The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-01-01 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

1-shot of my post, a GIVING IT Up!—T. Batscn, Esq., who took the third EXTRAORDINARY DELIVERANCE OF A HORSE FROM
conveying passengers prize for a Hereford ox, at Smithfield, and who has been THE BOTTOM OF A WELL. Mr. Thomas Holdon, horse-
sof the men engaged high-farming :it at Ross, ala Mechi, has given up his dealer, of Earls Colne, left a stallion out in his yard on
is that broke upon the farming establishment.—Gloucester Journal. Sunday se'nnight, and upon searching for it about six
a troop of donkeys An old woman, 84 years of age, was burnt to death, in o'clock on Monday morning, discovered it at the bottom
nen having espied the almshouse at Bristol, on Sunday week, through the of his well, at least 25 feet deep. Several men having
The labours of burning tobacco from the pipe she was smoking setting descended, succeeded in fastening a rope round its body,
' 'ne, re- fire to her clothes. and after eight hours' labour contrived to extricate the
On Christmas Eve, a young man, named Shelton, threw animal, who, with the exception of a few scratches, was
'-- 4n approaching train, at Matton, on the uninjured.—Suffolk Herald.
the

himself

York and Scarborough Railway, and was instantly killed. SHOCKING OCCURRENCE.—On Monday morning,
Tust before committing the act, he said he was tired of family of the Rev. 'l'. H. Davies, incumbent of Trini►._
Church, Nottingham, were horror-stricken to find upon
tl . . arising from their beds that their two maid servants had
ex . been discovered in their beds in a state of insensibility.
a t The room in which they lay was filled with smoke, and in
het one corner was a portable fire-grate. containing some dead
len coke. A surgeon was quickly in attendance, but one of
ass the women, Ellen Pierce, aged about thirty years, died
Jevonsk shortly after his arrival. The other woman, who is named
S. English, and is about thirty years old, has been restored.
k, It is supposed that the coals had been lighted for the pur-
-3,, pose of warming the room, the night hem
IDE There was a fire-place in the room, the chimney .-
the A however, had been stopped up by the women, in their
ootir, ignorance of the consequences, to prevent the heat from
y cover manilla'.

A labourer in the dockyard at Plymouth has been pre-
sented with an excellent bound bible and prayer book for
pis attention to the sufferers from cholera in that '

,lth has also passed a vote of tha

g severe]

letter of

Times last week, synchronises with an announcement
made by Mr. Godley in the Chronicle, of his intention to
proceed'at once to New Zealand to carry into effect the
long-projected Canterbury-colony scheme. Mr. Godley,
remembered, was the original projector of the
The Bishop, with his characteristi,

it will b,
colony.

practical

I sagacity, points out the dar
objects to be regarded in the

gers to be avoided .and the
execution of the plan, and
dvice be but followed, to all

ives encouragement, if his

e plan

'diem©

.
female emigration, meanwhile
a large sum subscribed
unds

as been fairly started

amounting to several thou

sands o

r.,_..,..,.-... The bishop objecti to our " present
system of transporting to the colonies wholesale cargoes
of the labouring poor," and advocates " a system of colo-
nization by neighbourhoods" ; composed of persons who
If the existing system, which, by
.hinv hut a " whold.utlu

'e some property

scale, lie.abandoned, how is the
colonies—the great want there—

iiting deficiency in our
be sunolied ? " Send

us more labourers" is the ceaseless cry. Mr. Sydney
Herbert's plan of female emigration has received a heavy
blow from a trustworthy authority, from which it appears
that female emigrant ships have hitherto been hotbeds of
vice.

BANK Of

NGLAND.—The return of the movement of

the Bank of England for t
in Friday's Gazette, gives the following change
with the week ending 15th inst. :—ln the departn
e notes in circulatiot had increased £147,170, which
)roduced by an increase in the gold coin or bul-

k ending on the 2

had beer

On the debit side of the

ad increased £2,567

nking department the Rest
le public deposits had increased

and the seven-day and other post bills had increased XlB,
making the total of the liabilities X 38,488,677. On the
credit side the Government Securities remained unaltered,
the other securities had increased the notes had

£57,147,

increased £296,660, and the gold and silver coin had
decreased £57,789, which equalised the account. The
bullion in both departments of the Bank had increased
£16,991,261 to £17,080,642, being a difference of
The paper in actual circulation had decreased

8i
£19.02

2,116 to £18,872,

44, being a difference of

DUCATIONAL REMUNERATION.—The other day there
,ared in the Times an advertisement, addressed " To
►ol Assistants," from the cathedral city of Peter-

A. young man about eighteen is

rated, " who

accustomed to tuition. Salary £lO per annum, with
and lodging in the family." Where is the adver-
's conscience, or what kind of estimate does he form
n.tience

]eration appropriate and due to t
ry for a teacher ? The youth is expect&
)le figure, but on this miser-

urse, to make a respc

stipend he will be

fitly pinched

do so. As

:er in an union work'

is twic

ach "rations as the

/ords." These announce-

s recall to mind t

given to the Vicar of

:efield's
acaderr

ivL•o had an is

of being usher

by his-rn
a, " this i

Dre ex peri e

s indeed a

ry pretty career that

you. I

and may I die
be a an uuder

had rat}
No. si

ssion, bind yourself
a cutler's wheel, bu

seven years as

MISCALCULATION

d Richard

son, who
Mrs. Br

hot himself

;ery be

A few wee

house, he stole a small p:

with the

KI innocence, he

:harge was not I

;ent out of the towr

me back

to Lei

meeting with the encoura

hich his double-breaste

from a scarf being found

-
the pistol being very sma
of a bullet, it is probable

so much harm as
take him into her

puce tt

effect of a be

placed in a lunatic asylurr
STRANGE AND FATAL

about 58 ye

eleven o'clock,

to the roof by some

an, 1, 18511.

THE DISPE

NSARIES,

THE LIVERPOOL DOCK COMMITTEE AND THE
SOUTHPORT CHANNEL.
We regret to perceive that a little apparen

The following extract from a letter in a contemporary
paper completes the case, which has already been dis-
cussed at length in our columns, with regard to the respec-

five boundaries and rights of the Liverpool Dock Com-
mittee, and the Ribble Commissioners. The writer states
that the boundaries of our port were fixed by Royal Corn-

mission-ers, on the 28th December, 1723 ; and is defined,

by the 40th Geo. 1., to extend,—

"From the Red Sto. on the point of the Wh
ral southerly to the foot of the river called Ribble Water in a
direct line northerly, and so upon the south side of thp
river to Hesketh Bank easterly, and to the River Astla.
Douglas there; and so all along the sea coasts of Meols
Formby into the River Mersey, and all over the Rivers Mersey
Irwell, and Weaver."
The writer continues :

s in Hoylak

aid and

"The legislative jurisdiction of the Ribble commissioners
extends from Preston down the river, to a line drawn from the
Naze Point on the Lytham shore, to the River Douglas at Hes-
keth Bank, and in the channel to seaward, north of the Liver-
pool— hr -

The anchor
gents to the Dock Col

of the pa

.eferred to in the letters of Lloyd's
.tee. is therefore clearly not within

We may add that when the Ribble Act was before Par-
liament the Dock Trustees sent up a deputation to get in-
serted the exemption clauses 95, 171, and 172, whith
expressly guard the rights and boundaries of the port of
Liverpool from being affected by anything contained in
the Ribble Act, on the express ground that Southport and
Meols were within this port; and it is a little too much

for the Dock Ci
upon to buoy the

:ommittee, because they
e anchorage off Bug's Ho.

are now called

them, at their: own request by an Act of Parliament.
The party, by the bye, who ought to have been consulted
upon the legal merits of the case, is the Town-clerk, the
adviser of the Dock Trustees, and not the solicitor to the
Dock Committee. The former gentleman, we believe,

I has arisen between the Committee of
that of

will satisfy the municipal body upCin the subject, when the
question is made one for that body's decision.

As a proof that the buoys sought for are required, we
may mention that on Friday last, the schooner Nanny
and Betty, of Fketwood, from Newry, with a cargo of
wheat and meal, for Liverpool, was wrecked in this very
place. The Captain reports that he " saw broken water
ahead on the S.W. end of the Horse-bank, hut could not
see any buoys of the south Ribble channel. Kept the

Anne's Dispensary

vessel away to clear the breakers. Had the buoys been
in the South Channel, I could have run into Buy' s Hole,
or in the main of Southport, and not seeing any buoys,
and the vessel ran so far to leeward, for the safety of our
lives and property, obliged to run on the main near Birk -
dale:Point." Surely such an occurrence as this ought to
draw the a

tention of shipowners and underwriters to
the necessity of the question of liability to put down these

buoys being set at rest

SUNDAY DUTY
Hill's Sunday vc

few days since one of Mr. Rowland
,lunteers was taken into custody on the

think, be two opinions as to til

I both tb

The unhappy

charge of stealing money in the Post-of
man was placed upon his trial at the Central Criminal
Court on Thursday, pleaded guilty, and, owing partly to
the character which he received from several officers in
the Post-office' and partly to the fact that the money was
not abstracted from any letters, he was sentenced to only
one year's imprisonment. Mr. Payne, the prisoner's
counsel, said, that Clayton had confessed to him that

his first departure from honesty commenced subsequently
to his volunteering to perform Sunday duties, and that he
had never appropriated a single penny of the official
moneys until he bad habitually broken the fourth com-
mandment—since the middle of October last. He had

use valuable

that period, but subsequently had altogethe
attendance on the means of grace. Clayton ha,
the employ of the Post-office 12;years, and until the period
referred to, he had never incurred a suspicion of disho-
nesty."
THE BLOCKADE ON THE AFRIr • - The

Ititutior

nanagement would be promote

neglected

COAST
,icle dee

one committee, we

Times of yesterday c

tains a powerft

the continuance of our blc
which he demonstrates is n

.ssist in the
inr, are the

We repeat our own

the count
With su