The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-09-05 00:00:00

PRESCOT.—The annual licensing meeting for the Prescot
division was held on Tuesday. One hundred and thirty-

six applications for renewal were granted. There were
twenty-five applications for new licenses, five only of
which were granted.

Ax IN Quist was held on Wednesday, on the body of a
London gentleman, named Varnish, who had been stopping
at the Angel Hotel, where he died, on Tuesday, from the
effects of an injury he received in Dale-street, where a bale
of cotton fell on him from a cart.
IidGGED SCROOLS, SOIEO-STREET.----The children had
their annual country treat on Monday last. They went
first to the Zoological Gardens, and thence to a field in the
neighbourhood of the lower Breck-road, where the remain-
der of the day was enjoyed in earnest.

THE SCOT; Garri.--LHer Majesty's recently purchased
steamship Himalaya arrived at Scutari, after a rapid pas-
sage from Liverpool of 10 days 22 hours, on the 7th ult.,
and, having received orders from Admiral Boxer, pro-
ceeded on the following morning to Koulalie, a cavalry
barrack about three miles up the Bosphorus, on the
Asiatic side. A stage having been constructed by Captain
Kellock, something similar to the one used at Liverpool,
the whole of the Scots Greys and remounts, numbering
370 horses, were disembarked in nine hours, without acci-
dent, and the horses apparently in as good condition as
they were in when embarked at Liverpool. The loss on
the voyage amounts to one, a horse of some 18 years of
age, whose lungs could not stand the change of climate,
or the excessive heat which was experienced during the
passage out. On the evening of the 11th the colonel had
a parade in full dress. It was really a fine sight to ste a
whole regiment, after a journey of 3100 miles, just as fit
to go into action, and gallop over a squadron of Cossacks,
as they would have been the day after leaving Notting-
ham. Colonel Griffith and the officers were so gratified
at the result of the voyage, and so pleased with the atten-
tion that had been paid to, and care which had been taken
of, them, their horses, and men, that they presented to
Captain Kellock, and Mr. Lane, the purser, a handsome
piece of plate, with a letter of thanks and a suitable in-
scription, expressive of their feelings at the termination of
the voyage.
THL " TEMPERAITCH Liam. "--The unfortunate emi-
grants who shipped with the insolvent firm of Griffith,
Newcombe and Co., at London, have addressed a memorial
to the Colonial-office, setting forth their destitute condi-
tion on board the Jane Green, one of the Temperance Line
of Australian Packets, lying in the London Docks. The
petition states that there are now on board the vessel
about 150 souls, a portion of whom entered the ship
on the 16th ult. On the 20th the food supplied was
the gift of a private person. On the 21st but one
entire meal was served out, the residue of that gift; and
on the 22nd no rations whatever were afforded until nine

o'clock in the evening, when two kind friends broug

half-quartern loaves. On the 23rd the rations were re-
newed by order of the Commissioners of the Bankruptcy
Court, which allowance will be discontinued this day, and
the passengers ordered to leave the ship. They add, that
the greater part of them are entirely destitute, through
having to wait two and three months in London, owing to
the delusive guarantees daily given of the ship going to
sea. There are several other victims at this port almost
in as pitiable a condition, and no doubt, if applied to, the
Emigration Commissioners will also take their case into
consideration.

LITERARY INSTITUTIONS OP LANCASHIRE AND CHE-
SHIRE.—The Earl of Ellesmere threw open his grounds
at Worsley, on Saturday week, to the members of the Lan-
cashire and Cheshire Union of Mechanics' and Literary
Inititutions, who assembled to the number of about 2,000
from Manchester and about fifty different places around
it. Under the management of Dr. Hudson, of the Man-
chester Atheneum, and of the secretary of the Manchester
Mechanics' Institution, a charge was made for entrance to
the grounds, and a profit secured upon the railway tickets,
the funds so accruing to be devoted to the purchase of a
library. A delightful day was spent, two bands being
present on the lawn before Worsley-hall ; and the Coun-
tess of Ellesmere, Viscount Brackley, and the junior
members of the family, came outs* in the evening to
witness the dancing on the terraceW

SELECT VEsTnf.—The Rev. RedOr Campbell presided
the meeting of this body on Tuesday, when Mr. Hughes

introduced the subject of the labOur-feSt at the vagrant
sheds. He said that, if the parochial authorities erred at
all in their management, it was on the side of severity, and
he thought the strictures of Mr. Farnall were totally un-
v deserved. The chairman said that he partially agreed

enforce the labour-test to the utmost point without being
inhuman. Mr. Farmll happened to be there while Mr.
Hughes was away, but it was impossible to judge of a
system by mere cursory inspection. They were bound to
look after two interests—the pecuniary interests of the
ratepayers, and the interests of the poor also. The work-
house was not a house of correction, nor were the labour-
e I sheds; they were intended to keep people from starving in