The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
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nester Police-court, Cecilia Knott, who had been
randed on a charge of administering poison to
oily of Mr. H. J. Warrington, in that city. was
gain brought up for examination. Professor Calvert,
who had analysed the matter, stated that he had found no
traces of anything likely to produce the vomiting, and
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am and other substances being
in the house, there was given off
from it a considerable quantity of sulphuretted hydrogen,
which might affect the health of the inmates and produce
sickness if they were subjected to excitement. The ma-
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Couoxe.riON.—On I'Vednesda,

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anniversary of Her Majesty's coronation,the royal standard
'•,,;sted at the Town-hall, and flags at the government
--•arches. The vessels and numerous
Also were decorated with flags and
During the day the
. Peter's Church rang merry peals. The united
of St. Luke's and St. Peter's rang on the bells of
's a true peal of Kent treble bob major, consisting
3 hours and 18 minutes, by the fol-
ersons, namely :—Richard Williams, treble, John
2nd, James Heron, 3rd, George Curte, 4th, John
shave, sth, Wm. Heron, 6th, John Heron,jun., 7th,
Helsby, tenor. The peal was ably conducted by
u, jun. Weight of tenor, 16 cwt., in the key of F.
COUNTY 3IAGISTRATES.—At the Lancaster ses-
Monday last week, the chair was taken by the
Mackreth. A second court was formed in
01 jury-room, over which Wm. Garnett, Esq., pre-
here were 17 cases of felony.—At the Preston
sessions, on Wednesday, the Hon. Edward Bootle Wilbra-
ham, of Lathom-house, Ormskirk, and Thomas Langton
Birley, Esq., of Carr-mill, Kirkham, qualified as magistrates
of the county. At the same time and place the Rev. John
Wilson took the oaths, on being presented to St. James's ,
Preston; and the Rev. Francis Armstrong took the oaths,
on being presented to St. Andrew's, Ashton-upon-Ribble,
Preston ; and, on Thursday, the Rev. Mr. Sparling took
the oaths as rector of Eccleston.
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at the meeting of this board on Wednesday, when
a letter was read which had been sent to the poor-law
board by Mr. Rees, the district auditor, complaining of
;rregularities relative to the financial affairs of the
The poor-law board requested that the guar-
dians would forward them any observations they might
have to make upon Mr. Rees's letter. It was agreed that
the clerk, Mr. Cleaver, should be requested to reply to the
letter, after consulting with the overseers of Evertor town-
ship. This was the only business of any importance.

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---gAIfDA.LOU'S BEHAVIOUR OF THE RIVERBOATMEIC-.^
We direct the attention of the police authorities to the
following facts, detailed in the Liverpool Times, and we
may add that the correspondent of one of the principal
metropolitan sporting journals, who had travelled over
the whole of Great Britain and the continent, stated in
one of his papers that the Liverpool boatmen were the
most extortionate vagabonds he ever met with. Our con-
temporary says :—" The heartless conduct of the men who
keep boats for hire on our river has frequently been
brought before the public, and the callous indifference
they exhibit for the sufferings of poor emigrants who may
fall into their clutches often excited disgust. It would be
well if they were placed under similar restrictions to those
of carmen. The watermen in London wear badges, have
an established rate of charge, and any attempted imposi-
tion is easily rectified, by the suspension of their privilege
of plying on the river. Hence they are noted for modern--
tion in charge, and civility to their customers ; whilst
our boatmen are celebrated amongst the travelling public
for the exorbitant rates they demand, and their gross
brutality when the least hint is given that their charge is
too high. A correspondent sends us the details of a case
which occurred on. Saturday, at the Waterloo Dock, where
a poor woman, who had engaged her passage in the Tus-
carora, for Philadelphia, arrived too late to get on board
in the dock, had to pay eleven shillings for the privilege
of being put on board the vessel, which was lying a short
distance in the river, and, when she implored the.boatmen
to reduce the charge, was assailed with a volley of oaths,
which terrified her so that she was glad to pay the sum
demanded and escape from the clutches of such ruffians.
The time occupied in putting herself and luggage on board
was three quarters of an hour, and, in addition to the
amount extorted from her, the boatmen obtained a consi-
derable additional sum by bringing back to the shore
several persons who had been on board bidding their
friends adieu. Such a system of imposition requires an
immediate remedy."

TETE LIVERPOOL DOCKS.-Mr. George V. Tanton,
treasurer to the Liverpool Dock Estate, has just issued
his annual comparative statement of the rates and duties
received in the years ending on the 24th of June, 1853,
and 24th of June, 1854, respectively. From this statement
we learn that there has been an increase in the receipts
under all the heads, excepting those of graving block
duties and extra dock rent. The increase in the duties on
tonnage in the year ending June, 1854, amounts to
£20,821 Os. lid., as compared with the previous year. In
the duties on goods the increase is £20,655 2s. 2d.; light-
house duties, £1476 ls. 11d. ; floating-light duties, £724
2s. 2d. ; graving dock duties, £5053 7s. The graving
block duties decreased to the extent of £145 10s. 6d.;
and the extra dock rent was £559 3s. 6d. less than in the
year ending June,lBs3. The total nett increase of duties
(after deducting £704 145., the decrease under the last
two heads) is £47,925 Os. 2d. The following are the par-
ticulars of the vessels and tonnage

No. of vessels,
... 22,030 ...
... 20,490 ...

Tonnage.
4,316,583
3,889,981