The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-04 00:00:00

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No fewer than forty-two vessels laden with cotton ar-
rived here on Tuesday.
The corporation are borrowing £25;000 from the Trea-
sury for the erection of additional public. baths and wash-
houses.
Several mid-day house robberies have lately taken place
in the neighbourhood of Aigburth. The public should be
on their guard, and the police on the alert.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. Cator, Mr. M'Fie, Mr.
M'Ewan, and Mr. Bromley-Moore, had an interview with
the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Wednesday.
The Gas Works Amalgamation Bill and the Hercula-
neum Dock Company's Bill received the Royal assent on
Friday.
Mr. Hausburg, of Church-street, is soliciting contribu-
tions of lint made of old linen, or old linen, for the relief
of persons wounded in the late insurrection in Paris.
The Drogheda boats take deck passengers from Liver-
pool for ls. each. To meet this, the Dublin steamers take
passengers for the same.
At the examination at St. Bees' Grammar School, last
week, the first prize in the second master's division was
awarded to Master Wilfred Lawson, a son of Captain
Lawson, who has sailed from this port for many years.
A CHARTIST RESOLUTION.—At a chartist meeting, at
Birkenhead, on Thursday, a resolution was passed,
pledging that body not to deal with any shopkeeper who
refuses to adopt their principles.
COUNTERFEIT MONEY .—Persons in business must now
use great caution with regard to " sovereigns." Base
coin, bearing the appearance of new and. genuine Vic-
torias, are getting into circulation.
A cricket match was played on Tuesday between the
first eleven of the Everton and Kensington clubs, which
ended in the latter being victorious. Kensington num-
bered 66, and Everton 55.
A sum of £55 lls. was collected on board the Niagara
for the benefit of the widows and orphans of the two men
who were washed overboard during a heavy gale, which
that vessel encountered during her passage out.
The fine new church of St. Peter's, at Rock Ferry, has
been closed in consequence of Mr. Hay, the architect,
having condemned the construction of the building. The
incumbent has subscribed a sum for making it safe and
perfect.

On Saturday, a house in Egerton-street, Birkenhead,
was, during the temporary absence of its inmates, entered
by thieves. Every drawer was broken open, and a watch.
a brooch, a dozen silver spoons, and several trifling
articles carried away.

The Europa, steamship, (another of the Cunard line,)
has just been completed at Glasgow. She is of the same
build as the other splendid steamers of the company, each
of which costs £BO,OOO. She has sleeping accommodation
for 196 passengers.
The friends of the Rev. Geo. Cuthbert, the respected
minister of St. Matthew's Church, Key-street, will be
glad to hear that he had so farrecovered from his late illness
as to be able to preach to his congregation on Sunday
morning last.

The Chartists held a meeting in the Music-hall on Wed-
nesday, when they passed a resolution condemnatory of
Mr. Hume's " motion based on household suffrage, as it
did not recognise the principle that man is entitled to the
elective franchise without reference to his possession of
property."

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PARISH OF LIVERPOOL.—The annual value of property
rated to the Poor in Liverpool is £1,021,898. which pro-
duced in 1847 the sum of £77,672, and in 1846 £83,004
for the relief of the poor. The expenditure in 1847 was
£83,210, and in 1846 £72,235. The medical relief in
1846 amounted to £1,809. and in 1847 to £1,652.
ANNIVERSARY MEETING.—The Welsh Independents
in this town intend holding their anniversary meeting on
the second Sabbath in July, when a number of able and
talented ministers from the Principality are expected to be
present to assist in conducting the services in the various
places of worship.
The other evening, a female who had just stolen a bag
of coals, dropped the bac,, by accident into the Morpeth
Dock, Birkenhead. Some' sailors hearing the splash
fancied that some one had fallen into the dock, and after
a diligent search with grappling irons the mistake was
discovered.

THE LATE MRS. PALMER, THE VOCALIST.—We beg
to call attention to the concert announced in our adver-
tising columns, for the benefit of the orphan family of the
late Mrs. Palmer. It will take place on Wednesday
next, at the Concert-hall, Lord Neison-street ; and on
this occasion all the principal vocalists in our good old
town have most generously offered their gratuitous
assistance. Mr. G. Holden will conduct ; and the
arrangements of the concert will be under the direction of
Miss Whitnall, who will be happy to receive any donation
in furtherance of the above object.
WALToN.---On-Tuesday the committee appointed to
ascertain the amount which bad been misappropriated by
John Adcock, the late collector of the highway rates,
held a meeting. The chair was taken by Mr. Thos.
Radford, and the report was read, from which it appeared
that the total deficiences amounted to £313. It appeared
also that Adcock had absolutely laid an illegal rate, of
which he bad collected about £62. It also appeared that
the principal surveyors of the highways never interfered
in the business of the office. A quantity of property has
been transferred to the surveyors, out of which they will
make good the defalcations.

" SAVE ME FROM MY FatEsus."—" I am at a loss to
account for the line of conduct which you and the editors
of the Mercury have pursued on the occasion : you, in-
deed, have been more reasonable than your brother editors
of the Mercury, because you acknowledged to me, at the
lecture of the Polytechnic Society, that you were satisfied
that there was not sufficient water to be had from the
red sandstone. They, on the other hand, continue to
twaddle about further evidence. I employ this familiar
phrase, because I can find no other which so appropriately
describes what the editors of the Mercury call arguments
on the subject."—Letter from Mr. W. Earle to the
Journal.

FATAL ACCIDENT.--On Saturday night as the Wood-
side ferry steamer was crossing from Liverpool, at halfr
past eleven, a strong gale blowing at the time, she came
in contact with the flat Jane, of Liverpool, lying at anchor
in the Woodside basin, and ran her down. The Jane be-
longs to Mr. Henry Hoigrove, of Norfolk-street, and
was commanded by Isaac Hirst. There were on board
three men, a woman and infant, two grown up lads, and
male child, four years old ; and at the time of the ocur-
rence all these parties were below in bed. The packet's
small boat was instantly lowered, and all on board were
saved with the exception of the last named, who is the
captains son. On Sunday morning another flat, laden
with salt, went down near to the scene of the former acci-
dent, having grounded on her anchor, it is supposed.
A Visit' TO RIVINGTON FlRE.—Rivington Pike—a
name with which the inhabitants of Liverpool are, by
this time, tolerably familiar—is one of the Mils of East
Lancashire, abOut equally distant from the great manu-
facturing towns of Bolton, Chorley, Wigan. Three or
four streams, or gorges, have their rise on the ridge of
this hill, and flow into the valley, to which the name of
rivers, for some wise purpose, has been given.—These
miserable driblets are called respectively, the River Yar-
row, the River Douglas, and the River Roddlesworth.
The Roddlesworth, we are told, was thirty, feet wide.
We found, on Monday last, that its guage was 2 feet 10
inches, and the depth 3 inches, the water flowing slowly.
The Yarrow was 2 feet across, and 41 inches deep, .and
the water tainted with some yellow substance. The
Douglas, at Anderton Fold, which we didn't gauge, ap-
peared to be a turbid stream about the same dimensions,
and the appearance of the water any thing but inviting.
Crossing the country, we found a few streams, which,
united, produced as much water as may be seen coming
through any ordinary spout in Liverpool on a wet day.—
Chronicle.

A MODERN JACK SHEPPARD.—WorreII, the prisoner
who last week escaped from Kirkdale gaol, was recaptured
on Saturday last, at Manchester, and has since been re-
lodged in the gaol. He has made the following extraor-
dinary statement to the police :—Being tired of his situa-
tion, he made an attempt, on Saturday night, the 10th
ult., to destroy himself by hanging, but was detected in •
the act. He then determined to make his escape from
the prison. On Wednesday night, the 14th ult., in pur-
suance of this determination, after sitting on his stool
until nine o'clock, when it was becoming dark, he began
his work by taking off his number plate. After this,
he unscrewed the screws that fastened the ventilation
plate, which is a large square piece of iron. This, he
said, was a work of considerable difficulty. This being
done, he took out two panes of glass, and then wrapped
his floor-cloth around a portion of the iron window-
frame. While the clock was striking eleven, he tried to
break the iron frame with the ventilation plate, but did
not succeed. He waited until the clock was striking
twelve and again tried to break the frame. This time
he was successful so far that he broke two of the iron
bars whilst the clock was striking. He next tore up his
hammock, and made a rope with the shreds, by which
he let himself down from his cell (which was in the third
story) into the yard. He walked about in the yard a
little while, and at length found a ladder which would
reach half way up the outer wall. This ladder he placed
against the court-house' which is near 'the prison wall.
By means of the ladder he got on the window-sill on the
second story, where he was in a dangerous position, hav-
ing to stand erect and pull the ladder up in front of him.
When he had got the ladder up, he placed one end of it
on the window-sill, and the other against the prison wall,
and by this means got on the top of the wall. Seeing on
the outer side a cistern which projected through the wall,
he lowered the ladder, which just reached it, and descended
upon the cistern. He again lowered the ladder, which he
found to be exactly the same length as the height of the
cistern from the ground. By this means he arrived safely
on the ground outside of the prison. He next went to
Liverpool, and got on the Warrington-road, intending to
go to that town. In passing through Prescot, thinking
he should be detected if he did not change his clothes, he
entered a house by the back window. He was prevented
from effecting his object by a dog, which put him to
flight, leaving his prison cap in the house. At Rainhill
he saw a pair of trowsers hanging over a gate, and ex-
changed them for his own. He arrived in Salford the
following day at noon, and after exchanging his clothes,.
he went to a lodging-house in Blakeley-street, Man-
chester, where he stopped two nights, sleeping with his
olgthe on.

' WRECK OF THE FINN ISITOULL STEAMER.—We regret
to have to announce the total wreck of the coasting
steamer, Finn M'Coull, which was formerly on the Port
Carlisle and Belfast station, but which has latterly plied
between this port and Youghal. She left here on Thurs-
day, with a general cargo, and about twenty or thirty.
passengers: and on the same day the William Penn,
bound to Waterford, observed her in a disabled condition,
off Tuskar, with her boats alongside. A heavy gale was
blowing, and she had struck, it would appear, upon a
' sunken rock. There is every reason to suppose the whole
of the crew and passengers were saved, as on the return of
the William Penn, on the following day, tents, as if for
temporary shelter, were seen upon Tuskar, and boats
drawn up on the beach. The stern only of the unfortu-
nate vessel was then visible.
INTERESTING LECTURE.—On Wednesday evening the
Rev. H. H. Higgins delivered at the Charitable Institu-
tion Rooms, Slater-street, to the members of the Church
of England Sunday School Institute, a very instructive
address on the present condition of the Holy Land, Egypt,
&c., from a tour in which countries the reverend gentle-
man has Just returned. All the teachers present seemed
highly interested with the particulars detailed by Mr.
Higgins, who clothed his statements in simple but graphic
language. The reverend gentleman deserves the warmest
thanks for such a disinterested endeavour to impart the
results of his visits to those interesting countries, to a
class of persons who will find the information peculiarly
valuable, not only personally, but also as regards those
whom they gratuitously instruct. The rev. gentleman
promised to continue the subject on the 20th instant.
INCOME OF THE LIVERPOOL DOCKS.—In the year
ending 24th ;June, 1847, the duties received by the Dock
Trustees, on tonnage, goods, lighthouses, graving docks,
&c., belonging to the port of Liverpool, was £273,711.
In the year ending the same day 1848, the receipts from
the same sources were £226,215. There is thus an appa-
rent falling off in the receipts of the present year of
£47,496, but nearly the whole of this deficiency is ac-
counted for by the reduction of dock dues made last year,
which amounted to £40,000. The decrease in the ton-
nage duties on the year was £20,393, and in the duties
on goods £26,424'. The number of vessels entering the
port in 1847 was 20,889, with a tonnage of 3,351,539 tons,
and in 1848 20,311 ships, with 3,284,963 tonnage, exhibit-
ing a decrease on the year of 66,576 tons.
CIIILDW ALL HORTICULTURALEXHIBITION.—OnWed-
nesday the annual horticultural exhibition for the district
lof Childwall was held at that delightfully-situated village.
The inhabitants had quite a gala day on the occasion.
Flags and banners were suspended from the surrounding
heights and towers, and the church bells tolled merry
peals at intervals throughout the day. The show was
held in a spacious tent not far distant from the abbey,
and was extensive and varied. The fruits were remarka-
ble for their growth, and the vegetables indicated the
extraordinary culture with which they had been brought
to a degree of comparative perfection, notwithstanding
the backwardness of the season. There was a most
numerous and fashionable attendance. The principal
prizes were taken by Mr. Pattison Ellames, Mr. J. S.
Leigh, Mr. Robertson Gladstone, Mr. Dunlop, &c.
RATING THE DOCKS.—The overseers have resolved to
lay the rate for the ensuing year on the assumption that
both the Corporate and Dock Estates are liable to be
assessed ; and a new assessment on that basis is about to
be made. It is calculated that the rate throughout will.
be 2s. in the pound ; but should the overseers not suc-
ceed in their endeavour, another shilling in the pound
will have to be laid upon the ratepayers, who are in con-
sequence deeply interested in the question. The overseers
proceed, on the sth Victoria, a short act, which autho-
rizes parishes to rate corporate estates. When a parish
is co-extensive with the borough, the act, it is stated, will
not apply ; but when in the same borough there are se- ,
veral administrative parishes, as in the case of Liverpool,
(West Derby, Toxteth-park, &c.) with different rates
levied in each, it is contended that the act is applicable;
and the opinion of an eminent counsel which has been
taken confirms this view. The question, we fear, will I
only be solved after an expensive process in a court of
law. 1

THE BIRKENHEAD DOCKS.—The new trust will be
composed of thirteen individuals, namely,—Baron Gold-
. smidt, J. Bailey, jun., Esq., M.P., G: H. Barnett, Esq., .
E. Ellice, Esq., W. King, Esq.; and' Robert Garnett,
Esq., on behalf of the bondholders. J. Laird, Esq., W.
Cole, Eq., N. Pike, Esq., and It. N. Prichard, Birken-
head Commissioners. H. Winch, Esq., Joseph Ewart,
Esq., and J. Mawdsley, Esq., Wallasey Commissioners.
The chairman or deputy must be resident at Birkenhead,
Wallasey, or Liverpool. All regular board and commit-
tee meetings to be held at Birkenhead. Special meetings
may be held in London on a week's notice. There is not
to be a paid chairman. The bondholders have consented
to give a prior morteage to the extent of £50,000, which,
by the bill, is to be applied expressly in penning up the
water of the great float, building a portion of the walls,
and excavating about 30 acres to a depth to receive the
largest class of vessels when loaded. There will, in addi-
tion, be an area of water space of 120 or 130 acres, availa-
ble for smaller class vessels, and for floating timber ; and
water access gill also be given to all the frontage land on
both sides the great float, which may at once be appropri-
ated for shipbuilding yards, or any other trades requiring
water frontages. The time necessary to accomplish those
objects will he five or six months.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER.—On Friday after-
noon, a man namenoseph..Edwards, who resides at 25,
Dock Court, Vauxhall-road, lost his life by an accident in
landing from the Prince of Wales steamer, at the landing
stage, Prince's Pier. Deceased left the packet with. a
basket of fish on Lis hack. Another man was_zoing on
board with assmall cask, and irspass.suig the deceased; the
cask caught the latter, and he fell into the river. He
was taken out alive, by two men in a boat, . but died be-
fore he reached the hospital. Mr. Jeffreys, surgeon,
Queen's-square, was at the pier when the accident °min.-.
red, and endeavoured to resuscitate tlse deceaSed but in
vain. Mr. Jeffreys states that when the men in the boat
picked up the deceased, they placed him across one of the
slistts, or seats, with his whole weight on his belly, under
the mistaken impression that the more the discharge of i
salt water from the stomach, the greater the chance of his
recovery. The deceased vomited a great quantity of
water •, and Mr. J. observing him shouted to the men to
place him in a half-standing half-sitting position, so that
the lungs might inhale atmospheric air ;
.bist the men, in
their ignorance, did notattend to this advice, and the proba-
bility- is that the water discharged by the thorax so pre-
vented the admission of air to the lungs that death was
the result. Mr. Jeffrey states, with the view to remove
the popular error as to the discharge of water from the
stomach, that, to restore animation in such cases, is to be
attained only by inhalation of the lungs, without reference,
for the time, to the contents of the stomach.
LAUNCH OF THE GANNET AUXILIARY SCREW SHIP
—This fine vessel, built by the Cork Steamship Company,
was launched from their yard, Hargrave's-quay, Cork, at
five o'clock, P.M., on Saturday evening, the Ist instant,
in the presence of a vast concourse of people. The wea-
ther was delightful, and the tide being at full, and all the
attendant circumstances most propitious, the sight was
most pleasing. The shore being knocked away, blocks
removed, and wedges home, at the words " out chisels—
down daggers," the Gannet glided magnificently into her
native element, after which she was hauled into the com-
pany's dock, for the purpose of taking her machinery on
board, and being thoroughly fitted for sea. A more beau-
tiful launch was, perhaps, never witnessed on the Lee.
The Gannet is an iron vessel of 460 tons burthen, and her
engines are on the direct acting principle, 80 horsepower;
her length of keel is 160 feet ;- over all, 176 ; beam 24-6,
and depth of hold fourteen feet. Her cabins will be fitted
up in the Elizabethian style, and will contain accommoda-
tion for forty passengers. This is the second vessel the
above spirited company have built within these few years
in their native city. The Gannet is an extremely handsome
model of naval architecture, and sails most gracefully and
steadily on the water. Her figure head and stern are
splendid specimens of the native artists skill and taste,
and, for strength and durability, we believe her hull will
stand any test. She is to be commanded by that expe-
rienced sailor, Captain Sullivan, who successfully nave=
gated the Blarney on the Havre line. The. Gannet was
designed and modelled by the talented foreman shipwright
of the company, Mr. James Cassidy.