The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-08-29 00:00:00

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ME. GIBSON, the celebrated sculptor:and Mr. Spence,
his pupil, spent last week with Mr. Sandbach at his beau-
tiful seat in Wales. Mr. Spence returned to Liverpool a
few days since, and Mr. Gibson will be here this week.
On Mr. Gibson's arrival from Rome, he spent several days
with Mrs. Huskisson.

THE NEW LAW.—On Friday there were no less than
fifty-six publicans' and beerhou.se' cases heard before the
magistrates. One-half of those summoned were beer-
house-keepers, who alleged in their defence that they
thought the new beer act allowed them to keep open to
twelve o'clock on Saturday. About a dozen of the infor-
mations for Sunday trading were laid under the new act.
TEE LATE CHARGE OF FORGERY AGAINST A LIVER-
POOL 31mm:cum—In the course of the proceedings in
the Crown Court, on Wednesday, before Baron Platt, it
was announced that John Thomas Haselden, a tea-broker,
who was committed for trial on a charge of having uttered
a forged order for the delivery of two hundred chests of
tea, with intent to defraud Mr. William Cross, had ab-
sconded, and gone to America. His recognizances were
consequently estreated. He was bailed in two sureties of
£5OO each.

TrrE kruExIAN, new screw steamer, built by Messrs.
Smith and Rogers, of the Clyde, which arrived here on
Friday week, has been fully equipped, and sailed on Satur-
day with a cargo of 1,100 tons. The Athenian is the se-
cond of four vessels to form an augmentation to J. W.
Fairclough and Co.'s line of Levant Steamers. Two
others (in frame), the Egyptian and the Armenian, will
be launched before the close of the year.

THE LUSITANIA, South American and General Steam
Navigation Company's steamer, Captain Brown, took her
departure on Thursday hence for the Brazils and the
River Plate, with thirty passengers, a full cargo, and a
large mail. This will be her last voyage, as, since the
company have obtained the government contract for the
conveyance of mails, she has been found to be too small
for the trade. She has been sold to the Imperial Steam
Navigation Company of France, to whom she will be
transferred on her return.

ANNUAL LICENSING SEssion—The annual session for
renewing and granting licenses commenced on Thursday,
at the Police-office, in High-street, before Alderman S.
Holme and Mr. J. H. Turner. Before commencing the
business, Mr. Holme remarked that, as there had been
great irregularity at the last session, the magistrates had
determined that parties applying for licenses must attend
personally. The renewals were then proceeded with, and
occupied the greater portion of the day. To-morrow
(Wednesday) the applications for new licenses will be heard,
and on the following day the applications from several of
those parties who are objected against, on account of fines,
&c., will be heard. About 800 licenses were renewed on
Thursday, and nearly 700 on Friday.
FAILURE OP A LIVERPOOL SHIP-OWNER.—In the
Bankruptcy Court, London, on Wednesday, John Solo-
mon, late of Dake-street, Liverpool, ship-owner and mer-
chant, applied to pass his last examination. The balance
sheet filed by the bankrupt commences on the first of
January, 1850, at the period when he was carrying on
business at Liverpool, and ends in March, 1854.
The balance sheet contains, according to the list of
creditors, the names of between 30 and 40 inhabitants of
Liverpool, and also of captains and others employed in
various vessels running from Liverpool to Australia, and
other places, for wages due to them. No opposition was
offered to the bankrupt's accounts, and he passed his
examination. Renewed protection having been granted
to the bankrupt until the certificate meeting, the proceed-
ings concluded.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AT WATERLOO.—A boy, two
years and a half old, was drowned on Thursday afternoon,
on the shore, at Waterloo, under circumstances so strange
and distressing, that a gloom has prevailed ever since over
the whole place. The three children of Mr. William
Peek, jun., of the firm of Peek Brothers, and Co., London,
were, with Mrs. Peek, stopping with their grandfather,
C. Meigh, Esq.; of Grove-house, Shelton, Staffordshire, in
Waterloo, where he was spending a few weeks ; and, as
usual, they were sent out, on Thursday morning, with
two nurses to walk. One of the children was an infant in
arms ; another was a boy, aged two years and a half, and
the eldest a girl, four years old. The nurses proceeded to
the shore, and the tide being out, they extended their
walk to the water's edge, getting on one of the high sand-
banks which occasionally occur. Here they remained,
careless of the flow of the tide, until they perceived that
the bank on which they stood was surrounded by water.
At the time, although it covered a considerable space, it
was less than a foot deep, and the nurse and the baby
dashed through it ; the other girl was so frightened that
she let go the, two children, and ran as she thought for
help. The tide, in the mean time, rapidly increased ; the
poor little things cried loudly, and a labouring man
passing, attracted by the noise, dashed in at once. He
found the poor children struggling in the water, and
promptly seized both in his arms and carried them ashore.
The boy was so far exhausted that, although every possi-

ble means were used to restore him, he never breathed
again. The little girl, being less exhausted, soon recovered.
Dock FINANCES.—The dock accounts for the year end-
ing last July have just been printed. The following is
the summary :-
1854.—Ds
June 24

To tonnage and I

dues, Liverpool :

Foreign sailing ships...£l
Ditto steamers.........

14,650 16 8

Coastways sailing ships

9,680 1 10

.517 9 3

900 14 7

Due or

goods inwards 108,770 13 10

outwards

27,866 14 10

Extra dock rent
Graving docks

;raving bloc

Albert ivarehouses
Rents of property
Miscellaneous : Canal rates, crani
weights and scales, damages, weig

ing machine, &

June 24. By payments on
account of interest...E2l2,722 13 0
7,744 15 1

Less arrears

Annuities
Police....

General repairs
Salaries
Wages and clothing of dock gatemen, 8::c 12,541 8 1
Wages, oil, and repairs for lighthouse,
life-boat, telegraph, &c. . .
Miscellaneous : Landing-stage, transit
sheds,weights and scales, public cha-
rities, cleansing steps and quays, law
and travelling expenses, stationery
and printing, alterations of offices, &c
Balance, surplus ordinary revenue

11,621 7 5

19,981 8 6
69,090 14 11

£385,312 7 3
NITISA.NCES NEAR. TO ST. GEORGE'S HALL.—At the
Police-court, on Thursday, Mr. M`Gowan, clerk to the
health committee, preferred a complaint against Mr.
Mitchell, the owner of a piece of land adjoining the Queen's
Hotel, Lime-street, under a clause hi the improvement
act, which rendered him liable to a penalty of £2. Mr.
M`Gowan handed to the bench a plan of the property, and
stated that Mr. Curchod, the proprietor of the Queen's
Hotel, had embarked some six or seven thousand pounds,
and it was to him a very serious matter, for a family re-
cently residing with him had left and gone to a rival house
in consequence of the nuisance which existed. A few
weeks ago their attention had been called to some ground
on the opposite side of the hotel belonging to Mr. Alder-
man Bennett, and that gentleman had since come forward
in the most liberal manner and built a wall round it, to
comply with the wishes of the authorities. Mr. Mitchell,
the proprietor of this ground, the subject of the present
complaint, had been repeatedly applied to, but up to this
time nothing had been done. In the year 1846 the cor-
poration sold this piece of land to Mr. Mitchell, upon the
agreement that he should build upon it within three
years ; this he had also failed to comply with. He then
called Mr. Fresh and Mr. Curchod to substantiate the
statement he had advanced. For the defendant, it was
stated that part of the land had been let to a Mr. Hope,
who bad been to the court that morning., and had pro-
mised to build a wall eight feet high to the satisfaction of
the authorities. The bench, upon this, adjourned the case
for a week.
AUSTRALIAN SHIPPIRG.—During the week, five vessels
of a tonnage of 3,923 tons have sailed for Australia, in-
cluding a small steamer of 104 tons which sailed for Mel-
bourne. There are now 36 vessels loading here for the
Australian ports, registering 26,119 tons. The fine ship
Herald of the Morning, belonging to Messrs. Millers and
Thompson's Golden Line, sailed on Wednesday for Mel-
bourne, with 250 passengers and a full cargo, consisting
of nearly 1,600 tons of general merchandise. The next
vessel to be despatched by this line is the celebrated ship
Marion Moore, which made her last passage home in
87 days. Her fittings and general arrangements are well
worth notice. The fine Australian clipper-ship Arabian,
belonging to the White Star Line, sailed on Saturday
week for Melbourne, with a full complement of passengers
and a large and general cargo. She was towed out a little
beyond Bardsey, and when left by the steamer was making
good way under an ample spread of canvas. The Arabian
will be followed by the first-rate new ship Sultana, one of
the finest conveyances which has ever been provided in
Liverpool for passengers to Australia. The ship is filling
rapidly, nearly one-half of her being already engaged. She
is to sail early in September. The following notices of
Australian emigrants from Liverpool, spoken at sea, were
posted in the Exchange newsroom on Wednesday :—July
11, Queen of the East, lat. 9 52 N., long. 27 23 W. ; all
well. June 6, Miles Barton, lat. 35 45 S., long. 11 58 W.

TRIAL TULE Or TIIE NUBIA.—On Wednesday, a number
of gentlemen embarked in the magnificent new steamer
Nubia, built by Mr. Laird, for the Peninsular and Oriental
Company, in order to test her speed, and to see that her
engines were in order and all smooth for working, and
therefore there was no marking of particular time, but it
was admitted on all hands that her performance was
beyond even what was expected, and there can be no doubt
that she will prove a fine and very fast sea-boat. Her
trip was north about and home by the Lightship, a dis-
tance of over 50 miles, and everything passed off with
great satisfaction to all parties concerned. The Nubia is
commanded by Captain Harris, an able and experienced
seaman. She left on Thursday for Southampton, from
whence she will be despatched on her first voyage for
Alexandria, and after that it is said she will be put on the
Indian station of the company. When the vessel arrived
back in the river there was an elegant dinner served up in
the saloon, to which the party who had gone on the trip,
consisting of about 50 gentlemen, sat down. Capt. Harris
was in the chair ; and, after spending an agreeable even-
ing, the party returned to town about six o'clock by a
tug steamer, having first given three hearty cheers for the
Nubia, and wished her captain and herself every success.
On her voyage to Southampton on Thursday she was left
Holyhead Bay at half-past three the same
afternoon, e the
noon,having
accomplished the distance against a
heavy head gale in five hours and a half—a most excellent
by
r pilot zn
run
under any circumstances. Those on board were de.
4144 with her speed and easy motion.