The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-09 00:00:00

FERRY COMMITTEE.

Mr. J. S. JACKSON read the proceeding of the Ferry Com-
mittee. The Committee stated it was with pleasure they re-
ported that since the last report there had been no cause of
complaint against any of the servants of the ferry ; and that
the receipts of the month exceeded the receipts in November,
1841, by £5B 10s. 7d. The proceedings were confirmed.

FINANCE COMMITTEE.
The proceedings of the Finance Committee were read and
confirmed.

THE LATE BOATS.
Mr. MALLABY read the following memorial against the
late boats between 'Woodside and Liverpool. It was signed
by 73 most respectable individuals, including all the clergy :
Birkenhead, 26th November. 1842.
TO THE COMMISSIONERS OF BIRKENHEAD,

Gentlemen,
We, the undersigned rate-payers of Birkenhead, being tho-
roughly convinced that great evil has attended the plying of
the ferry boats between this township and Liverpool to so
late an hour as twelve o'clock, midnight, feel it to be our
duty respectfully to represent to you,
That it affords a great facility to the ingress of vicious peo-
ple of every description, thereby altering the character of the
residence in this township, and presents opportunities and
temptations to youni'persons from which they would other-
wise be precluded.
That we are persuaded the continuance of such a system
must result in heavy pecuniary loss to the township, by the
increase of expense ; besides exposing the lives of passengers,
and thefextra risk to the boats.
Also that we consider the late hours thus required for the
attendance of the servants employed to be quite unreasonable.
For these reasons we entreat you earnestly to take into
your consideration the propriety of returning to the former
practice of the ferry.
Signed by the Rev. Andrew Knox, and five other cler-
gymen of the Church of England. all who reside in
the place, three ministers of the Wesleyan connexion,
one of the Church of Scotland, the churchwardens,
the overseers of the parish, and a great proportion of
the respectability of the township.
A very long discussion followed on this memorial, in which
nothing new was elicited. At the end of it,
Mr. PARKER gave notice, that at the next meeting he
should move that the late boats be discontinued.
The meeting then separated.

WlGAN.—Tauasnmr •NIGHT.

SPECIAL MEEETING OF THE TOWN-COUNCIL.
A special meeting of the Town-council was hdd in the
Council-chamber, new Town-hall, on Wednesday afternoon
last, for the purpose of adopting the customary legal mea-
sures in making an order upon the churchwardens and over-
seers of the poor, for a sum of money to be applied in de-
fraying the expenses of the corporation.
There were present-the mayor. Messrs. Ackerley, Croud-
Son, Taylor, Fairhurst, Bullock, Holt, Caldwell, Gibson,
Norris, Newsham, Marsh, Woods, Procter, Heaton,
Haughton, and Lowe. The minutes of the last meeting
having been read by the Town-clerk, Mr. Savage, one of the
overseers of the poor for the borough, presented a return of
the value of the rateable property within the borough, in
conformity with the resolution passed at the last meeting.
Mr. Savage having attested the correctness of the return—
the required resolutions respecting the order upon the church.
wardens and overseers for the sum wanted by the corpora-
tion—were moved and seconded by different members of the
council without any amendment being proposed.
Resolutions were also passed, empowering Mr. Thomas
Latham, chief constable of the borough, to receive the sum
specified by the corporation from the overseers, in like man-
ner as a high constable receives a county rate ; and requiring
that he should straightway, on receiving the same, hand it
over to the treasurer of the borough, to be by him placed to
the account of, and for the use of, the corporation.
Each document was signed by the mayor on behalf of the
corporation, and the borough seal was also affixed in due
form.
A:conversation arose respecting the tolls, when the Town-
clerk informed the council that he had written to the lessee,
demanding payment of the arrears due from him, according
to the instructions he had received from the council ; but he
had not yet received any reply.
After some further remarks from Mr. Ackerley and other
members of the council, the meeting was adjourned for a
week on the motion of Mr. H. Taylor, seconded by Mr.
Bullock.
GAS INSPECTORS.—A meeting of the council, as gas in-
spectors, took place on Monday last, when it was agreed on
that several additional lights should be placed in different
parts of the town, on the recommendation of the committee
appointed to make the examination.
IMPUDENT ROBBERY.--TIMELY JUSTICE.—On Tuesday
afternoon last, two shirts were stolen from a hedge on
Aspull Moor, the property of a person named Hart, near
whose dwelling some clothes were drying. On the same
afternoon Heath, formerly one of our active police-officers,
perceived two young fellows of notoriously bad character,
named Robert Topping and William Occleshaw (one of whom
had a bundle under his arm), coming towards the Scholes
from Aspull. He suspected all was not right, and followed
them to a house of ill-fame in the Scholes, and took them
into custody. He then went, along with Smith, No. 1, of
our police-force, to Aspull, and discovered the owner of the
shirts. The fellows were brought before J. Woodcock, Esq.,
on Wednesday, and committed for trial. Occleshaw has
been three times committed for felony ' • and has been heard
to declare that he would soon follow his brother, who was
transported about four months ago, from our borough
sessions.

P !Prime legs of mutton have within the last few days been
selling in this city at sd. and loins, shoulders, and other
joints at 4d a pound.—Salisbury Journal.
The present week has been prolific of arrivals from the
eastern hemisphere. Upwards of twenty vessels of large ton-
nage, and containing valuable cargoes, have arrived in the
docks ; several of them from China, and the quantity of tea
brought home from Whampoa, &c., exceeds 15,000 chests.
The barque Elenora, of Whitehaven, 319 tons register, Capt.
Jackson, arrived in the St. Katharine's Dock, from Wham-
non, with nearly 5,000 chests, the majority of which was
Coligou.
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THE CHINA TRADE.—As one of many instances of the
improvement of business in Glasgow, a gentleman informs us
that when there on Tuesday he saw one house, where little
business had been done for months, close a single transaction
of £lO,OOO in power-loom goods for the China market; and
these having still to go through the printing process at home
will yet afford some work to Glasgow hands.—Ayr Advertiser.
DEATH OF THE COUNTESS OF MUNSTER.—This lamented
lady has not long survived her ill-fated husband, having died
at her house in Portland-place on Saturday last. Her Lady-
ship, Mary Wyndham, was daughter of the late Earl of
Egremont, and married her late husband in October, 1819,
whom she survived not quite nine months. Several children,
including the Earl of Munster, who is in his 19th year, sur-
vive their parents.
MURDER NEAR CHEPSTOW.—On Sunday last, an un-
married female, named Mosley, aged 36, who lived with her
father at a farm two miles from Chepstow, was murdered in
the absence of her father. About £2O was stolen from the
house. The first discovery of the murder was made by the
father, who, on the day in question, on his return from
Chepstow market, found the lifeless body of his daughter at
the back door, and a hedge-stake lying beside her. A person
was apprehended on suspicion.
REVIVAL OF THE SERGE MANUFACTORY.—We are
happy to find that the good news from India and China has
had the effect of reanimating the serge manufactories in
Devon, which had been drooping for some time past. The
extensive factories for this article at Ashburton and neigh-
, bourhood have been set at full working this last week ; and
we are informed that the inhabitants seem inspired with a
new life, at the prospect of a revival of the exportation trade
to the East.—Plymouth paper.
ANOTHER MURDER IN IRELAND.—We are afflicted at
being obliged to record another deed of blood, perpetrated
near Moneygall, on Sunday last. In this instance the vic-
tim of the murderous fire was Lord Bloomfield's gate-keeper,
who had incurred displeasure on account of some proceedings
relative to land. As he was sitting at his fire-place, on Sun-
' day, four armed miscreants entered his dwelling, and lodged
the contents of a blunderbuss in his body, leaving him a life-
' less corpse. His name, we understand, was Hill.—Limerick
Reporter.
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EXTRAORDINARY MATRIMONIAL AFFAIR.—The love
affair in Dublin, that appeared this week in the papers, will
find something to do for the bar. The gallant Captain —,
of the 84th Regiment, came over from Chatham at the desire
of Miss H—g, to be married. The dresses were made up,
and the hour fixed, when the fair one gave the captain the
slip, and went off with an old flame—a Mr. F—, whom
her friends had discarded. It appears her father left her
£50,000 fortune. It is said that Captain G—,is about to
institute a suit for breach of promise of marriage against Miss
H—g.—Liotoriek Chremiele.