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

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LEGAL ABSI7IIDITT.—In the Court of Bankruptcy, on
Thursday,. n the case of Richard Beckett, formerly a
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bankrupt, applied to have the dividend reduced to 15s. in
the pound, so as to entitle the bankrupt, under the divi-
dend, clause of the act, to an allowance out of the estate.
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r bankrupt, who
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be deprived of any allowance from the estate, whilst
nen who came there not having half-a-crown nor a
shilling, received an allowance.—Some conversation took
place between Mr. Rymer and the commissioner (Perry),
but ultimately, Mr. Rymer's request was not conceded.—

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Lass certificate was awarded to the bankrupt

and costs allowed

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ANNUAL LICENSING SESSION.—On Wednesday

1 session for the granting of
licenses for this borough was held at the Sessions-house.
The magistrates on the bench were Wm. Brown, Esq.,
M.P. ; T. Crosthwaite, Esq., Adam Hodgson, Esq., T.
Henderson, Esq., R. V. Yates, Esq., G. H. Lawrence, Esq.,
Thomas Bolton, Esq., &c. The list of applications included
24 in Everton ward, 10 in Kirkdale ward, 28 in Scotland
ward, 3 in Vauxhall ward, 4 in St. Paul's ward, 1 in Ex-
change ward, 3 in Castle-street ward, 4 in St. Peter's
ward, 7 in Great George ward, 9 in Rodney-street ward.

9 in Abercromby ward, 6 in Lime-street ward, 12 in St.
Anne's ward, 27 in West Derby ward, 12 in South Tox-
teth ward, and 8 in North Toxteth ward ; total, 170.
There were also 4 applications for billiard and bagatelle
licenses. Mr. William Brown said that they were doubt-
less aware that, for the last two years, a select committee
of the House of Commons had been sitting on the question
beerhouses and the licensing system. Th.-- '
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sented their report, which the Chancellor of the Ex
chequer had promised to look over very carefully and to
bring in a bill on the subject next session. As to the
intentions of the Chancellor ha could say nothing. The
regular business was then proceeded with, the magistrates
sitting till half-past three, when they finished the applica-
tions up to No. 11 ward (AbercrombY,) 106 in all. Of
these only two were granted, namely, Thomas Flint Cad-
man, in Whitfield-street, Everton, and Richard Roberts,
Regent-road. On the following day the applications for
licenses in the remaining wards were heard, but no new
license was granted.

Doc K ConimiTTßE.7-Mr. Charles Turner presided at the
meeting of this committee on Thursday. The surveyor
requested authority to let the Salisbury Dock run dry upon
Tuesday, the sth September, for the purpose of cleaning it.
The authority was granted, subject to a conference with
the harbour-master. In the warehouse department, the
following promotions took place, consequent on the
appointment of officers to the Stanley warehouses :—Mr.
Cunliffe to be manifest and check clerk, at £175 a-year,
and Mr. Leo, principal cooper, to be also vault-keeper, at
£175, in the room of Mr. Cunliffe. Letters were read from
Messrs. Nicholson, Kinnersley, and Whalley, declining
the situations allotted to them in the Stanley warehouses.
In the marine department, the sub-committee reported
the death of Mr. Griffith Mitchell, formerly keeper of the
Point Lynas telegraph, a pensioner under the board, and
Mr. White, late master of the Coburg Dock, also a pen-
sioner. A letter was received from Messrs. D. and C. Mac-
Iver, agreeing to take the quantity of land allotted to
them by the board, and from Messrs. Humble, Grayson,
and Co., requesting that a place should be assigned to
them, as a shipbuilding-yard, at the north end of the
town, as near the graving-docks as possible. A long letter
was read from the Liverpool Steam-ship Association,
stating that, while duly sensible of the advantages of the
proposed new landing-stage, they would suggest that more
central dock accommodation should be given to coasting
steamers. The secretary was directed to answer the letter,
stating that the suggestions had received, and would
receive, the serious attention of the committee. This
closed the general business.
WRECK OF THE MINERVA STEAMER.—The dangerous
channel inside the Skerries rocks, near Holyhead, has
proved fatal to another fine steamer. The Cork Com-
pany's paddle boat Minerva left here for Cork on Tuesday
afternoon about two o'clock, and at 7.40 struck on tne
rock, which lies just off Harry Furlong reef, where the
screw steamer Olinda was wrecked in January last. The
weather at the time was calm, but very hazy, so that the
buoy which distinguishes this sunken rock could not be
distinguished. The vessel was going at full speed, and
the shock tore her hull open, so that she began to fill
rapidly, after drifting off the rock. There were about 50
passengers and 22 of a crew, in all 72 persons on board.
In consequence of the Nimrod being laid up for repairs,
the Minerva was the only boat on the station, and she
had in consequence a very large and valuable cargo on
board. The captain had the five boats promptly launched,
and the crew and passengers got into them. They left
the Minerva about 8.30 in company, but soon got parted
in the darkness. The screw-steamer Mail happened to be
coming here from Dublin at the time, aiso inside the
Skerries ; and the attention of Captain Cooper, her com-
mander, having been attracted by the shouts from one of
the boats, he stopped his vessel, and, after searching for
about two hours, managed to pick up two of them, with
the greater part of the passengers and crew on board.
The other two boats, on board of which were the captain,
chief mate, and others, were not discovered. One of them
subsequently landed in Lemaes Bay, and the other was
picked up by a smack and towed into Holyhead. There
was thus no loss of life by the accident. Among those nho
were received by the Mail was Mr. John Ripley, of Heath-
bank, Wallasey, and that gentleman has since testified his
gratitude by presenting £25 for distribution amongst her
crew. Many of the passengers on board the Minerva were
persons who had acquired a competency in America, and
were returning to spend the remainder of their days in
their native land, and who thus lost all they possessed,
for no luggage was saved. and they were not of that class
who take the precaution of insurance. Immediately on
Messrs. Wilson and Son, the agents for the Cork Company
in this town, becoming acquainted with the disaster, they
telegraphed to Cork, despatched the tug-steamer Inde-
pendence in charge of Captain Staveley, of the Nimrod,
to the scene of the accident, but there was nothing of the
wreck to be seen, as she had sunk in 18 fathoms water.
Arrangements were also made for forwarding the passen-
gers who had arrived here to their destination, via Dub-
lin, and everything was done by the agents to remunerate
them for their loss that was possible. The Minerva was
a first-class steam-ship, of about 950 tons and 420 horse-
power, constructed about seven years since, by Messrs.
Thos. Vernon and Sons, of this town, for the Cork Steam-
ship compa--iv --,
expressly for the service in which she was
employed, Last year she was lengthenecl hbout 30 feet
(thin wding to her tonnage considerably), and thoroughly
overhauled. She was one of the swikst and best ap-
t pointed channel steamers belonging to this port, and her
i commander, Captain 10ellefortk a man of care and exPo•
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nonce.