The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-10 00:00:00

LANCASHIRE WINTER ASSIZE.

Yesterday afternoon the commission for the Southern
Division of this County was opened in the Crown Court,
though not in the presence of Mr. Baron Gurney, as his
Lordship did not finish the business at Chester until ra-
ther late last night. After the commission had been read-
by T. S. Shuttleworth,:Esq., the clerk of the crown, the
court was adjourned until eleven o'clock this morning,
when his Lordship will deliver his charge to the Grand
Jury, a report of which we shall give in a second edition.

The contributions from Birkenhead to the Church
Missionary Association, for the last year, amounted to
the very handsome sum of .£228.-
Mr. Adam Storey Farrer, of the Collegiate Institution,
son of the Rev. A. E. Farrar, has had the Bible Clerk-
ship of St. Mary's-hall, Oxford, conferred upon him by
the Rev. Dr. Hampden, the principal.
On Thursday evening, his Worship the Mayor gave his
first official dinner at the Town-hall. All the council
were invited, and upwards of fifty of the members accepted
the invitation. About sixty gentlemen sat down, includ-
ing, amongst the non-members of the Council, Colonel
Falconer, Captain Bevis, R.N., and Rector Campbell.

LIVERPOOL LAW SOCIETY.—The members of the
Law Society dined together 'bn Tuesday, at the Adelphi
Hotel. Between sixty and seventy of the solicitors prac-
tising in Liverpool were present. Mr. Ambrose Lace
was the chairman, and Mr. Edward Guy Deane vice-
president. We believe it is intended that the festival
shall be an annual one.

On Monday last a meeting was held at Manchester, at
which it was resolved to invite Sir Henry Pottinger to a
public dinner, and also to present the right honourable
and gallant diplomatist with a piece of plate, as a testi-
monial of the high sense entertained of his valuable ser-
vices. The subscription already amounts to £2,400, and
the banquet will take place on the 20th.

THE COLLEGIATE INSTITIITION.—From the memorial
which was presented to the Town Conncil, on Wednes-
day, it appears that this-institution cost £36.600, £24,905
of which were raised by voluntary subscriptions, and
£7300 advanced on loan, thus leaving a sum of £3345
still unpaid, or a total debt upon the building of £10,705.
In the upper school there are 101 pupils, in the middle
school 261, and in the lower school 377, and in the even-
ing school 315, making a total of 1054 pupils.
Loss OF AN AMERICAN LINER.—By the Hibernia mail
steamer, letters have come to band with the melancholy
intelligence of the shipwreck and total loss of the ship
Elizabeth, Capt. Paton. commander, belonging to Liver-
pool, with, it is much to be apprehended, the sacrifice of
twenty-two persons, including the commander, the chief
mate, several of the crew, and many passengers. The
particulars received state that the vessel was on a passage
to New Orleans, having on board for that port sixteen
passengers, of whom there were a number of ladies.

THE LANCASHIRE MINERS' BALANCE SHEET.—It
appears from the balance sheet of the Lancashire miners,
from October 21st to Nov. 30th, that the receipts of the
six weeks (including balance in band from last report of
£140) are £1244 19s. 84d. ; and the disbursements (in-
cluding £4OO to W. P. Roberts, Esq.) ale £1217 15s.
3d. ; so that the financier of the miners appears to know
how to make the receipts and disbursements square
pretty closely: The total income since the commence-
ment of the year is stated to be £Bl5O 7s. Gad. ; and the
total expenditure £8123 3s. Id. ; leaving a balance in hand
of £37 4s. sd.—rather a slender foundation for a general
turn-out.

IMPUDENT THEFT FROM A MILL/NEWS SHOP.-At
the police-court, yesterday, a man, named William Bryant
was charged wjth stealing a shawl in a very audacious
manner. Mrs. Crowther, milliner, Great George-street,
said that on Saturday night about 9 o'clock the prisoner
came into her shop and priced a scarf, which he bought
for 2s. He afterwards priced a woollen n-t-work shawl
and said he would have it for 10s., sixpence being abated
in the original price asked. While the lady was folding
it up to land to him, he suddenly snatched it from her,
and ran out into the street. The alarm was given as
soon as possible, and a police-officer hearing the cry of
" stop thief," looked out an.d saw a man running whom
he pursued into Roscoe-street, where he apprehended
him. He turned out to be the prisoner, and bad dropped
the shawl when his pursuer got close at his heels. On
being brought back to the shop he endeavoured to com-
promise the matter by paying for the article, but this did
not avail him. He was committed for trial at the sessions
MR. IV OOLEY, THE BRISTOL MERCHANT, AND MISS
BalrEßS.—lt will be remembered by some of our readers
that in October, 18,12, Mr. Wooley, a respectable mer-
chant of Bristol, became the dupe of his sister-in-law, a
Miss Ann Bryers, and that some singular incidents,
appertaining to a marriage brought about by her agency,
were the then general topic of conversation. The Albion,
who has of late been rather active in catering romantic
tit-bits, has discovered that the said Mr. John Wooley
and the said Miss Bryers (who had deceived him into a
marriage with a young woman of no property, on pretence
that she was a wealthy heiress) are now living, in amity,
under the same roof, in Liverpool, keeping, in fact, a
public-house in a secondary street—a circumstance which,
considering the deception practised upon the gentleman
by the fair one, either shows the gentleman to be pos-
sessed of a most forgiving temperament. or throws us
upon the alternative of supposing that he has found some
truth in the rhymester's exclamation—
" Sure, the pleasure is as great
In being cheated as to cheat."

SAINT JAMES'S CHURCH.—A. rather full meeting of
the grave-owners, in the cemetery around this church,
WAS held last night in the Toxteth Hall, for the purpose of
taking measures to oppose the proposed enlargement of
the Church on the plan proposed, which they consider
would be an invasion of their property, and of the
sanctity of the tombs of their relatives. Dr. M'Kee was
called to the chair, and in alluding to the meeting
of Thursday last complained of what was stated in one
of the papers to the effect, that the parties proposing the
improvements had not a fair hearing, whereas the Rev.
gentleman at the head of it was heard uninteruptedly
throughout. Mr. Prestman moved a resolution to the
effect that it was highly indecorous to allow the church to
be built over the graves, and that the meeting pledged it
self to oppose it as an invasion of the rights of property
as well as the sanctity of the tomb. An enlargement of
the church, might, he said, he made, by raising and re-
roofing the church and making an additional gallery on
the west. This was seconded by Mr. Brice, an appa-
rently practical gentleman, who explained that theproposed
plan would require four-feet "coffer-dams" to substan-
tiate each pillar in the proposedadditions,and that it could
not be accomplished without each pillar disturbing four
graves. The church had eighteen inches all round the
walls on which they could make buttresses to support ad-
ditions without encroaching on the church yard. Ac-
cording to the proposed plan two rows of pillars, and not
one only, would be required to support the superstruc-
ture, under which persons must go on their hands and
knees to reach some of the graves. The motion was put
and carried. The chairman then proposed a memorial to
the Lord Bishop of Chester to the effect that the enlarge-
ment of the church as proposed would grievously injure
the feelings of the grave-owners, and an amendent was in-
troduced into it purporting that the parties had no ob-
jection to church extension for the poor, which might be
accomplished within the limits of the present building. This
was also agreed to, 5 hands only being held up against it.
Mr. Barnes then entered into a kind of explanation of the
part he had taken at the previous meeting, with respect
to the incumbent. A committee was appointed to carry
the objects of the meeting into effect, and the memorial
to the Lord Bishop was signed by many of those present.
The meeting then separated.
After the pressing demands which have been made by
some of our manufacturing towns for the privileges of in-
land bonded warehouses for goods suhject to customs du-
ties, it would naturally be supposed that the formation of
a Custom-house establishment at Manchester would have
occasioned a vast quantity of business in that extensive
seat of British manufactures ; but we are informed that
the result is very different from what had been expected.
Although the system has been introduced into Manches-
ter only as an experiment, and a large establishment has
been formed of old and experienced officers, under the
impression that the extent of business there would require
the constant services of well tried men, we believe that, up
to the present period, little trade has passed through the
Manchester Custbm-house, and the officers' duties are
nearly approaching to a sinecure. The total annual ex-
pense of the establishment, exclusive of that for the Cus-
tom-house and warehouse, is £2,620. The town-council
of the borough of Manchester, however, are made liable,
under the act of the 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 31, to the
charges of maintaining this establishment, and the public
are thereby exonerated from thvxpense.—Obterver.