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

CHURCH EXTENSION.

The London Gazette of Tuesday contains the following
recommendation of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners:—
" We therefore recommend and propose that the patronage or
the said new district of. Cast e- Hall, in the pari h of Stocu port,
shall he assigned i❑ perpetuity to the Wo.shipful Henry Raikes,
chancellor of the diocese of Chester; the Rev. Hugh M'Neile. of
Liverpool; Andrew Hamilton, Esq., of Streatham James John
Cummins, Esq., of Brixton; and the Honourable Francis Maude,
of Gloucester Terrace. Regent's Park; as trustees duly nomin-
ated to us, and such future trustees as shall be nominated in
place of those who shall die, resign, or become incapable of
acting."
This is the second scheme which has been gazetted at
the instance of the Church Extension Fund. But besides
these two, which have already appeared in the London
Gazette, we understand, says the Record, that grants
have been made from that fund, in aid of five or six other
plans for new churches now in progress in various parts of
the country : all of which will be invested in approved
trustees. In fact, nothing hinders, save the want of suf-
ficient funds, the raising a hundred new churches, in the
course of the next five years, with the same security as to
the present and future patronage.

ALL FOOLS DAY.—Yesterday morning, the walls were
plentifully besprinkled with placar.ls announcing that
" Don Edward Henson" would ascend on an aerial ex-
petition from Chyton-square, by meats of "aerial pro-
p-nets," on Wednesday next 1 The day of the month,
April the Ist, is carefully kept in the background, in or-
der that the simple might not discover the hoax. We
suppo-e Claston-square was the spot fixed upon for this
senseless tti.,k, es it is a region famous for the delusions
propagated in it by Reform and Free Trade spouters,
from the glorious days of Col. Williams to those of Henry
Vincent.

i.oral anb Vrobintial gttuff.

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 brideweil, who were
trying to escape from a drunken 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 for a 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
Holme, at the Potteries. The building will be erected on
land given by Messrs. Holme, 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 avoiied. 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-woikman 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.
Tne committee of the Exchange News-room have
issued a placard stating that they have determined to
publish, on the Ist, of April, a list of those pe,sons 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 hours, 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 now 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•Nrile 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 crossity, 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 witriet.s 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. Gos-
sage, T. B. Golborne, and Jas. Stephenson.
TOWN SHIP OF BOOTLP.—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 ensue
ing year, at a salary of £BO, accompanied by an expres-
sion of his efficient services.

EXCISE— CONVICTIONS.—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 bad
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 eac;l case imposed.
QUACK DOCTORING —CAUTION TO THE PUSLIC.—
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 Firer, 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 Rawlinson's de-
bility and illness, the prisoner was ordered to be dis-
charged.
DOCK COMMITTEE, Tit URSDAY.—Aletter was received
fr3m the Secretary of the Trinity Board, stating that an
additional buoy had been placed on Hoyle Bank.—Ttie
receipts at the port of Runcorn for the last month showed
an increase of 36 vessels, 1884 tons, and £l4 Bs. 2d. over
the corresponding period of the previous year.—The
Chairman stated that the Dock Bill had substantially
passed through the committee of the House of Commons,
the only alterations being as to one or two matters rela-
tive to the landing stages ; there had been a strenuous
opposition on the part of the Birkenhead people, but their
clause was thrown out, and an extension of time had been
given to the Dock Trust, namely, twelve months from the
passing of the act.
CHARGE OF ASSAULT.—A case, which excited some
interest in court, came on for hearing, before Mr. Rush-
ton, en Tuesday. The plaintiff in the case was Mr. Perry,
formerly a solicitor in Liverpool, now, we believe, of
Birkenhead; the defendant, Captain Sharp. It appeared
from the evidence that the plaintiff was crossing in the
steam-boat to Woodside, when he was accosted by the
defendant, about a letter he had written relative to the
settlement of some accounts. Smart words ensued, and
Captain Sharp eventually struck Mr. Perry on the jaw.
One of Mr. Perry's witnesses said that one party seemed as
much excited as the other, aed both used language which
they would not have used in their calmer moments, which
was also admitted by Mr. Perry on cross-examination.
After the case had proceeded some time, Mr.,Rushton
said that he thought both parties had used language,
and though he did not wish to stop the case, perhaps an
arrangement might be come to. This, however, was not
accomplished, and ultimately Captain Sharp was bound
ovrrin his own recognizances of 1:300 to keep the peace.
WEST DERBY UNION.—At the meting on Tuesday,
the assistant commissioner, Mr. 4ustin, was present.
The question of appointing relieving officers for the dis-
tricts into which the union has been divided was again
brought before the Board, when it was determined to elect
Mr. Tristram to the centre or No. 2 district, and to re-
commend to the commissioners to raise the salary they
had proposed from £lOO to £l3O per annum. Mr. Austin
coincided in the course proposed, and the election was
made unanimously. Mr. John Shearson, of Great Crosby,
was, on the motion of Mr.. Leatherbarrow, seconded by
Mr. Williams, elected to the third or more northern dis-
trict. A letter from Mr. Harbord was read, acknow-
I- dging, in grateful terms, and accepting the tender made
to him of his former appointment of medical officer of the
southern district of Toxteth-park, at the increased salary
of £BO per annum.
THE NEW NIGER EXPEDITION.—It will be remern
bered, that about two years since Capt. Beecroft and Dr.
King left Liverpool in the steamer Ethiope, on another
experimental trial to open commerce with Central Africa.
Letters have been received from those gentlemen by a
Dutch ship which arrived in the Channel, dated Fernando
Po, Nov,. 9, announcing the return to that island from the
Niger six days previously. The vessel had been upon
that river for a period of three months and a half. Unhap-
pily, in consequence of deaths, feuds, and wars amongst
the chiefs, the aspect of, matters in the interior had been
found materially altered, and Rabbah, the largest and
most flourishing town on she river, in 1840, is now de-
serted and in ruins. Owing to this disordered state of
things the missean had not been so successful commer-
cially as was expected, though not less so than Dr. King
had anticipated under such circumstances.

TRIBUTE TO WORTH.—On Tuesday evening, a meeting
of the letter-press printers of Liverpool was held at Chalk's
Commercial Hotel, St. John's-lane, for the purpose of
presenting a handsome skeleton lever watch to Mr. Jas.
Inman, in testimony of the esteem in which he is held by
his brethren in the profession, for his long and arduous
services, in furtherance of their common weal, as Secretary
to the Liverpool Society. The chair was ably filled by
Mr. Charles Smith, who, in presenting the testimonial,
dilated upon the various abilities of Mr. Inman, and said
the greatest compliment he could pay to his worth was by
stating, that in the independent fulfilment of the duties of
his office, no one had ever yet impeached his integrity or
aspersed his justice. Mr. Inmaa, on rising to return
thanks, was warmly applauded by the meeting. He deeply
felt the honour which had been conferred upon him, the
more so, as from his boyhood upwards, he had always
been the advocate of the principles which, in his official
capacity, he had endeavoured to carry out ; and he hoped,
ere long, to see the members of his profession, placed in
that position in society to which their education and at-
tainments so justly entitled them. After other well-direct-
ed remarks applicable to their present position and future
prospects, he sat down amidst the plaudits of the assembly,
and the harmony of the evening continued until a late hour.
The following was neatly inscribed on the inside case:—
"Presented to James Inman, by the Letter-press Printers
of Liverpool, in approval of his valuable services as their
Secretary. March 1846."

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.