The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-31 00:00:00

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effect upon their equanimity. The ancestors of the
present generation were favored by Providence with
the possession of a noble river, capable of being
made the channel of our vast traffic with the
Western world. By the exercise of ordinary saga-
city and forethought on the part of its citizens,
Chester might perhaps have been the modern Tyre,
and Liverpool have been doomed to remain the ob-
scure fishing hamlet of two centuries ago. These
qualities, however, existed in a negative quantity on
the banks of the Dee. The Cestrians were not
sharp people, such as we find busy in creating
ports and building towns in our own locality in the
present day. They slept at their posts. In an evil
hour they allowed the most necessary commodity
for a great port, water, to be abstracted from them,
their noble estuary to be dammed up into a mise-
rable canal, and obstructions to be erected upon
their river, whose effect is to cause the rapid silting
up of what re

DAY

MORNING,

MARCH 31, 1846

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oversights, they have been afflicted with periodical
awakenings, not for the purpose of lamenting past
neglect, but of indulging in the day dreams of once

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mercial interests of the country. The great mi-
neral proprietors of Flintshire and North Wales, re-
cognising the important effect of railway communi-
cation in developing the resources of the country,
and facilitating the approach to the great marts of
export and consumption, have taken up the project
of crossing the Dee at King's Ferry, and carrying a
railway to the river Mersey; and Chester is forth-
with in arms to resist the incroachment, although
the line in question—the Mold Junction—effects a
saving of nine miles to all who travel from this port
to Ireland vid Holyhead. The Board of Admiralty
is appealed to, engineers are called in, and meetings
are being held to declare, in effect, that the produce
of North Wales must not approach the markets of
Liverpool and the manufacturing districts, without
paying tribute to the "ancient city." More than
this, our neighbours are very profuse in their impu-
tatims of unworthy motives against those who, so
very naturally, propose to effect for themselves what
Chester has never seriously attempted to effect for
them. One of its local organs-, we observe, refers
to the promoters of one of the railways proposing to
cross the Dee as "parties who have personal and
pecuniary objects solely in view, and care nothing
whose interests they sacrifice if they can serve their
own.". This is really very childish, and the imputa-
tions unworthy of serious notice. The inhabitants
of Chester, in stickling for the unimpeded naviga-
tion of their river, contemplate the very same " per-
sonal and pecuniary objects" which they hold to be
a crime in others. They say, we have railway com-
munications, of which Chester is the centre, to the
Potteries, to Manchester, to Liverpool, and Birken-
head; and we want you to use them and aggrandise
our city. Their opponents say, we had rather go
direct, if you please. The animus of both is alike;
but in pursuing it Chester is inert, whilst the pro-
moters of the Mold Junction and other lines across
the Dee are active.

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own, and the cheers
elicited were the most cutting irony
tei eiversation could earn for itself.

It certainly appears to us that, in approaching the
board of admiralty to press their retarding efforts,
our neighbours hare a singularly unfortunate case
to present. We should be the first to deprecate
injurious interference with any tidal river. But, in
the case of one at least of these railways, we can see
no injurious effect to be feared; and the interference
of the admiralty now would come too late, and ought
to be viewed as a calamity rather than otherwise.
There is no merchant traffic at present going up the
Dee to Chester, with which a well constructed bri 'ge
at King's ferry would interfere. The Marquis of
Westminster himself admitted at the meeting held
in Chester to petition the admiralty, that the depth
of the channel, contracted by the Dee company to
be kept at fifteen feet up to the city, is now only
twelve feet; and we know that little beyond flats
now use the passage. That board, alive as it is to
matters connected with the preservation of our tidal
rivers in a state of efficiency, but yet regarding the
important objects to be advanced by opening out the
mineral districts of North Wales to Manchester and
Liverpool, will surely not interpose to humour the
empty dream indulged in by the citizens of Chester
of opposing the operations of nature herself, and
converting into a port what -is fast becoming an in-
land and very unimportant town. Schemes of great
public utility must not thus be obstructed. A little
local soreness may be looked for and pardoned, and
perhaps a few passing explosions of vituperative
humour. The mere interests of Chester, however,
are not to be balanced against those of an entire
country, even to indulge a community to whom their
once noble river has been, for a century past, like a
court sword by the side of. a 'prentice boy, embar-
rassing rather than useful.

THE HA RRINGTON WATER WORKS BILL

THE LIVEEPOC

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The Great Western steam-ship arrived here on Sunday
from Bristol. _ _ . .

The screw-propelled steam-ship Massachusetts has ar-
rived out at New York after a passage of forty-two days.
She experienced very boisterous weather.
The masons who struck for wages three weeks ago, at
Preston, have returned to work. .
At the meeting of the Highway Board, on Thursday, it
was resolved to petition against the Harrington Water
Company,
On Wednesday, police-officer 73, was suspended ft,r
lodging two respectable females in bridewell, who were
trying to escape from a dranken man.
A fire occurred on Thursday, at the works of Messrs.
Garnett and Moore, in 'William-street, Great Howard-
street, but the damage was inconsiderable.
SMUGGLING.—A seaman, named Thomas Layton, was
yesterday brought before Mr. Rushton on a charge of
smuggling a quantity of cigars, on board of the ship
Joseph Cunard. The prisoner, who was chief mate of the
vessel, was fined £5, or to be imprisoned. fora month.

MANSLAUGHTER.—On Friday, at the Police-court,
Chas. Gent was committed on a charge of manslaughter.
It appeared that he was riding in a cart without reins, at
Moorfields, and run over a child.
The foundation stone of a new chapel, for the Wesleyan
Methodist Association, was laid last week, by Mr. Samuel
hi ohne, at the Potteries. The building will be erected on
land given by Messrs. Homeric, Lace, and Tomkinson.
On Tuesday, John Hankey, was committed by Mr.
Rushton, to the sessions, for forging the name of Mr.
Thomas Witter, joiner, Islington, to an order for some
lead. The prisoner obtained the lead, and on presenting
another forged order, was apprehended.
ATTORNEY V. SOLICITOR,—A JUDGE'S OPINION.—
Mr. Justice Patteson said, the other day, to a witness who
called himself a solicitor, " I cannot understand why the
term ' attorney' is avoided. It is a more honourable
name than that, of a solicitor.' "
The joiners at the Queen's Theatre, (now the Adelphi)
anxious to assist the widow of a fellow-workman who
was killed on the premises, released his tools from pawn,
when they found that the pledged articles belonged to
themselves, and had been stolen by the deceased.
The committee of the Exchange News-room have
issued a placard stating that they have determined to
publish, on the Isi of April, a list of those persons who
have been constantly in the habit of frequenting the room
without becoming subscribers.
DEVONSHIRE CREAM.—This far-famed luxury,• the
choicest production of the dairy, is now to be had in
Liverpool, and from its being conveyed from Exeter, a
distance of 300 miles, in 9 bouts, arrives there in the
highest state of perfection.
A course of lectures on " Scriptural Truth as main-
tained in the Church of England, in opposition to Romish
and other Errors," is nbw in course of delivery in St.
John's Church, Blackburn. Dr. Tattershall will deliver
the lecture on the 2d April, the Rev. T. Nolan on the 7th
May, and the Rev. Hugh M`Neile on the 28th May.
DEATH FROM A FALL.—On Thursday, a man named
John Baines was employed at a house in course of erec-
tion in Everton, and in incautiously crossing a plank near
the top of the building, which he had no need to attempt,
the timber gave way, and he was precipitated to the bot-
tom, a depth of four storeys. He was so much injured
that he died in about ten minutes afterwards.
At the council meeting to-morrow, Mr. Lace will bring
forward a motion "That the members of Council now
constituting the Joint Sub-Committee of the Watch and
Health Committees, on the bill of Lord Lincoln, and the
proposed Sanitary Bill of the Council, be appointed a spe-
cial committee on those bills, and any other bills which are
or may be introduced into Parliament on the several im-
portant subjects therein proposed to be provided for."
NOVEL FEAT.—Mr. Brown, the clown at the Amphi-
theatre, took his benefit on Wednesday night, and on this
occasion he gratified the audience outside the building by
a feat of an extraordinary description. Many thousand
persons assembled in Lime-street to witness the clown
walk, or rather trot, on a barrel, as it -rolled from the rail-
way station in Lime-street to the theatre door in Roe-
street, a feat which he performed to the great astonish-
ment and amusement of the immense crowd.
At the annual vestry meeting for the township of Bir-
kenhead, held at St. Mary's Church, on Thursday, E. G.
Willoughby, Esq., in the chair, the following gentlemen
were recommended to the magistrates as proper persons
to be appointed officers for the ensuing year :—For over-
seers of the poor, Messrs. Wm. Watson, John Eastwood,
Watson Peck, John Shore, A. S. Walter, Joshua Lane,
and Robert Hughes; as assessors, Messrs. Henry Wood,
Watson Peck, A. A. Dobbs, David Appleton, R. L. Gus-
sage, T. B. Golborne, and Jas. Stephenson.
TOWNSHIP OF BOOTLE.—The annual meeting of the
ratepayers of this township was held in the national
school on the 25th instant. The accounts exhibited fur-
nished an additional proof of the diligence and industry of
Mr. Donally, the surveyor, the whole of the rates having
been collected except the sum of 255., and every account
against the township liquidated. Mr. Donally was una-
nimously elected surveyor of the highways for the ensus
ing year, at a salary of £BO, accompanied by an expres-
sion of his efficient services.
EXCISE CONYICTIONS.—Ann Cosgrove, alias Bradley,
a lodging-house keeper, was convicted of having a bladder
containing three quarts of smuggled whiskey in her house.
It was stated to be her third offence, and she was fined in
the sum of £loo.—Robert Plummer was charged on two
informations with selling adulterated tobacco. Mr. Snow-
ball, who appeared for the defendant, admitted the offence,
but pleaded in mitigation of the penalty, that there had
been no previous imputation upon his character. It ap-
peared that the adulteration had been to the extent of one-
fifteenth ; and a penalty of £5O was in each case imposed.
QUACK DOCTORING —CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC.—
On Tuesday, a man, who has been in the habit of prac-
tising as a quack doctor in Liverpool, and who gave his
name Isaac Facer, was brought before Mr. Rushton, on a
charge of having reduced Robert Rawlinson to a dying
state, by the application of the contents of a bottle to his
hand, which contained a liquid purporting to cure all the
ills that flesh is heir to, but which produced serious in-
flammation of the arm, tending to mortification. Mr.
Chalmers and another surgeon were examined ' • but as
they were unable to state that the application, whatever it
was, had been the immediate cause of Rav;linson's de-
bility and illness, the prisoner was ordered to be dis-
charged.
DocK COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.—A letter was received
e subjoin the most important clauses of this bill from the Secretary of the Trinity Board, stating that an
which is at present before parliament, and against the pas- additional buoy bad been placed on Hoyle Bank.—The
sing of which the most strenuous exertions are now being receipts at the port of Runcorn for the last month showed
made. A requisition to the mayor to call a public meet- an increase of 36 vessels, 1884 tons, and £l4 Bs. 2d. over
ing of the inhabitants, to consider the measure, is now in the corresponding period of the previous year.—The
course of signature, and parties approving of such meet- Chairman stated that the Dock Bill had substantially
ing may sign the requisition at the Standard Office. passed through the committee of the House of Commons,
When our readers have perused the proposed clauses, they the only alterations being as to one or two matters rela-
will, no doubt, agree with us that the bill ought not to be al- Live to the landing,stages ; there had been a strenuous
lowed to pass. The Highway Board have instructed Mr. opposition on the rdwof the Birkenhead people, but their
Hawkesly, the eminent engineer, to value the works of clause was thrown out, and an extension of time had been
the Harrington Company, with a view to their ultimate given to the Dock Trust, namely, twelve months from the
purchase, and that gentleman has estimated the concern passing of tha,act.
at £270,000. An offer, with a liberal advance on this ap- CHARGE OF AssAULT.—A case, which excited some
praisement, has been made to the company, and it now interest in court, came on for hearing, before Mr. Rush-
remains to be seen whether the public will support their ton, en Tuesday. The plaintiff in the case was Mr. Perry,
local authorities. The following are the chief features of formerly a solicitor in Liverpool, now, we believe, of
the Harrington Bill : Birkenhead; the defendant, Captain Sharp. It appeared
First: the preamble recites that the company have expended from the evidence that the plaintiff was crossing in the
in the purchase of lands and stations, and in the construction steam-boat to Woodside, when he was accosted by the
of works £l9o .71r' is 5 defendant, about a letter he had written relative to the
Additional expended and due on bonds 20,927 9 5 settlement of some accounts. Smart words ensued, and
• Captain Sharp eventually struck Mr. Perry on the jaw.
to 0- M- .s- d that one party seemed as
The first