The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-07-25 00:00:00

25, 1854

LOCAL INIELLIGEIV

MR. N. Nonuis and 31r. Edward Russell, of this t
were admitted members of the Royal t
on Month

ge of Sur

COILIEGNICATION BETWEEN ENGINEMIN AND GUARD.
`--It is stated that the board of the London and :Coral-
Western Railway Company have decided on adopting the
Van introduced by Professor Gluckman • and that, defi-
nitive arrangements having been completed, the apparatus
will be applied to all the trains of the company as rapidly
as the necessary machinery can be provided.

PILOTS' ANIMAL SURVEY.—The annual survey of the
channels and buoys was made on Wednesday, by the
Pilots' Committee, who sailed out in one of the steam-
tugs. The usual race between the boats took place out-
side, and No. 10, the new Ipswich-built schooner, was de-
clared the winner. This boat was constructed by the
builder of the Teazer cutter, the vessel whose finer lines
and successful sailing led to such an improvement in the
modelling of the Liverpool fleet. The boats, with the
steamer, returned shortly after six o'clock.
INPROVIIMENTS AT TILE NORTH END.—The directors
of the Southport Railway are making considerable ad-
ditions to the platform recently erected at their New Dock
Station, in anticipation of a large increase in passengers
to and from this busy locality. The works now being
Proceeded with, give employment to many hundreds, and
be further increased on the completion of the Stanley
Dock Warehouses. The new branch line of the East Lan-
cashire Railway is proceeding rapidly. Numbers of work-
men are actively engaged upon it, and several of the
.brick
abutments for springing the arches from are already built up.
Rlcx,—The ship David Cannon, Robertson, 1,331
tons, of Live ooh from New York bound to Quebec, eight
Sys out, struck on Big Dover Island, on the Bth inst.,
between 2 and 3 a.m , wind at the S.S.E. blowing moderate
but very foggy ; ship. at the time under a heavy press of
sail. Shortly after going on shore the weather lanyards
were ordered to be cut away, and the whole of the masts,
sails and materials went over the side. The ship shortly
uliged, and part of the false keel came up alongside. The
Capt. had a number of his men in irons during the voyage.
The David Cannon was sold at Canso on the 21st, for
£315; nearly all the sails and rigging attached to the
masts, as they fell over the ship, are still alongside, as well
-as the anchors. Messrs. P. Crerar and James G. M`Keen,
the Purchasers, are making an effort to get the ship off.
.the appears to be but little damaged in the hull, except
oe injury caused by the falling of the spars. She lies,
wever, in a very exposed situation.
THE POLLY OF NOT READING NEWSPAPERS.—An "old,
-old story " was told at the Police-court on Wednesday,
and
poniTcrewe4 most completely that it is "penny wise and
Natha foolish"
not to subscribe to and read newspapers.
this
torn
Seddon, a butcher from Devonshire, arrived in
, „wri on Monday, to go by the Marco Polo to Austra-
u
ta• n the dock quay' he met William Hughes, a well-
shimw sharper, who in the regular style, offered to show
hire e "lions," and then introduced him to a Derby-
..farmer with £7OO, who was most anxious to spend
the 1;;vr visiting several public-houses, the " flat " and
due harps" sat down to cards in a public-house, and, in
met course
sirapk Seddon found himself minus £4. He
a„,, ePrisoner on Tuesday and gave him into custody ;
uu after a patient hearing, Mr. Hughes was sent to pri-
son for three
R 5 and
If mr. fours,Cainrnia,‘:
in sovereigns, found in, his pockels:

-• nau only read a few Liverpool newspapers
before he visited Liverpool, he would, doubtless, have been
Z 4 richer than he is now.
at the
SELEer Vustur.-The Rev. Rector Campbell presided
was meeting on Tuesday. The greater portion of the sitting
occupied by a dispute relative to the Romanist children
in the Workhouse being present at the singing of Pro-
testant hymns and the reading of the Bible. Ultimately
the following resolution on the subject was unanimously
reed to That in compliance with the orders of the
_ Poor-law Board, the Romanist children in the Workhouse
be not a compelled to be present in the school-room when
the versiof oliron of the Scriptures is read." The
Argent, clerk of the works at the Workhouse
llr Wro.'l,l,vas rePorted, and on the recommendation of
• —bm'ulan, Mr. John Barnett was nominated as his
!i.iccessor. The admissions to the vagrant sheds during
^hilthe past week had been 52 males, 317
females, and 114

maklng a total -4" 1,00 The numb of
cf es Sinthe Workhouse was reported to betotal 2,202 ;a er
nd
mereeases there were 591, of these 54 being of fever and
itch. The proceedings of the various committees
', confirmed.
( UUDs SOLD ON CREDIT—IMPORTANT TO ;TRADES-
, •• ---,in Tuesday last, James Woodward, stone-mason
provision dealer, West-street, preferred a claim in the
Napier
-Court,acminst Joseph Smith,
"aPier-street, for goods supplied for the defendant's wife,
the greater portion of the claim was due on account of her
'Laving allowed a neighbour to obtain credit in her name;
and that only Ss. was due for goods supplied for her own
family. Her husband was not aware of her having given
her neighbour permission to obtain goods in her name ;
13„at she had trusted the woman before and had been faith.
'ldly repaid, and she expected that she would have been
tePaid on this occasion. His honour reprimanded the
worean for having pawned her husband's credit, and 'gave
I.4dgment for Bs. only. He said it was quite right that all
‘:radesmen should know that, although justified in trust-
ing the wives of working men for provisions and neces-
saries for their own families, they were not justified in al-
Panljultera to Pledge their credit for other people. The
were soldertehsatiated that he did not know until after they
Judge said th—, the goods were for a neighbour. The
communi-
cating with 1,"`',...111,e. took a wife's word without

she was "`° ner husband, he took it on the chance that.
getting the goods for herself ; and if she was get
ting for other people, the husband could not and
hemnot to be made accountable for the debt.
Tna
s Livßaroot, DISPENSAnY.-A local missionar
exi,
Peaking of this institution, says
," I feel a pleasure
oo,ie
onf
Prassizß tny sense of the unspeakable f
our noblest charities, of which in this, as nine all
D. formerit.
mean the ispe
lears, I have largely availed myself
..:43.Y,'
‘,Of its notes of recommendationl I have had an un-
tnheldirwfinise
ni c1,..,01e'l 89Ply and been thereby e.naobleudldtonoobttaoi
Ilacv-e-'eallthe
I/I'm:my eases where it. co
doubt , u had, except by an application to parish. No
that help
111 some cases, persons look to the Dispensary for
able and which they ought, to
nelP which they
fuirtlre for themselves,artut of all our eleemosynary insti-
-0 of those that are least abused and most
opfroitinlisctitypeisoofnune mingled good. And the kindly purposes
p rters are nobly seconded by the prompt and
tender attentions of the medical officers connected with
it. Notwithstanding the exacting demands sometimess
made upon them, and the foolish and
groundless
by which they are often called out, the needs of their
Patients are always looked after with a tender assiduity,
and an enlightened patience that makes every allowance
for the ignorant but affectionate anxieties by which so
much needless trouble is often given. The consequence is
that, whatever momentary disappointment may sometimes
be expressed, the steady and permanent feeling of the poor
towards all connected with the Dispensary, is that of deep
and cordial gratitude."
EYE AND EA.II Lug INPIRMARY.n-On Wednesday, a meet-
of subscribers to the Eye and Fsr Infirmary was held
at the Clarendon-rooms, for the purpose of electing a
Tourer and an Honorary
Secretary
in place of Messrs.
Henry Crossfield and Joseph H.
Campbell, who fulfilledadwen. Mr. Edward
heath was in the chair. Mr. J. P
the duties of secretary pro tern., stated that an extra-
°llinary... meeting of the committee was held on the 21st
nt June, at which resolutions regretting the resignation of
the above-named gentlemen were passed, and also re-
questing them to reconsider their decision. Answers had
been received from both, saying, in effect, that they had
aeted upon consideration. Upon this the present meeting
h been e ned M A Hamilton proposed that Mr.
Iltrinee-Ra-. --Ba'ile-y rbeLappo. appointed treasurer, whch
_was
jeoi.,nded by Major Greig, and carried unanimously. Mr.
L4neY said that he would hold the office until Christmas
'lls'. Sir. Bailey then moved and Mr. Hamilton seconded,
-.7„,,t,,1*2 J. P. C bell be appointed secretary, which
w --,n_earried namemp. dis, The advisability of reducing
/atinbentaber of the committee from
.twenty-two to a less
more and of holding the committee meetindisgsusinseda.
The ea°lleient place than the institution,
. was
-than that said they could not enter into any blue iness
The T,r,_
..at for which the meeting had been expressly called.
par -"°'"lnags then terminated.
Tv, TAZ COLLISION AT SEA-Loss OF Two SITU'S AND
feapßtaWrratT.l4,,lVlCS -The ship Olympus, of Boston,
Boston 1," 'aued from. Liverpool on the 24th of May,
8°11; 11°8„-e--, aVillg 40 p sengers and a crew of 13 men.
Cw:re"•'l,,,irelgitted • - ail
tons of iron and general hard-
; --a clipper-ship Trade Wind,
.of Philadelphia,
passersPt• Smith, left Mobile on the -, for Livermooel,rwiw'tash 107 f
~,_
and
The f
744 any ~1 a crew of 34 men.
the ,„"..,_ lute latter 2,018 tons burthen. On the.
.ni_g_h_tmoof
* ce-'l,,_"‘u, ult., in lat. 45 50, long. 57 20, the two spips.e..ew.
blllle 'mien. The weather was thick, and the wind blow-
but .
freBll. The Olympus was seen from the Trade Wind
belch few minutes previous to the collision.
.The latter's
ith- was t hard up, but as she was going very fast, and
aboe OlyroPUptlS was rossing her bows, she could not.. be
ni nt in season to prevent the
.impending collision.
11,, e -3111 Pus was struck between.the main and foremast ;
sf, lalaiu and mizenmast were knocked clear from the
iwin„P, while the Trade Wind's starboard bow was stovein!
broken and stem crushed, bowsprit and foremast
012 n, and the ship wrecked from stem to ster
.Lin'iTs theu swung round fore-and-aft along the. Trade
aotese-lul‘e's ; Pafc'tretrside, crushing the latter's quarter-boat to
which she dropped astern, her captain,n
hona4stiliand crew, and some of the passengers, being o
sinkinv Tra4e Wind. The latter was full of water, and her car-goaahteluthe boats were got ready for launching, bu 80111 e thug . ilk cotton, it was hoped she would float for
became ' a graduall
the 01 wet, and day w Y settled, however, as the cargo
and Cantlinis was dis-as anxiously awaited.
At daylight
passengers c-'
With a boat and some of his crew, went
, e°ation. At 4 a.m. the Trade W-ind'st
was brunched,,,, B:,oersithe large boat, and the
Fansized. quarter
rdi she
persons jumped into her, an
Juinpin•4lle launch was ordered off, and several
pulled for
the 0, g overboard were received into her. She pulled'. r.
mg g home 34 men being on board. Before reati
Rot eve/The(' —Pus went down, Capt. Wallace having
for the Tr Y fro.rn on board. The launch then put about
130 , 1 arse
n„.. pastd obtainingWuld' f ving them-
but while on her way discovered a
rely Lie soath gave chase, in hopes') behind. At
assistance for those left
Werei', 6 they lost sight of the Trade Wind. About 25 men
refleft on 1
atti:. h'-.
the.rde'llintocti.dincgolCouarsPt.wBenireitshet,antodahttlrpc
o'cleeen of a vessel to the southward. At ha t 6
d.
taken
the
wer.. u the
311'11. sank, carrying down all .on board w_h_o,
rnaci'e _ liable to swim. The rest, numbering about II?
hait.,,tr,aft of the floating spars, and so remained until
the fieT I Ma., when they were rescued by the boats of
the banB.4 barque Stadt Antwerpen, Capt. Wyterhoven,
fo- ''o mentioned Upon were
of`T„...to be saved 44 of 6.2 from the Trade Wind, and 52
r...,," fro
the Olympus, making 96 saved of 120. Then
owttlred a Succession of self-denials and generous sacriefice..s
eo he Part of Capt. Wyterhoven and crew, to make 'atonabl on board his vessel, clothing the naked, feedinge
thesesl(l Providing for them, where he had over 200 souls before
4Ail ufferers were added to the list. On Tuesday, July.
.... , being close into Block Island, with light westerly
wia.sls, and the barque becoming short of provisions a
ur,:rie boat was met fishing, and chartered to take Captains
,
.„- race and Smith to Ne barque so as to reach New liork -44% send a steamer to the for assistance,

ssas. GRAIN