The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-04-08 00:00:00

Korai azzb Vrobinrial grim

On Sunday week, a sailor:in a state of intoxication, felt
from the roof of a house in Shaw's-alley.and died in con-
sequence of the injuries received on the following day.
On Tuesday. a sailor, named Ireland, belonging to the
ship Britannia, in Coburg Dock, was fined £lOO, or to be
imprisoned six months, for smuggling 241 b. of tobacco.
About noon on Thursday, a little boy, named M'Duual,
residing in Hughes-place, Ahbot-stret, Park, was drowned
whilst fishing in a pond near the Potteries.
The Mermaid Steamer, from Waterford for this port,
got on shore on Friday night, on West Hoyle, and OS
with the tide. The crew and passengers were saved.
During the last month no less than fifty-one vessels ar-
rived in the Ribble, and discharg-d at the Preston Quays.
The total tonnage amounted to £205 Gs.
On Tuesday last a man named Fletcher died at Salford,
it is supposed from hydrophobia. having been bitten brag
dog about six or seven weeks ago.
On Tuesday, Mr. Rushton i evoked the license of Red-
mond Byrne, marine store dealer, Queen-street, and
sentenced him to two months' imprisonment, fur having
in his possession a large quantity of stolen property.
On Tuesday last, George Jordan, the man who inflicted
the wound on Inspector Burrell, during the row in Vauz-
hall-toad the previous week, was committed by Mr.
Rushton for trial at the next assize.:.
MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.—The vacant mastership
in the High School of this institution has been filled up
by the appointment of Mr. Peniston, 8.A., of St. John's
College, Cambridge. There were fifty candidates.
On Wednesday night, in the House of Commons, Lord
Sandon presented a petition from Liverpool, signed by
1.400 persons, praying for the repeal of the enactment
abolishing imprisonment for debt.
On Wednesday, at Chester Assizes, David Leigh was
sentenced to one month's imprisonment, for the man-
slaughter of Pater Whittle, blacksmith, of Sale, on the
19th ult.

Such is the present activity in the building of house!,
warehouses, railway extensions, &c., in Manchester and
its vicinity, that so early in the season as the present,
bricks have advanced, as compared with their value Up
time last year, more than 75 per cent.
On Saturday, three fashionably-dressed young men
were brought before Mr. Rushton charged with having
committed robberies in omnibuses. They were remanded.
Robberies of this description have been very frequent
lately.

A few days ago, some members of the congregation of
St. Augustine's Church, Everton, presented an elegant
silver tea service to the Rev. A. Hume LL.D., who was
lately assis'anr curate of Dr. Trttershall, and is now the
officiating minister of St. John the Evangelist's, Hope.
street.

AMATEUR PLAY.—We refer our readers to Mr. Brezeit
advartisement, who takes a benefit at the Theatre Royal;
the performance will, we understand, be similar as on the
occasion of the benefit for the Licensed Victuallers'
Charity, when the overflow was so great that great dis-
appointment was experienced
FREE-LABOUR SUGAR.—The ship Liverpool, Captain
M`Dowal, arrived here on Saturday last from Manilla,
with the largest parcel of free-labour sugar that was ever
brought to this port, being nearly 20,000 bags. Under
the recent act of Parliament it is admissible for home use,
and we are informed that a large proportion of it is very
suitable for grocery purpeses.
LOCAL RILLS.—The committee on the Liverpool dock
Bill were to meet yesterday. The Birkenhead Company's
Dock Bill passed the Commons en Thursday night, was,
with the Commissioner's Dock Bill, read a first time in
the Lords the same eveMitg, and both were read a second
time on Saturday. The report on the Wallasey Improve-
ment Bill was further considered on Wednesday last, and
the bill recommitted to the former committee.
FALL OF A BOAT notisse—On Thursday evening,.
about half-past seven, and instantly after the report or
the signal gun fired by the mail steamer on her arrival
here, the wall of Mr. Willcughby's beat-house, at Bir-
kenhead, fell, with the superincumbent part of earth,
and crushed several race-boats to pieces beneath the
ruins. One very fine boat, belonging to the Mersey
club, was completely destroyed.
At the Chester assizes, on Thursday and Friday, the
court was occupied in trying an action of ejectment,
brought by her Majesty in right of the Duchy of Lan-
caster, to recover possession of two pieces of land, which,
it was alleged, formerly were part of the waste of the
manor of Walton, and had been wrongfully enclosed by
the trustees of the Duke of Bridgewater. The result was
a verdict in favour of her Majesty.
The Caledonia, which departed for Boston and Halifax
on Saturday evening, took with her not less nail 60,000
newspapers and an equal number of it tters. She also.
took out hi full complement of passengers, and bearer a
dispatches 'from government to Mr. Parkenham, minister
of Washington, conveying the declaration of government
respecting the Oregon. for which purpose her detention
from Friday to Saturday was ordered by the Admiralty.
ATTEMPTED MURDER.—On Tuesday morning, a felloNtr
of the name of Murphy, an Irishman, threw a table knife
at his wife, at their lodging in Milk street, in this town.
The point of the blade penetrated her neck, behind the
right ear. lie had been drinking the night before, and as
his wife had no food for hum he resorted to this desperate
act. Murphy was arrested, and has been examined before
Mr. Rushton, and remanded. The wife has been dan-
gerously ill, but is now better.
The late Sir Thomas Potter and Mr. Richard Potter,
M.P., were the sorts of a respectable farmer residing at
Tadeister, and commenced business in Manchester in the
year 1800. with what was then considered the handsome
capital of £14,000. The proression of carriages and per-
sons on foot at the funeral of the late Sir Thomas Potter,
was the largest ever known in Manchester, with the ex-
ception of that of Dr. Dalton.
STEAMER SUNK.—The steamer Alice, belonging to the
Bridgewater trust, was sunk during a violent gale between
Weston Point and Runcorn, about twelve p.m. on Wed-
nesday se'nnight. She had no passengers on hoard, but
was tugging, and one of the vessels in tow ran foul of her
with such violence as to cause her to to down immediately.
Fortunately no lives were lost, another steamer being at
hind. The Alice has since been raised, and floated into
the Duke's Dock, at Runcorn.
BONICEPATHIC COCOA.—An excellent article under this
title is advertised in our paper of to-day, by Mr. Benyon,
of Rmelagh-street. The great objection that has hitherto
been urged against cocoa, as a beverage, is, that owing to
its oily nature it is not easy of digestion ; this article is,
however, so prepared as to destroy its greasy properties
without injuring the flavour—the houneepathic cocoa it,
tnerefore, not only a strengthening and delicious, but a
healthful beverage.
STABBING.—On Tuesday, John Matthews, a seaman,
was convicted by Mr. Rushton, of stabbing Isaac Max-
well. a carpenter. Bath parties belong to the ship Rapid,
rec.•ntly arrived from the South Seas. They had been

fiehtir. on the 2611) January last, and during the afiras
Matthews stabbed Mixwell below the left ear. The pri-
soner was fined £5, or to be imprisoned two months. Oa
the same day a Spaniard, named Manso, was sentenced to
the same punishment, for stabbinz a sailor belonging to
the slip Cygnet, of Boston, in the Clarence Dock Basin.
At the Chester assizes, on Wednesday, the Rev Joshua
King, of Woodchurch, preferred an indictment against Sit
William Stanley, for having caused a nuisance on the
turnpike road leading from Stourton to Higher Bebington,
by lay'ng down a railo-ay across it. Toe railway had been
laid down by Sir William's fattier. The jury returned a
verdict of no' guilty. A similar result attended an in-
dictment by the same prosectitor against Sir William, for
continuing an obstruction to the highway by permitting tt-
quantity of rubbish to remain there.

THE IRON DUKE AND SEA KlNG.—These two fine
steamers started from Liverpool on Sunday night week,
on a trial trip between this port and Dublin. They -left at
five minutes past seven o'clock p.m. Passing Point Ly-
nas, they were nearly abreast of each other; but passing.
the Skerries, the Sea King was about one-third of a mile
astern. At half-past two on Monday morning, the Sea
King was half a mile astern, and she then made away fox
Belfast. According to the log of the Iron Duke, that
vessel was unquestionably the winner ; but the parties on
boatd the Sea King state that the latter vessel shot a-head,
and stopped her engines three times, in order that the
Iron Duke might overtake her.

CLAIM FOR WAGES.-08 Tuesday, Mr. John Cruys
chief mate of the ship Eliz tbeth Thompson, summoned
Captain Betts before Mr. Rushton for £l9 13s. 6d. wages
due to him. It appeared the mate had been disrated on
the 9th December last, since which time he had done no
duty. Ttm master stated that the mate had told him a
falsehood, and to prove the fal-ehood he called • Daniel
O'Connell, who sated that he heard the mate tell the
captain that the ship had been pumped, when in fact the
pump bad been sounded only. On cross examination by
Mr. Davenport this witness admitted that there was no
mate in the hold to pump at the time. Mr. Rushton said
the mate had done his duty properly, by sounding the
pump, and that the full amount of his wages must be paid.
CHESTER ASSIZES.—George Williams, 25, and Charles
Williams, 22, were convicted of a robb-ry, with violence*
on the person of Mr. Thomas, a joiner, at Birkenhead, on
the high road between Birkenhead and Rock Ferry, on
the night of Saturday, the Ist of February last. Sentence
deferred.—James Berry, 23, John Hammond, 30, Georgo
Hammond, 22, Thomas Hammond, 28, and Wm. Webb,
40, were charged with firing a loaded gun at Jelin Eden,
with intent to kill and murder him, or with intent to maim,
disfivre, or to do some grievous bodily harm. Otbei
counts charged the prisoners with being out armed in the
night time in pursuit of game, on lands belonging to Thos.
Langford Brooke, Esq., ut 'labley, of Mere-hall, on Sun-
day evening, the sth of January last. They were all con-
victed, and sentenced to fifteen years' transportation.

UNITED EDECATION.—The Bishop of Meath, in a let-
ter to Sir James Graham, says—" One printery object
of National education is the union of children of different
persuasions in the same school ; I have had many year?
experience of the beneficial aft ets of employing Protest-
ants and Roman Catholics indiscriminately together. I
have employed both together in great numbers, as well in
some puts of Ireland where Protestants were the majo-
rity, ds in others where Roman Catholics preponoeratedi
I trt aced both in the same maiiner, and I have seen the
blessed results of antipathies and prejudices heivg oblite-
rated, and of mutual kindly feelings b&ng; substituted; I
never knew of a quarrel taking place arooog tin at on teli-
gious grounds. If such harmony could be so easily pro-
duced among adults, simply by bringing them together,
how much more ea,y would it be among children ! This
also I hive had tie pl,asure of witnessing in schonlsesta-
blished and managed by myself. The National system has
hitherto failed in producing such uniied education. In the
schools of Roman Catholic priests there are scarcely any
Protestants, and in the Presbyterian sch,ols very few Ro-
man Catholics ; 'the clergy and laity of the Established
Church are the persons from whose exertions we have the
.hest hope of seeing such united education extensively ope-
rating'."