The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-09 00:00:00

ly subject one of their friends to
the ignominy of a defeat. Will our old friend William

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Rathhone once more show his face

? Surely not after

his repeated rejection

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ST. BA RN AnAs ..CIIIIRCII.----We understand that a license
has been granted to this church for the celebration of mar-
riages.

REPEAL MOVEMENT IN LIVERPOut...
informed that the Irish repeaters are buying from the
grocers in this town all the lead in their possession. It is
unnecessary to say to what purpose this material is to be
devoted.

We are credibly

WEATHER.—We regret to say that we have still
unseasonable weather. The wind continues to shift to almost
all points of the compass with rapidity ; and on Wednesday
evening it rose to a great height, a►ld yesterday blew almost
a hurricane the whole day ; the rain fell in extremely heavy
shtwers in quick succession. Vegetation is. however, luxuri-
ant, though the grain crops would be much ben elitted by a
few dry, warm days.

FELONY.—At the police court yesterday, a man of the
name of John Harvey was committed for trial at the next
sessions, for stealing a pair of blue pilot-cloth trowsers, in
the pocket of which was a one pound note on the National
Bank of Scotland. The prisoner was seen going into the
house of the complainant, Charles Thompson, who resides in
a court in Prince Edwin Street, by the window and return-
ing with a pair of trowsers. They were afterwards missed,
and the officer went in search of the prisoner who tried to
effect his escape when he saw the officer.

REGISTRY OF PORTERS.—We perceive by a placard on
the walls, bearing the Town-clerk's signature, that a general
registry of these men has been established under the local
act of last session, and that all porters, warehousemen,
lumpers, and stevedores are required to register themselves
at the Town-hall, on or before the 15th instant. This will
be one means of ensuring a body of steady, honest, and in-
dustrious men to labour in our warehouses, as well as of
preventing, as far as possible, the recurrence of any such
disastrous fires as we have recently been visited with.
ATTEMPT AT BURGLARY.—On Wednesday, at the Police.
court, a man of colour, named James Hodson, was commit.
ted to the ensuing sessions for trial, charged with attempting
to break into the house of Miss Hewitson. From the depo-
sitions it appeared that the prisoner was found by a police-
officer in the garden, with his hands severely cut. It was
afterwards discovered that two panes of glass in the parlour
window were broken, the Venetian blinds forced off, and
the window by this means unfastened. He admitted that
he-had done it, and said he did not care how soon he went
over the water. He had been previously convicted.
BOAT ACCIDENT OFF v •
,GREMONT LAST NlellT.—Yes-
terday evening, about eight o'clock, as two men were
proceeding up the river in a four oared gig, with sail set, a
sudden squall upset the boat when off Egrement. The men
were speedily picked up by a fishing-boat which was making
her way in the same direction. Much praise is due to the
crews of two gigs from the north end of the Prince's-dock
who saved the boat. Commendations are deserving also to
the crew of the revenue cutter, anchored off Seacombe, and
also to the people belonging to the Albert, steam-tug, who
were promptly on the spot where the accident occurred.
A gentleman, who saw the circumstance, states that the es-
cape of these men was truly providential, the boat having
fairly turned over them.

THE LEVIATHAN STEAM SHIP " GFIEAT 1311ITIAN."—
This noble vessel was floated into her Dock on the Ist inst.,
and everything so far proved highly satisfactory. With all
her machinery, boilers, &c., she draws only 12 feet aft, and
9 forward,—a tolerable proof of the extreme buoyancy of an
iron ship. Der intended draught, with coals, stores, and all
on board, is 17 to 18 feet. It may therefore be " guessed "
that it will take something preity "considerable" to bring
her down to that depth, as from her particular form, her dis-
placement increases very rapidly, and she will in consequence
.be very steady in the water and stiff under canvass. The
principle of the screw will be fairly tried, and probably fully
established in the course of this summer, as we shall have the
Rattler, the Great Northern, and the Great Britian all under
way about Lila same lime.

•
THE FUNDS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.—The Consul mar-
ket showed no material fluctuation to-day. There was a fair
amount of business transacted, but none of the operations
caused any marked feature. Consols for the account closed
924 to Bank Stock, ]79 to 180; Three per Cents. Re-
duced, 931 to ;1; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced,
100 to 4; Long Annuities, 12 9-16; Excheoner-bills, 525.
to 545. premium ; and India Bonds, 535. to 575. premium.
Dutch and Spanish were the two foreign stocks in which the
dealings of the day were centred. The news that Mendizabal
is pursuing measures to insure payment of the next dividend
on the Three per Cent. securities induced several of the
speculative operators to make purchases. Dutch Two-and-
a-half per Cents. have improved to 55} to and the Five
per Cents. to 99? to 1004 ; Spanish Actives left off 20,1 to 21 :
and the New Three per Cents., 29i, The other sscuri-
ties were fairly steady. The Portuguese converted closed 41
to 4; Mexican, 281 to ; the Deferred, Bto 4; Danish, 851
to 4 ; Colombian, 231• to ; Brazilian, 71 to 73 ; and Belgian,
1021 to 1034.
THE WORKINGS OF THE LEAoms.—Yesterday, at the
police-court, Mr. Peter Wilson appeared before NI r Rushton,
by summons, -to waiver the complaint of Thomas Clarke
Berry for assault, who, it appeared, was a distributor of
tracts for the Anti-Corn-Law League. The evidence of the
complainant himself showed that he went to Mr. Wilson's
yard between two and three o'clock in the afternoon, for the
purpose of distributing tracts, one of which contained cuts
caricaturing the shipwrights before and after an election.
The witnesses for the defence alledged that the leaguer had
a great crowd of the boys and workmen round him who were
connected with the yard, and who would otherwise have
been at work, and that when ordered to leave the yard he
refused to go, Mr. Wilson then forcibly ejected him.—Mr.
-Rushton commented at length on -the conduct of the com-
plainant going to the yard during the hours of labour, saving
he (the complainant) had been very properly treated, and
that no more force than was actually necessary had been
used. The case was of course dismissed, and the agitator
left the court no little chop-fallen, not only having lost his
cause and his time, but his counsel's fee.

DISMISSAL OF TWO POLICE-OFFICEILS —On Wednesday,
at the police-court, one of ,the Cheshire Yeomanry, named
James Hunt, was charge by police-officer 198, who was
coroborated in his testimo by No. 331, with having been
disorderly in the streets o e previous evening. From the
evidence adduced in supp of the charge it was shown that
Hunt, who had been bailed out, had been making a noise
with a female, who was intoxicated, in London-road, when
officer 198 took him into custody. fie however struggled to
get free, and, in doing so, tore the officer's coat. The officer
got assistance and took him into custody and to bridewell,
where he was booked as drunk and disorderly; but after
being in some time the keeper conceiving it was the excite-
ment he laboured under erased the charge of intoxication and
left disorderly only. The evidence for the defence proved
that the soldier had not only been annoyed by the woman
but that he had not been in any way disorderly. It was also
proved that the officer had most rashly used his staff, and
seized Hunt in such a manner by the throat that at one time
he was black in the face. The officer then tendered farther
testimony that bad a tendency to affect the decency of Hunt's
proceedings. Mr. Rushton said that the yeomanry had acted
with very great forbearance, for had they drawn their swords
it would have been impossible to calculate the result, and
ordered that both officers he dismissed from the force, nor
did he hold out any hope of their being again restored.

ELECTION OF. COMMISSIONERS FOR BIRKENHEAD.—On
Tuesday last, the.glection of seven members of the Board of
Commissioners for paving, watching, lighting, &c., of the
township of Birkenhead, in the room of that number out of
the 21 who retire by rotation, and of another number for two
years to till a vacancy caused by a resignation, took place in
the Town Hall of that town. The Commissioners, nomina-
ted the first six in the list given below, and Mr. Howard (for
two years) ; and certain rate-payers named the other seven
and Mr. Singlehurst—for two years. The poll was opened
at nine o'clock and was kept up with great animation until
the close, altho' it appeared from an early period of the con-
test that the Commissioners, who issued red voting papers,
were so powerful that their opponents who adopted white
papers, had but little chance of snccess. No political party
spirit was manifested, there being tories and wings attached to
both sides. At three o'clock the respective aggregate num-
ber of votes for the red was 172, and for the whiles on►y
619. At the close, at four o'clock the poll stood as follows
William Adamson
• William Cole
Thomas Aquila Dale
John Howe Greene
Joseph Robinson Pim ....... 259
F. Berner..
J. Hind. ..
Edward Gardner Willoughby
Henry Gough ....
. Edwin Jackson Kent
Robert 11 iscocks
William Green..
Charles Bowring
William Barber

•••• •• 118
•••••• 113
100

For Two Years

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Peter Howard ..
Robert Singlehurst . . lOB
The greatest good humour prevailed throughout.
PLAN FOR PREVENTING THE EXTENSION OF FIRES IN
WAREHOUSISS.—We bad yesterday the pleasure of seeing a
large workinc, model of a new plan, by .Mr. Edwin Maw,
No. 10, Exchange-buildings, for preventing the extension of
fires in warehouses built on the old plan, and which, while
its application is simple and comparatively cheap, will, we
believe, be found to be very effective in practice, and conse-
quently supply a great desideratum—the rendering of our
present warehouses nearly or as much fireproof as if they
were pulled down and rebuilt on the most approved plans
that have yet been suggested. As Mr. Maw will gladly show
the model, and explain the principle and the manner of its
working, to any merchant or gentleman interested, we need
not here enter into details. lie supposes the large reservoir
to be constructed at Edge-hill to be completed, and the mains
laid in the principal warehousing streets, so that the water
being conveyed by a junction-pipe or hose leading to the
top of any warehouse near the docks, the essential element
would, in finding its own level, readily be forced without
engine power to the required elevation. At the top, over
the roof, is fixed a cistern of comparatively small capacity,
its only object being, not to collect a large body of water,
but merely, from the continned flow of water into it when
the main is put on, to ensure amore regular supply of more
or less, as the emergency may require. The first operation,
from perforated pipes, is the thorough and continuous well-
ing of the roof on both sides. From this the water finds its
way into the common gutters on each side, and thence by
pipes along the ceilings of each room, all the room floors and
the ceilings being previously covered with sheet-iron, which
will for a long time:prevent :the wood from igniting, even
without the superaddpg of the water. Any one room that
may be on tire, or the whole, may be drenched by a conti-
nuous heavy downfal from the horizontal pipes, by merely
turning a cock accessible to the police-officers from the out-
side on opening an iron door, should the inside not be ap-
proachable through the smoke or flame. Similar doors,
giving access to a cock in each room, may also be placed on
the stairs, those outside being intended to be reached by
ladders should the stairs be on fire. Little or none of the
water nerd be wasted, that falling from the roof into the
gutters being available in the pipes below, and any overflow
front a higher room being equally available for any rooms
below it. It is proposed that the warehouse doors should
also be of double sheet-iron, similar to those of a furnace,
which remain comparatively cool on one side, though they
are at a high heat on the other. These doors, which would
cost little more than single ones, would be touch stronger,
and they might be kept closed when a draught would increase
the combustion. The whole expense of thus fitting up a
warehouse built on the old plan would be but trifling, com-
pared with the advantages in safety, and the consequent
saving of insurance. Many gentlemen have already inspected.
the mode! at Mr. Maw's office; Mr. Whitty, who is deci-
dedly a practical man in the fire department, highly approves
of the plan; and we shall be greatly disappointed in our ex-
pectations if it be not very generally adopted, and supersede'
the enormous cost of rebuilding on fireproof principles. Nil%
Maw's object has been, we learn, to introduce a plan which,
from its simplicity and cheapness, shall be available by all
warehouse-owners; and his exertions to attain this, at con-
siderable cost, entitle him to the encouragement and grati-
tude of the commercial community.