The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-29 00:00:00

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On Monday week, 105 barrels of sawdust were shipped
from this port for Malaga, the value of this article for
packing grapes being sufficient to secure outward freight.
On Tuesday, Mr. Edward Langsdale was elected over-
seer of the poor for Everton, in the place of the late Mr.
John Kilshaw.

The Grand Jury on Wednesday returned a true bill
againSt Peter Fogg, of Preston, for manslaughter, arising
out of the late steam boiler explosion. The trial has been
postponed until next assizes.
The propriety of converting the house at the top of
Erskine-street (lately occupied by Mr. Salisbury) into a
fever ward, is to be re-considered by the West Derby
Guardians.
THE NEW LANDING STAGE.—The workmen are now
busily engaged in completing the ways for passengers,
carts, carriages and horses. The footways for foot pas-
sengers will be on the outer edges of the bridges, and
horses, &c.., will have to pass up and down the centre, so
that there may be no danger of accidents.
WOODSIDE FERRY.—The Commissioners have effected
a reduction of the expenditure to the extent of £2200 a
year, which they are enabled to do consistently wills the
efficient working of the ferry, exclusive of a reduction of
£5OO, which the committee had been able to effect since
-st. They also propose to give additional facilities
'orking classes for crossing the river by running
;:s every morning from five to half-past five o'clock.
_duction has been made by reducing the wages of
the periois in their employ.
COMPENSATION.—A sheriff's jury met at the Clarendon-
rooms, on Thursday, for the purpose of ascertaining the
amount of damages due to Henry Ilawarden Fazazerley,
11,q., in consideration of the injury certain property at
Walton would receive from the East Lancashire raitway
passing through it. The owner's claim was for £1,731
103. 6d. The comnauy had offered nearly £7OO, but as
this was rejected, they. stood for £561 7s. 6d. The jury
awarded £BOO, the costs to be defrayed by the company.
MONTHLY REPORT OF BATHS AND WASH-HOUSES,
PAUL-STREET, ENDING AUGUST 24TH, 1848.—Number
of baths—male, 5372, females 442, total 5814. Number
of school children bathed, gratis—Corporation School,
North, 916 ; Ragged School, Naylor-street, 1056 ;
total, 1972 ;—teachers, 25 ; inspectors of nuisances, 21 ;
gross total, 7832. Number of tubs used,. 3303; dozens
of clothes .washed and dried, 6606. Receipts for baths,
£5B 153. 7d. ; receipts for washing, £l3 153. 3d.; total
receipts, £32 103. 10d.—The above report is more than
usually gratifying, as exhibiting the increasing benefits
conferred by these institutions on the middle and poorer
classes of the inhabitants. TheSe advantages denote the
wisdom of the Baths Committee in extending the benefits
to every district of the town, especially when the erections
are now proved to be self-supporting. Mr. Parker, and
one or two other gentlemen, have worked hard to obtain
these almost gratuities for the poor, who will long thank
them for ti.eir disinterested efforts.

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THE PURSUIT OF Da. REYNOLDS.—" WHAT'S IN A
NAME c"—lt appears Oat Mr. Reynolds, or Dr. Rey-
nolds, has for some years been an inlfabitant of Mon-
mouthshire. but chiefly residing at Abergavenny ; and the
knowledge of this faci, accoenpanied as it was by an inti-
mation from those "who were in the secret," to Blossett,
the superintendent of police at Ross, that a person of the
name of Reynolds had passed through Ross on his way to
South Wales, induced that officer to follow the trail of
the delinquent: This, with all the dexterity and tact of
an American Indian, was fully carried out. Blossett went
to Monmouth on Wednesday morning, and ascertained,
beyond a doubt, that a bland and intelligent gentleman,
named Reynolds, had been at the White Swan Hotel so-
journing for a short period, and that he had represented
himself as a gentleman in the ironmongery or hardware
line. Unfortunately for the policeman, he had that morn-
ing started. However, on further inquiry, he deemed his
prospects not in any ways " blighted," as the gentleman
had gone in the direction of Abergavenny. All was now
timught right—the assistance of one of the Monmouth
police was enlisted, and Blussett, with his companion,
went post-haste to Ragland, where he again heard of the
mysterious Mr. Reynolds, who had, it appared, only a
short time previous, departed from thence to Usk. No
time was lost in the pursuit, and eventually the criminal
was overtaken; but thelkstonishment of the pursuers
may be readily conceived upon their ascertaining Cley had
certainly caught a Mr. Reynolds, but not the dr. Rey-
nolds, as the gentleman in whose pursuit so much energy
had been evinced was not in any way connected with the
sympathisers of rebellion in Ireland, but was the repre-
sentative of the city of Gloucester, The disappointment
0' the indefatigable Blossett may In wily imagined,—
lii cord Journal.