The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-09-16 00:00:00

Trustee;, on Tuesday, th,

The ground is on the North Shore. near
Forrester's boiler-yard. There will be a further
demonstration at seven o'clock the same evening There
will also be a proof of the efficacy of the apparatus on ship-
board, the Dock Committee having, for this purpose, placed
one of the north docks at Messrs. Morton's disposal.

the afternoon
Ales

SCENE IN A THEATRE.—A ludicrous scene took place
at the Adelphi Theatre, on Thursday night. The play
was " Venice Preserved ;" and in the touching scene
between Jaffier and Pierre, in which the former implores
+hp latter to ask h'' "` -.qnectabl P

nil lite, a very res, irishman, on
one of the front seats of the pit, hearing Pierre say he
" must die," rushed over the back seats, shouting out,
" I'll go fetch a priest ; I'll go fetch a priest—wait while
I get a priest." We need not add that the house was in
convulsions, and the play stopped for a time.—Mail.
MUNICIPAL ELECTION.—The following councillors re-
tire previous to the annual election on the Ist of Novem-
ber next :—Everton and Kirkdale Wards, Robert Akeri ;
Scotland, James Thomson ; Vauxhall, T. L. Hodson ; St.
Paul's, John Briscoe ; Exchange, Thomas Littledale ;
Castle-street, Hugh Hornby ; St. Peter's, Thomas Clarke,
Pitt-street, J. Gladstone, jun. ; Great George, Thomas
Wagstaff; Rodney-street, Thomas Fleming; Abercromby,
Hugh Neill ; Lime-street, James Johnson ; St. Anne's,
W. P. Freme ; West Derby, R. M. Beckwith ; South
Toxteth, E. C. Hindley ; North Toxteth, W. Fisher.
FLORAL CURIOSITY.—We have had presented to us a
seecimen of floral development which we believe to be
perfectly unique. It consists of a dahlia containing two
blooms on one stem. (there was a third, which had been
cut off,) each of which is.of a different colour, one being a
full yellow, and the other a delicate peach or light pur-
ple blush. We do not remember having ever seen a simi-
lar case of double bloom. The dahlia is of the Cleopatra
kind, and was grown by Mr. Charles Vose, of this town,
who has been very successful in raising this beautiful
flower.—Blackburn Standard.

FIRE AT ORMSKIRK.—On Monday night last, about
seven o'clock, a fire broke out in Mr. John Fairhurst's
steam corn mill, situated on the south side of Church-
street, Ormskirk. For a time it burnt furiously, destroy-
ing the whole of the machine department, the kiln, the
engine-house, and one cottage, with a considerable quan-
tity of corn and flour. The amount of damage has not
yet been ascertained ; but the whole of the building and
stock are fully insured. Mr. Henry Mawdsley, joiner,
whilst making very active exertions for suppressing the
flames, fell off a ladder, and was so much hurt that great
doubts are entertained of his recovery.
STEAM COMMUNICATION BETWEEN LIVERPOOL AND

CALIFORNIA.—It is said that Mr. Vanderbilt, of New
York, has made arrangements for a line of communica-
tion between San Francisco and Liverpool by the Nica-
raguan route. It is contemplated to run the steam ship
Northern Light, now on the stocks at New York,
between that port and Liverpool. The line of communi-
cation will then be carried on to San Juan by the steam-
ships Prometheus and Daniel Webster. This line
expected to command the passengers from Europe for
San Francisco, as well as a portion of those for other parts
of the union ; and efforts were making to secure for it
the conveyance of the gold dust for English houses,
hitherto monopolised by the West India steamers.
CORRESPONDENCE WITH AMERICA.—WC deem it use-
ful to remind all who are in the habit of writing letters to
the United States of the necessity of adding on the ad-
dresses of their letters the names of the county and the
state to the name of the locality. The utility of this is
evident &my. the fact that there are in the United States
twenty-five localities called Washington ; twenty-four
called Franklin ; twenty-three, Salem ; twenty-two,
Springfield ; twenty-five, Canterville ; nineteen, Jackson;
fifteen, Jefferson; eighteen. La Fayette; ten, Fillmore
(the name of the present President) ; fourteen, Troy ;
nine, Kossuth ; ten,Lowell ; twenty, Richmond; eighteen,
Waterloo ; twenty-two, Colombia ; eighteen, Concord,
&c. ; all scattered over the Union, and at immense dis-
tances from each other.—Daily Express.
INFRACTIONS OF THE EXCISE LAWS.—OR Wednes-
day, John Toole was fined £l2 10s., being the mitigated
penalty of £5O. for selling spirits in a tap or vaults, in
Charles-street, wnich originally formed a portion of the
premises of Mr. Henry Boleno Mason, a licensed victualler,
in Williamson-square. The next case was that of Edwd.
Pinfield, a licensed victualler, in Hurst-street, who was
charged with selling whiskey in a beer-house which he
kept on the opposite side of the way. For the defence it
was urged that, though the whiskey was served, it was
obtained from the public-house. A mitigated Denali

inflicted by the bench. William and Daniel Busby, post-
masters, were fined in two penalties of £lO each for not
having entries in their books of certain vehicles which they
had let out for hire.

THE BARQUE LARPENT.—ATROCIOUS CRUELTY TO
BRITISH SEAMEN.—Mr. Ripley, theowner of the Larpent,
has sent to a contemporary the depositions of two of the
survivors out of the thirty-one men that formed the crew
of this ill-fated vessel, these two with a third being the
only men who are known to have escaped either murder
or drowning. The bark, it will be remembered, was
wrecked on the 12th of September, upon the Island of
Formosa, anti the crew were almost immediately beset by
bands of savages, the original inhabitants of the place, and
who are called " whanas" (foreigners) by the Chinese.
The statements which were made to the authorities at
Shanghai, immediately after the arrival of the men there,
disclose the most dreadful cruelties penetrated towards the
unfortunate sailors, who were shot, hewn, and chopped to
death like so many wild beasts.
ACCIDENTS.—On Wednesday evening a young man,
named William Glen, had his left hand severely lacerated
by the bursting of a pistol in which he was trying to ram
a double charge.—On Thursday a young man, named Jas.
Wharton, sustained a compound fracture of the fingers,
caught between the cogs of a paper-ruling machine,
in Church-alley. On his admission to the Northern
Hospital the fingers were amputated.—On Thursday a
plumber fell from the roof of a school, upon which he had
been doing some repairs, in Bedford-street, and sustained
a serious fracture of the skull. He was conveyed to the
Southern Hospital, where he died in about twenty minutes
ig admitted.—A man, named John Taylor, got
njured about the abdomen by being squeezed be-
tween two waggons at the station of the Liverpool and
Yorkshire :Railway, Great Howard-street. on Thursday
morning.—On Thursday a boy, named John Paterson,
who resides in Freemason's-row, had his arm dislocated
by falling out of a cart.

ISLE OF MAN.—The foundation stone of a new jetty
at the shore, in Kirk Michael, was laid on Friday last, and
the work is to go on without delay.—John Courtney
Bluett, Esq. has been appointed high bailiff of Douglas,
vice James Quirk, Esq. resigned.—The herring fishery
thus far has been very abundant. While it remained on
the shoulder of the Calf, and.the fish were plump as fatted
pigs, the " takes" were only tolerable ; but then, the
price being fair, made up the lee way. But now that the
fish are on their transit from west to east, the sea is made
thick with them, and the draughts for the week past have
been most astonishing. Vessels have often come in laden
witii 160 measa a piece; while in other cases the nets
have been broken with the immense hauls of fish. Her-
rings were sold last week at Derbyhaven for is a hundred,
or 5s the mease. If the murpheys don't suffer with the
rot, and are cheap as they used to be, a Manx family will
be brought round this year at a low figure. Two barrels
of herrings and two tons of potatoes are enough for a
round family. The cost of these is, say £4.—Mona's
Herald.

DOCK ACCOUNTS.—The accounts of the trustees of the
Liverpool docks from the 25th of June, 1850, to the 24th
'Of June, 1851, have just been published. The gross re-
ceipts of the dock estate during the year were £878,277
16s. 4d., and the expenditure £775,126 Os. 5d., leaving a
balance in the hands of the bankerand treasurer of £103,148
15s. 11d. The gross receipts of the previous year were
£823,748125. 5d., the total expenditure£74o,7l6lBs. 11d.,
leaving a balance in the hands of the bankers of £83,031
13s. 3d., so that, contrasting the year 1849.50 with that of
1850.51, just closed, we find that the receipts of the dock
estate have increased £54,529 33. 11d., whilst the expen-
diture of the last has exceeded that of the preceding veer
by £34,409 Is. 6d., and the balance in the hands of the
bankers has been augmented by £20,117 2s. Bd. The
bonded debt of the estate now amounts to the sum of
£4,687,864 16s. 6d., of which amount bonds for £474,824
Bs. 2d, have been issued since June, 1850. Bonds and
assignments to the amount of £185,480 2s. sd. have been
paid off within the same period. In the year ending June,
1851, the number of vessels that entered the port was
21.071, the tonnage amounting to 3,737,666, being an
increase both in the number of ships and the quantity of
tonnage, as compared with any previous year. Hitherto
the years 1847 and 1849 have borne the palm for the rum
ber of vessels that entered the port and the amount of
tonnage; but in the year just passed the number of ships
entering the port has exceeded that of 1847 by 182 ships
and 386,125 tons ; and of 1849 by 338 ships and 98,520
tons ; but the income from tonnage and goods is nearly
£9,000 less than that of 1847, consequent upon the great
reduction which has taken place in the duties levied; it,
however, exceeds the income of 1849 by £ll,OOO. The
accounts of the Albert Dock warehouses show the receipts
for the past year to be £59,583 53. 11d., whilst the ex-
penses of working amount to £42,822 19,3. 2d.

ORMSKIRR BOARD OF GUARDIANS.—The weekly
meeting of this body was held on Thursday last. The
chair was occupied by Mr. Stoner, vice-chairman, and the
following guardians were also present :—Messrs. Forshaw,
Ho!croft, Baker, Balshaw, Mawdsley, Sutton, Mercer,
and Whalley. The minutes of the previous board wcre
" led. The amount of out-door relief administered
the oast, week had been as follows :—Townships,
7d. ; union, £9 7s. 7d. ; non-resident poor,

during
£4O 9:
£1 ss.

total, £l5 2s. 2d. The number of inmates was
reported to be 58 ; and 40 vagrants had been lodged in the
vagrant ward during the week. Messrs. Dandy, Sumner,
and Docker were re-appointed medical officers for the
next twelve months. The board then separated.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE EAST LANCASHIRE RAIL-
WAY.--On Tuesday evening, as a special train was leaving
Ratcliffe-bridge Station, on the East Lancashire line, for
Bury, with the passengers who had been to Ratcliffe
races, a female named Taylor, wh) had just arrived on the
platform with her two daughters, made a rush at the last
carriage but one to get upon the steps, but missed the
handle of the door, and fell by the side of the train. The
poor woman was dragged between the footboard and the
platform for a short distance, when her legs got across
the rails, and were passed over by the wheels of the last
carriage. One of her limbs was nearly severed from he'
body, and the other was dreadfully crushed.
carried to a public-house near the railway, and surgica
assistance obtained, but she died in about four hour
afterwards.

She was

lOUS CHARGE OF ROBBERY AGAINST A POST-

OFFICE OFFICIAL.--At the Borough Court, Manchester,
on Friday, Daniel Ayres, a letter sorter in the Man-
chester Post-office, was charged with having stolen a letter
containing a £5 Bank of England note, whilst in course
of transmission through post. On the 7th May last, some
person residing at Barrow, near Ulverston, posted a letter
containing a £5 note, addressed to Mr. James Smith,
'polish-maker, Southgate, Lower King-street, Manchester,
and as the letter and enclosure never reached Mr. Smith,
in Manchester, payment of the note was stopped. A day
or two ago, the lost note was presented for payment at the
Bank of England, in London, where it was impounded,
and it was subsequently traced to the prisoner, as it is
alleged, and he was apprehended. It was stated that on
the morning of the Bth May, when the letters would 'reach
Manchester, the prisoner would have it entrusted to him
to sort amongst others, and hence the charge against him.
The prisoner was remanded until Wednesday next. The
prisoner had been about five years in the post-effice, arid
hitherto his character had been unexceptionable. Bail for
his appearance was refused.
ROYAL NORTH LANCASHIRE AGRICULTURALSOCIETY.
—The annual show and dinner of the Royal North Lan-
cashire Agricultural Society was held at Lancaster on
Thursday last. The show took place in a field about a
mile from the town. The number of live stock shown
was upwards of 100 more than was ever exhibited at any

former meeting of the society ; and it was universally ad-
mitted that it was the finest agricultural display ever seen
in the north of England. The day was beautifully fine,
and the attendance on the ground immense, including
nearly all the leading gentry 'connected with the county.
After the show about 3CO gentlemen, consisting of the
members and others, sat down to dinner in the large car-
riage-shed of the North-Western Railway, which had
been tastefully fitted up for the occasion. The chair was
occupied by the Right Hon. Lord de Tabley, president of
the society for the year. The president was supported on
his right by H. Gregson, Esq., Mayor of Lancaster ; Jas.
Heywood, Esq., M.P. ; Thos. Greene, Esq., M.P. ; W.
Garnett, Esq., Rd. Hinde, Esq., Jonathan Peel, Esq., T.
B. Addison, Esq., Edward Dawson, Esq., Joseph Brooks
Yates, Esq., John Rosson, Esq., C. R. Jacson, Esq., H.
M. Fielden. Esq., &c., &c. ; and on his left by the Right
Hon. the Earl of Burlington, J. Wilson Patten, Esq.,
M.P. ; R. B. Armstrong, Esq., M.P. ; J. Talbot Clifton,
Esq., E. G. Hornby, Esq., &c.. &e. Amongst those who
obtained prizes for pigs is Mr. Chas. L. Clare, of Liverpool.
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY CCMPANY.—
The eminently practical and business-like speech of the
chairman of the Chester and Holyhead Railway, on
Thursday, will, we predict, have an important effect on the
feelings of the ordinary shareholders. It will serve to
assure them that their chance of a respectable dividend is
neither hopeless nor distant, and that though there has
been ground for desponding, yet, under the present ener-
getic management, there is room for anticipations of the
most satisfactory character. The chairman did not
attempt any rhetorical flourishes ; he contented himself
with a clear and forcible enumeration of the several
sources from which goods' and passenger traffic was to be
derived ; and he proved, almost to demonstration, that.
when all those sources are properly developed, there must
be such residue of net profit as to afford the ordinary
shareholders a respectable and a permanent dividend.
The exact position of the company was next touched upon.
We were much pleased to hear the relations between
the company and the London and North-Western Com-
pany fully detailed. The most perfect harmony was
reported to prevail between the two companies, with the
most perfect independence. Each company was to assist
the other in developing and accommodating profitable
traffic, and the best results were expected ultimately to
flow from the existing good understanding. Could not
certain other companies take example by this company.
and establish similar business arrangements with the
London and North-Western ? Upon the whole, we are
bound to express our extreme satisfaction with the
meeting, and we have no doubt the shareholders will
begin henceforward to look with a more favourable eye on
their stake in this undertaking.—Railway Record.
MANCHESTER DIOCESAN CHURCH BUILDING SOCIETY.
—A meeting of gentlemen was held on Wednesday after-
noon in the Mayor's parlour, at the Town-hall, for the
purpose of taking preliminary steps to form a Chutch
Building Society for the diocese of Manchester. The
meeting was private in its character. There were present
the Right Rev. the Bishop of Manchester, the Venerable
the Archdeacon of Manchester, the Very Rev. the Dean
of Manchester, the Rev. Canon Clifton, the Rev. Canon
Slade, of Bolton the Rev. Hugh Stowell ; the Rev. Dr.
Whittaker, of Blackburn ; the Rev. R. M. Master, vicar
of Burnley ; the Rev. J. S. Master, rector of Chorley ;
the Rev. Mr. Turner, vicar of Lancaster; the Rev. F. R.
Raines, incumbent of Milnrow ; the Rev. H. W. M'Grath,
rector of St. Anne's, Manchester; the Rev. W. Hornby.
of St. Micheel's-on-Wyre; the Rev. J. Hull, vicar of
Poulton ; the Rev. R. Pedder, vicar of Garstang ; the
Rev. J. 0. Parr, vicar of Preston ; the Rev. J. Clarke,
incumbent of Stretford ; the Rev. J. B. Wakefield, curate
of Prestwich ; the Rev. Mr. King, chaplain to the Prest-
wich Lunatic Asylum ; the Rev. S. L. Parsons. vicar of
Kirkham ; Mr. C. Worsley, of Platt; Colonel Clowes, of
Broughton ; Mr. Hargreaves, of Accrington Hall • Mr.
T. Clegg, Mr. R. Birley, Mr. Le Mare, and Mr. 'F. C.
Halton. The Bishop occupied the chair, and in opening
proceedings stated that he had received numerous letters
from clergymen and influential laymen in the diocese, to
whom the original proposals for establishing the society
had been addressed, and, with scarcely an

except

they were favourable to it. The rules which had' been
drawn up for regulating the operations of the association
when formed, were then discussed and amended, as
thought desirable, and a draft of them, as settled, was
ordered to be printed ; and a sub-committee was appointed
to make preparation for a public inauguration of the
society on Thursday, the 6th Nov.—Manchester Courier.

PUBLIC MEETINGS.
HEALTH COMMITTEE.—At the meeting on Thursday
Mr. Alderman Parker presided, and the following mem-
bers were also present,—Messrs, Bennet, Hindley, Lloyd,
Fernihough, Thomson, Chaloner, Johnson, Hornby, G&d.
fre3 and Clark.—Mr. Roskell, the chairman of the West
Derby board of guardians, waited upon the committee re-
lative to a nuisance arising from the burning of bricks in
too close proximity to Kirkdale-road.—The chairman in-
timated that the Town Council should be consulted
on the subject, and an answer given to the board of
guardians.—The medical officer's report stated that,
during the week, 179 deaths were registered in the parish,
and 71 in the extra parochial wards, making a total of
242—the number for the previous week being 243. In the
corresponding week of 1849 there were 488 deaths from
cholera, and, after deducting these, the mortality of last
week was twelve more than the average of the same week
of the previous three years. Of this number, 167 were
children and 75 adults. Nine deaths had been occasioned
by cholera. Dr. Duncan said that all the cases were
those of English cholera, but there were, at this season of
the year, many cases difficult to be distinguished from
Asiatic cholera ; and a great many deaths always occurred
from the former disease.

DOCK COMMITTEE.-At the weekly meeting on Thurs-
day, Mr. Charles Turner, the chairman, presided ; there
were also present : Messrs. Steel, ilolme, Shand,
Gregson, Molyneux, Holden, Lockett, Nicol, Malcornson,
Claxton, Langsdale, Barber, Bigham, Rankin, Brockle-
bank, and Robinson.—The tenders of Messrs. Fox, Hen-
derson, and Co., for the erection of a 10-ton, and two
15-ton cranes, were accepted.—lt was decided to advertise
for tenders for the supply of 3,000 gallons of olive oil, for
the next half-year, for the lighthouses. A letter was read
from Mr. Ledger, the agent to Lord Sefton, giving his
lordship's consent to let a certain portion of land at
Formby-grove, for a lighthouse, at £5O per annum, on
a lease for ten years. Mr. Bighorn thought the proposed
rent enormous. Land in that neighbourhood was not
worth more than ten shillings an acre, and they were
going to give £5O a year for two acres. Mr. Holme
asked, whether they were to risk the navigation of the
port for £5O per year. It was agreed that the land should
be taken, subject to an agreement as to term.--The
Chairman, in calling over the proceedings of the sub-
committees, observed that the Harbour-masters' com-
mittee and Warehouse Committee had nothing to report.
—Mr. Bigham expressed surprise at this ; it showed the
necessity of the minutes of the sub-committees being
read. He had been instructed that matters of great im-
portance had passed in the Warehouse Sub-committee.
There had been deficiencies on the part of warehouse
clerks to a serious amount; notwithstanding which, it
wra said, there was nothing to report. The Chairman
said thero had been an erroneous delivery, but the goods
had since been found. A conversation ensued, in the
course of which Mr. Nicol contended that it would be
impracticable that all the proceedings of the sub-com-
mittees should be reported.—The Master-porters' com-
mittee recommended that tenders be advertised for to
keep the scales, weights, &c., in a perfect state of adjust-
ment for one year. Agreed to.—The secretary was
directed to transmit a reply to the Dock Committee of
Hull, stating, that in the event of the harbours bill
being proceeded with, the committee would consider the
course it was best for them to pursue, so far as the docks
and harbours of Liverpool were concerned ; and if it
became necessary, they would communicate with the Hull
Dock Committee.—A letter was received from Mr. Easton,
thanking the committee for their liberality in granting
him a retiring allowance of £l5O per annum. The pro-
ceedings then terminated.

COUNCIL MEETING.-WATER SUPPI

A special meeting was held on Tuesday to consider :-
1. A report of the Water Committee on the tender
received for the construction of reservoirs and works, an,
-ecommending the acceptance of tenders, and that th
,e authorised to take all necessary steps for th
acquisition of land and the prosecution of theundertakin'
2. A report -" •mittee

committee t

G. . of the Librar
the interview with Lord D

y and Museum Co
by, anti on propose

merit with the proprietors of the Royal Institution
3. The Mayor's
John Bent, Esq

Mayor, presided, and there w

an unusually full attendance

THE Qt

N'S VISIT

His worship stated that he had received that day a com-

naunication as to what objects her Majesty proposed to
She intends, in the first instance, to go to the
ten o'clock, and to proceed in her own

landlng.stage .
boat, the Fairy, for the purpose of inspecti,
She -hopes that an hour and a half may be cons

dent for that objec

She will then return to the lat

ing.stage and proceed to the inspection of the several
buildings named in the programme, without leaving her
carriage. She will then return to the Town-hall to re-
nd to partake of a strictly private Inn-
Afterwards she will proceed on her route to Wors-
ley by railway.

ive an addr

WATER COMMITTEE-TENDERS FOR RIVINGTON WORKS
The Water Committee presented their report on th,

tenders received for the construction of reservoirs and
'rks. It was to the following effect,-
-se works, which comprise the Rake and Roddles-
Anglezark reservoir, and the Riving.
ton reservoir, are divided into thre(' portions, distinguishec
contracts Nos 3,4, and 5, p.

orth reservoirs, tl

for. The committee recommer
John Isherwood, for the cot
£20,806 4s. 6d., and the tend,
Lawton, for the contract No. 4
19s. 9d., and the tender of
the sum of £56,262 Bs. Ft I

►re separately tendered
hat the tender of Mr.
:t No. 3, at the sum of
of Messrs. Miller and