The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-13 00:00:00

LAWENTABLE ACClDENT.—Yesterday, while a number of
men in the employ of Messrs. Taylor and Rutledge were en-
gaged in the erection of a new building at Claughton, near
Birkenhead, (the property of Mr. Moss,) the scaffold, by
some accident, gave way, and they were precipitated to the
ground from a considerable height. Several of them were
severely injured, but none, we learn, dangerously, with the
exception of one man. John Shaughnessy, aged 25, a stone-
mason, was so dreadfully hurt that he was with all possible
expedition conveyed over to the Northern Hospital, m
this town, for better professional aid and accommo-
dation. He is by trade a stone-mason, and his case
is exceedingly precarious. His skull is fractured, and
he is otherwise much bruised and contused. He remains in
a s atate of stupor, and but slight hopes are entertained of
his recovery. though no decisive opinion can be formed.
The other men were not brought to this side of the river.
CUTTING LEAD FROM A WAREHOUSE.—Zesterdaya man
named Charles Rowland was brought up at the police court
before Mr. Rushton, on a charge of having cut away a quail-
tity of lead from a warehouse in Back Goree, belonging to
Miss Jane Mather. Patrick Macarthy, a warehouseman on
the premises, said that between two and three o'clock on Sa-
turday afternoon he was in the jigger-room, and looking out
through the window lie saw the prisoner upon the roof of the
warehouse, talking to some men who were in the jigger-room
of the next warehouse. He had no business there. When
the prisoner came off the roof into the jigger-room, witness
concealed himself, and saw him forcing off the flushing-lead
from the window by means of an iron bar. He stripped off
altogether about two feet and a half. Witness advanced
towards him, when he said he was merely there to ascertain
what time it was. Mr. Superintendent Leverett was sent
for, and he took the man into custody. Mr. Daniel Mather
deposed that the warehouse was the property of his sister.
When called upon for his defence, the prisoner merely re-
plied—" It's not true." He was committed for trial at the
next sessions.

THE CAROLINE—DERELICT.—This case was considered,
in the Admiralty Court, on Wednesday last. The Caroline,
bound on - a voyage from Liverpool to the Cape of Good
Hope, with a cargo worth together rather more than £15,000.
was fallen in with, totally abandoned, by the schooner Emily,
on the 22d of January last, off Arklow Bank, in the Irish
Channel, Atter about sixteen hours' exertion, the derelict
was safely conducted into Holyhead, the master and two of
the seamen belonging to the schooner having been put on
board. The salvage services were not denied, but it was
argued on behalf of the owners of the Caroline that but little
risk had been run. The Court held that this valuable ship
and cargo had been rescued from a state of peril, and without
considering whether the Caroline, though having seven feet
water in her hold, had been properly abandoned or not, it
was quite certain that a large salvage service of a high order
had been performed. Three men, out of a crew of six, had
been put on board the derelict, and it had been safely taken
into Holyhead; the Caroline being of 300 tons burden, had
it come on to blow, the vessel as well as the three men put
on board might have been lost. The owners of the schooner
were to be paid for the loss they had sustained by the delay
occasioned in effecting the service. The old principle of
giving a moiety of the value of derelict vessels saved had
long been abandoned, and salvors were now remunerated
according to the risk of life run, and the danger and loss in-
curred. The court would not be doing injustice by giving
£l,BOO to the salvors. To the owners the learned judge al-
lotted £6OO, to the master £4OO, to the mate £250; the ba-
lance to be divided among the rest of the crew.
A ROGUISH FELLOW-COUNTRYMAN.--William Green, a
young man, with a broad Scotch face and a still broader
Scotch accent, was placed at the bar of the Police-court on
Saturday, charged with having robbed John Anderson. The
latter, who is a wire-worker, residing with his mother-in-law
in Hotham-street. called, on Wednesday last, at Ilesketh's
public-house in Tithebarn-street. The prisoner was standing
at the counter; and, finding that each of them came " frae
the bonnie north," they could not do less than have a crack
wi' ane anither, and a wee drappie o' something to season it
withal. John Anderson, honest man, but somewhat careless
we conceive, had in his pocket-book three five-pound notes,
two of which were of the Whitehaven bank, and in his purse
eleven sovereigns. His fellow countryman, who was a
stranger to him, saw the gold, and invited him to go and
drink with him at another tavern. John Anderson sat
" hoozin' o'er the nappy" till he had more than a " wee
drappie in his ee"; and the result of his protracted carousal
was, that he fell asleep. When he awoke he missed his fel-
low-countryman, and he missed something of far greater
consequence, for he found that he had, during his nap, been
disencumbered of both his purse and pocket-book. He
made his losses known to the police, and it was discovered
that the well-behaved individual with whom he had scraped
so sudden an acquaintance was a journeyman baker. After
sonic search, the prisoner was found at a public-house in
Kirkdale. lie had a watch and eleven and a half sovereigns
in his possession. It was subsequently discovered that he
had purchased the watch on Thursday, from Mr. Samuel, in
Paradise-street, having changed a£s note to pay for it. He
was again searched when booked at Bridewell, but nothing
further was found. When taken to his room, however, the
turnkey saw bim conceal a piece of paper beneath the bench.
The turnkey pounced upon the paper, and found that it was
a£s note of the Whitehaven bank. It was proved that the
prisoner had, on the day following his interview with John
Anderson, boasted that he was possessed of £25. The pri-
soner, having been cautioned, offered to the Court an excuse
which showed his knowledge of law and justice. He said,
Anderson left the room, and went to the foot of the stairs,
when lie (the prisoner) found the purse and pocket-book
lying near his chair.---He was committed for trial.
CONSUMPTION AND PRICE OF GAS.—A report from Mr.
Evans, the solicitor of the Guardian Society, has just appeared,
in which that gentleman details the proceedings in opposition
to the Liverpool New Gas and Coke Company's Bill, which,
after having passed the House of Commons, has been with-
drawn in the Lords. We gather from this document that
the objects of the bill were to extend the limits of the corn.
pang to Walton, Bootle, Litherland, Great Crosby, Child-
wall, Much 'Woolton. Allerton, Garston, and Wavertree, arid
to raise an additional capital of £12,700 in shares of £lOO
each, all of which it was sought to appropriate amongst the
existing proprietors of the company, so that, as the shares
were selling in the market at a premium of £l2l, each share-
holder, if the hill had passed, would realise a considerable
sum, not in increasing dividends, (because these were limited
to XI() per cent., and could not legally be exceeded,) but in
the shape of premiums. In the committee of the House of
Lords, after an examination of the following witnesses in
support of the bill, (Mr. Steel, the manager, Mr. J. A.
Tinne, Mr. J. T. Cooper, and Mr. Whitty,) and au address
from Serjeant Wrangham, in opposition to the measure, the
committee came to the following resolutions :—" To strike
out the fourth clause, and throw the new shares open, to be
taken by the public at open auction.—To keep the capital
created by the new shares distinct from the old capital, so as
to ensure to the previous consumers of gas, in the original
district, that reduction in the price of gas to which they are
entitled by the present profits."—Several communications
afterwards took place between the parties, and at. a subse-
quent meeting of the committee the opponents of the bill
were asked by the chairmati whether they would be satisfied
with the first resolution and abandon the second ; but to this
insisted
on objection was raised, and the committee therefore
on all the conditions they previously proposed. The counsel
for the bill then announced that it was withdrawn. An opi-
nion of Mr. Seajeant Wrangham is attached to the report, in
which that learned gentleman says that " the company were
not warranted in dividing among the shareholders any sum
over and above £lO per cent. upon the capital actually paid
up, in any one year, to cover a deficiency below the £lO per
cent. profit in bygone years ;" arid that " the expenditure of
money in districts not authorised by the act is a misappro-
priation of their funds, which ought to be reported to the
accountant."—lt is argued in this report, and from the in-
formation we possess, we consider with perfect justice that
the main object of the company was the appropriation of the
shares, and not as was professed, the benefit of the public,
and that therefore the rejection of the measure is a subject
for congratulation by the consumers of gas.

THE NEXT MAILS FOR INDIA.—The following notices
have been issued by the Post-office authorities :—" The next
mail for Erypt and India, via' Falmouth, will be despatched
hence (General Post-office) on Friday, the 30th instant."
" The next mails for India, &c.. viii Marseilles, will be de-
spatched hence on Thursday, 6th of July." " The Pacha,
for the Peninsular mails of the 10th instant." " The next
mails for Malta, Greece, and the lonia❑ Islands, via Fal-
mouth, will be despatched hence on Saturday, the 17th
instant."

GRATeD SAILING MA:refl.—A splendidly contested race
came off on Thursday, on the Thames, by the "Thames
Royal Yacht Club." The race was for the grand challenge
cup, value 100 guineas, a contest established in 1840 by the
club, to create emulation in the science of sailing. The day
was exactly calculated to exhibit not only the powers of the
beautiful little lleet engaged, but the skill and judgment of
the rival captains, who exhibited throughout seamanship
rarely, if ever surpassed. The yachts came in in the follow-
ing order :—Enigma, first ; Blue Belle, second ; Mystery,
third ; Champion, fourth ; Phantom, fifth.
The Mayor of Stockton published a handbill, in conse-
quence of a requisition having been presented to him, re-
questing that the offices, counting-houses, and shops in the
borough might be closed on N\ hit-Monday, in order " that
the clerks and assistants may enjoy a day of recreation and
rational amusement." 'His worship added,—" From the
effects of this relaxation, beneficial both to mind and body,
it is not doubted that they will return to business with addi-
tional zeal and energy."

GRANT OF PUBLIC MONEY.—About two years ago parlia-
ment granted a sum of £lO,OOO for the improvement and
maintaining of public walks i❑ towns, bat up to the present
time only £5OO has been expended. £3OO has been given to
Dundee, and £2OO to Arbroath, and the remaining £9500
still lies in the exchequer. It is strange that, so much as
public walks are needed for the operatives of this and other
large towns, no claim should be made on their behalf, and
that such a sum should lie uncalled for upwards of two years.
—Glasgow paper.

Mr. Hugh Stratford Stratfoad, who had been in custody
nearly a fortnight, for a violent assault on Mr. Chisholm, a
surgeon, whom he mistook for Mr. Barnard Gregory, of the
Satirist, was brought up on Wednesday before Mr. Rawlin-
son, at the Marylebone Police-office. A solicitor attended
for Mr. Chisholm and stated that under all the circumstances
he did not wish to press the charge of assault against Mr.
Stratford. Mr. Chambers, barrister on behalf of Mr. Strat-
ford, expressed his regret at the mistake, and Mr. Stratford
was discharged.

A fugitive slave undergoing an examination at Northamp-
ton, Connecticut. when asked if his master was a Christian,
replied, "No, Sar, he's a member of Congress."

STERNE AND GAuracK.
i—Sterne, who used his wife very
ill, was talking to Garrick, n an exuberance of sentimenta-
lity, in praise of conjugal love and fidelity. " The husband,"
said he, who behaves unkindly to his wife, deserves to have
his house burned over his head., : "If you think so," said
Garrick, " I hope your house is insured."

How TO TAKE A BATH.--A man generally goes to a bath
as if he were carrying an express or running from a broom-
gmreiantutes,
hurry,
souses his body in the
broom-
stick. lie is out of breath and in a perspiration on his arrival.
hotl-1e
water,
open, puts on his garments, looks complacently in the mir-
ror, and thinks he has taken a bath. No such thing; he has
cks himselfahouti nfi five
taken nothing but a cold. In an hour he begins to sneeze,
and the next clay commences coughing, and he reviles the
bath. Philosophy grieves over his folly, but will not relieve
his nose and lungs. WI?), did the bath give him a cold ?
Because he was in a perspiration when he went into the wa-
ter, which perspiration was increased by the heat, and check-
ed as soon as he raised himself into the colder medium of the
air. The order of nature must be reversed to prevent a man
taking cold under such circumstances. Now, reader, we will
tell you how to take a bath. In the first place, pay your note,
if it be due—or if you cannot do that, have it protested and
think no more about it. If you have any quarrel on hand,
whip, or get whipped at once ; tranquility of mind is all-im-
portant in rendering the warm bath beneficial. Walk leisurely
to the establishment, and disrobe yourself with moderate
haste. In with you, and to beguile the time read a novel or
a newspaper. In about half an hour the water will cool to
near the temperature of the air, and you will have gone grad-
ually through half a dozen climates. You will have left the
torrid slowly for the temperate zone. Then let in the cold
-almost drop bywater very slowly, , drop, and in the course of
twenty minutes you will find yourself in a cold bath. The
pores will be closed gradually and moderately ; your sensa-
tions will be exquisite during the process, and you will feel
strength and elasticity in every limb. You emerge from the
cold water into the warmer air; dry your body thoroughly
with a coarse towel, and you feel. like a new man. It is im-
possible fOr you to take cold;
.if you do, you are at liberty to
come and box our ears for giving you bad advice—American
Paper.