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

‘T I=l GEXERAL CO

THE HIMALAYA. STEAM-SHIP

TILE large and powerful screw-steamer Himalaya, which
has been purchased by the Government, to be used as a
troopship, arrived in the Mersey, under command of
Capt. Killock, on Friday evening, about seven o'clock,
and cast anchor off the Rock. Much having been said as
to the magnitude and beauty of the vessel, her great
power, and unrivalled speed, her appearance naturally
created great excitement among the nautical connoisseurs
of Liverpool, and numerous parties steamed round her,
and minutely scanned her huge dimensions as she lay at
anchor. Yesterday, about noon, she was brought up and
anchored off the Landing-stage : her vast magnitude and
trim rig here attracted great crowds, who minutely scruti-
nized her from various points. She is an iron steamer, of
3,600 tons, and 700 horse-power. Her length over all is
375 feet. Her original cost was £150,000, and she has
been sold to Government for £140,000 ; while, before the
purchase took place, she was hired by Government for
£9,000 per month. Her length may be estimated when
it is stated that a person at one end of the deck hallooing
loudly could not be distinctly heard at the other end.
The orders of the commander are communicated to either
end of the vessel by relays of officers. Her width is
great, and her depth enormous ; her funnel, although
24 feet in circumference, is little noticed on deck. When
in the service of the Peninstilir and Oriental Company,
the Himalaya had nearly 200 Tassenger-berths on board,
150 of them being first-class berths, with rooms as large
as those in hotels ; and it was provided that 200 persons
could dine luxuriously in the saloon. The speed of the
Himalaya corresponds with her proportions—on her first
voyage she steamed 6,000 miles in 26 days, including
stoppage at various stations, and attained a speed of from
17 to 20 miles an hour. The present arrangements on
board for the reception of the horses are most complete.
The stalls are well padded at the sides and fitted with
mangers in the front. The contrivances for stowing
away the forage are excellent. The eating-rooms and
berths appropriated for the troops are capacious and well
ventilated. There is stabling on board for 450 horses ;
and on her first 'voyage with troops from Southampton to
Malta she had on board 7 -officers and 210 men, Rifles ;
6 officers and 100 men, Sappers and Miners:; and 33
officers and 911 men, 98rd Highlanders, and performed
her voyage in the amazingly short period of -seven days
two hdtirs.

The nimalaya left Southampton under the command of
Captain Killock, at four, a.m., on Tuesday, and, after a
favourable run of thirty-three hours, arrived at Kingstown
on Wednesday afternoon, where she was the object of
universal interest, 'being visited by many thousand persons.
On the following morning the remount horses for cavalry
in the East, sixty-four in number, arrived from Dublin,
and were soon followed by that portion 4f the Scots Greys,
until then stationed at Dublin. This detachment included
Major Sullivan, (commanding,) Captains Williams and
Freeman, Lieutenant Buchanan, Comet Prendergast, and
seventy non-commissioned officers and privates : seventy-
eight troop, and sixteen officers' horses. At eleven, a.m.,
the embarkation at Kingstown commenced, and in
three hours 158 horses and the appendages, with their
kits, ammunition. baggage, Sac, were all on board. She
was visited by Lieutenant-General Sir E. Blakeney and
stair, General Cochrane, commanding the district, Lord
Gough, Lord 0. Fitzgerald, &c., and an immense con-
course-of gentry from Dublin and the neighbourhood.
At 'five, a.m., on Friday, the Himalaya left for Liverpool,
and-steamed across in nine hours to the. Bell Buoy, where
-she was obliged to wait for water, showing an average
-speed, by fair steaming, of 13 3-10ths knots, fifteen sta-
tute miles, per hour ; :and it may be questioned whether
any accompanying ' paddle-wheel steamer would have
beaten her.
It was intended that the Himalaya should have gone
-into the Wellington Dock Basin; but, owing to the low;
-state of the tides, it was deemed unadvisable.
Yesterday, abont -noon the heavy baggage of the corps
intended to be embar'ked this morning arrived from Pres-
-cot, by the London and North-Westernßailway, attended
by a captain's guard. In course of the afternoon, the.
baggage was driven down to the Landing-stage, and put
on board the steam-tug Satellite, and, along with tide
guard, was conveyed on board the Himalaya, which sli e
reached about hall-past five p.m. An immense contours e
of people had assembled on the piers and Landing-stag;e
to witness their departure.
The main body of the regiment (2a Dragoons, or Roy:il
Scots Greys) were to arrive by the London and Nortitt-
Western Railway, from St. Helens and Prescot, eark7
this morning, and march down to the Landing-stage,
the Himalaya being moored alongside. Among the
officers are Lieutenant-Colonel" Griffiths, Brevet-Major
Clarke, Captain Boyd, Lieutenants Wardrop, Hun-
ter, Edwards and Sutherland ; 'Cornets Hanley and
Nugent ; Adjutant Miller ; Quarter—master M'Bean, &e.
The total number of troop-horses to be sent out will be
250 ; while the number of men will be upwards of -400. -
The regiment bears on its guidons, as the regimental
badge, the Thistle ; within a circle, the cross of St.
Andrew, and the motto, "Nemo me impune lacessit ;"
also an eagle, with the word "Waterloo," and a scroll -
with the following inscription Second to none." The
Scots Greys have-the proud distinction of having captured
the colours of the French regiment du roi, at RaniiliN,
;the white standard of the French household troops at
Dettingen, and the colours and eagle of a French infantry
.corps at Waterloo. It is a rather singular coincidence
that these troops, when ordered to 'Waterloo, were sta-
tioned at Nottingham,. and they were also stationed at
-Nottingham when they received orders to prepare 'for
their departure to the East.

POLICE-COURT.—YEeTERDAY

HEARTLESS ROBTERT.-Mary Le'
Ellen Manning, and Ann Robinson were charged ,wits
having robbed a young - woman named Ann French,
native of Ireland, and an intended emigrant to 'America.
From the evidence it _appeared. that the prosecutrix, who
had arrived fromireland about.a. week43.go, was furnished
with ;the sum of £24 by her brother, who is a tide sur-
veyor-,in Hartlepool, far the purpose of pcying her passage
to America. On arriving in Liverpool on Saturday last,
she met accidentally with Mary Lowe, to -whom she was a
stranger, and was by the latter conveyed to her house in
Shaw 511-street, under the pretence that it was a respectable
and economical lodging house. ,Here she was induced to
send out for small quantities of drink,and was introduced
to the ofner prisoners. French could not'be induced to
take more than about halfa pint of ale, 'while the others
had a. eowiderable quantity, which she paid for. Under
guise of a-pretended quarrel, they robbed her of her boots,
and as she endeavoured to effect her escape from the house,
she was met by the male prisoner, and the females Man-
ning and Robinson, the first-named of whom knocked
her down, while all three- rifled her pockets, and stole
from her £22, that being nearly every farthing she had.
Ultimately the succeeded in -escaping from them, and,
having given fan intimation to the police, the,prisoners
were taken lute custody. No 'money was found,on them.
;The prisoners were remanded for a week.
Roinirwo A FOREIGRER.—Mary Welsh, a Mssolute-
-looking woman, was charged with stealing a sovereign
from the person -of a German sailor, in Chapel-street, on
Saturday night last. It appeared Pram his own statement
-that, in proceeding along the street, he met the prisoner,
;who accosted hira,,and while they were engaged inecon-
versation, she picked his pocket of a sovereign. She, of
.course, denied all knoWledge of the;theft, but admitted
having been in the prosecutor's company. Being wal-
„known to the police as a piek-pocket, she was sentenced
to he imprisoned for kmonth.
ROBRING Alt IMSUGnAIsT.--Igall Ittsodonald, Ann
• Gallagher, and Mary Nowlan, were charged with stealing
.06; in sovereigns, from a middle-aged man named John
Brindley, on Friday niebt last. Front the prosecutor's
evidence; it appeared thaton the day in.question he had
arrived in laverpool, from. Melbourne, ui the ship Marion
Moore, and, having acquaintances in town, he came on
shore, bringiag with him the money named and also a
bill for £360. In coming along Smithfield.strept, he met
one of the prisoners, and subsequently the other two, with
whom be got drunk, and then accompanied them home,
where he fell aslwp. On awaking he felt that the-bill was
safe, buthis purse, containing 06, and which he had had
in the pocket of a waistcoat, worn next his skin, was
gone. Ife gave an.alarm, and had the parties taken into
custody, but no money was found on any of them. It
being presumed that the money bad been handed to,an
accomplice, the prisoners were remanded for a week.
ATTEMETIO HOnSRBREAKING.—Thomas Collins and
James Pollard, two squalid-looking ragamuffins, were
charged with attempting to remove the frame of a back
window from the premises of a ship provision store, in
Bath-street, at an early hour yesterday morning. The
-police-constable on duty observed the intended burglars at
.work, and procured• .assistatice. On his apprOach, the
culprits ran off, but were pursued and overtaken. In
their haste to escape they left -behind them same of their
implements of housebreaking. Both of them, though
young, are well known to the police, who had been on the
.look,ont for them for some time past. They were each
sentenced to be imprisoned for three months.
Asr lacosiatorsxn.—John Coons.a.or, an interesting-
looking boy, decently attired anal well featured, apparently
about •twelve years old, Was charged with attempting to
pick the pockets of several taffies on the landing-stage on
Sunday evening. He was seen to try the pockets of
several lathes ,in the crowd, and at about lialf-past nine he
-was caught in tae act of putting his hand into a lady's
pocket, who, however, would not consent to appear against
him. On being searched, after he was taken into custody,
£1 Ss. 7d. was found in his possession. The prisoner was
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crime, he ought to be discharged. Inspector
detective force, the Bridewell-keeper, and several of the
detective-officers. identified the, prisoner as one of the
most dexterous thieves in Liverpool, and proved' that he
had been sentenced to three months' imprisonment in
June, 1853. He was again sentenced to be imprisoned for
mended to have his money, and, having obtained three months. As he was being removed,
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EiTSNSIVE TEMPT FROM d WAREHOUSE.—Thomas
Bartley, Gabriel Lewis, and James Cairns, were charged
with being connected in an extensive series of robberies,
from the warehouse of Mr. Brancker, consisting of barrels
of flour and other articles. From the evidence, it appeared
that Bartley has been employed' as a warehouse-clerk by
Mr. Brancker, and that Lewis has' been similarly employed
in an adjoining warehouse, while Cairns is a small dealer
residing in Chisenhale.street. From information he had
received, Inspector Bates, accompanied by detectives Sul-
livan and Scott, took all three into custody on Sunday,
when each of them denied all knowledge of the others.
On being lodged in bridewell, Cairns admitted that he had
bought one or two barrels of flour from the prisoner Bart-
ley ; and Bartley confessed that he and Lewis had both
sold flour to Cairns. On searching the
premises occupied
by Cairns, a large quantity of flour, four boxes of tea, and
about five cwt. of sugar, were found under circumstances
which left little doubt that nearly all of the property was
the proceeds of robbery. Admissions on the part of the
different prisoners acknowledged that thirty barrels of flour
had been stolen from Mr. Brancker's establishment ; but
there being reason to believe that robberies to a greater
extent than those named had been participated in by the
prisoners, they were remanded for a week.
AeaAIILTIFS z n POLlCX.—johu Doane), was charged