away
with it Trial at the sessions.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—A few weeks ago, a man named
Thomas Healy took his passatte for America by the ship
" American," from this port. The vessel put back, and
it was found that she required repairs. While she was
being discharged, previous to going into No. 1 North
Graving Dock, he accidentally fell into the hold, and was
seriously hurt. He was sent to the Northern Hospital,
and had so far recovered that on Wednesday last he left
the house, and went on board the vessel, to remain with
her at nights until she sailed. By some means he again
fell into the hold on the night of Friday last, or early on
Saturday morning, as he was found by some carpenters
at the bottom of the vessel, on the morning stated, much
hurt and unable to steak. He was again taken to the
hospital, where he died from the injuries on the same day.
The inquest has not yet been held. It appears from a
letter found upon him, written by his wife from Cork,
after she had heard of the first accident, that he was from
that city, and that he has left three children.

DETAINING WEARING APPAREL.-Mr. Pye, pawn-
broker, was yesterday brought before Mr. Rushton, to
show cause why he detained certain wearing apparel,
which he ought to have known or suspected to be stolen.
Mr. Wm. Cox, of Sidney-place, said, that on the 28th of
January last his house was entered by some thief or
thieves, and the articles (a brown and a black silk dress,
&c.) taken away. He missed them on the same after-
noon, and had them advertised through the Police-office,
sending bills to all the pawnbrokers. lie heard nothing
of them until recently, when he accidentally found them
through the police-officers at Mr. Pye's. The thief had
in the interim been found, tried, and sentenced to six
months' inn risonment. Mr. Pye (who produced the
articles) said that time had not been given him to arrange
the matter; that he was not aware they had been stolen ;
and that one of the dresses was not mentioned in the bill.
He also wanted the money lent upon them. Mr. Rush-
ton said he (Mr. P.) was by no means justified in detain-
ing them, and they must be delivered up. This Mr. Pye
complied with, on hearing the decision. The sum of 15s.
had been lent upon them.

CLAIM FOR WAGES.—Yesterday, at the Police Court,
a boy named Thomas Hopkin, applied for a balance of £5,
alleged to be due for wages earned, for fourteen months
services home to Africa and back, in the John Campbell,
belonging to Mr. W. Sharp, merchant.—Mr. Sharp said,
the boy had only gone on trial, and was to be bound ap-
prentice on his return, if he suited. Two voyages had
been performed, and as regarded one of them, the boy's
name was not on the ship's register. He also thought the
sum claimed too much, £4 a year being what he Lad
usually given to young apprentices, and some employers
received a premium with ►hem. No agreement had been
made as to wages —Mr. Rushton said, on hearing all the
evidence, that Mr. Sharp was not to blame, but that the
captain had been careless in not entering the name of
every one belonging to the ship in the register, and had
thereby rendered himself liable to a penalty of £2O. He
could only—in the absence of an agreement—fix a reason-
able amount of wages, and he thonght the sum demanded
might be considered so. Some deductions for clothing
were admitted by the applicant, and Mr. Sharp agreed to
pay the balance—X3 12s. 9d.

POLICE-COURT, YESTERDAY.—MINOR CONVICTIONS,
&c.—A little boy named John Taylor (previously con-
victed) was sent to gaol for three months for stealing a
piece of bacon from a standing in St. John's Market, on
Saturday.—A man named Matthew M'Cabe, for stealing
41b. of copper nails from the vessel where he was em-
ployed as scraper; one month.—A very little boy was
charged with tendering successively two bad sixpences in
payment for a halfpenny candle. It appeared that he had
acted under the orders of his father, a disreputable cha-
racter; and he was discharged.—A girl named Sarah
Simpson was charged with stealing half a bottle of gin-
gerette from a dwelling-house. She had before been
convicted, had suffered six months' imprisonment, and
was now consigned to prison for a month:—A man named
Peter Coyne, who was detected in stealing about 21b. of
leaf tobacco from the transit shed attached to the Tobacco
Warehouse; 21 days' imprisonment.—Three men, Con-
nolly, Cassidy, and Ginnes, were charged with being
drunk and disorderly in Marybone on Sunday, and strik-
ing a police-officer. The case being proved, they were
fined respectively 20s. and 10s. together with Gosts, or to
be imprisoned. One of them had been married on the
same day, and produced his certificate to that effect.