The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-15 00:00:00

?Loral fitivr.i.

A new steamer will commence plying on the 3rd of
March between. Liverpool and Ulverstone.
The acceptances for the Liverpool Grand National
Steeple Chase amount to 83, and for the Chester Cup, 106.
Mr. Matthews, of Wakefield, and Mr. Plant, of Li-
verpool, have been appointed to the choir of Carlisle
Cathedral.
At a meeting of the Hide and Skin Market Association
on Wednesday, it was decided after rather a warm discus-
sion not to remove the market.

We understand Phillips' full and splendid Quadrille
Band was in attendance, last Tuesday evening, at Sir
John Gerard's, New Hall ; and, as usual, gave great satis-
faction.

The anniversary dinner of the Apollo Club was held at
the house of Mr. Elmes, in Richmond-row, last week,
when the chair was taken by Mr. Richard Laidlaw, the
president for the year, and Mr, Richard Holden acted as
vice-president.
At an early hour on Monday morning a malicious at-
tempt was made to set fire to the stable of Mr. Carr,
coach proprietor, Birkenhead. A light had been intro-
duced through hole in the wall ; some straw took fire,
but fortunately the flames soon expired.
The Caroline brig, of Liverpool, which- was wrecked on
the sands under Penrylm Castle, in December last, has
been moved beyond the Perch at Cardigan bar, by Mr.
Bremner, of Glasgow, who successfully moved the Great
Britain steam vessel. _

ANTI-CHURCH AND STATE SOCIETY.—A- meeting of
this foolish body was held in the Concert-hall, on Thurs-
day evening, Mr. R. Johnson in the chair. The meeting
was addressed by Mr. 'Williams, the London secretary,
Mr: Miall, and other gentlemen.
The Rev. H. H. Higgins, the incumbent of St John
the-Evangelist Church, having found it necessary' to pro-
cure relaxation from his arduous-pastoral duties, has gone
to the continent for a short time. His pulpit, during his
absence, is filled by the Rev. George Gibbon, MA., of
the Dingle.
BIRXENHEAD.—There are now many inquiries in-Bir-
kenhead tbr houses of the better class, and several have
been let during the past week. There have also been 100
new conttactors at Woodside Ferry, since the commence-
ment of 1848. These are symptoms- of slowly reviving-
vitality.

SPOTS ON. THE ffuN. On Thursday afternoon, two
very large and several small spots, were observed on the
sun's disc. At the same time the face •of the sun pre-
sented a singular appearance, being corrugated all over,
much like the ripples left on the sand,- by the retiring
tide. This appearance is a very unusual one.
ANOTHER HIGHWAY ROBB ERY.—Thenotoriety which
this neighbourhood enjoys for robberies ifr still kept up.
Mr. Robert Palmer, son of the late gardener to the Earl
of Sefton, was, yesterday week, knocked down and robbed
near West Derby villager by three footpads. The villains
of course are still at large.. _ _

SPECIE ImpouTs:—The total amount or specie re-
ceived at this post from New York, during thepast week,
is £63,000 which has been brought by the following ves-
sels :—the Waterloo., £22,000; the New York,Zlo,.ooo ;
the steam-ship Cambria, £10,000; and the Queen of the
West £21,000.
THE THEATRE-RaleAL..—lt is said that Me: H. F.
Aldridge, the able leader of the Philharmonic Concerts,
will be the new lessee of the Theatre-Royal. Various
rumours have been afloat during the last few days;: but
having made the necessary inquiries, we have thellighest
authority for stating that nothing positive can,be put
forth upon the subject at present.

LECTURES ON PALESTINE AND THE HOLY LAND.—
We- have much pleasure in directing the attention of our
readers to what will doubtless prove a very attractive
course of morning lectures by J. S. Buckingham, on the,
to Christendom, most interesting countries in the world—
Palestine and the Holy. Land. They are to be given in
the Royal Assembly-rooms, Great George•street, and the
first lecture, we perceive, is announced for this day, Tues-
day.

THE GAS BILL.—The inquiry before the Government
Commissioners terminated on Wednesday. The general
tendency of the evidence was in favour of amalgamation,
upon the ground that that amalgamation would, if effected,
cause a saving in the general outlay of the company, and
would consequently lessen the. gas rates upon the inhabi-
tants. There is very little doubt that the bill will be
passed, almost without any opposition on the part of- the
House of Commons, though it seems to place a complete
monopoly in the hands of the existing companies.
Tun COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.—The library attached
to this institutioi, though opened only in April, now
numbers nearly four thousand volumes. The first selec-
tion*was entrusted to William Gregson, Esq., barrister,
of the Inner Temple; and it is not much to say, that, for
its size it is the best in Liverpool. The directors have a
considerable sum of money•in hand, and will very shortly
increase the library to nearly double its present number
of volumes, chiefly of works in the lighter ranks of lite.
rature, though other branches will not be overlooked.

SERIOUS ROBBERY.—On Friday, the recorder at the
sesions was oczupied several hours in the trial of Kirby
Smith, a marine store keeper. William Bell, a carter, and
James Wilson, a porter,. who were Charged. the atter
with stealing, and the two •former with receiving ten bags
of cotton wool. the property of Messrs. Thomas Haigh
and Co. Smith was acquitted, but the other two were
found guilty, and they were sentenced—Wilson to eight
months and Bell to four months' imprisonment. Nine
other prisoners have been sentenced to ten years' trans-
portation.
_ _

THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE, BIRKENHEAD.—On Friday
last the Lord Bishop of Chester visited this college, and
dined with the Principal and several of the neighbouring
clergy, with all the students. The Right Rev. Prelate
afterwards delivered an address to the students in the
chapel, on several subjects connected with the clerical
office. He remarked that though the church does not
promise promotion to all candidates for honours, she at
the same time denies not to the diligent and the learned.
His lordship expressed himself much pleased at the
arrangements of the College; and after visiting all the
apartments of the students, took his departure- in the
afternoon.

AGREEABLE MUSICAL RE-UNIONS. We learn that
Mrs. F. E. Davies has added a new feature to her scho-
lastic establishment., in North Bedford-street, by opening,
on Thursday, a series of practising musical soirees, where
amateur ladies and gentlemen may, without over-stepping
the precincts of drawing-room society, acquire,.at a small
expense, a precision and correctness of style and execu-
tion seldom attained by unprofessional students. The
privacy of the soirees prevents our free eKercise of the
editorial privilege, but we may add that, as their musical
direction has been confided to Mr. H. V. Lewis and the
Misses Hammond, we have the strongest, assurance of
their being eharacterised by good taste and ability.—
Albion.

ALLEGED NEGLECT AT THE SOUTHERN HOSPITAL.—
On Tuesday night a man was brought to the Southern
Hospital who had fallen into the Queen's. Dock. There
was some detention in receiving him, and the surgeon not
being on the premises, a further loss of time occurred
before the usual remedies were administered. He died.
When the case was brought before Mr. Curry, he remark-
ed, in strong terms. on the neglect which appeared to
have been manifested at the hospital. The jury recom-
mended that the case should be laid before the trustees
of the hospital, in order to prevent a recurrence of similar
neglect in future.—[We have been waited upon by the
trustees, who have expressed their annoyance at the un-
toward event, and their determination that the repetition
of such a calamity shall be avoided.]
STRANGE ATTEMPTED BURIAL.—About two o'clock

on Thursday morning, the wife of Thomas Hoy, a poor
Irish labourer, residing inMatthew's-court, Back Chester-
street, Birkenhead, gave birth to an infant. It was a six
months' child, and lived but half an hour. Between
eleven and twelve o'clock, on the same night, a police-
constable on duty in the neighbourhood of the Roman
Catholic Chapel, observed two women in the churchyard,
scratching a hole with their hands, for the purpose of
burying the corpse, which had been enclosed in a rude
home-made box as a coffin. They were stopped, and an
inquest held on Saturday morning, before Mr. Churton,
the coroner, when the above facts were legally elicited,
and a verdict of " Natural death" returned. Hay's wife
had no surgical assistance during her confinement, but
was attended by an old woman, named Ann Campbell,
who stated to the police, that, by the priest's authority,
she had herself christened the child.
RELIEF TO THE Pam: Mn. RUSHTON AND THE
OVERSEERS.—Last week a young man named Evans, a
cripple applied to the Parish-office, in Fenwick-street,
for relief. He was furnished with an order to break

stones, but protested that his lameness totally incapaci-
tated him for any such employment. He was sent away,
however, without examination into the truth of his state-
ment, and without further relief. The young man, des-
perate with hunger, thrust his crutch through a shop
window, that he might be taken into custody. He wrote,
when in Bridewell, to Mr. Rushton, detailing all the cir-
cumstances of the case. A parish surgeon was called in,
who gave it as his opinion that the young man's lameness
totally unfitted him for the task of breaking stones. On
Saturday Mr. Rushton sent for Mr. Gray, to remonstrate
with him upon the impropriety which his assistants had
committed in turning away the man without any examin-
ation or any relief whatever. He said, " Mr. Gray, I
would wish you to take official notice of what I shall read.
If any more parties are brought here, having been refused
relief by your subordinates ; and if you overseers do not
attend here when you are summoned, I will, under the 9th
of George 1., chap. 7, sec. 1, order relief myself ; and,
having taken care to summon you to attend me, if you do
not attend or order relief, I will indict you! There, that
is in a small compass to remember ; and I will carry it

Out."
FARNSWORTH'S PATENT BRICK-MAKING MACHINE
We had the pleasure, a few days since, of inspecting a
machine, the invention of Mr. Farnsworth, for the pur-
pose of moulding bricks from clay, in the state in which
it is taken from the ordinary bed, thus dispensing with
the difficult process of tempering, and also the necessity
of drying the bricks preparatory to their being submitted
to the kiln. The machine is extremely compact ; at one
end there is a receptacle for the clay, in which are placed
four spiked rollers, which, working at different speeds,
act as cutters, and so completely separate the immense
masses of clay that they pass from this mill in pieces not
larger than bullets. At the other end of the machine is
a large horizontal circle divided into six moulds, and as
the circle passes round each compartment is consecutively
filled with the small pieces of clay, which are almost im-
mediately submitted to a pressure of several tons, by
means of an eccentric-worked from beneath, and forced
perfectly into the form of a brick, which is delivered into
the surface by a simple incline. Every portion of this
machine is worked by one motion, and it is calculated
that it will make from 25 to 35 bricks per minute, worked
by a five-horse engine. There are many advantages to be
derived from this invention, but the most important seems
to be the superior shape, twine% and conseque9t 44,
bility of thy hrich§,

ACCIDENTAL DEATH BY DROWNING.-At one o'clock
on Saturday, John Brady, a seaman on board the ship
Governor Davies, being in the Victoria dock, and two of
his shipmates were passing from the quay to the vessel by
a stage, when Brady happening to step upon one of the
planks which was on what is called " a cant," slipped,
fell down into the dock, and almost immediately sank.
The body was recovered in about twenty minutes, but
life was totally extinct.
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ST. SIMON'i PARISH CHURCH.—The Bishop of Chester
has fixed the Ist of March for the consecration of St. Si-
mon's new Church. This building is the first-fruits in
Liverpool of Church reform, by making the body free
for the poor, and of improved ecclesiastical architecture.
We regret to learn that it is still in debt. Great exer-
tions are now making to have all matters arranged for the
reception of the Lord Bishop, who has, as well as the
Rectors of Liverpool, taken a most lively interest in the
progress of the building. We congratulate the minister
and his parishioners on the success which has attended
their efforts ; and we are sure that such an event as the
consecration of a parish church (it is upwards of a century
since St. Peter's was consecrated) will be welcomed by all
who take an interest in religion.
THE NATIONAL RATE OF TAXATION.—A good deal of
conversation, and no little complaint, have recently come
under notice in this town and elsewhere, relative to the
rates in which the poor are now laid in various
localities —somebeing almost exonerated from' any burthen,
whilst others are mulcted in a large per tentage. At a
public dinner given last week at Hull, to the ex-governor
of the workhouse of that town, the subject was strongly
remarked upon by one of the speakers. It appears that
in that locality " two portions of one man's establishment
(in Hull and Sculcoates) are quarrelling which is to main-
tain the poor. The speaker argued for the more-exten-
sive or national system of rating; for now in settling
parochial disputes, L3O to £5O are often spent in quarrel-
ling which parish is to maintain a pauper—to the gain of
lawyers only. Why, he asks, should Liverpool be rated
at upwards of ten times the amount reruired for the same'
purpose in many of the rural districts ? He thus proceeds;
" When the whole island of England is-one and the mine
interest, I cannot see why one is so much more highly:
rated than another. It is- said that a national rate would
bring a more lavish expenditure. If that should be the
case, it would be in favour of the pauper. I say let there-
be a national rate. We have been brought under the
Poor-law Commissioners, and I' say I don t object to it..
I, say that a local distribution, and a national superin-
tendence is good ; and if there were a national rate, local
distribution, and government superintendence, it would, in
• my`opinion, be the best thing we could have."
CAUSES, IN THE ASSESSCFASt COURT. This court,
which sits simultaneously with the quarter (or rather pe-
riodical) sessions for this borough, was held last week.
The following were the principal causes e—West v. M`Kay,
en action in which plaintiff, a porter; 'sought £5OO damages
for bodily injury—the breaking of his thigh—by a push
from the defendant. Plaintiff was- in the employ of
Messrs. Winstanley, auctioneers, and defendant was the
keeper of a tavern in Roscoe-street. No proof of provo-
cation was given, and the jury returned a verdict for plain-
tiff, damages .f.2s.—Ross v. Bate : an action brought by
the proprietor of the Liverpool Clikmicle., to recover
£8 10s. for printing and advertising.the exhibition of the
whale at Tranmere. The jury, making, some abatement
for advertising in Manchester (not within the jurisdiction
of the court), returned a verdict for plaintiff, £5 4s. 6d.—
Kevintv:-Jones :, an action to recover damages from Mr.
Jones, 1 iscuit baker, Fenwick-street, for bodily injury, by
being knocked down by defendant's gig:and' horse. Da-
mages awarded, £lo.—Mooney and wife Nicholl and
wife : Both are publicans. and damages-were sought for
false imprisonment of Mooney's wife; -on, a charge of
stealing, spirits from defendant's house.. Verdict for plain-
tiff, damages 408.—A case for debt we' decided, showing
that the- wife of a captain of a ship, deceased, was not
liable during.the life- of her husband, nor until she had
authentic information of his death.—Pearce v: Livingston :
The plaintiff, sought damages for being: turned out of his
situation with defendant, an earthenware dealer in Lord-
street, without three months notice, as agreed upon when
he was engaged. Plaintiff ibad a salary. of £2OO a year,
but soon after entering upon his situation; absented him-
self on the plea of illness, although he was seen walking
about, apparently. well. Verdict for the defendant.
THE ROSCOE Ceun.—The annual meeting took place
on Thursday, evening last, in the theatre of the Royal
Institution. Mr. J. A. Tinne was called to the chair, and
there were present a large number of our literary towns-
men. The secretary read a letter from Ms. IL IL Sand-
bach, urging that ladies should not be admitted to the
discussion class. A letter was read front Dr. Trail, highly
approving of the Institution. That gentleman had for-
warded a handsome donation of books. The Report,
read by the secretary, Mr. Boult, showed the satisfactory
progress of•the Club. The Club-room being found to
be too small, steps had been taken to procure a branch
establishment in the neighbourhood of the Exchange.
Upon the whole of the accounts the Club were in pos-
session of assets,. beyond all liabilities to the amount of
upwards of £2oo.—The receipts of the Coffee-room had
increased from £2B weekly to (last week) £4l. To the
library 600-vols. had been presented during the year. It
was the opinion of the Committee that miscellaneous
lectures should not be prosecuted at present, the expense
being great, and the advantage questionable.. "In con-
clusion, (the report says,) the Council wish to express
their confident expectations that the Roscoe Club is
destined to fulfil the high and important :object of its for-
mation, andthat it will keep the position it has already
attained, of being one of the most valuable institutions
of the town." Mr. Estill in moving, the passing of the
report alluded to the satisfactory state of the Club, and
highly commended the valuable services of the secretary.
The following gentlemen were elected trustees t—Messrs.
H. R. Sandbach, E. Estill, T. Theruely,. G. H. Law-
rence, J. R. Jeffrey, T. Booth, J. A; Tinne, J. P. G.
Smith. R. Gladstone, S. Thornely, W.. Cross, and T.
Littledale.. The Archbishop of Dublin was elected a
member for life, in consideration of his friendship to the
club, and his large donations of books. A resolution was
passed recommending to the new Council such an altera-
tion in the laws as would exclude ladies, as the club had
no means of affording any ostensible benefit in return for
their subscriptions. Mr. Boult, the secretary was elected
a member far life. The usual votes-of thanks were passed,
and the meeting separated.

THE CH:ASE,

The CHESHIRE HOUNDS will meet on Wednesday
(to-morrow), at Wilkesley Village ; on Thursday, at
Cholmondeley ; on Saturday, at litavensmoor Windmill;
each day at half-past ten o'clock. _ _ _

Sir W. W. WYNN'S Hoimps. will meet on Wednesday
(to-morrow), at Erddig ; on Friday, at Carden ; on Satur-
day, at Bangor_; each day at, half-past ten o'clock.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

JUVENILE OFFENnEas.,--Storey, the active police-
officer, charged Charles Turner and William Bradhurn,.
two urchins, with having, attempted to rob several shops
in Pitt-street, about five o'clock on Thursday evening.
Turner, the elder lad, who is a notorious thief, was com-
mitted to prison for three months ; the other, an ex-
tremely young boy, was sent to the overseer.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.—Edward Turner, a warehouse-
man in the employ of Messrs. Sanders and Claxton, corn
merchants, was on Thursday committed for trial at the
sessions, by Mr. Rushton, on a charge of stealing a large
number of bags, the property of his employers.. Papers
in possession of a witness named Brierley, of Preston,
proved that the latter had purchased 3,000 of the bags
from the prisoner at different times for £42, all of which
were afterwards sold in Preston and its neighbourhood.
DEFRAUDING AN EMIGRANT.—On Saturday, John
Byrne, a middle-aged man, was charged with having
been a party to defrauding, by false pretences, Pat Carley,
a poor Irishman, of a sum of £2 10s. The statement of
the complainant was to the effect that, on Tuesday
morning, the prisoner and Mr. Jones, the second mate of
the packet-ship Siddons, came to his lodgings, and offered
him a passage to New York in. that vessel for £2 10s.
(the only money he had), if he would consent to act as
"Jemmy Duck," and feed the fowls on board ship. To
this the poor fellow consented, and the party, which also
included a person named Gaskill, adjourned to a neigh-
bouring public-house. Carley paid the money to the
prisoner, who handed it to Jones. He went on board the
Siddons, was stowed away by the second mate, but dis-
covered, turned off, and the vessel has since gone to sea.
Gaskill appeared in court to testify apparently in favour of
the prosecutor. He had suggested, he said, a receipt pro-
duced, as a security for the money which was paid down.
Mr. Rushton expressed his opinion that the witness
Gaskill, who had come under pretence of serving Carley,
was one of the same class as the others, and lived by
plundering poor passengers of their money. The prisoner
spoke up and said, " Yes ; he got 10s. of the money. I
only got three glasses of brandy." Mr. Rushton, after
referring to the act, ordered the prisoner to be put back,
and an information to be laid against him. He indig-
nantly ordered Gaskill about his business, and said,
" Never let me see you here again, either as a witness or ,
in any other character."
DARING ROBBERY.—One of the most barefaced rob-
beries that has ever been committed in this town was per-
petrated on Thursday evening at the shop of Mr. Sewell,
watchmaker, of South Castle-street. About a quarter
before seven o'clock, Mr. Sewell's foreman was alarmed
by bearing one of the shop windows, which are made of
strong plate glass, smashed from the outside with a brick,
and instantly some person in the ',street snatched 'eight
gold watches and two gold cases, of the value of £l2O, or
thereabouts, with which the thief made off. The shop-
man instantly rushed to the shop door, with the view of
pursuing the plunderers, but to his great surprise he found
that the door had been secured on the outside by turning
the cross-bar, so that it was utterly impossible that he
could get out without the assistance of some person in
the street who unfastened the door. It appears, however,
that some other parties had seen the transaction, and not
only captured one of the thieves, but they also recovered
some of the stolen property. Three men were seen lurk-
ing about the Belvidere Hotel, and one of them having
given something to the other two, the party went towards
Mr. Sewell's shop. After staying near the door for a
short time, one of them smashed a window, and having
stolen the watches and divided them as quickly as possi-
ble between them, they ran off in different directions. A.
police-officer. who had seen part of the transaction, pur-
sued one man named William Power, and tripped him,
causing him to drop something which proved to be a gold
watch. Ultimately, in consequence of the alarm, a num-
ber of persons joined in the pursuit, and the prisoner was
overpowered and captured. Another gold watch was
picked up by a boy in Gilbert-street ; a third was picked
up by a little boy named Robert Price, and a person
named Pickford found the case of a gold watch. The
value of the property recovered was stated to be about
£5O. It is much to be regretted that the prisoner's com-
panions escaped with the remainder of their booty. On
Friday, Power was brought up WM.('
,Mr, Rushton an 4
committed for trial,

LOCAL MEETINGS.