The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-10-29 00:00:00

TILVERPOWL, STANDARD.

The American-builtisteam-ships havenotavailed them-
selves of the large Huskisson Lock to the south of San-
don Basin ; but it is expected they will; do; so on future
occasions. The Atlantic would have gone into the lock
on Thursday but for the lateness of her arrival:
Memorials to the Council;.emanating from; the Cham-
ber of Commerce, in favor of the erection of an Emi-
grants' Home, and of lights and fires on board vessels in
the docks, were placed yesterday for signature' in the
Exchange News-room. They will no doubt be numer-
ously signed.
The Royal Mail Steam-ship Africa left this port on
Saturday at noon, on her first voyage across the Atlantic,
under the command of Captain Lang. Large numbers of
people were on the pierheads to witness this splendid
vessel glide down the river.
The Spanish steam-frigate Hibernia, late one of the
Halifax squadron, left the Mersey, on Wednesday, for
Cadiz, en route to join her sister ship the Caledonia in
the mail service between Cadiz and Havana. The Hiber-
nia was rigged in the man-of-war style.
CASTLE-STREET WARD.—Mr. John Smith met his
friends on Wednesday evening, when he told them he was
not a candidate, but left himself in their bands. The
meeting resolved to return him, however, and the contest
will be very close, as Mr. Holt's friends are using every
effort to obtain a majority.
The trustees have appointed the Rev. Drummond
Anderson, late curate of St. Jude's Church, and at present
Chaplain of the Workhouse, to the incumbency of St.
Stephen's Chnrch, Crown• street, being the new church
now erecting by the Edge-hill Church-building Associa-
tion. _ _

On Wednesday a shipsmith, named Singleton, in the
employ of Messrs. Ashton and Ginn, Waterloo-road,
hung himself during the night, whilst in a desponding
state of mind, occasioned by fearing that he would be
thrown out of employment in consequence of his employ-
ers relinquishing business.
The United States mail steam-ship Atlantic, Captain
West, sails hence, on her return to New York, to-morrow,
with the usual mails. Her saloons are now entirely
manned by, coloured servants ; the !descendants of Africa
being more docile, agreeable, and useful to the passengers
than white attendants.

The Music-hall, Bold-street, was sold by auction on
Tuesday, to Mr. James Robinson, for the sum of £6,900,
at which price it is considered cheap. The Music-hall
was first opened in 1786, when Handel's Messiah was
performed. It has since been converted into shops, the
upper portion being used for public meetings.
COTTON CULTURE IN ANTIGUA.—A private letter, re-
ceived by a mercantile house in this town, dated Antigua,
September 30th, states that some parties are there trying
the experiment of growing cotton from New Orleans seed.
Already two acres of land have been prepared for the
purpose.
A member of the congregation of St. Peter's Church,
Rock Ferry, has presented to the Rev. T. F. Redhead,
the respected incumbent of that Church, a beautifully-
carved lettern, which is on view at the manufactory of
Messrs. Roberts, of Berry-street, to whose artistic skill
it does great credit.
GRAND MOVING MIRROR.—We learn that this beau-
tiful Exhibition will positively close this evening. Of
the correct representation of the Falls of Niagara and
the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, there can be no doubt,
as many residents of Liverpool have visited both, and
have presented the proprietors of the Mirror with testi-
monials of their approbation.
Early on the morning of the sth instant, two men were
surprised whilst attempting to bore a hole in the door of
the residence of John Okell, Esq., Lee Hall, Wootton.
A scuffle ensued, and one of them was captured and
lodged in bridewell. During the night, however, he
managed to escape by breaking the iron bars, and has not
since been heard of.
We reported last week a case of extraordinary cruelty
to Lascar seamen, brought home in the barque New
Liverpool, arrived in Southampton. An inquest was held
upon the bodies of the deceased on Tuesday, when the
jury returned a verdict of man-laughter against Captain
Rowles. The captain had been in court the whole evening
until the coroner commenced summing up, when he dis-
appeared, and was non est when the verdict was returned.
Two steamers—one of the Cork Steam Ship Company,
and the other of the City of Dublin—left Cork on Satur-
day for Liverpool. Both vessels were literal'v crowded
with emigrants, there being no fewer than 1,000, male and
female, taking their departure. So dreadful was the rush
to get on board that the officials of both companies had to
employ a number of men, with heavy sticks in hand, to
beat off the crowds that attempted to rush on board,
appearing evidently as if they were flying from a plague.

FORGERY : THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—A man
named Murdock Frazer was apprehended in this town, on
Wednesday, charged with forging the name of Mr. Read-
man, of the Glasgow River Trust, to two bills, for £lOO
each, which he attempted to negotiate at the Union Bank
in that city on Tuesday last. The suspicion of the cashier
at the bank were excited, and the bills were retained ;
Readman being told to call again in about an hour. In
the meantime the forgery was ascertained, and, as Read-
man did not return on Wednesday, information was co_ll
veyed to the police which led them to suppose the fugitive
was in Liverpool. A telegraphic message having been
forwarded, in less than half-an-hour afterwards he was
captured. On Thursday he was taken back to Glasgow,
and on Friday remanded for examination.
POACHING.—On the 10th of November, 1843, an affray
with poachers took place at Knowsley, which resulted in
the death of Ricnard Kenyon, one of the keepers. Five
men were tried and condemned for the murder. John
Roberts, who fired the fatal shot, was hung, but the other
four had their sentence transmuted to transportation for
life. Amongst the men implicated, but not arre-ted, was
one named Thomas Tudor. Mr. Storey, superintendent
of the St. Helen's police, has had a warrant in his posses-
sion ever since for the apprehenseon of this man, but he
was only enabled to execute it the other day in this town.
Tudor, however, is now lying dangerously ill, and is left
under the charge of one of the Liverpool officers. He
will of course be removed as soon as he is sufficiently

recovered.
DEATHS FROM EXCESSIVE DRINKING..—For the last
week or two, somewhere about 250 men have been em-
ployed by the Corporation in restoring the Wallasey em-
bankment. On Wednesday, some of the cartmen dis-
covered a large cask or puncheon of rum, supposed to have
been a portion of the cargo of the ship Providence, re-
cently wrecked on the Burbo Bank. At dusk the great
body of the labourers left their work, and then a scene
commenced which baffles description. Some of the men
managed to take quantities away from the ground ; others
drank until they were in a state of helpless and hopeless
intoxication. About nine o'clock John Morriss was taken
out of a ditch, dead. During the evening the dead body of
James Farrell, foreman to Mr. William Rimmer, the con-
tractor for the Corporation, was also discovered in a field
in the neighbourhood of Wallasey.
ROYAL INSTITUTION SCHOOL.-011 We bleSday last
the examination for the fluff Scholarship at this school
terminated in the election of Mr. W. Rees, as first both
in classics and mathematics. In the first branch, how-
ever, he was only fourteen marks above Mr. R. Duck-
worth, with whose papers, as well as with Mr. Byrth's,
Mr. J. Price, M.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge,
the classical examiner, expressed himself much pleased.
Mr. Duckworth's name was bracketted with Mr. Byrth's,
on the general result ; but as neither the first of these
young gentlemen nor Mr. Rees are proceeding yet to
college, the scholarship will be filled by Mr. Byrth, who
is already resident at Brasenose College, Oxford. The
mathematical examiner was Mr. H. Weir, M.N., late
scholat:of Caius College, Cambridge. Mr. W. Glen and
Mr. Preston were honourably mentioned for mathematics,
and Mr. M`Cheane for classics
TRAGEDY AT WAVERTREE

—On Saturday week an

inquest was held on the bodies of Catherine Carnall,
housemaid to Francis Hollins, Esq., of Cow-lane, and of
an infant child to which she had given birth, and which
she had buried in the privy, thereafter committing suicide
by taking a quantity of vitriol. It appeared that she had
confessed to Mr. Hollins the birth and the disposal as
above-mentioned, of the child, and that the disclosure so
excited her that she rushed out of the house, ran to the
edge of a pond, and was about making a plunge in the
water, when her master, who had pursued her, prevented
her from doing so, brought her back, and confined her in
his own parlour. She was afterwards allowed to enter a
closet to fetch an apple, when she took a bottle of vitriol,
from the shelf, and swallowed a portion of the contents,
which caused her death. The jury returned a verdict,
with reference to the child, to the effect that there was
not sufficient evidence to tell whether the child bad been
born dead or alive ; and with reference to the mother, a
verdict of " temporary insanity" was returned.
ALL SAINTS' CHURCH, GREAT NELSON-STREET
NORTH.—On 'unday last, two sermons were preached in
this church, in aW of the funds for the defrayment of the
churchwardens expenses. The sermon in the morning
was preached by the Rev. Henry Hampton, MA., incum-
bent of St. James's, and the collection amounted to £ll
13s. ljd. ; that in in the evening by the Rev. John Cor-
deaux, M.A., incumbent of St. Silas's, after which the
additional sum of £8 10s. 14d. was raised, making a total
of £2O 3s, 3d. Hitherto the burden of the expenses con-
nected with this church, has pressed very heavily on the
minister ; and we are glad to find the congregation and
parishioners of All Saints coming forward so liberally to
respond to the appeal made to them to uphold the inte-
rest of their parish church. We understand that the Rev.
Wm. Pollock, M.A., incumbent of St. Mark's, has kindly
consented to preach in this church, for the same object,
on Thursday evening:next, when it is hoped many of the
wealthy residents in that neighbourhood, who can but
feel a sympathy with their poorer brethren, will attend,
and aid their cause by their liberal contributions.
THE LONDON PORTER BREWERIES.—Twice the quan-
tity of porter already brewed in London in a year would
be something like equivalent to the estuary of the Mersey
opposite the Pierhead at spring tide. When one of Meux's
vats burst, it swept away a whole street—houses, inhabi-
tants, and all—like an overflow of the Scheldt; and that
was in 1814, when vats were mere pipkins to what they
are now. At Whitbread's, which ranks but third in the
trade, there is one of such prodigious dimensions that its
twenty-five hoops weigh from one to three tons each, and
its contents are 20,000 barrels, being some twenty times
the capacity of the Tun of Heidelberg, in whose praises
the small-beer metsphysico-versifiers of Germany have
been bemusing their brains these two hundred years back,
though for half that time it has been empty, and when
full had only liver-pinching rhenish in it, a hogshead of
which couldn't communicate the thought of a solitary
quart of Barclay and Perkins'. By the way, Barclay's
brewery in itself is already half the size of Paxton's Plate
glass Palace,. and covers upwards of ten acres;, so if, the
produce of porter be regulated by superficial extent. of
premises, and that there is to be double produce next
year, the building ought to fully equal the. Aladdin-like
structure in Hyde-park. The firm brew, about half-a-
million of barrels a-year at present, being at.the rate of
some ten gallons per head, or per mopth, for every man,
woman, and child, in London, saying nothing of what the
,;six.other, great houses turn out.-r.A?bisni.