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

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been consumed, to which „ building only the fire had been
confined. In the former a pair of 70 feet gates, completed,
had been mainly destroyed, together with six landing
stages in a state of preparation ; in the latter a quantity
of valuable patterns, together with all the joiners' tools.
How the fire had originated they had not been able to
arrive at a satisfactory conclusion, and if an immediate
supply of water could hare been obtained but little damage
would have been sustained. The report, in conclusion,
praised the efforts of the firemen, and stated the damage
at £2,7oo—value of the gates £1,500, landing stages, £6O,
patterns, &c., £lOO, carpenters' tools, &c., £240, and
building £BOO. The building was insured.—Mr. Tobin
asked did the Loss amount to £2,700 exclusive of the in-
surance ? The Chairman: No ; after deducting the in-
surance the loss is £1,900. The yard was insured for
£5,000, but those identical buildings were only insured
for £Boo.—After some remarks respecting the insurance
of the building and works, the subject was referred
to the Committee of Works for their report.—After a
conversation respecting the conduct of the fire-police on
the occasion, which was highly praised, the secretary was
directed to communicate with the Watch Committee, and
place £25 at the disposal of that body, for distribution
among the fire-police.--The contract for iron pillars was
again the subject of some conversation, but the matter
was ultimately left to the Works Committee.—The Sub-
committee of the Marine Department recommended that
the sum of £Bl be paid for the experiments in connection
with the electric light.—Messrs. Allen and Gillespie ap-
plied for a berth in the Coburg Dock for their new line of
Canadian steamers, the first of which was expected here
early next month. A similar application was made by
Bahr and Co., for a berth in the same dock for their
Spanish screw steamers. Referred.—A communication
was read from Mr. Joseph Butler on the subject of afford-
ing accommodation for landing fish at the George's Basin,
and stating he had a model prepared. Referred to the
Harbour Masters' Committee. A resolution of the
Finance Committee of the Town Council was read, autho-
rising the treasurer to pay a sum of £1,279 for the erec-
tion of the wall at the Prince's Dock in connexion with
the new landing stage. In reply to a question, the Sur-
veyor said this wall was now contracted for.—A commu-
nication was read from Mr. Joseph Boult, Chairman of
the Excursion Sub-committee of the British Association,
asking what facilities the committee would afford for the
inspection of the docks, warehouses, North-end works, &c.
The Chairman said there could be no objection to give
free admission to every member of the association. The
general business then terminated.
HEALTH OF THE Tower.—The medical officer reports
that the health of the town continued in a satisfactory
state, the deaths last week being only 207—a smaller
number than in any week of the previous eight months,
and 14 less than the corrected average of the same week
of the six preceding years, excluding the cholera of 1849.
The fatal cases of zymotic diseases were 73, being one
fewer than in the previous week. 16 were from diarrhcea,
the average of the same week of former years being 19 ;
12 were from hooping cough, 7 from typhus, 7 from scar-
latina, 3 from small-pox (one after vaccination), and 2
from cholera. Measles show symptoms of a decline, the
deaths having last week fallen to 18, a lower mortality
than in any week of the preceding three months. Diseases
of the lungs caused 50 deaths, of which 27 were from con-
sumption. During the quarter ending the Ist instant,
3,182 deaths were registered in the borough, including
152 on which inquests were held. This shows a decrease
of 72 on the previous quarter, but an increase of 210 over
the same quarter of the six preceding years. From
zymotic diseases 886 deaths were recorded, against an
average of 772, the excess having been caused by the
unusual prevalence of measles, which was fatal in 374
cases—a greater quarterly mortality than has previously
been recorded. In no other disease of this class was the
mortality above, the average, excepting cholera, which
caused 41 deaths during the quarter, more than half of
these having been among emigrants, and two-thirds of
them in the first month of the quarter. There were only
88 deaths from typhus, 99 from diarrhcea, 122 from hoop-
ing-cough, 32 from scarlatina (less than for four years
previously), and 26 from small-pox. This last, small as
the number is, is larger than in any of the previous nine
quarters. From diseases of the lungs 886 deaths were
registered.
Wssr DERBY GUARDIANS.—At the weekly board on
Wednesday, Mr. H. Edwards presided, and there were
also present—Messrs. Ledger, Smith, Whitby, G. Harri-
son, Kirkus, Medcalf, Heyes, Hyde, Alpaca, Morris, M`Gee,
Wahusley, Abrahams, Lunt, Appleby, and Shaw. The
balance in the treasurer's hands was reported to be
£9oolos. 6d. The quarterly accounts of vaccination fees,
&c., were passed. It was resolved that the several medical
officers of the union be invested with authority to order
the admission of all persons afflicted with cholera, and
whom they may be required to attend, into the union
hospital. Proceedings were ordered to be taken before the
magistrates against the overseers of the poor of the town-
ship of Kirkdale for non-payment of the first instalment
of their contributions. It was agreed that the horse and
van kept at the workhouse, if not wanted for interments,
should be sent to the public-offices in Toxteth-park at one
o'clock on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, for the use
of the relieving-officers of that district. The resolution
prohibiting additions being made to the committees was
rescinded. In conformity with this, Messrs. Smith, Sid-
deley, Whitby, Ledger, and 3l`Gee were added to the hos-
pital committee, and Messrs. Abrahams, Appleby, Ledger,
and Whitby to the visiting committee ; and it was agreed
that these committees should meet every alternate Friday.
It was resolved, that in consequence of the increase of
rateable value of property in the townships of Great
Crosby and Litherland, the new assistant overseer should
have his salary advanced from £B5 to £lO5 per annum, to
commence with the current quarter. Mr. Wm. Henry
Lynass was appointed assistant overseer for the townships
of Little Crosby and Ince Blundell, at a salary of £2O per
annum. The number of inmates in the hospital was re-
ported to be 50 ; total in the workhouse, 684, against 617
same period of last year.

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

sent was

SOLDIER SHOT POE DESERTION. - The Kingston
Herald states that a soldier of the 26th Regi”-
shot for desertion on Monday, the 18th of June, at

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t is auaect that the general
commanding in chief signified to the troops in Canada
his determination to carry out the articles of war in such

cases most rigidly.
NEW JuDzai.—A rumour is afloat that the land of
Palestine has been mortgaged by the Sultan to the house

of Rothschild, for a loan to aid in the Turkish war.
Among other things it is hinted that it is possible it will
be set apart as a Jewish kingdom under the dynasty of
the Rothschilds.—P hiladelphia paper. _

THE LARGEST PICTURE on glass executed in modern
times has just been terminated at Munich. It is to cover
a window in the Church of Ste. Catherine, at Hamburg,
45 feet high, and 14 wide. It has been painted by M.
Fernster, from designs by Overbeck, representing Our
Saviour teaching the Apostles to pray. The superb work
has been executed at the cost of M. Vorbeck, of Hamburg.
Tiut TUSCAN MINISTER of the Interior has directed
the civil authorities throughout the Grand Duchy to
endeavour to convince the lower classes that the vine-
disease is not attributable to the smoke issuing from
locomotives, as some ignorant or evil-disposed persons
have induced them to believe.

THE MILITIA..—It would appear from the official state-
ment that the !total strength of the militia for the year
1854-5 is to be 124,074 officers and men, including the
Irish and Scotch militias, both of which forces are to be
called out. The charge for the year 1854-5 to defray the
cost of raising the additional numbers, and the mainte-
nance of this body, will be £998,000. The strength of
the militia during the year 18534 was 91,812 men, and
the charge £178,740.

PROTECTION OP THE NORTE AMERICAN FISHERIES.—
The British will have quite a force on the fishing grounds
this season for the protection of the fisheries, viz. :—Brig
Daring,.l.2 guns, Commander Napier; steamer Buzzard
6, Commander Dobie ; Canadian steamer Doris, 2 ;
went schooner Daring, 2 ; and two hired schoone

govern-
s. the

Alice Rogers and the h Adeline, of two guns each.
The Nova Scotia government advertises for another
schooner.—Boston Post.

A WILLow-DocK is being built at LaCrosse, Michigan.
It is constructed entirely of willow twigs, about twelve
feet long, bound in bundles one foot thick, which are so
ingeniously arranged and woven together, that it is im-
possible for the sand to work out or the water to work in.
Each bundle contains about one hundred small trees, and
it will take about fifty thousand of these bundles to com-
plete the work. It is said the willows will sprout and
grow, rooting firmly together, thereby forming a living
superstructure which will last for ages without the least
tendency to decay. Docks like these occur very frequently
on the banks of the Rhine in Germany. _

APPROACHING MARRIAGES IN Low LIFE.—On dit
that the only son and heir of a distinguished bill-sticker,
who has been much before the public of late, is bout to
lead to the hymeneal altar the only daughter of a chim-
ney-sweep, occupying a high position in the Lawn-
market. It is also rumoured in certain circles that an
alliance is on the tapis between two exalted families
whose contiguous manorial possessions overlook the
Mound. The fair fiancee was the belle of last season,
and the noble bridegroom, who is connected with some of
the highest houses in the Cow-gate, has already earned
distinction in the field (having been twice convicted of
assault while serving as a navvie on the Bathgate Rail-
way).—Edinburgh Guardian. _

A PROUD DISTINCTION.—The British Army Despatch
informs us of the reason of the light company of the 40th
Regiment wearing a red instead of a green ball in their
shako :—" In the year 1777, in the American war, where
the 46th Regiment served, their light company formed
part of a body of troops that were detached under Major-
General Grey, to surprise a body of Americans 1,500
strong. The attack was so successful that 300 of the
enemy were killed, and a large number of prisoners and
the greater part of the arms and baggage fell into the
hands of the English. The Americans vowed vengeance
for the above attack, declaring they would give no quarter.
Upon this, the light battalion dyed their feathers red,
assigning as their reason that they did it to prevent any
one not engaged in that affair suffering for them, and so
carried the distinction which they still enjoy, and are
justly proud of."
TITE INDIAN ELECTRIC TELEGRAPIC. The electric
telegraph system is winging its way, not over Europe
only, but that of the whole world, Lord Palmerston may
shortly boast that his jocular prediction is fulfilled—that
if the minister were asked whether war had broken out
in India, he might answer, " Wait a minute ; I will
telegraph the Governor-General, and ascertain." We
have now to announce that 2,000 mi!es of the Calcutta,
Bombay, and Madras wires are in operation, and another
1,000 miles will be shortly completed. The magnitude of
this undertaking may be imagined, when it is stated that
a ton of Morewood and Roger's Patent Galvanised Wire
is required for each mile. The whole distance would have
been completed ere this had not the substitution of longer
bamboo poles than first intended been found necessary to
permit the elephants to pass beneath the wires.
AN UNFORTUNATE WIFE.—In the case of a labourer
sentenced at a London Police-court to six months' hard
labour for stealing some fowls and corn, the following
letter has been addressed by the prisoner's wife to the
committing magistrate :—" 16, Orchard-street. I hum-
bly beg your worship's pardon, but this being the fourth
time my husband, Parrott, has been brought here, I can
assure 'your worship I speak the truth in saying he is
constantly stealing things and bringing them home; and

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rdare not, in danger of my life, say a word, as he has
often threatened he will run a knife in me, telling me he
will bring home what he likes, as in this case. I saw him
bring three fowls at different times (the last was a white
one, with eggs) in his coat pocket, and did so two or
three times every day while working at Mr. Gilberts,
after eleven, that being the time he told me Mr. Gilbert
left for town. He cannot deny it if he speaks the truth;
but that I am sorry to say is not in him ; and what is
most sad to my feelings is, that he would take my dear
boy with him to witness his stealing; and that after
leaving prison he begins again, with anything that comes
in his reach. I can assure pair worship it is not the im-
pulse of a moment's reflection that I write, but for years
my prayers have been that Providence would detect him ;
and 1 trust he will meet with what he justly deserves.—
Your humble servant, C. PARROTT."
NEW FEATURES IN SIIIPBUILDING.—A vessel called
the Storm Cloud was launched lately on the Clyde, by.
Messrs. Stevens and Sons, the keel of which turns up-
wards at both extremities, so that the stem appears to
commence about forty feet in from the perpendicular
forward, whilst the keel of the rudder is at least three
feet above the position usually assigned to it in a vessel
with a straight keel. The reason for this important
departure from all use and wont is to enable the ship to
turn and tack with extraordinary facility and prompti-
tude. The greatest breadth of the beam is several feet
abaft of the mainmast, and the vessel is so sharp forward
that if a straight line were continued from the stem to
the swelling bow, it would form an angle of only 11-1-
degrees with the line of the keel; and as the bow is con-
cave, even this small angle is greater in point of fact than
is presented by the Storm Cloud when she cleaves the
water. Another peculiarity in the build of the Storm
Cloud is, that her quarters are placed considerably higher
up than usual, so that the run aft is about as fine as the
entrance forward. In fact, her quarters will rarely rest
on or even dip in the water, in this respect resembling
some yachts, and presenting a contrast to most men of
war, whose haunches droop almost sheer down below the
water-line. In order to have ample accommodation for
passengers, the poop is carried further onward than
usual ; but the deck is entirely clear, there being no deck
houses of any kind. Although measuring 1,112 tons,
and carry in ore, the Storm Cloud does not loom to the
eye larger n a ship of half her tonnage ; and 600
would be wn as the outside of her register.

FREEXISONRY.— Considerable excitement has been
created in the Mauritius on account of the Romish Bishop
excommunicating the Hon. H. Leniere, for being a Free-
mason. The Bishop alleges, in justification of his conduct,
the authority of a long line of Sovereign Pontiffs who have
placed Freemasonry in the list of secret societies, the
members of which are excommunicated by the Church of
Rome. This letter raised the inquiry whether the bulls
of the Pope are executory in the island, unless they have
been recognised by the Church of Paris, from which the
Romanists of this island claim their descent. It is alleged
that the religious laws and customs of the inhabitants of
the island, preserved to them by the articles of its capi-
tulation to the British Crown, are those of the Galilean
Church ; and that, consequently, they are not bound by
any bull of the Pope that has not been sanctioned by a
Council of their own Church. The Bishop, however, main-
tains his determination to exclude the members of the
body from any of the sacraments of the Church, and even
from Christian burial. The Freemasons of the island are
very numerous, and compose the elite of the population.
A SINGULAR CASE was heard before the Master of the
Rolls, on Tuesday. Amongst the passengers of the ship
Dalhousie, which was wrecked off Beechy Head last
October, were Mr. and Mrs. Underwood, and their
daughters. Mr. and Mrs. Underwood and two of their
children were swept off the deck simultaneously ; but one
of their daughters, Catherine, was lashed to a spar by a
sailor, and great interest was felt at the time as to her
ultimate fate, which was subsequently set at rest by her
lifeless body being drifted to shore still lashed to the spar.
Before embarking on this calamitous voyage Mr. Under-
wood and his wife each nu*: a will. The husband left his
property to his wife for life, then to his children, and if the
children should die before the age of 21, then to a gentle-
man of the name of Wing, whom he named as his
executor. The wife left her property to her husband, sub-
ject to the life interest of her children, and if the husband
should die in her lifetime, then to Mr. Wing absolutely.
Under the circumstances, a Miss Elizabeth Underwood,
the representative of the daughter Catherine, contended
that Mr. Wing was only to he entitled to the property
under Mrs. Underwood's will, if Mr. Underwood survived
her, and to the property under Mr. Underwood's will if
Mrs. Underwood survived him ; and therefore inasmuch
as they perished simultaneously, he acquired no right ; but
that Miss Catherine Underwood, surviving her parents,
became entitled to the property, and through Catherine
she (the plaintiff) was entitled. From the evidence of
Joseph Read, the sailor who escaped, it appeared that—
" When the ship struck, Mr. Underwood and his wife, an
d.
two of their three children were standing on the deck,
clasped in each other's arms, when a huge wave suddenly
broke over the part of the vessel on which they were
standing, and swept them all four off together into the
sea, and none of them were seen to rise afterwards. The
other child of Mr. and Mrs. Underwood did not seem to
have been with her father and mother at this time, and
was seen some short time after by the sailor Read, under
the circumstances which he thus described in his evidence.
He says, ' I saw Catherine Underwood, after her
mother, and two brothers went down, under the fonowin,
circumstances :—Captain Butterworth sang out to me,
" For God's sake look here !" I went and looked, and
saw a young lady struggling in the water ; that young
lady was Miss Underwood. With the assistance of
another seaman, who was afterwards drowned, I got her
out of the water and lashed her to a spar, which was after-
wards cut away from the sinking vessel, and when it was
cut away, Miss Underwood was alive.' " It was urged by
medical opinion, on the part of Mr. Wing, that Mr. Under-
wood, being a strong man and a' good swimmer, in all
probability survived his wife. The Master, of the Bulls,
however, considering that the deaths of the tu,:fortu-
nate pair were simultaneous, decided that the plo!intiff, as
representative of the daughter, would WM) thg I:;roperty.

father,