The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-12-26 00:00:00

purposes.

ing man, named Mulloy, whilst employed at the works of
Messrs. Holme, Slater, and Crooke, Birkenhead, was struck
twice with the handle of a winch, fracturing one of his

was removed to the hospital in Hainilion-street, Birken-
head, where he lies in a dangerous state.
THE CHILDREN of the Sunday and Infant School of
St. Catharine's, Tranmere, assembled on Thursday, for
the purpose of receiving their annual Christmas treat,
which was superintended by the Rev. G. Handcock,
curate of the church. The children, numbering upwards
of 130, were amply supplied with buns, bunloaf, and tea ;
they were then entertained by the exhibition of an excel-
lent magic lantern ; and, after singing the national
anthem, dispersed, all seeming very well pleased with the
entertainment. The Rev. J. W, Welsh and several members
of the congregation were present.

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.
the week ending December 17th, 1854, w

The traffic for
; as follows :

steam-boats,
£293 7s. ld.. , us. _ including
Carnarvon traffic, £4,094$ 6s. Od. Corresponding week
last year—passengers, parcels, &c., £1,957 ls. 4d. ;
steam-boats, £296 11s. 6d. ; goods, £1,608 Os. ld. Total,
including Carnarvon traffic, £3,565 ls. sd. Increase,
£527 Os. 2d.
THE BIRKENHEAD CANNING DEBATINGSOCIETY.—The
third annual dinner of this society took piece on Thursday,
at the Angel Hotel, Camden-street, Birkenhead. Mr.
Stephen Ennis, of St. Aidan'srollege, president of the
society, occupied the chair, and Mr. D. Campbell, the
honorary secretary, was vice-chairman.
ROBBERY OF A COUNTING-HOUSE. Some thieves
entered the counting-house of Messrs. Robert Hyde, Greg,
and Co., cotton-spinners, Quarry-bank, Cheshire, a few
nights since, picked the lock of the iron safe, and carried
away £3OO. To avoid detection while engaged in the
robbery, the thieves had taken with them three blinds,
and placed them before the three windows of the count-

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THE NEW ROUTE BETWEEN LONDON AND DUBLIN,
AND THE NORM—The Great Western Company has
made arrangements with the City of Dublin Steam-packet
Company for a "through" traffic between Paddington and
Dublin, via" the new route through Wolverhampton,
Chester, North Wales, and Birkenhead—in conjunction
with the trains which now run through from Paddington
to Chester, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and the Welsh
district—in the same time, and at the same fares, as by the
London and Northwestern route. Efforts are also making
to remedy the complaints as to the slowness of the trains
on the Chester and Birkenhead line, which run in con-
junction with the Greatwestern Railway fast trains.
A Cormisiori.—ln the Birkenhead County Court, on
Friday, the case of Cubbins v. Bronghall was heard. The
plaintiff, a plasterer, sued the defendant, a car-owner, for
£lO. the amount of damage done to a gig which the
plaintiff had hired. It appeared that, on the night of the
23rd of November, the plaintiff, who was returning in the
gig with a friend from Woodchurch to Birkenhead, was
standing still in Woodchurch-lane, when a car, coming in
the opposite direction, and driven by a person in the de-
fendant's employ, ran into the gig and broke it to pieces.
The plaintiff called ont to the driver before the collision
took place, and the road was wide enough for the car to
have passed. For the defendant it was sought to prove
that the plaintiff did not call out to the driver; that the
plaintiff was not standing still, but driving pretty fasq;
that the blame rested with him, and that the value of the
gig was very small.—His Honour gave a verdict for the
plaintiff, damages 25.
ROCK FERRY.—The committee for collecting funds, in
this district, for the Patriotic Fund, have brought their
labours to a close, and the final meeting was held at the
Royal Rock Ferry Hotel, on Wednesday. Mr. Thomas
Branch occupied the chair. Mr. Manifold, the treasurer,
reported that £238 had been contributed, and that about
£2O further were expected. Mr. David Evans moved, and
the Rev. Charles Jones seconded the motion, that the
treasurer's accounts do pass. It was moved by the Rev.
T. F. Redhead, seconded by Mr. John Finch, jun., that
the cordial thanks of the meeting be presented to the
ladies who so promptly and kindly took upon themselves
the entire labour of collecting the funds raised. On the
motion of Mr. Thompson, 'seconded by Mr. Ker, thanks
voted to the treasurer; and after a vote of thanks
3ranch. for his services in the chair, the meeting

dissolved.
PLUM PUDDINGS FOR THE CRIMEA.—On Monday,
3 cwt. of plum puddings were dispatched per train, to be
shipped in London for the Crimea. A much larger quan-
tity would have been forthcoming had longer notice been
given. The puddings were immersed in £3 worth of rum,
supplied by nearly all the spirit-merchants in town, and as
they were in their cloths there is little fear of their arrival
in an eatable condition. Various of them had notes and
cards with mottos attached to them, expressive of the
he senders.—Warrington Guardian.
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makes the rem

of spirit licenses by the officers of Ex-
cise dependent on the production of a certificate signed by
two justices of the peat

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able and orderly manner in which his house had been
conducted. The second clause empowers two justices of
the peace in petty sessions to annul spirit licenses on the

ground of the person holding such license being of bad
character, on evidence being adduced to that effect, and
application being made by any magistrate or sub-inspector

of constal

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EXTRAVAGANCE IN HIGH LIFE.-Mr. R. A. Bothell,
aged twenty-four, son of the Solicitor-General, appeared
in the Insolvent-court, Dublin, last week, to clear himself
of debts amounting to £12,000, principally incurred by
losses in gaming-houses and in betting on the turf. His
father bad paid all his tradesmen's bills, and had offered
£3,000 ds a compromise among the gambling creditors;
but some of
,the latter refused to accept the offer.
A HUSBAND-IN-LAW.---A member of the bar says, that
some time ago, a rough customer, or rather client, came
into his office, and began to state his case in rather an
abrupt manner. " Sir, I have come to you for advice.
I'm a husband-in-law !" " A what P" spoke out the learned
counsel. " Husband-in-law, sir !" " I have never seen
that defined among the domestic relations." "Don't you
know what a husband-in-law, is P Sir, you're no lawyer ;
you're an ignoramus ! lam a husband-in-law, but not in
fact, sir; my wife's run off."

PLAIN SPEAKING.-At the Wellingborough county
court, the other day, held before J. W. Wing, Esq., judge,
a grocer at Kettering sued three or four labouring- men for
money lent. His Honour expressed his indignation at the
system pursued by the plaintiff, and addressing the grocer
in the sternest tones, said, " Mr. Wright, I consider you
the most detestable nuisance within twenty miles of the
place —your system is extortion and robbery from beginnin g
to end ; I shall order this note to be impounded, and shall
send it to the revenue officers, as it appears to me to be
fraudulently drawn up. I reckon yours a system of fraud,
and shall use my influence with the government to get it
done away with ; and (addressing the audience in court)
I caution you all to beware of him, and shun him as you
would a viper

CluTio4—An attempted imposition on houses in the
Mediterranean trade has just been detected. A person
assuming the name of Raymond has written from Genoa
to English firms, stating he was about to send them
cargoes of oil and other goods. For these he forwarded
fictitious bills of lading, and meanwhile, on the pretext of
covering expenses, drew bills for small amounts. Before
accepting them, however, the houses on this side of course
made the necessary inquiries, and they have also obtained
telegraphic intelligence from Genoa that no such person
was known there. The scheme in consequence has wholly
failed, but it may possibly be tried on other firms and
from some new quarter.

A ROCKITE OTICE.—Mr. William Pike, formerly of
Birkenhead, has addressed the following letter to the
Mayo Constitution :—" Glendarary, Newport, Mayo, 15th
December, 1854. Sir,—Some of the English and other
papers contain a paragraph which states, ' that I have re-
ceived a threatening Rockite notice for having turned
Roman Catholics off my land, on account of their re-
ligion.' For the threatening letter itself, or the coward
who penned it, I care not ; nor shall it influbnce me in
any way. As to turning out tenants, I have only to say
that, up to this time, I never have ejected either Protes-
tant or Roman Catholic, although I have bad in my
possession for two years an injunction by which I might
have turned out eighty-four families. I certainly shall
eject some of the worst characters, who have ever been
ready to listen to bad advisers, and who contaminate the
neighbourhood in which they reside."
CHRISTMAS GlN.—From a very seasonable and elabo-
rate report of the Analytical Sanitary Commission, in the
last and a preceding number of the Lancet, it appears
that, out of 38 samples purchased in various parts of the
metropolis, and submitted to a severe test, most of them
contained combined sulphates ; that seven contained
cayenne pepper in very large quantities, so that the
syrupy extract left on evaporation possessed a burning and
fiery taste. The quantity of sugar in gin ranged from
little more than 3oz. to upwards of 13oz. per gallon. It is
added that in no case was sulphuric acid detected in the
London gin, though, on the authority of Dr. Muspratt, it
existed in large quantities in the Plymouth gin. On re-
ference to the tables published by the Analytical Com-
mission, it appears that the largest quantity of adulte-
rations exists in the " vile compound" sold in the
neighbourhood of barracks and markets, such as Knights-
bridge, and Westminster, and Smithfield; and White-
chapel. The report states that it is impossible to son-
ceive a more scandalous adulteration of gin than cayenne
pepper or grains of paradise, sulphuric acid, and sulphate
of zinc, or, as it is commonly called, white vitriol, or white
copperas, which, it is stated, is very common, the intro-
duction into the stomach of raw spirit being sufficiently
destructive without the addition of such acrid substances
as those mentioned.

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.—On Saturday an inquest
was held on the body of Susannah Hudson, who had met
with her death under the following singular circum-
stances :—lnspector Scott, of the Liverpool police-force,
deposed that, about four o'clock on the morning of the
12th instant, he was in the neighbourhood of Clayton-
square, when he heard the cry of " Murder" proceed from
No. 19, Cases-street, an eating and lodging-hduse kept by
William Court. He proceeded to the house, when he per-
ceived a young woman at the fourth storey window, with
her back towards him, apparently in the act of jumping
out of the window. He called to her not to jump, when
she turned round and exclaimed, " But I will jump out."
She threw herself into the street. He tried to break her
fall, in doing which he was himself severely bruised, On
lifting the woman up he found that her leg was broken.

why she had done so rash an act, and she replied, " That
some one was going to kill her." He asked her who was
going to kill her, and she said, " She did not know." She

some time he succeeded in obtaining au entrance into the
house, and on going up stairs he found a man in the room
from which the deceased had jumped. Witness was cer-
tain that the deceased jumped out of the window.—Wm.
Court said he kept the house, No. 19, Cases-street, which
was called the "A la Mode Dining-room." He was also

waiter at the Queen's Hotel,where his duties detained

11 night, The deceased and a
s house on Saturday week, re-

presenting themselves as man and wife ; and that they
were about to emigrate to Australia. They had aviantity
of luggage, which was ticketed for " Australia." On the
morning of the 12th, witness was alarmed by some one
knocking at the door, and on getting up he found that

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