The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-10-17 00:00:00

We perceive by Mr. Williams's advertisement in another
column, that he has an ancient and splendid castle to let.
AT THE COUNTY COURT, yesterday, before Joseph
Pollock, Esq., judge, 100 cases were disposed of, none of
which contained auy features of public interest.
ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST'S CHURCH, TONTETH-PARIC.—.
On Sunday last, after sermons by the Rev. Joseph Bardsley,
and the Rev. Dr. M`Neile, the sum of £57 15s. was col-
lected in aid of the funds of the National Schools in con-
nection with this church.
ALDERMAN S. EloLain has founded an additional
scholarship at the Collegiate Institution, of the value of
twenty-two guineas per annum.
COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.—We have lately had fre-
quent occasion to mention honours obtained at the Uni-
versities by pupils of the Upper School. We have now the
pleasure of announcing that Mr. Ellis, the senior classical
master, has been elected Fellow of Trinity College, Cam&
bridge.
THE Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com-
pany have given notice that the direct communication to
China by steamer, on the 20th of the month, will, for the
present, be discontinued. Goods and parcels can only be
sent to the Straits and China on the 4th of the month.
There will, of course, be a fortnightly mail to India, as
usual.

CIIICULLTION OF TM, OFFICIAL DESPATCHES.—III
order to circulate official intelligence of the movements of
the armies, a Post-office notice states that three copies of
the London Gazette, containing any special despatches,
will be forwarded to each country postmaster. He is in-
structed forthwith to affix one of such copies in the office-
window, or in some other conspicuous place ; to cause a
second copy to be posted at the Town-hall or market-place,
and to deliver the third copy to the chief magistrate or
clergyman of the town or place.
ST. AIDAN'S COLLBGE,BIRKENITEAD.-At the opening
of Michaelmas term, Mr. Henry Morgan obtained a
scholarship, value £2O (for superior answering), which is
open to competition to students at the close of their first
year.

COLLECTIONS to the amount of £53, in aid of the fund
for the relief of the widows and orphans of the soldiers,
sailors, and marines who have been killed in the present
war, were made at Claughton church, on Sunday week,
after sermons, in the morning by the Rev. Dr: Blakeney,
and in the evening by the Rev. J. E. Blakeney.
FOUND DEAD IN BED.—Ann Fairbrother, servant
with Mr. Slade, of No. 2, Berry-street, was found dead in
bed yesterday morning. She had for several days com-
plained of a pain at her heart. An inquest will be held
on the body to-day.-r-Peggy Bell, aged 80, of 22, Fair-
hurst-street, was also found dead in bed yesterday morning.
DEATH FROM SCALDING.-An inquest will be held
before the borough coroner to-day on the body of Adelaide
Archer, aged two years and eight months, who was so
severely scalded at her mother's house, 8, Liver-street, on
the 7th instant, that she died from the effects of the in-
juries on Sunday.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—On the 9th instant, John Board-
man, aged 44, labourer, then residing in Hunter-street,
Toiteth-park, while working in the Hnskisson graving-
dock, fell with some deals which he was carrying across
the plank, and fractured his leg, besides sustaining severe
internal injuries. He was taken to the Northern Hos-
pital,"where he died on Saturday evening. An inquest will
be held on the body, before the borough coroner, to-day.
ABERCROMBY WARD.—A requisition has been pre-
sented to Mr. J. A. Tinne, numerously signed not only by
Conservatives, but by most of the respectable Liberals, so
that his return is almost certain. His address, it is es-
, ected, will be out to-day. The ultra-Radicals are trying
- Mr. A. C. Stewart to stand. A meeting is called

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for this evening at Mr. Craig's wine stores.
TRIAL TRIP OF TIM IMPERADOR.—The South Ameri-
can and General Steam Navigation Company's new steam-
ship Imperador was tried on Saturday for the first time,
and attained a speed of eleven miles per hour. She com-
menced loading yesterday, and is to sail on the 24th inst.,
with the mails for Lisbon, Madeira, Rio de Janeiro, and
River Plate. The Imperador is 1703 tons, splendidly fitted
up, and a sister ship to the Imperatriz, launched by Mr.
Laird, for the same company, on the 7th instant.

TICE NEW BEER. Agi.---iames Webster, of the New
Ferry Hotel, Lower Bebington, was charged'at the Birken-
head police-court, on Thursday, with having kept his
house open on Sunday, the Bth instant, for the sale of
spirituous liquors, and sold three glasses of ale to three
men, two of whom were travellers. The magistrates,
being doubtful whether three glasses of ale, or only two,
had been sold, gave the defendant the benefit of the doubt,
and only convicted him in the cost of the summons.
FATAL EFFECTS Or INTOXICATION.—On Wednesday,
Patrick Crane, 45 years of age, died in consequence of the
immoderate use of intoxicating liquors. He was formerly
-e-officer in this town, but had been dismissed on
account of his intemperate habits. He was latterly
engaged by the officials of the County-court, but still con-
tinued to be addicted to drinking. On Tuesday night he
went to bed considerably under the influence of liquor,
and about six o'clock on Wednesday morning his wife
awoke and found him moaning. She tried to rouse him
up, but, as he did not speak, she became alarmed, and
shortly afterwards life was extinct.
BniLicil or PROMISE.—On dit that a case of breach of
promise of marriage has just been entered in the law court
at Ramsey. The plaintiff is a young lady from Caledonia,
and the defendant is a clergyman in the vicinity of Ram-
sey. The fair plaintiff has already succeeded in securing
the services of a leading counsel of the Manx bar, and has
placed in his hands a voluminous bundle of billet doux,—
said to abound with all that is enrapturing and interes-
ting. " Rumour, with her thousand tongues," has been
busily engaged in laying details before the public, but we
shall not anticipate any of these till the matter becomes
public property.—Mona's Herald.

Ponini's WAGES.—At the County Court, last week,
-an, a labourer, brought an action for 3s. 6d.
. James Smith, music-seller, Lord-street, as
remuneration for services rendered in assisting to carry
some piano-fortes into Mr. Smith's shop from a cart in the
street. The plaintiff, on his own showing, had only been
occupied about an hour and a quarter, and had been
offered I.s. for his services. This he refused, and brought
the action. Mr. Smith said Callaghan had not been
engaged more than three quarters of an hour, and that he
considered Is. ample remuneration for the work done. In
this view of the case His Honour concurred, and gave
judgment for that amount wthout costs.
EXTENSIVE FIRE AT AN OIL WARM:METH—OH Wed-
nesday morning, about eleven o'clock, a fire broke out in
the warehouse of Messrs. Bremner Brothers, oil merchants,
situated near the Victoria Bridge, Manchester, one side
fronting the river, but the entrance being from Hatton's-
court, Chapel-street. The building was two storeys high,
about 120 feet long, and nearly the same is width, form-
ing, consequently, almost a square. There was a great
quantity of oil on the premises in casks, and also in two
large iron tanks, the latter capable of containing about
one hundred and fifty tuns. The fire raged with great
rapidity. The loss to Messrs. Bremner amounts to
between £2,000 and £3,000. The firm are insured for
£2,000 in the Anchor, Liverpool and London offices.
LIVBRPOOL STEAM-SHIP Assocrixiox.—A meeting
was held on Tuesday, when the first annual report was
read and adopted. It referred principally to the efforts
made by the association to procure a modification of the
various clauses of the Merchant Shipping Act of last ses-
sion deemed objectionable by the steam-vessel interest,
and which, on several points, proved successful. It also
stated that a correspondence had been held with the Dock
Committee on the inconvenient distance of the steam
docks from the centre of the town, as well as on the best
means for a general increase of dock facilities. The
association have likewise given attention to questions con-
nected with pilotage and lighthouses, and various other
subjects. At the conclusion of the proceedings a com-
mittee was appointed for the ensuing year, Mr. Lamont
being re-elected chairman.
APOTHECARIES' HALL.—The following passed their
examination in medicine, and received certificates to prac-
tise, on Thursday :—John Segar, Dinsdale, near South-
port, Lancashire; Frederick Abner Gange, Dover; Robt.
Joseph Banning, Fairfield, near Liverpool ; Robt. Davies,
Llanfair Talhairn, Abergele ; Peter Augustus LatFargue,
Warwickshire; Edmund Taylor, ITrnulton, near Man-
chester.

James Call
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Tun ELECTION Bon COUNOILLOES.—The following
are the names of the retiring councillors, and those of the
candidates for the several wards :