The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-16 00:00:00

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Thomas
Bootliby, the keeper of Brick-street Bridewell, has beer,
temporarily appointed collector of penalties and inspector of
hackney coaches and cars, the situation lately filled by John
Martindale.

ARTISTS' FUND.-At the late hour at which the advertise-
ment of the Artists' Fund was sent in last night, we are
unable to say more than briefly to draw public attention to
the committee's proposition of giving an engraving to each of
the subscribers to the fund. It will be recollected, perhaps,
that this step we advised last year. We shall say sometning
on the subject on Tuesday.

AMPRITHEATRE.—This evening those two wags, Messrs.
Pentland and Rockwell, the clowns, take their benefit, They
will prepare, no doubt, something very humorous to amuse
their friends. Mademoiselle Camille Leroux continues to
be attractive. Messrs. Sands and North, also, maintain
their reputation as dashing and clever riders. A new candi-
date for fame will make his appearance to-night.

COMMITAL OF A BOY AND HIS' MOTHER.—Yesterday,
at the Police-court, Thomas Lunt, a shop boy for Mr. James
Collinson, boot and shoe maker, Ranelagh-street, and Mar-
garet Lunt, his mother, were committed for trial, the former
for stealing, and the latter for receiving boots and shoes be-
longing to Mr. Collinson. It appeared the youth had been
suspected for some time ; and on going to a pawnbroker's in
Highfield-street, officer 228 found several pairs of boots,
which were proved to have been stolen. They had been
pledged by Mrs. Lunt. The little boy, when asked what he
had to say, replied, " I took the shoes and laid them down
in the house."

LIVER THEATRE.—Mrs. Fitzwilliam one of the most
amusing and accomplished actresses of the day is engaged at
this theatre, where she is playing a laughable part in a farce
called " Out of Place," and a number of characters in a
Monopolologue entitled "The Belle of the Hotel, or
American Sketches." She changes her dress in the latter
with the most surprising facility and quickness, , dances a
Pas Sylphide in a manner that draws forth the laughter of
the audience " considerably," and sings several songs with
much humour and vivacity. Mr. Hoskins is also engaged,
his " Skirts in the Man about town" is good, and as original
as ever. Mrs. Fitzwilliam takes her benefit to night, when
a change in the performance takes place.

ANOTHER COLLISION ON THE RlVER.—Yesterday, the
magistrates were occupied a considerable time in investigating
the particulars of a collision on the river, which took, place
on Monday afternoon last, between the ship Caledonia and a
schooner called the Gipsy Queen. The parties for the
schooner said they were lying at anchor, and had a look-out
on deck, and that the Caledonia did. not hail them till she
was within twelve feet of them. The pilot, and others on
board the Caledonia, stated that they hailed the schooner
three times, told those on board to put their helm hard a-
port, and let go the chain ; which, if they had done, would
have prevented the accident. The magistrates said there was
no doubt the pilot was placed in circumstances of great diffi-
culty, but they considered he was liable to pay the damage.
The schooner claimed £l5, but the details of the damage were
to be left to the harbour master, and the award is to be made

this morning

THE CHESTER SCHOOL.—In another column will be
found an advertisement announcing the appointment orMas-
ters, and the objects sought for, at this establishment. We
have ourselves personally inspected the premises and can
pronounce with confidence that we never saw any more sui-
table and compact for the purposes contemplated by Mr.
Brindley and made public through the advertisement. The
arrangements are in every respect most complete, and the
school-rooms and sleeping apartments are roomy and airy.
The play ground is amply sufficient, and there is also a sui-
table space for gymnastic exercises. The School is situated
in a peculiarly healthy and retired neighbourhood, and only
about two minutes walk from the Parish Church. Mr.
Brindley has secured also a number of acres of land, a large
portion of which he intends to lay out as a garden for the
amusement and invigorating exercise of the children, nearly
half of the number of whom he has, we are glad to hear, al-
ready secured for the opening of the school next month.

THE FUNDS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.—The business at
the Stock Exchange was not of the least importance as re-
spects our own securities. There were very few bargains
concluded, though prices continue fully supported. Consols
for the Account closed 934 to 94 : Bank Stock, 172 to 173 ;
Three per Cents. Reduced, 944 to 4; Exchequer Bills, 50s.
to 525. premium ; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced,
1001 to 101; Long Annuities, 12, 9-16 to ; and India
Bonds, 455. to 475. premium. Business has improved in
the.foreign market. Speculative stocks have ad uanced, and
Spanish and Mexican lead the way. Spanish Actives have
risen to 184 to 19; ditto New, 244; Mexican, 311 to i;
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 524 to 53; and ditto
Five per Cents., 1014; Portuguese Five per Cents., 384 to
i; ditto Three per Cents., 224 to 334 ; Danish, 83 to 84 ;
Brazilian, 69 to 70 ; Belgian, 102 to 4 ; and Colombian, 214
to 4. The jobbers are preparing for the foreign half-monthly
settlement, which takes place to-morrow.

THEATRE ROYAL.—Signor Hervio Nano in the Gnome
King has excited the utmost surprise. His reprebentation of
the Baboon exceeds every thing in originality we ever saw.
Gouffe, Mesurier, and all others, are completely distanced.
His feats of strength—his facility in walking on apparently
inaccessible places—are astonishing. lie walks up the side
of the proscenium, and under the arch, with as much ease
as another would on a flat surface. Some of his tricks are
done with much comicality and humour. The " Gnome
Fly" is extremely well got up. The farce of " Liverpool
Wives" is a very amusing trifle. The theatre closes next
week, in order to enable Mr. W. J. Hammond to prepare
the pantomime, which is intended to surpass anything ever
seen in Liverpool for humour, mirth, and magnificence.—
To-night Signor Hervio Nano takes his benefit. He will
appear in a new drama of interest, entitled the " Indian
Maid," in which he sustains the part of Bibboo, a monkey.
He also plays the Gnome King, the Baboon, and the F 1 g, in
the melodrama of the " Gnome Fly." Nano is one of the
living wonders of the day.

MEETING OF THE DOCK COMMITTEE.—The Dock Com-
mittee held their weekly meeting yesterday, when the follow-
ing members were present,—Messrs. Horsfall (chairman),
Barclay, Holt, Holmes, Smith, Molyneux, Aikin, Bulley,
Royden, Tobin, Shand, Bramley-Moore, Moon, Ripley,
Middleton, Evans, and Nicol. The Sub-Committee had no
report of their proceedings to make. The Chairman stated
that the Committee inspected Clarence Graving Dock on
Saturday, for the purpose of ascertaining the best mode of
making the intended lengthening. After some discussion it
was resolved, on the motion of Mr. Holmes, that the dock
should be lengthened according to the plan proposed by the
deputation from the Ship-builders' Association. John Pro-
bert, who has been a dock-gate man for 29 years, and is now
aged 66, being infirm, was allowed an alltmance of 15s. per
week, for three months. An application from Mr. Hugh
M'Bride, master of Clarence Dock, for the appointment of
a graving dock foreman, and recommending Nelson Dunlop,
was referred to the Harbour Masters' Sub-Committee. The
Dock Solicitor reported, that notice had been given of the
intention to apply to Parliament for several bills which would
affect the interests of the dock trust : he was instructed to
watch those bills and to report thereon. The consignee of
the steamer Nithsdale, applied for the shed at the west end
of the north side of Clarence Graving Dock to be boarded up
for the safety of the goods placed therein.—Ordered on the
report of the surveyor that the cost would amount to only
£3O. The North Harbour Master reported that the•work-
ing of the system for the accommodation of the New York
liners in the Waterloo Dock had been satisfactory ; and it
was referred to the Harbour Masters' Sub-Committee, to
report with a view to accommodate all the five lines there.
The committee then proceeded to some financial business,
and shortly afterwards separated.

THE LATE UNFORTUNATE COLLISION ON THE MER-
;Y.—We lately recorded the collision, in the night of the
lth ult, between the steamers Prince of Wales and Royal
ictoria, by which one man, W. Brown, a seaman and passen-
ger, instantaneously lost his life, and four others were seri-
ously injured, two of whom are yet in a precarious state at
the Northern Hospital. With respect to the fatality, it be-
came necessary that an inquest should be held, and the case
involved a question of jurisdiction as regarded the coroner,
owing to the late opinion of Lord Denman that coroners are
authorized by the act affecting them to inquire into those
cases only in which the cause of death and the death itself
have taken place within the district for which, respectively,
coroners are appointed. In the present case the evidence
being somewhat conflicting as to the spot where the cause of
them arose, our borough coroner applied to the Home-office
for the necessary instructions as to whether his jurisdiction
extended across the river, or was hounded by the mid chan-
nel. The accident. we believe, took place rather nearer the
Cheshire than the Lancashire shore ; but on this there were
different opinions. The following reply, from 'authority,
however, settled the question at issue :—" We are of opinion
that the coroner of the borongh of Liverpool has no jurisdic-
tion to hold the inquest in question, and that the coroner of
the county of Cheshire is the proper officer to hold an inquest
assuming the place where the accident happened to be within
that county.—W. W. Follett. C. Compton. —Temple,
Dec. 8." The coroner said, that though the assumption, in
his opinion, was a very general one, vet that he would not
further interfere, but discharge the jury already empannelled
in the case, and communicate immediately with the coroner
for the county of Chester, which he did, on Monday evening
last, without loss of time. Mr. Churton, the coroner for the
distict including the Wirrall Peninsula, accordingly came
down to Seacombe on Tuesday morning last, to hold the in-
quest. The body was taken from the dead house in this
town in a hearse to the Seacombe slip, and the inquest was
held in a commodious outbuilding on the grounds behind Mr.
Parry's hotel. There was a great number of witnesses pre-
sent, but only a few of them were examined. Amongst
those present were the two captains of the vessels, and
other nautical gentlemen, including Mr. Askew, our har-
bour-master, also a number of strangers, it being understood
that the case would be gone into in a nautical point of view, for
the purpose of deciding whether blame attached to either or to
both commanders, or whether the collision was purely acci-
dental. The inquiry did not, however, involve that point at
least to any satisfactory extent. Mr. Wardle appeared as so-
licitor for the owners of the Victoria, and Mr. Jenkins for
those of the Prince. After great delay, for which we could
not account, the jury viewed the body, or rather the face of
the deceased, in an outhouse where it was deposited, a small
square portion of the lid of the coffin, constructed for the
purpose, being revealed. Several witnesses Acre then exa-
mined on each side, and some mutual blame was attached by
one party to the other, but the jury declined to prosecute
this part of the enquiry to any practical result, contenting
themselves with the general admission that the night was
somewhat thick and hazy. They were not in fact competent
from their own knowledge or experience to decide the
nautical question, and therefore perhaps wisely, stowed it
off. We shall not, therefore, give a remark upon the con-
tradictory, and in some instances " curious" evidence addu-
ced; but we cannot help expressing our opinion that such
cases ought invariably, if the proceedings are to be rightly
conducted, to be entrusted to a jury, of which at
least three-fourths are nautical and practical men. The
jury returned a simple verdict of " accidental death." Whe-
ther the owners of the respective vessels, or either of them,
will pay their own repairs, or should either feel aggrieved
seek to receive damages in the admiralty court, is a question
which yet remains to be decided. The deceased was 62
years of age. He had come from North Shields, after a five
months' voyage to join his family here, of whom his wife and
twodaughters were present.

A " BRUSH" BETWEEN A PAINTER AND BARRISTER.—
" What were you doing at the time ?" Said a barrister to
a portrait-painter on Monday last, in the Court of Exche-
quer, " I had my brush in my hand, and was colouring,"
replied the limner. "No doubt you were," rejoined the
cross examining counsel, "and I fear—as you are doing now
—you were colouring rather too highly." "Very possibly,"
said the portrait-painter, " that is my trade, Sir, and Your's."
The barrister, dead-beaten, sat down.

a.witness in court, Made many attempts to ai

fuse her, and render her testimony contradictor;ariduna-
vailing. She, however, remained calm, and proof against
all frivolous questions put to her. At last, the lawyer, de-
termined to perplex her, said, " Miss, upon my word you
are very pretty !" the young lady very promptly replied,
" I would return the compliment, Sir, if I were not on my
oath."