The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-11-14 00:00:00

BYE-LAWS

For regulating the use of the Piers. Slips, and Stairs, now
erected or constructed, or hereafter to be erected or con-
structed, by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the
Borough of Liverpool, or by the Trustees of the Liver-
pool Docks ; and also for regulating the Vessels and
Boats resorting to the said Piers, Slips, and Stairs re-
spectively :

I.—Steam-boats coming to or departing from any pier,
basin, slip, Av. after sunset, to carry a sufficient
light aloft and forward. _ _ _

That every master or person, having the command or
charge of any steam-vessel coming to or departing from
any of the said piers, slips, or stairs, or any stage, barge,
or other convenience connected or used therewith, after
sunset and before sunrise, shall cause such vessel, when
within two hundred and fifty yards from any such pier,
slip, stairs, or convenience, to carry a sufficient light aloft
and forward in some conspicuous place, under the penalty
of forty shillings for each offence against this bye-law.
2.—Steam-boats, in hazy weather, coining to or depart-
ing from any pier, basin, slip, ere., to keep a
sufficient bell ringing.
That every master or person, having the command or
charge of any steam-vessel coming to or departing from
any of the said piers, slips, stairs, or conveniences, in
hazy weather, either by day or in the night, shall, at all
times when such vessel shall be within two hundred and
fifty yards of any such pier, slip, stairs, or convenience,
cause a sufficient bell to be kept constantly ringing, under
the penalty of forty shillings for each offence against this
bye-law.

3.—Steam-boats coming to any basin, pier, kc., for
landing passengers or cargo, to have preference,
except, kc.

That every steam and other vessel and boat coming to
any of the said piers, slips, stairs, or conveniences, for
the purpose of landing any passengers or cargo, shall be
entitled to the preference of the landing-place until dis-
charged, (except as hereinafter provided with regard to
the landing or receiving cattle at the slip at the north end
of George's Dock Parade, and at the slip called Seacombe
Slip;) and every master and other person, having the
command or charge of any such steam or other vessel or
boat, shall, without any delay, complete the landing of
the passengers and cargo from such steam or other vessel
or boat, an shall immediately after such landing haul off
the said steam or other vessel or boat to such a distance
(not being less than twenty yards) from such pier, slip,
stairs, or convenience, as to enable other vessels or boats
to discharge their passengers or cargoes, under the pe-
nalty of forty shillings for each offence against this bye-
law.

4.—Master not to remain at the slip at the north end of
George's Parade for the purpose of landing or
receiving cattle beyond a reasonable time, not ex-
ceeding ten minutes.

That no Master or other person, having the command
or charge of any steam or other vessel or boat, shall per-
mit or suffer the same to remain at the slip at the north
end of George's Dock Parade, or at the slip called the
Seacombe Slip, for the purpose of landing cattle, or re-
ceiving cattle on board, for a space of time longer than
shall be reasonably requisite, and not in any case exceed-
ing ten minutes, under the penalty of forty shillings for
each offence against this bye-law.

s.—Masters of Steam-boats, plying begone the limits of
the port, not to ply or remain at any pier, 4v.
longer than twenty minutes. _

That no master or other person, having the command
or charge of any steam or other vessel or boat, usually
employed in carrying goods or passengers beyond the
limits of the Port of Liverpool, shall permit such vessel
or boat to ply, lie, or remain at any of the said piers,
slips, stairs, or conveniences, for the purpose of landing
or receiving passengers, luggage, or goods, for a longer
space of time than twenty minutes each voyage or trip,

under the penalty of forty shillings for each offence
against this bye. law.
6.—Vessels plying within the limits of the port not to
remain at any slip, ei^e. longer than five minutes
after the arrival of another vessel.
That in case any steam or other vessel or boat, not

being one usually employed in carrying goods or passen-
gers beyond the limits of the Port of Liverpool, shall
happen to be lying at any of the said piers, slips, stairs, or
conveniences, for the purpose of receiving passengers,
luggage, or goods on board, when any other steam or
other vessel or boat shall arrive for the purpose of landing
passengers, luggage, or goods, the master or other person
having the charge or command of such first-mentioned
steamer or other vessel or boat shall not permit the same
to remain at such pier, slip, stairs, or convenience, for a
longer space of time than five minutes after the arrival of
the said last-mentioned vessel or boat, under the penalty
of forty-shillings for each offence against this bye-law.
7.—And not to remain at any pier, Si-e. longer than

twenty 'ninnies

That no master or other person, having the command
or charge of any steam or other vessel or boat, not usually
employed in carrying passengers, luggage, or goods be-
yond the Port of Liverpool, shall permit such vessel or
boat to be or remain at any of the said piers, slips, stairs,
or conveniences, longer than such reasonable time (not
exceeding twenty minutes) as shall be actually requisite
for the purpose of taking on board passengers, luggage,
and goods, under the penalty of forty shillings for each
offence against this bye-law.

B.—Master not to moor Steamboat nearer to any basin,
kc. than twenty yards, except whilst landing
passengers.

That no master or other person, having the command
or charge of any steam or other vessel or boat, shall per-
mit the same to lie or be moored nearer than twenty yards
from any of the said piers, slips, stairs, or conveniences,
except whilst landing or taking on board passengers, lug-
gage, or goods, under the penalty of forty shillings for
each offence against this bye-law.

9.—Any Steam-boat, Sic. allowed to take the ground
within twenty yards of any pier, slip, 4-c. the
master or person in charge to forfeit, 8(c.

. ,
That if any steam or other vessel or boat shall be neg.
ligently allowed to take the ground, or wilfully run
aground, within the distance of twenty yards from any of
the said piers, slips, stairs, or conveniences, the master or
other person having the command or charge of such steam
or other vessel or boat shall forfeit and pay for each offence
the sum of forty shillings.
10.—Steam-boats, Sc. by wilful delay in loading or dis-
charging, obstructing or hindering any other
Steam-boat, 4c. master or other person in charge
to forfeit, 8(c. . _

That if, by wilful delay in the loading or discharging of
any steam or other vessel or boat, any other steam or
other vessel or boat shall be obstructed or hindered from
loading or discharging at any of the said piers, slips,
stairs, or conveniences, the master or person having the
command or charge of such first-mentioned steam or
other vessel or boat shall forfeit and pay for each offence
the sum of forty shillings.
11.—No Steam-boat to remain at any pier, basin, slip,
stairs, or conveniences, without three persons on
board.

That no steam vessel shall remain at or off any of the
said piers, slips, stairs, or conveniences, without at least
three competent persons being on board to attend to such
vessel, under the penalty of forty shillings, to be paid by
the master or person having the command or charge
thereof.

Provided that, for the convenience of the public service,
the following exceptions shall be made in favour of Steam
Vessels, being Packets employed in carrying the Post-
office Mails, to and from Ireland, and of Steam Vessels,
Tenders upon such Packets, viz.:
Ist,—Such packets and tenders departing before three-
quarters past five o'clock in the morning from any
of the said piers, slips, stairs, or conveniences, shall
be allowed forty-five minutes previous thereto for
receiving the mails, passengers, and goods.
2d,—Such packets departing in the evening from any
such piers, slips, stairs, or conveniences, shall be
allowed to remain previous thereto, for reeeiving
the mails, passengers, and goods, from a quarter-
past six o'clock i❑ the evening until five minutes
after the mails shall arrive from the Postoffice in
Liverpool and be delivered on board ; provided
that the vessel shall not remain later than half-past
seven o'clock, from the fifteenth of March to the
fifteenth of October, inclusive of the latter day, or
than eight o'clock from the fifteenth day of October
to the fifteenth of March, inclusive of the latter
day.

3d,—Such packets and tenders shall be allowed for
landing the mails, passengers, and goods, at any of
the said piers, slips, stairs, or conveniences. such

exceedir

in the whole forty minute

All which allowances shall be without any interruption
on the part of any other steam or other vessel or boat or
Otherwise, provided that the allowance hereby made in

INUNDATIONS IN FRANCE

The Zliessager of Wednesday gives the following addi-
tional information respecting the inundations ,
" The dyke of Boulbon has been broken through by the
Rhone, near Aviguon. The waters have overflowed the
road of Trebon, between Tarascon and Arles, and spread
over the plain. Several arches of the bridge of La Crau
are menaced, and the wooden bridge has given way. The
country is submerged. The right bank has hitherto been
preserved by the energy of the inhabitants, who have
worked arduously at raising the dykes. Aranion, how-
ever, has suffered considerably. Another bridge on the
Durance, that of Cadenet, has been carried away. As
yet it is impossible to estimate the damage caused by the
overflowing of the waters. On every point the military
authorities have placed at the disposalof the engineers the
greatest possible number of soldiers for the most urgent
labours."
The Sun of Marseilles of Monday says

" The accounts of the inundations are become less
alarming. The waters are beginning to subside. Avig-
non has become almost entirely free from them, and the
mails to Lyons and Paris have resumed their regular
routes. Unfortunately, it is to be feared that the heavy
rain which fell during the whole of the day may again
cause the rivers to overflow. The disasters have already
been great. The bridge at Bellegarde, which formed the
communication between Languedoc and Provence, has
been carried away. The bank of the Rhone between Ta-
rascon and Arles has burst, the plains of Beancaire and
Arles are submerged, and the Toulouse and southern
mails are obliged to pass through Avignon. On the Du-
rance the bridges of Cadenet and Rognonas are down.
Mallernort is invaded by the waters. In reference to this
misfortune, an interesting incid, nt is related. A. woman,
whose house was threatened with being washed down, was
taken at the moment with the pains of child birth. Her
medical attendant, who was mayor of the town, had her
carefully placed in a cart, and accompanied her tr. a place
of safety ; but before this could be reached, she was safely
delivered of a boy. At the moment the new infant Moses
was brought into the world the house of his parents was
carried away by the current."

THE MERCURYAND SABBATH PROFANATION,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Sir,—lt was one of the ancient aphorisms, that extra-
ordinary pretensions were a cloke for extraordinary
hypocrisy ; so with the Mercury. On Friday last it ex-
essed its horror at the Sabbath being "desecrated" in
this town, by Vie letting-off of fire-works on the sth of
November ! This assumed piety on the part of a print
that has, in its columns, paid eulogistic tribute to de-
parted Atheism ! nay, still further, has never discovered
the least impropriety or " desecration" in the Sunday
meetings of O'Connell and his horde of incendiary priests,
is nauseously disgusting ! How long can the religious
public be duped into further countenance of this Jesuitical
newspaper?
If the scribe who perpetrates these anomalous railings,
as well as those from Wigan, (the learned "doctor,"
are at a loss to know why the sth of November is held in
joyous remembrance by all true-hearted Protestants, let
them be told that it is hailed as a deliverance from the
fury and trammels of a pseudo-church, that would, at
once and for ever, have dashed the cup of toleration to
the ground ! and placed it out of the power of every
Churchman, Scotch Presbyterian, Methodist, Calvinist,
Baptis', and Protestant Dissenter, to worship the God of
their fathers according to their conscience and in peace
and freedom ! Such a commemoration, then, is not
merely a record of historical fact, but a just token of
thankfulness to the Almighty for thus perpetuating real
civil ann religious liberty, in contra-distinction to Popery !
Upon what plea, or tangible or honest grounds. certain
classes of dissenters ever joined political issue with
Papists—who would crush them to the earth had they the
power, witness (the " Saxon" denunciations of the priest-
hood)—is for them to explain, as best they can, at a forth-
coming period. Hoping you will insert this,
I am, &c., •

A VOICE FROM ST. HELENS.
Si. Helens, Nov. 13, 1843.

P.S.—What has become of your correspondent
" Lynx ?" He ought to persevere in a contest in which
he has truth on his side.

The directors of the Isle of Man Joint Stock Bank,
about which such extraordinary disclosures have recently
been made, have all resigned their situations, and a meet.
ing of the shareholders was held on Saturday last, in con-
sequence. The directors state, that the cause of their
resignation is the misconstruction placed on their actions
and intentions by the shareholders.

DEATH FROM A DOSE OF LAUDANUM.—On Thursday
last, an inquest was held before Mr. Heyes, the county
coroner, at the Seven Stars, in Eccleston, on view of the
body of a child about nine months old, named Edward
Evans. Deceased had been poorly for a short time, and
the mother having a little laudanum in the house, which
had been recommended to her husband by a druggist, she
gave deceased six drops of it, thinking it would do him
good. The child went to sleep soon after, and in about
an hour awoke : he appeared dull and heavy, and worked
his arm and leg a good deal backwards and forwards. He
fell asleep again, and his mother put him in a cradle in a
neighbour's house. In about half an hour the woman of
the house came to tell deceased's mother that she be-
lieved the child was dead. She went, and found it was
so. Deceased had changed colour to between a blue and
black. The verdict was, " Died by an overdose of lauda-
num, administered without any felonious intent "•' but,
as this was the second case of the kind which had been
brought before Mr. Heyes within a week, the jury se-
verely reprimanded the mother.
COMMITMENTS.—At the Police-court, on Friday, a
woman, named Mary Logan, was charged with stealing
two pieces of flannel. Police-officer White said that on
the previous day he had observed the prisoner carrying
the articles, and suspecting all was not right, asked her
what she had got, and from her evasive answers took her
into custody. The pieces were produced, and were iden-
tified by a shopman of Mr. Ingham, draper, Scotland-
road, as the property of that gentleman. There were in
all 16 yards, worth about 9d. a yard. The prisoner, who
said said she was a married woman, was committed for
trial. Same day, an old woman, Susan M'Ardle, was
charged by Mr. yrer, collector of tolls, with carrying off,
on Thursday night, a basket from St. John's Market,
containing about 221 b of butter. It appeared that a Mr.
Nugent, residing in Commutation-row, had a stand in the
rwrket, kept by his daughter, and that while the latter
was talking to a customer the prisoner took up the basket
and hastened off, but was suspected by Mr. Tyrer, and
detained, The butter was stated to be worth about 20s.
The prisoner, who was known as an old offender, was com-
mitted for trial.

WEST DERBYUNION.—A Statement has just been pub-
lished of the receipts and expenditure of the several
townships (23 in number) comprised in the West Derby
Union, for the three years ending March, 1843 ; prepared
for the purpose of showing what proportion of the amount
collected as " poor rates" has been actually expended for
the maintenance of the poor, and sums paid for county-
rates and other purposes,—together with some other sta-
tistical information. It appears from this that the popu-
lation of the whole of the townships, which extend over
a considerable breadth from (and including) Allerton on
the South, and Great and Little Crosbie on the North,
increased from 53,058 in 1831 to 88,287 in 1841—or an
increase of 35,292. During that period the only town-
ships that decreased in population were Thornton 30,
Lunt 8, Little Crosbie, 20, and Ince Blundell s—all the
rest having increased very considerably—Toxteth Park
by no less than 17,187. The average annual expenditure
for the poor in the whole Townships for the three years
previous to the Union in 1837 was £6213, and for the
three years ending March 1842 £5224. The total receipts
during the years 1840-1-2 were.£55,659. The total amount
expended during these three years for relief of the poor,
was £23,690 ; and for other purposes—not being for their
relief—£32,B32. Within the same period the increase
of amount paid for erunly rate over that paid for the poor
in 15 of the townships was £4449 ; which in only three of
the townships was there an increase for the maintenance
of the poor over the county rate—and that to the amount
of only £62,—thus showing (we think) that however the
comforts of the poor may be abridged. that exorbitant
impost, the county rate, is ever on the increase, and
ought to be narrowly looked into by the rate-payers. The
number of paupers in the Workhouse at the end of the
quarter in December 1842 was 350; and at the end of the
quarter in March 1843, 255. The average weekly cost of
ther maintenance at the former period was 2s. 11. d. per

_ .
er 2s. 811. The salaries of the
Officers and assistant overseers are

These statements (of which we have given
only the totals) are drawn up in tabular form with great
neatness by the intelligent clerk of the Union, Mr. Wil-
nun Cleaver.

in all £2,053.