The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-09-26 00:00:00

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iDINA.BY ESCA.PB.—On Tuesday, at the mill of
Messrs. Stilfax and Co., spinners, Baxendale, a man was
oiling a pair of bevil wheels, when the ends of his necker-
chief were caught, along with the collar of his coat. The
man had the presence of mind to throw himself off the
ladder, when the shafting and wheels entirely stripped
him of every article of clothing, with the exception of his
shoes and stockings. One of the girls employed at the
mill covered him with her shawl, and he walked home
without having obtained the slightest injury, thankful for
his narrow escape.—Preston Chronicle.

RETURN OF -TIIE PETREL.—The iron screw steamer
Petrel, which sailed from Glasgow about a fortnight ago,
with 111 passengers, for New York, put back on Monday
to the Clyde, after enduring frightful weather, and under-
going great peril in the Atlantic. In the course of the
storm she had her masts carried away, her decks swept,
her bulwarks driven in, and was so much strained that
she became leaky. Under the circumstances, Captain
Tims considered it his duty to put back, which he did, and
reached the Clyde with difficulty. The most distressing
part of the case is that five of the passengers have died
either from dysentery or fatigue. This was the first trip
of the Petrel, which, after suffering from being on fire at
Greenock, more than a year since, had been almost rebuilt,
and fitted up as a consort to the new steamer the Clyde, in
the goods and passenger trade, betweeen Glasgow and
New York.

WEST DERBY BOARD OP GITARDIANS.—At the usual
meeting, on Wednesday, Mr. Hamson presided, and there
were also present, Messrs. Metcalf, Browne, Ledger, Potts,
Lightbody, Abrams, Lunt, Appleby, Alpass, Mountfield,
Smith, M'Gee, Wensley, Whitty, Siddeley, G. Hamson,
Perkins, Shaw, Robert Birch, and James Birch. The
clerk announced that Mr. John Davies had been elected a
guardian for the township of Childwall. The security of
Mr. Thomas Eilbeck, as collector and assistant overseer for
Walton township, was accepted. A letter from the Poor-
law Board was read, which sanctioned the increase of the
salary of Dr. Nevins, the medical officer of the workhouse,
from £lOO to £l2O per annum, and also one from the
same body, approving of the appointment of Mr. W. H.
Lynass as assistant-overseer for Little Crosby. The
guardians of Toxteth-park were empowered to take a
house for the reception of cholera patients, and provide
the necessary requisites. The visiting committee having
presented a report in which they exonerated the officers of
the workhouse from the charges preferred in Mr. Den-
ham's letter to the Poor-law Board, a vote of confidence
in the officers was passed. A return was ordered of the
names of all the paid servants employed in the workhouse
and hospital, the dates of their appointment, their duties
and their salaries. Mr. John Davies was appointed
assistant-overseer of the poor and poll-book clerk for the
township of West Derby, (in the place of Mr. Smith, re-
signed,) at a salary of £lOO per annum. It was resolved
to advertise for a superintendent of out-door labour, at a
salary of £46 per annum, the appointment to be made at
the next meeting. Notice was given by Mr. Alpass that
he would move, at the next meeting, that the allowance to
the clerk for the remuneration of his assistants be increased
to an amount to be then named. The number in the
house was reported to be 285, against 300 the same week
of last year. There were 67 cases of sickness in the
hospital, of which 13 were typhus fever, and 4 cholera.
ACCIDENT ON Trui RIVER.—On Tuesday evening, about
eight o'clock, William Blake, Esq., a magistrate of
Taunton, on landing from the Monk's Ferry steamer, acci-
dentally fell into the river between the vessel and the
steam-tug Samson, which was lying against the landing-
stage. Owing to the darkness of the night, some difficulty
was experienced in rescuing him; but through the exer-
tions of William Tyrer and John King, two of the landing-
stage officers, and the crew of the railway boat, he wag
saved.

SUICIDE.—On Thursday morning, John Gee, a butcher,
employed in St. James's Market, returned from his em-
ployment at nine, apparently in his usual health and
spirits. He went up stairs, and in five minutes afterwards
he was discovered by his wife suspended from a bedpost
in a garret, and life was extinct. Some years ago deceased
fell from an omnibus and hurt his head, since which he
has at times showed symptoms of being affected in his
mind. Verdict "Temporary insanity."

BOILER EXPLOSION AT bUKINFiELD.--011 Thursday
morning, about half-past six o'clock, at the mill occupied
by Messrs. C. and F. Bradbury, cotton spinners, the engi-
neer was in the act of firing, when the boiler exploded.
It would appear, from the position of the boiler after the
explosion, that it attained a considerable elevation by the
force of the explosion, as it fell about 20 yards from where
it was placed, making an indentation in the soil about two
feet deep. In its passage it knocked down a small build-
ing, and in the outhouses opposite there was a destruction
of the windows. The damage done to property will be
considerable. On the steam clearing away, William Tay-
lor, the engineer, was found lying in a mangled state, his
legs being both broken, his skull fractured, and a portion
of the brain protruding. He was taken up, and life was
not quite extinct, but he died in about half an hour, never
having spoken.
DOCK COMMITTEE.—The usual meeting was held on
Thursday, Mr. Charles Turner in the chair. The other
members present were Messrs. Gladstone, Lockett, Holme,
Littledale, Barber, Rounthwaite, Brocklebank, Rankin,
Evans, and Holden. The only portion of the " general
business " of public interest was a communication from
the secretary of the marine department of the board of
trade, enclosing a copy of the Merchant Shipping Act of
1854, and calling the attention of the Liverpool dock
trustees and the life-boat committee to the clauses which
had for their object the preservation of life in shipwreck,
particularising clauses 441, 458, and the following clauses.
It was the desire of the board to stimulate local and volun-
tary exertion, and to co-operate with various life-boat
committees, or other parties engaged in forwarding the
object of saving life from shipwreck. It was proposed
that the conditions of receiving aid from the mercantile
marine fund should be :-Ist, That the local committee
should provide a boat and boat-house of the kind and
situation satisfactory to the board. 2nd, That the boat
and boat-house should be subject to inspection. 3rd,
That some officer of the coast guard, or otherwise connected
with the board, should be a member of the committee, or
have a voice in the management of the boats. The nature
of the assistance contemplated was rewards for manning
the boats in circumstances of danger, and for the preser-
vation of life; the amounts to be paid out of the mercan-
tile marine fund, according to approved regulations. The
board requested to be informed by the dock committee as
to their views of the general scheme, and was desirous of
obtaining any suggestions which they might make for
carrying out the details. These suggestions, it was inti-
mated, might be made to Captain Robertson, of the
Board of Trade, who was about to make a tour of the
various life-boat stations. The committee then proceeded
to matters of finance.

LIVERPOOL CHEMISTS' ASSOCIATION.-011 Tuesday, a
meeting of this association was held in the Royal Institu-
tion, for the purpose of meeting the president and several
members of the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of
Great Britain, who had visited Liverpool with the inten-
tion of attending the meetings of the British Association.
Mr. 'Edward Evans, the president, occupied the chair.
Several resolutions, expressing the sympathy of the
Chemists' Association with the efforts of the Pharmaceu-
tical Society, and welcoming the members of its council,
were proposed by Messrs. Abraham, Clay, Mercer, H. S.
Evans, Edwards, Walker, and Wright. After a vote of
thanks to the chairman, the majority of the meeting ad-
journed to the Adelphia Hotel.
MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE RAIL-
IVAT.-011 Tuesday, a meeting of holders of the £lO
preference shares, and the No. 1 quarter shares, was held
at Manchester. The Earl of Yarborough presided, and
said that at the last half-yearly meeting of the company,
held on the second of August last, a question was mooted
as to what should be done with the preference shareholders.
After that half-yearly meeting the preference shareholders
held a meeting, and appointed a committee of six persons,
who were shareholders, holding stock to the amount of
£70,000 in this railway. Upon the ground of the stake
they held, lie thought they were sufficiently recommended
to the other shareholders. The directors had hitherto
felt that it was not their duty to take any active part with
regard to the arrears due to the preference shareholders.
But the directors approved, as a body, of the report from
the committee of investigation, which was then read.
The report recommended that the " No. 1 quarter shares,
and the £lO shares, should be capitalised and pay interest
at 31- per cent." The report was adopted, and the meeting
broke up.

LEAP raw{ A. RAILWAY TnAni.—Mr. W. W. Rawling,
a runaway bankrupt from Manchester, was apprehended
near St. George's Hall, on Wednesday, and police-consta-
ble Shanley, of Manchester, who made the capture, soon
afterwards took places in a first-class carriage for Manches-
ter. On their way through the tunnel to Edgehill, Mr.
Rawling tried to make his escape, and opening the carriage
door softly, jumped out. The officer returned in search of
him from Edgehill, and found him lying on one side of the
tunnel, about 100 yards from where he leaped out.
He had dislocated his shoulder in descending from the
train, and finding, after going about 100 yards, that he
had hurt himself too much to stand any chance of escape,
supposing he left the tunnel, lay down where he was found,
to escape injury from passing trains. Mr. Rawling, who
is a currier and leather-cutter, was brought before the
magistrates on Thursday at Manchester, and committed.
Shanley, the officer who had him in charge, is the man
who was nearly murdered by two Sheffield thieves, iu the
Woodhead tunnel, some months ago.

CIIARGE OF FRAUD AGAINST AN ATTORNEY.-011
Tuesday, at the Guildhall, London, James Brebner, a per-
son about 30 years of age, with a cork leg, a strong Scotch
accent, and an impediment in his speech, was charged
with obtaining money under false pretences. Mr. Ken-
neth M'Lellan, a mechanical engineer who generally
resided at Liverpool, stated that about the latter end of
February last he was in Edinburgh with his mother, when
he first saw the prisoner, who told witness's mother that
she was the right heiress to the personal property of the
late Mr. Macrae, of Jamaica, amounting to about £7OOO,
bat he afterwards stated it to be as much as £36,000.
He engaged to settle the matter, and from time to time
witness and his mother gave him money to pay travelling
expenses to and from London and elsewhere, and money
to procure documents which he said were necessary, such
as certificates of baptism, &c. He and his mother had
advanced money to the prisoner at different times, up to
Saturday last, amounting to £26 15s. but without any
progress having been made by the prisoner with the
business. Mr. M'Lellan continued his statement as fol-
lows :—" On Saturday last prisoner desired me to write
to my mother, who was in Liverpool, requesting her to
allow me to act for her. I did so, and she came to Lon-
don in consequence. He said it would be necessary to
have an agreement, which he drew up himself, and he and
my mother signed it in my presence. He said he wished
for the agreement for his own protection. He always
represented himself to me as a solicitor of Inverness, but
he has told others that he is a solicitor of Aberdeen. I
advanced the money to him upon that representation, and
his statement that he could put us in possession of £7OOO.
He always led me to believe that three or four days in
London would complete the business. There were several
nersons of the name of Macrae that went out to Jamaica,

at I have not heard of the death of any of them, nor
d any beneat from them. " The prisoner
was remanded, there log other cases against him.

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